A Pessimist Views One Day's News i. Fire SAN FRANCISCO, May 14— - (UP1). A firebug who started seven separate fires in three apartment houses—one of which narrowly missed becoming a major tragedy —was hunted by police and fire in spectors today. A blaze started in the basement of the Barbette apartments fanned up through a four-story elevator shaft to the roof, blocking the only j stairway and trapping 90 residents [ who were forced to take to the fire escapes and fire ladders. “It was just luck and quick work that saved those people,’1 said Fire Chief Edward P. Walsh. Fire investigators had seen • smoke from the Barbette fire shortly after 4 a.m. while still in vestigating another incendiary fire 1 three blocks distant. Within 35 minutes there was a total of three apartment house ’ blazes that routed 300 occupants and caused damages estimated at $35,000. NEW YORK, May 14—(UP). , Michael Colon, age two and one half, always ran in the closet and locked the door when he had done i something wrong. Michael and his brother, Joseph Jr , three and one-half, were play ing with matches in the bedroom of their tenement home this morn ing. They set the bed afire. Joseph ran to his mother, Bene dicts, 37, in the adjoining room. Michael, fearing punishment, tod dled into the closet and locked the , door. The frantic mother ran into the room but was driven back by flames. Joseph scampered down the stairs to a nearby store where the father was buying groceries. He came back, on the run, but was stopped by the flames Six other families in the tene ment fled to the street. No one was injured except Michael. He was burned to death in the closet, hiding so that he wouldn’t be spanked. Disaster SHAMOKIN, Pa., May 14— (UP). Two of three men, entombed for more than 53 hours in a flood ed mine, are definitely alive, res cue workers reported tonight. The third man was unaccounted for. A rescue worker approached to within 12 feet of the two men but a water barrier prevented immed iate rescue. Plans were made to reduce the depth of the water to permit a rubber raft to clear the ceiling of tile inundated tunnel 150 feet below the surface. The rescue worker, Peter Lazar ski, said the two men identified themselves as Arthur Peter Gor don, 32, and Edward Heck 41. He said they told him they were “all right.’’ Webfoot Freshmen (Please turn to page four) third. Humble doubled a few min utes later, only to die at his post. Oregon State’s Graham picked on Hann’s second pitch of the eighth inning for what looked like a triple to deep right field He was slightly disappointed after pulling up at third to see Mel Krause step on the keystone—which he had missed in stretching his blow to a triple. Krause fired the Duck lings in both games with sparkling fielding play at shortstop which, combined with 'Welch’s timely clouting, sent the Rooks back to the farm without any bacon. Big Bobo Clingman expressed the Ag ( gie mood after the last out of the nightcap when he hurled his catch War By UNITED PRESS The Sovereign State of Israel came into existance at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and, a few minutes later, the Egyptian government ordered its army into Palestine. Other Arab armies, including the mechanized, 10,000-man Arab le gion of Trans-Jordan, already were on Palestine soil or ready to march across its borders from north, south, and east. Arab spokesmen threatened a dread “holy war.” In the course of a day that will fill pages of history, there were these developments: 1. Great Britain ended her 30 year mandate rule of Palestine at 10:08 a.m. when the British high commissioner, Gen. Sir Alan Gor don Cunningham, stepped off the dock in Haifa into a launch which took him to the cruiser, Euryalus. 2. At 4 p.m., in a museum in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv, David Ben Gurion proclaimed the birth of a nation for the Jeweish people who have wandered over the earth for 2,000 years. As his followers prayed and wept, Ben Gurion, who heads the new state, announced it would come into being with the end of the British mandate at mid night 3. At the White House in Wash ington, President Truman sur prised the world by extending for mal recognition of the new state only minutes after it came into the Palestine partition plan a few month ago had drawn the wrath of millions of Jews in the United States and overseas. 4. In Cairo, Egypt, tUf foreign minister issued an ominous com munique. It said its armed forces had been ordered to enter Pales tine. It was apparent that upwards of 30,000 Arab soldiers were now ready to fight for a land which they- believe is rightfully theirs and not the Jews. 5. At United Nations headquar ters at Flushing, N. Y., the UN found itself facing the apparent beginning of a war without hav ing the slightest authority in Pal estine. The 58 nations, meeting in emergency session, unexpectedly killed an American plan for a spe cial UN Regime in the city of Jerusalem and threby removed the only prospect of a UN link with the British mandate. Jews danced in the halls of the world organiza tion headquarters at news of American recognition. _ UNITED NATIONS HALL FLUSHING, N. Y„ May 14— (UP). Guatemala’s United Na tions delegate announced tonight that Guatamala formally recog nizes the new Jewish state of Is rael. It was the second nation to do so. LONDON, Saturday, May 15 —(UP) The foreign office spokes man said early today that the British government would take no action as regards possible recogni tion of Israel “before a reasonable time this morning.’’ A “reasonable time’’ at the foreign office is pos sibly 10 a.m. (5 a m. EDT). er’s gear plus one baseball bat and a cap into the dirt. Score by Innings OSC Rooks 003 100 00 4 5 5 Oregon Frosh 030 100 01 5 6 5 Berg and Clingman; Rogers and Bennett, Artzt (8). OSC Rooks 000 000 000 0 0 3 3 Orgon Frosh 000 000 000 1 1 4 1 Brem and Clingman; Hanns, Schoonover (9) and Bennett, Artzt (6). Crime SAN FRANCISCO, May 14—(UP) In the wake of yesterday's abortive drug store robbery and the wound ing of two policemen, the round up of a bandit ring operating here and in Los Angeles was swelled to 14 today with the arrest of two more suspects in Salt Lake City. Police in the Mormon city picked up James R. Lynch, 29-year-old ex-convict and a man identified only as Paul Nelson. Lt. Dan Mecklem of the San Francisco po lice intimated three or four addi tional men would be arrested as accomplices soon. Police believed the roundup would solve a wave of Safeway and chain store robberies here and in Los Angeles. Prices LOS ANGELES, May 14—(UP) Prices on California lemons were up 20 cents a box this week, the California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today, but sales on both oranges and lemons and orange prices remained at the previous week’s level. The threatened rail strike caused the market to open stronger and higher, the exchange said, but cancellation of the walkout brought a slight decline. Strike ALTADENA, Cal., May 14— (UP) Housewives objecting to in stallation of telephone poles in front of their homes staged a sit down strike over postholes today. As soon as workmen finished digging a hole, a housewife plumped herself down on it. Tele phone company officials, sum moned by workmen, temporarily called off the installation work pending a study of the situation. Death BERLIN, Saturday, May 15^— (UP)—Father Edward J. Flana gan, 61, the Jesuit priest who founded Boys Town, Neb., with a borrowed $90 and a faith that there is no such thing as a bad boy, died today of a heart attack at an army station hospital. Hundreds of once-wayward boys Flanagan prepared for society with kindness and full stomachs were orphaned by the death of the Cath olic priest who came to the United States as an immigrant. Col. F. T. Chamberlain, com mander of the 279th station hospi tal, announced Flanagan’s death in a terse statement. The tall, amiable priest died shortly before 1 a.m. He had collapsed of a heart at tack Thursday night at a dinner party at Harnack house, the army’s guest house here. His aide imme diately called an army doctor and an ambulance. Flanagan was taken to the station hospital in a serious condition. Hospital attendants were instructed to issue no infor mation. Chamberlain said Flanagan died of a coronary occlusion. With him when he died were Patrick Norton, his assistant at Boys' Town, Pat rick J. Moriarty, Shakotee, Minn., the European command’s top Ger man youth organizer, and several doctors and nurses. Flanagan was stricken while spreading his gospel of kindness to misled youth in Germany. He ar rived here May 9 to make a two week study of conditions among young people in the American zone of Germany. Before that, he made a month’s study of Austrian youth problems. Night Staff: Joyce Good Jim White Bob Hemingway, editor Earthquake SEATTLE, May 14— (UP) Art earthquake was reported along tho Aleutian island chain and in tho Bering sea at 12:20 p.m. today and all coast guard stations in the area have been alerted for further trem blors or tidal waves. Coast guard headquarters at Seattle reported its Ketchikan of fice radioed "Severe earthquake reported at 12:30 p.m. at latitude 54.41 north, longitude 171.18 west.’’ "We have radioed all coast guard stations along the Aleutian chain and the unit at SL Paul island in the Bering sea to be on the alert, for further tremblors and tidal waves in the area," the message* said. Officials said the message had been transmitted to all long-rango navigational and lightship stations along the 1,700-mile Aleutian strip and those rimming the Bering sea. Officials said no reports of the earthquake had been received fr om Alaskan mainland areas, however. The earthquake was reported by seismographs at three west coast universities at the same time ear lier today. Sunday Morning Breakfast Slated Newman club will hold their final communion breakfast of tho term Sunday morning at the church cafeteria following 9:45 maso, George Yost, chairman, announced. Plans for the Newman club picnic will be discussed at tho breakfast, he said. Ad Staff: Day Manager: GEORGE BARTLETT Assistant Day Manager: ED CAUDURO Contract Executive: BASIL KOCKOS Layout Executive: RUSS ROHWER WANT- AD