12 The Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Tue day. March 11, 1952
British Queen
Orders Palace
Redecoration
By DON SCHWIND
LONDON (yp)-Like many other
housewives, Queen Elizabeth II is
having a spot of spring decorating
done.
Although the young sovereign
is still living at Clarence House a
few doors down the red-pavea
Mall,, she's having at least nine
rooms repaired and re-painted in
drafty old Buckingham Palace
her future home.
The Throne Room, where she'll
receive visiting royalty, and the
green drawing room, one of the
most ornate in the ancient 690
room layout, are being done over
in two shades of ivory.
What's more, the royal plumb
ers are installing steam heating
in both rooms. Since the war,
central heating has been slowly
reaching into one room after an
other of the rambling old pallace,
but most are still pretty much as
Victoria left them.
King William IV once termed
Buckingham Palace "the coldest
palace in Europe" and palace
flunkeys for whom the winter
sniffles are almost an occupational
disease ruefully dub themselves
"royal ice cubes."
Seven rooms on the second floor
are being re-decorated in pastel
hades.
Unlike a lot of housewives
facing the springtime cleafi-up-paint-up
problem, there's no ac
tual mop and bucket drill for the
Queen herself. She's got the Min
istry of Works for that, as w$ll as
a permanent staff of 118 palace
men.
These workers give the palace a
daily once-over. They include
electricians, art and porcelaia ex
perts, and brass and furniture
polishers. One expert mothers the
palace's 250 clocks.
But Queen Elizabeth keeps a
close eye on planning and ha the
final say on color schemes and
similar detail.
So far, court circles say they
don't know just when the Queen
and her husband, the Duk:e of
Edinburgh, plan to move from
Clarence House to the big palace.
Husband Dies After
'Call' From Dead Wife
PHILADELPHIA (flV-Mrs. Cath
erine Love, 65, died Friday. Sun
day her husband, Howard, 70, told
his two sons and five daughters:
"I hear your dear mother call
ing me." Then he collapsed and
was rushed to Misericordia Jios
pital. He was pronounced dead on
arrival. The hospital said he had
suffered an internal hemorrhage.
BOMB BLAST IN TUNIS
TUNIS, Tunisia, JP) A crowd
of Nationalists, brandishing ;ban
ners demanding Tunisian indepen
dence, Sunday shattered with a
bomb the window's of a French
newspaper in mid town Tunis. No
casualties were reported.
Fox Outfoxes
Berlin Fire
Department
BERLIN (P)- For three days
now, the Lankwitz fire depart
ment has been outfoxed and the
firemen are getting pretty burned
up about it.
The hook and ladder boys were
summoned Thursday by the city
organization which protects ani
mals from cruelty. The league
said a fox had crawled up a pile
of bomb ruins to the top of a 40
foot high chimney and couldn't
find his way back.
Up went the big ladder and a
daring fireman tried to grab the
fox by the scruff of the neck.
Reynard objected and scurried in
side the chimney, where he fig
ured out a way to brace his four
paws so he wouldn't fall.
The firemen gave it up, re
turned the next day with a big
stone suspended from a long rope.
They lowered the stone gradually
and gently until the fox was
forced to ease his way to the bot
tom of the chimney. There two
men waited with a big sack. The
fox slipped past them, ran around
the ruins and climbed back up on
the chimney.
Saturday night the firemen
tried again. The fox found a re
cess in the damaged chimney,
crawled into it and yapped what
some indignant firemon construed
to be a Bronx cheer.
After a council of war, the fire
men decided to let the fox stay
there. They figure he'll get hun
gry sooner or later and do some
thing about it.
fScrap' Violin
Made by Pastor
Proves Worthy
WASHINGTON (JP) - A pastor,
unable to afford a violin that
matched his young daughter's tal
ent, made his own and thereby a
hobby was born.
The Rev. Clarence R. Ferguson,
a Baptist minister here, started to
read up on violins about the time
he gave his 7-year-old daughter,
Mary Alice, a half-sized violin.
She made her first public appear
ance four months later. In four
years she won a five-state contest.
The pastor made his first violin
in 1940 from scraps from a lumber
yard. It was on this violin his
daughter, at 15, played a Bach,
concerto with a symphony
orchestra.
Ferguson's violins are now made
of imported wood in the Stradi
various pattern. It takes him two
weeks of steady work to make a
violin, exclusive of the finish. He
is now working on his eighth instrument.
Chinese Editor Joins
"Sewereide" Club
TAIPEH, Formosa (-Professor
Tao Hsi-Sheng, prominent edi
tor, historian and government
adviser, fell into an open sewer
and broke his leg Saturday night.
The Japanese-built sewer sys
tem has caused so many such ac
cidents that victims wryly call
themselves members of the "sewer -cide
club."
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