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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1950
34th Year
No. 59
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Record Timber
Sale Price Set
J3y Lundgren Bid
A record price for Deschutes national forest pine was .paid
here yesterday afternoon when Leonard Lundgren, of Sisters,
bid $27.05 for an estimated 294,000 board feet on four sop
titrate tracts covering 160 acres south of Lava butte and in the
Paulina prairie country. Lundgren was awarded the timber
following bidding in which The Shevlin-Hixon Company took
part.
Present, but not taking part in the bidding, were repre-
; ; sentatives of Brooks-Scanlon
f I CI 1 Inc. The stumpage obtained
I hJilYlnPr lATPC bv Lundgren. is described as
One-Day Drive
For Memberships
Some 70 or 80 Bend chamber
of commerce members are ex
pected to turn out next Monday
for the 7 a. m. "Early Bird"
breakfast at the Pilot Butte inn,
which will mark the opening of
a one-day chamber membership
drive, Howard W. Moffat, the
organization's manager . announc
ed today.
Members who attend the break
fast will make up the teams
which are to make a concerted
membership drive during the
day. The campaign will be
brought to a close Monday eve
ning with a report buffet dinner
at 7 o'clock, also at the ,inn.
In charge of the drive is Don
Thompson, chairman of the Ten
O'clock club, chamber member-
JL' ship organization.
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ine tup j.j teams at tne mu
of the drive are to make up the
1950 Ten O'clock club, Moffat
explained.
He stated that although the
drive will be of only one day's
duration, the teams will continue
membership solicitation through
out the remainder of the year,
and the two teams which have
brought in the greatest number
of new memberships the week
prior to the Oregon-Oregon State
football game, will be guests of
the chamber at the game. Rules
for the drive are to be explained
at the "Early Bird' breakfast.
A new-member luncheon also
has been planned at the Pilot
Butte inn on Friday, February 24.
Officers Alert
For John Pinson
Central Oregon officers were
aierted last night when informa
tion was received here that John
O. Pinson, escaped Oregon con
vict, was believed to have crossed
the upper Columbia river from
Washington and was heading
west. Roads in this area were
watched through the night, with
officers also on duty this morn
ing. However, no road blocks
were set up.
The escaped convict, who was
serving life for the murder of
a state policeman, was reported
to nave crossed the Columbia on
a ferry, and was in a car with
several other men.
Officers were still on the alert
today, but It was believed that
the trail was cooling.
Nation's Coal
Down to Eleven-Day Supply
By Robert Shubert
(United Press SUff Correspondent )
Pittsburgh, Feb. 14 IIP) The
nation's coal stockpile dwindled
today to an 11-day supply with
heavy industries and railroads
planning sharp new cutbacks.
Striking coal miners girded for
a show-down struggle with the
federal government, continuing to
ignore court orders to return to
work and stop picketing.
A quick back-to-work move
ment predicted by some govern
ment officials did not materialize.
A check of mines In major soft
coal regions showed none work
ing. John L. Lewis, United Mine
Worker president, prepared to
meet in Washington tomorrow
with soft coal operators under
court orders to resume good-faith
bargaining.
Contempt of court action
against the 400.000 strikers for re
fusal to obey the 10-day back-to-work
order was expected to be
withheld at least until after the
ntract talks open.
7 Violence Flares
Picket violence broke out In
West Virginia and western Penn
sylvania yesterday despite the in
high grade pine and accessible
for logging.
Aggregates $28.05
The total paid by Lundgren for
the pine aggregates $28.05 per
thousand and includes GO cents
per thousand for slash disposal
and 40 cents for stand improve
ment. The previous high paid for
Deschutes pine was $27.30, when
timber In the Abbot creek area
was purchased by the Hitchcock
firm in competitive bidding. In
that sale the stumpage price was
$24.70 per thousand and the addi
tional deposit was $2.60 per thous
and, bringing the total up to
$27.30.
The auction yesterday after
noon was in the office of Ralph
W. Crawford, Deschutes national
forest supervisor, with W. H. My
ers, general manager, represent
ing The Shevlin-Hixon Company.
Myers submitted the opening bid,
$24.25, the appraised value. Lund
gren offered $24.30. From that
point bidding steadily moved up
to $27.05.
Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., had sub
mitted a check, indicating interest
in the sale, but did, .not take any
part in the bidding. Representing
that firm were A. J. Glassow, M.
S. Phelps and Hans Milius.
Forty acres of the pine stand
is west of Paulina prairie, and the
remainder is southwest of Lava
butte.
Highest price paid in this area
for timber, not in the national
forest was $40.06. This was re
ceived by the bureau of land man
agement in sealed bids for a strip
of Deschutes river timber several
years ago. The Tite-Knot mill of
Redmond was the buyer.
Hitchcocks Plan
Trip to Brazil
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice B. Hitch
cock and twin children, Robert
and Maureen, Ibft this afternoon
from the Redmond airport via
United Airlines on the first lap of
a trip that will take them to Bra
zil. Hitchcock, whose home is
near Sisters, made a similar trip
to the south last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock and the
twins will spend one day in San
Francisco and one in Los Angeles,
before making the over-water
flight to Puerto Rico, then south
to Rio de Janerio. They expect
to reach the big Brazilian city
Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs.
Hitchcock will be away for a
month or six weeks. Her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. O'Larey, will
take care of the other children
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Reserve Now
junction's ban against picketing.
Caravans of pickets toured the
coal fields, closing several non
union strip mines and beating up
at least three men.
Nicholas county, W.Va.. sheriff
John Bell said a group of 30T pick
ets mauled Lloyd Shankle, 50.
Phllipsburg, Pa . banker, while he
was returning from an inspection
tour of his coal holdings near
Rich wood.
The pickets also beat up shovel
operator George Dudrich, who
was accompanying Shankle.
May Cut Power
Bill Hatley, a contractor who
operates the Donegan mine, was
struck by members of a picket
motorcade touring the Nicholas
county fields.
Dwindling coal supplies brought
warnings that electric utility com
panies might have to cut off pow
er In some states.
The Pennsylvania Electric Co
at Johnstown, Pa., said the coal
shortage threatened to effect ser
vice from Erie. Pa., to Deep
Creek, Md., within two weeks.
Four maior utility companies
supplying Chicago and most of
northern Illinois said their sup
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Giant Slalom
John Drew, Bend high school senior and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Drew Jr., of Bend, was winner of the junior men's giant slalom
race Sunday at the Skyliners' playground west of Bend. He is
pictured here at the finish of the race. In the background is the
Skyliners' tow line.
New Higli School Building,
As Alternate Development
In District Plan, Studied
Net cost of a new high school which would make possible
re-inauguration of the junior high or 6-3-3 plan of public edu
cation here would come to $361,000 more than would exten
sion of present facilities and continuation of the one high
school idea, James W. Bushong, city school superintendent,
told the board of directors of the district at their meeting in
the high school building here
last night.
Earlier in the year he had
given figures on a long range
program which would be key
ed on providing more room
space by housing high school
shop and homemaking courses in
a vocation building and year-by-
year addition to the number of
grade rooms as they become
needed.
Possibilities Outlined
Last night his report, prepared
for purposes of comparison at the
board's suggestion, presented the
possibilities for construction of a
complete new senior high school
plant (tenth, eleventh and twelfth
grades), use of the present high
school as a junior high School
(seventh, eighth and ninth
grades) and, with this conversion
absorbing a division of element
ary pupils, halting grade school
construction until ' 1355 or 1956.
Then the Thompson school might
have to be completed at a cost of
$80,000 or $90,000.
If this plan were followed the
senior high school would be erect
ed in 1950 and 1951, on the large
east side site acquired by the dis
trict approximately two years
ago. It would spread over 68,000
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Stuntman Falls,
Seriously Hurt
Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 14 II1
Stuntman Bob Niles fell and was
critically injured today when he
tried to make a parachute jump
from the 150-foot-high Colorado
St. bridge, once famed as "suicide
bridge."
He was taken to emergency
hospital where his condition was
pronounced critical.
Niles was "rehearsing" for a
proposed jump from New York's
Empire State building when the
accident occurred, police said.
Six companions who were help
ing with the "rehearsal" were ar-'
rested.
Niles made unauthorized para
chute Jumps last summer from
the Golden Gate bridge in San
Francisco and went to New York
to jump from the Empire State
building, but was prevented by
police.
The Colorado St. bridge was
named "suicide bridge" during the
depression years when nearly 100
persons Jumped to their deaths
in the rocky Arroy Seco.
Had Climbed Fenre
A high wire fence was erected
along both sides of the span to
halt the wave of suicide jumps.
i Niles had climbed the fence and
' was preparing to jump filff morn
j lug when something went wrong,
j He shouted for help and one of
! his assistants tried to grab him.
' but was too late.
Police said the 24-year-old stunt
I man had climbed over the fence,
I which In Itself is a violation of a
! city ordinance, tied a rone to the
' guard rail and had climbed down
I the rope, below the street level.
H wns waiting for t'te wind
to fill his 'chute when his hands
;sllnped. He screamed and fell
I Emergency hospital attendants
said he had fractures of both
logs and Internal injuries.
Race Victor
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Lawson McCall
Gives Address
At Prineville
Prineville, Feb. 14 . Lawson
McCall,, executive secretary to
Governor Douglas McKay, was
principal speaker at a Lincoln day
banquet here last night in the
Lutheran church, with 125 per
sons present. H. S. Mersereau
presided at the dinner, one of the
best attended of its kind ever held
here, with Carey W. Foster, chair
man, representing the Crook
county republican central com
mittee. Also on the program was James
H. Short, of Redmond, represen
tative in the state legislature from
the Deschutes-Lake district at the
1949 session.
Both McCall and Short touched
on the welfare state which they
said is taking shape in America.
McCall urged that people care
fully study what is happening in
America. Directing his remarks
to young people, he urged that
they interest themselves In the
trends in American government,
and said that if they don't direct
their attention to the budding wel
fare stale it will be too late to act.
McCall, a former resident of the
Prineville country, read a letter
from Governor McKay. Short
touched on the origin of the wel
fare state In England. He urged
that women take an interest In
national affairs, in an effort to
halt the sweep of socialism.
Churchill Urges
One More Talk
With Joe Stalin
Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 14 UPi
Winston Churchill proposed to
night "another talk" with soviet
premier Josef Slalin about the
atom bomb.
Speaking on foreign affairs at
his last scheduled big political
rally before the Feb. 23 general
election, Churchill recalled his
earlier relations as prime min
ister with Stalin and his war-time
colleagues and said:
"Still, I cannot help coming
back to this Idea of another talk
with soviet Russia upon the high
est level.
"The idea appeals to me of a
supreme effort to bridge the gulf
between the two worlds, so that
ci-ch can live their life, if not in
fiiendshit). at least without the
hatred of the cold war."
Churchill bitterly Criticized the
labor government for having fail
ed to make the atom bomb itself.
He said It was "one of the most
extraordinary administrative laps,
es that have ever taken place."
Soviet Powerful
The soviet world has by far the
greatest military force in the
world, the conservative party
leader said, but the United States
has the atom bomb.
"And now, we are told, thev
have a thousandfold more terrible
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Bend Ponders
Federal Low
Rent Project
The question of whether or not
Bend should apply lr low-rent,
public housing is to be discussed
Thursday at a meeting of mem-
bets of the city commission, coun
ty court, businessmen and mem
bers of the AFL carpenters
union, it was announced today by
Howard W. Moffat, chamber of
commerce manager.
The meeting, to begin at 7:30
p.m., will be held in the chamber
office.
Representing the union at the
meeting will be Robert P. Wat
son, field man for the central
Oregon district council of the
brotherhood of carpenters and
joiners. Also to be present is Rog
er Spaulding, a representative of
the public housing administration
office in Seattle.
Issue at Redmond
A discussion of the question re
cently was held In Redmond and
a number of townspeople there
urged the city council to conduct
a survey to determine the need
for low-rent Housing in tne com
munity.
, It was brought out at the Red
mond meeting that units built un
der the federal low-rent plan are
owned and financed locally. The
federal government covers the
operation and financing deficits,
if any, it was explained.
At this meeting Watson stated
that the carpenters' union has
taken a strong stand in favor of
building low-rent projects wher
ever, needed.
Washington Now
Hit by Floods
(lly United Tress)
Southeastern Washington riv
ers were spilling over their banks
Tuesday with snowslides and
floods coming as an aftermath of
rising temperatures in the Pacific
northwest.
Warm rains sent tons of ice
down streams which In many
places were brimming over.
Emergency crews were busy dy
namiting Ice jams to keep the
water from backing up and inun
dating valuable farm lands and
roads.
One man was killed during
weather operations.
The British Columbia railway
junction of Boston Bar was Iso
lated when slides blocked both
rail and highway approaches.
East-west rail traffic was halted
in British Columbia because of
slides.
A 100-foot long bridge collapsed
at Vesta, Wash., after being un
dermined by high water.
Convict crews from the Wash
ington state penitentiary battled
to keep the Walla Walla Institu
tion from being isolated by flood
waters which threatened to, un
dermine a highway leading to the
prison.
Highway Closed
The Washington state highway
department closed highway 40 be
tween Touchet and Lowden when
the Touchet river covered the
highway at several points. Both
highway and railroad bridges at
Lowden were covered with water
and the river was still rising.
The state highway between
Walla Walla and Prescott was
closed to all traffic. Water cov
ered the highway In at least two
places and several nearby farms
were flooded.
John TorJek, Kamloops, B.C.,
was killed Tuesday when a gigan
tic snow slide struck the railway
plow he was operating and hurled
him Into the Fraser river. Com
panions saw his body floating un
der river ice shortly after the
accident.
Scores of deer became easy prey
for coyotes when they became
trapped In slides.
Washington's Snoqualmie pass
was re-opened Monday night aft
er being closed for several hours
by a slide at dangerous Airplane
curve.
Traffic between Aberdeen and
the North river district was being
re routed 15 miles via Raymond,
Wash., after a 100-foot bridge
spanning the river was undermin
ed by high water.
DISEASE REPORT MADE
Two cases of chlckcnpox In
Deschutes county and four cases
of mumps In Crook county were
the only communicable diseases
detected In central Oregon this
past week, according to a report
from the TrICounty health de-
partment.
Deschutes County Pioneers
Complete Plans for Reunion
Saturday at Pine Forest Hall
Selection of a pioneer queen,
of entertainment and a square
iuiu reunion ot Deschutes noneer association members Sat
urday night at the Pine Forest grange hall, K. A. Smith,
president of the group has announced. Last night, officers of
the association-and committees
chutes county courthouse, to
Mother of Madras
Triplt
ets Leaves
Local Hospital
By Ha Grant-
When 19-year-old Mrs. Morris
Ashcraft of Madras entered St.
Charles hospital more than a
week ago, she had no idea that
she later would leave at the head
of a colorful caravan, followed
by a truckload of presents and
an entourage of well-wishers
from three central Oregon com
munities. It was Just the beginning of
the surprises for the attractive
Madras girl, when she gave birth
to triplets February 6. Since then,
Bend, Redmond and Madras resi
dents have been lavish with their
congratulations, and plans began
to take shape for a ceremony In
honor of the young parents.
Ambulance In Load
Shortly after noon today a pa
rade tormeu in downtown Bend
with the Madras fire department's
new streamlined ambulance in
the lead, with sirens screaming.
Seated with the driver were Ash-
craft and the couple's 19-months-
old daughter, Sandra Lee. Next in
line was a truck, laden with gifts
from Bend merchants, and fall
ing in behind were friends from
the boom-town community in Jef
ferson county. They had come to
escort their "favorite family"
home.
The procession moved slowly
through the city, and up Hospital
hill. Ashcraft got out of the am-
bulance and carried Sandra Lee
up the hospital steps. Both were
dressed in their best, for the bell
ringing ocasion. Ashcraft wore a
becoming blue suit several shades
lighter than navy. Sandra Lee
was dressed in a red coat-and-hood
outfit, trimmed with ma
terial resembling leopard skin.
Father and daughter entered the
hospital, and nurses admired the
little girl, whom they hadn't seen
since she, herself, left the ma
ternity ward.
Father Nervous
The young father, just a little
nervous and self-conscious, es
corted his wife from the mater
nity ward on the top floor to the
front steps of the hospital. There
the presentation ceremony took
place, with Ralph Baker, chair
man of the retail merchants' com
mlttee of the Bend chamber of
commerce; Robert Wetle, sub
chairman, and Kessler Cannon of
radio station KBND, In charge.
Mrs. Ashcraft was radiant. Her
short brown hair was brushed
into soft waves, and her brown
eyes were sparkling with excite
ment. Under her brown coat she
wore a frock of iridescent taf
feta in dark blue. "I just don't
know what to say," she stam
mered. Ashcraft, more composed,
expressed gratitude to the Bend
merchants and other friends who
planned the public "shower." "We
surely appreciate it," he said sin
cerely. Mr. and Mrs. Ashcraft and San
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Railroad Strike
Still Possible
Chicago, Feb. 14 UIi Negotia
tions have broken off between
the nation's major railroads and
two rail brotherhoods which have
authorized a strike to enforce
contract demands, a mediation of
ficial announced today.
The brotherhoods involved are
the Order of Railway Conductors
and the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, who claim 250,000
members on the nation's major
railroads.
Francis A. O'Neill, chairman of
the railway mediation board, said
that negotiations were broken off
between the carriers and brother
hoods because differences In their
demands were "Just too great."
He said the carriers have asked
10 changes In working rules and
the unions 11.
"The case was so big we Just
couldn't get together." said
O'Nell. The three-member media
tion board entered the dispute
after the breakdown of direct ne
gotiations between the carriers
and brotherhoods.
Neither of the labor organiza
tions involved has set a strike
date, and O'Neill said they were
not expected to do so for 48
hours.
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election of officers, a nrogram
dance will be highlights of the
held a conference in the Des
complete plans for the mid-win
ter meeting, an annual affair
lhe pioneer queen will be
named by a special commit
tee, it was announced by the
olticers. Eva Todd Bennett,
whose father, John Y. Todd,
operated the Farewell Bend
ranch In the past century, has
ruled as pioneer queen this past
year and will be an honorary
memDer 01 tne new court.
Many Expected
The Saturday night party will
attract pioneers here from all
parts of the upper Deschutes area
of Oregon. The reunion will open
with a potluck dinner at 5:30. A
ham dinner, with all the trim
mings, will be featured this year.
If any cakes, hams or salads re
main after the meal, they will be
auctioned, with proceeds to go to
the Deschutes county polio fund.
A business meeting and program
will follow the dinner, with danc
ing to end the evening. There will
be square dances this year for the
first time at a Deschutes pio
neers' party, and there will be a
prize waltz.
Smith has announced that Carl
A. Johnson, who served as first
president of the Deschutes pio
neers, will be general chairman of
the Saturday night meeting.
May Change Eligibility
Business to be considered will
include several resolutions, one
which would change eligibility
rules and set 1917, the year Des
chutes county was created, as the
"deadline". However, .the status
of persons who came to the coun
ty later than 1917 and: are now
members under the present 30-
year ruling would- remain un
changed, if this resolution Is ap
proved.
Present for last night's confer
ence were E. A. Smith, president
Mrs. Claude McCauley, secretary
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Martin, Mrs.
Arthur Brinson, Mrs. C. P. Beck
er, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Stevens,
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ilollinshead,
Bill Burton, Carl A. Johnson,
Claude L. McCauley and Phil F
Brogan.
Eugene Woman
Requests Arrest
Woodland, Calif., Feb. 14 IP
The sheriff's office here is hold
ing on her own request, Dorothy
Mae O'Blick, 34, who arrived in
the Davis area yesterday by cab
lrom Stockton.
The woman asked deputy
sheriff George Fuller to arrest
her after the cab driver had
called the sheriff's office report
ing that she refused to pay her
fare. She told the deputy that
she didn't know how she got to
Stockton, but had arrived In San
Francisco last week from her
home in Eugene, Ore., by bus.
She said she has a san In Port
land, Ore., but doesn't know how
to contact him. The sheriff is in
vestigating the case.
FIBK EXTINGUISHED
Bend firemen were called Mon
day at 4:13 p.m. to 334 E. Kear
ney, to extinguish a flue fire at
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt
man. No damage was reported.
Republicans Raise Battle
Cry, in Lincoln
Washington. Feb. 14 (III Re-
publicans raised their new battle
cry "Liberty Versus Socialism"
in Lincoln day speeches
throughout the country.
At GOP dinners last night from
Boston to Seattle, speakers assail
ed the Truman administration's
1 policies at home and abroad.
They said the "government of
spenders" is leading the nation
down the road to a socialistic state
and tins weakened Its role in the
world-wide battle against commu
nism. Republican chairman Guv G.
Gahrielsnn in Nashville, Tenn.,
characterized democratic Ideas as
"the poisonedhoneyed cup. to
drink from which means death to
liberty in this nation."
"Our greatest threat is not from
communism nor from a would-be
dictator In our midst," he said.
"Our greatest threat is Ignorance,
Indifference, and a misguided
tendency to vote away more and
more of our Individual freedom In
a vain search for a false, guaran
teed security under the present
democratic government.'
States Rights Issue
In New York, Gov. Alfred E.
Driscoll of New Jersey, who
17 Persons
Aboard Graft;
Search Starts
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 14 (IP) A
U. S. air force B-36 bomber car
rying a 16-man crew and one
passenger was "ditched" today
with three of its six engines out.
A full-scale two-nation air and
surface search began for possible
survivors on wind and rain-whipped
Queen Charlotte sound.
The eighth air force plane re
ported 10 minutes before Its fi
nal voice communication with a
sister plane that it had lost power
on two engines and had feathered
another.
The last message was sent at
11:40 p. m. (PST). At that time,
the plane was 100 miles south
of Prince Rupert, B. C.
The Dilot said he was still hav
ing engine trouble, but was head
ing toward land and the crew
had been alerted to ball out. How
ever, an earlier report from
Washington, D, C. air force of
ficials stated they had "definite"
information the plane had been
ditched.
Reports of the final distress
messages were released by MaJ.
Gen. Roger M. Ramey, Eighth
air force commander at Fort
Worth, Tex., AFB.
Big Search Starts
At dawn, the Royal Canadian
and U. S. navies, the coast guard
and u. S. and Royal Canadian
air forces ordered 40 planes, sev
eral cutters and smaller boats
into the search.
An RCAF helicopter was forc
ed down at Comox, B. C. on Van
couver island while en route to
the RCAF coastal freighter Song
hec. It was the second search
plane forced out of the search.
The freighter and helicopter were
to work together bringing any
survivors back to Port Hardy on
Vancouver island.
The air force immediately slap
ped on a security ban.
The B-36, second to be lost In
air force history, was in route
from Alaska to Texas when the
pilot messaged "one engine on
fire" at 17,000 feet over Queen
Charlotte sound.
He then messaged he was ex-
perleneing-severe icing conditions
and instrument trouble and fi
nally said he was planning to
ditch tlie big plane.
He asked all points to look for
flares and. wreckage. The plane
was equipped with rafts and
other emergency crash equip
ment.
The air force several hours la
ter said It had "definite" Infor
mation that the plane had been
ditched. No further details were
given.
One of the RCAF planes was
forced to return to Vancouver
due to heavy icing conditions. The
weather was reported to be "very
bad" in the search area.
Gale force winds piled up
heavy seas between Queen Char
lotte Island and Vancouver Is
land off the British Columbia
coast where the plane was last
reported.
The weather bureau said any
survivors would have a "pretty
rugged time" in life rafts.
Identity of crew members was
withheld. It was believed the pas
senger was an air force officer
from McChord Field, Wash.
MaJ. Gen. Roger M. Ramey,
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Day Talks
sometimes Is -mentioned as a pos
sible GOP presidential candidate
In 1952, called on the government
to restore more power to the
states.
Sen. William F. Knowland, R.,
Cat, a frequent critic of the ad
ministration's foreign policy, said
in Boston that the state depart
ment abandoned "free China, our
wartime ally and friend, to the
cultures of international commu
nism." "The basic objective the United
States should have keut constant
ly in mind." he said, "was to pre
serve a free, independent, united
non-communist China."
In the postwar illness of that
nation, we prescribed that the
"strychnine of communsm be
taken."
In his sneech at Morgantown,
W.Va., GOP national committee
man Walter H. Hallanan recalled
that President Truman went
bankrupt in the haberdashery
business after world war I.
"It Is vividly recalled what hap
pened to the haberdashery and
the same thing could happen to
the United States under Mr. Tru
man's leadership," he said.
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