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Thun. In, st. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 HI 12 13 14 15 16 S7Jl '19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Weather Forecast Southern California Montly sunny daya but with some acattored cloudU nesa today and tomorrow, except partly clo'jdy with few light showers northern mountains today; allghtly warmer days west portion. San Bernardino range yesterdays 6254. Central and Northern California Partly cloudy today and tomorrowl slightly warmer In Interior.

i cMyrpaper for tSan bevnmoCoun vrM i i Ss copy 11.25 a month MORNING, JUNE 1948 (OP) United Press (AP) Associated Press NO. 236 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES I 1 ran i TUESDAY JV PIUl i iv liU I 1 SJMM i1 1 1 People Cling to Housetops in Flood-Shattered Vanport Torrents Roll Into North Part of City; Thousands More Flee in Northwest Light Vote and Lively Contests Seen for Staie G.O.P. Dominance Believed Secure In Off-Year Ballot I SACRAMENTO, May 31 W) I Tomorrow's primary election Is not expected to upset Repub- IHcan control of the California congressional delegation and both houses of the state legisla- ture but there are lively con- PORTLAND, May 31 (IP) The Columbia river, striking a new destructive blow against the Portland metropolitan area, broke through the big Denver avenue dike tonight and poured out a torrent of water in the northern section of the city near devastated Vanport. One hundred volunteer workers dropped sandbags and ran to safety, ahead of the surging current, when the dike suddenly crumbled under the impact of the Columbia's highest flood crest since 1894. Water fanned out toward the $1,500,000 Portland Meadows race track, the Portland amphitheater, two auto courts and a number of private residences that already had been evacuated.

The trunk Pacific Telephone Telegraph main cable was broken by the river, and communications are crippled in icon in 111(111 taaca. The Republicans hold a 14 to 9 margin in the Washington dele gation. They control the state sen ate 28 to 12 and the assembly 48 to 29, with three vacancies There are no presidential con tests. The 53-man Republican slate, headed by William F. Know- land, Oakland publisher, is pledged to Governor Warren-for the presi dential nomination.

The 63-man Democratic slate is pledged to President Truman for renomina tion. The Independent Progressive arty does not have a slate but is ji ommilted to the candidacy of i former Vice-president Hanry Wal Residents of Vanport, war-built city near Portland, stand marooned atop their homes while debris-filled water swirls through their inundated city. A few hours later these buildings laid in complete destruction. (AP wirephoto) lace, Tne party oniy cancuaaie, MANY CANDIDATES A total of 108 aspirants have filed for the state's 23 seats. These include 50 Republicans, 46 Democrats and 12 nricpendent Progressives.

There is an even greater crush for legislative offices. An even hundred seats are at stake 20 44 in the senate (the others are the region. Some of the water may flow into the ruins of Vanport, where rescue workers probed shattered houses for bodies believed lodged in wreckage or in the muddy bottom of the 15-foot deep flood lake. The Pacific northwest's most damaging flood was moving swiftly toward its expected Tuesday night climax. Sixty thousand persons were homeless.

Damage approximated $75,000,000, and at least 24 persons have drowned. THOUSANDS MORE FLEE Flood waters from the Lewis river washed through the city of Woodland, to the courthouse, and the Coweenian river threatened South Kelso. The KalamaV river flooded Kalama, five miles north of Wood land. Woodland's 1,500 residents! were evacuated, 2(000 moved from South Kelso to Kelso, and 1,200 moved out of Kalama. Overflow from the cresting Columbia and Willamette rivers flooded a large area of Industrial Portland, covered hundreds of thousands of acres of rich farm- lands and riverside property, and forced new evacuations from a score of Washington and Oregon communities.

In mid-afternoon, authorities or dered the evacuation of homes along Columbia boulevard, in the heart of North Portland. Ten thousand persons already had been evacuated in the Portland! vt elected in odd-numbered "years) Arab Armies Advance on Tel A viv on 40-Mile Front Red Cross Allots Emergency Funds For Flood Work VyASHINGTON, May 31 (IP) The American Red Cross today allotted $250,000 for emergency needs In flood-destroyed Van-port, Ore. In a wire to Oregon Gov. John H. Hall, Red Cross President Basil O'Connor promised the entire facilities of his organization for relief of the disaster victims.

He said that 34 national disaster experts have been sent to the Portland, ara to assist volunteers In relief work. WARREN OFFERS AID SACRAMENTO, May 31 (IP) Gov. Earl Warren offered California's assistance in aiding Oregon flood victims today in a telephone call to Gov. John Hall at Portland. Fraser River Dikes Broken British Columbia Under Martial Law VANCOUVER, B.

May 31 OP) The fertile Fraser river valley was flooded for almost 30 miles along the steadily rising Fraser river near here today aft er reinforced dikes broke in three! places. Premier Byron Johnson de- clared a state of emergency equivalent to martial law in British Columbia. Two dike breaks came at Mats-qui, 70 miles east of here, and the third at Rosedale, 50 miles east. Water poured through a 110-foot breach at Matsqui. A few hours later it carried away part of a second dike several hundred yards away.

Thousands fled their homes in the Pitt Meadows district after officials warned them that the rampaging Fraser would reach an all-time high of 25 feet above normal level within 24 hours. Unofficial estimates said at least 25,000 acres of rich farmland were under water and that well over 2,000 people had been evacuated. Crop damage was estimated in the millions. Some 750 evacuees were brought here by train and were being sheltered in civilian rehabilitation hostels. Anolher 1,000 were brought to Vancouver by private automobile.

I PAUL ROBESON PREFERS JAIL TO REVEALING RED STATUS Famous Negro Singer Refuses to Disclose To Senators Whether He Is Communist WASHINGTON, May 31 UP) Negro Singer Paul Robeson told senate questioners today he would go to 3ail before he would say whether he is a Communist. metropolitan area, in addition IISOa and 80 in the assembly. For the senate there are 41 contestants. For the assembly, 239. Nine candidates in the assembly race are unopposed and seven have no opponents for the senate.

Although the state's registration is the greatest in history election authorities here predicted an unusually light vote will be cast. INTEREST LAGGING The absence of presidential contests and the extended Memorial day holiday period were the chief reasons cited. Also, it being an off year, no U. S. senator or constitutional state officers are to be elected.

There are spirited contests in geveral counties for sheriffs and! other local officers, but Secretary of State Frank Jordan expressed the doubt more than 50 per cent i of the registered voters would go to the polls. Governor Warren, who spent Memorial day afternoon at the state fair grounds watching the quarter horse races, left later for Oakland. He will cast his vote in the old Montecito precinct about 7:30 a.m. Georgia Convention Delegates Lined Up Against President ATLANTA, May 31 (-Georgia's 28 Democratic national convention voles lined up solidly against President Truman today. A 72-momhcr delegation was selected by the state Democratic executive committee.

The delegates were instructed to vole as a unit there could ho no dissenters. tt i Twrre were no oiner iormai ii I River 10 Miles Wide in Places Beyond Portland PORTLAND, May 31 The 100-mile stretch of the rich Columbia river valley from Portland to the Pacific ocean was a vast, muddy lake today, its winding course churned in the center by the surging river. Normally a mile In width, the water in some places spread 10 miles across Oregon and Washington farm lands. Railway Mishap ills Engineer Passengers Not Hurt When Train Topples CARLSBAD, N. May 31 CP) A Santa Fe railway passenger train toppled into a washout near Lake Avalon tonight, killing the engineer and injuring three others of the crew.

C. A. Hoyle, telegrapher at the "iTlJ: The washout resulted from on of two cloudbursts near Carlsbad. The other sent a flash, flood roar, ing down from the mountain! to the southwest. Fifty families were evacuated from South Carls bad as a precaution.

Hoyle Identified the dead Mgi neer as K. D. Shumate of Clovis, N. M. The Santa Fe railway office at Clovis reported 1,000 feet of trade was washed out by a cloudburst about 6:45 p.m.

Th train, en route from Carlsbad to Clovis, reached th washout about p.m. It struck the softened roadbed and all but the last Pullman oa turned on their sides. Vanport, on of thm otrpytfig 90 on Launch Hurled Into Sea Kearsarge Crew's Casualties Unknown NORFOLK, May 31 UP) Ninety members of the crew of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge were thrown into Hampton Roads tonight when a 40-foot motor launch was swamped a half mile off the Norfolk naval station piers. The accident occurred in rough weather at 9:25 p.m. as the launch was carrying a liberty party back to the Kearsarge.

Naval spokesmen said tugs and all available small craft were dispatched to the scene and that some men had been picked up. The men were taken to the Kearsarge as they were picked up from the water. Spokesmen said it would be impossible to determine whether there had been any casualties iitit.il a muster is held will be delayed until some 500 other men on liberty from the ship can be returned aboard. The carrier was scheduled to sail at 6 a.m. tomorrow for the Mediterranean.

Naval spokesmen said the sailing probably will be delayed. The Kearsarge loaded some 1,000 members of the Second Ma Giant Encircling Move Launched Claim Haifa Cut Off From Capital CAIRO, May 31 UP) Allied Arab armies poured men, guns and armor into a 40-mile front aimed at Tel Aviv and the entire southern half of embattled Israel's coastal strip. The front extends from Jerusalem to Tulkarm, a dispatch from central Palestine said. It forms the eastern side of a gigantic encircling movement the Arabs said their, troops are making around Tel Aviv, initial capital and military headquarters of the new Jewish state. A bulletin issued by the Arab higher committee in Cairo claimed that Iraqi troops had cut off Tel Aviv from the northern port of Haifa by slicing through the coastal strip.

There was no confirmation from Arab military circles The announcement said the Iraqi soldiers captured Natanya, on the coast 18 miles north of Tel Aviv, and added: "Communications between Tel Aviv and Haifa have been cut." An unidenti- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) Damage Extensive In Stockyard Fire At South Paul SOUTH ST. PAUL, May 31 OJ?) Fire swept through' the southwest corner of the stockyards here today, destroying or damaging about a quarter of the half mile square yards. A fireman and a volunteer firefighter were hospitalized with injuries suffered while fighting the blaze. Most animals were driven to safety in the muddy Mississippi river flats adjoining the yards. Police said one commission firm official reported that "several Vanport Residents Flee From Flood Vanport's 19,000.

RISES TOWARD CREST The Columbia rose relentlessly toward a 30.5-foot crest at Prirt- land, crumbling dikes and invad-i ing the outskirts of The Dalles, 90 miles upstream. The U. S. Army corps of engineers said about $30,000,000 damage was inflicted by floods be fore the Vanport break. Vanport, built at a cost of $26,000,000, was a total loss.

In addition there were new losses to crops and water-continued on Page 2, Column 4) Other flood photos will found on page 24. be vs. waist-deep water of inundated CWr. Senator Moore, Oklahoma Re- publican, promptly adopted the idea, with "sometimes the suggestion that a year in jail cools some of these people off." But Chairman Wiley, Wisconsin Republican, of the judiciary committee said he doubted that the committee would take contempt action. Robeson was testifying before the judiciary group against the Mundt-Nixon anti-communist bill when the dispute arose.

Senator Ferguson, Michigan Re publican, whose direct question Robeson refused to answer, said AT LEAST 360 LOST DURING (By Associated Press) Accidents claimed the lives of at least 360 persons during the three-day Memorial holiday observance as it approached the closing hours last night. More than half of this number died in automobile accidents. The traffic death toll reached 190 com pared with the 225 that had been forecast by the National Safety Bandits Hold Up Couple In Home, Get $10,000 FRESNO, May 31 UP) More than $10,000 worth of loot was taken by three armed and masked bandits who held up Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Hawkins in their home last night. Poppy Flier Crashes BLOOMINGTON, 111., May 31 (IP) A small plane which was dropping poppies during Memorial day services crashed at the Bloom-ington cemetery today, killing one person in the plane and Injuring the other seriously, the committee would decide about contempt later. The exchange took place aft er Robeson told the commit tee he thinks members of the communist party "have done a magnificent job in American." "Are you an American Coromu nist?" Ferguson asked. "I refuse to answer that ques tion, Kobeson replied with emphatic gestures.

"This is an in vasion of my right of secret bat lot." ferguson rired back the same (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) LIVES HOLIDAY council. The council estimated 30,000,000 automobiles were on the road over the holiday period. Drownings claimed the lives of 70 persons, apart from the Van-port disaster. Another 100 persons died from other accidental causes related to the holiday. Pennsylvania led all states in total accident deaths with 29.

New York was next wtih 25. California and Illinois had 24 each. Califor-na had 16 traffic deaths, 5 drownings and 3 deaths from miscellaneous causes. Women Pilots Ready For Air Race Takeoff SANTA MONICA, May 31 UP) Eight women pilots are ready for a sunrise takeoff from Palm Springs tomorrow on the second annual transcontinental air race to Miami, Fla. The entrants are: Darlene Thurmond, Van Nuys; Clair McMillan and Betty Loufek, Santa Ana, twins; Dorothy Krovosa, Stockton; Helen Grienke, Bloomington, Frances Nolde, Reading, Jean D.

Ambley, Palm Springs, and Mary Nelson, Palm Springs. division aunng tne week end. tructioiYsbiit there was no douhtjThey will relieve a similar num- out "he Mnlinment. rarty lead-jber 4 Two men; struggle through ohild i wt whoso head would have been of marines who have been on duty in the last winter. Mediterranean since Bridge Collapses; 17 Fall on Rocks OLIVE HILL, May 31 UP-Scventeen Sunday school picnickers from Huntington, W.

were injured today, eight of them seriously, when a bridge over a ravine in Carter Cave State park collapsed. They tumbled onto rocks 30 feet below. Fire in Laurel Canyon HOLLYWOOD, May 31 rtP) Fire blackened five acres of Laurel canyon brushlftnd today and was brought under control by six Los Angeles fire companies after two hours. is "Wlu rrpnuiicuiy -t-ney wouiu fight Truman nomination and Jvould fight his rights pro- ram. They emphasind, however, leoi-pia Democrats would not bolt She party or the national conven- ion if they lose on the convention I loor.

Pasadena Blonde Crowned Miss Southern California OCEAN PARK, May 31. (IP) Joanno Adams, 18-year-old blonde trom rasadona, won the title of jMiss Southern California today at 'the Ocean Park Mardi Gras beau ty contest. SThe Jilonrle beauty will em district in the ntPsWfi Sanla SOUTHEAI pick thj slate's he annual Miss City. fr I dozen" head of cattle perished. A marketing official said loss would run to "several hundred thousand" dollars.

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