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i J Nationalists Reject T lice's Plea; To Veto Mongolians in U.N. - Blood Qisewe May By FRANCIS W.' CARPENTER ' UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Wi Despite an appeal from President .Eisenhower, -. Nationalist China 4ent ahead Tuesday night withr ' plans to veto Outer Mongolia's bid for U.N. membership. The Mongolian bid had been the ' last point of difference between Cloud-Seeding Hailed as Big Step Forward SEATTLE W A three-year government experiment has shown that cloud-seeding offers "tremen dous possibilities" toward hail sup pression as well as increasing rainfall, Sen. Magnuson CD-Wash) said Tuesday. ' "I am. also told that successful hail suppression might conceivably lead to the eventual mitigation of Bevere and destructive local storms, including , tornadoes," the senator added. ' Magnuson made public, a report by the National Advisory Commit tee on Weather Control, established .under a congressional act which be sponsored. The findings were preliminary ones, he said... Exhaustive Research ;. The exhaustive research ' has - proved the country can consider chemical cloud-seeding effective to ' produce "economically important" precipitation ; in : certain areas. Magnuson stated. . During the three-year test,- rain- fall runoff-was increased as- much as 17 per cent in an area in' the ; southern Oregon Cascades and the scientists' were satisfied it was - caused fey . their work, ' Magnuson said.. Similarly; an increase in santa Barbara, caul., area was placed at 16 per cent, and the fi gures were smaller in two other , California tests. ; Rail Suppression t Hail suppression tests were con ducted in Oregon and Nebraska and the results compared with similar Jests by the government of Switzerland- Farmers in the Oregon test . area report no hail falling at all ,J. during the two seeded years, even though there was a hail record , extending back 43 years previous . ly," Magnuson said. . "The Nebraska test also showed " a definite reduction in hail."- The Swiss "tests, he said, showed - significant reductions at ' three places, and apparent complete ".'elimination at" a fourth." Woman Serves As Own Lawyer, But Loses Case DETROIT. Mich. WP Mrs. Laura F. Meadows, who has had i no legal training, served as her own lawyer Tuesday in a $15,000 damage suit against the operator of her apartment building. Her only witnesses, were three lawyers she consulted, each of whom testified he advised her she did not have a case, arid a physi cian who said she suffered no permanent injuries. Mrs. Meadows claimed she was Injured seriously when a wall bed toppled over on her. ' A circuit court jury agreed with the law yers. It said she had no one to sue. . -' . . - - ' East and West on admission of 18 applicant nations. The United States had yielded Anally on it in packagewaHwith the Soviet Union. , Authoritative sources said Eisen hower made two direct appeals to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek not to veto the Mongolian bid. Chiang Kai-Shek answered the first appeal negatively. His second answer has not been received, it was reported. But Nationalist China's Chief Delegate T.F. Tsiang gave an an swer here. He told a reporter his government Js opposed to admis sion of Outer Mongolia and would use the veto on it if necessary. . Diplomats Amazed Some U J, diplomats were amazed, some reacted angrily. One usually friendly to Nationalist China said the Nationalists appar ently wanted lo commit suicide as far as the U .N. is concerned. He added a veto would cost the For mosa regime many friends. A Soviet spokesman, informed of Nationalist China's decision, stood firm on Moscow's demand for "Outer Mongolia or nothing." He said again the Russians will not permit the entry of Western-backed candidates, such as Japan, Spain and Italy, if all the Soviet bloc applicants are not approved. - Soviet Satellite Outer Mongolia, nominally a So viet satellite, lies on the borders of Soviet Asia and Red China and is a point of some conflict between the big Communist countries themselves. Debate on new members is ex pected to begin late this week in the Assembly's special Political Committee. ' . - ' Paul Martin, Canadian minister of national health and welfare and a' prime backer of the move for new members, said he was hope ful something could be worked out before a final vote. Canada and 26-other delegates are sponsoring a resolution in the committee urg ing the Security "Council to act favorably on the 18 applicants. No Vetoes To be admitted to the U.N., an applicant must get seven votes in the ll-nation Security Council and no veto. Then the applicant must get two-thirds of the votes of the 60-nation Assembly, where there is no veto. Indonesia was the last member to be admitted, entering the U.N. in 1950., - The row in the U.N; over mem bership now is limited .to Outer Mongolia. Russia has agreed to ac cept Spain, one of its old foes, plus Japan, with which Moscow is technically at war, and Italy and 10 other countries backed by the West Those are Finland, Portu gal," Ireland, Jordan, Austria, Cey lon, Nepal, Libya, Cambodia and Laos. ' ' This acceptance Is conditioned on agreement bv the Wrst. snJ cially Washington;, Jfiipermit the entry of five SovM satellites, Al bania," Hungary, Bulgaria. Roman ia and Outer Mongolia, In a news conference, VS. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. said the first four likely would get enough votes but that Outer Mongolia would not make the grade. He said the United States would abstain on the vote on all five Red countries. r I A.- 1 U ;. ' - I 4; t .; f . - Statesman, Salem, Ore.; WecL, Nov. 30, 55 (Sec. II)-7 MINNEAPOLIS Surgery awaits these 10 members of the Steffen hagen family of Frontenac, Minn., all afflicted with a hereditary blood disease. Their family doctor said all may have to undergo removal of the spleen in an effort to counteract the disease. The man at left is Roy Steffenhageu, 37. His children are left to right Steven, 7, Gerald, 9, Janice, 6, and David, 4. On the other side of the table are Robert Steffenhagen, 31, Roy's brother, and his children, Norma Kay, 6, Linda Sue, Vh, Darrell, 11, and Barbara Jean, 9. (AP Wirephoto.) Peron Aide's Niece Assured O f Fine Grades BUENOS AIRES, Argentina IP Abraham Krislavim, undersecre tary in the interior minister during the Peron regime, had a unique method of raising his niece's marks in school. He ordered her. teacher arrested. This came to light Tuesday when a judge of the new Argentine pro visional government ordered Kris lavim tried for "illegal privation of freedom." Krislavim is believed to be in Havana now with-Angel Borlenghi, the exiled former in terior minister to whon! he was right hand man. The charge against Krislavim said when he learned his niece got a low grade in high school, he summoned her teacher, Felipa Pin Errecalde de Garate, and ask that it be changed. The teacher refused and he ordered her arrest on Sept. 16, 1953. A month. later he ordered the teacher arrested again. Both times she was held several hours in jail.. Dulles Asks Politicians Be Constructive WASHINGTON (JP) Secretary of State Dulles urged Tuesday that America's politicians keep their foreign : policy quarrels on a constructive level, and not get into fights ' that -would hurt the country. "Those Lostile to the United States and its ideals -are not .oing to take a vacation so that we here can safely concentrate on a doncslic political haUle," he told a news conference. "We should , not encourage The highest elevation- in - the United States is Mt. Whitney at 14,495 feet- Adrian Boy Hurt by Shot NYSSA, Ore. UB Harvey Har-. rell, . 15, of Adrian was in a hos pital here Monday, in critical condition from a shotgun wound. i Police "said the youth was acci dentally shot in the abdomen Sun-. day by a companion while they were playing with a gun which they thought was unloaded. The accident occurred at the other , boy's home. them to become bolder," he added, "calculating that the months a-tead, because they are an election period for us, will provide unusual opportunities for them." Saying he was talking about Republicans and Democrats alike in raising his word of caution, Dulles said "careless or uni formed indulgence in partisan excesses" could imperil the na tion. Earlier Tuesday, Sen. Wiley (R-Wis.), former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, said in a statement that "if Republicans were to conduct Umpqua Timber J Hearing Slated PORTLAND (JH -C- A public hear ing will be held here Dec. 15 on the proposed sale of 75 million board feet of timber in the Windigo Pass area of the Umpqua National Forest There have been protests, chiefly from Bend, and Klamath Falls, against sale of the timber, located in the northeastern part of Douglas County and including sub-alpine species.' -.. ' Grass Playhouse Fire Claims Girl HOUSTON, Tex. UP) A 2-year-old Jacinto City girP burned to death in a grass playhouse Mon day. Linda Kay Shelton, one of 1 nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shelton, was - dead upon arrival at a hospital. ;, The youngster had been play ing in the grass hut with four of her brothers and. sisters. Investi gators said the children appar ently started a fire to keep warm. Parking JVIeter Funds Not Aiding Problem WASHINGTON The American-Automobile Assn. says a large proportion of the more than ' 90 million dollars ' collected through parking meters is being diverted to nonparking purposes. - "Less than 10 per cent of the funds " said AAA President An drew J. Sordoni of Wilkes-Barre. Pa., "are being spent on their most logical and equitable purpose the provision of off-street park ing facilities to bring about a perm anent solution of the parking prob lem." ;, u Sordoni made his comments in a statement. . U.S. farmers sold 309 million, dollars worth, of hay in 1954. VALLEY RENTAL SERVICE We rent m s t everything from blow torches to baby scales from hospital equip, to partv Heeds. 2303 Fairgrounds Rd. Phone 4-8332 reckless personal attacks, that will only invite Democratic - re taliation and the vicious circle will go on and on." 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