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Three Teen-Age
Girls Jailed After
Run From Home
The three teen-agers who de
cided to run away from home last
Friday and were missing for 12
■hours were located after a broad
cast Friday afternoon over AFRS.
The girls • had with them a
coaster sled, sleeping . bag, rifle
-and a few food supplies.
They had been seen from the
U.$. Smelting Co. power plant
heading east and when the broad
: cast went out -the authorities were
notified by <J. Langhus.
; • Had they, not been located by
dark an intensified search was
‘■planned by volunteers.
Parents and authorities agreed
that the. girls shouid' be held over
; night in-the City jail, stated Po
lice Chief Webb, and brought be
fore the City, Magistrate . for. an
informal hearing on truancy Sat
urday with parents before being
released , and sent home.
Tables Turned as Judge
Meets Former Sergfeant
BALTIMORE, UP)—'When the
next case stepped up in northern
district police court yesterday,
Magistrate Henry L. Rogers did
a double take.
The defendent was Orville
Shaw of Baltimore, 45-year-old
unemployed bricklayer, who was
arrested late Saturday on a drunk
charge. It was 16 years ago, but
both remembered when the de
fendent was first sergeant with
■the 110th Field Artillery Battal
lion and the magistrate was as
signed to KP.
“Ten dollars and costs,” said
Magistrate Rogers, “Do you have
any money to get home on?”
“No,” said Shaw.
The magistrate got change for j
a dollar and gave his old sergeant
50 cents.
“Thank you, judge,” said Shaw.
Senator’s Bill Will Limit
Individual Contributions
To Political Campaigns
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP>—-Sen. Gore
(D-Tenn) today said he is drafting
legislation to limit the amount
any single individual can con
tribute to political campaigns in
any year.
Gore headed a Senate elections
subcommittee which reported
during the weekend that the 1956
general election cost at least $33,
187,725.
That was the total only of “di
rect expenditures” the subcom
mittee said it could trace down.
The actual outlay, it added,' “far
surpasses that figure.”
Total contributions from indi- J
vidual persons ran as high as the
$73,614 reported by Landsdell K.
Christie of New York.
Gore and Sen. Mansfield of
Montana, a vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
joined in a formal report which
contended that Republicans out
spent Democrats about 2 to 1 Last
year.
| Grandfather Beams as
! Adlai Stevenson III
! Is Christened
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UPV—Ad
lai E. Stevensop III, 13 weeks old,
was christened' yesterday while
his grandfather, the Democratic
presidential nominee in 1952 end
1956, looked on proudly.
After the church ceremony, the
Rev. George. A. Buftrickj .Presby
terian minister who officiated,
■declined a christening offering
and asked the parents .to open a
bank account in the child’s name.
Grandfather Stevenson told the
minister: “Here is one infant who
can credit his baptism and you
with his solvency.”
The infant is the first child of
Mr. and Mrs. Adlai iE.- Stevenson
Jr. '
TEN YEARS APART
AND STILL TOGETHER
OKLAHOMA CITY, Id*—The
Rev., and Mrs. E. L;.'Powell cele
brated their 50th wedding anni
versary yesterday.
A member of the party helping
■to mark the • occasion here was
Mrs. Margaret Ramsey, 87-year
I old mother^of Mrs. Powell. The
Rev. Powell is 77 and his wife 67.
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Neuberger Hits
Eisenhower for
King’s Welcome
CLEVELAND, OP)—Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (DvOre) told a
Democratic Party luncheon here
Saturday that the Eisenhower
Administration preaches one set
of doctrines, but practices an
other.
An example of this, he said,
was the fact President Eisenhow
er made an unprecedented trip to
Washington’s National Airport to
greet King Saud, ruler of a Land
where human slavery is tolerated,
but extended no such courtesy to
Winston Churchill and Anthony
Eden, leaders of Great Britain,
“where basic freedoms are de
fended and safe-guarded.”
“Yet,” the senator continued,
“the President’s inaugural ad
dress paid extensive lip service
to liberty and human rights.”
Neuberger said there has been
considerable talk in the Adminis
tration about self-government,
yet the President “has equivocat
ed for four years concerning
statehood for Alaska, where
225,000 Americans are denied the
privilege of selecting their own
governor and representatives.”
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‘Unknown Americans’
From World War II .
Will Be Chosen May 1958
WASHINGTON UPl—Plans were
announced today for selecting
two “unknown Americans” who
fell in World War II and in Korea
for burial beside their World War
I comrate in Arlington National
Cemetery.
The Army, Navy and Air Force
will share in a ceremonial selec
tion, with re-interment scheduled
for Memorial Day, May 30, 1958.
Selections will toe made May 15
next year.
4-Year-Old Boy
Drowns Crossing
Snake River
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Jeffry Komonaseak, 4-year-old
j son of Silas Komonoseak, was
j drowned Saturday, while, crossing
j on Snake River in .what is re
I ported to be a hole caused by the
pressure under, the. ice.. Funeral
has been , announced, from the
Community Mthodist Church for
Thdi-sday afternoon at 2 p. m.
Gas Explosion
Traps and Kills
37 Coal Miners
• BISHOP, Va., UP)—A rumbling
gas explosion trapped . and killed
37 miners today in the cavernous
Bishop ..coal ipine that. straddles
:the mountainous . Virginia-West
Virginia line. r :
' Rescue teams said this number
of bodies had been counted be
low. ground. Apparently the entire
drew working ip a section of the
sprawling tunnel^ fell victims to
the whistling, dusty blast..
The . blast jammed the elevator
that had carried the men in on
the Virginia side and rescue work
had to be routed through another
entrance two and a half miles
away on the West Virginia side.
The grimy masked workers
who pushed through to the ex
plosion site had all but aban
doned hope for any survivors by
the time the first nine bodies
were found.
Identification went on below
ground before any bodies were
brought to the surface. The blast
site was described as “about a
five minute walk” from the bot
tom of a 337-foot shaft.
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Soviets Blast
U.S. Communists
For ‘Nationalism’
MOSCOW, WP)—A Soviet Com
munist Party newspaper says the
“right wing” of the American
Communist Party is “propagating
bourgeois nationalism disguised
in Communist terminology.”
The blast was fired by the mag
azine Soviet Russia. It hit the di
vided American Reds just before
their national convention in New
York Feb. 9-12.
Some of the American party’s
top leaders, notably 76-year-old
chairman William Z. Foster, have
been at odds with the “right
wing” since Khrushchev launched
the anti-Stalin campaign a year
ago. Last September a resolution
adopted by the party’s national
committee for sumbission to the
forthcoming convention pledged!
allegiance to the United States. It
called for social reorganization in
a “peaceful, constituional man
ner.”
The article in Soviet Russia at
tacked this brand of “national
Communism,” branding it as “a
refined form of bourgeoise na
tionalism.” This sounded like the
criticisms Moscow used to hurl at
Yugoslav President Tito during
the Stalin era.
Egypt Still Defying United Nations
Order to Evacuate Gaza Strip
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Family Gets Flu Shots,
But Found Passed Out
From Carbon Monoxide
CLINTON, 111., doctor in
; oculated the Howard Rdsor fam
ily for influenza when they all
complained of being ill simulta
neously—but the trouble was in
the furnace, police discovered.
Rasor called a physician at 3
a.m, yesterday when he and his
wife, two children and a' visiting
cousin all awoke with aches and
pains. The doctor diagnosed flu.
Several hours after the physi
cian departed a relative arrived
for a visit and found the family
unconscious. Mrs. Lyle Miller,
Rasor’s sister, smelled fumes,
opened doors and windows and
called a fleet of ambulances.
Police found a faulty flue in
the furnace. The Rasors and therr
cousin are recovering from car
bon monoxide Inhalation. .
Officials Probe
Island for Cause
Of Airliner Crash
NEW YORK UP—Investigators
roved Rikers Island today, closely
examining scattered bits of the
wreckage in an on-the-spot hunt
for clues as to the cause of the
Northeast Airliner crash that
killed 20 people. (See story on
Page 5.
Instruments and other parts of
the plane were “spread all over”
the island, an investigator said.
None of the fragments has yet
been moved, so as to permit mea
surement of distances between
them. t
A dozen expert investigators
took a police launch to the island
today, and began the minute,
painstaking inspection of the re
maining structure of the plane,
and the widely strewn sections.
In the party were representa
tives of the Civil Aeronautics
Board, the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration, the Flight Engineers
Union, the Airline Pilots Assn.,
the Douglas Aircraft Co. and
Northeast Airlines.
Capt. Alva R. Marsh, pilot of
the plane, says he doesn’t know
what caused the crash.
“I didn’t know anything was
wrong,” Marsh said, until Co
pilot Basil Dixwell “informed me
the ground was coming up at us.”
“I was looking at the instru
ments at the time. They were all
working properly,” he added.
MOTORIST ARRESTED FOR
HAVING CLOSE (?) SHAVE
HOLLYWOOD, (#—Fifty-five
miles an hour normally isn’t too
fest for the Hollywood Freeway,
but motorist Jerry A. Prod, 19, of
North Hollywood, got a ticket.
Traffic Officer S. W. Combs,
who cited Prod yesterday, made a
notation that, under the circum
stances, the motorist was beyond
the “prudent” speed limit. Prod
was shaving with an electric
razor.
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> UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. OR—
Israel stood fast in the Gaza Strip
and along Egypt’s Gulf of Aqaba
coast today, defying the U. N.
Assembly^ sixth resolution call
ing on her to withdraw her
troops behind the 1949 armistice
line. ... •
The Israeli cabinet .in Jerusa
lem announced it would still keep
Occupation forces for -the time
being in the Gaza Strip and in- the
Sharm El Sheikh area on the Bed
Sea Gulf of Aqaba.
A foreign ministry spokesman
said “no guarantees Have been
obtained yet for definite stoppage
of Egypt’s: belligerence and sea
blockade of Israel.”
The 80-natibn assembly late
Saturday night adopted a resolu
tion t calling again for Israel’s
withdrawal “without delay.” It
approved a second . resolution
authorizing deployment of' the
U. N. emergency force (UNEF)
on the armistice. line plus “other
measures” to keep the peace.
Israel had been seeking guar
antes against renewal of Arab
commando raids from the Gaza
Strip and resumption of Egypt’s
artillery blockade of Israel-bound
shipping through, the Gulf of
Aqaba.
The UNEF resolution plainly
did not satisfy the Israeli govern
ment. The spokesman said
Egypt’s “continuing maintenance
of a state of war against Israel”
was “the root of the tension to
the area.” He held .that the as
sembly had failed to deal with
that.
Meter Reader
Spends 21 Hours
Trapped by Truck
MARSHAIxLVILLE, Ga., W-.A
man who spent 21 hours trapped
between a tree and the door of a
truck was recovering from the
harrowing experience today in a
hospital.
Doctors at Peach County Hos
pital in nearby Fort Valley said
Frank Hester, 49, of Fort Valley,
suffered a badly mashed left arm,
shock and exposure, but was get
ting along “satisfactory.”
The unusual accident occurred
Saturday while Hester was read
ing meters for the Flint Electric
Membership Corp.
Hester stopped his two-way ra
dio equipped truck and got out to
look at a meter. The truck began
to roll and an open door pinned
him to a tree.
Three hours later he heard a
broadcast of his disappearance on,
the truck radio but couldn’t reach
the microphone to report his pre
dicament.
He blew the truck’s horn until
the battery went dead in an effort
to attract attention and then he
waited.
Two men found Hester about
noon Sunday after an all-night
search by citizens and officers of
four counties. Dr. Willis Webb
spotted him from a private plane
about the same time and landed
in a field nearby.