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MONITOR-INDEX AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 29 ASSOCIATED PRESS AND WIDE WORtB FTJL1. tEASETJ WIRE SERVICE MOBERLY, MO. Tuesday, June 1, 1948 MOBERLY INDEX, EST. 1016 MOBER1Y DEMOCRAT. EST.

1873 MONITOR. ESTABLISHED' 1869 No. 284 Flood Columbia UMW Chief, Asking Dismissal of NLRB Suit, Says Southern Coal Producers Association Organized to 'Thwart' Bargaining. WASHINGTON, June 1, --(JP)-- John L. Lewis argued that he is not required to bargain -with the "hostile, arbitrary" Southern Coal Producers Association.

This was his reply to the government's motion for a Taft- Hartley Act injunction to compel his United Mine Workers to seek a contract with the association. Lewis' lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the injunction suit brought by Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the. National Relations Board. The UMW chief emphasized he is objecting to dealing with the association as such.

He said- ha is willing, and always has been, to negotiate with individual southern producers and local associations which signed the 1947 wage contract. That applies, he said, to bargaining agents designated by the mine owners or the local groups. Before Judge Goldsborough The plea for dismissal of the injunction suit went to Federal Judge T. Allan Goldsborough, is scheduled to rule on it tomorrow. Goldsborough is the same judge who twice previously fined Lewis and the UMW for contempt of court orders in coal strikes.

HOMES BUFFETED BY FLOOD--Twisted from their foundations, homes in the Vanport, housing center are buffeted together by flood waters from the Columbia River, which swept through a break in a dike inundating the jammed with 18,700 residents. Roofs provide a haven (arrow) for some persons fortunate enough to escape the wall of water which swept into the city after collapse of a railroad embankment. (AP Wirephoto) Rail Unions May Picket Truman's Train During Tour WASHINGTON, June 1 Railroad may picket president Truman's train at every stop on his coast-to-coast speaking schedule. The tour begins Thursday. A.

J. Glover, head of the switchmen's union, told a reporter today that rank-and-file picketing movement is developing. "The brotherhood chiefs have nothing to do with this," Glover said. "The rank-and-file members in various cities are making their own plans, I understand, to put out pickets." picketing would protest the action; in the wage dispute the railroads and three unions, the brotherhoods of locomotive engineers, -firemen and enginemen and the switchmen. The rail system is under government seizure and the three unions are barred by a court order from a walkout.

The White House has been attempting to bring railroad management and the three unions into agreement. The Taft-Hartley Law requires unions and employers to bargain in good faith with each others' chosen representatiyes. Lewis has refused to bargain -with the southern group on the ground it did not take part in previous contract talks, and national negotiations for a new soft coal contract have collapsed as a result. The union, in moving to dismiss the suit, filed a long affidavit from Lewis himself attacking the southern group and explaining why he won't deal with it. The union's lawyer, Welly K.

Hopkins, contended among other House Committee Would Leave Draft Up to President WASHINGTON, Jun 1 --The House armed services committee approved unanimously today a draft bill revision which would give the President sole responsibility for starting a draft of men for the armed forces. The provision, similar to one in early versions of the House bill, would hold off draft operations at least 75 days after passage of the law. Drafting then would start only when the President decided the armed forces could not obtain necessary manpower "fhrough voluntary enlistments. things that: 1. The Taft-Hartley section Steelman renewed the government's search for a way out of the rail dispute after a Memorial Day week-end recess.

under which the injunction is sought violates the constitution. 2. The law requires the five- man Labor Relations Board itself to file such petitions and gives it no right to delegate the authority to Denham's office, or others. Similar to I. T.

U. Case The International Typographical Union made the same contentions in fighting against a Deiiham-sought injunction three months ago. but Federal Judge Luther M. Swygert ruled against the union on both counts. He granted an injunction requiring the ITU to cease certain practices pending a decision by the NLRB as to whether the practices violate the Taft-Hartley act.

Hopkins also said an injunction would impair the oligation of the parties to the 1947 soft coal agreement. Concerning this. Lewis pointed out in his affidavit that the 1947 contract was worded diff- year no automobile accidents were reported to officers in Randolph County during the Memorial Day holidays. Last year the record held for the entire Moberly area. This year only a slight accident in Chariton County reported to the highway patrol marred the record for the entire area.

The lone mishap occurred in Salisbury when James Floyd Sanders, Route 3, Salisbury, driving a 1937 Ford panel truck, crashed into the rear of a 1936 Ford coach, owned by Otis Thornton, and parked on Weber street. Damage to Sanders' machine was estimated at $75 and damage to the Thornton car was I about $20, according to the pa- 1 trol. rogress ges WASHINGTON, June 1. Union and railroad representatives discussed their long deadlock with Presidential Assistant John R. Steelmaii today but there was no immediate prospect of a settlement.

The heads or three rail unions who are working under court order left the White House at 12:30 p. m. (EST) without a definite appointment to return. They said they were "on call" of Steelman. Negotiators for the major rail carriers were to return at 1 p.

m. Union President David B. Robertson of the fireman and engine- men, Arthur J. Glover, of the switchmen, and Alvanley Johnston of the locomotive engineers, said there was no progress to re- One Auto Accident In Area Reported To Highway Patrol For the second consecutive erently from prveious contracts (Continued on Page 6) WEATHER MISSOURI: Fair tonight and Wednesday: a little warmer in west Wednesday; low tonight in the 50's; high Wednesday in the 80's. CENTRAL MISSOURI: Fair and not much change in temperature tonight and Wednesday.

Lowest tonight in upper highest Wednesday in 80's. Local Temperatures: At 8 o'clock this Maximum yesterday. 84. A Minimum last night, 53. No Time for 'Impractical Colonel Matte Tells Audience Col.

Paul J. Matte called on his audience to back proposed Universal Military-Training and selective service "to achieve the necessary strength we must have to prevent wars" in-his Memorial Day address, given last night services in the First Baptist Church. "Soldiers are not warmongers," stated Col. Matte, commander of the JCansas-Missouri Recruiting District with headquarters in Kansas City and veteran of 30 years in. the Army with service overseas in both wars.

"Our soldier dead fought for eternal peace, but eternal peace without freedom has no value. "After each war we believe it is going to be the last and we do nothing more toward preparedness," Col. Matte reminded last night's audience. He recalled in his childhood following the veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish American War to the cemetery believing "there will be no more wars." "No Time for Pacifism' "It is time for us to think what we could have done to prevent war and what we can do to prevent a.recurrence of what has happened after each war. "There is no call for vague impractical pacifism.

In the past our unpreparedness has led us into a holocaust of war. This is an uneasy peace. There is fighting all over the world, "The U. N. cannot work unless someone is strong enough to stand back of it and make it work.

Our country is trying to rebuild civilization with loans of money. We are the champion of the small countries. To be a strong-arm champion, we must be able to show our strength or the money will be wasted. "We have left dead in all the seas and lands of the world. These graves are well attended, memorial services are being held in foreign lands for them, taut these boys would rather we do something to prevent their brothers or sons from giving their lives in another war.

"Today is a day of meditation, "the speaker concluded. "It is our responsibility to see these sacrifices were not in vain." For Dead of Four Wars Last night's services were held by V. F. W. Post No.

2654 and Bailey-Bazan Post No. 6 of American Legion in memory of the dead of Randolph County in the Civil War, Spanish American War and World Wars I and II. Capt. Waldo O. Eddy, commander of the local office of the (Continued on Page 3) Missourian Missing After Flash Flood in New Mexico Canyon SANTA FE, N.

June 1. --Simon C. Bland, 29, Ellington, was missing after a flash flood, which swept away the car in which he was sleeping in Carrizozo canyon, near Cimarron, N. early yesterday. A search was started through the canyon by men on horseback, but they had not found Bland at the last report.

His father, Richard Bland, told state police Capt. A. P. Winston that he and his son had parked in the canyon and slept in the car Sunday night after having motor trouble. Winsto-n said baggage and parts of the car were found 20 miles down the canyon.

IS Surplus to Require Heavy U. S. Purchases To Maintain Price WASHINGTON. June 1 (ff) --The lowly spud threatens once again to cause food officials, farm leaders and possibly politicians many headaches during the next four months. Potato supplies are expected by Agriculture Department officials to start flowing to market within a few days in a volume far above consumer needs.

If this is so, the department, will be forced for the third straight year to buy the surplus to carry out grower price guarantees. The cost to Uncle Sam in the past two years exceeded 000,000. The department formally predicts that it will have to buy from 300 to 500 carloads of potatoes a day this month, or a total of at least 25,000,000 bushels by the end of July. Most of the surplus is expected in California, North Carolina and Virginia. The market glut may reach its peak about the time Congress is due to take up bills continuing farm price supports.

Present price guarantee laws, fixing miiiimums at not less than 90 per cent of parity, expire December 31. (Parity is a standard for measuring market prices intended to be equally fair to farmers and users of farm products.) Farm leaders fear that a serious potato surplus would attract so much public attention to the support program that Congress might vote lower guarantees than the 60 to 90 per cent of parity favored by most farm spokesmen. The potato situation could easily become an issue in the coming campaign. The of living is a sore spot with many voters. The support program this year will, have to hold prices above last year's levels.

That's because the parity price is higher, since farm costs have risen too. Some of the potatoes bought by the government will be diverted into livestock, feed, alcohol, and other by-products. But because of a shortage of processing facilities, officials said some of the spuds may have to be dumped. Arab Capita! Bombed as Leaders Meet to Decide on Answer LAKE SUCCESS, June 1. ---The state of Israel notified the United Nations today it accepted the U.

N. appeal for a four- week cease-fire in Palestine. The cease-fire would be effective at 6 p. eastern standard time, the deadline set by the Security Council last Saturday for acceptance or rejection by the Jews and Arabs. No reply had been received from the Arabs up to mid-afternoon.

The provisional government of Israel told the U. N. it would comply with all the "injunctions and obligations" imposed by the council's resolution provided that a similar undertaking is entered into by the Arabs. Arab League leaders were meeting at Amman, Trans-Jordan, to decide on their course. Arab Capital Bombed AMMAN, Trans-Jordan, June 1.

airmen dropped bombs and incendiaries today on Amman a few hours before the Arab League political committee went into session on the United Nations plea for a four- week truce in the Palestine war. The Arabs said six civilians, including two children, were killed. The attack aroused bitterness, but three hours after the league's political committee convened in the parliament building, it was reported unofficially that there was a shift of opinion in favor of a clean cut acceptance of a cease fire. the Arabs were believed be firm against anything but a conditional truce, with abandonment of the state of Israel as one condition. Count Folk Bernadotte, the U.

N. mediator, arrived by air from Haifa, conferred with King Abdullah and then, departed again for Cairo or Tel Aviv. He had been accompanied by Ralph J. Bunche, head of the U. N.

Palestine Commission's secretariat. (The British army in Haifa announced that the Jewish warplanes also bombed an RAF airfield near Amman. The British said 12 Arabs in all were killed and 30 were wounded in the raids, and that a number of grounded craft at the field were damaged.) Much indignation was expressed at the royal palace against the air raid, and some had said it blasted away the possibility of a clean-cut acceptance of the cease fire order. No Let-Up in Fighting While the political leaders talked, there was no sign of a letup in the fighting. Official word from both sides indicated a major brewing along a winding 40-mile front from.

Jerusalem northwest to Tulk- arm, an inland city in Arab territory, equidistant from Haifa and Tel Aviv. The Jews continued their fight to maintain the convoy lifeline between Tel Aviv and Jerusel- em. Arab legionnaires said they broke the latest Jewish assault in the Bab El Wad-Latrun area west of Jerusalem yesterday. The convoy road is the food l)te- line for between 80,000 and 90,000 Jews holding out in Jerusalem. lican Bill To Extend Social Security Reported WASHINGTON, June 1 A Republican-sponsored bill to add 3,500,000 persons to the social security program was approved today by the House ways and means committee.

This is a much smaller expansion than President Truman proposed. He asked Congress last week to bring 20,000,000 more persons into the program and to raise old age benefits. Rep. Reed (R-NY), said the committee vote was unanimous. Reed, chairman of a subcommittee that drafted the bill, said it would permit employes of states and local governments to join in the old age insurance plan, if the local governments approve.

Employes of certain non-profit organizations now excluded also can participate if their organizations choose. The bill makes no provisions for a general increase in benefits. Nor does it provide for any raise in the social security taxes prior to an automatic boost in 1950. One provision, however, permits elderly persons to earn up to S40 a month without disqualifying themselves for old age pensions. Flyer Tells How Flood Water Smashed Vanport to Splinters VANPORT, June 1 (ff) --A flying instructor told how from the air esaid the city of Vanport smashed to splinters.

Calvin Hulbert, who was in the air when the disaster struck, said the surging waters gave no warning. "There was no warning trickle, no minor hole in the dike," he said. "There was suddenly a 6-foot breach in the railroad embankment. Then it was sixty feet, then 600. "A wall of water ten feet high slid through the breach, striking down whole apartment buildings like a bulldozer krijcks down a sapling.

"The buildings seemed to burst as the water hit them. I saw the whole wall of an apartment pop out like a balloon exploding. The furniture stood undisturbed in the rooms. There were people there, too. "Two persons stood on -the porch of their apartment shrinking from the flood.

The building next door crumbled in leisurely fashion. 'Next I looked those people were gone. So was the porch. "An old man ran frantically ahead of the raging waters, pulling a little wagon -with two screaming tots in it. The waters got him, too." From the air.Hurlbert watched the hubbub.

in the sections not yet reached by the waves. "It was agony to see the people bustling about trying to save furniture and clothes." he said. "I -wanted to yell to warn them to run for their lives. All I could do was to waggle the wings of my plane. "Then I got sick to my stomach and went back to the bas.e" on Ousting Board JEFFERSON CITY, June 1 -UP)-- The Missouri Supreme Court refused today to review a suit testing Gov.

Phil M. Donneley's right to oust the State Training School board. The court said such a suit by five of the ousted board members would "impair proper man- agment" of Missouri's three juvenile institutions and would be contrary to the public interest and welfare. The court said the action was primarily to settle a private grievance. It suggested some other legal action might be brought but not quo warranto.

In a strongly worded dissent, Chief 'Justice. C. disagreed with the other judges He said he thought the governor's authority to remove appointive officials was a matter of extreme importance and should be decided. Stephens Reed Street Store Closes Today New Supermarket at Wiiliams-Burkhart to Open About June 15 The Temple Stephens Company today closed its downtown store at 303 West Reed street, as it is expected the company's new store building in the 100 block oil South Williams street will be ready for occupancy around the middle of the month. The new store is to be a super market and is only one and one- half blocks away from the store which closed today.

The Reed Street has been leased to H. F. Bray of Kansas City 'or a Western Auto Supply store. A Stephens store has been in operation at 303 West Reed street for about 25 years. The store was Temple Stephens' fourth and the first one downtown.

He had his office in the balcony of. the building at that location for years until he purchased a warehouse on Logan street several years ago. His No. I store was at 709 South Williams street, now located at the corner of Williams and Carpenter, his second at the corner of Fisk and Bedford, now the Gulick market; and his third at the corner of Morley and Woodland. Once in Midway Building- Before moving to 303 West Reed, the downtown store was in part of the present Midway Department store building for a short time.

J. W. Goldstein, who owned the Midway at that time, needed more space for his growing business and -when the adjacent building was vacated, Stephens leased that location. Ed Steiger, who has been manager of the Reed street store, will be in charge of the store at the corner of Coates and Johnson streets. Stephens has 48 stores in his company at the present time.

The new store will be the only super market in his chain. While Skating, Breaks Left Arm Rosamond Sue Barnes, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Barnes, Sturgeon, suffered a broken left arm when she fell while roller skating at the rink west of Moberly Sunday She was treated at McCormick Hospital and later dismissed. 21 Drowned as Waves Swamp a Navy Launch Norfolk, Tragedy Delays Task Force Sailing for Mediterranean NORFOLK, June 1 Twenty-one men--Nine Marines and 13 Navy in Hampton Roads last night when a Navy launch swamped in chopy waters while returning 90 men to their ship after Memoial Day liberty.

Rear Admiral C. A. F. Sprague, commander of a twelve-ship task force' Wliosi? sailing for the Mediterranean was by the tragedy, issued this statement to newsmen at 9 a. m.

today from his flagship aircraft carrier Kearsharge: "Preliminary report of loss of life or missing personnel may be placed at 22 Maines and 13 Navy. "Report considered accurate and includes best estimate of possible stragglers" (men absent over leave). "Further checking now in progress." The 50-foot open launch was swamped in a wind and rain storm at 8:45 p. as it was returning a liberty party to the Kearsarge, anchored two miles off the Norfolk naval station. The launch, -which -was attached to the carrier, was.

swamped when only 20 yards off the Kearsarge's port beam. At 2 a. today al naval tugs and small craft that had been searching the area were withdrawn, leaving two Coast Guard ships to continue the search. Sailing of the task force was delayed indifinitely after the accident, and its ships were placed on four-hour sailing notice. The Kearsarge, with three cruisers, seven destroyers and a transport scheduled to said at 5 a.

today for the Mediterranean to relieve a similar force which has been on duty in the area since last winter. Unable to Find Bodies of Dead Vanporf, Ore. 18.00 Homeless After Water Engulfs Suburb of Portland PORTLAND, June 1. (tP) --Mass evacuation r.long 120 miles of the lower Columbia was unier way today as the river's crest approached this metropolitan area. It pounded at dikes protecting of acres of farmlands, small and suburban residential districts.

The Army engineers, fighting hold dikes scarcely above the surging river, ordered the entire lower Columbia closed to navigation immediately. hTe order covered the Port- laud harbor in tae Williamette river, and the Columbia from Nearly 400 Violent Deaths Over Holiday By The Associated Press The nation's death toll from violent accidents over the extended Memorial Day holi- appeared headed close to the 400 mark today. Traffic accidents, as usual at a holiday period, more than'half of the fatalities. Deaths of a violent nature reported from 6 p.m. Friday up to midnight Monday totaled 378--not including the" "unknown number dead in the Vanport, flood.

The toll compared to 504 violent deaths over the three- day 1947 Memorial Day holiday and to 292 over a similar period in 1946. Last year's big total was boosted considerably because of two serious airline crashes in which 95 persons were killed and tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma which took the lives of 43. An estimated 30,000,000 automobiles -were on the country's highways over the three- day holiday period and more than 200 persons were killed in traffic mishaps. Of the 378 violent deaths, 203 died in motor accidents; 70 persons clrown- ed, and 105 lost their lives in accidents of miscellaneous nature--including plane crashes fires, falls and other causes. Full U.

S. Aid Ordered WASHINGTON, June 1 UP) --President Truman today ordered "full resources of the federal government" mobilized for aid in the Pacific Northwest flood disaster. He directed the Army, the Interior Department and officials to investigate and make recommendations for "additional legsilative authority to meet emergencies of this character." The President wrote Maj. General Philip E. federal works administrator, directing: him to co-ordinate all federal agencies working: on the disaster.

Portland to the sea for the next three days. Col. O. Walsh, district- the- rfj.kes were in such a precarious state that the wake from a ship a boat might be all that was ed to send the river crashing through. Thousands Have Fled There was no estimate how many people had been ordered out of the dike-protected lower river areas, but Army engineers said many of the thousands living there already had fled to safety.

President Try-nan ordered all federal agencic v- the "full resources of the federal government" into emergency assistance to the disaster-stricken area. The flood has claimed at least 23 lives in its sweep through the vast Pacific Northwest in the wage of melting mountain snow. Property damage already is in. the uncounted millions. Engineers had put a minimum estimate of $305,000,000 on the damage Vanport was crushed Sunday with a $27,000,000 loss.

The Woodland-Kelso-Longview area damage was estimated at $10,000,000. How much of this latter had been foreseen in the first estimate was not immediately clear, and no one now would guess the final cost. As the river battered at the dikes, Elmer Fisher, weather bureau river forecaster, eased fears of a greater surge in the crest than had been expected here. Crest Tonight or Tomorrow It will crest late tonight or tomorrow "slightly" under the forecast marks of 31 feet at Vancouver, and 30.5 at Portland. "I am sure of it," he said.

The crest at Vancouver would be 16 feet over flood stage; at Portland, 12.5 feet. The river this morning was dropping slightly all the way from Lewiston. Idaho, to the Dalles, Ore. The crest was between here and the Dalles. Despite this assurance, danger continued to mount in the 43 down-river drainage districts ordered evacuated.

All necessary evacuation was completed this morning at Woodland, Wash. Col. O. E. Walsh of the corps of engineers said "there is no loss of life." South Kelso'L 4000 residents had been ordered outyesterday as water threatened dikes.

Across the river at Clatskanie, the business district was under several feet of water. Some 6000 persons were being moved out of that area. Rainier, and Kalama, also became huge swamp-like' areas. No Bodies Recovered There still had been no bodies recovered today from Vanport. Search for them was at an end as buildings from the war-built city tumbled through a widening break in the Denver Avenue fill and floated over the $1,500,000 Portland Meadows race track.

The water that had come in at Vanport then swept on though the Union Avenue fill, cutting the final approach to the interstate bridge between Portland and Vancouver. In Portland itself, the backed- up waters of the Willamette river inched up toward the top of the seawall and spilled around. (Continued on Page 6).