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Road Race in Italy
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Ends in Tragedy
For 13 Spectators
MONZA, Italy Uh — A new out
cry arose today for a limit or ban
on automobile racing after a tra
gic Sunday in which world fam
ous Baron Wolfgang Von Trips
and 13 spectators were killed and
25 injured.
Von Trips, a handsome German
and leading contender 'for the
1961 world drivers’ champion
ships, was smashed to death be
neath his red Ferrari on the sec
ond lap of the Grand Prix of
Italy race,
The veering car rocketed
through a guard rail at over ICS
miles an hour and plowed into
spectators jammed elbow to el
bow.
Other racers continued to roar
around the super-meed track for
two hours past the crumpled dead,
sprawled at the trackside and
covered with newspapers.
The toll was greater titan the
accident in 1957 which doomed
tite Maw Miglia, long Italy’s great
and often blood-stained open road
race, in that incident, the Spanish
Marquis de Portago’s ear plowed
into a group of roadside spectators
killing de Portago, his American
CflMlriver and 10 other persons.
In the outcry which followed,
open road racing In Italy was
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Auto Workers Walk
Out of GM Plants
Across the Nation
DETROIT UFl — The United
Auto Workers Union struck Gen
eral Motors Corp. today. Thou
sands of UAW members left GM
plants across the nation in pro
test over the failure of negotia
tors to reach an agreement on key
local-level issues.
The strike was expected to shut
down most of the 129 GM plants
by night. •. ij
, .. . . The union and company
agreed on a money package last
Wednesday. UAW President Wal
ter Reuther declared however an
economic agreement “is no sub
stitute for solution . to. everyday
plant problems. Just because they
pay a worker, they don’t own
hkn.” ,<j; r,
Company and union negotiators
ended marathon bargaining talks
on local-level issues shortly after
10 a. m. when walkouts were re
ported. Reuther and GM vice
president Douis Seaton said talks
would resume tonight.
Designate Wright Bscs. Day
WASHINGTON Ufi — The. Sen
ate passed and sent to President
Kennedy today legislation desig
nating Dec. 17, 1961, as “Wright
Brothers Day.” This is the anni- :
versary ot the day in 1963 when
Orville and Wilbur Wright flew
a heavier-than-air machine tor
first time.
other organisations in
president of Wakefield
bare Lowell Thomas Jr„ become 1
a to dedicate himself to **** m»n«g
films that will sell the life and
our nation and to the world,"
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I Crab industry is in color,
contains Aleut music and
as she village of Akuian. Copies of She film
European film festivals." Wakefield stated.
Any organisation desiring to show this film should write to
Lowell Wakefield, Port Wakefield, Alaska.
Lowell Thomas Jr., who passed through Nome Saturday, ac
companied by Frank Whaley, is presently doing a an Alaskan
film. "Alaska the Brightest Star", sponsored by the Bankers
Assn., and State Chamber of Commerce. This film is planned to
show Alaska not only for its tourist interest, but its industrial
possibilities. Thomas stated that it is amasing how little people
west of the Mississippi know about Alaska and he hopes that
this film will do its jpart in showing its great potential.
Soviet Union
Triggers Two New
Nuclear Blasts
WASHINGTON UFl — The So
viet Union has triggered two new
nuclear blasts — one packing a
a punch far greater than earlier
shots in the current tests.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion said the first of Sunday’s ex
plosions in the atmosphere was
"on order of several megatons”—
an explosive force equivalent to
several million tons of TNT.
Although it was by far the
largest fired since the Soviet
Union resumed testing M days
ago, the Mast was a long way
from the 100-megaton level which
Soviet Premier Khrushchev has
boasted the Soviets will reach.
‘The second nuclear device,
fired later in the day on the same
Arctic island as the first, was
reported to be “in the low to in
termedate kiloton range.”
Because it was so much more
powerful, the first of Sunday’s
blasts presumably produced much
more radioactive debris than the
previous explosions.
U. S. experts say there is no
dengcr from fallout resulting from
the four earlier tests. But con
tinued atmospheric testing would
increase the possibility of deadly
radiation.
It was this danger that prompt
ed President Kennedy and British
Prime Minister Harold MacMil
lan to join in a plea to Khrush
chev to confine his testing to
underground explosions, which
are relatively safe from the con
tamination standpoint.
Khrushchev rejected the pro
posal last Saturday, calling it s
propaganda maneuver.
Nikita Sees Rays
Of Hope in Settling
Berlin Problem
STALINGRAD, USSR <JB —
Premier Khrushchev chose the
Soviet Union’s bloodiest battle*
ground of World War II to tell
his people he sees “encouraging
rays of hopes” of settling the Ber
lin-German crisis peacefully. He
predicted “there will be negotia
tions.”
The Premier said a nuclear war
would create great destruction in
the Soviet Union but asserted that
“imperialists” would be wiped
out.
As Khrushchev spoke, a com
munique he signed jointly with
Prime Minister Nehru of India
was released in Moscow calling
“lor a peaceful solution of the
German problem 'through nego
tiations between all concerned.”
Btrt while the accent was being
placed on peace, the Soviet gov
ernment announced it will fire
“more powerful and improved”
multi-stage rockets into a Pacific
target area beginning Wednesday
and continuing to Oct. 15.
The Soviets set off two more
nuclear explosions Sunday in the
atmosphere, making six fired
since they broke the test 'ban
tryce' and began testing again 11
days ago, Washington reported.
In outlining what he called rays
of hope that war might be avert
ed, Khrushchev said he detected
a change in attitude of President
De Gaulle of France and Chan
cellor Adenauer of West Germany
toward talks. He described them
as the principal holdouts against
negotiations.
Hurricane Carla Smashes Into the
Texas Coastline . . . Cities Evacuated
1 GALVESTON Ufl — The north
ern edge of Carla, called the
moat intense hurricane in Texas
history, hit land today at 2 p. m.
The fringe of the 30-mile-wide
eye reached about 65 miles north
east of Corpus Christi.
Port Lavaca, just north of the
storm center, reported 13-foot
tides.
The Weather Bureau said winds
of 150 miles an hour swirled near
the center, but the same agency
estimated 173 mph winds at one
time at Port Aransas, southwest
of the point where the eye reach
ed the coast.
Tides 11 feet above normal oc
curred in some places and the
bureau predicted 15»foot tides
from Port Aransas northeastward
to Galveston.
Carla will pack hurricane force
winds for 24 hours, the Weather
Bureau forecast.
“People left Corpus Christi who
never left before,” said John Stal
lings of the Caller-Times.
The Civil Defense control cen
ter «t Austin, Tex., estimated that
nearly 500,000 persons have fled
the Louisiana and Texas coasts
in one of the major flights in his
tory. - » *
Farm losses will be close to
$100 million, said John White,
Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
Galveston, island city of 75,000
( from which 15,000 fled, was com
pletely isolated.
At Port Aransas, on low-lying
Mustang I«i»nd just off the Texas
coast, 55 persons remained, in
cluding a few citizens and a de
tachment of Coast Guardmeu, 15
feet off the ground in an elevated
house. {
They had no choice except to I
ride out the wind and tides. All
communications to them were cut.
As far inland as Bay City, 20
miles from the coast Carla’s slash
ing winds ripped out power serv
ice and telephone communica
I tions.
[ Sheet metal, poles, broken glass
and trees flew through the air in
Corpus Christi. National Guards
men patrolled against looting.
The Weather Bureau office in
Chicago, labelling Carla the most
intense hurricane to strike the
Courses in Arson
Investigation Scheduled
JUNEAU Ub — Courses in ar
son Investigation in four Alaska
cities are scheduled to start in
Anchorage’s new Public Safety
Bldg, tomorrow, State IFire Mar
shal Robert Crouse said today.
The Anchorage course will run
through Friday. The other courses
are scheduled for Fairbanks, Main
Junior High School, Sept. 16-18;
Juneau, National Guard Armory,
Sept. 19-20; and Ketchikan, Fire
Hall, Sept. 21-22.
The instructor for the courses
will be John Kennedy, lecturer
and fire investigator, Crouse said.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional light
showers. Little change in temper
ature. Low tonight 40-45, high
tomorrow 50-55. In the last 24
hours: High of 51, low of 44. Sun
rise at 5712 a. an., sunset at 6^43
p. m. Temperatures a year ago
today: High of 50, low of 32. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 63 in 1929, low of 25 in
1914.
Texas coast this century, said
perhaps it may be the worst in
Texas history.
Well in advance of the hurri
cane’s main force, tides nearly
10 feet above normal flooded
scores of cities and towns. Waiter
rushed through multimlilion-dol
lar plants along 200 miles of the
coast.
Towering waves and winds hit
ting up to 140 mph in gusts wreck
ed piers, beach houses and boat*,
and knocked out power and com
munications.
Four tornadoes spawned by
squall lines ahead of Carla slashed
through southern Louisiana dur
ing the night.
Hie hurricane itself, however,
struck at ghost towns and cities
on a deserted shoreline.
As the hurricane drew nearer,
winds estimated up to 90 mph
whipped blinding rain in slmott
horizontal sheets through Corpus
Christi.
Texas City Infested
With Rattlesnakes
TEXAS City, Tex. — This
section of the upper Texas coast
has another worry today other
than hurricane Carla.
It’s rattlesnakes.
Civil Defense Director Kirby
Smith said a 10-foot tide caused
Texas City, right across the bay
from Galveston, to be flooded by
Moses Lake — and with the
floodwaters came the rattlesnakes.
“They’re everywhere,” Smith
said. “My men say they are try
ing to climb up walls of homes
while trying to get out of the
water.”
The director said evacuees will
have to be extremely careful
| when they return to their homes.
83 Perish as U.S.
Airliner Crashes
In Ireland
SHANNON, Ireland UP) — Work
ing knee-deep in mud, rescue
workers today dug for more bodies
j is the wreckage of the chartered
American plane that plunged in
to the Shannon Estuary killing
all 83 persons aboard.
The crash Sunday of to* Presi
dent Air Lines DC6 “Theodore
Roosevelt” was the worst disaster
ever to befall a U. S. commercial
plane overseas.
Aboard were 77 European pas
sengers and six American crew
men.
The tailpiece of the plane loom
ed above the slimy, gray mud
flats like a giant tombstone.
Lashed by rain, the people of
Shannon toiled all day Sunday
in a race against the incoming
tides.
As the tide came in and again
covered the remains of the air
liner, floodlights cut across the
mudbanks and illuminated the
wreckage.
The big four-engined plane
plunged into the Shannon’s waters
minutes after taking off for the
Atlantic hop after a refueling
stop. The passengers had been
taken aboard at Duesseldorf, West
Germany.
The ill-fated airliner carried
Austrian and German farm fam
ilies, including a baby on a trip
organized by a crop spray firm
for a three-week visit to the
American midwest com 'belt.