The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 1

San £uis Obispo ram The Tide rp HiWI a ea I pete 4:91 am I I pm II I Pept ie 11 If II I It ft Law ftn a i it I rtw II am Imwi i I) (flee hear el Tbe Telegram-Tribune are from 8 a mi le 1 pun City aobacribera who for eome fall to receive their paper bj 6:30 pm are ashed a telephoae the Telegram-Tribune 1901 before 1 pa asoore delivery the same day mltone YESTERDAY'S PAID CIRCULATION 9332 MlDAY I in Sc per Copy Tank-Led Divisions Driving Deep Into US Defense Lines TOKYO Saturday Scj it'l'i Ta'k 1' i rt 1 three Communist ditixion attaikmg in ki ttr rolled hack our northrrn Krrai lrrn iir 4i Friday South Korean forrra frj ta in thru i I "ft Entombed in Mine 128 Men Joke With Rescue Squads NEW CUMNOCK Scotland Sept Dangerous gas pockets and new cave-ins delayed attempts to rescue 128 entombed coal miners today bat tbe trapped men continued to laugh and Joke over their telephone line to the surface A national coal board spokesman said It win take at least eight hours to get them out The men had been sealed In 200 feet underground since 10 pm last night when a soggy MUtop suddenly collapsed and tons of mod and water oozed down the shaft 'Atascadero Union High Enrollment Changes But Little ATASCADERO Sept Enrollment today at Atascadero Union high school totaled 255 students as compared with 254 on the first day of school last year Reactivation of the Atascadero national guard unit has taken about dozen boys out of the high school Due to this factor enrollment mav not reach last year's peak of 270 students It was Indicated Current figures for the classes are as follows: Freshmen 86 sophomores 74 juniors 56 and seniors 89 for a grand total of 255 Officer Stresses Local Importance Of Camp SLO Importance of Camp San Luis! Obispo to the community was em- phasized Thursday by Maj Popham camp property officer for the California national guard at a membership meeting of the chamber of commerce "What have you done to insure the retention Maj Popham challenged commenting that it's value was such that all San Luis Obispo business men should be keenly interested in its progress and welfare "Some things have been done and some haven't' said the speaker estimating that fully 500000 men have passed through Camp San Luis Obispo since it was dedicated 22 years ago "Those men are your he told the chamber members "They can be boosters for your city or they can be He expressed belief that if interested citizens headed by Louis Sinsheimer then mayor of the city had not contributed hard cash to buy the land for the reservation 22 years ago "there wouldn't be a Camp San Luis Troop morale bolstered by community friendliness is vitslly important to a military encampment he said commenting that "In the many years I have been coming to camp I've walked the streets many times wondering what to do Others no doubt have had the same The 300 employes at Camp San Luis Obispo constitute a 3967000 annual payroll and "conservatively estimating at least 80 per cent of thst money Is spent in your he pointed out On the matter of the ramp's future Maj Popham said the camp la under consideration for future federal reactivation "and so is every other camp In the He expressed unofficial (Turn to Page Ten) i i 1 I a ft at i-r a i V6 a oat 1 -'i (- rt tj' of I I I a -3 a fita-t 0 a IU IfHDd uM fi 1 1 ft rt t--frf 4 re( rt ft- 1 frit lt a 6 -l eat it eei-vui 4 1 I a M4 fi a 1 1 I I tec I 16 1 ft 1 tal Ilk- It 1 tktt tfc tort- 1 te at a'- no a 1 tft I 1-1 ff lM Maybe Malik Will Some Day Veto Himself Out of UN LAKE SI VU Wfl 8 Kimis'a Jan A Malik polard (be threat mt tbe 4Mb and 46lh Sea let trlara ware the United Nation er nett rmaat ti today to Mnrk adoption of It annual report to the general nonemhly In form dllalefol to him: In rlnaed meeting tbe nation group tratatlicly elrd down Knaalan prwpwaol to elude from the onuuel report on account of Its bulnea from Jan IS to July 15 tbe retain a ion of the period rotered hr the document During that time nod until Aug I Kuoal tana rotting the UN Although 1 1 did net rhooao to eterche hi tele at Hint point bo empho aired fhol veto atlll mut he tahen on op the whole report Malik Arroyo High Tops County Enrollment ARROYO GRANDE Sept 8 Enrollment at Arroyo Grande Union high school totaled 521 students yesterday which already surpasses last year's peak mark of 510 according to Claire Hopkins district superintendent Another 20 students are expected to enroll before the end of next week which 111 make the school by far the largest four-year high school in the county Opening day enrollment totaled 506 as compared with 495 last year Hopkins commented The freshman class now has 175 students sophomores 148 juniors Ill and seniors 87 for a total of 521 New Coach Only one change has occurred in the school faculty since previous announcements Due to resignation of John Miller head football coach who reported to the United States navy the assistant coach Tom Burt has been advanced to the head coach position Glenn Mulleny a graduate this year of University of California at Santa Barbara will take position as assistant coach The new high school building is progressing well with the classroom unit about 50 per cent complete It will be finished by mid-January and will be occupied by the freshman class during the see ond semester The cafeteria and administration buildings won't be ready until March All of the buildings are designed tor the utmost in comfort and safety All of the classrooms have exits to the courtyard instead of corridors Lighting is Improved because of the large window area to the north and because of two skylights in the south California Air National Guard Called to Service SAN BERNARDINO Calif-Sept 8 UJ0 The California air national guard's 196th- fighter squadron goes on active duty Oct 10 one of the first air guard units activated in the nation The 196th fully equipped with jet fighters Is part of tbe 146th fighter group The squadron is commanded by Lt CoL Howard Galbreath The F-80 Shooting Star squadron recently completed a two-week training program at Santa Rosa Calif Squadron spokesmen said the unit would be activated at its home base here Other air guard jet squadrons probably will join the 196th to form a full group they said The dir force order activating the unit yesterday did not affect two other squadrons of the 146th fighter group the 195th of Van Nuya Calif and the 197th of Phoenix Ariz Farm Labor Shortage in Almond Area A current shortage of farm abor in San Luis Obispo county especially for the har-sesting of almonds walnuts ind string beans was reported today by Joe Quaresma local farm labor representative with the state department of employment Farm employment is now at its annual peak in the county with a total of 4500 employed in all phases of farm work including seasonal and permanent workers Need 200 More Approximately 200 more labor-era are needed for those harvests than are now available in the county Quaresma said and with reporta of similar shorts ges throughout the state local farm employers have little hope of importing outside help Almond ranchers in the Paso Robles and Templeton areas are confronted with a serious situation it was reported with a shortage of almond knockers and the nubs commencing to drop from the trees Farm workers are more urgently needed there than elsewhere in the county it was indicated Just commencing the almond harvest is expected to last approximately two months Hie string bean harvest has been hit by the opening of school the employment official said which took many family workers out of the fields With many bean fields now ready for picking growers of that vegetable crop are taking pickers as fast as they can get them Walnut Picking Although the English walnut harvest is not a major one in the county growers are worried about harvest help and some are putting up signs along the roads near their groves More help is also needed in the bush lima bean fields but other vegetable crops were reported being harvested on schedule with sufficient labor These include potatoes which are being dug by about 150 migrant workers who have followed the potato harvest from the San Jaoquin valley cauliflower celery tomatoes cucumbers sugar peas romaine and squash Hie small grain harvest throughout the county will be completed in about another weex Quaresma estimated Dr Weinbaum Guilty Tsien Is Jailed LOS ANGELES Sept 8 The government today accused a brilliant Chinese research scientist of being an alien Communist as another top-flight physicist was convicted of lying about former Communist party ties Dr Hsue-shen Tsien 40 head of the jet propulsion center at California Institute of Technology was held without bail at the im migration service protection quarters on Terminal island Immigration service agents arrested him on the civil charge only two weeks after customs officials seized eight packing cases of scientific papers which Tsien tried to ship to Shanghai in Communist China Meanwhile Dr Sidney Weinbaum was jailed without bail and awaited sentencing Tuesday on three counts of perjury and one count of fraud A federal jury decided yesterday that the former Caltech physicist lied when he told an army security officer last year that he had never been a Communist Hie Russian-born Weinbaum 52 said he would appeal the verdict He maintained he never belonged to- the Communist party Weinbaum was charged with perjury when he denied having Red ties in 1938 in order to remain at work in the Caltech jet propulsion laboratory The Weinbaum and Tsien cases were notrelated authorities said work was with the Guggenheim jet propulsion center and concerned with pure scientific research Weinbaum had worked in the top secret jet propulsion laboratory at the Institution Government agents continued to Investigate papers seized in the Tsien packing cases while other authorities tried to determine if Weinbaum had any Red connec tlons during his wartime work on the jet project at Caltech Tsien insisted the papers were purely of a personal nature and concerned experiments he had conducted at Caltech James McKie Of SLO Among Dead Four men including a father and son met instant death in the crash of a light single-engine private plane on a hillside in the Oak Park section of the county near Arroyo Grande at approximately 9:15 last lught One of the men killed waa a San liia Obispo resident James MrKle 41 electrician who resided at A74 laff street The others were Floyd Brit tnn 42 believed to havo been pi luting the plane and his son Gerald I Ilrltton 20 both residents of Han Francisco and Robert How rd McGill 47 SIS street Hay ward Calif Marked at Camp Roberta All wen Identified by badges pinned to their clothing as em-lnyeo of the utilities department at Camp Roberts Wreckage of the yellow Fair-child plana was strewn over a large sloping section of the John Htevens ranch about three-quarters of a mile aouth of the Oak J'ark school house Bonne Inspector for the civil aeronautics authority was summoned to the scene from Santa Mana shortly after It occurred and was seeking to determine the aiwe of the crash today It urea Indicated by reports from residents of the area who heard the crash that the plane was in distress before It hit the earth Mrs Sarah Silkwood whose home borders the scene stated that she heard the motor and then accelerate at a high rate of speed just before the tremendous noise created when the plane hit the earth She said It sounded like aa "explosion Wreckage Scattered The right wing was found a considerable distance from where the fuselage came to rest against the side tf a tree rolled Into a Jagged mass In the shape of a ball A shattered section of the propeller was also picked up by investigating officers near where the wing waa discovered Fragments of metal and tom cloth were found scattered among the scrub oaks lining the hillside All of the bodies were mangled beyond recognition and three were found In the cabin of the fuselage The other lay nearby crushed beneath the weight of the single engine which powered the craft The wreckage did not bum Identification was made by Coroner I Buechler and Sheriff Murray Ilathway by papers found in the clothing of the victims The men took off from a Camp Roberts air strip at 7 pm landing at the county airport here shortly afterward Chris Hoover manager of the airport said that one of the men whoa name he did not know knocked at the door of his home which adjoins the administration building at about 9 asking that the lights be turned on In order that the craft could take off on Its return Journey to Camp Roberta "I told him think of taking off in that weather since there was only a 800-foot ceiling and a heavy Hoover said advising the filer that "there was nothing that Warned Against Takeoff Alsyd Thompson a South weat Airways agent on duty at the time also discouraged the takeoff Hoover waa Informed by the man that he held an instrument rating and felt capable of piloting the craft to Its destination The crash waa first reported to I he Arroyo Grande police department by Individuals near the Stevens ranch who heard the crash Officers I Williams and Joe Cooper rushed to the scene first notifying the California Highway patrol and the sheriff's office Underaheriff Charles Bowden and Deputy Sheriff Albert Call were summoned followed by Hath-w-ay and Coroner Buechler It was learned this morning that I be elder Britton was chief estimator for the Edward Scott Flee trie On of San Francisco while MrGill was a general formean on the Gimp Roberts project Waa Official McKie waa the steward of the Han Lula Obispo local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers No 639 and was en (Turn to Fage Ten) STATEHOOD STAND WASHINGTON Sept 8 Hen Robert A Taft R- said today he will vote for Hawaiian statehood but will oppose statehood for Alaska Senate Democratic Leader Scott Lucas announced yesterday that both issues will be brought up for debate la the senate next week IT 1 ai a a ro: 4 4 1 ij i fat I- I( ikltlf 1 I I I ft) I1 i1 I fltt ere a-ta-aa I 1 1lt fin' 6 ft 1 and 10 in Matt a ft it I jar them 1-4 It 7 41 It 4 6 g-trtbt tal tf -g Xt feea 1 a -t 3 WASHINGTON Sept 8 (UP) President Truman Daley i 4 signed legislation to give living allowances to families of en enlisted men The action clears the way for drafting tf mrn with dependent families will get monthly cheeks of I 310750 3125 312750 3145 or 3165 depending on the number of dependents and rank of the serviceman Of the total allowance the service man will contribute out of his pay 340 360 or 380 per month depending on his rank Selective service officials expect to ask Mr Truman promptly to revise draft regulations which now bar selection of any man with dependents Family men other than fathers are expected to be called first Before draft boards start calling fathers congress probably will revise the draft law to raise the top age limit now to catch more single men Congress also will consider making single veterans eligible for draft calls The new allowance law covers only wives children and dependent parents No other relative! can be considered as dependent for purposes of allowance payments (Others may be considered for purposes of draft deferment) Technically the checks will be known as quarters allowances Officers are not covered by the new law because where the government does not provide quarters they already get quarters payments from 360 to 3150 Hie new payments are not automatic The serviceman must ap- Ilf I I Hi broth of Mm lb the Tmynavy or jMWn nf thrrMy the case may be may direct that) Anolhrr gn ntr the MmenU ty youth has hn wruii 1 14 1 i announcement male the department i Washington Pfr Rnv er T11 will of Mr Mr" their pay The government will m)in la liiet a 1 aw uumi scan 11 deductions be made from the see- jorpMn frAnt areordeg pay to make sura families are cared for Here is the way it will work: Servicemen in the bottom three prating may ue the "double tele" to block Ita appretel Tbi would moon I hoi he would flrl tele the report If aelf and then vote a auheqoent motion to declare that the I not auhjort to the arte 1 Registration Deputies tor SLO County Next Thursday Is the deadline for registering to vote in the fall general election For the convenience of San Luis Obispo county citizens County Clerk A Mal-lagh announced today a complete list of registration deputies To vote in the fall election Nov 7 citizens must have been a resident of the state for one year cf the county for 90 days and of the precinct in which they reside for 54 days Registration la required if they have moved into another precinct or did not vote in either the general or primary election in 1948 Following is a complete list of eglstration deputies: ARROYO GRANDE Ralph Bennett Oscar Eldrldg Mrs Ruth Swall McElroy Jane Thom peon 121 N- Halcyon ATASCADERO -Mrs Anna Ferrlne Vera Bummers Rt 1 Box 69 Matt Lindsay Box 16 Mrs La Reno Nichols Rt 1 Box 39 Austin AVILA Mrs Filomena Fintor CAVUCOS Mrs Anita Tomaaini Mrs Gertrude McKay Leslie Ghent CAMBRIA Glayds Cooper Lyons CHOLAME Mrs Lillian Jespersen CRE8TON William A Smith GROVER CITY Mrs Martha Hurd Box 104 Charles Baker Mrs Ruby Lundy Genevieve Hart Box 385 HALCYON Mrs Patricia Mallory MORRO BAY Mrs Edith 8 Noyes Milton Rohrberg Box 1007 Mrs Anna A Webb Anson A Lohman PO Box 61 NIPOMO Mrs Mildred 8 Holloway Floyd A Morrow Box 63 Mrs Edith Lucas OCEANO Mrs Neva Glaze Mrs Pauline Gatlin PASO ROBLES William Straw S21 15th street Sidney 8 Tucker 733 13th street Mrs Florence Hubbard River Grove Inn Cliff Blckell 313 13th street Roy Fannin city hall PISMO BEACH Mrs May A Wiley Mrs Llndley Mrs Margaret Bradner 430 Pomeroy street SIMMLER DISTRICT pCharle Smith Box 786 Carleopa SAN SIMEON Joseph Sebastian SANTA MARGARITA Alberto Estrada Mra Carrie Blake Mr Abellna Freeborn Star Route William Mallett SHELL BEACH George Maya Chambers SHANDON Bay Dowdra SAN MIGUEL Mrs Edith Robinson Box 0 Mrs Margaret Stanley McGowan SAN LUIS OBISPO Shelby 975 Osos street Mrs Grace Thorn' burgh 855 Mon Watson 858 Chorro terry street Mrs Mae street Hugh Wilson 1114 Garden- street Whler- 956 Swasey st5StPh C' Kfnnedy- 1130 Garden Hell Landry Box 1461 Cal Poly Mra Viola Louk 278 Branch street Bernard Novak 23m Sandenrok Bernard 1814 Osos street Florence Crye Rt 1 Box 141-D Campbell 1055 Pacific street Hi TEMPLETON JIr- Grace Petersen Mrs Matilda Smalling Baseball Today NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 000 100300 4 New York 3 The Weather Temperatures: 24-hr period MMling 7 win today highest 68 lowest 57 Rainfall- post 24-fars -03 of Inch Season to date 48 of an Inch Forecast: Salines valley Fair this afternoon tonight and Hntnrday except local morning fog warmer PROTECTING PRESIDENT WASHINGTON Sept 8 Hie secret service was reported to have asked congress today for funds to increase the size of its detail protecting the president Baughman chief of the secretJ service appeared at a closed session of the senate appropriations committee Members said he asked for funds to add about 20 men to the White House detail Feltus Says GOP Committee Prepared Schoeppel Charges WASHINGTON Sept 9 Randolph Fdtus said today that the same speech in which Sen Andrew Schoeppel Kans this week called him a Red agent was offered months ago to Sen Robert A Taft R- who rejected it as Feltus a highly paid public relations counsel also told the senate Interior committee he un- derstood the speech was offered he had been informed by newsmen LOS ANGELES Sept 8 The 196th jet squadron of the air national guard today became one of the first guard units in the United States alerted for active service Brig Gen Leonard Thomas commanding the 62nd fighter wing of the California air national guard announced this morning that the alert came yesterday from Washington to prepare "for recall to extended active WASHINGTON Sept 8 The air force is expected to follow up its orders for five air national guard groups to report for active duty with further ealls for air force reserves informed sources said today They said the five unnamed air national guard groups to be called up "in the near will meet the air force's requirements from the air guard at least for the present Reserves will be required however to bring the air corps up tc a 58 regular group strength by July the informed sources said The air national guard groups which are not now slated for combat service will not be counted as part of the 58 group regular air force Some 50000 officers and men from the unorganized air force reserve have already been called to active duty An unspecified number of organized reserves also has been called NIpomo School Opens With 260 Students NIPOMO Sept 8 An opening day enrollment of 260 students in the NIpomo elementary school was announced today by Principal Kenneth Moore Largest enrollment was in the first grade where two teachers are required 1 Members of the Nipomo teaching staff this term are: first grade Mra Gladys Celander and Mrs Marie Doktor second grade Mrs Helen Fagerbourg: third grade Mrs Ruth Lenger: fourth grade Mrs Dorothy Knotts: fifth grade James Hoyal sixth grade Eugene Fraser and seventh grade Miss Opal Parker Walter Jenning will teach music in the different grades iof-i -not i tit i it li match this with checks for 345 for one dependent 367 A0 for two and 385 for three or prior Servicemen In grades four and five will contribute 360 The government will put up 367 A0 where dependents don't exceed two and 385 for three dependents or more For men in grades six ard seven 1 the government's share is the XHIVGTYIY samefbut the man puts uo 380 cBSi In passing the new law asked congee The extent of hta disrlosed Me a member of the Lodge Favors Hugo Army Lodge slid in a vent the Soviets frm ever gi ting started Ultimately tyige Mid ought to deploy J'rt I to Rep Clarence Brown He said he understood the address was circulated by the Republican Sen Eu-denied national committee But gene Millikin Colo this Taft however told a reporter he had of the incident Feltus was accused in the speech delivered by Schoeppel of being a "three-year agent of the because he served the Polish ambassador for a fee of 33000 a month He swore that he took the job before Poland went Communist He said he advised the embassy only on economic matters Counterattacking Scho blast Feltus said he was being made a to discredit the administration in an election year Under questioning by Sen Clinton Anderson Feltus said he heard that Taft was going to make the speech ago" He said he went to Sen Owen Brewster Me to ask why Taft was going to denounce him Brewster Feltus said telephoned Taft who called it and said he had Intention of making the As Democratic committee members guffawed Feltus said that that the speech was distributed by the Republican national committee Feltus a big man with a flashy white sport coat and bushy mustache said Schoeppel had "drawn unwarranted conclusions from unfounded When he concluded his testimony the committee recessed until Monday Schoeppel said that by Monday he would be prepared to suggest further witnesses to be called His luxuriant mustache quivering Feltus maintained that his duties for the Polish government were non-political and undertaken well before Russia drew the iron curtain around Poland Schoeppel maintains that Feltus' connection with an iron curtain country made him a Red agent The senator linked this up with Feltus' former duties performed for 31500 a month for the Alaskan statehood committee Feltus was called by senators who wanted to know whether he was a "Russian meddling in the Alaskan question or merely a young man with a penchant for turning many an honest dollar Feltus offered Schoeppel "handsome that his roots in America went deeper than the senator's His lineage Feltus said stemmed from the Randolphs of Virginia three dependents for possible dis-: charge as hardship cases Pre-1 sumably such men would not be drafted Events divisions as an imndi gnsi 1 i He said "mngre should 8 Loyal Order of Moose Moose until tt ha rcvided fc hall total of 30 divisions 8 Amateur Radio club 1283 gu eongrersmnal la of Oblapo chapter 62' Royal Arch Masons Masonic1 Other congressional rfur-temple ments 8 Pre-bazaar benefit publie Pn Guy iin ft card party Mission auditorium ila accused big meat pec here of No 13 auxiliary Kuriet.