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Waiter tier All Beneafh eseirff. Says Engineer be water in the underground channels, they say. The discovery could mean a worldwide search in desert areas for water in deep rock fissures. Tensions between nations disputing water sources might be eased. Ironically, clues leading to the discovery are as old or older than the Bible as in the Book of Exodus which tells of Moses smiting a rock and bringing forth water.

Galileo provided another clue in a theory he propounded centuries ago. The Italian astronomer recorded research demonstrating that the earth maintains its equilibrium by mammoth internal movements. The maintenance of this balance as the earth rotates on its axis is accomplished, he said, by cracks within the earth which allow constant shifting and water is the lubricant. supplies of water are coursing under its trackless wastes. Essentially, the sleuthing sums up wi'k what is termed irrefutable proof that millions of acre-feet of melting-snow water from the east slope of the Sierra Nevada are draining into underground cracks that underlie the Southland.

Preliminary estimates say at least a million acre-feet of water flows annually under the Mojave enough to supply five million people, as much as the metropolitan Southland draws in a year from the Colorado River and perhaps as much as six Colorado Rivers. Authorities claim the flow of water is constant under the Mojave and can be tapped economically with wells reaching to a plane between 1,500 and 3,000 feet under the surface. As long as there is snow on the mountains, there will In the Mojave region itself, clues have existed for more than half a century in the form of wells dug, the charting of geological patterns and the analysis of water. But clues are one thing. Bringing the clues together and going a few revolutionary steps further to solve the mystery of desert water sources is another.

That's where a dedicated, volatile, 57-year-old Italian immigrant comes into the picture. He is Oiindo R. Angelillo, a civil engineer with a diversified scientific background who was retained by the California City Development Corp. to check on the discovery of water under the Mojave. Angelillo detailed a $256,000, nine-month project of (Continued on Page A-4.

Cbl. 1) By WARREN WALTERS Fantastic worldwide Implications are the potential end products of a vast detective story unfolded for the first time. The characters: water, the desert and an Italian immigrant The mammoth impact of the superscientific sleuthing may one day be measured in terms of millions of people living in lush areas of vegetation that formerly were bone-dry desert wastes. To California, the story may turn out to be as startling as would be the overnight appearance in the Mojave Desert of a river the size of the Colorado a river that could solve the arid Southland's water problem. The Mojave is the setting for the plot The background for the detective story is the claim that vast The Weather Coastal low clouds and fog In night and morning hours, but mostly sunny today and Monday.

Todays high near 70. OWNSUNDAY independent fVesselegtam Phono HEmlock 5-1 161 Classified 2-5959 LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1959 VOL 7 NO. 29 146 PAGES ILL zJ Map Scheduled Monday Texan Expects to Be First to Make Trip on One Engine Terminal, Pier Projects Slated By LEE CRAIG A 21-million-doUar schedule of port construction projects for the next several years, including a cargo-passenger terminal, the first such facility in the harbor's history, has been given a tentative green light by the Board of Harbor Commissioners. By JIM McCAULEY A Texas aviator may take off from Long Beach in a tiny airplane Monday in an attempt to be the first man to fly a tingle-engine plane nonstop to Europe from the West Coast He is Bill Mullens, 35, of KeiTville, who doesn't expect to lose any sleep on the marathon flight to Rome. As is expected to taxe 40 hours for the craft to span two continents and one ocean, the plane is equipped with an alarm system so the pilot can Then it was powered by smaller engine.

A 250-horsepower engine has been installed for this flight THE PILOT IS a regional sales manager for Mooney in Texas. He hopes to land in Rome, then fly back to Photo on Page A-S Work on the terminal probably will begin after July, I960, when funds will become available for the job. Ita site would be on one of the two new pier now under construction jutting southward from Pier A. which will become the center of harbor activity as the port is expanded out to sea. THE NEW PIERS, and G.

will be completed and reedy for construction of the terminal, transit sheds and other facilities on them by July, I960. Total expenditure on projects during the rest of this fiscal year la an estimated $9,883,000. Major items hero Include $1,800,000 on the Pier supertanker terminal, for wharf and area development at Berths 125-127, Pier $1,135,000 for a wharf and fill at Bertha 208- Houston, nonstop. Linnard said Mullens will munch on sandwiches and doze part of the time. As the heavy load of gas will make the plane carry a weight loar twice as heavy as normal.

It will require a long runway to get the take-off under way," LinaSrd said. Mullens hopes to start about dawn Monday lend arrive in Rome Tuesday night or early Wednesday. Only multiengine planes have flown nonstop to Europe from the West Coast nap briefly while flying on automatic controls. The alarm would be activated if the plane became un Demands 'Bribery' Exposure WASHINGTON (UPI Sen. Karl E.

Mundt (R-SD) demanded Saturday that Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy tell members of the Senate Rackets Committee which witnesses asked for leniency in exchange for political support of his brother. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Masa).

Mundt vice chairman of the committee, said, This is by far the most shocking development in the two-year history of our committee." "I shall ask the chairman to hold an executive meeting of the committee early next week to learn the identity at the culprits who had so much to conceal that they tried to bribe the counsel and to circumvent our committee," Mundt told newsmen. Im Mr Omu ta sum MULLENS WILL be at the controls of a four-place, single-engined Mooney Aircraft plane that weighs only 1,500 pounds. He will be flying solo. The plane will cany 400 gallons of gas another 200 OO -AHEAD SIONAL GIVEN FOR HARBOR CONStRUCTION This aerial photo shows existing Long Beach Harbor facilities and (designated by dotted lines) new additions of Piers and which will include $5,500,000 cargo-passenger terminal first in harbor's history. Terminal will be three stories high and 1,000 feet long.

Major user will be Orient and Pacific Lines. Work on hew piers already is under way. Work on the terminal is expected to begin in July, I960. ,211, Pier A. and $1,000,000 for grain elevator at a loca- BmllSS wHlvT on 001 definitely decided.

Odds Against West Blockade Berlin Tht exact point of take-off wont be determined until today after Mullens has inspected facilities, according tol Jack Linnard of Long Bench, vice president of Corporate Aircraft Associates, regional distributors of the Mooney. BERLIN CP If the Rus- Both Long Beach Municipal, 1Mkala West Berlin. Airport and Loe Angela m-jthe fighting woud ternational Airport stacked against any western considered as take-off points Fighting If Russians military effort to Necessary projects for the 1059410 fiscal year, to cost about $11,705,000, include $4,423,000 for the Pico Ave. service road and railroad, $1,884,000 for transit shed, wharf and back area raising at Pier A. Berth $2,558,000 for the same wok at Pier (Continued Page A-2, Col.

3) in Berlin Unity Vow By SEYMOUR TOPPING BERLIN (A Soviet Premier Khrushchev came to Ber- swamped in Red understand why, glance Berlin's strategic outpost lies 110 miles ifo Saturday night and de Communist East Ger-jmtnded the withdrawal of is situated in the Allied troops from this former Africa Mobs Soviet Premier Nikital Defense Khrushchev has warned that is Russian forces will oppose any air or ground sortie into East Germany toward Berlin. With both East. and West obviously leery of war, this tough military talk on both ides over Berlin may be just high powered bidding lending up to deal at the conference table. What is feared most here is a miscalculation or an ac- The crash window trigger world But if a a shooting the and Weather and runway condi tkms will affect the decision, Linnard said. The gold and black Mooney plane if the same craft that made two round-the-world flights in the past two years.

of West Berlinwould be on the piste glass -window concept" Russians hesitate to through the West Berlin because it could World War HI. H-bombs might fall on the including Russia. blockade did spark war with the Russians, 2,200,000 West Berliners the American-Brit ish-French garrison of some 10,000 troops would have little chance of escape. Thev To at West This deep iiv It many. heart of ration in Europe, (Continued U.S.

CHAIRMAN John McClellan (D-Ark) said the committee has a closed-door session scheduled for 10 a.m. EST Tuesday. He said members can bring up any business matters they think proper or of interest" at that time. I know of no bribe being offered. McClellan said.

"I am sure if there had been, Mr. Kennedy would have reported it. Kennedy disclosed in Milwaukee Friday that he had received "several offers of 1960 campaign support for his older brother if he would go Ha pry open the lifelines to this isolated city. Geography and the military balance favor the Communists. U.

S. military leaders say the West could break through blockade of West Berlin. But it has not been explained the biggest concen of Red Army forces -more than on A-3, Col. 1) German capital man on The Kremlin leader Billll WHlte at a torchlight rally in East Berlin before a crowd of more Rag than 100.000. Mdl -1.

how this would be feasible 'cident involving a fateful col-if the Russians counter with.lisioa between western and their larger forces. Soviet troops. Answer Welcomes Berlin Talk WASHINGTON IM The United States proposed Saturday that the Western Allies He declared, Order be brought to Berlin. Then he went on to define that order as acceptance of 1 the Soviet proposal to transform West Berlin into a called demilitarized' free city. i KHRUSHCHEV ALSO newed his demand for the night signing of a World War III The dispatches said a cam-tell the Soviet Union they are peace treaty that would give paign of arson and sabotage recognition to East Germany; had been launched by the prominently menus a state.

rican National Congress a tioned as a presidential candi- We are waiting for an an- part of a white man go date next year, istera conference provided' BWer (from the Western pow-home" program. I Robert Kennedy said ha any other German problems) to our proposals," An African agricultural ad-1 had not told McClellan of the alw may be raised. Khrushchev said. We hope vjMr was beaten by a mob alleged offers because he did This was reported to be one the answer will be sensible." tnd the Watchtower Bible So- not warn ''to make a big thing of the main points in the Khrushchev came here from Mission buildings at out of it. The young attor-draR of a new note submitted the trade-fair city of Leipzig Kasunga were burned, the re- ney aaid he did discuss them Dulles Takes Hour's Aufo Ride in Park WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles left Walter Reed Hospital Saturday for an hour's drive with hia wife through sun-swept Rock Creek Park State Department spokesman Joseph Reap said thi cancer-stricken secretar thoroughly, enjoyed the ride in a chauffeur-driven limousine and frit refreshed on his return to the hospital It was the first time the 71-year-okl statesnan had been out of the hospital since he entered it Feb.

10 for i hernia operation that die doted a recurrence of abdominal cancer. The brief respite came after radiation treatments wen with his brother. He said "the most serious" offer came from a manage- where he spent four days. I pom aaid. A procession of more than) repofted (Continued Page A-2.

Col 5) sons dead and 39 per injured to Britain, France and West Germany. The State Department announced Saturday that messages giving U.S. views on reply to the U.S.S.R.'s latest note had beenUffi Ia DivOTCB sent to the three capitals Fri-, 1 day night. 'Dennis' Creator since a state of emergency jment witness but that several was declared last Wednes- came from labor people, with-day. I in the last year.

0 WHERE TO FIND IT In Washington, top officials conferred with the ambassadors of Britsin and West Germany and a Canadian Embassy minister on the German-strip "Dennis the Menace," Soviet situation end on the has been sued for divorce by prospective Weriem rerfy to, his wife of 17 years, court the Soviet now of last Mon- records disclosed Saturday. SALINAS (UPI) Henry K. (Hank) Ketcham of Carmell Valley, creator of the comiq. TO THE RICKSHA BOYS ot Tokyo: Sayonara! A feature on their decline appears on age B-3. ON PAGE A-12 Dr.

Edward Teller, genius of the Atomic Age. tells the outlook for future developments in his field. Regular P-T features follow: Radio-TV D-8 Real Estate R-M School Menus Ship Arrivals si a B-S Sports IM- Star Gazer B-8 Women's Naurs W-1-18 Four Dlt In Crash Witb Greyhound Bus MARION, Ala. (UPI Four persona were killed and at least seven injured in a head-on collision of a Greyhound bus and a pickup truck near hero late Saturday night The dad wen occupants of the truck. day conditionally accepting a foreign ministers meeting.

High officials expressed confidence the Soviet Union will agree to hold a conference on terms generally acceptable to the West. The Ketchams, both 39, separated last October. Mrs. Alice Ketcham charged extreme cruelty." She asked custody of their son. 12, inspiration for the popular cartoon.

WESTS LIFELINE Map shows two ground links between West Berlin and West Germany the Autobahn from Helmitedt eastward and the single-track railroad parallel to the Autobahn. Both the road and rail line through East Germany are under Soviet control Position of West Berlin ai an island surrounded by Red areas is apparent AP Map.) i vH.