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2 San Bernardino DAILY SUN May 7, 1949 Fire Razes Hollywood Park; Loss Placed at $6,000,000 field lakes because of lowering pressure. Even this, however, didn't seem to disturb the famous and swans which inhabit the lllft Germans Given Task of Lifting Russ Blockade Western Trains Will Be Ready to Roll at Midnight Wednesday BERLIN, May 6 tf The big 8,000 Strikers Mass at Gate Of Ford Plant Union, Company Preparing for Long Shutdown DETROIT, May 6 OP) -Thou Liberalized Rail Vacation Plan Signed by Unions CLEVELAND, May 6 ilD--A liberalized vacations with pay for 450,000 operating railroad workers has been signed by five transportation brotherhoods and the nations' carriers, it was announced today. four powers are turning; over to German transport workers the physical lifting of the Berlin blockade next Thursday, Informed American sources said today. Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, the American commander, told newsmen that western trains will be ready at midnight Wednesday to roll as soon as the Soviet barriers are eliminated. The western counterblockade of the Soviet zone of Germany Is to end at the same time as the Ber- Slate to Probe Race Rumors lln blockade under the agreemenUtracting firms, ponders the great- at I- At TtJ.J Pl.i.. i a at Prisoner WanU Life Term With Weekly Day Oil SAN DIEGO, My 6 A 58-year-old oity Jail prisoner asked today to spend the rest of his life there as a trusty. Ho said he would want one afternoon off a week for shopping. The proposal made "with plenty cf thought and in good faith" was by William Springer, in a letter to the chief jailer.

It no lonesomeneia here, for I am kept busy," wrote Springer. He Is In Jail awaiting trial on a charge of stealing a camera. Hit record Includes more than 100 arretts, mostly for intoxication, here since 1940. Police said his wish to serve permanently would be denied. Girl Tells How She Slew Child JOILET, 111., May 6 (IP) Diane Allen, 13, a red-haired tomboy, testified calmly at an inquest today how she told her 7-year-old playmate she was going to kill him, then drowned him in a drainage ditch because of an uncontrollable "urge." The slender girl, who had always wanted to be a boy, earlier confessed that she killed Charles (Snookey) Johnson while they were out picking flowers last Saturday.

She blurted out the confession after keeping silent for almost a week, helping in a search for the boy when his parents reported him missing, and aiding in a collection for funeral flowers. Snookey's body was found in the ditch, only 700 yards from his Joliet home, Sunday. "I don't know why I did it," the girl told the jury today. "He hadn't done anything. I just had an urge to push him in the water." A warrant charging murder was issued against the girl.

Pension Groups Rally to Write (Continued from Page One) that the central totalizator itself heart of the system apparently escaped serious damage. The week's delay was decided on to transfer and replace the necessary betting machinery. Police and fire arson experts began an immediate inquiry into the cause of the blaze. Two boys and two men found in the vicinity as the blaze broke out shortly be fore midnight were, questioned, but none was held, Night Watchman Joe Cohn told firemen he first noticed smoke in the motor room of a clubhouse elevator. As he reached a passageway on the upper level, the flames already had reached there, he said.

Within 20 minutes, they were leaping hundreds of feet into the air. Architect Arthur Froehlich said drafts and suction of the flames themselves "undoubtedly" contrib uted to the rapid spread. Al though the structure itself is of concrete reinforced by steel, seats and benches, floors and booths are of wood. Its restaurants and bars were rug-covered and in eluded drapes and other material U. uuin rettiiuy.

FIREMEN INJURED The ground level, including many of the executive Offices, escaped serious damage, said firemen, largely because of the concrete first floor ceiling. The clubhouse and turf club seats and the grandstand's benches are on a second level, but the big plant's total height reached to eight stories in places. One fireman, Inspector Clifton Freeman, 30, was critically hurt when trapped on the grandstand roof he tried to jump to a tree but missed and fell 60 feet to the ground. Several other firemen suffered minor burns. The blaze buckled huge steel girders, but did no apparent damage to the foundation.

Froehlich said it would be necessary to rip out everything but the bare concrete skeleton and start from scratch. A new $2,500,000 section of grandstand which brought the track's seating capacity to largest in the country, was only recently completed for the 1949 meeting. It took three hours to bring the fire under control, and trucks had to pump some water from the in First at Harris1 in The World's Greattst Recorded Music CAPITOL TELEFUNKEN Now Yours to Own and Enjoy new agreement providing for President A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen announced' the agreement, which was signed last week in Chicago and which takes effect July 1.

The pact provides one week's vacation with pay for a year's service if during; the preceding calendar year the employe worked 160 basic days in miles or hours. An employe with five or more years continuous service will receive an annual two week paid va- cation. The old agreement provld ed for one week's vacation pay despite length of service. The agreement also improved the old one by guaranteeing that vacation pay 'granted cannot be computed at less than the rate for the last service rendered by the employe. The unions signing the agreement were the Trainmen, the Brotherhood of' Locomotive En gineers, Brotherhoods of Locomo tive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen's Union of North America.

EXPRESS AGENCY RULING WASHINGTON, May 6 (IP) presidential emergency board today recommended a 40-hour week and a wage increase of 7 cents an hour for 60,000 employes of the Railway Express Agency. The board recommended that the 40-hour week be substituted for the present 44-hour week on next Sept. 1. The wage increase would be retroactive to last Oct. 1.

The board reported in person today to President Truman on the dispute between the agency and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, The board also recommended that the union withdraw its request for longer vacations, additional wage increases and many changes in operating rules. Man Who Slew His Son Sent to Prison LAS VEGAS, May 6 WV- Frank Rice, former Boulder dam ranger, was sentenced to one to five years in Nevada state prison today for the fatal shooting of his son. A jury convicted Rice of involuntary manslaughter in the drinking quarrel shooting of John Rice, 28. last February. Rice contended his son was the aggressor in the argument at their Boulder City home and that the jgun discharged accidentally.

Seven on Plane Killed PORTLAND, May 6 m-A two-engined British cargo plane carrying seven persons crashed into the English channel this afternoon, apparently killing all aboard. Remember mm TJ-l TERRIFIC OVERHEAD Mrs. Mary Crocettl, SO, head of G. M. Crocetti Tile Co.

of New York, one of the nation's largest tile con est celling problem of firm's ca reer installing clay tile on the ceilings of the $80,000,000 tunnel which will link Brooklyn and Man hattan. (AP Wirephoto) V. A. Dismisses 8,000 Workers WASHINGTON, May 6 (IP) -The veterans administration an nounced today it will send 30-day dismissal notices to 8,000 employes on Monday in order to live within its probable budget in the new fis cal year starting July 1. Veterans Administrator Carl R.

Gray Jr. said the action will force the closing of 42 smaller V. A. of' fices in 23 states but that veterans hospital and medical services will not be affected. Dismissals will be on a national basis.

In a letter' to members of con gress informing them of the pond ing action, Gray said that "every effort" will be made to maintain essential services on the highest level. (The list of operations to be af fected does not include any in the San Bernardino area.) Plans Set to Insure Veterans' Job Priority SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (IB- Plans were complete today to insure that the state's 157,000 unemployed war veterans get priority on job openings. A meeting of representatives of the state and the federal veterans employment services, veterans groups and State Employment Director James C. Bryan decided to select a veterans employment officer to cooperate with each of the managers of the state's 93 employment officers. Are You Happy With the Heat? If not install an ESSICK COOLER Immediate Delivery and Installation FREE ESTIMATES PARTS AND PADS FOR ALL MAKES CASH OR TERMS DELBERT MILLER HEATING COOLING Ph.

82-6373 645 Court St. of Russia, the United States, Brit aln and France, announced yes terday. COMPLEX PROBLEMS Complex technical problems are Involved. American informants said the military governments merely have outlined to the Ger mans the policy to be followed. German experts are to coordinate the east-west traffic and work out the necessary railway, barge and highway schedules.

The informants said four-power talks will not be necessary unless some unexpected quirk develops. In Bonn, German delegates writing a constitution for a west German federal republic rushed to complete their work by Sunday the fourth anniversary of the Nazis' defeat in World war II, Communists at the constitution al convention vainly urged that the deliberations be dropped, and that the delegates work instead for a united Germany. The Communist pleas were brushed aside. The western allies would like the Bonn constitution to form the basis of a central gov' ernment for all of Germany including the Soviet zone. Following final approval by the convention, the draft then must be approved by the legislatures of 11 west German states before it be comes the law for 45,000,000 Ger mans in the west.

Target date for formation of the new west German republic is July 13. DIFFICULT ISSUE Officials in Washington indicat ed they expect Russia to propose the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Germany during the Paris talks. This would be a difficult issue for the western powers. If the Russians advance such a plan and the west rejects it outright, German Communists wilL-have a trump propaganda card to play in their struggle for leadership throughout Germany, If the west accepts the proposal, political and military strategists in Washington believe it would upset the balance of power in Eu rope at a critical point in western European recovery. Spalding, Wealthy Oil Man-Rancher, Dies LOS ANGELES, May 6 (JP Silsby M.

Spalding, 63, wealthy oil man, philanthropist and rancher of Santa Barbara county and Beverly Hills, died early today. He had been ill only three weeks. Spalding was the first developer of tideland oil in the region north of Goleta and was an associate of the late Edward H. Doheny. He also operated the extensive Tecolatc ranch in Santa Barbara county.

a Tractor Crushes Man ALTADENA, May 6 UP) Em-mitte Cook, 58, of San Gabriel, was killed today when a tractor he was operating to clear bouldprs from the site of a new home toppled down an eight-foot embankment. Cook was pinned under the heavy vehicle and crushrd to death. ponds. They kept paddling around. Police estimated that as many as 100,000 persons jammed high ways in the vicinity to watch the spectacular scene.

Ot one time embers and sparks shot upwards of 1,000 feet. Preliminary Budget Cuts L. A. County Taxes LOS ANGELES, May 6 Iff) A preliminary budget giving Los Angeles county taxpayers a reduction of 8 13 cents on a $100 assessed valuation next year was adopted today by the board of supervisors. The total of $129,994,280 established a basis of $1.6745 general county tax on $100 for 1949-50, compared with the current figure of $1.7578.

The budget was $451,453 more than the total recommended by County Manager Wayne Allen, WE RENT Arlen'a Tlllera, Ford Tracton, Cemant Plaater Lawn etc. RAY'S EQUIPMENT RENTALS 1040 E. Baa. Line Ph. 814422 SUEDE and LEATHER CLEANING FACTORY METHODS SOCIETY CLEANERS 478 Base Line Phone 7.4230 I P.OY DAVIS" CAMERA SEE US FOR CAMERAS and SUPPLIES PRECISION PHOTO FINISHING Photo-Finishlna scientifically quality controlled by Photo-Electric Cell (MaglcEye) Roy Davis9 CAMERA SHOP New Phone 1-2771 Formerly Arrowhead Camera NEW ADDRESS 415 THIRD ST.

San Bernardino Franz Lehar4 Operettas from Vienna "Merry Widow," "Count of Luom. bourg," "Paganini," Album ECL-2S0I Bruckner "Mah in Minor," Choir end Orchestra of Hamburg State Opera, Conducted by Max Thurn. Album EEL-2504. $7.81 Overture te Alcette (GlucU, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchot tra under the direction ef WiU helm Furtwangler. Record No, 1001 $1.31 i The Roman Carnival: Overture, Le Carnival Romain, Op.

(Berlioz) Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concortgobouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Rac. ord No. 11002 $1.31 ttf. sands of striking C.I.O.

auto workers demonstrated in front of the Ford Motor Co. River Rouge plant today, blocking passage of cars into the plant and jeering nonstrikers. Prospects were dim for settlement of the strike, involving 200 U.A.W. employes at the River Rouge and Lincoln-Mercury plants. The strike began Thursday over an alleged speedup.

Both the union and company were preparing for a prolonged strike, which could paralyze Ford's multi-billion-dollar business. A source close to the company said it planned to give salaried employes their two-week vacations now. 11 UNIONISTS FIRED The company announced tonight it had fired 11 U.A.W. members, including two shop union supervisors paid by the company, and suspended 11 other employes. The action was taken, the company said, because they were among 275 employes who left their jobs last Friday when a union committee entered the Rouge plant to investigate the speedup charge.

The strike boosted to 133,200 the number of workers idle in walkouts and layoffs resulting from speedup disputes in the auto At least 71,100 employes of Bendix, Nash, Hudson, Briggs and Chrysler plants were idle. About half this number was expected to return to work next week, but other strikes and layoffs were threatened. Auto industry production has fallen an estimated 8,000 units in a week. EFFECTS SPREAD Effects of the Ford strike, which if prolonged could idle Ford workers in 33 cities and Windsor, already had begun to spread. At Cleveland, more than 2,000 workers were laid off today by the Ferro Machine Foundry Co.

which makes parts for Ford. Many small Ford plants expected to close in a few days. Chevrolet assembly plant workers voted today to strike over a speedup dispute. No date was set for the strike, which must be approved by the U.A.W. international executive board.

Company spokesmen said a walkout would affect about workers, including 1,500 at the assembly plant in Flint, Mich. The strike vote was 517 to 44. The striking Ford employes staged a giant demonstration at the River Rouge plant, with an estimated 8,000 persons massed before the main gate during the morning. There was no violence. Only a few policemen were on duty.

Firemen strung hoses and set up makeshift drinking fountains for the strikers, who were sweltering under a burning sun. The number of strikers at the scene dwindled during the afternoon. Sunday, May 8th 50 50- 900 ONLT 49c Size. ONLY Week Specials $1.00 $1.98 BLANKET Site 36iSO. Boed (Continued from Page One) that in today's eight races, six were won by favorites.

Spokesmen for the state horse racing board said no irregularities of any kind have been uncovered, but that board agents will continue an investigation indefinitely in an attempt to find the source of the rumors. The Los Angeles Examiner reported Wednesday night that big killings by gamblers last month on races at Golden Gate at Albany had bankrupted eight big bookies. Judge James C. McGill, presiding steward at Golden Gate, commented: "It's music to my ears to hear bookies cry. The only way you can make them sing the blues is by providing good races." He said there is available a complete photographic record of every race run at the track and added: "If any reputable person will file a complaint with the board or the track, specifying the race or races concerning which he has suspicions, we shall be happy to review the motion pictures evidence from start to finish "Actually, we have been very proud of the way the meeting was going.

We have checked and re-checked and have found no ir regularities of any description. We have devoted more time to review ing the motion pictures than ever before If anything is wrong, we'd like to know about it" L. A. Executive Dies LOS ANGELES, May 6 CP) Edward M. Darrimon, 59, fish packing company executive of Westwood, died of a heart ailment today at San Diego, his associates here said.

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A Gains Info Law (Continued from Page One) special election on the repeal question while the suit is under If the Rosenthal bill should pass and then the voters repealed proposition 4, the net result would be to oust the administration of Mrs. Williams and return the state department to its old setup and handling of aged and blind aid to the counties. Pension supporters are flooding legislators' mail with printed, signed cards urging passage of the Rosenthal measure. Californians may get a chance to decide whether they want to vote $400,000,000 in bonds for new schools in impoverished districts. The senate education committee gave its approval to the huge bond issue, which if it gets through the legislature, would appear on the ballot in 1950 or at any earlier special election.

It is sponsored by Senators Nelson S. Dilworth, Hemet, and Byrl R. Salsman, Palo Alto. Robert E. McKay, California Teachers association, told the senate group: "Our long range studies led us to the conclusion many months ago that the cost of school buildings cannot be met out of current resources." Educators have estimated, Dilworth said, that $400,000,000 is needed in the next six years to solve the acute classroom shortage.

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