The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 32

You'll Find It- THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN The Weather Pari ly cloudy iliundrrshowrrs In the cost. A Briefs ....11 SINGLE COPY PRICE: Daily 5c, Sunday 12 TWENTY-TWO PAGES 500 BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948. Morning and Sunday VOL. R7, NO. 133.

1048 Swollen Rivers Sweep Across U.S. Northwest Engineers Dynamite Dike in Idaho; Farm Land Is Inundated Woodward Man, Three Friends Killed as Plane Crashes; Storm Blamed Israel Agrees To Cease-Fire Order By UN Jews Say They Will Halt Fighting Today If Arabs Comply CAIRO, Egypt, May 23 (P) Israel's provisional government agreed Sunday to order its army to cease tire on all Palestine fronts if the Arabs do the same. The Arabs, however, still were undecided whether to heed the United Nations Security coun- cil's appeal to end the bloody Mechanic's Body Is Found Mile From Wreck; Quartet Began Trip Before Daylight WOODWARD, May 23 (Special) Four persons wer killed in the crash of a twin-engined plane 15 miles southeast of here before dawn Sunday. The dead GEORGE GINGERICH, 46, manager of the West Woodward airport, operator of Sky Trails charter service and an army air-force veteran. GEORGE DELONG.

about 25, a mechanic employed by Gln-gerlch. MRS. GEORGE DELONG, about 20. MAY JOHNSON, about 40, formerly of Oklahoma City, secretary and accountant at Osborn-Peebles Lumber Co. Destination of the plane, owned by Gingerich, has not beer determined.

Pilots who went to the scene speculated the plant might have hit tornadic storms. Parts were scattered over i iy2-mile area in the rougn andp hilly country near Cedardale. day. The Israeli action came as Arabs in Cairo claimed an Egyptian mobile force drove into Jerusalem during the day to bolster Trans-Jordan's legionnaires attempting to crush Jewish resistance in the Holy City. Fight lland-to-Hand Arabs and Jews fought hand-to-hnncl in Jerusalem only 300 yards from the church of the holy sepulchre, a dispatch from the Holy City Mild.

A bitter engagement also occurred on Jerusalem's southern approach along the Egyptian's avenue of advance. The enemies gave conflicting accounts of the outcome of a fierce battle at Ramat Rehel, traditional location of Rachel's tomb and half-way on the five-mile stretch of highway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, The government of Israel issued a communique in Tel Aviv announcing its intention to order a cease fire if the Arabs also comply with the UN BPIn Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Kashabn Pasha said his government "will do our best to reply to the Security council cease fire order within the requested 36 hours." I Others Silent Other Arab governments have not announced their intentions. According to Washington's information, the cease fire for Jewish troops will become operative at. 8 p. Jerusalem time, Monday (either 12 noon or 2 p.

m. Oklahoma time Monday, depending on whether the deadline is under the double daylight saving time system under which the Jewish state has placed itself). Ahdel Rahman Aazam Pasha, sec Bodies of Gingerich, Mrs. DeLong and Miss Johnson were discovered shortly after the wreckage was sighted Another black flag went on the map Sunday. Death.

In Capitol Hill General hospital Sunday morning of James Denver Emerson, 29, brought the city's traffic toll to nine for the year. John McManus, police accident division officer, marks the map. Flood waters swept across a ma jor portion of the Pacific northwest Sunday, washing out a 31 -foot dike at Bonners Ferrv, Idaho, and another dam "in British Columbia. As the water poured over 2,500 arms of farm land at Bonners Ferrv other swollen rivers were floodinp lowlands, ripping out roads and forcing families to evacuate in sections of western Montana, north central Idaho and eastern Washington. Tne Pacific coastal area so far had the force of the floods caused by eon'inuous rains and melting snow in the upper Rocky mountain region.

The Kootenai river caused the most flood when it cut through ftun-pftrncd lrvrc at Bonners Thr chorolnlr colored water alio t.nr dl.MrlC of 2,500 acres. Hike Dvnamiled Armv engineers, helping farmers enrt lovr.speoplc in the battle against th river, dvnamited another Kole in trie dike. This will allow the ws'r to flond throuzh faster and re-Jjrvf pressure on an adjoining dike. A.l along the miles of dikes protecting Brnr.ers Ferry and 40.000 acres of farm land, workers were placing loads rf dirt and sandbags. The river had reached a staze of 31.4 feet at noon Sundav.

which is .4 foot over flood stage. The weather bureau said th Kootenai's climb would continue for the next 24 to 36 hours. The same forecast to the Flathead. Clark Fork, Pend Oreille and upper Columbia rivers in Canada, northern Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana. Flood stages were predicted on the upper Slark and upper Flathead.

Dam Washed Out At Wardner. B. the Kootenai washed out the Buil dam. Water backed up there started a 24-hour trip toward besieged Bonners Ferry where basements already were flooded by 'I'was the second British Columbia dam to burst. A dam at Grand Forks.

went out Saturday and water as deep as right, feet spread over the town before it started to recede. Western Montana also struggled with floods. At Superior. Flat, creek overflowed into the town, flooding the basement of a hotel. Workers cut a bie ditch across U.

S. 10 to divert the creek into the already overburdened Clark Fork river. The river rose one loot during the night at Superior and (ttlil was cllmbir.c. Travel Center Born The St. Reels river washed out a nat hlghwav near Henderson.

At St. Reris. lowlands were flooded, but no serious damage was reported. Missoula residents were sandbagging and raising emergency dikes as the Clark Fork" Isolated five families west rf the city and flooded farms to the at noon. Body One Mile Away Volunteer crews probed the wreckage until late afternoon before they came upon DeLong's body one mile from the crash spot.

Gingerich's body was found about three-quarters of a mile from the bulk Second Sniping Victim Is Dead U. S. Navy Radioman Dies in Jerusalem R. L. "Broion" Page keeps on hoping.

of the wreckage. Miss DeLong's body was a half-mile distant. Miss Johnson's body was in the wreckage. Watches of two of the victims were stopped at 2 a. m.

and 2:05 a. m. The victims were known to have Harvest Shows Estimates Low In Southwest Oklahoma's wheat prospect are looking up. At least estimates of yield are being boosted as the first of the 1948 crop hits the elevators. The harvest certainly will not reach last year's peak, but wheat farmers and mill men are raising estimates made two months ago and earlier.

Combines began to roll in th southwestern corner of the state last week. First two carloads of tea harvest were shipped out Sunday. It was too early Sunday for grain men to make any but tentative estimates. Weather in the next two weeks can make or break the crop in many sections. But first reporta were favorable.

Oklahoma's harvest began Tuesday in lower Jackson county. Two truckloads of wheat were delivered to Eldorado elevators that day by Charley Ralliff. farmef living- six miles north of that city. been together around 1 Delmar LaMarr, another mechanic retary general of the Arab league. who lives at the airport, said he heara a hlane take off around 1:30 a.

m. told ruce- in- Jerusalei pplied to both sides. There were no known witnesses to the take-off. The crash area was on a Deputy, Paralyzed hyBadman's Gun Blasts, on Trail Cure THE old maxim, "crime does not pay," takes on a new meaning when you talk to R. L.

"Brown" Page, The cost of just living has been high. His savings are gone. His truck is going and his farm is in danger. A bullet injured his spine. He cannot move from his chest down.

Buckshot from a sawed-off shotgun stiffened right shoulder and wrist. His wife, Rose, must move his feet. The days are long, the walls confining and the cities strange. There is a threat of an direct air route to Oklahoma City. Unidentified Woman Calls A call from an unidentified woman sent search nlanes to the area.

Jim Guest, operator of the Woodward Mu nicipal airport; enarley iiurst. tnia; R. C. Van Nostrand and J. L.

McDonald, Woodward pilots, circled the wrecKage until ambulances amvea. Jim Holland, highway patrolman. impending sentence worse wian life imprisonment. and Milt Marston, Woodward county sheriff, directed the search which followed. But he was not the criminal.

He was the Choctaw county deputy sheriff shot in the line of duty Dec. 5, Auto Passenger Dies of Injuries Death Brings City Traffic Toll to 9 STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1948 to date, 161; county, 22. 1947.J.a date, 158; county, 20. James Denver Emerson, 29, of SE 56 and Shields, died in Capitol Hill General hospital early Sunday of injuries received in an automobile accident a few hours earlier. His death was the ninth traffic fatality of the yenr in Oklahoma City and the second within 24 hours.

Emerson was injured in an accident at SE 29 and Lindsay about 8:20 p. m. Saturday He died at 3:30 a. m. Sunday.

He had suffered a fractured skull with considerable loss of brain None of the other three people involved in the accident were hurt. Emerson was a passenger in a car driven by Richard Kenneth Heinken. 19, of 730 SE 30. Also in the car was Pete Brawdy, 24, of 4500 High. Hcinkcn was driving east on SE 29.

At the intersection of Lindsay his automobile collided with that of Roy Martin Stickney, 56, of 616 SE 39. Stickney, driving west, was attempting to make a left turn. Both drivers twisted their vehicles to the left and the automobiles met broadside. At the time of the initial investigation, officers placed charges of failure to yield the right of way and driving without a license against Heinken and he was put in jail. Lieut.

Clay Schied, police accident division, Sunday said the investigation is not yet complete. He Indicated other charges may be filed in the fatal accident. Steamship Official Dies CLEVELAND, May 23 (P A. H. Fcrbert, president of the Pittsburgh Steamship died early Sunday at Cleveland Clinic hospital after a two-week illness.

He was 65. Bodies were taken to Franklin Stetchcr mortuary here. Reds in Berlin Defy U.S. Ban rescued by boat A flying Instructor before World war II, Gingerich was discharged from the airforcc in 1945. He was a first flooded home.

The Milwau- farm house about four miles oad was forced to use tracks at one point near lieutenant. CAA to Investigate May 23 (P) Berlin THn-nrnn Falls. suddenly Alfred K. Young, CAA from Oklahoma City, arrived here Regardless of whether a truce is in the making, the battle for Jerusalem mounted in intensity with the passing hours. Trans-Jordan's Arab legion opened up with the heaviest barrage of the six-day battle against Jewish army mnchincgun posts in the Notre Dame religious inn for travelers.

Battered for Hour One corner of that French pilgrimage shelter on Suleiman road just north of the old walled city was battered for over an hour by the legion's guns, a Jerusalem dispatch said. Then Arab volunteers charged into the ground floor. They were reported to have fought from room to room with the Jewish troops in the building- The fighting just south of the Holy City centered at Ramat Rehel, the strategic halfway point between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Botli the and the Arab legion said they htid won avid inflicted heavy casualties on the other side. (Control of Ramat Rehel apparently would be necessary for any sizable movement of Egyptians into Jerusalem.) The Jews announced that Israeli planes bombed Arab troops and a bridge in the Jordan river valley.

In Amman the Arab high command said Egyptian planes in raids on Tel Aviv had bomber gasoline depots, iron and oxygen plants and the Skoda works in the southern section of the all-Jewish city. Syrian Minister Quits DAMASCUS, Syria, May 23 (JV) Ahmed Bey Sharabati resigned Sunday as minister of national defense. His resignation was -described as purely administrative and having no connection with operation of the Syrian forces. He was succeeded by Permier Jamil Mnrdam Bey, who is also foreign minister. became a travel center as washouts forced all traffic between the coast and Montana to detour through Sand- communists, opening their "people's plebiscite for the unification of Germany," Sunday de early Sunday afternoon to conduct an investigation.

Miss Johnson had lived in Wood fiantly entered sections of the Bus passengers were forced to wash north of Sawyer. Since then a series of hospital rooms have marked his exlstenoe. SUNDAY, he was back home at his farm, north of Hugo. It was Just another day perhaps worse. He had just returned from Oklahoma City where his doctor told him the damage-was irrepairable.

He left St. Anthony Saturday. It was the third hospital he had visited. Throughout the long five months Rose has been with him. T.sst wppk.

in St. Anthonv. she was waiters in cafes American zone, where the refer endum is banned. ward some 18 months. For 20 years prior to that time, she had been a stenographer and bookkeeper for Okla- the little town struggled to care diverted off n'thcrainhichi noma city construction companies.

They brought sound trucks urging Germans in the U. S. sector to vote and set up tables in scattered areas to take signatures on their petitions, U. S. officials said communists who Her step-mother, Mrs.

Morris Levyson, lives at 1220 NE Park. She also is survived by a sister, Mrs. Joe Sanders, Fort Worth, Texas; a brother, James A. Johnson, Omaha, a step-brother. Gene Johnson, route 9, and two step-sisters, Mrs.

J. his only companion. They did not enter I he "one warned nnrt rests will be made If they persist. After receiving the warnings, the communists wtlhorew liotn uie American sector, the officials said. Police then banned all future plebiscite ac nave many visitors.

ix; a iun from home, you know," she said quietly. But they have known the goodness of their neighbors and remember it happily. After the shooting, Clyde "Bird" Collins, sheriff, collected a large sum of money from Choctaw county residents. It helped pay the bills at Paris, Texas. WASHINGTON, May 23 Herbert M.

Walker, U. S. navy radioman wounded in Jerusalem fighting, died Sunday night, the state department announced. Walker was the second American to die in the Holy City warfare between Jews and Arabs. Thomas C.

Wasson, U. S. consul general in Jerusalem, died of bullet wounds early. Sunday morn- The state department said Walker's death occurred at 8:45 p. Jerusalem time (12:45 p.

m. Oklahoma time). Walker was injured by machinegun fire 10 minutes after midnight Friday. H-3 was a member of the navy communications unit which maintains a wireless link between Jerusalem and Washington. He has a brother living in Dallas, Texas.

Funeral services for both Walker and Wasson will be held Monday afternoon in Jerusalem. The state department relayed funeral plans for Wasson Sunday from Vice Consul William Burdett at Jerusalem. Burdett said that in view of Jerusalem's regulations calling for burial within 24 hours after death: "We have made arrangements for funeral service and burial to be at 10 a. m. Monday by the Baptist minister in the Catholic Rosary convent across from the American consulate general.

Burial will take place in crypt temporarily." Since it is virtually impossible to transport the remains from Jerusalem now, a state department official said, the department may consider bringing Wasson 's body home Inter. Was-son's family, he said, agreed to burial plans as outlined by Burdett. As Wasson lay wounded in the hospital. Secretary of State Marshall paid tribute to "the courageous and able manner" Wasson and his staff had carried out their duties. Phone Equipment Union Strike Called Imminent NEW YORK, May 23 (P) A union leader said Sunday a strike of 30,000 telephone equipment workers throughout the nation, was imminent.

He said the strike threat has arisen because of the "flat rejection" by the Western Electric Co of union wage demands. Dan V. Harrl3. fourth vice-president of the cio Association of Communication Equipment Workers, said the company offered no counter-proposals to the union's demand for a general wage Increase of 31 cents per Struck Packing Firm To Talk Terms Today WATERLOO, Iowa. May 23 (P) National guardsmen idled at their posts Sunday at the struck Rath Packing Co.

plant which Wednesday was the scene of violence after the slaying of a picket. Meanwhile, CIO Packinghouse Workers union officials and company officers mnrked time pending scheduled settlement negotiations Monday morning. R. W. Rath, president of the firm, said the company intended to present specific proposals to the union at that time.

Henry Will Do NEW YORK. May 23 (Special) The Communist party indicated Sunday that it would not nominate a presidential candidate this autumn, tivity in the sector. The Americans have barred the voting on the grounds it is a maneuvei to extend communist, influence nuclei the L-uisc of nn anneal to German na Hundreds Miss Death In Skating Rink Blast NORRISTOWN. May 23 block-long frame and concrete rol tionalism. The plebiscite also Is banned in the French zone of Berlin.

ler skating rink was blown up early Sunday, half an hour after several hundred persons left tne ouuaing. inrinw he reluctnntlv pieced to gether the sequence of violence that placed him in bed. Last autumn there was a series of State police and Montgomery county detectives said a time bomb apparently had been placed under the floor of the rink. A night watchman was the only person in the building at the Richardson elevators there to ship out the two carloads. Sunday, too, the first wheat was delivered to Altus elevators.

Harold Pease, Jackson county agent, said wheat would be in every elevator in the county by Wednesday. The wheat sent to Altus came from a 95-acre field near there owned by Jack Walker. His first deliveries showed a yield of 25 bushels to the acre. "There are plenty of combines here," Pease said, "and with two or three to a field, it comes down fast." Walker used three combines on his 95 acres. He began cntttar at .1:30 p.

m. Sunday and was finished at 7 p. m. His 25-bushel yield was higher than originally expected and appeared to be in line with yields elsewhere in the county. Pease said fields in the Eldorado vicinity wera producing well above previous estt- Dlscounting rain.

Pease said the county would "really be in heavy harvest" Thursday or Friday. He said there were many wheat fields almost ready to cut. "There is a good prospect for a 2,500.000 bushel crop here Una year," Pease said. In adjoining Tillman county, prospects are even better. Harvest is not expected to be in full swing there for another four days.

Wayn Liles, county agent said, althoogli 100 bushels were delivered to Frederick Saturday and a few scattered fields in the county were being cut Sunday. "Prospects for a crop are excellent," Liles said. "I think my estimate of an 18-bnsheI average will be low some wheat in the county will make as much as 30. but some places in the west they didn't get as much rain as they With an 18-bushel average, the county agent said Tillman county will exceed last year's crop to have the second largest wheat crop of its history. In 1946 the county produced a 22-bushel average.

Last year hail beat down much of the crop and what was harvested yielded only about 15 bushels. Liles said 10 or 15 thousand more acres of wheat will be cut this year than last. "If the weather and price hold up. we should have a $12 millions crop, he said. Reports from Harmon county indicated that crop, too, would bo better than expected.

The harveaf time oi tne Diast. lie cscapea injury. Lebanon Rejects Seizure Protest Tup, Crew Feared IOst Coast guardsmen from the station at Th" Dalles. searched fruitless sundav for the Columbia river fig that vanished Saturday night with Its rrew of two nearly in the flood-gwo'lrr. river.

The Inland Navigation Co. said the tuc tl.e Robert Grav. was skippered bv Al Bartholdi. 23. of The Dalles.

The crewman was Ron Nelson. The companv reported several life preservers and parts of the deck structure had bn found floating down the river onri "it mit be concluded the bo.it is at the bottom." Dewey Holds Lead In Oregon Primary PORTLAND. Ore May 23 Pi Gov. Thomas E. Dcwpy of New York was holding hi? decisive lead Sunday ovr Harold E.

Stassrn of Minnesota on r.asls rf unofficial returns from Oregon's My 21 Republican presidential primary election. The count: 1.723 of the state's 1.861 precincts pave: Dewey Stas-een 300.365. Flood Isolates City CIV DAD TRUJILLO. Dominican Republic. May 2 3 (P) Torrential rains flooded most of the Caribbean republic Sunday carrying away more than 20 bridges and isolating this cap-ital city from most of the interior.

No Showers Today, Weatherman Says Partly cloudv skies are scheduled for Monday in Oklahoma City, but no if forecast, the weatherman said. A hish temperature of 88 degrees Is expected Monday, matching the high recorded Sunday at the airport For the state Monday, partly cloudy fkirs and possible thunderstorms in the ea.t were predicted. The west and extreme north portions are scheduled petty burglaries in Choctaw and surrounding counties. Page was assigned to work the case. All his clues pointed to a man who only a few days before moved to another Isolated farm house.

Early December 5, with Jackson Jones, Frisco special agent, Page drove out to investigate. They parked their car at the roadside, climbed through a fence and Page knocked at the door. Carter, known as Billy Gene Mitchell, opened the door with gun blazing. Page fell on his back, paralyzed by a shot in the upper part of his chest. WASHINGTON.

May 23 (P) The Arab state oi Lebanon nas rejectee, the U. S. demand for release of 41 American citizens taken off the American ship Marine Carp at Beirut. The state department made public the Lebanese government's reply Sunday It said the Americans, all Jews of military age, were taken off the Palestine-bound ship and interned "In view of the safety of the Lebanese army of occupation in Palestine and for order and security In Palestine territories occupied." The state department had informed Lebanon and other Arab states that this country would take serious view of any such discrimination against American citizens on grounds of race, creed or color. Lebanon's reply was received Saturday by Lowell Pinkcrton.

U. S. minister in Beirut, who protested the removal of the Americans in advance and later relaved to the Lebanese Gov shotgun and lay down on the ground and began returning the fire. A blast struck Jones in the face. He ran to the car and sped away.

Page was still conscious. "I heard him tell his wife. I'm going tt, finish the other one." His head was near the corner of the building. Holding his gun back over his head he waited. When Carter looked around, he fired.

Unhurt, the convict pushed his sawed-off shotgun loaded with buckshot around the corner and the blast struck Page in his gun hand and shoulder. "Then, he came and standing astraddle he took my gun, my billfold I Cll' rWi witn the aid of a rPe fashioned into a noose, Allan Glisch, DlUCKie lUllS LOWn iCft, of the Chicago Animal Welfare league, pulls Blackle, a collie pup, from between the walls of a kitchen where the dog fell from an opening In the attic. At right, Glisch hands Blackie to Barbara Anna Edlngton, 13 months, who is mighty happy to have her pet back. Barbara's going to keep a closer watch on the pup. ernment this country's demand for their release.

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