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california state library. gillis. librarian, sacramento. calif. i TODAY'S WEATHER 1 0" MORNING EDITION Temperature for 24-hour period ended at 5 p.

m. Friday: Maximum 64, minimum 42. Monterey Bay Area: Fair Saturday and little temperature change, gentle westerly winds. 91st Year No. 70 EIGHT PAGfif SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1946 in SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, VP) lo)' vu.

im. 0) 03 1) fC ICY mi BAT riz Candidate For Auditor Sttaflnim it antes CBeflneff Ftf atf5nims HDesSire IPesice WMhi TUMP A Meaims IFM MM JIM.V 1 Intimation That International Situation Is Cause Of Deferment Denied By President's Secretary Washington, March 22 (AP) President Truman tonight announced a 6-weeks postponement of the atom bomb tests scheduled to start May 15 at Bikini atoll in the Pacific. He attributed the delay to a heavy run of congressional business which would prevent many congressmen who desired to witness the experiments from being there. The announcement was issued through Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, who said the statement, giving no other reason for the postponement, covered the ground.

Asked specifically if the international situation had any bearing, Ross replied that he could not go beyond the statement but he added that he had no reason to believe there were any Two New Names From Coast District Appear In Contest For Supervisor With three days left to file for the June 4 primary, five new candidates took out papers for county offices here Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, County Clerk Harry E. Miller announced. George S. Kriz, deputy county clerk since 1939, announced that he would be a candidate for county auditor. Incumbent Willet Ware is said to be doubtful whether he will be a candidate.

A county resident for more than a decade, Kriz has been active in community affairs and is a past president of the Native Sons here. Two new candidates filed in the supervisorial race in the Seaside district, as Joseph Alveraz, prominent sportsman, and Lieut. Commander Alvin Gregory of the maritime service took out papers, and a third possible candidate, Neil Reid, said he was seriously thinking about entering the race. With two women already candidates for the office of county recorder, two men, Jack Blakesley of Wilkes circle and Roy Worsham of Granite creek road, took out candidacy papers for recorder Thursday afternoon. In the auditor's race, Kriz and Ware are the only two candidates to file thus far.

Kriz is Moscow, March 22 W) Prime Minister Generalissimo Stalin today expressed conviction that neither the nations of the world nor their armies are seeking another war, and affirmed his confidence in the United Nations organization as a serious instrucment" for pre-serving peace. He declared that the nations "desire peace and are endeavoring to secure peacs," but that "certain political groups" have spread fear through the world by a propaganda campaign which is "sowing seeds of discord and uncertainty." I The Russian leader made his assertions in a written reply to three quastions put to him by the Associated Press last Tuesday. His reply was dated today. I Stalin's replies were broadcast over the Moscow short and long wave radio at 7 p. m.

by Yuri Levi-tan, Russia's ace announcer who read all the Generalissimo's orders of the day during the war. Then Moscow radio began broadcasting the questions and answers in many languages to all corners of the world. international implications. An army-navy task force for some Its prime objective is to ascertain the effect of the bomb on ships at sea. The original test explosion at Los Alamos, N.

was on land, and the two dropped on the Japanese also were dropped Son land. IFsHrTmn Ddp Han Coanimity VsaMetl Wt 24 Mfiflflnim Poultry Products Valued At More Than $2,500,000 Year 1945 5c Copr 75c Monifc $7.50 Year la Advanc has been preparing for the test Meantime, it became known that a test of the A-bomb against simulated land armies had been considered but that the possible dangers had weighed against the idea, leaving it on a highly tentative basis. This was disclosed today in a news conference with army officials of the joint army-navy task force preparing to try out the bomb against warships at Bikini atoll in the Pacific. Land Test Dangerous Maj. Gen.

Anthony C. McAuliffe, ground forces advisor on the staff on Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, was asked if any thought had been given to making a test against armifis.

He replied that there has been "some vague discussion but no specific plan" has developed. Then he added that Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, chief of the atom bomb production unit, had said that because of the "dread possibilities" of the bomb it might be unwise to test it over land.

He did not elaborate on this. It is possible, however, that such a test may be made at some future date, McAuliffe said. Navy To Get Data Around North Pole Washington, March 22 The army air force disclosed tonight preparations for flights by three long range B-29 bombers to the re gion of the magnetic north pole to obtain technical data for arctic fly ing. A- carefully worded announce ment linked the undertaking with the Canadian army current "musk ox expedition to tne strategic xar north area into which the navy'al-so has sent the aircraft carrier Midway for tests. Three Men Sent To San Quentin Floyd Clark, Ray Rabcy and Lawrence Pressley were denied probation and sentenced to an indeterminate term in San Quentin prison on charges of burglary when they appeared for hearing before Judge James L.

Atteridge March 21. i 8 MILLION IN CIAIMS Sacramento, March 22 (U.R) California paid $8,224,385 in workmen's compensation claims in 1945, bringing the 32-year total to more than $130,000,000, the state department of industrial relations revealed today. ing number" of eight and nine-year-old children in detention, and some as young as seven years old. He expects a leveling off of delinquencies under 16 years of age now, though, because war-torn homes are being re-established. "I don't think we can expect any decrease in delinquents in boys between 16 and 21 years of age in the next two years, however," the director added.

"They have, been making big war-time money. Can they get along now with what kids normally have practically none?" Also, Holton thinks their years of "freedom" will make them unwilling to return to school, "state law or no state law." To the whole problem, Holton said, there is only one real answer: Make every community a decent place for kids to live. "Juvenile delinquency isn't disease," he said, "it's just one symptom of a big disease social illness. Whenever people in communities can work constructively together developing wholesome programs, it helps cut juvenile delinquency down." (Stalin's forthright statements immediately produced world-wide reaction, and wsre hailed generally wnn gratuication and nope. u.

congressmen quoted it as indicat ing greater success for the UNO Observers in London said the inter view had eased tension.) As a solution to the "current fear of war," Stalin urged a worldwide counter-propaganda campaign "to expose the warmongers without loss of time and give them no op portunity of abusing the freedom of speech against the interests of peace." (Stalin; did, not idsntify the "warmongers" in his letter, but on March 13 Pravda published an interview quoting him as calling Winston Churchill a "warmonger" and accusing Churchill of trying to inflame a war against Russia.) He said he attached "great importance" to the United Nations organization and added that "it will unquestionably play a great and positive role in guaranteeing peace and security" if it succeeds in preserving the principle of "equality of states." Total FOB value of poultry and rabbits was $2,112,000. Cherries, 515 acres, 1100 tons, value of plums, 355 acres, 485 tons, boysen, young, logan and blackberries, 530 acres, 1350 tons SOSO; other berries, 50 acres, 11,650 crates, $30,000. Vegetable crops: Artichokes, 825 acres, 64,700 boxes, broccoli, 655 acres, 98,000 crates, cauliflower, 475 acres, crates, $362,000. Miscellaneous crops: There were 3,250,000 plants, 3,770,000 bulbs valued at 150 acres of cut flowers yielding 210,000 dozen flowers, and 175,000 pounds of mushrooms grown, valued at Total for miscellaneous crops was $625,000. Mello's report stresses that the FOB values do not represent money which ranchers and farmers actually received, as they include the costs of grading, packing, and other expenses.

Thus, they represent agricultural income to the county. Comparative grand totals since 1942 are: 1945 $24,3 12,000 1944. 17,914,000 1943 18,794,000 1942 12,884,000 Officers Finish Use Of Firearms Next week the scliool will continue with lectures and demonstrations in the council chamber under the direction of Agents Curtis O. Lynum, Wayne H. Shaw and D.

R. Quinn. Subjects will be defense tactis, jurisdiction of federal investigative agencies, firearms identification, use of photography in investigations, raids, surveillance, interviews, latent fingerprints, confidential informants and sources of information, evidence, report writing and note taking, crime scene search and court testimony. Friday March 29, will be devoted to talks by local speakers and a forum on relations between newspapers and the police department, in. the forenoon, Police Judge James J.

Scoppettone will speak on laws of arrest and District Attorney Stephen Wyckoff will discuss searches and seizures in criminal cases. Later Friday, the newspaper relations subject will be discussed with Fred McPherson publisher, and Gordon Sinclair, news editor of the Sentinel-News. Also scheduled is a talk on public relations by Phil S. Breck manager of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, and a discussion on strikes and picketing by Donald Younger, local attorney. The measure mentions that the planning commission is not in favor of the erection of any structure it may consider "unsightly to the extent property values may be decreased." The resolution makes no objection to metal buildings in industrial zones but protests against the practice of setting them up in residential, commercial and agricultural areas.

Precipitating the preparation of the resolution were plans of several Santa Cruz business men to construct round-shaped "Quonset hut" metal buildings in various parts of the city. Following a discussion on metal Only One Year Draft Desired By Eisenhower Washington, March 22 W) The army solidified its position for a one-year draft extension today as General Dwight D. Eisenhower withdrew his request for indefinite continuance. The chief of staff's modification was explained to the house military committee by Secretary of WTar Robert P. Patterson.

Both men had testified- before the committee yesterday Eisenhower advocating an indefinite extension of the law expiring on May 15 and Patterson pleading for a one-year continuation. "Since then," Patterson told the committee as he continued his testimony today, "I have discussed it with the chief of staff and he also is in favor of one year." Eisenhower did not testify today. Patterson said he and th 3 chief of staff agreed that the length of service under continuing legisla tion should not exceed 18 months and that an extension for a full 12 months would permit the army to discharge fathers now in service and to refrain from inducting more parents. They are willing, Patterson added, to accept a limitation that no men be inducted over the age of 25 or under 78 and a ban against inducting any more men than ahe necessary to meet a quota of officers and men in army uniform by July 1, 1947. The American Legion, in a statement filed with the committee, urged indefinite extension of the draft until world conditions are more settled.

Hornibroolc, Publisher, Dies Pacific Grove, March 22 (U.R). William H. Hornibrook, 61, retired publisher and career diplomat, died at his home here Wednesday night." He had been ill for several years. Hornibrook resigned as U. S.

minister to Costa Rica in 1941. He previously has served as minister to Siam, Persia, and Afghanistan and Iceland. He was the former publisher of the Pacific Grove Tribune, a weekly; the- Salt Lake Times, the Albany (Ore.) Democrat, Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian, Porterville (Cal.) Recorder, the Twin Falls (Idaho) Chronicle, and the Provo (Utah) Evening Herald. At one time he served as a state senator in Idaho. A native of Cherokee, he is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Yo-lande Hornibrook; a son. Dr. John W. Hornibrook, of Bethesda, a daughter; Mrs. C.

R. Strock of Oakland, and two sisters, Mrs. Rose Toman, of Cherokee, and Mrs. W. B.

Thomason, Garden City, Cal. Private funeral services were held Friday. Mebels IKattle In Iran Town Tehran, March 22 ttJ.R) British sources reported today that rebellious Iranian Kurds had captured Sardesht, one of three towns in the border area fronting Iraq which they had been besieging. The Kurds were reported main taining their sieges of Saqqui2 and Bane, neighboring towns of Sar desht in northwest Iran below Lake Urmia. Iranian reinforcements have been sent to Saqquiz and Bane to aid the beleaguered garrisons, according to British information from the re gion where the Kurds were reported to have proclaimed an autonomous republic.

TTMey Were By Douglas Jaques United Press Staff Correspondent Sacramento. March 22 (U.R) Thp state youth authority this'week put 85 boys and girls on trains and sent them to their homes all over the country. They were between the ages of 11 and 18. They were all in trouble. structures of all types, Inspector Sinclair suggested that the commission give some attention to the growth of apartment houses without garages in the beach district.

This causes automobiles to be parked on streets in the area at all times of the day and night, Sinclair pointed out. He said that at present San Francisco permits no apartments to be built near the business district unless car storage space is provided. Dr. Harry Piper, president of the commission, commented that Sinclair's point was well taken but pointed out that the city building code at present has no control over apartments with or without garage facilities. li I n.o.

DOOK 10 ray Honor To Alumni In Armed Ranks Records and photographs of Santa Cruz high school students who joined the armed forces are sought by C. E. "Doc" Fehliman for the "Service Plans for the book in honor of the school's 1670 representatives in the service were announced previously. The Santa Cruz high history instructor, in charge of the. publication, asks that, the servicemen and women themselves provide information and good-pictures about two and one half by three and one quarter inches.

In return, according to Fehli-man's plans, each student and alumnus who entered the service will be presented a book free of charge. The volume will be dedicated to the students who didn't come back. Photographs and data on the war veterans will be received in room 5 of the main building of the high school. Student organizations are assisting "Doc" Fehliman with the book and Carl F.s Hanson, print shop teacher, has provided record sheets on which service data of the veterans can be written. Hungry Germans Loot Food Stores Hamburg, March 22 Looting of food stores by hungry Germans increased in Hamburg today and a British medical officer declared that the first definite signs of stravation were apparent among many residents of Germany's second largest city.

The police ordered food dealers to board up their shop windows as an emergency measure against bands of men, women and children who have stormed nearly 60 bread stores in the last four days. Guards were placed at the larger shops. The largest band dispersed by police today was made up of 50 to 60 men and women who demanded bread without giving ration tickets. When their request was refused they smashed the windows in a breaw shop and grabbed up 60 loaves. RENO LAUNDRIES CLOSED Reno, March 22 (U.PJ A strike of 30 independent laundry drivers which has closed down Reno's major laundries for 12 days, continued today with no sign of immediate settlement partner in the public accounting firm of Morgan and Kriz.

He is vice president of the 20-30 club here. Battalion adjutant and headquarters company commander of the State Guard, Kriz has been active in Red Cross, War Chest and war loan campaigns here. A former San Franciscan he took specialized accounting training at Heald's college. He lived in Watsonville from 1934 to 1936, then moved to Santa Cruz. He is married to a Watsonville girl, the former Mary Semelkaf and has two children.

The Seaside district supervisorial race had three announced in Charles Bella, Gregoy and Alveraz and Neil Reid, Santa Cruz contractor and prominent lodgcman, announced that he was seriously considering becoming a candidate in the supervisor's race. Alveraz, an employe of the Walti-Schilling company, has been prominent in sports circles here for a number of years. He is president of the Men's Bowling association. Gregory, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Al Gregory of Davenport, is a native of Santa Cruz and a graduate of: Santa Cruz high school. After attending the California Maritime academy, he went to sea in 1938 and became in command of a liberty ship at the age of 29, one of the youngest masters in the service. He will resign his maritime post to campaign in the supervisors' race, he stated. He is married to the former Crisunthe Demos of Davenport and has one son. Gregory said, "I have entered the rare because I believe the county has need for a young man en the board, and I believe I have the background to understand the background of the coast district as well as those of the entire county." "I have been around the world many times, but have never seen such a fine place to live.

I have great faith in the future of the area and want to work to aid the progress of the county," Gregory declared. In the recorder's race both Blakesley and Worsham are newcomers to the county political field. Worsham is head of the Young Democrats. Meanwhile in the coroner's race Walter Bettencourt, local pharmacist, and Dr. E.

C. Poulsen, local chiropractor, have both completed their filing papers with the county clerk and Friday morning Dr. Sheldon Wirt, local physician and surgeon, completed his filing papers. A Stanford university graduate, and former professor there in anatomy and pathology, WTirt is aj specialist in the field of uralogy and surgery. A member of the Sec.

Byrnes To Represent U.S. At UNO Meet Washington, March 22. (U.R) Secretary of State James F. Byrnes will represent the United States during the United Nations security council's consideration of the Iranian-Russian dispute, it was announced today. The decision showed the importance the United States attaches to consideration of the 'Iranian complaint against continued presence of Russian troops in Iran.

United States is determined to see the matter pressed to a solution by the council which convenes in New York Monday. Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko made an unscheduled call on President Truman after noon. Gromyko, on entering the White House, did not comment on the purpose of the call. Russia made an unsuccessful effort to have the council meeting postponed until April 10.

Rebuffed in that, she has indicated she will try to have council consideration of the Iranian matter delayed. The United States, Britain and Iran, however, are lined up for prompt consideration. Only immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Iran would change this country's insistance that it be treated as an emergency matter. No Subsidies For Meat Men Selling In Black Market Washington, March 22 (U.R)The government today put some teeth in its drive against a black market in meat which threatened to become a grave national problem in the face of an approaching seasonal drop in production. To bolster its undercover efforts to curb over-ceiling meat sales, OP A decided on the more drastic action of withholding subsidy payments from slaughterers dealing in the black market.

Under the order, the reconstruction finance corporation will refuse all subsidies to slaughterers exceeding ceilings by an average of more than two per cent. Those who exceed ceilings by less than two per cent will be penalized on a sliding scale. Two Burglaries Thursday Night Two homes were ransacked Thursday night by burglars who entered by forcing open rear windows, police reported. Mrs. James Larsen told police her home at 421 Laurel street had been ransacked before 9:13 p.

m. and that a camera and equipment, a silver coin collection and jewelry were missing. A raid similar in details was reported at 9:20 p. m. by Attilio Con-rado, who at that time had missed only about $2 in change and a ring.

Police continued investigations of the burglaries Friday as searches were made for the thieves. Also reporting a theft was Mrs. Evelyn Hamrick, who said a wallet containing about $15 and personal papers was stolen from the kitchen table in her home at 204 Pelton avenue, Wednesday afternoon. ED BARLOW DIES Los Angeles, March 22 U.R)Ed Barlow, United Press staff correspondent and southern California newspaperman, died last night at General hospital of pneumonia. stantial loss in dollars, manpower and delay in surplus disposal." 4.

The army and navy declared surpluses at a "snail's pace." 5. "Ample authority has existed in the executive departments and agencies for the disposal of surplus property abroad ever since the enactment of the surplus property act of 1944." 6. Failure to retain full control over lend-lease weapons and armaments may have repercussions in delicate future relations between nations." 7. The benefits received from the United Kingdom for cancellation of unconsumed lend-lease balance in favor of the United States "are nebulous and require the United Kingdom to do no more than it ought to be willing to do anyway." 8. The bulk sale of surplus goods to Great Britain was "a far poorer, bargain for the United States" than the bulk sale to France after World war I.

Agriculture in Santa Cruz county in 1945 was valued at about $24, 312,000. five million dollars more than 1944, and nearly double the 1942 figure, statistics released by Matt Mello, county agricultural commissioner, show. Commissioner Mello has released a compilation of figures for last year which shows acreage, production, and value of crop production. Apples, mostly from the Watsonville section, still head the list. During 1945 apples, fresh, dried, frozen, and were valued at They were grown on 9050 acres of orchards and boxes were raised.

Poultry and rabbits are raised in great numbers in this part of Santa Cruz county. Agricultural products of interest here are cherries, plums, prunes, artichokes, broccoli, berries, cauliflower, nursery stock, bulbs and cut flowers. They are among the most important. Mello's survey reveals the following figures: Poultry and rabbits: Eggs, 75,000 cases valued at 645,000 meat birds. hatcheries had 1,700.000 chicks worth rabbits, 2,9,000 fryers, $33,000.

Santa Cruz Police FBI School Course In Santa Cruz police officers this week completed a five-day firearms training course under the direction of FBI agents. The gun study under the federal officers comprised the first of a four-week FBI school being conducted here in the interest of keeping peace officers acquainted with new developments in crime detection and apprehension of criminals. Opening Monday, the course included lectures in the city hall council chamber and instruction with weapons, including machine guns, at the police department's gun range. Subjects studied by the local officers during the week were: Purpose and importance of side-arm in law enforcement; safety precautions and elements of handgun shooting; dry firing and pistol practice; hip shooting; safety precautions; nomenclature and ballistics of shotgun, machine gun, rifle and gas equipment. Range training included work with the types of weapons studied during the course.

The first week training was under the direction of Special Agents Jones and Jerry Campbell, firearms experts who, local officers declared, are two of the best marksmen in the country. Suspect Held Who Tried To Sell Marble Statues Suspected of stealing eight marble statues from the Santa Clara Catholic cemetery, Charles Biers-dorff, 41, of San Jose, was in jail here Friday and the statues were held in evidence. Santa Cruz police said Santa Clara county authorities identified Biersdorff as San Jose's notorious "nudist," who terrorized residents pf that city early year. The suspect was arrested late Thursday night at the Dunlap Marble 'Works at 14 Bulkhead street. Police Tepdrted his apprehension followed a conversation earlier in the day between Biersdorff and Ora Dunlap, local monument cutter, in which the prisoner "made a deal" to sell a group of marble statues to Dunlap.

Dunlap, who served as Santa Cruz police chief for a time in the early 1930s, notified police immediately following the conversation. Federal Grand Jury Indicts George Cominos San Francisco, March 22 (U.R). George N. Cominos, 61-year-old hotel operator of 102 Maple street, Salinas, Thursday was charged with illegally re-filling 22 liquor bottles in a three-count federal grand jury indictment. Assistant U.

S. Attorney Reynold Colvin said charges against Cominos carried a possible aggregate penalty of $3000 fine and nine years in prison. Federal Judge A. F. St.

Sure issued a warrant for Cominos' arrest, Colvin said. Cominos is one of the operators of the Hotel Cominos 150 Main street, Salinas. American Medical association, he is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and is certified as a specialist in genito urinary surgery by the American Board cf Uralogy. Member of the Santa Cruz and Sisters hospital staff, Wirt has been attending uralogist at the county hospital here for eight years. He devotes one-fourth of his time to charity.

Married and father of two children, Wirt is building a new home at Pasatiempo and is a prominent local flyer with 1500 hours flying time to his credit. Meanwhile incumbent Pat Freeman has not yet completed his filing for the of fee. lend-lease foods already con sumed. The committee, headed by Sen. James M.

Mead. N. told the senate in a 38-page report that "basic problems" of surplus disposal remained unsolved, although $23,664,259,705 worth of army and navy goods and installations are still overseas. About $11000,000,000 worth is civilian-type goods. After weeks of hearings throughout the world, the committe found: 1.

The state department failed to create favorable conditions for the sale of surpluses and to resist effectively restrictions imposed by foreign governments. 2. The office of war mobilization and reconversion gave only "slight attention" to the return of civilian-type surpluses. 3. "Vacillation and indecision" by army and navy commanders kept many ships loaded with surplus materials idle in the Pacific after V-J day, resulting in.

"sub AIIIl Him TIfrraiMe5 (CYA Senate Committee Attacks Lend Lease Deal With British; Claim Surplus Confused Muddle City Planning Group Discusses Metal Buildings And Garage Space At Beach They are a war-time problem which didn't end with the war the problem of juvenile delinquency. Karl Holton, youth authority director, said every month a third more children who are in trouble are picked up in California and sent back east at a 30 per cent additional cost to the state. "Although most of them are boys, there are a good number of girls, too' he said. "Even some of the 11-year-olds are girls." But out-of-staters are by no means causing all the delinquency problems in California. Existing detention facilities have been crowded for some time, and several hundred juveniles have been kept in local jails awaiting admittance.

With the opening of the California vocational school at Lancaster by the department of corrections, 100 youths were transferred out of the jails this week and about 85 will go into Lancaster each month. But soon, at that rate, it will be filled. Holton said there are a "surpris March 22 (U.R) The senate war investigating committee today bitterly attacked the lend-lease settlement with Great Britain and charged that the entire program for disposal of surplus property overseas was a "confused muddle." In a detailed indictment of almost every phase of the overseas disposal program, the committee chargd that Great Britain cireum scribed the U. S. state department with "onerous" restrictions that helped beat down the price Britain paid for American property in the United Kingrom at the end of the war.

Great Britain finally agreed to pay the United States for unconsumed lend-lease goods which cost the American government $6,033,164,850, based on the lowest production costs. At the same time, the United -States agreed to waive' any claim on the $16,000,000,000 balance in favor of the U. S. on A resolution setting forth the city planning commission's adverse opinion on the construction of metal buildings in any but industrial zones was considered at a special meeting of the planning group. As presently worded, the resolution, prepared by Planning Engineer W.

R. Jennings, would require! persons wishing to construct buildings with metal sides in other zones to submit their applications to the commission. The commission would study each and then recommend whether or not a building permit should be granted by Building Inspector Malcolm Sinclair..