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Today's Smile LEWIHTOJT, Idaho AF) Proiwutor Wayne Blake kept on eye oa Wrs-tlon rrtumt, Ike other on the maternity ward and he made out fine en both ounti. He defeated Me neareit opponent by 600 tntee for lb llrmacratle nomination for pronator. And at the koipltal, fcla wife prewntra htm with twin (trla. Intend aeeoud elan matter, Albuquerque, Poet Office under act ot Contreai, 1878. Thursday Morning August 12, 1954 Published Every Morning 22 Pages In Two Sections 74th Year Velnm SOI Member 41 Price 7c sraeil 1 1 111 tNEWSMPjy liwl The rmr noobtlnf Thjmaeee Seem Pre Ad to Halt Atomic Strikes Albuquerque Actress Taft-Hartley Act Invoked to Keep Details Revealed on Of Texas Towers in.

String Atlantic Film Role SCC, Telephone Officials Discuss Cost of Hearing Mountain States Firm Will Supply Of Figures Asked Farm Bill Victory Not Political One, Eisenhower Says President Opposed To Breaking Off Relations With Reds statiens 100 miles off shore to 30 men who will operate the radar apparatus. Each also will be equipped with a sick bay, galley, recreational facilities and its own electric power plant. Also on each platform will be space for a helicopter landing. The platform will be at a level above the highest waves. The towers will be similar to lighthouses except that the top will be filled with radar apparatus to detect and track enemy planes.

Use of the permanent towers in the Atlantic is possible because of shoals off the coast. A different system, involving radar picket ships and radar-equipped planes, is used off the Pacific coast where the water runs deep without shoals. Bidding is scheduled to be called for by 'December and construction of the platforms is expected to start next spring. Elephant Butte Lake Is 'Rescued' By Timely Rains TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES looks like we'll save the for another year," Editor Pail Tooley of the Hot Springs Herald said Wednesday night. He said that the Elephant Butte Lake held close to 14,000 acre-feet of water now, "and it's rising a little all the time." The lake recently dippped to an all-time low about 12,000 acre feet Authorities were afraid of a health menace if fish started dying from lack of oxygen.

Recent rains in the area have neipea sweu tne laxe. "It's rained quite a bit Tooley said. He said the Cuchillo and Monticello canyons flowed bank-full Tuesday and were still flowing Wednesday. These feeds to the lake, however, were expected be dry In a day or two. The Inflow into the lake is would allow only 10 minutes notice to a coastal city marked for atomic, or hydrogen bomb attack.

Much earlier warning already has been planned from cruising picket surface and air craft far out and over the At lantic. The purpose of the towers will be to detect raiders that get through the more distant screen of radar warning craft. Undisclosed is the number of towers and their precise loca tions. hacn tower will stand on a platform of at least 15,000 square feet. That would be the equivalent of 150 by 100 feet, but whether a platform will be square, rectangular, triangular or T-shaped will depend on the shape of the shoal on which it stands.

Each platform will contain living quarters for a crew of 20 DOWN AND OUT: Capt Edward G. Sperry, USAF, is ejected downward out of a B-47 jet bomber traveling at 500 miles an hour at aa altL tude of 10,000 feet on a test of a new safety device. The method is fully automatic from the time the pilot pulls a ring which fires the seat out of the plane. Then a special explosive device separates the jumper from the seat and opens his parachute. (See story on page 17).

Mechem to Lead Artesia Amateur Rodeo Parade ARTESIA i Governor Mechem arrived here by plane to head the Artesia rodeo parade. More than 150 entries were on hand for the strictly amateur rodeo event and Artesia put on its holiday garb in celebration The governor was to remain over until Friday, when he will leave for a weekend at the In dian Ceremonial in Gallup. A rodeo queen will be elected and dancing and barbecues will: feature the two-day show here, Bob Chipman of the Artesia rqping club is producer of the event which roping club officials said was designed to ''re turn rodeo to the cowboys who started it in the first place." State Police Make 2706 July Arrests SANTA FEiT)-State police last month made 2706 arrests, led by 692 in Bernalillo county. These resulted in 2640 convictions, 15 acquittals and releases, 29 extradited and 22 still pending. (.

i 'f I 80! about 1400 acre feet a day, andlmonth in trying to stop a strike Gets Top HOLLYWOOD (F) A 21-year-old actress from Albuquerque will play her first movie role in a film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish, it was disclosed Wednesday. She is Gloria Castillo, whose previous acting experience has been with little theater groups. Recently she appeared with an Albuquerque troupe in the "Late Love," at the Pasadena Playhouse. She was seen there by Laughton and Mildred Gussie, casting director for Paul Gregory Productions, and was signed on the spot for one of the top featured roles in "Night of the Hunter." Shooting on the picture will be begun Aug. 17 at the RKO-Pathe lot In Culver City.

Miss Castillo will have the role of Ruby, a girl befriended by Lil lian Gish. "Night of the Hunter" is based on the novel by Davis Grubb. This will be Gregory's first movie. He has Droduced such stage plays as "The Caine Mu tiny Court-Martial," "Don Juan in Hell" and "John Brown's Body." Miss Castillo, whose familv lives in Belen, is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, where she majored in music, drama and education. Military Housing Bill Is Approved The Senate Wednesday approved a $175,000,000 military housing project including 712,650 for military bases in El Paso and New Mexico, the Associated Press reported in Washington.

Col. Lynn C. Barnes, Albuquerque district director for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the size and design of military family housing projects has been under debate recently, and that he has not received any directives on either construction or design of the buildings.

The projects include $88,000 for three buildings at Sandia Base; $108,000 for five buddings at Kirtland Air Force Base; for 185 dwellings at Clovls Air Force Base, and for 272 buildings at Ft. Bliss, El Paso. The Senate and House must work out differences in their versions of the bill before submitting it to President Eisenhower for approval. World IsWarnei Of eight Shift SORRENTO, Italy l-The third International Consrrss of SUr Gaiert, Palm Readers and Students of Thinfs I'nseen closed after hearing a warning to the world not to throw its weight around. Awful thinca happen when It does, said Dr.

Raphael ver Ferhe, a dental auriron from Brussels. He declared troop movements teneralb play hob with the world's equilibrium, and added: "If the Russians were to attack Europe and march toward the Congo, they would move the axis of the earth to much that Moscow would become the north pole and Australia the south pole." Chinese Appeal For Permission NEW YORK LB Twentv-six Chinese students have released copies of an appeal to President Eisenhower to let them and others go home to their friends and families in Red China. They said they are being forced to "let alip through our fingers the best years of our lives" cut off from wives, children and parents. A State Department policy has barred departure of the students, on ground- they have acquired technical skills that might be used to bolster Red China's war-waking ability. President Eisenhower, commenting on the letter from the 26 students, said the government Is considering letting Chinese Nationals go home if they wish, A State Department spokes man said there an some 5000 Chinese refugees in this coun try, some of them students who came here to study during an of of Workers on Job White House Gets Federal Injunction Against A-Workers OAK RIDGE, Gf9 U.

S. Dist. Judge Robert L. Taylor Wednesday night issued a Taft-Hartley injunction to block strikes scheduled against key atomic plants at Oak Ridge and Padu-cah, Ky. A union official said, "that stops the strike" over a four-month-old wage dispute.

In an unusual night session of court at nearby Knoxville, Judge Taylor granted the injunction at the request of U. S. Asst. Arty. Gen.

Warren E. Burger, who flew In from Washington on orders from President CIO and company officials, present at the court hearing, accepted immediate service of the order and copies were to be mailed to Louisville for officials there. 80 Day Delay The T-H injunction provides for an 80-day cooling off period, during which an inquiry board continues to function but workers are required to stay on the job. Management is barred from staging a lockout About 4500 workers are involved, 3500 of them in one plant here and nearly 1000 at another ir The strike had been called for 8 a.m. (local time) by CIO atomic production workers in the two plants which produce this nation's entire output of uranium-235 key component in hydrogen and atomic weapons.

President Eisenhower told his news conference Wednesday morning the atomic field is one in which the government cannot permit work stoppages. He pledged to use all his legal pow ers against a strike taking place. T-H Invoked The President Invoked the Taft-Hartley law early last of the same workers. They went back to work voluntarily without an injunction. This left the government tooled up to meet the new strike threat with the legal preliminaries out of the way and mak ing it a simple step to ask for an 80-day injunction.

The number of workers is small but their work vitally im portant They operate facilities for processing uranium to produce the material needed in making both A-bombs and H-bombs. Director Named For Development Function of ESC A director of operations has been named for the industrial development function of the Employment Security Commission as a first step in setting up the new service. And next week officials of the ESC plan to fly to Salt Lake City where they will study the operation of a similar service for Utah prior to initiating the program in this state. Ismael Tillery. whose resigna tion as director of the State Personnel Department was ac- cepted Jn Santa Fe Wednesday by the State Personnel Board, has been named to head the new operation, said Maurice Miera, chairman-executive director of the ESC.

Tillery has been with ESC 10 years and was supervisor of the tabulating section before taking the post In Santa Fe. Ln 1952, ESC detailed Tillery to help set up a state personnel system and worked at it since September, 1952. The personnel plan went into effect on July 23. Tillery is being replaced by John Hallahan of Portales. Hallahan has a master's degree Ceatlaawa Fata Twa GOING AWAY do as hundreds of JOURNAL subscribers are doing use the JOURNAL VACATION PAC There's no extra charge you pay regular subscription rates ask your Journal Carrier or Phone 3-6661 Circulation Dcpt, WASHINGTON (P) Air Force has revealed more details of a wierd-looking row of "Texas Towers" that will stand in the ocean off the Atlantic coast to give last-minute warning of the approach of enemy air or surface craft The radar-equipped towers, named for their resemblance to off-shore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, will be located in moderately shallow water about 100 miles off the It is reported they will range from Norfolk, to Newfoundland.

The tall sentinel posts, oper ating all manner of electronic devices, will become part of the sprawling system of ground and air units and radar chains al located to the new continental air defense command. Now that bombers can fly about 10 miles a minute, warn- Army in Doubt About McCarthys Document Charge WASHINGTON OP The Army said Wednesday It does not be lieve Sen. McCarthy's statement made under oath that an Army intelligence officer gave him extracts from a confi dential report on the security situation at Ft Mon mouth, N.J. The statement was made in response to inquiries from re porters as to progress of the Army's investigation of the mat ter. A written reply said: "In answer to your inquiry regarding the progress of the Army's investigation of the re lease of a two and one quarter page document to the Senate subcommittee: Justice Informed "The Army has completed its investigation.

The Army does not believe that the release of this document was committed by anyone who is, or was, an of ficer of the Army. The Depart ment of Justice has been in formed." During Senate hearings on McCarthy's row with Army officials, the Wisconsin senator sought unsuccessfully to put the document into the record. Questioned about how he got it McCarthy said from the wit ness chair that it was given him by an Army intelligence officer who was disturbed, by what the officer regarded as failure of his superiors to act on the information in the document Described As Letter When McCarthy first offered the paper at the Senate hear ings, he ascribed it as a letter sent last year by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to Maj. Gen.

Alexander Boiling, then assis tant army chief of staff for intelligence. The senators conducting the hearing had a check made with Hoover. The FBI chief advised that it was not a copy of any letter by him, but that it did contain quotations from a lengthier secret FBI document Two Men Killed In Road Mishap GALLUP A car-truck collision early Wednesday claim ed its second victim with the death this afternoon of Ignacio Lueero. 27. He died in a Gallup hospital.

Louis Saucedo, 53, Gallup, was killed almost Instantly in the collision between a semi-trudk and a car on State Road 666, 11 miles north of here. State Policeman Bill Hastings said the two vehicles crashed, apparently at a high rate of speed, on a curve. Three persons were injured in the wreck. They are Anthony Aguaya, 27, ot Gallup, a pas senger in the car in which the two were fatally injured, and the two tmcXers, Francis Pow ers, 33, and James Louis, 42, both of Denver. The death brought the state traffic death toll to 198.

198 HAVE DIED on New Mexico Highways in 1931 Last Year at This' Date 224. Had Illfd Theiing From The Journal's Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE A demand by the State Corporation Commission's counsel for itemization of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph expenses in the last rate hearing, and cost of litigation involved, precipitated a wrangle here Wednesday. Upshot of the debate which lasted almost 45 minutes during the third day of the SCC's current hearing on phone rate mat terswas that the company agreed to provide certain expense items. But another a breakdown 'of salaries on the basis of time spent on the hear ing, could not be furnished, the SCC was told. SCC Counsel W.

J. Torrlng-ton first asked if the utility could supply expense items so the SCC could determine cost of the 1953 hearing on a hike in Mountain States rates. His ques tion was directed at' a company witness, R. H. Dodge.

Attorney Agrees Before the matter died down, all three corporation commis sioners and a company vice president were heard from, in addition to two attorneys for the company. Midway through the contro versy, J. H. Shepherd, company attorney from Denver, agreed to furnish amount of travel ex pense involved, and leejal ex penses, including fees and ex penses paid to the firm's local attorney, Harry Bigbee. He estimated the utility had paid Bigbee about $6500 in the year's period ending May 31, 1954.

Bigbee said that included work he had done for the com pany in a state FEPC case and in quiet title matters. Torrington explained his re quest for cost of the last rate Coattnard rap tierce) Light Showers Reported in State Scattered, light showers fell again in New Mexico Wednes day but appeared to be thinning out as dry air began pushing into the state. Albuquerque, which has had less than half its normal precipitation this year, got a Kant of moisture during the 24 hours ending at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The forecaster said there was only a slim chance for moisture today.

The weather bureau also re ported that aa estimated 7000 ofbic feet per second of flood water poured down the Rio Grande at Old Town Bridge early Wednesday. The torrent highest recorded this year-reached a 5.9-ft stage, but there was no flood hazard because of its short duration. The high water resulted from heavy rains between the Sandias and Lamy sending normally dry arroyos running bankful. Temperatures ranged from 78 at Grants to 97s at Roswell and Carlsbad. Albuquerque had 89, up five degrees from Tuesday.

Commissioners, Parking Authority Meet Monday City Commissioners and the parking authority will meet Monday noon at the Hilton Hotel to discuss off-street parking plans for the city. City Manager Edmund Engel said the luncheon session will be attended by Charles S. Le-Craw Jr, vice-president of Ramp Buildings New York firm which made an engineering study of Albuquer que's parking needs. Hoover Returns East NEW YORK (vT) Herbert Hoover came back by plane from a big 80th birthday cele bration Tuesday In Iowa, and aaid he could hardly express his feeKngs about it but "it was strenuous." 1 i pi CITY WATER OFF TODAY City water wUl be shut off for main work today between 8 30 and 9 30 a m. along portions of southeast quadrant streets, the water department announced.

Affected will be Loma Linda PL SE between Montclalre and Sierra Montclaire between Pershing Ave. and Loma Linda, and Aliso Dr. between Pershing and Burton Aves, WASHINGTON CP) President Eisenhower hailed Senate passage of a flexible price support farm bill not as a political victory but as another step to promote the welfare of farmers and a stable farm economy. At a news conference that made a fast shift from farm to foreign policy, Eisenhower poke out against breaking diplomatic relations with Russia and any idea of a "preven tive war against the Soviets. He said, too, that conditions now are more hopeful in many parts of the world Korea, Indochina, Iran, Egypt, Central America so that the Free World has "a better chance" to build up "a structure that will really be Impervious to the Communist assult" of any kind.

If this is done intelligently and effectively, the President said he believes there will be no war. Economy Hopeful On the home front, Elsenhower said figures on the nation's economy at mid-year mostly are hopeful, too, and the White House will have a report en them in a day or so. He spoke of that report at the tart of the news conference, then added that it would be very strange if he didn't mention some satisfaction about Senate action on the farm bill. But he said he war ted to make it very clear that so far as he is concerned it was not in any way a partisan victory. The Senate action assured the chief executive of getting the system ht wants, one under which farm price supports will be raised or lowered according to the supply of farm products.

Working on Talk There still are some things, Eisenhower said, that he hopes will be ironed out in a Senate-House conference on the bill It came but indirectly that the President is working on what he called a little bit of a talk on the record Congress has made during his administration. A reporter asked him to discuss the record Congress has chalked up but Eisenhower said he was planning his talk for some time after Congress quits and didn't want to plagiarize or cheat on himself. The time and place for the little talk were left, uncertain. Eisenhower has said, 'though, that as far as he is concerned the issue in this year's political campaign is whether his administration's record is good or bad. Questions steered the news conference into the political arena twice.

The result was another plug for Clifford Case, Republican candidate for the Senate in New Jersey, and a crack that Eisenhower deosn't know why mem bers of the White House staff were saying he was turning over in his mind a decision on whether to try for a second term in 1956. Flash Floods Cut Highway at Hatch Br The Associated Press Flash floods in the mountains east and west of Hatch chopped US-85 in two late Wednesday and backed up traffic three miles on each side of an arroyo cut across the Early Wednesday night, heavy highway department equipment hauled a huge semi-trailer truck from the flood-cut gash. I A torrent four feet deep began racing across a dip about aix miles south of Hatch about 4 p.m. Wednesday, and as it grew stronger it tore out the concrete and oil paving and began cutting down through the earth roadbed. The flood came from a cloudburst in the Ubas mountains south of Hatch.

Meanwhile, arroyo in the area were bankful with water from the San Andreas and Caballo mountain to the nortn. The Rio Grande In the area was reported almost bankful. The heavy truck Jested in the rroyo crossways to the high way. No Injuries were reported. vuiuais were looKlng for a way to reroute traffic past the bogKed-down truck, but local residents said there was no way xcept across fields.

No rain was reported In the naicn area Itself, IV Gloria Castillo Quiet Peace Ends War In Indochina SAIGON, Indochina (X) A strange and quiet peace came Wednesday to the bloodstained paddy fields of Indochina. It was strange because for nearly eight years gunfire had come from field and forest mowing down nearly 400,000 men in inconclusive war. It was quiet because the war ended Wednesday morning almost without sound. The last fight of the war took place Tuesday night at Pabinh Long, a village 54 miles north, west of Saigon. There was Viet- minh harassing fire and the small garrison called for mortar support which was given.

That Just about finished the war except for the paper work that goes along with the Geneva arranged cease-fire which di vides Vict Nam at about the 17th Parallel and causes a ma jor shift in the non-Communists North Viet Nam who now must find new homes in the south. Indian Lands Bill Is Passed WASHINGTON (JP) The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill authorizing long-term leasing of Indian lands in Arizona and New Mexico for religious, educational, residential and business purposes. Restricted Indian lands, other than those of the Navajo or Hopi Indians, could be leased out by the Indian owners with approval of the secretary of the interior. Three Die as Trains Collide in Mexico MEXICO CITY CD-Two pas senger trains collided Wedncs day near Oaxaca and at least three persons were killed and 20 injured. Early reports said four more died but there was no official confirmation.

Doctors, nurses and ambulances were rushed to the scene from nearby toweis. Damage to the two trains was heavy. to President to Leave U. S. World War II-before the Reds took over China.

He said exit permits recently were issued to 22 Chinese. In their letter to Eisenhower, the students said they had heard this action, an4 urged Eisenhower to revoke any order preventing others from going home. Their letter, dated Aug. 5, said they are among a "few thousand" students who came here to study engineering, medicine and other sciences, and now were refused permission to leave. In most cases, they said, "the painful separation has already lasted seven years" and their return tq China "is still being denied.

The 28 students, now living tn various cities throughout the country, expressed belief that letting them return would not endanger the security of "this great nation," but would build firmer friendship "between our two peoples." less than that is released, he said. Tooley said it was still very cloudy in the area, promising more rain. "It's not raining here now, but it is all around us," he said. GALISTEO FLOW CNIJKELY TO REACH ELEPHANT BUTTE A peak flow of some 8000 to 10,000 cubic feet of water a sec ond from the Galisteo, north of Albuquerque, Wednesday morn ing, "probably wont get past isieta," G. L.

Oakland of the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday night Oakland said the peak had fallen to 3000 to 4000 feet a sec ond by the tLme it reached Al buquerque Wednesday, and cer tainly would not benefit lower Rio Grande valley However, other runoffs par ticularly from the Rio Puerco could reach Elephant Butte res ervoir, Oakland said. He said he estimated the Rio Puerco flow- late Wednesday at approximate ly 1000 feet a second, but that much of the water probably will be diverted into irrigation above the dam. The Weather Riqi KROl Kt Partlr eloudr after-tvxwe and evening with a chance for a brief hoer or thurnieritwm. oiltentler moelty fair today aad Friday Little, rhenie la temperature, with the hih today and the low tonnht in the aiiy.

the heiiku and at me. NtW MEXICO: Partly cloudy today and rrlday with traitered afternoon or im the north and to to In the anuth. ing their origin to antiquity. On display at the exhibit hall will be half a million dollars' worth of Indian handicrafts displayed by 45 major exhibitors drawn from across the nation. Prizes will be awarded in 11 different fields of Indian crafts.

A panel of judges headed by the curator of the New Mexico museum in Santa Fe, Dr. Bertha Dutton, will select the winners in bead work, basketry, painting. textiles, silver work and leather work. Harvard professor Evan Vogt will head a panel discussion on Indian educational problems. An exhibit that Includes a color film with a Navajo sound track will demonstrate the steps being taken to improve reservation living standards in 'ihe people's own tongue.

1 The agency's monthly report thund.iorma no chance in temperetura. Htifc. showed its officers investigated touy gj to ta ih norm end to 233 non-fatal traffic accidents ana is min li aiea. Visitors 'Bulge' Gallup On Eve of Ceremonia GALLUP CT) This Indian capital of the world is bulging at the seams with an influx of inter-tribal ceremonial visitors, already 25 per cent above last year's pek figure. Glenn Emmons, U.S.

Indian commissioner, will return to his home here after more than a year In Washington. Emmons, one of the official visitors to the 33rd annual ceremonial, will participate tn a public forum dealing with progress made by his bureau. The ceremonial begins today and continue! through Sunday. Dancers from 30 Indian tribes and Indian spectators from every corner of the North Amer ican continent as well as at least one from Central America, will be on hand to provide modern- Jday color for ceremonies trac-i 11 at .4 -a -i -I i -J JL i i tj.