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Newspaper Page TextID " T7TmmrW !' ' " . 'i q ' f. i I'M"' j in yiHgyC '" ' "' 1 i l,U Tito- -( WEATHER ' ' ' lly I HANK JKNKINH TIIKKU'H always it ocrliilii amount of Hunnln III Urn new. Tim top limn mi UHliiy'a mriiu concerns a couple uf U. . nriny offlcnr who were arrested In Km (Mi l ltuatiluii r.onc while Irylim to wiiti'h it parade of North Korun's "people'" iirmy, According to nil account, they worn held uliuiil a hulf hour mid then turned lonac. TMIIH In the iHilnl: General Hodge, our roininiindcr In Korea, snys Hovlrt officers Ihrro have UOMI'I.KTK FIIKKDOM OK MoVKMUNT mid cull Uiko pictures, Including (hone of nillltury parades, wherrnn whrn UUU coplc bruin to alciith around they're arrested. We don't like It nulurully. THIH l probably what cooning: Ituuia hiui net up 11 coinmuntat w government In her purl of Korea J wiui nil AltMY mid nil Iho trim niliiiiii. Figuring Hint "lie hna Uio muiiiiinii netted up, lie II noun pro pue u el the ItUHMIAN nrlliy out of North Koreu. Hhe will Uieii dc inund Hint we net Olill army out of MiiutJi Koren. In that event (presumably) the Ituuluii puppet government would boom down with lu army and CIHA1I MOUTH KOUKA. Whereum the Kuiuna would ahrug their nhuuldcra and any It wan a local rilrkiu and ihey couldn't do anything about It. Thul'n the kind of world we're living in. UIIATS Ihe answer? If we let uurarlvr gel weak and helpleu, the Htinalniia will probably tackle ui. If we amy too atrung to be safely monkeyed Willi, lliry won t. That' about Uic long and the hurt of It QN the home fronl. eounomlala of the department of agriculture tell tut not to get too hopeful about lower meat, price. Meal. Ihey aay, la really nearer now and In getting scarcer becaiuve the number of meal anlnmla on farms la decrcwOng Keep your finger crowied. If HO million people ate a Utile Icm meat every day, It wouldn't be o acurre. You never cun lell what people will do. CAM BALIXK.K, Oregon I alal highway engineer, anya Uila morn ing a proKed bridge over the Wil lamette at Independence would now coot fvoo.Oou, whereua III 11140 it would hnve nt about 1450.000. The route. In at prenent nerved by a free ferry. Again i Tha auie of Oregon MIGHT de- f ride to CIO ON nerving Die route by a free ferry. When thlnga are priced higher than people want to pay, you never cnlt lell what will hnppen. . roil thnl reawn, nil economy built on prices thnl urn loo high In al ways ahnky. Uemden who wiinu to live In a country w here you hnve lo be nlwuyu DOING WITHOUT things? That In what hna ham alrung Die bulk of Europe. Ho let go on hoping prices come down put enough, but nut loo much. Thnl would fix u up beuutlfully. pKKU GOTT8C1IALK, President of the Forest Product Research so ciety, aaya 1.1 I'ortlnnd llml Uio lime In likely to come when alcohol pro duced from woodwnsle III Uie Pnclflc Northwest limy couiiete with gaso llna and oil. It enn now be pro duced for about 30 ccnta per gallon, he adds, and with bigger volume cun be mnde cheaper. When will that be? Ooltnchnlk nays u will happen when Incrcnacd unea are found for the by-products of wood distillation. At present, lignln la the big by product uiul no far It la mystery. Find what to with lignln lut pro fill und n vnnt new Industry will be !-"Med for the Northwest. WHO anya there'! no future for amnrt young men In this coun try? NOIIODY but Ihe snps und the drmngogucs. , Television Is Near Reality NF.W YORK, Feb. 17 wIV Lawrence Phillips, director of the Diimonl network, mild today tele vision already la nvnllnble to a po tential audience of 91,000.000 persons. Phillips, In nn Address to the ad vertising women of New York, pre dicted Unit SO television stations would be In opera Hon by the end of 1048. Ho iilso forccanl that 750, (100 receiving sets would bo distri buted during the your, FBI Probes Vet Complqints Of Cheating On Housing WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 lIV-Fill , built. One man, he said, cut the Wilts nic. working un complaints fnlm llmunnuda of ox-GI's that they were cheated on veterans' housing. A Justice drpitrl incut, official who dlhelosed this today snld reports .if ( liiM'Hiiu by oiilldi'in have come hi tioiu nearly every part of Ihe cniin- ti.- The larne.it mimlii'i', ho mild, arc from Los Angeles, llnltlmiirc, New York, New Oilrnns Miami, Dallas nnd Chicago. - Morris Vomer, compliance offi cer for the housing expediter, snld 20,000 former soldiers have appealed to hln division alone. Vcrner nnld snmo contractors left a full room out of the houses, they I'ltlt.'K HVK CKNTH. Sheriff's Race Dies Down After Seven File For Job; Langslet Up For Treasurer No iimrr ,mi.rrllvr ulirrlffh gtil Ihrtr iiamn mlefrd In the Irngthjr llkt of rmilttittr toitay thrrc iirr now alx rrjiuhllriin and one demo crat. n lirful hut thr riling itrttdllnr in ui 111 ovrr Oif-re wrrki dliUnt, plriity of llmr for mure to romr In. Suiiir onlookrra nr rkprrtliig round docrn rundldutrg for nom ination to the ahrrlff'i offlre for thr Mity l prlnmry, mkliig Umt pur tlruhtr run wntrtlilnc of pipuluu record for numm on the ballot One euiiiMduU did pity a 120 fllliitc Meyers Up On Tax Count IIAl.TI.MOItK. Feb. 17 I.1V-A fed ernl grnnil Jury loduy Indlrtrd re llrrtl Ma, den. Ilrnnell I). Meyrra on a charge he evaded sT&.G?tK worth of lltrome Uarn. Meyera wai the army air forces No. t equipment buyer during the ttnr nnd eeulrnl figure of n nelmn llonal lltveallfallnll In Wnahltigloll. The dnpjier M-ycurold nriny cu reer mull wun nccuncd trxlny of re pcrllng of t:ioa income in lull when he nctiully made 3(U0I. Kcdernl prosecutorn explulurd ni'iiitn 01 ueiiemi Meyers income nlld lllK nuvmenln fur more recent ymra are noi yet complete Time I'p Toduy'a chnige wun filed because i the time In which a 10-11 violation ' must be prosecuted In about to run i out. i At hln Long Isluitd estuie Oeu. j Meyers nnld Ihe government chnrgc ! Ii "ubsotuiely ridiculous." The Indlrtmenl aald he "wilfully and knowingly" attempted to "de- i fral and evade" a 11141 Income tax or 115.11.14 by making a "false and liuudulent" return on which he paid alll.M. Revelations that ihe gcncrtl made peraonal profits In aircraft prnducln led It nevertil Inventiga- Uonn hint fall Clcn. H. H. Arnold, wnrtime com mander of the air forcen, told a congressional henrlng Meyers wan a "rctlen niiple" and n "dlngraca to Ihr uniform." Meyers also Is under fcdeml In dictment In WushliiKion on charges he lied to a senate inresllgallng committee nnd Induced an asso ciate to back him up. Jail Break Artist Nailed PORTLAND. Feb. 17 lift Wealey L Davis whose toothache aided In one of four all breaks he marie .n 1IMII. Is In ngnlii Tile 30-ycur-uld Portluiuler was arrrsted Inst nlghl by Detectives Vern McCnue and Gordon Putnam or charges of grand larceny and encniie. Police department records outline Ills busy 1946 this way: In January he escaped from the county Jail at Mount Vernon. Wush., but was recaptured nnd Inter paroled, in November, In Jml a. linker on a enr theft churgc, he complained of toulhnche and re turning from 'he dentist's, broke nwny from the sheriff. He wus re enptured and paroled to hln father Ir. Portland. Shortly therenfter lis was nrresled at Welser. Ida., on Portland mnlorcyclc theft chnrgc but fled nt the Jnll door. Jailed ngnln nt Vnle. he tried to escape hut failed. In December, he sawed hlr way out of the Portlnnd city Jail. McCnlie snld Davis reported he subsequent ly had been In the Kun sns stnlo reformatory. Stalin Effigy Found In Seattle SEATTLE. Feb. 17 Vvf-K stuffed. Ilfc-slzed dummy Inbeled "Joe Stalin" was found swinging 40 feet beneath Seattle's Aurora bridge early todny. The figure wns tied by a rope to a girder under the bridge. The dummy, unrccognlr.nblc but for Iho sign, had a fare typical of a snow man, and wits dressed In n cap, Jncket, punts and shoes. There, wnn no Indication of the porpetrntors' Identity. width of each house in a row by ouo foot no ho could get more houses In a block. The compliance division In sup posed lu sec llml homo builders and sillers live up lo regulations In the housing Inw, Vcrner snld his stuff hut been swiimped. ' Tho Justice department official, who would not permit use of his niimc, snld Attorney aciiernl Chirk hits placed one of his nnslslnntn In charge of tho investlgnllon. It will ful violations of the rules are turned tip they will bo handed to U. 8. district nttnrneyn for nctlnn. In some enscs, Injunction suits may be filed Instead of criminal proceedings. Irf--'1 Am m ii m Ki.lniri ii i .. iiiL.nwt r ' i i ' . , in nn n urn mi. n n law i fi-c at the county clerk' office thla inoiiiln:;, Dnnocrut Chct Liu.KAlet for county tmtMirrr. LanKtlet 1m the iiH'ijuilM-nt. huvlnu brrn treajnirer i for eight ycnin. A., yet Ijuignlci hun no opiKtslilon. eithrr 'ii his own pnrly or from the repubhenn camp. Iloltrat Knee Ihe nhcriff's oiflcc aiKil u the one j which ha- developed vinuully all i Uie l(x-ul Intcreai, und aince Lloyd Low took his thuiuo out of the hole ' lu the dike Inst Friday by nunounc I lug he would not run nguln after nix terms these iiernons have an nounced. In order of filing: 1. Joe K. Oieen, ex-niuriue, for mer county fuller nnd now a used cur nulcMiinn, repubhenn. 'I. l-'enton Muhrf, wnr veterun, ChihKiuhi police chief, repubhenn. I J. ueorgv uerimgs, war veteran, i ,i(ir m.tmny employe, republl- cuu. 4. Juck Liiikciihuch. long-time clly Klicemuli. u. Karl II. Oehllnger. wur.vcl emn. Henley farmer, repubhenn. 6. W. K. bwignrt, nuctioneer, re publican. j 7. titdncy Herbert, uuvy veterun, i former county Juliet, democrnl. eotne of the other persons being mentioned ns oMibie or even i pri bablc cnndidiiies me Dale Mut ; toon and Juck Praney, reinibhcuns; Willis i'unkey and Mike Williams, j democrats. 1-cmon Muhrl of Chlloquin, second ' lo file, lu a prepared statement listed hln experience in police work an city putrolmiui In Klumulh Palls j before Uie war. chief of un invent! gallon unit wun uie lnternui secur ity division of the department of Ihe interior, deputy Indian service officer and iita pre&cul Job an pollen chief of Chlloquin. He Is 3b, married and has four children. Auctioneer Another enmpntgu statement wan made by W. F. Swigiirt, called "Col onel" in his auctioneering profes sion. Col. Swignrt has lived in Klnuiitlh county 27 years and hnn made a career of auctioneering He lives nt 6718 S. 6th and Is co-owner of the Summers Lane auction mart. Also on the political scene but from a different angle. Mrs. Olive Cornell, widow of Uie late Marshall . Cornell, president of Ihe stale sennte, wired The Herald nnd News today that her Intended filing for the post of repubhenn conimlttee womnn from Oregon wnn being de layed by illness. Mm. Cornett Is now in Santa Ana. Cnhf., and contracted a severe cold there. She plans to go to Hemet, Cnllf., for treatment before return ing to Oregon. Pine Men To Go To Meet Severn! Klamath county lumber men were planning to take off this week for 8nn Francisco to attend the Western Pine association's an nual one-dny members' meeting at the Pnlnce hotel. All lumbermen In the county were not contacted today but among those who said they were going to the association sesslun were, Ralph R. Macartney, manager of Weycr hnruser Timber company, nnd Jnck Bishop, Weyerhaeuser snlcsmnnngcr; G. C. Baxter, sales mnnnger nnd Robert Hansen. logglnR super intendent of Palmerton Lumber company: George Butler, mill man ager of Ivory Pine compnny nt Bly. Loren 'Palmerton of Palmerton Lumber company Is In the south at the present time nnd may attend the meeting nnd K. P. Ivory, head of Ivory Pine, Is n patient nt Stnnford Lnnc hospital In Snn Francisco and it wns not known whether Ivory would stny for the meeting or not. Bus Strike Meet Called SEATTLE. Efb. 17 (A Northwest Greyhound Linen nnd union repre sentatives were to meet this after noon in n resumption of negotiations designed lo avert n crippling Pnclflc Northwest bus strike. Negotiations have been dead locked for three months over de mands of the AFL Motor Conch Employes' union, Incnl llfil, Port lnnd, for a 20-ceul nn hour pay Increase. The union rejected a com pnny offer of a S-cent boost last month, nnd empowered Its negotia tors to tnke strike action If n satis factory contract cannot be obtained. Federal Conciliator William a. Hosle nnld today's meeting would be held In his office. KI.AMATII FAI.I.H, ORKGON, TtKHDAV. Tliia contraption it a reel unit RL-26-A, in military parlance, and In nted in the back end of a track for laying or picking up simultaneously two strands of communication wire. The reels on this unit are motor operated nnd were being uncrnted tor nn equipment display coming up for Nntional Guard recruit ing week slated for the first week In March. Looking on. left to right. Pvt. Vernon Kennfi. Pvt. Dalton James, and SSgt. A. F. Brockle. Senate Banking Committee Favors Rent Curb Extension WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 oV-The t Tenants who already have agreed senuie banking committee unani- to a 15 per cent rent boost could not uiously luvors extending rent con- be charged another one. said Sena trols 14 months with some changes. tor Cain iR.-Wash.l. chairman of The house banking committee hns i a banking subcommittee on. rents, voted 18 to 5 to continue the exist- I Rep. Wolcott (R.-Mlch.), cnair mg law 'as is" for one month. It man f the house banking commit would decide later about a longer tee, said the "door will be open" for extension and any changes. , possible house action this month. But members of both committees ; on , longer extension than the one predictcd toduy Uie house and the ! month plan his group voted yester sennlc will get together on one of day. the two proposals or a compromise by February 29. The present law expires then. . Its bill would permit rent in creases up to 15 per cent where tenants and landlords agreed on a lra.se running through 1949. The present law, up to the start of this year, allowed Increases of the snme amount to return for a lens good through 1948. Cab Driver Shot To Death PITTSBURGH. Feb. 17 (Pi A 2b-ycar-old uixicnb driver one of 1100 on strike ngninst the Yellow Cub company - was shot and killed or a downtown street corner enr'y todny. Police Inspector Edward Ma. is snld Die victim was Louis E. Di Leu bo. Witnesses, , lcludlng sovernl other Yellow drivers, w ere quoted by Mans as saying one shot wns fired from a passing tnxi uito a crowd of eight or 10 tnxl men standing on a street corner In Pittsburgh's Golden tri angle. The bullet struck DI Lenbo In the hend. The strike of Yellow drivers started Sunday morning. Members of the AFL-Tnxl Drivers union, are asking thnl their pay be raised from 45 to 54 per cent of meter re ceipts. The company snld It could not nfford lo pny the higher rate: Earlier, Police Superintendent Hiirvey Scott ordered extra police protection for working cnb drivers. No Tobacco That's An Order NEW YORK. Feb. 17 IIP Mount ed Pntrolninii Jnmes Whlpper doesn't mind strangers feeding his horse. Apples, carrots sugar? Oknyl Tobnrco? No! Wlpper brought a man Into Mag istrate Abraham Bloch'a Upper Manhattan court Inst night nnd testified: "He wns feeding chcwng tobacco to 'Trader'." - .' Tho man plended guilty, but Blorh suspended sentence on the man's promise he would not offer a chew lo any more horses. IKHKUAItV 17, Kits Telephone 8111 National Guard Men Look Over Reel Unit 'A Besides the rent increase provi sions, the senate committee bill also would: 1. Impose a penally up to one year In Jail and a $1000 fine on any wilful violator. This would apply, for example. If a landlord were found guilty of raising the rent be fore May, 1949. of any tenant who signed a lease originally intended to run only through 1948. 2. Remove control on all dwellings which rent for $225 or more. 3. Permit the rent administrator to remove controls on rooming or boarding houses if he saw fit. 4. End controls on non-housekeeping rooms in private homes. 5. Require landlords to give a 60 day notice for eviction on any grounds except tal non-payment of rent or lb) where the tenant hns become a nuisance. In these two cases, local Inw would apply. All eviction cases were made subject to local rather thnn federal Inw In the expiring control Inw. 6. Permit eviction, with 60-dny notice, where extensive remodeling or alteration to provide more dwell ings Is plnnned. 7. Remove bnns on use of senrce building materials for recreation plnces, such ns bowling alleys. Land Unit Date March 15th Everything Is pointing lo having Ihe homestead drawing March 15, ns planned, U. S. reclamation bureau officials stated todny. Of the 4024 applicants re ceived for the 44 homesteads to be opened In the Coppock Bay area of Northern California, there were around 1000 rejections. Some 300 appeals have been received on these to dntc. The nppeals hnve been sent to the review board in the U8BR reglonnl office, Sacramento nnd applicants will be notified on the decision of the bonrd. All rejections were mailed out last Friday nnd due time will be allowed for appeals to be mnde. When the allotted time hns elnpsed the Sacra mento bonrd will convene again. Details for the drawing are be ing worked out and rejected appli cants are urged to get in appeals Immediately if they desire to be opconsidered. V .' )- ..' (f; CT' No. ! rm I S ' 'S. .-A (4: f., 1 If. Puerto Ricans Plan Protest SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Feb. 17 oP Police said today youths asking lndpendence would picket President Truman here Saturday. Col. Salvador T. Roigs, insular police chief, said adequate protec tion would be provided both the U. S. president and the picketers. "Provided picketing is carried out peacefully and in an orderly man ner, we have no authority to squelch It," he said. The Puerto Rico youth congress voted Sunday to picket peacefully at Saldorioty Palace in San Juan. Mr. Truman will visit Gov. Jesus T. Pinero. The congress expects to hand him a written request for In dependence. Atom Bomb Test Hinted LOS ANGELES. Feb. 17 oP The Examiner said today it had learned that an atom bomb test in the Arc ti: Is being planned "within the near future.' (In Washington, the navy depart ment denied the report). The Examiner's account said: "With the experiment, scientists will be able to determine effects of atom explosion under almost any condition. Atom bombs will have been exploded in the air. on land, under water and over snow and Ice. ... "Both the navy and the state de partment expect a bitter, official protest by Russia with the an nouncement of the Arctic atom ex plosion. . ." The Examiner said the test will follow a scries of experiments with in the next few months at Entwetok atoll In the Pacific and added thut it probably ' tll be conducted under the same secret conditions,' with "no foreign observers or news men on the scene." Spectator Adds To Burlesque LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 tA The striptease gnls at a local burlesque theater were doing some very, very strange steps, and the stage director wns cnlling them to tnsk.' "You aren't In step with the music," ho complained. "We know It," they answered, "but something is hitting us. nnd it hurls." Police were called and found Wil liam C. Klele. 23. sitting in the eighth row with a rubber slingshot. They said he was peppering the dancers with half -Inch steel stnples. Klele was jailed on charges of suspicion of attack with a deadly weapon. The dancers went on dancing. 8 Homes Hit At Washington Ross Dam Site SEATTLE, Feb. 17 lP A huge snowslide killed two persona, In jured three others nnd demolished eight homes of construction worker! last night at floss dam on the Skagit river. Report of the tragedy snld the slide roared down at 10:10 p. m., without warning. Two families escaped uninjured from their burled homes. The slide was reported to have narrowly missed bunkhousea where more than 80 workers were living. Rons dam Is a project of Seattle a munlclpally-owned city light system. The dead were identified as Mrs. C. A. Royce, wife of the camp's chief electrician, and Eli Newcomb. The latter wan the father of welder foreman, J. E. Newcomb. The Injured were Royce, K. G. Johnson, a rigger boss, and Mra. Johnson. The slide buried the homes under 25 to 30 feet of snow, C. W. Wood, Meat Price Skid Halts NEW YORK, Feb, 17 fPEcono mista tossed a wet blanket today on consumers' hopes for farther price cut in meat. 6The meat price dips probably will be short-lived, aaid agriculture de partment economist in Washington. Meat animal on farms are de creasing, they added, and consumer demand I expected to continue hlfh. The warning coincided, however, with an announcement by the New York division of Safeway Stores, Inc., that it was reducing prices on 105 meat Items from two to 10 cents beginning this morning. Price Gain The consumer meanwhile faced price gains on other fronu. The interstate commerce commission told 96 more railroads to raise basic passenger coach fares 13.63 per cent. Price boost also were ordered by Jones and Laughlin Steel corpora tion and the National Supply com pany, but they won't be felt by the consumer a quickly. Jones and Laughlin hiked price M to $10 a ton for steel pipe and the National Supply announced an Increase of K to J12 a ton. The commodity market yesterday had one of the strongest rallies since the big price break began almost two week ago. Grain, hogs and cattle were climb ing when the markets closed. Butter gained in both New York and Chi cago whole??? markets. Ship Rams Log Boom VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 17 (CP) The United States freighter Whlttier Victory sliced through eight sections of a log boom and menaced 10 tugs in Burrard inlet here Monday night as a bunding snow storm and winds up to 63 miles an hour lashed the Northwest Pacific coast. Another deepsea freighter, " the Lake Winnipeg, struck a log boom in the tow of the tug Celnor in English bay. Seven sections were lost. While repair crews worked fever ishly to restore battered telephone, telegraph and railway lines, a new storm, centered approximately 400 miles off Cape Flattery, Wash., was expected to hit the coast late today. The 10.000-ton freighter Whittier Victory had just passed through the First Narrows when it ripped through the log boom. Towina company of ficials said the vessel seemed to go "berserk" for nearly two hours In the snowstorm. Late Spud Bulletin LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 (AP USDA) Potatoes: 44 unbroken, 42 broken cars on track; arrived: Cali fornia 3. Idaho 21, Utah 1, Colorado 1, by truck 10. Idaho Russets No. 1-A, medium, 5.20-35, mostly 5.35; small as low as 5.00. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 (AP USDA) Potatoes: 14 unbroken, 15 broken cars on track; arrived: California 1, Idaho 5. Florida 2, Ore gon 2. Market steady; Klamath Russets No. 1-A, 5.85; 6-02. min imum 6.50; Deschutes bakers No. 1, 6.25; Idnhos, No. 1, 5.40-55. Foreign Relations Group Okays Four-Year ERP Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 ( The senate foreign relations com mittee today formally approved 13 to 0, a four-year European recovery program to be started with $5,300, 000,000 for the first yenr. It decided that $3,000,000,000 of this sum should be financed from Uie 1948 budget surplus. That Is largely a bookkeeping matter but it has certain practical aspects In this political election year. . Here is what It means: $3,000,000,000 would be appropri ated now for a program beginning April 1 and be charged against the government's bookkeeping for the year ending next July 1. But most of the money would not be spent until after July 1. Republicans have been talking strongly about cutting down Presi dent Truman's nearly 840,000.000, 000 budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mlch.) credited the Idea of how the fi nancing should be handled to Chair man MUllkln (R-Colo.) of the senate finance committee. Vandenberg said Mllllkln suggest superintendent for the General Construction company, reported. The Ross dam site is In the Cas cade mountain area of Eastern Whatcom county, about 100 mile northeast of Seattle and a score or so miles from the Canadian border. Railroad Blocked Wood said It was indefinite when the injured could be brought from the rugged area for hospital treat ment because slides are blocking the city light system's railroad be tween Newhalem and Diablo. They were receiving treatment from two doctors at the camp, which can be reached only by a combination of special train and boat travel. Their Injuries were not considered seri ous. Only 100 persons were In the camp when the slide hit because of work interruption due to the bad weather. Crew were still digging for tha bodies of Newcomb and Mrs. Royce this forenoon. Royce, 38, wa formerly of Walla Walla. Johnson, 42, was formerly of Hood River, Ore. The Johnsons' 9-year-old son. Roger, crawled out of their demol ished home without Injuries. The Royce home was hit first. Royce and Mrs. Johnson dug them selves free, according to report from the scene, and Johnson wa rescued after being burled about 20 minutes. J. D. Cook, office manager at the camp, reported the Royce home, a temporary frame structure, waa carried about 150 yards down tha mountainside. He said the ava lanche had a width of about 150 yards, about a quarter of a mil scuth of the dam. He said tha hemes "were crumpled and flat tened out." "My home Is above the camp," he said, "and I didn't know any thing had happened until a work man, dressed in only his underwear, pounded on my door." Navy Aids In Whale Study SAN DIEGO. Calif, Feb. IT m The navy's best underwater ear ("sonar" submarine detector) waa cocked for whales today. A research vessel was attempting to count them and check their speed southward ten miles off San Diego. The experiment was part of a wider study of a migration of whale from Asiatic and North Facifio waters. Aboard the navy vessel were ex perts of that service and the Scripp Institute of Oceanography. They planned to sound out the whales through tonight. D. W. Walker, assistant In tha institution's biology department, said that as far as he knew It was tha first time sonar had been scientif ically used for the purpose. He added that If the experiment is successful a sonar whale station may be set up on the coast of Lower California. Mexico. The influx of the whales down that way is being observed by an ex pedition led by Dr. Carl L. Hubba of the Scrlpps institution. It la financed by Movie Actor Erroll Flynn. CONFAB SEATTLE, Feb. 17 tPt More than 1000 delegates from 35 states are expected here for the 24th annual convention of the Pacific state butter, egg, cheese and poultry as sociation February 22-24, Paul J. Messer, executive secretary, said to day. ed that with the heavy foreign aid burdens in tight for the fiscal year starting July 1, It was "highly de sirable" to allocate part of tha burden back to fiscal 1948 whera there Is a prospective treasury sur plus of between seven and eight billions. President Truman Is on record in favor of using treasury surpluses for debt, rather thnn tax, reduction. The committee also wrote Into tha bill a statement that nations get ting aid must balance their budget as soon as practicable. This waa proposed by Senator Connolly (D Tex.) Vandenberg said Its effect would be to underscore the fnct that bal anced budget are a part of the ob ligations of the recipient nations. Sixteen Western European nation have asked to participate In tin program. They would pledge defin ite steps of their own to restore economic stability In their coun tries. Vandenberg said that the bill, a now approved by tha committee, will be taken up for debate by the senate March 1.