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Newspaper Page TextM m i m ;..! i4 I t ii I ii i rZi 1 1 i ii it I yl it i n n n h.iiii.i ii.m m A l c. I L. vi U w I U If I LJ U I 1711 rl II II I i rataraili Fair laSar, waanaaaar. 1 J J I L L . J V JC ,JI ihw Ml " 3 C. " J S THICK flVK IKNTH !" KLAMATH ALI.H, OltKUON, T"" '"IIMT (Telephone 8111) No. 10OTZ Heal EstateMtle Gains Dteat . M - In The , ly FRANK JK.NKINM ON tho world news front, the eco linnilo conference In 1'nrla ap pears to have enrird In annthor blind allry. Russia's Mulotov hui virtually Vetoed our plan to ttrt Western Kuruiw buck to growing crops mid innklng things Instead of lendlllg II IU time raising hell. WITH till confcrimcc Hint COULD huve done to much to net tlie woild out ut the ditch mid buck on the pavement atopiml dead In lla Hack, our btate Brcri'laiy Mnrahull saya In aiwcdi at a Washington luncheon today thai charge that the United btatca ha "Imperialistic anna" la "mallcluua Ulaturlloit." lie adda: "lllatoncal record clearly alio that no people ever acted more gen rroualy and more unarlllalily than the Amcilcaii people have ailed In tendering assistance to alleviate ul Ires and suffering." THAT Is llatly true. There an NO uiiierlalit aluia in thla country. Instead, there l NOTHINO we would all like ao much aa to OET OUT ol the meat we have got ouraelvea Into through out the world and retire behind our own fence to pleasant We ol MINDING OUR OWN bUaiNKtth. Instead of shipping our food and nur inanulacluicd product abroad lor other iwoplo to uae. wed simply 1X)VK to keep them at home for our OWN use. We need them. e arc badly ahorl ouraelvea. . ONLY a atrong aeiue of duty Im pel ua to try to help other people. in.ririi are ao eonalltuted Uml Uicv can't ee a man atarving to tlrnill without trying W Irrd nun. That la the long and ahorl of our "meddling" In world atlalra. a THIS 1 becoming cleur: Unless a miracle happen, the idea of ONK WOltU), with every ixKiy helping evrrybody else lu the pinchra. la dead. ' KU88IA HAS KILLED IT. Why? Well. It looka aa If Riuaia U aet on a communist world or nothing. WK have hoped at limes almoal feveruhly thai It might be pos alble for comniunlam and freedom of tho Individual to get along to gethereach minding It own af fair anC going It own way. THAT doesn't ncein to work. In China where peace and co operation are certainly aa badly needed a In any place III tho world at any time In history the coin inuniaui and the anU-commuulai inm to be getting ready 4r a fight to the death. In Prance war-weary, sick, dis llluaioped. cynical the anil-coin-niunist are apparently ready to J-'IOHT AOAIN rather than have commuiilam forced upon Ihcm. That la about all we can make ao fur out of till "llluck Mnqula" buaineM whoae objective aeenu to have been to atop rommunlam In Prance at any out. a WITH communism and ami-corn. " munlain apparently a liiaom putlble u oil and water, with Kua- m apparently aol UKin WOULD CHAOS aa the means of promoting world communlaiii, this I a time for acrlou thinking on our pari. WHAT AKB WK OOINO TO DO AUOUT IT? THK only aenalble thing for us to 1 do In Ui keep strong. If we are lo keep ourselves strong, wo must WOHK TOOETHUH. Working to gether In the hard yenra that fol lowed December 7, 1941, wo won a war that by all Hie old mllltnry rules we lind no chance to win. As Inle as mld-l(M4. our side was licked. American production, based upon complete ana amazing co-operation, turned tho tide that was running against us and brought victory. If we could do thai then, -we can do It now. Hut we've got lo get started at the Job. Our factions have got to quit biting each other hi the leg. Day's km Greta Gale, Lost For Two Days In Wilds ut Lassen I, ASHEN NATIONAL PARK, Calif, July 1 (Pi Shivering In the 26-rin. greo mountain cold, but otherwise unharmed, two and a half-year-old Greta Mary Oale was found early today on the boulder-strewn sides of Mt, Harkness after n 48-liour search. alio was found Just 13 hours after ner gnuuiraincr, former Congress man John H. Tolan of Oakland, died of a heart attack Induced by Hie shock of her disappearance Sun day from tho Tolan summer home in tins Plumas counly mountain area. ' Oreta was found by Francis W. Keeler, 43, a state lion hunter of French Gulch, about 8 a. m. less than n mllo from the cabin. Bie was rushed to Westwood hos pital by her tearful parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Oale Jr., for examination and treatment for hun ger and exposure after two nights and a day In tho mountain wilder ness, Playing A Oame With the perversity of childhood, little "Greta apparently had been playing her own version of hid and seek with frantic searchers, who Basin Crop Prospects Held Good ily IIAI.K KCAItllltOI (ill Of the overall Klamath baaln eeonomle picture at the halfway mark of 1047, the a pot devoted to farming lonka I lip brightest. The flral half of 1047 haa been a good one for bualnraa. but there may be a alight downward trend In the aalea volume of esnrndutile cooda during the nest ais mouths. The oft-predlcled business reces sion Is not In sight, but likewise It's not Impossible. Tuklng the brighter corner first, spuds, grain and hay. the three rlilrt agricultural crops of the Klamath rounlry. are exected to bring prices aa good or better this fall a in HMD. What Income will be lost by decreased spud acreages will be made up In Increased barlry plantings. That's contingent upon a good season. Recent frosty have caused some damage but not enough to really hurt. If the farmer ralaea a good crop this year, financial men agree he'll gel a good price for IU . All Time High Last year's Klamath basin's gross farm Income reached about 'JUlt millions, an nil -1 line high. Mitchell Tlllotson, manager of the local branch, first National bank, be lieve the total this year will equal that dollar figure. flight now cattle are bringing probably the best price In history, moat selling on contract for IMS to 'JO'i cents per pound on the hoof. Lambs all went for high prices. The hog population In this part of the country Is low but the price Is still going up and the population la ex pected to follow. The area' new farmers, the Tule lake homesteaders, should be hil ling It lucky. Many of Uiem, If not all, had to fo Into debt to gel started and heed a baiuicr year lo pull out of the red. ' On the retail aide volume of sales have been high for the past six mon' a. but lower than last year. Mounting price have cut the turn over of goods. Generally profit have been good all over, bill a re adjustment I due and III many lyie of businesses Hie future profit picture Is cloudy. Curve Downward The profit curve In "soft" good everyday usable Hems Is" on a (Canllaste an Pas II. C'alumn II , Ship Strike Grips Ports NEW YORK. July 1 (j-a alrike of CIO shipyard workers previ ously confined to 10 yards In four siaies spreaa to amiltlounl East mid Oulf const plant today as a walkout of 80.000 more unionists got uniirrway uireaieiung a shlitrtown of virtually all major shtp-bulldliig and repair work on the Atlantic coast. The new walkout begun at 13:01 m. and announced In Camden. N. J., by an official of local 1 of the Industrial Union of Marine and (Shipbuilding1 Workers brought to approximately 130,000 the number of men Involved In the strike some 42.000 having struck last Thursday In 10 plants In Maryland. Massa chusetts. New Jersey and New York. "The strike Is on," the union of ficial, who declined to be Identified by, name, said shortly after mid night. "The strike will affect at least 33 of the 30 shipyards on the East and Oulf consts." Bulletin Radio station KFJI, 1240 k.r will earry a broadcast of the (linger Hnapp-Kmerv Jarkson 10 round middleweight fight from Portland tonight, starting at 9:15. The fight will be called from ringside by Paul ('rain, veteran Portland sports announcer. Park Found Safe By Searcher tills morning numbered morn than 700. She told overjoyed members of her family and Keeler that she had scon a searcher and a tracking bloodhound yesterday, but had hid den. "I was afraid of tho mall with the dog," she told Kooler. With Keelor when the child was found was Lee Oalthcr, S3, Los Lonlnos, a hunter and trapper, and his son, Jim, 23. The child's father was nearby on the steep, rldgo, and Immediately took her lb the hos pital In Westwood. Greta was clad onlv In her under shirt, having discarded her pinafore nun uuu uvejuus. She was curled up In a gully on' tho 35-deureo. bolllder-strewn alnnn of Mt. Harkness, which looms over me Toian cabin, Keeler, cutting loose with his pistol to nttroot attentior. rushed over and picked her up. Ho said she Was shivering, but insisted she was not cold. At I.ee's camn. exueiienced moun tain tnen were nma.ed Oreta could have climbed the sharply Inclined River Stay Way p USAtfUV, , Ytw ! : V emergency worker In ollakln and employes of a SI. Louis. Mo., factory pile aand bags around the base of the blinding a water con tinue lo rise. The building la five blocks from the Mlasisslppl shore at normal Umra. Yreka Officers Uncertain On Site Of Medlin Trial YREKA. Calif.. July 1 iADU- trlct Attorney Fred W. Burton said today authorities still were unde cided where to prosecute Mrs. Lu cille Mi-diln, 23. and Hugh Oil reath, held here on charges of as sault wuh Intent lo commit mur der on Mrs. Medlin's 3-year-old daughter, Mury Jluie. Ilurton said thai from the sinned statement given officers bf the couple, who had lived together for Court Upholds Olsen Case 8A1.EM. July 1 ol The state supreme court, meeting for what 111 holies la the laal day until Sep tember 3. upheld today a Klamath county court Judgment In which 75O0 damages were assessed against Dr. Wayne McAtcc. an os teopath, for malpractice In treat ine the broken leu of Harley Ray Olsen, 8-year-old son of H. L. Ol sen. The boy' father brought the suit against Dr. McAlee, charging that Uie osteopath failed to set the leg properly. The decision, by Justice Hall 8. Lusk. upheld Circuit Judge David R, Vandcnberg of Klamath county. The court announced it would hold a conference late today In an effort to clean up all remaining cases. If it Is successful, the court will begin Us summer vacation after the conference. Fishermen Fight It Out ASTORIA, Ore.. July 1 ilPt Two Columbia river fishermen decided to settle a dispute over fishing rights by battling it out witn their Doats and the result loday was two badly biinged-iip boats plus a leg wound for one of the participants, Sheriff Paul Kearney said. He said ti'e wounded man was Mlchell Oreget, 41. Brookflrld fish erman, whose rlRht thigh was struck by a bullet. The sheriff added that Vlnce Demase, Clifton fisherman, adhilttcd firing five shot from his rifle. Both also admitted trying to butt the other's boat away from the river location where each wanted to cast Ills nets, Kearney said. One of the boat was rammed so badly it had to go up on blocks for repairs. slope and survived two nights irf the sharp mountain air. Last night the thermometer dropped to 35 de grees. Greta wandered away from the cabin Sunday while at play with cousins, ad with her mothor near by. Hundreds of searchers were mo bilised, and three square miles of surrounding countryside had been searched before she was found although searchers surmlRed the child had trldo to evade them in her childish game of hide and seek. Even ns she was found, Sheriff Melvin Schooler of Plumas county was awaiting the arrival of track ing hounds at Lee's camp. Congressman Tolan, who was 70, led tho search for his granddaugh ter on Sunday after she disappear ed around 10 a. m. He collapsed of n heart attack and was taken to tho hospital In Westwood, where his condition bo camo progressively worse until his death about fl p. m. yesterday. His wife and two sons were at his bed side. Mrs. Gale, Greta's mothor, Is a daughter. , 1 .m- . t-V-T--, Jr- - 1 "." Je- a year at Selma. Ore., It appeared the "more serious crimes against Mary Jane were committed in Ore gon, rather than In California.- I am Inclined to think a better case could be presented there." The girl was found, badly beaten and unconscious, at Weed, Calif., on June 15. For 10 days, until she was Identified, she W'as known In Siskiyou General hospital here "Little Miss X." Mrs. Medlin. In her statement, annulled having' beaten uie cDiiu, Burton aald. Oilrealh. Burton add ed, aald he took the girl to Weed on the mothers orders. Meantime the girl's father. Vir gil w. i Bill I Meuiln. 28, Portland Ore., who arrived here Saturday, announced plans to ask her custody after charge against the mother and Oilrealh are disposed of. Med lin aald he and his former wife were divorced In Modesto, Calif., a year ago, and that she obtained custody of Mary Jane at the time. Mrs. Medlin s two other children, a girl. 3, and a son only 13 days old nave oeen signed over lor adop lion, the district attorney said. Maquis Head Interviewed PARIS. July 1. OP) A self-de scribed leader of the "Black Ma quis" said today In a clandestine in tervlew that 25,000 armed men were ready to lead "a march to Paris at tne appropriate moment" tr. estab lish an "anti-communist" govern ment. existence of the "Black Maouls" was disclosed yesterday bv lae In terior ministry, whict announced tnai it nad irrested leaders of the movement for plotting to overthrow the republic and enta')".h a "mili tary dictatorship. Maqul Hoar4, In today's Interview the self-de-scribed "Black Mnuiu" boastet1: "For every one of us they arrest mere ire iwo lo luxe nis place The anonymous ; source talked with a reporter for five minutes on a busy corner cf the Champs Ely- sees ociore disappearing down side street. Hotels To Kill Permanent Rate PORTLAND, July 1 IA Some Portland Hotel owners indicated to day they would ellminnte special rates for permanent guests as the result of the lifting of hotel rent controls. Dean Ireland, manager of the Multnomah, said the transient de mand for rooms was so great that few establishments have room for permanent guests'. Baldock Fears For Forest Roads . SALEM, July I (P The failure of congress to Increase forest road funds will seriously retard Oregon s highway program. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said today after returning from Washington. D. C where he urged congressional road committees to Increase the funds. Oregon Is likely to receive only $700,000 a year in forest road funds, compared with $3,500,000 which had oeen sought. Whiskey Supply Held Adequate PORTLAND, July 1 ( Because of a liquor-swapping deal. Oregon Is assured of r. two-year supply of nationally advertised brands of whiskey. so asserted Hugh Klrkpatrlck, Lebanon, chairman of the state liquor control commission, here to day. He said the state sold nearly 8000 barrels of bulk whiskey, stored in the Midwest, to leading dis tillers and In return would go known brands. Taft Backs HST's Plea For Probe WASHINGTON. July 1 Preel dent Truman's pies that congress Investigate what he called the "braxrn operations" of real estate lobbylat today generated a broad aide of clashing reaction with politi cal overtone. The chief executive made his ap peal In assailing the rent control extension bill which he signed re luctantly because of provision per mitting 15 per cent Increases and junking nearly all construction con trols. Brfcker Answer Senator Bricker (R-Ohiol de nounced Mr. Truman's lobby Inquiry proposal as "the cheapest kind of political demagoguery.'' Bui Senator Taft, Bricker's Ohio colleague and like Bricker widely mentioned as an aspirant for the republican presidential nomination, told reporters In commenting on the president's call for a full Investiga tion: "I wouldn't mind doing that my self." Taft Is one of the authors of pending legislation to' aet up a long ranee houainr nrnrr. . wuik M Truman commended and which Bricker condemns. Welcome Probe Arthur W. Blnns. head of the National Home and Propejty Owners foundation, said his group would welcome an Investigation. "Nothing would please us more." Blnns asserted, "than to have the truth spread upon the record and the American people realize the damage that ha been done to them by destructive legislation and ad ministration and false economics." Europe Aid Failure Seen PARIS, July 1 ijp The foreign ministers of Russia, Britain and France discussed Secretary of State Marshall's proposal for American aid to Europe for an hour and a half today, and French sources said there would be another meeting tomorrow afternoon. Earlier there was speculation that today's session Uielr fourth might be the last, since Soviet Foreign MlnLster V-M. Molotov virtually has vetoed Marshall's suggestion. RHlllh VnMlnn C. . C Bevln and French Foreign Minister vjeontra iJiaauit were reported ready to proceed in continental economic plannlngs without the Soviet Union if the conference does end In a deadlock. - Bldault. In an attempt to save the COnferplirP U-ill nffr o Mmnmmlu proposal, the French press agency said earlier. Terms of the proposal were not aiscioseo. B-17 Steps Into New Role PORTLAND. July 1 ;P Art Laccy wanted a B-17. and today he had it right atop his service sta tion at nearby Oak Grove. Lacey bought the 35-ton Flvinir Fortress, one of the late models, as war surplus. He Is having It mount e dover the station to attract cus-, tomers. Proudly he explaineci that it was complete right down to Dart of a Norden bombsight. it lacks r-nchlneguns, however, and Lacey Is looking around for them. He also intends to build a fence of 75 propeller blades, a mail box of a 500- und bomb and to have a barrage ballooon floating over the whole affair. And it will cost onlv $18,000, Lacey said. Training Flights Get Under Way PORTLAND, July 1 (Pv Training flights began today on West Coast Airlines' planned route between Medford and Portland, serving Mc Minnville. Consuls. Eugene and Coos Bay. The airline said regular service would begin July 17 with two round trips scheduled dally. District Man ager Malcolm Havwood said DC -3 planes would be used. Klamath County Lumber Mills To Shut Down For No coordinated holiday shut-down ber plants for the 4th of July, but the concerns are giving employes vacations ranging from three days to two weeks. Big Lakes Box company, Klamath Lumber and Box company, and Ewauna Box company will close Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Weyerhaeuser Timber company has been shut down since June 28 and will remain closed until July 14, period. Company officials say that erhaeuser sufficient time to warrant the vacation over the July holidays, they will gain an extra day. The Kalplne plant closed operations June 27 and will resume work again on July 7. On a similar plan are Klamath Basin Pine mills with a holiday from June 28 to July 7. Klamath Lake Moulding company will shut down its sawmill divi sion oh the 4th, 6th and 6th, and the Spangler plant at Bly from the 3rd to the 8th. George Barthman, secretary and teamsters union, Indicated today three-day holiday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The AF of L car penters, laborers, and building trades unions will follow suit with three days off. Operators Hope To Meet Lewis WASHINGTON, July 1 WP)-floft coal operators. In full possession of their mines for the first time In more than a year, looked to the government today to revive contract talks with John L. Lewis In time lo avert a new strike July 8. The miners' 10-day vacation ends next Tuesday, and only a wage pact with the operator or a court injunction under the new Taft Hartley labor law appears likely to head off another walkout of the 400,000 bituminous coal diggers. Act Expired The pit were restored to private ownership yesterday, when the war time powers under which they were seized expired. The government took over the mines In May, 11146, to end a 59-day strike. A the operators gathered for what they hoped would be a week of head-to-head talks with Lewi' ! Lnil I Mine Workers, they declined to confirm reports that the big .'Northern group nan orrerea lo meet the miner' full wage demand. Lewi Is asking a pay boost of 35 cents an hour, plus the federal mine safety code which he has worked under for the past year of government control, and a ten cent royalty on each ton produced, tor the union welfare and retire ment fund. Rescue Try Ends In Death SEATTLE. July 1 lvP While his horrified wife watched from the shore, John Hankin, Mercer Island navy veteran, drowned yesterday when swept 200 yards by a speed ing tide a ha sought to rescue a 2-year-old boy from the swift wa ters of Johns pass In the San Juan Islands. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd B. Chase of Seattle, was lulled to safety by Mrs. Ed Chava ier of Johns Island as the rushing water carried his unconscious body within a few feet of shore. An Island Airways plane, flagged down as It passed overhead, brought the boy to Seattle where he was recov ering satisfactorily In a hospital. Search for Hankin's body, aban doned because of darkness last night, was to be renewed today. Wreckage Of Plane found PENDLETON. Ore, July t Ufy wrecicage ol a plane has been found about seven miles southeast of Toll gate In the Blue mountains some 40 miles northeast of here. Sheriff R. E. Goad reported today. The wreckage contained one body. Goad said. The body was believed mat oi a jnan. The plane, smashed so badly that the area resident who found It was unable to identify the type, had been down 10-15 days. Goad said it was estimated. The wreckage was just inside Union county. Umatilla county Deputy Roscoe Kelly and Union county sheriff's deputies were en route to the site. Goad believed the wreckage may be that of a plane piloted by C. T. Welton, Dallas. Tex., missing since June 9 en route from Boise, la., to bpokane. wasn. Marshall Hits Soviet Charge WASHINGTON. July 1 (PiSec retary of State Marshall today de nounced as "malicious distortion ' the charges which have emanated from Russian sources thr.; the United States has "imperialist aims" in offering assistance to foreign na tions. Jlarshall told the Women's Na tAial Press club in a luncheon ad dress that "historical records clearly show that no people have ever acted more generously and more unself ishly than tne American people In tendering assistance to alleviate dis tress and ouXJering." At the same time. Iarshall de clared that tne United States would make "demands" regarding the use of Its contributions to world recov ery. He laid down a list of four re quirements for safeguarding the employment of American aid abroad. Snell To Appoint Rent Boards SALEM. July 1 fP) Governor Earl &ell said today he would appoin members of rent control advisory boards as soon as he gets a copy of the new rent control law, which was signed yesterday by President Truman. 'The boards are required under the new law. Varying Holidays is planned by the county's lum giving employes a two-week holiday most employes have been with Wey the two weeks' rest. By getting business agent of the local AF of L that the teamsters will take only a Guard Chief TOT- MaJ. Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer (above) of Westerfield, Conn., was nominated by President Truman to be chief of the war department's national guard bureau. AP wlrephoto. "No Parking II Strict Order A "no parking whatsoever" decree has been issued by Police Chief Or vllle Hamilton for Main street July 4 during the hours of the annual rodeo parade. Chief Hamilton said he wanted Main street from Spring to 2nd cleared by 8 a. m. The parade suns at 10 o'clock. Any cars left on Main after the deadline will be towed to the police station and the owner will have to pay a $3J0 tow charge to redeem his vehicle. When the parade is over, some time around 11 a. m.. the street will be open again and the parking will be free the meters won't be In operation for the day. Hamilton also asked that persons coming to see the parade not double park on the side streets and block traffic A fire truck or ambulance might have to come through. One other point the chief wants people to remember. The new four lane drive on S. 8th look like a speedway, but isn't. The speed limit in the city limit, out to Washburn way. Is 25 mile an hour. The drive should handle the rodeo trafflr . hitt a ,t , -'.( Will be on duty at the East Main-8. 6th uiwraection. Klamath Falls hasn't had a traf fic fatality Inside the city limits since January of 1M. and that kind of record should be kept. Over the holidays, Hamilton warns, take it easy and don't become a statistic. Senate OK's Oil Deal WASHINGTON. Julv 1 WV-The senate foreign relations committee revised and approved today, over the objection of Senator Connally iD-Tex.). the Anglo-American oil agreement Before it acted the committee ap proved three reservations offered by the American petroleum Institute and added two amendments of its own. Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich.) said the revisions were made to spell out the fact that the proposed international petroleum commission will have no power to interfere with either U. S. or British control of tariffs on imports. The API reservations are design ed to make It clear the international commission shall have no author ity over domestic petroleum con trols, that congress shall not en croach on the state's regulator pow ers and that existing legal interna tional contracts shall remain un changed. i 7 '' fix m a! r aCC 1 h'. r Neil Mayf ield Is one of the men who checks meters for the Califor nia Oregon Power company. Here he marks the figure in his boot after reading a neter en Moneiatre street, Thousands Flee Path Of Floods 8T. LOUIH, July 1 Mv New lews) break along a 80-mile stretch o tho Mississippi river forced evacuation of additional thousand today aa 'he rampaging river, already at a, lM-year peak, continued to rise from heavy overnight rains. The town of Dupo, III., (popula tion 2800) eight miles south of here, was abandoned when the rising floodwaters breached a secondary levee on the Illinois Central rail-, road tracks about a mile, behind the first levee which wa abandoned during the night. The waters also by-passed the Missouri Pacific railroad embank ment which saved Dupo In the lass big flood of 1044. 1400 Evacuated The 600 residents of nearby East Carondelet and 800 In the aur rounding area also were evacuated. Eighty miles t tbe south the liver broke the Degognla-Fountaln Waff levee In two spot driving ap proximately 600 person from the vhlagea of Gorham and Neunert, As a result of this break, flood waters pouring down an Inland val ley threatened to Isolate the town' ofOrand Tower, 111., (population Mayor Jesse Crammer estimated about one-third of Grand Tower was In danger of being flooded but aid he expected residents In the higher part of the town would be. able to rare for those forced from then- homes. 40-Foot Stage ' ' The Mississippi reached s 46.1 foot stare here at 10 a. m. with the weather bureau predlotlag s erest of 40.5 this afternoon. Tbo high water mark compare with at 39.14 reading recorded In the 1944 flood which had been the highest since the 4L39 .stage reached nsra in 1844. Army engineers reported the new breaks probably would Inundate 27, 800 acres before the communities of Grand Tower, Oorham and Neun ert and 2600 acres around Dupo and might overspread the big switch ing yards of the Missouri Pacific railroad at Dupo. An earlier break today In the vi cinity of Nameokl and Venice, 111-, just south of St. Louis, threatened to spread over 5000 acres, but the towns were not endangered. Livestock and equipment already had been removed from the newly hit areas. Thousands of volunteers who had been working on the big Degocrnla Pountnln bluff levee, south of Ches ter, 111., previously had abandoned hope of saving the barrier and were transferred dovnstream. Snell Urges Safe Driving SALEM, July 1 (Pi Governor Earl Snell today urged motorists to apply "common sense rules of safety behavior;' to reduce the Fourth of July traffic death toll next week-end. Last year five persons were killed and 155 Injured on July 4th. The toll Is expected to be greater thla year because July 4th comes oa a week-end. House Approves Water Transfer - WASHINGTON, July 1 (Ph-Th house public lands committee ap proved today a resolution by Rep, Welch (R-Calif.) which would au thorize the reclamation bureau to investigate the possibility of trans ferring surplus waters from other basins to Southern California and the Colorado river basin. Welch, in introducing the resolu tion, said he had in mind the Co lumbia river basin in Washington,' where water that could be used In semi-arid Southern California is' running into the sea. The resolution would request the reclamation bureau to make a study of the engineering and economlo Dracticabilitv of such a orolect. ad mittedly a long-range undertaking. tr x64 I 1 X"""