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Capital Journal .. THE WEATHER. CLOUDY WITH occasional light rain tonight and Thursday. Little chance in temperature. Low to night, 38; high Thursday, 54. IF D IN AL EDITION 64th Year, No. 32 SSffJEftSZi Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 6, 1952 BSa,iB Price 5c oiO 1 Reds Propose New Plan for Withdrawals Want High Level Conference With 90 Days of Truce . Munsan, Korea (IP) The Com munists Wednesday proposed a high level political conference Witness Tells King George V! Dies in Sleep Elizabeth Becomes Queen Massacre of Poles by Reds it twithin 90 days after a Korean fjamistlce to negotiate wnnaraw al of foreign troops, settle the Korean problem and resolve re lated issues in the Orient. , The three-point proposal was rSade at Panmunjom in the first full dress session of truce ne gotiating teams in two months. Allied delegates made no com ment. They took the proposal under study and promised a re ply later. Observers expressed doubt the United Nations Command would agree to the third point. Acceptance Doubted The Red proposal identified it only as "other questions related to peace in Korea. But in presenting the propos al, North Korean Gen. Nam II linked it to a statement by Pres. ident Truman involving U. S military aid to Formosa, Indo china and the Philippines. Significantly, the Communist proposal referred for the first , time to "The People's Republic ol unina" as a belligerent in Ko rea. Heretofore the Reds have in sisted Chinese fighters in Ko rea were volunteers. Final Armistice Clause The Reds' three-point plan was their outline of principles for recommendations to the gov ernments of countries fighting in Korea. That would be the final clause of an armistice. Two other clauses still are unsettled. 'Hill Captured And Abandoned Seoul, Korea VP) For the second time in 48 hours, Allied infantry recaptured a hill posi tion on Korea's western front , without firing a shot Wednes day. Reds seized the vantage point northwest of Yonchon Monday night. Allied troops regained it Tuesday without opposition. The Reds took it again Tuesday night. Wednesday morning U.N. troops again marched to the top with out seeing a single Communist soldier. In other ground action Wed nesday, the Allies threw back three light Red probes in the mountainous east. Nine B-29 Superforts hit rail lines and industrial targets in North Korea Tuesday night. Light bombers knocked out 35 of 700 vehicles spotted on North Korean highways during the night. Allied Naval Headquarters said navy planes and warships killed or wounded 1,022 Red troops in the week ended Feb. 3. U.S. Casualties Total 105,271 Washington VP) Announced . S. battle casualties in Korea reached 105,271 Wednesday, an increase of 270 since last week. The Defense Department's weekly summary based on noti fications to families through last Friday reported 63 more men killed in action and 212 wound ed. There was a decrease of five in the "missing" category. This makes new totals since the war started of 16,333 killed in action, 76,324 wounded and 12,614 missing. Widows of 3 Marines To Get Medal of Honor Washington (U.R) The widows of three marine heroes who lost their lives in Korea will receive the medal of honor from Navy Secretary Dan Kimball at a Pen tagon ceremony Friday. The nation's highest military decoration was awarded post humously to: SSgt. William G. Windrich, 29, Carlsbad, Calif., who led his unit until he collapsed and died from loss of blood. Pfc. Walter C. Monegan, Jr. 19, Seattle, Wash., who de stroyed three tanks and was mor tally wounded by machine gun fire as he aimed his bazooka at another tank. 2nd Lt. Robert D. Reem, 26, Elizabethtown, Pa., who smoth ered a grenade explosion with ins body to protect hit platoon, Escaped Prisoner Saw Greatest Mass Exe cution of All Time Washington (IP) A tense witness in a pillowslip mask testified Wednesday he saw Polish officers being shot by Russian soldiers in Katyn forest scene of one of the greatest mass executions of all time. In all, he said, he and two companions saw 200 Polish offi cers put to death. The witness, identified as an escaped prisoner of the Russians and former Polish soldier, told a special house . subcommittee that some Polish officers were thrown alive into a vast pit among the corpses. Witnessed Great Atrocity In short Polish sentences, the witness his name and back ground were withheld describ ed killings in an eerie flood lighted forest near Smolensk, Russia, in October, 1939. He said "I saw prisoners be ing shot" while with two com panions, he lay strapped in a tree within the forest. (Concluded on Pate 5, Column S) Valley Rivers All Receding All rivers in the valley were falling slowly Wednesday as the current high water spell waned and no precipitation for the past three days to augment the wa ters. The Willamette at Salem was at the 16.9 foot mark Wednes day morning, just over 3 feet be low flood level of 20 feet, but the muddy waters were gradu ally receding. All points to the south, Eugene, Albany, Corval- lis and Jefferson, reported the rivers dropping. Nippy temperatures prevailed in Salem area again Wednesday morning, the minimum in the city being recorded at 30 de grees, two below freezing. The forecast calls for cloudy skies and occasional light rain by Thursday. Dennis Out for Sen. Kefauver Portland VP) Walter J. Den nis, state chairman of the Young Democrats, is chairman of the Oregon Kefauver for President committee. Other officers elected when the group organized here Satur day are Mrs. Elaine Berry, vice chairman; Owen J. Card, secre tary; and St Cohn, Multnomah county clerk, treasurer. All are from Portland. State Sen. Jack Bain, who filed the original Kefauver peti tion will be campaign chairman. In another development in the move to get the Tennessee sen ator's name on the Oregon dem ocratic presidential primary bal lot, Mrs. Gladys Last, vice-pres-dent of the democratic state cen tral committee, said she favored nomination of Kefauver. She said she would help circulate nominating petitions. 50,000 Listed Jobless Fifty thousand Oregon resi dents are unemployed, compar ed with 45,000 a year ago, the state unemployment compen sation commission said Wednes day. Smyth Got Tax Job Despite Bad Record San Francisco VP) A house investigating committee was told Wednesday that James G. Smyth was appointed San Fran cisco collector of internal rev enue despite three unfavorable intelligence reports on his char acter. Special Treasury Agent Wil liam E. Frank of Seattle de scribed the three reports in tes timony .to the house ways and means subcommittee of which Rep. King (D., Calif.) is chair man. Smyth, 1944 northern Cali fornia campaign manager of the Roosevelt-Truman ticket, was fired by President Truman last November on mismanagement charges. Later Smyth was indicted on IV i ., ' r &j I : I Vh A VL I 1 In I House Group Votes for UMT Washington (U.R) The house armed services committee, by a 27 to 7 vote, formally approved today a bill to call all men at age 18 for six months universal military training. Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) said the controversial UMT bill will be called up in the house during the week of Feb. 25. He has predicted the house will ap prove it. Vinson said the bill approved by the committee will assure a "bonaf ide" UMT one in which men are trained specifically to build up a powerful military reserve. The committee wrote into the measure a flat prohibition against a defense department plan under which trainees would have been called to active mill tary duty for 18 months imme diately upon completiton of their training. Under the committee's bill, trainees would go into the re serves for 7 'A years. They could not be called to active military duty except with prior consent of congress. Eugene Dimes Total $25,000 Eugene VP) Eugene raised $25,000 for the March of Dimes this year, compared to $16,000 in 1951, chairman Joe Richards reports. a charge of conspiracy to de fraud the government. Frank told the committee that a routine character investigation made of Smyth in 1935 was that time Smyth was appointed a aeputy tax collector for a short period. Under questioning, Frank said the Investigation dealt with Smyth's "income tax returns, his filing records and his drink ing." - Frank testified Tuesday that backdating of tax returns was the major irregularity he found in the San Francisco internal revenue office. The T-man said "friendship . . . political favors . . . motive? of that kind, not bribery," were behind the backdating. New Queen for Britain Top, left, the late King George VI in royal robes. Right, Queen Elizabeth on her recent visit to Washington. Below, left, Duke of Edinburgh, royal con sort. Right, looking tired and worn after his recent operation, King George VI chats with Princess Margaret (left) and "Queen Elifcabethi: at. -a London airport from which Princess Elizabeth' (now Ijue'en-) and- the- Duke of Edinburgh-toolr off for African tour. (Radio Telephoto) Universal Regret Over Death of King Washington VP) President1 Truman Wednesday expressed "deepest sympathy" to the Brit ish people upon the death of King George VI. He said in a statement that the king played his part in world affairs "nobly" and with Brannan Fires Grain Directors Washington (IP) Secretary Brannan Wednesday fired the di rector and assistant director of the Agriculture Department's commodity office at Dallas, in connection with current investi gations of shortages of govern ment grain. The discharges, of Director Latham White and Assistant Di rector James Solomon, become effective at the close of business Friday. They have been off duty since late in December, pending a de partment investigation. A department spokesman said the men were removed from their jobs for "administrative de ficiencies and inadequacies." . In was in the Dallas area that several commercial storage con cerns had been charged with con verting government grain to their own use, mainly for specu lative uses. Brannan took his action after studying answers White and Sol omon had made to charges against them. A-Bombs in Place of Ground Troops Urged New York VP) It is time the atomic bomb rather than on large ground armies, says Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, wartime head of the atom bomb project. The retired general adds: "You can't fight Russia on foot. The distances are too great. Their defense is too elastic." Weather Details Mailmnm TeiUrdsr. SRI mlnlmam to dtr. . Total 24-hour precipitation, 0: for month, z:m: normal, i.nn. Heaaon precipi tation, S-i.WI; normal, Slt.H. Rlrrr hrljrht, lal.fi feat, talllna. (Report by V. S. weather bnreaa.) full understanding of his re sponsibilities. Secretary of State Acheson and many members of congress joined the president in lament ing the king's death and in wishing a long, successful reign to the new Queen Elizabeth. The house adjourned out of respect to the king after adopt ing a resolution asking the pres ident to convey Its sorrow to Great Britain. Mr. Truman had sent mes sages of condolence to Queen Elizabeth and other members of the royal family. The president said in a state ment: "A world personage who maintained the highest tradi tions of the English constitu tional monarch passes in the death of his majesty King George VI. "From his accession to the throne through all the ills which beset the world through out the years of his reign, in cluding the most disastrous war in history, he played his part nobly and with full understand ing of the responsibility which was his. "His heroic endurance of pain and suffering during these past few years is a true reflection of the bravery of the British peo ple in adversity." Sherrie's Father At Her Funeral Portland (IP) Mrs. Jada Ka- der, accused of the first degree murder of her 3-ycar-old daugh ter, Sherrie Ellen, did not attend the little girl's funeral here Tues day. But Arthur "George" Dollar hide, the child's father, and sev eral hundred others, mostly the curious, did. Dollarhide, sobbing, was led from the chapel by rel atives after the brief service. Sherrie was buried with a bouquet in her hand and a teddy bear beside her. Many who walked past the casket wept. A little girl, about Shcrric's age, was lifted to her father's shoul der so she could see better. Mrs. Kader, who now is a pa tient In a hospital, was taken to the mortuary Monday to see her daughter's body. 25 Year Old Elizabeth on Royal Throne London VP) The death of King George VI Wednesday brought Britain its first reigning queen since Victoria died 51 years ago. And the coming to the throne of serious gray-eyed Elizabeth revived a mild superstition that Britain waxs fat and pros prous with a woman's reign. The belief grew out of the founding of an empire by anoth er Queen Elizabeth 350 years ago, and its rich expansion under Victoria in the 19th Century, The new queen, only 25 years old, was in far-off Kenya, an East African Colony, at the be ginning of a five-month tour of Africa, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand. Philip Regal Consort With her was her 30-year old husband, Philip, Duke of Edin burgh, who cast aside princely Greek titles and became a Brit ish citizen to wed her amid great splendor November 20, 1947. They had intended to com plete their empire-cementing journey by continuing around the world, with side visits to the Panama Canal and to Bermuda, British Colony off the Atlantic coast of the United States. Now they must return at once. (Concluded on Pane 5, Column 7) Edinburgh Now Prince Consort London (U.R) Britain has its first prince consort in 90 years today in Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. As husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth, Philip will have no official part in ruling this country. But he may, like Prince Al bert, consort of Queen Victoria, exert enormous influence or he may not. Philip's exact status remains to be settled officially. He may, like Albert, be given formally the title of "Prince Consort," and like Albert it is expected that he will be given court pre cedence second to the queen. Albert, as the consort of Queen Victoria, was really a power behind the throne. Strong-willed as Victoria was, she was devotedly in love with her husband. A German prince, naturalized only a few days be fore their marriage in 1840, Albert became unpopular with a large part of the British pub lie because of what was regard ed as his undue influence in politics. Actually, history has it, Al bert was a wise, conscientious and self-sacrificing helpmate to his wife. As the years pased his culture and liberal ideas be came more widely known, and public mistrust subsided. The Queen's intense and lasting grief on his death in 1861, made him posthumously popular. Na tional sympathy with the Queen had its reaction among those who once disliked Albert. They felt they had misjudged him People for Annexation New York (U.R) The Gallup public opinion institute said to day that the public is over whelmingly in favor of state hood for Alaska and Hawaii, Alaska 9 to 1, Hawaii 6 to 1. Spud Price Ceilings Change Due in Oregon Portland VP) A decision on changes in potato price ceilings in Oregon and Washington is in prospect after a current econom ic study is completed in Klam ath county, a price executive said Wednesday. . Meanwhile, he said, shipments to the Portland market are be ing delayed. Henry P. Witt, chief of the food section of the Portland of fice of price stabilization, said that the Central Oregon potato financial study was completed earlier and Vernon K. Malberg, Elizabeth to Fly Back to British Capital Nairobi, Kenya (IP) Princess Elizabeth wept when told of her father's death and made im mediate plans Wednesday to fly back to London. News of the death which made the Princess a Queen was with held frqm Elizabeth until direct confirmation was obtained by telephone from Buckingham Palace. When she was finally told the news Elizabeth broke down and sobbed. In a last minute change of plans Elizabeth and her hus band, the Duke of Edinburgh, arranged to fly at once to En tebbe, Uganda. There they will board the four-engined Argonaut plane Wednesday night which brought them here on the first leg of the 30,000-mile round the world tour they had planned. Proclamation Hails Elizabeth London VP) Britain's acces sion council drafted a proclama tion Wednesday night formally hailing Princess Elizabeth as Queen of Great Britain. The proclamation becomes of ficial upon publication expected within a few hours. The 25-ycar-old ruler, who was in Nairobi, Kenya, on the first leg of a round-the-world tour when news of King George s death reached her, is speeding home by plane. She is expected to arrive here Thurs day. The accession council met at St. James Palace at 5 p.m. The council members, many wearing scarlet robes and ac companied by footmen, stayed in session 20 minutes. "The meeting was strictly for mal," said one council member later. After Elizabeth gets back to London she will appear before the council. As the new Queen she will swear to uphold the Constitution. Windsor to Sail For Funeral New York VP) The Duke of Windsor announced Wednesday he will sail Thursday night to attend the funeral of his broth er, King George VI, but that the duchess will remain in the United States. The duke, who as Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry the former Wallis War field Simpson, will depart for Southampton on the liner Queen Mary. The duchess has visited Eng land since she married the duke in 1937, but she never has been received by the royal family. Both the duke and duchess were in seclusion in their suite in the Waldorf Towers. His secretary, Miss Anne Sea grim, said the duke was "ter ribly shocked and surprised over the passing of his brother." Coffee Heads NAA Washington VP) Col. Harry K. Coffey, Portland, Ore., a founder of the Civil Air Patrol, has been elected president of the National Aeronautic Asso ciation at a meeting of associa tion directors here. business analyst, then went to Klamath Falls. Once Malberg's reports are made and checked a matter of days a Washington, D. C, price announcement affecting the two northwest states can be expected, Witt said. He pointed out that right now growers are reluctant to sell to shippers unless they arc assured of any higher price resulting from what he called a "clamor" by the organized industry. He said there was no information here on what the price decision would be. Lung Cancer Fatal to Ruler Of Great Britain London (P) Weary Kinir George VI died Wednesday at 56. ending a 15-ycar reign that brought England the glory and the dregs of victory. His daugh ter, Elizabeth, 25, immediately became England's seventh queen ruler. Tired and spent by disease. George VI died in his sleep at Sandringham, the royal estate where he was born. He had suf fered from lung cancer, but ao parently a blood clot was the immediate cause of death. More than half the world the bits of England that lie around the globe and the peo ples mat are akin-lowered flags in respect to the man who be came king against his will but developed into just the steady sort ot monarch Britons lovtv. Namesake of Mother The new queen, namesake of her mother and of the "Good Queen Bess" who ruled England almost four centuries ago, re ceived word of her father's death while she was on a projected around-the-world tour, now call ed off. Elizabeth was with her hus band, the Duke of Edinburgh, in Kenya, East Africa. (Concluded on race 5. Column 4) Hail Elizabeth Queen of Canada Ottawa (IP) Princess Eliza beth Wednesday was proclaim ed Queen Elizabeth II by a Canadian cabinet saddened by the death of King George VI. . Before opening their brief session the sombre-faced mem bers of the cabinet took oaths of allegiance to the queen. This capital was deeply shocked by the news of the un expected death of the king. Prime Minister St. Laurent said King George was "both a great king and a good man." "For Canadians, as for all his majesty's subjects, the death of their sovereign will be a personal sorrow," he said. B.C. in Mourning Vancouver, B. C. VP) British Columbians Wednesday mourn ed the death of King George VI. Flags were lowered to half staff through the province and schools were ordered closed. Premier Byron Johnson is in Ottawa on government business, but other provincial and civic government officials had mes sages of tribute. "His Majesty has been a won derful example of us all," said Acting Mayor Halford Wilson of Vancouver. At government house in Vic toria the flag was a half-staff and stores and office buildings paid similar tribute. Downtown business places were closed for the regular Wednesday holiday. Russia to Lower Flags for King George Berlin (IP) The Russians no tified the Western powers Wed nesday they would like to join in lowering flags to half staff out of respect to King George. The Soviet Control commis sion sent word to the Americans, British and French they were willing to dip the Red flag which flies with the flags of the three Western nations over the defunct Allied Control authority head quarters. The ACA building where four- power rule was born and died in 1948, is virtually empty. 40 More Battle Casualties Washington (IP) The de fense department Wednesday identified 40 more battle casual tics in Korea in a new list No. 495 that reported 12 killed, 26 wounded, one missing and one njured. It also listed two dead who were previously carried as missing.
