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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1952)
.1 '- ' 0): rlaL-.- ' villi ' IU J ' H i' v. I I I ' . U. f n ' ritiMUfe. . 4i..UU NEARS TOP OF LEVEE With Mood water still rising to liny, tlit'iu's not ton iiuu:li khcu left to tliu tup (if the iliku ruloiig tho MlMKOtirl Hlvcr. Wooden flashing atop the dike 'Is ii n emergency niuasuro placed on levee In hopes of containing flood waters should they go that high. In background, left, Is the American Smelting & Iteflning Co., which stands well below the present "water level. IllTlHW--.. J ' II. Ily I HANK ji:nkinr liiicii!iiB iHiiulbly nulie hiuiul- Irutii new: Ai Inn prpim cunfrrenra III Wm.li-1 inuion yentcrdny. I'rohidnu Tru-1 mnn wmi Uhlird lhj qiiPhllnn: "If II i prowr lo M-Iro llir nlctl itiilln, ciin you. In your opinion. , HKV.T. THE NEWM'AI'KUa ANIJ KADIO BTATION8?" : Mr. TTiminn rrpllrd llml imckr i lltUItr clrcumlnncfn lllc ProM-1 drnl of lti Unlml Binlm hna lo ; rl for whiilevar l bel for the ; coiimn'. 1 Tlmt." lie mild lo the rnxirl" who hd iimI lilm Uic quMiion, Ii Iho cn.s'r lo your Inquiry." lfl rrply ri. - Uiij. (urlhrr ques tion: In Mli-h ( . WHO WOULD BK THE JUIXIE lo whut wm best for tho country? Why, the PRESIDENT would be Ihe Juclue! Jum UK Prrnltfcnt Peron ni the indue In ii cuiie when ll neenied to HIM tlmt It wm "WM" lor Amen. tin to M-lu thp great newnpaper La Praiisn which had cOnableutJy oppoitd Peroti. ; J " Thin 1 the paint I'd like to rim lie: Prmldent Truman' answer to the ri-porler'a quenllon reveal hi rom-lcllon that thi.i nn oecome n OOVKIINMRNT OF MKN and l no lonuer a government of laws. Himorv tell ua plainly that when ANY nation readied that point the liberties of II people are eulan gered. I upie you expert me an a publisher to explode with indigna tion at thl auggentlon ttinl my newapuper might be taken away from me by the government. I nhall do no uoh thing. A newspaper publisher, I am a pri vate business man. All my .adult llle I have done business In a free private enterprise system. In a free Srlvate enterprise system. ALL uslnesa men fnco and accept Uie risk of losing their businesses. II they misjudge conditions ami go too deeply Into debt nd are unnble to pny Ihelr bills. THEIR CREDI TORS TAKE OVER and they are out Thnt Is inherent In the system. In free private enterprise econ omy business men accept ALL risks Including the risk that the SYSTEM WILL CHANOE. No one can guarantee thnt ANY system will endure forever. Brltnln was long a free private enterprise coun try. So was Germany. 8o wa Italy. 80 WA8 ARGENTINA. But In all of them the system changed. , In all of them, private business men have seen their prop erties taken over by the govern ment, for one reason or another. There was nothing they could do about It. It was lust one of the risks they accopted when they went Into business for themselves. BO i If the svslcm changes In Amer ica, I'll Just have to put up with Iti nd take the consequences. I'll fi'oioKt, of courNO, but In tho end 'II have to any to myself that It was one of the risks I had to nc- cept when I went into business. 8o much for tho newspaper owner. But what of the PUBLIC If the newspapers wero taken over by me govornmcmr Let's put It this way: Newspapers, under private own. ershlp, are not perfect. Wo nil make mistakes. Some of us. arc biased nd Intolcrnnt. But Wo aro all In competition with each othor. In the small cities, wc compote with the newspnpers from larger communities Hint enter our towns. We competo with the rndlo, with television, with the mngn.lnes. And nil of theso mcdln compete with each other. Wo nil try to toll nil the news and to tell It first so thnt wo will mnke a good showing in compari son with our competitors. Thnt Is Inherent In tho frco prlvnte enter prlso system, What If tho government tnkes over the newspnpers? Well, hi that event, you will rend In the newspapers ONLY WHAT OOVKRNMENT WANTS YOU TO READ. Thnt and no more, Another thought: If government taken ovor the newspnpers, It will hnvo to tnke over nullo nnd television nnd the innnl'''l"os. It will hnve to go whole Iio or nono, It has been thnt wny (Continued on rare 4.) mf$km Lmm' i mm mm i lit i.' f : .MllKlMllll r 1 .... 1 .... Vfcvi ,, '. . ' r r ' c -BULLETIN- I I NIIB IHillT , WASHINGTON ((.HI Prenl deiu Truman tlrelnrrd Friday lip will keep Conim In nrftslon every day thin yrar, If nfcpn kary la $r the money lie thinks In necdrtl for imiluiml iircurlly. US. Right To Seize Press Eyed WAHHINGTON I Editors of lending Amrrlcun newspapers 'hoped Krltlny (or While House clsr lllrutlon of President Tnimuu's news conference rnnsrk which Im plied he fell he hud the right to selr.e newspaper and radio sta tions, us he did Die steel Industry, If II would besl serve the country. Some of the edIUirs who were nmouv the 620 nownmen present at the conference Thursdny pro tesloJ afterward that If such power exists the nation is close to dic tatorship. Qt'KNTION The explosive Issue wns touched off when tho Presljcnt was asked tills queMtom "If II la proper to selue the sleel mills, can you In your opinion, selie the newspapers and radio sta tions?" Truman replied Hist under sim ilar clmimslsnces, the president of the United Stntes hns to act for whatever Is for the best of the country. Thai Is the answer, he added. Many editors nromntlv Intemret- ed Uils us Implying. If not specif ically claiming, the power lo seise newspnpers and radio stations as he selied the strike-threatened steel Industry Inst week. in the nolso of the crowded con ference room, some reporters un derstood Truman to say definitely Uint he has such power but a re- check Indicated his reply wna not uint direct. Mother Saves Baby in Fire An over-hented electric Iron In the homo of 8. Orondnhl nnd his dnughter, Mrs. Joy Bechtcl. 4012 Douglas In tho 8tcwnrt-Lenox Ad dition, yesterday endangered the life of an Infant nnd gutted tho four bedroom, frnme home. Mrs. Bechtel, mother of four young children, broke a window to gnln entrance to the room where the child lny after the flames were discovered by a neighbor. She was visiting at tho homo of another nelKhbor nt the time. Furniture In the large homo was completely dostroyed nnd the Inter ior of the building is prnctlonlly n totnl loss. Some Insurance wns car ried. Rodney Mnthcrs, chief of the 8tcwcrt-Lenox Flic Department re ceived a bndly nprnlned nnkle while fighting the blnr.e. The chief snld todny thnt arrival of tho department wns delnycd when pnrtlcs tnlklng on the tele phone line at tho time, refused to yield the lino for tho emergency call. I i (Soimg Fishing? By MALCOLM KI'LISY JR. Fishing season opened todny In the Wlllnmette Valley nnd nlong tho Orogon Const, but the rest of tlic.atnto must await Mny 3 to generally wet tho line. However, thero nre some Klnm- nth and Lnko county localities which hnvo been open nil yonr, or which have spcolnl rules pre vailing. According to the Stale Game Commission, Uio list Includes: Blue Lake, In tho Genrhnrt Moiintnln area, Is closed to all angling. Campbell - Lake, In the same nrcn, In closed- to angling from ii,nlMi.ninnnllaJ hnnto m ku Huh. Ing tncklo assembled In thciii, Tho name goes for Dcndhorse Lake, not fnr nwny. , crump Lake is open to trout nnglliig all venr. It lies within night of fnmed Hnrl Moiintnln, horns of the Royal Order of the Man Duped By Phoners MIAMI Fl. I. A we- Miami Jeweler paid 116.00' o Mini" for return of his slx-..pP son Thursday In what police a phuny kidnaping. Dnnlcl Hlchtcr wns duped i .u piiylng I6,(IOO in Jewels and I'JOO cash In what police said was "one of tho cleverest and most perfect ly timed" extortions In memory. The bov, Klehnrd, was never or tually kidnaped, Police snld, nl though Itlchlcr wns convinced he wiiji buying his on's sale return. While police and the FBI ninr nhiillcd force lo meel whut they thought wa a genuine kidnaping;, the child wns riding In a luxlcub Iiom a piivitle school nt Mlitml Bench lo Doctor's hospital In Cor al Oiililrs, a distance of about 12 mills. KCHKMK Police snld the plotters used the ncIiooI, the luxl compuny and Hie hoiipltnl us unwilling dupes In Ihelr shakedown. As police reconstructed the crime, ll happened this wuy: A uiun who said he was "Dr Henderson" culled the Yellow Oil) Co . at Mlmnl Henri) and usked them to pick up Ricky Rlchter nt Coburn school and drive him to Hie ho.ipllnl, purportedly lo bo with his "gravely 111" mother. Almoel hlmullnnrously, a wom an's voice' culled the school author ities and snld a tax! would arrive soon lo pick up the boy. Cub driver Bert Walowll7 24, wutt sent to the school nnd picked up Ihc boy. One member of the gung muni hnve watched hlin be cue n telephone cull then went lo the lullier's olfice In downtown Mi ami. WAI1NI.NO The cnller told Daniel Rlchter he hud Ricky In his custody und thut no harm would come lo the child If Hie lather cooperated. "He Mild, 'this is purely a busi ness (Irnl and will require t&O.OOO In diamond and $6,000 In cosh for you to get your boy back,' " Rlcht er reported. , The cnller warned Rlchter the boy's llle would uu In dn.nger If liollce were notified, and gave him five minutes lo verify the story. Rlchter quickly called the school, learned his son wax gone, then de cided to notify police. While De tective M. H. Wiggins and E. A. Tnuntun were enroitle to Rlchter 's jewelrv store, his phone ran again. OKI) KIIS "He gave me instructions to take the Jewels and money to a phone booth In the Ponce do Leon Hotel, Rlchter relnted. "I told him the most I could raise wns about H6.- 000 111 jewels and $200 In cash. He suld that would do." Rlchter went to the hotel nnd waited in the booth. A bellboy told him he wns wanted on the phone at the desk and the same man wlio had called earlier told him to put the Jewels nnd ensn in a bag in a coin locker at the Oreyhound bus station, plnce the key with a wnd of chewing gum under the counter of a certain telephone booth, and lenve. Rlchter wns still a step nhend of detectives, who were being briefed at the store by his brother, Alvln Rlchter. The father rushed to the bus sta tion, plnced the bng In a locker, and since the designated phone booth wns being used, plnced the key in nnotlicr booth. Detectives reached the bus stn tlon as Rlchter left. While one watched the originally-designated booth, the other went back to tho store to llnd the father. F.SCAPE Apparently while the detectives watched one phone booth, one of the extortionists slipped into the other, around a corner, and took the koy. When police reinforcements ar rived, the key was gone, the lock er wns open and the key wan in It, still stlckv with chewing gum. About the time Rlchter returned to his store, a puzzled doctor nt the hospltnl called end naked If he hnd n son, Ricky. The boy was at Iho hospltnl nn Ihc cnb driver wns waiting for his fnrc. Rlchter snld the whole sequence of events took nbout an hour. MEMORIAL SPOKANE Ifl Memorial serv ices for 16 airmen killed In th crnsh of n B-38 bomber early Tuesdnv will be held nt Fnlrchild Air Force Base here Saturday. Six chaplains will officiate. Antclopo nnd one of the country's finest antelopo ranges. Dog Lnko is also open to trout angling the yenr around, but ns in tho enso of Crump Lake, the ssummer bng limit prevails (10 flsli per dny, not more than live of which mny be more than 12 Inches or over. Twenty fish in possession or taken In seven con secutive days, not moro than 10 of which may be 12 Inches or over) Dog Lake Is In Lake County, south of Drew's Reservoir which hns the snme regulations, Drew's Creek nnd Its tributaries below the first railroad crossing one-hnlf mile above the Klamnth Fnlls-Lnkevlew highway, are open March 15 to October 12, inclusive. Dry Creek, also in Lnko County. Is under the snme regulation. Ewnunn Lnko. which borders on Klnmnth Falls itself, Is open to trout fishing ths year around with the summer bag limits prevailing. In Miami rrj, yiU-U Fair j)Me Be Mokys Meet Mere PLAN COURSE Looking over today's .schedule of the De Molays are convention-minded (1 to r) Kit Johnson, 3608 Bisbee, Jim Peak, 1945 Huron, and Charles Friedel, 1302 Lookout. Friedel is advisory chairman of the advisory council of the Klamath Falls De Molays, host group of the two-day state cqnventjnn on the Oregon, Tech campus. . PT&T Pickets More Acfive By The Associated Press The ClO-Comniunlcntlons Work ers of America picketed 34 facil ities of the Pacific Telephone k Telegraph Company in 19 Wash ington cities Friday In the heaviest picketing since the strike over wages against the Western Electric Company began. Nenrly nil operators were re specting the picket lines, a com pany spokesman said. Attempts were being made to cope with the emergency by supervisory person nel nnd non-union employes. In Oregon, where the union is striking against both the telephone company and Western Electric, supervisors manned the boards and the company snld service was normal. Routine picketing was also carried on at most of the state's big exchanges. The mnln telephone buildings In Scuttle, Tncoma and both the main office nnd the mununlly-operated Broadway Exchange In Spokano were picketed. Tile telephone company Issued a stntemcnt in Scuttle which said "it Is n ridiculous situation when a few Western Electric employes throw rond blocks" In the way of telephone people "who wnnt to i?o to work." The employes are finding the- "entrances to their work locn tions blocked by pickets of nnother company," It added. Weather FORECAST: Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California Fair and warm Friday and Friday night; considerable cloudiness and cooler Saturday; high Friday 13: low Friday night 38; high Saturday High yesterday It Low last night 34 Precipitation Thursdny 0 Since Oct. 1 14.22 Normal tor period 9.85 (Additional Wcnther on Pnge 41 foe's Hnrt Lake, too, hns yenr-long senson. It lies at the foot of Hart Mountain. The Klnmnth River is open from October 1 to June 1, inclu sive, excepting a segment starting at n point 4000 feet below Spencer Creek's mouth to 2000 feet nbovo It, which Is closed to nil angling. All tributaries to the Lake of the Woods are closed to angling, while Link River (in Klamath Falls) Is open tho entire yenr excepting from Copco Dnm to a point 200 feet below. The summer bng limit there, too, prevnlls the yenr around rs It does on Lost River, which, is open to trout angling the entire year. The mountain lakes of Rogue River Nntlonnl Forest lying to the Enst of tho Cnscnde Divide, and consequently in the Stale Gnmc Commission's Area (Including most oi jtinmnm nnti Lake Counties), are open Mny SO lo 1111 - III. -LPIIPWI. J I III KLAMATH FALLS, OKI KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, W agnip NEW YORK m They didn't nnve to yen "uei a norse at a Brooklyn bar Thursday night they had one. The customers were lined up at the Step Inn Bar and Grill when the anlmnl clomped In, stuck Its hend over the bnr nnd waited. The bartender drew a pail of water and Bozo the horse downed It noisily. Then a man at the end of the bnr spoke up. He was Joseph Nnr dllillo. He snld he had been riding Boso through a pnrk, got thirsty, and decided to stop for a drink. Boio. apparently not securely tied, got the same Idea. Rioting Cons Hold Guards RAHWAY, N.J. W A rebel lion of more than 200 convicts raged at Rnhway State Prison farm Friday in sympathy with a four - day mutiny at Trenton State Prison 40 miles away. A band of 232 unruly prisoners grabbed control of a two - story dormitory wing Thursday night and held nine prison guards as hos tages. It was the fifth prison outbreak In New Jersey in three weeks. Prison guards, reinforced . by stifle police, regained control of the ground floor of the wing Fri day morning by a ruse. The convicts yelled down thnt one of their number hnd served his term and wns due to be re leased Fridny. They asked if he would be released If they let him out 0f the dormitory Prison officials told the rioters to send the mnn down to the first floor nnd remove pnrt of the bnrrl ende at the entrance to let him out. When the rebels did this the gunrds broke through" the weakened bnrrlcnde nnd swnrmed into the ground floor of the building. The rioters retrented upstairs nnd piled up more barricades In the stairways made of broken beds, mattresses and debris. Where September 30, with some possible exceptions, Spring Creek, nt Collier state park, Is open for trout Mny 30 to October 12, Inclusive, from the mouth to a point 100 yards up stream. Few locnl residents mny realize Hint Upper Klnmnth Lake is one of the very few in Oregon which is open to fishing through Uie loe. The lnko is open the year around to trout angling in thnt portion south of a line from Modoc Point to the northernmost point of Eagle Ridge, but exclusive of Shoalwater Bay. Summer bag limit prevails. The Williamson River, one of the Klamath area's more popular bigstreams, is closed to fishing from any boat or other floating device above the bridge where It's crossed by U.S. highway 87. Exoluslve of tributaries except as mentioned above, the river opens May SO ..for a season lasting mil mil l umiiwi. 'IWIJMJI mm. H .iii.i mmMmmmwmmmmmm iMT-m- r-rrr ' iwimwn. n.i n FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1952 Telephone Sill Spirited Men Take Plunge Two Indians and a palefaced companion, lately from Pennsyl vania, inaugurated the outdoor swimming season in the canal near Eberlein St. bridge this morning. The Indians, Beatty John, 46, and Harvey Wilson, 2o. both from Beatty, are in County Jail charged with being drunk on public hlgu way. Their companion Donald Stan ton, 22. staying at Chlloquin with a brother after arriving from Penn sylvania Inst week, was treated at Klamath Valley Hospital for a fore head gash. Slate Police reported the three were in a pickup truck belonging to Stanton's brother, which rolled completely over in the canal. Stanton was taken to the hospi tal by Kaler's ambulance and was to be released when he found some dry clothes. AH three, officers, reported, were stumbling around on top of the canal bonk when the ambulance arrived at the scene about 9 a. m. French Attack Vietminh Base PHY LU, North Viet Nam OH French union troops wading knee deep through rice fields nnd pro tected by an umbrella of heavy artillery fire launched a new of fensive nt dawn Friday. They hoped to wipe out Com munist, led Vietminh troops in this Important sector of the vital Red River deltn. ' The French, attacking the Viet minh in a V-shnped area between Colonial Route No. One and the Canal des Rapides, 18 miles north east of Hanoi, captured a number of villages nnd rounded up hun dreds of suspected Vietminh' sold iers in the early stages of the new drive. and When Info through October 12. Inclusive. Minimum length limit this year, the Game Commission notes. Is six inches in this part of the country. Fishing time: it's against the law to fish any time between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, except in the case of (ugh) catfish. Incidentally, wnrm wnter game fish sunflsh, perch, crapples, cat fish and . black bass are legal game the entire yenr in this part of the country. The only bag limit on these fish hns been plnced on bullhead catfish , . , and the limit Is 100. . , - Whlteflsh," found In some Klam ath lakes, have no bag or length limits, but open seasons conform to trout seasons. Some outdoors men report they're desirable as food especially when smoked. Licenses may be procured from the County Clerk's office, the Stats Game Commission and many 15,000 No. Z7M Convention Draws 300 To Oretech The 1952 Oregon Conclave of the Order of De Moley got underway at OTI this morning with early registration. Some 300 young Ore gon De Molays are expected by the time final registration is .com pleted tomorrow. A tour of OTI was slated lor early this afternoon, and later welcoming ceremonies were sched uled in the campus theater. OTI Director Winston Purvine, Klam ath Falls Mayor Robert Thompson and Edward B. (Dad) Beaty are scheduled welcoming speakers. EDUCATION Theme of the Conclave Is "Education", and the Klamath Falls De Molay chapter, - under Master Councilor Marvin Nerseth, Is host. Other speakers on the agenda this afternoon were Master Dale Bebber of Klamath Falls Masonic Lodge 77 and State Master Councilor James Ward. I' At 7 p.m. the Ritualistic Degree is to be presented by the Corvallls c ha per; the De Molay Degree is to be given by the Medford chapter and Arnold Telford, Eugene, is to give the Flower Degree. Ben Shepherd. Klamath Falls, is State Chaplain of De Molay. Tomorrow's schedule includes breakfast at the OTT culeteria from 7 to 8 a.m., with business meetings scnediued lor 10 s clock, .ana until z:so alter mncn. Election of officers is scheduled for 3:30. and . memorial- services for ' deceased De Molays are set lor 3:4o. ADDRESSES Director Purvine of OTI will address the group at 4 p.m., and State Orator Bob Myrlck, Ashland, will give an address "For the Good ol Thp Order". A banquet is slated for tomorrow night at 7 in the Klamath Armory. De Molay is a fraternal organi zation sponsored by the Masonic Lodge. There are 60 Chapters in the Oregon district including Tule lske's. De Molay is not a Junior Masonic order. Among top Masonic officials to be in Klamath Falls during the session will be Raipn s. Nesoitt, Grand Master of Oregon Masons. Wage, Price Arguing Hit WASHINGTON Wl Sen. May bank (D.-S.C), said Friday his Senate Banking Committee is in no mood to extend the wage and price control program while those handling it work "at cross pur poses." The committee twice has delay ed work on a bill to extend the Defense Production Act, which pro vides authority for price, wage, rent and credit controls, and for the rationing of scarce materials. The existing law expires June 30 unless Congress acts. A committee source, declining to be quoted by name, told a report er the group has let the White House know it will insist on guar antees . of better teamwork than was displayed in handling the steel wage dispute befora agreeing to an extension. , BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SALEM W Blooms will be at their vari-colored best for the Paule Stege. King Bing of the Salem Blossom Festival Sunday. Salem Cherrlans, said Friday. The State House will be open that day to visitors. local sDortins and other stores. A resident angler's fee costs $4, the same as a hunter's license. A combination of the two costs but $7. Nonresident anglers (over 14 years of age) must pay a $15 fee, but a special vacation angler's permit allows nonresidents over 14 years old to angle for seven consecutive days for $7.. Resident juvenile angler's license for 14-17 year olds, inclusive, costs $2. Those under 14 need - no hunter's or angler's license; any blind person may secure a free nngllng- license upon application with the Commission. .-. A nonresident Is described by the Commission- as a person who has not resided in the state for a period of at least six months Im mediately prior to making appli cation for hunting or fishing licenses. Small fees may be charged by stores and other agencies selling the licenses as a service retainer. Big Plane Hits, Burns LOS ANOELE8 Wl A rancher', who found a crashed two engine) plane Friday carrying 28 report-, ed that "all were dead." Hayden F. Jones, who lives In suburban North Whlttter Heights, told reporters that he found no sign of life In the canyon where the non-scheduled C-48 ship crashed and burned. The sheriff's office added that "there apparently is nothing left of the plane but ashes and piece of the tall." . , .. "., i bodies v '';r.;;:."(:' Hayden counted 16 charred bod--les. Some were still in the burned' wreckage of the plane, others were scattered on the hillside. ' The location, between Whlttier nnd Puente, Calif., is only about 29 miles and five flying minutes from the plane's destination, Los Anzeles International Airport. . HBVllfll aaiH thj nlana hit m hllW of about 1,000 feet elevation, then bounced about 300 varda Into a ismoll canyon. T The srea Is one of hillside resi-j dences but there, were no reports that the plane hit - any house. The plane was operated by North Continent Airlines. . t r The flight, 417-W, originated tr New York Thursday. The airline said it stopped at Chicago, Kansas City, Amarillo Tex, and Phoenix, Aril - . : j RADIO TROUBLE " ;-' :. -'y;;i' , " It was last heard from at 3:33? a.m. when the pilot told the 'Lo Angeles control tower that he' be lleved he was over LaHabrn, Calif., and was having some radio trouble. - - A few minutes before, the ship reported over Riverside and was" cleared for an approach and land! i"g Los Angeies international Airport. 4 North Continent said the ship wan nl ln?.H hv r,,ta tnnli aa J Crescenta. Calif. Its co-pilot was; Dunnes riuiurun. si, not Angeies, and the stewardess -was Miss Toni uiauiurQ, zi, suroans, caul. Cities Fight i Raging Flood Missouri threw Its worst at Omaha ana uouncu mulls Friday -with an army of workers still winning the battle to hold the great river in its strait - Jacket of dikes. ;- - The river crest stretch of max lmum of water flow was so long and so subject to fluctuations that it Couldn't be pinpointed but river forecasters said the rampaging riv er is at cresting stage and. will continue to crest all day. - At 9:30 a.m. the level was 30.24 feet, eomniirtwl with ih. nnA of i. : "v -M Some minor rising and falling will occur before the level begins k arup some n nours nence. tne Weather Bureau said. .. PREDICTION The predicted high had been Sl.o feet. But at this near-phenomenal level even the action of the wind can raise or lower the gauge read ings by a foot or more. . The critical hours began before dawn when the slow - moving flood crest began surging into the seven mile long funnel of sodden dikes protecting the lowlands of the twin cities of Omaha and Council Bluffs; Iowa. The next 48 hours may determine whether the tremendous wata pressures will burst through levees and cause more agony and dam age along this river which has be come a monster of destruction.' i All night long soldiers and civil ian workers more than 24.00a of them . toUed under floodlights on me ones here and on levee downstream where the rising wa ters are expected to smash through almost every farm dike all the way to Kansas City. ALL' HANDS v i, '. ' ',;'' Doctors, lawyers business exec utives, students, newspapermen and other volunteers took their turn heaving sandbags on the dikes to strengthen them against the most awesome floods the Missouri .Val ley bos ever known. .... SIGN UP Sam MontgomV; ery, publicity chairman for ! t he De Molay convention now In progress at Oregon ; Tech, was busy on the reg-, istration desk w h en the Herald 'and News 9 o'clock photographer wandered by. In Suburbs
