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Championship SEE STORY PAGE 6 CHICAGO TO ACT, IN UNDERWORLD KILLING (See Page 2) 'SHOWERS Partly cloudy today with chance of a few light sprinkles. Mostly clear tonight and Sunday. SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR, No. 81 Doming RESULT OF CUT IN BUDGET Air Force Slashes Plane Goal Elizabeth Pays Homage to King By HAROLD GUARD SANDRINGHAM, England. (IP) Queen Elizabeth II paid what may be her last private homage to her father, King George VI, today and gave him back to a grieving nation.

Even as villagers and royal tenants began lining up outside little St. Mary Magdalene church, Elizabeth slipped inside TELEVISED TO SIX STATES; 20,000 Attend Big Eisenhower Rally NEW YORK. (IP) The fijrst huge political rally this year drew a capacity crowd of nearly 20,000 persons to Madison Square Garden early today to boom Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomination.

Noisy, placard-waving delegations from ten states whooped Harry W. Grassle, Ventura Realtor, 59, Succumbs Harry W. Grassle, Ventura realtor, died last night at Foster hospital where he had been confined since last November with a heart disease. He was 59. Funeral services are scheduled Monday at 11 a.m.

at the Barker Ludwig funeral home with the Rev. William A. Gilbert officiating. Robert Neal will be the soloist with Mrs. Frances Lawson at the organ.

Burial is to follow at Ivy Lawn cemetery. A member of the National Board of Realtors since 1922 and an active member of the California Real Estate association and the Ventura County Board of Realtors, Mr. Grassle had been in the real estate business in Detroit and Cleveland before coming to Ventura in 1933. He was born in Kirksville, Mo. Mr.

Grassle is survived by three brothers, Gene, Ventura, John, Cleveland, and George, Nokomus, two sisters, Mrs. P. H. Gregg, Detroit, and Mrs. Ruth Uttley, Esmond, R.

a daughter. Mrs Mary Alice Fox, Redondo Beach; and three grandsons. He was a member of the Downtown Lions club, the Elks and the American Legion, Ventura post. The family asked friends not to send flowers, but to donate instead to the American Heart association. Farm Bureau Parley Starts Effective measures for curbing inflation are not palatable and palatable measures are not effective, economist Harry G.

Wellman told more than 200 persons at the opening session of a California Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Ventura today. Dr. Wellman, director of the Giannini foundation at Berkeley, spoke on The Causes and Cures of inflation. His speech opened a one-day mid-winter meeting of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura county farm bureau members. Sessions were scheduled to be held through the day at Ventura junior college.

Ernest Nichols of Saticoy, director of region No. 2 which consists of the three counties, presided over the sessions. Frank Jewett of Montalvo, Ventura County Farm Bureau president, welcomed the audience. Dr. Wellman listed seven rules for controlling inflation rules which he warned should be taken with a grain of salt and tongue in cheek.

They were: (1) Work harder; (2) seek nof an increase in pay or profits; (3) live frugally; (4) neither a borrower or lender be; (5) rejoice not in lower taxes; (6) advocate a reduction in government expenditures which benefit you; (7) buy U. S. government bonds. He pointed out that inflation occurs when portions of the national production get out of balance with portions of the national income. When it is necessary to expand the output qf government goods and services and investment goods then the choice Is either higher taxes and higher savings or inflation.

and stood silently with bowed head beside her fathers plain wooden coffin. The 25-year-old queen, dressed in black and obviously emotionally and physically tired, a few minutes later walked slowly back through the yew trees to Sandringham house to take up pressing affairs of state. Then the plain people of Sandringham who knew the king as squire and Gtrv-nor began filing past the royal bier. The king's body, dressed in his favorite uniform of an admiral of the fleet, lay in a simple oak coffin on trestles before the rails of the gleaming silver altar. A metal plate was inscribed.

Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor; born 1895; died 1952. Many of those who entered the church were, in tears. Some had seen the king out shooting from a jeep only the day before his death early Wednesday. These few hundred mourners were only the vanguard of the tens of thousands of Britons from peers to commoners who will pay George VI a final tribute while he lies in state in great Westminster hall in London next week. Outside the church were local police who knew all the villagers and tenants by sight.

They saw to it that no strangers gained admittance. Among scores of visitors and tourists turned back were five American women, wives of servicemen stationed at Lakenheath, 30 miles away. The coffin will lie in the church until Monday, when it will be placed on a gun carriage and drawn by Grenadier guards to Wolferton station, three miles away, for the journey to London. The Duke of Gloucester, brother of George VI, and the Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeths husband, will follow it on foot, as did the four sons of King George when his body was carried in procession aiding the same route 16 years ago. Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will follow the procession in an automobile.

The royal train will proceed at normal speed to Kings Cross station in London, arriving at 3:45 p.m. (7:45 a.m. PST). The Dukes of Gloucester and Edinburgh again will follow the coffin on foot from the station to Westminster, with the other immediate members of the royal family following by car. The procession is expected to reach Westminster hall at 4 p.m.

(8 a.m. PST). $3,940,000 Asked For Girls School SACRAMENTO. (U.R) The California Youth Authority asked today for $3,940,000 to construct and equip the first unit of a new Ventura School for Girls. The item included in the state capital outlay budget would provide a new institution for girls at a site to be acquired yet this fiscal year.

The first unit would accomodate 250 girls with an ultimate planned capacity of 350. (The site sought for the new school is on Vineyard avenue north of El Rio. The property is known as the Ferro ranch. Overcrowded conditions at the present school location off N. Ventura avenue have been declared a primary reason for the decision to seek a new site.) DRIVER ARRESTED Thomas A.

Marrs, 232 Virginia drive, Ventura, was arrested by highway patrolmen last night on a charge of drunk driving. DIVORCE GRANTED: STAR WITNESS I TAKES STAND Tax Bureau Politics Revealed SAN FRANCISCO. (IP) San Franciscos internal revenue office has been the scene of irregularities for 15 years, the testimony of a tax official contended today. Stanley V. McKenney told the King congressipnal subcommittee yesterday that correction of the irregularities was hamstrung in light of an unwritten rule not to antagonize or upset presidential appointments.

McKenney is a tax accounts and collections supervisor for the 12th district controlling most of the west coast and Hawaii. Other testimony came from the author of the now-famous bill of particulars the cument which first launched the tax office inquiries last Mav. BILL STARTED PROBE The bill resulted in dismissal and subsequent indictments of top tax officials. During Deputy Collector Thomas J. Doolans testimony, spectators were tfeated to a display of the sharpest questioning of the hearings to date.

McKenney told committee members that he clashed in 1936 with Paul V. Lewis, then collector in the San Francisco office. McKenney said he had reported Lewis domineering and autocratic, only to receive a rebuke from his immediate superior. Rep. Cecil R.

King, committee chairman, asked McKenney if his statement meant that injury could befall a supervisor who did not abide by subtle instructions against antagonizing a collector for fear of political pressure. Yes, thats right, the witness said. QUESTION ASKED Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.) then asked, Do I understand that you cannot do the job youre supposed to do because of political consideration? We are handicapped in that way, McKenney answered.

Doolan, whose bill of particulars led to indictment of former collector James G. Smyth and three others for conspiracy to defraud the government, was one of the weeks star witnesses. The thin, quiet-spoken deputy collector said he first wrote the document in March, 1951, for the Kefauver committee and Sen. Charles Tobey, Scouts Ready For Big Day With a telegram from Gov. Warren today filling a last-minute vacancv on the board of supervisors.

Boy Scouts are ready to take over the county government next Wednesday as a highlight of the countys observance of Boy Scout Week. The completed board met in Santa Paula to make final appointments to various county posts. Gov. Warren affirmed the appointment of Scout David Wange-man of Moorpark as supervisor of the second district, to replace Billy Hardgrave. Wangeman was the runnerup to Hardgrave in the Scouts county-wide elections.

He succeeded to the post when Hardgrave moved out of the district to Casitas Springs. The board is now' composed of Wangeman, troop 601; John Smith, troop 111, Ventura; Richard Jones, troop 2501, Ojai; James Maddux, troop 2401, Fillmore; and Pat Johnston, troop 205, Oxnard. Their final appointments were: William Mackie, Oxnard, as airport director; John Spence Oxnard, agricultural commissioner; Wayne Spence, Oxnard, building inspector; Wayland Also-brook, Fillmore, building maintenance; Oscar Wallace, Fillmore communications; Homer Reed. Santa Paula, farm advisor; Douglas Shaw, Fillmore, game warden; Charles Greathouse, Ojai health officer; David Stork, Ventura, hospital superintendent; Kenneth Hope, Ventura, librarian; Eric Padefford. Fillmore, custodial foreman; Tom Flenniken.

Thousand Oaks, parks superintendent; Larry Mahoney, Oxnard personnel director; Gerald Dorman, Oak View, planning engineer; Anthony Leonard Ventura, probation officer; Billy Hardgrave, purchasing agent; Glen Gessford, Santa Paula sealer of weights and measures; Ray Roberts, Fillmore, garage superintendent; Mel Harding, Santa Paula, veterans service director; Jimmy Ziese, Camarillo, welfare director; Merle Atwood Ojai, fire warden; and Jack Cummings, Ventura, road commissioner. ON THE INSIDE General Wins In Nation's 1 st Primary WEST HARTFORD. Conn. (U.R) Political backers of Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower pointed with pride today to the overwhelming victory he scored here yesterday in the nations first primary election in 1952. The primary, open only to the 13.000 registered Republicans here, saw Eisenhower polling 3,109 votes to 1.183 for Sen. Robert A. Taft his closest opponent. The result of the West Hartford primary is indication that Republicans in Connecticut want Dwight Eisenhower for president, state GOP chairman Clarence F.

Baldwin announced triumphantly after the votes were counted. Baldwin, Gov. John Lodge and several other state officials pre-viously have announced support of the general. Sen. Henry C.

Lodge, Jr. the governors brother, is directing the nationwide Eisenhower campaign. Other results of the primary: Harold E. Stassen, 76; Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

39; Earl Warren. 36; Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge. Sen.

Everett Dirksen, 1, and Bernard Baruch. 1. Baruch was a write-in candidate. The voting was unofficial and will not bind the towns four delegates to the state convention who, in turn, pick delegates to the national convention. However.

GOP town chairman Percival W. Lucas said that the results would strongly influence the delegates in selecting their choices. UN Airmen Lose 10 Planes in Week 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea. (U.P.) United Nations airmen, seeking revenge for the loss of 10 planes during the past seven days, probably destroyed one Communist MIG-15 jet fighter and damaged three more in air battles today. The damage claims were the first in three days of intermittent air fighting.

The probable was the first claimed by the UN since Jan. 25. Only a few hours earlier, the UN command announced that it lost 10 planes during the pas week without destroying a single Communist plane. However, only one was lost in combat. Seven others were downed by Russian-built, radar-controlled anti-aircraft guns, and the remaining two were victims of mechanical Biffer Statement Revealed By ARNOLD DIBBLE PANMUNJOM, Korea.

IP) The South Korean government denounced United Nations truce negotiators today for yielding to the Communists like a defeated command. The Korean government views with great concern continuing concessions which the UN delegates are currently making at the Panmunjom cease-fire talks, the government statement said. It said the Reds were using 3,000 U.S. war prisoners as hostages in order to demand ien further concessions. Neither the people nor the government of the Republic of Korea can tolerate these insulting humiliations, the Korean statement said.

The bitter statement was issued at Pusan, temporary capital of South Korea, as UN truce negotiators at Panmunjom accepted with reservations a Communist proposal for a high-level peace conference within 90 days of the conclusion of a Korean armistice. Under the UN counter proposal, the conference would be limited to a discussion of the withdrawal of non-Korean forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean situation and other Korean questions. The Reds had wanted to extend the talks to include a general far eastern settlement. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the UN delegation, also insisted that the South Korean government be represented In the talks.

The Communist proposal had mentioned only the North Korean and Chinese Communist governments and the UN as participants. South Korea Is not a member of the UN. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II promised to reply to the UN counter-proposal at another meeting of the full truce delegations at 10 a.m.

Sunday (8 p.m. today EST). Todays session lasted only 10 minutes. IRISH ARE IRATE: Nippon's Quid Sod Source Of Shillelagh BOSTON. (U.R) The sons of the Emerald Isle had their Irish up today after learning that -e Japanese Sre exporting imitation shillelaghs to the United States.

Fighting mad over the Nipponese attempt to palm off the imitation blackthorn cudgels here, representatives of Bostons large Irish population said they would protest to Washington. Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, and Leverett Saltonstall and Congressman John W. McCormack will hear of it, promised Bart J. Butler, president of the Central Council of Irish County Clubs here. Its an outrage that such a thing could happen, Butler declared.

It hurts the trade of Eire, but the Japanese shillelagh if thats what its called couldnt touch that from Ireland. Cries of indignation also were raised in other Irish quarters as the Sons of Eire insisted it was not the same old shillelagh. DHonal. OLeary, president of the County Cork association, said: Its like trying to imitate the shamrock. It can't be done.

Ventura Scout Troop 102 To Mark 30th Birthday Nationally the Boy Scout movement has been observing its 42nd anniversary this week, but Monday night, Ventura Troop No. 102 will mark a date which they consider almost as important the 30th anniversary of the local troops founding. Theyre having a dinner at Trotter hall of the First Methodist church at 6:30 p.m. to which the Scouts, their families and friends have been' invited. Among those who will be present is Sam Sexton, who has been associated with the troop in the capacity of scoutmaster or assistant scoutmaster, since its WASHINGTON.

(U.R) The air force has been forced to whack 24 percent off its peak monthly aircraft production goal to conform with President Trumans new calculated risk defense budget. The result will be to postpone until at least the end of 1955 the time when the air force will build up to its goal of 143 modern wings. The first official word on the size of the cutback in military aircraft production plans was disclosed yesterday when air force officials were explaining to a house armed services subcommittee why they have cancelled some machine tool orders. Air Force Undersecretary Roswell L. Gilpatric told the house group that the peak production goal for air force planes had been knocked down from 1,250 a month to 950.

He told reporters afterwards that the peak was to have been attained in late 1953, but the lower goal will be reached still later. These 4re the first official figures to give precise meaning to previotfs disclosures that aircraft production had been stretched-out. They were the first to show the scope of the major cutback in schedules ordered last Gilpatric did not amplify his comment, other than to say the lower goal was a reflection of the administrations decision to postpone the time when the air force will have 143 wings. It now has about 90. The decision to stretch out aircraft production over a longer period was taken with full knowledge of the calculated risk involved, Air Secretary Thomas K.

Finletter recently told a senate appropriations subcommittee, studying the presidents proposed defense budget for fiscal 1953. The joint chiefs of staff had originally recommended about $71,000,000 in military spending. $27,000 Oil Field Blaze Hits Lloyd Lease on Avenue A fire, apparently caused by an electrical short circuit destroyed approximately $27,000 worth of equipment this morning on Associated Oil companys Lloyd lease. No. 123 in the Avenue field.

According to the county fire department, the blaze started in an electric motor under an oil tank. Gas fumes in the tank, estimated capacity 2,000 gallons, ignited and sent the tank up in flames. Firemen said surrounding equipment soon caught fire but two nearby derricks and the well escaped damage. It was reported that oil company officials estimated $50,000 worth of equipment was involved but only $27,000 damage resulted. In addition to the motor and tank, mud and circulating pumps, and other tools were damaged, firemen said.

The Oak View and Ojai departments helped the Avenue fight the fire which took two hours to extinguish. No one was injured in the blaze which started about 5 a.m. Engineer Urges Ban On Trash in Creeks Use of creek bottoms as dump grounds during the long dry spell caused great property damage and many rail and auto traffic disruptions during the recent storms Walter Paul, San Francisco, assistant chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad, nade that statement last night before the Ventura Engineers club, meeting at Pierpont Inn. He urged conservationists to warn against using natural waterways as dumping grounds, and counseled planning groups against permitting subdividers to fill up natural watercourses. Paul said the tieup of SP trains at Moorpark and Carpinteria in the recent rains -was due to flood waters spreading out instead of flowing through their natural stream beds which had been filled, with everything from brush to old auto bodies.

A color movie on railroad safety, which gave a graphic account of the recent City of San Francisco rescue operation near Donner summit, was also shown the group. President Albert Peterson of Oxnard presided over the dinner meeting. In an election to fill three club offices John Peterson, Santa Paula, was elected treasurer; Arthur Brown, Ojai secretary and Ed Tate, Ventura, vice-president. (Building Program Revealed By JAMES C. ANDERSON SACRAMENTO.

(IP) The second portion of a billion-dollar-plus state budget for the next fiscal year was unveiled today by Gou Earl Warrens financial experts. It covered capital outlay state construction and called for appropriation of $95,916,333 for buildings plus another estimated $103,000,000 for outlay for highways. T. H. Mugford, budget chief for Warren, said the total capital outlay program would come pretty close to $200,000,000.

That amount, coupled with the $337,394,031 already announced as the states proposed spending for operational services during the 1952-53 fiscal year, brought the total budget thus far to well over half a billion dollars. Still to come is the states figure for local assistance particularly aid to schools and the various welfare programs. When that figure is revealed sometime next week, it undoubtedly will boost Warrens total budget for the third straight year to more than a billion dollars. Although the scarcity of steel, cement and other building materials may make it impossible to construct all of the buildings and highways in the proposed budget, it is the governors position that the money should bet set aside each year anyway until such time as full construction is possible. Last year, the capital outlay item for the state totalled The upward trend in both the capital outlay budget and the operational section of the budget indicated the total state spending for the next fiscal year may set an all-time record.

Quinn Johnson Heads of Quinn Johnson, Thousand Oaks, is the new president of the Ventura County Chamber of Commerce. He was elected and installed last night at the chambers 28th annual dinner meeting at the Ventura Elks temple. About 100 attended. Elected vice president was L. C.

Barnard, Port Hueneme. Barnard succeeds Jack W. Smart. Johnsons predecessor was Grant E. Hoople, Oxnard.

Stressing cooperation as his theme, Charles P. Bayer, assistant to the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, was the main speaker. Bayer declared that strong ties have always existed between the Los Angeles chamber and Ventura county groups. He recalled that several Ventura county men put up funds at the time the Los Angeles harbor project was started. Entertainment was provided bj Mrs.

Thressa F. Grimes, soloist, who was accompanied by Margaret E. Durning. Plaques were presented to the outgoing officers by Edwin L. Carty, chairman of the nominations committee.

S-FP 3RD AMONG STATE'S PAPERS FOR EXCELLENCE For the second straight year. The Star-Free Press has won third place for general excellence among daily newspapers of California. The award, made by the California Newspaper Publishers association, was announced today in Cerpnado, where the association is holding its annual meeting. The Star-Free Press followed the Palo Alto Times and, the San Rafael Independent in the general excellence rankings. The only other county publication to win recognition was the Port Hueneme Pilot, whose editorial page was picked as third best among weeklies.

Nordhoff Talent Program Gives 'Dimes' Drive $254 The March of Dimes drive was enriched by $254.37 today from a benefit program put on last night at Nordhoff elementary school. An all-student show was presented. A purse made and donated by Stephan J. Matecheck, brought $50 when it was auctioned it up for the crowd and for several million TV viewers in six states. The rally, which began shortly before midnight, lasted more than two hours.

Stars from stage, screen, radio and TV performed, indicating that rally followers and TV viewers are in for some high class entertainment between now and voting time in November. In New York state, the rally was beamed to Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Rochester. Boston, Charlotte, N. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Detroit, also saw it. Delegations from Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Virginia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York filled the garden to scream praises of Ike.

LARGEST GROUP The largest delegation, from Connecticut, received a tremendous ovation when it was learned that Connecticuts first township Republican presidential primary yesterday at West Hartford voted 3 to 1 in favor of Eisenhower over Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The Serenade for Eisenhower rally, sponsored by the Eisenhower bandwagon committee together with the youth for Eisenhower and the veterans for Eisenhower, was the largest major presidential rally ever televised. Signs and banners throughout the auditorium carried slogans such as Louisiana first for Ike, and Vote for Ike.

A sign from a Taft, group read, Taft for Eisenhower. Televiewers -received something new in political campaigning when, in addition to the usual political speeches, they saw and heard top stars of the entertainment world. Among them were Irving Berlin. Clark Gable, Ethel Merman, Henry Fonda, Leora Dana, Faye Emerson, Skitch Henderson, Janis Paige, Jackie Cooper, Frances Langford, Jinx Falkenburg, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, and ensembles from South Pacific, The King and Top Banana and Two on the Aisle, all top Broadway musicals. STARGAZER SAW: MRS.

ROY WILLIAMS and MRS. FRED ACKERMAN taking lessons in court procedures. CLARKE GRAY sporting a byline in The American City magazine. KEN WILLIAMS, dropping two bits in the dumbbell box. BILL PEACOCK and DAVE DRAPEAU, keeping track of their respective whereabouts.

LUCILLE WEBER, explaining the difference between art and burlesque. BILL FREDRICK on the missing persons list. MRS. HARRIET VONDER-EMBS sporting a new purse. King George VI.

Gone were the happy days of the family pillow fights at bedtime. Gone were the simple homes. The family lived now in vast Buckingham palace. People here need bicycles, Lilibet said. Lilibet attended her fathers coronation, her first great affain of state, with Margaret.

They wore their first long dresses. Motherly Lilibet watched Margaret anxiously as they drove to the five-hour ordeal. I do hope she wont disgrace us all by falling asleep in the middle, Crawfie, Lilibet said to Miss Marion Crawford, their governess, who recalled thd story in her book The Little Princesses. When they got home Lilibet said: She was wonderful, Crawfie. I only had to nudge her once or twice when she played too loudly with the prayer books.

Lilibet joined the girl guides. (See THE STORY, Page 2) The Story of Elizabeth From Childhood to Queen Husband Liked Dog's Company Better Than Hers, Wife Says (This is the third of a series of five dispatches on Queen Elizabeth.) By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Staff Correspondent She still signed her name Lilibet. But before she was 11, Britains new Queen Elizabeth was emerging fast into womanhood. Lilibet was now heir presumptive to the throne.

It long had been evident that there would be no brother to displace her. She was receiving the education of a prospective monarch. For some years her father the king had' been showing her state papers, guiding her toward her destiny. The great change had come on Dec. 11, 1936, when Edward VIII abdicated to marry The Woman I Love.

People recalled that he used to call Lilibet queen. The Duke of York became Furthermore, Mrs. Morris continued, she and the children had to go to a hotel in order to take a bath. There was no tub in the house. Morris did buy a bath tub for them not long ago, she told the judge.

But he never connected the pipes. What I want to know, said Westwick to the husband, did you bring, home any meat? Morris, who did not offer any defense to the divorce action, said he brought home lots of meat What kind? Bear meat your honor. The judge granted Mrs. Morris her divorce forthwith. Her husband liked his hound dogs company better than hers, a Casitas Springs woman told Superior Judge Atwell West-wick in Ventura superior court in winning a divorce after 27 wedded years.

The judge had to agree Mrs. Ocie Mae Morris had a real complaint, despite being a hound fancier himself. Curled under the bench at Westwicks feet as he listened to Mrs. Morris account of her canine rivals was the judges ancient hound dog, Batch. Mrs.

Morris said her husband, Lawrence, would be off in the-hills with his hounds for days on end. She and their five children were home alone. Auto Features Page 7 Editorial Page 12 Entertainment Page 8 Finance, Markets Page 2 Passing Scene Page 2 Social News Page 5 Sports Page 6.