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Dw FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1952 PRICE FIVE CT3 Browsing nan ncci itd lyJUUUCoJUU Only 30 Pierre Blocks Wafer-Free Flood Aftermath Eed Still OimrabDimf Christians Mark Good Friday By the Associated Press Christians throughout the world Friday commemorated the most solemn event of Holy Week Christ's death on the cross. Christian pilgrims in the greatest numbers since the Holy Land war jammed Jerusalem. Jews and Arabs relaxed somewhat their barbed wire barriers separating the old and npw cities to allow the pil ivr Cresl of 34 Feel Seen Wednesday FARGO (AP) Aided )y warmer weather Friday, upstream tributaries were expected to supply the Red River of the North with new force in its drive toward a 34 foot crest in the Faigo-lloor-head vicinity. Weather Observer R.

W. Shultz late Thursday revised the timetable of the Red's cresting here. He placed crest-time at Wednesday. But there was no revision of the northward flowing river's anticipated ultimate height, which would put the water at least 17 feet above flood level a near tie for the area's second worst flood in history. A level of 34.3 feet was reached in 1943.

The Red showed an unexpected rise of 4 feet in the past 24 hours at Grand Forks. At noon Friday the Red had reached a level of 24.38 at Fargo, i rise of about 3 feet in the past 28 hours. At Wahpatcn the Red rose ts stage of 14.59 feet at 11 a.m. less than two inches below the highwater mark of 14.70 feet reached in 1943. Serious flooding was expected there if the stage wertf past IS ft.

Shultz was unable to fully ex STURDY TREES saved the South Side Mission from being- washed away downstream. Located on the corner of Sweet Ave. and Washington the little church stood fast against the flood for several hours. Finally it was unable to withstand the rushing waters and was tilted up on its side against the trees. As this happened, a small outbuilding was washed beneath it, leaving the mission propped on its side.

It is operated by the First Lutheran church. Cleanup, Relief Work Continues River Sets New Record. Drops Some PIERRE, S. D. (AP) History's greatest Missouri river flood swept toward downstream communities Friday after dropping here slightly overnight from its record crest of just over 25 feet.

The river level dropped half a foot between midnight and 8 a. m. from 24.75 to 24.25 feet but army engineers still refused to say the crest has passed. Flood stage is 15 feet. The Big Muddy, normally 1,000 feet wide, spread over five miles To Inspect Damage To Inspect 18 Memlite WASHINGTON-ipi Senator Case (R-SD) and Representative Loyre (R-SD) left Friday for' South Dakota to inspect Missouri river flood damage.

to engulf all but three blocks of nearby Ft. Pierre and 30 blocks of this South Dakota capital. Charles Fales, an alert 85 year old Ft. Pierre resident, was asked if anyone had ever seen more water in the Missouri. "Only Noah," he replied.

Fales was a witness to the 1881 flood, called the worst until now. The Red Cross declared 12 Nebraska and Iowa counties disaster areas as the unrelenting torrent swirled southward. In South Dakota, 13 counties fought the raging river and its tributaries. Floods also were reported in North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana. Damages from the overflows mounted into the millions of dollars.

At South Sioux City, the flood pushed through a dike Thursday to drive out 250 families. The Red Cross also reported: Sioux City, readied plans to care for one thousand families expected to be driven out when the crest hits there about Monday. Omaha, and Council Bluffs, girded against a predicted crest of 28.5 feet, some six feet above that which brought havoc in the last great flood of 1943. If the forecast holds true, Missouri water will climb two feet higher there than the protecting dikes erected after that most recent disaster. The Red Cross had mobile power units and canteens en route to all threatened areas.

One such unit was in service at Ft. Pierre, after the water knocked out the main power plant. Volunteers, laboring tnrougn the night, kept the Pierre plant (Continued on Page 3) of this work is being dona by vol unteert. Around JTUh ALLAN EASTMAN The question for today Why do women's fashions change so often? The answers Mrs. Julius Baier, 1316 Twelfth St.

"Because they don't know what they want." Mrs. Quinton Hoven, 1029 St. "1 couldn't answer that." Mrs. Fred Sorge, 1027 Sixth St. "Because they are never satisfied." Mrs.

Bert Nicola, 803 Ninth St. "They want to keep up with the times." Mrs. Milton Redmann, 621, Twentieth St. "They get tired of the old and want something new." PUZZLE 4be Sanders, boss of Bismarck's Hertz Driv-Ur-Self Service, doesn't know if he lost a customer because of misplaced sympathy, or if an to-coming call to his office was a ivrong number. Yesterday alter noon, when the telephone rang.

Sanders picked up the receiver and said, "Hertz. Dead silence for two or three seconds, Abe reports, then a feminine voice: "Oh, I am so sorry," and with that a click to indicate the party tad hung up. VIRTUE The rewards of virtue are sometimes strange. Take for instance the reward given to a railroad porter in Harrison, N. who found and returned a wallet containing $7,000.

The owner gave the porter a cigarette. In Chicago a vitamin pill manufacturer lost $4,000. Relumed to him intact by a hotel clerk who found it, the vitamin maker took the clerk's name and address, later sent him two bottles of pills. In Seattle, a grocery clerk found a valuable diamond ring lost by his boss. When he returned it, the boss said he had been thinking of firing the clerk but as a reward he could keep his job.

When a bride and groom were informed that the doorman of a Los Angeles hotel had captured a thief who had tried to loot their car. the groom shook the doorman's hand, the bride kissed him. rinrnq One circus will be here for sure this summer. That's the word I tot Wednesday. This year, as in past years, Bismarck and Mandan Shriners will sponsor an outdoor circus and unless present plans are chanced, it will be held in the Mandan rodeo grounds.

One of featured acts promised is one you saw before, but you will want to see it again: the man who balances himself by one finger. His first appearance here was with Ringing two years ago. The Shrine circus Is scheduled for July. MAIL In the mail, a letter from "Four Driseoll Readers." They write: "Recently we received a letter from a marine in Korea and this is what he had to say: 'I hear from different sources that people hack home have almost forgotten this Korean deal. Just because they're talking peace at the conference doesn't mean everything is quiet here.

Yesterday they brought in 17 guys that will never see daylight again. I certainly hope the people back home will realise men are dying everyday here and it is no soft game." me Driseoll readers add: "Have we forgotten them. Why not take a minute of your time and write to some of the boys over there and above all never forget them in your prayers." CUFF Off the cuFf. Sightseers must nave set some kind of a traffic rec T'd between Bismarck and Man- after the flood gale as open--d Wednesday. It was bumper bumper, east and west, for And while on the sub of floods, a new slogan for "is home town by Eddie Tostevin lf the Mandan Pioneer "Mandan, "here the crest bcRins." You your brother Americans spent than $1 billion for candy last True or false? The age a rattlesnake can determined the number of ils rattlers, raise.

A new rattle or button is 'nrmed each time a snake molts sheds its skin. This ran happen to three times in a summer, '-'re is no sure way to judge a aye. The Red s-rns nas carried on relief work disasters in this country the past fis vears. Two out three families in the U. S.

who have young children are buving something on the installment plan. Remember when it was about time of year that the drug reopened its fountain after I shut (lnwn- Grandma Ibis is the age of triumph the man who always expected -e TlJTr Thanks to Mrs. Nellie Thomas cancelled forei.cn postage WpS to bp fnru arvlnrt In trip vamP Cub, State Training School, 'an -J a a. Parting sbot-A ringleader Is the lii-t one in the hsth tnh General Out As NATO Head June 1 WASHINGTON (AP) The White House announced Friday the release of General Eisenhower as supreme commander of Allied powers in Europe effective June 1. It made public an exchange of letters which disclosed that Eisenhower wrote Secretary of Defense Lovett on April 2 that "I consider that the specific purposes for which I was recalled to duty have been largely accomplished; That same day, Eisenhower notified the chairman of the standing group of the North Atlanttic Treaty organiiation to the same effect.

Lovett, in a letter dated April 10, wrote Eisenhower he was taking appropriate action "to secure your release from assignment as supreme commander, Allied powers, Europe, effective 1 June, and to have you placed on inactive status upon your return to too United States." In his letter, Eisenhower made no references to the fact that he has agreed to accept the Republi can nomination for President if it should be tendered him. The letter simply said: "I request that you initiate appropriate action to secure my release from assignment as supreme commander, Allied powers Europe, by approximately June 1st, and that I be placed on inactive status upon my return to the United States. A relief date fixed this far in advance should provide ample time for the appointment of a successor and for any preparation and counsel that he may desire from me." Presidential Secre a Joseph Short said Eisenhower wrote President Truman personat letter, informing him he was taking this step through channels that is through Lovett and that the President replied with a letter to Eisenhower, written in long hand. "Both letter were personal and very cordial and will not be mads public," Short said. Short would not indicale when a successor to General Eisenhower will be named by the President or identify the successor the President has in mind.

He simply said the announcement will not made Friday. Asked whether Eisenhower will return to this country before June, Short said he did not know when the general will return. Slope Flood Loss Survey Released A survey of flood damage in the Slope area, exclusive of Burleigh and Cass counties, was released here Friday by the Red Cross. Burleigh county figures are still being tabulated, and the Cass flood has yet to reach its peak. Morton county appeared hardest hit of those counties in which tabulations are complete, according to Clinton Denison, Red Cross state relations officer.

In Morton, 75 families were affected, one house was destroyed, two suffered major damage; minor damage; and 25, superficial damage. Among the farm buildings, 25 had minor damage and 40 superficial. Eight other structures were destroyed, five had major damage, and 10 superficial. Mermarth in Slope county had families affected. Ten homes suffered major damage, 50 minor damage and 10 superficial.

In Linton and Emmons county 6S families were affected. There 15 houses had minor damage, fiva farm buildings had major damage, five minor and 10 superficial. Ten other structures were destroyed, 12 had major damage, five minor damage and 13 superficial. Beuleh had three houses with major damage, 10 with minor damage and 17 with superficial; Stanton had two homes with minor damage and four with superficial; Zap had two with minor damage. Mi (old the three Mercer county towns had 100 families affected.

In Sioux county about 60 families were hit but road conditions have not yet permitted an inspection. The Buford-Trenton project near Willisfon was one of the first areas hit, by the flood with 25 families sift cted. There two houses had major damage, 14 minor and five superficial. Five farm buildings were de-troyel, five had major damage, 30 minor damage and 12 superficial. At Bowman 10 families were affected with four houses sufferirf (Continued on Page 3) Broadwoy I Pnr TmJ" Bismarck plugged steadily Fri day at its long task of restoring the damage caused by Sunday's flood.

Shaping up were the long-range problems which will have to be met. One is to find replacement hous ing for those units which were swept away by the Missouri river waters or were so badly damaged as to make repairs impractical; As yet no accurate count is available as to just how much new housing is going to be required, and it won't be known until a block-by-block housc-by-house inspection can be made. The Red Cross plans to issue a plea for additional units some time next week when the need is more clearly established. Applications are now being accepted from persons hit by the flood for rehabilitation of homes and furniture. So far, about 60 such applications have been made.

Friday office hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. were established for processing applications because most Diplomats Say West To Reject Russ Offer WASHINGTON Diplomats predicted Friday the Western powers very probably will reject Russia's new demand for a four-power conference on unifying 4 grims to visit the shrines marking Christ's last days. The pilgrims retraced His torturous journey along the cobbled via Dolorosa to Calvary. On Sunday the Roman Catholics will celebrate Easter at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, a service marked by the joyous ringing of many bells at the resur-cction.

Many Protestants will attend an outdoor sunrise service Easter morning at St. Andrew's churchyard. Good Friday devotional services were held in all churches of Western Europe Catholic and Protestant alike. Fear 51 ueaa in Crackup NEW YORK UP An airliner captained by Singing Star Jane Froman's husband plunged into the ocean near San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday with a possible loss of 51 lives. The entertainer's husband, Capl.

John Burn, of New York, was reported among 18 known survivors of the 69 persons who were aboard. Pan-American said there were 58 adults, six children and a crew of five. The plane, a Pan American Airways DC-4 had just taken off from Puerto Rico for New York with Easter tourists. It fell five miles northwest of the harbor entrance at 10:02 a.m. (CST).

Miss Froman waited tearfully in her New York apartment for word of her husband. A coast guard amphibian rescue plane landed near the crash scene. Coast guard vessels sped to the spot. Three other planes hovered overhead to help direct operations. No Improvement In DeForest's Condition There was no improvement Friday morning in the condition of DeForest, Soo Line engineer who is in critical condition in a Bismarck hospital, his attending physician said.

DeForest was extensively burned by steam in a Soo train accident near Falkirk Tuesday morning. Safety council's monthly safety campaign is being sponsored by the police department. The theme, appropriately, is "Child Traffic Safety." In charge of the campaign is Sgt. Walter Thompson who said the responsibility for cutting down child traffic accidents is three fold. He listed parents, motorists and cluldren themselves as sharing equal responsibility in cutting down child traffic accidents.

"FareuU," he said, "must set a good example for their children in plain, everyday safety habits. They must show respect for law enforcement officials. Above all, they must not hesitate to be with their children when enforcing ordinary safety precautions." He urged that rarents teach simple rules to their children play in safe places, cross only at intersections, know traffic rules for bicycles, respect po-i Continued on Pace 3) Grand Morris May Give Justice Probers fluizJechnique WASHINGTON House investigators F'riday considered borrowing Newbold Morris's questionnaire technique in their probe of the justice department. Chairman Chelf (D-Kyl of a judiciary subcommittee told newsmen some thought would be given to adopting the questionnaire devised by the ex-corruption hunter. It was this questionnaire-through which Morris proposed to find out all about government officials' outside income, their gambling activities if any, and how many fur coats their families had acquired that helped get him fired with dazzling suddenness last week.

While Morris failed to furnish any "leads" for the house probers, Chelf and Representative Keating (R-NY) said they had learned something from his story of events leading up to his break with J. Howard McGrath, who was the attorney general until he fired Morris. President whom Morris hat pictured as the only top government official in sympathy with his corruption investigation, severed McGrath from the public payroll within four hours of the Morris bouncing. The President, however, has shown no inclination to get Morris's job back for him. Asked in a radio interview Thursday night if "the President threw you overboard to escape a possible revolt in his own cabinet," Morris replied: "I think that is probably a fair supposition." New Atomic Energy Plant To Be Built WASHINGTON The Atomic Energy commission announced Friday it is planning construction of 'a new, billion dollar plant.

It said i its search for a suitable site is now concentrated in the Ohio river val-jley. This was the first official from the commission on the proposed plant, reports of which jhave been circulating in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. BULLETINS LA PAZ, BOLIVIA 'I Fighting between rebels and loyal army troops virtually ceased under a truce today. BULLETIN WASHINGTON The National Production authority Friday lifted completely its ban on steel shipments to civilian users, in view of the industry-wide resumption of output. plain the' overnight expansiveness of the Red at Grand Forks.

He said he was checking water sources other than the Red in the Grand Forks area. Red Lake at Crookston, was not believed responsible. To cause serious flooding at Grand Forks Shultz said the Red would have to reach a level of about 38 feet. In the Red rose to 44 and one half feet, seriously inundating the region. The Red Cros unit in Fargo Friday opened a mass shelter for flood evacuees as the Red continued its steady rise.

Evacuees were being moved into the old Lincoln school. Cots were set up in makeshift dormitories and arrangements made for a canteen to supply food. Eleven streets are closed off in Fargo as the waters of the Red seeped over low-lying sections. A lake at least three miles wide and eight long was born late Thurs day when the Bois De Sioux river, which joins the Red at Wahpeton, burst its banks. Countless farms in the south eastern part of the state now have been inundated as the result of flooding waters from the Bois De Sioux and the other important Red tributary to the south, the Wild Rice.

The Red already has driven at least 60 families from their low-lying homes in Fargo-Moorhead. At least 200 families will be affected with the arrival of a 34 foot crest. The municipal swimming pot' building and the armory here have water barriers two to four feet high slapping at their sides. And water has reached sub-basement window casements of St. John's hospital.

Several streets leading to the hospital are blocked off as the result of flood waters. Shultz estimated that between 25 and 40 per cent of the fields adjoining the Wild Rice, which joins the Red south of Fargo, were under water, as were 50 per cent of the fields in the Great Bend area, southwest of ahpeton. Warm Weather Ahead for Slope There's some warm weather moving in the Slope area, the weather bureau station here says. After a high of 4-4 here Thursday, temperatures are expected to climb to 50 degrees Friday, boosted by southeast winds. During the next five days the highs are expected to ranpe between 45 and 65 above, according to the extended forecast.

Some precipitation is aho forecast. Litht rains are seen for Friday nit'ht and frequent shower activity thereafter. High Schools Prepare Concert 6 Years Without Death The number of persons still quartered in the World War Memorial building remains at about 80. The various church groups are taking turns aiding in serving and preparation of meals and both hospitals and many individuals are donating food. The Seven Day Adventist church has volunteered to work Easter Sunday.

Clothing contributions continue to come in. The Lions club at Hebron brought in a whole truck-load Thursday, Mrs. Ann McDonald, Red Cross chapter secretary, said donations of furniture are now starting to come in and a warehouse is badly needed for storing and sorting the furniture until it can be distributed. The city health department is encouraging people to clean up the homes as soon as possible but is asking them not to move back in until the houses have been inspected. Cash contributions made directly to the Red Cross have totaled about with other money coming in to the KFYR flood relief fund.

At noon Thursday the station reported the flood fund bank account already contains $1,780 with an additional $1,200 pledged on the programs. Officials estimated Friday's mail would produce between $500 and $700 in additional donations. jah" chorus and "The Prayer of the Norwegian will be among selections his group will sing. Joseph lists Bone Jesti," "Co Down Moses" and "This Is My Country" as selections he has chosen for the St. Mary's Central high choristers.

In conclusion of the choral concert, Kos-i will conduct the combined choirs in one number and lleskin will take the baton in another. The high school band under the direction of Clarion Larson, will play "In the Cathedral." "Monterey" overture, "Mighty Mite" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." Mrs. Eclard Ileberie, director of the St. Mary's band, said that her group's numbers will include "The Silver Moon Waltz" and "Mountain Majesty" overture. As with the choirs, Larson and Mrs.

Ileberie will each direct the Lands in joint selections. Fifth "A FriVnrffv and Music Students Offer Talents for Flood Aid City Marks Milestone In Pedestrain Safety Adults and students alike are taking up the cause to raise money for the more than 200 Bismarck families who lost their homes in the flood last weekend. triable to help much with their weekly allowances, music students at both Bi-marck and St, Mary's Central high schools offer their talents instead. for the first time in the city's history as far as anyone knows, the bjmrts and vocal groups of both sc.hiH.Is will appear in a joint concert. It will be IhM in the World War building at 8 p.

m. on Easter Sunday. No admission will be charged, but a free-will otlenng to benefit the fliKid victims will be taken. Hurriedly "got the program has ju-i bfcn anrmunred by the four directors of the musical organizations. Orland director of the Bismarck high school concert choir, said that the "Hallelu Bismarck passed an important safety milestone Friday.

It is just six years since there has been a pedestrian killed in a traffic accident in Bismarck. The last fatality was on April 11, 1910. when Nellie Hagstrom, 41. Wilton, was struck and killed while crossing Main Ave. in the middle of the block.

No charges were preferred against the driver. For its unblemished record in (he matter of pedestrian fatalities over the period, the Bismarck police department has received four national awards. In 1947, 1949 and the department received first place in the nation in the matter of pedestrian protection in cities between 10.000 and CS.OuO population. The department received a special award for the same work in 1948. The 1951 award has not yet been announced.

The anniversary con.es during a month when the Bismarck Aawoa o. Opening SATURDAY free fcwers for the first latfrei Fifth end Broadwoy GENERAL ELECTRIC DISHWASHER GIVEN AWAY FREE! -FAMOUS BRAND NAMES CONTEST "A friendly Plait To Trad".