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Washington isn't the only place
with a "bipartisan" policy. Salem
ha one too. at the statehouse.
The republican secretary of state
deserted the republican governor
to team with the democratic state
treasurer in ousting two tried and
experienced tax commissioners in
favor of f.vo without experience.
Secretary Newbry cites as proof
there was no deal the fact that
he wouldn't join Pearwn in ap
pointing Rep. Howard Morgan to
the office. An effective barrier
however was the constitutional
prohibition against appointing a
legislator To an office where the
salary had been increased, as is
true of tax commissioner
Newbry first choice for com
missioner was Robert C. Gi!e of
Roseburg. who ran into the same
road block, as member of .the leg
islature, flile is bet remembered
ever the state as chairman t the
hous tax committee (under
Speaker Hall' appointment )
which brought out the abortion of
a tax program in the 1947 session,
.the kev of which was a sales tax
'which the people promptly smack
ed down. I would put Gile how
ever a good many notches above
Hay Smith. Portland politiro-about-town,
who got the appoint
ment. Our bipartisan policy at the
tatehouse embraces ais a "bipar
ty'' policy. For example a party
was held at Newport during the
recent crab festival, "resent were
republican John H. Wall and Sec
retary Newbry and democrat
Treasurer Pearson and Senator
Tom Mahonev. and other politico.
Whether the tax commission deal
was cooked there along w ith the
crabs I don't know. I understand
they looked farther ahead and
touted
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Salem Joins
Metropolitan
Market List
Salem, with an estimated popu
lation of 52.R00 joins the select
list of " Metropolitan County
Areas'' of the nation, in the new
656-page annual "survey of buying
lower' issued "by Sales Manage
ment of New York City.
It is tlif only Oregon city out
side of Portland so included 1
There are 178 cit es on the list
The table on the nation's top
200 counties in regard to gross
cash farm income shows Marion ,
72nd on the list, with Umatilla In
84th and Malheur in 175th ar the
only other Oregon counties re- ;
corded
For Oregon as a whole, esti
mates give it 1 05 per cent of the
nation's total population, but 1.15
fr cent of retail sales last ear
The survey estimated Salem had j
Increased 1300 persons since last
year. (The Salem chamber of
com me are Tuesday said it had the
rames and addreses of more than
400 new families moving to Salem
tt e January 1
Fonl Bark-to-Work
Plan Turned. I)oh ii
DETROIT. Mv 17 4A Ford
proposal that would have sent all
but 5.000 of the company's 102.0o0
strike-iiiled emploves back to
work within a few days was turn
ed down today by the CIO United
Auto workers.
Ford suggested that the union
rail off its strike in al! the sprawl
ing units of the company's kev
Rouge plant except the B" build
ing. It also said the L'ncoln
Mercury plant here could itnuin
atrike-bound.
IT A HEAD NAMED
ST. LOCIS, May 17--Mrs.
John E. Have.-, a trim little grand
mother from Twin Falls. Idaho,
was elected president of the na- :
tional conir of parent and
teachers tonight. Mrs. Have poll- I
ed 682 of the 690 votes cast by :
delegates attending the 52nd an-j
nual convention of' tha congress.)
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
I NEW tORK. Mir 17 (AD Franklin D. iMtnlt Jr. wm a seat
j In ceacreee tonight in a Uiamehant battle with Tammany kail which
his father faecal early ia his political career 25 year age.
The lanky, handsome yean aeiaa af aae af the ttatiea's famems
political families u the first af the last acesMeat's children to ran
far effiee.
He ailed a a seek a comma ndin- lead la the tth cencTeseienal dis
I triet special eleetiaa that his democratic fae conceded defeat aa haar
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Italian s
Bid Beat
NEW YORK,- Wednesday. May
lS-''Pf-The United Nations i..-em-bly
early today refused to ieturn
Tropolitania to Italy uncier a U. N.
trusteeship. j
New YORK. Wednesday. May
lS-AP)rThe I'nited Nations as
semblr rejected completely to
day the Bevin-Sforza plan to
divide the former Italian col
onial empire imont Italy. Bri
tain. France and Ethiopia. The
vote was 14 to 37 against.
The vote wnjp 33 to 17 with 8
abstentions. Dr; Herbert V. Evatt.
assembly president, ruled that it
failed to pass because it did not
have the necessary two-thirds ma
jority apfTrovaU
Iud cheers; greeted the an
nouncement of; the vote
This decision, on Tnpolitania
threw in -jeopatdly the whole Iiri-tj.'h-ltalian
scheme for disposal of
the former Italian colonies. Some
Latin American delegations had
said they, would not vote for th
plan if Italy did not get Tripoh
tan:a. Earlier the Assembly approved
H
the A section1 giving Britan
trusteeship over Cirenaica. w
the British were reported plan-
nine to build military bases on the
Mediterranean icoast.
. The whole resolution still had
' to be vited uptn.
The vote for British adminis
tration of Ciraraica was 36 to 17
with six abstentions. This was
mere thafi the two-thirds majority
needed. '-
The assembly voted down an
Iraqi demand;' for immediate in
dependence of all of ex-Itahan
Libia. The vote; was 27 against and
23 for. This was the first ballot
in the S9-nation assembTy on the
long series of proposals.
Student Held
For Bombinp
Parents? Home
PORTLAND: May 17 - .pi-A
University of Washington student
was held by fhe Federal Bureau
of Invertigatijnn tonight In the
bombing of his parent's Vancouver.
Wash , home.
FBI agent J B Wilcox said
Iawrenif Jean Sharp, 20. was be
ing held in the King county Jail.
Seattle. He will be charged tech
nically, with jdestroyir.g govern
ment property; Wilcox said.
But the federal agent said the
youth had planted the dvnamtte
bomb which demolished the home
of Mr and Mr L L. Sharp on
April 1 and put both parents in a
hopitaL Tha father was criti
cally ir jured. but both parents
have hmce returned home.
"Die Sharp home w as also
blasted one njonth previously, on
March 1,
Wrtcoa iaid! the univeritv nTu
dent had rented an automobile
from a self-fdt ;v b.g erv ice in
Seattle. ; motored to Vancouver.
p:anted the bomb and then return
ed Seattle. He was then located
on the campus after the explosion
and returned to v iit his injured
parent. ' !
T;ie family also had been sub
jctei to food 'p.i,.n ng Jaiairv 1
in which both parent- and a
daughter. Marie, were stricken
Break Ground
STA1TON ttaai
taa foaaaaUoa for Startoa's svew
Colony
lag tfr.aaoay MoatJay. The hall will ha flaaaeed with famda dattrad
fra tha aaaaal Staytaa heaa festival, past aad fa tare. Key rail.
lipi ia chairasaa af tha haildiag
after the polls closed.
Roosevelt, running on the liber
al and four freedoms parties tick
ets after Tammany denied him the
democratic nomination, garnered
41.146 votes in the 20th district's
179 voting districts.
Municipal Court Justice Benja
min H. Shalleck. who got the
Tammany nod. received 24,352
votes.
William H. Mclntyre. republi
can, won 10.020. Annette Rubin
stein. American Labor, trailed
with 5,348.
The bitterly fought contest,
which kept Manhattan's west side
in an uproar for a month, was for
the seat of the late Sol Bloom, vet
eran democrat.
Roosevelt assailed Tammany
throughout his campaign but at
the same time he announced his
support of I -resident Truman's
fair deal program, with emphasis
on housing and civil rights.
He ricscritjed h:rr.self as a 100
per cent democrat and is expected
to try to serve under that party
label in congress. His term runs
until the next regular election in
November. 195c.
The democratic natoinal chair
man. U S Sep.. J Howard Mc
Grath. put the rational adminis
tration behind Shalleck in the
campaign. State Democratic
Chairman Paul E. Fitzpatrick fol
lowed suit.
The aefeat was a sharp blow to
Tammany, which is facing a city
election next November snubbed
bv Mavor William O Dwyer. lam-
many also is smarting from a
drubbing m an
important Manual-
tan surrogate fight last year
Nomination of
Mon Wallgren
Withdrawn
WASHINGTON.
President Truman
defeat today and
nomination of his
Mav 17 -f$
acknowledged
withdrew the
old associate.
Mon C. Wallgren. to the S14.S0O
a year chairmanship of the na
tional security resources board.
It has been stalled beyond
budging for nearly three and a
half months in the lenate armed
services committee
i Mr Truman withdrew the
nomination at Wallgren s own re
quest. As late as a month ago. the
j president told a news conference
he had no Intention of pulling it
back.
! Senator Byrd, Virginia demo
crat, joined the six republicans
on the committee March 15 in
tabling the nomination a pro
cedure that held it in the com
mittee and forestepped any possi
bility of senate action.
In an exchange of letters, the
president said he agreed with
Wallgren that the nomination
would have been confirmed tf hi
name had been allowed to go be
fore the fu'l senate.
"I want you to know that my
faith in you is undiminished." Mr.
Truman told Wallgren. former
Washington state governor and his
one-time associate in the senate
Aged Man Pulled
From (lalnponia
ALBANY.
An e'.derlv
Ore
ma 'i
Maw 17
w ho w a
dis
covered walkir.g into .the Ca'a-
pooia river a'xi pu'ied ahrre by
men working nearby was in a
hopit;i! here tonight.
Police Chief Jame Byerly ald
the man gave his name as Walter
G. Wright of Albany, but this
has not been confirmed The chief
said te aaed man wa in the
wster up to his armpits when
dico' ered by Havden Brawn
Worker from tr-e Aihany ice and
cold Morale plant helped in the
recue
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WASHINGTON. May 17 -JT)
.Four-star General Lucius D. Clay j
returned to a hero's welcome at i
the White Houe and on Capitol !
i Hill today to crown the historic '
! accomplishments of the Berlin t
airlift.
From President Truman, the
trim, mild-eyed military com-,
mander received a second oak !
leaf cluster and a spoken accolade
for services "of supreme value to
; his country and to humanity.'
Then, before packed spectarors :
galleries. Gen. Clay addressed the
U. S. houe of representatives and
was hailed by Speaker Rayburn
(D-Tex) in these words:
"An old friend has come home i
i from his labors, which hava been .
stupendous and great."
His imprint will be left cn
world history.
nth.
It was just short of II mo
ago. on June 26. 1948. that Gen.
Clay as American military gov
ernor in Germany signalled the
beginning of the Berlin air shuttle
that was destined to break the
Soviet blockade and mark a me
, morable turn in tha cold war
with Russia.
Congress : members stood and
applauded as Gen. Clay walked
dow n the long center aisle in the
v -1
dim-lit hosje chamber, and there On other Chinese war fronts, free
were cheers and whistles from wheeling reds were reported 87
the floor. -J
Spain Suffers
Second Blow;
Loan Rejected
WASHINGTON. May 17 -'4-Spatn
suffered a second sharp '
setback today as officials said the
United . States has turned dow n
Madrid's informal request for a
multi-million dollar loan. i
The development came less than
24 hours after the United Nations
assembly rejected proposals for
ending a diplomatic boycott of the .
Franco government.
Responsib'e administration of- :
ficia's said both the state depart
ment and the government's export
import bank have refused to con
sider at least for the present
j the loan plea made by a visiting
j Spanish official. ,
j The Spanih representative. An- '
j drew s Moreno was informed, these
officials said, that Spain's present
financial situation makes her a
poor credit risk.
MOXMOITH ON DAYLIGHT
MONMOUTH. May 17 - Spe
cial )-Mayor Howard Morlan an
nounced today that Monmouth
would go on davlight saving time 1
Monday at 12:01 a. m.. joining
other Willamette vallev cities
which have adopted fast time.
SEEK HIT-Rl N DRIVER
ROSEBURG. May 17 -OP) -Pol ice
sought today a motorist believed
to hava killed Mrs. Sybla Florine
Nichols. 35, whose body was
found in a roadside ditch between
Sutherlin and Oakland yesterday.
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fNo' Vote
Blow to
Russians
BERLIN. May 17-Sn-About a
third of the Germans voting in the
single ticket zonal elections be
hind the iron curtain have upset
forecasts and dropped a big "no.'
in the ballot box, official com
munist figures disclosed today.
A total of 4.080.272 votes was
registered in opposition.
Berlin's communists appeared
dazed by the results of the Sunday
and Monday election of 2.000 dele- j
gates to a "People's Congress." a !
Sov iet-model parliament which
they had expected would show j
an almost solid "yes" vote. I
A quick wrapping of official i
secrecy had covered the results '
for nearly 24 hours after the polls J
closed when the Soviet zone elec- j
tion bureau finally issued these
figures:
Eligible to vote. 13.533.071: total
vote. 12.flfl7.234: total 'yes'' vote,
7.943.949; total "no"' vote, 4.080,
272. j
Even the figure of 66 1 per cent '
voting yes appeared not entirely
correct. The election bureau ap- j
parently counted the more than
800.000 invalid ballots to reach
that percentage figure. Actually,
only slightly more than 60 per
cent of those voting cast "yes"
ballots.
In eastern Berlin the result was
even more emphatic. There 41.9
per cent voted against the ticket,
58.1 per cent for it.
The conditions of the voting had
led observers to expect a 90 per
cent or better "yes" vote. There
was only one list of candidates,
all screened by communist organ
izations. The voter could not write
in his own- preference.
The election campaign had been
tuned to catch the votes of the
nationalistic German, regardless
of any coolness he might feel to
ward communism, even former
Nazis had been urged to vote.
Chinese Reds
Drive in South;
Shanghai Held
Br th Anwieiated PrHt
The communist tide surged
against Shanghai again Wednes
day from east, north and west.
miles from the southeast nart of
Fooohow and only 22S miles from
Canton, nationalist refugee capital.
Shanghai's newly exploded east
ern sector wa getting the brunt
of the renewed assault as the reds
reacted to setback at Wooung
on the north and Lunghwa on the
south.
Pressing In on almost encircled
Shanghai from the China sea side,
the red? were concentrating orj.
Pootung. dock and warehouse area
across the Whangpoo river from
the famed bund The springboard
was Chwansha, 12 miles from the
riverfront.
The reci also Kegan hammering
again on Woosung. guardian of the
hip channel to the sea, and
sprawling Hung Jan on the city's
western outskirts. For the mo
ment at least, they seemed to have
given up the attack on Lunghwa,
site of Shanghai's big international
airport.
FOREST FIRE SPREADS
ROSEBL'RG. May 17 (API
A forest fire that has spread over
6O0 acres is not expected to be un
der control before Sunday. The
fire, apparently started by light
ning last week, is in the old Bea
ver Creek burn in rough moun
tains east of Tiller. More than 200
loggers and forest service men are
cutting timber in a five-mile per-
j imeter in front of the fire in hopes
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Word Due Today on Highway Funds
Salem's participation in
state highway spending for
next two years will be made
known in Portland today when the
two-year program of tha atate
highway commission is announc
ed. This was the word brought
back! by Mayor Robert L. Elf
strom and others who appear ad
Tuesday at its hearing Jo discuss
Salem traffic problems.
They were told bluntly by
Chairman T. H. Ban field that tha
commission has net adopted any
overall plan for Salem and would
not; that tha amount of money
involve! was too great to maka a
commitment now. Tha Baldock
plan, said Banfieid, was prepared
in response to Salem's request but
the only item on which the com
mission has acted is tha bridge
across the Willamette. Other work
will have to await its place on the
cheduJe.
WUNDI
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Uranium-235 Missing
At Atom Energy Plant
WASHINGTON. May 17-4
The Atomic Energy commis
sion announced tonight that a
mall quantity af nranium-235
was missing for a time from
ne of Its laboratories, but that
most of it has now turned up
In waste material from the lab.
Moreover. It said the remain
der f not believed "stolen or
lost. A search for It is con
tinuing In the salvage material
from the laboratory.
All told 32 grams (1.05
ounces) was originally found
to be mlssinic from the commis
sion's Argonne National Lab
oratory near Chicago. Of that.
25 grams have been accounted
for.
The commission Issued Its
statement after a flurry of re
ports that a larger quantity of
the precious stuff of which
atom bombs are made had disappeared.
Bad Weather Thwarts
Hunt for 'Plane Wreck'
Bad weather Tuesday thwarted attempts of searchers to find re
ported wreckage of an airplane spotted in the Cascade mountains
southeast of Detroit.
Marion County Sheriff Denver Young and a representative of the
.state aeronautics board were for-
Columbia River
To Go Higher,
Area Warned
Br th Associated Pr
Tha lower Columbia river swell-
ed further today, but upstream
the danaer was believed about
past in two tributaries.
The Kootenai river, which came
within six inches of spilling over
dikes at Bonners Ferry, Idaho,
was believed to have reached Its
crest. The St. Joe river at St.
Maries, Idaho, also was believed i
to nave cresien.
More, the Snaka river level at
Lewiston yesterday, a foot below
the flood level.
The weather bureau at Portland
warned the lower river area, how
ever, that the Columbia crest
would be higher than anticipated
earlier. They warned of a 23 8
foot level at Vancouver. Wah..
bv Srturdav. Earlier a 22-foot
crest had been expected. Flood
stage Is 15 feet.
Except for last year's disastrous
30-foot flood, it was the highest
flood level in 15 year and fore
casts did not say that this would
be the peak.
In the upper valley a dozen
homes were flooded near Okano
gan, and a thousand acres inun
dated near Tor.asket.
Hard rains complicated the
dike - strengthening operation
near Bonners Ferry, washing out
or making nearly Impassable some
secondary forest service road
near the dikes.
With the Snake river cret not
certain, the Portland weather bur
eau told the lower Columbia area
that "the outlook is not quite as
good" as earlier believed.
At that the expected 23 R-foot
level at Vancouver on Saturday
will be more than six feet under
lat year's flood.
At Kalama. Wash, a shingle
m:il and a plywood plant were
closed by high water.
SCIO JOINS FAST TIME
SCIO. May 17 This community
has also decided to join the grow
in glist of Willamette valley towns
going on daylight saving time.
Clocks here will be advanced at
midnight on Wednesday. May 18,
when this towns moves to the fast-
. er time schedule.
the ! It la considered probable, how
the j ever, that provision will be in
cluded for the rerouting of traffic
on 99 E through Salem. The by
pass route will be postponed be
cause of its cost.
Mayor Elfstrom thanked the
commission for the work of En
gineer Baldock and his staff in
preparing tha plan and said that
while there had been opposition to
certain features tha council had
voted to cooperate with the com
mission, and that other organiza
tions had approved tha general
plan.
City Manager Franzen then out
lined tha step-by-step resolution
adopted by the city council and
furnished maps showing changes
proposed for north Salem entrance
of ME.
Charles A. Sprague, who had
previously urged the bridge loca
tion oa Division street, reported
May It. 1949
The first report, that three
quarters af a pound of the ur
anium had disappeared, had
caused considerable excitement
In the capital.
I-at March. Mexican secret
police reported that a capsule
af uranium 235 had been found
an the person of a Mexican
crossing the border from the
I'nited States.
However, Attorney General
Franc Iocs Gonsales De La
Vega later said that the ma
terial was not uranium 235.
At Frankfurt. Oermany. on
April 29. nine Oermans were
arrested for allegedly trying to
sell four and a half pounds af
uranium are for 10.000.000
Deutsrhesmark ($3. 00. 000).
An army spokesman said the
arrests followed six weeks of
investigation but the source of
the mineral had not been dis
covered. ced to turn back after flying as
far as Gates. Young said another
I attempt w ill be made w hen wea
; ther permits.
j C. W. Nelson, of the state aer-
'onautics department here, said the
! object under investigation is loca
ted near the top of a high moun
tain southeast of the Detroit dam
site and in Linn county.
Three persons have reported
what appears to be a wrecked
plane. Nelson said. These Include
Marion County Deputy Sheriff
. Lawrence Wright, and two engin
ers employed in surveying oper
ations at the Detroit damsite.
Nelson said the wreckage, If it
is such, could b ona of threa
planes unaccounted for during tha
past few years. A ground crew
did not attempt to reach the spot
Tuesday but such a crew may b
used later.
Judge Orders
Eisler Bonds
Forfeiture
WASHINGTON. Mav 17--AVA
federal judge today ordered the
forfeiture of $2f000 in bond
posted by communist Gerhart
Eisler.
A stay-in-jail-r-etu h w arrant for
the arrest of the fugitive red lead
er if and when he is exti added
from England also v as in.ed by
U. S District Judge Jarrie W.
Morris.
Judge Morris signed order de
claring that Eisler. alleged Inirifr
No. 1 cornmunit who skipped the
country May 6 a a stowaway on
the Polish liner P.atory. is Ineli
gible for further freedom on bail
while hi. appeals are pending in
two criminal cases here.
The $20,000 bond had leen
posted by the civ il rights congress,
an alleged communist front .r
ganization. An additional $3,S00
bond, posted in New York in con
nection w ith a deportat;on case
against Eisler, was not affected by
today's action.
DyMnlfry.(ji,est Up
In .Marion (xnintv Area
Dysentery rtses totaling 20 fn
Salem and 5 in institutions were
' reported for the w eek just ended
by Dr. W. J. Stone, Marion county
health officer. Cae of mumpa
jumped to 10 from four reported
j the previous week within Salem,
i Measles continued at last week's
rate with 51 cases again reported
About half of them were in other
parts of the county.
that the long range planning com
mission had concurred in the Bal
dock recommendation though
there was difference of opinion in
the. matter. He based, willingness
to accept the Marion street loca
tion on the engineer's report that
by directing traffic on bridges and
connecting streets one-way a
greater volume could be handled
than with the: Division street plan
and two-directional traffic. He
warned, however, that to pinpoint
bridge traffic at the head of Edge
water street j would force early
ennstruction of the parallel road
along the river to relieve conges
tion. Mayor Walter Mus grave report
ed that the West Salem council
had endorsed the plan and was
well pleased j with its provisions
for that side of the river.
(Sory also on page 2)
PRICE 5c
No. 58
Rainfall
Of Foot at
Ft. Wortli
FORT WORTH. Teit.. Mar 1?
(AF) Flood waters from a J2 .
ipch cloudburst left IJ.200 pcrfc-na
homeless, six known drowned, arid
yo missing today. i
The figure on homeless cam
from a Red Cross survey. Tha
flood, latest result ot series! f t
storms w hich ravaged parts rf tha
Texas panhandle and North Tfx
as. cut off the city's water surfly.
Army Sends Aid j
Two 500 gallon ar hour water
purification units Were being
rushed here from ! the arrny'a
Camp Hood. The state health tie
partment said it was; sending JO,
000 units Of typhoid vaccine, j
Dallas sent eight 1 1,500-gsllon
water trucks here to haul drink
ing water, and two big pumping
Mation motors. I j
Flooding was greatest herefru
West Seventh street. mile and
half from downtown; and In 1ha)
heart of the automobile, urdr,
and trailer court business district.
Water in spots was as deep an It
feet j
The high water, foiling down
the Trinity river, threatened tha
lowlands of Oalla. 3i) miles to tha
cast.
Tornado Lashes
Elsewhere in Texas a torrf.do
lashed early tonight !at the eciin
tryside four miW northwest) of
Spur. Tex., In the south ph.ina.
Mrs. W. S. Camel, wife of a fuu r-
al home operator, siid two perM-ina
were killed, and eight injured.) Aa
the rain struck here last night
ancther tornado vv$ hitting tha)
Texas and Oklahom-4 panhandWs.
killing a farmer In Oklahoma .rid
Injuring three at S'.rJt.fnrd, Te.
Fourteen terson Hvere treaud
In Fort Worth hospitals today J.
shock and exposura. j
Levees Break j f
Fovir major levees broke here at
muddy, deprls-fllled " -water sa
rapidly fn this city of 340.0nn ro
ple. Texas' third largest. Thrnnl
came about 10 a. m.; and for sev
eral hours water dropped at tis
a foot an hour. J i.
But levees in the eastern part f
the city and In a -tjon east rf tha
downtown aiea wera still thMM-
ned -
Police Chief Hob ert estin.a
ted that a tenth of the city's Ird
area was under vva'.er. j
Cttv Manager W. 0 Jones laid
it would be at leas, four davs l
fr.re water pump ciuld be dlil
and relieve the paralyed wtnr
SUpplv. i
Travel Halted j i
The torrential rfds began ).
last flight ard continued ur.til
alxut dawn, accompanied byise''
vcre lightning. Evert stream dl
arrovo burst its hanks. Put ;tra)
gre.-tet damage from : To
rt fork of the Tnr.lty river. Tra
mztn river overflo w ed In low )ar !a
at Dallas, where the V. S. weathe
bureau warned a ;maJor fl'l
threatened. j '
Automobile travel downtewn
from west and mrh sectiontl rf
Fort Worth was stopped by hih
water. Tha Texas an 1 Pacific ri il
roftd started a shuttle, train serv
ice to the north and west sect iron.
Homeless found food, clotbinjr.
shelter and medical: attention i
the city's huge Will Rogers Mem
orial coliseum, at coliseum exhib
it buildings, at schools, churrhea.
nd the Craswel air force base.
About 1,200 persons sought rhel-
, ter at the coliseum during the ft
trr.wn The ReH Cross said it Wfa
planning to house and feed them.
It increased its relief grant to
.50.000. j
Feclje Slates Talks
At High Schools I
j
Dr. R. A. Fedje, district purer
intendent of the Methodist Church
here, is slated to deliver the tfce
ca laureate sermon at two riijrh
tchools next Sunday May 22 rd
a commencement address at a
third school in Junev J
The sermons will be given at
Milwaukee high school at 2:30 p.
m. snd at llalsey high school at
8 p m. The commencement addieaa
will be delivered at Silverton high
school on June 1 st p.m. ;
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