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13 Dead, 270 Injured, Millions in
Damage From Weekend Tornadoes
(Bv the Associated Press)
Weekend tornadoes and violent
storms gouged destructive trails
across parts of the nation, leaving
13 dead, at least 270 injured, and
millions of dollars property dam
age.
The Weather Bureau said the
threat of violent weather had
passed today.
Disastrous windstorms in the
Cleveland area killed six persons,
injured at least 69 and caused
property damage estimated by po
lice at “several million dollars.”
Six others were killed and more
than 200 injured by 20 separate
tornadoes that roared down on
Michigan. Damage at Flint alone
was estimated by authorities at
$lV£-2 million.
Flood threats existed in Michi
gan and Pennsylvania where
thunderstorms dumped heavy rain
Old-Time Actress Wins
Phi Beta Kappa Key
As Student at UCLA
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—Remember
Evelyn Venable, the slender, love
ly actress who often supplied the
romantic interest in Will Rogers
movies of the thirties? She also
co-starred with Fredric March in
“Death Takes a Holiday.”
Her name today was on a list
of 82 students at UCLA who were
named to Phi Beta Kappa, the
scholastic honor fraternity.
Now 42 and the wife of movie
cameraman Hal Mohr, she attends
classes at the big university with
her two coed daughters. She won
the coveted key for her major in
Greek and Latin classics.
Missing Occupants of
Motorboat Found Safe
NEWARK, Ohio, Three persons
rented a motorboat at nearby
Buckeye Lake Saturday night and
chugged happily off on a nautical
outing. Ten minutes later the boat
—empty—was found crashed into
the shore. Its motor was still run
ning.
For a while, sheriffs deputies
feared its three occupants had
drowned and talked of dragging
the lake.
Yesterday the three were locat
ed safe and dry. What happened?
Well, they sheepishly explained,
they saw a place that looked nice,
so they brought the boat into shore
and got out. But they forgot to
turn off the motor.
Man Kills Bear While
Bear's Teeth Are in His
Leg, Then Hobbles Home
EASTBROOK, Maine, WV-With
a bear’s teeth in his leg, Arthur
French loaded his rifle and killed
the animal yesterday. Then he
pried the bear’s jaws apart and
hobbled home.
Chief Game Warden Elmer In
graham related today that French,
a turkey farmer, caught the bear
in a trap and fired his single shot
rifle at the animal. The bear then
charged and sank his teeth into
French's leg just below the knee.
Ingraham said French won’t
walk comfortably for a while.
into swollen streams. %
Winds of up to 70 mph., accom
panied by heavy rainfall, hit Cle
veland and its suburbs Saturday
night. Police estimated damage in
the suburb of Rocky Rwer at $5
million.
The Cleveland suburb of Lake
wood estimated damage there at
over $1V£ million. More than 600
trees were felled by the storm.
About 1,500 civil defense auxil
iary police and other volunteers
aided authorities in directing the
traffic in the Cleveland area.
In South Cleveland, a man and
two children were killed when a
tavern collapsed under buffeting
by strong winds. Two men were
electrocuted when they touched
a fallen power line, and a youth
was killed when a tree fell on his
automobile.
Three twisters struck Flint al
most simultaneously late Satur
day. A score of business establish
ments and 200 Flint homes were
either leveled or badly damaged.
Record heat was included in the
weekend weather. Temperatures
broke records for the date through
New Jersey. Newark had a high
of 92 degrees yesterday.
The heat record fell for the
third consecutive day in Chicago
yesterday where the mercury hit
89. The previous high for the date
was 86 in 1900.
ADA Finds Harriman,
Stevenson, Kefauver Fit
For Demo Nomination
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion < ADA) has found Averell
Hai-riman, Estes Kefauver and
Adlai Stevenson all “eminently
qualified" for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
ADA, an organization espous
ing what it calls the “liberal”
principals of the New Deal and
Fair Deal Democratic adminstra
tions, also adopted a resolution
saying it must oppose an Eisen
hower-Nixon ticket “with all its
resources.” It criticized the Presi
dent for what it termed “inordin
ate delegation of responsibility.
Would-Be Escaper Gets
Only Halfway Out of
Guard House Window
COLUMBUS, Ohio, W)—A pris
oner at the Fort Hayes guard
house here tried to escape yester
day, but only half of him made it.
An Army spokesm .n said Mar
tin R. Youngless, 17, of Brighton,
Ohio, tried to squeeze through the
pried apart bars of a guard house
window. Only his head and shoul
ders got through and he had to be
helped back in.
A fellow prisoner managed to
squeeze through the window
ahead of Youngless. But Colum
bus police picked him up an hour
later. Both men had been jailed
on AWOL charges.
JAMES WHALEY ELECTED
TO TRADE ASSN. OFFICE
VICTORIA, B.C., (A*)—James P.
Whaley, Fairbanks, was elected
regional vice president for Alaska
of the Pacific Northwest Trade
Association here yesterday.
Russia Offers to Exchange
Ambassadors With Japan;
Fishery Talks Stalled
TOKYO, —Japanese officials,
disturbed over the breakdown of
Moscow fishery negotiations with
the Soviet Union, faced a second
puzzle today in a reported Rus
sian offer to exchange ambassa
dors. <
A Japanese source in Moscow
said Premier Bulganin offered to
exchange ambassadors although
the two nations have not signed a
World War II peace treaty. The
offer was made to Ichiro Kono,
head of the fisheries delegation,
during a Kremlin visit. The ex
change would be patterned after
Russia’s agreement with West
Germany.
The peace treaty was the issue
on which the fisheries negotiation
faltered Saturday.
The Japanese delegation in
Moscow said it had negotiated the
long-term pact and a three-year
sea rescue agreement, covering
salmon Tishing in the North Pacif
ic, to take effect with signing of a
peace treaty.
Polio-Crippled Mother
Limps to Neighbor's to
Report Killing Husband
EFFINGHAM, 111., —A moth
er crippled by polio hobbled on
crutches to a neighbor’s home yes
terday to report she had shot and
killed her husband.
Policeman Jack Barry said Mrs.
Naomi Larimer, 33, related she
fired a shotgun at her husband’s
chest because he was drunk and
abusive. She was held without
charge.
Mrs. Larimer and her husband,
Noble, 33-year-old laborer, were
the parents of two children, one
3 years old and the other 21
months.
‘Electronics Age*
Will Have Big Part
In GOP Campaign
By the Associated Press
The nation’s voters will hear a
full discussion of the issues this
election year from the Republican
side, Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty promised yes
terday.
In a filmed television interview,
Hagerty also indicated that the
“electronics age,’’ presumably ra
dio and TV, would figure impor
tantly in President Eisenhower’s
re-election campaign.
It was previously announced
Eisenhower will make five or six
TV campaign speeches, some pos
sibly originating in other parts of
the country.
The press secretary said he
thought the principal issues in the
GOP view will be prosperity and
what he called a transition “from
war toward peace more and
more.”
Another opinion of what the
issues would be came from Sen.
Sparkman (D-Ala) the 1952 vice
presidential candidate.
Sparkman said, “I think the
two principal issues will be the
farm problem and the favoritism
of this administration for big bus
iness. with its consequent disad
vantage to small business.”
Doctors Say Eisenhower Is in Good
Physical Condition, Active and Alert
Rural Development Board
Will Pitch In to Help
Alaska Flood Victims
JUNEAU, Iff)—The Alaska Rur
al Development Board Saturday
night voted to make its resources
available to “backstop" the work
of other groups in meeting the
crisis in flood-hit western Alaska.
Although the flooding condi
tions have prevailed for 10 days,
the peak of the emergency period
is not expected to pass for villages
in the lower Yukon and Kuskok
wim River areas for another week
or 10 days.
Civil Defense Director Harold
E. Pomeroy paid particular trib
ute to the round-the-clock servic
es rendered by the Air Force in
repeated bombing of ice jams
which were creating flood condi
tions and in the air lift of persons
trapped by flood waters.
The parts played by the terri
torial civil defense agency, the
Red Cross, the Alaska Air Nation
al Guard and other agencies and
individuals was reviewed at the
emergency meeting.
Saturday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 1, New York 0
Cleveland 5, Kansas City 3
Chicago 7, Detroit 6
Washington 12, Boston 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 3, New York 0
Chicago 14, St. Louis 10
Cincinnati 10, Milwaukee 6
Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 5
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 7. Los Angeles 3
Hollywood 6-2, Vancouver 2-9
San Diego 7, Sacramento 2
Seattle 2, Portland 1
Sunday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 5-4, Cleveland 2-9
New York 111, Baltimore 2-5
Boston 5, Washington 3
Chicago 8, Detroit 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia 9
Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 2
Suspended in 8th because of
curfew, to be finished July 3.)
St. Louis 3-14, Ghicago 2-7
Milwaukee 15-6, Cincinnati 0-1
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
L. Angeles 9-4, S. Francisco 3-0
Sacramento 7-6, San Diego 6-5
Seattle 3-1, Portland 0-3
Fisherman’s Daughter
Has Narrow Escape
GOEULZIN, France, OP—Roger
Second, a fisherman, was riding
his bicycle along a canal with his
daughter, Monique, 4, fastened
securely to the carrier behind
him.
The bike went out of control
and plunged into the canal. Sec
ond was thrown clear and swam
to safety but Monique—still firm
ly attached to the bike—went to
the bottom.
A 16-year-old boy tried to res
cue here but found the bike stuck
in the muddy' canal floor.
Finally a bargeman using a
long boat hook pulled up the
bicycle with Monique still at
tached. Firemen revived her.
> WASHINGTON, (g\—President
Eisenhower’s doctors Saturday re
ported him “physically active and
mentally alert” after a two-day
exhaustive checkup in Walter
Reed Hospital.
The report said Eisenhower’s
blood pressure is normal and
there are no signs of muscle weak
ness or angina in the heart.
“The President has shown good
tolerance to increasing physical
activity over the past six months ,
since he departed Fitzsimmons
Hospital,” the report said. This
referred to the Denver hospital
to which Eisenhower was taken
after his Sept. 24 heart attack.
Because Eisenhower is seeking
re-election, the doctors’ findings
take on special political signifi
cance.
Last week’s checkup was the
first full scale medical examina
tion for the President since Feb.
11. On the basis of that one, his
physicians reported on Feb. 14
that they found him physically
fit to serve another five to ten
years in a job like the presidency.
Two weeks later, on Feb. 29,
the President announced that he
would run for re-election.
The doctors said X rays show no
changes in the President’s lungs
and no changes in the shape or
size of the heart compared with
the films dating from 1946.
“The fluoroscopic examination
of the heart showed a normal rate
and rhythm,” the report said.
It added the healed scar from
the heart attack shows no sign of
enlargement or bulging.
The White House made the re
port public shortly after Eisen
hower, smiling broadly and in
high spirits, left the hospital for
Burning Tree Golf Club, where he
played a round of golf.
Pioneer Girls Hold
Mother’s Day Banquet
At Nome Gospel Home
The Pilgrims and the Colonists
of the Pioneer Girls celebrated
Mother’s Day last Saturday eve
ning. They brought their mothers
to a banquet at the Nome Gospel
Home.
The festive board was decorated
with red and yellow tulips. The
program that followed included
several quiz contests on Bible
mothers and devotions were in
Proverbs 31:10-31, which is a spe
cial passage on “The Virtuous
Woman.”
Freighter Cuts Small Ship
In Two; 4 Seamen Die
MONTEREY, Calif., WP»—-Four
seamen died today as a 496-foot
freighter sliced through a little
lumber ship off the Monterey
County coast in the pre-dawn
darkness.
Three bodies were recovered.
The other 25 crewmen aboard the
lumber carrier were rescued.
The little steam schooner was
cut in two and sank.
Visibility was excellent, the
Coast Guard said, and there was
no immediate explanation of the
accident.