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Costello Faces Jail,
Gambling Chief Held
Guilty of Contempt
11 v .iohn oiiiin: Wallace
NEW, YORK Wl Swarthy,
clunky voiced frutik Conlcllu,
who iwlon stalked mil ul u Senate
Cllinn Committee Iteming nithrr
limn answer uucitltuiin, waa convict
ed Friday nlwhl ql contempt of tho
United males Senate.
The (ll-yrur-old hiiiiiIjIit and
underworld Hgtire, who lour times
previously bent government effort
In dhI lilm behind burn, facea
powilble niuxliiiiiin hPiilrnrr) of 10
Hy FRANK JIJNKINH
From Washington:
"The Truman administration's
clenn-up-tho-povcrnnicnl proitriim
will be run by tho department ol
Jiytleo (vhlcli In itself under In
vestigation) II President. Truman's
choice ol a new u'.lorney general
(Federal Judgo McCirimcry) la con
flinird by the senate."
If I had been lapping the tilt
and Minplclun to Hint effect hud
L'nl nruund and there waa bustnc
like tiilk of calling In an uudltor
to Are what had been going on,
I'm pretty Mire I'D LIKE TO HE
APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE
MYSELF.
A I waa coming up from the
nrwa room thin niurnlni with a
hundful ol teletype copy, one of
the bova In the nhop aald to me:
"Any nood ntwa. today?"
I answered flippantly:
"lliere haan'l been liny GOOD
news In years."
I wna wrong. The copy I held
In mv hand contained a dlspauh
I elating tlint Rncketeer Comello
who fur yeuia has beaten .elforl
t put him behind bara waa CON
VICTED last nlitht of contempt ol
the senate and facea ten years In
prison.
Tliat In good news.
It la ALWAYS good ncwa when
vrongdocrs are punched. Only bv
Minlnhlng WRONGDOERS can we
maintain a moral aoclety.
But there waa a FLY In the
ointment, The dispatch telling of
CoaU'llo'a conviction contained this
paraimph:
"Oovernment Prosecutor Mllea J.
T n,,ft uplift fltiallv trlnnofl tllA llnU
iun-borii racketeer, - hatkd "lh
jury a veraiut, 01 guilty a mm
inn point' he hald It la proof that
no man, 'no matter how cunning
or powerful he mny seem to be,
CAN BK DIGCEK THAN THE
GOVERNMENT ITSELF.' "
I wish he hadn't nut It that way.
I wish he had Mild: "No ONE
MAN can be bigger Ulan THE
PEOPLE."
I ni frankly acared of a federal
government that la WOOER THAN
ANY ONE MAN. I can't help think
Inn ol Gain. Par., the enlightened
and liberal editor and publisher ol
La Prenna, who wna driven Into
exile alter hla moat newspaper
had been conllHcaled bv Die diets
tonally powerful (TOO powerful
government of Argentina.
This dispatch la from New York
-and If you read It understand
Innlv vou will agree tliat It la
significant ot the llmea we live In:
Everybody STOOD AROUND 111
the slock market Uidav (Baturdnyi
end did virtually nothing. Prices
moved over a runite covered by a
major fraction either way. Many
leading stocks held unchanged
throughout the session, and mnny
irlore didn't even trade at all.
"The approaching steel strike
was the cause of the doldrums.
The strike Is act lor midnight
Tuesday, and the steel companies
alrcadv have started shutdown op
erations." n...,-.- r, n,li.n II RTTTFI. IS
TO BE NATIONALIZED as in
England for Uic government has
threatened, you know, to SEIZE
I hi, steel plants If their owners re
IUi to meet the terms hild down
by the novel mucin for settling the
oirlkc.
In Ennlniid. nationalizing of steel
and other Industries lollowcd a vig
orous iiolltlcnl campaign In which
NATIONALIZATION was frankly
MM admittedly the itsue.
There the people deliberately
CHOSE SOCIALISM by their bal
lots. Here socialism Is CREEPING
LP ON US BY STEALTH. Our
ledcral government already holds
the rnllroods and has held them
for a long lime. By this time next
week, It may hold Hie steel Indus-
That would be a long step to
yard socialism and yet the Amer
ican people have NEVER signified
by their voles in an election In
which that was frankly the Issue
that they want socialism,
Here In the West, the federal
oovernment already owns approxi
mately half ol our total land area,
fn the frightening Santa Margarita
rase down In Southern California,
It Is reaching for ownership of the
WATER, without which ALL of our
lend would be valiiuless.
The federal government already
has seized the railroads. It is
threatening now In seize the steel
Industry. What Industry will be the
NEXT to be seized?
I, for one, don't like the trend.
It scares me.
Weaither
FOMX'AST: Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California,
Increasing cloudiness Saturday
night through Sunday, not qulle so
warm.
filch Friday 6.1
Low last nlitht SS
rtrclp Friday 0
Preclp since Oct. I .'...14.15
(Additional weather on pane 13)
a inn -i"ivffliyiwl,i
MVta
bv: ' v
years In prison phi 110,01)1) In
lines, lie was continued In 0.IKKJ
bull pending sentencing Tucsdiiv.
Government Prosecutor Mylcs J.
Luue, who finally tripped the
llullnn - born racketeer, hulled the
jury's guilty verdict as a "turning
point" and said it was proof
that no man "no mutter how cun
ning or powerful tie might aeein
to be, could be nigger than the
government itself."
The iriuiillv culm und poised
Costello, visibly sunken by tho ver
dict, hud ' nothing to any.-'
'I hone were Ills words to news
men us he rose unsteadily to his
i 'HMt jimwmi'wwu'm m"t i1 wwum
;Y' t ""N
FRANK COSTELLO
feel after the Jury had reported
Us decision. The Jury dcllucriitcd
five and a hull hours.
The 'ury. ilsell, hud undergone
some filiulfllng around bv the Judge
In a dramatic last - hour develop
ment In the case. Judge Sylvester
J. Ryan had llred two ol the lururs
and called In alternates.
Phone Strike
Slated Monday
DETROIT I A lleuo of tele
phone service for M states edged
closer Saturday Willi notice, from
the communications workers, chief
thut "agreement doesn't seem pos
sible" before Monday's strike dead
line.
Joseph Belrne. president of the
CIO Communications Workers of
America, predicted disruption of
telephone service In 24 stales and
the District ol Columbia il Western
Electric Co. employes strike as
scheduled at 6 a.m. Monday.
Belrne. whose telephone opera
tors threaten walkouts In Ohio,
Michigan and Northern California,
ays no CWA members anywhere
will cruui Western Electric pick
et lines before telephone exchanges.
Angrily rejecting an oiler ol an
Increase of 13 to 47 a week from
Michigan Bell lor its 18.000 om-
ploye-membera of CWA, Belrne led
for Washington Friday night to or
ganize machinery for "a strike on
a nationwide basis."
The Michigan negotiations had
been regarded as setting the pat
tern for any wage agreements In
Ohio and Northern California and
eventually for Bell Telephone sys
tems throueh'jul the country.
The Bell systems and Western
Electric Co. are owiied by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co. Western Eleclrln manufactures
all Bell equipment and makes its
central swltohboard Installations.
Western Electric has planls,
warehouses or installers located In
all stutes except Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island
and Montana,
Planes Smash.
15 Lives Lost
MOBILE, Ala. ( Salvage
crews dug through the smouldering
wreckage of two entwined All
Force transports Saturday in a
grisly search for the bodies of 15
crewmen and passengers.
They were killed when a C-124
Globcmnslcr II, biggest operational
cargo plane In the U.S. Air Force,
and a C-47 collided In flight over
Mobile Friday night.-
The transports spun earthwa'rd
In flames and landed squarely atop
parked railroad box cars, setting
12 ol them nflrc.
The crash took Place insiria Hie
city llmils a mile north of Mo
bile's business district and a few
blocks west of the Alabama State
docks Industrial area and a battory
of gasoline storage tanks.
Coast Guard and Air Force crash
boats and a Navv hellconter
searched nearby swamps bordering
me Mooue anu icnsaw Kivcra lor
a possible lone survivor. An un
confirmed report said one airman
in the C-47 had parachuted when
the planes rammed.
Both planes were based at Brook
Icy Air Force Base hero,
What caused the collision was not
Immediately determined. The night
was dark but there was no rain or
foj.
MaJ, James C, Caldwell, provost
marshal at. Brookley, said tho
planes apparently locked together
on Impact and cnnic to earth lit a
neap.
ARTS COUNCIL
The Klamath Musical Arts Coun
cil heard regularly over radio sta
tion KFJI 5 to 5:30 p. m. each
mmciay nigni will present tne con
cert hall division In a program of
recorded classical nuislo at 'the
usual hour tomorrow. Russell Soun
ders narrator.
frlte Five Cent 1 Paiea
We Kf
Houses Hit
By Driving
Cargo Ship
Ily GICOIIGK CORNELL
and RONALD Al'TKY
NEW YORK i A twln-cnuined
curgo plane plunged like a bomb
Into densely populated Queens Sat
urday, wrcnklng llumlng havoc on
homes and killing at least live
persons.
The big pliinc. Its motors rour
lng, dived out of a rain-darkened
sky, and nit the curlli with a limn
derous explosion.
Il ripped through the middle ol
one two-story frame house, glanced
Into a cruising police car, then
barreled In blazing, fragments Into
two other nomes.
' Hurtling missiles and spewing
gasoline spread fire and wreckage
over a block-long area in the heart
of the residential Jamaica section
of Queens 10 miles eusl of mid
town New York.
"Il was like everything In the
world came to an end," auld Sam
uel van Noslranu, a parking lot
opera lor.
CARS S.MASIIKI)
A dozen cars In the lot and street
were smashed. One was Hipped on
Us top by the blast. A truck blew
up.
Ilie C - 46 Curtis Commando
plunc, owned by the VS. Airlines.
u cargo carrier, waa trying lor an
instrument landing at New York
International Airport, on Queens'
south edge.
Eyewitnesses said wings of the
plane appeared to fold downward
just beiore the smabup. -Bolli
ol the two - man crew, the
pilot, Capt. William B. Crockett,
and the co-pllol. John Wocrderhoff,
both of Fort Lauderdulc, Fla., were
killed.
Police Inspector Thomas Boylan
died 111 the iniaslied police car.
Bodies of two residents were re
moved from the wrecked buildings.
Others leaped from windows, or
fled irom doorways, seven injured
were Hospitalized.
SKRIKS
The crash was the fifth major
air disaster in tne greater metro
politan area Willi in recent monins
Three crashes in nearby Eliza'
belli. N.J., took a loll ol 119 lives.
Another ulrllner cracked up In Uic
East River, adjoining Mannatlan,
but all aboard were saved.
Saturday's crash turned more
than a block-long area Into a
ccorching Inferno. Rescuers were
kept at a distance, and there was
Utile way ol knowing extent ot the
casualties,
A hcavv rain was lulling, but
alrriorl olllclals said a visibility of
two miles and a celling of 400 feel
prevailed, adequate lor landing.
At tlic scene immense clouds of
smoke swelled into the rain
streaked air, and flames leaped
through the smoke.
At least two houses were demol
ished and lour others were burning
fiercely.
The plane apparently struck one
house, skidded acoss a parking
lot, hit another house, setting It
ulire, and glanced across a street,
hitting still another building.
Tlie area, consisting ol small
apartment houses and stores, was
described as a shambles" by one
onlooker.
CLOSURE
Shortly nfter the crash at 8:25
a.m. (EST. the port of New York
authority operations department
ordered Iulernatlonal Airport
closed for a half . hour.
Six casually stations, two of
them In garages, were set up in
the area. Police sain an oi uicm
were "very crowded."
The Red Cross blood center
rushed 90 units of blood Plasma
and 36 pints of whole blood to
Queens general Hospital.
Three hours after the crash, the
building fires were out, but col
umns of smoke and steam still
floated up Into the rain.
Hundreds of rcscuo workers dug
through shattered buildings, and
other wreckage. Fire hoses snaked
in cluttered confusion about the
streets.
Women's dresses and lingerie, ei
ther blown from houses or the
planes cargo, hung from limbs and
telephone wires, ,
Steel Strike
Peace Sought
NEW YORK lPl Federal Wage
Chief Nnthan Fclnslnger conferred
separately with industry and union
officials Saturday In a lest dllch
attempt to avert a strike of ,700,000
steclworkers on Wednesday,-
He gave no hint whether he was
making any progress.
Felnsltigcr. chairman of the
Wage Stabilization Board, issued
tins statement just before noon:
"I had an Industry meeting this
morning from 9:15 lo 10:30. I have
n tentative meeting with Industry
representatives at i p.m. I am now
going Into a meeting with the union
representatives."' r
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SHARING THEIR TALENTS A' 65-voice choir from Roosevelt School Friday after
noon shared its talents at Klamath County Rest Home by presenting a dinner concert
and community sing for patients at the home. The.; outing was part of the Roosevelt
School Junior, Red Cross project of "Serve and Share Talents.'1 , Pictured here are
-three choir members Sandra Widcef, Nancy Roman and Richard' Norlands forming a.
quartet with "Jdhn O'Neill, Rest'Home patient. The choir was under direction of Ellen
Sullivan. -
Cleanup Drive Depends
On McGranery Approval
Ry ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON The Truman
administration's clean-up-the-gov-
crnmeni program will be run by
the Department of Justice Itself
under Invesligallon-lf President
Truman's choice of a new attorney
general is confirmed by the Senate.
And Truman's nominee for the
post. Federal Judge James P.
McGranery of Philadelphia, savs
he doesn't know yet whether there
is any governmental wrongdoing
to Investigate. He plans to rely on
FBI Director J. Edcar Hoover to
tell him whether Uicre is or not.
McGranery. a souare-iawed.
ruddy-faced man with a brisk, con
fident manner, outlined some of
his plans Friday afler a long White
House conference with the Presi
dent.
REPLACEMENT
Truman named him Thursday to
replace Attorney General J. How-
ard Mcoralh. swept from office
In a row over the way New Yorker
Ncwbold Moiris was conducting a
scml-lndependent search for gov
ernment corruption starting with
Hie Justice Department itself.
McGrnth fired Morris, a Repub
lican, Just before making his own
abrupt departure.
And McGranery promptly ran
into trouble, loo.
Rep. Vclde (R.-Ill.l. charged Mc-
Oranery, while an assistant attor
ney general, "whitewashed" tho
State Deltas
Gather Here
Addresses of welcome were giv
en to 100 Oregon teachers, mem
bers of Delta Kappa Gamma, na
tional honor society for women
meeting hero today were given, by
Arnold Oralapp superintendent of
city schools, and Velma Tennery,
Klamath Falls; general chairman.
. Registration got under way at
10 a.m. with a coffee hour at the
Fremont school.
The society Draver was sung fol
lowed by Introduction of national
and state officers bv Mel ssa Mar
tin, Oregon State President follow
ing opening of the morning bus
iness session,
Delegates will hear state reuorts
before luncheon, 12:15 noon at the
Willard Hotel, -The birthday cere-
momai win oo ouservett under ttt
rection of Eva Burkhalter. Ida Ed-
sail is chairman for the luncheon
with western atmosphere.
Isabelle Brlxner. President of Al
pha Chapter and supervisor Coun
i.y Elementary schools here pre
sided over the afternoon session.
An Impressive initiation rjroced-
ure directed by Melissa Martin and
Dorothy. Bailie has been arranged
tor the dinner at the Willard- to
night that marks the end of the
conference.
1.1.1 II I m.nlf.,-.piljr.j(limaiimM
RATI ItDAY, APRIL S, 195Z Telephone Hill
Amerasla case, a World War
II sensation Involving the illegal
possession ol secret government
documents,
Amerasla was a magazine
Velde called It Red-slanted that
specialized in articles on the Far
East. Il quit publication in 1948.
three years after the documents
case broke
Sen. Watkins (R.-Utahl, said he
will "insist that McGranery give
a full explanation of his part in
actions in the notorious Amerasla
case." adding that there were
numerous "espionage angles . . .
Which never have been followed
SCOFFS ,
McGranery scoffed at the accusa
tions, saying he ordered all the
evidence presented to a grand Jury.
In the end. two of six persons ar
rested by the FBI were fined while
charges against the others were
dropped.
Then Chairman McCarran of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, which
must pass on the McGranery ap
pointment, announced that his com
mittee would take its time.
McCarran,- like Sen. McCarthy
iR.-Wis.i, and several others, has
been sharply critical of the ad
ministration's handing of the
Amerasla case. In Dallas Friday
night, McCarthy said he'll "have
h great deal to say" about the
nomination on the Senate floor.
Egged Her On
OKLAHOMA CITY Harlon
Jones sal flabbergasted In his au
tomobile Friday while an angry
woman peppered his windshield
with eggs. They had both stopped
at an Intersection.
"You caused me to bust some of
them and I'm giving you the rest
free," he quoted her as saying.
Without further explanation, she
Jumped into her car and drt off,
Jones told police.
Scout Show
On Tonight
The annual Exchange Club-spon
sored Boy Scout Exposition was
scheduled to start at 3 p.m. in
the Fairgrounds Exhibit building
today.
Thirty local Scouting units were
to participate. Last year's exposi
tion saw nearly 4.000 persons turn
out. Tills year tickets were printed
for 6.000 people and will be avail
able at the gate. They have been
on sale all week.
Doors at the fairgrounds will
remain open until 9 tonight to
allow as many people as possible
to view the live exhibits of the
scouts. Explorers, Senior Scouts
and cubs win participate.
Outstanding exhibits will be
awarded trophies by the Exchange
Club.
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No. 27(15
5 Bie
General's Son
Lost in Korea
SEOUL, Korea Ml Lt. James
A. Van Fleet Jr., a B-26 pilot and
son of the U.S. Eighth Army com
mander, Saturday -vas listed by
the U.S. Fifth Air Force as miss
ing in action with his two-man
bomber crew.
The Air Force said their plane
felled to return Friday morning
from a night bombing mission near
Sunchon in North Korea. It was
the 26-year-old Van Fleet's third
night mission.
Crewmen listed as missing with
Van Fleet are Lt. John A. McAllis
ter, Portland, Ore., navigator-bombardier,
and Airman First Class
Ralph L. Phelps, Bemldjl, Minn.,
engineer-gunner.
Lieutenant Van Fleet's mother
was notified at her home at Long
Beach, Calif., by Gen. J. Lawton
Collins, Army chief of staff.
General Van Fleet received word
from Lt. Gen. Frank F. Everest,
commanding general of the Fifth
Air Force, at an air base in South
Korea which the Eighth Army com
mander was visiting with Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, supreme allied
commander.
The Air Force said Van Fleet
and his crew went out on their
mission Thursday night but were
diverted from their primary tar
get by fog and low clouds.
Van Fleet radioed ot 3:15 a.m.
Friday that his dwindling fuel sup
ply would not permit him to hit
a secondary target and that he
was returning to his, base. It was
his last transmission.
Ike Nips Taf t
In Iowa Test
DES MOINES W The talLa
corn state counted Gen. Dwight IV
Eisenhower the winner Saturday
over Sen. Taft in their battle for
Iowa's national COP convention
votes. The score In delegates: Hi?
senhower 15, Taft 9. neutral 2.
Elsenhower forces pinned up
their victory late Friday In a GOP
state convention which ended on a
note of high excitement and unex
pected results.
Sen. Taft said: "It's about what
.we've been expecting in the last
three weeks. It's been a vcrv close
fight all the way through." He said
the two neutral delegates "are
certain for me."
But ihe Des Moines Register said
"there Is some basts for believing
that Elsenhower may be certain
ol IB delegates at the present
time." -
Wes Roberts, executive director
of the Elsenhower national head
quarters In Washington Interpreted
the convention's action as a
"smashing victory" for Elsenhow
er. LADY EAGLES
A special meeting and practice
for the Lakevlew convention for
the Lady Eagles Drum corps is
scheduled for Monday night, 7:30
at the Eagles Hall. Everyone be
there.
Weyerhaeuser, CIO
Agree; Hourly Rate
Will Be Hiked 7 V2C
By The Associated Press
Oregon's troubled labor picture
brightened Saturday with major
wage settlements urnounccd in the
Douglas fir lumber Industry and a
Portland steel mill.
Negotiations also were resumed
In a dispute that threatened to
cripple Portland's city transporta
tion system.
On the darker side, though, were
the walkout of the CIO Woodwork
ers In the largest sawmill in
Clackamas County, and the con
tinuing strike of Western Union
employes In Oregon, as well as the
rest of the country.
The huge Weyerhaeuser Timber
Co. and CIO Woodworkers Friday
announced agreement on a 7 "3
cent hourly wage increase for
workers In bcth Oregon and Wash
ington. The proposed settlement,
the first in the Pacific Northwest
lumber industry, alio provides for
wree additional paid holidays
making a total of six and other
contract benefits.
BENEFITS
The 8000 workers will receive
about $1.70 an hour under the
settlement, plus employer - paid
neaitn and weiiare programs
amounting to an additional 7 or 8
cents an hour.
The union had taken a strike
ballot to back up ill demands.
me company and the union
agreed to petition iointlv for Wage
Stabilization Board approval of the
new contract wnico will be retro
active to April 1.
The union has scheduled necntia-
tlon sessions with other segments
of the lumber industry.
The Portland Citv Council, bv a
vote of 3-1. Friday approved a fare
increase for the Portland Traction
Company. That paved the wav for
the company to negotiate with the
Ar ij streeicarmen s union.
The union is demanding a 15 cent
hourly wage increase and other con
tract benefits. But the company
said lt could not nay unless the
City Council approved higher fares.
With Commissioner J. E. Bennett
dissenting, the council granted a
2 cent increase, bringing fares to
15 cents, student fares were raised
1 cent to 7 cents and weekly passes
40 cents to $2.40.
The company was scheduled to
begin negotiations with the union
Saturday in an effort to postpone
a strike set .for April 8.
CIO Steelworkers and the Oregon
Steel Mills announced Friday
agreement on a wage contract call
ing for a total increase of 17 V
cents tout-:?. sx--rifc' v.
The plant's 327 union workers
are to receive a 12 cent Increase
now with 2 ',4 cent hourly increases
coming on July 1 of this year and
Jan. 1, '1953.
A strike of CIO Woodworkers
Friday closed the A. F. Lowes
Lumber Company at Molalla. A
shertu s deputv was called 10 neip
get a loaded lumber truck out of
the strike - bound plant. A union
spokesman said the workers want
ed a 5 cent hourly pay increase to
SI. 75 an hour for semi skilled
labor. A spokesman for the Lum
bermen's industrial Relations com
mittee, an employer group, said
the union demands were for in
creases ranging irom 2 !j to 47
cents an hour for most Job classifi
cations. NEW CONTRACT
In another labor development,
heavy construction workers of
Oregon and Southwestern Wash
ington were to get a lu cent nouriy
wage hike. E. F. Harland. execu
tive secretary of the Allied Heavy
Construction and Highway Crafts.
and A. H. Harding, manager oi
the local Associated General Con
tractors, announced that a pro
posed new contract had been
approved oy ine wage siaoiuza
tlon Board. Official WSB notifica
tion Is expected early next week.
11
YOUNG ROY MOTT (right) was asking Dick Wolfe how he
planned to fight Sunny Green , in tonight's main event at,
the Armory when the 9 o'clock cameraman passed by.
Wolfe, the Pacific Northwest welterweight champion,
demonstrates with clenched fist.
Floodwaters
Lap Homes
In Alturas
ATLURAS Waters of the Pit
River spillcl out Into the south
and east residential sections of Al
turas this morning and more flood
ing was expected this afternoon or
tonight.
Flooding in the south part of
town around the Modoc General
Hospital was the worst. Water was
from six Inches to a foot deep
around residences.
A few families had to msve out
of their homes temporarily, whilo
others diked up around their
houses with sandbags to keep lb
water out.
SECOND ' ' '
The flood is the second la lesv
than two weeks for the Alturas
area, and this ono is worse than
the earlier spill-out of the Pit.
The river is fed by melting
snows, and the recent warm weath
er apparently brought more water
down the river than normal.
The road toward Davis Creek
was washed out last night, but the
water had receded this morning.
The highway south toward Susan
ville was open this morning but tho
California Highway Department
said it might be closed at any
time.
Flood waters were very near the
edge of the highway.
CREST
The river reached a crest about
2 a. m. and by mid-morning had
gone down very little. The High
way Department said it expected
more water this afternoon or to
night. Several days ago flood water
closed the highway toward Susan
ville and drove a number of Indi
ans from their homes near town.
In today's flood probably as
many as 200 homes were endan
gered and in some places water
stood a foot deep in the streets.
Early this morning fire sirens
were sounded to wake up all resi
dents of the city. ..
Building Hit
,Jty
By Automobile
An automobile swerved off Oak
onto Commercial street early this
afternoon and kept on in its left
turn until it crashed into the door
way of an apartment at 342 Com
mercial. The sedan was driven by Blllle
Dundson. city police said. Neither
she nor a man in the car were
hurt.
Ir.ey were bing given a sobriety
test by city police at the accident
scene. The car was badlv damaged
and the front of the apartment
suffered some damege.
The apartment house Is owned by
Mrs. Alice Hershberger and the
apartment !s rented to Mr. and
Mrs. Duke Phillips. They were not
ut home.
COLLEGE POST
BAKER.ifl A. S. Grant, Baker
attorney, has been named to the
Gonzaga University Board of Re
gents, he was advised Friday by
the Very Rev. Francis Corkcry,
president of the university.
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