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2 Tuesday. May 1 2. 1953 ehr SafepTsfif111 ffialtfontjan Humphrey's Report Hailed Continned from Page 1 for $8,500,000,000 less than former President Truman. Taft said Humphrey told the lawmakers the administration "hopes to make more extensive cuts" than It has so far. Humphrey emphasized that spending figures previously estimated were "purely tentative," Taft said.

He quoted Humphrey as saying that while he could not guarantee more savings, there had been "large reductions" in spending outline and prospectus ready for the lauTnakers when they meet with Eisenhower next week. In any event, Taft said, it seemed to him that the budget might very well be on a even" basis by the end of the new fiscal lear. One of the uncertainties, Taft said, is just how much revenue the government will receive during the fiscal year. There are! deferences" of opinion on StUClied BILL PERMITTING MONKEYING WITH MUFFLERS PASSED SACRAAfENTO H. Allen Smith (R- Glendale) won Assembly passage Monday of his bill making it legal to tamper with auto long as they don't make "excessive or unusual noise." He said youths are now subject to arrest If they change the exhaust system and that they learn disrespect for the law as a result.

Smith, who has a son interested in the subject, contended a boy should be permitted to modify a muffler noise if he doesn't increase it. He said his bill, for example would cut douTi Easter week arrests of young drivers In the Balboa area. Tlie bill now goes to the Senate. Floating Ice Grayson Denies Commission Charges Continned from Page 1 state, and goes further into detail as to the circuits which prostitution follows. "The report, which does not go into detail, does have a certain amount of truth attached to it at the present time, and is very true of conditions that prevailed before, during, and for a short period after the war.

I would like to give you some of these details. None in aty Limits "It is well known that before and during the war, and even at often given credit for conditions existing in the Greater Bakers- organized crime Los to obtain a foothold in the City field area, over which the Bakersfield which will be worth! department has no control millions of dollars to them: soever, and does not attempt to should they succeed in removing tell the countv what to do about' the chief of police from civU serv-; these conditions in anv way. lice and making hun subject to; "If such conditions are factory to the countv, I consider I it to be the business of the Board 1 most happy to appear before the City Council at any time to give a report concerning condiUons in the City of Bakers- of Supervisors and the people living in the not mine. However, I have attempted to ex- plain to to the radio! and the City of Bak-' the present prostitution! FlflVQ moved in circuits, and that there! to Mmee nayS is one circuit that seems to work out of Los Angeles north through Bakersfield. Red Mountain, Delano, Visalia and Tulare, and then back to the coast to Pismo and then south to Santa Barbara and back into Los Angeles.

This circuit has apparently been in operation for many years, and it is seldom that prostitutes come from the north to work Bakersfield. However I want to point out that since I have been chief of police (since the end of the war), I have continued to stamp down on prostitution to the please designate and make it clear when giving us I FlomAntC whether they are talking the incorporated area, or unin- Continned from Page 1 corporated areas over which Security Council-an ac- WASHIXGTON U.S.)extent that for several years we and Canada are studying floating have not had a smgle house of Arctic islands ice culjes big; prostitution in the city known to enough for a plane to land onto find out where tliey come from. the police department for more than 24 hours without the police Friendly Witness Attempts Suicide LO.S ANGELES (INS)-Gertrude Purcell. 5T, who testified before! to the Xorlli Pole brought the any person and close any tlie House Affairs I ice islands to light a few years house attempting to operate. At Committee as a wit- ago.

althOUgil in ho Ihp fhoro ic no hf ne.ss. has attempted suicide. centuries old. The Air Force said Sunday have no control. "So far as I know at this time we have no naUonally known gangsters or ruffians living in the City of Bakersfield, and the tfon the United States opposed.

NaUonalist China holds thb seat now, with the veto power. Prime Minister Churchill in- Scores Die as Twisters Maul Two Texas Cities only undesirable people living In-; tervened to say: "Not while side the city limits consist pri-'actual fighting'hi Korea is gohig marily of e.x-convicts, who are watched carefully and are not, -j c- i permitted to carry on any rephed: soon after, ident Eisenhower. Bowles cau- CALLER Chester Bowles, former United Stotes ambassador to India, is shown as he left the White House after a 30 -minute session with Pres- inal acUviUes inside our city: the armistice." Police reiMrted yesterday that tlie film writer was found unconscious in her bedroom. She told police she had taken 50 aspirin tablets. Recoveruig at Receiving Hospital, she said: "I had been out of work for a year and I wanted to end it all." Weather reconnaissance flights: department taking action to ar- ago.

althougii they appear to be, the present time there is no house of prostitution within the city limits of there that two Canadian scientists, an I shall be ngne as long as I remain Eskimo sled driver and 10 dogs' chief of police. were recently flown out on the Ellcsmere Island ice shelf. Full- scale operation next year will send five men, supplied by air, in search of the source of the ice islands. "I do not wish to interfere with Uie County of Kern; nor to criticize Kern County in any way, or any of its departments. However, I will say that the City of Bakersfield (the incorporated, city) is limits.

Foes Seelt Removal In conclusion I would like to Britain's government has recognized Red Chtaa. Today's exchange between Attlee and pomt out that on a comparative I Churchill hidicated both Con- basis the City of Bakersfield is i servatives and Laboriies want now, and has been for the past; the Mao Tze-tung regime repre- several years, free of organized sented in the U.X. instead of the vice and organized gangsters of Chiang Kai-shek government- tioned against letfing Southeast Asia become "a political football." any tj-pe, due to the strong support that I have had from the Council and from the city manager, and the protection afforded me as chief of police by our civil service laws. "I do expect," he added, "that another effort will be made to remove me from civil in the verj- near future, which will be the first step, sponsored by once the Korean fjghting is over. Attlee said: "I do not believe that China is a mere puppet in the hands of Russia.

I think she will wear her communism with a difference. But I am more certain than ever that as soon as agreement in Korea has been reached China Mrs. Eisenhower Crowns Queen COLLEGE, Pa. W-A-ooo'w meeremergency needs'of Continned from Page 1 the wreckage of a pool hall. Fifteen other youths were missing in the buildmg.

PoUce Sgt. John Wohlwend said, "I doiv't beUeve another person is alive" in the wreckage of the five-story R. T. Dennis building and those adjacent. Exactly how many were buried beneath two grotesque mounds of rubble was not known.

Forrest Moore, member of Baylor University's staff who relayed rescue instructions over a loud-; speaker during the all-night rescue work, said "There are a reported 30 to 50 trapped in the basement of the Dennis building." Moore said a steel beam punctured a six-inch water pipe and cascaded into the basement for seven hours. "The basement was almost full," Moore said, "when the water was finally shut off. Firemen began pumpmg the water out at 4:15 a.m." A third tornado raced into Sutton County near Sonora, and damaged utility poles and cattle-feeding pens. The Texas tornadoes followed week-end mid- continent storms which killed 15. In Washington.

Red Cross national headquarters allotted new Miss Penn State fuled over Spring Week fesUvities at the college here today, after receiving her crown from Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lovely Madeline Sharp was crowned yesterday at the opening of the sLx-day program. She Waco and San Angelo.

More money will be forthcoming as needed, said Raymond T. Schaeffer. National Red Cross director. ought to take her rightful received a hug and kiss on the Security Council." from Mrs. Eisenhower.

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"I can't go into further details." At the Panmunjom meeting the Communists were unmoved by -Allied arguments and insisted that the fate of balk-y prisoners be left to a post-armistice political conference. Questions Ignored After the meeting, Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, head of the Allied truce team, told newsmen that the Red plan "in its present form simply is not workable." Under questlontag, Harrison refused to guess whether or not the Reds were deliberately stalling.

At the conference Harrison complained to the chief Red delegate. Gen. Nam that the Reds have ignored his questions seeking clarification of the Communist plan. Nam 11 countered by stating that Harrison's questions over the past three days were "trivial questions to waste time." ne tone of the remarks was reminiscent of last summer's meetings before the truce talks broke down. Harry COFFEE'S EXCLUSIVELY Oscar Torres After Bantamweight Crown LOS ANGELES ToiTes seeks to regain the California bantamweight title in a 12- round return match with Billy Peacock at the Auditorium tonight.

Peacock, undefeated locally in 11 scraps after arriving from Philadelphia, took the 118-pound championship from Torres on a technical knockout in the second round several weeks ago. The Red Cross estimated the Waco death toll at 67 and San Angelo's at seven but said indications were the search of Waco ruins would disclose more dead here. Two square miles were demolished or damaged in Waco. The old Katy baseball park, long a city landmark, was £unong the structures blown down. Property damage here and at San Angelo ran into the millions.

Stores, houses, shops, every kind of structure, were razed in Waco. The five-story R. T. Dennis Building was smashed almost to ground level and threw a death- dealing shower of brick and rubble into the street to cnmible automobiles like match boxes and kill their occupants. Scores Trapped Scores of persons were trapped in the Joy "Theater but the number killed was unknown.

An undetermined number were rescued quickly but early today huge cranes, bulldozers and men with their bare hands dug doggedly at the wreckage. Ttvo hours before the tornado lashed Waco, a similar storm hit San Angelo. West Texas sheep- raising center. At least eight were killed and more than 70 mjured as the winds flattened homes over a mile- square area and demolished all structures at the San Angelo Fairgrounds. Children Injured Scores of school children were reported among the injured in San Angelo, where nearly every window in the Lakeview School was blown out.

Teachers at the school were praised for ordering the children into hallways when they saw the storm approaching. 2ilore serious injuries and possible deaths were prevented, school officials said. All of downtown Waco was under martial law. Airmen from Connally Air Force Base, Boy Scouts, police and furemen patrolled in pitch-dark streets. Every building in an area roughly 20 blocks square was either destroyed or dsimaged.

Many splintered homes were in the wreckage. Steel sides of the big Brazos River bridge were sliced as if with gigantic can openers. All of the span's wooden portion was ripped away and what traffic there was crawled slowly over a single track across the naked steel. Red Cross at Work In Washington, the Red Cross said information from its field offices indicated 198 houses were destroyed in San Angelo with 164 others badly damaged. Mobile canteen units of the mercy organization were feeding rescue workers.

Shelter was being provided storm victims in the San Angelo gj'mnasium, the Red Cross said, adding that sLx disaster workers had been sent to the area. Five Waco hospitals were being Used to capacity. Water flooded at least one of the hospitals. Eight mobile canteen imits were sent from Ft. Worth and Dallas by the Red Cross to the Waco disaster area.

Dr. Raymond Barnes, chief medical director for the Red Cross in the Midwest, had been dispatched to Waco from St. Louis. jVt San Angelo's Lakeview School Supt. S.

J. Burleson said early today not more than 12 youngsfers were injured. Teachers said about 200 to 300 children got out before the storm hit. The remaining 800 or 900 were herded into hallways and ordered to lie down. Then part of the roof and part of a wall of the block-long collapsed.

"I knew something was going to happen," little Bill Linton of the seventh grade said, "but I didn't know what." BY LENOX The soft greens and Imnnis of a pne tnspred this pattern, one of the most heaotiful ever created. 5-p5ece place setting Wickershmn Jewelers 19th and "Eye" Streets Over 50 Years in Bakersfield.