Senate Passes
Ban on Reds As
State Employes
Committee Approves
Budgets for State
Institutions
Capital
IT A -d More Shifts
JOUrflSl!., Announced in
Atlantic Pact to
Pledge Nations'
United Defense
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61st Year, No. 58
Entered m Mcood elua
matter t Sftlem Oregoi
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 9, 1949
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
A bill to prevent communists
from working for the state of
Oregon won unanimous senate
approval today and went to the
house.
The measure, by Sen. Jack
Bain, Portland democrat, pre
vents the state from employing
any person who "directly or in
directly carries on, advocates,
teaches, justifies, aids or abets
a program of sabotage, force and
violence, sedition or treason
against the government of the
United States or of the state of
Oregon."
The bill provides the right of
appeal to the state civil lervice
Commission for any person dis
'jissed lyider the law.
iv ine nouse sem to ine senate
' p a bill to give labor one repre
tjf jentative on the state civil serv
ice commission.
The joint ways and means
committee approved a bill to
make the state liquor commis
sion buy all of its supplies ex
cept liquor through the state
purchasing agent.
This bill is the result of the
dispute between former Gov
ernor John Hall and Liquor
Commissioner J. O. Freck over
supplies which the commission
bought from Freck's stationery
store. Hall fired Freck because
of it.
The ways and means commit
tee approved the first of its big
budgets, these being for state in
stitutions. The institutions got
what they asked for except for
new buildings.
State Has to Vote on Budgets
The legislature might let the
people vote on whether to con
struct the new buildings for
state institutions and higher ed
ucation, taking the money out of
Income tax surpluses.
Amounts approved today for
the institutions for the two
years beginning next July 1 In
clude: State hospital, $4,827,
378; eastern Oregon state hos
pital, $2,812,279; Fairview
home for feeble minded per
sons, $2,685,374; State Deaf
school, $644,526.
The ways and means commit
tee said it would investigate
whether to keep on giving the
Pacific International Livestock
Exposition in Portland the $35,
Y 000 a year share of state dog
facing receipts. Some members
want to stop the grant on
grounds the exposition is a pri
vate corporation paying divi
dends to its stockholders.
A subcommittee recommend
ed that the exposition be made
to repay a state gift of $100,
000 made in 1921 to enable the
exposition to biuld a new build
ing. Age Pension
Groups Protest
Leaders of old age pension
groups made three demands at
a public hearing last night, and
they said some harsh words
about the way the public welfare
commission administers pen
sions. They asked these changes in
the pension bill now before the
legislature:
1. Have an old age pension
administrator who would be In
dependent of the public welfare
commission.
2. Let every pensioner earn
up to $25 a month without hav
ing to report it. This would be
In addition to the bill's granting
every person over 65 years old
at least $50 a month, including
other income. '
3. Put in a provision that the
state can't take over estates of
deceased pensioners. The ways
and means committee has intro
duced a bill to give the state the
estates of such pensioners as a
means of letting the state get
some of the pension money back.
The theory behind this claims
bill is that children would more
readily take care of their par-
ents if the children faced the
prospect of losing their parents'
state.
About 300 oldsters attended
the hearing in the house cham
ber before the house social wel
fare committee.
State Income Tax
Experts Available
A state income tax agent will
be in various valley cities on
specified dates for the conven
ience of taxpayers, it was an
nounced today. The schedule in
cludes: Silverton, City hall, March
14 and 15. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Newberg, Chamber of Com
merce, March 16 to 18 inclusive.
9 to 4.
McMinnville, courthouse.
March 21 to 23 inclusive. 9 to 4
Dallas, courthouse. March 24
to 25, inclusive, 9 to 4. j
State Welfare
Requests Exceed
County Budgets
By JAMES D. OLSON
Administrative budgets for
county welfare commissions
submitted by the slate welfare
commission in support of its re
quest for $61,584,033 for the
1949-50 biennium are higher in
many cases than the budgets
submitted by the county boards.
Ihis was revealed when a ma
jority of the county judges of
the state appeared before a sub
committee of the ways and
means committee considering
the huge welfare budget.
"It looks like the state wel
fare department took figures
out of the air to support its in
creased request," said Rep. Wil
liam B. Morse, chairman of the
sub-committee.
Biennium Budget
In 1947 the legislature bud
geted $46,101,347.77 to the state
welfare commission for the 1947-
49 biennium.
A letter dated August 27,
1948, was sent by the state wel
fare commission to all county
welfare boards requesting sub
mission of county welfare bud
gets for the 1949-50 biennium.
It was on these budgets that the
present state welfare budget re
quest was predicated. How
ever, the state welfare commis
sion sent another letter on Feb
ruary 21, 1949, asking the coun
ties to submit a yearly budget
outline.
County Judge L. V Beckley
of Douglas county told the mem
bers of the sub-committee that
the administrative budget for
the welfare board in his county
submitted last September was
$62,800 for the two year period.
The administrative budget ap
pearing In the state budget for
this county was $69,323.
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Stalemate in
Portland Strike
Portland, March 9 VJ. Talks
continued today between Ore
gonlan and Journal management
and striking AFL pressmen's
representatives.
Two days of joint sessions
have brought no apparent
change in the situation.
Arden X. Pangborn, business
manager of the Oregonian, said
last night at the conclusion of
the day's meeting that "we are
still meeting and talking there
is nothing else."
Both papers were shut down
by the pressmen's strike on
Feb. 18. The next day, some
2,000 other mechanical and of
fice workers were laid off with
out pay.
Members of the CIO Ameri
can Newspaper Guild voted last
night to hold a general meeting
before returning to their jobs
in the event the pressmen and
management reach an agree
ment. The editorial workers re
opened their contract earlier
this month, asking a wage revi
sion. The guild also set up a wel
fare committee for members.
Sam Eubanks, New York City,
build executive vice-president,
pledged the resources .of the
union's national defense fund
for the welfare program.
Washington Bars Doggies
Olvmnin. Marh 0 JP) Tho ln.
. . , . - -
lslature yesterday slammed the
door on a proposal to permit dog
racing in Washington. Both hous
es agreed to remove an amend
ment authorizing greyhound rac
ing from a bill which Walivp?
racing of quarter horses.
County Grants
BPA for Dam Powee Line
The county court Wednesday closed a deal with (he Bonneville
Power administration giving it an easement deed to 2 'A acres
f land in the North Santiam area allowing the Bonneville trans
mission line from Lyons to the Detroit dam to cross the property
S. J. Steele, agent for the administration who presenter, the deed,
said the land already has theS
trees and brush cut and work
of cleaning that up is under
way. This is but one small piece
of right of way for this trans
mission line which takes off
from the main line at Albany
goes through Lebanon and Ly
ons and will carry power for
Detroit dam construction work.
Steele said after the dam is
completed the same line will
carry juice out from any power
development which may be made
at the dam. Under 'he agree
ment with the county the own
er may still use the rest of the
land for any other purpose de
sired which doesn't interfere
with the power line and does not
create a fire hazard.
County Commissioner Rice
Flood Waters
Spill
Over Lands
In Four States
(By lh Associated Preul
Operation Cleanup today be
came the top order of business
in Beatrice, Neb., flood - hit
southeast Nebraska river city.
High water on the Big Blue riv
er receded rapidly after driving
some 125 families from their
homes.
Officials said it will be some
lime before displaced persons can
return to their flooded dwellings.
Meanwhile, flood threats grew
stronger on the Elkhorn river in
northeast Nebraska and ice jams,
coming and going, kept flood
threats alive on the meandering
Platte river.
Winter Returns
The weather picture itself was
thrown into some confusion by a
mild return of winter, marked
by a seven inch snowfall at Sid
ney in western Nebraska.
County Agent Bill Bullock at
Sidney said the new snow would
help the winter wheat crop "im
mensely "
Rain and snow fell over four
states where hundreds of home
less are fighting flood waters.
Heavy rain covered a wide
belt from east Texas across Ar
kansas to the Ohio valley.
Surging waters from swollen
streams spilled over thousands
of acres of land in Nebraska,
Iowa, Montana and Louisiana.
But colder weather in many
parts of the midwest checked
some of the overflow.
The Missouri river was gen
erally below flood stage over
its course through eight states
from northern Montana to south
ern Illinois. But many of the
big river s tributaries were on
a mild rampage.
Montana Floods
Minor floods were caused
north of Sidney, Mont., after ice
30 to 40 inches deep blocked the
Yellowstone river and sent water
over its banks. Some residents
expressed fear of widespread
floods if the ice gorge backed
up for 20 miles. Farmers and
ranchers along the river were
urged to leave their homes and
remove their livestock..
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Colorado Shale
Producing Oil
Los Angeles, March A VP) A
gigantic "oil mine" operation in
Colorado has multiplied Ameri
ca's petroleum reserves several
fold.
This is disclosed by Boyd Mor
ris of the U.S. bureau of mines
division of synthetic fuels, who
says an oil shale deposit near
Rifle, Colo., eventually should
become the largest mining oper
ation in the world.
It has a potental of about 350,
000,000,000 barrels of crude oil,
he told the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers conven
tion yesterday. That amounts
to about 10 times the volume of
all the oil from wells drilled
so far in this county.
The project, already operat
ing on a small scale consists of
mining the shale rock and trans
forming the near-solid petrol
eum contents into crude oil
Morris said giant caverns pro
duced by the huge mining opera
tions will be ideal to house un
derground industries in the
event of atomic warfare. Mor
ris added the U.S. bureau of
mines is in charge of the under
taking, being sponsored by the
armed services.
Eventually, he said pipelines
probably will be extended to the
west coast.
Easement to
who was up the Detroit road
Tuesday above the dam site
says snags are lying all along
where clearance has been made
for the power line.
He said also that repairs are
being made on a 100-yard strip
of the road near the forestry
headquarters above the dam site
where cars were reported get
ting stuck.
Rice said that there is still ice
but thawing is undei way de
spite a heavy snowstorm there
Wednesday and he expects for a
month while the freeze is going
out of the road trouble will be
had on the four-mile stretch
from the dam site to Detroit. He
said there is an even foot of
snow on the level at Detroit.
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Blood Program Dedicated Dedication for the local set
up in the peace-time blood program for this area was con
ducted Tuesday in Salem with the first visitation to Marion
county of the blood mobile from the Portland regional blood
center. From left: Justice George Rossman of the Oregon
supreme court who gave the dedicatory talk as prepared by
Milton L. Meyers, who was unable to attend; Charles H. Hug
gins, chairman of the Marion county chapter of the Red
Cross; and Col. Philip W. Allison, donor recruitment chairman.
The three are standing before the blood mobile which will
receive blood from 100 donors monthly In Marion county.
Prosecution of Pyramid
Clubs Studied by Stadter
District Attorney E. O. Stadler Wednesday wrote John B. Mc
Court, district attorney for Multnomah county, and also to the
Portland city attorney, for any assistance they may give him to
determine whether pramid clubs are legal.
Pyramid clubs seem to be approaching a peak in Salem.
"I have received dozens of in-3
quiries from persons wanting to
know if the clubs are legal," the
District attorney said
"My reply has been that I
think they are unlawful, but so
far I have been unable to put
my finger on a statute that is
clear on the matter."
Stadter said he was trying
to get any possible help from
the attorneys in Portland where
the Pyramid club furore is even
hotter than it is here.
City Attorney Chris J. Kowilz
also is being called on to advise
interested citizens. - Numerous
inquiries have come to him, he
said.
Both the district attorney and
the city attorney are curious
about the mathematical calcula
tions that are involved in the
clubs and how the records are
kept. Many persons who haven't
joined a club believe those who
have will find shortly that the
scheme isn't what it seems to be
and that it will die out without
legal interference.
Just now, however hundreds
of persons are being invited to
join clubs. Several invitations
reached girls in downtown of
fices Wednesday. Many were
trying to find out about, the le
gality before accepting.
All Time High
Unemployment Aid
The Oregon unemployment
compensation commission today
reported an all-time high of $1,-
169,662 was paid to the jobless
'last week, but that claims are
beginning to fall off with the
coming of good weather.
Logging and lumbering ac
counted for nearly half of the
64,000 claimants. Spring activ
ity in upstate timber areas, how
ever, was beginning to bring
down the number of unemploy
ed. . Twenty-three local offices re
ported that many farm jobs,
delayed by the worst winter in
years, are opening up all over
the state.
Unemployment claims fell off
noticeably in Salem, Eugene,
Coos Bay, McMinnville, Albany
and Klamath Falls.
Bar Colored Oleo
But Repeal Taxes
Washnigton, March 9 CP)
The house agriculture commit
tee today voted in favor of re
pealing all federal taxes on oleo
margarine; but forbidding the
sale of colored margarine in
interstate commerce.
The bill went through by a
vote of 24 to 3 after the commit
tee had defeated a proposal
that would have permitted the
sale of yellow margarine with
out tax, but would have requir
ed eating paces that served it
to advertise the fact on their
menus.
The outcome was regarded as
a victory for the dairy state in
terests. The bill still has to be con
sidered by the house and senate.
10 Best Dressed
Men Picked
New York, March 9 (U.B Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson
beat out President Truman to
day as the government's best
dressed man.
The newly apponlted secre
tary topped the annual list is
sued by the Custom Tailors
Guild of America, Ine Mr, Tru
man was just behind him in
the voting among men In gov
ernment, Edward Balletta, pres
ident of the Guild, said.
Others selected in the 10-Cate
gory listed were:
Harold E. Stassen, president
of the University of Pennsyl
vania, in education.
Clark Gable, in the movies.
Lou Boudreau, of the Cleve
land Indians, in sports.
Ray Boolger, dancer, thea
ter.
Morey Amsterdam, night club
and television entertainer, com
edy. Elliot Lawrence, orchestra
leader, music.
Charles A. Munn, Sr., society.
Richard Kollmar, who eats
breakfast in public, radio.
Lawrence C. Gumbinner, ad
vertising agency head, business.
Bill for Inspection
Of School Buses
The senate passed and sent to
the house today a measure re
quiring that all school buses be
inspected by the secretary of
state.
The board of education would
provide teaching courses for the
school bus drivers.
A companion bill was passed
by the senate earlier this week
It would require motorists to
stop when the school bu:es are
loading or unloading children.
New Fire Quarters
Planned in Portland
Portland March 8 fi A new
downtown central fire depart
ment headquarters planned for
Front avenue has been outlined
by City Commissioner Kenneth
L. Cooper.
He said the $750,000 three
story structure would occupy
one city block. Three present
companies would be merged.
It won't be ready for use
however, until July 1, 1950.
THE WEATHER
(Released by United Slates
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Mostly cloudy with occa
sional rain tonight. Partly cloudy
Thursday. Little change In tem
perature. Lowest temperature
expected tonight, 34 degrees;
highest Thursday, 54 Maximum
yesterday 49. Minimum today 34.
Mean temperature yesterday 44
which was 1 below normal. Total
24-hour precipitation to 11:30
a.m. today .03 of an Inch. Total
precipitation for the month .29
of an inch which w .81 of an
Inch below normal. Willamette
river height at Salem Wednesday
morning, 4.1 feet.
TVA Unsuited
For Northwest
Eugene, March 9 (IP) Presi
dent Truman's top economic ad
viser said here last night that the
Tennessee valley authority pro
gram cannot be transplanted
whole to the Columbia valley.
Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chair
man of the president's council
of economic advisers, said TVA
was an experimental project
I believe that it is a great
mistake to think that TVA could
be transplanted altogether into
this area or into a"ny other area
Consequently, I would say it is
necessary first of all to find out
what the conditions are here. We
must find what ingredients will
fit the situation."
He made the statement in an
swering a question by one of
some 150 stale business leaders
at a meeting to hear him.
nourse also said he saw no
reason to think 1949 will see a
business recession if businesmen
keep their heads.
He predicted "an excellent
level of prosperity, minus the
inflationary pressures of 1948.
He said 1949 is "the year of
catching up. We have to face
the completion of the catching
up process." He said this had
been going on since the end of
the war.
The former vice president of
the Brookings Institute said he
delected a feeling of uncertainty,
of "waiting to see which way the
cat will jump."
Referring to the securities
slock market, the economist said
"the market can't crash at this
point. It is already too close to
the ground."
Mary Garden to
Make Lecture Tour
Detroit, March 9 VP) Mary
Garden, famed opera singer of
another generation, is coming
out of retirement to make a
lecture tour.
The National Arts Foundation
announced today that Miss Gar
den will return to this country
next fall from her native Scot
land, where she retired in the
mid-1930's.
Carleton Smith, foundation
director, said Miss Garden will
lour 25 cities In the United
States and Canada with pro
ceeds to be used to finance
teaching of the arts to students
selected by the non-profit foun
dation. Miss Garden also will
help teach talented young singers.
Sherman Pleads Guilty to
Looting Safe, Asks Leniency
Cornelius W. Sherman, ex-nighl clerk at the Mnrion hotel,
pleaded guilty before Judge George fl. Duncan Wednesday lo a
charge of looting the hotel safe of $200 and when District Attorney
Ed Stadter, Jr., recommended leniency in the ease the court or
dered a pre-sentence investigation be made before he determines
what disposition of the case will
be had. The loot amounted lo
more than the $290 named but
some of it was in checks and il
was slated the checks can prob
ably be replaced The money
was part of the hotel receipts.
Sherman slipped into the hotel
office while a relief clerk was
on duty and extracted the mon
ey while the other clerk was
busy. He has returned in the
neighborhood of $100, the dis
trict attorney said.
Stadter told the court that
Sherman had been very coop
erative and in the light of this
he suggested not only leniency
but possibly that probation be
granted
The hearing disclosed that
Sherman had been arrested in
Denver, Colo., in 1938 on a rob
bery charge but he said that was
dismissed. In 1939 he was ar
rested in San Francisco on an
undisclosed charge and taken to
Eureka, but he also said that
matter was dismissed. However,
he did serve eight months In San
Quentin being sent up from Los
Changes Held De
signed to Strengthen
Leadership
Moscow, March 9 flPi Two
more high level Soviet leaders
were promoted today. The latest
shifts in the cabinet of Prime
Minister Stalin saw A. I. Efre-
mov relieved as minister of the
machine tool industry and lipped
tu vice chairman of the council
of ministers, the Soviet cabinet,
A. I. Kostousov succeeds to
Efremov's ministry.
The moves came only a few
days after V. M. Molotov, Stal
in's closest associate, was reliev
ed of the foreign ministry and
replaced by former Deputy For
eign Minister Andrei Y Vishin
sky.
Molotov 59 Tears Old
Molotov, who is 59 years old
today, retains Hie posts of first
vice chairman of the council of
ministers and member of the
policy-making politburo of the
communist party.
Vishinsky's spot as first dep
uty foreign minister was taken
over by Andrei A. Gromyko,
former chief Soviet delegate to
the United Nations.
The news of Efremov's promo
tion was handled by the Russian
newspapers in the same way as
the announcements affecting
Molotov and Vishinsky.
It appeared under the heading
of "public announcements" on
the back pages of morning news
papers. There has been no comment
in the Soviet press on any of the
cabinet shifts.
Western Views on Shifts
western diplomats have ex
pressed the opinion that the
shifls of Soviet officials, total
ing seven with those promoted
today, were designed to strength
en Russian leadership.
Western diplomats in Moscow
have said they viewed the
changes as a move to give the
deputy prime ministers some of
the duties of Stalin, now almost
70 years old, and reported In 111
health.
There has been some specula
lion that Stalin may relinquish
the prime minister's post to Mol
otov. Stalin became prime minister
in 1941, shortly before the war.
Swiss Expect
U.S. to Pay
Bern, Switzerland, March 9
VP) The Swiss government ser
ved notice today that It expects
the U. S. to pay interest on its
$16,000,000 war damage claims
Switzerland claims the U. S.
airforce caused the damage by
accidentally dropping bombs on
neutral Switzerland during
World War II. The worst inci
dent took place January 4, 1944,
when Schaffhauscn near the
German border was blasted.
The U. S. made an Immediate
payment of $4,000,000 after this
incident, but further payments
have been held up by congress,
the Swiss federal council said.
The federal council said Amer
ican legislation for a further
$2,300,000 payment would cover
only a part of Swiss claims, es
p e c i a 1 1 y as "a considerable
amount of interest" would have
to be added to the original claim.
Veteran Actor Dies
Hollywood, March 9 IP)
Death has laken John Maurice
Sullivan, 73, retired actor who
appeared on the stage with Rob
ert Mantoll and Chauncey OI
cott many years ago.
Angeles in 1940 on a burglary
charge. After getting out he did
314 years overseas in the armed
forces and was granted a dislion
orable discharge.
He told the court he had giv
en back a large part, of the mon
ey already and wished to make
restitution of the balance.
Richard D. Fones entered a
plea of guilty lo obtaining mon
ey by false pretenses by cash
ing a worthless check on the
Pink Elephant for $10 Deputy
District Attorney Gordon Moore
said he'd as yet been unable to
get much light on the case and
asked that a pre-sentence inves
tigation be made which the court
ordered.
I.estcr Dunn entered a plea of
guilly to larceny of sacks and
he was sent to the Oregon Slate
hospital for observation. Dunn
has been involved in sack steal
ing episodes before and served
a jail sentence here on such a
charge. He is lo he under scru
tiny at the stale hospital for 30
days.
Treaty Fits Within
United Nation's Char
ter on Aggression
Washington, March 9 VP)
Secretary Acheson said today the
Atlantic treaty, as now drafted,
makes clear the nations signing
it will defend themselves against
aggression from any quarter.
Summarizing at a news con
ference the -negotiations on the
treaty text, Acheson pictured the
pact as the end result of western
policy developments brought on
by Russia's blocking of peace.
Only yesterday, the secretary
of state discussed the proposed
treaty with the senate foreign re
lations committee. The members
informally approved a final trea
ty draft.
Treaty Draft Approved
Acheson did not disclose the
treaty text in his news confer
ence discussion. But he said that
in his opinion the United States.
Canada and the countries of
western Europe have, through
the text as it now stands, ac
complished four major achieve
ments:
1. They have recognized the
fact of life in preparing to es
tablish a formal relationship be
tween the United Slates and the
western European countries.
Acheson said this relationship is
not artificial but has existed 300
vears or more and has its roots in
the common ideas and common
institutions of freedom.
(Concluded on Page , Column I)
Senate to Vote
Pact Approval
Washington, March 9 VP)
Senate approval appeared as
sured today for the projected
North Atlantic security treaty.
Finally completed after eight
months of negotiations, the un
precedented 20-year alliance
won an informal okay from th
senate foreign relations commit
tee yesterday. No strongly or
ganized opposition was in sight.
The pact would have the ef
fect of binding the United States
to the defense of western Eu
rope, although it would slill b
up to congress to determine in
event of an attack whether war
should be declared by the United
Slates against the aggressor.
The alliance Is intended to
make such a demonstration of
unity on the pari of the western
powers that Russia, If it ever
so tempted, would not dare to
attack any one of them.
The text of tin proposed
treaty is expected to be made
public In about a week, before
it is signed. Officials now be
lieve it will be signed by the
end of the month possibly at a
meeting of foreign ministers of
the Atlantic powers In Wash
ington. Only after tha signing, In
which eight or more countries
are due to participate, will the
treaty be formally presented to
the senate.
British Cabinet
To OK Treaty
London, March J) P The
British Cabinet is expected to
Rive its formal approval to a
final draft of the Atlantic pact
tomorrow.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev
ir and his topmost advisers were
Riving the draft a last once-over
today, government informants
said.
Britain will send back word
of the cabinet's expected ap
proval and commentsif any
in time for the Washington ne
gotiators' last scheduled discus
sion of the Text Friday, the
official said.
The British foreign office ex
pnets the treaty to be signed
cither in the last week of March
or I he first work in April.
The place of signature it
will be either Washington or
Jlermuda with the odds nn
Washington prnbahlv will b
settled Friday too. 1h British
?a y.
The part which strategically
important Greenland will play
in the pact-partners' strategic
plans is expected here to come
up for close study in Washington
in the next few days. Greenland
is a Danish possession. Den
mark's Foreign Minister Gustav
Rasmussen is due in the Ameri
can capital tomorrow for talks
with Secretary of State Dean
Acheson. The United States still
has operational control of two
airfields in Greenland.
Ex-King Left Fortune
London, March 0 ifl- Former
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy,
who died in Cairo in J 947, left
an estate in England valued at
1.5.12.287 ($6,120,148). court
records disclosed today. Details
wert not revealed.