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I 1 0:15, t'fc OifM. I n. H.r. dii'ip rMi Jbrr A rrw tut) Wirt II a 16 PAGES TODAY i DAILY 6c TEDE PAELY EMTME WEATHER New Cold War Battle Cry Raised for Americans In New Statement Today YESTERDAYS DISTRIBUTION 12,630 fl.M.d With Oecalel lum ToitlaM 1, saurd7 Martial Near 14. NO.

109 VOL. LVII GRAND JUNCTION. COLORADO, FRIDAY EVENING. 10, 1950. Notion Must Do-Mor Than It It Now Doing to Halt Soviet Plans for World Domination, Secretary of State Soy; Need Single-Minded Campaign By June 1 Is Now Possibility Warne Promises PHOTO) E.

rns, third from left, told 25 slop residents By JOHN SC A LI Washington, March 10 (AP) A new cold war battery total diplomacy" wan raised for Americana today by Secretary of State Acheson. Its meaning: An all-out effort, shorUof shooting, to curb Russian expan High Line Canal Water Contract to Be Awarded Within Week Declares Reclamation Engineer (DAILY SENTINEL DDHMICPC rivUnljLJ Reclamation will assistant secretary red tape has been with local Upper Colorado Valley Water Users the Bureau of KLjVeUL during a brief visit here Thursday that the Bureau of rescue irrigatora under the High Line canal. Mr. Warne, who ia of interior and in charge of the Bureau of Reclamation, said ail cut. Contractors witl.be here next week.

Mr. Warns is shown conferring officials. Left to right are: J. G. "Jeff' Will, secretary of the River commission: Wayne Chiesman.

superintendent of the Grand association; Mr. Warne; and Clifford Jex, area engineer here with Reclamation. Daily Sentinel photo by Walter White. sion. Reclamation to Rescue Valley Assistant Secretary of Interior Mokes Promise To Cut Red Tope Palisade Irrigation District to Try Pumping Water Into Price Ditch Unless Water Assured by June Railroad Crew Kept at Slide Are IWiarinjf that (he nation must do far more than it in now doinu to halt Soviet plana for world domination," Atheaon aaid: We clearly are not focusing our resources in the winning of that struggle.

Whats needed, he aaid. ia a single-minded, "voluntary" campaign by all elements of the nation congress, the executive departments of the government, and the people, lie mentioned particularly such Institutions as business, agriculture, the press and the radio. Arhrmn sketched this new out- line if national aupport for United i States foreign policy three week) axo. in an informal White House talk before thd advertising council, a private organization of leaders In the field of advertising. Officials said the talk waa kept secret.

In the exportation that Acheson might use the same Ideas In a public addresa in late Febru- labor Parly Wins In First Test (: William X. Warne. assistant secretary of interior, promised during a short visit here Thursday that the Bunrau of Reclamation will rescue the Grand Valley project Irrigators. He said that red tape will be eel" and work will started at aertioe ef the Graad Valiev project tunnel a aeon a possible. A few hundred feet of the tunnel collapsed under a (tiding mountain Wednesday night and rut off water to nearly 30,000 of Mesa county's richest sere under the High Line canal.

Mr. Warne said 20 contractor liave been invited to meet local and top Bureau of Reclamation official her Tuesday and Wednesday to look over the Job. He said a contract will be negotiated with on of them, the decision depend- Denver, March 10. (AP) Emergency efforts by the Bureau of Reclamation may provide water by June j'to acres of rich Mesa county land cut off from irrigation bv a sliding mountain. L.

N. of Denver, chief engineer for, the bureau, said today he hopes to award a contract by March 17 for a horse-shoe shaped tunnel to bypass section of a bore which collapsed yesterday. He said the tunnel would be cut further into the hill through solid rock. This would bypass an area of slipping shale which could cut the main tracks of the Depver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and partially dam the Colorado river! The new section would be 13 feet in diameter. While 1.300 farmer and petch grower made plan to abandon early crop for other cash crop and hoped for water In time to save their 6,000 acres of peach tree, reclamation bureau officials and draftsmen in Grand Junction nnd Denver pushed plant for the hew tunnel.

They were under Instructions from William X. Warne, assistant secretary of the Interior, to rush construction. Jander Facing Medical Hearing Candia. March 10 Hermann N. Sander, acquitted ary or early March.

When this did not materialize It waa decided to make a reconstructed version pi hta speech public. The text given out last night was not an actual transcript but a version prepared from memory by Francis Russell, state department director of public affairs. It waa ap- proved by Acheson, In It, he declared that the United London, March 10.WT Britain's labor government squeaked past Its first major parliamentary teat last night. But tha uneasy Laboritee face fresh trouble In another ana-. clal vote Monday.

By a 14-vote margin, 210 to 296. Prime Minister Attlee's Socialists brat back a Conservative motion aimed against the Impending nationalization of tho Iron and steel industry. A defeat would have forced the government ta resign only two weeks after It won a second term in a close general alee Uon. Still ahead of th government whose overall majority In the house of commons was cut yesterday to ing on which on. can get lated tinea of foreign policy.

The first, he said. Is to meet whenever possible all thrusts of the Soviet union -as haa been done in Greece and Turkey. The second policy line, he said. must be to create those economic, only tlx scats it a vote Monday on equipment and skilled men here in th short time, Th assistant secretary, wk la directly ever the Berea af reclamation, aaid -plana and specifications will be completed next Friday, March 17. The Bureau of Reclamation la very much concerned with th disaster that has befallen th area, Mr, Wacna said.

Ha promised to make the trouble painless a poaaibld. About 23 Grand Junction and western Colorado residents met Mr. Warne at Walker Field and conferred with him between political, social and psychological conditions that strengthen and create confidence In the democratic way of life." In thi connection, he cited th European recovery program and American aid In bringing Independence to Indonesia. lanes. Ha waa enrout from Salt Jka City to Albuquerque, N.

M. Led by Capt. Paul Mots, stat pa Wherry Criticizes Achesonor Action In Gobilchev Case WV-Dr. of murder in the death of a can-(er-ridden patient, at 111 hcri a bearing before thn atatn board of irgiitration in medicine. Dr John S.

Wheeler, tate health tfficer and secretary of the board, laid last night the board will decide what medical penalty, if any, will be Impoaed on the 41-year-old country doctor. The board eeretary said he will contact member of the group at one and that Dr. Sander will be allowed, a reasonable time to reat op" before he ia called. The house of delegate of the Sew Hampshire Medical society, which generally makes recommendations to the board, plana to meet Sunday afternoon In Concord the state capitol to dtscusa the caae. Dr.

Wheeler pointed out, how. ever, that It ia nia board that ha authority to grant or revoke licenses to practice medicine. He said the hoard had requested Dr. Sander to appear before it in January just after hia indictment Lining Up Needed Scientists One Of Big Worries in Hydrogen Bomb Program another Conservative motion. This deplores the government's fallur to suggest housing' program lm provementr In th speech it prepared -foe King George to deliver at parliament opening last Mon day.

Like th nationalization eenaur voted down yesterday, th housing motion proposes an amendment I the kings address. Th government haa said any surh amendment ia an issue of confidence. Labor leader said that if beaten, they would resign and call a new elec tion. Labor lost on aeat of Its Mnp parliamentary majority yesterday when Conservative Florence Horae-brugh defeated Laborite Rowland W. Casa sols for the Moss aid con aUtueney of Manchester.

glee-tion had been delayed 13 days by the death of a previously nomin ated Conservative candidate. Parliamentary whip of both parties mustered the heaviest attendance in common since 1892 for yesterdays record vote. Labor got the voter of all its members who were not prevented from vot ing by illnesa or parliamentary positions all but. five of the party'! members. sion because of conditions shaping yaara, getting this proposed super the group drove to the city hall for an hour-long reception at the office of J.

G. Jeff Will secretary of th Upper Colorado River commission. Th assistant secretary aaid that In his opinion th Bureau ef Reclamation ha enouth emergency money already appropriated to drill tha new tunnel section. He says that about ia available. "Clifford Jex, area engineer here, estimated the tunnel will cost close ta $500,000, not including concrete lining.

Overall project: rehahlltatlon will cost close to $1,500,000 and the additional Turn to Page 14, CoL 4 'Washington, March 10. -Ur) Senator Wherry IK-Neb.) criticized Secretary of State Acheson today for recommending that Valentin A. Gubitchev, Russian convicted as a spy, be given a suspended sentence and sent from this country. Secretary of State Acheson' bungling of the Gubltrhev-spy case is further evidence of rhia unfitness to continue as secretary of state, Wherry, G.O.P.wenat leader, said in a statement. If there waa any merit- in Russia's claim that Gubitchev was Im up something like this: In developing the atomic bomb, the United Slate had to draw heavily on men who cime from overseas, men like Budapest-born Dr, Edward Teller and Rome-born Dr.

Enrico Fermi, both of the University of Chicago While the theory of the hydrogen bomb ha been known for By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL Washington, March. 10. UP) Lining up the needed scientist, larticularly foreigners, apparently a one- of the big worries in the net hydrogen bomb program. The problem may Involve auch issues as: 1.

Setting up safeguard against another Fuch spy case. .2. Deciding whether the H-bomb effort shall be partial or full-scale. 3. Draining scientists from universities and industry to an extent I but the physician requested poat-Iponement until after the trial.

mune from prosecution, Mr. Ache-have recognized it be- son should Wheeler'a announcement came I after court attache had told newa-I men that Dr. Sander waa free to I resume medical practice lmmedi-liiely. They said that restriction, I which prohibited him from practic-ing during trial, were lifted with I acquittal. that might cripple the training of Ui4 physicists of the future.

The board of director of tha Palisade Irrigation district last night committed themselve to the pumping of water into the" Price ditch between May 1 and the time that the High Line canal la again flowing water if there I no assurance In a few day that thert will be water in the canal June 1. The farmer under the Price ditch believe they must have water by July if they are to have crops, Including peaches. There are nearly 6.000 acres, mostly fruit, under the Price ditch. The Mesa county stub irrigates close to 2,000 aerea and also gets water from the High Line: The Grand Valley Water User from Palisade to below Fruits irrigate in excess of acre from the High Line. Wayne Chiesman, superintendent for the Grand Valley Water Users, believe pumping water is out of the question and that the new canal section can be built before all on the High Line could be supplied water by pump.

What the subsidiary companies do la up to their director and members. The Price ditch formerly obtained Water directly from the Colorado river but came under the project when was constructed. At one point this ditch la within a few feet of the High Line. Reopening of this old ditch baa been considered. Denver it Rio Gfarftie Western official report they are keeping crews at work at dHobe cut directly below the sliding hillside which closed over 300 feet of the Grand Valley project tunnel No.

3. Workmen have been able to maintain continuous service since debris was cleared from the track ahortly before noon Thursday. The state pattrol ia (till patrol ling U. S. 6-24 across the river from the slide area to keep sightseers from blocking traffic.

Mr. Chiesman. Clifford Jex, Bureau of Reclamation engineer, and their staffs were busy this morning checking into right of way and other matters and taking care of as many details as possible in advance of actual work on the proposed new tunnel section! In Washington the Bureau of Reclamation, acting under a new rehabilitation, law sponsored by Congressman Wayne Aspinail and Senators Ed Johnson, and Eugene Mlllikin, on Thursday authorized repair work to begin Immediately on four projects, the work to cost an estimated $17,000,000. The Tam to Page 14, CoL 4 Truman May Allend Big Chicago Rally. Hillside Which Closed Tunnel Still Moves weapon into production again would be likely to require many such scientists in key places.

On authority is reported to have drawn up a list of the necessary talent which Include only two native Americana, Dr. Charles L. Critchfield of the University of Minnesota and Dr. J. Wheeler of Princeton.

Many of the foreign born on th list are on th faculties of American universities or employed by American industries. Like Teller and Fermi, some now are naturalized citizens. But at least four Britishers are named. Getting British scientist open up several questions. Some authorities say- it would require an agreement with Britain, and loosening atomic energy law controls over atomic information and material.

Some doubt that any scientist who are not American citizens could be employed on th H-bomb project unless the law is changed. And they believe the Fuchs case has increased th difficulties of getting congress to make changes. Carbon County Fire Critically Burns Man, Endanger! 16 fore the Russian spy waa put to trial. But having asserted Gublt-chev waa subject to prosecution, Mr. Acheson should have let the law take ita course.

Gubitchev, former United Nations engineer, and Judith Coplon, former employe ol th Justice department here, were convicted in a New York trial of conspiracy to apy for Mis Coplon was given a 13-year irlson sentence yesterday. A aim-lar sentence was given Gubitchev but lt waa suspended on condition that he be deported within two weeks. HomeComfort Ideas Men and Women 4. Making Britain. 5.

Amending the atqjnic energy law. 6. Opposition of aome scientist to going ahead with tha super H-bomb now. Word ia getting around that there is deep concern in the senate-house atomic committee and the atomic energy commis another deal with Jn Sunday Sentinel Washington. March 10.

UP) The Democratic partys biggest name Harry Truman unay show up at a monster political rally scheduled for Chicago in mid-May. Th president told hi news conference yesterday that he hope to leave on a western trip May 1 which would take him clear 4 the state of Washington. He mentioned. the possibility that he might attend the three-day Chicago meeting, which starts May 13. The president told reporter he won't take part in any primary battles for senate seats, but he ia expected to -wage a hard-hitting campaign against Republican can-didatcOjn a second trip Jater in the yeaf: Massacred Hundreds Billy Rose Stars In Recovery of His Missing Gems The hillside which closed the Grand Valley tunnel Wednesday la atlll moving, workmen who were on top this morning report.

Walter Workman, dltchrlder, said he went In the upper end of tunnel this morning and found a large slab of concrete beyond the timbered area has fallen. He reports the crushing of timber la still going on. Railroader say that tracks along the slide area are being pushed out of- line today but they are keeping head ef the movement. Clifford Jex. Bureau of Reclamation engineer here, says that deterioration beyond the timbered area on both the lower and upper end has been noted.

Most of the lower end, however, la In rock and the area of possible deterioration -la limited. The entire upper end Is in aedl-mentaries but It Is not expected all will be knocked out. Price, Utah, March 10. (JFfK fir in the Carbon county, welfare home critically burned one middle-aged man and endangered other persons last night. Bob Kelly, 57.

a bedridden In valid, suffered third degree burn on both legs. City-County hospital attendants said his condition is critical. Th fire was extinguished by attendants at the home and firemen, but as a precautionary measure 16 other resident of the home mostly aged persona were removed from their tnd floor quarter to th firat floor lobby. Mr. Irene Drossos.

matron, aaid ashes from Kelly pipe apparently set hia bed afire, then spread to the floor of his room. -She said her aon, Steve Drossos, 21. and Dr. C. L.

Brockbank Car-Tied Kelly from hta burning bed. Many women ay the trouble ith. houses is that men build wm. men w'ho don't spend most "'their liVea inside the wall. I They charge that the men never I' net enough closets and builtins, 'hat they miss the best design for comfortable living.1 Sunday Daily Sentinel pre-some of the latest In home pudding ideas for, study by women 11 as men.

It tell the history borne building and latest trends. I Trick with windows can make a ipe look different, and this atib-jject is treated thoroly. Heating ia rj important item. Time saving PPUances are often cheaper than outmoded varieties. La idirect product of auch an on i how to Judge a house if 9i.Ui buying.

Bead Sunday' Sentinel. Rangoon, March 10. IT) A Burma army commander said today rebel Karen massacred hundreds of Burmese. Chinese and Indian civilians before retreating from Pyu. 134 miles north of Rangoon.

Col. Chit Myaing, compander of government force on the Toungoo front, said the Karens, -who are fighting to set up an Independent state, set Pyu afire and then attacked terrified men, women and children as they aought safety. Really Not a Joke Houston, March 10. must be a joke, aaid a man who called the sheriff's office. Tve got a good boy working for me and he's got a ticket for speeding.

But ft was signed Yawn and Goodnight. It was no Joke he was assured. Deputy Sheriffs Sid Yawn and Steve Goodnight, workingJp-gether had signed the ticket. Aflernocn Cage Score Central fffl I cien'd Elmo! J-ni New York, March Id. (P Billy Rose, the showman, night club owner and Broadway columnist, is the star of hia latest production.

He personally got back part of the worth of stolen Jewels yesterday and one of the-men who them. Rose was sitting in his office in the Ziegfeld theatre building at Sixth avenue and 54th street when Joseph -Vitulano introduced him-aelf. He said he waa one of the four men who looted the Rose mansion, Jan. 26 while Billy and his wife, the former Eleanor Holm', were at a Broadway opening. To prove It, Vitulano pulled out part of the swag and spread it over an office table top.

It waa a glittering display of Are You in A Whirl Over Flying Saucers? Pull Up Cup And Hear Latest Theories and Reports LOn Gimmick Hungary Demanding Recall ol 3 U.5. Legation Officers a Day for 3 Conseculive Days Is Birilf Record for Triplets; Ho Previous Happening the tiny pilot was killed in the crash about three months ago, his body embalmed for scientific atudv and the main portion of the saucer put under military supervision in Mexico City. The air force here heard Dim-mlck'a atory, declared it 'absolut- Los Angeles, March 10 (JPl Are mu in a whirl over flying saucers 3ull up a cup and hear this: They teem to be coming equipped with midget pilot now. First, there's case-of Mr. Dimmick'a gimnyrk.

Ray L. Dimmirk, a dynamite also declined to name his sources. The S. air material command reiterated It atand: We have carefully investigated all of the evidence presented to us regarding report on flyhtf saucers, and there is no evidence to support- the existence of any interplanetary Astronomer Joaquin Mexican ally fine air map of th United States. From Denver, however, Dimmick received moral aupport from a mystery'lecturer at the University of Denver.

Unidentified prof platter pitch: Midget pilots recently flew three flying di-ics to earth from Venus. Prof. Francis F. Broman said the lecturer, wlfo claimed to be a pearls, diamonds, gold, silver, num and precious stones most of it made for Mrs. Rose.

Vitulano had little to say be-itUPR-he wis the driver March 10 (JF)- a ay for three coiisecu- psrJfJ8Jhats th way the 36 rtH. Wfe fisherman gave ihui ho delivered the f16' three-day period ve never heard or read salesman, returned from a trip ta ely unsubstantiated and said there has been no word from the Mexi- Mexico and gave rise to a story Hardie Just narrowly beat the stork as he plied full throttle to hi motorboat bringing Mrs. Hardie to Dr. Nasifa clinic from their houseboat home anchored several mllca up Jhe swollen Ouachita Thirfy minute after their arrival at the" clinic, 5-pound Jodie Lee, the boy. was bom.

Thi waa 8 a. hi. (CST) March 7. At 9 a. m.

the next day 6-pound Julia Ja arrived. ili J.Tt Budapest, Hungary. March 10. (JF) Hungary demanded tonight that the United States recall three of its high ranking officers on the staff of the U. S.

legation here. Hungary termed persona non Kraft, military attache. Lt. Col. John Hoyne, deputy military attache, and Maj.

Donald E. Griffin, deputy attache for air. The Communist-led government protested the over-swollen number of the Kir 'gr -spoony basic science class to test students' when Venys is brightest and guess-' cii-u Ufh case before. (In uriure, meter. 90 inches thick at the een ter, built of metal harder than aluminum, powered by two motors and manned by a Oret in-type little gent only 23 inches tail.

As soon as Vitulano told his tale, Rose telephoned hi own lawyer, Arthur Garfield Hays, who took Vitulano to a police station for a formal surrender. Then Rose asked Hays to take strange interloper. Former Crown Prince Otto Austria, speaking before a Salem, Ohio, town hall audience last night, theorized that the flying saucers' seen intermittently over the United Slates are Russian map recording ed-saucer-seers might be seeing the planet instead. Mexicos lesding nuclear scientist. Dr.

Manuel Sab-doval Vallarta, said he thinks th saucers" are ballons released by evaluation. Th man who brought the scientist to school was Advertising Salesman George T. "Koehler, who said he believed the story to be a fact. Prof. Broman r-u- ,1 ag0' the American Medici saif has no rec- a Of Dimmick originally told report- si' hg saw this wreek- 5 -b'PVt 1 1 Rolejrtarfpf Jobation" 3 meT' to give' WiifM stall and i.r e.

propped her- aaid the father thipking of vnuiano a Thfr4 apj, -I- if. wsnt to giveWufMi a and shake, Hose explained. reduce their staffs' here, He dec I a red 1 ussiaobla 'Tif cldf Jfrtrfr bUUOatcr backtracked and ed from Germany aftertbt war fvwIu.T-i Na. Mexican authority could be found 1 last night who knew anything an elbow and smilod Thm.ew son and-two daughters. lie last-, she said.

cmidrctLare enough." She Two. of the other three men on tlw robbery- have already been arrested leaving only Willie (Blac-kiet Lalamio. 22, at mand was a result of the trial of American Businessman Robert A. Vogeler, sentenced to 15 years on spv charges. Hia British assistant, Sanders, wae sentenced to about the prgsh related by Dimmick, 1 So there you are.

Which view do you take th i or Dimmicks? Kqghler. nsme-he-lecturer. saying he felt the air force which -has taken an exceedingly dim view of saucers might rtdieule hie friend. The Lok Angeles man, Dimmick, his Tiny 3-room houseboat th residence of the Hardie family which now number 12 In all. --The floods ruined fishing for a long time so it doesn't matter that 1 not minding my line, he said.

type weapons, two tf which had been developed fully. Aided by German scientists, Otto believes the Russians have developed one of these Into a flying saucer He declared thst Russia has exceptton- business associates. All he actually saw, according to hia revised version, was a atrip of metal, about iik -feet long, eight Inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick. Dimmick said he was told that Ti rchildren, all living, the blrth Ofd1 ln entire town. First of all Bose gave no-explanation of why Vitulano had his change of heart 13 years: Edgar.

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