Show £tt sstrvs J ’ ULm&L a tf- - n -- r': n aiJt-- a V fSS9 RADIO NEWS Lntermonntain —7:30 &m City— 12:43 pm 2:25 pm 10 pan (Monday throu£h WEATHER Partly cloudy Tuesday lit! r temperature change cB? mday) Station KALL Details on Page 21 PRICE FIVE CENTS SALT LAKE CITY UTAH TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 1 1948 VOL 157 NO 48 £0 BCL Arabs Spur Drive T o Split Israel to Circle Tel Aviv Thousands Flee As Columbia auks Crumble ’xfj Troops Trying Beat Off Jewish Counterattack y the capital and army headquarters of Israel Central Palestine dispatches also told of the establishment Arab front extending northwest from Jerusalem to cf a would endanger the whole southern half ?f This Tulkarm Israel’s coastal strip The Arab higher committee in Cairo said Iraqi troops had cut off Tel Aviv from the north ern port of Haifa by capturing of Tel Natanya 18 miles northwas Cabinet Upset Gives Dalton Minister Post DROWNED CITY confirmed The communiques told however of Arab troops maneuvering on the eastern northern ana southern approaches to the Israeli capital The city is bounded on the west by the sea One Arab informant said Iraqi soldiers were only three miles from Tel Aviv Jewish officials admitted the Iraqis were — LONDON Tuesday June 1 (UP) Hugh Dalton former chancellor city at only nine miles ' from the of the exchequer returned from one point g Britain’s disgrace to a new post in shake-u' Beat ' )ff Attack p government try' a cabinet ' announced early Monday Egyptian troops hold positions Dalton who 'was forced to reIn Che southern sector of the ring and a Cairo communique said a sign last November for allowing budget to Jewish attack had been beaten news of a leak becomes minister without off at Isud A pool dispatch from corre- portfolio in the reorganization of the in Jerusalem said caused by the resignation spondents Hag-anforces were advancing civil air minister Officially Prune Minister Cletoward Jenin an Arab stronghold ment" R Attlee designated the tall trion the N ablua-- J d Dalton as chancellor were have to said They angle of of Lancaster the Duchy and moved from the northeast Shown is the break In the Columbia river dike which caused the No Set Duties from the direction of Megiddo destruction of Vanport Ore making 19000 (homeless and probably were Jewish aircraft reported However an official announceto have carried out three attacks ment of the shake-u- p said that on Egyptian forces which had the new minister would have no infantry-carryin- g 500 up brought set duties He will assist the cabarmored vehicles to the Isdud re- inet generally and handle special gion on the southern coastal belt assignments for Attlee Arab and Jewish infantry units Former chancellors have diwere said to be massing in the rected - policy British no lower Galilee region but fight- in Germany andoccupationAustria tinder ing was reported the dispatch the supervision of the foreign ofGETTYSBURG Pa May 31 said fice With Dalton’s appointment UP) — The U S constitution Hews of the military develop- however the offifce will was never for a “cloak ments came as the political repre- take full chargeforeign SACRAMENTO May 31 CP) — over those intended of the occupation who would overturn Arab states armies sentatives of seven officials are predicting the government” House Speaker to The former exchequer chan- Election met in Amman Trans-Jorda- n an Joseph W Martin (R Miss) seunusually light vote in TuesNations to United the cellor replaces Baron Pakenham reply said Monday at the traditional fact the curity council’s latest order for a in the chancellory Attlee ap- day’s primary despite Memorial day exercises in the cease fire the is California that registration pointed Pakenham the new civil Gettysburg national cemetery The security council set a dead- air minister to succeed Baron highest it has eve been — 4632129 “We shall hold up to the light line of 6 pm EST Monday night Nathan of Churt who resigned The absence of presidential conof day any Communist activity for Jewish and Arab replies to the to resume private legal practice this nation whether it be in-k truce to demand for a Lord Pakenham also becomes a tests the extended Memorial day in or outside the government" side an and it member of the privy council holiday being permit mediation efforts the congressional Faris El Khoury Syrian deleDalton's new job carries with it politically with no U S senate leader Republican declared a N to an U Jewish said the automatic $16000 annual or constitutional state officers to gate “Subversionists seek refuge planned to use raise — from the £1000 ($4000) be elected were the principal reacharge that Arabs was under the protection of the same "a terrible paid to any member of parliagas in Jerusalem the same bill of ment to the £5000 ($20000) salary sons given for the expected light constitution and lie” rights they are attempting to of a cabinet minister voters turnout of We must constantly Smash Jewish Assault destroy on Second be to No Bevin Predict Only Upset guard against those who The Trans-Jorda- n Arab legion without would assail us or Some sources commented that said it had smashed a Jewish efThe primary is not likely to from Dalton's presence in the cabinet upset Republican control of the those who from within would fort to£pen the vital Tel betray us” would make him readily available California The battle highway congressional delegaPreceeding Martin’s address El as a successor for Bevin if the was fought in the Latrun-Ba- b school children and 4 miles west of foreign secretary should resign — tion or of both houses of the Gettysburg Wad area Scouts laid flowers Girl and contests state Boy a Lively which has legislature been step often Jerusalem This is the same area 3600 on of war dead the some are in graves in rumored legislative recent weeks but just anticipated where both sides committed heavy districts however forces last week and the Arab as frequently denied The Bevin Dalton is considered Republican slate legion claimed to have killed 800 theAfter best qualified man in the labor headed by Sen William F Know-lan- d ‘MAN OF ACTION’ Jews is pledged to Gov Earl Warpost Describing the latest engage- party for the foreign ren for the presidential nomina seven months out During nearly ment the Arabs said 114 Jews had The Democratic been left dead on the battlefield of office Dalton had been con tion is to Pres a sidered leader delegation pledged of the rank and Officials of the Christian union file leftwingers in the house of Harry S Truman for renominain Palestine drafted a manifesto commons Hence there are no conPolitical observers were tion accusing Jewish forces of using waiting to see whether he would tests In the presidential field 10 Christian religious and huThe Independent the leftist faction in the cabProgressive manitarian institutions in Jeru- join inet p&rty does not have a slate but salem as military bases is committed to Henry Wallace Considered Opportunist The Republicans now hold a 14 By RADFORD MOBLEY Dalton is generally considered to 9 margin in the Washington Daily News Service Chicago a political opportunist and most delegation They control the state WASHINGTON May 31 — The observers believed he would wait senate 28 to 12 and the assembly British say they have the ideal to see which way the party wind 48 to 29 with three vacancies is blowing before allying himself ambassador to the U S wrapped 108 File for Congress either with the leftists led by in one long slim A total of 108 aspirants have up Health Minister Aneurin Bevan or He is a man of thought HAVANA May 31 — Armed the “conservative” faction headed filed for the state’s 23 congres- package tell you a man of action include 50 they by Foreign Secretary Ernest sional seats 46 These forces were ordered into their quar- Bevin 12 He Is only 43 Democrats and Republicans ters all over the island at midDsst Nov 13 Dalton resigned Independent Progressives proSir Oliver Franks There is an even greater crush fessor snd minister’s college son arrived exchequer — a post second only night Monday for possible emer- the to the An even in the U S this week to accomprime ministry in the Brit- for legislative offices gencies as Cuba prepared for ish cabinet hundred seats are at stake — 20 in plish Britain's most important Tuesday’s general election Only a few hours earlier ashen- the senate (the others are elected postwar job The voters will select a succes- faced and with a tremor in his in 80 years) and It is to make thesuccess European Revoice he admitted to a hushed in the sor to Pres Grau San Martin house senate For the assembly a and to covery program he had that casually there are 41 contestants For the see that England has a share in who is prevented by the constitu- - details of his new togiven the assembly budget 29 the accomplishment through its tion from seeking reelection a lobby correspondent of the liberal e Nine candidates assembly management and idea departvice president 54 senators six London Star race are unopposed and seven have ments provincial governors and 70 repno opponents for the senate Franks was a visiting professor resentatives which is half the Gov Warren who spent Me- at the house membership will also be University of Chicago in state morial day afternoon at the 1935 Last year he came for a elected fairgrounds watchmg the quarter-- short time to assist in explaining The police soldiers and marines horse races left later for Oak- the armed with rifles will guard the program He will cast his vote in afterEuropean asRecovery land of the and chairman Commerce serving polling precincts the old Montecito precinct (in committee which drafted industry will cease operations and Oakland) about 7:30 am the government offices will close Europe’s needs "You never know anything about LONDON May 31 CPI — For The minister of the interior Mona college professor do you?” peoday prohibited public spectacles the first time in Britain’s hisand the sale of liquor during the tory members addressed the Pope Pius to Talk ple state when you ask informain the house of com-VATICAN CITY May 31 CD — tion about Franks It is true he voting hours8 The polls will be speaker ons am to 6 pan quiet univeropen from night as Vatican radio stations will broad- is inclined to favor war and the cast an address by Pope Pius XII sity life But the “Madam”Monday The atmosphere was tense Moncancapi-pu- a him off 9:30 have the Mrs times as a at For am Florence am the Paton (3:30 pulled presidential day night EST) didates marshaled their forces Labor member was presiding as Wednesday to cardinals who call enough for the public and the to extend their best wishes on his press to get a fair glimpse of him While candidates expressed conpro tern speaker The house was sitting as a saint’s day The Pope’s words m He is tall austere reserved in fidence of victory political obItalian will be earned on 1987 the British manner He is regarded servers pointed out that the sys- committee of the whole to consider a Scottish financial bill and 222 meters tem of direct vote through provThe Pon- as a youthful Lord Halifax As Mrs Paton took her seat tiff is expected to talk about the strongly resembling the former inces for president made predicstate of the world she was cheered tions inadvisable ambassador in manner and ap Rotted Dikes Held Key To Disaster ' top-secr- et emn-Tulkar- This Collapse Caused One of the Northwest’s Greatest Disasters was m gray-haire- slowed as other breaks taking lives of many Rescue work were reported late Monday night in dikes protecting Portland area Martin Hits Beds Miindt Bill Foes Balloting Light Aiigered Gives Warning Seen Today In Memorial Talk As SenateHalts Hearing For California WHITE improbable if not Impossible final By WILLIAM action on the bill in four-wee- off-ye- Aviv-Jerusale- ar rr 10-1- 53-m- an 63-m- -- pipe-smoki- ng odd-number- ed in-th- British Precedent In Commons Takes a Tumble 16-nati- on m 2-- 55 — T- r S WASHINGTON May 31— Sen- congressional the brief time remaining before the scheduled adjournment of ate hearings on the Mundt-Nixo- n Communist-contrbill were inrecessed late Monday definitely amid angry cries from its opponents that they would bring “thousands” to Washington to demonstrate against it “By God" shouted their leader Len Goldsmith “we are coming down by the thousands on Wednes' e day and if they won’t listen will find other means!” He promol June Sen 19 Homer Ferguson (R Mich) acting subcommittee chairman had Just announced a recess “without a date” saying that in the absence of the chairman Sen Alexander Wiley (R Wis) he had no authority to do otherwise He acted at the end of the fourth day of public sessions which origised an “orderly” march on Wash- inally had been scheduled to run three and at which the great ington by “trainloads and plane- only bulk of the time had been taken loads” by opponents of the bill Slake Action Impossible Goldsmith who said he repreGoldsmith stood in the great sented a New York City organmarble senate office building cau- ization called the “Committee for cus room to Issue his challenge in Democratic Rights” was on his demanding a prolongation of open feet at once as were several sessions before a senate judiciary others some of whom wore the blue campaign button of Henry committee Such an extension if for any A Wallace length of time would make highly Demands Hearing He and others began to demand “the right to be heard” and to insist upon "assurances” that these hearings would not be plosed Sen Ferguson after explaining that & decision for or against further sessions could not be made by him walked from the room in what had by then become rather an uproar Women stood to protest that pearance This means he has a none of their sex had testified the bill a boy of about 18 tough moral fiber is a persuasive about out that “at least one youth” but not eloquent speaker and can called must state his views preach a little if the occasion deSen William Langer (R N D) mands Oxford students referred told the crowd that for his part he to him occasionally as "Father would like nothing better than to continue sitting but added: “I am Franks” Franks was a professor of moral powerless" By" that time Goldsmith had philosophy when the war broke out and his government looking confronted an assistant committee for bright young men called him Clerk Joseph A Davis with a to serve in the ministry of supply series of requests The first was in 1939 His British biographers that Sen Wiley be asked to reSee Page 3 Column 2 open the hearings Davis went to a telephone and returned to report that Mr Wiley had left town Ferguson Protests Goldsmith then proposed that Sen Ferguson be telephoned Davis returned to report that Sen- Ferguson had repeated that he was without authority to conNEW YORK May 31 (N Y duct the hearings beyond MonNews) — Sharp disagreement over day bill Goldsmith then told Davis: whether the Mundt-Nixo- n would outlaw the Communist "Please get word to Sen Wiley the party was voiced Monday night that we areoncoming down by we If S thousands E Mundt Karl (R Wednesday D) by Rep coauthor of the measure and cannot be accommodated in the William Z Foster national chaircapitol we are prepared to hire man of the Communist party Turner’s arena for the use of the They debated in a broadcast over senators in a hearing We are prethe ABC network pared to assure orderly senatorial Mundt said that the bill did procedure" Davis undertook to pass this not aim to outlaw party members but to “drive them from along to Sen Wiley by telegraph All this brought s disturbed end the dark into the open” Foster to a harsh and clamorous day bein disagreeing said the real purpose of the law was a “deadly fore the subcommittee Paul Robeson the Negro singer blow to the labor and progresand Joseph Kehoe the secretary-Se- e sive movement American democPage 3 Column 3 racy and world peace” New British Ambassador To U S Hailed as ‘Ideal’ an Cuba Restless Before Ballot v A One hundred volunteer workers dropped sandbags and ran to “safety ahead of the surging current when the dike suddenly crumbled under the impact of the Columbia’s highest flood crest since 1894 ’ not -- politan area broke through the big Denver avenue dike Monday night and poured o'ut a torrent of water in the northern section of the city near devastated Vanport city 40-mi- le This I By ROGER JOHNSON PORTLAND Ore May 31 (UP) — The Columbia river striking a new destructive blow against the Portland metro- By ASSOCIATED PRESS Arab armies claimed Monday night to be encircling Tel Aviv V Aviv on the coast i it Communist Chief Mundt Clash On Aims of Bill - By LAWRENCE E DAVIES New York Times PORTLAND Oe May 31— In 4he absence of an official explanation for the “dike”" break that turned Vanport Into a scene of desolation without parallel in Pacific northwest floods RoyTaylor assistant chief maintenance man of the Portland housing authority Monday advanced his own theory Taylor said that the Spokane Portland and Seattle railway embankment through which the flood waters poured had been built around an old rotted trestle which permitted holes to develop in the embankment itself Trestle Built In 1907 Albert J Witchel of Vancouver retired chief engineer of the railway company confirmed the existence of the trestle which was built In 1907 He said that about 20 years later the embankment was made by filling in over the trestle He voiced doubt however that this had contributed to the disaster Although it was the railroad’s responsibility to maintain the embankment Borne officials contended it was the army engineers job to attest to the soundness of the project Vanport was built on a flood plain which before the erection of dikes was covered with water year after year The city rose within months to become Oregon’s second largest city Panic and Confusion While witnesses repeated over and over the stories of panic and confusion that followed the blowing of a siren late Sunday afternoon as a signal that Vanport was in danger some spoke bitterly of the distribution of a mimeographed letter earlier in the day It was a message from the hoifsing authority stating that the dikes “are safe at present” that unforeseen develop“barring ments” the community was in no danger that residents would be that they “warned if necessary should not get excited but collect their valuables money papers and gap swiftly widened to several hundred feet The new current picked up housing units from the Vanport “area where workers probed shattered houses for bodies believed lodged in wreckage and swept them through the breach toward Portland MeaA three-fo- dows ot 2 -- -- race track More Breaks Threaten Other break-throug- imminent r I seemed hs The army early -- Tues- day ordered evacuation of a 120mile lowland area along the Columbia v ' i The evacuation xwas ordered by Col O E Walsh- chief of the Port- land district JL S army engineers and effected all those not fighting the flood in 43 river drainage districts on from the Columbia mouth at Astoria to the Sands river east of Portland The Faloma dike in North Port land was “crumbling" and all workers were ordered to abandon it A break there would flood approximately 2000 ' additional houses in Portland The army said residents had been evacuated but that the dike could not be saved Located at the foot of the interstate bridge the dike is the main one on the Columbia guarding r - - - North Portland' Moving Toward Climax The Pacific northwest’s most damaging flood was moving swiftly toward its expected Tuesday climax Sixty thousand pernight were sons homeless Damage approximated $75000000 and at least 24 persons have drowned Floodwaters from the Lewis river washed through the city of Woodland Wash to the courthouse and the Coweeman river threatened South Kelso The Ka-lanver flooded Kalama Wash five miles north of Woodland Woodland’s 1500 residents were evacuated 2000 moved from South Kelso to Kelso and 1200 moved out of Kalama Other evacuations were under ' way at Rainier Ore Umatilla Ore and Kennewick Wash Premier Byron Johnson of British Columbia declared a “state of emergency” in his province callthe ing on the army to fight valFraser River valley flood The ley was flooded almost 30 miles on each side of the river Overflow from the cresting Corivers lumbia and willamette flooded a large area of industrial Portland covered hundreds of thousands of acres of rich farm lands and riverside property and forced new evacuations from a score of Washington and Oregon communities In authorities jewelry Those in homes near the em- ordered the evacuation of 2000 bankment break had virtually no homes along Columbia blvd in tixfie to' get away after the siren the heart of North Portland Ten sounded Vanport was a lost city thousand persons already had been evacuated in the Portland metrowithin an hour ’s politan area In addition to 19000 Rising Relentlessly t The Columbia rose relentlessly toward a 304-f- t crest at Portland crumbling dikes and invading the outskirts of The Dalles 90 miles NORFOLK y& June 1 (Tues upstream Rescue voters paddled from day) CD — A score of small ves wreck to wreck at Vanport climbwindows to sels and tugs combed the rough ing into second-stor- y which auuthorities waters of Hampton Roads early hunt for bodies believe will be found in shattered Tuesday in search of 90 members houses or on the muddy bottom of the armed forces from aboard of the deep flood lake Waterfront industry was parthe aircraft carrier Kearsarge The men were thrqwn into the alyzed toRail traffic and highway Washington were dismotor launch travel water when a rupted overturned approximately one-ha- lf Total damage tn the northwest’s mile off the piers of the Norfolk most ' disastrous" floods soared to approximately $75000000 on ike naval station basis-o- f estimates The Fifth naval district officials U S armyunofficial corps of engineers said could make no immediate estimate about $30000000 was inflicted by of lives which may be lost The floods before the Vanport number was not expected to be Vanport built at a cost of break $26-0known until sometime Tuesday (HXJ was a total loss In adreafter all personnel had been dition there were new losses to turned to the carrier and a muster crops and waterfront property over held naval spokesmen said a stretch of the Columbia Because of the numerous small river s vessels engaged in picking up the Treat Many Injured men from the water no counting More than 100 persons were of the survivors was possible Monk treated for injuries"’ shock immerday night Rescue operations from the sion or exposure at Portland hosKearsarge and other vessels in the pitals and Red Cross emergency shelters established in 75 school-housvicinity began immediately Searchlight-equippe- d boats from the coast guard were dispatched to The Red Cross attempted a the scene See Page 2( Column 4 t -- i "T t iL mid-afterno- Van-port- Naval Launch Sinks With 90 15-fo- ot 40-fo- ot 00 400-mi- le ’ es ii i |