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Church Family
Disappears in
Oregon Cascades
SWEET HOME, Ore., lA’t — A
minister, his wife and their son
have vanished from their home
in this western Oregon town.
Police have followed their only
clue to Tombstone Summit in the
Cascade Mountains in their search
for the Rev. Laurence Loftus and
his family. They th'ink the family
may have met with an accident
on a backwoods mountain road.
The Rev. Mr. Loftus, 28; his
wife, Ruth, 27, and their son,
James, who will be two years old
next month, disappeared Friday..
Parishioners called in police Sun
day when the minister didn’t
appear for services.
The search of the Tombstone
Summit began after bus driver
Harry Monical reported he saw a
man and a woman at the en
trance of a logging road in the
area Friday. Monical said the
man apparently was putting
chains on a small foreign car.
The car resembled one owned by
Loftus.
Last December 7, another Ore
gon family disappeared in the
area. Ken Martin of Portland, his
wife and three young daughters
set out on a trip to the moun
tains and never returned. Bodies
of two of the children were found
last spring in the Columbia Rive«(
but there’s been no trace of the
others.
NEHRU INVITES CITIZENS
INTO MILITIA TO MEET
RED BORDER THREATS
NEW DELHI, India, Iff) — In
dia’s top officials told their 400
million countrymen over the
weekend that the government has
taken all measures necessary to
defend the northern frontier
against any further Communist
Chinese encroachments.
Speaking on the 10th anniver
sary of the formation of India’s
Territorial Army, Prime Minister
Nehru asked the people to join
that auxiliary militia in large
numbers to meet threats posed by
Red China.
ALL AT SEA . . .
NEWPORT, R. I., UP> — Even
at sea, it has been proven, it’s
a good idea to stop and ask di
rections when you’re lost.
Joseph Amaral stopped his 14
foot outboard at the Brenton
Reef Lightship Sunday and asked
how to getvback to the mainland.
The Coast Guardsmen gave
him directions.
Adlai Predicts China and
India Will Take Lead
In Industrial Production
CHICAGO, UP) — Within the
next 50 yfears, predicts Adlai
Stevenson, China and India will
pass the United States and the
Soviet Union in industrial pro
duction.
“Our day at the center of the
stage is going to be brief,” he
. said during a discussion Sunday
with Julian Huxley, British biolo
gist, and Charles Darwin, grand
son and namesake of the man
who brought out the theory of
evolution a century ago.
Darwin and Huxley disagreed
with Stevenson. The Britons con
tended that overpopulated na
tions find it difficult to indus
trialize.
They appeared on a Chicago
TV program, ‘‘At Random.”
N. Y. Athletic Commission
Revokes License of Floyd
Patterson’s Manager
NEW YORK, m — The State
Athletic Commission today re
voked Gus D’Aamato’s licenses as
a manager and second and sus
pended promoter Bill Rosensohn’s
matchmaking licenses for three
years. D’Amato is the manager of
former Heavyweight Champion
Floyd Patterson.
Previously the commission re
voked the license of Rosensohn
Enterprises, Inc., which holds the
contract for the return bout be
tween Heavyweight Champion
Ingemar Johansson o f Swe
den and Floyd Patterson of New
York.
The commission announced its
decision today after conducting
a three-month inquiry into al
leged irregularities in the pro
motion of the first Patterson-Jo
hansson title . fight at Yankee
Stadium.
D’Amato, 50-year-old New
Yorker, was found guilty on four
of the five charges placed against
him by the commission.
An attorney for Rosensohn En
terprises, Inc., said he planned to
te^t the commission’s jurisdic
tion and take the case to the New
York State Supreme Court.
The action against D’Amato
may knock out the Johansson
Patterson return fight.
K-9 Corps Becomes
Popular Adjunct to
Many City Patrols
By JOHN BECKLER
WASHINGTON, OPt — Cities
i faced with a rising crime rate and
1 a shortage of police are beginning
to turn to an old friend for help
I — the dog.
| There are lots of advantages to
using dogs as police companions.
They are swift and silent track
ers, fierce fighters and there are
no squawks about the hours and
pay.
But despite all these positive
virtues, police experts who have
worked with dogs find their chief
asset is psychological: People are
generally afraid of a big, power
ful dog, especially when they
know he is trained in police work.
One of the most successful ca
nine cop operations is in Balti
more, where the program has
been in use three years. St. Louis
and Philadelphia are giving dogs
a try, and Washington expects to
have dogs on patrol in a few
months.
Baltimore has 40 dogs on its
force today and is so pleased with
the way things have worked out
it is planning to raise the total
to 100.
“We’ve found that one dog and
an officer can handle four or five
punks,” says Lt. John Biemiller,
who heads Baltimore’s K-9 Corps,
as it is called.
The dogs are trained with the
officer they work with and live
in his home. The cost for food,
equipment and care runs about
$200 a year for each dog.
Nearly all dogs used in police
work are German Shepherds —
the Rin Tin Tin type. Their size,
agility and strength are the chief
reason for their selection, but they
also appear to be more tempera
mentally suited to the work than
other breeds.
Air Force Mystified
By Disappearance
Of Falling Capsule
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., Wl
— The Air Force Sunday ended
the search for the missing cap
sule of the Discoverer VIII sat
ellite. What happened to it is still
a mystery.
It separated from the orbiting
rocket over Hawaiian waters
Saturday and dropped toward
the ocean. Air Force planes Yiad
hoped to snare it as it parachuted
down, but the ’chute may not
have opened.
The planes missed it, and so
did a search vessel — although
-both planes and the ship received
radio signals -from the capsule’s
transmitter.
The recovery project is de
scribed as an important step in
learning how to send a man into
space in a satellite — and then
bring him back safely to earth.
Four previous recovery tries also
failed. x
The Discovery VIII rocket was
launched here Friday.
Cuban Labor
Backs Castro, Red
Tinged Leaders
By ROBERT BERRELLEZ
HAVANA, W — The Cuban
Confederation of Labor today
elected an executive committee
made up entirely of members of
Fidel Castro’s revolutionary party
and rejected a Communist Party
bid for posts on the labor high
command.
Despite the rebuff to the or
ganized Reds, informed sources
said the 13-man group elected
| early today by the 10th National
Labor Congress included several
former Communists and some
Communist sympathizers.
Heading the group is Secretary
General David Salvador, Castro’s
choice installed last January 1
when the revolution triumphed
and an outspoken critic of the
United States.
The election by a roaring voice
vote ended the congress after a
tumultuous final session of wrang
ling which lasted most of the
night.
The delegates proposed a hand
ful of resolutions bristling with
attacks on the United States.
These included a denunciation
of U. S. “monopolists and the
State Department” for “opposing
just efforts of the Latin-Amer
ican people to achieve their
rights.”
Another assailed Latin-Amer
ican dictatorships “who are sup
ported by the United States.”
Erupting Hawaiian
Volcano Stops Suddenly
HONOLULU,. — Spectacular
Kilauea Volcano has abruptly
ceased flowing.
Activity stopped Saturday
night after a week of natural fire
works in which a fiery fountain
of lava spurted to heights of more
than 1,200 feet.
Volcanologist Jerry Eaton could
offer no explanation for the sud
den halt in the eruption which
attracted thousands of sightseers.
Lava still flowed Sunday but the
possibility of a renewed erup
tion narrowed by the hour, Eaton
added.
He said it would take decades
for the 100-acre lava bed to cool.
All Washington Routes To East Cut Off
By Rampaging Rivers and Landslides
SEATTLE, — Huge slides
and rampaging rivers, touched
off by a week-long deluge with
up to 13 Vi inches of rain, cut
cross-state travel to a trickle to
day and marooned hundreds in
lower valleys.
Urgent state-federal rescue op
erations were under way in
many lowland areas of western
Washington.
Major rail and traffic routes
through the Cascade Mountains
were blocked.
Highway Department crews
cleared a circuitous link between
the east and west sides through
the state’s midsection.
A woman motorist was killed
in a mountain pass accident.
Several small towns were being
partially evacuated. Scores of
farm homes were isolated.
The Civil Defense, Air Patrol,
state agencies and militar-y ser
vices joined in rescue work.
Treacherous Combination
A treacherous combination of
rain, wind and unseasonal warmth
was blamed for the flooding. Rain
has fallen for a week, climaxed
by a 6.71 inch downpour in 24
hours at the mountain station of
Stampede Pass, 60 miles south
east of Seattle, bringing the
seven-day total to 13.52 inches.,
Then the mercury shot up,
reaching 45 -to 50 at mountain
stations where temperatures nor
mally would be around freezing.
Yesterday a strong, warm shift
ing wind, “a Chinook,” hit the
state. Water from quick-melted
snow poured from the Cascades
in torrents. >
The major cross-state mountain
passes — Snoqualmie, Stevens,
Blewett and White — all were
closed by slides and flooding.
Trucks carrying persishables to
Puget Sound were rerouted via.
British Columbia or over high
ways down the Columbia River
to Vancouver, Wash., or Portland,
Oregon.
Rails Blocked
Three rail lines across the Cas
cades — the« Milwaukee, Great
Northern and Northern Pacific —
were blocked by slides or by flood
threats to bridges. All three re
routed traffic by a southern route
via Pasco and Vancouver, Wash.
The Milwaukee’s Olympian
Hiawatha, bound for Chicago,
was caught between slides near
Hyak, Wash., 60 miles east of
here. Buses from Ellensburg
reached the scene in early morn
ing and took the 90 passengers to
Spokane for transfer to a makeup
train.
The Seattle Weather Bureau’s
observer at the town of Snoho
mish telephoned the bureau she
was leaving her home as the Sno- •
homish. River gauge showed 29.9
feet, four feet above flood stage.
Mrs. Lenora Killen, the ob
server, said a bridge across the
Snohomish River at the town ap
peared threatened by high water
and heavy debris lodged above it.
“The bridge is making noises
something fearful,” she said in
her last call.
Chief Defense Counsel for
1925 Scopes Trial Dies
After Long Public Life
ROCKWOOD, Tenn., UP) — Dr.
John R. Neal, 83, chief defense
counsel in the celebrated Scopes
trial at Dayton, Tenn., in 1925,
died in a hospital here today.
Neal gained worldwide fame by
getting a young schoolteacher,
John T. Scopes, to agree to be
prosecuted to test a Tennessee
law that forbade the teaching of
the theory of evolution in public
schools.
Four famous attorneys, Clar
ence Darrow, Arthur Garfield
Hays, Dudley Field Malone and
Bainbridge Colby, joined Neal in
the defense. They all served with
out fees. William Jennings Bryan
came to the aid of the prosecu
tion.’
Scopes was convicted, and the
presiding judge, the late John T.
Raulston, assessed a $100 fine, the
minimum provided by the law.
Later the judgment was reversed.
Neal served in the Legislature
and was a candidate for governor
and U. S. Senator.
New Parcel Post Rates
Go Into Effect February 1
WASHINGTON, OP) — New
parcel post rates announced last
week will go into effect February
1, well after Christmas mailing is
finished.
Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield announced the ef
fective date late Saturday. The
rate increases, averaging 17.1 per
cent and totaling about 88 mil
lion dollars a year, were approved
Friday by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Wounded Wildcat
Rushes Hunter
In Shenandoah
WASHINGTON, UP) — Frederick
M. Beaver was hunting deer Sat
urday when he ran into a
wounded wildcat. He reported
quite a battle before he finally
killed the animal.
Beaver, 43, said the wildcat
— wounded by an unknown hunt
er — came rushing at him on a
steep wooded mountainside near
Mt. Jackson in Virginia’s Shen
andoah Valley area.
He fired his 20-gauge shotgun,
hitting the oncoming cat in the
leg. Undaunted, the animal
leaped upon Beaver, trying to dig
its great claws into the man’s left
arm.
Beaver’s gun slipped from his
grasp but he managed to fend
fhe animal off with his arm. He
drew a 22-caliber magnum pistol
from his holster. One shot at a
distance of about a foot finished
off the wildcat.
“I’ve been hunting for 30 years
but I’ve never had an experience
like that,” Beaver told reporters.
Beaver brought the animal
home to be stuffed and placed on
exhibit. He said it measured 41
inches plus tail.
NORTHWEST GRAPHIC ARTS
PRODUCERS JOIN IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, UP) — The Washing
ton-Alaska Graphic Arts Indus
tries, Inc., was formally organ
ized here Saturday at a meeting
in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel.
The organization was formed to
represent producers of printing
and allied products throughout
Washington and Alaska.
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