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REPUBLIC CITY Weather The Arizona Republic Safety Tip Folio! the "golden rule" drive as you'd expect tha other fellow to drive. YM-iaM cloudlneaa today and tomorrow. No important ehjuig in temperature. THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, October 29, 1947 58th Year, No. 161 28 Pages olM o) Lru In Poiit I ooo uca Interior Aid Backs Expansion Identified Red Film Writers Defy Probers WASHINGTON.

Oct. 28 (UP) Three more bis-time movie writers, all identified as card-carrying Communist party members, trooped before the house un-American activities committee today and defiantly accepted contempt of congress citations rather than testify whether they have Red affiliations. Apparently inviting a court test of the committee's power to Inquire into their political beliefs, Dalton Trumbo, Albert Maltz and Alvah Bessie, Hollywood scenarists, followed the example set yesterday by their colleague, John Howard Lawson, and refused to say pn.m.Hw. JJfC 4 11111 11 I.II.IIII.JI.....II.I.I.I,.. iiju.

5 wm I Jli 1 1 rn i rn-ii-n-imm-i -nrrmiriinin-nriim nltr -)iri-Tin 1 1 rimi Planned development of the entire Colorado river basin waa urged by William Warne, center, assistant secretary of interior, as he arrived last night to attend the National 'Reclamation Association convention opening here today. Greeting him at Phoenix Sky Harbor are Vaud Larson, left, engineer In charge of project planning in Arizona, and E. A. Moriti, Boulder City, director of Region III for the bureau, which includes all of the lower basin. (Republic Staff Photo.) Five Cents aras Elections First On Program By BEN AVERY NEW DIRECTORS of the National Reclamation Association will be elected during state caucuses-as the 16th and largest annual convention opens today in Hotel Westward Ho.

Hundreds of delegates arrived throughout yesterday indicating every one of the 1,500 advance reservations will be filled, and fi nal plans for opening of the ses sion were completed by retiring directors at its final Julius A. Krug. secretary of interior, and Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, will arrive about noon today to address the convention tomorrow. Mr.

Krug was preceded by William Warne, assistant secretary of Interior, who arrived last night. WARNE INDICATED he will combine business with his attendance at the convention, declaring he had several conferences scheduled on interior department matters. He did not, however, reveal their nature. As assistant secretary. Warne has general sunervision of the bu reau of -reclamation, the U.

S. Office of Indian Affairs, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Alaska. The Catherine, one of the larg est in Phoenix' history, will get down to business at 1:30 p.

m. when it is called to order by Robert W. Sawyer, Bend, president. The state caucuses, howeven, will begin at 10 a. m.

to name the new Doara or directors, name a resolutions committee and to dis cuss problems of various states. TOP OFFICIALS of the association expressed belief that reclamation has entered a "new era" In which added responsibilities will rest upon those directing the pro gram. Sawyer said that the "turning point" in the reclamation program was reached in the last congress. At that time, he said, it was recognized officially for the first time that money should be appropriated from the treasury general fund for construction of reclamation projects. "In the first years of reclamation we had money only from the (Continued On Page 2, CoL 1) Plane Lands On Roadway THREE PERSONS escaped Injury yesterday when a plane on a mercy flight from Springerville, in trouble for many miles, was set down on just about the only straight stretch in the whole of snaket rack-crooked Bush Highway.

Claude T. Hunger. 2424 Buckeye road, was being flown to Phoenix by Robert Allen, accompanied by Mrs. Violet Lavin, a nurse, both of Springerville. BliNGER, 34 years old, a lumber dealer, was on a buying trip when he suffered a collapsed lung.

He was put on Allen's Stinson hospital plane and Mrs. Lavin went along to administer oxygen if necessary. Over Roosevelt Dam engine trouble later found to have resulted from a collapsed carburetor float gave Allen serious concern. With no possible landing place for many miles, Allen nursed the ailing plane along until he sighted the straight highway between Stewart Mountain Dam and the bridge across the Salt river. SLANTING down squarely between high tension lines of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association and the telephone lines (Continued On Page 10, Col.

3) Soviets Are Accused Of Political Purge BERLIN, Oct. 28 (UP) Reliable Allied sources reported today that a quiet but persistent purge Of police and German public officials, all members of other parties than the Communist, has-been going on in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. The newspaper Social Democrat published a list of 20 members of the party of the same name who It said had been discharged recently from influential positions in the public administration and arrested. Fourteen leading police officials were removed and in many cases arrested, the newspaper reported. Republic and Gazette Average net paid oh-culation for September, 1917: Morning and Evening 99.02 Evening and Sunday 106,883 77T IT This Is Reclamation Country An Editorial No ordinary convention assembles here today.

Phoenix and this whole valley reclaimed from the desert greet men of an association that has worked mightily to further the cause of western reclamation. This city owes a great debt to that work. To you, the delegates and program guests of the National Reclamation Association, we say "Welcome!" with an extra measure of enthusiasm. This is reclamation country if ever an area deserved that name, and you are the nation's foremost Teclamationists, appropriately gathered in the midst of new wealth created by water where once was only wasteland. If you arrived by plane, a striking panorama must have given you new appreciation of your mission.

The green checkerboard of productive fields is a sight to behold. But it is more than beauty. It is food, it is tax money, it is new business of many kinds, new homes, new communities all contributing to the local and national economy. Take time to look about you, gentlemen. In this city shining in the sun like a bright new dollar yousee a miracle of prosperity built from thrift.

For how can thrift be better described than to create value out of nothing? Help us tell that to the nation, for tve seek water to protect the nation's good investment here. Before you leave, look far enough to see dry reservoirs, and drouth-idled acres beginning to spoil the valley's green. Of all places in the United States, this valley is the ideal one to be your host this year. Enjoy the pleasant combination of business activity and resort-city leisure. We know you'll like Phoenix.

Reclamation made it prosperous and reclamation can keep it that way. zy OS3- Colorado Planning Is Urged A PLANNED program of devel opment of the entire Colorado riv er system was urged last night by William Warne, assistant secretary of interior, who arrived by plane from El Paso, to attend the 16th annual convention of the Na tional Reclamation Association opening here today. Such a program, Warne esti mated, may require as long as 50 years tor complete, but the bene fits to the states involved and to the nation would be uncountable. "Such a program is not quite at the starting point yet," he said, although he pointed out that the first stage of development already has taken place and is a good demonstration of the value- of extending this work and using the other half of the water now wasting in the Gulf of California. "THE STARTING point really will be a decision on where we are going to use what water," he said.

Warne expressed the opinion that decision must be made soon because the need for both water and power in the lower basin "is getting pretty desperate" and the upper basin also is spurred by the need for new development. "We have never found one of these jobs too big to handle before, and I see no reason why it necessary to draw back now," Warne said. "TAKE THE Missouri basin as an example of what can be done," he said. "That basin now is going forward with a plan of development, yet it started its planning only about a year before Vaud Larson started working on the planning here. "This year we are building 16 dams in the Missouri basin and the army engineers are building five more.

"They waited a long time there, but the basin plan proved to be the answer to their need, and they are making good progress now." WARNE SAID the question of when planned development of the Colorado river is to get started is before the people of the area "in way I think demands an answer." He said the bureau hopes its re cent report on long-range develop-m'ent of the Colorado basin would spur the demand for action, and pointed out that the upper basin states, of which Arizona is a member, have set up a compact commission and are working co-operatively toward solution of their problems. He stressed the need of co-oper ation to set up such a program and push it through to completion. Hotel Strikers Return To Jobs SIX UNION strikers who pick eted Hotel Westward Ho were re employed at the establishment yesterday, and representatives of the hotel management said 10 other pickets would be re-employ ed when openings occur which fit their capabilities and they are acceptable to the management." In an agreement signed last week by the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders union and representatives of the hotel, it was agreed to return the pickets their jobs immediately. The picket line at the hotel was with drawn. However, W.

Roy Wayland, ho tel president, refused to accept the agreement because of a provision calling for rehiring of the pickets. Wayland, who has returned to Phoenix, declined to comment on the agreement. Full utilization of the waters of the river, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation estimates, would add 1,533,960 acres of new land to the basin's irrigated empire; provide supplemental water for 1,122,270 acres; increase power production nearly three times to 3,500,000 kilowatts.

THAT IS the Colorado river's status today, but when the fight against its wild rampages started just after the turn of the rentury, few realized Its potential resources In water and power. Then it was a fight to keep the muddy floodwaters in the elevated channel of the delta and to control flow for navigation purposes. At first this fight was against crumbling levies while a roaring flood poured into Imperial valley to create the Salton Sea Fire Fighter? Plan Rain Try WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S (AP) An attempt to extinguish the Maine forest fires with "man-made" rain will be tried tomorrow, government scientists announced today. 'Military planes will fly over the area and drop dry ice.

This rain-making method has been tried successfully in recent experiments. The U. S. weather bureau reported cloud conditions over the fire area expected to be "near perfect" tomorrow for rain-making purposes. Thia effort to extinguish flames that have caused damage and taken 15 lives in Maine will be the first practical application of the dry-ice method for extinguishing a fire, scientists of the office of naval research said.

Witchcraft In Infant's Death Told By GENE McLAIN BELIEF in a form of witchcraft was acknowledge yesterday by 20- year-old Ramona Madrid of Phoenix as the county attorney pursued investigation into her baby's death, already attributed by a coroner's jury to malnutrition due to negli gence of the parents. Dow Ben Roush, deputy county attorney, said the girl told him she sought vainly for a freshly- laid hen's egg to use in making the sign of the cross over the baby's body, convinced this would "drive out the evil spirit" causing the In fant to waste away. She also said she heeded the advice of a neighbor to not clip the tot's fingernail in the belief that to do so would cause the baby's eyes to fall out, Roush reported. BUT, THE PROSECUTOR said, the mother claims she twice en riched the baby's formula, once buying an expensive condensed milk because the tot didn't relish nourishment, and twice wanted to take the baby to a doctor, but she and the father had no money. (Continued On Page 9, Col.

3) Leering Lizard Cause For Suit LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 (AP) Two couples who swear it wasn't the alcohol today sued a bottling company for $10,000 because a lizard crept out of a ginger beer bottle while they were having their second "Moscow Mule." A Moscow Mule is composed of ginger beer, lime Juice, lots of ice and, as you might guess, Vodka. Mr. and Mrs. George Horsman and Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin White claimed they saw a lizard or salamander stick its head out of the neck of the ginger beer bottle last September 10. Their complaint stated they be came violently nauseated, since then have been unable to sleep soundly and are troubled by dreams of "mules and lizards which leer at them from the necks of ginger beer bottles." I whether they were Communists. The wrathful committee mem bers immediately introduced docu mentary evidence purporting to show that each of the writers had held a Communist party member ship card and was active in a wide variety of Red front organizations, THEN THEY CITED all three for contempt of congress as they did Lawson yesterday a 1 each liable to penalties of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Fifteen other prominent movie writers, actors and directors who are expected to be asked the same $64 Communist question before the hearing ends, applauded the de fiant trio as they popped in and out of the witness chair.

There was some question whether they also would risk contempt citations. Robert W. Kenny, chief counsel for the entire group, de clined to answer directly when the committee demanded to know if he had so advised them. CHAIRMAN J. Parnell Thomas.

Republican of New Jersey, haled Kenny before the bjench midway through this afternoon's turbulent proceedings and asked him Doint- blank if he had told newsmen he would advise his clients not to answer questions about their political beliefs. The attorney countered that his relationship with his clients was inviolate, but he said he always advised clients to conduct themselves in a way that "would not invite prosecution." Thomas dropped the matter for the time being, remarking that Kenny had "squirmed out of this temporarily." But he warned the lawyer that it was a felony to conspire to commit an offense against the United States, as represented by the committee. He read from the criminal code that such a conspiracy is punishable by a maximum of two years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. TODAY'S HEARING went off in slam-bang style, with the accused writers apparently determined not to recognize the authority of the committee, which they have denounced as an "unconstitutional" body. Their protest was echoed by a delegation of 26 Hollywood personalities led by Humphrey Bogart, actor, and John Huston, director, (Continued on Page 9, Col.

1) Currency Clearing Agency Proposed PARIS, Oct. 28 (AP) Five nations of Western Europe today moved to make their currencies mutually convertible and Invited all other Marshall Plan countries to join them. Delegates from France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg on a currency committee of the 16 nations who met here last summer advised their respective governments to establish a central clearing agency to handle credits and debts among the participating nations. State Precious Metal Output Ranks Fourth WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (AP) Arizona ranked fourth among the states in production of gold and silver in 1946, the bureau of mines reported today.

Arizona produced 79,024 ounces of gold and 3,268,765 ounces of silver. It was outranked in gold production by California, Colorado and Nevada, and in silver output by Idaho, Utah and Montana. 000 A 1 a s. Productive wealth of the basin and a large area of the West will be doubled. TODAY ONLY half of this water supply is used; the other half pours into the Gulf of California.

Today only one third of its power Is converted into' electricity and put to use, while thousands bf industries cry for more power, huge mineral and coal deposits await development. In this half-way stage of development, 2,960,000 acngs are being irrigated 2,260,000 acres in the basin itself; 416,000 acres in California's Imperial valley, and 184,000 acres through trans- mountain diversions in the upper basin. Power plants are turning out 1,258,000 kilowatts in the lower basin and 60,000 kilowatts in the upper basin. Lru Is a to to Ramadier Rebukes De Gaulle PARIS. Oct.

28 (AP) Paul Ra madier. Socialist premier, opened a fight for the life of his government gainst De Gaullists and Commu nists today amid uproar in the na tional assembly and riotous scenes in the streets of the capital where 23,000 Communists were beaten back by police with clubs. The Communists, responding to a rail in their newspaper to break up an anti-Communist meeting, besieged the meeting place and were routed only after they had broken through three police lines and a wooden barricade. Shouting "we want Soviets everywhere" the crowd seized the broken bits of the barricade and used them as clubs, until police rallied along a line of mobile guard trucks stretched across the avenue. After the fighting the scene looked like a battlefield, as both sides led way tlieir injured.

SEVERAL, photographers were injured in the melee. Jean Jacques Levy. Associated Press photographer, returned to his office with blood on his shirt and welts across his back from blows by police. Raymond and George Mejat, brothers who are Fox Movietone cameramen, were taken to the hospital for first aid. Two other Fox Movietone men were beaten.

Richard Dale, Acme photographer, was pulled from an awning and beaten by police. Gerard Cheynet, an Associated Press cameraman, was struck by police when he tried to photograph the incident. About two score demonstrators and dozen police were injured. The meeting to which the Communists objected had been called by M. Gautherot, a former French "in memory of the states 'of Eastern Europe." Gen.

Charles Gaulle's new French Peoples party denied reports that the party was behind the memorial rally. GAUTHEROT announced at the mass meeting the impending formation of an "international of oppressed peoples" to fight Soviet ism. Continued On Page 7, Col. 1 Star May Buy Radio Station PLANS are under way for purchase of Radio Station KOOL by Gene Autry, cowboy star of radio and motion pictures, for a reported $250,000, it was learned here yesterday. Now owned by Maricopa Broadcasters, Inc-, KOOL is a five kilowatt station with offices and studios in Hotel Adams.

It began operation last June. ALTHOUGH THE contract has iot yet been signed, it is understood the Federal Communications Commission will be asked to approve the sale within two weeks. After that, 60 days must elapse during which competitive bids may be filed with the commission. Autry also is planning to dispose of his small interest in the Phoenix Broadcasting Company, owners of Radio Station KPHO, also in Hotel Adams, according to the Information obtained. An application now is pending before the communications commission under which the star would take over a half interest in 'station KOWL, Santa Monica, CaliL REX SCHEPP, president of the Phoenix Broadcasting Company, will arrive November 5 to take up residence and become associated with Charles H.

Garland in the management of KPHO, it was announced yesterday. Schepp currently is serving as general manager of Radio Station WIRE, Indianapolis. one of the properties of Eugene ClPulIiam, publisher of The Arizona Republic, The Phoenix Gazette and other newspapers. Autry, who is en route to Boston, to open his rodeo there later in the week, could not be reached last night for comment. Old Query Produces Quarry For Officers "WHERE'S ELMER?" That wjpecrack of a few years ago was a question asked in all seriousness by C.

B. Arnold and Harry Troutman of the police forgery detail when they stopped at a westside home yesterday. The householder said he didn't know, but the officers noticed the cellar door open. "Come on out, Elmer, you're it," they shouted into the blackness. And out came Elmer E.

Bowling. 41-year-old former transfer truck driver, who was escorted to jail on a charge of "raising" an $8.31 eheck to $80.31 and cashing at the Buffet downtown. Opening Day Meet Events HERE ARE today's first-day events at the 16th annual meeting of the National Reclamation Association: 9 a. m. to 1 p.

m. Registration, Palm Room, Hotel Westward Ho. 10 a. m. to noon State caucuses.

1:30 p. m. Opening session. Invocation by Frank T. Pomeroy, Mesa; address of iveleome by Mayor Ray Busey of Phoenix; message of welcome from Governor Sidney P.

Osborn. 2 p. m. Address by Robert W. Sawyer of Bend, president of the association.

2:30 p. m. H. M. Ahlquist of Touchet, presents treasurer's report.

2:40 pi m. Don McBride of Washington, D. secretary-manager of the association, makes his report. 2:55 p. m.

William E. Welsh of Boise, presents field representatives' report. 3:45 p. m. Committee reports.

8 p. m. Address, "The Irrigator Looks at by William E. Warne, assistant secretary of in terior. 8:30 m.

Address, "Recent Developments in Fertility Re search Under Irrigation Agriculture," by Dr. Omar J. Kelly, of Fort Collins, Colo. 9 p. m.

Address, 'The Geologi cal Survey's Role in the Development of the West," by Dr. W. E. Wrather, director of the U. S.

Geological Survey. 9:30 p. m. Motion pictures. Excitement Caused By Mailbox 'Bomb' AN EXCITED VOICE over the telephone early last night to the sheriff's office advised Warren La Rue, radio desk sergeant to "Hurry out here.

There's a bomb in my mailbox." La Rue dispatched Bill La Fever and Felix Kuykondall "on lie double" to the home of Jim Sweat, 208 South 21st street, meantime summoning a bomb disposal crew from Williams Field. Deputies arrived first, gingerly opened Sweat's mailbox, peered inside and found the bomb "fizzing" slightly and exuding an acrid odor. Closer inspection disclosed it ac-t al 1 was a bomb a DDT They theorized that neighborhood youngsters had placed it in the mailbox as a pie-Halloween prank. and threaten with inundation the struggling farmers attempting to hew an irrigated empire out of the desert. Then it became a fight to build a dam on the Colorado big enough to control the biggest floods.

Strong opposition to this development came from the upper basin states, however, as a result of the fear that people in Southern California and Ari- zona would put the entire flow of the river to beneficial use and establish water rlRhts that would preclude development in the upper basin. THE ONLY way this opposition could be resolved was through a basin states compact dividing the waters of the river in such manner that no encroachment could result from downstream development A bill Churchill Says Socialism Fails LONDON, Oct. 2S(AP Winston Churchill demanded today that the labor government cast aside socialism as a failure and follow the lead of the United States in an effort to achieve prosperity through a system of free enterprise. The opposition leader, making his fourth parliamentary attempt to unseat Clement Attlee, frime minister, accused the labor government of "playing a low down party game from start to finish," and declared it was time to hold new elections. He declared that "false theories are leading the nation into an ever-darkening alley" and praised the "astonishing feats of American mass production." He said "I am fortified by what has happened in the United States." Herbert Morrison, deputy prime minister, replied to the attack on the government by calling Chureh-ill's proposal "a plea for economic anarchy." was pushed through congress In 1919 authorizing the Colorado River Compact and Herbert Hoover, then secretary of the interior, was appointed compact commission chairman to represent the federal government.

The representatives of the seven basin states were unable to resolve their differences, however, and agree on allotments to the individual states of the estimated 17,720.000 acre-foot virgin flow of the river. Rather than give up and have development blocked indefinitely, they agreed merely to divide the water between the upper and lower basins, thereby permitting flood control work to proceed In the lower basin without interfering with the rights of states in the upper reaches of the river. American Imports Banned By Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica. Oct. 28 (AP) The Jamaican government has banned the import of motor cars from the United States and Canada for six months, and motor trucks for three months, it was announced today.

Other items banned were elec trical appliances, asphalt, house hold furniture, tobacco, preserves, beverages, spirits, and fancy table-ware for six months. Cinema apparatus, leather goods, linen, car-pets and rugs were banned indefinitely. Rail Hearing Set WASHINGTON. Oct. 28 (AP) The Interstate Commerce Commission today set a hearing for No vember 10 in Chicago on the peti tion on western railroads for a fi.06 per cent increase in basic passenger fares in Pullman cars and tourist sleepers.

Growth THIS DIVISION was made, with Lee Ferry in Northern Arizona being picked as the dividing line because of the available water guaging records at that point. The compact reserved acre-feet annually to the upper basin. It provided that the upper basin should deliver an equal amount, 7,500,000 acre-feet annually or 75,000,000 acre-feet each 10 year period to the lower basin at Lee Ferry. Then In addition, because only Arizona could use the waters of the Gila, and in fact already had put most of it to use, another 1,000,000 acre-feet was allotted to the lower basin. THIS MADE a total of 8.500.-000 arre-feet a year allotted to the lower basin and 7,500,000 acre-feet a year to the upper (Continued On Page 2, Col.

1) Colorado River Controls Fate Of Basin Area THE TURBULENT, unruly Colorado river that once meant only death and destruction today holds out the only hope for life and continued development of nearly eight per cent of the land area of the United States. It took 25 years and nearly $200,000,000 to tame the mighty today the 1,000.000 resi- a Wafer: Key to destiny of Arizona aents or its sparsely settled have plans to put every drop of its water to work irrigating farms and turning turbines that will create the greatest power development in the world. It will cost $2,185,442,000, but actual revenue to be produced by the projects will repay that. Homes and opportunity will be provided' for another .1 4 1.