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Arlzone TUCSON, ARIZONA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1963 MA 2-5855 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES ('pit' 259 Homes, Apartment Buildings Destroyed Or Damaged Politics In Arizona Unilateral Moves West Studies New Approach To Russians From News Wire Services PARIS, Dec. 15 The United States and Britain agreed Sunday on further exploration of Soviet willingness to reduce East-West tensions. a British share in this probe sources shortly after a lunch- Earthquakes, Oil Drilling Seen As Possible Causes LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 UP) Disaster officials Sunday counted 259 homes and apartment buildings destroyed or kJiV damaged by the bursting of a mid-city dam Saturday and said it was a miracle no more than three lives were lost. Cause of the break which spewed mud and water over a four square mile area of 9,000 1...

Rumors Still Flying About Judgeship By LESTER N. INSKEEP The political moratorium imposed during the period of mourning for President Kennedy has done little to stem a rash of rumors regarding pending appointments. Latest regarding the vacancy existing on the U.S. District Court in Arizona is that the choice judgeship might go to Phoenix Attorney Joe Walton, former chairman of the Arizona Democratic Central Committee and a staunch supporter of President Johnson in his bid for the nomination in 1960. Coupled with this rumor is another that the position of FHA director for Arizona might go to David S.

Wine, Tucson, a former state senator and Pima County Democratic chairman. Wine's appointment supposedly would salve the feelings of Pima County Democrats who think the Arizona federal judgeship should go to a Tucson man, none having been appointed from here for 40 years. Former Gov. Ernest W. McFarland, who recently spent more than 30 minutes with President Johnson Mc-Farland's assistant when the latter was Senate majority leader said recently he and the President did not discuss politics.

As for the Walton rumor, McFarland said in a telephone conversation that he knew nothing of it and didn't be lieve he would hear of it, "since the matter is in the hands of Sen. Carl Hayden." Considered a frontrunner by many in Pima is Deputy County Atty. Thomas Chandler. His name has been suggested, along with those of Superior Court Judges Raul H. Castro and John F.

Molloy. Phoenix aspirants include U.S. District Atty Carl Mu-ecke, who, until the death of President Kennedy, had the support of Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, the late President's brother.

Actually, it is this which kept President Kennedy from making the appointment before his assassination. It is traditional for federal judges to be selected for submission to the President by the senior senator, and the late President didn't want to offend Arizona's veteran Carl Hayden. In view of the political moratorium, it is doubtful that either the judgeship or FHA appointments will be made before the end of the year. Meanwhile, other rumors will crop up. In preparation for the forthcoming session of the Arizona Legislature, Gov.

Paul Fannin said last week he again will (Continued on 6A, Col. 1) Devastation Debris And Luxurious Home broke. Apartment buildings in background were damaged badly. Some buildings were swept away, leaving the jumble of foundations in the foreground. (AP Wirephoto) This was the scene in a southwest Los Angeles neighborhood Sunday as workmen began to clean up debris strewn by the rushing flood waters released Saturday when a dam It's Worse Than Being Burned Out Says Victim American endorsement of vas made known by qualified eon meeting between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary R.

A. Butler. The two ministers are in Paris for a ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Hostages' Release Delayed LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 15 UP) A delay developed Sunday night in carrying out an agreement for the release of four Americans and 15 other hostages held by striking tin miners high in the Andes Mountains. Reports from Catavi, where the hostages have been held for nine days, said the miners would hold a general meeting Monday morning to hear from their leader, Bolivian Vice President Juan Lechin.

He was to explain why he had agreed to let the hostages go free. Some miner radio stations criticized the agreement, say ing the miner leadership had given in to the government. Despite these criticisms, how ever, sources close to the miners said it was expected that Lechin would be able to get general agreement from his rank and file to free the hostages Monday. The hostages are being held in the mining region of Ca tavi, some 180 miles south east of La Paz, in rugged country. President Victor Paz Estenssoro sent his military chief, Gen.

Alfredo Ovando, to Oruro, 30 miles north of Catavi, to pick up the hos tages. The hostages were seized Dec. 6 in retaliation for the government's arrest of two Red union leaders. Lechin and Paz, formerly allies but now political com petitors, worked out a settle ment of the crisis Saturday night. Lechin agreed to order the release of the hostages if the government would release on bond union leaders Irineo Pimental and Federico Esco bar pending trial in Catavi, rather than in La Paz.

The government also agreed to withdraw troops it had sent to the mine areas after the hos tages were taken. number of party leaders here, however, two assumptions are general. One is that the services of John F. Kenedy's personal political staff men like Lawrence F. O'Brien and P.

Kenneth 1 1 will be perhaps even more important tu Johnson than they would have been to Kennedy. Their willingness to remain on the staff and work for the new President is regarded here as one of his vital campaign assets. The other assumption is that the role of the Democratic National Committee and the state party organizations in the coming campaign will be greater than it probably would have been in a Kennedy re-election campaign. Both assumptions are based on the general belief that Johnson's major campaign problem is to carry the urban industrial states of the northern tier states like New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with their large blocs of electoral votes and their re-ceptiveness to liberal economic and social programs. Those familiar with Kennedy's political thinking just before his death say that he homes with 16,500 residents remained a mystery, but early investigation pointed to two likely causes: A recent series of minor earthquakes and the possible collapse of subterranean oil pools pumped dry by wells near the scene.

Throughout the day thou sands of evacuees queued up in block-long lines at police control points to return to a scene of almost incredible devastation: A terraced hillside below a reservoir nign in tsaiawin Hills was swept clean of homes some costing up to $100,000 as if by a giant mop. A wall of water 30 feet high and 100 teet across roared down the canyon, tumbling houses and cars like toys caught up in a child's tantrum. Only the fact that police had more than an hour to try to evacuate the area below the reservoir kept the death toll from rising much higher. Even so, 15 persons who did not get out in time were injured. These who came back grim-faced to poke in the debris described the long night hours of waiting for rescue as a scene out of hell, made more hellish by the red glow of emergency lights and the criss-crossing beams of helicopters looking for victims.

Dozens spent hours in the dark perched on rooftops, too weary to descend after the flood waters receded. An official count Sunday showed: Dead 3. Injured 15. Homes destroyed 64. Homes with major damage 82.

Homes with minor damage 35. Apartment buildings with major damage 55. Apartment buildings with minor damage 41. Total damage estimate $10 million. Police identified the dead as Mrs.

Hattie Schwarz, 73, Maurice Clifton Carroll, 60, and Arch Young, 58. All were residents of a 650-unit apartment development on low ground below the ruptured reservoir. Young's wife was one of the injured. She was washed out of a second story window at the height of the flood. Federal and state officials declared the section a disaster area, qualifying residents for reconstruction or remodeling loans.

Not all the homes were damaged, but most were de prived of electricity, gas and telephone service as flood waters spread over a wide area below the reservoir. Help Promised To Those Who Lost Homes 1963 New York Times News Service LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 Public officials I pledged all-out help Sun-I day to the flood-shat- -I tered Baldwin Hills resi-I dential area, as inhabit- ants began digging foot- deep silt out of those homes lucky enough to withstand Saturday's res- -y ervoir break. Gov. Edmund G.

Brown joined Mayor Samuel W. Yorty in declaring the stricken district in south- western Los Angeles a I disaster area. The regional office of the Federal Small Busi- ness Administration be- gan taking aid applica- tions from residents and businessmen. A spokesman said that up to could be loaned to each applicant on a 20- -year, 3 per cent basis, ss Undetermined thousands of persons, warned by reports of a leak in the dam hours before it burst, fled to spend the night at homes of relatives or in evacuation centers set up in three high schools. Sunday hundreds made their way through police cordons around the scene to poke through the debris for valuables left behind in their flight.

A leak was discovered in the reservoir wall at 11:15 a.m. Saturday and an evacuation warning was issued in minutes. Many did not take the warning seriously, or didn't hear it. Hundreds were still in the area when a 75 foot section of the dam collapsed with the sound of a cannon shot at 3:38 p.m. Water gushed from the break until 4:55 p.m.

By then it was almost dark and rescue work went on by floodlight until dawn Sunday showed the extent of the grim picture. During the night, helicopters plucked dozens from rooftops and high elevations. Policemen and firemen waded chest deep through the mud rescuing the sick and invalid, and carrying heart attack victims to ambulances. After the discovery of the leak, workers labored for hours trying to support the dam with sandbags, but it was futile. Witnesses said a triangle-shaped wedge tore out of the asphalt and concrete lined wall of the earth-fill dam and the released water shot 50 feet into the air.

Treaty Organization opens Monday. which It is the view of both pov- ernments, an American source said, that although no East-West detente now exists, the present fluid international situation should be exploited an attempt to achieve one. One source said the- West ern powers are studying a brand new way of reducing East-West tensions unilat eral moves by each side without any binding commitments by either Moscow or the West. This idea has hppn mir forth, the source said, because the United States is under no illusions about the immediate DrosDects of formal aprppmpnt on anything substantial with tne boviet Union. Consequently, he said, the West does not consider this a good time for a summit meeting.

Instead, the Western Allies are examining the chances of a series of parallel. DerhaDS almost simultaneous moves. Under this concept, one side might make a move and then. after due reflection, the other might make a similar one. Disarmament, according to this informant, is a case in point.

Any firm disarmament treaty would require months or years, of negotiation with every phrase, every word, carefully weighed by interna tiorral lawyers. But the Soviet Union now seems about to reduce its mili tary budget for 1964. This could lead to a parallel step on the Western side, but not necessarily, although the United States already has announced a phase-out of 17 domestic and seven foreign military bases. Thus, there would not be even any tacit agreement in the sense that a decision would be irrevocably binding. Western leaders assembling here for the annual NATO ministerial session are well aware that Russia faces mounting economic and internal problems plus the dispute with Red China which can induce Soviet Premier Khrushchev to trim back his military expenditures.

They planned to exchange views on this in their meetings which open Monday morning in NATO headquarters with Rusk as chairman. Debate On Air believed he would carry most or all of these states. In 1960, he lost only two of them California and Ohio. He had planned, it is reported, to put greater campaign emphasis on other areas where he considered himself weaker particularly in the West and to a lesser extent in the South. Johnson's prospective campaign probably will be almost a total reversal.

He is regarded as strong in the West and at least stronger than Kennedy was in the South. But as a Southerner himself and as one who often was accused by liberals of softening or blunting liberal legislation during his days as Senate majority leader, his problem in the big industrial states is believed to be much greater. O'Brien, O'Donnell, Robert F. Kennedy, Stephen E. Smith and other associates of Kennedy are regarded as being the best pipelines into the Democratic power centers of the big northern states.

Johnson's personal political organization in those states is almost non-existent; Ken nedy's was extensive and in some ways more powerful than the regular Democratic Is Gone of the rubble, mud and gaping holes. "I'm more upset now than in the beginning," interjected Elliott. "This never should have happened. It's ridiculous. "I've had some concern Bucking Horse Forces Pilot To Land Plane LONDON, Dec.

15 UP) A bucking thoroughbred horse forced a big air freighter into an emergency landing, the Royal Air Force said Sunday. The horse is Limeking, who won $7,047 for his owner, Alfred Chestery Beatty in a 2-mile steeplechase at Cheltenham over the weekend. But on his way home to Dublin, high over the Irish Sea, he started kicking his stall to pieces, an antic that contributed nothing to the pilot's control of the airplane. A groom forced a sedative down i i g's throat, but the Irish in Limeking went right on kicking. The pilot headed for the nearest field at Trefor, Wales, and a calmer Limeking continued home by sea.

Said trainer Danny Morgan, "I don't know what got into him. He's flown several times before with no hint of trouble." Russ Ready To Outline Big Plans 1963 New York Times News Service MOSCOW, Dec. 15 The Soviet government will present its budget and economic plan Monday on the opening day of a week-long session of the Supreme Soviet (parliament). The two programs will be watched for evidence of how the Soviet Union expects to keep up its ambitious chemical development and space and defense efforts with its limited investment resources over the next two years. Premier Khrushchev said Friday at a closing session of the Communist party's Central Committee which ap proved the seven-year chem ical program that chemistry and defense will each get its share." He also announced a cut in military expenditures in 1964 as "another contribution of the Soviet state" to relaxation of international tension.

Some Western observers contend that, far from being a goodwill gesture toward the West, reduction in the defense budget was made necessary by vast investment to expand the chemical industry. A budgetary speech by Vasily F. Garbuzov, finance minister, and presentation of the plan by Pyotr F. Lomako, chairman of the state planning committee, may shed some light on what lies behind the military cut. LBJ Not Likely To GOP's Candidate about the dam.

I told my wife long ago that if it ever broke 'then we've had it'. You can't hold water in a thing like that with just earth. "Our broker said probably no one up here will collect on insurance. Floods are ex cluded. And what could you do anyway? We don't even have a lot left.

The area was a scene of almost total destruction in its worst sections. Some houses looked bomb-gutted, though walls stood. On Cloverdale Drive, where the force of the water was greatest, it looked as if a giant hand had scooped great holes in the earth. Mounds of earth looked like heads of matted hair which was roots of plants and shrubs in once picturesque gardens. A mile below the dam, houses, automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, television sets, were thrown into huge piles of splintered rubble.

Automobiles were wrapped around poles and trees which had withstood the flood. Whole sections of houses were deposited at the base of the hill. There was a little water still in the reservoir just a little. Sightseers were barred and residents had to wait in line for police passes to search for possessions, or to survey the damage. earnings of champions in other games and sporis.

Disputing it with him before about 100 hushed spectators, who paid $2 for the privilege of trying to outguess the experts, are 11 men, all older, better educated and rore experienced. Their average age is 31 years. Two of them are college professors, three, including Reshevsky. now 52 years old, are chess professionals. But the interest of the "potzers" slang for enthusiastic but relatively inept amateurs clearly centered on the gangling, shock-haired boy from Brooklyn.

Residents Return To Disaster Area LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 UP) "When you're burned out, at least you have your lot left. You can rebuild. "But what can we do? We don't have even that," moaned R. C.

Elliott, an advertising executive as he stared at the huge hole in the ground where his luxurious house had stood until Saturday. Elliott and his wife were poking around where their Baldwin Hills hillside home had stood. It was swept away in a floodtide from the burst dam. Sunday they were among the first residents admitted to the disaster area where 16,500 people had lived. The scene was reminiscent of a bomb-pocked battlefield craters where homes had stood; pipes, poles and trees protruding like stiff spaghetti.

Portions of the four-square-mile area appeared totally destroyed. In others, lawns appeared unharmed where houses had been wrested from foundations. In a few places, lawns were torn out; homes little harmed. Elliott and his wife did not sleep all night. "We just had to come back and see it," said Mrs.

Elliott the Henry Hudson Hotel here to begin pondering some of the billions of variations possible in the average 45 move chess game. Each of the 12 will play each of the 11 others in a round-robin tournament for the U.S. championship running through Jan. 4. Bobby first won the national championship six years ago when he was 14 and has repeated every year since except in 1961, when he did not defend the title.

Since then he has beaten some of the best in the world in the course of seven trips to Europe and three to South America and Chess Bad Boy At Work Again 1963 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 There is a growing doubt in Washington that President Johnson will take part in televised debates with his Republican opponent in next year's presidential campaign. Johnson has made no decision on the matter, and Pierre Salinger, the White House news secretary, said it had not as yet been formally discussed by the President and his political advisors. At least two of Johnson's closest associates have said privately, however, that they will advise him strongly against participating in debates like those between John F. Kennedy and Richard M.

Nixon in 1960. In addition, Johnson told a recent visitor, during a discussion of the form his news conferences ought to take, that he did not believe the President of the United States ought to debate with anyone. This was not, however, a direct reference to televised campaign debates. This question is only one of a number of uncertainties that now hang over the Democratic campaign plans for 1964. In discussions with a 1963 New York Times News Service NEW YORK, Dec.

15 A drop-out student from a Brooklyn high school set out Sunday to prove for the sixth time to a group of college professors and other intellectuals that he is the best chess player in the United States. He is Bobby Fischer, the controversial, eccentric 20-year-old, who has brought to the world of chess an exciting focus it has lacked since Samuel Reshevsky, still a top-ranked player, was a boy prodigy in the 1920's. Fischer and 11 other top players sat down at six tables in the ballroom of is engaged in an attempt to prove that it is possible to make a living from chess alone. It is essential for him to prove this, for Bobby admittedly doesn't know anything else. He dropped out of high school in his junior year.

He has since explained that he couldn't waste his time with "all those stupid kids" and with teachers "even stupider than the kids." He can win a possible maximum of $2,000 in the current tournament first place Tnoncy out of $6,000 in prizes a derisory amount compared to the Today's News Index. Playing Indians is fine for kids but it's another matter for Dad, 6B Former Arizona Gov. Rawghlie C. Stanford dies, II A Israeli emissaries are sent to Vatican, 7A Rep. Powell emerging as House 'hero, 12A Tucson museum gives buffs of Old West a field day, 7B Funeral announcements, 7B Ask Andy Dr.

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