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Vicksburg, Miss.,
Hit by Tornado,
Is Disaster Area
VICKSBURG, Miss., UP — Res
cue workers in tornado-battered
Vicksburg resumed at dawn to
day the ghastly job of searching
(the city’s ruins for more victims
of the death funnel which killed
at least 28 persons.
Dawn brought the noise of
steam shovels, bulldozers and
shovels after a heatless, shivering
night for the 28,000 residents who
piled on blankets.
Civil Defense and military lead
ers estimated the damage at 25
million dollars.
President Eisenhower last night
declared the historic old city a
disaster area, authorizing emer
gency funds to help rebuild 12
blocks of stores, homes and ware
houses violently leveled Satur
day night.
One-fifth of the city was with
out electricity. All of the city was
without natural gas — the only
heating and cooking fuel for most
homes. Temperatures dropped to
44 in the city and was near the
freezing point in the suburbs.
The twister aimed its deadliest
punch at small children. Ten
youngsters between the ages of
two and 10 were among the dead.
Airmen from Greenville Air
Force Base and National Guards
men patrolled the streets, guard
ing against looting.
Dempsey’s Girl Friend
Breaks Engagement and
“Takes A Powder”
NEW YORK, Hi — Mrs. Estelle
Auguste, who last night cancelled
plans to marry former heavy
weight boxing champion Jack
Dempsey, left today by plane for
Florida.
The rich and pretty widow an
nounced the breakup last night
with a statement that “oil and
water simply won’t mix.”
“We’re just too different,” she
said, three days after she had an
nounced she would marry the for
mer boxer.
Dempsey had stalked out of her
apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel a few minutes before she
announced the engagement was
broken.
Asked how she reached her de
cision that an oil-and-water sit
uation existed, she said:
“I always knew it, but I didn’t
think it would make such a vast
difference until our engagement
was announced . . .
“I found many of my friends
would not accept him ... I was
told that if I married Jack Demp
sey ‘You can go with the sport
ing crowd. Don’t bother us’.”
OFFICER WHO BROKE
GREENLEASE CASE WANTS
POLICE PROTECTION
ST. LOUIS, UPl—The police of
ficer who broke the Bobby Green
leas^ kidnaping case wants police
protection.
The president of the St. Louis
police board, said Sunday Louis
Shoulders has requested protec
tion because of threats he has re
ceived.
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Washington and
Alaska Gamblers
Buy Most ‘Stamps’
WASHINGTON, UP\ — Records
made public by the Internal Rev
enue Service on the sale of Gam
blers’ Occupation Tax Stamps
Sunday would seem to indicate
that the State'of Washington and
the Territory of Alaska are the
most openly gambling-minded of
the nation’s 64 revenue districts.
At the same 'time the records
show no sales at all ip fiscal 1953
in lower Manhattan in New York
City, Honolulu and Augusta, Me.
As for Washington and Alaska,
the revenue service report on sales
of the $50-a-year wagering stamps
show 3,725 of the stamps were
sold in fiscal 1953.
Internal revenue collections in
the Seattle district for the year
ending last June 30 show the
Seattle district collected $851,617,
000 this year, compared to $799
million the year before.
Allied Explainers Fail
In Fourth Try To Win
Back Any of 130 Koreans
PANMUNJOM, UP — Allied ex
plainers Saturday whipped an ap
parent maneuver by 40 pro - Red
war prisoners to disrupt the U.N.
Command’s interview timetable,
but failed for the fourth straight
day to win back a single one of
the converts to Communism.
South Korean Army officers
blocked the slowdown tactics by
fellow countrymen who refused
to return home and talked with 40
prisoners before the 4:30 p. m.
deadline. But their score remained
zero with a total of 130 South
Koreans interviewed.,
The Allies probably will start
meeting with the 22 reluctant Am
ericans and 1 British captive in
eight or nine days.
Defiant Korean prisoners Sat
urday demanded longer, explan
ations and refused to leave inter
view tents when ROK officers
wound up attempts to woo them
home.
The explainers solved the at
tempted slowdown by simply
walking out of the tents and
moving on to talk with other pri
soners awaiting interviews. Left
alone, the prisoners quickly made
up their minds and walked out
the door leading back to Com
munist rule.
Ambassador Dean Skips
Meeting with Communists
PANMUNJOM, (#> — The chief
U.S. delegate unexpectedly skip
ped today’s negotiations with the
Reds on a Korean peace confer
ence and instead met with South
Korean President Syngman Rhee
at Seoul, possibly to talk over the
dragging talks.
As Ambassador Arthur H. Dean
talked with Rhee, aide Kenneth
Young sat in for him at Panmun
jom in a meeting he termed “a
move forward.”
Young said all points of the
negotiations were discussed by
both sides but gave no indication
of any concrete progress.
Young L.A. Gang
Beats Man to Death
On Busy Street
LOS ANGELES, Iff)—A gang of
youthful hoodlums beat a wealthy
manufacturer to death in the
heart of downtown Los Angeles
last night when he attempted to
aid a Marine who was being at
tacked by the gang.
The victim was Wm. D_ Cluff,
56, of Hollywood, owner of the
Western Chemical & Manufactur
ing Co., producers of asbestos
products.
Police said the youths ganged
up on the Marine, Pfc. John W.
Moore, 18, of Camp Pendleton,
Calif., at the intersection of 7th
and Broadway.
Witnesses said Cluff, who was
window shopping while waiting to
keep an appointment with his
wife, called out: “Leave that Ma
rine alone.” With this four others
leaped from a nearby car and
about nine youths swarmed over
Cluff beating him and knocking
him to the curb. He died on the
way to an emergency hospital.
Although the streets were
crowded with pedestrians at the
time, all the hoodlums fled from
the scene. Later police picked up
seven youth and started question
ing them about the fight.
Returned Japanese POW
Reports Seeing American
Prisoners In Siberia
TOKYO, UP) — A Japanese pri
soner of war recently repatriated
from Russia said today he saw
“American prisoners” in a prison
southeast of Vladimir.
Tadashi Maeda, 58, a former
navy captain and military attache,
made the statement in testimony
before the repatriation committee
of Japan’s house of representa
tives.
Maeda is one of 811 Japanese
returned from Russia last Tues
day.
Reporters were seeking Maeda
for possible elaboration on his
statement, particularly regarding
American prisoners.
S.S. Aleutian Still Tied
Up Due to Labor Trouble
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Pickets
marched past the liner Aleutian
Monday as officials attempted to
reach a compromise between two
rival unions that would allow the
passenger ship to sail on its maid
en voyage to Hawaii.
The Aleutian, center of a bit
ter jurisdictional dispute that
flared into1 waterfront violence
Thursday and Friday, was sched
uled to leave Saturday but she
was tied up because of labor
trouble.
Hugh Bryson’s Independent Na
tional Union of Marine Cook*
and Stewards began picketing
after 'the Hawaiian Pacific Lines
contracted with Harry Lund
berg’s AFL Marine Cooks and
Stewards to man the Aleutian.
A spokesman for the Hawaiian
Lines, which chartered the Aleu
tian, said after talking by tele
phone with the rival unions, “the
situation looks a little better.”
I
Eisenhower To Deliver Dramatic
Challenge to Russians To Join In
Workable Disarmament Program
Wires and Letters Swamp
White House In McCarthy
Eisenhower Controversy
WASHINGTON, (ff>—The White
House said shortly before noon
today that 17,629 telegrams and
an uncounted volume of mail had
come in as a result of the appeal
by Sen. McCarthy that the public
ask President Eisenhower to halt
U.S. aid to free world nations
which trade with Red China.
Assistant White House Press
Secretary Murray Snyder said he
understood Western Union has a
backlog of telegrams possibly to
taling 1,700 or more.
Snyder told reporters the tele
grams have come in so fast it has
been impossible to break them
down into those which favor Mc
Carthy’s China trade demand and
those who support the President’s
stand.
Meanwhile, Republican con
gressional leaders maintained dis
creet silence in the Eisenhower
McCarthy controversy.
Iranian Troops Fire On
Anti-British Rioters
TEHRAN, Iran, (ff) — Iranian
troops fired into a crowd of anti
British demonstrators at Tehran
University today, killing two per
sons and wounding another.
It was the first public violence
in Iran’s heavily patrolled capi
tal since Premier Fazollah Zahedi
announced Saturday that his gov
ernment had resumed diplomatic
relations with Britain.
Following his announcement,
the powerful Moslem leader, Aya
tullah Kashani, threatened to or
der a campaign of “national
mourning”—the wearing of black
arm bands, displaying of black
flags and shouting of anti-British
slogans—to protest the action.
Kashani told an interviewer,
however, he would not call out
mobs for street demonstrations as
this might cause bloodshed.
Ceremony Aboard The
Arizona Pays Tribute To
Her 1,102 American Dead
PEARL HARBOR, UR — Ten
American sailors will hold a
simple, quiet ceremony Monday
aboard a dead battleship.
They will lay wreaths and raise
the colors over the rusted tomb
of 1,102 other Americans on the
Arizona.
She went down 12 years ago to
day — a quiet Sunday morning
that erupted—in an awesome at
tack by Japanese planes and subs
that almost wiped out the U.S.
fleet in its Pearl Harbor nest.
The war that followed took al
most four years to end in another
harbor—Tokyo Bay — aboard an
other battleship — the mighty
Missouri.
One of the 10 men picked by
the Navy was aboard the Arizona
when it was bit.
The sailor, C. H. Lamb of
Adams, Minn., is now a Chief
Aviation Electronics Mate. He
was blasted into the water.
TUCKER’S TOWN, Bermuda,
W) — President Eisenhower flies
direct to New York tomorrow to
deliver a dramatic new western
challenge to Russia to join in
working out a plan of disarma
ment ' and atomic control for a
world periled by the hydrogen
bomb threat.
With the backing of Britain’s
Prime Minister Churchill and the
Frenoh leaders here for the Big
Three conference, Eisenhower in
a major address to the United Na
tions General Assembly is ex
pected to suggest a fresh approach
to the knotty international atomic
problem which has been caught in
the vise of a Soviet-Western dead
lock for seven years.
The development overshadow
ed the shift of the talks today to
Far Eastern problems, including
France’s war in Indochina and
negotiations for a Korean peace
conference, and continuing British
and American efforts to press the
French for early approval of the
rearmament of West Germany.
The Big Three talks were due
to close late this afternoon or to
night with a communique sum
ming up their work.
Eisenhower and Churchill, along
with U.S. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles, British Foreign Sec
retary Eden and French Foreign
Minister Bidault, at their sessions
yesterday completed the drafting
of a note to Russia, reportedly
agreeing to a Big Four foreign
ministers meeting in Berlin, pos
sibly in early January.
Un-American Activities
Committee Hears Bridges
Attended Red Meetings
SAN FRANCISCO, (A — The
House Un - American Activities
Committee concluded its West
Coast hearings with testimony
that longshore leader Harry
Bridges in 1946 attended a closed
“meeting of the various heads of
waterfront unions along the Pa
cific Coast who were Communist
party members.”
Saturday’s final witness, James
Kendall, 31, a former sailor,
swore “there was no doubt in any
body’s mind that there was no
body there who was not a Com
munist.”
Bridges replied in a statement:
“I myself have testified to
more in my various trials. I have
never made any secret of seeking
any help when a strike might be
pending. However, in this case, so
far as I know, the man (Kendall)
has never met me in his life.”
Bridges added that he previous
ly has denied Communist mem
bership.
He recently won a Supreme
Court reversal of his 1950 convic
tion of perjury on charges of
lying when he denied Communist
membership ait at naturalization
hearing.
The Justice Department is un
derstood to be readying new de
naturalization proceedings against
him, based on information from
Kendall and others.