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.
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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.
'Round the World
Vietminh Guns Blast
Dien Bien Phu Defenders
HANOI, Indochina 13 Vietminh artillery blasted the defenders
of Dien Bien Phu again Tuesday but the Communist-led rebels still
held back the massive all-out assaults the French Union forces ex
pect before the weekend.
Under a virtual umbrella of 75 and 105 millimeter barrages, the
Vietminh sent out squads to gather up the hundreds of their com
rades Killed or wounded in vain attempts earlier to take the
1,200-foot eastern hill position the French seized Saturday.
The vital strongpoint is only of a mile from the deeply bunk
ered heart of Dien Bien Phu. The
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beating off violent rebel counter
attacks Sunday and Monday.
Heavy fog under the leaden
skies of the threatening spring
monsoon cut the French aerial
assaults against the jungled hills
si rounding Dien Bien Phu. But
the American-supplied fighters
and bombers ranged far to the
northeast and north of Hanoi,
blasting out big section of the
main highways over which Red
China sends thousands of tons of
war equipment ' the rebels.
Supply Route Sealed
SAIGON, Indochina W The
French command announced
Tuesday that French and Laotian
forces, executing an enveloping
movement, had sealed off the
Vietminh's main communications
route into south and central
Laos.
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.
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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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