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The Orecjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 22.1954 PRICE 5c
No. 329
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Wa
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CASCADE .LOCKS, Ore. (JPh
freight train plowed into a mud and rock slide in the Columbia
River Gorge near here early Sunday, derailing ten cars and a twin
unit diesel locomotive. There were no injuries.
- Another slide at Ridgefield, Wash., caused a minor derailment
of a Union Pacific passenger train. I
rot ma
. This is the anniversary of the
birth of George Washington, uni
versally acclaimed as the Father
of our Country. The lapse of time
, it is now 222 years since Wash
ington was born: in colonial Vir
ginia makes him seen rather
a remote figure, which the
changes in costumes and modes of
living accentuate. He is revered
rather than loved, as is the case
with Abriham Lincoln who seems
much closer to our time and to
, our common humanity. Washing
ton remains a statuesque figure.
clearly the only one who . could
have held the revolutionary army
toeether and the support of con
gress and the country until final
victory was achievea.
We Americans ihave always had
trouble managing a war. Grafters
and gougers seek huge war pro
fits.' Grave mistakes are made in
ordering supplies, locating camps.
employment o f j manpower, mat
we have usually achieved victory
has been due in large measure to
the ' super-abundance of our re
sources rather than to their expert
muster and use. The! waste which
we recall from our two world wars
was not matched in the war of the
Revolution, for supplies never
..were adequate; but even the pat
riots were not above turning an
extra profit before Celling to the
army.
Washington was forever com
plaining of tjhe unreliability of mil
itia. Enlistments were for a short
term, so he never had full com
plement of trained soldiers. De
sertions were common; and often
the poorly disciplined troops made
a poor showing in battle. .
T.iVpwi.ui Washington was in a
continuous war with, Congress fOTjP J-f of- f r Ctnft
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Increased Wind,!
Rain on Forecast
Partly doudy skies this morn-
in with increasing cloudiness,
mstv winds and rain tomgni is
the weather nicture in the Salem
area, according to forecasters at
1I.T. -CSl i
The ' Willamette River reading
was 11.8 leet eariy ims morning,
a rise of 2.4 feet during the 24
hour period ending at 12:30 this
morning iuc htw kiw m va-
pected to start dropping today,
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Short Circuit Causes)
New York 'Air Raid',
KTTW YORK A . short cir
cuit An an air raid siren Sunday
i
caused a 21-minute "all clear
blast that shattered the Sabbath
in Manhattan. Queens and the
Bron. " :
The hirh powered howl
was
traced to a switch relay failure,
It brought hundreds of telephone
calls to police and civilian de
fense offices. - f I
Animsl Crc&crt
to WARREN GOODRICH
"Pardon me but aren t yew I
lever boy who used to swoon
vef a ffuK moony
I.lSTrV .Police Chief
lrVrfffl fled him as
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Off Wrack
An eastWnd tlaio'n 'Pacific
At uascaae lacks me Dig aiesei
smashed to a halt 200 feet beyond
the slide; pushing mud ahead of
it Engineer; L. S. Tracy and fire
man R. 1A. Aulendacber, both of
Portland, stayed with the locomo
tive as it skidded along the ties,
and crawled from the cab unhurt
The wreel tore up an estimated
400 feet of the railroad's main line
track, which followsthe Columbia
River at near water-level through
the eorce. The engine and several
cars narrowly missed plunging into
the nver. i f
Tracy; said a spring hanger on
the .side of the engine hooked un
der the rails, keeping the locomo
tive upright as it slid along.
Crews were replacing damaged
track later in the day and two
big steam derricks lifted freight
cars back on the track. The rail
road dispatcher in Portland said
the line probably would be clear
by sundown.
The slide, about' 40 feet long
and five to six feet deep, covered
the tracks! 47 miles east of Port
land,
Two of -the derailed cars were
virtually demolished. One freight
car tore down a telephone pole,
temporarily cutting railroad com
munications between Portland and
The Dalles. Westbound Union Pa
cific trains were late in arriving
at Portland, after being rerouted
to tracks on the other side of the
Columbia.
At Ridgefield, about 50 miles
northwest if here, the front wheels
of a ' passenger train locomotive
jumped the track after hitting a
mud slide,,
No One was injured. Portland
to Seattle! bound passengers were
iransierrea to anouier train ana
the track was cleared three hours
later, ft
' Another slide blocked the Co
lumbia! River Highway east of
The Dalles. Ore., early Sunday.
Highway trews reported it may
I take two days to clear the' road.
Semi-Finals
Thirty-six girls and 15 boys
have woii spelling championships
in thefmid-Willamette Valley and
will compete in semi-finals of
The t Oregon Statesman-KSLM
Contest fstarting next Monday
night, March 1.
Another 33 schools have yet
tn rrtMirf their chammons.
kiiaU I Tiaiiac ' f.rann Rnnrt Ppr.
ru ,u t""u-
Tr;.. tf,Mh cki - 4.-
ivcuci, whui wfvuw u
4; Dayton, March 5; Woodburn,
March 8: Independence, (Henry
Hill) March 9; Mill City, March
10; Greenwood, March 11; Mt
Angel (St Mary's), March 12.
All- the semi-finals will start
at 7:45 p.m. and are open to the
public without charge or collec
tion of any kind. The two top
SpeDers i from each of the 10
semi-finals will compete in the
I11 Spelling
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urana sub i ransn junior
High, Wednesday night March
24.
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BEAUKE, France tf) The
French electric locomotive which
has been scorching the rails in
speed tests between Dijon and
Beaune I claimed another world
record Sunday.
The French-owned railways said
the 4,350-horsepower flyer, pulling
three coaches, streaked over the
run at iisi.S miles an hour. This
bettered the record of 143.48 miles
per hour the locomotive set Satur
day4 . I '
Youth Accused
Professor's Wife at Gunpoint
&RVALLIS A 17-year-old
youth, accused of holding the wife
of : an Oregon state uiuege pro
fessor fit gunpoint in her car for
more than an hour, was in custody
here Sunday.
Cecil Fruiti identi-
Raymond Lee Den-
nearby Harlan.
Mrs. Paula SchudeL
wife of Harold L. SchudeL assist
ant professor of farm crops - at
OSC told police this is what hap
pened
She returned to her parked car
after fa downtown shopping trip
Saturday afternoon. As she got
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Hans Kiessling and Leo Wahl look
That event was the beginning of
He was sponsored to this country by Paul Wahl, father 01 Leo,
while young Wahl was on occupation duty In Kiessiing's hometown
Story on page 12.) i f
Plans to Welcome New Church Votes
Company Here Halt asjNottJo Sign
Advance llVlen i Arrested
Plans for a dinner to welcome
to Salem were halted Sunday evening swhen city police arrested
the company's two advance men on charges of vagrancy and reg
istering at a hotel under a fake
The two men, who had registered
under the names John D. Martin
up at a Salem bus depot, police
said. I l
After a two-hour interrogation
the pair admitted to the i true
names of Young J. Moore, Birm
ingham, Mich-, and James Henry
Spencer, Searcy, Ark., j police
added. It
Register at Hotel if
On arriving in Salem, police
quotedvMoore as saying, they reg
istered at the hotel and contacted
Chamber of Commerce officials
claiming to represent the; "Fibre
lite Company" and started nego
tiating for the lease of a build
ing in Salem to house the ; com
pany. Moore told police he had
signed a $100- promissary f note
with a Salem realtor as a down
payment on the lease, police
said. i .11
Moore had told Chamber of
Commerce officials that the-; com
pany boss, a Mr. Raymond, would
arrive in Salem Sunday to make
final arrangements for the lease,
police reported. Chamber offic
ials were planning a dinner hon
oring representatives of the new
company, i investigating r officers
revealed, i f f
Charged Everything I !
Moore told police that when he
came to Salem he had no money
and charged everything at the
hotel, reported police who added
that his hotel bill including tips
was $137 when he was picked up
Sunday. I ?- ' '-f ' :;
Police quoted Moore as say
ing that he left Birmingnam,
MiclL, last December driving a
1953 Cadillac and headed west to
find work. Moore added that he
met Spencer in San Diego and
they drove to Sacramento where
they left the car, police said.
At the police station Moore
was permitted to wire his broth
er-in-law at Pontiac, Miclt, for
money to pay the hotel bill, po
lice said. Both Spencer and
Moore were held Sunday! night,
police reported. '1
ARMY READY TO MARCH
"MANILA UPi Philippine Army
troops waited Monday for the sig
nal to launch a major campaign
against the Cotnmunist-led Huks
unless they surrender before mid
night.: , . V- '
of Holding 0SC
into the car a youth climbed In
the opposite door and brandished
an automatic pistoL The youth
told her to drive out ! country
road and then told her to return
to ComHis when he found she
had only -$L20 in her purse. He
ordered her to cash a $50 check
in a grocery store and then to buy
him a bus ticket to Portland.
She then called police who noti
fied McMinville authorities. They
stopped the bus and arrested the
youth.' :; . , r-- ::
Denman was booked ? on an
armed robbery charge after sign
ing a statement of laomiMion
Fruitt said. ' : .a
Soldier Finds New Life Here
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back to southern Germany where the two! met two years ago.
a new life in the U. S. for Kiessling, onetime German paratrooper.
a "new manufacturing company"
name, police reported.
at a local hotel last Wednesday
and John D. Drane, were picked
Letter Threat
To McCarthy
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PHILADELPHIA W Police
said Sunday they had received a
letter! threatening the life of Sen.
McCarthy and would take special
precautions during McCarthy's Vis
it here Monday.
Chief Inspector Albert E. du
Bois said he thought the letter
was written by a "crackpot" but
that ja heavy guard had been
ordered for the Wisconsin Repub
lican ; during his stay here, f
The Philadelphia chapter. Sons
of the American Revolution,! is
scheduled to present McCarthy
with a good citizenship medal at
its annual award luncheon Mon
day. The letter, written anonymously,
said;
"We think McCarthy ought to be
bumped of and this is a good time
to do it"
Wreck Brings
Town Crisis
PLENTYWOOD, Mont IB An
unidentified motorist took two
sharp turns with his car here early
Sunday and: i
1.! Knocked off a fire hydrant at
its base; I -,
2 "Drained the town's water tank
of its 110,000 gallons of water.;
3 J Left this Northeast Montana
community of 2,000 residents with
out; usable water for nearly five
hours. ! 1
Mayor Clifford Peterson said
shutoffs on the city's water sys
tem were not functioning properly
and before Chief of Police Bob
Parris and workers could get the
water stopped at the hydrant the
tank was dry.
RAIN CAUSES CAVE-INS
i
ROME VR Rain poured more
misery on Southern Italy Sunday.
Authorities counted three dead in
Calabria and Sicily because of
caved-in houses. The Sicilian vil
lage of Montemaggiore Belsito,
with 8,000 inhabitants, was virtu
ally isolated by landslides.
Fog
Max. Mia. Fred
Salm
Portland
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Baker
Medford
North Bend
RoMburt
Saa Francisco 9
Chicago
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New YorX
53 39 MX
WOlamctte River UJt feet.
FORECAST (from V. S. weather
bureau. McNarr field. Salem):
Partly tunny this moraine wttn in-
creazint cloudiness and wind this aft
ernoon, cloudy witn.ram and gusty
wind tonight. High today near 50
and low tonlgtu near 43.
Temperature at 131 a Jn. 'today
was 37. i
i SALKM FRECIPIXATIOK
Sine Start of Weathe Tear Set 1
rUiTiu . Last Tsar Koraul
SJ.X3 SS ZSJT
after the pair became fast friends
or iim.
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T .nt
LOS ANGELES W) The con
gregation of the First Unitarian
Church voted Sunday against sign
ing a loyalty oath, required by
state law of all non-profit organi
rations seeking property tax ex
emptions. I
However! the chairman of the
church board of trustees, Robert
scnmorleitz. said that the tax ex
eruption wQl be applied for any
way, and that the constitutionality
ot tne state law will be tested in
court
The trustees have said they re
gard the loyalty declaration to be
contrary ' to freedom of religion
and to individual liberty.
Taken Secretly
Schmorleitz, an attorney, told
newsmen the vote, taken secretly,
was 206 toi 31.
The church pastor is The Rev,
Stephen II Fritchman, who has
been listed; by the House Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee as
sponsor of "no less than 22 pro-
Soviet organizations:" Fritchman
refused to! testify before the com
mittee, denouncing it as "seeking
to invade ithe intimate confidence
of the confessional."
Section .Amended
One section of the state's rev
enue and taxation code was amend
ed by the legislature in 1953 to
provide that the property tax
statement ! for churches and other
non-profit groups shall include
loyalty declaration which must be
signed lit tax exemptions are
sought-
The loyalty declaration applies
to churches of all faiths and de
nominations, but the Unitarian is
the only church so far to make
an issue ef it ' t
W. K. HOWARD DIES
HOLLYWOOD CB William X.
Howard,' $8, who entered the mo
tton picture business as a theater
manager land became a leading
director, hed here Sunday. ;
FIRE CHIEF DIES
f
PASCO. Wash, Of) Fire Chief
Larry Mathias, 40, died Sunday
evening when he was overcome by
smoke while fighting a fire m
Pasco home. ' j
Big 2, Big 3
Okeh With Malenkov
By TOM REEDY i l
BERLIN (A Russian and satel
lite people here for the Big Four
conference have lifted the-curtain
a little and given the West a peep
at Soviet Premier Georgi Malen-
kov. They said: i
L The Kremlin master is not
adverse to Big Two or maybe
even a Big Three meeting.; i
2. He has concentrated on popu-
laricng the government rather
than any individual and has won
in some circles the unexpected di
vidend of popularizing himself !
It teemed strange to bear a Rus
sian official and a journalist saying
so openly that Malenkov wants to
meet with British Prime Minister
Sir Winston Churchill and perhaps
even with President Dwight D. Eis
enhower; Quizzed about it, Polish
and Czech newsmen said that 'is
true. East German Communist au
thorities concurred. J f
: If it was a trial balloon planted
an the West for reaction, it cer
tainiy was a well-planned one, with
Salem A rea
4 A wards in Freedom
Foundation Selections
I Salem area public schools claimed four of six Oregon awards
Monday in the 1953 National Freedom Foundation competition and
a Salem parochial school figured prominently in one of the other
tWO. ' ' j - r
jKeizer School and Bush Grade School of Salem! qualified for an
nual "pilgrimages' to Valley Forge this year by winning Principal
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New South
Wales; 16 Die
j SYDNEY. Australia UT At
least 16 persons are believed dead
in weekend storms which swept
New South Wales, levelling hous
es, knocking out bridges and kill
ing hundreds of cattle. !
I The gale-whipped floods worst
in the North Coast's memory
deveastates some 3,000 square
miles, extending from the New
South Wales Queensland border
South to the dairy center of Lis
more and west to Kyogle.
X The Royal Australian Air Force
rushed' planes to operate an air
lift for the stricken areas. The
Army dispatched amphibious craft
Isolates Towns
The storm, which knocked out
railroad lines and disrupted gas
and electric services, isolated a
number of towns. i
The Sydney Herald said at least
16 persons, were drowned and that
more than a dozen are missing
This report said 10 persons, in
cluding five children, were drowned
at Kyogle when a house in which
they sought shelter was washed
away by the swollen Richmond
River. At Armingdale, four others
were reported drowned and a 21-
month-old baby was missing after
the car in which they were riding
was washed into a flooded creek.
Cut by Landslides
The Brisbane-Sydney Railway
line was cut by huge landslides
for miles between Kyogle and the
Queensland border. ; ,
Thousands of panic-stricken pern
sons trying to flee by car to high
er land jammed inland roads.
their vehicles piled with household
belongings. Airmen said' that for
miles out the Pacific fringing
the northern coastline was a froth
ing mass of floating debris.
Climat e Mostly
Calm in Nation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mild weather and generally
cloudy skies extended across
the nation Sunday.
Remnants of the severe dust
storms vhich clouded the South
ern plains and Midwest late in the
week settled in Kentucky, Tennes-
i i m' ;s
see. Aiaoarna ana Mississippi.
Rain extended from the middle
Mississippi Valley to the upper
Ohio Valley and the lower
ereat Lakes.
Light snow fell in areas from
Nebraska northward to the upper
Great Lakes.
Showers in the Pacific Northwest
dumped more than an inch of rain
in Washington and lesser amounts
in Oregon and Northern California,
A 65-year-old record for Feb. 21
was broken in San Diego when
the mercury climbed to 79 degrees.
The previous high for Feb. 21 was
77, set in 1889. i
Today's Statesman
Valley news .t 3
Editorials, features -. 4
Society, women's 6
Radio, TV, comics 7
Classified ads ; 10. 11
Meet Said
just about every pro-Moscow group
briefed ahead of time, i
Churchill has made no' secret of
his desire to talk with Malenkov.
President' Eisenhower has been
represented as willing to do any
thing reasonable in the cause of
peace but has been noncommittal
aooui mgn level talis, vongress
has reflected considerable repug
nance to the idea of chiefs of state
reaching decisions in secret talks
such as the much criticized Yalta
and Potsdam parleys.
One satellite source said;
"You can take this as at least
semi-officiali We 1 know Malenkov
wants a meeting and we want it
too Decease we xrunx : sorneuung
could be accomplished. '.-.
"Malenkov is a smart man. He
is not a genius but he is what
you calf, a good housekeeper. We
feel safer with him than we did
with Stalin; who was: a' genius,
but the question of war and peace
is'so delicate in .these times that
genius can ruin you.
Gales Sweep
Schools Win
School Awards The school nnn-
cipal and one student from each
school may make the trip. ?
Washington Award
Englewood School which
claimed principal awards for the
past two consecutive years, won
this year's George Washington
Honor Medal Award, and a Free
dom Library 'Award went to
Richmond School.
Winner of second place award
for a speech went to the Rev.
Robert Howard Sweeney of the
University of Portland. Rather
Sweeney can j claim $50 and
George Washington Honor Medal
for his prize-winning speech
which was delivered at SacredJ
Heart Academy in Salem. -
Revealed Today ;
ine annual ; awards were re
vealed today at Valley Forge by
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, presi
dent of Pennsylvania State Uni
versity and a ! Foundation di
rector. Sixth Oregon winner was Hen
ry L. Slater, Burns principal, for
his entry in the Americanism es
say contest Slater, who .was first
place winner last year, won $50
and a George Washington Honor
Medal for his second place effort
this year.
(Additional details on page 3.)
Solon Asks
Anti-Trust
Law Reviewed
WASHINGTON - Contending
tne Jsupreme court s decision ex
emptinz baseball has created
loophole in anti-trust laws. Ren.
Celler (D-NY) wants Congress, to
review the entire situation.
The Supreme Court's finding in
the baseball case has been extend
ed by lower courts to boxing and
the theater, he said, and there is
no way of knowing "to what
lengths these j decisions may go."
To curb them, he has introduced
bill which he said would make
the anti-trust laws, with their pro-
niDition against monopoly, apply to
all forms of interstate commerce,
including the theater business, box-
Ling, television, radio, baseball and
other entertainment, unless, speci
fically exempted by law.
Celler told newsmen the Supreme
Court's decision exempting base
ball from monopoly charges as the
implied intent of Congress was
factually incorrect
Die to Confer
With Dulles
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. W
President Eisenhower will get a
first hand report on the Big Four
Berlin conference from Secretary
of State Dulles when the chief ex
ecutive returns to Washington
Wednesday, j
Announcing this Sunday, the
President's vacation headquarters
also disclosed that Eisenhower sent
Dulles a personal message of con
gratulations Saturday "on the fine
job he did in Berlin."
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower were praised at church
services Sunday for devotion to
Christian principles and for inspir
ing "many,; many thousands to
think of righteousness."
The vacationing President .and
the Fifst Lady attended 9:30 a.m.,
services at the Protestant Com
munity Church of Palm Springs.
Crash Damages -Two
Automobiles
Two cars received minor dam
age in a collision at the 12th
Street junction south of Salem
Sunday night, state police report
ed, v : i -y
The vehicles were operated by
Oral Benjamin Campbell, Eu
gene, and ! Arthur Breed, Port
Orchard, Wash-, police said. No
injuries resulted.
News: Man Tries
To Bite DoBack
ONUKO. Japan (A His troubles
started when a dog bit Jiim. Shin
Nakamura explained te police who
arrested- him for arson.
The 39-year-old office -worker
said be tried to bite the dog back.
But the dog got away and thai
made him so mad he set fire to
the dogi kenneL ;
U. Troops
Disperse300
MfllinsROK
SEOUL The' U. S. 8th
Army reported Monday that American-troops
with bayonets drove
off without bloodshed about
300 South Koreans who attempted
to block Indian troops from leav- .
ing Korea. ? "
The Army saidi the Koreans 1
tried to stop a train, i
The last Indian troops who
had custody of war prisoners in
the neutral zone -4 were leaving
Korea Monday. Their work ended
officially last midnight
A Korean police official said the
American troops brought up tanks
to tne tempestuous scene three
miles north of SeouL
Mm uiang Heung, vice chief of
the Korean National, Police, de
nounced what he i called "heavy
counter-measures" of the Ameri
cans; He said the! South Koreans
were former prisoners 'of war who
had been in Indian custody.
Kim termed their action "a
righteous move by indignant men."
The incident erupted in darkness
at 1:30 a. m. The American troops,
aided by military police, dispersed
the crowd in 30 minutes.
Heung said none of the Koreans
was injured.. I f
An 8th Army spokesman said a
crowd of Koreans! gathered early
Monoay on tne railroad tracks
three miles south of this Republic
of Korea capital Infantrymen and
military police dispersed them
after about 30 minutes.
The spokesman ; added that in
sofar as could be determined no
one was injured,! although "our
men probably jabbed the Koreans
lightly with their bayonets."
The train which American troops
were guarding was moving 217
troops from Panmuhjom through
Seoul to the Port of Inchon. The
train reached the port and the In
dian troops boarded the Indian
ship Jalbarza. .11 -
South ' Korean officials had
threatened to prevent the Indians
from leaving Korea until "given
assurances" that) 7S Korean war
prisoners who chose to go to India
would- not eventually wind up in
(fcrnmunist hands. The 76 and 12
Chinese rejected invitations to re
turn to communism,' but neither
did they want to go to South Korea
or Formosa. s i
Most Public
Offices-to Stay
Closed Today
Most public offices will be
closed today in observance of
Washington's Birthday but banks
and schools will remain open.
post office windows will close
and no mail delivery is schedul
ed. The Marion County Courthouse
win he open for: the issue of dog
licenses but other county offices
will remain closed as will City
Hall and state ! and federal of
fices.'- ; . " " ; i
No special programs are plan
ned in public schools during the'
day, according to Harry B. John
son, assistant superintendent of
schools, but elementary schools
have been studying about the
first president for several days.
Albany Boy, 4
Dies As Result
Of Gun Accident 1
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ALBANY. Ore. tfl Four-vear- .
old Michael Neuschwander was
fatally wounded f Sunday night
by a bullet from a gun in the
hands of his 8-year-old brother,
state police reported.
Officer William Ewing said the
boys' mother,- Mrs. Kate Neusch
wander, told him the children, .
playing before bedtime, apparently
found the gun i which . had been
stored away in their bedroom.
- The bullet struck Michael in the
chin and then became lodged in
his neck. He. was taken to an Al
bany hospital where he died late'
Sunday night v
VETS RETURN HOME .
SEATTLE (A; The transport
Marine Serpens docked here Sun
day, bringing 3406 Army veterans
home from Korea. .
Daily! Speller
Following' are 29 words from a
list of 100t which will fona the
basis for semi-final aad final era!
competition la The Statesman
KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con
test for 1954, In which S3 schools
are participating. 1 . -
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