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LONDON BriUln lost a klnr. rlned s Bew queen and hailed a new prospective Prince of Wales Wed
nesday. The photo of King Georre VL with his danshter, the new Queen Elisabeth, was one of the last
ever taken of the pair torether, shortly before Elizabeth left on her current world tour. The inset shows
Prince Charles, son of Elizabeth and her husband. Prince Phillip, taken on his recent birthday. He is
expected some, day to be Prince off Wales, (AP Wlrephoto by radio from London.)
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Once again it is Queen Elizabeth
of Great Britain. The sudden death
of King George VI cut short the
tour of his daughter and propelled
her to the throne of the kingdom.
His serious illness had served as
warning to the country, however,
and Elizabeth was preparing her
self for the royal duties she now
must -assume.
Since the days of the Stuarts
the power of the reigning monarch
in England has been greatly cur
tailed. Rule by divine right is a
mere historic shibboleth now.
Britain is fully self-governing,
with power lodged in the elected
representatives (the Commons)
completely since the last Labor
government wiped out the last
vestige of veto power retained by
the House of Lords.
But while; the! Mag or queen is
theoretically only the symbol to
unite the peoples and countries of
the Commonwealth, in practice
the ruler may exercise consider
able influence on the course of
events. It was King George him
self who by request rather than
command restrained Prime Min
ister Churchill from being, in on
the invasion of France on D-day.
In more important matters it is
quite probable that the royal opin
ion is consulted. The ruler is kept
fully informed of the affairs of
state. He is shorn of real power,
however. Edward, Duke of Wind
sor, when king, complied with the
pressure of Prime Minister Bald
win that he abdicate if he was de
termined to marry "that woman";
and Edward assented rather than
provoke a constitutional crisis. The
Crown yielded to Commons (and
to the Archbishop of Canterbury).
Of Queen Elizabeth it is safe to
say that she will conform to
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Chicago Political
Chief Shot to Death
CHICAGO (-Charles Gross,
55, acting Republican committee
man in the 31st ward, was shot to
death Wednesday night at Kedzie
and North Acenues on the North
Side.
Gross was felled by shotgun
blasts from a parked car, which
sped away after the shooting.
Gross had just alighted from his
auto to purchase a newspaper.
Police said his widow, Ethel
commented, "I was afraid of this,"
but would not enlarge on the
statement.
Lid off Popcorn
WASHINGTON (p) - Popcorn
popped out of control Wednesday
night. The OPS pulled the price
lid off the delicacy. It said there
is no inflationary pressure in this
50 million dollars a year industry.'
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LONDON" A weeping woman and aad-faeed schoolgh-l were among the sorrowing Londoners In Down
ing Street alter announcement of the death of King George VL New of the king's death shocked the
nation, which had been deeply worried abeat his health. Lower photo shows a grieving crowd gath
ering early this morning at Buckingham Palace. The palace blinds were drawn aa Britain went into
mourning. The king died at his country residence, Sandrlngham. (AP Wlrephotoe by radio from London.)
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25-Year-Old Queen Elizabeth Dries Her Eyes,
Hastens Home to Assume Duties as Sovereign
NAIROBI, Kenya Colony JP)
The slight, 25-year-old Princess
who has trained since Childhood
for the responsibilities of the
British Crown headed home sor
rowfully as a Queen Wednesday
night to take up the royal duties
left her by her father's sudden
death.
Princess Elizabeth burst into
tears when her husband, the
Duke of Edinburgh, broke the
news from London of the death
of King George VI, but toon re
gained her composure.
"She was every inch a queen,"
a source at the royal lodge told
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reporters.
Cutting short a projected five
month, 30,000-mile royal tour
that was to have taken them on
to -Ceylon, Australia, New Zea
land and other British regions,
Elizabeth and the Duke are go
ing home by plane.
The couple flew from Nairobi
to Entebbe, Uganda, Wednesday
night and transferred there to a
four-englned Argonaut liner.
Britain's first woman ruler
since Victoria reigned 51 years
ago, is due to reach London at
4:30 p. m. Thursday.
It was only last Thursday that
The Oregon Statesman,
George Dies in
U.N. Cuts
PW Plan
ands
MUNSAN, Korea (P-U. N.
command negotiators Thursday
dropped their demand that excess
prisoners of war in Allied hands
be exchanged for displaced civil
ians now in Communist territory.
Under the original proposal, the
Allies wanted to exchange pris
oners of war on a man-for-man
basis. The Reds had said they held
11,559 Allied troops.
Then the Allies wanted to ex
change the rest of the Red troops
they hold some 121,000 for dis
placed civilians in Communist
hands.
While staff officers now negoti
ating the prisoner exchange issue
gave ground on the POW-civilian
swap, they held firm to the prin
ciple of voluntary repatriation.
They insist that no one can be
sent back to the other side against
his wishes.
, The .Allies made no reply to a
new Communist peace plan which
ignored South Korea and Injected
Formosa and other tense Far
Eastern issues into final settle
ment of the Korean War.
Ike Campaign
Official Visits
Salem Men
Wes Roberts, executive director
of the Eisenhower-For-President
organization was in Salem Wed
nesday, fresh from national ttead
quarters in Washington, D. C.
He conferred with several local
Republicans, including William I.
Phillips, chairman of the Oregon
Eisenhower-For - President group
and Rep. Mark Hatfield, it execu
tive secretary.
Roberts left for Portland Wed
nesday night. He had no comment
to make regarding the attorney
general's opinion that only a court
order or sponsors' withdrawal
could remove Gen. Dwight Eisen
hower's name from the Democra
tic primary ballot in Oregon.
Roberts is a former Republican
state chairman in Kansas, the gen
eral's home state.
Bloodmobile in
Salem Today
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be at the downtown Armory
in Salem today from noon to 8
pjn., Red Cross official report.
There are approximately 174
signed up for donating blood on
this visit which, according to the
local office, is below the needed
quota.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (JP) -Screen
and television actor Leo
Carillo underwent surgery Wed
nesday and will remain at Santa
Monica Hospital for five or six
days, his physician said.
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she left London, bidding good
bye to the King after earnestly
scanning his tired, lined face.
She and the Duke were substi
tuting for him on the tour be
cause of the ill health that had
plagued . him in recent years.
Elizabeth and her husband left
their two children, Charles and
Anne, at home.
Prince Charles, 3, becomes
heir apparent to the throne. Be
cause he now is first in line for
the; throne after his mother.
Prince Charles outranks his fa
ther in matters of precedence.
Queen Elizabeth II could, and
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Salem, Oregon. Thursday, February 7, 1952
Runaway Boxcars Speed
17 Miles, Crash at Town
HEPPNER, Ore. (JP) Two rail
road freight cars broke loose on
a downgrade Wednesday and
rolled unimpeded down a spur
line for 17 miles, picking up
speed all the way, until they
flashed into the town of lone.
There station master William
Bering, warned by telegraph,
threw a switch that derailed the
cars with a resounding crash.
Wheel trucks flew off and
lumber, which was loaded on the
steel cars, was scattered far.
There were no damages to any
thing, though, except the two
cars.
There was no accurate esti
mate of their speed when they
raced into lone, but one motorist
on the road between Heppner
Brannan Fires Officials
In Grain Shortage Case
WASHINGTON (P) Secretary Brannan fired two regional offi
cials of the Agriculture department Wednesday for "administrative
deficiencies and inadequacies" which he related to losses of govern
ment grain stored in commercial warehouses.
The ousted officials are Latham White, director, and Harry James
Solomon, assistant director, of the department's commodity office at
Dallas, Tex.
Dallas is a focal point of the
current investigation of grain
shortages.
White said in Dallas he did not
think the charges justified his or
Solomon's dismissal.
Several ' storage concerns In the
Dallas area have been accused of
converting more than $2,500,000
worth of government grain stored
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Taken Off Duty f
Brannan announced that SVhite
and Solomon were taken off duty
more than a month ago pending
further investigation, and now
have been discharged effective
Friday.
In the letters to the two men,
outlining charges against them,
the department said they had in
effect made inadequate inspections
of storage concerns holding gov
ernment grain in their area. It said
they had been slow to act when
firms which eventually showed up
short failed to follow government
instructions to load grain for ship
ment elsewhere.
Accepted Gifts
The department said also they
had accepted gifts and gratuities
from concerns with which their
offices did business, in violation of
department regulations, and had
apparently condoned acceptance of
similar favors by employes under
them.
Brannan said none of the gifts
were from firms Involved in the
grain shortages.
Meanwhile, a survey showed the
government has gone to court
against 15 storage concerns in va
rious parts of the country in an
effort to collect $4,875,000 in short
ages of farm commodities stored
with them under a farm price sup
port program.
Steelmen Say 'Fringe Benefits'
Triple Union's Pay Demands
NEW YORK (flV The steel In
dustry argued Wednesday that
-fringe benefits" sought by CIO
steel workers cloaked a wage de
mand of close to 60 cents an hour
or more than triple the straight
pay increase the union is asking.
The union is demanding an 18 Mi
cent-an-hour pay rise. Industry
spokesmen said demanded fringe
benefits increased rates for holi
days, vacation, overtime, prem
iums for working at night and
similar items would cost on ad
ditional 39.69 cents.
Spokesman for steel also con
tended that the union demand for
elimination of geographical dif
ferences in pay, if granted, would
is expected to, name Edinburgh
"Prince Consort" by "letters
patent" and rank him second to
the Queen ahead of little Char
ley. Since she was 10, Elizabeth
has been specially schooled to
take the throne some day If nec
ecessary. On her 21st birthday,
as heiress presumptive, she ded
icated her life to the Empire.
Elizabeth U is a great-great-great
- great - granddaughter o f
George III, the sovereign in
whose reign the American colon
ies separated themselves, by re
bellion, from the British Empire
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and lone said they passed him
when he was doing 80 miles an
hour.
They broke loose from a train
while it was switching cars at
the Heppner Lumber Co., here.
The engineer put the train in re
verse in an attempt to catch the
runaways, but he was left far
behind. There is an 815 -foot
drop in elevation between Hepp
ner and lone.
Nearly the same thing happen
ed 1 1 years ago. Then two empty
passenger cars broke loose at
Heppner. That time they got
through lone and rolled 40 miles,
getting within 7 miles of the main
Union Pacific track along the
Columbia River, before being de
railed. Gear Weather
Curbs Rivers
Willamette Valley streams and
morning temperatures have drop-
red in the face of rontlnuf d
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Spring-like weather more of
wiicn is preaiciea lor loaay.
The Marion County approach to
the Willamette River bridge at In
dependence, however, remained
flooded -early today. The Willam
ette had receded to about 16 feet
at Salem this morning and was
reported to be dropping steadily.
Arrival of a storm for Western
Oregon loomed for a time on the
weatherman's chart early Wed
nesday. But by late Wednesday
night the prediction for today
changed to a continuing of the
mild weather, which saw a sub
freezing mercury reading of SO
Wednesday morning.
The State Highway Commission
reported the Wilson ville Ferry
continued out of operation Wed
nesday due to high water. All
other state highways were report
ed open.
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FORECAST (from U. S. Weather
Bureau, McNary Field. Salera): Partly
cloudy today and tonight. Little tem
perature changes. High today. S3 to
53; low tonight. 33 to 37. Salem tem
perature at U.-01 a m. today was 3a.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
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upset the nation's entire economy
and price the Southern Industry
out of the market.
The arguments were presented
before a Wage Stabilization Board
panel which is attempting to re
solve a contract dispute and stave
off a threatened Feb. 23 strike of
650,000 steel workers.
John H. Morse, counsel for the
Bethlehem Steel Corp.. led the
industry's attack on the union
"fringe demands.
He said they would cost 39.69
cents an hour In addition to the
18 H -cent general wage demand,
for an overall increase ox about
58 cents an hour. -
in the eighteenth century" j
The line of descent is Oorz
III to Edward, his fourth son. t
Queen Victoria, to Edward VII.
to George V, to George VI, xatb-.
er of Elizabeth. - i '
Elizabeth is the 62nd sovereiga
of Britain since Egbert becam
King of Wessex and England te
827 A. D. and the 42pd sine
William the Conqueror." In tw
cases, those of thelbald
Ethelbert in 858 and cf.WU5aa
and Mary in 1689, two tovereig&a
ruled jointly. t '
She is the seventh reigaieg
Queen in British history. -
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LONDON VPr-Kins George iTI
died in his sleep Wednesday, and'
as the British Empire mourned,
the new Queen Elizabeth II sor
rowfully hurried home from A-"
rica to take the throne of Britai
and to bury the father she loved.
It will be just' one week smee
she set out, as Princess Elizabeth,
to carry the royal name, around
the world on a tour designed e
strengthen the bonds of the Coco
monwealth. She was in; Kenya,
Africa, when she received ithe
word that she had become Queca
in the early hours of Wednesday "
when death took George VI, j
in his sleep at Sandringham Cas
tle, j
Charles Heir . . . . S
Now 3-year-old Pstnce; Charles,
son of Elizabeth and the Puke el
Edinburgh, becomes, heir to 'tre
throne. - I
Elizabeth is Britain's first wom
an ruler since Victoria,. w bo died
31 years ago. f a
The king's death plunged Brit-,
ain and the Commonwealth- 1st
mourning. f
A taxi-driver expressed the
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timent of many: "As if things
haven't gone badly enough foe us
since the war." Flags over much!
of the world dipped to half staff.
Even the Russians, in Berlin, join
ed in this gestur ot respect- I -
The former Duke of York cam
to the throne as a shy, stammer- 4
ing man who never expected," ksor :
wanted, to be King. He 4eok tit "
scepter of office in December,
1936, at a moment when the whole
institution of monarchy in Britain
was - tottering, because of-the ate j
dication of his eldest brother, Ed
ward VTII, for love of BaJti-more-born
divorcee, Mrs. WaJAw
Warfield Simpson. He lived i te
strengthen the tffrone toy - flit
steady, quiet courage, and to win "
the love and respect of hie milium
of subjects. !
George's rein spanned i jekre
of turbulent history. - -s - f
Worn and wearied hy persiste
illness, he died at the royal Res
tate at Sandringham where i 1m
was born 56 years ago. His vaVt, -John
MacDonald, discovered the
body when he took the King Ibis .
usual early morning tea. Queen
Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
were immediately awakened and
told the news and a radio mee-
sage was dispatched to Princese -
Elizabeth in Kenya on a royal
tour with her husband, the Dk
of Edinburgh. -; ;
The news was riven to tSte
world some three hours later i-
It came as a shock, even thouah--
it was widely known that he wee
not in good health. Only yesterday -he
had been rabbit hunting mm
the Sandringham estate and there
was no hint that his condition
was any worse than usual, i
Mood Clot Fatal ; f
Coronary thrombosis a bleed .
clot was believed to have been
the immediate cause of death. Last -September
surgeons removed 'the
King's cancerous left lung. Tee
years before that, he underwent
an operation to relieve a circula
tory ailment in one of 'his legs.
His face was haggard and lined
in recent months and his coadi
tion had caused concern to I hie
subjects. -
Britons the length and breadth
of the islands wept and paid the
King tribute today in five siraple
words: j
"He was a good man." I
Londoners slipped into churrhSr-black-bordered
newspapers grip
ped in their hands, to think &nd
to pray. Shopkeepers ripped bright
displays from their . windows and
replaced them with more somber
things. j
His brother, now the Duke el
Windsor, is sailing from New Verk -for
Southhampton aboard j the
Queen Mary Thursday night te
attend the funeral. Both he and
the Duchess were in sechraoa in
their suite in the Waldorf Tower
of New York. His secretary, Kiee
Anne Seagrim, said the Duke was
"terribly shocked and surprised."
The Duchess, who has never
been received by the royal fam
ily will remain -tn the United
States. ' ' -
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