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3A Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Tueg., Apr. 13, 1954 Voting Listless In Illinois Primary CHICAGO (a) Illinois listlessly paraded the country off to the 1954 political wars today. The state primary is the nation's first for picking the Republican and Demo cratic rivals who will fight it out in November for U. S. Senate and House seats. Several million potential voters in the Prairie State apparently weren't much impressed by it all. For one thing, the Democrats didn't put on much of a show today no statewide races at all. Nobody challenged Sen. Paul H. Douglas in the party primary and only one : Democratic House member Jury Hears Six Witnesses NEWPORT, Ore. OB Six wit nesses subpeoaed last week testi fied Monday before the Lincoln County Grand Jury as the investi gation into alleged vice activities in the county resumed after a week's recess. Capt. Hay Howard of the Ore gon state police was the first witness of the morning. He has appeared several times before. Other witnesses during the day were L. G. English of Toledo, for mer district attorney; Mrs. Ver non Burroughs of Taft, widow of the late "Curly" Burroughs; D. J. Fulge, a former state patrolman, Virgil Rhodes, chief of the Wald port police, and C. 0. Delap, for mer Waldport police chief. PREMIER DIES HALIFAX, N. S. On-Premier Angus L. MacDonald, 64, of Nova Scotia died in Victoria Hospital Tuesday. out of nine had any opposi tion. The feature attraction in the political arena was a free-for-all among nine Republicans for the U. S. senatorial nomination and a chance at yanking Douglas out of the Senate seat he won six years ago. In addition, 9 of the IS Repub lican House members, four of them chairmen of major commit tees, had to fend off party com petitors in Tuesday's balloting before they could compete in the general election next fall. These were the contests the na tion was watching, even though they offered no conclusive tests of sentiment on national issues or any accurate gauge of the ad ministration's popularity in the Midwest. If the Illinois voters were ex cited at all, it was more about local issues, such as proposed sales taxes in four cities, and peo ple trying for nominations to of fices in local and county govern ments and the state legislature. THRIFT . . . doesn't I mean a "Piggy Bank" when you re decorating mf - REUNION IN FRANKFURT Valcriu C. Georgescu, Romanian-born American business executive is flanked by his sons, Peter, 15, left, and Constantin, 19, at Frank furt, Germany airport following the boys' arrival from Communist Romania. The youths, Georgescu said, were able to leave Romania because of the help of the U. S. State Department. It was first time they'd seen each other since 1947. Georgescu had refused to be black mailed into spying to win release of the teenage boys. 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The operation, carried out in extreme secrecy during the past ten days, was accomplished without a fight. The communications route which the French and Laotians stopped up is a narrow pass in the limestone hills of central Laos, which spills out to the north into the valley of Paphao. REGISTER-GUARD WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Leopold Returns PANAMA (in Former King Leopold III of Belgium returned Monday froir a 14-day trek through the wilds of Panama where he retraced the route fol lowed by Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he discovered the Pacific in 1513. Leopold's wife, the Princess de Rethy, who had expressed fears for his safety when he was deep in the jungle, welcomed him at the airport. Leopold's only inju ries were countless insect bites and a blister on his small toe. Spy Plot Revealed CANBERRA, Australia (IP Australian Prime Minister Rob ert G. Menzies said Tuesday that a Soviet diplomat who asked and was granted political asylum has revealed a Russian spy plot in Australia. Menzies said that Soviet Secret Police (MVD) documents handed over by the refugee diplomat, Vladimir Michaelovich Petrov, involved both Australian citizens and Soviet MVD agents in Aus tralia in the plot. Petrov, a career diplomat who had been serving as the third secretary in the Soviet Embassy, chose free dom after living in Australia since February, 1951. Family Has Joyful Reunion Georgescu Sons Arrive in U.S. NEW YORK Wl Away from prying eyes, Mrs. Lygia Georgescu was tenderly reunited Tuesday with her two sons who were hos tages in Romania for seven years. Government officials and crew, together with other passengers, understandingly first left the big Pan American plane that carried Constantin, 19, and Peter, 15, from London to Idlewild Airport. Then a nublic health official signalled to Mrs. Georgescu who had waited in an office. She walked toward the plane, then broke into a run. As she neared the craft's doorway, the older youth emerged from the cabin and embraced his mother. Then they stepped within the plane and the little family group met privately for a few minutes. Also present was the boys' father, Valeriu Georgescu, 50-year-old oil company executive who met them in Munich Monday. After the reunion, the youths stepped from the plane and told reporters they were "proud" that tiieir father, a naturalized Ameri can citizen, had refused to spy against the United States in their behalf. The Georgescu case broke Into headlines last year when the father disclosed to the State De partment that a blackmail at tempt had been made by a mem ber of the Romanian legation. The boys, rosy cheeked and healthy looking, smiled constant ly during their impromptu meet ing with the press alongside the The pair spoke little English, except for constantly repeating "thank you very much." Their father translated for them. Constantin said that they had heard through friends that their father had told on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America of his refusal to spy. 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