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o Height MXDroRD (Oregon) mail tribune Wednesday, November 9, 1955 American Officials Arrive in Japan For Annual Session Tokyo (U.R) Forty-one American West Coast officials and their wives arrived today to the cheers of flag-waving Jap anese school children to attend the third annual meeting of the Japan-American Pacific Coast Mayor's Conference. The group, headed by Seattle Mayor Allan Pomeroy, landed at Tokyo's International Airport shortly after noon aboard a Japan Air Lines plane. The two-day conference, which will b followed by a two-week sightseeing tour of Japan, opens tomorrow at Yokohama. Present Bouquets As the delegates and -their wivts stepped off the plane, 17 kimono-clad girls rushed up to the delegates to present huge bouquets of flowers to the wives in the traditional Japanese wel come. Among the numerous officials on hand to greet the plane were Tokyo Governor Seiichiro Yasui r.nd Yokohama Mayor Ryozo Kiranuma. Among the U. S. delegates were Mayors V. Edwin Johnson of Eugene, Ore.; Charles C. Dail, Sr.n Diego, Calif.; Neal S. Blais dell of Honolulu; H. H. Hendren of Sacramento. Calif.; John J. Sheridan of Richmond. Calif., and George M. Vermillion, Long Beach, Calif. Mayor Edward H. Cushman of Hollister, Calif., who arrived here Monday, was on hand to greet them. Housewife Loses Chance for $16,000 in Big Quiz Show New York U.R) Mrs. Polly Culbertson, a farmwife from Pottstown, Pa., who blew a chance at $16,000 on a TV quiz show, headed back to a hospital bed today with a 1956 convert ible in tow as a consolation prize. Mrs. Culbertson, who iuffers from arthritis, spent the past week in a hospital at Valley Forge, Pa., after piling up an ! S8.000 stake in the category, "literature," on "The S64.000 Question.' Husband Invalid Her husband, retired Naval Capt. W. L. Culbertson, a coro nary thrombosis case, also is a patient in the same hospital. The 59 -year -old contestant, who had successfully answered a series of questions on books in her previous appearance, was given the chance Tuesday night of doubling her winnings or bowing out. She chose to go on, but was stymied completely by a multiple-part query on Utopian literature. Asked for Authors She was asked to name the authors of "The Republic," Erehwon." Looking Back ward," "Brave New World," and "Utopia." But when Emcee Hal March asked for her answers, Mrs. Cul bertson could only shake her head and say: "No . . no . . no." The answers were, in order, Plato Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Iruxley and Sir Thomas More. Daniel J. Tobin Critically III Indianapolis (U.R) Daniel J. Tobin, who led the AFL Team sters Union for 45 years and was a labor power in the Roose velt and Truman administra tions, was critically ill today. The 80-year-old Tobin has been in St. Vincent's hospital here for two weeks. His doctor, Joseph Dowd, said he is suffer i ing from high blood pressure and heart trouble. 11 Japanese Killed In Mininq Disaster Fukuoka, Japan (U.R) An 80-foot section of a coal mine wall collapsed today killing 11 miners and injuring 18 others in Japan's second major mine dis aster this month. On Nov. 1 an explosion at the Mojiri mines in Hokkaido, Jap an's northernmost island, claim ed 60 lives. Move of Air Force Headquarters Studied Washington U.R) A long range plan under which Far East Air Force headquarters would be moved from Japan to Hawaii and merged with the Pacific Air Force is under study in the Pen tagon, it was learned today. The ' move would not take place for at least a year and probably longer, authorities said. Custody of Smith Youngster Sought San Jose (U.R) Mrs. Ellen Hightower, of Los Gatos, yester day filed a petition in Superior Court for guardianship of her three-year-old niece whose moth er, Mrs. Marjorie Smith, was ac quitted in Oregon, last Friday of killing the child's father. Mrs. Hightower skid she had cared for the child, Susan, since her brother was murdered by an auto bomb last April. Superior . Judge Leonard R. Avilla granted Mrs. Hightower temporary custody of the tot pending a hearing Nov. 30. Mrs. Smith, 34, was acquitted last Friday, of conspiring to murder her lawyer husband, Oliver Kermit Smith. Immediately after her acquit tal she said her first desire was to get beck her children, Susan and Greg, 11. Delegates Drafting Alaska Constitution College, Alaska (U.R) Fifty five delegates from throughout Alaska met today at the Univer sity of Alaska gymnasium here and began the task of drafting a constitution for the future state of Alaska. , The convention was author ized by the last territorial Legis lature. Delegates were chosen in September in an election called by the governor and may meet for a period not to exceed 75 days. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: otner days 5:30 Drevious day. Too Much Politics In Farm Problems, AFBF Chief States "Wichita, Kan. U.R) The President of the American Farm Bureau federation" charged to day that "political opportunists in both parties" are trying to make hay out of the nation's farm problem. Charles B. Shuman urged that the question of farm price supports be taken out of politics. The experience of the past 25 years shows "that farm prosper ity doesn't come from political promises and panaceas," he said. "It comes from sound pro grams which permit farmers to profit from efficient production of the things consumers want," he said. "And it is possible only in. an economic climate which allows our free enterprise system to work." Shuman, in a speech prepared for delivery at the annual meet ing of the Kansas Farm bureau, put in a plug for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's system of flexible supports for farm commodities. He said this "is not perfect, but it is based on a sound principle." Magsaysay Passes Election Test Manila (U.R) President Ramon Magsaysay's pro-American government passed its first election test with flying colors today, led by a 39-year-old pol itical "glamour girl" who once taught ballet. Incomplete returns showed candidates of Magsaysay's Nac ionalista party leading in races for six of the nine Senate seats which were contested. In gubernatorial races the Na cionalistas were leading in 27 of 52 provinces and the opposition Leberals in 16. Nine provinces still had not reported. Pacita Madrigal Warns, a 39-year-old widow who until re cently was social welfare ad ministrator, maintained her No. 1 position in the list of winning senatorial candidates with 454, 095 votes. Demo Farm Leader Challenges GOP Washington U.R) A Demo cratic farm leader challenged the Eisenhower administration today to come forward now with recommendations for halting the decline in farm income in stead of waiting for- Congress to return in January. The challenge was issued by Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D. N.C.) of the House Agriculture committee. Cooley said he notified Agri culture Secretary -Ezra T. Ben son nine days ago that he would summon his committee which prepare all farm legislation for House floor debate to meet im mediately to consider any ad ministration recommendations. He said Benson has not re plied. He added that he suspects Benson has been "bluffing" and doesn't have any new legislative proposals. Mrs. West brook Pegler Succumbs in Italy Rome (U.R) Julia Pegler, 52, wife of American newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler, died early today of a heart at tack while vacationing here with her husband. Pegler personally announced the death of his wife after in forming relatives. He said the body would be flown to New York enroute to the Pegler home in Tucson, Ariz. The couple had been vaca tioning in Italy for more than a month. Mrs. Pegler was the former Julia Harpman, a former top re porter on the New York Daily News. She and the famous col umnist were married Aug. 28, 1922. West Slope Voters Turn Down Bond Issue Portland (U.R) Voters in West Slope, Portland's sprawling southwest fringe area, yesterday defeated a proposed $700,000 bond issue that would have fi nanced a sewage disposal plant and sewer lines.' Vote was 585 against the mea sure and 437 in favor. 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