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66th Year, No. 119 ."JT"', Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 21, 195 j
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Transcripts of
Phone Talks in
Democrats Want
Anything Relevant to
WASHINGTON 11 - Democrats
on the Senate investigations sub
committee took a stand Friday the
public is entitled to hear anything
"relevant" to the McCarthy-Army
dispute in transcripts of moni
tored telephone calls.
They put themselves on record
with a stipulation sent to acting
Chairman Munat (K-bU) author
izing use on that basis of any
transcripts there may be of their
own telephone talks. ,
Their action came as the sub
committee staff prepared for re
- opening of the hearings next Mon
day and ben. McCarthy blasted at
the Eisenhower administration's
secrecy order as "taking the fifth
amendment.
Quelling speculation he might
never goes back to the hearings,
McCarthy said, "I'll be there Mon-
day. ,
Oft to Wisconsin
But, just before leaving for Wis
consin on a speech-making trip,
McCarthy told a reporter he plans
in the next few hours to give a
lot of thought to "what we may
do Monday if they (the White
House) keep this secrecy order in
effect.
McCarthy is to speak at a Cham
ber of Commerce function in Ft.
Atkinson, Wis. Saturday night. He
ings" and possibly announce "what
we 11 do on Monday.
(Continued on Pago 5, Col. 8)
Triplets, Girls,
Born at Hospital
Triplets, all of them girls, were
born Friday morning at Salem
Memorial Hospital to Mr. and
Mrs. Maitland Carter of 1120
Hood street. '-
The little girls, the two small
est of which are identical twins,
were no surprise to the Maitland
family, for they were expected,
- though premature, arriving at sev
en and a half months. There also
is a record of twins on both Mr.
Carter's and Mrs. Carter's side
of the family.
First of the little girls arrived
Friday morning at 8:49 o'clock,
with the second coming at 8:52
a.m. and the third at 8:58 a.m.
The largest of the babies weighed
three pounds and nine ounces and
the other two, two pounds and
five ounces and two pounds and
two ounces. All are in incuba
tors. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have two
other children, a daughter, Shar
on. 9 years of age, and a son,
Steve, 4. Both also were born
in May. The grandparents are
Mrs. C. A. Brevick and Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Bornholdt.
The Carter triplets are the
first born at Salem Memorial hos
pital since May 17, 1944, when
triplets were born to a family
named Thompson. The Salem
General hospital said Friday mor
ning that as nearly as could be
determined from their records
triplets had not beer, born at that
hospital for 15 years.
Kidnap Jury
Unable to Agree
- EUGENE Wl - A hung jury
voting 6-6 after nine hours of
deliberation was dismissed early
Friday in Lane County's first kid
naping trial Robert Lee Morris
was defendant..
Morris was enarged with abduct
ing a service station attendant last
January after first holding up the
station. He also was charged with
armed robbery in the case and the
district attorney's office said it
hadn't been determined Friday
whether to move for a retrial or
shift to the robbery charge.
When the jury reported at 1:45
a.m. it could not agree, Judge
R. J. Green dismissed it.
Little Change Seen
In Valley Weather
Onlv a trace of rain was record
ed for the Salem area over Thurs
day, despite threatening skies that
looked as if rain might just pour
' down.
The five-day forecast calls for
little change in the weather, near
normal temperatures due with
possibility of light showers Sun
day and again probably Wednes
day.
Temperatures were decidedly
cooler Thursday, the maximum
coins only to 63.
The immcdaite forecast Is for
mostly fair weather tonight and
Saturday with armcr daytime
Russia Offers
5 Point Plan
In Indochina
Britain and France
Accept Proposal u
.Fftr..Xi5CMSSWn..
GENEVA Wl Russia was re
ported to hae proposed a new
five-point plan for an Indochina
armistice late Friday. Informed"
quarters said Britair and France
accepted the planas a basis for
discussion.
The Soviet plan was said by a
reliable diplomatic informant to
have been submitted to the nine
party conference on Indochina by
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
near the end of a four-hoi'r secret
session. ' " ...''
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden and French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault immedi
ately said they were willing to
proceed with discussions at the
next meeting on the basis of the
Molotov plan. -Next
Session Monday
The next session will be Mon
day afternoon, after Eden and Bi
dault have conferred with their
governments. They are going to
Paris Saturday and Eden plans to
go on to London Sunday.
One diplomat who was present
at the session said "important
progress had been made.
(Continued on Page 5. Col. 8)
Convicted of
Taking Bribes
'OLYMPIAN Samuel Em-
manuel, former secretary of the
Siate Land Board, was found guil
ty Friday on two counts of asking
for bribes in connection with state
timber deals. - ,
A Thurston County Superior
Court jury of nine men and three
women returned their verdict
shortly after 10:30 a. m some 18
hours after they were given the
Case ;: : ' -.
Emmanuel termed .the Verdict
'preposterous."
His attorney, Lee Olwell, said
he will move for a new trial.
The" jury found Emmanuel guil
ty of soliciting bribes from Charles
Hovey, Vancouver timber buyer,
and Don McEachern, Longview
logging operator, for using his in
fluence to help them obtain state
timber.
Two other bribery charges
against Emmanuel were dismissed
by Judge Charles T. Wright be
fore he gave the case to the jury
at 4:29 p. m. Thursday afternoon.
Approves Dike
At Tillamook
WASHINGTON (UP)-Rep. Ho
mer D. Angell (R., Ore.) today an
nounced approval by the Bureau
of the Budget of a $1,500,000 em
ergency project for construction
of a sand dike on the Tillamook-
Bayocean peninsula.
The project will be transmit
ted by the Army Engineers to
Congress for possible inclusion in
the omnibus rivers and harbors
bill. ,
Angell said construction of the
proposed 1.4-mile sand dike would
protect the inner bay and ent
rance channels and preserve the
port for navigation. Storms have
eaten away so much of the pen
insula that the whole harbor is
threatened, be said.
The proposed dike would be
constructed on an alignment ex
tending generally between Pitch
er Point and the town of Bay-
ocean, Angell said.
Weather Details
Maximum yesterday. Kit minimum to
itr. 4'i. Total SI -hour vreclpltatlon:
tram fur month .IBt narmal, 1.36. Season
precipitation, 41.11 1 normal, Si.tft. Hirer
height. -.1 f loot. (Report r V. ft.
Kidnapers
Get Prison
KANSAS CITY tfl - Two St.
Louis policemen who captured lit
tle Bobby (ireenlease s Kidnapers
were sentenced to prison Friday
for lying to a federal grand jury
about what happened to a record
$800,000 ransom.
Former Lieut. Louis Shoulders,
a veteran of 27 years on the police
force was sentenced to three
years. Rookie Patrolman Elmer
Dolan was given two years.
District Judge Albert A. Ridge,
who sentenced the pair on charges
of perjury, said he made the dis
tinction because Shoulders was the
dominating man, who had the di
rection and supervision over Do
lan in the case.
The two arrested little Bobby's
kidnap-killer, Carl Austin Hall, in
a St. Louis hotel last Oct. 6, short
ly after Hail and his accomplice,
RUSSIAN AGENT TESTIFIES
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: WASHINGTON, May 21 Nikolai Khokhlov, Russian secret
agent who recently balked at carrying out an assassination
assignment, is on the witness stand today before the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee. Chairman Jenner (R.-Ind.)
said it was believed that Khokhlov would be "the first MDC
official to testify publicly in this country." (AP Wirephoto.)
Russian Agent Balked
On Murders Ordere d
WASHINGTON lH A Russian
agent says lie delected to the
free world rather than carry out
a murder order tqld Senate in
vestigators Friday that his reason
was "religion and conscience.
Blond 31-vear-old Nicolai Khokh
lov told his story to the. Senate:
internal, security subcommittee
Costello Plans
Aid to Farming
DUBLIN. Ireland M Associates
of John A. Costello said today the
coalition leader will give top pri
ority to improvement and mod
ernization of Irish agriculture
when he takes over as premier.
Costello's control of the govern
ment was assured last night when
final returns from Tuesday's gen
eral elections gave the group of
parties headed by him a majority
in the new Dail (Parliament). Out
going Premier Eamon de Valera
conceded that his r- lanna i an
(Men of Destiny) party had been
defeated and the opposition could
form a new government.
The Dail is scheduled to convene
June 2 to launch the new regime.
While plans for formation of the
government still were in an early
stage, a friend of Costello said the
Fine Gael (United Ireland) party
chief believes the future of Ireland
lies in developing her only major
asset 12 million acresof arable
land.
Trustee Missing
From State Prison
Earl Edward Buckley, 39. trusty
at the state prison farm, was
missing Friday.
Warden Clarence T. Gladden said
Buckley, serving 10 years for
mayhem in Klamath County,
walked away from the farm
Thursday afternoon. He entered
the prison Sept. 21, 1951.
Captors
For Lying
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, had
collected the record J6O0.OO0 ran
som from the child's multimillion
aire father, Robert C. Greenlease
of Kansas City.
The boy had been abducted irom
an exclusive private school in Kan
sas City and shot to death on
sept. 28.
When less than half the ransom
money was recovered authorities
challenged the stories told by the
two policemen about how they han
dled the case. Shoulders and Do
lan maintained throughout the pro
longed investigation they had no
knowledge of the missing $303,720
in $10 and $20 bills.
Hall and Mrs. Heady wre con
victed of the kidnap-siaying and
were executed in the gas chamber
Of the Missouri state penitentiary
at jeticrwa uty last uec i.
and identified himself as a former
officer In . the MVD' secret police
branch specializing, in terror., '.
His account led Chairman jen
ner (R-Ind) of the investigating
committee to this conclusion:
' "His testimony that despite the
persecutions of the godless dicta
torship he once served, religious
faith still survives even in the
ranks of Soviet secret agents, may
point to the Achilles heel of the
Soviet giant."
The story Khokhlov told was the
same one he gave Western agents
in Germany several weeks ago
when he asked for asylum that
he had been assigned to assas
sinate an anti-Communist leader
in the Western zone but instead
had tipped off the intended victim
and turned himself in.
Jenner said "scores" of checks
had proved the account valid. In
particular he said it had been
conclusively established" that the
witness had been an agent of the
MVD.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)
Lumber Strike
Being Voted On
PORTLAND m AFL Lumber
and Sawmill Workers are voting
strike authority for their negoti
ators, the union newspaper, the
Union Register, reported Thurs
day. The strike vote is carrying by
a substantial margin in the Willam
ette Valley, Pugct Sound, North
Idaho-Eastern Washington, Everett
and Coos Bay districts, the news
paper said. -
The negotiators, who have asked
a 12 H-cent hourly pay increase,
would be authorized to set the
strike date. Employers have of
fered only to renew present con
tracts. ;
A number of locals still are to
vote, including those al-Tacoma
and Roseburg, where the balloting
will take place this weekend.
Senate Kills
18-YearVofe
WASHINGTON If) - The Senate
Friday killed President Eisenhow
er's request for lowering the vot
ing age front 21 to 18 years.
It defeated a proposed constitu
tional amendment to fix the mini
mum voting age at 18 by a 34
to 24 favorable vote, far short of
the two-thirds majority required
for approval.
Sen. Langer (R-ND) had led the
floor debate for the change, say
ing lB-year-olds ought .to have the
right to vote for or against law
makers who pass on such issues
as drafting them for military serv
ice, i
Prominent in the opposition was
Sen. Russell (D-Ga).
Russell said in an interview ear
lier that the proposal is an "in
excusable infringement" on the
rights of toe states.
Axe and Fire
Murders Laid
To Ex-Captain
Triple Slaying in
Germany 8 Years ' ;
Ago Charged
FRANKFURT, ; Germany
Murder charges in the ax-and-fire
slaying of three American officers
in Germany eight years ago were
filed here Friday against James
M. Leech of Lima, Ohio, former
U.S. Army captain.
U. S. Deputy Dist. Atty. William
Canfield said he' was forwarding
extradition papers seeking Leech's
return to stand trial. . -
Victims of the 'slaying were Maj.
Everett S. Cofran, formerly of
Washington, . D.C., whose widow s
last known address was Seattle,
Wash.; Capt.. Adrian L. Wessler of
New Rochclle, N.Y.; and 1st. Lt.
Stanley Rosewater of Omaha,
Neb. -.
Their charred bodies were, found
in Cofran's house on the banks of
the Danube, in Passau, Jan. 7,
1946. :
Leech, Cofran's deputy as town
commander of Passau, was an
early suspect in the case but was
released.
Killed by An Ax .
Canfield, of Hampden, Mass.,
said two of the three victims had
died of ax wounds and the third
by fire. They died on the upper
floor of Cofran s big house.
Fire billowed from the house in
the early morning hours, fed by
several cans of gasoline stored in
the attic. - i
Canfield said the deaths of two
of the men may have . been a
ghastly error on the part of the
slayer. The two were overnight
guests of Cofran and one was oc
cupying his bedroom when he was
slain.
This is now Canfield described
what may have happened the
night of the slayings:
(Continued on Fage fl, Col. 6)
Leech Says It's
All NewsfoHim
LIMA, Ohio Wl James M.
Leech of Lima, accused of a post
war murder of three American
Army officers in Germany, said
Friday "This is the first I ve
heard of these charges and I'm
not running away from trouble."
Leech, former Army captain,
was awakened at his home after
working the midnight to 8 a. m.
shift as a boilermaker at the Lima
refinery of the Standard Oil of
Ohio.
Told that the triple-murder
charge had been filed Friday in
Frankfurt, Germany, Leech said:
"I, along with a lot of others
was investigated in - connection
with the thing.
"As a matter of fact 1 was in
custody four months, two of which
I spent in a hospital, incognito
and under observation.
"Nothing happened, and since
my time overseas was up, they
sent me home and I was dis
charged. -
Vote Volume
Light at Noon
A check of Salem voting places
at the noon hour 'Friday indicated
that 17 per cent of the regis
tered voters had cast their pri
mary election ballots up to that
time. - -
The percentage isn't far from
the usual average vote at the
noon hour in Salem on primary
election days of the past, though
at times it has gone as high as
25 per cent. Voting is heavier
during the afternoon hours.
To estimate a percentage today
10 of Salem's.-53 precincts were
checked. In the 10 with a total
registration of 4065 voters 720
persons had marked their ballots
at the noon hour.
The precincts checked, with reg
istration at each and the number
who had voted at noon were:
Precinct No. 4, voting at state
heating plant, 384 registered, 78
voted; Salem 6,' Coca Cola plant
on South 12th, 487 and 66; Salem
11, Senator Hotel, 353 and 87;
Salem 12, Memorial Hospital, 581
and 98; Salem 15, Hunt Cannery,
480 and 70; Salem 16, City Hall,
264 and 44; Salem 17, Marion
Hotel, 294 and 54; Salem 18, Les
lie Methodist Church, 474 and 96;
Salem 23, Courthouse, 403 and 64,
McKenzie Highway
Cleared for Travel
BEND Ml The McKenzie high
way between Eugene and Central
Oregon again is in use. Highway
crews cleared it of the snow that
had blocked the route since Dec. 4.
and cars began moving over the
route Thursday.
The Dear L?ke route, connect
ing the McKenzie and Santiam
Highways opened for traffic a
wees ago.
Kootenai Breaks
Dikes,80
Reds Assault
Red River Delta
Defense Posts
HANOI, Indochina (fl Three
little defense posts in the south
eastern sector of the vital Red
River delta battled fiercely Fri
day to hold off encircling Vietminh
forces as the defenders' of Dien
Bien Phu tried to do.
French Union aircraft parachu
ted ammunition, guns, and food
to Vietnamese , defenders1 with
French noncommissioned officers
in the posts of Yen Phu, Anxa,
and Coquan.
They have been under constant
heavy mortar attack and machine
gun fire for nearly a fortnight.
Twice Anxa has thrown back big
Vietminh infantry assaults. The de
fenders are-- outnumbered about
six to one. ...
French fighters and bombers
are heavily hitting the besieging
Communist-led rebels. B26s have
dropped scores of 1,000-pound de
layed action bombs timed to ex
plode to kill rebels when they
launch infantry assaults nightly.
Thus far the Vietminh have
failed in all attempts to smash
(Continued on Page 5, CoL 8)
159 Wounded
Now Evacuated
HANOI. Indochina' Wl' The
French command says it has evac
uated 159 wounded from captured
Dien Bien Phu and hopes to fly
out 100 more today. .
Helicopters ana Beaver aircraft
were making the slow but steady
shuttle from. Dien Bien Phu to the
royal Laotian capital of Luang
Prabang, where the -wounded ar
relayed to Hanoi by Dakota trans
port. . - .. . .. ,
The evacuation was slowed down
last night by violent monsoon
rains which made flying impossi
ble for several hours. As a result
only 50 were, flown out yesterday
instead of the scheduled 120.
A high command spokesman
said there still was no word about
Dien Bien Phu's lone French air
force nurse Miss Genevieve
Galard Terraube.
Nab Kidnaper
Of Children
CHICAGO Wl A 34-year-old man
was summoned before a U. S.
commissioner today on a charge
of kidnaping a 7-year-old girl and
her 3-year-old brother in Beloit,
Wis., 10 days ago and taking them
to Illinois.
Joseph McElroy, identified by
the FBI as having a police record
in Michigan and Indiana for mo
lesting children and young girls,
was seized by FBI agents and two
Beloit policemen yesterday at a
farm near Elwood, 111., about 50
miles southwest of Chicago.
Guy Banister, special agent in
charge of the Chicago FBI office,
said McElroy would be arraigned
on a charge of violating the Lind
bergh law, which carries- a maxi
mum penalty of death.
- Banister said McElroy lured the
girl and her brother into his pickup
truck on May 11 by offering them
chewing gum. The FBI agent said
McElroy stopped the truck several
tirr.es en route from Beloit to
Rockford, III., and molested the
girl sexually.
Cordons 0& C Bill
Approved by Senate
WASHINGTON (ffl r- Sen" Guy
Cordon's bill to put 472,000 acres
of disputed Oregon timber land
under Forest Service administra
tion won approval of -he Senate
Thursday.
The bill now goes to the House.
The Senate passed the measure
on a voice vote after rejecting,
52-18, a move by Sen. Morse (Ind
Ore) to put the lands under the
Department of Interior's Bureau of
Land Management.
The BLM, which now manages
some two million acres of timber
land in Oregon, claimed jurisdic
tion of the 472,000 acres. Morse
said it would be "more sensible
and efficient" to have the entire
acreage under one agency.
Cordon (R-Ore) said the 472.000
acres, which are part of the Ore
gon and California railroad land
grant reclaimed by Congress in
1916, now are under Forest Service
administration, and should remain
there. He said the Forest Service
GO Acres flooded
Rhee Winner
In Election in
South Korea
SEOUL Wl Unofficial returns
from almost 90 per cent of South
Korea's 203 Assembly districts in
dicated today that President Syng
man Rhee's Liberal party won a
majority of the one-house legisla
ture in yesterday's election.
Thirty-five unreported districts
were in rural areas where Rhee's
candidates were strongest.
Unofficial returns give the ' Lib
erals 88 of the 203 seats with Inde
pendent candidates getting 64,
Democratic Nationalists 14 ana Ko
rean Nationalists 2.
There were predictions that firtal
returns would give the Liberals
their goal of 110 feats or 8 more
than a majority.
The victory was at least partial
ly a personal one for Rhee. His
party did not control the last As
sembly and he appealed to the
people for a working majority in
the next house. : -
Egypt Ottered
Concessions
NEW YORK UV-The New York
Times reported today the United
States and Britain are preparing
new concessions to Egypt for a
Suez settlement. ' ,
A dispatch to the Times from
London said .the U. S. government
has indicated for the first time
that she will share responsibility
for safeguarding the massive Mid
dle East base after Britain's
80,000 troops are evacuated. Under
this arrangement, it was said, Brit
ain no longer would insist she
leave 4,000 uniformed technicians
behind in the canal zone.
This demand has, been a major
sore point with Egypt, She consid
ers it an affront to her sovereignty,
According to the London re
port by correspondent Benjamin
Welles:
The new proposal is now being
drafted by the London government
with Washington backing and Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden will present it to Cairo after
he returns home from the Geneva
Far Eastern conference.
Air Build-up
By Red China
WASHINGTON W) Red China's
air command is reported to have
concentrated a substantial force of
jet fighters and light bombers
along the mainland coast opposite
Formosa, seat of Chiang Kai-shek's
Nationalist government. '
That buildup apparently has
been made since the Korean War's
end allowed diversion of air power
from Manchuria.
The Red buildup in Chckiang
province consists almost entirely
of MIG15 fighters
Although the shift fs receiving
attention here, there was no indi
cation today that officials were un
duly alarmed over prospects of an
immediate move against Formosa.
The redeployment appears to have
been gradual, a part of a broader
program which has sent even larg
er numbers of aircraft to fields in
southern China, close to the Indo
china border.
TAX STUDY MEET
The Legislature's tax study
committee will hold an all-day
meeting next Tuesday at the State
Office Building in Portland, Chair
man Howard C. Belton, Canby,
announced Friday. ' i
also administers two other areas
of O & C lands.
The bill approved by the Senate
provides that timber sale receipts
on the 472,000 acres will be divided
under the O&C formula: 75 per
cent to 18 Western Oregon coun
ties and 25 per cent to the govern
ment. This differs from normal
Forest Service administration in
which 75 per cent goes to the gov
ernment, 25 per cent to the coun
ties. The bill also directs the Interior
and Agriculture departments to ex
change lands within two years to
form cohesive administrative
blocks, and thus increase manage
ment efficiency.
Morse argued that a recent de
cision of the U. S. Court of Ap
peals declared the 472,000 acres
to be O&C lands. Ht said that
meant they should be administered
by the BLM. .
Cordon said the court decision
did not settle the administrative
question. He added that the deci
sion was subject toappeal,
2 More
Bonners Ferry
Likely to Escape
ing
BONNERS FERRY. Idaho W
Another 5,000 acres of farm land
was flooded early Friday as the
Kootenai River broke through two
more dikes, but it appeared this
town of 1,800 might e s c a o e a
soaking.
The river had swelled to the
35,4-foot level at 5 a.m. when water
smashed past the two dirt bar
riers near Bonners Ferry. The re
corded "flood stage" here is 31
tect.
Strong winds, a new menace.
kicked up waves on the ' surging
river early Friday and threatened
two more diking districts.
Some 8,000 of the 40,000 acres
of rich land in the Kootenai valley
were under water as the battle
against the Kootenai, bulging with
runoii irom rccora mountain snow
packs, neared the end of its first
week.
Still Rising Upstream '
The river dropped to 35 feet
after the breakthroughs but was
still rising upstream and was ex
pected to crest at 36 feet late Fri
day or Saturday morning. if the
dikes hold.
The town is surrounded by 37
foot dikes and Army . Engineers
said it appeared they would hold.
Frantic work on the levees went
on all night.
(Continued on Fage 5, CoL 7)
Canada Floods
MarkinjTime
VANCOUVER, B. C. Wl Dike
patrols kept 24-hour vigil at flood
trouble points- throughout British
Columbia Friday but the cascad
ing creeks and rivers kept largely
within their banks. -
Cooler weather over the interior
cheoked the rapid rise of small
rivers and creeks - which have
caused minor flooding in scattered
localities. The major rivers, the
Fraser, Columbia and Kootenai,
continued to climb steadily but
were still well below the danger '
point.
Weary section crews completed
emergency repairs to two major
breaks on Canadian Pacific Rail
way lines overnight and rail traf
fic was reported normal through
out the province. Repaired were
washouts On the VPF. mainline
near Revelstoke and on the Kettle
Valley line 25 miles west of Prince
ton.
Public works officials at Victoria
reported that the situation through
out, the province was "fairly
steady" during the day and no
localities were in a serious posi
tion.
A special snow report issued by
the government Thursday, con
solidating surveys taken up to May
15, expressed cautious optimism,
while warning that the critical
period was still to come.
U.S. Arms Aid
For Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Wl
The United States has agreed to '
give military assistance to Hon
duras as part of the program for
the defense of the Western Hem
isphere. ,
A military agreement was signed
yesterday by Dr. J. Edgardo Val
enzuela, foreign minister fo Hon
duras, and U. S. Ambassador W.
A. Willaucr. ,
A similar agreement was signed
recently by the United States and
Nicaragua. Both Honduras and
Nicaragua are between Red-tinged
Guatemala and the Panama Canal.
Philippines '
Congress Quits
MANILA (VP) The' Philip
pines' Third Congress adjourned
its 100-day regular session early
today with a $33 million public
works bill still banging.
President Ramon Magasaysay
was reported considering a spe
cial session to act on the mcas-
' The congress approved a batch
of important bills during the
closing hours, including the na
tional budget of S2S0.322.936.
Magasaysay had asked for $334,
134,930. National defense got
$85,419,171, a record, and educa
tion $85,054,395. .
The congress also approved a
$26,270,187 counterpart fund for
U.S. mutual security aid. -
temperatures.
I.
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