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MAIL CJTV 1 HE AR1 Weather Variable high cloudiness and slightly cooler Saturday. Mostly clear Sunday. Occasionally windy Saturday afternoon. Friday temperatures: high 100, low 69. Humidity: high 34, low 10.

Details on Page 21. ZOMAKEPU: THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Safety Tip A careless driver is an accident going somewhere to happen. JUJL Phoenix, Arizona, Saturday, May 28, 1949 60th Year, No. 10 26 Pages 0 TlAi fl 3U Second In Ufoinium ona Here's Setting For Trout Season Opening Today k-m yilfl -rm 4 4 No-Pants Suits ALBANY, N. May 27 (AP) Jake's Cloths Store had 40 extra pairs of pants Friday after an invasion by Indian seamen who wanted only trouserless suits.

About 50 Indians from two British sloops docked here and told a surprised clerk they didn't have any use for the pants. They don't wear them in India. The store supplied the coats and vests about 500 of them and at a discount, too. The store had a large num- ber of extra second-hand coats and vests on hand when the Indians started appearing early this week, Philip Schwartz, the clerk, explained. He had to break about 40 suits to fill the demand, however.

The sailors told Schwartz that they wear a sort of apron, shorts or white cloths wrapped around the waist in India that is. P. S. The sailors wore pants when they appeared at Jake's. Eisler Freed; U.S.

Ponders New Action British Court Rejects Charge Of Perjury As Not Provable LONDON, May 27 (AP) Ger- harf Eisler, Communist, was freed by a British court Friday to resume his interrupted flight from the United States to his native Germany. But the threat of further American action hung over him. "We shall exert every effort to secure the return of the fugitive," said Tom Clark, attorney general, in Washington after the Bow street magistrate's court set Eisler at liberty. Magistrate Sir Laurence Dunn said the perjury charge presented by the United States an extraditable offense under the Anglo- American extradition treaty of 1870 could not be proved. HE REJECTED the demand that the pudgy, mild appearing little man whom a congressional committee has called America's No.

1 Communist agent be returned to face again the two prison sentences he jumped $23,500 bail May 6 to escape. Clark did not say what the next American move might be. He com (Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) ill'f' lakes lured by the magic- of Fish Commission truck have streams thev hav eeki able- to I rr, Rushing water A still pool A pine forest-bordered stream A leaping fish. That is Opening Day of trout season.

And wths1MiasfArfwnans will desert their work-a-day jobs Satur- Ariionans will desert their work-a-day jobs 4more than- 00,000 additienal trout this summer (RepubUc Staff Saturday to scatter along 1,000 miles of streams and dozens of small second class matter under 1879; $1.25 per month XlVe leulS 21 Central Bids To Service orth Area Commission Expected To Rule On Plea By June 3 By CLAIBORNE NUCKOLLS A PROPOSED multimillion-dollar deal whereby the Central Arizona Light and Power Company, through a newly created subsidiary, would buy out the Arizona Power Company was taken under advisement Friday by the state corporation commission. The commission announced it will rule by June 3. The delay was derided udoii to eive Fred O. Wilson, attorney general, an op portunity to study tne transaction and legal questions involved. Pvle Ralston, assistant to Wilson, advised the commission that "since this is the biggest deal nf its kind in Arizona and a hiehlv comnlicated one.

which may affect every consumer in one way or an other, the commission snouia noi act without due consideration." FRANK L. SNELL. Central Ari zona attorney, did not ask for an immediate decision. He did, however, urge the commission to rule nt the earliest. Dossible date.

He expressed fear that a ruling later than June wouia emoarrass uie company in a financing program it has nendine before the Securi ties and Exchange Commission. Henrv B. Sareent. Central Ari zona president, explained the com pany has just regtsterea witn ine SEC a proposal to sell 80,000 shares of $50 par value cumulative preferred He added that unless Northern Arizona' deal is completed and" listed as such in the prospectus filed with SEC, it may cause complications and delays. Part of the proceeds from the proposed stock sale will be used to retire $1,000,000 in obligations incurred for construction in tne oast.

The rest will be set aside to help pay expansion costs estimated at more than $19,000,000 in the next two years. Sargent said the transaction would benefit the public and all others concerned. HE SAID ITS completion will obviate the necessity for a sub stantial increase in rates by the Arizona Power Company in the areas it serves, including Prescott, Flagstaff, Winslow, Cottonwood, Ash Fork, Seligman, and Payson. Sargent asserted it also even tually will mean cheaper power for those communities and, in the more immediate future, vastly improved service. The plan involves the creation of.

a subsidiary to be known as the Northern Arizona Light ana Power Company. Central Arizona would advance to Northern the sum of $500,000 for the purchase of the hitter's stock and to enable it to purchase current assets of the Arizona Power Company. Also, Central Arizona would take responsibility for obligations of Arizona Power Company amounting to $3,600,000. The latter would retain ownership of the steam plant at Clark-dale and also of two hydroelectric plants. Central Arizona would pay $75,000 a year for the Clark-dale plant and $175,000 a year for the two hydroelectric plants, all three of which would be leased to it for a 30-year period.

SARGENT SAID THAT Central Arizona's plant expansion will alleviate an existing power shortage in the northern territory. He added that next year, Central Arizona expects to have a 30,000 kilowatt power surplus. At the same time, he said, provision would be made for necessary expansion and service expansion there. This, he added, the Arizona Power Company is unable to do because of financial restrictions, the only relief from which would be increased rates. Answering an Inquiry by Ralston, Sargent declared the entire cost of the transaction would not fall on customers of either Central Arizona or the new subsidiary, but would be paid for out of surplus and through regular financing channels.

Accord Sighted In Ford Strike DETROIT, May 27 (AP) The 23-day-old Ford strike was reported near settlement Friday night. The optimistic report came Xrom. Arthur C. Viat, regional director of the federal mediation service, as the company and the Congress of Industrial Organizations United Auto workers went, into an unusual session. Viat said the issue of arbitration principal snag for days had been cleared away.

Entered at Post Office as Act of Congress. March 5 those words. Arizona Game and restocked with creel-size nsn ait reach and stand ready to release Memorial Day To Stay Alive Statisticians Forecast Three Deaths, Hope They're Wrong By RALPH MAHONEY IF THE COLD and calculating figures of Arizona law enforcement statisticians prove correct, three persons will die on highways in this state during the Memorial Day week-end. This prediction comes on the eve of the long Memorial Day holiday. Most offices, and all state, county and city buildings and banks will be closed from noon Saturday until Tuesday morning.

Many will be shut down from the close of business Friday until Tuesday. SCORES OF MOTORISTS will take advantage of the three-day holiday to seek cooler spots in the northern areas of the state. Trans continental highways will be jammed. In a lot of cases, speed will rule the road, and the devil take the unfortunate motprist who gets in the way of a wildly careening car. The speed demon or the rum hound is not always the victim of his own carelessness.

Many innocent persons help to fill the black book of death which is compiled with painstaking care by the Ari zona State Highway Patrol. The book is creeping slowly toward the 100 mark. Ninety-one deaths were recorded up to Friday. How many more will the book contain by Monday midnight? TRAFFIC OFFICERS hope the records this year will be as spot- Hiss of deaths as they were 1944 and 1946, when Memorial Day was observed on a Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. On the black side of the ledger, officers pointed out that three deaths were recorded in 1943, one in 1945, two in 1947 and two last year in observance of Memorial Day.

The state highway patrol predicted that more than 150,000 cars will be on the roads from Satur day morning until Monday night. Each vehicle will hold anywhere from two to five passengers un willing prey to another open sea son on numan Deings. SHOWERS ARE FORECAST for certain sections of Northern Arizona. This will mean highways may be slick. A moment of carelessness on the part of the driver, a sickening skid, and a car may hurtle off the road and into a mountain canyon, carrying its pas sengers either to a quick death or serious injury.

These are the things traffic of-( Continued On Page 2, Col. 4) 1 DriversUrged 3, Pinballs, Bank Night Held Illegal Wilson Opinion Also Hits Private Clubs' Slot Machines PINBALL MACHINES are gambling devices, theater bank nights are illegal lotteries, and it is just as illegal for a private club to operate slot machines as a pool hall or any other establishment. This opinion was expressed Friday by Fred O. Wilson, attorney general, in a ruling addressed to James Boyce Scott, county attorney of Greenlee county. Scott had asked the attorney general to clarify several points concerning what constitutes gambling and gambling devices.

WILSON'S REPLY was probably the broadest and most inclusive ever issued on the subject of gambling by the state's highest legal authority. He held that even pinball machines that do not pay off in coin or in tokens redeemable in cash or merchandise still are gambling devices. The attorney general reasoned that even the chance of winning a replay on a pinball machine is of sufficient value to the player "to be a thing to be won or lost by him, so as to bring tne contrivance and the results of its operation by the player within the terms of the statute as being a gambling device." QUOTING FROM a decision of the supreme court of Idaho, Wilson said: "Pinball machines are the progeny of the well errini" present slot machine, and are simply a species of that numerous family." He also cited numerous other court authorities in support of his position. Citing an Arizona Supreme Court definition of a lottery as a scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance and embracing the elements of procuring through lot or chance, Wilson said this and other definitions "convince us that bank nights are ANSWERING A further inquiry by Scott, the attorney general ruled that the practice of some, merchants of encouraging customers to drop their sales receipts into a box, for which certain receipts are drawn each week and prizes are given for them in trade (Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) Reds Attempt Air Lift Curb BERLIN, May 27 (AP) The Russians suggested narrowing of one of the three air lift lanes to Berlin as a safety measure Friday, saying Soviet military maneuvers will start immediately and they will not be responsible for allied planes entering the "danger areas." United States and British authorities replied that their planes will continue to fly the corridors 20 mile wide links between West Berlin and West Germany without deviation.

The aotification was given the western Allies as total paralysis gripped the railway from Helm-stedt in this seventh day of a strike by anti-Communist West Berlin rail workers. Berlin's supply situation appeared as critical as it was at the height of the recently lifted Soviet blockade. The airlift, manned by Americans and Britons, has again become the main source of supply to West Berlin. It is steadily ferrying in about 8,000 tons of food and other things daily. The two allies had planned to use the air lift to stockpile 200,000 tons of supplies as a protection against another blockade.

Eight Lightning -Caused Fires Rage In Tonto A rea NEARLY EVERY AVAILABLE fire fighter on the Tonto National Forest was out fighting eight lightning-caused fires Friday and forest officials appealed to week-end fishermen to exercise unusual care. Perl Charles, assistant forest supervisor, said lightning and light showers, particularly in the Canyon creek country, are keeping fire fighters busy and ttiat similar conditions exist on other forests. Opening week-end trout fishermen were cautioned not to throw cigarettes or lighted matches from moving automobiles or in woods without first extinguishing them, and to use care in building campfires, being sure to dampen and cover them before leaving. The forest, Charles said, is so dry in the lower elevations that a real fire hazard exists. Ore Mined By Private Firm, AEC Open Pit Operations Work On Five Deposits URANIUM the substance from which the atomic bomb is made Is being produced in Arizona at the rate of some 200 tons a day, the state department of mineral rescfurces disclosed Friday.

It had not previously been known, even to the department, 'that uranium is being produced in commercial quantities. The present rate of production here is second only to the state of Colorado which is leading the nation with an output of about 250 tons daily. ARIZONA operations were made public by Charles H. Dunning, de partment director, who has just returned from a field trip cover ing both this state and Colorado, On the tour. Dunning also vis ited uranium plants of the Atomic Energy Commission in Colorado and Utah.

Dunning reported the Vanadium Corporation of America in con junction with the AEC, already has developed open-pit uranium mines at the following locations on the Navajo Reservation: AT A POINT 3 miles south of Mexican Hat, Utah; three miles west of Carrizo, 12 miles west of Carrizo, and five miles north of Redrock, all Navajo settlements near the Arizona-New Mexico border, and 14 miles west of Red-rock. He also found during his survey, he said, that 30 other mine sites have been locate' and" that the AEC is planning a big exploration program on the Navajo Reservation to locate additional deposits. Although it has just now come to light, the operations of Vanadium Corporation and AEC on the Navajo Reservation have been in progress more than a year. TEN PER CENT of the income Obtained from the sale of uranium ore taken from the reservation is returned to the Navajo tribal luna, Dunning said. This, he said, means a profit to the tribe of 000 daily, on the basis of 200 tons of ore a day at $50 a ton.

Dunning revealed that in addi tion to the recent uranium strike by Mrs. Riley Baker in the Vermillion Cliffs near Navajo Bridge, two other uranium-bearing de posits have "been discovered, one south of Holbrook and the other at an undisclosed location. Airmen Fill In Missile Crater TUCSON, May 27 (AP) A salvage crew from Davis Monthan Air Force Base near here was filling in a 15-foot crater Friday in John Kudo's tomato field near Ni-land, Calif. The crater caused considerable speculation in the California community as to whether a piece of "secret equipment" had been dropped by an air force plane. The base public relations office said the hole was made by a cement filled practice bomb acci dentally dropped Thursday from a plane on a mission at the Salton Sea range.

irasn iuns Young Driver (Exclusive Republic Dispatch) WICKENBURG, May 27 Ed Felty, 26 years old, Cottonwood, died in Community Hospital at 7:30 a. m. Friday of injuries suffered two hours earlier when the car he was driving overturned off the highway five miles north of here. It was the 91st fatality resulting from motor vehicle accidents in Arizona since January 1. Felly's brother, Richard, 17, suf- 1949 91 This Date May 27 1948 124 fered minor injuries and was detained at the local jail after emergency hospital treatment.

Hobart Smith, highway patrolman, said the car the two were in was stolen Thursday night at Flagstaff. Smith said the vehicle was trav eling at high speed. The driver apparently lost control of the car and it overturned six times, hurl- ine him 56 feet. He suffered a fractured skull and crushed chest Smith apprehended the younger man after a short chase across tne desert following the crash. Photo) Priority Is Given Birds Over Bridge PITTSBURGH, May 27 (AP) The home life of a family of robins Friday was given priority over a major bridge building project.

The birds chese to build a nest in a mammoth steel pier of a high-level bridge being constructed over the Monon-gahela river at nearby Dra-vosburg. Two young robins were hatched therein. The American Bridge Company, U. S. Steel subsidiary, issued orders to "detour" work around the pier until the robin family was ready to vacate.

Bridge workers built a steel cage around the pier to insure nesting privacy. And a sign was posted, reading: keep away do not disturb the robins." Boy Wins Spelling Bee; Nancy Gale 15th Down By JIM BLAKESLEE (Republic Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 27 Three boys, probably for the first time in the history of the National Spelling Bee here, battled it out for the championship Friday. Winner and new national grammar school champion speller was Kim Calvin, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen H.

Calvin, Canton, O. He is the seventh boy champion in 22 contests. NANCY GALE, 12, Arizona champion from Prescott, was the 15th contestant to go down under the barrage of brain teasers and word demons. She drew the word, deign, and missed the letter She was in her third official round and had correctly spelled State Group Inspects Navy A i Training Arizonans See Landing On Noted Plane Carrier By FRANK GIANELLI (Republic Staff Correspondent) PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR Sta tion, Pensacola, May 27 Arizonans witnessed a landmark in naval aviation training here when, as guests aboard the aircraft carrier USS Cab6t they watched Ens. T.

C. Baldwin of Illinois bring a Corsair in for the ship's landing since commissioned in 1943 and since reclaimed from the "mothball fleet" eight months ago. For the party of 20 Phoenix and Tucson press, radio and Navy League members, it was a high spot in an action-crammed day at sea watching cadets qualify in one phase of their training by making six carrier landings. MORE THAN 200 landings were made by training and service aircraft with only one mishap a bent propeller and a chunk of chewed up deck when a cadet landed short, his tail wheel struck the edge of the flight deck and his ship nosed along the deck for about 20 feet before he snagged the cable with his tail hook. The Arizona delegation arrived here Wednesday afternoon and spent Thursday and part of Friday aboard the carrier most of it topside just gazing at the wide expanse of water and watching the bustles of training procedure.

That much water all in one chunk was just too good to miss for the land locked, dehydrated desert dwellers. THE ARIZONANS have followed many phases of naval aviation here including, along with the training program, such operations as cost accounting and the navy's goals in tactical and strategic warfare. Their host is Vice-Adm. J. W.

Reeves, chief of naval air training who included Arizona flight students at the Pensacola station at a welcoming dinner given the visitors. The Arizona boys were Midshipman Jerry F. Detwiler, Tucson; Cadet Charles Burnett, Tucson; Midshipman Clyde W. Garner, Elfrida; Midshipman Lynn M. Barker, Tucson; Cadet W.

D. Stoddart, Phoenix; Ens. Claude F. Giles, Morenci; Ens. Kenneth L.

Bernstein. Miami, and Midshipman Max F. Klinger, Tucson. For Dr. John C.

Austin of Phoenix, one of the tour party, the banquet had an added attraction a chance to visi his son Ens. John D. Austin, who is training at Corry Field Basic Training Station near Pensacola. City Sales Tax Receipts Lag Income From First Month Is Below Estimate By ORREN BEATY RECEIPTS from the city's one-half of one per cent privilege license tax are falling below estimates, James T. Deppe, city manager, said Friday.

Through Friday, seven days after April payments for the levy (popularly called a sales tax) became delinquent, $70,120 had been collected, E. W. Layton reported. When the half-cent on the dollar tax was enacted by the city council for a three-month period effective April 2, the city had been given an estimate of a monthly return of $100,000. The total estimated revenue would have offset an anticipated $300,000 deficit in the city's budget tor the fiscal year ending June 30.

NOW, HOWEVER, unless May and June receipts from the emergency tax levy show marked increases, there probably will be a deficit, although much smaller than if the tax' ordinance had not been enacted. The city ordinance followed the general form pf the state two per cent sales tax law, by making payments by merchants due on the 15th of the following month, and delinquent on the 20th. It has become a practice by the state to allow monthly reports and payments to be made until the end of the month without penalty, the city has been informed, and the same procedure is being followed. Thus it will be the end of July before a complete report on results of the three-months sales tax experiment can be made. By that time, the budget for the 1949-50 fiscal year will have been adopted, and the question of use of a similar tax in the future has not been settled.

Councilmen will study revenue problems after the manager sub mits copies of the tentative over all budget, scheduled for June 7 menial and irritability plus a practice word, Nancy said she had never heard of deign but she made a fine attempt to spell the word. Second place winner was James Shea, 13, New York City, who fainted from the strain of the contest shortly after Calvin straightened out Shea's misspelled dulcimer and went on to spell onerous. THIRD PLACE was taken by the boy who traveled the longest distance to participate in the contest, Fred Shoup, 12, Palo Alto, Calif. Shoup drew encyclical and booted the beginning letter in favor of an Calvin's winning word was the 60th he spelled correctly. In all.

the 49 contestants had 614 words pronounced and the two top win ners were on ine piauorm ior four hours and five minutes, with short intermissions each hour. When Calvin won, the pro-nouncer, Benson S. Alleman, an assistant professor of English at the American University here, had only one more page of words to go. The students were spelling tougher words at the end than last year. Shea showed no emotion when he drew plenipotentiary and spelled it without a quiver.

CALVIN breezed through hirsute without hesitating. Both spelled 10 tough words before Shea missed. Your reporter had difficulty recording most of the words at the end of the contest. Calvin, an eighth grader from (Continued On Page 2, Col. 5) Secret Agent Bill Is Passed WASHINGTON, May 27 (AP) A super-secret bill to help America's global spies pry out information needed for this country's defense won unanimous senate approval Friday.

The "hush-hush" measure, previously passed by the house, broadens the powers of the Central Intelligence Agency which directs the far-flung operations of United States agents trying to keep tab on what potential enemies, as well as friends, are doing. To facilitate this hazardous work, the bill would permit admission of up to 100 aliens a year who by serving as informers run the risk of death or imprisonment in their own countries. These counter-espionage helpers also could bring their immediate families with them for "permanent residence" in this country. But if they misbehaved here they could be deported. The CIA also would be authorized to spend unspecified sums of money for "confidential purposes" with no accounting required except a certificate from the agency's director.

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