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The plane I came west on left
LeGuardia Field at 11:30 Tuesday
night and arrived at San Francisco
airport at eight the next morning.
Allowing for time change the
travel time was 114 hours; one
stop at Chicago. Coming up from
San Francisco the plane left at
810 p.m. and reached Portland,
non-stop, at 11:25, 2Va hours fly
ing time. So swift is the flight it
almost seems as if the passenger
is standing still and a projection
machine is flashing pictures of
cities New York, Chicago, San
Francisco,' Portland on a screen
before his eyes.
I mention this because it gives
a clue to the transformation which
is going on in the world. For In
stance, natives from countries in
Africa (or elsewhere on the globe
for that matter) who want to ap
peal to United Nations, can take
a plane from their home country,
fly to Rome or Paris or London
and then hop across the Atlantic
to New York in much less time
than it takes to get their visas
processed in Washington!
The airplane is accelerating the
speed of travel and it is opening
up remote regions of the world.
Radio communication of informa
tion (and propaganda) is even
faster, travelling on the wings of
light.
Thus the globe contracts, prim
itive peoples are suddenly pro
jected into the kleig light of world
politics or of world economics,
and advanced peoples come face
to face with the ambitions and
the resentments of those long re
garded as tribal and backward.
So it is that the world prob
lems of the immediate future re
late not exclusively with the re
lations between Russia and the
West, absorbing of world atten
tion though the latter are. They
must include relations among all
the peoples who are struggling to
maintain or assert independence
at a time when closer interdepen
dence becomes more essential.
This is what I learned at United
Nations. Solving these problems
will take a long, long time; and
United Nations can be a tremen
dous factor in effecting their wise
solution.
I woke up Saturday morning
to the sound of a locomotive
whistle, and realized I was home
again. In Manhattan engines and
trains are moles. One doesn't see
them on the surface or hear them.
At the U.N. building we could see
tug-pushing barges floating freight
cars between terminals, but no
trains. The whistle was the signal
to go to work again at what JL re
gard as my own job,' here on The
Statesman.
Crawfordsville
Man Dies From
GunshotWouiid
Statesman News Service
LEBANON -i- Marion Arthur
Field, 44, of Crawfordsville, died
Saturday noon in the yard of his
home apparently from a gunshot
wound. Linn County Coroner
Glenn Huston reported.
An autopsy on the body is tq)
btf conducted Sunday at the Hus
ton Funeral Home by Dr. Homer
Harris, head of the State Police
crime laboratory in Portland to
determine the exact cause of
death.
Field was born In Geddes, S. D.,
Jan. 1, 1907, and came to Oregon
in 1937. He had lived in Craw
fordsville for the past four years
and was employed as a carloader
at the Indianola Lumber Company
in Lebanon.
Survivors Include his widow,
Mrs. Jane Field of Crawfordsville
and five children. Announcement
of services will be made later by
the Huston Funeral Home.
Boy Drowns as
Christmas Gift Car
Dives Into River
COOS BAY Of! A 15-year-old
youth drowned Saturday when an
automobile, a Christmas g i f t
plunged into the Coos River.
He was Thomas Nale of Coos
Bay, one of three youths riding
in the car. The other two, Carl
Dyer, 16, and William Orchards,
15, both of Coos Bay, were res
cued by passing motorists who
saw the car in the water and
dived in to pull them out. Both
boys were unconscious.
Later another motorist towed
the car out of the river and the
body of Nale was found inside.
The car was a Christmas gift
to Dyer from his father. V
Medf ord Woman
First Yule Traffic
Fatality in State
MEDFORD Ml Oregon went
through two days of the Christmas
holiday without a traffic fatality,
but on Saturday, the third day,
Mrs. Mark F. Wright. Medford,
wat killed here.
The car she was driving collided
with a , Southern Pacific freight
train at a grade crossing In Med-
v.
By FRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON (AP) The Weather Bureau an
nounced Saturday it will make a new and different
attempt to see whether man can make rain fall on a
big' scale.
Instead of trying to make apparently dry skies drop
rain, the bureau will go
"W"
e.. t. Latourette
Chief Justice of
Supreme Court
(Picture on page 2)
Appointment of Earl C. Latour
ette as new chief justice of the
Oregon Supreme Court was an
nounced in Salem Saturday. He
will take over his new duties Jan.
5.
Latourette was named to the
supreme court bench in 1950 by
Gov. Douglas McKay and was
elected to serve a six-year term
the same year. Previously he had
served three elected terms as Cir
cuit Court judge for Clackamas
County following his appointment
to that post in 1931 by Governor
Norblad.
The appointment marks the
third time a Clackamas judge has
been named to head the state's
highest court. The late Thomas A.
McBride and James U. Campbell
both held the position. -Latourette
was named to the post following
the death of Justice Arthur Hay
who was scheduled to become
chief justice Jan. 1.
Justice Latourette Is a native of
Oregon, born at Oregon City in
1889. He attended schools at Ore
gon City and Portland before at
tending the University of Oregon
from which he graduated in 1912.
At the university he was active in
athletics, playing quarterback on
the varsity four years and being
selected as All-Northwest quarter
back. Latourette was admitted to the
Oregon State Bar in 1913 and
practiced law in Oregon until his
appointment as Circuit Court
judge.
British Fly
Crescent Wing
Jet Bomber
LONDON UPi The world's first
crescent wing bomber with four
Jet engines whose giant plants
produce more power than 25 ex
press locomotives made its first
flight Saturday.
Immediately after the flight at
Boscomb, Western England, the
Royal Air Force said it had or
dered the ship, named the Hand
ley Page 80, "in quantity" for the
bomber command.
Great Britain presently holds
the world lead in jet commercial
airliners with the high-performance
Comet. Britain's jet fighters
also are among world leaders.
. Flight details were withheld for
security reasons but the Handley
Page 80 combines a revolutionary
design with the crescent, or scim
itar, shaped wing. It is calculated
that the shape of the wing in
cludes all the aerodynamic and
operational . merits of both the
delta and sweptback wings.
The makers made the claim
that "no other bomber flies as
fast, a , far and as high with as
great a bomb load.
Power plants are Sapphire jet
engines. Recently it was an
nounced that the newest Sapphire
could produce an 8,300 - pound
thrust.
Holiday Eases
Power Crisis
SEATTLE UP) A holiday slack
ening of industrial power demands
eased the Northwest power situ
ation this week despite last week's
cold snap which cut stream levels
to seasonal lows.
a... E. Karrer, executive vice
president of the Puget Sound Pow
er & Light Co., said many indus
trial consumers, required to- cut
their power use 10 per cent, have
reported savings of nearly 20 per
cent.
However, an increase in the de
mand is expected to build up after
the holidays.
"Some of the consumers told us
they have been building up a cred
it to be used as soon as the holi
days are over," Karrer said. "If
that is general, it could mean an
unusual demand beginning Jan.
5."
Construction on
Site of Burned-Out
Stores Scheduled
Construction on the site of a
recent fire which destroyed four
Salem business houses in the 100
block of South Liberty Street is
scheduled to begin within a few
months, owners, reported Saturday.--
The area was purchased in
March of this year by the CL., the
L.F. and the CC Corporations,
presumably for large scale busi
ness expansion. The fire Christmas
morning destroyed four of the
businesses included in this block.
No listing of prospective tenants
baa been released. - - -
to the wettest place in the
United States the Pacific North-
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wetter it can make it.
The experiments' will be con
ducted from the U. S. Naval Air
Station at Sand Point, near Seat
tle, from late January to May and
again during the fall and early
winter of 1953
Ferguson Hall, weather bureau
specialist in rain making experi
ments, will-be in charge at Seattle.
At the start, a Weather Bureau
spokesman said, the cloud seeding
will take place over the southwest
corner of the state of Washing
ton but the area may be extend
ed or changed.
The idea is to carry out some
think like a medical experiment,
where one group of patients is
given treatment and another group
is not.
The untreated group is used as a
"control," permitting better scien
tific judgement of the results. .
Like the doctors, the Weather
Bureau wants to know not only
what happens under treatment,
but what would have happened
had their been no treatment
That is why the rainy Pacific
Northwest was chosen for the ex
periment. The area has more rainy days
than any other in the United
States.
Give Much Choice
This, the announcement said,
will give the rain makers a choice
of many days when it is raining or
practically certain to rain.
On some of these1 "favorable"
days planes on loan from the Navy
will go aloft to seed rain clouds
with two standard weapons of
commercial rain makers dry ice
pellets and silver iodide fumes.
On other favorable days, noth
ing will be done.
In this way, the Weather Bu
reau spokesman said, it is hoped
to discover how much more rain
falls, if any, when clouds are
seeded on days when rainy con
ditions are present.
Over Small Areas
As a further control, the cloud
seeders will work only over small
areas at any one time.
This will allow comparison of
rainfall from seeded and unseeded j
clouds on the same day.
The Weather Bureau conducted
rain making experiments, mostly
near Wilmington, Ohio, in 1947
and 1948.
It came up unconvinced that
rain making is practical. The re
sults, according to the Weather
Bureau showed:
1. Seeding could cause changes
in cloud structure.
2. It apparently could cause
some rain to fall, but how much
was not clear.
"Milked" Clouds
3. Seeding only "milked" clouds
of what ram moisture was already
in them. That is, it did not set up
conditions in which new moist air
rushed in, building up new rain
.cloud formations.
These experiments were with
ordinary types of clouds and un
der more ordinary conditions than
found in the Pacific Northwest,
where very thick rain clouds are
often present.
The Navy : and several other
governmental agencies are lending
the Weather . Bureau a mass of
equipment to make the new ex
periments scientific and informa
tive. Specific Details
Here are some details of the
attempt
1. Special aircraft instruments
will measure changes in cloud
formations after seeding.
2. An extensive series of rain
gauges, on the ground, will record
the amount of rain reaching the
ground.
3. Several experimental devices
for measuring rain drop sizes are
being installed. This is to check
claims of commercial rain makers
that they produce gentler rain,
consisting of smaller drops. Such
rain would not damage crops and
cause erosion as do hard rains of
big drops.
4. Radar equipment will be
used to detect rain areas and
cloud formations and to guide the
seeding planes to clouds selected
for seeding,
'Fireball' Seen in
Washington Skies
SPOKANE UPi Airline ground
observers reported seeing a "big
green fireball flash across the
skies Saturday night.
A motorist, Dora Reld, said it
looked white to him and gave him
quite a scare.
Charles Starr and Stephen Fer
guson, observers at Geiger field,
said the "fireball" took five to
seven seconds to pass from view.
They said it was reported seen at
Ellens burg. too.
Newspaper reporters checked an
almanac here and noted that Met
calfs Comet is due to return this
month. -
Arlington Plane
frash Kills Pilot
ARLINGTON. Ore. UT . Robert
Lee Ekuidge, 29, Arlington, truck
driver up for a spin in a private
plane, was killed as the plane
crashed in a pasture two miles of
the Arlington airport Saturday.
A passenger, James David Bau-
man. 18, Arlington, was critically
injured. He was hospitalized at
The Dalles.
Eldridge-is survived by his wid
ow and a daughter.
102nd YEAR 2 SECTIONS
Accident
Toll Rises
To 548
By The Associated Press
The nation's death toll from acci
dents during the extended Christ
mas holiday reached 548 Saturday
night.
The heavy fatality rate pushed
the total ever closer to an all-time
record as driving weather contin
ued good over most of the country
A heavy boost in the number of
traffic deaths was expected Sun
day.
Traffic accounted for 414 of the
deaths. Fires killed 58 persons, and
76 died violently in miscellaneous
accidents.
Heavy highway traffic Saturday
night and Sunday, with many
travelers homeward bound, could
push the traffic toll past the pre
vious record slaughter 555 during
the four-day Christmas holiday in
1936.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the National Safety Council, said
Saturday in a statement:
"It looks now as if the holiday
traffic death toll may reach an
all-time high for any holiday by
going to 700 or more."
Dulles Declines
To Testify in
Hiss Inquiry
WASHINGTON WV-John Foster
Dulles, secretary of state - desig
nate. has declined an invitation to
testify before a House committee
on his part in naming Alger Hiss
as president of the Carnegie En
dowment for International Peace.
This was reported Saturday by
Howard W. Keele, co nrel for the
House group which has completed
an investigation of tax-free educa
tional and philanthropic founda
tions to determine whether their
funds are being used for subver
sive purposes.
After he left the State Depart
ment, Hiss became president of
the Carnegie Endowment in 1946.
The House committee received
testimony recently that Dulles,
who was board chairman of the
endowment, suggested Hiss for the
Job.
Keele told a reporter Saturday
he invited Dulles, by telephone and
telegram, to present his side of
the story early next week.
Keele said Dulles replied by
telegram that he "greatly appre
ciated the courtesy of the commit
tee but my time is sharply limited
between now-and Jan. 1."
Dulles said he was forwarding
to the committee a transcript of
his testimony at Hiss' trial and
said he could not add anything
by appearing before the commit
tee. Dulles testified at the trial that
he wanted Hiss to resign his en
dowment post after Communist
charges against him were aired
In the summer of 1948.
Dulles thus contradicted Hiss,
who had testified earlier that
Dulles did not ask him to resign.
Queen Mother of
Denmark Dies
COPENHAGAN, Denmark UPi
Queen Mother Alexandrine, 73,
died Sunday after a long illness.
She died in her sleep in the early
hours of the morning, five days
after her 73rd birthday.
King Frederik was at his moth
er's bedside.
Volume of Highway Construction in Oregon in
1952 Reaches Ail-Time Peak of $29,300;000
The largest volume of construc
tion work in the history of the
state was contracted for in 1952
by the Oregon State Highway
Commission which spent $29,300,
000 during the year on the high
way system.
R. H. Baldock, state highway
engineer, in a report released Sat
urday, said that construction con
tracts awarded in 1952 totaled
$31,168,000.
. "Very substantial progress has
been made by the State Highway
Commission in the projected elim
ination of the $150,000,000 of In
tolerable highway deficiencies' ex
isting in 11951 when the State
Legislature decided to supplement
current highway revenues by au
thorizing the sale of $40,000,000
of highway construction bonds,
extending over the years 1951-53,"
Baldock said.
1 Construction work contracted
during the-year involved 118 sepa
rate contracts, varying in amount
from $13,500 to $1300,000 and av
eraging $265,000.
It included 220 miles of grading.
215 miles of rock base construc
tion, 100 miles of oiled wearing
surface, 137 miles of - asphaltic
concrete pavement and 88 new
bridges.
Of the $29,300,000 expended on
construction work during the year,
$12,000,000 . was bond money,
$7,500,000 ! was . federal aid and
19,800,000 was money from cur
30 PAGES The Orecjon Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Sunday.
Little Change in
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heaval, Charles A. Sprague (left), who served as an alternate UN delegate, said Saturday at a
welcome-home press conference arranged In Salem by the World Affairs Council. Sprague, pub
lisher of The Oregon Statesman, commended Secretary of State Dean Acheson as able and intelli
gent. Among the interviewers were (left to right) Dr. Frank Monk of Reed College, president of
World Affairs Council in Portland; Mervin Shoemaker of the Oreronian, and Philip Slocnm, who
arrived this week from Burlington, Vt, to be a reporter on The Statesman. (Story on page 2.)
Ex-Salem Man Pinned for 8 Hours
In Washington Train Wreck; 2 Dead
George A. Shattuck, 21, former
Salem resident injured early Sat
urday in a Northern Pacific freight
train crash, was considered in
critical condition Saturday night
at a Spokane, Wash., hospital.
The young man's mother, Mrs.
R. Er Shattuck, 2764 Brooks Ave,
advised The Statesman Saturday
evening that she had received a
message from authorities at the
Deaconness Hospital in Spokane
and that her son was in serious
condition. She also said she was
leaving for Spokane Saturday
night
Shattuck sustained severe leg
injuries when the train, on which
he was head brakeman, derailed
near Warren, Wash., killing twa
trainmen and pinning him under
debris in below-freezing weather
for almost eight hours. After he
was freed he was taken to a hos
pital at Moses Lake, about 23 miles
from the scene of the crash, and
then later transferred to Spokane.
Shattuck. who attended Sacred
Heart Academy while living in Sa
lem, has been working for North
ern Pacific for about a year and
one-half. His wife, Helen Haff-
ner Shattuck, former Salem girl,
and six-months-old son Michael,
live in Pasco, Wash. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her
mann Haffner, 5075 Chehalis Ave.,
Salem.
Mrs. Fred Mitchell, Pringie
Road, aunt of Shattuck's, men
tioned during a call to The States
man that their two families seem
ed to be harrassed with ill for
tune lately. Her son, William
Mitchell. 15. was one of four boys
Injured in an automobile accident
south of Salem Nov. 4. The Mitch
ell boy just recently came hojae
from the hospital and will remain
in a body cast for some time yet.
rent road-user revenues, Baldock
reported.
Construction work under con
tract at the end of 1952 totaled
$26,200,000 and plans are complete
for an additional $10,000,000 to
be contracted during January,
1953.
In the Salem area, a new bridge
has been constructed on Marion
St over the Willamette River to
carry westbound traffic and the
existing bridge on Center St. is
being reconstructed to carry east
bound traffic
Included in this project, esti
mated at $2,750,000, is construc
tion of 0.5 miles of fourlane high
way and a traffic interchange to
carry through traffic past the busi
ness district of West Salem and to
give safe access to the highway
from Wallace Road. All work on
this project is expected to be
completed before the end of 1953.
The Salem by-pass section of
U. S. Route -89E 10 miles in
length and costing an estimated
$2,150,000 is being constructed to
speed up travel on the state's
heaviest travelled cross-state traf
fic artery..
Present construction is on a two
lane basis with underpass struc
tures and some of the larger, ex
cavations being made to four-lane
width to effect savings when a
four-lane pavement is required. -.
Construction is now well ad
vanced on the 11 -mile section of
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Britain to Free
Atomic Spy
Alan Nunn May
LONDON UP) Two London
newspapers said Saturday night
that Dr. Alan Nunn May the
Western world's first convicted
atom spy will be freed from
Wakefield Prison Monday.
The British Home Office con
firmed that May would be re
leased this month but declined to
specify the day.
The shy little 41-year-old British
scientist, caught in the Canadian
spy plot in 1946, will have served
six years and eight months of
the 10 year sentence for passing
vital atomic Information along to
the Russians.
The Home Office said he was
being released early for "good be
havior." May was arrested In London
after a young Soviet Embassy
clerk in Ottawa swung his alle
giance to the West and spilled the
story about the Russian spy ring.
The scientist was supposed to
have received about $700 and two
bottles of whisky for his services.
May himself contended he did it
for the "safety of mankind." He
never publicly repented.
A month after May s arrest, the
Russian who had been identified
m a a . a
as head oi tne spy ring uoi.
Nikolai Zabotin was recalled to
Moscow. Four days after he got
back, he was reported "dead"
from heart failure.
the Portland-Salem Expressway
which extends from the junction
with highway U. S. 99W, north of
Tigard, south to and Including the
crossing of the Willamette River
at Wilsonville.
The cost of $5,130,000 will pro
vide an access controlled and fully
grade-separated four-lane high
way which 'will ultimately be ex
tended from the Willamette River
crossing to Salem. Meanwhile, it
will serve Portland-Salem traffic
by a connection with the existing
Pacific Highway East at a point
near Hubbard.
Other projects: completed or
constructed in major part during
1952 in this area and approximate
costs include Stout Creek-Mill
City, paving. North Santiam High
way in Marion County, $315,000;
Little North Santiam River Bridge,
North Santiam Highway in Mar
ion County, $215,000.
Also, Woodburn - ML Angel,
grading and paving, Hillsboro
Silverton Highway in Marion
County, $225,000; and Sheridan
Deer Creek, grading and paving,
Salmon River Highway in Yamhill
County, $215,0004 ' ;
Included In the Forest Highway
projects, completed or constructed
in major part in 1952 and under
supervision of the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads is the Niagara-Detroit
paving project. North Santiam
Highway in Marion County, at an
approximate cost of $275,000.
December 28, 1952
U. N. Anticipated
WARDEN, Wash. UP) A young
railroad brakeman, cold, wet and
injured, was trapped for almost
eight hours Saturday beneath an
overturned steam engine in a de
railment that killed the engineer
and fireman. -
George A. Shattuck, 21, lay be
side the bodies of the victims from
before dawn to nearly noon before
rescuers could cut through wreck
age with blow torches to free him.
Scalding steam enveloped the en
gineer and fireman but a piece
of canvass between them and Shat
tuck gave protection to the brake-
man.
Shattuck remained conscious
through the long ordeal on the
snow - swept Eastern Washington
prairie. He complained occasional
ly of the cold it was below
freezing and the pain from a
leg fracture and steam burns.
It happened so quick there
wasn't time to do anything," Shat
tuck told rescue crews es the hours
dragged on.
A doctor crawled through the
wreckage to administer a sedative
and confirm that engineer Harold
M. Cunningham, 86, and fireman
John Dimmitt, 32, were dead. They
apparently were killed instantly.
Police, railroad workers and
farmers dug a trench in the frozen
ground beside the engine so men
with torches could get close to the
pieces that pinned Shattuck's legs.
He could move his head and arms.
I'm cold," Shattuck whispered
at one point.
They built a fire and heated
stones to place around him for
warmth. They passed coffee and
cigarettes to him, using flashlights
to see through the darkness of
the engine cab.
Shattuck, married and the father
of a 7 - months - old baby, was
finally pulled free and loaded on
a stretcher. He looked up and
gazed at the wreckage, then was
taken to a Moses Lake hospital
where his condition was reported
as serious.
The engine was pulling 26 cars
of sugar beets on a remote North
ern Pacific branch line five miles
north of here when it lumped the
track at a switch and slid side
ways down a ditch between the
two rails.
Eight other cars were also de
railed. , r
Conductor W. L. Carson of Ken
ne wick was riding in the caboose
with two other brakemen, J. E.
Wilson and G. T. Goeckner, both
of Pasco. Shattuck was ' head
brakeman.
Northern Pacific officials said a
faulty switch may have caused the
derailment. The freight, train was
traveling only 20 miles an hour,
the speed limit on the branch line
in this sector.
The derailment occurred about
25 miles from Moses Lake where
C-124 Globem aster plane crashed
week ago, killing 86 men in his
tory's worst air disaster. .
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cloudy with a few patches of fog this
morniaf. ' Increasing cloudiness with
rain this evening and tonight. A little
cooler today with the highest tempera
ture near 48, lowest tonight near 36.
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No. 2:3
Quota at
53,000
WASHINGTON CP The military
high command stepped up its cau
for draftees for the U. S. Army
Saturday to the highest level
reached since early in the Korean
War. It asked Selective Service to
Induct 53,000 men in rebruary.
This raised the prospect that lf-year-olds
would be drafted in in
creasing numbers.
A Selective Service spokesman
said that state draft headquarter
have been under orders to fill their
quotas with older men t wherever .
possible, but undoubtedly would be
told to dip into the ranks of la-
year-olds if they could not get
enough men otherwise.
Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henninser.
Nebraska state director of Selective)
February
Service, said that his state mav not ,
be ble to meet its anticipated
quota of about 700 without callinf
19-jrar-olds.
dtler states may find themselves
in the same position, although offi
cialsTiere indicated that still others
may not be forced to take 19-year-olds.
.
Officials said theremvas no pros
pect of drafting fathers or men who
have already served in Korea.
Anna Rosenberg, assistant secre
tary of defense, said recently that
it is planned to maintain the na
tion's present military strength of
3,600,000 men and women through
June, 1954, without drafting fathers'.
or Korean veterans. - i
The Defense Department's offi-
cial explanation for the size of the, ,
February call was that many draft
ees' terms of service are about to
run out. But there appeared to be
other factors contributing to the
call.
A check of calls since last surine
showed some monthly totals as low
as 10,000 men. Why the calls wer
held down when the department
knew that a large number of origin
al draftees would be eligible for
release starting this winter and '
spring was not clear.
PORTLAND UPi Eetween 400
and 500 men will be on the Febru
ary military draft call in Oregon,
Col Francis W. Mason, deputy
state director of selective service,
said Saturday.
He made that estimate after 1
learning that the" national goal;
will be 53,000 men in the draft in
February.
Drug Disarms
TB Germs
ST. LOUIS UPi Tuberculosis
germs start to laugh at a new
anti-TB drug, but then find the
Joke is on them, a scientist report
ed Saturday.
The bugs become resistant to the
drug, isoniazid, so it no longer can
kiH them.
But the germs lose their ability
to cau: .- TB infection. They are
disarmed in changing to meet the
threat from the drug.
This strange quirk In action of
isoniazid was described to the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science by Dr. E. '
Grunberg of Hoffman Laroche,
Inc., Nutley, N. J.
This is what happens, at least.
in test-tubes. Germs that become
resistant to the drug don't cause
TB infection when injected into
guinea pigs or mice, he said.
If this same kind of disarmament
occurs in human TB, it is a hopeful
sign in treatment of this stubborn
disease.
MAMIE HAS COLD
NEW YORK WW-Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower was confined to
bed with a cold Saturday.
An Expjert Looks
At the Year Ahead
Roger W. Babson's Business
and Financial Outlook for 1953
will appear in The Oregon
statesman on
Wedn e s d a y,
Dec. 31.
Mr. Babson
--a pioneer in
the field of
business and
financial sta
tistics en
joys an unus
ual record of
accuracy in
his ' Annual
Kegar W.Bahaom Forecasts. His
score for 1052 was 88 per cent
accurate.
On December r-17. 1951, he
predicted: (1) that World War
III would not start during 1S52;
(2) that the Taft-Hartley Law
would not be repealed during
1952; (S) that there would not
be an increase in corporation
and personal taxes; (4) that
the national Income for IS 52
would continue very high.
Watch for the Bauson Out
look for 1953 In
Tevr COMPLETE Newspaper.