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Air nwnr A i WEATHEK REPORT Monterey Bay Area Clear tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer. Temperature for 24-hour period ended at 5 p. m. Tuesday: Maximum 75, rainimum CO. -'M rati TOOTH SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1948 Se Sunday and Doily Excepting Saturday in iraow A California Mother Watches far oj mmi State Agent Tells D.A.

He Will Be Back Later With Evidence; Miss Borina Irked By Action 1 1 SsNi Raft -4 frxJ Yr vP I 80 Per Cent Of Plant Wrecked By Tremendous Blasts And Fire Frankfurt, July 28 UP) Terrific explosions wreck ed the 18-building Farben Chemical plant at Ludwigshafen to. day and U. S. army rescue crews reported that 200 persons weri known dead and 2500 were treated for injuries. City administration officials in Ludwigshafen, in a report telephoned to Frankfurt, said 600 persons were dead and 1400 were injured.

Estimates gathered by the army indicated that the casualties would run into several thousand. One unofficial estimata relayed by the army was that some thousands of persons mighl have been killed, but other reports were running lower. Great explosions over a period of several hours ripped apart the sprawling chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, on tha Rhine 45 miles southwest of Frankfurt. About 80 per cent of the plant was reported destroyed. It was a key cog the Nazi wary Nietos, Calif.

The boy was suffocated when an earth-crushing machine, which he was feeding, caught his trouser leg and drag IP Tax mm Guaranteed Paid Circulation 400 k. I I Sentinel-News Daily FOURTEEN PAGES 19 Missing In Crash Of Superfort Aden, July 28 (U.R- -An Ameri-i round-fhe- can Superfortress on world flight plunged into the sea after taking off from Aden foi Ceylon last night and six men aboard were lost. (In Washington the strategic ail command said it received word from a state department consul al Aden that 19 of the 20 officers and men aboard the Superfort wen missing.) Full military honors were order ed for the six victims of the B-29. one of three flying leisurly around the world to accustom the airmen to long range technique and global conditions. Sergeant Gustafson survived the crash.

(The U. S. air force at the start of the flight issued a list of the airmen aboard th three Superforts. One listed v.as M-Sgt. Sigyr R.

Gustafson of Nor wood, Mass.) Gustafson, who was brought an Aden hospital, said he wa thrown clear when the big sbit crashed. When he bobbed to th surface, he said, he could see non of his comrades. British rescue vessels were sent to the scene, and divers went dowd to check the wreckage. The other two Superforts returned at once to Aden, on the souths ern tipe of the Arabian peninsula, after the third plunged into thi Gulf of Aden just offshore. Typhoon ISiis Hong Hong Hong Kong, July 28 (U.R) A ty phoon lashed Hong Kong today, killing at least seven persons and wrecking houses and boats.

The 1800-ton British steamei Haldis was driven onto a breakwater and several other vessels brokf from their moorings. Washouts blocked the Canton-Kowloon railway, halting traffic. A tidal wave whipped up by tha 73-mile-per-hour winds struck tha adjacent island of Cheung Chau, where 50 junks and sampans wera sunk. JEWELRY STOLEN London, July 28 UP) Scotland Yard reported today the theft oi jewelry valued at about $4000 from the home of Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. Businessmen's association and Live Oak citizens are backing a move to get state aid to put in a straight fill.

George Griffin and another state agent both appeared in the district attorney's office late this morning, and asked her if she intended to issue complaints against the establishment owners where the pin ball machines were apprehended, and if she intended to prosecute the cases. "If the evidence is sufficient to issue the complaints, I will do so," Miss Borina said she told Griffin. Griffin admitted that he was not in possession of the evidence at Plaim Talk WMn MoIlitv London, July 28 (U.R) Authoritative British sources disclosed today that the three western emissaries in Moscow will suggest a four-power discussion of European problems as a whole when they see Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo- tov later this week.

Such a suggestion, the sources emphasized, would be contingent upon lifting of the Russian blockade of Berlin and complete Sov iet recognition of the occupation rights of the western powers. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was expected to make a statement of the international crisis to Commons tomorrow before western ambassadors approach the Krem lin. The three emissaries Gen. Walter Bedell Smith for the United States, Yves Chataigneau for France, and Bevin's personal secretary, Frank Roberts, for Britain will call on Molotov together. They intend to present their case orally and listen to any statements Molotov wishes to make in reply.

Umpire McGowan Suspended For 10-Day Period Chicago, July 28 (U.R)-President William Harridge of the American league announced today that the charges against Umpire Bill McGowan arising out of a turbulent night game at Washington, July 19, "have been substantiated." McGowan was suspended July 20 after officials of the Washington Senators had protested that McGowan had cursed and thrown a baseball at one player. Harridge said that McGowan was suspended without salary for ten days and would be eligible to return to action Friday, July 30. Mc-Gowan's suspension cost him "approximately $500," the American leage office said. Harridge said: "After a thorough investigation I find that the charges filed against William McGowan for his conduct and use of bad language on the ball field at Washington have been substantiated." FOUND DEAD Monterey, July 28 (U.R) Frederick Daniel Eisenhart, special deputy for the Monterey Peninsula country club area, was found dead this morning beside his parked vehicle, presumably of a heart attack, it was reported by Deputy Coroner Leland Paul of Pacific Grove. machine, and since has been oper ating under the control of occupa tion authorities.

U. S. army crews reported to headquarters that the explosions still were going on sporadically tonight. Earlier military reports said seven main blasts had rocked the plant. Communications to the plant area were broken by the disaster.

Army reports were being relayed to Heidelberg by radio. The first short message from an army crew on the scene said: "Two hundred dead. Twenty-five hundred treated for wounds. Many suffering from chemical burns. French army on scene.

Explosions continue." The site of the devastated chemical plant Is on the west h-snk of tb Rhine, 45 miles southeast of Frankfurt. The twin ciaes of Ludwigshafen and Mann-elm, across the river from each other, were hit hard and often by Allied bombers during the war. Army headquarters in Heidelberg said fire broke out after three explosions, which were attributed to escaping gas. As the fire raged through tae plant, other blasts occurred. An army statement said the shat tering blasts began the lacquer manufacturing unit of the plant, operated by the Farben combine before and during the war, and since carried on under the direction of occupation forces.

The plant employed about 000 persons, military quarters estimated. Preliminary estimates indicated that the blast was the greatest in German history. In 1924 another Farben plant at Oppau in the Palatinate biew up, killing more than 600 persons. So The Judge Said 'Case Dismissed' Although the letter of the law had been violated by defendant, Police Judge James J. Scoppettone took a light view of it in court this morning.

Ed Shoemaker, 21, of 226V2 Otis street was cited last Saturday for speeding and running a stop light with his 1947 GMC truck. Arraigned in court, Shoemaker explained that he had rushed his wife to the hospital, that she had been in advanced labor, and that in spite of his speeding, she barely beat the stork to the hospital. The baby was born only a few minutes after arrival. The judge's verdict: Case 93rd Year No. 180 Nine Machines Confiscated By State Agents Swooping down on Santa Cruz ccunty in a surprise raid, agents of Attorney General Fred N.

Hows- er staff last night raided five business establishments in the city and two in the county, and confiscated nine amusement machines. The devices picked up were all of the "console" type without automatic pay-off arrangements, but the agents claimed that over-the-counter pay-offs were made. Lead by George Griffin, investigator on the staff of Walter H. Lentz of Howser's office, a group of eight men raided the Palomar hotel, the Rio club, the Repeal bar, the El Rocco, and the Seafood grill in Santa Cruz; Larry's bar in Ap-tos; and the Casino in Capitola. No arrests were made by the agents, and it was reported that complaints would be sought with District Attorney June Borina.

Chief of Police Al Huntsman said that he had received a letter from Lentz on June 22, claiming mat 61 business establishments within the city were making over- the-counter pay-offs on amusement machines of the console type. Similar letters were sent to Sher iff J. R. Devitt on June 10 and June 22. Huntsman indicated he was irk ed.

"I feel everyone should be treated right and equally by the attorney general." he said. "We don't go around checking propriet ors xo see u. mey pay oil over the counter. We haven't got the man power tor tnat." Griffin evaded all questions by reporters in saying that he had no authority to disclose whether the raids fall into a state-wide pattern, or why almost the entire northern California undercover squad was sent on this operation. Asked whether the raids represented a "revenge action" for the accusa tions made against members of the attorney general's office in the recent "shakedown investigation," Griffin said, "No comment" Howser's chief investigator, Walter H.

Lentz, could not be reached for comment this morning, and personnel in his office said that he was "the only one" who could give out information. In connection with the raids it was learned that undercover agents were sent to this county early in June, and that several machines were marked with scratched triangles, and diamonds. Asked whether any raids were conducted in Watsonville, Griffin said that inspections were made there, but that the town was found He declined comment as to whether investigations were in progress in Monterey and Santa Clara counties. Huntsman was notified of the impending raids by Griffin at 4:40 p.m. yesterday.

Griffin told him that he would start the operation at 5 p.m., and Huntsman assigned Captains Ben Krupp and Donald Lynn to accompany the state agents. Deputy Sheriff H. D. Haight accompanied the raiders in the county. It was in Santa Cruz that wide attention was focused on an alleged shakedown investigation.

Several operators of amusement machines claimed at the times that they had been contacted by alleged representatives of the attorney! general's department who demanded protection pay-offs. Demand Records In Court In Union Fight At Salinas Salinas, July 28 (U.R) A superior court today asked an AFL Agri cultural Workers' Union to appear in Court August 2 to answer a de mand from the CIO Fruit, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers' Union for its records and monev. Local 78 of the CIO-FTA filed a complaint against Holman Day, tormer president of the CIO local and now head of AFL Local 912, formed of members who bolted the FT and Ethel Alcorn, secretary- treasurer. CIO administrators of the local claimed Day seized the records and the area office the day led the the walkout. Judge William F.

James issued a show-cause or der. Accumulated Gas Caused Death Of 13 Miners Princeton, July 28 (U.R) An explosion at King's mine in which 13 miners were killed was caused by "accumulated gas" in a sealed-off shaft, state mine bureau officials said today. Federal, state and company investigators examined the mine, largest shaft in Indiana. Secretary Griffith Morris of the state board of mines announced that electrical machinery operated elsewhere in the pit might have sparked the explosion. fl) ul i Her Son Die ged him into it.

The tragedy occurred at the adobe-brick manufacturing plant operated by the boy's father. (AP Wirephoto) San Lorenzo Union School Vote Thursday Past San Lorenzo valley verbal conflicts such as the valley county water district and Ben Lomond town dam have not exactly been models of sweetness and light but these past squabbles are pale compared to the current issu3 which high school district shall parents send their children to? The ballot will read, (shall) "San Lorenzo union elementary school district become a part of the Santa Cruz high school district or the San Lorenzo union high school district." Polling places are the Felton, Zayante, and Ben Lomond schools. The polls open at 1 p.m. tomorrow and close at 7 p.m. An election which favored Santa Cruz high school district May 28 was declared void due to lack of a clear majority.

Then there was a third choice that of not joining any high school district. The San Lorenzo valley chamber of commerce and Property Owner's association have endorsed a valley high school. The Kiwanis and Lions clubs took no official action. The question is whether students of the San Lorenzo union school are to enter a high school in the valley or Santa Cruz high school. The matter is complicated by the fact that a few days prior to the May 28 election the Boulder Creek school board voted to change the name of the school to San Lorenzo union high school district.

(See statements on page 3 by A. G. Okey, clerk of the San Lorenzo union elementary school district who favors Santa Cruz, and by Paul Levin, president of the San Lorenzo union high school district, who wants to keep a high school in the valley. A digest of the claims of both sides is also on page 3.) Arana At ih Aiinfv.wirip hiVhwav improvement meeting Monday it was stated by Chairman H. Ray Judah that 17,000 motorists daily use the Santa Cruz-Watsonville Jf UM this time, or at least did not have it with him, and that he would be back later or send down an investigator with the necessary information.

He was referring, Miss Borina said, to the investigator from the attorney general's office who allegedly was paid off over the counter in at least three dozen establishments in the county, excluding Watsonville. The district attorney emphasized today that sufficient evidence would have to be produced by the state men before complaints would be issued from her office. "If they can prove that they (the machines) were used illegally, then, of course, we will issue the complaints," she repeated. The district attorney was put out about the entire action on the part of the attorney general's office. "The only machines to my knowledge within the city and county of banta Cruz are amusement machines, licensed by both the city and county, depending upon their location.

"There may have been some of the machines so licensed used illegally, where pay-offs were made, but if so, no evidence of this has ever been brought to my attention by anyone, least of all by the at torney general office," she point ed out. "No agents have contacted this office, from Mr. Howser's office in Sacramento or elsewhere," Miss Borina continued. "I resent the lack of co-operation on the part of Mr. Howser's office.

It is in direct contrast to his repeated public statements made by him to the press that it is his desire to co-operate fully with local law enforcement officers. "It was his personal promise to me here in April of this year, that in the future his agents would at all times reveal their presence to me immediately. In as much as Griffin was pres ent at the time of this conversa tion between Mr. Howser and my self, there is no possible chance there could have been any misun derstanding this particular case, she said. "In fact, I cannot understand his attitude in view of his public state ments and private promises," she reiterated.

Yugoslavs Blast Western Action About Trieste Lake Success, N.Y., July 28 (U.R) Yugoslavia charged today that the United States and Britain have conspired to incorporate the west ern zone of Trieste into Italy and asked the United Nations security council to label the move a threat to world peace. The Yugoslav statement also charged that the U. S. and Italy naa completed a plan to include the western Allies' zone of Trieste in the Marshall Plan. Berlin Mayor Defies Russians Berlin, July 28 (U.R) Mayor Lou ise Schroeder openly defied the Russians tonight in flatly rejecting their order to reinstate Paul Mark- graf as Berlin police chief.

transcript of all records now being gone through so laboriously, but Wyckofi refused. "We won't accept that kind of a proposition," he retorted. "We won't accept it because we believe that the entries (in the books) are irrelevant to the issues here, and outside of the complaint." Judge Schottky, who has overruled many objections offered by the defense this far, during the trial, ruled that the evidence would be admitted. "We'll admit anything into the record that relates to these properties," the jurist said. "When we get it all in, we'll evaluate it, but we must get everything into the record that is pertinent.

Yesterday afternoon, Miller called county officers to the stand and put them through their paces. Documents subpoenaed from H. E. Miller, county clerk, were presented to the court, and then Kriz was called to the stand. During his absence, when he went to get books which were not in court, Ronald Mellon, county assessor took the stand to testify to certain documents.

He was dismissed from the stand when he was unable to supply the information from his office which attorney Miller was seeking. Said Mrs. Evelyn Weaver holds the hand of her 14-year-old son, Joseph, as a fireman tried unsuccessfully to revive him at Los Washington, July 28 (U.R) Re- publican senators defied threats of a southern filibuster today and promised to "press to a decision" on an anti-poll tax bill. They also promised to hunt for a solution to price and housing problems but made no pledge to pass legislation asked by President Truman yesterday in his message to the special session. Republican senate plans were announced by Chairman Eugene D.

Millikin, after a meeting of the full senate GOP membership. Retail Food Prices Still Climbing Chicago, July 28 (U.R) Wholesale food prices have declined slightly but reports from across the country indicated today that retail prices wrere still climbing. As congress began considering President Truman's anti-inflation program, economic experts said retail fcod prices would be little affected by the small declines in wholesale prices. Dun Bradstreet's index showed that wholesale food prices dropped generally last week but still were far above those of a year ago. A record all-time high was registered' July 13, the firm said.

Choice steers brought $41 a hundredweight at the Chicago stockyards to come within 25 cents of the market's all-time high. Most cattle was 50 cents a hundredweight higher than yesterday. Sheep and spring lambs also sold 50 cents higher at Chicago. Hog prices see-sawed at the ma jor cornbelt terminals. They fell 25 cents a hundredweight at Chicago but at Indianapolis they hit a top of $30.75, just short of the terminal's record high of $31.

Prices changed little on the New York wholesale meat market, al though the trend has been slightly downward for more than a week. The Capital Dairy company here announced that it will raise the price of milk a cent a quart Sunday to an all-true high of 22 cents. It also will add a one-half cent boost to the price of a half pint of cream and a pound of cheese. Union Election Set For August 9 Salinas, July 28 (U.R) Produce drivers affiliated with the AFL teamsters in the Salinas-Watson- ville-Hollister area will vote on the union shop question in this area beginning August Peter An- drade, teamsters business manager announced today. The election will be conducted by representatives of the national labor relations board on the west coast.

Andrade stated that tenta tive schedule calls for five days of balloting by the drivers. Drivers will ballot by sheds in order to minimize time lost from work. Convict Escapes Oroville. July 28 (U.R) A San Quentin convict escaped to day from the Mountain Ridge prison camp near here. He was discov ered missing after a routine check of the prisoners this morning.

The escaped convict, William Wellman, 31, would have been paroled December 9, prison authori ties said. Anti-Poll "It was agreed that tomorrow i he will bring up the anti-poll tax bill and continue to press it to a decision," Millikin said. Southern Democrats who bitterly oppose the measure, along with other so-called civil rights bills, were waiting for announcement of the Republican majority plans before perfecting filibuster plans. A filibuster could block senate action on Mr. Truman's economic program.

The poll tax bill, endorsed by Mr. Truman, would outlaw payment of poll taxes as a qualification for voting in federal elections. Millikin reported that the Republicans would "make every effort" to pass the measure but that they had made no decision on around-the-clock sessions which might be undertaken in an effort to break a filibuster by exhaustion. Millikin said he assumed an attempt requiring a two-thirds vote would be made to shut off debate at the proper time. But under the senate's liberal rules of debate, supporters of the legislation may never be able to reach that point.

Millikin recognized that possibility by mentioning that the filibuster might come on the motion to take up the bill, rather than on the bill itself. He recalled that under previous rulings of senate presiding officers, a vote to shut off debate cannot be obtained on a motion to take up a bill. Introduces Resolution For Adjournment Washington, July 28 (Senat or Johnston, S.C., introduced a resolution today calling on con gress to adjourn Saturday until Dec. 31. Such a resolution must be approved by the senate and house.

A similar resolution was introauc ed in the house yesterday by Rep Smith. Ohio. It was referred to the house rules committee. Johnston said "Nothing good can come out of this session of con gress." He included in his resolution a provision to empower the four top Republican leaders of congress to recall the legislators neiore uec. 31.

Such a clause was in the June 20 adjournment resolution. Jack Anderson Wants Personal Notification Washington, July 28 (U.R) Most members of congress are on hand for the extra session, but Rep. Jack Anderson, thinks those who are not have good excuse. They weren't invited or personally notified, he says. And he wants to pass a law.

He said he will introduce a bill to require the president to notify individual members of congress whenever he wants them to come to a special session. "I hate to be called into session at a political convention," he said. "And a convention of a bunchi of Democrats at that." Anderson said normally members of congress got telegrams or letters from congressional leaders advising them of a session. "But this one was called by the president and nobody got any direct notification," he said. Gulch Road A Danger Spot Still Present Evidence About One Lot In Tax Case Trial 1 Evidence regarding but one lot out of a possible 1172 in the Rio del Mar tax suit was still being presented in the superior court today, as county officials and county records underwent the second day of gruelling examination.

Both days, George Kriz, county auditor, has been called to the stand by Carlyle Miller, attorney for the plaintiffs, to answer innumerable questions regarding the books relating to the assessment rolls from 1930 through 1941 and the delinquent tax rolls for the same years. Today, at the request of Stephen Wyckoff yesterday, the county officers subpoenaed to ap-' pear in the superior court were excused by Judge Andrew R. Schottky, with the proviso that they remain within telephone distance for their appearance in court. The magnitude of the trial has become apparent to all with the second day of the action not seeing the completion of the evidence in one parcel of land. Carlyle Miller offered today to have a bookkeeper from the Peninsula Properties organization, in conjunction with a representative from the county, make a complete hitrhwav.

Most drivers have to go over the dangerous, narrow bend at Arana gulch. This old shaky fence does not afford much pro- tection and the East Santa Cruz.