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Read DREW PEARSON Behind the Scenes in Nation's Capital Mark West Residents Balk at Dam SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1946 NINETIETH YEAR-NUMBER 226 Proposal for Obtaining New Source of Water Stirs Protest Li. -1 1 1 UJm Uf WSlKHj On Editorial Page ij 2 SECTIONS-14 PAGES nnn nnnrn nnfiP inniTTPrin 7ft tffHifn irilr Ifilra Ini IIP li!) Li LiLiyta Sir rvf Wild of uunniav anas Mark West creek residents at least 33 of them are already "up in arms" over the possibility of a storage dam in that vicinity as a new water source for the city of Santa Rosa. Although such an idea is still only in the vague proposal stage as one of several alternative ideas being studied by the city's citizens' committee on water, the 33 Mark West residents yesterday submitted a signed letter to The Press Democrat vigorously protesting against any such dam in Mark West creek. In fact, to bolster their objection they argue that Mark west creek water wouldn't be any good for drinking in the first place claiming it would be even worse than what the city has now. And about the water the city has now well, the Mark West neighbors are far from complimentary.

Although not mentioned in the Helicopters In Dramatic Air Rescue s5t e3 I As Suicide Balked WEST COAST SHIP STRIKE CALLED OFF xwpevivjL CONVICTED OF HUGE FOOD MONOPOLY Federal Court Finds Interlocked Corporations Guilty of Conspiring to Control Business DANVILLE, III, Sept. 21 (AP) Thirteen, corporations and 16 officials who operate or serve the red-fronted A. P. stores over the nation were convicted today of conspiring to OUTGOING Henry Wallace pens his signature to his letter resignation as he sits behind his "outgoing" mailbox. Wallace addressed his letter to "Dear Harry," wrote: "As you requested, here is my resignation." (AP Wircphoto).

Peace Parley In New Snag On Oil Rights PARIS. Sept. 21 (AP) The Eu ropeanpeace conference hit a new snag today as the Slav bkic speai- Vio.orlc.-I ho fnntPKted i ilillBllliMi i 1 i orously a proposal to give special i Martin also a guest at the protection in Romania to British home, told police he had no pre-and other foreign oil companies. I vious trouble with Tyler, who After an unprecedented seven had been a guest at the home for control a substantial part of the country's food business. An immediate appeal was planned by the New York Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company, 12 of its subsidiaries and 16 of its officers who called the bench ruling of Judge Waltsr C.

Lind- ley "a severe blow" not merely to the chain but to its millions of patrons. "If upheld, it will mean less food on every dinner table and less buying power in every pay envelope," the defendants said. In Ui bana, Henry I. Green, associate counsel for the com- pany, said "The decision is so as- tounding I can net express my opinion polite language, it it stands as the our traditional competitive system must surren der to bureaucratic control. Possible maximum penalties of a $5,000 fine and a one-year prison sentence confronted each of the defendants on each of the two counts of a criminal information brought by the Department of Justice's antitrust division.

Specifically, the defendants were found in a 117-page decision to have conspired to restrain trade in food products and "to monopolize a substantial part of such products in interstate commerce." This, Judge Lindley held in an opinion climaxing a protracted and complicated trial, was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. A. the government alleged, accomplished its illegal monopoly through the following methods: 1. In the New York headquarters of John A. Hartford, 73-year-old A.

P. president, and his brother George, 82, board chairman, control of the vast network of purchasing, manufacturing, distributing and selling agen cies was unified. 2. Where A. P.

retail out lets met strong competition from independent or other group store, some A. P. stores were allowed to stay in business although operating at a loss. These losses were offset by profits fiom other A. P.

outlets and eventually the competition was forced to close its doors. 3. A. P. misused its prof-continued on Page 2, Col.

5) 1 'TSi SUCCESSOR Alfred Schind ler, who automatically succeeded Henry Wallace as secretary of commerce, smiles in San Francisco, September 20, shortly after talking to his ousted boss by telephone. Schindler has been undersecretary under Wallace. (AP Wire-photo). Kaiser to Testify On Postwar Profit WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP) Henry J.

Kaiser, West coast in- dustrialist who turned shipbuild- ing into an assembly operation during the war, will be a star wit- ness next week as congressional investigations of war and recon- version profits resume after a brief summer layoff. Kaiser will testify Monday or Tuesday before the house mer- chant rrwritip rnmrmttee which is investigating the reportedly large profits made by private operators of government owned shipyards during the war. 3 I 1 0 1 Nationwide Maritime Tieup Settled on Equal Pay Basis SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 (UP) The nationwide maritime strike, which tied up the West coast one day longer than the East, was called off at 6 p. m.

(PST) tonight by the CIO-dominated Committee for Mari time Unity. The CMU, in a statement signed by cochairmen Joseph Curran and Harry Bridges, announced the three striking maritime unions had voted to accept the provisions of the government's equity pay scales and call off picket lines. The announcement came after the last of the CMU member unions to ballot the Marine Firemen (Ind.) voted unanimously in meetings up and down the coast to return to work. Some 15,000 firemen, oilers, wipers, and water- tenders were involved The other two unions, the National Maritime Union and the Cooks and Stewards, both CIO, voted 'yesterday to return to work, with the latter conditioning their pledge on receipt of a written agreement from shipping operators. NMU seamen resumed work in East and Gulf coast ports yesterday, and today some 1,500 members on the Pacific coast followed suit.

Thus American flag vessels could sail once more after the most extensive strike in maritime history a walkout which tied down some 9,000 ships in United States harbors and idled an estimated 500,000 seafarers, dockworkers, and allied crafts. But the respite was small and the maritime picture clouded with threats of another all-coast tieup within the next 10 days. Even as the marine firemen voted to return to work, Secretary cf Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Four persons were injured early last night when two cars collided at Santa Rosa avenue and Oak streets.

Those hurt were Wilma Jane Barringer of Ukiah, driver of one of the cars, Mr. and Mrs. William Barringer, 65, 414 East Lind-ley avenue, Stockton, and George Earl Shurtliff, 734 Pine street, Santa Rosa. Shurtliff started to make a left- hand turn in front of the-Barrmger car, according to police reports, and was unable to stop in time, to avoid the crash. Miss Barring said she also was unable to stop when she saw the other car approaching.

All of the injured wer? taken to the Sonoma County Hospital by ambulance and police car, where they were treated for cuts, bruises, lacerations, and other minor injuries, it was reported. Officers Tovani, Watson Maxwell, and Dennis Doyle investigated the collision. Your CAR Running HOT reverse radiator flush will stop that heating. SPECIAL 3.50 505 S. R.

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JOHN MELLER 1047 Wright Road Santa Rosa IN AUTO CRASH by Police One Slightly Wounded, Landlady Escapes as. Man Goes Berserk Going suddenly berserk, an elderly county pensioner ran amok with two loaded revolvers here last night, wounded one man slightly, fired on his landlady, then dashed into the street, attempted to shoot two police officers and was over-Dowered as he tried unsuccessfully I to kill himself in a wild orgy of gunplay. Six shots were fired in the melee that siarted shortly after 9 o'clock in a pensioner's rest home at Tenth street and Healds-burg avenue when George W. Tyler, 74, jumped out of bed, dressed hastily, tore the covering from the bed of Van Martin and fired a single shot that drew ony a flesh nd- A setond ghot vvent the past four months, Startled by the shots, Mrs. Belle McGowan, 431 Tenth street, went to the room to investigate and Tyler assertedly turned on her, firing point blank with a ber target pistol.

The terrified woman ran to a rear room and telephoned police, as Tyler continued firing. Police Officers William Clark and John A. Ellis Jr. received a radio call from police headquarters advising that someone was shooting in a room at the Mc- Gowan rest home. Threatens Police They raced to the address and were accosted by Tyler, who was shuoting and cursing in the darkness across Healdsburg avenue, they said.

As the officers approached, Tyler shouted, "Dcn't come a step nesrer you. The'twn nffippm nHpiwi Tvi.i. to drop his gun and surrender, but he continued to brandish the weapon. Twice he snapped the trigger, but the hammer fell on empty shells, the officers said. Then, as the officers closed in, Tyler placed the barrel of the weapon against his right temple and again the hammer snapped twice' failing to fire.

Tyler was seized before he could again fire, and the officers were (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4) Jap Plot to Kill Stalin Revealed WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP) Captured German documents revealed tonight that Japan attempted the assassination of Russian Premier Joseph Stalin in January 1939. The documents were contained in volume four of "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression," a collection of evidence used, against bigshot Nazi and Nazi organizations in the Nuernberg trials. Volume four is the second of eight to be made public by the office of the U.

S. chief of counsel at Nuernberg through the war department. In addition to the assassination attempt, the book documents Nazi brutality and callousness. The Weather Clear today and Monday; temperatures continuing above normal in coastal areas; moderate to fresh northwest wind off coast. Rainall: past 24 hours, seasonal, normal, .37.

Temperatures: high, 94; low, 45. ANNOUNCING GOSPEL MEETING at the CHURCH OF CHRIST First and Sts. preaching by Everctte Alexander Evangelist of Athens, AJa. Preaching 11 a. m.

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Phone 1286 'Y' 4 4 Wallace Not To Talk for Democrats Other Future Plans Still Undecided by Ousted Cabinet Member WASHINGTON. SeDt. 21 (AP) -Henry A. Wallace definitely has decided not to give active aid to ber's congressional elections, intimate friends said today, but that is about the only certain thing in his plans. The ousted secretary of secluded oni his first day as a private citizen, was reported 11UUV I vv 1 IV VI i vr stump against current American foreign policy before the Paris peace conference ends.

But, his friends said, Wallace now is firmly convinced that he cannot take part in the political campaign despite his potential influence in keeping the "New Deal" and left-wing elements of the party in the Truman fold. The tousle-headed antagonist of Secretary of State Byr nes believes that the ballot contest for control of Congress hinges on foreign, policy, it was stated, and that he cannot in conscience support the Democrats since President Tru- marn, head of the party, has re- uic. auran full support to the tougher Russian Secretary Byrnes. 1 Representative Sparkman (D, Aia.j, cnairman oi me jjemocrauc National Committee's Speakers' Bureau, made that decision the next thing to unanimous today by making clear that whatever speak' ing Wallace does now will be on his own. Previously Wallace had been scheduled for an ambitiouf swing through areas where his (Continued on Page 2, Col.

2) I said death was due to "apparent natural Mrs. Reynolds, wife of former Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina, was found unconscious in her bed late yesterday at the storied McLean estate, "Friendship." Her door had to be broken in to gain entry. She was dressed in night clothing. Nearby stood a radio, tuned at normal volume, a bottle of sleeping medicine, and her pet dog.

She was found by a physician, (Ccntinued on Page 2, Col. 1) ME! WAHTED A. D. SUND PHONE 606 Office, 377 SANTA ROSA Riding Academy UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Horses For Rent Boarded 1216 Grand Avenue OPENING SOON f's Western f's Unique lt's Different BOOTS 'II SADDLES 3803 SONOMA AVE. Eight Evacuated During Hazardous Rescue; 10 Still Stranded GANDER, Newfoundland, Sept.

21 (UP) Eight survivors of the crash of a transatlantic Belgian airliner were evacuated in a hazardous heliocopter operation and brought to a hospital here today, but 10 others faced another miserable night in the wooded wilderness. Four of those flown here by heliocopter and then by PBY amphibious planes from a clearing near the crasn scene were a serious condition. They were Jeanne Roocki, 25-year-old Belgian stewardess; Leona Tonchet, 36, of Brussells; John King, 19-year-old son of the Chinese ambassador to Belgium; and Joseph Deschuyfleer, 33, of Brussels. The condition of the other four, including two Americans, was described as fair. The Americans were Ruth Helen Henderson, 47, executive secretary of the international division of the Girl Scouts of America, and Rudy Revil, 30-year-old New York composer, the other two Belgians evacuated were Walter Devos, 48, of Ghent? and Mme.

Rense Jac-quet, 43, of Courtrai, who previously had been listed as among the 26 persons killed in the crash. The survivors were flown out in a difficult operation that turned into a furious race against darkness. Coast Guard Lieut. August Kleisch, Brooklyn, N. made trip after trip from the tiny clear-( Continued on Page 3, Col.

5) Storm Blasts GuamLike an Air Attack GUAM, Sept. 21 (UP) The U.S. military base on Guam looked like it had been hit by an enemy air attack today as a result of a destructive, 100-mile-an hour typhoon that lashed the Marianas Island chain for seven hours. Guam Island Commander Rear Adm. Charles A.

Pownall announced from his battered headquarters that he had received no report of fatalities and that the only seriously injured casualty was an unidentified army air force man who broke his, back. Pownall conceded that damage to buildings on Guam would run into millions of dollars, although disruption of intraisland communications by the wind and torrential rains that accompanied the blow made an accurate assessment impossible immediately. The islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota, stretching to the north of Guam, were still cut off from the outside world late Saturday, hours after the typhoon abated, and Pownall could only surmise that they, too, suffered damage similar to that on Guam. The typhoon, which had been tracked for four days by navy aerologists, roared into the Marianas chain cut of the east at about 1 a.m. Saturday, ripped up buildings, disrupted communications facilities, overturned vehicles, toppled palm trees and littered the island's roadways with debris and wreckage.

American servicemen, their families and natives were given ample warning to take refuge in central shelters. Ships in Apra harbor put to sea 12 hours before the storm hit, and planes were flown to nearby Pelilu Island. (At San Francisco, Pan American Airways announced that its clipper "Lightfoot," en route from San Francisco to Manila, took off from Guam several hours before the storm hit had reported it was safe. PAA said 15 per cent of the airline's installations at Guam was damaged, but that no PAA personnel was injured.) Non-irrigated, Vine-ripened Tomaioes for Canning 50-Lb. Luff We deliver in town, Phone 858, before 9 a.

m. or during noon hour. ENROLL NOW For Out Fall Classes BURBA! BUSINESS CO LIEGE Rosenberg Bldg. Too Late! NO Phone 1041 letter, privately some of the signers admit that their first concern is over what such a dam would do to their homes and property. But no definite location has been discussed as yet for such a damsite or storage lake, the city water committee merely recommending recently that water engineers be asked to undertake a study of that possibility as one of several that might answer the city's water needs.

So that the Mark West residents may have their say, the letter is published in full; and if the citys water committee cares to answer it, that answer will also be presented. Here is the Mark West letter: "KDITOR: "Santa Rosa seems to be in a predicament. There is a bad short-ago of water. The water stinks. Some say that the wells contacted a sulphur vein; others claim that some sort of growth in the water-pipes has to be destroyed by a very strong dose of disinfectant.

Still others insist that the pipes are old and rusty and require a triple dose of chlorine. "Could it be that these terrible things have accidentally come together to make the people of San ta Rosa disgusted with their water supply? To make them ready and willing to vote for a flat bond is sue of several million dollars? Or could it be that some interested persons might be helping along-just a little bit? "Could it be that some 'wide awake forward-looking' per sons might be willing to the health of the people to mote a profitable scheme? But such things could not happen could they? "But why is it that the users of water from other deep wells do not complain of bad water? Why is it that the local beer does not taste of chlorine? Why is it that the water from the McDonald system does not stink? "Anyone who likes the taste of real sulphur water should visit the Mark West Springs region it is famous lor its sulphur springs We usually do not drink such water, except by accident. We swim in it. And. these 'mineral springs' would be the only water feeding all year long into the pro posed dam.

During summer Mark West creek dwindles down to garbage-polluted trickle. Come out and. see. "If Mark West dam should ever be built the good people of Santa Rosa would have to get used to the taste of real old-fashioned sulphur-flavored, health-giving stale rain water. And they would pay lor it and pay and pay.

And would they cuss! Because thev still would have the same old Dines and, the same algae and the same old ilavorsome disinfectants. The big boys pulling strings behind the scenes might possibly be trying 10 promote water to lure industry at me expense ot the people And they might not care how the water tastes, they usually do not drink much of it. But they might ten you mat it is good for you mar it will make you big and strong. "We do not believe that the people of Santa Rosa will ever mortgage themselves up to their (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) ATTENTION SCOTTISH RITE MASONS 9th and 10th Degrees This Tuesday Evening Check Up on Your Eyes Imperfect eyesight cuts your efficiency, drains your energy.

Come in for our scientific examination. WalterWTowies OPTOMETRIST 308 AMD 'W MENDOCINO A CONVENIENT DOWNTOWN SERVICE On All Makes of Cars and Trucks BISHOP MOTORS 421 Street Phone 800 PI Cazadero Man Loses Eye in Freak Injury Cutting Wood Mystery Surrounds Death Of Hope Diamond Heiress hours of debate over a parliamen- tary tangle, the Balkan economic commission decided to refer to conference authorities the question of whether a 7-7 tie vote on oil clauses proposed for the Romanian treaty was a "legitimate ballot." Senator Vandenberg, the U.S. delegate, said the situation presented by the p.olonged debate was "fantastic." The British-proposed annex to the Romanian treaty would require that country to restore or replace Allied nationals' property losses in oil fields, annul discriminatory legislation and admit key administrative officials and technical experts into the country to operate the wells. In conference actions today the Italian political commission approved 13 to 6 the recent Italo-Austrian agreement granting much local autonomy to German uuLu iutai auuvmj iu uv-nnan- peaking residents of the South: Tyrol. Opposition came from the Slav states, who in the same meeting criticized an American amendment to the dtalian treaty which would require Italy's neighbors to respect fundamental human rights in territories obtained from Italy.

Despite the Slav opposition the amendment was passed by a vote of 14 to 6. Hitting at statements by Senator Connally, in favor of the proposal, which would apply to areas ceded to Yugoslavia, Greece and France, Yugoslav delegate Ales Bebler said: "I don't think Senator Connally would agree to permitting this clause to apply in the United States. There are certain nations here which still make a distinction among citizens because of color and race." satisfactorily. Orley was using a metal wedge in splitting wood when the accident occurred, it was learned. His wife, in Cazadero yesterday, said he was recovering satisfactorily.

The couple recently purchesed the Val Holla resort at the edge of Cazadero ard operated the center this season. Another Cazadero surgery case Friday was 14-year-old Bennie Britton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Britton, operators of a Cazadero resort. He underwent a minor facial operation, performed by Dr.

David T. Clary of Guerneville. SKEET SHOOT STARTING 9:00 A. M. SUIIDAY at OLD AIR PORT Redwood Highway, North Sponsored by 20 30 CLUB Public Invited to Participate 0- T3 NIGHTLY OLD TIME BARII DAIICE Music by "The Rhythm Ramblers" Featuring Jeanette Bertino, vocalist COCKTAILS Steak and Chicken Dinners Parties and Banquets Invited THE BARII 5770 SONOMA HIGHWAY HARRY HAI.VORSEN.

Prop. John Orley, Cazadero resort operator, had one eye removed by surgery Friday morning in San Francisco following an injury caused when a metal splinter flew off a wedge with which he was splitting wood Wednesday. Orley, a 30-year-old ex-serviceman, was operated on at Ft. Miley Hospital in San Francisco. Andrew Bei, rancher in the Stork Hill country of the Cazadero section, suffered a similar injury when a wooden splinter lodged in his eye while cutting wood.

He was treated by Mrs. Agnes Lenk, registered nurse of the Cazadero Inn, and is reported recovering All Varieties WIIiE GRAPES WANTED Crushing Starts SEPTEMBER 23th PETRI WIIIE CO. FORESTVILLE TOPAZ ROOM 216 IIIXTON AVE. Now Serving for Dinner CHOICE STEER BEEF Filel Mignon and Hew York Cut STEAKS WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AP) A vague aura of mystery tonight surrounded the death of 24-year old Evalyn McLean Reynolds, blonde heiress who lived under the shadow of the fabulous (and some say sinister) Hope diamond.

Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-ald gave a tentative verdict of "acute congestive heart failure," but said chemical tests will be made to determine whether sleeping pills had anything to do with the wealthy young matron's death. Detective Sgt. Louis M. Snyder, after a "routine" investigation; RUMMAGE SALE By Oak Leaf Rebekah Lodge Germania Hall Monday, Tnesday, Wednesday, September 2.3 24 2S Lullrell Travel Bureau 531 FIFTH ST.

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