Hundreds Fight to
Save Midwest
Lowlands in Floods
Hundreds of volunteers manned
weakened levees in the most cri
tical section of the Midwest flood
belt yesterday, hoping .to hold
back the muddy waters of the
swollen Mississippi and Missouri
Rivers.
They fought to prevent the surg
ing rivers from further flooding
fertile farm lands and communities
in Illinois and Missouri.
The flood fighters patched the
water sogged earthen levees with
thousands of sandbangs. During
the night floodlights searched for
signs of possible break-throughs.
The two big rivers have been
on a rampage for a week. The
chief danger spots were confined
to the lower reaches of the Mis
souri River and to the Mississippi
about 150 miles to the north and
the same distance south of St.
Louis.
Farmers, townsmen, civil de
fense workers and college stu
dents made up the hundreds of
volunteers working on the levees.
“People are in need here now,”
said Oscar Crist, a farmer at West
Quincy, Mo. “That’s the time to
help.”
More workers were called in
to srengthen a weakened levee
below Quincy. In nearby Meyer,
only a few of the 100 residents
remained, staying in a grain ele
vator, one of the few buildings
not flooded.
The Weather Bureau in St.
Louis has predicted a four to nine
foot overflow into bottom lands of
both Illinois and Missouri.
The Red Cross has estimated
that 31,000 persons have been af
fected by floods this spring in the
Midwest. The situation has eased
in most areas except along the
Mississippi and Misouri.
Floods in sections of New Eng
land, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania caused evacuations
of scores of families. But rivers
and streams are receding.
SIGHT RESTORED
COLUMBUS, Ohio, tf) — Roger
Skaggs, blind in his left eye for
eight of his 13 years, suddenly
regained his sight while in his
sixth-grade class.
Roger said he reached for , a
textbook the other day and sud
denly his eye “popped.” The eye
had been damaged by an explod
ing dynamite cap when he lived
near Paintsville, Ky.
“Mrs. Meyer, I can see,” the
boy shouted, interrupting the class.
The teacher, Mary Meyer,
quickly asked the boy to turn his
back. She wrote his name on the
blackboard — without the capital
R. She covered Roger’s good eye
and asked him to read the word.
“Roger, but the ‘R’ should be
capitalized,” he answered.
9th Circuit Judge Rebukes
Fairbanks Judge for
Allowing Irrelevancies
SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — The
U. S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
sharply rebuked an Alaska fed- .
eral judge Wednesday for allow-1
ing a prosecutor to recount to a ,
jury an accused forger’s admission !
of 83 other check offenses.
The opinion by Judge Stanley j
W. Barnes noted that Andrew J. j
Leonard, sentenced to six years
in the Anchorage Federal Court
of the then Territory of Alaska,
had not been charged or convicted
on any of the 83 offenses.
Leonard’s convicion and 1958
sentence by Federal Judge James
Lewis McCarrey were revised. A
new trial was ordered.
Leonard was charged with forg
ing and cashing a $258 check on
the Morrison-Knudsen Co., major
construction firm.
Judge McCarrey rejected a mis
trial motion by Leonard’s court
appointed defense counsel because
the attorney had failed to object
to the prosecutor’s listing of ad
mitted past crimes in the open
ing statement to the jury.
“For 40 minutes the trial judge
sat silently by while the over
zeal o u s prosecutor recounted
crimes alleged to have been com
mitted which by no stretch of the
' imagination were admissible to
prove intent or identity,” Judge
Barns declared.
Judge McCarrey said he had
expected the defense counsel to
object and was surprised that he
had not.
Defense Studies Reveal
All Fallout Has Fallen Out
CLEVELAND. Ohio, UP) — Long
hush-hush studies -have revealed
that all but 10 to 15 per cent of
the fallout from nuclear bomb
tests of the laset 15 years has now
fallen to the ground, it was re
ported yesterday.
Clearly indicating that what
ever radioactive hazard may exist
for man from tests already held,
the die is now essentially cast, the
report was prepared for the 137th
national meeting of the American
Chemical Society.
The figures, disclosed as devel
oped principally from Department
of Defense studies of the stratos
phere, are in sharp variance with
recent estimates of some scientists.
The latter estimates have fig
ured that as much as one-third of
all the radioactive debris from
bomb tests conducted by the nu
clear powers still remains in the
stratosphere and that the maxi
mum level on the earth would not
be achieved until two to four years
from now.
Disclosure of the new figures
was made by Dr. J. Laurence Kulp
of Columbia University at a news
conference.
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Noose Throttling
So. Africa Negroes
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, (#1 — Police and soldiers
yesterday launched a massive op
eration to purge strife-torn Nyan
ga Negro township of Negroes
maintaining a work boycott
against the government’s racial
policies.
The two big African settlements
— Nyanga East and Nyanga West
— outside Cape Town were the
scenes of bloody clashes earlier
this week when soldiers and police
made raids with clubs, guns and
whips.
A strong security cordon sur
rounded Nyanga, keeping out
everyone not part of the invasion
force.
The South African government
said soldiers began patrolling in
side the settlement to give “pro
tection to law-abiding natives,”
meaning those Negroes trying to
go back to their jobs in nearby
Cape Town.
Simultaneously, police began
searching for Negroes the govern
ment charges have been inciting
others to stay away from work
and threatening violence to those
who returned to their jobs.
The leader of the militant Pan
Africanist Congress, Robert Man
galiso Sobukwe, told a court in
Johannesburg yesterday that non
white Africans “have no moral
obligation to obey” South African
laws which are made by a white
government.
Sobukwe and 22 other PAC
leaders were charged with inciting
Negroes to defy the laws which
required nonwhites to carry pass
identity cards. Demonstrations
against these hated passes touched
off the racial strife three weeks
ago.
The government came under in
creasing fire yesterday from busi
nessmen to make overtures to
Negro leaders for an end to the
racial crisis.
Some influential Afrikaner
business leaders were reported
considering an appeal to Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to
consult with nonwhite leaders in
search of a dompromise in the
bitter, blood conflict. Verwoerd
and his National Party are the
political spokesmen for the Afri
kaner community, the descen
dants of the country’s early Dutch
settlers.
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April L 1960, are now available
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Female Dogs . $3.00
— Robert F. Scott,
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