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64th Year, No. 32 SSffJEftSZi Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 6, 1952 BSa,iB
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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
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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
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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.