The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

THE IOLA 1EGISTE VOLUME L. No. 200 The Weekly Register, Established 1867. The Iole Daily Register, Established 1897. IOLA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1947.

Successor to The Ida Daily Register, The Iola Daily Record, and Ida Daily Index. SIX PAGES The Weather Wheat Harvest Begins In Western Kansas Big Role ForU.S. In Greece Under Greek Government Plan Americans Would Virtually Run Nations Economic Life Pact Eases Maritime Tieup Threatened Extension Of Walkout Fades With Agreement Between Tanker Lines and NMU Congress Approves Flood Relief Bill Washington, June 18. (AP) The Senate took less than a minute today to approve an emergency $15,000,000 bill to aid midwestern and other areas damaged by recent floods. Approved last week by the House, the measure now goes to the President for signature.

The legislation authorizes army engineer, to use of available funds for repair of levees, dikes and other protective works in the flooded areas. KANSAS Local thundershowers tonight and Thursday morning; becoming partly cloudy Thursday afternoon; not much temperature change; high upper 80s north to lower 9Qs south. Temperature Highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. yesterday, 89; lowest last night 69; normal for today 75; excess yesterday deficiency since January 1, 158 degrees; this date last year highest 98; lowest 75..

Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today. Trace; total for this year to date, 24.15; excess since January 1, 6.92 inches. Sunrise 4:59 a.

set 7:49 p. m. Thermograph Readings Ending Treasury Gives Solons Tax Plans to Study Washington, June 18. (AP) The treasury today handed congress some tax revision ideas to think over until what President Truman calls ihe right time for changing the revenue laws arrives. Specifically withholding recommendations of its own, the treasury turned over to the house ways and means committee studies of four plans to equalize federal income taxes on married; couples in' all 48 states.

Three of the four plans would increase taxes Jjy as much as $997,700,000 for as many as couples and 7,200,000 single persons. The other would save 4,900,000 couples $743,500,000 by giving those living in 38 states the same income splitting rights now enjoyed by couples living in the ten states which have community property laws. Reds Deny Pressure On Hungary Had Nothing Whatever To Do With Change in Regime, Russia Tells Allied Commission Budapest, June 18. (AP) Soviet Lt. Gen.

V. P. Sviridov told the allied control commission today that the Russians had nothing whatever to do with the recent change in the Hungarian government. Sviridov, questioned by Brig. Gen.

George H. Weems, JJ. S. member of the commission, said the Russians "exercised no influence at all in forming the Hungarian government. Ferenc Nagy was ousted as premier of Hungary under Communist pressure, and now is in the United States in voluntary exile.

Calm Discussion Gen. Weems, head of the U. S. Military mission here, said he did not bring up in the commission session the report that the new prepier. Lalor Dinnyes, had been named to the post in direct orders of Sviridov.

He added that the discussion wan a calm one. During the session, Sviridov once again declined to hand over to the British and Americans the depositions which the Russians said they had taken from Bela Kovacs, former secretary general of the small holders party. The Russians have said that the depositions implicated Naev and former speaker of the house Bela Varga in a plot against the Hungarian Republic. Club Head Fears Arrest Earlier, Imre Fold, Hungarian manager of the Allied officers Park club, said he had been seized an'ii questioned by the Communist-dominated political police and that he expected to be thrown in jail within a short time. The seizure and questioning of Fold, whose club is used principally by American and British military officers, was the first such move by the political police since they threat-ened last August eventually to arrest Hungarian employes of the American and British missions.

On numerous occasions Hungarians comiected with the hiring and firing of civilian employes at the American and British missions have been asked why they did not hire Communist party members. It has been a long-standing topic of conversation that the club, its cheap food, its $1.75 champagne and its general atmosphere of luxury have been a thorn in the side of Matyas Rakosi, Communist leader and deputy prime minister. Great Bend, June 18. (AP). First reports of cutting of the 1947 Kansas wheat crop are beginning to trickle in.

W. O. Stark, supervisor of the farm labor office here, said a field man at Caldwell, in Sumner county, reported cutting was underway there and was expected to be in full swing this week end. At Wichita, Don Ingle, Sedgwick county agent, reported that Mike Thome and his five sons began binding Oklahoma premium early wheat Monday on their farm near Schulte, six miles southwest of Wichita. In Accord On Parley France and Britain Will Call European Economic Parley to Study Marshall Plan Paris, June 18.

(AP). France and Britain agreed today to convoke a European economic commission within the framework of the United Nations economic commission for Europe to implement secretary of state Marshalls offer of U. S. aid. The French cabinet then voted formal approval of the alliance, signed this spring in Dunkerque.

The alliance provides for the closest possible economic cooperation. A cabinet spokesman said France and Britain would jointly invite Russia today to participate in the new commissions work. Foreign minister Georges Bidault and British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin reached the agreement to convoke the new commission in conversations here and the French cabinet immediately approved. In Hands of Experts The cabinet spokesman said the creation of the European commission had been determined on the basis of French proposals to place reconstuction plans in the hands of several technical committees, dealing with such problems as transportation, food, power, steel, iron and machinery. (Benjamin V.

U. S. State department counsellor, said in an address last wee tjiat assistance would be needed to 6uccor Europe during the next four years.) The cabinet spokesman said the European economic commission would work within the framework" of the U. N. economic commission for Europe, established earlier at Geneva.

He explained that the U. N. commission is largely a planning board and that the new commission would be an operational and functional organization. Joe Canatsey, 73, Dies in Moran (Special to The Register) Moran, June 18. Joe Canatsey, 73 died last night at Ills home here.

He had lived in or near Moran most cf his- life. Mr. Canatsey is survived by one brother. Jack Canatsey of Dennison, four sisters, Mrs. Ruth White of the home, Mrs.

Mayo Payne, Indianapolis, Mrs. Walter Bring-ham, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. J. W. Perkins of Manhattan; and several nieces and nephews.

One brother. John Canatsey, died about four months ago. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 oclock at the Ralston funeral home with Miss Daisy Hobart conducting the Christian Science service. Burial will be in the Moran cemetery. PHONE 18 Between 6:30 p.

m. and 7 p. m. if vou fail to receive your Register. Appoints Receiver For Hotel Judge Anderson Names I.

R. Jones to Manage Kelley Until Partnership Suit Is Settled I. R. Jones was appointed receiver of the Kelley Hotel today by Judge Wallace H. Anderson, bringing to a close the first phase of the suit filed by Ralph Bomhoff asking for a dissolution of his partnership with Jack Kelley.

Jones will take over the management of the institution at once. The court handed down its decision at 2 p. m. today. In announcing his decision Judge Anderson pointed oyt that the question of financial solvency is not involved in this case.

Kansas law provides that receivers be appointed to administer partnerships when the owners disagree and one of them, as a result of that disagreement, is not participating in the management of the property. In Full Control As receiver Jones will have full control over all the assets of the Kelley hotel, the Iola hotel, the Kelley garage and other properties listed in the plaintiff's petition. He will have authority to hire new employees or to discharge present personnel. His first task will be to take a complete inventory of the stock on hand, bank balances and similar items used in the day to day operation of the business. Mr.

Jones managed the hotel from July 1, 1943, until June 30, 1946, and prior to that had been employed by the institution for a number of years. He is thoroughly familiar with the property. Last June he sold his interest to Jack Kelley and Ralph Bomhoff. Since then Jones has operated the Union Bus depot on South Sycamore. Break Comes March 31 Bomhoff and Jack Kelley continued to operate the hotel as a partnership until March 31 of this year.

Bomhoff on May 2 filed a suit in the district court alleging that he and his partner had reached an impasse and that they were unable to reach a satisfactory settlement. He asked the court to appoint a receiver to protect the interests of aU concerned pending dissolution of the partnership and the distribution of its assets. Bomhoff claimed that he was presented from participation in the management of the hotel property in which he owns an interest. Defendants in the action are Jack Kelley, Donald Kelley and Victor Kelley. Deny All Allegations The defendants, on the other hand, said that Bomhoff had voluntarily withdrawn from taking an active part in the management of the property and insisted that he had not been barred from the premises.

They also stated that Bomhoffs actual financial investment in the hotel is largely offset by a note for $8,111.92, plus interest at four per cent from July 3, 1946, which was signed by Bomhoff and which is held by the defendants. They maintained that no condition existed which required appointment of a receiver. Todays decision does not terminate the litigation. Bomhoff maintains that he owns a one half interest in the hotel but the defendants say that he purchased but a quarter interest. This will be one of the major questions to be decided by the court at later hearings.

Main Issue Unsettled In giving his decision today Judge Anderson emphasized that the main points at issue are yet to be heard and to be acted upon by the court. He said that he had given the litigants every opportunity to settle their difficulties out of court and had hoped that they would do so. The (Continued on Page 6, No. 3) Washington, June 18 (AP) The Greek government told the United States today that the American mission administering the $300,000,000 assistance program to Greece should virtually run the economic life of the country. In a note made public at the state department, the Greeks also gave formal assurance that the money put out by the United States to boost recovery and block communism in Greece will be used in conformance with the purposes for which it may be made available.

Long List of Doties The extent to which the American mission, headed by former Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska will actually run economic affairs in Greece was disclosed in a lengthy list of duties which the Greeks themselves said the Americans should take over. The note said the mission should participate in the development of revenue and expenditure policies, approve government expenditures for activities which' directly or indirectly involve the use of American aid, take part in the planning of the import program and approve the use of foreign exchange. Pledge Full Cooperation It added: The Greek government will also wish the mission to assist in execution of reconstruction projects, improvement of public administration, technical training of civil servants and other personnel, continuation of the health program, development of exports programming and disposition of government-purchased supplies, promotion of agricultural and industrial recovery, and regulation of wages and prices. On their part, the Greeks promised ta undertake a great and continuous effort of their own in addition to the American program, to promote their countrys recovery and the composing of internal differences. Three separate communications were made public.

Thomas Morris, Colony Farmer, Takes Own Life (Special to The Register) Colony, June 18 The body of Thomas Morris, 75, Colony farmer who has been reported missing from his home the past nine days, was found Monday afternoon hanging from the rafters of a hay bam several blocks from the Morris farm. Sheriff Harry Maze of Garnett said that facts indicated suicide. His wife said that Thomas, sick for the past few years, had threatened several times to take his own life but that she and the rest of his family had dismissed his threats as a joke. Mr. Morris came to the Colony district when he was nine years old and has farmed there steadily during the past 65 years.

He and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in December. Graveside services were held yesterday at the Colony graveyard. He is survived by his wife at the home, one daughter, Mrs. Josephine Leonard of Ottawa, Mrs. Sarah Shook, sister, and Joseph Morris, his brother, both of Iola.

JCs Install New Officers Over 150 Persons Attend 2nd Inaugural Banquet and Dance The Iola junior chamber of commerce. since it was firs formed in the fall of 1945, has established itself firmly as a civic institution and has a score of worthwhile achievements to its credit, Ellory Collins, Chanute, said last night in an address the Jaycees second annual inaugural banquet. Collins is past president of the Chanute junior chamber and assisted in forming the Iola chamber in September, 1945. The organization had 28 charter members, nine o. whom still belong, and now has nearly 100 voung business men on its rolls.

About 150 men and women attended last nights banquet at the Kelley hotel which was followed by a dance at the Little Theater in Riverside Park. The new officers who were installed include Royal Cox, president, David Conderman and Walter Crick, vice-presidents, Orville Kretzmeier, secretary, and Howard Gilpin, treasurer. New Board of Directors The new board of directors will consist of Dr. Gerald Pees, Clifton Poxworthy, Wesley Clandenen, Irving Turley, Dale Snodgrass, Louis Howland, Delmer Sarver and Charles W. Cooper.

In his annual report Charles W. Cooper, retiring president, reviewed the activities of the Jaycees during the past 20 months. These included the dedication of the muncpal airport the fall of 1945. the Pall Seed Festival in 1946, the promotion of the junior business course last winter and the Junior baseoall league in which two or three hundred Iola teen age boys are now participating. The club also took over the sale of bonds in the business district during the 7th War Loan and exceeded its quota by 40 percent.

Several other projects were successfullv pushed to completion, Coope; said. Tribute to Helpers Cooper paid tribute to other officers and Jaycee committee chairmen, giving them credit for much of the organizations achievements. At the close of the meeting a handsome suitcase was presented to the retiring president and a bottle of perfume was given to Mrs. Cooper. Wesley Clendenen made the presentation.

Emerson Lynn, representing the city commission, spoke briefly. Musical numbers included a cornet trio consisting of David Peck, Bob Schuster and Miss Kathryn Bartlett, accompanied by Miss Evelyn Kirk and two songs by The Dreamers, the Misses Louise Lynn, Tillie Mack. Suzanne Hoyt and Madeline Ableson, accompanied by Mis.1 Beverly Lewis. SLOW FREIGHT Westville, N. June 18.

(AP). A freight train blocked a crossing for 14 minutes and so a policeman wrote out- a traffic ticket, giving it to D. R. Mead, conductor of the Pennsylvania -Reading Seashore line train. The charge: illegal parking.

New York, June 19. (AP) Settlement of a dispute between Atlantic and Gulf Coast Tanker Lines and the CIO National Maritime union which threatened extension of the current work stoppage of CIO seamen was announced today as ship operators and union leaders met in further negotiations over the larger dispute. Assistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson, after a round-robin of conferences here that lasted into the early morning hours, announced that considerable progress had been made toward, settlement of that issue. A short time earlier, Nathan Feinsinger, a trouble shooter for the labor department, announced in San Francisco that the national union of Marine Cooks and Stewards (CIO) tentatively had agreed on all major issues with west coast shipowners.

A Separate Dispute At this moment, Feinsinger said, it looks like the East and West coast problems are not necessarily related. It is hoped that any agreement here will not be contingent upon the East coast. Feinsinger said the West coast maritime situation was in hand and that he had scheduled single and joint meetings today with employers, the cooks -stewards union and the American Communications Association (CIO) whose president, Joseph P. Selly, was one of those who met here with Gibson. Gibson said several approaches to a solution of the dispute had been considered and considerable progress has been made.

He added that we are recessing until later todav to give 'them an opportunity for further discussion of them. First West Coast Tieup Refusal of the cooks and stewards to sign sailing articles brought the first tieup of West coast ships yesterday, whereas East and gulf coast ships manned by members of the NMU had! been immobilized since Monday. Todays scheduled' sailing of the United States liner America, largest of American liners, from New York harbor was postponed until Friday or later. Scattered Rains Light in State Topeka, June 18. (AP) Scattered thundershowers dropped additional moisture on Kansas last night but amounts generally were light and there were no threats of overflows along Kansas streams with the exception of the Blue river.

A. D. Robb, federal meteorologist, said bankfull or slightly higher stages could be expected on the Blue this afternoon and tonight from the Nebraska line to Blue Rapids as the result of heavy rains in the Blue basin in Nebraska. Oketo, on the Blue just this side of the Nebraska line, had the heaviest rain reported in the state, 1.50 inches. Robbs forecast called1 for thundershowers in the extreme eastern part of the state following showers in the central and east this afternoon.

Thursday is expected to be partly cloudy and cool. Temperatures tonight will range between 55 and 60 over the state, Robb said, with maximum readings tomorrow between 80 and 85. Dodge City had the highest temperature reported in the state yesterday with 97 degrees. Phillipsburgs 59 was the lowest reported last night. Rainfall amounts reported in the 24-hour period ending at 6 oclock this morning included: Lecompton .66 of an inch, Harveyville .55, Lawrence .38, Centralia and Emporia .33.

foothills, a strip which the local population likes to refer to as The American Riviera. They like also to call their sixteen-square-mile city The Athens of America. They want to keep the atmosphere that sets it apart almost every other city in the land an air of dolce far niente or delightful idleness. This is its chief charm. So for fifty years Santa Barbara, centered in an area rich in oil and agriculture, has been telling big industries: Go elsewhere we dont want you here.

Prefer Beauty to Size This would be heresy in most communities, but the people here want no great belching factories that pattern many American cities with soot and crime-breeding slums. They prefer. that Santa Barbara remain medium-sized (about 50,000) and beautiful rather than grow big and perhaps ugly. Of course, this requires moneyed people with imported wealth and they live here cm estates of palatial grandeur. But there are also thou-(Continued on Page 6, No.

1). Safety Drive Is Praised But Toll Is Still Too High, Says Truman; Urges More Efficient Licensing of Drivers Washington, June 18. (AP). President Truman today applauded a sharp and gratifying decline in the nations traffic casualties but called on highway users and officials to reduce still further the appalling annual toll. We have won a major victory in the campaign against carelessness, said Mr.

Truman in an address delivered at the opening session of his second highway safety conference. Noting that at least 6.500 lives were saved last year as measured against the black record of prewar 1941, when 40,000 fatalities occurred, Mr. Truman declared the safety campaign is well started, but it is by no means done. List year 33,500 men, women and children died as a result of highway accidents, and well over 1,000,000 were injured," he said. That is a tribute to inefficiency this nation cannot afford to pay.

Licensing Laws Ineffective Mr. Truman urged improvements in the state licensing of drivers. He recalled his assurance at the first conference last year that the federal government has no desire to encroach on state jurisdiction in this field, but he said congress will not sit idly by in Ihe face of a grievous national accident toll. In too many sections, Mr. Truman declared, the licensing laws are nothing more than revenue measures and their administration a travesty on public safety.

Uniform license systems which eliminate the dangerously unfit and the dangerously irresponsible from our streets and highways, he said, are a basic weapon in the war on accidents. Find Serene Dairy Herd Infected With Rabies Bad luck continues to plague tha Vernon Serene family which lost its farm home in a fire Memorial day. Four milk cows in the Serenes dairy herd have been lost since then as r. result of rabies. The cause of sickness among the cows was not definitely determined until an Iola veterinarian took the head of one of the dead animals to Kansas City Monday for laboratory examination.

The report was received yesterday that the animal positively had been ill of rabies, the veterinarian said today. Dr. A. R. Chambers, county health officer, was informed of the case and the Serene family, including Mr.

and Mrs. Serene and their two sons, will be vaccinated against rabies by the health officer this afternoon. Dr. Chambers said this morning that he considers the case to be serious. The epidemic appeared in the herd about a month ago.

Since then the four cows have died, one at a time, and the fifth is sick now. The familv has left only a few heifers which have not been with the cows. No other livestock is owned by the familv. Dogs and cats belonging to the Serenes have been destroyed, the veterinarian working on the case ssici He said the state board of health was informed and authorized him to handle the case locally, with the aid of the county health officer. It is believed that the rabies was spread by an infected dog that, was found in the neighborhood several weeks ago.

The Serenes live a few miles southwest of Iola. Schools Still Lack Four Teachers Four more teachers must sign contracts with the Iola schools to meet the requirements of the high school and junior college for the 1948 term. Superintendent Joe W. Qstenberg said today. Contracts have been sent out and are expected to be signed soon by three other teachers.

They include instructors for junior and senior high school economics, high school English, and modern languages. No progress has been made in engaging the fourth teacher, a mathematics instructor, Ostenberg said. Oscar E. Collings will be the vocational agriculture instructor and will arrive to assume those duties about July 1. He is a graduate of Kansas State college and this is his first teaching post.

TOO YVELL GUARDED Seattle, June 18. (AP). William Schillers, service station operator, complained to the sheriffs office about a volunteer watchdog. A large stray police dog has taken over the jeto of guarding Schillers station, and the overzealous volunteer is driving away customers and ruining business. See Labor Bill Veto Message to Congress Friday; Passage Over Veto Is Not Certain Washington, June 18.

(AP) Top Democratic and Republican leaders agreed today that House passage of the labor bill over a presidential veto is in the bag. The Senate may tag along, but the outcome there is less certain. House leaders definitely expect a veto even though President Truman told reporters at Princeton, N. yesterday I havent made up my mind yet. He said he will send a message to congress Friday.

A veto would make labor union control the next big issue between MAIL FAVORING VETO FOURS INTO WHITE HOUSE Washington, June 18. (AP) Eben Ayers, assistant White House press secretary, said heavy volume of mail contiifued to pour into the White House concerning the labor union control bill with a heavy majority favoring a veto. Ayers said the volunje of communications about the measure is by far the greatest ever received by Mr. Truman on any single legislative issue or other controversy. Ayers estimated that 157,000 to 158,000 letters, more than 500,000 cards and 25,000 telegrams had been received through Monday.

He said around 10,000 letters a day still are coming from individuals, groups and organizations. He did not estimate the percentage favoring a veto other than to say the majority was heavy. the White House and congress, with more potential fights in sight. Cooperation Shot But the cooperation about which the chief executive and congressional Republicans talked when the session began last January apparently has just about exploded anyway. GOP leader Halleck of Indiana gave the tip-off on that after the House upheld by a two-vote margin yesterday Mr.

Trumans veto of the tax cut bill. Halleck told newsmen the veto was the exact opposite of cooperation. Other Republican chiefs who do not want their names used say the same thing. The way they talk makes It appear bare-fisted battling (Continued on Pure 6. No.

2) New Missouri Flood Threat Kansas City, June 18. (AP). New flood threats on the Missouri river above Kansas City were feared today as heavy rains sent tributaries to high levels again. St. Joseph, where the Municipal airport was threatened by a stage of 20.4 last Monday, was warned to prepare for an even higher stage.

The new flood constituted a new threat to water logged levees along the Missouri, where the army engineers estimated that at last acres of land have been inundated between Rulo, Neb. and Kansas City, of the 60 barriers in the Rulo-Kansas City section, the engineers said 37 were known to have been topped or breached. Leavenworth, June 18. (AP). Soldiers from Ft.

Leavenworth began evacuating movable equipment at Sherman field today in the face of a flood threat from the rising Missouri river. Authorities at the field said all aircraft but four training planes had been flown to Topeka for safety and that plans were being made to move everything possible, including heavy machinery, if the threat becomes more severe. FARM SUBSIDIES FINALE Washington, June 18. (AP) The agriculture department is winding up the wartime farm products subsidies program which cost the treasury slightly more than About all that remains is to settle a few claims hanging over from last year. Virtually all the direct subsidy programs were dropped in 1946.

Only a few, notably for Cuban ugar, were carried over into this calendar year. Truman Honored at Princeton Father Admits Killing Children Miami, June 18. (AP) A sobbing 59-year-old father described today how he clubbed his two children to death with a baseball bat, then kissed and caressed their battered bodies and lay 'down to sleep until morning, then shot two of his neighbors who believed him an unfit fathei. Chris Russell, a stocky gray-, haired Greek restaurant operator, described in detail for Detective Sergeant John L. Deas how his children told him that they would rather die than be taken from him.

Sobbing, and still in the blood-spattered clothing he wore to take the lives of Johnny Cnsto, 6, and Peggy. 11, Russell told Deas that his neighbors had signed a petition demanding that his two children be taken to a home. He told how his wife, whom he described as no good left him nearly four years ago to care for the chidren. These people have made a criminal out of me, he sobbed. "I was a good man yesterday, but a criminal today.

I dont want to live any more. I want to be buried with my children. When my children, are gone, there is nothing for me to live for. I want to die. Vote to Freeze Payroll Tax For Two More Years Washington, June 18.

(AP) The house passed unanimously today a bill freezing the social security payroll tax at present rates for two years. If passed by the senate and accepted by President Truman the measure will block an automatic $2,000,000,000 annual increase in the levy on January 1. The legislation provides, however, for an increase in the tax in 1950 from one per cent to 15 per cent each against employees pay and employers payrolls. In 1937 the tax would' jump to two per cent against each. Spanish American War Veteran Dies in Wichita Wichita, June 18.

(AP). Frank D. Thompson, 70, of Iola, a veteran of the Spanish-American war. died in the Wichita veterans administration hospital Tuesday. He served as a corporal in company 122nd Kansas Infantry, from March to December, 1898.

The body will be taken to Fort Scott for burial in the National cemetery. Santa Barbara: The Millionaires Finally Outnumber Black Bears Discuss Flood Control Here The findings of the flood control investigation on the watershed of the Neosho river conducted by the Department of Agriculture will be discussed in Iola today" and tomorrow bv officials of the Soil Conservation Service. L. Kelly, Glen B. Railsback and Woody L.

Cowan, representatives of the water conservation division, Lincoln, are meeting at the Kelley today with district officers of the Soil Conservation Service. Tomorrow at 10 a. m. the flood control report, will be presented to SC3 supervisors, farm representatives and other officials from several counties which are part of the Neosho watershed. Mr.

Cowan said this morning that the survey was started by the Department of Agriculture prior to the war and was delayed for several years. It deals primarily with methods to retard run-off, to diminish the flooding of tributary streams and the prevention of soil erosion. The objective of the survey does not conflict with the plan proposed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engin- eers which deals with the control of the waters of the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers.

Tomorrow's meeting is open to the general public. By Hal Boyle Santa Barbara. Calif. (AP). Black bears fought a losing battle With millionaires here.

A black bear had the upper hand locally for the last time in 1873 when one treed a man. his wife and their child for three hours. Since then the bears have been slowly outnumbered by the millionaires and pushed back into the hills where all they get is peanuts from the tourists. An unofficial census once estimated that 100 millionaires lived here, making it a sort of game refuge for the wealthy. One hired a musician full time who did nothing but lull him with times on a $10,000 violin.

Santa Barbara, among other things, is also one of the few places in southern California where a man from San Francisco can retire and still keep the respect of his old neighbors. Climate Chief Attraction The chief attraction is the balmy climate of this coastal shelfland between the sea and the Santa Ynez President Truman, left, follows behind former President Herbert Hoover hi the procession preceding the presentation of an honorary degree, to the chief executive at Princeton university, Trenton, N. J. In a strong appeal for universal military training, the President told the Princeton graduating class that the United States must be powerful enough to reassure peace-loving nations in their fight against totalitarian pressures. Walter E.

Hope is at the right of Hoover. (NEA Telephoto.).