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LXXVIII. NO. 211 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY TUCSON, 'ARIZONA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1950 DIAL 2-5855 FIVE CENTS-- TWENTY-SIX PAGES Schools Open Up Tomorrow 16,200 Is Expected On First Day Tucson city schools will open tomorrow with an -estimated en rollment of 10,200 with a possibility thnt a peak of 19,000 may be reached during the winter months. An enrollment of 3,000 is anticipated in the Amphitheater district which also opens its schools tomorrow. Completion of the new Tucson Vocational high school will currently provide space for 1,200.

The building will open Tuesday but Will not be fully equipped, it will eventually be able to care for between 1,500 and 1,000 students, The new Roy H. Roblson school East 18t.h street and South Treat avenue will also help relieve congestion. The Gertrude Cragin school -at Tucson boulevard and East Blacklldge drive will not be completed until a week or two after the start of school. Completion Due Robert D. Morrow, superintend ent of Tucson schools, expects th Mary Lynn school on West Indian achool 'road and the Pueblo Gar dens schools to be completed be fore the first of the year.

A addition at Dunbar, in eluding an auditorium, cafeteria classrooms and five specia rooms, will be used as the junior high school. The completed remodeled old be used for slementary grades. Additions at Roosevelt and Ft Lowell schools will be ready for Tuesday's opening. Improvements Include remodeling of the Roskruge school home making depr.rtmem and redecorating of the auditorium Expects About 1,133 Nlchoas Paynovich, principal of Amphitheater high school and Junior high school, expects a total enrollment of about 1,135. Mrs, Helen B.

Ktellng, elementary school principal, has estimated that about 1,850 pupils will register In the Amphitheater, and Helen Keeling schools. There were 2,751 In the Amphitheater system last year. Of this number, C40 were in high school, 3S5 in junior high school and 1,726 In the elementary schools. The fact that many new families have moved into the Amphitheater area on the northside of Tucson Is expected to swell the attendance. A number of Catholic elementary ichools will also sta'rt classes tomorrow.

The new Salpointe high on East Copper street will open Sept. 11. Old Tucson Chosen Watch Those Protected Zones And Help Guard Our Children DRIVE More Arms For U. S. Now Urged By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Sept.

4. long-range rearmament program to. give the United States and her allies equal military strength with Russia drew mounting support among today. Several senators said in separate interviews they believe President Truman's call last-week ncrease in, the uniforme'd forces to a level is only the irst step in a long effort to ap- iroach par with Russia in conven- lonal arms. Most of the lawmakers agreed fiat Anserican superiority.in atomic may permit this 'nation, to fewer ground divisions than he Soviets, but the Korean fight- ng has demonstrated to them that ie infantry still plays a major ole in war.

Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) of he senate foreign relations committee apparently summed up the iews of many of his colleagues he told a reporter: "I'm afraid we're going to have stay armed for the rest of our Fighter Planes Busy Across Korean Front. For Filming Movie PHOENIX, Sept. 4. (U.B --Two major motion pictures will be filmed In Arizona beginning abou Oct. 1, Gov.

Dan Garvey and George Chauncey, chairman of the motion picture advisory board of Arizona said today. Pine-Thomas will begin filming, "Last Outpost" near and Universal-International will film, "Air Cadet" at Williams air base, the joint announcement said, "Last Outpost," a Western thriller, will star Ronald Reagan and Rhonda Fleming and will be filmed in the Old Tucson set. Four other locations in the Tucson area will be used. i a 1-International's "Air Sen. Hill (D-Ala) said he regards President's goal of 3,000,000 men nder arms as only "the first step towards an objective." "With our friends in Europe and elsewhere, we have got to build up military strength that is equal to that of Russia," Hill said.

"That doesn't necessarily mean that we have to have as many 'divisions as they have, but we must get and maintain superiority in fire power." TOKYO, Sept. 4., Fighter planes, shuttling between front lines and forward air strips put in perhaps their- busiest day of the war served as aerial artillery for United Nations ground forces. B-29s shifted from bombing troops, directly behind the 'lines to railway bridges north of parallel 3S, indicating United Nations ground forces were in more secure position than when the big bombers were called on for support last week. The B-29s didn't run into any opposition Four dead, six critically injured in U. S.

80 Lead-on crash today, flak. from either fighters or Jet planes worked along northern battle line where the the offensive, and stacks of. Reds were on Tanks, artillery. straw were favored targets. Straw stacks are favorit" North Korean spots for hiding Ten straw-hidden gas blew up in the Pohand-area'on the east coast under jet attack.

Weatherj orA Contract Id Be Cooler? Jr AT TT nits New High our problems in dally discussions Were just the weather, not th Russians, 3ot or cold, rain or shine, We could be happy, life would fine. Cadet" will star Gail Russell and Steve McNally and will be a story of life of a future jet pilot of.tlie force. It will be produced by Harry Rosenberg. I --Don Pajamas. The weather was 'to be coole today in the w'ake of Sunday' showws-.

Rainfall late yesterday on th north side was about ,25 inch, i irivate individual with a rain informed the weather ob servers- at municipal airport. On 'the south side there was a dust storm and only .02 inch rain. The course of the dust storm vas across the west side, through he downtown area, and to the air ort on the Nogales highway. For a time visibility downtown vas cut to less than a block and the fcirport dropped to two miles 3:30 p.m. The.

high temperature here Sun was 99, and the low this morn- ng was 74. The humidity varied rom 24 per cent at 5:50 p.m. to per cent at 5:30 a.m. Yuma's 115 was high for the nation yesterday, but El Centro had a hot night with a low of 90 this morning. In -the southern California area west of Yuma there were lightning storms but no rain.

Several forest fires were Sand storms were frequent. The high at Phoenix was 103, with a low this morning of S2. Pope Grants Audience Many Employes Given Raises, Health Fund And Pensions DETROIT, 4. CU.F) --Ford Motor in a history making move, signed a new five-year contract, with the United Auto Workers today giving 110,000 em- ployes a flat eight-cent hourly -pay hike with future wage, adjustments tied to the cost of living, plus the lighest pensions in American industry. The contract, costing the company an estimated $50,000,000 a r'ear, supercedes Ford's current agreement which was not to expire until January.

The action was without parallel in automotive history. Patterned after last May's Gen eral Motors contract, the New Ford )act four-cen lourly boosts for the next four ears, for a total of 16 cents an our. running.from Sept until June 1, Is not reopenable. Pensions Set Pensions, set at $100 a month ncluding social security in 1949, Four Dead In Holiday Crash Deaths from a highway accident at Cienega wash rose to four today, and a fifth persons may not survive his injuries in.the'Sunday afternoon collision. When of Tucsonians swerved info the path of a westbound California sedan, three, persons died immediately and a fourth ere boosted to a maximum of 125 for workers 65 with 25 years ervice.

The company estimated the en- re package was cents hour immediately. It followed hrysler's surprise wage hike on (Aug. 25 of 10 to 15 cents an hour. To Chief Of Vietnam VATICAN Sept. 4.

was the last of Big Pope Pius XII received Bao Dai, chief of state for Vietnam, in a 20- minute private audience at the apal summer residence in Castel fandolfo today. Bao Dai is a follower of Con- 'ucianism, the Vietnam state -re- Igion. The empress is a Catholic. Three of their children were also admitted to the Pope's presence. Cruise Ship Saved SEATTLE, Sept.

4. (U.R) --The excursion ship Virginia was towed safely to port today after blowing a boiler tube and flashing a distress signal during a cruise on Puget sound. A tug brought the vessel into port; its capacity crowd of 300 passengers laughing and shouting over their adventure. Three" automakers to bow voluntarily to-the new trend in the Industry. Wages of Ford's hourly rated em- ployes will fluctuate one cent an (hour with every 1.14 change in the bureau of labor statistics cost of living index.

Wages will be reviewed quarterly. UAW President Walter P. Reuther termed the contract "the best in the industry," and declared that the died'in the county hospital at '3; a.m. today. Six were injured.

Deal are: Floyd Cassidy, 37, of Brickyard garage mechanic. Batt, 8, guest in the Cassidy automobile. Batt, "4, sister of Gene. 15,) who 'died'abou 14 hours after the bad Js Clark M. Hightower, 65, of Pasa dena, who, with his.

wife, Nellie was driving home after taking delivery of his new automobile at ''lint, Mich. Mrs, Hightower was njured and is a patient at the coun- hospital with, her husband, Fonr Others Injured dead 'children are son daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Batt of 911 W. Simpson st.

other children in the. family vere injured in the 11 are at the county hpspital. Robert Batt, 7, may not recover rom his injuries. Ray Batt, 10, nd Fay.Batt, 12, received back in- uries. Eatt, 17, received a ossibie fractured leg.

The Batt, were elatives of Cassidy, were being aken on an, outing while their ather. was in Phoenix, visiting heir mother, in a 'sana orium there. Highway Patrolmen David Smith and, North, who inyestigatec the said the collision was at "1:27. p.m. 'on the Benson highway 33 iniles east of Tucson.

Activities Set For Labor Day Highlighting Labor Day activities ah- evening program will be presented tonight at the Tucson high Henderson Douglas, American Federation of Labor, organizer, of Salt Lake will' be. nain speaker -for Tucson's 'Labor Day scheduled to begin at 7:30 tonight. Open house was held all day today and until 9 tonight at the Square and Compass Crippled Children's Clinic, honoring the late Mayor B. T. and the AF of L.

Included on the stadium program will be a number of amateur boxing, matches, staged by Mike Qui- luls of the city recreation department, and musical entertainment arranged' by the musicians' union'. William F. Kimball, state' sena- will be. master of ceremonies 'or tonight's program. Nation's Death Toll than Expected By United Press- Millions of motorists crowded highways: as the.

nation observed Labor day today, but highway fatalities were fewer, than 'ex-- pected. A United Press survey showed that 263 persons had died in traffic accidents since .6 p.m. Friday. The-rate-of fatalities was below: the prediction of safety er o''na' 10 died-'in airplane crashes, and 58 died in miscellaneous accidents for a national violent death toll of 375. Cassidy who was driving a light 1933 two-door sedan east off.the bridge over Cienega apparently in the center of the narrow road and was turning back into his own lane to- pass the approaching Hightower sedan, the patrolmen said.

At'this point the left front tire of the Cassidy car blew out, and a head-on collision Survived By Son Cassidy, World War II overseas 'et'erari, is survived by brie' son, Floyd Eugene 11. The boy missed the auto trip because he was risking a friend could not be Typhoon Kills 109 In Japan TOKYO, typhoo swept through southern Japa leaving in its wake today 109 dead hundreds missing: and "thousand Ike Opens'New Freedom Drive 4. (U.R)--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower opened the nation's "Crusade for MILES Worst Threat Of War Facing Port In Korea TOKYO, Tuesday, Sept.

5. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced today that an enemy force of undisclosed strength was driving on. Taegu from a new direction--the southwest--and was reported 16 miles from the city. By EARNEST HOBERECHT TOKYO, Sept. 4.

(U.R)--Communist troops recaptured a bitterly contested town southwest of Pohang today and stabbed southward five to six miles beyond it in the gravest threat yet to the-Korean port town of 'Angangj eight miles southwest of Pohang, changed hands three during, the day as the battle swayed' back and forth, 'across the- western ap-. preaches to.the 2 port in the allied' beachhead. Tank-led American stormed Angang early this afternoon, a few, hours after they lost -it. But in- another few hours the back-In to wrest it from the Yanks and strike swiftly beyond.it virtually to complete the envelopment of Pohang. Girl Helps Kill Tied-Up Yanks Guerrillas a i Tent During Wild Korea Storm By ROBERT C.

MILLER Press Staff-Correspondent MASAN FRONT, KOREA, Sept. 4. Led by a girl, a' band of Communists raided a 1 U.S. army radio station today, tied tip its seven American signalmen, and shot them with a sub-machine gun. Two' of the Americans came through the.

slaughter'with 'multiple' wounds. Doctors said both would live. The other five died. So did a' South Korean soldier guard- ng the station. The guerrillas stole, up on the radio relay, station during a howling storm.

It overlooked the main Masan-Pusan highway near Chang- WCM, seven miles northeast The Americans had' better luck at the of the northern front. There -the -1st cavalry division was fighting it way back into a walled town some 12 miles north of Taegu, la a sector, where the enemy had jabbed a spearhead down the so-called "bowling, alley" beyond Tabu' and within less than 10 miles of 'Taegu. 1 Ancient Fortrcsi The walled' tovfii. into the GI's were fighting, according to a dispatch from the northwestern front, apparently, was Kasan, an ancient fortress perched atop Kasan mountain, just northwest of A 1st division spokesman. said.

he main road' between Tabu and Taegu was open; it was threatened by a Communist" pincers clamped on Tabu, but the threat apparently was. easing with the injured. -Unconfirmed reports indicate the death list might rise to 200, bu police'discounted these estimates. Osaka, port city 350. miles south west of Tokyo, and nine neighbor ng prefectures bore the brunt It struck with wind of up to 123 miles an hour.

At p.m. today (3 a.m. 'est) ce listed '238 5,648 in jured, 29,000 homes and more than 70,000 when th journev was. be-j Railway and communication, lines ng planned. jwere disrupted.

Shipping and rice Two other accidents Sunday I iel were badly hit. irought the total for the Labor day The typhoon sank' six in reek end so-far to three. eluding the 7,733 ton Tatsuhara John B. Meredith, 75, of Mon- Maru which.was preparing to sai and his wife, Roxie, The ship had a slight list to por which crewmen said was caused bj too many passengers assembling oj one side of the vessel, The craft lost all pQiver including and lighting facilities when the boiler tube blew as the Virginia was returning from an excuslon trip to the San Juan Islands. Passengers remained calm and orderjy although a few became frightened when coast guard planes dropped flares to spot the ship for cutters which hurried to aid her.

Lanterns were strung quickly in the lounge, dining room and along the decks and passengers sang for three hours until an unidentified passenger sent an SOS by flashlight to a nearby fishing boat which drew alongside and then radioed a distress signal to the coast guard. Four coast guard cutters and two private boats a'ccompanied the Vlr glnia V-as a tug towed her to Seattle's Ballard locks. The boiler tube' blew out as the ship cruised near Edmonds, about 25'miles north of here. The tug that -brought In the excursion vessel was nearby when the fishing boat: relayed the distress No one was injured in the mis- nap. The Virginia is a 115-foot vessel owned and, mastered by Howell Parker of Seattle'ivho-specializes in veekend and; moonlight cruises around Puget new pension scale was "the greatest 1, escaped serious injuries when their westbound auto left Highway SO east of Tucson early in the day.

Deputy V. N. Gibson said Mrs. Mary Louise 33, and Raymon, 2, were injured in a col- lision at Ajo. and 'Mission roads at 5:35 pjn.

Sunday. Gibson said a car 0 Prince road and collided, with the car About 15,000, skilled employes got operated by 'Henry Y. 30, 920 S. Ninth ave. Mrs; Monguia and" Raymon' were taken "to 'St.

Mary's hospital. an additional five cents an hour along with the eight cents. Thirty- thousand salaried employes will receive comparable increases. Super-Secrecy The agreement, reached in super secrery, must be ratified by rank and. file workers.

That was ex pected to.be routine. -John Bugas, Ford industrial relations manager, said the company now has the highest hourly wage scale. He estimated it from three to seven cents above other firms. In addition to higher pensions and wages, Ford agreed to pay half he workers' cost of hospitalization and sickness insurance. Reuther, jubilant after all-night alks, said he appealed personally 0 company President Hemy Ford 1 last month for wage adjustments.

Ford had been the lone major oldout against wage increases this ear. After the GM-and Chrysler for San Francisco. Another 113 vessels were stranded and 211 damaged. More than 1,300 acres of rice, paddies were washed away and another 64,000 acres of farm lands flooded. Scores of bridges were washed'out of telephones blown down.

Communications and transport in Osaka were almost at a standstill. The city placed under an emergency alert. makers boosted pay. Kaiser-Frazer and Studebaker have not acted yet. Stiff Marks Fire At Jerome Causes $20,000 Property Loss JEROME, Sept.

4. wind- here today with a rousing speech! at city auditorium. In his talk, which was heard ove four nationwide radio network Eisenhower called on Americans sign "freedom scrolls" and to con tribute money to help finance radi station Free Europe. The radio station, a supplemen to the Voice of America located 'i West is designed broadcast American propaganda in to the iron curtain countries. The scrolls, which say that'th signer re-affirms, his belief i world peace, will be distribute throughout the nation beginnin Americans signing them will be asked to contribute up one dollar to finance the radio sta tion.

crusade''for wa organized by'the national commit tee for a Free Europe, headec by Gen. Lucius Clay, former occu pation. commander in Germany. Officers -of the organization saj the station is operated to counter act charges that the'Voice of Amer ica is a "state-departmen' mouth-organ." Free Europe radio ii managed entirely by the private Tucson Airman Is In Texas Accident Annual Williams Rodeo started by WILLIAMS, 4. annual Labor day-rodeo-winds up its.

three-day run here today with more stiff competitipn between the cowboys. 'Winners on the first two days:" Team tying, first day John Riodes and Nichols; second money, and Nichols; calf roping, first day money, Oscar second day money, Nichols; bareback bronc riding, first day money," Arnold Jones; saddle bronc riding, first day money, -Bill. Wyrick; bulldogging, firk 'day money. Tad Shafldy; second day riding, first day likes, practically all other auto-money, Arnold Jones; race, first.day, Mounce; day, Mounce. children, destroyed property val ued.

at 520,000 here Saturday. blaze swept through tw.o apartment houses, a residence anc a lumber-yard before being brought under control. All were owned by Joe Larson, resident of Jerome for 59 For two hours firemen and fire fighting-, equipment, from Jerome, Glarkdale," Cottonwood and Smelter City fought the flames before bringing them under control. "Wind spread the fire. Power and phone lines were cu.t in the area and' two firemen 'were injured.

Th'ey were Jack Bfenietone who re- ceived'possible fractured ribs, and burned." Guards stood smouldering embers through the night to prevent a new -j PANHANDLE, Sept. 4. 'ive persons were killed and four others injured in a two-car collision near 'here yesterday. Four of the dead and all of the njured were riding in one of the ars, bound for a picnic at' Palo Duro canyon. Sheriff Clarence Williams, of 'ampa said Marcellus E.

Shaw, Inid Park, fell sleep at the wheel and his car werved to the left.of the road. Shaw, a Negro air route from to new station at Omaha, Neb. Union Pickets El Paso Gas On Indian Wages ALBUQUERQUE, N. Sept. 4 the burst into the tent sheltering-" the station, bound their wrists behind their backs, then them with burst after burst of gunfire.

"The girl was one of the first in the tent," one of the soldiers said. "She seemed to take charge of things, shouting orders and shoving us around. Middle Twenties "It was. hard to say what she looked like, AH of them were wearing very dark green fatigues-with capes which'hid their faces. I-would Judge she was in her middle twenties.

of the Americans was onlj slightly wounded by the first burs "I saw him out of the corner my eye," said one of the survivors 'I prayed that they wouldn't se lim. They The guy with th gun slowly turned around and firei another burst into him. He jus moaned and fell back dead." The youngster 'told his storj slowly, pausing occasionally when he pain from his four wounds be came too much. were seven of us Amer cans" and a bunch of Korean Ifuards up' there," he said. "The torm'blew down the guards' tent irid some of them came to our ent.

We had no warning of any. Everywhere on the western and of southern fronts, American infan- try and marines, were rolling the The 1st class privates related back toward the Naktong Communist squad and mopping up'before Masan, the successfully defended gateway to Pusan, United Press Correspondent Robert Bennyhoff reported the swiftly changing situation on the Pohang front. Soon after filing a dispatch on the American capture- of Angang, he sent another saying the town again was in Communist hands; and the enemy was pushing southward'with patrols even farther than the five to six miles gained iy -the main column. Angang reported going up in smoke' and flame. Bennyhoff said that from an observation post nearby, he could see huge columns of smoke billowing over tile town.

1,000 Head South One Communist battalion of perhaps 1,000 men was heading south' of Angang across the Pohang-Yong- chon-Taegu road, traveling due south along a secondary road -to- ward'Kyongju, 15 miles south of Another column west of Angang also' was driving south, Bennyhoff reported. outpost, eight miles northwest, also was reported aflame -Monday night, as were other smaller villages between Angang and The biggest North Korean offensive of the' war. was thrown into reverse in some western, sectors and stemmed in the rest. Brig. Gen.

Edward Craig, commander of U. S. marines driving into an 2nemy bridgehead in the elbow of he Naktong, said: "I think we've- got them running." "Then a Korean came Into the ent, pointed a crude looking 45 at and shouted in English, 'Get We started to jump him when nother Korean came and -in the place was. full of hem. We didn't have a chance," Wrists Arc Tied He paused, and the other sur- ivor on the next couch took up the story.

"Thay rounded erded us into a corner of the tent 'here they took and tied ur wrists behind our back. pulled them tight; and emember taking a sharp breath ecause "of the pain." A doctor interrupted to take the ounded man's pulse, and cau --The, American Federation ofjtioned him about.exerting himself Labor has ordered picket lines signalman assured- the doctor tablished at and Fruitland in protest over wages being paic Navajo 'workers by El Paso Natura Gas Co. McCoy in ternational representative of the AFL, Hodcarriers Common Laborers Union, said the company 5 paying Navajo laborers SI an hour to. work its $44,500,000 pipe line construction. McCoy said white.

workers are receiving $1.15 an'hour same work, and further charged that Navajos are not getting equal pay for semiskilled C. Perkins, an El Paso-vice- resident, said all Navajos are paid hour. he felt despite a plaster cas encasing his shattered leg. "They lined us. and all of a sudden somebody hollered 'Oh Lord, it The next thing I knew I had been.knocked flat on my face by the slugs." The survivors lay quiet even the killers came back and sprayed the mass of bodies -with another burst.

"That was the one that broke my'-arm," one looking at the splint "and bandages on his right shoulder. "After shooting us they ransacked the place, everything in sight. Then they threw a grenade at us and, Highway 66 Gets Military Priority Sept. 4. (U.R) The 'opock-Kingman highway has iven top priority 'on the- state- uilding program in event it should a needed for military "defense travel, State Highway, Engineer C.

Lefebvre said today. highway department will call for, bids Sept. 14 on building a 6 mile. section of -this road; which will eliminate the difficult Oatman hill sector- of.highway-.66.' I Eoolts are. reviewed on page 13 the latest war map is on page 4 and those stop for children reminders in the paper today concerns the safety of all.

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