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-V- I- THE REPUBLICAN i- -5 VOL 55 NO 9888 it': -it it it Founded 1922 FRESNO CALIF MONDAY JANUARY 30 1950 20 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) Phone 34(221 Otitp ft: taiw 101 Jr CuiMt XMtvaqr Sllso MoetSIy) Red Gross Will Drop Food Atom Plants Snow plows were pushing out re secondary roads however and Red Cross officials- said the relief flights might not be necessary Some families have been snowbound three weeks Farmer Clarence Howe of Near Freeport I1L used a plane to drop hay and corn to his three horses CHICAGO Jan' The Red Cross today prepared to drop food and fuel to snowbound families In South -Dakota but in Illinois a farmer' set up a personal hay lift to provide nis flood marooned horses wMh feed -A new surge of cold air swept to the Atlantic Coast after sending weekend temperatures to the zero mark or far below throughout the Midwest A flash blizzard hit the Columbia River gorge in the Pacific Northwest with winds up to 45 miles an Many roads were closed by the fine powdery snow and schools were closed in rural areas More than 7000 airmen and Pistol fire by two city patrolmen felled John Aznavoorian this afternoon as he -tried to escape while being loaded into a patrol wagon at the county jail annex to be taken to the police court to appear on an WASHINGTON -Jan (U7 etary of State Acheson appealed anew to nngicn- to approve al 860000000 Korean aid MIL I A expected Republican attack on Ujaitjed State Far Eastern policy felled to develop during testimony at a public session of the house foreign affairs committee I The Republicans some of whom: had demanded during the weekend! that Acheson resign apparently were holding back their fire until the committee went into secret session which began immediately after the publie session ended Talked Of Grilling Some GOP- committee members hftd talked about questioning Ache-son on -his defense of Alger Hiss Acheson explained he feels the United States has a responsibility in Korea which- she must fuifilL He urged the foreign affairs committee try again to get the Korean bill through the house which rejected it once before by a one vote margin Acheson also endorsed a proposal under which the termination date lor American economic aid to the Chinese nationalists would be set for June 30th instead of February 15th as provided in present law Criticise Pair -'Republicans have been critical of both Acheson and President Truman for their refusal to send any kind of military aid to the beleaguered-Chinese nationalists on the island of Formosa And senate Republicans particularly those on the senate appropriations committee which soon will consider Acheson's 5264000000 operating budget for the next fiscal year nave demanded Acheson ap- before the group preferably ij ground crewmen aiding in a search for a were hamper temperatures which cut their lungs with every breath Hsnes Beady Planes were held ready In Pierre SD to fly over McPherson Campbell Edmunds and Walworth Counties dropping food and fuel to- snowbound communities and ranches If necessary Two Mac Pherson County towns Long Lake and Hlllsview were in their seventh day of Isolation Food was short In Hlllsview and fuel in Long Lake C54 airplane missing in Canada were hampered by 30 below Gerald Missing pilot Hunt Is Pressed i WHITEHORSE- -Moremen and machines today were1 pouredlnto the search 'for a missing'' United States air force transport' aiid its '44 occupants' The pace of the two nation hunt already ranking 'as the largest In history of the frozen north was stepped up as It entered its fourth day with reports of subzero temperatures bring! the survival of any of the plane's occupants The temperatures in Snag a tiny weather station 20 miles inside the Yukon Territory from Alaska over which the huge transport made ita last contact with the outside-were 10 below zero last night Even colder readings were in prospect before morning Radioed From Snag The big four engine C54 radioed its position from Snag last Thursday afternoon about two hours after leaving Anchorage Alaska on a nonstop flight to Great Falls Mont Aboard were 34 service men returning on furlough or for reassignment an expectant mother and her 2- year- old son and eight crew members The search hat been dubbed "Operation name taken from the missing plane's commander First Lieutenant Kyle Mo Michael -28 whose wife lives in San Antonio Tex Major Gerald Brittain la the pilot Aa the long Arctic night called a temporary halt to the gigantic aerial search armada last night officials anxiously awaited word from a ground party-sent to Investigate a lone clue to the whereabouts Ranger Heard Blasts It came froma forest ranger In an almost inaccessible spot approximately 40 miles to the southwest stranded on a knoll which became ratoajca River went out of its banka The an island when the Pecatos horses had been missing a week until he spotted thedl from the air horses receiving Warns Of Drouth In Washington meanwhile Chief Hydraulic Engineer Carl Paulsen of the United State Geological irvey warned that many citi eluding Baltimore Philadelpl and Chicago might be hit by water shortages such as New York And he said the Texas high plains could become deserts He blamed the situation on the nation's failure to make proper plans for water usage As the cold front moved to the east coast today it dispelled mild temperatures which sent the mercury yesterday to a record high of 62 degrees The mi mercury was ex- pected to drop to freezing there by White House May Take Action To End Coal Strike PITTSBURGH Jan 30 (4) Bands of roving pickets helped swell the number of striking coal miners to 88500 today as the "no contract no work" strike surged into ita fourth week Last week about 88000 of the 400000 soft coal diggers refuted to work until they get a contract The number of Idle grew despite a White House hint increased coal production could stave off presidential intervention The strike doubled the number of stay at home miners in West Virginia That state the biggest coal producer counted 20000 out of the pits out of 110000 In Pennsylvania the No 1 coal state 51300 out of 100000 soft coal mines are refusing to work The state department-of relief reported relief applications are mounting swiftly in coal producing counties Some Mines Reopen Several mines which were closed last week in Kentucky and Alabama were able to reopen Alabama listed 8500 miners idle out of 18-000 and Kentucky' said only 200 diggers are taking part in the work stoppage -The strike spread to Illinois where the 1950 disturbances first started January 3rd About 275 miners walked out at a mine of the Pyramid Coal Company saying they would not return until a contract' -calling Tor n' five day-week is signed The miners now are on a three day week on the orders of John Lewis UMW chief Talks Resume Wednesday negotiations with a big bloc of Northern and Western operators will resume Wednesday in Washington A top Adviser to Truman slid the chief executive's possible decision to step in would be influenced by the extent to which striking miners abandon their walkout There la speculation that If the president does take a hand he will use the same procedure he followed in last steel strike That would aet up an independent board with instructions to make recommendations to him On Capitol Hill Senator Byrd Democrat West Vizginia asked the senate to bypass Its labor committee and call on the president to invoke the Tsft-Hartley Law immediately Byrd told his colleagues the nation obviously la confronted with a national emergency He introduced a resolution urging use of the Taft-Hartley Act and asked that the resolution lie on the table This was a parliamentary maneuver to block sending the resolution to the senate labor committee for study Veterans Post lietenant commander and turned to the -PGAE after the war Warren told a meeting' of the governor's council that Callaghan Wednesday111 over the office Stevens has been chief of the de- A stellar theatrical attraction will come to Fresno Monday Feb-rumry 27th' when the tamed Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company will appear in the White Theater in two performances' Julius Caesar will be presented at 2:30 PM andThe Taming Of The Shrew at 8:30 Tickets will go on sale shortly in the Hockett-Cowan Music Company 1254 Fulton Street The Margaret Webster troupe is being brought to Fresno under the sponsorship of The Fresno Bee and KMJ Last year the group covered 40000 miles appearing In 34 states and presenting some 300 perform- For Bomb WASHINGTON Jan Congressional atomic officials already have inspected atomic facilities to determine the feasibility of building the super hydrogen bomb Chairman Brien of the joint congressional atomic energy committee disclosed committee members have inspected the plants and conferred with the military chiefs and the nation's top ranking scientists on the bomb problem May Vote Seen McMahon indicated a vote might be taken soon on the issue He said he has informed President Truman of his "personal Truman will make the decision whether to build the bomb disclosures were made shortly after David EL Lilian-thal retiring chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission said he is not oppoaed to making the hydrogen bomb as Lilienthal said however the 'question of whether or not to build (the bomb) is not the statement was made after a closed meeting with Robert Oppenheimer chairman of tha advisory committee for the AECL No Action Is Taken He described today's committee meeting as a "general exchange of views He said the committee took no votes or action but will meet tomorrow afternoon "for further deliberations" He declined to say whether "votes or action" will be forthcoming at future meetings Many congressmen already nave stated their beliefs and appear will ing to appropriate any money needed for building the bomb Although Lilienthal said the question to build or not to build the II bomb is not -the he declined to say what he considers the issue to be But he recalled during the war the question frequently arose as to where the resources brains and money best could be used a Secrecy Veils Talks WASHINGTON Jab Behind a tight secrecy -curtain drawn by the state department representatives of the united States Belgium and Britain are meeting here today to talk about atomic energy Apparently authoritative information Is that they are-discussing: A possible Increase in the 8200 to 8300 a ton price which the US pays (Continued On Page 4-A CoL 8) Nationalist Planes Sink 50 Vessels Of Invasion Fleet TAIPEI (Formosa) Jan (47 Chinese nationalist air force headquarters today said new onslaughts by warplanes Sunday sank 50 Red junks preparing for the Invasion of Hainan Island off the South Chinn coast fHeadquarteri said bombers demolished many gun emplacements in ---raids on Lluchow Peninsula which juts out to within 10 miles of Hainan News reports said several more heavy bombers have been transferred to Hainan from Formosa Reds Have Fleet "Official sources here said the Reds had 5000 motor powered Junks and other small craft ready for the Hainan invasion General llsia Yu-Tsai the director of the Taipei office of the Hainan defense command said the vessels would try to move between 100000 -and -200000 Communist troops across the narrow Hainan Strait for the assault on the big island Hsia said the Reds never will be able to conquer Hainan without Russian help presumably In the form of technical advisers planes and submarines Hsia reported the Hainan command has 100000 regulars and 90000 militiamen on hand to meet the Reds Borne 15000 Red guerrillas have been surrounded In the mountains of northern Hainan he said Reports Conflict Reports of the mounting Red invasion were at variance with the January 18th statement of the Hainan commander General Hsuch Yueh He said then nationalist plane and naval raids had destroyed more than 2000 Communist invasion craft and made an Invasion impossible zueji said jits forces will hold the Island If the Impending Invasion is held off until after April 1st Quake Flood Toll In Iran TEHRAN (Iran) Jan A heavy death-toll Is feared in two remote- sections of southern Iran hit by floods and earthquakes in the -past-five days An official report from Zahidan 750 miles southeast near the Pakistan border said 500 persons perished In floods which washed sway two thirds of the city- No other details were available Another report said L000 persons were killed In an earthquake which rocked the Port Kansan area on the southwest Persian Gulf 180 miles south of Bushlre five days ago The Persian Red Lion ana Sun TRed Cross) Society rushed aid- to the Kangan district Officials said they fear the death toll may mount among the hundreds left homeless since the quake In bitter Winter weather- First reports of the quake were brought to Bushlre by a Kangan district 'officer who walked four days to reach the city He said in L000 persons killed and 20 nearby I Chuckle Why should I use teeth loose PKRRTB BEACH Jan 30 JV-Attorney General Frederick Howser target of sharp criticism by Governor Earl Warren last year failed to win endorsement by a California Republican assembly committee yesterday The Republican assembly is an unofficial or-ganization Instead the candidates and tact finding committee voted unanimously at an open meeting to recommend the candidacy of Edward Shattuck 'prominent Pasadena Republican for attorney generaL Nixon Favored -And by a one vote margin the committee decided to support Representative Richard Nixon Whittier Republican for the United States Senate A subcommittee first recommended Superior Judge Frederick Houser of Los Angeles to contest the seat now held by Senator Sheridan Downey a Democrat The vote wad 6 to 8 Nixon supporters prevailed however when the endorsement question came before the full committee A motion to accept the subcommittee report and thus accept Houser over Nixon was turned down 13 to 12 Endorsements for three Republican incumbents in state offices went through without a peep They were Controller Thomas Kuchel Secretary of State Frank Jordan and Treasurer Charles Johnson Proposes Data Delegates who last night endorsed the reelection of Governor Warren and Lieutenant Governor Goodwin Knight both Republicans recommended the Republican assembly hold its convention some time in March rather than ApriL The date was left up to the executive committee The convention will meet in San Francisco Attorney General Howser appeared before the candidates committee the night before seeking its endorsement but was not present when the- vote went against him Clashed With Warren The dapper chief law enforcement officed clashed with Warren the state's No 1 Republican over the governor's commission on organized crime Howser urged the 1949 legislature to abolish the commission as unnecessary and as an agency which interfered with hia department of justice But Warren cracked back that the commission had not completed its work and he accused the attorney general of failure to rid the state of racketeers Shattuck long has been an active Republican worker He is a for-mer president of the Republican assembly and until recently when he resigned he headed the Republican state central committee Howser conceded beforehand he did not expect to get the endorse-mentr-In the 1946 election the com-mittee refused to endorse Howser or anyone else As the result Howler said he was forced into a runoff in the general election Bergman's Mate Hints Divorce Suit In California LOS ANGELES Jan Ingrid husband will not fight her Mexican divorce action says his spokesman But the spokes-man implied the huband Dr Peter Lindstrom instead will file suit for divorce In California In a statement John Vernon the personal representative Lindstrom "has no Intention of appearing in the Mexico proceedings but will leave all issues to the California Vernon admitted the implication of a California divorce suit regardless of the outcome of the Mexican proceedings In Juarez Mex Miss Bergman's attorney William A Cocke said lust because a suit might be filed the United States her suit- In Mexico will not be dismissed Miss Bergman filed suit In Mexico last week She reportedly plans to wed Roberto Rossellini Italian director Vernon said Lindstrom felt he could not take the Initiative in filing suit without a meeting with Miss Bergman to discuss the matter and especially the custody of tr old' da their 11 year laughter Pia Denies Stork Rumors ROME Jan Ingrid Berg- man tonight laughed off reports she had been taken to a Rome clinic purportedly for tha birth of a child Roberto 'Rossellini Italian movie director was with Mias Bergman in her apartment when she was interviewed by telephone The two have announced their intentions of feeing married as soon as they legally are able Oven Blares But Not Unfortunately Home On The Range TACOMA (Wash) Jan () Gremlins? No just the weathar When Mrs WI Bun walked Into the kitchen to cook 'break- fast she heard music She was mystified' She does not have a radio In her kitchen i The closer Mrs Bean got to her range the louder the music -She popped open the oven door The oven was blaring cowboy music- A radio technician from av nearby station said it is hot uncommon Voltage variations in the station signal caused by the cold weather were picked up by the voltage in the stove In case you ere wondering Home Qn The Range was not among the' selections automobile theft charge Patrolmen Ben Funk and Tom Ochinero fired -with their-J8' caliber revolvers as they rah after the fugitive through Courthouse Park They report Aznavoorian failed to heed their orders to halt Bullets from the guns struck Aznavoorian in the right -foot and the left leg below the ankle He was taken to the Fresno County General Hospital The officers fired after their shouts failed to halt the fleeing man Nine other prisoners also being loaded into the patipl wagon remained at the vehicle refusing to join in the flight Aznavoorian was paroled from San Quentin penitentiary last October He resides at 261 North Calaveras Street Aznavoorian was returned here from El Centro by sheriffs deputies last week after being arrested there in connection with the automobile -theft charge on which he was to have been arraigned today He is alleged to have stolen an automobile in Fresno several weeks ago The officers' said he attempted a similar escape in El Centro The prisoners today were being walked from the jail annex door to the patrol wagon under the watchful eyes of two bailiffs and the two patrolmen when the break was made Aznavoorian ran' west between the courthouse and the new county jail building The shots felled him on the walk' leading north from the courthouse steps Earl of 5140 Gant was a witness to the shooting "I was walking across the he said "when i heard shots and looked up I saw this fellow running toward me and the police behind him They were only about 15 feet behind him when they Graver who has a -business office nearby on Fresno Street added he was in the direct line of fire and exclaimed "I ran for cover and fell under a cement bench The witness who said he was closer to Aznavoorian than anybody else saw the bullets hit the seeing prisoner "He slowed Craver- said "and then fell on the lawn and the police came up to him with their suns I swear one of those guns looked as long as a shotgun I was scared It look to me as If he were really tiglng to get' away He lought- have caught him easily And then there -is the danger- to the other Craver added he saw holes In leg and heard an unidentified police officer remark to one of the officers -nearbyr? Why did you shoot him so much? -a Is Set For February 8 WASHINGTON Jan The CIO Communications Workers today fixed February 8th as' the date for a walkout of 100000 Bell telephone workers' the start of a nationwide strike program Another 200000 Bell system employes are expected to' observe the picket lines of the first 100000 union members whose contracts already have expired and who are free to strike Immediately President Joseph A Bierne of the CWA said the intial walkout is set to begin at 6 AM local time February 6th unless the government or the Bell Telephone Company acts to avert the showdown North Democrats Stall Cotton WASHINGTON Jah 30 OB Northern Democrats today com tinued delaying tactics against bill to revise 1950 cotton acreage quotas Immediately after the house met for final debate on the bill sponsored by Southern Democrats Representative John Lesinski- Democrat Michigan forced a time consuming quorum calL He used similar harassing tactics Friday maneuvering was in retaliation agalnat similar tactics used by Southern Democrats to block consideration of the controversial Fair Employment Practice Commission -phase of President Truman's civil rights program It was expected however the Northerners will drop their tactics against the cotton hill and the measure will come up for a final vote tomorrow ag scheduled Colleague Raps FDRJr For Night Club Acti viti WASHINGTON Jan A Republican today suggested in the house that Representative Franklin Roosevelt Jr star away from New York night dubs and show up oftener at house meetings Representative Brown of Ohio told his colleagues the young Demo-crat-Libera! from New York had answered only 60 of the 129 roll calls since the start of the session January 3rd Roosevelt was 'not present when Brown spoke-There la grave concern among friends of this young man over the fact he -Isn't here as much as he should Brown said He added: like to say to all the members of the house you simply can't learn the rules of this house In a night club in New York You simply cant solve any of the great social and moral problems bv nocturnal meditation on Fifty Second Street got to be right here to solve Brown also accused Roosevelt of several a Brown's position on anti Job discrimination legislation Mrs Maxine Sanson Visited by burglars AP Wirephoto NY Police Hint Foreign Link To Big Gem Theft NEW YORK Jan SO (a) The police Indicated today an Interna tional band of jewel thieves may tr gems apartment of a have pulled off $428000 worth of gemi ig from the former midtown model The newest development in the burglary came on a tip from the victim herself Mrs Maxine Sanson wife of a wealth hosiery manufacturer The comely exmodel told the police that while in Paris last year she was "tipped she being trailed At that time she said she was wearing many of the valuable precious stones stolen from her apartment Saturday night Mrs Sanson said however he was not sure who gave her the tip she was being followed' Spurned Fakes With a keen eye for the very best the thieves spurned the less valuable and synthetic gems as they looted the lavishly furnished Sanson apartment The stolen gems were taken from jewel boxes secreted in a closet in the living room It was learned later however that the thieves left behind several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry hidden In other boxes In tne bedroom which they apparently did not enter Mrs Sanson discovered the bur-glary when she returned from a movie Mrs Sanson told the police the jewelry was insured Inside Job Hinted Saying the burglary looked like an inside job Sanson declared: "They took only the very large platinum and diamond pieces settings from which the stones could be taken out and peddled very Entry of the Sanson apartment the police said apparently' was made by inserting a celluloid strip into the door jamb and forcing the lock open Soviets Lift Little Berlin Blockade BERLIN Jan 30 (47 The Russians dropped their "little tactics early today and allowed road traffic to flow normally from the west-to Berlin for the first time in 10 days Soviet guards obviously acting on higher orders' passed all trucks through the frontier -posts In Berlin and Helmstedt 100 miles to- the west- with only perfunctoy -checks The Soviets gave no more 'reason for the armistice than' for starting 'their highway heckling It was assumed however-the slowdown began in retaliation for the seizure of the Berlin railway head- ausrters -building by the west Ber-n police acting on orders from the United States commandant in Berlin The railways and the building are administered by the Soviet backed east zone government United States officials later ordered the- west Berliners to evacuate the building which is in the American zone of the jdty The slowdown which reached recognizable proportions eight days ago cut highway traffic almost to a standstill ana cost west -Berlin about 10000 tons of supplies by official American estimate Taft Plane Crash Hurts Coalingans (MeClatehy Newspapers Service) TAFT- (Kern Co) Jan Two Coalings -youths were hurt seriously late yesterday when their 'light £Uae crashed three miles south of They are William Kirk 20 the pilot and George Lewder also 20 Kirk the son of Mr and Mrs Kirk suffered a broken right leg George Lewder son of Mr and Mrs Lowder was cut and bruised Their plane In which they left Coalinga at 1:15 PM Sunday bound for Cuyama Valley struck the mountain side In a heavy fog about 30 feet from the summit- The craft bounced and caromed to a flat area on the top Lowder who he knocked unconscious for a short time reached a road about a mile away at 3 PM and summoned help Kirk is a student in Coalinga Junior College Lowder is an oil field worker They were taken to the Taft Community HospitaL James Thuesen Thuesen Quits Urges Savory As Prosecutor District Attorney James Thuesen today disclosed he retire from- his post tomorrow and return to private law practice He announced he wAl submit his resignation to the Fresno County Board of Supervisors omorrow along with a recommendation his chief assistant EL Clarke Savory be named as his successor Net Judge Candida fe Thuesen who in the past lias been rumored as a candidate for a earn superior court jddgeship at the elections this year today took himself out of the field I will not be a candidate for said the retiring prosecutor Rumors of Thuesen's impending retirement have been widespread for several months but he said he only recently made his decision to quit before the expiration of his term January 1 -1951 He would have completed eight years in the office had he completed this term Wants Private Practice "My retirement will be effective tomorrow the end of he declared "For many months I have been desirous of going back into private The supervisors may name Savory to the prosecutor's office since they have not deviated from a policy of appointing chief deputy to top if th position vacancies they were willing to accept the jobs since 1933 At that time Ernest Dusen- berry retiring this ye clerk was bypassed clei ar as county although he erk He later was chief deputy ran for the office and was elected May Face Associate Thuesen's other assistant Allan Mason and Deputy Robert Wash head of the civil department have indicated in the past they aspire to the post However Mason virtually eliminated himself from contention when he submitted his resignation to be effective at the same time as Thuesen's Mason said he probably will (Continued On Page 4A CoL 2) Navy Expects To Within 72 Hours NORFOLK (Vs) Jan The navy promised today to' get the mighty battleship Missouri off its Hampton Roads mudbank within 72 hours or bust trying That was the optimistic word here slowing yesterday's successful experiment with two undeiv water TNT charges They jarred loose the sand suction which has held the Mighty Mo fast since it ran aground January 17th Navy salvage experts who have been shy up to now in forecasting when Operation Float Her would succeed said that with luck it might end tomorrow They added that it looked like a dead sure thing Thursday when the next flood tide comes in But they admitted the whole operation might come unstuck but not the Mighty Mo if they got a few bad breaks like a shift in wind' The 45000- ton battlewagon the only one in service is perched high on Thimble Shoals IjOOO yards on the wrong side of one of the world's best marked channels It started working loose yester-day when the two 75 pound packets of TNT exploded in tne muddy harbor bottom on either side of -her huIL Immediately after the second burst she settled a half inch deeper into the water But iristead of burying her broad bottom further the massive weight sauashed and scattered the sand unlocking the suction and leaving her readv to be hauled away as soon as the tide is right Fourteen navy turs are standing by to haul the big Mo off with the help of pontoons and the battle-shin's own winches Rear Admiral Allan Smith directing the salvage operation from the Missouri said prosoects are "looking better every He held out a faint hope that the battle-wagon may be pried loose tomorrow morning when he plans a dress rehearsal for Thursday's Mg show Gunmen Pistol Whip Rob Doirv Operator SUN VALLEY Jan Dairyman Peter Jacobson was pistol whipped bound and gagged early todav by two gunmen who fled with 83n from 'bis wallet and MASS from his safe Jacobson said they forced him to lie face down on his bed and then beat him over the head with gun butts to persuade him to open the safe -A a Carbon Monoxide Kills Mother 1 7 Daughter 2 CORONA Jan A 17 year old mother and her 2 year old daughter died in their auto court apartment of carbon monoxide poisoning Friends found the bodies yesterday of Mrs Cora Lee Garner and her daughter Cora Sue The police said the gas stove burners were on and Mrs Garner had apparently tried to get up but was unable to do soi public and explain deep Mr -Hiss' influence ran" in the state department if his connections still are The Korean problem is not new Korea- has received $60000000 in aid i and the senate has voted to provide another 150000000 Mercury Dips to 1 29 Continued Gold Is Forecast Heavy frost was general throughout the San Joaquin Valley this meriting as the mercury dipped to 29 1 degrees In Fresno ore of the same le forecast tonight with temperatures in the central portion of the valley ranging from 25 to 30 degrees with 29 dut again in Fresno 1 Clear Skies Due The sky will be mostly clear through tomorrow with daytime temperatures continuing below normal The high today is expected to be 51 degrees one above high and eight degrees below normal The range for Fresno Kings Tulare and Madera Counties will be 47 to Sl degrres Other minimum temperatures in Central California this 'morning were East Fresno 26 Stockton 31 Sacramento 29 Merced 32- Coalings 29 and Bakersfield 32 No Rain In Sight Meteorologist A A Lothman the head of the local office of the United Statea Weather Bureau said a few high clouds are expected ever the area tonight from a weak atorm which was causing snow showers over Oregon and Northern California this morning He said no precipitation is foreseen this far south He asserted another disturbance Is too far out at sea west of the Northern California coast to cause any unsettled weather here for the jnext few days 'storm Tapers Off ASH MOUNTAIN Jan Atwo day storm In the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks tapered off yesterday with Ash Mountain headquarters getting j03 inch of rain Grant Forest JO inch and General Grant Grove 2 Inch At Ash Mountain the Saturday- Sunday total was 135 inches rais-' ig the season figure to 771 com-ired with 692 for the same date ing the season figure to 771 compared with 692 for the same di last year and a normal of 1431 Total for the storm at Giant Forest was 150 inches of rain and for the season 2131 as compared with last season's 1374 Snow last night measured one inch raising the weekend total to 16 inches Snowfall for the season has been 121 Inches At the same time last year it had been 140 and the normal is 114 Present covering is 59 Inches compared with 51 last' sear eon I The tWo day rain at General Grant Grove was 147 inches The Season figure is 1914 up from last 1311 A trace of snow yesterday ms added to the storms 13 inched Snow aggregate for the season has been 115 Inches and there ard 41 Inches on the ground Last season at the same date the fall had been 110 with 51 on-the ground 1 In The Bee Today Amusements feAA Boyle's Column 4A Cartoon ---c-- OB City News In Brief 7-A "Classified Advertisings y- -5-B 6-B 7-B Club News 8-A Comics 2-B Puzzle 7-A Take My Word For It 8-B Dorothy Dixv A Editorials Financial News Markets 4-B Health 8-B Household rArts Ar Glorifying 'Yourself 8-A Katherine Kitchen' Letters From The People 8-B Louella Parsons 6-A Maqr Hampton- A News Behind The News 8-B Obituaries 4-B Patterns 8A RadiO aM4M 9-A San Joaquin Valley News 3-B Social Niks a-- 8-A Sports lOA 11-A Vital Statistics 4-B Washington News By Dick-- son 5A Weather 4-B Your Baby And Mine 9-A SACRAMENTO Jan (INS) appointment of (Jud) Callaghan Jr of San Francisco as state director of veterans affairs was announced today by Governor Earl Warren Callaghan chairman of the state veterans board will succeed Law-ronce CL Stevens who is resigning the 810000 a year job to enter private busineas CJlghan was employed by the Facific Gas and Electric Company at siwBnwiS'jfai: overhead late plane Thursday then heard an earth shaking thud an explosion and -saw billowing clouds of smoke Air Commodore Martin Costello of the Royal' Canadian Air Force the search coordinator here described the report-as the highly probably! yet received pfe Will Appear Here In Sfiakespeare Plays US Will Send Naval Attache To Pakistani KARACHI (Pakistan) Jan (P) The American embassy disclosed today the United States Government has decided to eend a naval attache to Karachi it is thslthat stuff? My first nation toils so Dealsr ji al addition to the L300 were Injured towns Today' utt? My Prices for the matinee performance of Julius Caesar have been set at $240 SL80 and $L20 For The Taming Of The Shrew in the evening the price scale will be $3L60 80 8240 and 8LBO 4 41.