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River News The South Dakota Associated Press will send a correspondent to each meeting; of the Missouri basin Inter Agency committee. Look for his reports on river development fanning. A "South Dakota's Leading Newspaper" 20 PAGES SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS a JLEaDEE In AY MilW rs a iu a rx Yr2 hrs tr vv Papa Aly Drinks a Toast On City By -Pass QtwQAtiqatiorL ndL. CITES STATE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING Attorney General Says He Has 'Healthy Appreciation' of Work No "Flying Saucers" Says U. S.

Air Force 'I 1 -v" 1 i 4 j. 1 A proud and happy Prince Aly Khan (right) raises his glass for a toast with newsmen after announcing the birth of baby princess, Yasmin, to his actress wife, Rita Hayworth, at Lausanne, today. (AP wirephoto by radio from Bern, Switzerland direct to The Argus-Leader.) Is Born to Rita Hayworth Aly; They'll Call Her Yasmin Washington, Dec. 28 (JP) After checking up on 375 rumors of weird and wondrous sights in the sky, the air force has concluded that there aren't any "flying saucers." It took two years, a special team from the USAF's science staff, and help from university consultants to track down the rumors of strange discs whizzing through the air. Project Abandoned Last night the air force said "Project Flying Saucer" the investigation started by the air ma teriel command at Wright base, Dayton, Ohio, on January 22, 1948 has been ordered ended because there is nothing to show that the reports were "not the results of natural phenomena." All evidence, it added, points to three factors "misinterpretation of various conventional objects; a miia lorm or mass nysteria: or hoaxes" as the origin of the flying saucer reports.

Under air force definition, "vari ous conventional objects" include such things as meteors, balloons, birds in flight just ordinary optical illusions. The effect of last night's air force announcement was to deny a story appearing in the current edition of the magazine "True." The magazine said It had learned that "a rocket authority stationed at Wright field has told 'Project Saucer' personnel flatly that the saucers are interplanetary and that no other conclusion is possible." The air force last spring sought to shoot down the flying discs rumors wit long, detailed dis cussion on the whole history of the rumors. It devoted a portion of that reDort to explaining why vis Itors weren't likely to arrive from Living Costs Stay Steady in November Virtually Unchanged Over October, Labor Department Reports Washington, Dec. 28 JPy There was virtually no change in living costs during November, the Labor department reported today. The index of the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics rose but one tenth of one per cent over October figures.

For mid-November it was 168.6 per cent of the 1935-39 average. This was 2 per cent lower than a year ago but 71 per cent higher than the August, 1939, perwar level. All major retail price groups ex cept apparel and miscellaneous goods and services rose fractional ly in November. The largest price group increase was for fuel, electricity and refrigeration. This group rose one half of one per cent, primarily because of nigher prices for coal and coke.

Gas and electricity bills were unchanged during the month. Ice prices rose slightly. Food averaged one tenth of one per cent higher in price in November, with coffee prices soaring 24 per cent. Retail prices for fresh inuis ana vegetaoies were 5 per cent higher. Most other foods declined.

Slight reductions also were noted for clothing items. Rents increased four tenths of one per cent during November. The bureau said that for the three month period ending November 15 rents rose 11 per cent in Houston, Tex, and 107.7 per cent in Milwau kee. wife had seen the child a few minutes after regaining consciousness. "She seemed awfully pleased," Aly said.

"I myself think she is a very good looking girl, but being her father I can't really say so myself." The playboy prince, wearing a black suit and black tie, came out of the clinic a moment after his public relations man, Claude Payot, told newsmen: "Gentlemen, will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Aly joked a little with the newsmen. He referred to his crumpled appearance and said: "I suppose I look as though I have gone through it all myself. With this beard they are going to take me for the wild man of Borneo." Final arrangements for the ar rival of the little princess were executed in such deep Hollywood style secrecy by husband Aly Khan that he even crossed up police who planned to escort Rita to the hos pital. The 31-year-old film star and Aly quietly left their suite at the palace hotel at 8:10 p. m.

CST Tuesday He had made elaborate arrange ments to have two police cars to escort Rita on a speedy one-mile run to the hospital. Rita Unescorted But when the time came Aly drove Rita himself unescorted Hotel doors were locked to keep anyone from following. appe Colton, S. F. Youths Get Jail Terms William Brower, 19, Charles Rokke, 18 Admit Chicken Stealing Two more members of youthful gangs which are blamed in a recent series of thefts in the Sioux Falls vicinity were dealt with yesterday afternoon in Circuit Judge Lucius J.

Wall's court when William Brow er, 19, Colton, and Charles Rokke, 18, Huron, were sentenced to a year each in county jail. Rokke has been living here. They pleaded guilty to a state charge of grand larceny, committed conjointly, in connection with the December 1 theft of 16 chickens valued at $16 from the Claire Mellon farm near Sioux Falls. T. R.

Johnson was appointed by the court to represent Brower and Gene McDonnell was named as Rokke's attorney. Before passing sentence Wall pointed out that chicken stealing is a felony punishable by a penitentiary sentence of not to exceed 10 years. Other Thefts Admitted Additional crimes were admitted by the youths. Brower said he had taken other chickens, tires, gasoline and $500 worth of eggs. State's Attorney Jerry Maher said that state ments signed by other youths im plicated Brower.

Brower -had never been arrested before. Rokke was recently sentenced to one to live years lor larceny Minnesota and is on probation. He admitted that he also took gasoline and metal tire sidewalls. In addressing the court Maher stressed the problems posed by jU' venile crime and the problem deal mg with these criminals poses, Sending Brower and Rokke to prison would make them marked men for the rest of their lives, he said, yet their offenses warranted it. He warned that if Wall kept them from prison they would never get that break again.

In passing sentence Wall said, "I can see nothing to recommend leniency except your ages." Two to Plankinton Two Sioux Falls boys, each 16, were committed to the State Training school at Plankinton yesterday by County Judge Lewis Larson. One was put on probation two months ago for theft of a camera, jacket, blanket and numerous other articles from parked cars and has not lived up to terms of the probation. The other has a long truancy record. Three S. D.

Business Groups Incorporate Pierre, Dec. 28 (JF) Corporate papers were filed with the secre tary of state today for a cooperative home building venture, an auto repair business and an advertising distribution service. Six Mitchell men were listed as officers in the Dakota Homes, including Le Roy S. Lassegard, Fred J. Nichol, James E.

Peterson, Warren E. Dixon, Bruce Stoner, and Henry W. Tyler. A Watertown auto shop was listed for incorporation under the title of Scheigers, Inc, with Archie Donald and Alma S. Schweiger as directors.

Capital stock of was listed. A business to distribute and solicit advertising throughout the state under the name of the South Dakota Press Service, Inc, was listed under the filings. Offices of the firm will be located in Brookings, and will include the follow ing as directors: Homer J. Givens, Brookings; T. R.

Burges, Clear Lake; F. Clement, Selby; A. M. Johnson, Canton, and Lyn Glad stone, Newell. Wentworth, S.

D. Many homes in this area were "brighter" for Christmas as REA work was being coir jleted while others expected have lights by New Years Day. Right Hand Failed to Save be saved. "If it must go," she said, "there's a purpose to it." Some ministers found in the response to her plea signs that the nation might be ready for a religious revival. The child's scrawled letter prompted an anonymous New Yorker, well known in a field outside religion, to have her sent to Boston Children's hospital last week.

Physicians there agreed with the diagnosis. Last night Betty read a letter from her benefactor. He told her millions of people were deriving strength from her faith. He said he had been lonely and discouraged until he read of her plight. Then his faith increased.

"There are several million people watching you," he said. "They need your help and your faith in your God, and when they see and hear how your strength carries you through your experience, it will give them strength to shoulder theirs." NEW HIGHWAY DESIGNED FOR HEAVY LOADS Alternate Road Skirting Sioux Falls Traced by Engineer Alternate route of highway 77 through the eastern part of Sioux Falls will enable -heavy traffic to by-pass the city's more thickly populated sections, City Engineer R. E. Bragstad said today. From Cliff avenue, on which the road enters Sioux Falls from the northeast, the new route will run four blocks east on Rice street, thence angling cross-country in a southeasterly direction.

Crossing the Omaha and Great Northern railroad tracks, it will go through the Illinois Central under-pass east of town and parallel the Illinois Central tracks, on the south side, to Logan avenue, which is two blocks east of Mt. Pleasant cemetery. From that point It will swing south to the city limits at Eighteenth street and then extend southwest to South Sioux Falls, linking with the present southern point of entrance at the Minnehaha-Lincoln county line. Bragstad said the South Dakota Highway commission, which Is planning the new highway, has requested the city to provide a right-of-way approximately 200 feet wide within the city limits. Yesterday the city commission adopted a resolution for the acquisition of the land that will be needed for right-of-way purposes.

The regular highway 77 route from the north runs past the South Dakota Penitentiary to Main avenue, swings west at the Coliseum to Minnesota avenue and thence directly south to the Jog at the Lincoln county Jne. Rats Gnaw All of Tot's Fingers Off Abilene, Tex. Dec. 28 UP) Rats gnawed all fingers and thumbs from the hands of a 3-month-old Abilene child, it was reported here today. The incident occurred last Saturday when Mrs.

Rito Martinez left her daughter, Carmen Martinez, in her small apartment while she visited another apartment. When she returned she found the little girl's hands were bleeding profusely and a small mongrel dog, the family's pet, was licking the wounds. Mrs. Martinez said she believes the dog frightened the rats away. The father of the child later found two large rats in the house.

The child was rushed to a hospital. Her condition later was reported good. Judge Backs Alger Hiss New York, Dec. 28 (JP) A Fed eral judge testified today that Alger Hiss did not support Lee Pressman, called a Communist in earlier testimony, for a Labor department post in 1935. Cross-examination of Hiss, for mer high State department offi cial, in his second perjury trial was interrupted to permit the judge, Charles E.

Wyzanski, of Boston, to testify as a character witness for the defense. Judge Wyzanski testified he had discussed the question of his suc cessor as solicitor of the U. S. Department of Labor with Hiss in September 1935. "I told Mr.

Hiss that the leading contender for the position was Lee Pressman (former counsel for the CIO)," Judge Wyzanski said. "I told him I would like to have his suggestion. "As far as I can recollect, Mr. Hiss gave me as his recommenda tion William Marbury, a lawyer in Baltimore, whom Mr. Hiss had known for a long time." Fire Ruins House Near Springfield Springfield, S.

Dec. 28 Fire or unknown origm destroyed a small house on the Cooley ranch southwest of here. The house was a four-room structure and was used by hired help on the ranch iz naa not been occupied since about December 1 but had been in spected a time or two since it was vacated to see that no trash was left in it. The fire broke out in the morn ing and was so far gone when dis covered that the Springfield fire department was not called. No tracks were found in the fresh snow to indicate that anyone had been in tne house before the fire oc curred.

The building was a total loss and was only partly covered Dy insurance. other planets on space ships. Among other things, the report questioned the possibility of the existence of men even on the relatively near planet of Mars. Even men were there, the USAF doubted that they were a "tecn-nically established race," able to build space ships. The people who said they saw flying saucers varied widely.

Some were housewives. A businessman back in June, 1947, thought he saw one while flying his private plane near Mt. Ranier, Wash. Other airmen began telling about odd-shaped "aircraft moving at fantastic speeds, or curious lights and discs. So the air force moved in to run down the rumors.

Whatever these people saw, it was very real to some of "them. Down at Goodman air base. something that looked like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was reported. The control tower at the field ordered four national guard fighter planes flying In the vicinity to investigate. The planes closed in.

One pilot said he saw something of "tremen dous size, round like a tear drop and at times almost fluid." Reports Chase The flight leader radioed he was following the object and would abandon chase at alti tude if he couldn't get any closer, His body was found in the wreck age of his plane later in the day. The air force concluded he had collapsed from lack of oxygen when he reached 20,000 feet and his plane had gone down out of control. Air force officials said today they were unable to estimate immediate ly how much the two years of hx vestigation had cost. Cold Wave Is Due in S. F.

Following Mid -40s Readings Forecasts from the U. S. Weather Bureau station in Sioux Falls continued to call for a cold wave despite the fact that temperatures soared into the mid-40s here this afternoon. While Sioux Falls was having its warmest temperature since December 11, the Weather Bureau was indicating readings as low as zero tonight and a high of 10 tomorrow. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies may be dotted with a few snow flurries tonight, the bureau also reported.

To support the cold wave warning, the bureau reported that Billings, Mont, had a 40-degree temperature drop in one hour this morning and that Rapid City had a 20-degree drop in an hour. O'Dwyers Leaving Florida Tomorrow Key Largo, Fla, Dec. 28 (JPh- New York's Mayor William OTJwyer and his bride of a week, the former Sloan Simpson, will end their Flordia honeymoon tomorrow and fly home. The newlyweds will leave Miami international airport about 10 a. (EST) tomorrow for a non-stop flight to New York City aboard a special Pan American airways clip per, it was learned.

They are due to arrive there at approximately 2:30 p. m. The Mayor and the Texas-born beauty were married Dec. 20 in a simple ceremony at Stuart, Fla, and have been cruising along the Flordia coast since then. O'Dwyer will be sworn in Jan.

2 for another term as mayor of the nation's largest and richest city. soon after she was admitted to Baptist hospital. He told her she might die if the hand is not removed. "She wasn't a child when she heard that," he said. "She was a grown-up woman." Later Betty laughed and chatted in her room.

The parents wept. Betty's doctor announced the decision last night to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which copyrighted the story. It was to the newspaper that the pretty fifth grader wrote for prayer when she learned November 30 her hand might be amputated just after Christmas. News services spread the story over the country. The response was immediate.

Churches held special prayers for her. She got thousands of letters and gifts. But she remained simple and unaffected. She agreed with statements of many ministers who said It might not be God's will that the hand Pierre, Dec. 23 (P) Attorney General Sigurd Anderson announced today he will be a candidate for governor at the Republican primary June 6.

His announcement came as no surprise to political circles. Joe Foss, Sioux Falls, previously announced he was a candidate 4 Sigurd Anderson for the office and Gerhard Gil bert, Watertown mayor, has been advertising for two years he would be a candidate. Has "Careful Consideration" Anderson's announcement waa very brief: "I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor at the coming primary election. My decision to be a candidate is the result of careful consideration. "During the three years that 1 have served as attorney general, I have gained a healthy appreciation of the functions of.

state gov-ernment. I offer my training, back ground and experience in state and, local government as qualifications for the office." He said he would have a platform to announce later. Anderson, 45, of Webster, Is com pleting his third year as attorney general. He is a native of ArendaL Norway, where he was born in 1904. He moved to the United States and a farm near Canton when 3 years old.

Former School Teacher He attended rural schools in Lin coln county and in 1925 was graduated from the high school department of Canton Lutheran normal. He attended both South Dakota State college and the university. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the university and completed his law course there in 1937. In order to finance his law edu cation he taught in rural schools of Kingsbury county and in high schools at Rapid City and Webster. In Navy Three Yean He practiced law at Webster be fore being twice elected Day county state's attorney.

In August, 1941, he was appointed assistant attorney general. He resigned that position in March, 1943, to enlist in the u. S. navy, serving nearly three years. Part of the time was spent in the Philippine islands.

After resuming practice at Web ster in 1946, he was nominated Re publican candidate for attorney general in a spirited convention fight. Anderson is a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Attorneys General, chairman of the Criminal Law committee of the South Dakota Bar association, and is a member of the American Leeion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is married to the former Vivian Walz of Vermillion. Huron Man Escapes Car Spill Injuries Huron, Dec. 28 (JP) The miraculous escape of a Huron lif insurance agent from an automobile accident south of Wessington early today was reported by Beadle county Sheriff Buell L.

Cotton. The motorist, Bill Wolner, was returning to Huron, 13 miles south of Wessington, when his car struck loose gravel and crashed an iron bridge. It jumped a distance of 14 feet off the bridge and into a ditch. Wolner's only injury was a tiny scratch over the right eye and slight shock. Minnesota Dakota Building Total Up Minneapolis, Dec.

23 (IP) Contracts for building and engineering projects costing $369,391,000 were awarded in the first 11 months of 1949 in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The F. W. Dodge corporation, reporting these figures, said today they were 32 per cent over those for the same period of last year. Residential building contracts totaled $89,065,000, an increase cf 8 per cent.

Those for non-residential building amounted to $109,363,000. Red-Nosed Rudolph Winner in Local Lighting Contest Baby Daughter and Prince Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec. 28 (Jf) A baby princess was born today to Rita Hayworth, the glamorous red-headed movie star who married Moslem Prince Aly Khan last spring. The baby, weighing about five and a half pounds, was born about eight hours after Rita made a predawn dash to exclusive Montchoisi clinic. The new princess' name will be the-Arabic spelling for the fragrant jasmine flower used in southern France for making perfume.

Prince Aly, unshaven, haggard but smiling made the announcement to newsmen outside the clinic doors. "Rita had a very tough time," he said but added with a smile: "It has irone off all right. She is very tired." The prince said the birth was a natural one, delivered under gas, Rita's first daughter by a per vious marriaee was delivered in 1944 by Caesarian section. Yasmin was born at 2:45 a. csx Mixed Blood Princess Yasmin, with the mix ture of four bloods in her veins Spanish-American from her mother and Iranian-Italian from her father is the granddaughter of Aga Khan, spiritual leader of mil lions of Moslems of the Islamic sect and remitedly one of the world's richest men.

The prince said his 31-year-old OFFICIAL FORECASTS Sioux Falls and vicinity: Cold wave tonight and Thursday with partly cloudy to cloudy skies and possibly a few snow flurries. Low tonight near 0. High Thursday about 10. South Dakota Cold wave in west and south tonight. Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered snow flurries in north.

Much colder this afternoon. Cold wave tonight. Low tonight ranging from iero in south to 10 below in north. Thursday cloudy with snow flurries becoming light to moderate snow in west in late afternoon. Colder.

High Thursday ranging from 5 below. north to 5 above in south with 15 to 30 mph northerly winds with local drifting snow. IOWA: Decidedly colder tonight and Thursday with low temperatures early Thursday ranging from zero north to 15 south. High Thursday 10 above north and 20 aouth. Partly cloudy with occasional light snow north.

MINNESOTA: Partly cloudy tonight. Colder south and continued cold north. Thursday cloudy and cold with light snow southwest. Low tonight 15 to 30 below north and 0 to 10 below south. High Thursday 0 to 10 below north and to 10 above south.

Local Temperatures Today Yesterday 3:00 a. 20 6:00 p. 21 6:00 a. m. 22 9:00 p.

m. 17 9:00 a. 27 Midnight 15 Noon 48 Sunrise, today: 8:01 3:00 p. 42 Sunset: 4:56 (CST) Relative humidity, 41 per cent, noon. Precipitation for year, 20.76.

State and National Temperature 24-hour readings including maximum before 6:30 p. m. yesterday and minimum after 6:30 p. m. to 6:30 a.

m. today. H. L. H.

h. Sioux Falls ..32 14Bemidl 14-20 Huron 25 8Duluth .......20 -3 Watertown ...20 -1 In VI Palls Brookings ...,26 9 Paul 24 5 Pierre 26 9 Rochester .....28 8 Lemmon 19 10 St. Cloud 20 -3 Mobridgs .....17 1 Willmar 21 -6 Yankton 40 12 Abilene 59 27 Aberdeen 14 -4 Chicago 33 24 Madison 29 fi Denver 56 32 Rapid City ...47 14 Des Moines. ..39 22 Philip 33 11 Kansas City. ,.44 37 Custer 38 20 Los 76 44 Deadwood ....42 13 Miami 77 68 Hot .45 23 New Orleans .74 54 Port Meads ...34 18 New York 63 42 Chadron ......47 28 Seattle .......48 47 Sioux City ,,..43 18 Phoenix 69 30 Valentin .....44 30 Washington ..64 43 Sheridan .....50 32 Regina -3 -8 Miles City ....31 OThe Pas -2-20 Alexandria ....18 -4 Winnipeg ......5 -17 After reaching the hospital, Aly called the police station on a pri vate telephone line rigged up lor the occasion and police cars sped to the hotel according to plan.

They escorted an empty sedan to the hos- Dital. Police surrounded the hospital shortly after Rita's arrival. And nearby roads were blocked off to traffic. The actress wore a mink coat as she walked into thehos? pital with the prince. The film star occupies a luxuri ous hospital suite usually reserved for royal patients overlooking pic-turesaue Lake Geneva.

The prince has an adjoining room fitted out as a drawing room to receive guests. Rochat Attends Attending her was Dr. Rudolphe Rochat, well known Swiss obstre-tician who delivered Princess Marguerite, daughter of ex-King Mihai of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, and other royal offsprings. Rita has one other daughter, five-year-old Rebecca Welles, born when she was married to actor-producer Orson Welles. She was divorced from Welles in 1948.

Aly has two sons by a previous marriage, Prince Karim Aga, 13, and Prince Amyon Mohammed, 11. Aly received a divorce from British-born Joan Yarde-Buller in Paris only a few weeks befofe he married Miss Hayworth last May 27 at Villaris on the French Rivera after a highly-publicized romance. Rita was raised a Roman Catholic but the prince said the baby would be brought up in his Moslem faith. Zone 3: Albert Hoffman, 808 North Spring ave, first; Virgil Seaman, 620 West First st, second, and Nick Karpen, 715 North Dultuh ave, third. Zone 4: Dick Wagner, 1918 South Fifth ave, first; Floyd Robinson, 2900 East Twelfth st, and Axel South Sherman ave, third.

Thirty-nine contestants competed for the cash and merchandise prizes contributed by Northern States Power Co, Quinn-Graham Co, Lewis Drug' Co, Davis Bros, Sears Roebuck Co, Fensel Electric Supply Co, Tri-State Electric Co, L. C. Lippert Co, Pryde Electric Co, Merit Stores, Johnson Hardware Co, Firestone Stores, Electric Supply Co, Electric Construction Co, Crescent Electric Co, and Farmers Market. Driver Hunting Gunman Finds He Owes Old Fine Montreal, Dec. 28 JP) Taxi Driver William Frankford chalked up a net loss of $9 last night because he tried to identify from police picture files the gunman who stole $6 from him recently.

But he didn't identify the robber. But the files showed he owed $3 for a two-month-old traffic violation. He paid up. JAPS RESPOND TO GIFT FROM INDIA New Delhi, India, Dec. 28 Tokyo children, who receive a live elephant from Indian Premier Pan dit Jawaharlal Nehru for their zoo, have shown their appreciation by sending gifts to Indian youngsters, The gifts, which were presented to Nehru by Tomika Kora, woman member r.f Tokyo House of Coun cil, ranged from paintings of the elephant to three life-size dolls made by the children.

Doctor Cuts Off Betty Lou's That Prayers of Million Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, walked off with top honors in the 1949 Sioux Falls Christmas lighting contest. Throughout the Christmas season, Rudolph, his nose illuminated by a bright red light, has been cavorting across the roof of the V. A. Barkmeier residence, 1607 South Fifth pulling a design of Santa's sleigh. Santa in Window A replica of Santa, himself, can be seen through the Barkmeier's picture window.

The clever idea won sweepstake honors for the Barkmeiers a sil-verplate coffee set, consisting of an electric percolator, sugar bowl, creamer and tray, plus $25 in cash. Runnerup sweepstakes winner is G. W. Bennewitz, 1600 West Twenty-second who this year used lighted poinsettia pots, small lighted trees on shutters and other lighting, effects. The five judges, Mayor Henry B.

Saure, Wendell C. Fritzel, James Pryde T. M. Reardon and Don aid E. Johnson, gave Barkmeier 446 out of a possible 500 points and Bennewitz 430 out of a possible 500, Plan to Repeat M.

A. Stoneking, general chair man of the Junior Chamber of Commerce project, announced at a noon meeting of his committee to day that plans would be made to contmue the contest next year. Twelve other prizes were award' ed to these zone winners: Zone 1: J. A. Vandiver, 1421 East Sixth st first; Andrew Szczurek, 900 North French second, and Henry McCabe, 101 South Blauvelt third.

Zone 2: Charles Ellis, 807 South Covell first: Homer Leighton, 1103 West Thirteenth second, and C. L. WardelL 1306 Sunset drive, third. By DONALD AUTRY Associated Press Staff Writer Memphis, Term, Dec. 28 Betty Lou Marbury's right hand the one she hoped prayer would save was removed today.

A Baptist hospital nurse announced the hand was amputated between the wrist and elbow. Just before she entered the hospital room, Betty's spirits were still high. Her faith and courage were unshaken. "If The Lord wants my hand, that's all right with me," she said. Doctors decided only an amputation could save the life of the 10-year-old farm girl, whose plea for prayer stirred hearts across the nation.

She is suffering from a malignant bone tumor on the third finger of her right hand. The amputation is designed to keep the malignant from spreading through the bloodstream. Her father. Clav Marburv. broke the news to her gently yesterday 4 1.