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Journal 0 NI AIL EDITION THE WEATHER. PARTLY CLOUDY tonight and Friday. Little change in temper, ature. Low tonight, 34; high Fri day, 68. 64th Year, No. 33 uJElhSS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 7, 1952 (30 Pages) Price 5c Capital M. .rm lime Limned For Calling Exlra Session Governor Will Not Convene Assembly Unless Imperative By JAMES D. OLSON A special session of the leg islature to enact and refer to the voters some measure to raise more state revenue would have to be held and be adjourned be fore August 6, if members of the legislature wished to pre sent arguments concerning the pleasure In the voters' pamph- ' Dave O'Hara, in charge of the elections department of the secretary of state's office, said Thursday that at least 90 days time would be required to in sure inclusion of arguments on the booklet, which is mailed to every registered voter. The special session was sug gested last Monday by Fred Paulus, assistant state treasur er, as the means of presenting a new revenue measure to the voters. As an alternative, he said, the 1953 session-could pass a revenue measure, call a special election to be held while the legislature is in session and re fei the measure at this election McKay Resistant Governor Douglas McKay is not a bit enthusiastic about calling a special session of the legislature. Having served nu merous terms in the Oregon senate, he is. aware that when legislators are called together, all sorts of bills are offered, and generally a special session runs the entire constitutional length of 20 days. (Concluded on Page S, Column 5) ike Asked to Lend a Hand mv lh Auaclfttetf Press) Eisenhower f 6 r President forces are stepping up their fight to win a political beach head for the General and are trying to get him home to lend a personal hand. But Harold E. Stassen, who wants the republican presiden tial nomination himself, said Thursday he doesn't think Eisen hower will return from Europe before the nominating conven tion in July. Stassen.president of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, indi cated doubt at a Washington news conference whether the general can get the nomination unless he comes home and fights for it something Eisenhower has said he will not do. On the democratic side, Sen. Benton, D-, Conn., said after talk with President Truman that the President has readily agreed to speak in Connecticut this year on behalf of Benton's cam paign for re-election. Newsmen at Truce Warned Reds and Allies (arrow Gap On Rotation Negotiations Stale mated on Key Issues Blocking Truce Munsan, Korea (IP) Reds and allies each gave ground Thursday and narrowed the gap on troop rotation and the future of displaced civilians. But negotiators remained as far apart as ever on key issues blocking a Korean armistice. Allied negotiators abandoned demands that the communists trade displaced civilians for U.N.-held war prisoners. The U.N. reiterated, however. that all prisoners must have the right to choose whether they want to be repatriated and that impartial teams must interview civilians to determine whether they want to live in North or South Korea. Endless Arguments An official U. N. spokesman, Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, told newsmen before the trans cript of the negotiations was available that the demand for civilian interviews also was dropped. The record shows that this was not the case. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4) Sabre Jet Hits 2 Red Mig Jets Seoul, Korea VP) An Amer ican Sabre jet pilot damaged two Red Mig jets in a three- minute battle high over snow swept North Korea Thursday. Lt. William C. Shofner of Wayne, Okla., riddled the two Migs in a fight involving 17 Sabres and 30 Red jets. Shofner said the first Mig he tackled "was belching puffs of smoke as it crossed the Yalu," into 'the safety of Manchuria. He fired at another until his ammunition was exhausted. Shofner said the Mig was "hit in several places, but would not go down." The Sabre Jets were flying escort for allied fighter bomb ers which took to the skies as snow clouds cleared during the afternoon. Pilots reported cut ting Red rail lines at 71 points and destroying or damaging 12 supply buildings. Light snow fell all along the battle line. i mux is s v Jwn "fix u ctTA'A Ere? Elizabeth II Returns To Take Throne, Bury King Says Red Envoy To Poland Ran Murder Camp Kennan Named Envoy to Russia Washington VP) President Truman Thursday nominated George F. Kennan, author of the policy of "containment" of Rus sian Communism, to be ambassa dor to Moscow. Kennan, State Department ex pert on Russia who wrote out his Russian policy under the name of "Mr. X," was nominated to succeed Adm. Alan G. Kirk. Kirk's resignation was effective Wednesday. Kirk wrote the president: "Over two and a half years have passed since you appointed me to Moscow, and I feel that in that length of time a change is indicated. Nevertheless, the experience has been most instructive and in formative, and I am happy to have been of service to you in the capacity of your ambassador." King's Death Gives British Three Queens Queen Mother Mary (left) and widowed Queen Elizabeth (right)" are shown with Britain's new Queen, Elizabeth, in Buckingham Palace (Oct. 21, 1950) when young Princess Anne, held by her mother, was christened. Elizabeth became first reigning British Queen in SI years when her father, King George VI, died Wednesday. Widowed Queen holds Prince Charles, 3, who now becomes first in line to succeed to the throne. Courtesy title of Queen Mother may pass to George's widow. (AP Wirephoto) 11 Airmen Perish in Crash-Blast of B-29 Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 8 VP) At least eleven airmen perished late Wednesday night when a bomb laden B-29 crashed and explod er shortly after taking off from Yokota Air Base near Tokyo. The Air Force announced that none of the crew survived. The Japanese Kyodo Agency River Pollution Due to Factories i Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Matthew B qlidgway's headquarters official ly warned United Nations news - correspondents today against "fraternization and trafficking with the enemy" at the Korean armistice conference village of Panmunjom. A memorandum to correspon- dents from Col. George P. 1 Welch, CHQ public relations of I fice, said allied correspondents I might "inadvertently" divulge i information that could endanger 1 U.N. forces in "unguarded con J versations during such unneces- J sary social sessions. Welch's memorandum was surprise to allied newsmen who on numerous occasions have been questioned by U.N. gen eral officers about what com munist correspondents had to say. Some allied officers had spe cifically asked United Press cor respondents to query Red news- Jmen on their views. ? American news agencies have availed themselves of their daily I contact with Alan Winnlngton iof the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of the Paris ICe Soir to pierce the Asiatic iron Curtain that has shut off Rallied war prisoners from their 'families. ' i Welch objected to arrange -ments with Red correspondents tto obtain photographs and tape- .recorded interviews with allied j prisoners In communist prison rmps. Corvallis VP) Wastes from only five industrial plants along the Willamette river are pollut ing the stream as much as would a city of two and a half million people, county sanita tion officers were told here Wednesday. Kenneth H. Spies, assistant chief engineer of the state board of health, said industrial plant managers have co-operated but that the problems still are not solved. Among problems peculiar to a lumbering state, he said, was that of blanketing the river bot tom with sawdust and wood wastes so heavily that fish food plants are killed. He spoke at one sesison of a three-day short course at Ore gon State college for sanitar- Ruth Judd Seen At Las Cruces Las Cruces, N.M. Win nie Ruth Judd was reported to have been seen in Las Cruces Thursday morning by a woman who said she once worked with the Arizona fugitive as a nurse The woman gave her name only as Mrs. MacDonald. She said she saw Mrs. Judd trunk murderess who escaped last Saturday from the Arizona State hospital for the Insane, ana a male companion in a late mod el automobile with Missouri li cense plates. The car, she said, was on South Main street here. Mrs. MacDonald said she "positive" the woman in the car was Mrs. Judd and had immedi ately notified sheriff's deputies. State police set up road blocks at Anthony, 26 miles south, and alerted El Faso, rex., ponce, Other road checks were estab- lished on all main roads leading from Las Cruces. Weather Details Ma 1 1 mom yesterday. 54: minimum to' day, 30. Total 24-hour precipitation: 0 for month: 2.07: normal, 1.27. Seaion pre rlpltatlon, 33,90; normal, 23.99. River helfht, 14.3 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather Bureau.) Oilers Indians $50,000 Yearly Portland (fl-The Portland General Electric Co. plans to of fer the Warm Springs Indians yearly payments of at least $50, 000 for the right to build one end of Pelton dam on their res ervation, a PGE spokesman said here Wednesday. He said the payments would be based on the amount of power produced. He added that if the companion project, Round Butte Dam, is built seven miles upstream from Pelton Dam later the payments would go up to $100,000 yearly. The government is starting a survey to determine what price would be fair to the Indians. Gump Made It Alter 20 Years Spokane (IP) Ellsworth Gump Jr. finally made .it. He has finished law school after 20 years and Gonzaga University calls it a first class case of per sistence and determination. Consider these credentials for the citation: At 19, Gump enrolled, in pre law at Gonzaga. After two years he got pneumonia and had to drop out. He returned but went broke in the depression and quit again. He later found a job and enrolled once more. Then he got drafted. After his discharge, he went to the hospi tal with stomach ulcers before he could return to school. He re covered, enrolled again. Then his wife died. He quit "for the last time." His old teachers fi nally persuaded him to come back. He did. Now, at 39, Gump has his law degree. Civilian Control for UMT After It Starts Washington (IP) Senators were told Thursday "civilian control shall dominate" a pro gram of universal military training once it is started. James W. Wadsworth chair man of the five member nation al security resources training commission, made the statement to the senate arms services com mittee. The committee opened hear ings on UMT legislation train ing after approval Thursday by the house armed services com mittee of a bill for compulsory training of 18-year-olds. Wadsworth and other mem bers of the commission are urg ing approval by congress at this session of legislation to start the training. Wadsworth said the special commission is "unable to state just when and upon what scale universal military training may be started. "This is something we have never done," he said. "It is high time for ui to commence." Chicago Boss Shot From Car Chicago VP) A Republican ward official, described as a vig orous foe of the so-called hood lum element seeking domination of some of the city's wards, was slain in gangland style Wednes day night. Seven shotgun blasts, appar ently fired by two gunmen from an automobile, felled Charles Gross, 56, acting Republican committeeman of the 31st ward. The ambush occurred in the Humboldt Park district, as Gross reached a darkened section of the street in front of a church. Gross, who lived a few blocks from the scene of the shooting was struck by 25 pellets, all of a large size, on the right side of his neck, on his right arm and on his face. Political spokesmen speculat ed openly that the slaying stem med from a steadily strengthen ing hoodlum encroachment into the ward's politics. They report ed similar gangland invasion in several of the city s 50 wards. Soviet Press Brief on Death of King George Moscow (U.R) Soviet newspa pers reported the death of King George VI today in a 10-word dispatch Inside all the principal newspapers. Another 20-word dispatch covered the proclama tion of Queen Elizabeth II. There were no photographs and no comment, The Soviet press followed a precedent set earlier in report ing the deaths of royalty for example the death of King Gus said one Japanese was also kill ed and several were injured when the plane's bombs explod ed and destroyed 10 houses in the village of Kaneko, 40 miles west of the heart of Tokyo. The crash occurred at 11:05 p m. in a blinding snow storm. Air Force Capt. Robert Spence, who went to the scene, said there were at least 11 men aboard the Korea-bound plane, but the exact number was not known, "We don't know exactly what happened, but it looked like en gine failure," he said. "T h e crew did not have a chance." The plane clipped an electric power line and plunged into a populated hillside on the edge of the village about five miles north of Yokota. The whole area was plunged into darkness, New Rules for Packaged Food The Oregon Agriculture De partment is preparing regula tions to prohibit the sale of pre packaged goods unless it is la beled with the net weight and the name and address of the packer or distributor. The regulations apply also to meat and poultry. They are sim ilar to the federal regulations which apply to food sold in in terstate commerce. Director of Agriculture E. L. Peterson said the new rules will eliminate deceptive practices. Many foods, he said, that are commonly sold by weight now are being packaged and sold by quantity. For instance, he said, a pack age of cut up chicken sold as "one chicken is not an accur ate statement of quantity. Under the new rules, the net weight will have to be printed on the package. Washington (IP) A former Polish colonel testified Thurs day there is reason to believe the present Soviet ambasador to London commanded a Russian "murder" prison camp in World War II. Col. George Grobicki, 60, told special house investigating committee that a Brig Gen. Zarubin of the Soviet secret police commanded Kozelsk Prison Camp, where he was con fined in 1940. Grobicki said he once estab lished from a photograph that this man is the same Zarubin who now represents the Soviet government in London. But tes tifying under oath Thursday, he said: Name and Man Same The name is the same and the likeness is a very great one. But I don not know for sure." The subcommittee, investigat ing the murder of thousands of Polish officers in Katyn Forest, near Smolensk, early in World War Two, also arranged to hear testimony by an American news man Thursday afternoon. He is Henry Cassidy, former chief of the Associated Press bureau in Moscow (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) King's Body in Parish Church; Funeral Feb. 75 Sandringham, England U.R The body of King George VI will be taken after dusk today from the country home he loved and laid reverently before the altar in the little parish church where he worshipped. Grieving Queen Mother Eli zabeth and her young daughter, Princess Margaret, left the roy al house late this morning for the first time since the king died to attend a half-hour service in the church on the estate grounds. The king had attended serv ices only last Sunday in this church of St. Mary Magdelen and sung "The Lord Is My Shepherd." The funeral of King George VI will be held on Friday, Feb. 15, an official announcement said Thursday. The body will lie in state in historic Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament on Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Tax Frauds Due Political Clique San Francisco (U.R) -The King congressional subcommittee re tired behind closed doors today to study indications that a politi cal clique controlled operation of the San Francisco internal revenue office. Witnesses already have tesli fied that members of the clique bypassed civil service in ad vancing to the local bureau's heirarchy and solicited contribu tions from "liquor dealers and cabarets" for a so-called em ployes welfare fund. The sessions yesterday were highlighted by testimony from two government investigators that the offices top command was "uniformly incompetent" and that former Collector James G. Smyth, now ousted and un der federal indictment, was ap pointed despite three unfavor able reports on him Testimony by William E. Frank, special treasury invest! gator, and Horace H. Stikolcath supervisor of accounts and collector in charge of the Okla- hom City, Okla., tax office, cen tered: about information in the so-called bill of particulars which led to Symth's indictment 5 More Czechs Killed as Spies London (IP) Five more Czech nationals convicted of spying for the United States have been exe cuted in Prague, Moscow Radio said Thursday. Their deaths brought to more than 130 the announced toll of executions of such charges in Communist countries since Oc tober. As with the others put to death and at least 30 others imprison cd, it was alleged the defendants were part of a giant American spy ring financed through the U.S. Mutual Security Act. The Reds have protested the legisla tion and given wide publicity to a series of spy trials since its passage in October. The U.S. government has de nied the Red charges that a sum of 100 million dollars provided by the legislation to aid Iron Curtain refugees has been used to finance espionage. Grandmother Grieving Secretly London (IP) The queen grand mother, Mary, mourned in total seclusion Thursday the death of a third son, King George VI. But from the top of Marlbor ough House, her official London residence, her flag still flew at full staff. A police sergeant on duty near her home explained, "It is the personal flag of Queen Mary. It always has flown as now when she is in residence and it not lowered to half staff." All other flags throughout the country were. - It was just before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when the queen grandmother was preparing to go through the day's letters with her private secretary that she was told her son had died. At once the 84-year-old queen withdrew to a first-floor lounge and stayed there throughout the day, refusing to see anyone. Single Throne for Reign of Elizabeth London CP) One of the two thrones which have remained side by side in the House of Lords throughout the reign of King George VI will be removed Thursday. A single throne will symbolize the reign of Queen Eli zabeth II. The Duke of Edinburgh, who is expected to be created Prince Consort when Queen Elizabeth wills it, will occupy a small gilt chair on one of the lower steps at the opening of a Parliament. British Royalty Set Down After 4000 Mile Flight London VP) Young Queeit Elizabeth II returned to he homeland Thursday to ascend the throne and bury King George VI. The 25-year-old Queen of the United Kingdom and the do minions overseas reached Lon don Airport at 4:15 p.m., after a flight from Nairobi, Kenya. It was exactly a week sine she left London, as Princess El izabeth, to make a round-the-world tour of five months. A plain oak coffin was being prepared for the remains of her father, King George VI. The fu neral will be held next week. Met by Churchill The four-engined transport carrying the royal party set down after a 4,000 mile, one stop flight. Prime Minister Winston Churchill headed the official del egation on hand to welcome the new Queen. The skies were gray. The royal family was repre sented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, aunt and uncle of the Queen. Another uncle, the Duke of Windsor, is sailing home from New York to attend the funeral. The scene at the airport was a cheerless one, in the gathering gloom of the early English twi light. (Concluded on Page S, Column 6) ; ' ' Hit Price Lid Off Popcorn Washington, Feb. 7 (U.R) The government took the price lid off popoorn today. The Office of Price Stabilization said the order applied to popcorn with or without seasoning or flavoring except when it is combined with tav of Sweden and the death of other products such as nuts or Britain's George V. I grains. Queens Title to BeElizabethll London (P) Britons wifl speak the Queen's English dur ing the reign of Elizabeth II. The change from King to Queen as sovereign means many other twists in familiar phrases and monograms. The 250 King's Counsel now are Queen's Counsel. For two of them this has a familiar ring. They served under Queen Vic toria. It will be the Queen's bench in law courts. Criminals will turn Queen's evidence. Travel lers will ride on Queen's high ways. A military officer will take a Queen s commission. New stamps and new coins ill bear the Queen's likeness. Outside post offices new mono grams will be up with E. R. Elizabeth Rcgina instead of G. R. George Rex. Prince Charles Now Duke of Cornwall London (U.B Three-year-old Prince Charles beamc the Duke of Cornwall the moment his grandfather, King George VI, died. Charles, heir to the throne, eventually also will become Prince of Wales. This ceremony is held at the discretion of the queen and the court circles. It might be anything from a few months to a few years. Young Charles would be the first king of the House of Mountbatten. The Duchy of Cornwall has a yearly revenue of about $280, 000 to which Charles falls heir. During his minority this will be handled for him by the royal household and a sum of several thousand dollars a year drawn to pay for his education and other expenses. The remainder will be held until he is 21. Future Prince of Wales Prince Charles, son of Britain's new queen, Elizabeth, who is expected someday to become Prince of Wales, is shown here in a birthday picture as he sat in his pram in St, James' Park, London, Nov. 14. Prince Charles now becomes first in line to succeed to the throne. (AP Wirephoto) Prayers for King in Malayan Mosques Kuala Lumpur, Malaya VP) Malay rulers of the nine prince ly states in the Malayan Feder ation ordered prayers said in all mosques for King George and young Queen Elizabeth. The rulers designated the Sultan of Johorc, the senior Malay prince, to send condol ences to Queen Elizabeth. "We have lost a personal friend and the world a great man," the sultan mesaged. Moslems do not mourn the dead and there will be little ob servance of mourning dress, at it is understood by westerneri.
