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ONE HOT DOG TO A CUSTOMER WEATHER Forecast: Clear, warmer. Temperatures Saturday High, 89; low, 53. Sunday High, 83; low, 55. Kings River Stage, 5.26; discharge, 2,970. Sunrise, 4:35 a.

sunset 7:30 p. m. New York, June 24 (UP) Palisades Park concession owners were puzzled when Sunday crowds lined up in front of the stands to buy hot-dogs and roast beef sandwiches, a half-dozen at a time. When a woman, appeared with a valise and asked to buy 50 hot-dogs, the owners blamed it on the local meat shortage, and limited sales to one to a The supply was exhausted by mid-afler- noon. fcS SvJ RfllHG independent newspapeTT YOUK ,1 F1FTY-FOURTI I YEAR.

HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1946. No. 46. GRAND MUFTI emns aruci tom Bom Tragedy Mars Dress Rehearsal For Bomb Test TRIESTE IS BIG FOUR PROBLEM Asserts U. S.

Seeking Domination Of World London, June 24. (UP) The Moscow newspaper Pravda today condemned the Baruch atom bomb control plan as an attempt by the United States ta dominate the world. The United States is trying to win a monopoly over atomic bomb manufacture for an indefinite period and force other nations to Washington, June 24. (UP) Pro-OPA groups today besieged congress with last-ditch appeals to save price controls and called for a consumers strike if congress approves a weakened price control extension bill. Delegations from various cities tried to put on pressure as senate and house conferees on the bill prepared to meet at 8 p.

m. (EST) in another effort to break their deadlock. Washington, June 24. (UP) Sen. Robert A.

Taft, said today that congressional conferees on OPA legislation are so badly split that if agreement is not reached at a session tonight the conference may be disrupted and the senate and house asked for instructions. Taft told reporters that he rather doubted that agreement on Aboard the USS Mt. McKinley off Bikini, June 24. (UP) Tragedy marred the final dress rehearsal today tor the atomic bomb test when a ground crewman met death by walking into the slashing propellor of the Superfortress selected to drop a dummy bomb. The death of the crewman was the most serious of a series of ill-omened incidents that put everyone of the 42,000 men participating in the histoiic test on edge.

Yet none of the mishaps prevented the crew of the Daves Dream from dropping their dummy bomb squarely on their target. The crew or the Daves Dream, found when they took to the air that their radar failed. And worse, the w'eather was miserable. It cleared only long enough for Bombardier Maj. Harold Wood to drop a dummy bomb filled with flash powder between the battleship Nevada and the carrier Independence in Bikini lagoon.

Two Forced Back Two Kwajalein-based photographic planes had engine trouble and were forced to turn back before they reached the target area. Otherwise, all planes from Kwaja-lein got through in good shape. Col. W. H.

Blanchard, commander of the air attack unit for Operation Crossroads, watched the test from the tail gunners seat of the bomb dropping plane. Blanchard said, Youve got to give that crew credit for lots of guts. That accident was enough to fluster anybody. And the radar in the plane wasnt working. They got to Bikini on sheer G.

I. navigation. Satisfactory Test Blanchard said the test bomb fell well within the minimum required range. The takeoff accident delayed the departure of Daves Dream only one minute. The name of the dead crew member was withheld until his family has been notified.

Todays test code-named Queen Day was ordered by Vice Admiral II. P. -commander of the atomic bomb tests. This gigantic project corresponded as much as possible to conditions expected when the B-29 takes off from Kwajalein next Monday to drop the real bomb. This chart shows the strategic location of Trieste over which the big four foreign ministers have wrangled for weeks.

Russia has favored Yugoslavian supervision of the port while the United States favors Italian claims to the area. U. N. Votes Down Plan For All Out Break With Franco the price control bill could be reached tonight. lie said that members of the conference were in such a state of disagreement that further instructions from the house and senate may be necessary if congress is to pass an OPA extension bill by the June 30 expiration date.

Conferees had hoped to agree on a final bill tonight so the house, and possibly the senate, could act tomorrow. The conference committee will meet at 8 p. m. Major Points Major points still at issue include OPAs termination date; the' senate proposal to abolish price controls on meat, poultry and dairy products; subsidy payments, authorized price mark-ups and creation of a decontrol board. The OPA crisis was discussed at a Republican- steering committee meeting.

Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry', urged that the senate insist on his amendment to permit wholesalers and distributors to pass along to consumers price increases resulting from an already accepted Taft amendment. The Taft amendment would permit manufacturers to get price increases equaling their highest price in October, ,1941, pins increased production costs since then. Modify Proposal Conferees have modified Wherrys proposal to make it applicable only to increased costs after July 1.

Taft said Wherry "vas much discontinued on Page 8, Col. 6) New York, June 24. (UP) The United Nations Security Council today voted down a Polish proposal which would have called upon all United Nations members to break diplomatic relations with Franco Spain immediately. Oscar Lange, Polish delegate, immediately proposed that the council keep this case continuously under observation to show the Franco regime that it is an issue of international concern and warrants some kind of action by the United Nations. He pointed out that all the members which voted against his resolution were against the Franco regime but disagreed as to what action should be taken against it Lange submitted a brief resolution stating that the Security Council took notice of the subcommittee investigation of Franco Spain and that its findings established that the Franco regime provided a serious danger to international amity and that therefore it would keep the matter under continuous observation and would take up the question not later than 1, 1946, to determine what measures might be taken.

Nation Meat Supply Hits All time Low By United Press The nations meat supply hit a new' low today as coal miners in three states threatened to strike for a full dinner pail. The production of beef was only 10 per cent of normal. Retail butchers across the country either had closed shop or curtailed operations. Spokesmen for the meat Industry predicted gloomy that there would be even less meat this week. The only bright spot was the promise of more meat after the end of the month.

Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles said more meat would reach consumers next month with a decision on the future of price controls. Bowles believed the meat would become available whether the controls are discontinued or not. The American Meat Institute, spokesmen for the meat packers, reported that beef production last week dropped 35 per cent below the previous week, and was 90 per cent below the corresponding week last year, when the nation was at war with Japan. The meat institute said- that 10 companies operating 100 packing plants in various places were able to buy only 14,000 head of cattle last week at ceiling prices. How much went to the black market the institute coulu not say, but it reported that choice cuts were being sold through black market channels at retail prices of more than $1 per pound.

Coal miners in western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and southern Illinois threatened to stop work unless they get more meat. Meat packers blamed the shortage on the farmers. They charged that the farmers were withholding their livestock from market in the hope that price controls will be removed. The farmers and the CIO United Packinghouse Workers, however, blamed the shortage on the packers. They said the packers were trying to create a shortage to force discontinuance of the price controls.

Two Killed As Plane Crashes Info Automobile Memphis, June 24. (UP) An investigation was ordered today of an accident in which a low-flying army transport plane sliced through the back seat of an automobile, killing two persons. The C-47 army plane, piloted by Capt. Wayne Collier, struck the car on a highway bordering the municipal airport when it came in too low for a landing. Then, with the ships landing assembly damaged.

Collier circled the airport nearly two hours to burn his gas supply before sliding to earth in a safe crash landing. Collier, Co-Pilot Capt. Farnis L. Kenny, and six enlisted men were in the plane, which was returning from an administrative mission to Dallas, Tex. No one in the plane was injured.

The planes landing gear cleanly tore away the rear seat of the car, instantly killing Alex Bobo, 38, first cousin of the driver, and Buddy Woodhouse, 42, both of Crenshaw. This is the first picture ever taken for publication of Hajamin Amin El Husseini, so-called Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He recently flew from France to Egypt. Quake Causes Minor Damage In Northwest Seattle, June 24. (UP) A dozen Pacific Northwest communities surveyed minor damage today from a relatively strong quake hich swayed tall buildings and frightened thousands of residents in the United States and Canada during the 45 minutes it lasted.

Seismologists in Washington state, California and Honolulu recorded the shocks and located their epicenter in the Pacific Ocean 200 miles west of Vancouver, B. C. The first severe impact came at 9:14 a. m. (PST) yesterday while crowds were on their way to church.

They ran in a panic at Vancouver ana street cars were swayed from side to side and forced to stop. In Seattle a 63-ycar-oId pensioner, Jacob Leroy Kingston, saw tall downtown buildings jolted by the quake. Frightened, he collapsed i the sidewalk and died of a heart attack. A bridge on the east side of Mercer Island in Lake Washington shook and sagged about one inch when a steel expansion joint gaped apart three inches. Nervous motorists continued to use the bridge, but moved at a snails pace.

At Courtnay, B. a school-house chimney came crashing down through two floors into a classroom where on a weekday 60 students would have been sitting. Seattle and Vancouver also experienced toppling smokestacks. Hours after the earths shivering ceased, there were no evidences of marine disturbance. The U.

S. Geodetic Survey seismologist who recorded the shocks in Honolulu scene of a disastrous tidal wave last April 1 declared it was unlikely that any tidal effects would be felt in the Hawaiian Islands. Residents of cities as far south as Portland, felt evidences of the quake. Scientists described it as quite strong and the sharpest in several years. Prof.

G. E. Goodspeed of the University of Washington geology department said the needles were knocked off his seismograph when the first shocks came. Violent Earthquakes Forecast By Expert Vancouver, B. June 24.

(UP) Inventor of a system claimed to forecast violent earthquakes, Edgar C. Thrupp today predicted that the worst temblor of the year will shake the earth between now and July 10. Thrupp, who has called the turn of several disastrous quakes in Peru and Asia Minor, bases his forecasts on gravitation pull of nearby planets on the earths crust. Yesterday's quake was just a prelude, he forecast gloomily. The most violent shock of 1946 will occur in the next 16 days in the evening.

Thrupp didnt predict where or explain why he had not made public a forecast on Sundays earth-shocks. GRAIN MARKET LISTLESS Chicago, June 24. (UP) The grain market continued its listless tone on the board of trade today with trades in January corn and deferred oats deliveries the only activity. It was the first time in over two weeks that com was traded. All grains on the board stayed at ceiling prices.

SOUND SLEEPER San Diego, June 24. (UP) Firemen smashed down Mrs. Ruth Rankins hotel room door to extinguish her burning bed, then had to wake her up to tell her about it. She was fined $150 in police court for setting two hotel beds on fire in tw a weeks. sign away their sovereignty to her, the Pravda article charged.

Boris Izakov, who wrote the article which was broadcast by radio Moscow, particularly condemned Bernard Baruchs proposal for elimination of the big power veto on atomic matters. The Soviet counter-proposal laid before the United Nations Security Council by Andrei Gromyko was praised for its humanity', clarity and efficacy. Different Trends Two different trends in modern international politics are apparent in the Soviet proposals and in the American plan respectively, Pravda said. The former reflect the steadfast Soviet policy of peace and defense of general security', while the American plan is the product of atomic diplomacy reflecting' obvious aspirations tow'ard world domination. But in our days such aspirations can have no success.

Elimination of the veto is a substantial defect of the Baruch plan, the article said. Experience of the past months has illustrated quite forcibly that the rule of unanimity of the great powers is an invariable condition for preserving equality of parties in that body of the United Nations upon which most responsible decisions depend, Pravda commented. Makes Reverse Claim The American press chatters about the necessity that the powers should abandon their What they' have in view that the powers should abandon their sovereignty in favor of the United States. Izakov said the manufacture of atomic bombs in the United States is not even in the hands of government bodies, and its separate phases are sold to private monopolies, for instance the DuPont De Nemours chemical trust. The whole character of this firm, connected before the war by a thousand ties with the I.

G. Farbenindustrie, is far from evoking confidence. Fresno Leading Wine Producing County Fresno, June 24. (UP) Fresno county was the nations leading wine producing county in the United States in 1945, a survey issued by the Wells Fargo Band and Union Trust Company of San Francisco, revealed today. The survey showed that Fresno county produced approximately 30 per cent of the 34,535,000 gallons made in California during the year.

Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Madera and Kern counties combined to produce 47 per cent of the state total. The second largest producer was San Joaquin county with 18 per cent of the slates total. Rivcrdalc Man Dies I Enroute To Doctor Lorenzo C. Tuck, 71-year-old Riv-erdale farmer, died in his automobile in Fresno Sunday while enroute to a doctors office. A native of North Carolina, Tuck had engaged in large-scale farming with his brother near River-dale for the past 12 years.

He is survived by one son, Leon, of Riv-erdale; one daughter, Mrs. Rosamond Nagel, Fresno; fourbroth-ers, Ira, Riverdale; Marion and Raleigh, Kettleman City; and Roy, Gardena; and two sisters, Mrs. Mamie Jones, North Carolina; and Mrs. Elsie West of Armona. Two grandchildren also survive.

Funeral rites will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the People's Undertaking Parlors with burial in the Oak Grove cemetery. Badman Floyd Hall Again Denied Parole Folsom Prison, June 24 (UP) Floyd Hall, notorious California badman of the early 192.0s, was denied parole from Folsom prison for the sixth time today by the California adult- authority. Hall, who terrorized northern California, has served 23 years of a life term for killing the San Bruno, Cal.

chief of police in 1923. The adult authority denied his application for parole and postponed further parole consideration one Chamber Drive For $9,300 Starts Tuesday Civic-minded Hanford was poised today to furnish the sinews of progress in support of the Hanford Chamber of Commerce, which opens its annual financial campaign Tuesday morning. Approximately $9,300 will be required to carp' out the 1946-47 program of activities including the publication of the citys first accurately prepared informational literature that has been issued for pearly 15 years. The finance committee and 50 workers will meet at a kick-off breakfast scheduled for 7:30 a. m.

Tuesday at Pedens and immediately following the work of solicitation will start- Committer Optimistic The finance committee, headed by R. S. (Dick) Pearce, was optimistic Monday over the prospect of a fine response, when several prompt replies containing checks were received at chamber head- Sec page two for editorial comment on the chamber of commerce financial drive. quarters following letters sent out Friday to a large list of former and potential contributors. Other members of the finance committee are Paul Wilkinson, E.

J. Mahoney, Bert Works, Glenn Fitts and R. J. Craine. The budget for 194647 includes several new and important activities and one item of expenditure will be the preparation and distribution of a brochure in which every angle of community advantage will be described and in some cases pictorialized.

The brochure will fill along-felt need to meet the large number of inquiries that come in the mail every day from persons desiring information relative to commercial opportunities, educational, social, climatic and industrial advantages. These daily requests for information are now being answered as best they may, but with nothing compiled, the chamber finds the task of answeiing all queries a difficult and unsatisfactory undertaking. Raises Its Sights Last ear the budget covered items approximately $6,800, but with its plans laid for an energetic and carefully programmed campaign of promotion, the chamber has set its sights high enough to cover all of the activities and several promising new targets, as well. The chamber is partly financed from the law-provided advertising fund of the city, and by business and individual contributions. The workers have been organized into groups and an attempt will be made to cover the campaign within the next few days.

In the letters sent out last week to prospective contributors, an appeal was made to have your contribution ready when the solicitor calls on you. It was pointed out in that connection that these are busy times, and the solicitors are taking time from their own businesses. The cooperation of everyone was requested to the end that the campaign could be quickly and thoroughly completed. TODAY'S BASEBALL By United Press NATIONAL Chicago 000 000 000 0 5 2 Bobton 110 000 003 5 5 1 Schmitz and McCullough; Wright and Masi. (Only games scheduled).

AMERICAN Washington at Chicago, night. New York at Cleveland, night. Boston at Detroit, twilight. (Only jonies scheduled). Bidault Forms Three-Party French Cabinet Taris, June 24.

(UP) President Georges Bidault formed a new three-party cabinet for France today but only after obtaining Communist support by the promise of a 15 per cent wage increase throughout the nation. Socialist party members put another crippling amendment to the provisional government with the added qualification that a new election be held not later than Oct. 15. This limits the life of the new cabinet to not more than four months. France has been without an effective government since June 3, day after the general election.

Bidault was able to form the new government after he agreed to accept the Communist demand for a general wage increase. Labor organizations haa demanded an immediate 25 per cent increase but Bidault pared that to 15 per cent now with the promise to study further increase in conjunction with workers and employers. Bidaults ability to reconcile different factions in each party resulted in a cabinet that includes nine of his own party, the popular Republicans (MRP); seven Communists, six Socialists and a member of the Social Democratic Union of Resistance who entered the government without the consent of his party. Propaganda Evidence Draws Reprimands Tokyo, June 24 (UP) The introduction of documents purporting to show how the Japanese government propagandized its people drew upon the prosecution today another in a series of sharp reprimands from the president of the war trials court. The documents included a national mobilization law and other measures to be taken in the event of war.

One document said that the- Domei or government news agency', the Japan Broadcasting Company' and cultural associations were to be used as instruments in disseminating proaganda. Sir William Webb, president of the Far East military tribunal severely criticized the prosecution for failing to show that Japans propaganda plans w-ere concerned primarily with waging an aggressive war. He pointed out that every' coumry naa plans ror wartime propaganda, nevertheless, he admitted the documents as E. L. Anderson Is New District Water Manager E.

L. Anderson will be the new district manager of the California Water Service Companys plants in Visalia and Hanford, according to an announcement issued today by Ralph Elsman, president of the company'. The new manager succeeds Araer C. Stolp wno has been promoted to the position of district manager of the companys northern plants in Marysville, Oroville, Chico, Willows and Dixon. Anderson has been with this company a number of years, Elsman said, and has a fine record of achievement.

Starting in Bakersfield as a clerk, he has successfully occupied the position of local manager at Willows, chief clerk at Stockton, and, until his promotion, was local manager of our Petaluma plant. During the years Anderson has accumulated a great deal of experience which will be very valuable to this company and the people we serve in Visalia and Hanford. Anderson will make Visalia his headquarters and will move his family here as soon as housing accommodations are available. Pan American Signs $4,500,000 Contract New York, June 24 (UP) Pan American Airways today announced signing of a $4,500,000 contract with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation for the purchase of 20 Convair 240-type Clipper ships, with an option on 30 additional craft. The company has no plans for use of the new ships but the announcement pointed out that they will be equally suitable for Alaskan or Latin American routes.

New Approach Planned To Golden Gate Bridge San Francico, June 24- (UP) Five plans for a new Marin coun-ty approach for the Golden Gate biidge have been submitted by the state division of highways. A. R. president of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, announced today. All proposals are based on a six-lane divided highway' as set up by the ODay act which the legislature passed last year.

Cost estimates range from $5,412,300 to $17, i jm Driver Slightly Hurt As Car Jumps Creek George J. Pauls, 23, of Reedley, miraculously escaped death or serious injury about 2 p. m. Sunday when the car he was driving south on the Selma highway got out of control after a front tire blowout. The accident happened about a quarter of a mile north of the Fresno county line.

Pauls was taken to the General hospital in the city ambulance, and released Sunday night. It was reported that his injuries consisted of minor cuts and bruises. The car traveled about 100 feet with the right wheels off the highway, crashed into a guard rail of a creek bridge and landed on its four wheels after jumping the creek. The car caught fire and burned. Smoke drifting across the highway made it difficult for traffic to move, but no other accidents resulted.

The accident was investigated by Highway Patrolmen R. M. Walker and W. T. Woodbury'.

Safeway Wins Another Round With Butchers San Francisco, June 24. (UP) Safeway Stores, won another round in their court battle to prevent butchers affiliated with the San Francisco AFL Butchers Union from staying home on Mondays but most meat markets here and in San Mateo and Marin counties were shut down again for the third consecutive Monday. Superior Judge Edmond P. Mo-gan granted Safeway a preliminary injunction restraining the union from striking or picketing the firms 78 San Francisco stores pending trial on a petition for a permanent injunction. AUTOS COLLIDE A minor accident occurred Sunday when a car driven by Darrell L.

Hageman, Rt. 1, Box 471, Hanford. collided with that of George W. Garcia, Rt. 3.

Eox 678, Hanford on the corner of Sixth and Brown streets. There were no injuries and neither driver was cited. MRS. CARNEGIE DIES New York, June 24 (UP)- Mrs. Andrew' Carnegie.

89. widow of the steel magnate, died today in her home after an illness of three Warren Wants Facts On Potato Surplus Sacramento, June 24. (UP) Gov. Earl Wancn today asked State Agriculture Director A. A.

Brock to get the facts on reports that 10,000 carloads of potatoes from the Kern county area arc being dumped as suiplus. The report of the dumping of the potatoes was brought into the governors cabinet meeting by Hubert Scudder, state real estate commissioner. He said he had seen the potatoes being dumped from trucks in a desert area near Lost Hills. It seems terrible that the potatoes should be wasted in view of food shortages, he said. He added he was told that the potatoes were being covered with creosote to make them unfit for human use.

Brock said he had not heard the reports, but said that a similar situation occuned two years ago. He blamed the support price system under which Ihe government buys potatoes when their price falls below a certain level. Girl Swims Seven Hours After Four Others Drown Marinette, June 24. (UP) A wealthy sliipbuilders daughter struggled to shore today after a battle of more than seven hours with the icy waters of Lake Michigan and reported that her father and three others were drow'ned when their sloop overturned. The only survivor of the tragedy was Patsy Smith, 18, daughter of Leathern D.

Smith, owner of one of the biggest shipbuilding firms on the Great Lakes. The victims in addition to Smith, who was 60, were Alvin Washburn, an executive of Smiths company, Howard Hunt, and Mary Loomis. Their 33-foot sloop was capsized by a sudden squall in Lake Michigans Green Bay at 6 p. m. yesterday.

Authorities said Miss Smith, who was wearing a life belt, miraculously had swum 13 miles through the churning waters. Part of the way she towed Miss Loomis, but finally she became exhausted and lost her grip. BRIDGE CONTRACT LET Sacramento. June 24 (UP) Director of Public Works C. H.

Purcell today awarded a $94,370 contract to the Bent Construction Company, Los Angeles, for building a bride across Mill Creek eight miles from Redlands in San Bernardino county. State Master Airport Plan To Be Drafted 4 Sacramento, June 24. (UP) A series of meeting will be held in California cities preparatory to making up a state master airport plan, the State Reconstruction and Reemployment Commission announced today. The airport plan is necessarv to take advantage of about in federal funds expected to be available to California cities and counties. Dates for meetings announced were Redding, July Marysville, July Los Angeles, July 11; Stock-ton, July 16, and Fresno, July Id..