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THE ACKAMENTG BEE VOL NO 30754 Founded 1S57 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA MONDAY APRIL 14 TWO SECTIONS Phone GI 2-5011 PRICE: Ten Cents Psr Copy SI 50 Monthly By Carrier SAN AP-Nego- tiators in the Northern Califor-nia-Nevada telephone strike early today broke off a long meeting after failing to reach an agreement on a new offer which the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company said amounted to a 13 cent an hour pay increase The meeting lasted until 3:55 Federal Conciliator Omar i Hoskins said he will try to bring the company and the CIO Com- munications Workers of America together again at 1 PM The strike entered its second week today About 6500 workers are involved A spokesman said the offer would give increases from $4 a week to beginning employes to $6 a week for top scale He stated the offer includes both basic wages aod fringe items There was no immediate comment from union officials The union demands a 25 cent package raise including 19 cents in wages BEREAVED Captain Harry Collins of Petaluma Sonoma County killed in Korea left behind a family including left -to right Harry Ill 3y2 Cynthia 18 months his wife Jacqueline and Stephen 4 months whom his father never saw Story on page 17 Bee Photo Only twisted frames and shattered pieces remained of the two automobiles in which four persons died in a collision with a truck and trailer left on Highway 40 Bee Photo Flood Races Through Iowa On To Omaha ricture on Page 8 By Associated Press The mad Missouri River threw its record breaking crest at the Sioux City la area today and the Mississippi brought damage and menace to Minnesota The Omaha area frantically prepared for trouble 'Early Thursday a monstrous 315 foot crest is predicted in Omaha compared with a flood stage of 19 feet The old high mark of 246 feet established in 1SS1 was passed yesterday Army engineers estimated a total of 1249000 acres are under water along the Missouri and its tributaries from North Dakota to southern Nebraska Surrender Is Past For Sioux City with 84000 per- sons and neighboring South Sioux City Neb with 5500 sur- render came days ago and inundation has been a creeping progressive thing At noon Sioux Mayor Ralph Henderson ordered a shut-r down until further notice of all business firms except drug stores and eating places The action is necessary he said because of the strain on sanitary sewers As the flood crest arrived in the Sioux City area South Sioux City was just about deserted and only a portion of the town was above water Above Flood Mark Sioux river stage late last night passed the 242 foot mark Flood stage is 19 feet Nearby and downstream the roster of towns abandoned or prostrate was a virtual roll call of the Missouri plain a strip 17 miles wide at its widest and bounded by high bluffs parallel- ing the river Omaha and Council Bluffs whose combined metropolitan area takes in 366000 persons are fighting it out prepared for the vvorst but determined to forestall it Sandbags are being piled feverishly atop levees About two thirds of Council 5000 Sometimes Live In 12 Blocks In West End This is the second in a series of articles on livinjr and eondt-tions in redevelopment area the heart of Sacramento's'' west end based on comprehensive surveys made by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sacramento Sacramento Redevelopment Agency surveys disclose as many as 5000 or more persons mostly unattached men inhabit a 12 block area in wrest end during the peak seasonal labor months of September and October They are a widely assorted mix- of races and ages the ture of races and ages Slayer Of Father Takes Own Life In Hospital McClafchy Newspapers Service AUBURN Placer Co Etta Mae Dickinson 50 who killed her father James Peter Dickinson 78 with a shotgun and made a funeral pyre of their home ended her life with a garrote made from a pair of nylon stockings Her body with the stockings twisted tightly around her neck was fo yesterday in the Five Are Killed In Auto Mishaps During Weekend Five persons are dead as the result of weekend traffic accidents four of them meeting death in a collision of two cars and a truck and trailer on Auburn Boulevard The dead: Lloyd Russell Fink 26 of 1051 North Avenue Del Paso Heights Evelyn Louise Foster 30 same address Russell Foster 1 month her son Mollie Beam 51 7721 High land Avenue Citrus Heights Steven Conchas 19 Turlock Seriously injured and under treatment in the Sacramento Hospital is Edward Howard DeWalt of 7721 Highland Avenue Citrus Heights son of Mrs Beam Afternoon Crash Fink Mrs Foster her son and Mrs Beam died in the three ve- Mather Captain Says he Prefers Prison To Flying Captain Jerome Schechter a Mather Air Force Base flying officer said today he and five others stationed at Mather would rather go to prison than fly again Captain Schechter 35 year old hero of World War II said he has told the air force he will not fly despite the fact it may mean a courtmartial Flying Is Poison know why I have to prove myself he said willing to accept that in preference to flying I can speak for my friends They feel the same way something which has developed into a poison for His wife Maralynn said she has written to her New Jersey senators Robert Hendrickson and Alexander Smith She said both promised to ask for a congressional investigation The other fliers at Mather are First Lieutenant Ralph Engel of Cleveland Heights Ohio First Lieutenant John Hock of Chambersburg Pa Second Lieutenant Buscaglia Philadel- Moss Picketing Is Started In Capital Striking telephone company workers in Sacramento today turned to mass picketing of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Building at Fourteenth and Streets Previously only several pickets were on hand The company reports service has not been interrupted and long distance calls are being handled on a normal basis Ohio Strike Ends After Long Meeting CLEVELAND The weeklong strike of 16000 Ohio Bell Telephone Company workers ended today following a marathon 42 hour negotiating session but the continued walk-jout of Western Electric ployes prevented full resumption of service Western Electric workers threw up picket lines in Cleveland Columbus Akron Toledo and Canton Negotiators after an all night session reached a settlement calling for a raise of between $4 and $7 per week The contract is for one year The figure is about the same as the 127 cent hourly increase studies found but in other regards have many things in common Most of them are poor financially The median income is about $1622 a year Women Are Few They are predominately men the surveys have found only eight women for every 100 males most of them are day laborers in industry or agriculture The studies were made to provide information for the agency to use in determining policies to be followed in redeveloping the district They found among things the population is a con stantly shifting one only one third of the persons questioned had been in Sacramento more than one year The greatest number had lived in town for less than a month Mixture Of Races Racially the people who inhabit the area are as heterogen- After more than three years of waiting for space on the television channels Sacramento has been allocated three standard high frequency outlets one of which is restricted to use for educational purposes and two ultra high frequency channels This was disclosed today when the Federal Communications Commission announced the lifting of a ban imposed in September 1948 on the allocation of additional channels Under the order the way has been paved for the addition of 2053 stations throughout the United States Only 108 are in operation now Long Wait Despite jubilation over ending of the long freeze on new TV units experts in the comparatively new' broadcasting medium were quick to point out there will be a long wait for locally transmitted programs Many technical issues remain to be cleared up and numerous public hearings must be held to process applications In the Sacramento area channels 3 6 A 10 40 and 60 have been assigned Of these 6A is restricted for educational purposes and 40 and 60 are for the ultra high frequency transmission yet to be Introduced to the viewing public Reasons For Delay To clarify the reasons for further delays TV officials point out the allocation of channels will be followed by a nationwide rush of new applications to build stations The FCC will not even start processing these until July 1st and then will give first consideration to communities now without TV and to those planning to broadcast in the UHF (ultra high frequency) band Four Sacramento applications are among 523 requests filed prior to the freeze order which was necessitated when the FCC found a way had to De devised to avoid overlapping broadcasts which spoiled home reception The TV experts say this unexpected-problem now has been solved through new formulas for station power and' fixed mileage between transmitters A total of 12 standard high frequency and 70 UHF channels will be assigned in such a way that no two signals will be mixed Minimum SeparaJlon-i The minimum separations depending on geographical locations will run from 170 to 203 miles on VHF (very high frequency) and 155 to 205 miles on UHF bands Television emphasized sets now 4n use to receive VHF broadcasts will not be made obsolete when UHF transmission begins if converters expected to cost from $10 to $50 are installed The FCC records disclose 11 TV stations are operating in California Seven are in Los Angeles three in San Francisco and one in San Diego In lifting the freeze the commission alloted air space for 87 stations including 30 very high frequency channels and 57 ultra high frequency channels An official of one TV network cautiously declared it will take a long for that number of outlets actually to go into operation He predicted the rush of applicants for permits will swamp the FCC and prolong the hearings at which the concerns properly qualified and financed to build transmitting stations must be determined Additional public hearings probably will be necessary when rejected applicants exercise their rights to appeal Boy Is Found Dying Shot Between Eyes ricture on page 3 Mystery today surrounded the fatal shooting of 11 year old Bruce I Hendon Jr in the home of his parents at 4500 Perry Ave nue in the Fruitridge district 'The body of the youngster a bullet hole between the eyes was discovered at 10:45 last night when the parents arrived home from a movie and deputies have not determined whether he shot himself either accidentally or intentionally or whethcr the bullet was fired by another1 person ti of criminal Dual Funeral Is Set FOLSOM Double funeral services will be held for James Peter Dickinson and his daughter Etta Mae tomorrow at 10 AM in the Miller Funeral home here Burial will be in the East Lawn Cemetery ortfnul fledhicle crash on Auburn BoulevaVd AcrossP the river iiLfsikrda10 1 PM Sat' Omaha and Carter Lake Ia areas the homes of perhaps 5000 -said more are deserted driving at an excessive speed more are oeserteo was moving eastward on the con Oiiost Areas igested three lane highway He These ghost areas are patrolled apparently-moved into the center by soldiers police and civiljlane to pass auto fail-guards Not even the persons who I ing to notice an air force bus an excessive speed eastward on the eon- a mixture as can be found won last Friday by workers of the Michigan Bell 'Telephone Company Union officials saidjphia and Lieutenant James the Ohio agreement calls for anjSnoddy of Welford SC of Chicago First Lieutenant Stanley Rosenthal of Base officials said the six officers have a total of more than 1700 hours in 134 combat missions in various theaters' of operation during World War II They have been assigned to ground duty and are not under restraint at Mather 225 Seek Ground Dufy In addition to the six at Mather who have refused to fly six others have refused to fly af Ran dolph Field Tex and in all some 225 air force officers have asked for ground duty Colonel Robert Paul chief of the air training command said the six at Mather are all aerial observers such as navigators or bombardiers and none is a pliot are all carrying out their normal duties except for Paul said Investigation Division today claimed it' topped oil Atlicn Hiiricmrte in UnrAa itrifh SHfl if WfirtfintGCi tuG 171371 Will bfi all other divisions in Korea with Placer County Hospital where she had been taken for observation Watched Blaze Miss Dickinson was arrested Thursday distraught and wide eyed as' She emerged from the woods to watch the ruins of her smoldering home Placer County officers already had removed the charred remains of Dickinson and were probing the embers in expectation of finding her body when she appeared carrying the double barreled shotgun which ended the life of her father Sheriff Charles Ward took her into custody and she related how she killed her father by shooting him from behind as he sat at the breakfast table Then she fired the house Intended To End Life She intended then to kill herself with the but she told the officers she found hard to Instead she hid in the woods and watched the fire After a psychiatric examination by Dr Harris of Sacramento and Dr Carl Jackson of the DeWitt staff she was admitted to the DeWitt State Hospital early Friday as an emergency patient She was transferred to the county institution Saturday Mrs Millie Roth a special deputy matron found Miss Dickin body at 4:50 PM Mrs Roth aided by Mrs Mary Bettfreund and Mrs Bessie Fowler nurses cut the knotted stockings from her neck and attempted to revive the victim who was pronounced dead by Dr Everett Dick of the hospital staff The body was taken to the Lam bert Funeral Home in Roseville The 326 acre Dickinson ranch was named in condemnation proceedings in the federal court in Sacramento and the ease was scheduled to be heard in June Investigators reported Miss Dickinson had persuaded her father not to accept a government offer of $25000 for the property and recently brooded because the property might be condemned and taken for less anywhere in Sacramento There are many fewer native whites- 8nd in relative terms more than twice as many foreign bom whites Negroes Chinese Japanese East Indians and other races a breakdown of the population shows the native whites outnumber the rest with 613 per cent of the total but in the city as a whole the same group predominates by 833 per cent The survey teams also broke the population down into foreign bom white 198 per cent Negroes 94 per cent and other non white races 67 per cent In the entire city the ratio of foreign bom whites is 89 per cent of Negroes 33 per cent Continued on page fi column 1 Deadline For State Income Tax Is Midnight Tomorrow Thq state franchise tax board today warned the deadline for paying state income taxes is midnight tomorrow' It said its offices in the Business and Professions Building at 1020 Street will be open from am until 5 PM today and Uomorrow give assistance to tax payerj in filling out forms Tax returns must be filed by single Californians whose net income last year was $2000 or more and married persons with a combined net income of $3500 or more Penalties for late payments can run as high as 25 per cent of the original tax plus an inter est charge of 6 per cent a year The state identification and investigation found evidence of nitrate on the hands indicating he had handled the muzzle of the gun which killed him However it was emphasized the evidence is not conclusive The nitrate could have come from other sources Panel Kicked Out The father Bruce I 1 tendon Sr said he was first aware something was wrong when he noticed a plywood panel in a basement room window had been kicked out and a light was burning inside Hendon had to unlock the door from the outside to enter the room He found a roll top desk there had been chopped open with the Boy Scout hatchet The 22 caliber rifle was lfing alongside his body The deputies were notified and Jeanne Hendon 17 the sister of the victim administered artificial respiration Deputies Walter Tarnowski and Mapes said the youngster was dead when they arrived Bullets Locked In Desk Hendon said bullets for the rifle which fired the fatal shot were kept in the locked desk Also in the desk was a pistol left untouched A deer rifle was in its place in the rafters Sheriff's Captain Ray Lago-marsino slippers was found near the window believe he shot the father told The Bee that kind of a boy The rifle was his and he knew how to handle guns He had had it for several months and the newness of it had worn off It a novelty any more I believe he would go down there to play with the gun am Kay said a print from the the boy was wearing loaded with children -and the truck driven by Joseph Raymond Berube of Berkeley coming in the center lane from the opposite direction The driver of the bus swerved off the road but the in an apparent attempt to miss the rear of the bus and the oncoming Fink car swung sharply to the wrong side of the road Fink then turned back into the right lane and sideswiped auto just before both cars smashed into the truck car hit the side of the truck and Fink drove head on into the trailer Berube was treated in the Sacramento Hospital Clinic for minor injuries and was released Funeral Is Set Funeral rites for Mrs Beam will be conducted at 2 PM Wednesday in the Beam home Burial will be in the Sylvan Cemetery under the direction of the James Garlick funeral home Mrs Beam leaves her husband Coswell B' Beam and her children John Edward Lorraine and Mary DeWalt and Darlene Paul Carl and Conrad Mcier Headon Collision Conchas was killed and five were injured in a headon collision three miles south of Manteca San Joaquin County early yesterday Ruben Frank Galvan of Turlock was booked in the San Joaquin County Jail jn Stockton on a charge of felony drunk driving and the district office announced a manslaughter charge is contemplated Galvan who suffered minor injuries was the driver of the car in which Conchas was riding a contribution of $2617502 to the American Red Cross 1952 fund raising drive Carl Enters Into Spirit Of Thing When Spirits Enter Him PASADENA May 53 is not a man to pt minor details stand in his way once he has made up his mind May was a handyman for Laura Miller 70 and he did his job well But he had a weakness for liquor So Miss Miller convinced him the best way to get-out of the clutches of John Barleycorn taken off flying No decision on the question of courtsmartial will be taken until after the investigation is However Captain Schechter stated the group have been charged with disobeying orders and will be courtmartialed Decline Comment Other members of the group declined to comment Schechter whose home is in Springfield NJ has been married for a year and his wife is expecting a child He spent six and one half years in service including a tour in B29s on Saipan during the last war He said he was in a school room at Mather last January when a B25 crashed through the roof and plowed into a disciplinary barracks killing six and injuring 61 Last Straw been involved in a series of near air crashes and seen them crack up beside me the d'25 crash was the last' straw It live there are permitted to enter much of the area Experienced relief workers called the exodus one of the biggest disaster movements in memory The flood ravaged Missouri River 'area extends all the way from lower South Dakota through Iowa and Nebraska and into Kansas and Missouri St Paul Is Hit The Mississippi at a record high is climbing at St Paul and elsewhere in Minnesota and Wisconsin Livestock shipments to the South St Paul stockyards are embargoed thousands are home less and the St Paul Municipal Airport is under water In North Dakota and western Minnesota the Red River of the North flirted with near record levels Hit or menaced towns include Fargo Moorhead Wahpe-ton and Grand Forks Fargo and Moorhead evacuated hundreds of persons In Montana the Milk River dropped and the critical flood sit- uation passed but water still stands in Havre Chinook Harlem Malta Dodson and Wagner The Red Cross last night estimated the eight or nine state total of families either displaced or about to be displaced by flood at 19349 a figure which an official in Omaha translated to represent about 74000 persons Today's Temperatures 8 AM 53 9 AM 56 10 AM 55 11 AM 58 12 Noon 59 1 PM 59 2 PM 59 3 PM 59 In 24 hour period ended at 5:30 AM today the maximum was 58 the minimum 42 Forecast: Clear tonight fog tomorrow morning becoming fair except for high cloudiness late tomorrow Detailed report on page 19 In The Bee Today Page Amusements 17 Beautifying Yourself 13 Column 2 Cartoon 30 Classified Advertising 24-25-26-27-28-29 Club News 12-13-14 Comics 23 Cross Word Puzzle 23 Editorials 30 Erskine Johnson 11 Fashions 13 Financial News Markets 19 Health 13 Household Ai' 1 13 Katherine Kitchen 13 Letters From The People 30 News Behind The News 30 Pattern 4 12 Politics By Phillips 6 Questions And Answers 30 Radio 7 Social News 12-13-14 Sports 20-21-22 Superior California News 16-17-18 Television By John Crosby 7 Vital Statistics 24 Weather 19 Your Baby And Mine 13 Continued on page 6 column 2 Continued on page 3 column 4 Army Engineers May Lose Flood Control Authority WASHINGTON AP President Truman was reported today to be planning to send to congress a reorganization plan transferring flood control and rivers and harbors work from the army engineers to the inte- Interior department officials rior department who would not be identified by name said they understood the plan will go to congress in a week or 10 days Neither the White House nor the defense department would comment on the report New Station Numbers In Cities Are Listed Here is tne list of numbered television channels allotted to California cities by the Federal Communications Commission: Alturas Modoc County 9 Bakersfield 10 29 Brawley 25 Chico Butte County 12 Corona 52 Delano 33 El Centro 16 Eureka Humboldt County 3 13 Fresno 12 18-A 24 27 53 Hanford 21 Los Angeles 2 4 5 7 9 11 13 22 28-A 34 Madera 30 Merced 34 Modesto 14 Napa Napa County 62 Oxnard 32 Petaluma 56 Port Chicago 15 Red Bluff Tehama Countv 16 Redding Shasta County 7 Riverside 40 46 Sacramento 3 6 A 10 40 46 Sa-linas-Monterey 8 28 San Bernardino 18 24A 30 San Beunaven-tura 38 San Diego 8 10 15A 21 27 33 39 San Francisco-Oak-land 2 4 5 7 9A 20 26 32 33 44 San Jose 11 48 54 A 60 San Luis Obispo 6 Santa Barbara 3 20 26 Santa Cruz 16 Santa Maria 44 Santa Paula 16 Santa Rosa Sonoma County 50 Stock-ton San Joaquin County 13 36 42A Tulare 27 Ukiah Humboldt County 18 Visalia 43 49 Watsonville 22 Yreka City 11 Yuba City Sutter County 52 This is a list of the number of stations the FCC has authorized for each city It includes existing stations A Reserved for non commercial educational uses Today's Chuckle Colonel Man to man now why do you refuse this opportunity for training? Sergeant Well been in this army long enough to know I mind saluting officers but hanged if going to to associate with them as i Continued on page 6 column 4 A Bomb Traitors Get Time To Seek Review NEW Julius and Ethel Rosenberg condemned to die for stealing atom bomb Secrets for Russia today were given 30 days to seek a review of their case by the United States Supreme Court Morton Sobell convicted of the same crime and sentenced to 30 years in prison also was granted a 30 day stay in the United Statqs Court of Appeals mandate upholding convictions of the three Five Die As Navy Plane Crashes Burns BRUNSWICK Me AP A navy patrol plane with 10 men on board crashed and burned today near the edge of the Brunswick Naval Air Station Rescue forces reported they found five men alive but-injured Commander Ifft executive officer at the base said the plane crashed in a clump of trees at the end of a new runway when an engine gave trouble after taking off on a training flight The plane circled and was attempting to land when it plunged Naval air station crash andlire apparatus state and local police officers sped to the scene The tail section of the big craft was torn off Commander Ifft said the rest of the plane was burned to a crisp Premier Of Sweden Pays Visit To Truman WASHINGTON AP Tage Erlander the Swedish prime minister paid a formal call on President Truman today The president told him Americans of Swedish ancestry have made very fine citizens of the United States Erlander said later there was no discussion of internal Ghimp Is Main Attraction At Picnic Easter Parade LOS ANGELES AP Dick only did what any 9 year old might have done if a strange man punched him in the face He started running But because Dick is a chimpanzee better than 100 pounds worth and had just escaped from his Griffith Park Zoo cage when he was clouted on the snout by and swatted dents in a couple of automobiles and it was getting dusk Attendants policemen and humane society officials who had been dogging him all the way closed in But for another hour cornered near the golf course club houses Dick resisted all efforts to lure him into a cage Ropes blankets and nets were brushed aside He took a drink containing a sleeping potion but it failed to kock him out Bites Policeman His last victim was a policeman who got his hand bitten when he moved in too close It was psychology which finally trapped the beast His trainer remembered that before Dick arrived at the zoo he had ridden in a little car of his own as part of an animal act The trainer got an automobile and opened the door Dick climbed in and sat quietly as he was tire He had climbed some trees jehauffeured back to his cage was to spend some time at a jail farm May agreed but w'hen Miss Miller laid her plan before the authorities they told her the idea was fine but May was too sober to arrest at -the moment But May was determined think I can surmount that difficulty" he told Police Officer Len Olson me in four hours at the corner of Fair Oaks and Mountain Streets Things will be Olson kept the appointment and found May blissfully intoxicated waiting for him Said the handyman as he was taken away to jail I'm most grateful Bee Is Getting Settled So Cannot Entertain Just Yet While edition of The Bee is the first to be published in its entirety from the new plant at Twenty First and The Bee is not yet in a position to show visitors through the building There wall be several open houses later Watch for the dates Those having business with the newspaper will be accommodated however The phone number remains the same Gilbert 2-5011 -v I.