Capital journal., March 21, 1955, Image 1

Capital a Journal
THE WEATHER.
MOSTLY CLOUDY with Mcaslon
a) light raia tonight: partly cloudy,
trallered light shower! Tuesday.
Slightly warmer; low tonight, ;
high Tuesday, 58. .
2 SECTIONS
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67th Year, No. 67
Sa!em, Oregon, Monday, March 21, 1955
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liar al Salta, Ortira
Motor Vehicles
Transfer Voled
To Governor '
Senate Votes Switch
Department From
Secretary of State
By JAMES D. OLSON
Transfer of the state motor
Vehicle department of the secre
tary of state's office to the jur
isdiction of the goernor was ap
proved by the state senate by
a vote of 23 to 6.
Chargjs by Senator Monroe
Sweetland "thai this proposal of
the governor to strip the motor
vehicle department from the sec
retary of state is the most
brazen spoils s)m Ial last week's floor bailie met adop
modern Oregon politics' resulted;,:.. , lh minri, ,, r
in heated denials by republicans ,
in the senate.
"f resent the Implication thai
the governor of this state would
lower himself to a degree
charged," said Senator Paul Ged -
des of Roseburg. "This proposal i
has been under study by legis-!
lative committee since 1949 and:
the motives of the governor in
recommending this change are the
highest."
Senator Chi.rles W. Bingner of
LaGrande declared that if the
bill passed not more than six
men in the motor vehicle 'de
partment would be taken out of
civil service protection.
(Continued on Page S Column 7)
Camp Adair
Surplus Area
CORVALLIS (UP) Nearly 50
per cent of the acreage at Camp
Adair, 10 miles north of here, has
been declared surplus to the needs
of the Oregon National Guard, it
was announced today.
Gen. Raymond Olson, assistant
adjutant general, said the World
War II cantonment area would be
reduced by some 138 acres, leav
ing, 190 for the National Guard's
use.
Gen. Olson said the announce
ment was expected to open up
federally - owned warehouses and
other buildings for industrial use.
He said the federal government
would hold some of the land until
It was determined if it was needed
lor Defense Department use.
Camp Adair is leased from the
federal government by the nation
al guard. The surplus declaration
was made through the office of
Gov. Paul Patterson.
Rain Falls in
Areas in Oregon
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winter made its exit in Oregon
with a mild Sunday but spring
replaced it Monday with scattered
rain and chilly weather.
The western part of the slate
had temperatures averaging above
50 Sunday with Mcdford and Rose
burg recording highs of 55. It was
cooler but generally clear east of
the mountains.
But by morning it had turned
cold in most parts of the state with
Lakeview icporting a low of 17 and
Baker 19. It was 25 at Mcdford, 30
at Roseburg and 36 at Eugene and
Salem.
Rain fell In many Western
Oregon communities and ihere was
some snow east of the mountains.
The Weather Bureau expected
conditions to continue much the
aame through Tuesday.
Deadlock on
Taxes, Olympia
OLYMPIA W A closed door
meeting of Republican and Demo
cratic legislative leaders with
Gov. Langlie failed to reach an
agreement Monday morning on
what new taxes shall be levied
against the people of Washington
itate during the next two years.
The 16-man group of Senate and
House members will reconvene at
3 p.m. after discussing various
tax proposals with their respective
Democratic and Republican cau
cuses. Gov. Langlie termed the tax
raising picture "very confusing."
Occasional Light Rain
Predicted for Valley
Some light rain was back in the
weather picture for valley re
gions, Monday morning and tem
peratures were considerably
warirer. Occasional light rains
in light tonight and scattered
showers Tuesday.
The Monday morning minimum
was 36 degrees, against a very
cold Sunday morning of 22 de
grees. A low of around 40 is
scheduled for tonight.
In the 24-hour period ending at
IV AV l.m. nonaay, .ui oi an men
of rain was measured in Salem.
The Willamette river was down
to the rero mark in Salem Mon
day morning.
House Favors
Lifting Ban on
Tax Measures
Votes for Placing
Emergency Clause
Removal on Ballot
Oregon voters will have a chance
to pass on a proposal that the
emergency clause be placed on tax
measures at the discretion of the
Legislature.
The House gave final approval
to a Senate-passed resolution for a
constitutional amendment that
would remove the present ban on
emergency clauses on tax meas
ures. The vote was 35 to 24, with
one absence.
Debate was a brief resume of
resolution. Democrats generally op.
posea ine Dill. Hep. Allred Corbett
ID-Portland) said it was another
example of piecemeal amendment
of the constitution. He added that
if the Legislature were empowered
to use the emergency clause on
tax measures, it should at least
be required to show a two-thirds
vote for the authorization.
Rep. C. Allen Tom (R-Rufus) said
it should be the right of an elected
legislature to enact what it con
siders to be a sound tax program
to place it in immediate effect
with an emergency clause.
Rep. Jess Savage (R-Albany
said Oregon is the only state in
the Union in which the Legislature
is denied that right.
The ban on use of the emergency
clause makes every tax measure
in Oregon subject to the referen
dum. That can be obtained by pe
titions signed by five per cent of
the voters who voted for Supreme
Court justices at the last general
election. Rep. Roderick McKenzie
(R-Sixes) said that was actually
only about one per cent of the
people in Oregon.
AFL Seamen
Balk Merger
WASHINGTON Hi - Representa
tive of AFL Seamen Unions Mon
day walked out of an AFL-CIO
Maritime conference in a dispute
over a new AFL plan for man.
ning bulk cargo ships.
Harry Lundebcrg, president of
the AFL-Sailors Union of tho Pa
cific, said he did not think the split
would affect general proposals for
an AFL-CIO merger.
However, it was clear that the
AFL walkout from the Conference
of American Maritime Unions
meant an end to the CAMU. It
was formed a year' ago to com
bine AFL and CIO maritime
unions into a single action group.
"We are finished, done." Lunde
berg told newsmen. "CAMU has
been ineffective and useless."
McKay Holds up
New Road Rules
PORTLAND m Secretary of
the Interior McKay has agreed
temporarily to withhold approval
of controversial new road regula
tions for O&C timbcrlands, a
spokesman for the Western Forest
Industries Assn. reported.
Leonard Netzorg. WFIA attorney,
said Sen. Murray (D-Mont) advised
him that McKay has agreed to
withhold final approval pending
additional study by the U.S. Senate.
Murray named William H.
Coburn, staff attorney, to make the
survey, Netzorg said.
The road regulations, approved
earlier by the O&C Advisory Com
mittee, have been criticized by the
WFIA and other groups. ,
SUGGESTION
WASHINGTON (UP) A thief
picked the cloakroom lock in a
church here and pilfered the
purses of 12 choir members Sun
day as the Rev. Dr. Frederick
Brown delivered a sermon on
"Locks and Latchstrings."
Ex-Baby Sitter Faces
Arraignment Today
EPHRATA, Wash. Prose
cutor Paul Klasen Jr. was due
here late Monday and arraign
ment is expected to follow for
Kathleen Carnaghan, charged with
first degree murder in the death of
a baby girl.
Klasen remained in San Fran
cisco after the arrest there last
week ot the 29-year-old Miss
Carnaghan, an insurance company
tvpist and a former baby sitter
for little Decna Starzman.
Dcena was found dead face down
in a puddle of water at her par
ents' -Grand Coulee, Wash., home
last Aug. 7. It was first reported
as accidental drowning. The body
of the 21-month-old baby was later
exhumed and a doctor said death
was caused by a blow on the head.
Miss Carnaghan stoutly main
tained her innocence after her ar
rest. Sheriff Cecil Gilman said Mon-'
day she talked Saturday with the
Rev. Anthony Farrelly, Grand
(1 ':'.
Blue Monday
Bets Are Paid
It was truly "Blue Monday" for
the junior class, losers in Satur
day's Freshman Glee competition,
today at Willamette University.
For Monday is the day the losers
pay off their bets to the winning
Freshman class .... and it was
quite a payoff.
Actually, the last place finishing
juniors were awarded the distinc
tion of winning the "Mill Race,"
and today they proved their right
to the title by the annual swim
through Mill Creek in front of
most of the student body.
The dunking in Mill Creek, which
must have looked as wide as the
Mississippi river to some today, is
the payoff event in the final wind
up to the annual Freshman Glee
contest.
The festivities wound up with
an assembly Monday morning in
the gymnasium put on by the jun
iors led by class President Dale
Greenlee. As a throwback to the
Saturday night contest, each class
put on a skit and then bets were
paid olf. The noontime swim high
lighted the activities.
Meanwhile, the freshmen, their
prize winning rendetion of "Jason
Daddy" tucked away for another
year, were enjoying their role as
champions and had little to do but
observe the others in the somewhat
hilarious program.
Panama Opens
Guizado Trial
PANAMA m Panama's Na
tional Assembly gathered today as
a court of justice to try ousted
President Jose Ramon Guizado on
charges he plotted the, assassina
tion of his predecessor.
Despite acute tension aroused by
the Jan. 2 machine-gunning of
President Jose Antonio Remon, the
country was reported quiet.
A young lawyer, Ruben Miro,
confessed that he shot down Re
mon at the Juan Franco race
track. He charged that Guizado
plotted with him. Later, in letters
from his cell, he repudiated the
confession. .
Guizado. a wealthy 56-year-old
civil engineer and contractor who
had been Remon's first vice presi
dent, became president Jan. 3. Alt
er Miro's arrest, he was detained
Jan. 15 and the National Assem
bly Impeached him a few hours
later, second vice rresiaeni iti
cardo Arias Espinosa took over the
presidency.
Weather Details
Maximum yesterday. M: minimum
tndav. 36. Total 24-hniir nrrrlniUtinn,
.1 ; for month. 1 :M; normal. 2.91.
sann nrerinltatton. 22.2)1: normal.
132.34. River he I tit, zero. (Report by
U. n. weather miresu.)
Coulee Catholic priest, but has had
no other visitors.
He said she has been "sleeping
and eating well" and chatted with
two other women prisoners and
the matron. She has not asked
for -an attorney.
Gilman said she speaks "like
an educated person". The insur
ance company where she worked
in San Francisco said she did a
competent job and that the office
was "shocked" by her arrest.
Miss Carnaghan worked for a
year as a baby sitter tor tne
children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
L. Starzman at Grand Coulee
Mrs. Starzman has said she can't
believe Miss Carnaghan had any
thing to do with her daughter s
death, that she "adored" the
children.
Mrs. Starzman said she believes
Miss Carnaghan's story that Deena
drowned accidentally. A "hunch"
by the grandmother reopened the
cast In January,
'BLUE MONDAY' HIJINKS
It m'ght be the first day of spring but it seemed like
the- dead of winJer to Willamette juniors today when ihey
were dunked in Mill Creek as a payoff to the winning Fresh
man class for coming in last in the Frosh Glee competition.
Capital Journal Photographer Ben Maxwell, who snapped this
picture, received ? dousing from the hose the juniors unex
pectcdly brandished, as did several of the viewing crowd, which
moved quickly out of harm's way.
Delay Showdown in
Farm Price Supports
WASHINGTON (UP) House
Democratic farm lenders decided
today to put off until mid-April a
showdown in the House on legis
lation to restore rigid high farm
price supports.
Mount Kilauea
Erupting Again
PAHOA, HAWAII, (UP) Angry
volcano Kilauea erupted again
last niRht, sending fiery red lava
and huge boulders as high as
1000 feet in the air.
The newest outbreak of volcanic
acitivty laid a thick volcanic haze
of smoke and ash along the entire
300 mile long Hawaiian Island
chain. Mount Kilauea has been ac
tive for the past 21 days.
The' eruDtion sent a 2200 foot
wide river of lava cascading down
a slope toward the sea. By night
fall, the lava had moved three
miles through tropical jungle and
paslureland and was less than a
mile from plunging into the sea.
Peter Pakele, deputy civil de
fense director on Hawaii island.
said the flow was not endangering
any homes or cultivated land.
However, he said another cone
that spouted intermittently last
week came back to life about noon
yesterday and started a flow of its
own which may ruin some sugar
cane fields if it continues.
Bridges to Give
Yalta Data Out
WASHINGTON Mr-Sen. Bridges
'R NHi said today he has taken
steps to aid Republican speakers
wanting to use we Yalta papers
to lambaste their political toes.
Bridges said he has instructed
the staff of the Senate Republican
Policy Committee, which he heads,
to compile information from the
documents for use by GOP speak
ers.
"Certainly the Republicans arc
at liberty to discuss the mistakes
that were made at Yalta," he said.
"We learned about the tragic re
sults only gradually in the months
and years alter Yalta.
By studying me misiancs
the past and trying to avoid them r
in the future we can neip our
country."
It was at the World War II con
ference at Yalta that Franklin D.
Roosevelt agreed to Far Eastern
concessions to Russia in exchange
for the Soviets' speedy entry into
the war against Japan.
New Comic Starts
In Capital Journal
A thrilling baseball comic
strip "Ozark Ike" by the King
Features Syndicate starts in
the Capital Journal today,
which everyone Interested In
the great national game should
begin reading at once.
Ozark Ike is big, somewhat
simple mindVd chap, as his
name suggest, who can hit the
ball like nobody's business, who
is always In the renter of ex
citing events, baseball and
otherwise.
After some extra-curricular 1
winter activities Ozark reports ,
this week to the spring (raining
ramp of the "Rugs", his myth
ical big league club, to get
readv for another big season.
Follow Oiark Ike for base
ball and adventure thrills.
Debate on the legislation to re
verse President Eisenhower's Hex-
ible price program had been,
scheduled tcntalivcly to start to
morrow.
Some Republican opponents said
he postponement meant the Dem
ocrats were "fearful of the out
come' and wanted more time to
build up a farm-labor alliance in
support of the measure, i
Democrats denied that. They
said the delay was caused by
overnight development of a legis
lative bottleneck.
House Democratic Whip Carl
Albert of Oklahoma told a report
er "We could pass It as easily
now as later." Chairman Harold
D. Cooley (D-N Mcx)) of the
House Agriculture Committee
agreed. But he said that delay
will give the Democrats time to
lino up a bigger majority in
support of the bill.
Rep. R. D. Harrison (R-Neb),
who 'backed the administration's
fight last year to kill the rigid
price support program and estab
lish a flexible plan, said the delay
is good news.
"It would indicate to me that
the Democrats arc fearful of the
outcome," he told a reporter,
Cruise Taken on
Sub Nautilus
GROTON, Conn. Ifl Members
of the congressional Atomic Ener
gy Committee, returning Monday
from an all night cruise aboard
the Nautilus, predicted that "the
development of atomic powered
submarines will radically change
naval strategy and tactics."
The committee, in a prepared
statement handed newsmen who
greeted it, said "the Nautilus is
the only submarine in the world
that can completely circle the
globe at full speed submerged,
The group also commented Rear
Adm. Hyman G. Rickover "for his
foresight and follow through" as
being the person to whom "more
than any other, the success of the
Nautilus is due.
Rickover, who was one of two
admirals accompanying the 14
congressmen, played a prominent
part in bringing about construc
tion of the world's first nuclear
i:..rpll .hmarine
Morse Raps Ike,
Hopes He Runs
WASHINGTON Ml Sen. Morse
(D-Ore) said Saturday he was
"one Democrat who hopes that the
Republican candidate tin the next
presidential election) will be none
other than Dwight D. Eisenhower."
Morse told a meeting of the
Americans for Democratic Action
that was "because the responsibil
ity for the sorry plight that is
developing in our country both on
the domestic and foreign fronts
rests squarely on the shoulders of
fhe President himself... It Is the
President who. is responsible for
every reactionary In his political
family and it is the President who
is responsible for the great damage
that is being done to our economy
hy the depredation of big business
leaders who have come to dominate
the While House
The senator said that monopoli'
lie combines have increased at a
more rapid rate in the two years
of the Eisenhower administration
than in any two-year period in the
last M years.
12 Milieu d J Injured in Crash
Blast of Airliner in Missouri
Fu I bright and,
Capehart Clash
In Stock Probe
WASHINGTON ffl - Chairman
Fulbright ID-Arkl of the Senate
Banking Committee .refused Mon
day in a sharp clash with Sen.
Capehart IR-lnd) lo take immed
iate action in recalling Harvard
economist John Kenneth Gal-
i-apciiari assailed ualbrailh as continued as it is now. But there
a "gloom and doom" adviser to will be some kind of program, he
Adlai E. Stevenson and demanded I added. -to
know who was responsible for Stassen also said that career cm
calling him as a witness in theiployos naturally would get pref
first place. erencc in any new set-up, but made
Fulbright Ignored this demand no promises about jobs or layoffs,
from the Indiana senator. He I FOA has 6.731 employes. Of those
ruled Capehart's' motion to recall 1
Galbrnith was out of order and
would have to be taken up in exec-1
ut i ve session at some later date. !
Fulbright said Galbraith himself I
has asked to be heard again.
1 nis latest r u hnsht-Canehart
clash came as Benjamin Fnirless,
hoard chairman of U.S. Sleel, was
waiting to testify in the fast-dy
ing inquiry.
The U.S. Steel head told the sen
ators the steel industry hasn't done
right by its owners American in
vestors for many a year.
(Continued on Page S Column 3)
French Budget
Near $9 Billion
PARIS (-France's National As
scmbly has approved a budget an-
ticipating nearly nine billion dol -
lars in government income this!
year. But with military expendi-
turcs slill to be figured, the intake
is expected to tall about 10 per
cent short of spending.
The Assembly approved we
measure in a postmidnight session
yesterday 392-211. It anticipates an
income or 3,080,500,000,000 francs
Premier Edgar Fa lire already
tins promised lo revise the na
tion's controversial tax structure
to meet complaints of irate small
businessmen and shopkeepers.
The protest group is headed by
Pierre Pouiade, 34-year-old book
seller from central France, who
claims AOO.000 followers. Last week
Poujadc's faction won a major con
cession when Faure agreed to ex
empt any business with less than
60 million francs i$171,428) annual
turnover from the threat of inspec
tion by roving tax collectors.
Reds Silent on
Missing Copter
HEIDELBERG. Germany Wl
A U. S. Army spokesman said Mon
day inquiries in Soviet occupied
East Germany for an Army heli
copter missing since Thursday so
fur have been without result.
The two-seated 1113 craft van
ished In a blinding snowstorm near
the East German border. Army of- j
nciais sam u prnoaoiy nan gone
down in Ihe Soviet Zone after get
ting olf course. The aircraft car
ried the pilot and a German mem
ber of the U. S. Army's labor
service battalions.
Air search for the helicopter
wasf abandoned Sunday. Ground
search by German police and U.S
Army patrols continued in the
border region near Fulda Monday.
At 7th Army headquarters in
Stuttgart, the missing pilot was
identified as 1st 1.1. Herman h.
.lacquay of Fort Wayne, fnd. His
wife and their 3-year-old son live
in Stuttgart. The German passen
ger was Ilorst Kuehn.
House Cuts Interior
Budget $15 Million
WASHINGTON W The House The commitlec explained if ap-
Appropriations Committee Monday! proved the construction programs
cut more than 15 miliion dollars (submitted hut that there is money
from appropriations asked for the j left over to carry out this work
Interior Department and related from previous appropriations.
agencies. That was nearly 5 per
cent under President Eisenhower s
budget requests.
The committee recommended to
the House a bill carrying $2'J,
271.246 to nin the agencies for the
year beginning July 1. That amount
was $15,081,810 below requests and
$3,203,380 less tban current year
appropriations.
Annual funds for the Bureau of
, Reclamation
and for Bonneville,
and Southwestern
Southeastern
power Administrations were not
included hut will he in another bill,
Heaviest cuts in requests in-
eluded 5 million dollars for Ala'k
an public works, 3 million for
Alaskan road construction, S mil-! appropriations! budget esti
lion for conslruction by the Bureau l1" mA amounts of decreases
of Indian Affairs and 1 million for w increases for the next year in
construction by the National Park elude:
Service. (Continued on Page I Column 2)
Stassen Talks
About Future
Of Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON Director
Harold Stassen told employes of
the Foreign Operations Adminis
tration Monday that the Eisenhow
er administration will have some
kind of foreign aid agency after
June 30, when FOA is due to ex
pire. Slasscn said he could not predict
what Congress might do about
KM that it mignt be transferred
autonomous unit, or it might be
1.B57 are in Washington and the
others are overseas,
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IVCUJ IWllljC
Relief Tanker
HELSINKI. Finland (UP)
Red China has refused lo send
another tanker to pick up the Fin
nish vessel Aruba's disrupted jet
fuel cargo, informed shipping
sources said todav.
I'ciping reacted "very nega
tively" to the proposal for fear
that Chinese Nationalist warships
already lying in wait for the Ar-
uba would capture the relief vessel )
tnese sources said.
The Aruha's crew )n n new
statement from the Finnish Sea
men's Union stood by its refusal
to sail any farther toward Red
China than the Nicobar Islands
lin the Bay of Bengal
Wilh the crew standing pat and
the Communists refusing to come
alter the fuel, shipping sources
said the Aruba probably would
have to return lo Red Romania
and hand back its cargo.1
Say Churchill
ToSfepDown
LONDON m Britons took It
for ffrnntpr! Mnnrtav I hnt Winslnn
Churchill is stepping down as prime
minister within weeks. But no one
uxfJL'Lia nun iu gu imu i vim umi-iii p
by Ihe fireside.
Only the 80-ycar-old statesman's
political enemies seemed to haroor
any suspicions the impetuous
Churchill might chango his mind
at the last minute.
The authoritative, independent
Times which scldoms deals in
political speculation said Monday:
"It now seems increasingly
likely that he (Churchill I will
resign about Easter" and that
Queen Elizabeth II will call on
Foreign Secretary Anthony kden to
form a new government.
But the anti-Conservative Daily
Mirror, which for two years has
been calling Churchill too old for
the premiership, said people "will
not believe he has gone Ihis lime
until they sec tho back of him."
McKavandWife
Here Tuesday
Interior Secretary Douglas Mc
Kay will arrive here by plane Tues
day for a brief visit. .
Accompanied bv his wife, the
secretary will stop en route from
San Francisco to Seattle where
he has a speaking engagement.
Mrs. McKay will remain in Sa
lem for several days at the home
of her daughters, Mrs. Wayne Had-
ley and Mrs. Lester Green.
A $400,000 administration request
wa5 r6commcndcd by the commit-
lee for a research program for de
velopment of low-cost processes
for converting saline water to fresh
water in sufficient quantities for
municipal, industrial and agricul
tural uses.
Also approved was $2r:0,0(IO
$rrf).O00 less than asked for a new
office of mineral? mobilization be
ing organixrd in the Interior De
partment to provide coordination
and advice to the government on
metals and minerals.
Other agencies, appropriations
recommended for Iftr-M. current
PlaneThreading
Way to Landing
At Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Ul An
American Airlines plane thread
ing its way through darkness and
rain toward a landing field crashed
Sunday night, killing 12 persons
and injuring 23.
The twin-engine Convair crashed
In a pasture about two miles north
of tho Springfield airport. Wreck
age was scattered more than 300
feet.
The plane carried" a three-member
crew and 32 passengers. All
the survivors were injured.
Jack Pripish, of Chicago, the pi
lot, was the only member of the
crew to survive. Stewardess Rita
Madaj of Chicago and Co-pilot
Glen Walker of Chicago died in
the wreckage.
The airport control tower had
given final clearance for the land
ing. As the craft approached Carl
McCrary in tha tower saw a flash.
Then Ihe plane disappeared and
he gave Ihe alarm.
Sheriff Glenn Hendrix, one of the
first to reach the scene made mud
dy by an all-day rain, said:
"There was no fire. In the dark
ness I found it hard to find the
plane and I lost my shoes in the
mud as I crossed the farm field.
(Continued on Page S Column S)
List of Dead
In Plane Smash
SPRINGFIELD. Mo. Wl The
"st f dca.d. '." the, crash '
niuciiLtiii mrumrs piuu near nere
bunday night.
Crew members
Co-pilot Glenn, Walker, Chicago.
Stewardess Rita Madaj, Chicago. -Passengers
1
Stanley GrazankowaU, M, Detroit,
Mich.
Richard Padek, 3, Tulsai Okla.
Dr. Elroy Slromberg, Shaker
Hcleht. Ohio.
I John ,Davis, St. Louis. '
i Jake Miller. Coffey Wile. Kan.
Wayne Slankard, Neosho, Mo.
Mrs. C. C. Van Noy, Joplin, Mo.
Quenlin G. Hollz, 28, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Tentatively identified dead
Mark Purser, Rochester, N.Y.
Miss Betty Kiely, St. Louis.
George Calls for
Big 4 Meeting
WASHINGTON Wl Slate De
partment officials say a call by
Sen. George (D-Ga) for a top-level
Uig Four meeting is in. line with
the thinking of the Republican ad
ministration.
But, like George, they said cer
tain conditions should be met in
advance of active efforts to bring
o g e t h e r President Eisenhower
and the chiefs of Russia, Britain
and France.
The department itself had no of
ficial comment on George's, sug
gestion, George, as chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
is influential in the development
oi U. S. foreign policy. He sug
gested last night a four-power con
ference offers- "the real hope of
avoiding war." He said it possibly
should be held this year.
Churchill Not
For Big 4 Meet
PARIS in Former Premier ,
Pierre Mcndcs-Francc revealed
Monday that British Prime Minis
ter Churchill wrote him early this
year opposing any Big Four meet
ing until final ratification of West
German rearmament by all
governments concerned.
Mendcs-Fronce made public
letters he and Churchill had
exchanged In January. Foreign
Minister Anlninc Pinay had
referred to the letters in an
appearance before Ihe Foreign
Affairs Committee of the French
upper house.
According to the lexis releasen
by Mcndes-France. Churchill wrnle
Jan. 12 that until ratification of the
Paris treaties was completed, he
did not favor any meeting or
invitation for a meeting either of
heads or of foreign ministers.
Today's Index
Section One
Amusement 2
F.dllnrlals 4
Loral ft
Society -7
Seel ion Two
Sport 1-2
t'ewlc I
Television 11
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