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Show 'Mr! me. Chiang Still Hoping For Return To China From U. S. YORK NEW Chiang Kai-thak. first lady of China gets a laugh every time a new report crops up about her buying real estate In this country. She still hopes to return to China.' A one-time leader in Chinese politics, now retired and in this country, said ne has tautea wixn the Mlsslmo about. it. He sees her almost every day, a member of her inumaie circle ox xnenas ana w atlves. . . . . ' "She hasn't bought anything herself " he reported, "nor does he know of any friend who has given her any real estate prop ertv." . Madame Chiang has steadfast-edly steadfast-edly refused to grant newspaper Interviews since she came here more than a year ago. One ex- .reption was a reporter wno returned re-turned from China with a person al message from her husband. - . Leads Simple Life . But Dleced together from ac counts by visitors and members nf her fmilv. here's a picture of hnw h lives and what she's She stays with her sister, the former Ellng Soong and present wife of H. H. Kung. one-time finance fi-nance minister and vice-premier of China. He, too, is here, as head of the Bank of China. Thm hfimi was built by a mls- sionary and sold to a bulsness man. When he moved to naraoro., Conn, he put It up for rent. When Madame Chiang came to the United States for medical treatr menu In 1944 she took it. She returned to China during the war (U.R) Madame , and Madame Kung who required treatment at the Medical Center here, moved In and today is her sister's host. Sex Criminal Sentenced To Die t!n Gas Chamber - FRESNO. CaCxDee. 28 (U.W Paul J.'. Gutierrez 25-year-old farm laborer whose partial confession con-fession convicted him of the fiendish rane-slayinc of 17- months-old Josephine Yanex, Monday was sentenced to die in the state sas chamber as payment for his crime. "As punishment for the . crime ; of murder the court sentences you to the extreme penalty at a time rrlhl law " Sunreme Court Judge Arthur C Shepard told Gutierrez wno stood wun bowed head, hands clasped tightly tight-ly behind him. Pronouncement of Gutierrez fate brought shrieks of hysterical ebbing and entreaties from his U 72-year-old mother who, with her three daughters, xeu to ineir knees and In Spanish Implored the court for mercy. ; Throughout 'a two-day trial last week, the chunky cotton picker clung desperately to his story of a "whisky and marijuana oiacx- iut," but Judge Shepard found him guilty of murder in the iirst degree and ruled that he was sane at the time of the slaying. - The Infant was abducted from her parents' car, parked near a dance hall at Huron, 40 miles aaWma4 e1 ' Vama 1afje 1 A mmA IUUUinv .U v UC1C WT uu feaesu sjivve en mmJ weeawaw she was criminally attacked and left to die with her mutilated body covered with tooth marks and boned face-down in the mud Heaee fat Suburbs An English-style country house made of red brick wUh a gray slate roof, it is set bra from the road in suburban RfVjtrdale, N. Y. Within the limits of INew York City. It is just below Yorkers and overlooking the Hudso River. Tastefully furnished, it is rich but not ornate or ostentatious. A central fireplace in the main liv ing room is flanked by two mauve couches, while another, stretching at right angles to the two fronts the fireplace. Off on one side is an oil painting paint-ing of Chiang Kai-shek fn his uniform as generalissimo of China. In a standing frame on a small, glass-topped end table is a framed photograph showing H. H. Kung with President Truman. Madame Chiang rises early every day. says her morning prayers, has breakfast and settles down to work. All the morning newspapers In New York are on her desk. Her secretary has already al-ready noted items he thinks will be of special Interest to her. In Touch With Chiang In daily radiogram communlca tion with her husband, she studies reports from China. Then she an swers correspondence. She keeps in touch with Chinese officials in Washington and at the United Nations. vShe is greatly concerned with present day events," one source related. "She is sad and disappointed disap-pointed over the turn of events. But she still has a fighting spirit and faith In God. She has confi 'dance in her husband and in the Chinese people and believes eventually right will win out." Madame Chiang "never appears in public." If she does attend the theater or other entertainment, she does so incognito and care fully guarded. She does some shopping for clothes, but only at private establishments. Plana Changed She usually spends her eve nlngs at home resting after din ner and listening to the radio. She reads the Bible before going to bed. r How long she plans to stay In the United States is not certain but she has' been quoted as say ing she wants to return to her husband's side. "She was ready to leave Oct. 26 for Formosa but when her hus bandwas called to the fighting front, her plans were changed, source said. V ' v Stott Studits Ways To Fill Road. Holes BERKELEY. Calif. (U.W How to fill up holes and take the bumps out of highways Is the latest subject of research here at the University of California. As most motorists know, there is no sure way of refilling a hole so that it doesn't leave a rise or dip In the pavement. So that the state of California, which spends millions of dollars each year dig ging holes, has backed a study to find the best way Of filling them up. The trench-backfill study, as it is - - Xw .V'.'rfV. . 'Wr ;; - Vorid Government Advocates To Get Conaress Hearing WASHINGTON. Dec 2gUJ9-. World government advocates soon will be offered a chance to state their case before congress. A senate foreign relations subcommittee, sub-committee, headed by Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, plans to hold public hearings next year on half a dozen proposals for strengthen ing the United Nations or building regional or world federations of governments. , None of the proposals has yet received administration endorsement, endorse-ment, but some have impressive bipartisan support in congress. The longest list of sponsors 22 senators is attached to a reso lution introduced last fall asking President Truman to invite the North Atlantic treaty nations to a Conference to explore how far they might go in establishing a "federal union." x ,0VE FAILED Reunion of Jack Grunden, 20-year-old paraplegic Army veteran and his former wife, Joan, 20, of Portland, Ore., tor a gala Christmas holiday failed to result in the reconciliation which his pals at Birmingham Veterans Hospital hoped for. Bare Joan looks on while Jack opens some of his Christmas presents at Country Club Hotel at Los Angeles where they were guests for the weekend. Waitresses Discuss Tips. Tippers' Habits ATLANTA' (U.R Atlanta wait resses say they'd take middle-aged middle-aged married couples any day' over a single man or woman because be-cause they tip better. - Other observations ferreted out by a reporter: ' Elderly ladles want more attention atten-tion than other customers. . A waitress Would prefer to hear a customer gripe than encounter one who is forgetful , and snaps his orders. Tips average 15 cents, 10 cents below the war level of a quarter. People prefer the center tables over those near the door or the kitchen. . r -.' r. . J '' yS '. . C '.'.; V ss T . WMtttm ii in rum mm DAILY HERALD Wednesday, Dee. 28 194 Seven hundred languages are spoken in Africa. SHUTTERBUG - Rogeri the official zoo cameraman at Colorado Colo-rado Springs, Colo 'has more fun than the people who stare through the bars at him. Looking Look-ing in on Roger today, we find him all done up tike a press photographer, ready to snap a couple of fast ones. NAVAJO HELD ON SEX CHARGE LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 28 (U.R)- Sheriff's officers .held a Nava jo laborer here today on charges of attempting to rape an 11-year old Indian girl. Sheriff Harry Maddock said witnesses reported that 29-year-old Francis Yazzie had been drinking heavily before he al Noted Steeplejack Dies Christmas Night HANCOCK. Mich.. Dec. 28 (U.R) Steeplejack Charles Eilersten, 91. who performed - dangerous construction and repair jobs until he was past 80, died Christmas night at his family home. Eilersten came to the United States from Norway when he was 20; and became famous throughout through-out the midwest for his daring steeplejack work at an age when most men retire. He finally quit recently and spent his time building replicas of schooners on which he sailed as a boy. Services Held For ICC Member RICHMOND. Va.. Dec. 28 (U.R) Funeral services were held here Snnday for Carroll Miller. member of the interstate com merce commission since 1933, who died Saturday In Washington after a brief illness. He was 74. Miller was buried in Hollywood cemetery here. His wife, Mrs. Mary Emma Guf fey Miller is Democratic national committeewoman from Pennsyl vania. Miller was president of the Thermatomic Carbon Co. when he was named to the ICC by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was born in Richmond, the son of a confederate army veteran and Richmond tobacco man. He attended the old Richmond col lege and the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J, Japs Experini:-nted On U.S. Prisoners With&rmSi Claim LONDON. Dec. 28 (U.B Mot- cow radio claimed Monday that the trial of 12 Japanese In Siberia on germ warfare charges has disclosed dis-closed that experiments were made on American war prisoner to determine their immunity cacterioiogicai weapons. The Japanese are being tried in Khabarovsk, near the Man-, churian frontier, on charges they usea living prisoners as guinea pigs while developing germ warfare war-fare in Manchuria during the last war. . - Western circles believe the trial Is an attempt to cloud the issue of 276,000 Japanese war prisoners whose return has been demanded by Gen. Douglas Mae-Arthur Mae-Arthur In Tokyo. . . ! A Moscow- broadcast, quoting a . Tass agency dispatch from Kha-. barovsk, said the confession concerning con-cerning Americans was made by Tomio Karasawa, a major in the -Japanese medical corps. Karasawa was identified as a section chief in Unit 731, which Moscow claimed was established by a secret order . of Emperor Hirohlto in 1940 to study bacteriological bacter-iological warfare. ' "To ascertain the degree of vulnerability ot the American army to different combat infections, infec-tions, members of Unit 721 studied on American war prison-: ers the degree of their receptivity receptivi-ty to different infections,'' Moscow Mos-cow quoted Karasawa as telling the Russian war crimes court. legedly cornered the girl in a cne-room apartment. Yazzie, a Navajo Indian from lehache. N. M.. will be arraign ed today on charges of assault with intent to commit rape. EDUCATOR DIES FORT WORTH, Tex- Dec. 3S 1B Dr. E. M. Waits,, 78,, president presi-dent emeritus of Texas Christian university, died at his home Sunday Sun-day night of a heart ailment, - NEW YORK. Dec. 28 (U.R) An Conversion Of Atomic Material Into Power, Costly atomic scientist reports that although al-though conversion of atomic materials ma-terials Into power costs about $10,000 to $25,000 a pound, it is the equivalent of using coal at the rate of $10 a ton. Dr. John R. Dunning. Columbia university physicist, said that one pound of atomic material utilized for power would give the same energy equivalent as about 4,000,- 000 tons of coal. These figures, which have been published previously, do not mean that atomic power today is as cheap as power from coal, Dunn ing said. He said practical use of uran ium power depends on the design ing of an atomic "breeder" furnace furn-ace that will produce more fissionable fis-sionable material than Is used. Is called, is being carried out by the university's institute of trans portation and trafic engineering. The institute was established by the legislature to conduct broad research on highway and trans portation problems. Fred N. Finn directs the project. He FAMOUS 0NCE-A-YEAR EVENT I LIMITED TIME ONLY I ieiia Rubinstein s Famous Estrogenic Hormone Treatment for aging dan! for every woman over 30! A 'Wei'' ESTROGENIC H0IM0NE CREAM regularly l6 ESTROGENIC HORMONE OIL wleilM 6.00 value NOW 50... Use 24 hours a day! 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