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defended Edward VIII when
ward abdicated his throne for
“Woman I love." He stood side
aide with George VI through
ain's terrible war years,
watched the girl who Tues-
day became Elizabeth II, sixth
Hatching queen of Britain, grow up.
Al be witnessed the solemn climax
to Tuesday's spectacle, he could
recall that his lifetime has spanned
the period between the last two of
(he six reigning queens — Victoria,
Ind now Elizabeth.
And if Elizabeth’s reign is not
the prosperous one that all Britain
hopes, it will not be for Churchill's
lack of trying.
Churchill, after all, is 78.
Eden May Be Out
For more than a year now there
has been speculation about his suc-
cessor.
For years, the heir-apparent has
been Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden.
But Eden now is seriously ill and
shortly will come to the United
States for treatment for what has
been described vaguely as gall
bladder trouble. Churchill is carry-
ing both the burdens of prime min-
ister and foreign secretary.
Churchill’s age and Eden's ill-
ness have brought prominentally to
the fore a third figure who also
witnessed the coronation.
He is the right honorable Richard
Austen Butler, chancellor of the ex-
chequer and former Cambridge
Don. Butler has emerged from the
graveyard of Munich to become at
least second in line of succession to
Churchill and possibly even first.
Butler is said privately to deplore
such speculation.
But Butler at the age of 50 is
eight years younger than Eden: 28
younger than Churchill and he is
a recognized power in the conserva-
tive government.
Wants Strong Britain
Butler's principal aim is to make
Britain once again a strong eco-
nomic world power, and in doing
so to “free the people” from a
crushing burden of taxes without
wrecking the welfare state which
he has promised to preserve.
His two budgets since he came
to office in 1951 have started Brit-
ain along that road.
A parallel aim is to persuade the
West to underpin its efforts toward
political and military cooperation
with economic cooperation by
means of “trade not aid" from the
U. S. He recently has spoken out
bluntly against the alleged playing
af politics in the American Con-
gress, which he sees as blocking
the path with high tariffs.
Butler is a veteran in British
government. He served in India,
and, as under-secretary to Lord
Halifax during the drift toward
World War II. faced day-by-day
hostile questions in the House of
Commons, Lloyd George sarcastic-
ally nicknamed him “the artful
dodger.”
But it was Butler who, after the
overwhelming defeat of the conser-
vatives in 1945, dragged up two
chairs and a dc~k and began re-
shaping the party policy.
His reward eventually may be
the prime ministry of Britain.
THE LADY AND THE MAU-MAU—Even women are fighting the terroristic Mau-Mau gangs
in Kenya Colony, Africa. At a Mau-Mau roundup in Nairobi, Detective Inspector Joan Becker,
seated at the table, questions a young girl victim of a recent Mau-Mau raid at Lari in which
150 persons were massacred. Note arrested suspects seated in background.
New Name for Mountain?
LONDON, June 3 —UP—The
London Daily Herald proposed
Wednesday that Mount Everest,
world’s highest peak conquered
Friday by a British expedition, be
renamed Mount Elizabeth.
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Pilotless Fighter
Plane Production
Planned For Future
WASHINGTON —UP— The Air
Force plans production within a
few years of a 1,500-mile-an-hour
pilotless "fighter plane” designed
to track down and crash into at-
tacking enemy bombers.
The automatically-operated air-
craft — or guided missile — is the
Boening XF-99 Bomarc. It is ex-
pected eventually to play an im-
portant role in protecting the na-
tion against possible enemy air at-
tack.
This was disclosed by informed
sources as the authoritative trade
magazine, “American Aviation,”
published on the cover of its cur-
rent issue what it called “the first
official Air Force drawing” of the
Bomarc.
The Air Force refused comment
tm the picture but its publication
was known to have caused some
consternation among top officials.
The Bomarc will be produced by
the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle.
The firm is setting up a special
autonomous division to manufac-
ture the pilotless craft which car-
ries its destructive charge in its
nose.
The Bomarc will be launched
from the ground. It was understood
it will be powered by two ramjet
engines with an auxiliary rocket
giving it enough power to double
the speed of sound.
Ramjets, much simpler and more
powerful than the turbo-jets of to-
day's fighter planes, are not ex-
pected to he used for speeds be-
low thei of send - 760 miles an
hour at sea level. The auxiliary
rocket will give the Bomarc an
extra burst of power to penetrate
the so-called sonic barrier.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Wednesday, June 3, 1953
Our Boarding House With Major Hoopla OUT OUR WAY
By J. R. Williams
WASH TUBBS AND EASY
By Leslie Turner
“ONLY THE BRAVE . . Franciszek Jarecki, the first of two
Polish pilots to fly a Russian-built MIG from Poland to Denmark,
enjoys a vacation in Las Vegas, Ncv. Although he speaks no
English, the brave young pilot seems to be doing all right.
Average Life Span
Still On Increase
NEW YORK — The average
length of life among American
wage earners and their families is
68'2 years, according to the 1952
experience among the industrial
policyholders of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. This Is
a gain of slightly more than four
years since 1942, and of about 22
years in the past four decades.
Very favorable mortality condi-
tions prevailed among the insur-
ed. with the death rate last year on
a level with the all-time low re-
corded in 1950. The 1952 showing
was made despite a record-break-
ing polio epidemic and the sultry
summer which caused an unusually
large number of deaths from heat
exhaustion.
Notable in the year's record was
the remarkable decline in the mor-
tality from tuberculosis. The death
rate dropped 25 per cent last year
to a new low of 13.5 per 100,000 in-
sured, and mortality from the dis-
ease is now only one half that of
four years ago. The reduction since
1911 has amounted to 94 per cent.
“The prospects for further im-
provement are very bright, as an
increasing proportion of cases are
discovered and brought under treat
ment while they' are still in their
minimal stage, and as methods for
treating the disease are improved,"
the statisticians report.
A new low in the insurance ex-
perience was established for deaths
from the disorders of pregnancy
and childbirth and the death rates
from pneumonia
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Plans Made To Lease
Offshore Oil Lands
I
AUSTIN—UP-The Texas School
Land Boarn is making tentative
: plans to resume .easing of the off
shore submerged lands area, re-
turned to Texas when President
Eisenhower signed state owner-
ship lidolands legislation.
Land Commissioner Baseom
Giles said at a meeting of the
three-member board there was a
“possibility” of a lease sale Dec.
1 of lands in the coastal area, in
dispute since a decision of the U.
S. Supreme Court gave title to the
federal government.
President Eisenhower recently
signed legislation giving the states
title to off-shore lands out to their
historic boundaries — out to lOVfe
miles in the case of Texas.
The federal government took ov-
er control of the tirielands on Dec.
11, 1950 after winning its suit in
the U. S. Supreme Court.
Texas had collected $8,960,078
during a 14-year period prior to
the court action.
Indonesia Government Folds
JAKARTA. Indonesia. June 3—
UP —President Sukarna Wednesday
accepted ihc resignation of the
fourth cabinet to be formed in
Indonesia since fhr country gained
its independence in 149. Premier
Wilopo and his cabinet resigned as
Ihc result of a dispule between the
Moslem and National parties, the
two largest political parties in the
government.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 131, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 3, 1953, newspaper, June 3, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth713662/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.