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HE FRESNO BEE THE REPUBLICAN VOL 60 NO 10959 Founded 1922 FRESNO CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JANUARY 9 TWO SECTIONS Phone 3-5221 BT Carmr 8178 Per Copy Daily 10c fuziday is Fresnan Is Missing After B50s Collide Over Georg i a Three Of Nine Fliers Perish In 14000 Foot Plunge President Calls For 79 Billion In Budget Request Fiscal Program At A Glance 1953 1954 Incorqe 68677000000 68665000000 Outgo 74600000000 78600000000 Deficit 5900000000 9900000000 Year end debt $264000000000 $274000000000 WASHINGTON AP President Truman today laid a $78 600000000 valedictory budget before congress This estimate of govex Ament spending in the fiscal year 1954 beginning July is $4000000000 more than the president projected for the current fiscal year and $12500000000 more than in fiscal 1952 which ended June 30th The increases almost entirely SAVANNAH Ga Two B50 bombers collided nearly three miles up over Savannah last night and one with nine crewmen including a Fresno Calif man plummeted into the muck of a marshland between two subdivisions Searchers today clung to a faint hope some of the nine may hare parachuted to safety as the sky giant swirled down in the darkness from 14000 feet altitude But a quest by air land and sea had laded to disclose any survivors The Fresnan aboard the ill fated plane is Captain Roy Plog a bombardier-navigator In Fresno Plos father William Plog of 774 Elizabeth Street today received a telegram from army officials reporting the captain as missing The broken and charred remains of three men were found nearby a 20 foot deep crater the huge craft dug in the marsh near the Isle of I lope suburbs The other four engine bomber landed at the nearby Hunter Air Force Base four feet of its tad assembly sheared away but its crew unhurt Lieutenant Thomas Meredith a Hunter information officer said this bomber apparently ripped off a wing of the other as the two circled high in the air to come In for a landing Cites Chance "It is entirely possible that from the great height some of the crewmen of the ill fated hare gotten clear parachutes" said "It all depends on the went into a tight spin force would have trunk of his automobile Left to right are: Kings County District Attorney A Hugo Pearson Blackwell Kings County Sheriff Orvie Clyde and Fresno County District Attorney Clarke Savory Bee Photo AFTER Officials of two counties talk with Millard Blackwell in the Fresno County General Hospital after taking a statement in which they said he again admitted he killed his wife and stuffed her body' in the arc for national security programs and point the president said toward a $10000000000 deficit 18 months from now Truman called for a big in crease in foreign aid mostly for military help to the European allies This flew in the lace of majority congressional desire expressed in a recent survey by the Associated Press for reduced foreign aid The budget message is subject to revision by the incoming Eisenhower administration which has indicated it will be scrutinized closely and revised probably starting in April As is customary Truman sent the 20000 word message to congress and did not read it to the legislators himself It is about -10000 words shorter than last The budget calls for expenditures in fiscal 1954 equal to 54S915 for every man woman and child the census bureau estimates will be in the United States January 1 1954 Truman said 73 cents out of every dollar in the budget will go toward programs directly related to national security and 14 cents more toward paying for past wars He made no proposals for increased taxes But he told a Re-ublican congress whose leaders ave been talking wistfully of a CUt "I do wish to make it clear that in my judgment it would not be wise to plan for a large budget deficit during a period when business activity civilian employment and national income are reaching unprecedented heights" He added still it would be "the course of procedure and wisdom" to strive for a balanced budget TTuman predicted expenditures for military services in fiscal 1954 would reach $46296000000 exclusive of atomic energy outlays of $2700000000 That compares with $44380000000 in the current fiscal year and $39727' 1952 000 in fiscal -The presi Mercury In Fresno Soars To 70 Mark Self Defense- And Insanity May Be Blackwell Defense Truman Asks US Health Aid Grants WASHINGTON AP President Truman today called on congress to set up a program at once which would "bring adequate health care within the fi nancial means of all our But if is not a national health insurance program wihch Truman asks This time the president suggested a series df "fed eral grants In aid to state plans for comprehensive personal health Truman's Earlier proposals for a national health insurance program drew heated attack from Republican congressmen and the American Medical ssociation Submitting congress the first volume of the recent report of his Commission On The Health Needs Of The Nation the president said the commission majority feels the national insurance program further study before coming to any final conclusions on its merits The commission did Truman said recommend immediate attention be given to a proposal for federal grants in aid to state Ians for comprehensive personal ealth services Offers Opportunity And said Truman: latter proposal has the virtue of affording local and state groups the initial opportunity for the establishment of workable health services plans likewise may encourage the most effective use of private and public health facilities at the local level in providing essential health services these reasons it may well be desirable at this time to devote our efforts to the establishment of a program which will give the states a chance to bear the major responsibility in bringing the cost of health services within the means of all our Truman said that at a time when the country is devoting her energies "in the world wide struggle against Communist aggression we can all afford to neglect the essential needs of our people in the protection and improvement of their He said his commission concluded that among other things are in urgent need of programs to provide more physicians dentists nurses and health technicians We must have additional health facilities including medical schools hospitals and local public health And he noted the commission found most of the people who lack adequate health service are in that position "because of cost factors which are beyond the French Premier Plans To Talk With Eisenhower PARIS UP new conservative premier Rene Mayer made arrangements today for a quick trip to the United States to meet President Elect Eisenhower Mayer was confirmed yesterday by the national assembly to head eighteenth postwar government Last week he told his Radical Socialist Party if he was made premier one of his first acts would be a trip to Washington to see the incoming American president The premier is reported by informed sources to be perturbed by the diminishing influence of France in western councils because of the recurrent French governmental crisis Mayer whose appointment ended a mote than two week long crisis is worried over attitude 'toward the French 1953 defense effort and wants to feel out the Republican ideas on dollar aid to France Save Rosenberg Group Plan Ottawa Invasion OTTAWA Ont UP The Communist inspired National Committee to Save the Ro sen-bergs said today more than 500 supporters will arrive in Ottawa by car train and plane starting tomorrow morning The committee is picketing the United States embassy here day and night in its efforts to save the lives of convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg They have been sentenced to die in the electric chair for supplying secret atomic information to the Above normal temperatures are forecast for central Calif or-j nia again today but the maxi- mum 1 to tie below the 70 by Inycalgetlns olllcer gree mark recorded ii Fresno shaped up today as possible lines of defense for Millard Blackwell 38 a Hanford oil company employe in the slaying of his estranged wife Rhoda 2S night Fresno County General Hos centrifugal bomber may with their Meredith way It fed I "If it $8650000 Is Requested For Pine Flat Dam By Edward Dickson MrClatcb newpaprra staff writer WASHINGTON President Harry Truman today asked congress to vote $8650000 to continue work on Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River The last budget which if approved would become effective July 1st also requested $540000 for the Merced County Stream Group The Merced o' like Pine Flat is a Corps of gineers project Other Funds Are Asked The following program was proposed for the reclamation bureau in the San Joaquin Valley: Madera Canal $135900: Friant-Kern Canal $890800: Friant-Kern distribution system $6860-000: Madera distribution system $3045000 investigations for water acquisitions $581000 The biggest California allotment would go to Folsom Dam on the American River which is designed to bolster the Central Valleys water and power supply On these works the army engineers and the reclamation bureau would get $31016953 for work on the dam and the installation of electrical generating and transmitting facilities to be tied into Total Is $1100000000 The money for the California projects would come from a $1100000000 national water and related resources development program recommended by Truman up $100000000 from the amount voted by congress for the current fiscal year Besides the reclamation bureau and the army engineers other agencies concerned are the Tennessee Valley Authority the agricultural department the bureau of Indian affairs and the Bonneville Southeastern and Southwestern Power Administrations In planning his final budget before congress Truman stressed the Importance of the development of the natural resources "The money we he said for the orderly conservation development and use of our natural resources represents a sound Investment In many cascss the activities arrf wholly or partially self liquidating But what is more important they contribute to our military strength and to long range economic progress They are prerequisite In many fields to the needed expansion of private investments Cites Resources Drain "While exercising the utmost economy in these programs I believe we should allow for some work made urgent by the continuing drain -on our resource base and by the postponement of needed development during and since Wdrld War II major part of the task of developing our river basins is still ahead of Not only is the Truman budget subject to approval by congress but it also mav be revised by President Elect Dwight Eisenhower when he takes office on January 20th Storms Delay Arrival Of Ship From Far East SEATTLE AP The arrival of the navy transport II Freeman with 1312 passengers from the Far East has been delayed from tomorrow to Sunday ing by stormy weather in the north Pacific Freighter Aground NORFOLK Va UP The coast guard here reported the British freighter Wave Commander ran aground near Cape Henry VaM early today SACRAMENTO AP The finance and liquor operations brought reorganization demands in the legislature today Business and industry in a detailed report with pointed criticism handed in a plan to coordinate all of the service functions under a new department It is backed by the assembly committee which sponsored the study Another move arose to create a separate liquor authority The five man board of equalization which administers both tax and liquor laws proposes the splitup itself Word came a bill will be introduced to effect the change Governor Earl Warren said "I believe we have enough liquor outlets in He also struck out at the practice of speculation in liquor licenses On sale bar permits are limited to one for every 1000 persons in a county enhancing the value of transfers The governor however de- Continued On Page 8-A Col 1 Power Rights Hold Up Agreement On Pine Flat Pact Negotiators for the Kings River irrigation Interests and the federal reclamation bureau announced they have reached "substantial agreement" on all but one point in drawing up a contract for repayment of their share of the cost of Pine Flat Dam A statement issued following a negotiation session late yester day indicates the remaining stum bling block is whether the irrigation interests would get any hydroelectric power benefits from the project Want All Of Storage The statement says: "Members of the negotiating committee said that they wanted to contract for all the storage space behind the dam In response to a question as to whether this would include possible electric power benefits of the project they said that purchase of all storage space would necessarily include power benefits" The announcement quoted bureau representatives as saying they are not empowered to dispose of any-storage space except that which might be required In connection with irrigation benefits and that the matter of possible power development cannot be determined until pending court cases are decided Insists On Inclusion "They (the bureau spokesmen) made clear however that any power usage of river water would be subordinate to Irrigation re- con-i developed the costs of the Pine Flat project should be reallocated to include the power The negotiators did not discuss how much would be paid to the federal government under the terms of the contract Regional Director Richard Boke of the bureau urged that a decision on any remaining problems should be rushed so the project may be used this Spring for irrigation storage Is Ready Ter Act "If we can reach basic agreement on the terms of the main Boke said "I am prepared to recommend to the new commissioner of reclamation and secretary of the interior that we enter a temporary agreement under which the reservoir can be used this In response to a question by Karl Shattuck the chairman of the local negotiating committee Boke said in his opinion it would be possible to have a temporary agreement which would be free of such reclamation law restrictions as the 160 acre limitation on benefitted lands if the early signing of a permanent contract providing for a lump sum payment for irrigation benefits is contemplated The announcement prepared by the bureau public relations department and approved by Shattuck and Kings River attorneys William Docker and Thomas said both parties have agreed to submit the matter of Fresno Slough rights claimed by the federal government to the State engineer for "study and Committee Will Meet The announcement concluded: "Shattuck closed the meeting with a statement that his committee now feels that with the single exception of whether or not all the storage space not needed for flood control is being purchased that the negotiators ard in substantial agreement He said that the committee will meet to discuss Its position on the al tematives that may be open to them in trying to reach an early agreement on this remaining Others who participated in the talks for the Kings River interests were A Sample William Boone Edward EL Harper Louis Robinson Ralph Morgan engineer Henry Karrer and attorney Walter Stammer Bureau representatives included Jack Rodner the San Joaquin Valley district manager Howard and Leland Graham the regional counsel of the bureau and Kent Silverthorne of the Sacramento office of the bureau and Thompson Sullivan and Jackson Carle of the San Joaquin Valley district office in Fresno yesterday warmest January Sth since 191L Government metcrologists said Fresnans probably will have to wait until the end of March for a repeat performance of the "shirt sleeve which was 17 degrees above normal The minimum temperature this morning in Fresno was 50 degrees 15 above- normal Valley readings yesterday ranged from 67 in Stockton to 74 in Bakersfield Partly cloudy weather is fore cast for today tonight and tomorrow with local morning and night fog Mercury- readings this afternoon will range from 63 to 68 degrees Fresno 66 while the low tonight is expected to be from 43 to 48 Fresno 46 Fresno's seasonal rainfall stands at 682 inches as compared to 474 last year at this time and a normal of 352 Inches Yesterday afternoon 01 of an inch was added to the seasonal total The weather bureau reported a deep storm system which was off the Northern California coast yesterday has moved northeastward and now Is over Vancouver Island A storm front which advanced over Northern California seems stalled In so far as any southward movement is concerned and no rain is expected south of Stockton through tomorrow While there is adequate moisture available to form ground fog tomorrow timing the meteorologists do not expect a thick layer over the entire valley Cuba's Consul In LA Dies Of Heart' Attack- LOS ANGELES consul in Los Angeles Juan Manuel De La Puente Lopez 58 succumbed to a heart attack yesterday Dr Puente Lopez had been inspector general of all cuban consuls in this hemisphere until 195l when he was was relieved at his own request and given the Los Angeles assignment A former practicing physician he also served five years in the state ministry in Havana Northern Part Of State Is Lashed By High Gales SAN Gale force winds continued to pound parts of Northern California accompanied by heavy rains in spots and slides and water have close two major highways The California Division of Highways reported US 40 Don-ner Summit has been closed from Baxter to Donner Lake Gate to all passenger cars and trucks under two tons Thirty inches of water are reported over the highway at Cisco Auto traffic is being routed over US 50 Echo Summit where the highway is open and normal without chains from Sacramento to Carson City Nev Gale winds lashed the northern coastline and started moving southward late yesterday Gusts reached as high as 60 miles an hour at Crescent City and 50 miles an hour at Red Bluff last night The weather bureau in Sacramento said another storm front is due to bring more rain and strong winds with slightly copier temperatures tomorrow The bureau said the rain to elevations up to 11000 feet will not result In much snow melting The bureau said temperatures at high elevations are high enough the rain will result mainly in settling and condensing of snow packs The weather bureau issued a flood warning for the Eel River The bureau said the river is expected to reach a crest of 23 feet at Fernbridge at 8 and recede thereafter The Russian River crested at 1988 feet this morning several feet below flood stage but it is feared the river will rise again with the continuing rains No Social Climbing LONDON AP Sightseers who may be1 planning to climb Westminster lamp posts to see Queen coronation processiorf got some sad news today from Sir Hugh Casson an official route decorator-The lamp posts will be greased to stop such undignified rubber necking In A Pinch This Crab Does All Right As Mouser TIPTON England AP out cats you have competition A young crab has a job here as a mouse catcher The crab due for the boil- f'v PRACTICAL amf escaped from its crate Saturday When found it had a mouse in its pincers Since then except for rest periods in a bowl of salt w'ater the crab has been allowed to roam from the shop mouse hunting Bag thus far: Five mice Fishmonger Norman Smith said regretfully as the crab set out on its latest sortie: But it live out of natural salt water indefinitely so it will still end up in the pot pital attendants reported Black-well was transferred to the psychopathic ward after he screamed and complained he-was starving although he had just eaten a meal He has been in the hospital with' fractures of both legs suffered early Wednesday morning when he threw himself in front of a truck on the Golden State Highway south of the Calwa Overpass His wife's body with internal injuries and evidence of strangu lation was found crammed in the trunk compartment of his car which he had parked on a Fresno parking lot Search For Scene Meanwhile the search for the murder scene was complicated by a new statement by Black-well he does not now know where his wife was killed Previously he said it was on a lonely road in Kings County A pair of red and white bedroom slippers worn by Mrs Blackwell when she left their home' in Hanford Tuesday morning was found in Hanford about a mile and a half from the house However the officers asserted Blackwell now says his estranged wife threw them from the car and the spot where they were recovered does not indicate the place where he choked her felt her go limp and then realized she was dead Blackwell was questioned late yesterday by Kings County District Attorney A Hugo Pearson and Kings County Sheriff Orvie Clyde They said' Blackwell admitted -the but declared it was done in self defense Afraid Of Wife Clyde said Blackwell told them and court reporter Charles Fivecoat who recorded the questioning his wife was subject to fits of violent rage and he became afraid of her The Kings County sheriff said Blackwell repeated his previous Continued On Page 4-A CoL 5 against all three of the known polio viruses The foundation said gamma globulin has proved of temporary value about five weeks in immunizing children against polio Human trials last year involving 55000 children in Utah Texas and Iowa cost $1000000 in March of Dime funds the foundation said "If commercial gamma globulin is placed in a national said "it will obviate the necessity for using the (fractionated) gamma globulin effective in polio for measles and infectious hepatitus (jaundice) The commercial gamma globulin added is as effective as the fractionated gamma globulin in combating measles and jaundice The foundation said the Office of Defense Mobilization has asked the Red Cross to collect the necessary blood to provide the maximum gamma globulin for use against polio next held them and there wouldn't be much chance Otherwise there was a chance" crews sloshed afoot through the marsh looking for survivors or bodies Air-sea rescue boats from the base patrolled the nearby water while a helicopter from the Jacksonville Naval Air Station and a blimp from the Giynco Station near Brunswick aided In the search Meredith said parachutes could have landed anywhere within a 10 mile area radiating from the crash The bomber clipped the top of several trees before plumping into the muck It exploded as it landed and flames from its gasoline burned a wide area Discounts Report information officer discounted a report of a spectator he saw six bodies recovered He said that in the uncertain illumination of flashlights a few floodlights and automobile headlights the man easily could have been mistaken Meredith said the bodies recovered apparently had been blown from the bomber when it struck the marsh The Hunter base released these names of the other crew members aboard the crashed bomber: First Lieutenant Chester Kincie aircraft commander of Ponca City Okla First Lieutenant Bernard Lane copilot of Birmingham Ala First Lieutenant Carl D' Blankenship radar operator of Madisonville Ky Master Sergeant Loyal Latimer flight engineer of Imperial Beach Calif Master Sergeant James Edwards radio operator of Westviile HI Aviator First Class Jerome Barnes gunner of Wicks Lodge McGregor Minn Aviator First Class John Eland Jr gunner of Beach Grove IndL Aviator Sec- Continued On Page 8-A CoL 5 Koreans Throw Back Red Attack SEOUL Korea UP Republic of Korea troops on the eastern front hurled back attacking North Korean Communists today and at one point climbed out of their own trenches in hot pursuit of the fleeing Reds The North Koreans stung by a ROK commando raid near Anchor Ilill launched- a three pronged company sized assault at a ROK advance position northwest of Kansong Defending ROKs battered by a 650 round Communist artillery barrage stood their ground and met the Red infantrymen in vicious hand to hand trench fighting Today's Chuclle said the chemistry teacher the formula -for water" "Whatever are you driving at?" exclaimed the teacher "Do you think in kindergarten? sir" said Jones you said yesterday that the formula for water was II to dent indicated atomic energy expenditures soon would result in more weapons with atomic plant expansion about ended Altogether Truman said national security programs would add up to $57300000000 73 per cent of the predicted outlay for the year That includes military services international security and foreign relations atomic energy defense production and eco- nomic stabilization civil defense and merchant marine activities An additional $11000000000 or 14 per cent of the budget would largely be chargeable to past wars This Is for interest on the national debt and veterans' services and benefits All other government expenditures in fiscal 1054 Truman said would come to $10300000000 about the same as in the current fiscal year and $1300000000 more than in fiscal 1952 This amounts to 13 per cent of the total This is the division of military services spending air force $17-4700000000: army $15358650-000 navy $11S04000000 Truman said this was to bring the air force in fiscal 1954 up 133 wings of its 143 wing goal the army to 20 divisions the navy to 904 combatant vessels with an air arm of 15 carrier groups and the marines to three divisions with an air arm of three wings In the face of expressed con gressional hostility to increasing foreign aid outlays Truman said mutual security and foreign relations costs in fiscal 1954 should Increase $1826000000 from ex penditures in the current fiscal year to $7861000000 He asked appropriations for mutual seen Continued On Page 3-A Col 1 In The Bee Today Page Amusements Theaters 2-B Column 14-A Cartoon 12-B City News In Brief 13-A Classified Advertising 6-B to 11-B Club News 5-A 6-A 7-A Comics 4-B Crossword Puzzle 13-A -Dorothy Dix 7-A Editorials 12-B Financial News Markets 5-B Glorifying Yourself 6-A Health 5-A Household Arts 6-A Katherine Kitchen 8-A Letters From The People 12-B Mary Hampton 8-A My Word For It 12-B News Behind The News 12-B Obituaries I' 5-B Patterns 5-A Politics By Phillips 4-A Radio 3-B San Joaquin Valley News 3-B Social News 5-A 6-A 7-A Sports 10-A 11-A 12-A Vital Statistics 5-B Washington News By Dickson 1-A Weather 6-B Your Baby And Mine 6-A Polio Foundation Plans Pool Of Globulin To Fight Disease Medic Saves Pal's Life By Plugging Wound With Foil NEW The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has offered to buy all commercial gamma globulin and make it available for a national pool to combat polio measles and infectious jaundice Basil the foundation president said the plan calls for buying up all the commercial type blood element now on hand or to be produced up to June 30th Such a purchase said might require $2000000 to $5000000 in March of Dime funds O'Connor said the commercial gamma globulin to be purchased from pharmaceutical houses has not been proved valuable in ight-ing polio since it is not taken from large numbers of persons hr widely separated -areas Only gamma globulin made from blood collected in' varied area pools he said has been shown to carry antibodies Burke drove him down a slippery ice covered road in a jeep and transferred him to an ambulance The soldier regained consciousness in the ambulance he: gasped at Burke "you hear that sucking Burke listened then tore open the shirt and found a gaping hole In his chest covered the wound with he said "and put aluminum foil used to wrap first aid kits on top -of that to seal out He clamped one hand over the makeshift seal while administering blood plasma with the other -A doctor at the aid station said the aluminum plug saved the life EASTERN FRONT UP A quick thinking army medic Private John Burke today told how he saved his life by plugging a gaping hole in his chest 'with aluminum foil He held it in place during an hour long ride to a dressing station Burke of Cleveland said his buddy was hit while test firing his carbine -A bullet exploded a snow hidden hand grenade A fragment tore Into the chest Burke gave the wounded man a shot of morphine and the man lost consciousness Burke thought he was dazed from concussion and did not realize he was wounded in the chest I 4 i I i.