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THE DAILY SUN-S Friiay, March 29, 1957 Chinese Reds CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, FAMOUS AUTHOR, DIES Release Priest ROSLYN. N.Y. TUB Author HONG KONG (IP) The Chinese Communists yesterday released Christopher Morley, 67, died yesterday at his home here after a long illness. his family by his side. A native of Haverford, Morley has lived in this north, shore Long Island community outside New York City for about 33 years.

He was a Phi Beta Kappa the Rev. Fulgence Gross of Omaha, a Franciscan missionary Stale-Federal Reservoir Bill Is Introduced SACRAMENTO (tf California's Legislature was asked yesterday to authorize a state "partnership" with the federal government in constructing the San Luis Project, a major link in proposed development of California water resources. Sen. James A. Cobey (D-Merced) and Assemblyman William W.

Hansen (R-Fresno) submitted leg Morley was a fertile writer of imprisoned six years ago for graduate of Haverford College and He told United Press by tele verse, short stories, plays, essays, novels and children's books for more than 30 years. He had been ill about five years later a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. phone from Shanghai he intended ana suiierea a series of minor strokes. He died with members of Morley began his career on the editorial staff of Doubleday, Page Co. in 1913.

Later he worked for the Ladies' Home Journal, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the New York Evening Post and the Ward Takes Santa Fe Freight Post at LA. to leave China within one or two weeks. "I intend to get in touch with the British Consulate about when and how I am going to leave he said. The clergyman said he is in good health. Eight other Americans still are held in Chinese prisons.

Four are Roman Catholic priests and four are civilians. Two Jesuit priests. islation calling for joint state- LOS ANGELES (IB R. J. Ward.

freight traffic manager for Santa Fe Railway at Chicago, yesterday Saturday Review of Literature. His first formal literary effort to be published was a book of verse, "The Eighth Sin," in 1912, From then on he produced one. or more works almost every single year into the 1950s. One of the best known of his recent works was his 1939 novel, "Kitty Foyle." was named to succeed the late federal construction and operation of the vast reservoir project in western Merced County. A parallel bill by Rep.

B. F. Sisk (D-Calif) now pending in Congress would authorize federal construction of a one-million-acre-foot reservoir at San Luis end provide for state participation in the project. STORAGE FOR FRP S. Hirsch as freight traffic manager at Los Angeles, effective the Revs.

John A. Houle of Glen-dale and Charles McCarthy of San Francisco, are scheduled to April 1. (Hirsch died March 3 fol lowing a heart attack. be freed June 15. State engineers advocate a two- million-acre-foot reservoir to: Tom Lasater ranch 55 miles southeast of Denver.

Wind and sun have swept ground bare' of all snow. Stock losses on the storm-swept ranges are tremendous. (AP wirephoto) BLIZZARD VICTIMS Carcasses of steers that in blizzard, which swept the Great Plains last lie near 'a fence as other cattle graze in background at 1. Assume a more plentiful wa ter supply for water deficient farm lands on the west side of MDflMHHE9 IPdPDJILTMY "CHICKEN ALL OR ANY PART" B-B-Q'D CHICKEN SPARERIBS the San Joaquin Valley. Happy-Go-Lucky Billy Pearson 2.

Provide storage for water from the proposed Feather River Project earmarked for diversion to arid Southern California. Has None of TV $96,000 Left "If Congress approves the Sisk bill," said Hansen, "it would be HOT TO GO CALL 9-6213 for Advance Orders an excellent bargain for Califor SAN MATEO When they fin marily of several rides on Impacted for Wbo(esoiiiMn Under Supervision California Dept. of Aqric Plant No. Coronado ferry. nia to join with the federal government and build a two-million-acre-foot reservoir in the first ally found the $64,000 check, it was frozen stiff in the bottom of a re Art has been his hobby for years i i n4 1 I CHICKEN frigerator ice tray, where a well- place instead of adding on later." meaning party guest had put it for safekeeping.

Local Frosk Droned Hero in Our Plant FRYING CHICKEN STEWING CHICKEN He said that while a smaller reservoir would cost an estimated 230 million dollars, "it would cost only 60 to 70 million dollars extra to build it to two million acre During attempts to thaw it free, CHICKEN FRYER PARTS the check broke in half and the signatures ran. emu pcu is iu ma cuiicvuuii ucuig in several California galleries. "I couldn't tell you the value of the collection," he. says. "I never figured that out in money." Pearson says he has no regrets about not having any of the left, concluding: "After all $96,000 isn't too much if you say it real fast" II feet." That's the happy-go-lucky story 237 SOUTH WATERMAN AVE.

The cost for anything over one told by jockey Billy Pearson who million acre feet would have to won a fabulous 596,000 answering technical questions on art in tele be borne by the state, he said. MILLION APPROPRIATION vision quiz programs last year. Cobey' legislation, submitted He says none of that money is left as amendments to a bill he introduced earlier, calls for a one- (ME p. 4 'V" j. FINANCIALLY 'BENT' million dollar appropriation by Incidentally, Billy tells of get the state to help the federal gov ting a replacement check for the ernment finance design and specifications work for San Luis.

around all day to convince the Hansen said the appropriation "would be credited to the state's cost of final construction and would expedite the project by at least one year and perhaps permit construction to start soon sponsors of "The $64,000 Question" that he wasn't kidding. The party had followed his winning answer in April. The other $32,000 came in June. Pearson isn't broke, but admits to being financially "bent." He explained in an interview that now he has a five-year contract after July 1, 1958." The Legislature already has authorized San Luis as a unit of the l'i-billion-dallar FRP, which to play a detective on a CBS tele- vision series soon to go into pro duction, and also just sold a book i Jg the state proposes to build on its own. Under the Sisk bill, title to the San Luis Project could be conveyed to the state after repayment of the reimbursable federal costs of constructing the big he recently finished.

"The only experience I've had in the detective business is trying to dig up a winner at the he quipped. "And that book writing is a tough life. You lie on the beach and dictate." The book recounts Billy's riding experiences including adventures in 11 foreign countries. EASY TO SPEND On a related front, the Senate Water Resources Committee ap proved two Cobey bills to: 1. Commit the state to paying I ffii'i iiiiji.

iiiiiiiiM HMifMrV.M- rr ii i for the lands, rights of way and relocation of utilities in all future Explaining how his TV winnings went so quickly, Pearson calmly ON BORROWED TIME That's the owner's word for Pistol, wire-haired terrier shown with a pocket knife in his skull. Pistol frisked as usual after knife was removed, says Fred Hitchcock of Wichita, just as he did a month ago after a bullet just missed his heart. Hitchcock has no idea recalls, "It wasn't tough to do." state water projects. 2. Allow the state to maintain flood control projects and charge He says about half went for in the costs to local districts il local come taxes.

He donated to the La Jolla Art Institute and who's trying to kill Pistol. (AP wirephoto) $7,000 to Scripps College at Po mona, Calif. The rest went during i ri. iuur iiiuians ui living iew iwii Wilson Rejects Threat of Jury and through lack of luck at Las Vegas gaming tables. "Just because I'm a little on the shorts, don't think it's the first Quizzing of Newsmen on leaks' time," he joked.

"I've been up and down about as much as a maintenance fails. S3 TROUT STAJIP In other developments: The Assembly passed a bill reorganizing the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and giving it more power to handle the area's transport problems. 2. The Assembly passed and sent to the Senate a bill requiring anyone fishing for trout to buy a $2 trout stamp in addition to the regular 53 fishing license. 3.

The Assembly refused to reconsider its approval Wednesday of a bill prohibiting discrimination in employment because of age. Assemblyman Clark L. Bradley (R-San Jose) called the bill a dangerous precedent and said, thermometer. My No. 1 ambition is to be a bum with money.

This directive on the unauthorized disclosure of classified military information, he pointedly said the WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Wilson yesterday ruled out the threat of grand jury action to force reporters to divulge the new order "makes no direct reference" to the committee pro source of any news leaks which "gravely damage" the national posal. The defense department's actor business is because I'm going to get money. Riding horses and art, that's the thing for me." He'll have mounts at Bay Meadows on Saturday and. proving he's far from insolvent, Billy currently plans to buy a 50-foot auxiliary schooner. He admits his security.

He also rejected other general counsel, Robert Dechert, proposals to limit and control told reporters this was Wilson's Separates mmi press access to military officials. way of "rejecting" the recommen- Tn a kpiHps of directives? and i Qation, "You can't solve these matters sailing experience consists pri- The defense secretary contend fc T-flP- BK7 v3kJo- Jf I 1 ed in a statement that he already had both the authority and the statements, Wilson accepted some and rejected other recommendations of a committee he appointed last year to study military information problems. He put the com Priced lower than you dreamed possible responsibility to see that laws affecting the military establishment by legislation." 4. The California Teachers Assn. and the California Taxpayers Assn.

got in another heated exchange over a proposed 70-million-dollar increase in state school aid. Tuna Clipper Sinks SAN DIEGO 0P The tuna clipper Helena sank off the coast of Panama in heavy seas but the crew of 12 aboard were rescued. mittee to work after a series of are carried out and that in any published stories, based upon pa case, it would be the Justice Department and not the Defense pers and information supplied by disgruntled military officers, ap The taxpayers' group charged Frilly, Fancy Dress-up Blouses jjeparcmeni mat mignt haul a the Coast Guard reported yes peared in print last summer. reporter before a grand jury. terday.

The committee was headed by' a Boston lawyer ana iormer as The Best and Biggest Floor Show in San Bernardino sistant defense secretary, Charles Coolidge, and included four re anew that the proposals would cause local property taxes to "skyrocket." The teachers' organization, sponsor of the legislation, denied it, saying the intent is just the reverse. Bonelli Drops Bill To Regulate Boxing tired generals and admirals. In its report last November and in testimony later before a con-j gressional committee, the group strongly supported its contention! that in the case of a leak which Foamy fluted nylon tricots! Embroidered eyelets with shawl collars, big tie bows! Dainty Dacrop batistes! Laces, ruffled, ribbons-all die frills to dress-up your Easter suit lovely toppings for all your skirts! Whites and pastels! 32-38 SACRAMENTO -Assemblyman Frank G. Bonelli (D-Hunt-ington Park) yesterday dropped "obviously gravely damages" the; legislation setting up a State De national security, the author should be summoned before a Jz ri partment of Athletics with the sole job of regulating boxing in Call Whirling, Swirling Circle Skirts fornia. Bonelli said he would ask that grand jury and required to give the source of his information.

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