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REPUBLIC s) CITY A TLD TT (T FUJBOC INDEPENDENT i THE STATEK CReItTsT KNEWSRAPER 56th Year, No. 237 18 Pages Thursday, January 10, 1946 Telephone 3-1111. Single copies 5c daily. 10c Sunday, S1.25 per mo. Published every morning at 112 N.

Centra) Phoenix, Arizona. Entered at P. O. as eceond-class matter under Act of Congress March 3. 1879.

Radio Firm Buys PlantHere Work Set To Start InMon Xeleplhioinie System thlTTi Tl TT I II II II I A'l III I MIIJIBIIMIWIMMI'MIH MIIIIM Ml Ml Mirilj Tl II MIMH Jllll By BEN AVERY PURCHASE of AiResearch Manufacturing Company's Phoenix plant from Reconstruction Finance Corporation was announced yesterday by John J. (Jack) Ross, Idle List State Escapes Eisenhower Orders Discharge Speed-Up (By Associated Press) THE ARMY reacted yesterday to swelling protests from EXTENDS TO ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: It has become necessary to organize a "suburban branch of the chamber of commerce whose sole duty has been to attend to the needs and interests of the extended city limits," says Capt. Clifford C. Sawyer, pictured on Adak in the Aleutian Islands. Captain Sawyer was chief mechanical and electrical engineer for Lescher and Mahoney, Phoenix architects for 4 years before entering the service in 1942.

He reports two other Phoenix officers, MaJ. Harold G. Taylor and First Lt. I. K.

Abbey, were stationed on Adak. Captain Sawyer expects to "retreat from the far northern limits of Phoenix" and return to the "center" of the city for good in another couple months. 1 soldiers overseas against directing that any men not needed may be sent home, no matter what their point score. Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, chief of staff, cabled the Local Man Abducted, Mistreated, Robbed THE Good Samaritan who offered to drive Max C. Birka, 23-year-old Phoenix used car salesman, to his home from a South Central avenue night club instead abducted him early yesterday, beat him unmercifully at a lonely desert spot, took the automobile and abandoned him after robbing him of an estimated $3,000 in cash and two diamond rings and a watch valued at more than $1,000. Left on the desert about 11 miles north of Florence, Birka wandered a mile to a highway, finally succeeded in flagging a passing automobile, and was taken to the sheriffs office at Florence. He was moved to the Pinal County Hospital there after he told his president of Aviola Radio Corpora tion of Glendale, subject to advertising and awarding the sale contract. Simultaneously, Mr.

Ross said his entire plant will be moved to Phoenix, beginning next week, and production will begin at the new property within 30 days. The deal, first disposal of a major Phoenix war plant, was tenta tively concluded in Los Angeles Monday, climaxing five months of negotiations, which were broken off completely twice, the last time only last Saturday when RFC re jected Mr. Ross' offer for the plant. He said the final price could not be announced until the machinery is inventoried and the amount to be purchased determined. The tall, smiling.

Phoenix "con verf who retired in 1942 to spend the rest of his life idling under the Arizona sun, declared his company will become a part of this state, employ 1,500 Phoenicians and utilize insofar as possible Arizona lum ber, copper and other products. Pay Roll Growth Predicted He predicted the factory pay roll will grow from $1,000,000 a year at first, to $2,500,000 a year. A production goal of 6,000 radio sets ana 2,000 automatic record changers daily has been set for the company's primary products. In addition, Mr. Ross said, it will manufacture a complete line of air craft receivers and communications equipment of all kinds.

Actual consummation of the sale cannot be completed for two weeks because of a legal requirement that the plant be advertised that length of time. The first advertisement will run in newspapers on national, regional and local levels today. However. Mr. Ross offer already has received approval of RFC officials concerned in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.

and executives connected with the transaction consider It as good as closed because of the amount and terms of the bid. Final Work Planned Thomas Darlington, general manager of AirResearch, which still is employing about 250 workers at the plant to finish un its war contracts, Mr. Ross that his company will be able to start tooling the plant "while we are finishing up." Mr. Darlington made the an nouncement at a luncheon in the Aluminum room of Hotel Westward Ho yesterday in honor of the officials of the new Phoenix enterprise. "We have a little job to finish up," Mr.

Darlington, who directed the manufacture of vital parts for America's huge B-29s during the war, said. "But I am sure we can work out something so you can start while we are finishing." Now an enthusiastic Phoenician and determined to remain one, Mr. Darlington played no small part in the negotiations for sale of the plant along with a number of other Phoenix businessmen headed by A. F. Morairty, state chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and vice-president of the Central Arizona Light and Power Company.

Aiding them on the side of the government was W. Roy Wayland, Phoenix, banker, businessman and RFC representative in Arizona. Inconspicuous Beginning Told The monumental task of effecting the sale of the plant and establishing this new industry in Arizona had its beginning inconspicuously and almost by chance on a warm summer afternoon last August. Hirohito had just surrendered" his homeland and announcement that the AiResearch plant and other Phoenix war industries were closing still was the prime topic of conversation. In Phoenix for the week-end from his busy plant in California and looking forward to returning for good, Mr.

Ross was lolling in his Hotel Westward Ho room talking to Robert L. Davenport, assistant vice-Dresident of the Valley National Bank. As all Phoenicians then were doing, they talked about the future of the plants, and Mr. Ross (jokingly, Mr. Davenport thought) speculated about the purchase of one of them.

First it was Goodyear Aircraft Corporation's plant at Litchfield, but the talk soon turned to the AiResearch plant. It continued (Continued On Page 7, Col. 1) Phone Strike ARIZONA operations of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company are expected to be virtually unaffected by the nationwide strike yesterday of employees of the Western Electric Company. The firm's repair department here said 15 men were on strike in the state 12 in Phoenix, two at Flagtaff and one in Casa Grande. Anticipations of national telephone disruption are based on the premise that telephone workers will not cross picket lines established by the Western Electric employees.

But in Denver, D. L. Wyckoff, spokesman for the Mountain States Federation of Telephone Workers, said members "do not feel they can honor picket lines" scheduled to be set up tomorrow. Western Electric men in Arizona are concerned exclusively with telephone installations. Wyckoff said the telephone workers felt that "due to the large area covered by our organization and the small number of employees representing their (Association of Communication Equipment Workers) group in this territory, the establishment of picket lines will render little, if any, support to their cause." Lee J.

Fitzhugh, head of the Phoenix local of the federation, said its members will "follow whatever course Denver takes," which apparently meant that Wyckoffa ruling will prevail here and the other states where Mountain States operates. American Delegation In Accord By JOHN A. ARRIS LONDON. Jan. 9 (AP) The United States delegation to the United Nations assembly closed ranks in harmonious accord today after a two-hour conference with.

James F. Byrnes, secretary of state, who made lt clear that any plan dealing with atomic energy secrets must receive congressional approval. Fears were eliminated that the American delegation might enter in disagreement the first session of the assembly, which opens at 9 a. m. (Mountain Standard Time), tomorrow.

Byrnes said his views on safeguards were entirely acceptable to all American delegates. Minutes later Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Republican, i i a critic of Byrnes' atomic energy policy up to this point issued a statement saying he now was "completely reassured." Vandenberg Agrees Vandenberg had sought assurances from Byrnes on two points that adequate security arrangements must precede disclosures concerning atomic matters and that "any plan recommended by the atomic commission must receive congressional approval in the United States." In assuring the American delegation, Byrnes recalled the Moscow Big Three foreign ministers conference, where he said it was agreed that the United States would retain the atomic energy secrets until suitable UNO machinery was set up for its control. Russia, the only one of the five larger powers not to send her foreign minister to the assembly meeting, probably will not even be represented at the opening session by her chief delegate, Andrei Vish-insky, vice-commissar of foreign affairs. Yishinsky In Sofia News dispatches said the Soviet vice-commissar arrived in Sofia late today for what were termed in the Bulgarian capital as important political conversations.

A Red spokesman had no comment on varying reports in the London press about the Soviet attitude on atomic bomb questions that Russia would deny it was preparing to manufacture an atom bomb, and that Vishinsky's interpretation of" the Moscow agreement on the bomb coincided with that of the American secretary of state. Leading diplomats and statesmen of 51 nations, guests at the most brilliant royal banquet since prewar days, mingled enjoyment of the function with a sober approach to what Ernest Bevin. Britain's for eign secretary, described as a "great uiiei national auvemure into pon tics. The opening session of the as sembly tomorrow will come on the 26th anniversary of the founding of the League of Nations at Vex- saules. Parts Of Infant Found In Sewer ST.

LOUIS, Jan. 9 (AP) Part of a baby's chest was found today in a sewer where a severed leg was discovered yesterday, and workers kept searching lor the rest of the body. No child has been reported missing. The infant's age has not been determined. A coroner estimated that the parts so far found had been in the sewer about two days.

The discovery, in an apartment district on the west side of St. Louis, was made after the pipe was reported clogged. Hiked To 407,000 (By Associated Press) A WALKOUT of installa- tion workers that began yesterday had spread to 42 states and the strike threatened to shut down the na tion's telephone system. The new walkout brought the total idle because of strikes to 000. Most of the 8,000 members of the Independent Association of Com munication worKers were away from their jobs in the wage dispute.

The workers install Western Electric Company equipment for the Bell lelephone Union spokesmen predicted a "100 per cent breakdown of toll service" and disruption of dial telephone service within a few days. The union has announced its in tention of picketing telephone exchanges in the 42 states where it operates, and said it had been assured that other telephone workers would not cross picket lines. Steel Parley Slated Meanwhile, the steel fact-finding board in Washington announced that collective bargaining in the steel wage dispute would be resumed today between the U. S. Steel Corporation ana the Coneress of Industrial Organizations United Steelworkers Union.

Nathan P. Feinsingcr, chairman of the panel, said the fact-finding board would do nothing more than stand by at the moment. He said he didn't know if resumption of negotiations would avert the pend ine steel strike. Earlier, it was reported the gov ernment might authorize an in crease of about $4 a ton in the price of steel. The steel companies with the strike of 800.000 steel- workers set for Monday, had requested a S7 a ton increase as a condition of resuming collective bargaining.

Telephone, Mails Used In New York Citv. strike-bound Western Union delivered messages Dy teiepnone and through the mails. No disorders were reported yesterday, the second day of the walkout of 7,000 employees in protest against a War Labor Board decision which cut a wage award granted by a regional' board. Approximately 1,000 pickets marched and sang in the rain outside the company's main office. Also in New York, a two-hour conference between officials of the General Electric Company and the CIO United Electrical Workers ended without an agreement having Deen reacned which would forestall a nationwide strike set for Tuesday.

Union leaders, however, said another meeting with General Electric officials would be held today. Approximately 200,000 employees are scheduled to walk out Tuesday at plants of General Electric. West- inghouse Electric and General Mot ors in a wage dispute. Meat Packing Conference Held In Chicaeo. Government concilia tion conferences aimed at averting a strike the meat packing industry heean with Jncnhsnn conciliator, presiding at the closed sessions.

After the first session, with the CIO United Packinghouse Workers and Swift Packing Com pany participating, Lewis J. Clark packinghouse workers president told newsmen the company was standing pat on a 711 cent wage increase offer, and that the union was demanding 17 cents "or there will be a strike on the 16th." Conciliation sessions were scheduled to continue through Saturday with five packing companies par ticipating. Representatives of the American Federation of Labor Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America also were expected to attend some ses sions. The latter union has threat ened to join the CIO group in its walkout unless it receives a "substantial" wage increase by Friday. A six-week strike of production workers at McQuay-Norris plants in St.

Louis was ended after the union accepted a contract granting wage increase of from 13 to 16 per cent. Approximately 900 members of the CIO United Auto Workers Union went on strike November 26. The plants are expected to resume lun production by Monday. British Arrest Hitler's Adjutant HERFORD, Germany, Jan. 9 (AP) German air force Gen.

Nico- laus Von Below, adjutant to Adolf Hitler since 1937 and reputedly one of the last persons to see the fuehrer alive, has been arrested in Bad Godesburg, British intelligence officers said tonight. Von Below, believed to be the only living witness to Hitler's last will and testament, was taken into custody yesterday. He was enrolled under the assumed name of Klaus Negel as a law student at Bonn University. As one of three signers of the fuehrer's private will. Von Below is believed to have had intimate knowledge of Hitler's immediate entourage and to know in particular of the party's last fateful days in the reichschancellery bunker before Berlin fell to the Russians.

Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister, and Hitler's deputy. Martin Bormann, also witnessed the will. The Russians shortly after conquering Berlin identified a charred-body as that of Goebbels, and Bormann, officially listed as missing, also may be dead. Decision Is Near On Barracks IT APPEARED yesterday afternoon that Phoenix might be able to go ahead sometime today on its project of converting the old Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Phoenix South Mountain Park into temporary habitations for 85 servicemen's families. Permission to spend the money necessary outside of the regular budget was granted the city commission Tuesday by the state tax commission, but the job of unwinding the red tape necessary to obtain the property from the government has been held up for more than three weeks.

The tape cutting was being done by Carl Hayden, Arizona senior senator, in Washington yesterday, according to a telegram he dispatched to Joseph Furst, city clerk. This stated: Release Is Expected "I have talked to M. A. Stephens, liquidating officer for the Civilian Conservation Corps, who has promised to telephone the corps of engineers at the war department advising them of his approval of transfer of South Mountain Park CCC camp to the City of Phoenix. I shall let you know when there are further developments." Mr.

Furst was of the opinion yesterday that telephonic approval of the transfer would be received from Washington today. Once the city is assured of title to the property it can instruct architects to prepare the plans necessary for the reconversion work. While that is being done a contract can be awarded on competitive bidding for the job, Roy Heyne, city manager said. Another problem still to be worked out is to obtain sufficient furniture to furnish the apartments when they are ready. City officials hope to obtain some government surplus supplies for this furpose, but have obtained no re-ease of any equipment or furniture so far.

Field Housing Sought Senator Hayden yesterday also advised city officials he was using his influence to see if Thun-I derbird Field No. 1, just'north of I Glendale, might not oe employed to house veterans families for the time being. He informed Mr. Furst that an exchange of telegrams with Lang-don Post, San Francisco, regional director of the Federal Public Housing Authority, has resulted in the matter being referred to William G. Elder, Phoenix, area management supervisor.

Mr. Elder was en route home last night from a trip to San Francisco and is expected to arrive here tonight after stops in the northern part of the state. Senator Hay-den's telegram quoted Mr. Post as saying he would request Mr. Elder to make an immediate investigation of the possibilities of using the field, so that, a report will be available within a few days.

"lady, can you spare a paper to read its demobilization policies by Third Man Is Hunted In Slaying CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (AP) A pos sible major break in the kidnap- killing-dismemberment of pretty six-year-old Suzanne Dagnan was hinted today when Jack Hanrahan, detective sergeant, told the criminal court that "all of our men" were out looking for another man in the case and "developments de pend on our apprehending him." Hanrahan made the disclosure during the hearing on a petition for habeas corpus writs for two Northside building janitors in which the court ordered police to formally charge or release them within 24 hours. The court issued its "charge-or-else" ruling after counsel for the janitors. Hector Verburgh, 65 years old, and Desere Smet, 35, and Ver-burgh's wife, Mary, 64, asked their immediate release. Third Janitor Sought The ianitors and Mrs.

Verbureh were being held by police only for questioning. Hanrahan told reporters later that the man sought was another janitor in that district who had been on a drinking spree for sev eral days" and could not be lo cated. Meanwhile the Rev. George Kearney, the parish priest who brought the heartbreaking news to Mr. and Mrs.

Degnan that the kid naper had killed their daughter, informed the mother today of the ghastly manner in which the girl's body was handled and disposed. Hanrahan's hint of important developments capped a day marked principally by the collapse of several clues originally considered important. Several Clues Collapse William J. Tuohy, state's attor ney, told reporters that a chemical analysis showed bones found in an apartment furnace just off the room where they believe the victim's body was dismembered were not human. Earlier Walter Storms, chief of detectives, said he agreed with a coroner's office report that a hack saw found in a locker in the basement "dissecting room" could not have been used to dismember the body.

tsotn storms and the coroner discredited a theory that an ax found in an apartment had figured in tne dismemberment both holding that the entire job had been done with a knife. The report on the toones was the sharpest setback, however, to police efforts to narrow down the field of possible suspects. The furnace room door customarily was locked, they said, and there were no windows through which an intruder might climb. There are several windows in the laundrv room where bits of flesh, internal organs and blood were found in the trap of the washtub drain. Police, who are engaged in the city's greatest concerted man-hunt in an effort to solve the crime, de- lainea smei eariy today, rlanra- nan described Ismet as an inseparable pal" of Verbursh.

but Smefs wife denied the two were more than casual acquaintances. Children's Animal Book is compiled specially for children. It tells chiefly about mammals, the creatures we know best. It describes their appear ance and their habits, and tells why some are our friends and some are our enemies. The fine half-tone illustrations are reproduced from photographs made by the American Museum of Natural History.

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C. I enclose herewith FIFTEEN CENTS in coin (carefully wrapped in paper) for a copy of the CHILDREN'S ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK. Name Street or Rural Route City State (Mail to Washington, D. order to all theater commanders He said unneeded men with highest scores and longest service should be given preference. The war department announced that it was reviewing its entire de mobilization program as soldiers overseas kept on growling about delay in getting nome.

Kenneth C. Royall, acting secretary, said in a statement in Washington that "the detailed future program of the war department will De forthcoming shortly. From Germany to Japan and at points between, GIs chafed at the slowing of discharges and a provost marshal in Yokohama broke up what he caned a near mutiny." Demonstrations Continue The war department indicated, however, that demonstrating, pro testing troops would not be punish ed unless there were violence or disorder. The nearest thine to that, appar ently, was at headquarters of U. forces in the European theater at ranklurt.

Germany. More than 4,000 soldiers and Wacs assembled there to chant we want to go home. Angry shouts arose but soon sub sided when a military policeman pushed a demonstrator. Military police arrested one of two soldiers who came to blows. The whooping crowd called in vain ior the appearance oi uen Joseph Ti McNarney.

After loudly blaming "politicians at home for Keeping tnem over seas, the throne marched on Mc Narney's headquarters. Military police with rifles, tear gas and submachine guns kept a watchful eye on tne marcners. In Washington. Senators Rever comb. Republican.

West Vircinia. and Edwin C. Johnson, Democrat, Colorado, called for an A to con eressiona! investigation of demobi lizatlon. A third senator, Chairman Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat, Utah, of the military committee, said he saw no need lor an inquiry.

President Truman has said that demobilization is moving along as fast as possible and that the army had to slow it down because or a critical need for occupation forces overseas. Troops Are Warned The acting commander ofc the Eighth Army in Japan. L.X. Gen Charles P. Hall, warned his troops in -a message that subversive eie ments quickly would sense dissension among occupation forces and "take their cue for sabotage plans from our future actions." The Manila area, scene of pro test meetings Monday and Tuesday, was relatively quiet, J.

he commanding general in the Philippines, Lt Gen. William u. Styer, lniormed General Eisenhower in washing ton there was no need of disciplinary action because there had been "no acts of violence or disorder. Eisenhower, army chief of staff. approved that decision and so re ported to President Truman.

Eisenhower said in his report, released by the White House, that Gen. Douelas MacArthur agreed with Styer that discontent among sol diers in the Philippines was due to "acute homesickness aggravated by the termination of hostilities." Col. Charles A. Mahoney. provost marshal of the U.

S. Army Service Command, stopped what he called a hothead demonstration tnat greeted Robert P. Patterson, secre tary of war, upon his arrival in Yokohama. Mahonev said Patterson was met by cries of "we want to go home." He said he told the demonstrators they were "insulting a man who was a soldier before you were born." A mimeographed baoer distribut ed among GIs quoted Mahoney as I'll get them ior you- 66 is to come later construction of a railroad overpass at the point where the first section of the present dual-unit project ends. Negotiaitons now are being conducted by the highway department with the Santa Fe railroad company relative to the overpass and are progressing satisfactorily, highway officials said.

Route To Be Shortened The program to be initiated with the opening of bids January 30 will reduce the distance between Flagstaff and Winona by a mile and a half. The call for bids specifies that the contractors to whom the awards are made will not be required to start work until weather conditions permit and that the state will advise the successful bidders of the approximate starting date. Both schedules, however, are to be completed on or before September 30. 1947. U.

S. Highway 66, according to highway officials, is carrying by far the heaviest traffic load of any other road in America. story, and last night -still was hos pitalized with contusions, and abrasions on his head and face. The missing automobile was lo cated early last night near Oracle, some 40 to 50 miles from the robbery scene, and a widespread manhunt was under way for Birka's assailant. The salesman identified him as a dancer by profession and described him as a neat-appearing, six-foot, 170-pound man about 23 years of aze.

Two Other Robberies It was one of three robberies reported to local authorities during the night. Two gunmen held up Gene Dulan, attendant at the Michener Brothers service station at 404 North Central avenue, and fled with about $30 taken from the cash register and Dulan's billfold. Bob Rocha, 46, Tolleson, reported to police he was "strong-armed" by four or five men in the rest room of a South Second street buffet and robbed of $265. Birka, who resides at 1520 West Taylor street, and has. lor some time engaged in buying and selling used automobiles, said he was sleepy when he was ready to leave the outlet ana that the dancer, known to him only as "Kenney," offered to drive him to his home.

The salesman said he fell asleep almost immediately, and slept un til he was awakened by Being struck on the head and face by some blunt instrument. At first, he declared, he tried to protect himself, and then "just fell back and played dead." He said his assailant must have believed him dead or unconscious, for he pushed him from the car, took his money clip and jewelry, and remarked, "That guy won't do me any harm. Walks To Main Highway Birka declared he had no idea as to his whereabouts when his "friend" abandoned him, but walk ed in the direction the car had disappeared, and after an hour reached a main highway. Un successful in flagging down several cars in his disheveled condition, he finally stood on the highway and held up his hands In that manner he stopped Mr. and Mrs.

Robert H. Smith, tourists from Palmer Lake, and they delivered him to the sheriff's office at Florence at 2:50 a. There was no trace of the fleeing robber until the Birka car, which he had borrowed from a local used car firm and was to return yesterday morning, was found abandoned in the Oracle area last dime? I wanta buy th Pegler." night. Florence officers left immediately to get it, but did not immediately know whether it contained any of Birka's missing money or property. Birka told officers he may have been assaulted with a flashlight which had been in the automobile glove compartment, and declared he believed his assailant intended to kill him.

xie saia nis money was in a clip and contained a $1,000 bill, eight, sioo bills and others of smaller denominations. One of his diamond rings he valued at $570. the other $430. His wallet, contain ing an endorsed check for $1,050 ana anotner tor $75, was over looked by the assailant. Auto License Office Rush Hits New High APPROXIMATELY 1.500 aDbli cants yesterday filed throueh the office of the Maricopa county auto licensing department of the county assessor office at Second avenue ana Adams street, to make anolica tions for 1946 registration, it was reported by w.

Stanford, deputy county assessor, last nignt. The previous day 1,300 persons were handled, and since the office announced it would receive the applications approximately 7,500 have been tiled. This year, for various reasons connected with the war, Arizona automobile drivers again must resort to decalcomania stickers on their windshields in lieu of new plates. The time obtaining mem is tne montn oi December, while the month of January is the period of grace before a penalty for delinquent applications is applied. December passed without the county assessor's office being in position to accept applications, because the stickers had not arrived.

Now they are expected by January 25, Mr. Stanford said. In the meantime the applicants are being given their 1946 registration cards and the stickers will be mailed out Mr. Stanford announced his of fice will be open Saturday after noon until 5 clock to handle the applicants. He reminded automo bile owners that they must present their certificate of title and the 1945 registration card.

It is much better to bring in the blue duplicate card than the original white one, he said. Mail orders will be accepted but are not encouraged this year, he said, because of the confusion that has been created by the lack of stickers at the proper time. Transatlantic Phone Marriage Performed BREMERTON, Jan. 9 (AP) Murray L. Petersen, navy electrician's mate, 43 years old, and Lorna Kay Groves.

35, of Llandough, Camorganshire, South Wales, were married today in a transatlantic telephone ceremony. The exchange of vow took five minutes of the six-minute call to England, which was interrupted once by a priority message. Formal ities over. Petersen ducked into a booth and used the last minute for a private word with his bride. Petersen, of Portland, met the English girl when he was stationed in South Wales during the war.

The marriage service will be repeated when she comes to this country. OP A Opposes Butter Price Hike WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) An agriculture department proposal to raise the price of butter churned up opposition today from the Office of Price Administration. John C. Collett, stabilization director, now will have to referee the dispute.

There appears to be no pat solution. Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, confirmed in Chicago that he has recommended a six-cent a pound increase to stimulate production. Removal of subsidies, Anderson said, would boost the price another 12 cents for a total increase ef 18 cents by May 1. Chester Bowles, OPA director, thereupon issued this statement: "OPA is vigorously opposed to any rice for butter.

You can make that as strong as you like. Bids Called For Improvement Of U. S. Highway 66 In State BIDS WERE CALLED yesterday by the Arizona Highway Department on one of the state's major highway building projects of the current year improvements of an 11-mile section of U. S.

Highway 66 between Flagstaff and Winslow. Estimated cost of the job is in the vicinity of $1,300,000. The 11-mile project is to be split ud into two units or sched ules, the first caning ior grading. draining and laying of aggregate base and Portland cement pave ment on a four-mile stretch of the road beginning about three miles east of Flagstaff and extending eastward. The second unit calls for similar improvements on a seven-mile stretch of highway 66 beginning 7Vz miles east of Flagstaff and extending eastward.

Bid Openings Slated Bids on both sections of the proj ect are scheduled to be opened by the state highway department here January 30. Originally planned as a single unit, the project has been divided into two schedules to encourage bidding, the highway commission recently having noted an increasing tendency on the part of road builders to shy away from large road jobs because of labor and materials shortages. Still a third major improvement on the 11-mile section of highway i PegJer's column appears daily, Monday through Friday on page 2 of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC.