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Oakland Tribune, Monday, June 14, 1943 Czechs Else! Thcrt 1948 Flood ARMY CHIEFS ASIC DUDGET CUTS RESTORED nunc aaved postmaster said the favor probably I involved going through a pile of 1 500 unsorted letters to die out!" this addressed to the friend. WASHINGTON The Senate has approved appropriation to run the i TV a News of Falling Waters From Upstream Cheers Emergency Workers an Dikes PORTLAND, Jupe (UEU-The Columbia River hit its highest crest since 1894 here today, rising three inches ireasury ana uw, was for use on Jananese-de-ments the year beginning July over the first spring peak which wrecked Vanport City on Memorial Day two weeks ago. Volunteers and troops doubled their efforts to save dikes STATE Joseph. Rarsock, 13-year-old discharged Navy veteran, is awaiting sentence July 12 for the fatal shooting of Chief Petty Officer Howard E. Jepson, 34," at Terminal Island in Los Angeles April 3.

A Federal jury found Barsock guilty of first degree murder without capital punishment Barsock, held for petty theft, had escaped from Naval guards and killed Jepson with one shot Defense attorneys said they would appeal. Witnesses have told deputies at Isabella that two Hollywood movie studio workers, killed in a converted Army training plane crash Saturday, buzzed a near-by cabin to signal i their arrival before their plane's engine gave out Killed wete Frank Clark, 50, pilot and Mark Owens, 31, both of Los Angeles. PEOPLE If Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor doesn't have any luck- in her quest for a husband who will "buy" her for $10,000, she might try Manila. Con-stancio Albornoz, 40, a lawyer and cniiaren-ss he interested.

He also cautious. a i il. i. He told the Manila 'Evening News HMrtrindM v.t. Ate Premier Hidekl Tojo and 24 klTCnkl ATI AL 1 tluMI Japan may awap narrow gangs rails and rolling stock for critical items' from Soviet-held Sakhalin Island.

Pickelle, chief of Allied Headquarters' Foreign Trade Divi sion, said the narrow gauge equip-f usable anywhere in Russia In return, Jpan will get coal, coke, paper and He said negotiationsnot completed were -being carried on in accordance with Allied policy. Thousands ef Chinese Mosjems havVheld a rally in Peiping.and pledged support to the Arabs In "a holy war in the Holy Land." Speeches were made denouncing the Jews as "rebels against the true Lord." Peiping is one of the chief centers of Chinese Moslems. Residents of Newfoundland will vote aga'ai July 22 to decide what kind of government they want.They have two choices: Confederation with Canada as that dominion's 10th province; or responsible self-govern- vinAfsf 1 tis a rcfa si i rv tun neithcci of two alternatives 51 required A third chicenUnuation ot the uttt Ann wav miniTn i lciann now is ruled by a British Crown Commission, appointed after. New-foundland gave ip4ndependent government in 1933 because of near bankruptcy. Mrs, T.

S. Hatifeld. wife ef an American' lieutenant colonel, captured a Japanese woman wanted for clothes theft after j. a three-block chase in Tokyo. The auspect, Aiko Sakayama, had been sought more than two months for stealing choic items from American women's wardrobes.

Her captor happened to come home as the woman was talking to the maid. Aiko bolted; Mrs. Hatzf eld gave chase, grabbed th suspect and turned her over to Japanese police. For sailors have been reported drowned off three barges and a launch which sank in Bombay (India) Harbor in 24 hours as the 1948 monsoon broke with 60-mil gales. The 150-ton freighter Cossl-pore was; wrecked 125 miles south of Bombay, but the cjrew.

was saved. Week-end showers checked forest fires in some areas of northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, but shifting winds added to the fire ixhters troubles. Flames have Communist PRAGUE, June Slovakia's first Communist president took office today. Premier Klement Gottwald was elected by a show of 2SS hands in a public parliamentary electloa held in 16th century Vladislavsky Hall, and was hailed by-Speaker Oidrich John as a Socialist president in a Socialist country." Apart from Gottwald and a woman deputy who resigned three days ago, only two voters were not accounted for among the 300 members of Parliament, who 214 Communist party members, A TheJ new president swore allegiance1- to the peoples democracy constitution, went into the Hradcany Courtyard to review troops and police, and then crossed back inta the courtyard where Catholic Archbishop Josef Beran greeted him and Mrs. Gottwald at the door of St.

Vitus Cathedral. The archbishop, clad in brilliant scarlet robes, shook hands with toe presidential couple and then escorted them into the church for a te deum (thanksgiving) mass, sung to an ambrosian choraL An Audience which packed the ancient Vladislavsky Hall applauded the' election long and loud and chanted. The. British, French' and United States, Chinese and Russian ambas sadors headed diplomatic corp present. Twice the Czechoslovak radio commentator noted that Laurence Steinhardt, American ambassador and dean ot the corps, was present Military and naval attaches of embassies also attended in', uniform Eduard Benes, who resigned as president a week ago.

was not present at the election of his successor. Carmen Ballot On Hew Contract Members of the AFL Carmen's Union, operatnig the 'Key System's trains, street cars and buses, began casting ballots today in 4 referendum vote oh a new contract Purpose of the vote is to determine whether the -2500 cperators and maintenance workers favor terms of a new one-y ear agreement, negotiated last week." Holding" of a referendum was recommended by union officers and approved at a special meeting of the membership. The union, threatening to' strike June 30, got a 10-cent hourly pay increase, two cents of which will be granted December I. Britain Demands Word on National LONDON. June 14.

(-P) The British foreign office disclosed today it is seeking an explanation from for. the disappearance of Alexander Evans, British oil expert Reports have reached the foreign office that Evans was arrested by Romanian police on a Budapest-bound train near the Hungarian border. Evans was in Romania to repre sent the interests of English and French holders of shares in the Steaua Romania Oil Company. His disappearance followed the appointment of a government administrator to supervise affairs of the company. Argentines in Hawaii.

HONOLULU, June 13. -WV-The Argentine cruiser La Argentina arrived "today from San Diego, for a six-day visit. On aft extended training cruise, the ship will sail for Shanghai June 19. I photographs of the 28-year-old Hempstead, N.Y., woman. Albornoz also wants to know whether the sale price is FOB New York.

Prince Bertfl of Sweden an avid racing fan, plans to see In production the automobiles which have long been one of his chief interests. But the 36-year-old bachelor prince indicated that he would not be overawed by the marvels of Detroit industry. He told an audience of 4000 at Detroit Swedish centennial cere monies: "Automobiles, however Important, are not everything. I do think that Americans some, times under-estimate the Swedish standard ot living." NATIONAL In Philadelphia, Arthnr M. Hill, chairman of the National Resources Security board, warned that in any future -war the United States would not have time to arm again in com parative security.

"What is Hill told the graduating class of Drexel Institute of Technology, "any future, war in which we are involved will undoubtedly require the total mobilization of all our national resources well" in advance of Historians may learn more abouttrt route to a receiving hospital, the WASHINGTON', cune 14. Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Roy all and Gen. Omar Bradley urgently appealed to the Senate today hot to slash Army funds: Royall told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that House cuts of more than $600,000,000 from budget estimates have "serious implications." He asked the committee at a closed session to restore of the amount i Bradley, the Army chief of staff said: y-. "The world situation, which dictated the necessity for this expanded (military) program, has not changed.

We must still measure the capabilities of Other nations without trying to guess what they will do. "An adequate national defense, in this era at least still remains the best way to live at peace Under conditions as they are act as thev might be." Chairman Gurney S.D.) released the statements alter Royall and Bradley testified. asked a total for the coming fiscal year The House reduced this figure to $6,609,939,000. Royall said the Armv'i tor 1943 is 1 18 divisions. Twelve of mem would be Regular Army and six in the National Guard.

He added: -Additional. divisions will added each year until the final ob jective of 25 divisions ii attained. me National Guard will trovid a total of 13 of these divisions nrt the Reserve Corps will be organised wiui service and combat units to support all 25 combat divisions. KoyaU said the net effect of the House cut will mean "that two rtivi. sions would riot be ready to fight ii u-uay snouid arrive" They are definitely needed in the Army's de- xense plans, he added.

Quadruplet's Are Born by Operation BRISTOL. Eng. June 14. urv- Mrs. Margaret Good, 28.

who was expecting twins July, Is the mother of quadruplets today. Father Charles Good, 27, is hunting around for more baby clothes, i The four girls were born Saturday by a caesarean operation which lasted 45 'minutes, y-. Dr. 'Percival Phillips, medical superintendent at Southrdead Hospital, said quadruplets by caesarean were a rarity 'Tve never heard of any others." He said circumstances developed which convinced the medical staff there would be a better chance to save the babies if they were delivered without delay. Bridget was the first to arrive, weighing 3 pounds 13 Frances weighed in at 4 pounds ounce; Elizabeth at 4 pound 8 ounces; Jennifer 3 pounds 14 ounces.

New Premier for Iran Is Named TEHRAN, Iran, June 14. (JPh-Abdul' Hussein Hazhir is the new premier of Iran. He was nominated by Shah Mohammed' Reza Pahlevi and approved yesterday by" the Majlis parliament). He succeeds Ibrahim Hakimi, whose government fell last Tuesday when it ldst a test of confidence in the Majlis. Hazhir, 52, was a minister with- but portfolio in the Hakimi cabinet and finance minister in the cabinet of Ahmed Qavam, Haklmi't pred ecessor.

The prevailing opnilon in political circles here is that Hazhir is a "caretaker" for Qavam, who is expected to become premier again before long. Sold i I Killed SENDAI Japan, June 14. (JPh-T5 Norman Reeves, West Xngle-wootl, N.J., was killed June 6 in a jeep which plunged over a cliff into a river; the Army announced today. MARY. 1 just snecicd Which SKELETONS OF OLD GAMBLING STORIES RATTLED BY RAIDS Skeletons of old gambling and "ityott" stories were rattled by the Mendocino County slot machine raids ind alleged bribery attempt.

Charges by Sheriff B. G- Broad-dus thpt the old.Cornero gang had established a slot machine ring in fhe resort area recalled the eight-year fght against its operation of gambling ships off the Southern California coast Attorney General Tfed HOwser district attorney of Los Angeles County in 194 when Tony Cornero Stralla made his final effort to operate a easino in a ship moored; outside the three-mile limit. Stte nd Federal action finally forced Suspension of operations, Punchboards confiscated at sever! resorts yesterday bore stickers they had been supplied by the p. A. Robinson Company, a 'I Los- Angeles firm.

That company had! been named in a Santa Cruz investigation in April i Sgt Roland R. Rushton, Los An-, geles ptjllce officer was alleged -at that time; to have promised "projection in the name of the attor-heyj general, as he Introduced a funchboard salesman to amusement i xaen. Rushton was subsequently; jcjnarged from the Los Angeles department. -fThe raids yesterday place while Sheriff Broaddus was participating In a nag Day program I UkiaV I- His stiff of six deputies was lugmented by six from Alameda Countv land 15 special policemen fror4 Willits. They swooped down on esorts and began to play slot As each machine paid off, it was confiscate Officers said they failed to irjakeja profit in every Instance.

Cfiihisc Reels Make Atta ck From Sea SHANOHAt June 14. A hundred Junks loaded with Chinese Communist troops tried, to land on the oast 100 miles south of here, a pfo-rovernment dispatch said toda. The.report could not be confirmed. Thje vessels were reported seen in Waterf between Tinghal Island and ihe mainland. The dispatch did ftot say Whether the attempted amphibious landing was successful.

It said the Communists were from. includes Shanghai and Nanking. Large scale fighting has been in progress Shantung province; immediately above Kiangsu, and. in Honan. inland from and adjoining both coastal districts.

Much of North China and most of Manchuria ey wide Cohimunist cohtroL The reds have not threatened South China. pikiiab.Hvicrribune OAK.IM0'g OVLT LOCALLY OWNID CONTaOLLXD DATLT CttablUhed Tebruary 1874 8uprrr on Continental Sid of II San Francisco Bay IMmbar American NVrppei Publish en i Association Charter' Member Audit fiureett erf Circulation 'Complete Associated Tntt Service for Metropolitan Oakland Fun, United Prese Service KtMXta or THt ASSOCIATED PftESt Trie Associated Pre is entitled exelu- ail the local tew fruited in thli ilr to the use for republication firwuDtper. as well ill (A aewf oispatcnea. TH XKXBUNl PtTJLISHINa CO fCHUSRIRS 90S. K.

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The measure, previously approved by the House, went back there because the Senate knocked out a provision that none of the money should be paid to a member of any union whose officers have not signed the affidavit required by th Taft-Hartley law. President Truman has sirred resolution authorizing a special series of 3-cent stamps to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poultry industry. It will be left to the postmaster general to decide whether the chicken or the egg will be honored in the design of the stamps. MILITARY Fonr new gallowa have been b.ilt 4 co-defendants await the Judgmerrt and sem'ences of th International Military Tribunal VerdieU are ex pected in early August The new vv jt rorm. reacnea oy lour steps.

vn.i the ground in front are benches for officials and witnesses. The new gallows already have been! used. for execution of a number of minor criminals. A A Second 116S-passenger Lockheed Constitution transport plane, on order for the Navy. has completed its first flight' The routine flight lasted two hours the plane reaching 25,000 feet The first Constitution model has logged more than 200 hours of flying "accomplished with complete satisfaction" the Navy said.

ACCIDENTS Baseball pitchers and Miss Estelte Hester of Los Angeles are opposed to the lively ball. The pitchers don't like it because it goes too far when hit. That's Miss Hester's objection, too. She was polishing her automobile across the street' from Wrigley. Field.

Somebody socked a ball over the centerfield wall and Miss Hester became the, ultimate point of contact. When she jvoke up somebody had' scored and. was Palice in Los Angeles described it as one of the politest auto accident on, record. The two driver smiled and virtuaJJy turned th other fender. Shaking hands And apologizing to each other after the Collision were the Rev.

Lester Wiley and the Rev. Dr. Aexander Stevens. LABOR Automobile production has been following its long-familiar zig-zag impeded by layoffs and strike effects; One bright sp9t however, is the anticipated early return to work of 16.500 men at Chrysler in view of a truce in a Supplier strike. Another 200.000 in General Motors began a week's idleness.

GM laid them off, blaming a steel shortage which it said was caused by the last coal strike. U33 BROADWAY 1634 TELEGRAPH il Oil And any use er ir s.f. Man vanishes IN WAVES AS HIS WIFE WATCHES HIM While hi frantic wife watched from the shore, John H. 31, of 20 Hill Street, San Francisco, was caught in heavy breakers while swimming in the ocean at the foot of Taraval Street there yesterday and apparently drowned Coast Guard crews could not locate his body and he was listed as missing by police, pending inves tigation. His wife, Mrs.

Mary May, was treated at Park Emergency HosDital for shock. A few hours later, the body of an unidentified woman between 45 and 50 was found on the edjte of the surf opposite Roberts at the Beach, on the Great Highway." Yi Apparent cause of death was drowning. There were no marks of violence on her body, police said. DEATH AT CAPITOLA rAnd in Santa Cruz. John, Lynch, former city manager of San Jose, collapsed and died after swim ming at Capitolo Beach.

Coroner Walter Bettencourt said his death, which occurred in the apartment of friends, was caused by a heart attack. i Meanwhile, the Golden Gate Bridge claimed its 98th suicide vie- tim yesterday. Police, identified him as George Studebaker, 56, 4of 493 10th Street, Oakland, from a Card found in a Suit coat left with a hat near the north tower of the bridge. The body was recovered by mem bers of a yachting party who wit nessed the leap. Studebaker's sister, Mrs.

AUeen Stearns. 5382 Belgrave Place, Oakland, said' he had been a patient at Yountville Veterans Home for several years. i SANlrRANCISCAN, DROWNS I The ocean 5 off San Francisco's Fleischhacker Park claimed the life Saturday Of Charles Krauth. 25, of San Francisco, when he at tempted to save his sister, Rosanne, 18. bhe was rescued and survived.

Police said Krauth was caueht bv the undertow when he began swimming out to aid his sister whom he believed was in trouble. A life waiter Wehr. summoned from Fleischhacker Pool and an other swimmer brought the brother and sister ashore. Kxautn was dead on arrive! at Alemany Emergency Hospital. His sister was treated for Submersion and released.

Krauth, a Pan-American World Airways mechanic, lived at 141? Irving Street, San Francisco. Miss Krauth lives at 1050 Eddy. Street. Fingerprint 'Father' Dfes? NEW YORK. June 14 MtVr Henry Pelouzs de.

Forest, 83, who claimed establishment of the first fingerprint file in this country died yesterday. Neurologist Dies NEW YORK, June 14. Dr Otto. Marburg, 74, clinical professor of neurology at Columbia Univer sity and noted authority on ner vous diseases, died yesterday. is! ss I It.

ut Xt MY LAUNDRY ARE TAKEN THANK YOU Especially since I can ct my shirts laundered or only 2Q(J protecting the cities 'of Kelso and Longview on the Washington side and Scappoose on the Oregon ah6re -'V Army engineers said the levees were in 'critical condition after being waterlogged almost a month. In some places the river lapped within 14 inches of the levee tops. The emergency crews were cheered, however, by news that the river was falling along a 600 mile stretch upstream from here. RECESSION PREDICTED The stream fell 'a foot at Trail, LC, and six inches in central Wash ington The weather bureau pre dicted that the river would subside at the rate of. six inches a day for the next thre weeks.

In northeast Portland. Columbia plough waters threatening the re maining Campbell Road Dike fell .02 feet in two hours last night It was the first dro since the river ripped through a railroad fill to wipe out the city of Vanport' The flood surged through two high fills, taking of Vanport's dwellings along. Friday they plunged through a fourth barrier, inundating 2000 homes," four golf courses, and a pickle factory, i PLANT IN DANGER The Campbell Road fill was the last land barrier protecting the Reynolds aluminum plant and engineers and civilian volunteers worked hourly to bolster the dike. Harvesting machinery used! to funnel and sack spring and fall wheat crops rolled up behind the dike and was used to speed up sandbag production to 240,000 sacks per day. v- Giant pipe-line dredges which normally keep the river channel clear were called in to pump ailt and sand from the Columbia's bot tom up on the dikes.

At the peak crest. Army engineers worries were haJLf done. With the drop In flood Raters came the danger of -sloughing dikes, carried down with the shrinking Columbia; DIKE PATROL FORMED Rigorous patrols were organized to inspect dikes around the clock for the next two weeks. The flood which hit Washington, Montana, Idaho. Oregon and Canada took 43 lives.

The Red Cross still counted 22 persons as missing in the Vanport city disaster. Only five bodies been recovered from the drowned city. Relief Agencies sent out an ap peal tor funds with which to re- habilitate the 40,000 refugees driven from their homes In northwest (val- ley communities. The Red Cross said it had only $500,000 of Its allocation left to carry on the work and the Salva tion Army said it would be, forced to halt relief work entirely unless it received more funds. Colorado Flood Victims Tcntotivily IdcnHried PUEBLO, ColoM June 14.

(JP) Flood w4trs dropped today" in the Puebld region as Sheriff Eafl H. Dunlap sought to identify definitely two1 bodies taken from a creek. He reported the bodies tentatively identified as those c.f Mr. and Mrs. Sam Clense'n of Towner.

Colo. Thev Jwere taken last night from the creek i about 10 miles west of Pueblo. Pukup sr.d Servlss Pfctni Hlcsti 4-01C3 730 29ih STREET II wcy Burton, in 2048 A.D. than the Geauga County village is willing to admit about itself at present Residents have been asked to write their "purely personal" opinions about the town and its inhabitants for placement' in a sealed metal box as part of the village's 150th anniversary celebration June' 19 and 20. The box, stamped "Don't open until 2048 A.D." will be kept in a vault in the Geauga Museum.

Scientists will make their first attempts next, year to cure cancer with a new experimental weapon I the betatron. The betatron is a de vice, that whirls negatively charged electrons to high speeds In much the same manner that a cyclotron; speeds up protons or other positively-charged atomic particles. Plans for Installing a 20-milllon volt betatron at the University of Illinois-College of Medicine were announced in Chicago by Dr. A. C.

Ivy, vice-president of the university in charge of Chicago professional colleges. Clerks in the Postoffice 'claim Herkimer, N.Y., a God-fatherly interest today the birst of an "anti-keepaboo" letterdrop. It was in their office that the idea was originated to keep customers from seeking special service through the! slot. F. Arthur Fagan, Herkimer i ostessmits: t- i -I spread over 200,0001 acres Mississagi region and 250,000 acres in the.Chapleau region, i CRIME William R.

Mestice, who wok the study iof law and went court in his own behalf after losing a $2000 damage suit is out smother $1000. He was. fined that amount and also given a three-months jail sentence after being cited or contempt of court by Essex, County, N.J Judge Joseph Conlon before whom he took his newly-acquired knowledge of the law. Judge Conlon said Mestice's studies didn't go. deep enough.

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