Tornado Wrecks
Towns in Ark. and
Texas: 17 Killed
(By the Associated Press)
A devastating tornado — the
third in as many days in the
south central states—lashed Ar
kansas Saturday, adding metre
casualties to the storm’s toll of 17
dead and scores injured.
No deaths were reported as a
small tornado cut a 20-mile swath
across north central Arkansas Sat
urday, but four persons were in
jured as winds whipped through
five communities.
The Arkansas twister was the
aftermath of Friday the Thir
teenth tornadoes which killed 14
persons in west central Texas and
three in Oklahoma.
Arkansas state police reported
they could find none of Bunker
Hill’s 100 residents when they
reached the shattered hamlet. La
ter, some residents were located
at neighboring communities.
The mid-March tornado in Tex
as and Oklahoma wrecked homes,
farm buildings and power lines
and smashed a hospital at Knox
City. None of the 27 patients in
the hospital was seriously injured.
Property damage was certain to
total in the millions.
Hail as big as golf balls accom
panied the whirling winds in Ok
lahoma. Damage from hail and
wind at Lawton and Ft. Sill was
estimated at more than $1,000,000.
Residents of the storm area
huddled terrified in cellars after
the weather bureau warned of the
expected winds.
After the storm passed, Abe
Hutchens stood near his ruined
home near Jud, Texas, and calm
ly answered questions. One finger
of his right hand was a bloody
mass.
“I was holding the chain to the
cellar door when the storm blew
it open and took it away,” he said.
“And it liked to got me out, too.”
Hutcheons said the storm lasted
four or five minutes, “but it
seemed like half a day.”
Another Texas man said the
tornado “loked like an atom bomb
cloud you see in the movies.”
Crash Survivor Dies
BAD EILSEN, Germany, lM —
The surviving crew member of
the British bomber shot down by
Soviet fighter planes last Thurs
day has died, British officials here
were informed by Soviet authori
ties Saturday. This raised the
death toll of the Soviet attack to
seven — all aboard.
Too Many Bills. Too Much
Paper, House Speaker
Rebukes Legislators
JUNEAU, UP1—It takes a heap
of paper for a legislature that has
set new records in bill introduc
tions.
House Speaker George Misco
vich (R-Flat) rebuked members of
the lower house Friday for bill
happy inclinations during the
present session, in which the
House has introduced nearly 200
bills, compared to the record 162
last session.
Miscovich checked the records
and found that three and one-half
tons of mimeograph paper was
used for running off bills, then
rerunning them after amendments
had been made.
Miscovich appealed to the rep
resentatives to start sidetracking
bills with no chance of passage
and nine were withdrawn by
sponsors during the day.
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AFL and CIO Machinists
Strike at Jet Engine Plant
CINCINNATI, (/PI — Production
of jet engines used in American
war planes was partially disrup
ted Saturday as 1,100 AFL mach
inists struck the General Electric
plant at Evendale.
Another 4,500 production work
ers, members of the CIO United
Auto Workers, were scheduled
to strike at midnight Sunday. But
many were absent from work
BRITISH - IRANIAN OIL
NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE
WASHINGTON, OT — British-1
Iranian negotiations to settle their
two-year-old dispute over Iranian
oil nationalization have virtually
collapsed, diplomatic officials re
ported Saturday.
Saturday, refusing to cross AFL
pieket lines.
The company manufactures about
60 percent of the jet engines for
the nation’s military aircraft.
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