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U.S. Protests
‘Road Blocks’
Within Russia
WASHINGTON, UP—'The Unit
ed States today protested to Rus
sia that “road blocks and other
forms of police action” are re
stricting the travel of Americans
inside Russia.
A formal note of protest was
handed the Soviet Foreign Min
istry by the American Embassy
in Moscow. It was made public in
Washington.
The note complained that, in
practice, the Soviet government
restriits Amerisan travel beyond
the rules Moscow has proclaimed
publicly.
This contrasts, the note said,
with a situation in the United
States where the American gov
ernment “has never interposed
obstacles to the free use of travel
facilities by Soviet personnel in
the United States.”
The note inquired what steos
the Russians would take to make
practice conform with the rules
laid down in June and November
1953.
The American note complained:
“When members of this (U.S.)
embassy have visited open Soviet
cities in open areas, they have
frequently been prevented by
road blcoks and other forms of
police action from moving freely
about the city or to its envorons
when these environs are in open
areas beyond the city limits.”
MAN CELEBRATING 100th
BIRTHDAY WOULD LIKE
TO GO BACK TO WORK
ENDICOTT, N.Y., UP—A man
celebrating his 100th birthday to
day disputes the common belief
that it’s nice to retire young.
John T. Smith retired from the
Endicott Johnson Corp. shoe firm
when he was in his 70s, but says
“I’d go back to work now if
they’ll let me.”
His son Charles, a youngster of
74, says he has no desire to retire
from his job at Endicott Johnson.
Flier’s Body Crashes Into Room
After Small Plane Falls Apart
PORTLAND, Ore., Iff)—A flier’s
body crashed into a Portland liv
ingroom yesterday, seconds after
a small airplane inexplicably fell
apart over a residentail section.
“We were sitting there working
a crossword puzzle, when sudden
ly it sounded like the house was
blowing up. My daughter screamed
and we looked around behind us,
and there was the body on the
floor, only five feet from us,” said
Fred G. Thomson, 35, owner of
the house.
The dead flier was Willis Allen
Wood, 21, . Salem, Ore., whose
light plane disintegrated over
southeast Portland in late after
noon. The pieces of wreckage
caused no serious damage.
Wood, an Oregon State College
senior, either was thrown from
the plane when it began coming
apart, or he jumped, rather than
ride the wingless plane down. He
A NEW WORLD
COLD RECORD
i FROM SOUTH POLE
MILWAUKEE UP)—A ham oper
ator said he picked up a report ]
Friday night from the South Pole
of a mercury reading there of
98.7 degrees below zero, possibly
a new world’s cold record.
The official world’s cold record
is 90 degrees below zero, recorded
Feb. 5 and 7, 1892, at Vekhoyan
ski, Siberia. An unofficial reading
of 108 below at Oimekon, Siberia,
was not recognized.
Verne Lampriris of Milwaukee
said he received the report from
the United States’ detachment «t
the South Pole. He said he is in
frequent contact with the antarc
tic expedition.
Crippled Woman
Gets Fine Gift
For Mother’s Day
KEENE, New Hampshire, UP>—
A train ride was one of the nicest
Mother’s Day gifts crippled Mrs.
Eva Lambert, 59, could have re
ceived.
The train took her from Jack
sonville, Fla., to Keene—a trip
she had planned to make by hitch
hiking in her wheelchair.
Mrs. Lambert, a victim of mul
tiple sclerosis and heart trouble,
was laboriously wheeling her!
chair 50 miles north of Jackson
ville last week when she was
spotted by James Woolhouse, 28.
She said her husband, with
whom she sold newspapers on a
Jacksonville street corner, died
three weeks ago and she was go
ing back to Springfield, Vt., to
sell the old family homestead.
Woolhouse bought the proud
woman a train ticket and a white
suitcase, crated her two dogs and
a cat, and pinned a corsage of
flowers on her for the ride north.
She arrived at a friend’s house
here last night for a few day’s
rest.
During her lifetime, Mrs. Lam
bert has cared for 26 foster chil
dren.
had no parachute.
The body tore a hole in Thom
son’s roof, and smashed a chair
in the living room below.
“It was so sudden we couldn’t
figure out what had happened,”
said the stunned Thomson, who
was in the livingroom with his
9-year-old daughter Connie.
“I thought Fred’s furnace had
exploded,” said a neighbor.
The plane, a Mooney Mite, was
made of plywood and fabric, and
altho wreckage showered down
on the houses below, the pieces
were so light that almost no dam
age resulted. The fuselage crashed
into a garden plot.
Officials have not determined
what caused the plane to disinte
grate. The weather was clear and
calm. Witnesses said they heard
no explosion. Several agreed they
heard the engine sputter, and then
the wings began coming off.
Canadian Team
Will Try to Scale
15,300-Foot Peak
VANCOUVER, B.C., —A
mountain climbing expedition
will attempt to scale 15,300-foot
Mount Fairweather in northern
British Columbia as part of next
year’s B.C. centennial celebration.
The giant peak, one of the high
est coastal mountains in the
world, is 950 miles northwest of
Vancouver and is a boundary
point on the B.C.-Alaska border.
An eight-rnan team is expected
to take a month for the climb.
No Canadian has yet been able
to reach the remote summit. Dr.
Terris Moore, the former presi
dent of the University of Alaska,
and Alan Carpe, another Ameri
can mountaineer, achieved it in
1931. The Alpine Journal in Lon
don described the ascent as “the
hardest yet accomplished among
arctic mountains.”
‘Ike’ and ‘Monty’ Re-Hash Battle of
Gettysburg, Find Both Sides Erred
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
GETTYSBURG, Pa., WV—'“Ike”
and “’Monty” say they’d have done
a lot of things differently than
Lee and Meade if they’d been in
command at the Battle of Gettys
burg.
After prowling around the fa
mous Civil War battleground,
President Eisenhower and British
Fieldmarshal Viscount Montgom
ery agreed both Confederate and
Union commanders blundered in
the 1863 engagement, and should
have been fired.
The two World War II com
rades, who led Allied forces to
victory over the Nazis, second
guessed southern Gen. Robert E.
Lee and northern Gen. George G.
Meade during Montgomery’s
weekend stay at the Eisenhower
farm on the edge of the battlefield.
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U.S. Screen Actress and Two U.S.
Wives Mourn Deaths in Car Race
MILAN, Italy, Ufi—Screen act
ress Linda Christian mourned the
race-car death of Spanish Marquis
Alfonso de F’ortago in the seclu
sion of a Milan hotel room today.
His estranged American wife
waited in Paris for his body.
The Hollywood beauty, a fre
quent companion of the million
lire playboy, told the hotel staff:
‘I won’t see anyone. I must rest.”
She had waved gaily to the 28
year-old Spanish sportsman at the
Noted Film Actor
Von Stroheim
Dies at Age of 71
PARIS (£)—Erich Von Stroheim,
the film world’s most noted por
trayer of Prussian army officers,
died of cancer last night at his
home near Paris. He was 71.
The noted film actor and direc
tor had been ill for six months
with a spinal ailment. Death was
attributed to a generalized cancer.
Von Stroheim had lived in
France for the past eight years,
since his last American movie,
“Sunset Boulevard.” In that Aim
he portrayed a faithful retainer to
a faded Aim star depicted by
Gloria Swanson.
Recently he had appeared in
French and Italian movies and
was writing a novel and a biog
raphy.
Von Stroheim was known to
audiences of World Wars I and II
as a villainous German army offi
cer, but in real life he was award
ed the French Legion of Honor
for his services to the Aim art. He
attempted to enlist in the French
Foreign Legion at the outbreak of
World War II.
A native of Austria, he went to
the U.S. in 1909, served three
years in the U.S. Cavalry. Going
west in 1912, he got into pictures
first in 1914.
His close-shaven bullet head,
ramrod-stiff bulk and monacled
heavy face came to represent
America’s idea of the Prussian
military caste.
haiirway mark in Rome of the
Italian Mille Miglia, 1,000-mile
open road race yesterday. A few
hours later De Portago, his Amer
ican co-driver and 10 spectators
were killed when his fiery red
Ferrari blew a tire while roaring
along at 150 miles an hour and
hurtled into a crowd lining the
route near Mantua.
De Portago’s wife, the Mar
quesa de Portago, arrived in
Paris by plane from New York.
The former Carol McDaniel of
Greenville, S.C., she was accom
panied by their two children—
Andrea, 6, and Antonio, 3—and
the children’s French nurse.
The death of the 12 in the De
Portago accident and a fatal skid
by Dutch driver Josef Goettgens
on wet pavement near Florence
may have sounded the death knell
for the Mille Miglia, among the
last of the great European open
road races.
Miss Christian took a plane
from Rome after bidding De Por
tago good luck and was in the air
enroute to Milan when he died at
the wheel of his speeding car just
40 miles from the finish line.
Edmund (Eddy) Nelson, a na
tive of Beloit, Wis., was the co
driver. He lived with his wife in
Paris, but she had been in this
country for the past month so
their two-year-old son could un
dergo an operation on his liver.
She also left by plane for Paris,
where her husband’s body was
being shipped.
Senate Group Hearing
On Stepovich Tuesday
WASHINGTON UPV—Michael A.
Stepovich, nominated by Presi
dent Eisenhower to be governor
of Alaska, was advised Saturday
that the Senate Interior Commit
tee will conduct a hearing on the
nomination Tuesday.
Stepovich, a 38-year-old Fair
banks attorney, has conferred
with Interior Department officials
since his nomination was submit
ted to the Senate Thursday.
"Monster" Mistake
| The old friends reached another
! parting today. Eisenhower would
J stay on his farm thru dinnertime.
1 Montgomery, now deputy com
! mander of NATO forces in Eu
rope, was due back in Washington
for conferences at the Pentagon.
In sum, Eisenhower and Mont
gomery agreed both sides could
have used their cavalry more ef
fectively, that southern forces
should have tried an end run
I around the north’s left flank, and
I that the charge of Gen. George
j Packett’s brigade into the muzzles
of Yankee cannon was a grave
| mistake. Montgomery called that
charge “monstrous.”
Voice of Protest
From the south came af least
cne indignant protest and a de
fense, not only of Lee but—some
what surprisingly—of Meade too.
Mrs. John L. Harper of Atlanta
said the Eisenhower-Montgomery
agreement that the two generals
should have been “sacked” was a
very uncouth statement.”
Mrs. Harper has been decorat
ing the graves of Confederate
dead for more than 90 years.
In Hickory, N.C., Bell I. Wiley,
an Emory University historian
and author, said: “If you fired
them, who would you replace
them with? Lee was Lee, and
Meade, at the time, seemed to be
the best man for the job. . . .”
Nome Will Have Two
First Boats This Year
According to news from Alaska
: Steamship Co. agent Walt Sip
prell, Nome will have two first
boats this year.
The Lucidor will sail on June
5 carrying only freight for Nome.
The Tonsina will sail on June
10 and stop at Nome, St. Michael,
Unalakleet and Teller.
Billy Mitchell May
Get Name Cleared
By Air Force
WASHINGTON,MV-Billy Mitch
ell’s name may yet be cleared—•
by the separate Air Force on be
half of which the Army convicted
him of insubordination.
The Air Force announced last
night that the former Army briga
dier general, who died 21 years
ago, will be given a retrial this
week of the charges against him.
The closed hearing will be be
fore the Air Force Board for cor
rection of military records. The
board’s recommendation would go
to Secretary of the Air Force
James H. Douglas, who would
have authority, if he chose, to toss
out the court martial conviction
returned by nine Army generals
in 1925.
After serving as Air Force
commander during World War I,
Mitchell spoke out sharply, and
publicly, in the post-war years,
charging incompetency and inef
ficiency in the Army and Navy
air services. Among other things
he called for a separate air force,
which was established after
World War II.
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