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Details, pate IS Traffic Deatlis 1953 Fatalities To Date 1931 89 In Arirona 94 THE STATES GREATEST NZVSPAPEi 22 Pages Entered at Post Office as second class matter under Act ot Congress, March 3. 1ST9; Si.90 per month OCYCIi lCmS Phoenix, Arizona, Monday, April 14, 1952 62nd Year, No. 332 (7l1 17 An li i i im Vinwni I i LS lAI it Tl FlDoded With 2w Ft i rem issown UTj- Phoenix Found 2 New Stations Planned As S. Ends TV Freeze LIFTING of the Federal Communications Commission's 3 -year ban on new television station construction, announced Sunday, finds Phoenix ready and eager to get started. The FCC, in removing the ban, announced allocation of 2,053 channels for 1,291 communities in the United States and its territories.

At present only 108 TV stations are in operation. Dick Lewis, president and general manager of Phoenix radio station KTAR, said: "This is what we have been waiting for." KTAR already has a site for its and Central. The 150 by 135 foot plot will include the operations of both radio and television, Lewis said. The transmitter will be located on South Mountain. LEWIS ESTIMATED it would be three months after the station is constructed before KTAR-TV would be on the air.

Bids for build ing the studio construction have been asked, and a contractor should be selected by the end of this month, he added. "Video equipment already has been arranged for," said the sta- TTnrriP Tminrlntfrl Waters from Crystal Lake, just west of South Sioux luullUdlcu city, creep up the walls of these shore side homes. The lake is filled to overflowing by backwaters of the flooding Missouri River. Note water already more than halfway up first stories of buildings. (AP Wirephoto) Taft Backs GOP Demand For Steel Seizure Probe Bridges To Offer Resolution Calling For Investigation Of Legality Of Truman Act WASHINGTON.

April 13 (UP) Sen. Robert- A. Taft Ohio) Sunday threw his support behind a sional investigation of President industry. The co-author of the Taft-Hartley law also said that the wage Increase recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board for the CIO united bteeiworxers woum upset tne staDiuzation program even if the jsteel companies could absorb it out of present profits. Senate Republican leader Styles Bridges N.

is scheduled to introduce. Monday a resolution calling pn the senate judiciary com wmjn GOPHolds Jersey Vote Center Ring Ike Leads 3-Way Race In Pre-Ballot State Predictions NEWARK. N. April 13 (AP) The Taft-Eisenhower-Stassen battle in the presidential preference poll will be the main attraction in New Jersey's primary election Tuesday, but politicians also will have their eyes trained on the sideshow action. While the three-way contest in the GOP popularity poll linked with a -scramble for delegates to the Republican National Convention holds the center ring, the spotlight will swing around to: 1 The vote given Sen.

Estes Ke- fauver, -lone entrant on the Democratic presidential ballot A possible sizable write-in vote for General Eisenhower on the Democratic side. The race between Sen. IT. Alex-' ander Smith and Carl Ring, a lawyer and Taft supporter, for the Republican nomination for senate. EISENHOWER HAS received the nod in most quarters in the Republican presidential contest.

Taft attempted to withdraw but was unsuccesful in having his name taken off the ballot He has not done any campaigning. Harold E. Stassen is given little chance. In the delegate races, a full slate of 38 organization nominees who are unpledged, is opposed by 20 Stassen candidates, 11 unofficially for Taft and 4 who favor General MacArthur. The state's organization Demo' erats have been cool but not hos tile to Kefauver's candidacy.

Until President Truman announced he would not seek another term, party leaders expected to cast their delegate votes for the President. ALTHOUGH THERE is senti ment for Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, many leaders have adopted a "wait-and-see" attitude until the situation crystalizes. A heavy vote for Kefauver, however, might have a striking influence on party bigwigs. There has been no outward sigh of any Campaign for write-in votes.

While Democratic politicians have, not gone out of their way to boost Kef auver, they also are not dis couraging votes for the Tennessee senator. The chief supporter of Steven son is Archibald S. Alexander, former undersecretary of the army, who will head the 36-man delegation to Chicago July 21. The delegation will have 32 votes. Alexander also is the unopposed organization candidate for the Democratic senate nomination.

POLITICIANS WILL keep a close watch on the comparative vote polled by Alexander and that received by Kefauver. The situation is similar to that in Illinois last Tuesday when Kefauver ran unopposed in the preference primary and Stevenson did likewise in the Democratic gubernatorial ballot In that case, Kefauver ran more than 175,000 votes behind the governor. Italian Red Boss's Immunity Under Fire ROME, April 13 (AP) The Italian general prosecutor has asked that Giuseppe Di Vittorio, Italy's Communist labor boss, be stripped of his parliamentary immunity so that he can stand trial for "slander of Italian institutions. 'V 1 1 I i proposed television unit at Portland tion manager, "aifd we shouldn't have any trouble getting it" KTAR has filed for Channel 3, one of three commercial outlets allocated to Phoenix. KPHO-TV Additional Story Page 12 took Channel 5.

The latter station was in operation before the freeze went into effect. A third channel for educational purposes, also went to Phoenix. A second application was filed (Continued On Page 2, Col. 3) Republican -demand for a congres Truman's seizure of the big steel Puerto Rico Probes Crash SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico.

April 13 (AP) Puerto Rico's insular legislature set in motion Sunday a full investigation into Friday's Pan American Airways plane crash here, in which 52 of the 69 persons aboard perished in the shark infested Caribbean. Congressman Ruben Gaztam- bide, who presented the motion for the investigation, said he had information there was "criminal negligence" in permitting the air craft to take off for its Easter holiday flight to New York. One or two of the plane's four engines were said to have failed shortly after take-off, causing the plane to crash into the sea and break in two outside San Juan harbor. A coast guard cutter cbntinued Sunday to scour the area where the plane sank, but found no traces of the 39 persons still missing. Thirteen bodies were recovered Friday.

The plane's crew of five, including Singer Jane Fro-man's pilot husband, Capt John C. Burn, were saved. Paper Suppressed For Cartoon Jibe TEHRAN, Iran, April 13 (AP) The semi-official newspaper Bakh-tar Emrooz said Sunday the government has ordered the suppres sion of a small Tehran weekly newspaper, Hamleh, for running a cartoon several weeks ago attacking Turkey's President Celal Bay- iar. 2 Workers Return To Jobs Today New Pact Brings Pay Hikes Ranging From 44 -25 Cents Hourly Special to The Republic LITCHFIELD PARK, April 13 The strike at the Goodyear Aircraft Corp. plant at Litchfield Park was settled Sunday afternoon wheiv workers voted to accept a new contract offered by management and return to work Monday morning.

Members of the International Association of Machinists (AFL) employed at the plant struck April 1. About 1,300 persons were out A maintenance crew went into the plant late Sunday to ready it for the first shift at 7 a.m. Monday. A joint statement by the com- -pany and union said: "The new contract which was accepted by the employes in the bargaining unit will bring wage increases ranging from 41- cents per hour to 25 cents per hour. IN ADDITION to wage in creases, the joint announcement stated that increases in the night differential were raised 3 cents per hour.

All Sunday work will be at double time rate and a streamlined giicvonLc ijiwcuuic wuini lc! in mates with arbitration and improved seniority provisions were included. Other provisions include 'a safety program which will be par-ticipated'in jointly by management and the union. THE NEW CONTRACT brings lit nua me aiiuua viaaixj cations parallel with the rates in the same classifications as used by the aircralt industry on the West Coast The new contract brings a more stabilized labor agreement. the announcement stated, in that the terms will be for a period of 18 months, with openings for discussion of wages only provided for. Ihe contract will go into effect on Monday, with a 3.5 per cent cost of living addition being immediately effective.

Other wage ad justments will be subject to Wage Stabilization Board approval and such increases will become effec tive as of April 14 for those em ployes who have retained their seniority as of the date of approval of such increases by the WSB. NEGOTIATIONS were reopened April 10. Both labor and management expressed apprecia tion of the manner in which the strike w5s conducted and negotiat ing meetings held. Members of the negotiating committees were: For the union C. L.

Hayward. R. C. Hodges, B. J.

Archuleta, M. T. Markwell, F. B. Dunmire, business agent, and C.

Z. Lindsey, grand lodge representative. For the company W. E. Greene, manager of administrative services; Frank Enright, personnel manager at the plant, and H.

B. Crawford, plant production manager. Freak Blast Kills Mother NEW YORK, April 13 (AP) A freak anesthetic explosion killed a Brooklyn mother on the operating table Saturday after she had given birth to her third daughter, it was disclosed Sunday. The child, delivered by caesarean section, had just been taken from the operating room and was unharmed. An attending doctor was knocked unconscious by the explosion, apparently set off by a spark of static electricity acting on the highly volatile anesthetic cyclopropane.

Dr. B. G. Dinin, medical superintendent at the city-owned Cumberland Hospital, said there was no evidence of negligence. He declined to name the attending physicians, and said an investigation is underway.

He identified the dead woman as Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra, 30. Her husband, Frank, 31, is employed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They had two other daughters, Theresa 5, and Margeurite 2. Opens April 23 WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP) Senator Long La.) Sunday ordered a senate investigation of the impact of reported big business monopoly practices on smaller and weaker competitorsr The inquiry is to open April 23.

River Tops Omaha 1881 Record High 17,744 Residents Flee From Homes In 7 Midwest States OMAHA, April 13 AP) The merciless Mi: Touri River whip- lashed the Sioux City, Iowa, area with steadily mounting fury Sun day and put downstream levees protecting the heavily populated Omaha-Council Bluffs, Iowa, area into a crucial test. If anything, the river was climb fng higher, and rolling its flood crest faster, than previously ex pected. At Sioux City, a revised time table called for cresting early Monday instead of Monday night. And instead of humping at 24.5, feet, the peak could go even a foot higher, forecasters said. The reading late Sunday was an un precedented 23.6 feet, up about two feet since Saturday.

AT OMAHA, the river stage surged past the 24.6 foot mark which had stood since 1881 as the record high. Forecasters stood on their prediction of a 30-foot-crest, but scheduled its Omaha arrival for Wednesday instead of Thurs day. Levees and flood walls protect ing Omaha and Council Bluffs were built to withstand a 26.6- foot crest' although freeboard (safety margin) adds 3 to 5 feet to the actual height. A feverish attempt to add another two feet of height is in progress. Omaha's reacting late Sunday was 25.18 feet, about 1.6 over the mark 24 hours earlier.

All up and down the river, especially along the 100-mile stretch between Sioux City and Omaha, the valley was a region of ghost farms and ghost towns, occupied only by dirty, silt-laden water and a few hardy souls determined to ride it out. SOUTH SIOUX 'CITY, Nebr. capitulated completely. Only a handful of the city's 6,000 resi dents remained as the Missouri dealt flood devastation unparal leled in modern history. The nuddy Missouri's depredations were part of a Midwest flood picture in which at least seven states figured.

The Red Cross, admittedly shy of late figures, held to its tally of 17,744 flood-displaced persons in the seven-state area including the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. This probably represents fully 40,000 persons. In North Dakota, the Red River of the North approached its highest flood stage in nine years and second highest in history. AT LEAST 920 persons had been evacuated in Fargo, N. and Moorhead, in addition to 107 patients removed from the flooded St.

John's hospital in Fargo. At South St Paul, an embargo on livestock receipts was slapped on the huge stockyards as the Mississippi river reached record highs. Dikes protecting imperiled St. Paul area continued to hold but the river climbed to seven feet over flood state and was due to rise another two feet by Friday or Saturday. The critical Missouri river area extended along 1,000 miles from South Dakota into Kansas and Missouri.

The water, barreling downstream with the force of a thousand locomotives, was the (Continued On Page 2, CoL 5) State Servicemen Back From Korea SEATTLE, April 13 (AP) Seven Arizonans were aboard the navy transport SgL Sylvester An-tolak which arrived here 'Sunday with 1,431 rotation troops from Korea. They were: Sgt. Ezra Barney, Pomerene; Pfc. Timothy L. Drane, 38 VV.

Medlock Phoenix; CpL Joe R. Gutierrez, Tucson; Pfc. Manuel Hernandez, Tolleson; Sgt. Harold E. Judd, 828 E.

Cocopah St, Phoenix; Cpl. Manuel A. Molina, Nogales, and 1st Lt. Clyde E. Phillips, 1125 E.

Devonshire St, Phoenix; Two Ohio Factories "Wrecked By Twister DOVER, Ohio, April 13 (AP) A tornado whipped through the southern edge of Dover Sunday, wrecking two factories and slight ly injuring a motorist Dover, a town of about 10,000, is In northeastern Ohio, about 75 miles south of Cleveland. Dover police said the twister roared in from the west, hopped over the Tuscarawas River and swooped down on the Dover Appliance Co. plant and the Twin Cities Concrete Co. Tom Connally Will Abandon Senate Career Foreign Relations Head Announces Retirement At 74 WASHINGTON. April 13 (AP) Sharp-tongued, silverhaired Tom Connally, Democratic senator from Texas, announced Sunday night he "does not desire to be a candidate" for the senate again.

The 74-year-old Texan, head of the foreign relations committee, has served 35 years in the congress, 12 years as a representative, and 23 as a senator. In a statement distributed by his aides, and addressed "To the People of Texas," Connally said: "After long and careful consid eration over the months, I have concluded that I do not desire to be a candidate in the primaries in Texas for renomination to the United States "During my. service I have come to know the stress, the crushing burden and the hevy responsibilities of service in the senate. I will not engage in a bitter, arduous and taxing campaign in order to con tinue to carry this burden." PRICE DANIEL, attorney general of Texas, has already announced he is going to try for Connally's seat in the senate. Connally's career has brought him international stature, and his position on the influential committee taken him with American delegations both to Europe and South America.

He was an enlisted man in the Texas Volunteer Infantry in the bpanish-American war, and a captain in the 11th Division in World War I. He has served in Texas as a judge and state legis lator. HIS EDGED comments and curly white mane of hair turnine ud in drakes-tails at the back -r- has made him the center of interest in many a hot senate debate. His announcement followed a recent trip to Texas. He returned Friday.

His assistants said he would not be available tonight for elaborating comment on his statement Most recently, Connally's vivid manner of speech was turned on Sen. Robert A. Taft, Ohio). He called Taft a "chameleon senator" willing to "subordinate his integ rity to grasp a few slimy votes, ine comment followed a press report of Taffs campaigning in Texas for the Republican pres idential nomination. Hardy Detail: Hutton Pajamas KOREA, April 13 (AP) A happy soldier from Virginia is wearing Betty Hutton's perfumed flannel pajamas.

He is CpL Edward L. Eardy, Portsmouth, Va. No he didn't find, borrow or steal the comedienne's nightwear. He won them. When Miss Hutton visited the 25th Division several weeks ago she offered the pajamas, her sleeping bag, and an autographed picture of herself as prizes for a RedCross fund drive.

-Hardy won the pajamas first prize by contributing $51. Phone Offices Are Picketed PRODUCTION and maintenance workers of Western Electric Co. set up picket lines 7 a. m. Sunday around telephone offices in Phoenix and Tucson.

Dial services will remain normal, barring breakdowns in automatic equipment, H. K. Richmond, district, manager of the Mountain States Telephone Company said. SUPERVISORY personnel manned long distance switchboards as most of the Mountain States employes, who agreed to honor the maintenance workers picket lines, stayed away from work. Richmond said some union people as well as non-union had come across the picket lines and were handling all calls.

"THERE IS some disruption of service, but all calls are being handled," Richmond said. Meanwhile, the Commercial Telegraphers' union (AFL), con tinued to picket Western Union offices, 20 N. Central. The company said it was handling telegrams and money orders on a limited. Fatal To Airman THE ARIZONA State Highway Patrol Sunday reported the death Saturday night of a Luke Air Force Base airman in a motorcycle accident seven1 miles north of Casa Grande on State Highway 187.

Killed when his motorcycle went out of control after hitting a rut on the shoulder of the road was Airman Second Class Myron L. Richards, 22. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.

Richards of Miles City, Mont Walter L. WenseL 24, airman third class, of Flagstaff, who was riding on Richards's motorcycle, is in the Casa Grande hospital-with multiple abrasions and cuts. Soviets Hint Korean Truce compromise Renewal Of Prisoner Swap Talks Asked By Russ Negotiators MUNSAN. Korea, April 14 (AP) Communist 'truce negotiators asked Sunday for a resumption of the recessed talks pn prisoner ex change. It could mean they are ready to- discuss a compromise on the hot issue.

A United Nations command spokesman said he did not know when the Allies would be ready to resume the talks on prisoners, but that it probably would not be Monday. SUNDAY'S truce supervision session lasted only 50 seconds a new mark for brevity time only for the delegates to agree to meet again. They are deadlocked on Communist insistence that Russia be one of six neutral truce inspectors, and an Allied demand for a ban on military airfield construction. Staff officers grappling with the prisoner exchange issue have been in recess since April 4 working separately on "additional avenues" of the question. UNOFFICIAL observers in Mun-san consider it likely the staff officers have been overhauling prisoner lists on the basis of a secret formula which might reconcile Allied insistence on voluntary repatriation and the Communist demand for return of all prisoners.

If the two sides have been revising the prisoner lists they exchanged last Dec. 18, it seemed probable the U.N. command still would be busy at the task, because it holds so many more prisoners than do the Communists. Sabres Doivn 7 Red MIGs SEOUL, Korea, April 14 (AP) UJS. Sabreiet pilots reported they shot down seven Communist MIG-15s in four swirling dogfights high over northwest Korea Easter Sunday" one of them by America's top ace still in combat It was the first time in a week the Communist jets ventured into North Korea from their Manchur-ian sanctuary across the winding Yalu River.

The UA Fifth Air. Force reported that in addition to the seven MIGs shot down another was probably destroyed and four damaged. One of the Red jets downed in a late afternoon dogfight was credited to Col. Francis S. Gabreski of Oil City, highest ranking VJS.

ace still in combat It brought his MIG kills to 63 and his record in both World War and the Korean war to 344. The Reds sent at least 170 MIGS over North Korea. On the battlefront only scat tered patrol contacts marred the Allied infantrymen's observance of Easter. Where To Find Yost Favorite Features SOUTH AFRICA moves to combat growing racial unrest- Page 5. Sen.

Edward Martin of Pennsylvania cites examples of waste and extravagance in the federal government Page IS. rmce Ttm Business Bet IS Radio-TV. Comics 14 Sport 16-7 Editorials. Theaters 15 Here Today 4 Want ads 1S-21 mittee to investigate the legality of Mr. Truman's seizure of the steel mills to prevant astrike last Tuesday midnight.

MEANTIME, ACTING mobilization director John R. Steelman and Nathan P. Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, conferred throughout the day on their attempts to break the steel wage deadlock through negotiations. They have, been directing the face-to-face negotiations between CIO president Philip Murray, head of the steelworkers union, and John A. Stephens, chief industry negotiator, which-will resume at 2 p.m.

Monday. There was no in dication of a break in the stale mate. But there were indications that if the negotiations drag out much longer Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer may offer to give the 650,000 steelworkers a "down payment" on the 26-cent wage pay increase recommended by the wage board. A HIGH GOVERNMENT official said over the weekend that Sawyer may not be able to hold off much longer. The commerce secretary was given power to set "conditions of employment" when Mr.

Truman ordered him to run the government-seized industry. The official thought that, a reasonable down payment might be 12 cents an hour and all fringe benefits except the union shop and premium pay for Sunday work. This probably would displease both the union and the companies. The union has insisted on bargaining on the basis of the full wage board recommendations. The com panies would be expected to re double their battle for a' court order against Mr.

Truman's seiz ure. (, 0-m A 9 -I i 5 i I A Chimp iVo Chump Big Ape Springs Lock, Flees Cage, Panics Zoo LOS ANGELES, April 13 (INS) Hundreds of visitors at Griffith Park were thrown into a panic Sunday by the escape of a full-grown 180-pound chimpanzee from the zoo. The big ape knocked down three men, dented two cars with his fists, and bit a policeman during a wild three hours. He finally was cornered on the No. 1 green of the Roosevelt golf course and, after considerable difficulty, was led to a car and taken back to his cage.

The policeman, Ralph Wilderman, was bitten on the thumb while trying to calm the animal. Then an effort was made to put the chimp to sleep by giving him a strong sedative in a soft drink. The ape gulped down the drink, but apparently because he was keyed up, did not go to sleep. However, he calmed down and later submitted to being led away by attendants. The animal got out by springing a faulty lock pn his cage.

Factw Pirnilprs The Daniel O'Neiis, 12, strong, of Boston, proudly tooK easier ariuers part in the EaSter Parade on New York's Fifth Avenue. The 10 daughters wear identical clothes. Left to right are: Jane, 19; Barbara, 18; Diane, 16r Maureen, 14; Evelyn, 12; Virginia, Mary, Julie, Danielle, and Frances, 3. (AP Wirephoto),.