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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Buried Under Tons of Snow,
Man Claws Way to Freedom
Avalanche Turtles
Auto Off Highway
Down 40-Foot Cliff
By the Associated Press

DENVER, Mar. 24.-Could you
survive if a snowslide knocked
your car off a mountain road
and trapped you in the smashed
wreck underneath tons of snow,
trees and rocks in subzero
weather?
Robert F. Ray, 81. a lumber
man of Grand Junction, Colo.
said he lived through his terrify-
ing entombment because IAN over
whe1ming urge to live comes over
you at a time like that"
He told his story after he came
here to receive medical treat
ment.
The avalanche slashed across
S. Highway on Loveland Pass
west of Denver about midnight
last December S.
Mr.. Ray was knocked uncon-
scious when the huge tumbling
mass hurtled his car over a 40
foot precipice and buried it I'M
der eight feet of snow, timbers
and boulders. Five ribs were
broken, his left shoulder blade
was fractured and he suffered
multiple cuts.
How long Mr.. Ray was trapped
in his crushed auto, he doesn't
know for sure-it might have
been As minutes or an hour.
When he first regained his
senses II kind of thought was in
bed-just waking up. Everything
was black"
Considers Taking Life.
Feeling around in the wrecked
interior of his 1947 sedan, Mr.. Ray
discovered he was wedged under
the steering wheel.
His first thought was How
was going to kill myself so
wouldn't suffer? I didn't have a
gun or knife" But that thought
soon vanished, Mr.. Ray explained,
and an overpowering will to live
Ispurred him to almost super
human effort.
He jerked himself free and
started kicking the remaining
glass out of the broken windshield.
There was hardly room to crawl
out. but he clawed at. the snow
with his hands. pulling it back
into the car while working his
way out through the windshield
opening.
In a few minutes. Mr.. Rays up
ward cropping hand caught on a
ring ornament on the radiator.
When that happened" he said,
I realized the car was upside down
and I was underneath it. If I'd
kept digging the way 1 was I
would have dug my own grave"
Mr.. Ray inched his way from
under the car and started tun-
Ineling upward. His hands were
bleeding severely, but he was UNI
aware Of that-or of any pain.
When his hands broke free
through the top of the snow, Mr..
Ray thanked God"
But the lumberman was still a
long way from safety. The high
way and all roadside signs had
been obliterated by the slide. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Program
Continued From First Page.D


Crusade, a two-week revival move.
Iment embracing $4,000 churches
in II States and the District.
A cast of so worked hard fol-
the half-hour show, scheduled fol
l2:30 pm. yesterday over WTOP-
ITV. All appeared in readiness.
until last Thursday, when the
Rev. Lewis Morgan, pastor of Pet
worth Baptist Church was told BY
The station that crime hearing net
work commitments might Grove
out the church program at its
scheduled period.
This left the church people ir
a quandary. WTOP offered its
facilities at another hour, but the
I2::30 time had been widely adver-
tised. Mr., Morgan decided he
could do one thing-ask members
Iof the Senate committee whether
they thought Saturdays hearing
might be concluded by that time
Il want it understood we ap-
piled no pressure whatever" Mr.
Morgan said. He told in detail
how he first called the Office OF
Senator Wiley, Republican, OF
Wisconsin and was referred te
the crime investigating commit
tees chairman, Senator Kefauver
/ Mr.. Morgan talked to a secre-
tary, who talked to Senator Ke.
fauver, and returned with the in.
formation that the committee
Saturday session would be con-
cluded before 2::30 pm.
This seemed to end everybody's
trouble.
Senator Notes He Is Baptist.
Yesterday morning Senator Ke.
fauver told the television audience
about the time it was settling fol
Its Saturday matinee. that the
hearing would recess by 2:30 pm
because the committee did not wish
to run competition to a Baptist
Crusade Program on Washing
ton station. He noted that he
was Baptist himself.
But when 2:30 came, the COM
mittee was busily interrogating &
witness, and the audience Of
WNBW continued to watch with.
out interruption for another 2;
minutes, unaware of behind the.
scenes fireworks.
These pyrotechnics. as best Car
be documented, ran thus:
At 2:30 Bryson Rash of WMAL.
ITV, who was narrating the hear.
ing for the television pool, got {
note from Alfred M. Klein, com.
mittee associate counsel, advising
him the hearing will go off al
2:30 pm"
Confusion Over Recess.
Mr.. Rash thought that mean
the session would be recessed
And at 2:30 Chairman Kefauve,
did call a recess, but only to ash
the television people to gathel
around. Someone dashed dow1
to the mobile truck to bring bacl
Robert Doyle, ABC'S director O.
the program.
MI. Kefauver said he wantet
the television cut off while tn,
Baptist program was in progress
The television people, their mind
eye visualizing purpling faces il
thousands of living rooms acros
1.-THE country, fought for continue
ton of the network program a
the sacrifice of only WNBW. MI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Nicholson
Continued From First Page)

child until he "felt something hit
the car" Mr., Hess was not held.
Motorists driving in the oppo-
site direction told police that the
child came rolling down the
bank" in front of the Hess car.
Mrs. Nicholson said her daugh-
ter was extremely cautious about
the road"
The Nicholsons live oppo-
site the Laytonsville Elementary
School where Jean was a second
grade student. She attended Sum-
day school at st. Pauls Methodist
Church near her home.
In addition to her parents, Jean
is survived by a brother,
Donald Kemp, IL.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow in Laytonsville.
Burial will be in the church ceme-
tery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Annapolis Egg Hunt Set
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 24.-There
will be 1,400 Easter eggs in a
hunt sponsored by the Anne Arun-
del Chamber of Commerce at the
Annapolis High School Monday
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Turqet Headache

Throwing at a target at a
Southampton. England, fair, a
45-year-old man hit a coconut
and the ball rebounded and hit
him on the head, sending him to
hospital,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
|VaIise Found at Sea
MAY Be Clue 10 Plane
Carrying s. Persons
Continued From First Page.)

\COIltilueQ from clTSG Fdge.J
Lakes, ILL.,, listed among the
SO persons aboard the plane.
apparently the Casco was
based at the international
weather station in the Atlantic
designated as &C" for Charlie"
Boston Coast Guard headquar-
tiers said the Casco was not
at its assigned weather sta
ton when it reported picking
up the bag. It is possible that
the Casco may have referred
to itself simply as Charlie"
in its message to the Air Force
rescue headquarters at Shan
non.
(The Air Force said the mes
sage it had received gave no
description Of the condition OF
the bag or any other details.
The differences in reported
positions where the bag was
found could not Immediately
be explained, but it appeared
both messages referred to the
same bag.)
50 Planes Comb Area.
Fifty planes and five ship
criss-crossed an area 500 mile
west of Ireland for II hours ant
found no trace of the bobbing lif
RATS, wreckage and flares reported
there earlier by a lone B-29 pilot
1--WE have received a lot of ia
vorable information, but we don
want to build up anyone's hopes.
said Maj. Horace Stevenson, com
handing the United States All
Force Rescue Mission. 1--WE re
ceived reports this morning tina
possible life RATS and flares hat
been sighted. We diverted rescue
vessels and rescue aircraft to thu
scene, but aircraft reported bacl
to this station tonight with {
negative result.
THE search continues and i
will go on as long as we have an!
hope of finding survivors"
The Globemaster disappeared il
fog and rain at l am. Greenwich
mean time yesterday g pm. EST
Thursday 1t was last heart
from in a routine radio report O.
it's position 300 miles southwes
of the Irish Coast. The plan,
was en- route from Limestone
tMe.), Air Force Base to tn,
United States Air Force Base a
Mildenhall. England. Among
those aboard was Brig. Gen. Pau
T. Cullen, deputy commander O.
the United States I'd Air Force
and four officers of the Strategic
Air Command headquarters a
Omaha, Neb.
Radar Employed.
Ten more United States All
Force planes were to go into thu
hunt at dawn; following up an all
night effort by planes with radal
eyes.
Air Force officers expressed fea'
that the So were lost. The higf
hopes they had felt earlier in thu
day with the B-29 pilots report
were dwindling swiftly.
The B-29 message, as intercept.
ed by the British steamer Her
mione, said: Sighted rockets ane
seen flares and lights at 500:
north 1922 west. Also believe tx
have sighted something tina
seems to be rockets and para
chutes with one-man RATS a
50.33 north 20.46 west" This wa
not far from the last radioed posi-
ton of the big craft.
A few hours later the sam,
pilot, not identified, messaget
that he had spotted quite q few
life RATS in the same region.
But still later other pilots re
turned with no such reports. On,
said: THE sea was calm. Their
were no whitecaps. There wa
very good visibility. But we say
nothing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
First Drive-in Theoter

CAMDEN.-The first drive-in
motion picture theater was built
near Camden in 1888, it is gener-
ally believed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
WILL EXTEND
 AUTO FREEZE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -R- Officials of the Office of Price Sta bilization (OPS) said today they plan to extend the auto price freeze, which otherwise would expire March l.
 The manufacturers prices of new cars now are frozen at the levels of last Dec. l. The order was issued in December and was the 1lrst price control order by the OPS.
 Officials said the order may pc extended to April 1 to give them time to. work out new regulations for manufacturers of all kinds.
 For tie last two months the OPS has been working on revision of the auto price freeze that would permit the anufacturers--in some cases at least = to raise prices to help compensate for higher costs of production.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
LIMIT IS PLACED ON
 PRESIDENTS TERMS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -tR- From now on, no President or the United States = except for Harry Truman. = may be elected to more than two terms.
 And under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which for all practical I .rposes became law last night, no man or woman may serve more than 10 years in the White House.
 The amendment, while limiting future Presidents to two elective terms, allows person who has served two years or less of an unex- pired term to be elected twice on his own.
 AS President at the time the amendment was approved by the Republican controlled 80th Con- gress, MT. Truman was specifically exampted.
 Utah and Nevada Legislatures acted in quick succession last night to approve the amendment. Nevada completed action at 7:30 pm. (EST) becoming the 36th state to ratify the amendment.
 The Constitution requires that amendments to it be ratified by three -fourths of the states-or 36 at present = to become law.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
Army Prepared 10 Defend A||partS of Alaska ai
 Anytime, Declares kepnel

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 27- R,-The head of the Alaska defense command says We are no push overs and anyone who thinks he can walk in and take Alaska is in for a rude awakening"
 Lt.-Gen. w. E. Kepner said his organization is well prepared to defend all of Alaska against any nation that may step in and try to take it."
 My mission is to defend Alaska and that means all of Alaska, ' Kepner said. The force of men here (Alaska) is well trained and capable. We are prepared to meet the enemy whenever and wherever he may strike"
 The General made the state ments in commenting on report made by a preparedness subcom- mittee of the Senate Armed Forces Committee in Washington, D. C., last Thursday.
 The subcommittee report said that an all-out war with Russia Would force this country to aban- don certain isolated areas of AL aska."
 The subcommittee report also said it appears reasonable to as- sume that little could be done to protect the Seward Peninsula area from either bombing or actual in- vasion if the Russians desired"
 The Seward Peninsula reaches up into Northwestern Alaska and borders on Boring Strait. 60-mile strip of water separating the Ter ritory from Russian Siberia.
 Kepner said certain areas of All aska are more vulnerable but that Any portion that is important to the enemy is important to us."
 Our strength is highly mobile and can be moved to areas where it may be needed and when it IS needed" he said. ."If we are to temporarily relinquish an area it would be with the idea of mak- ing it untenable."
 The subcommittee is headed by Sen. Hunt D-Wyo.). The other two members are Sens. Morse (R-Ore.) and Saltonstall R- Mass).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
ALLIED LINE |5 ADVANCED THROUGH MUD
Battle Hardened Marines Now in Fighting Line
 Hills Captured
By Associated Press

United Nations troops smashed back five vicious Red counterat- tacks on the Central Front near Hoengsong today as the whole AL lied line, spearheaded by the U. s. First Marine Division, moved cau- tiously forward through mud and /, bowling winds. It was the first report that the First Marines the battle-harden- ed heroes of the fighting with drawal from Changjin Reservoir last December were in the fight I ing line again.
 In today's action the Leather necks seized commanding hills south and southeast of Hoengsong. This has become no-man's land, with the Chinese Communists and North Koreans ringing it to the north on the approach to their key strongpoint of Hongchon.
 On the Vest Central and Western sectors things were relatively quiet, although the U. s. First Cavalry and British elements ran into stiff Red resistance Is miles northwest of Hoengsong, near Yongdu.
 Reports from the front said the Red pre-dawn counterattack were among the sharpest actions met in the week-old renewal of the Allied offensive, The U. s. Second Division drove the enemy back. a fs A U. s. Army spokesman said the new forward push had thwarted or delayed Chinese counter r-offensive by four to six armies. He said 100,- 900 Chinese Reds had been shifted into defense positions and it would take them several weeks to regroup for any drive southward again.
 Crack Red Defenses
 An American regiment cracked the main Korean Red defenses on the East Central battlefront today after Doughboys in the same sector smashed five fierce Communist counterattacks.
 The Reds were being chased into an unchartered mountain wilder ness.
 We have broken their main line of resistance" said Col. William R. Quinn, commander of the U. s. Seventh Division regiment that broke through the Reds on the East West Highway from Pangnim to Wonju.
 But we're not letting them rest" ne told A. P. Correspondent Tom Stone. We're going in after them. and we're going to sweep them out of the hills and the valleys and caves"
 Quinn said his riflemen and ar tillerymen were taking "a terrific toll' of the enemy.
 All along the Central warfront LIN forces moved ahead steadily but cautiously.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
WINTER ICECAp
 STUDIES FOLD
 UNTIL MIDWAY

Another chapter in the Juneau Icecap Research Project closed be- hind the tail of Tom McCahill's plane yesterday as he evacuated the last of the JIRPS from the ice field, just ahead of a storm.
 The past months studies resulted in better idea of the winter char acter of the ice field and contrib uted to weather data. Eight men were involved in the operation and two camps were maintained.
 McCahill made six flights yester- day to take out the men and equip ment. Before his first landing on deep soft snow, he made several passes over the landing place to pack the snow a bit harder each time. On the last trip the plane would not become airborne with Miller and Sgt. Calvin Anderson so Miller was left on the snowfield while Anderson was landed on the Taku River. Mac then went back. got Miller, picked up Anderson and flew them to Juneau.
 Others in the winter party were Dr. Theodore Haley, expendition doctor; Fred Small, assistant to Mil Ter from the American Geographical Society; Tony Thomas of the For
  est Service; Fred Milan, University of Alaska; Anderson and Sgt. Adam Schneider, both of the Air Force. McCahill was haison for the party as well as pilot. The expedi- tion is sponsored by the Geograph- ical Society, the office of Naval Research and the Forest Service.
 While the camps were only 40 air line miles from Juneau, isolation was rather complete. Being able to radio contact the CAA boys at the Juneau airport, gave us feeling of security in case of an emerg- ency,' Miller said today
 Between February Il and 20 Mii- Ter said that 72 inches of new snow fell at the camp An hourly weather report was kept and winds up to TO miles an hour were recorded. It was determined that the ice field has winter movement.
 The only sign of life were woli tracks up there, Miller said.
 The studies are to be resumed about mid-May when Milan plans to return to Fairbanks and witn Ed Guerin will travel up the Norris Glacier in weasels. -a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
CLUES IN DEATH OF
 NICHOLS

KEY WEST, Fla, Feb. 27 -tP- Two developments in the inveStiga- tion of the death of former U. s Marshal Stanley J. Nichols are re- ported by Peace Justice Roy Ham, lin
 He said the blue sedan which Nichols drove here from Fairbanks Alaska, was found in a Miami park ing lot over the weekend and new information was uncovered on the man who was with the former marshal when he checked in at the Folridian hotel Feb. 10.
 Nichols was found lying on the floor at the hotel Feb. 12. He died in hospital four days later.
 Hamlin said the man with Nichols was last seen Feb. II when he at- tempted to cash S100 travellers check. New facts about him were uncovered from a card he had filled out in preparation for trip to Havana with Nichols.
 Hamlin said he gave the name of Thomas Meffert of Fairbanks, listed his age as 28, native of Louisville, Ky, and a professional sailor"
 A travel agency told Hamlin that Nichols and the other man bought tickets to Havana on Feb. 10 and the man brought them back the following day and collected re- fund.
 A warrant has been issued charging the missing man with stealing Nichols car, Hamlin added.
 Dr. Ralph Herz, who performed an autopsy on Nichols, said death was due to natural causes.
 State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester asked the coroner's jury to withheld it's ruling on the death, saying:
 q am not satisfied that there was no criminal intervention" The coroners jury has recessed subject to call.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27

FINAL DECISION
 ON INSPECTION
 TRIP TO 5ITkA

The final word - we hope on the Legislatures trip to Sitka to inspect the Alaska Pioneers Home came out of the House Committee on Territorial Institutions just be- fore noon today.
 All seven members of the com mittee will make the trip, leaving Juneau on Friday by Alaska Coastal plane and returning on the Bar anof, due in Juneau sometime Sun day.
 Members of the Committee are Rep. w. w. Laws, chairman, and Reps. Amelia Gundersen, Doris Barnes, Frank Degnan, George Gas ser, Stanley McCutcheon and J. s. MacKinnon.
 The trip has been an on again, off again proposition for several days.
 AS originally planned, the junket was open to all members of both houses and 40 members, wives, friends and acquaintances had sign ed up.
 Then the Senate back tracked and suggested to the House that a committee of three Senators and four Representatives make the in spection.
 This proposal was flatly rejected by the House, whereupon the Senate flatly rejected the entire trip, so far as it's members were concrnd.
 Tn House went along with its plans for a unicameral inspection until someone discovered what they thought was serious snag.
 The resolution approprlatlng funds for the trip specifics that it is to be an inspection by the House and Senate. So the House sent a conciliatory message to the Senate which said, in effect, If you won't go, can we go alone?"
 And the Senate graciously and unanimously said "Yes."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
HELEN CLAIRE LISTER
 DELIGHTS AUDIENCE AT PLANO RECITAL

Juneau music lovers were amazed and delighted as they thoroughly enjoyed the piano music of little Miss Helen Claire Lister. twelve year old daughter of Mrs. Ronald Lister of Juneau, who was pre- sented in recital by her teacher Mrs. Jane McMullin last evening in the Methodist Church.
 The young pianist opened her program with Clements spirited Sonatina and then played for her audience Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Schubert's Scherzo, B Flat Major, preludes and waltzes by Chopin, Poldinis Poupee Valsante, the little air of Sugar and Spice by Kettering and MacDowell's To a Wild Rose and Hungarian. Her technique was excellent and she played with an expression and depth of feeling unusual in under standing for so young an artist
 Delightful also to her audience was Miss Listers unaffected grace and the charm of natural poise. In a floor length dress beautiful in its simplicity in style remin- icent of Godey's Lady Book, of a soft shade of blue over pink and shot with sequins and set off by a pink sash and big bow, her lovely golden hair softly arranged in curls. the little artist looked like fairy princess as she sat in the spotlight at her piano, with greens and masses of daffodils arranged across the front of the concert platform making perfect setting in color blend.
 During her concert Miss Lister was presented with a number Of bououets from the audience and at the close of her recital she was called back for encore and finally left her audience with a gracious little courtesy. As the ap- plause continued she returned to the auditorium with Mrs. McMullin and the two received the congrat- ulations of the many present at an informal reception.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-27
FUNERAL SERVICES
 FOR MRS. SMITH AT
 9A.M. TOMORROW

Funeral services for Mrs. Frances J. Smith will be held from the Catholic Church here tomorrow morning at o'clock. The rosary will be recited tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Carter Chapel.
 Active pallbearers will be Mike Monagle, Tony Thomas, Larry Zach, Joe Thibodeau, Frank Heinke, Evan Wruck. Honorary pallhearers will be Jack Mullen, Frank Maier, Joe Kendler, H. R. VanderLeest, Ed Jacobson and Neil Moore. Inter- ment will be beside her husband in the Catholic plot in Evergreen Cemetery s @
 Mrs. Smith passed away with a heart attack last Tuesday morning. She is survived by one daughter, Dolores F. Bruns of St. Mary's, Ohio, and five sons, Lee w., Joe M., Theodore J., Francis A., and Sidney J. Smith, all of Juneau, one brother, William Altmiller of Taft, Calif. and seven grandchildren.
 Mrs. Smith was born in Joplin, Mo, August 28. 1893, came to Alaska in 1913 and was married to L. H. Smith. April T, 1915, and has made her home here since. The family has operated the Si1..::.n Gairies for many years.