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Weather REPUBLIC BULLDOG Safety Tip The three Cs of good driving -C for caution, for Care, for courtesy. na Rep HE JklOXG ublic Variable cloudiness Friday becoming mostly clear Saturday. Slightly warmer Friday. High temperature Thursday: 96; Low: 0. High Humidity: 60; Low: 84.

Details. Page S2. THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Entered at Post Office as second class matter under Act of Congress, March 3. 1879; 1.25 per month -T lVe VIllS Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, July 22, 1949 Pages 9 I I 1 11 In 0 60th Year, No. 65 36 ote Of Worth I Senate ed llianee Is Allan By Governor Proclaims Farm Safety Week Mm 'W mm, 1.1 IIP5; Tops Meede Two Democrats, Taylor Of Idaho And Johnson Of Colorado, Join 11 Republicans Against Alliance Art IliliilliiliiBM tie A.

Distance Cyclist Stops In Phoenix NEW YORK to San Francisco on a bicycle! That is the feat performed by 51-year-old Eliseo Rossi, who left Utica, N. on May 16 and traveled, as he put it, "the longest route" to San Francisco, via Chicago and Yellowstone Park. He arrived in Phoenix Thursday, after traveling more than 4,000 miles since he left Utica on his two-wheeled horse. He says that he can get a better look at the country by traveling this way. In the desert he travels part of the time by night.

He is returning home via St. Louis. Bus Drivers Set To Strike At Midnight Walkout Would Hit System In Arizona, Five Other States DRIVERS of the Continental-Santa Fe Bus System, which operates in Arizona and five other western states, are scheduled to strike at midnight Friday. The drivers, totaling nearly 300, said the walkout has been called in a dispute over unsettled grievances. DONALD H.

SHEETS, deputy president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, to which th drivers belong, told the United Press in Los -Angeles that. tht grievances include dismissal of two drivers and mnvinf nf an nfi. erators division point from Win- aow to iagstaff. M. C.

Garst, federal conciliator, scheduled a meeting: 4or- 10 a. m. Friday in Los Anneies to trv to avoid the walkout. The bus system operates in California, New Utah, Colorado, and Texas, in addition to Arizona. SHEETS SAID THAT the company, in moving the terminal from Winslow to Flagstaff May 20, took the action without reeard for th drivers or their Company officials, the United Press stated, were not available for comment.

WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) The senate, by the overwhelming vote of 82 to 13, late Thursday ratified the North Atlantic treaty pledging 12 nations to give mutual aid, against aggression. All reservations were defeated. Designed, as a bulwark against any attack by Soviet Russia, the pact puts the United States into a military alliance with European nations for the first time in history. THE it YES VOTES "were 18 more the two-thirds majority necessary to ratify. The senate refused to modify the United States stand in any way.

Three bitterly contested reservations declaring that the treaty does not commit us to send arms or go to war were swamped. The voss came at the end of 13 days of furious debate in which opponents of the treaty cried it "is likely to lead to war." But Dean Acheson, secretary of state, issued a statement of gratification on the heels of the smashing victory: "The decisive nature of the senate vote makes clear to the world the determination of the American people to do their full part in maintaining peace and THE ADMINISTRATION will follow up quickly with a arms program, of which $1,130,000,000 would be spent to back up the treaty with arms for the alliance partners in Europe. It may go to congress Friday, Unlike the treaty, majority approval of both houses Governor Garvey, left, signs the official proclamation designating the week of July 24 to SO as National Farm Safety Week in Arizona. John HV OTiell, center, Maricopa county agricultural agent, and Sam Maxcy, executive secretary of the Maricopa County Farm Bureau, represent the local organizations spon Agents Nab Five, Seize Opium Stock Reported 200-Pound Cache Is Hunted In Basement Vice Den By JIM BLAKESLEE TREASURY agents swooped down on two Phoenix establish ments Thursday night and cracked an opium ring -reputed to have done a $10,000,000 business in tne last 10 years. Four Chinese were apprehended as they smoked opium pipes in a basement room at 119 East Madi son street.

The pungent stench of smoked opium and stains of opium residue were found throughout the underground dungeons. FIFTH CHINESE, Shorty Wong, 44 years old, owner of the Peking Chinese Cafe, 148 South First street, fled but was captured quickly by an agent wielding a hay hook used to rip down walls during searches. Opium and equipment valued at $25,000 were seized in the raid. Treasury agents continued their search Thursday night for a 200- pound cache of opium they had been informed was on the Peking premises. Led by Earl Smith and Robert W.

Lorenz, narcotics agents stationed at Phoenix, 23 agents from alcohol tax, immigration patrol, intelli gence, and customs units co-ordinated to bottle up the premises and occupants. Two Phoenix police detectives, Joe Valenzuela and Dale Welch, also co-operated in the drive. SMITH SATO the basement rooms comprised one of the largest smoking and gambling places in the United States. Chinese lottery-tickets and other equipment were scattered throughout the dingy underground rooms. In the rear of the Peking officers found a quantity of opium, four pistols, and smoking equipment in Wong's private office.

An undercover narcotics agent said Wong had boasted of having financial backing of at least The Chinese was said to be trying to buy up all opium manufactured in Mexico in an attempt to keep the price up. Smith reported the value of a tin of opium had dropped from $1,000 to $350 in the last five months. 1 WONG ALSO had bragged, the agent said, of doing a "worldwide" business and told of customers flying from as far away as Hawaii to purchase as much as 50 to 100 cans of the prepared dope. Smith and Lorenz had been investigating Wong and the smoking rooms for the past 18 months. Smith said agents had known of some activity for three years but just recently were able to secure sufficient evidence to raid.

About 25 of Wong's runners have been caught at the international boundary during the past 10 years, treasury men said. Each one supplied a small piece of the Chinese opium distribution center puzzle. Seized in the Thursday raid were Chinese scales, lamps, pipes, chimneys, head rests and various other smoking implements. About 25 partially full or full opium cans and several smaller glass jars also were taken. THE NETWORK of underground rooms at 119 East Madison street was equipped with pay windows complete with mesh for lottery activities.

Tickets were found with the printing, Arizona, across them and bore the legend $2,000 limit. There also were smoking rooms with large 'low canvas-covered tables on which the smoker lay to hold his pipe over the Chinese chimney. James J. Biggins, district narcotics supervisor, and William J. Harmon, supervising customs agent for the area, both of El Paso, also participated in the raid.

The four Chinese caught smoking pipes were Chee Bud Hae, 43, 3820 North Central avenue; Johnny Tong, 46, 117 East Madison street; Henry Tin Tang, 58, 115 North 27th street, and Sem Yee, 41, 517 North Fifth street. Airliner Speed Is Predicted LOS ANGELES, July 21 (INS) Harold Luskin, aircraft research engineer, predicted Thursday that within 10 years commercial airliners will be streaking through the skies at 1,500 miles per hour. Addressing the annual summer meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Luskin told the group developments in rocket propulsion will pave the way for greater speeds and higher Farm Plan Of Brannan Is Beaten GOP And Democrats Whip Administration On New Subsidies WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) In. a major defeat for the Truman! administration, the house Thursday scuttled the Brannan farm subsidy plan 239 to 170 and voted to continue the present price support program through 1950. The Brannan plan, offered by the secretary of agriculture, would let the market price of perishable foods drop to their natural level.

If they went below a point con sidered fair to farmers, the government (meaning the taxpayers) would pay subsidies to the farmers. UNDER THE present program, the government keeps surpluses off the market by means of purchases and loans. Prices of major commodities are supported rigidly in this way at 90 per cent of parity, which is a price aimed at giving the farmers a "fair" purchasing power. Any losses on such operations are made good by the taxpayers. The bill continuing this program another year was passed and sent to the senate on a vote of 383 to 25 but the previous roll call by which the Brannan plan was beaten, 239 to 170, was the crucial test.

The house also made another major decision shouting approv' al of an amendment to kill the Aiken Farm Law enacted by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Set to become effective in 1950, this law would -permit a flexible 60 to 90 per cent )arity support tor major crops. A DEMOCRATIC Republican coalition, headed by Rep. Robert Gore, Tennessee Democrat, took complete charge of the house, and not even a personal appeal by speaker Sam Rayburn could save the day for the administration. Many men such as Gore and Mike Monroney of Oklahoma who have supported many adminis-j tration bills, joined the opposition to the Brannan plan.

Some members of the coalition (Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) by recent copper mine closings, Senator Thomas, who is making a one-man assault on the "cock eyed" stockpiling policies of the munitions board, said he believes the agency will place' a greater empnasis in the future on domes tic purchases as a result of his disclosures. His statements followed a closed meeting of his subcommittee on military appropriations with high aeiense officials, Including John T. Koehler, assistant navy secretary. THE OFFICIALS opposed a mo tion by Thomas to rescind $600 000,000 of the $835,000,000 already appropriated this year for addi tional supplies of scarce defense materials.

Thomas said every member of the subcommittee urged that the board concentrate more on the purchase of domestic ores as one means of providing incentive to develop the domestic mining in dustry. Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona is a member of the subcommittee, but declined to comment on the meeting. Senator Thomas said the munitions board contract for Canadian copper covers a period of five years beginning in 1947 and provides for the purchase of not less than 150,000 tons nor more than 200,000 tons annually. The minimum price agreed to by this country was 18 cents a pound, while the most recent market quotation for domestic copper was about 17 cents, Thomas reported.

HE LAMENTED that the U. S. officials did not place an escape clause in the contract which would allow them to withdraw from the agreement in case of a surplus of copper in this country, which has now developed. The Oklahoma senator has (Continued On Page 2, CoL 6) 82-13 I is required. Also to be asked is ah appropriation of $320,000,000 for arms for Greece, Turkey, Iran, the Philippines, and Korea.

Most of the opponents of the treaty centered their fire on the arms Throughout the closing- day, three Republican senators fought bitterly to get the senate to declare that the treaty does not commit Kis nation to share the atomic bomb or other arms with Europe. BACKERS of the treaty said the reservation was not necessary and would weaken the alliance. The reservation was beaten 74 to 21. It was offered by Senators Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, Robert Taft of Ohio, and Arthur Watkins of Utah. Quickly then the senate smothered a reservation offered by Wat-kins alone.

It would have declared the U.S. not obligated to defend the North Atlantic area without approval by congress. The vote was 84 to 11. Minutes later, another Watkins proposal to deny that the treaty obligated congress to declare war or use U.S. armed forces to defend a pact nation was beaten 87 to 8.

TWO DEMOCRATS, Edwin Johnson of Colorado and Glen Taylor of Idaho, joined 11 Republicans in voting against the treaty. The Republicans were Guy Cordon of Oregon, Forrest Donnell of Missouri, Ralph Flanders of Vermont, Wil liam Jenner of Indiana, James Kem of William Langer of North Dakota, George Malone of Nevada, Taft of Ohio, Watkins of Utah, Wherry of Nebraska, and Milton Young of North Dakota. One mild surprise was the vote of Cordon against the treaty. He generally had been listed among those expected to vote for it. Only one senator, Allen J.

Ellen der, Louisiana Democrat, was not present. He was In Europe where he went on a United Nations mis sion and now is studying housing. THE TREATY becomes effective when the seven original sponsoring nations approve it. All but two of these, France and The Netherlands, have ratified. France may vote this week.

Others which have ratified are1 Canada, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg (of the original seven) and Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The Italian chamber of deputies approved it Thursday, but the Italian senate must 'also concur. The Italian action came in the face of a Russian protest that it violated the Italian peace treaty. The pact will go to President Truman Friday. He is expected to sign it next week.

Proponents were quick to hail the treaty as a long step forward in assuring peace. UNDER IT the 12 nations agree to act within the United Nations framework in strengthening themselves by mutual aid against attack; to regard an attack on one as an attack on all, and to set up a defense strategy. Said Sen. Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee: "It is my firm conviction the treaty will contribute to the peace of the world. The rights of the United States are amply protected." Another outspoken supporter, Sen.

H. Alexander Smith, New Jer sey Republican, summed it up this way: "The overwhelming vote, un-(Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) By 1 lO Senator Says U. S. Pays Canada Copper Premium (Republic's Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, July 21 Sen.

Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma Democrat, said Thursdav he has obtained nhntivKtnt-if xnn! DC rf nntrote Interpretive U.S. Defense AgatthstReds Set In Europe America Is Embarked On Revolutionary New Foreign Policy By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) The Senate vote approving the Atlantic pact Thursday night empowered President Truman to estab lish America's defensive frontiers against Russian in the heart of Europe. That Is exactly what he now proposes, to do as quickly as possible not only to keep the Soviets at arms' length but also to spread -the cloak of American power over the borders of weaker states. THE UNITED STATES is thus embarked on a revolutionary new course in its foreign policy.

It is pledged or in a Jegal sense shortly will be to act in case any one of 10 European area nations, or Canada, is attacked. It is committed, to a program of mutual aid and expects to share a single grand strategic plan for the defense of the whole western world. Treaty supporters believe greater assurance of world peace will re sult from all these actions and ar raneements: critics have de nounced the alliance and its companion- rearmament program as a new incitement to Russia, THE STATE department, which negotiated the unprecedented pact, and military leaders believe the policy of close military ties with Western Europe in peacetime is in line with the harsh realities of the age of atomic bombs, round-the world airplanes and guided mis siles. The avowed aim of the 12-nation alliance is to create a concentra tion of power so strong that any potential aggressor nation as western leaders claim Russia Is would be discouraged from attack tag. President Truman says this con forms to the purposes of the United Nations, and the leaders of the Staff Photo) ScTioblffiissirig; S6lsRejoicing ABOUT A month ago someone stole the doors and windows from the Rainbow Valley School for Negro children 16 miles southeast of Buckeye.

Thursday, a school maintenance man, Alfred Stump, reported to John H. Barry, coun- ty school superintendent, that the entire one-room building was gone. Children in the area needn't be elated, however. The school has been vacant three years. Valley's Heat Respite Brief THE ELEMENTS reached into the northern altitudes arid dragged in cool air to give Phoenix the coolest day Thursday since June 18.

The maximum temperature in downtown Phoenix was 96 degrees. Minimum for the day was 80 degrees. What's more, temperatures just north of the border in Southern Utah dropped to 39 degrees. The cool wave will be shortlived, however. Temperatures of 102 degrees are forecast for Friday.

Several dry thunderstorms were reported over the state. One passed over Phoenix about noon to boost wind velocity to 20 miles per hour and whip dust into the air. Soviets Reject Talks On Treaty Violations LONDON, July 22 (UP) Tne Soviet Union Friday rejected a request by the United States and Britain for a conference to discuss asserted peace treaty violations by Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. The Anglo-American request was contained in notes to the Soviet Union last April. It called for a meeting of the heads of the big three diplomatic missions to the three eastern countries to take up the violations.

to prove that the national munitions board is buying upwards of orv AAA ions 01 copper a year irom Canada at a rate above the market price in this country. The amount is more than 85 per cent of Canada's total annual copper production. THE DISCLOSURE was a jolt to members of congress from Arizona, where hundreds of miners have been thrown out of work soring the observance (Republic Ga On Nationiyide Radio Program Ceremony Saturday To Inaugurate Drive Against Accidents ARIZONA'S observance of Na tional Farm Safety Week was pro-claimed Thursday by Governor Garvey. To inaugurate the week of July 24 to 30 as a period in which to campaign against unsafe practices on the farm, Arizona's chief executive will represent' the governors of 48 states in a nationwide broad cast Saturday. SPEAKING THROUGH the fa cilities of the American Broadcasting Company at Radio Station KPHO, the governor will join the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation and the secre tary of agriculture on the Ameri can Farmer broadcast at 11 :30 a.m.

In compliance with a proclama tion by President Truman, Governor Garvey will request all organizations and persons interested in farm life and welfare to join the National Safety Council and the United States Department of Agriculture and other organiza tions throughout the land in the observance of National Farm Safe ty Week. STARTING SUNDAY with fit ting ceremonies in many churches across the nation, the safety pro gram will include seven days devoted to home safety, livestock safety, safety from falls, traffic safety, and machinery safety. The high fatality record on farms for 1948 could be illustrated. Governor Garvey said, "by a farm accident memorial parade in honor of all the victims of farm accidents in a year which would extend for 3,250 miles and last virtually all during National Farm Safety Week." "this Imaginary procession," the governor said, "would contain 19,500 hearses, representing the fatalities, and 351,000 automobiles, each carrying five persons injured in farm accidents. It would begin at 5:30 a.

m. Sunday, travel at 20 miles an hour, and not end until July 30." Saturday's speakers will include Robert B. White, agricultural di rector of the American Broadcast ing Company; James Tanham, vice-president of the Texas Oil Company and chairman of the board of the National Safety Council: Charles F. Brannan, secretary of agriculture; Allan B. Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Paul Jones, director of the safety council's public information department.

Suspect Confesses In Robbery-Slaying PIKEVILLE. Ky July 21 (AP) Blaine Edgar Jones, 32 years Thursday night signed a confession to the robbery-slaying of Mrs. Lois Collins" but denied that he had raped her. rveYToTalk UtaKTeeri-Age Baby Sitter Found Slain Girl Is Strangled With Own Clothing, Left In Vacant Lot OGDEN, Utah, July 21 (AP) A blonde teen-age baby sitter was strangled with her own clothing and left nude in a vacant lot early Thursday. Sheriff Mac Wade said Shirley Gretzinger, 17 years old, was, killed by someone who had sought to lure another baby sitter from her home on a pretext that a well-paying evening's work awaited her.

WADE ADDED that Miss Gretzinger was the victim of a sex maniac. "It appears she may have been raped," he The sheriff said another Ogden girl, Lee Rogers, had taken a baby sitting assignment first when an unidentified man called in response to an advertisement she had placed in two newspapers. When Miss Rogers was unable to take the assignment, she asked Miss Gretzinger to take it for her. Under the arrangement she was to meet her supposed employer at a street corner just north of the main business section of Ogden She was to be paid $1 an hour. THE VICTIM, a junior at Ogden High School, was strangled with her blouse and brassiere.

Her body was found in a patch of brush in Riverdale just south of Ogden. She was identified by George Middleton, 18, Ogden, who said he had planned to marry the girl next spring. Mrs. Lida Gretzinger, the girl's mother, telephoned the Ogden Youth Bureau Thursday morning, reporting that her daughter had not returned from the baby-tending work. The victim's body was found about an hour later.

Thursday three Israeli army officers to spread communism among Arab Israeli Communist party promised a Communist coup in Israel within three years. (In New York, a spokesman for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations said the Egyptians were trying to revive fantastic tales of Communist influence in Israel. said the story told by Egyptians and captured Arabs was nonsense. Twelve Escape In B-29 Crash WISBECH, July 21 (AP) An American B-29 Superfortress on a routine flight crashed and burned near here Thursday night. A U.

S. Air Force spokesman said ail crewmen escaped serious injury. Occupants of the plane para chuted to safety. No names were disclosed. Cause of the crash has not been determined.

Capt. G. A. Harty, public in for mation officer lor the American Third Division in London, said the worst Injuries were a possible skull fracture suffered by the pilot and a leg fracture for another member of the crew. Harty said he was receiving his information "from the people on the scene." The bomber was sta tioned at Sculthorpe, big American air base in Norfolk county, in northeast England.

Wisbech is about 85 miles northeast of London, First Woman Takes U. S. Treasury Helm WASHINGTON, July 21 (INS) The first woman treasurer of the United States, Mrs. Georgia Neece Clark, Friday assumed responsibility for Mrs. Clark received the money all securities and cash in the U.

S. Treasury at a ceremony in which she formally took office. The two-thirds of a cent was included in an item listed as "bonds and other securities heid in trust other 11 nations have expressed the same view. Whether the UJN. is strengthened or weakened by the pact, however, may well depend on whether the United States in the long run uses the world agency or the regional alliance as the primary instrument of its world policies.

THE PACT BRINGS together the United States and Canada (with defense lines running far into the Pacific as well as Europe) Israeli Reds Accused Of Drive Among Arabs GAZA, Egyptian-Occupied Palestine, July 21 (AP) Communist Arabs jailed by the Egyptians said are secretly directing a campaign refugees here. Egyptian army intelligence otlicers aispiayea wnat tney aescriDea the five members of the Western European Union Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux embourg; two Scandinavian states Norway and Denmark; one Southern European nation Italy; and two countries with key positions in the Atlantic Iceland and Portugal. The immediate concern of the Atlantic powers, under the pact will be with military problems and the problems of diplomacy grow (Continued On Page 2, CoL 7, as captured Communist documents and permitted interviews with the prisoners. Thirty-three Palestine Arabs have been arrested in the last two days on charges of setting up an Israeli-directed' Communist underground movement among Gaza's 216,000 ragged refugees. A 23-year-old Bedouin, accused of being one of the leaders, reported the secretary-general of the 4 4.