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WAV n . : 5- US Approval Of Tool Sales Told By WASHINGTON OR A Defense Department technician testified Thursday this country has agreed to British sales to Russia 01 ma chine tools "whose use for peace - time purposes would be the excep tion." John H. Williams, a machine tools specialist tor the depart- ' ment's Office of Supply and Logis tics, told the Senate Investigations subcommittee he protested the agreement to superiors whom he did not name. Williams said he agreed with the . subcommittee chairman. Sen. Mc- ' Clellan (D-Arki that the sales of these tools to Russia amounted to : "simply enabling them to overtake us in the production and develop ment of armaments that today we think we are ahead of them." PUBLIC HEARING ' McClellan, conducting the public rfj hearings in the face of reported State Department protests, an- nounced cryptically that when the , hearings recessed Wednesday night "some problems' with executive ' agencies remained unresolved, but "I think I can state this morning that most of these problems have been resolved." He said he expects the hearing "can proceed to its full and proper objective" of demonstrating the story behind what he said was U. 8. agreement to an easing of free world trade with Russia, and the effects of it, which he says seera "disturbing." Before' Thursday's session Mc Clellan said the Pentagon agreed 'under prodding to cooperate "to the limit" In the investigation of the free world's trading with Rus sia, Ohio industrialist Ralph R. Bal- Deetz Named In Law Suit PORTLAND tjB Elmer Deeti says the 1954 campaign he made to repeal the milk marketing con trol act and his candidacy for the Legislature both of them success fulresulted in a $9,000 mortgage and a J7.511 promisory note. That was his comment Wednes day to a suit filed against him on the note. Deetz said he gave the note to Norman Easley-and Stew art Whipple, law partners, and they sold It to MjJFVKcJler,, who brought the suit. ' -; Deetz, said the law firm had agreed to handle the legal work of the milk law campaign on a "contingency" basis and would not go to court on the note. Whipple disagreed and said it wasn't for work on repeal of the law, at all. Instead, he said, it represented the firm's fee for court work connect ed with Deetz's defiance of the state milk regulations. Deetz currently Is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate. Another candidate Rep. Edith Green who will seek reelection as a Democrat from Oregon's Third District also is target of court ac-' tlon. A real estate firm sued her for a commission on sale of prop erty, but lost. Then it sued again charging her with false testimony. This, she said, was "political blackmail." ' , Journal Tells Wage Scales EUGENE. Ore. im The Wall Street Journal will establish a starting salary rate of $100 a week for college graduates who enter its training program for reporters. Bernard Kilgore, president of the national business newspaper, said Thursday. Kilgore announced the program In an address before the journal ism assembly of the University of Oregon. The new pay rate. Kilgore said. l3 is designed to encourage young men and women entering college to consider Journalism as a career and to aid in attracting talented college graduates to the newspa per profession. Kilgore said. "The Journal's new rate, effective June 1. compares with a national average starting pay of less than $70 a week of fered by newspapers for reporters without prior professional exper ience." The Journal's present starting salary is (65 a week. Feather Directors OK Site Purchase SACRA MKNTO (UP) Directors of the Feather River Project As sociation late yesterday passed a resolution advocating Immediate acquisition of the San Luis Reser voir site by the state. The association also endorsed the principle of a bill by Rep. Clair Emtle iD-Califl for 1100 mil lion In federal flood control funds for Orovtlle Dam. A third resolution passed by the group asked Army Engineers to review their estimates of the cost of flood control on the Orovtlle ' Dam Project. Raymond A. Leon ard, Oroville, president of the As sociation, said the last estimates were made nearly 10 yeara ago. FORCES WITHDRAWN TOKYO British Common wealth forces in Japan will be withdrawn and those in Korea re duced to a battalion, it was an nounced here Thursday night. The Commonwealth now has 6.000 to 7.000 troops in the two countries most la Korea. denhofer testified yesterday that he and Williams protested in vain last spring against removal of em bargoes on western Allies sales to Russia of machine tools he said could be used to produce "the most modern ol weapons. "Far better to give them (Rus sia) the planes, munitions and, yet. even guided missiles," Baldenhofer exclaimed. A guided missile, he said, can be shot only once, but the tools in question could be used Lost Fliers Found; Party Begins Trek LA GRANDE, Ore. tJPi A sec ond ground party prepared to push through deep snow and rugged country west of here Thursday to pick up two Kennewick, Wash., fliers who landed Tuesday in & for est clearing. The first ground party, sent out after the men were sighted Wed nesday afternoon, was forced back. The men had food and sleeping bags, dropped to them late Wed nesday, and another food drop was being made Thursday. APPEAR OKAY They appeared to be all right. The men, Karl Singhrs, 29, the pilot, and Harry Rutledge. 42, were forced down on a flight from Halfway, Ore., to Pasco, Wash. They were sighted 8 to 10 miles west of here alter a snowstorm had let up Wednesday afternoon. Ted Grote, a search pilot, made the first sighting. Earl Snyder, di rector of the State Board of Aero nautics, then flew over and dropped a raaio, looa and sleeping bags. The radio's transmitter apparent ly was damaged in the drop but the receiver presumably was all right for the men waved torches as Snyder's request to show they heard him. Snyder, flying over again Thurs day, was to tell them that a special sled with an air propel lor attached failed to get a rescue party through Wednesday night and turned back. A snow tractor was readied for a iresh. attempt which-rbarring, un expected trouble oyer the rough and wooded country was expected to have them back here some time Thursday, FIRE SEEV Charles Hastings, reporter for the Evening Observer, flew over the men with Snyder just after dusk Wednesday and said "we could see the big fire they were keeping and believe our radio sig nals were received. We circled the area for an hour and then came back." The two men, he said, walked around and waved and showed no sign of injury. An oldbuilding was nearby which provided lumber for fuel as well as some shelter against the near-zero cold. Their plane was nosed up but might have been little damaged. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Generally fair with high cloudiness Thursday night. Partly cloudy with few snow flurries Fri day. High Friday 25-30; low Thurs day night 3 below to 5 above. High yesterday 20 Low last night 0 Precip. last 24 hours T Preclp. since Oct. 1 15.35 Same period last year 3.98 Normal for period 7.62 t-v: ' f 'i ' I . 4k. r ANDY MOORE, 131 High Street, was caught at work this morning by the 9 o'clock photographer at tha Baldwin Hotel. Moort was helping hit daughter, Mrs. Vera Jones, who manages the sttblishmtnt. Machine Witness to produce . many missiles "for years and years and years." STATE DEPARTMENT He named no names but said the State Department argued that the precision tools he and Williams said should not be sold to Russia also "could be used for -peaceful purposes and that "therefore Ihey saw no harm in shipping them. Baldenhofer then was a machine tools specialist on loan to the Com merce Department by the Navy, which he serves as a consultant. He is executive vice president of the Thompson Grinding Machinery Co., Bpringfield, Ohio. MrClellan contends government ofiiciaLs have tried to block his search into the story behind U. S agreement to the easing of curb: on Western trade with Russia. Ad ministration officials have said b "net advantage" to the tree world resulted from the move. Baldenhofer testified that month after the curbs were eased in 1954 Britain accepted orders from Russia for six milling ma chines which he said could be used to build "a base of machine tools' for war plants. He said one of the machines has been delivered to Russia. As the reduced list of embargoed machine tool items stands now, Baldenhofer said, It "is not worth the paper it is written on, if you want to bypass It." Trapping Laws To Be Fought PORTLAND Lfl Klamath and Umatilla Indians will open their attack on Oregon's hunting and trapping laws Feb. 28 in federal court here. That date was set by Judge Gus Solomon Thursday for the case in which the Indians say their reser vations are exempt from hunting and trapping regulations. He will be on the bench. In 1953 Congress extended Ore gon's laws to the two reservations. The Indians say, though, that century-old treaties exempted from this anything to do with hunting and trapping. The Umatlllas pin their case on an 1855 treaty and the Klamaths on one of 1864. Both say that they have always been free to hunt and trap on their reservations' and that the state can't step in now. - The suits are against the Ore gon State Game Commission, the state police superintendent and the attorney general. For the trial, the suits covering the two reservations were combined. A pre-trial agreement has been made in which state authorities concede the Indians have hunted and trapped freely on their reser vations "throughout time immem orial." Search Begins For Prospectors KANAB, Utah (UP) Utah offi cers today joined Arizona officials in a search for two Midwest uran ium hunters believed missing in the wilderness of plateaus and cliffs of the remote Colorado River country. The two men. Gene Haeusler, Milwaukee, and Kenneth H. Elliott Minneapolis, have been missing for nearly a month when they took off from Northern Arizona in their Piper cub plane to prospect the uranium country of Southern Utah. It wasn't until yesterday that of ficers learned the men were lost. Utah Highway Patrolman Merrill Johnson said the search was in itiated when relatives of the two men notified Arizona authorities that they had received no word from the two prospectors. mm W Wl'WMlUMJl'IUU'lll' Wi " WW )! .WWW 'WWW J'4MPL"yillHW 11111111111 - MIM IW !! ! I I II ' If-"" t- - - -.-...a,. .... l. ,. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956 Price Five Cents 26 Pages Telephone 8111 No. 3403 Senate Body Plans Probe Of Elections WASHINGTON (.fl A three member Senate Elections subcom mittee decided Thursday to under, take a broad investigation into any efforts by "selfish interests" to in fluence federal elections or legisla tion with campaign contributions. "The subcommittee intends to explore this matter fully to the end that the American people may be advised of the facts." Chairman Gore (D-Tenn said in a statement. He added that the subcommittee had "determined to conduct a study of contributions to elections campaigns, federal elections and such evidence of corrupt practices as may be revealed. Gore said the statement had been unanimously adopted by the subcommittee. Other members are Sens. Mansfield iD-Mont) and Cur tis (R-Neb.) BACKGROUND , The move for the investigation developed out of the furor over an oil man's offer of a $2,500 cam paign contribution to Sen. Case (R SD during the Senate fight over a natural gas bill. Case rejected the money and voted against the bill when the Senate passed it. Gore said the elections subcom mittee "does not expect to hold any public hearings" until a special Senate investigating committee submits its report on Uie Case In cident. The subcommittee said It be lieves a nonpartisan inquiry" is called for and it "expects to deport itself accordingly." The gas bill, to exempt produc ers of natural gas from direct fed eral controls, was passed by the Senate last week amid complaints of pressure from both sides. It is now awaiting action by President Eisenhower. SPECIAL COMMITTEE A snecial committee, set ud un der ' the chairmanship :of- ken. George . (D-Ga ), spent (he, week end investigating whether" a $2,500 campaign contribution rejected by Sen. Francis Case R-HD) was de signed to influence his vote on the gas bill. Case voted against the bill after telling the Senate about the contribution offer. George told newsmen he felt the special committee already had de veloped all (he essential facts about this incident and added he knew of nothing at this, time to justify asking the Senate to con tinue its inquiry or to enlarge its authority. He said he had told Gore that "unless something of a startling nature occurs which I do not now foresee, I hope we can make a report to the Senate next week , . . and ask to be discharged." Earlier, however, Sen. Bridges (R-NHi said in a statement he thought the special committee should seek Senate authority to in quire into what he called "a great deal of pressure" on senators in connection with the gas bill. The other Republican member of the committee. Sen. Thye of Minnesota, similarly has advocat ed that its scope be broadened to cover all contributions "having any possible relationship'' to the gas bill. Thye voted against the bill. But Sen. Haydcn (D-Arizi( the fourth member of the group, indi cated he agreed with Oeorge that it ought not to go beyond the Cnse Incident. Hayden voted for the bill, George against it. Mystery Craft Said Russian SUVA. Fiji (TJPi The govern ment announced today that a mys tery craft sighted lurking off Suva Feb. 3 has been identified as a longrange heavily armed Russian submarine. The announcement said the Iden tification was made by military officials here from sketches drawn by Capt. Taniela Kepa, a Fijian skipppr Kepfl spotted the subma rine when it surfaced off this British Colony island. According to the announcement, the craft was recognized as a It- class Soviet submarine. The K cla,ss .Russian submarines are equipped with 20 torpedoes and four guns. Capt. Joscfata Vulnono, Fijian skipper of the ketch Adi Tuiloma k ,u ,7..J, , i by another mystery craft last r' J . ' LJ, ,Z1 "f " ""'.rich larnilands were inundated. !UfU IJIJII HIUUIIU "IT" MTI, The mysterious disappearance of twr inter-Island tradnrs, couplrd with recurrent submarine jiuIiUiik reports, has caused considerable concern here. The hulit of the Joyita. one of the misKintr ships, was recovered but no trace ha yet been found of the 25 persons it carried. KOREANS DETAINED NAGASAKI. Japan i Fifteen Koreans who attempted to enter Japu illegally were detained by police here Wednesday when UVy nrrivrd on a Japanese fnhm? boat. They had forced Iheir way Too&e. Portland attorney, and El iboard the vessel, shooting one ol ! mer Deetz. Canbv dairyman, In the llshermen. i the Republican primary. Is t v - Cw TT ; , . n . GROUND OBSERVER Mrs. Jeanette Schiffman, 500 Martin Street, fulfills her GOC duties from a wheelchair, Mrs. Schiff man, a victim of polio, received a merit badge and bar award for giving 250 hours service to the local GOC. GOC sector sergeant T-Sgt James B. Shrum is shown hero presenting her with a certificate of appointment as the assistant chief ob server for the Klamath Falls GOC post. Mrs, Sehiffman's hus band, R. M. Schiffman, is also a member of tha GOC post. President Shunts Politics Aside For Quail Hunting THOMASVILLE, G;v. 'lT1 Pres ident .Eisenhower shunted politics aside temporarily Thursday and went hunting for quail with Sec retary of the Treasury Humphrey. The big question whether he will bid for a second term was shelved in favor of roaming Humphrey's big estate for the elusive birds. Neither Eisenhower 'nor the sec retary had any luck on their first try for quail shortly after arriving from Washington Wednesday for a week's vacation. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said he "wouldn't be surprised" if Eisenhower ployed a few holes of golf before the end of the week. It would be the first time since his Sept. 24 heart attack Europe Suffers Weaf tier Vces LONDON W! Raging floods and a new cold wave struck much of Europe and into the Middle East Thursday, piling misery on misery in a 17-day freeze-up which already has cost at least 5t8 lives. Torrential rains and melting snows brought Turkey new di sasters of the worst winter on rec ord. The known dead there totaled 72. Ice Jams and a brief thaw sent the Rhine , and scores of rivers rampaging over their banks In Central Europe. Yugoslavia estimated its flood damage from the Slrunuca River alone at a million dollars. The Netherlands reported the coldest night since 1942, with tem peratures down to 13 below zero. Behind the cold wave lurked the spoctcr of famine. Crop losses al ready ran into millions of dollars. Known deaths attributed to the weather were: France 124. Turkey 72. Italy 67. Yugoslavka 7. Britain 47. Den mark 31, Greece 30, Germany 26. Austria 19. Holland 16, Portugal 15. Spain 15. Switzerland 12. Bel gium 7. Sweden 6, Berlin and East Germany 5, Poland 4, Norway 3 and Libva 2. Scores' more were feared lost In ; firPas Mill snowbound across the continent. And nine men were nboard the 359-ton Norwegian ship Sagvaag, missing mice Sunday olf Norway's Icebound Kau.h const. ' Rrllpf organizations ruMi'-d food and clothiiuz to more than 2i0 per- nni! Iff I hnmflcu hv llrwiHt in 1 Turkish Thrace. The raaing a - . t.ft. ,. hP1,r Q,, I road lines. Thousands of ario.:s of Hitchcock Makes Formal Statement PORTLAND i -Philip S. Hitch- cork. 51. Lewis and Clark College public relation director. I formal- ly In the race now for Republican nomination to the U. 8. Senate. Hltchcoek. who had given ad - fanre warning, made his expected announcement at news conlerencc in a hotel Wednesday The former state senator ftotn I Klamath Falls will oppose Lamar AM . that he has dona anything more than putt a bit and practice Iron shots. Wednesday he had his first crack at hunting since the attack. Within IS minutes after getting to the Humphrey place, the Presi dent and the Cabinet officer had changed to hunting togs and were off to the fields aboard a green wheeled roadster drawn by two white mules. Behind was another hunting roadster with red wheels carrying the bird dogs and some of ine Negro beaters whose Job it Is to flush the quail. Eisenhower and Humphrey rode around the big estate for two hours but sighted birds only twice. And neither brought down any quail. j Tuesday, physicians told the ' President he has had a good re covery and concluding1 that he is physically able to seek and serve a second term. The cheering medical ' report has convinced political supporters of the President that he will run again. If he hus not already made his decision, he quite likely will do so here. He has indicated he will an nounce his plans around March 1. Before the doctors spoke out Tuesday, a majority of newsmen who cover the White House regu larly felt the President would not run again. Now the majority has swung heavily the other jvay. Both the President and Hum phrey were accompanied from Washington by their wives. Also along are Mis. Eisenhower's mother Mrs. John 8. Doud of Den ver and the President's personal physician Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snvde.. It was a happy Eisenhower who rode 43 miles by automobile from Spence air base at Moultrie, Gn.( to the Humphrey plantation. En thusiastic crowds gave him a warm welcome along the way. and he responded with repeated waver. The White IIou.se Limousine in which he traveled has a top which Hlides back so he can slwid and be seen by the crowds, on the trip yesterday he stood a good third of the way without any out ward sign of tiring. Healy To Seek Norblad's Post HALKM ". William E. Hraly announced Wedne.sday that he iwould b a Republican candidate .u. n .4 r..,..... I (rresslnnnl (n th Msy prl- Imary. Healv will seek th po.sl now held by Rfp. Walter Norblad. who h?s announced his candidacy for (overnor. Healy aeveral weeks ago had announced that he would be a can- ornate lor secretary 01 state. He h"d b-n slalant secretary ol PHt" until his recent rcsiRnallon. H" announcement for Congress P"8"1 lnl nl" Plttn" 1,1,(1 bren ' 1 '"cd by Norblad's decision to see u, governorship. j ' SKATING TONIC.IIT There will be Ice skating tonight Irom 7 to lo o'clock at the Moore Patk rink, a announced this morning by Recreation Director Bob Bonney. j 5 n Canadian Craft Sinks Off British Columbia Bf THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A large area of north central WashitiKton continued Thursday in the paralyzing grip of a deep drifted snow from winter's belated blow throughout the Northwest. A Canadian government vessel grounded and sank off the northern British Columbia coast before dawn during one of the worst snow storms of the winter. Six men aboard were believed to have reached shore safely. The heavy Hunt Begins For Missing DC-3 Plane HALIFAX, N.S. (UP) Canadian and U. S. planea spanned the Far North today hunting a war aurplua DC-3 transport carrylnij three men and believed piloted by American soldier of fortune Harold E. "Wml ey" Dahl. A spokesman for RCAF Search and Rescue Headquarters said "a man named Dahl" was (lying and possibly owned the plane that was on a clRKsllied mission supplying equipment to the strategically Im portant Defense Early Warning radar line. The others on board were not Immediately identified. Veteran pilots at Mont Joll, In Northern Quebec, and other points on the tar-flung radar network said the only Dahl they knew of was "Whlley." SKNTF.NCKI) TO DEATH The missing twin-engined plane, one of a vast fleet flying aupplles to radar bases under contract, was last reported Tuesday when It left Froblsher Bay on Baffin Island for a 400-mile flight to Fort Chlno, Que. It never reached Fort Chino. Dnhls exploits first made the headlines when he was a fighter pilot for the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. He was shot down, court martlaled in 1037 and ordered, executed by a firing squad. Then a woman entertainer In the United States sent a (etching pic ture of herself to Qcneralissimo Francisco Franco, saying she was Dahl's wlfn and offering to play the violin for Franco II ha' would let Dnhlj go free PUBIJC'ITV STUNT Dahl got his freedom. Franco never got his violin demonstration and It turned out the woman had staged the whole thing as a pub licity atunt to promote her career In night clubs. During World War n at Bclem, Brazil, he was a squadron leader In charge of the RAF base. He was court-martialed In Montreal, then headquarters of transport command, nfter spare parts dis appeared from the base and tinned up In the hands of a junk dealer. He was acquitted alter hearings that lasted several weeks. The Dahl adventures opened their postwar chapter In Europe, where he was a pilot for Swissair. He was arrested In Paris, Dec. .6 1953, with Etta Eppengcr, a former Swiss airline hostess, and charged with ateallng $34,389 worth of gold bullion from one o( that com pany's planes. Lumbermen Begin Anderson Meet REDDINO, Calif. W) Close to 1.000 lumbermen met Thursday at Anderson to discuss three matters o( prime interest to the California and Oregon lumber Industry pros pects for 10.16, better public rela tions, and access roads. The (il h annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference continues through Saturdny. William Orlffee of the Western Pine Assn., talked over the busi ness prospects ol the Industry. I. H. Luiten of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Portland, discussed public relations. Grlffec, In estimating 1,200.000 or more new homes to be started in 1056, said business in the indus try "mny not set any records, but It should be a good year." Paace Denies Rumors That Meg Will Become Catholic LONDON (UP) Publlhed rumors that Princess Margaret may become a convert to Roman Catholicism spread today despite attempts by palace sources to knock down the reports. The published versions ol the reports have been centered almost entirely in newspapers outside ol Great Britain. The West Berlin newspaper Nachldepesche said In this after noon's edition that Margaret prob ably would become a Catholic "soon." Nachtdepesche said her decision was not connected with her un fulfilled love for Peter Townsend. But II said, without giving a source, that the Catholic Duke ot Norfolk was reported to have dis cussed her problem last week with Pope Plus XII. London's Dally Herald became the first ' Fleet Street newspaper to publish the report here. With out any comment of lla own, the Dally Herald printed an account of today'a New York Dally News dispatch on the matter. The New York newspaper said It had learned of Margaret's pos sible conversion from "conlidenlial sources privy to the negotiations." The Spanish newspapers Arriba and ABO printed tha reports yes snow later turned to rain at tha temperature rose abruptly. Many schools closed on coin sides of the Cascades In Washing- " ton. LIGHT TOUCH Oregon received a lighter touch although the mercury dropped to 20 below aero at Meacham In the Blue Mountains between Pendleton and La Grande. Baker reported 8 below. Snow (lurries were expected to extend to the California Una by Friday. Snow (ell in varying amounts in Western Washington in early morn ing as far south as Chehalls. It was heaviest In the northern Fuget Sound sector. In British Columbia, Vancouver had eight Inches ol snow by mid mornlng and Victoria four inches. At Prince Rupert, 40-mlle-an-hour winds piled up a six-inch snowfall into big drifts, hindering traffic. In the Interior, Lake Okanogan was Iced over and Ketowna reported a low of eight below lor the second consecutive night. Intense cold continued in East ern Washington, with subzero tem peratures in the northern hall. The coldest reported Washington spot was Leahy, In Douglas Coun ty, at 19 below. Douglas County was hardest hit by the snow, but winds which whipped1 it into road-blocking drifts up to 6 and 6 feet deep had sub sided Thursday. V SOME ROADS REOPENED Some roads were being reopened by lour rotary anow plows, but Watervllle's only open main high way was the link westward to We nalchee. Two days of blizzard par alyzed the agricultural county. It was 14 below overnight at Water ville. Douglas County schools were closed. So were some In Okanogan County, a less heavily hit neighbor. Many (arm families In Douglas County were In their fifth day of Isolation, but officials said there were no reports of any desperate hardship cases. County Engineer Pat Thomson said opening of roads wll take several days. Public Utility District linemen reestablished power service in the county Wednesday. Sheriff Chester Bowers said the danger of any Iso lated famtllea suffering from the road blockades waa reduced by the (armers' custom o( keeping sup plies on hand lor emergencies. He : said one family came out 17 miles 1 with a propeller-driven snowsled to get provisions. , ' . r.v ri''r"TlFZ Temperatures of 7 below were reported at Spokane and Ellens burg, Western Washington also bad colder weather than Nome, Alaska. Olympla had 10 above and Seattle 13. (The lowest at Nome was 15 above). MEN MAROONED Two Bonneville Administration linemen made their way to the safety of a railroad main line late Wednesday after having been ma rooned In Stampede Pass by a two-day blizzard. They were Marshal Den y and William Weav- Whatcom County reported 2 to S inches of snow early Thursday, but outlying schools reopened in all districts except Blaine. Some 9.000 pupils had a vacation Wednes day because o( a biting northwest wind, near zero temperatures and icy roads. The winds eased over night. Heavy snow was reported on Whldbey Island, a light anow on the upper Olympic Peninsula. Schools at Ahacortes and three adjacent districts closed In the (ace o( 2 to 3 Inches of snow. Numerous other rural schools in Washington also closed. Fathers Almost Free Of Draft ; WASHINGTON I President Elsenhower has put fathers and men past their 26th birthdays prac tically out of the reach ol dralt boards unless there is a sharp in crease from recent manpower de mands. . An executive order, signed Wednesday before the President left lor his Georgia vacation and made public by the White House Thursday, puts childless registrants aged Id through 25 at the top ot the list In a new order of call-ups. terday following their publication In the Rome newspaper II Tempo. Buckingham Palace aa usual had "no comment." Court aources in London, when asked for guidance, unqualifiedly called the rumors lalse and base-, less. A Church ol England clergy man, who Is one ol Margaret's spiritual advisers, saia he would "certainly know" of any such de cision. But he said the rumors had "no foundation whatsoever. The mantle ol secrecy that wrapped Marnaret a love for RAP" Group Capt. Townsend tor years left speculators chary of lumping to any conclusion bdoui her. Ori ginal basis of the conversion re port appeared to be In Rome. Sources here close to the royal family emphasized that Margaret, of all the family, had been one of Its most faithful and devoted ad herents to the Anglican Church. This ia the church which Henry VIII aet up aa England's state church when he broke with Rome. One of tha reasons she gave for ending her historic love allalr with Townsend short ol marriage was that she put her religious fallh first. Townsend ia a divorced man, and tha Church ol England frowns on the remarriag ol divorced person;. 5 ' If I S5
