Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Cloudy, cooler. Monday, cooler.
41ST YEAR, NO. 33 —-/^ PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1947
PRK E TWELVE CENTS
—JamM   KuUM
NARROWS  ROAD  DANGERS,  many  of which   can be detected in the above picture, have brought death and injury to many  persons.   The hazards  remain unabated despite Pennsylvania's campaign
to promote highway safety.
Highway Hazards>Xo. 1
Dangers Lurk on For Motorist,
On a section of the Pennsyl¬ vania state highway Route It skirting between Plymouth and Kingston and known as the "Nar¬ rows  Road,"  numerous hazards to
'Narrows'
an
background  as  it  narrows  to  the two-lane stretch on the bridge. Danger to All Danger   to   pedestrians   on   the motorists    and    pedestrians    exi.st, | narrow walk is created and motor- and  there is  no action to remove j^^, oftentimes crack into the con-
in  the   four-lane  highway  in   the i bank  below.  Several   Instances  of
them   despite   the   3tate's   widely
publicized    roadi-safcly    campaign.
Two  lives  were  claimed  in  this
section within the last eight days.
Crete abuttments at the bridge or run   smack   into   a   wooden    pole blocking entry to the sidewalk. There is no sidewalk (or marked
While   Pennsylvania's   campaign, pedestrian lanet  on the right half
for beautification of, lands adja¬ cent to state highways also is widely heralded, billboards dot this section of the roadway and an unsightly dump is located at the right, adding little to the popu¬ lar enticing Commonwealth phra.se, "Pennsylvania  Has  Everything."
Providing particular hazards, iUt bridJ^Ri'.'-'".igi'.^"-;' i« t-v i'.'- tured above, has only one .side¬ walk for pedestrians. This walk can be mistaken easily as a con¬ tinuation of tlic extra lane shown
automobiles and trucks toppling over the highway bank on each side of the bridge have been re¬ ported.
Two small warning signs, passed by, seldom noticed and thus sel¬ dom heeded, can be detected by close study along the highway fence at left.
At night the roadway is in com plete darkness and only the black and white markings on the bridge can be detected as a sign of dan ger ahead, •Open Season' on Pedeatrian*
In   darkness   "open  season"     on pedestrians   is    more     pronounced with another hazard at  left,  fore¬ ground.    Here  rains  have washed _   _. awav  a  aartion   of  the    hiJfh^gaJ•
Sometimes veiiicles never get to j bed near the bridge and pedes- the bridge as drivers become flus-jtrians face an unsuspected drop t/-red at the looming concrete of jof 30 feet Into Brown's Creek be- the  bridge  and   end   up  over  thel        (Continued on Page A-J5)
of tlie bridge and the pedestrian .seeking pajssage on that side must walk in the path of vehicles.
The driver of the car (right) has swerved over the white lane to avoid tlie lone pedestrian, al¬ most colliding with the oncoming vehicle (left), in the above pho¬ tograph.^^
BILL 10 REDUCE
Water Bill Still Buried in Comtnittee; No Grocery Beer
Stripping Bill Passes Senate^Sent to Duff
Aimed Mostly at Prevention of Damage To Highways and Stream Pollution; Does Not Force Filling of All Holes
Harrisburg. June 14.— The anthracite stripping bill, to provide state
I control over coal stripping operations in the eastern part T>f the state
to  match  that given  the  bituminous  regions  in  the  west  last  year,
passed  the  Senate  unanimously  today,  as  it did  the Hous«  Friday,
and has been sent to Governor DufT for signature.
Sfate Legislature Vfon't Adjourn until Monday
Assure Passage of Labor, New Local Tax, Teachers' Pay Bills
391 Killed Thini Year
Harrisburg, Pa., June 14 (UPl--Wc8ry state legislators gave up in their drive to adjourn toniglit after agreeing to end the 1947 legislative session officially at 9 p. m. (EDT)  next Monday, June 16.
Both Houses will reconvene at 2 p. in. Monday and the extra legis¬ lative day will permit final adoption of all conference committee reports wreckage of a  lour-cngined  Penn¬ on  Governor  Duffs labor,  teacher  pay  and  broader  local  tax  power isylvania   Central   airliner    tonight bills and to clean up lesser unfinished business. 'and  found  tha'.  all  the 50 persons
The tax bill encourages sales, wage and amusc/iicnt taxes in  cities aboard were killed when the DC-4
All SO Dead in Airliner Because it Flew too Low
IjeesbuTg,   Va.   .lunr   14.   ilii-'' Weary .search  parlies reached  the.
Hnrisburg, June 14 (UP>—The House was ready to adopt and .send to (jov, James H, Duff for signature today the "community property" bill which its sponsors said would reduce federal income taxes r.f married Pennsylv.inlan» by .SIOO.000,000 a year,
Tiie   Kephart   bill   which   would'. f/jven hKve     permitted     the     Scranton-' Spring Brook Water Supply Co. in northeastern   PennsylvaniB   to   re¬ value   its the   requirements   of  origi
The anthracite stripping bill, which passed the House of Repre- *entativps last week and is on its way through the Senate, does not provide full protection against the many evils of strip mining.
Its chief aim appears pointed at jirevention of damage to highways and pollution to streams, although the residential sections have been
onsideration. B^rkfllling Limited
water which may constitute • hazard to deep mining or is likely to break out and cause a flood, the department shall order the operation before the abandonment to provide proper drainage. Calls for Planting
It further states: "Within one year after the strip mining opera¬ tion on the premises is terminated, the    operator    shall    plant    trees.
and   towns   and   their   school   dis¬ tricts.
The Senate already has adopted conference reports on bills ban¬ ning public employee and teacher strikes and measures barring job¬ less benefits to strikers and ex¬ tending unemployment compensa¬ tion payments from 20 to 24 weeks.
The House will adopt the reports at the Monday session when both chambers are scheduled to approve a bill providing equal pay for women doing the same work as men. Raise County Salaries
Before leaving today, however, the Senate amended House bills raising the salaries of county com¬ missioners 10 per cent by assur¬ ing similar pay to county con¬ trollers. This was done by first 'boosting the controller's pay up to that of the commissioners and then putting a 10 per cent boost on top of It.
(Luzerne county commissioners now are paid ?6,0(X) and the con¬ troller $5,000. Final approval of this bill will have commissioners and  controller  paid  $6,600.)
of   $382,000,000   for   ordinary   state
government     operations     for    the
1947-49  biennium  was  adopted   in
the   Senate   after   the   final   total
was    boosted    by    $1,800,000     for
judges and Public Utility Commis-(Products,
sion   salary  increases,   and  higher
school    subsidies     for    vocational
teachers    and    aupervisory   school
officials.     Judges   salaries  will   go
up 17 to 20 per cent.
Appropriations bill includes $460,- 000 extra for increated legislators pay in House bill giving them $10Q a month expense allowance for en¬ tire biennium plus $3,000 regular session salary. Senate amended it to provide expenses for only time lawmakers actually are In session. To Iron Out Tax Bill
The   House   bill   to   allow
class townships in the bill and the i;'"""*^''    ""« . «    1.689-foot    Blue ,.,, ,,   ._     . ,       . I.mge    mountain    peak    during    a
differences   will   be   ironed   out   in ^^.j^.j^^ rainstorm last night. joint  conferences Monday. u was the second worst commer-
Ijast minute business conducted cial air disa.stcr in U. li. history. in the House today included ready-i Bodies of the victims and wreck¬ ing for adoption Senate bills auth-iage of the explosion-shattered orizing Pittsburgh and Philadel- i plane were scattered over a wide phia school districts to levy mer (area of the mountain, cantile and personal property tax-! The wreckage was sighted from cs. The bill also allows Pittsburgh the air at dawn, but ground parties to impose a per capita tax for .'ii-; reached it only after long hours creased  teacher  salaries. jof slogging through rain, mud and
A  House  bill   curbing   auto   fin-' tangled underbrush up the rugged ance   gyps  also  was  approved   by! hillside, the   Senate   but   probably   will   bo Bringing In Bodies sent to a  conference  to  settle  an '    -j-he first bodies of victims were rgument on  the Senates deletion , ^^Q^g,,j  i„^„ j^esbuig tonight-an
of a consumer credit commission to regulate auto finance and credit companies.
BRUCE IS ENVOY TO ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires. Argentina. June 14 tainside  where   the   plane   crashed
unidentified man. an unidentified woman and 10-months old JudiJ;h Christine Bryan.
The bodies were carried by res¬ cue workers two miles down a rough, muddy path hacked out of the scrub pine growth of the nioun-
(UP) —James  Bruce  has  been  ap-'lasl night.    Then they were traass- pointed  United  States  ambassador i ferred to waiting hearses and am- here   replacing  George  S.   Messer- bulances for the trip to Leesburg. smith, the foreign office announced!    At Leesburg, they wore placed in today. ia  tiny  ivy-covered   interdenoniina-
A spokesman said the foreign t'onal chapel at the edge of the ofiice had K^retu to Siuuu..( ap-^*Wi-.'3 .cir.ctcry. The smglp-story pointment and had so notified th! oblong building had been cleared Washington government. i and    prepared    as    a    temporary
Bruce,   member  of  a   prominent' morgue. many of them charred and broken, mountain peak. Some of the bodies
Maryland    Democratic    family,    is     FBI fingerprint experts were onj by the impact of the crash. : were there, too.
now   president  of  National   Dairy hand   to   begin   the   difficult   taskj    The    DC-4    smashed    into    thel    The   air   liner   struck   the   West
'of identifying each of the 50 bodies, mountain  peak  around  7;20  p.  mi IContinued on  Page A-14)
May Ground All Converted DC-fs
Washington, June 14. (UPi A higli administration official said tonight the government is "con¬ sidering" grounding all foriner Army C-54 planes that have been converted to commercial airlines u^cs.
The official said Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman con¬ ferred twice late today with James M. I^andis, Civil Aero¬ nautics Board chairman, "in a general canvass of possible safety measures" that might be taken in view of three recent air disasters involving the DC-4 plane. Two of the crashes in¬ volved IX'-4'« converted from army use. The C 54 is the Army ver.s.on of  the  DC-4.
The high oflicial said there was "little chanca" that all DC-4'a would be grounded, but, he added, "there is a real possi¬ bility that those ships converted from Army transport planes will be ordered from the air by White House order."
"The C-54's were very useful and very successful as Army transports," he said. "But they have not proved too successful as commercial passenger and m.Til planes. There is something radically  wrong."
F.DT iasl night, about 2n minutet iiefore the end of its Pittsburgh- Washington flight, because it wa« flying too low in a driving rain.
It struck about 200 yards beiow the crest of the mountm. Nor¬ mally, the plane should have been flying at about 3.000 feet, making a gradual descent for a landing at Washington. Actually it 'was below 1.500 feet. A few minute* before the crash, the pilot radioed that "All is well' at 5,000 feet.
Tlie PCA crash was the third major air disaster on the eastern seaboard in 16 days. These crash* ts claimed 96 lives, bringing ta VJl the number killed in commer¬ cial air accidents around the world this year. Another  Converted  Ship
The plane was a converted Army C-54 as were the ships which j crashed on Memorial Day week- jcnd at Bainbridge, Md., and La- iGuardia Field, N. Y. Fifty-three , persons died at Bainbridge. 43 at j LaGuardia.
i The PCA liner burned after it crashed into the shrouded moun- i tain side. Wreckage was strewn over an area ."inO to 400 feet long and 300 feet wide.
Bodies   were   scattered   grotesq¬ uely  in  a  wide  circle  around  th» batiered    wreckage.    Some    were burned. All were mutilated. Search¬ ers   counted    17   before   they   en-
U-r-M) thr v.-r-.-iInj--! t" I"''!-" frr <h^ rest.
Parts  of  the   plane  were  tossed onto  rocks   near  the  crest  of the
Peace Treaties ^ii^iied
Presidenf Denounces Reds in the Balkans
iNAIlALSME IBYMAIE UNIONS
I    Washington,    June    14.    (UP;   -  Warld War II came as  U. S. offi- loca! I President   Truman   today   accused!cials were searching for ways and governments  to  tax  anything  not I the government,'? of Hungary, Bul-'means  of  stopping Soviet political levied   against   by   the   state   waslgaria  and  Romania  of  oppressing! aggression in eastern Europe.
adopted in the Senate with pro visions excepting counties, town¬ ships, Philadelphia and first class school districts. The House has protested  the  exclusion  of  second
Section   11   explains   its  purpose, j shrubs  or  grasses  upon  the  spoil
property   by  eliminating]!'   .*'?/fJ    "The    operator    shall  banks   and'backfills."     Otherwise,
ements   of  original   cost! ""f'^'"^" ^^.^ "P^ration made by the | the operator can pay $60 per acre
original   cost  ^^^p   ^,„,„g  operation   to   a   dis-; f^^  each   acre  of  surface  and  be
released   from  any  duty  to  plant.
accounting was still buried in thejig^,,,^  „,  „  ^^^^  ,^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^^^ House   Public  Utihties  Commitbce. | ,j„g „, ^ p^^jj^ highway and
It  had  passed  the Senate without i H^.tance   Sf   200   ?ect Vom  XiT^^ZT'   ^*  ''"'^'"  ^^"'   "P°" trouble   but   when   objections   were  dwellinir     hnime      nuhlic     hnildinB-r"  "'^"^*'
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raised in Wilkes-Barre and also by the Public Utility Commission, the committee tabled the bill. There I.i still a possibility It can be reported out of the committee for action in the final day's session. C)uts Tax Bills
Sen. John W. Lord jr. R., Phila¬ delphia, said "communit.v prop¬ erty" measure would save lower in.ome couples 15 per cent on their tax bills ard tliose in higher brackeis 25 per cent by allowing bushaiids and wives lo file separ¬ ate income tax returns on half of their aggregate incomes.
Nine .states already have com¬ munity   propercy  laws.
A house-approved revision of the (Continued on  Page A-141
dwelling    house,    public    building,,
school, church, commercial or in- ""* l"'" does not provide for .stitutional building. In any case P^ckfilling in sections which do where the legal right of way of|"ot affect highways, private or the   public   highway   shall   be  less public buildings, or water courses
than 120 feet in width the opera tor shall backfill for a distance of 15 feet beyond (he boundary line of such right of way.
The   permit   shall   also   specify
the    disltence   to   which    the   top nothing  more   than     Glen     Alden
and bottom of the spoil banks of the mining operation may approacii any stream cf water having a well-defined channel. Such dis¬ tance shall be fixed by the depart¬ ment . . . taking Into considera¬ tion the character of the over¬ burden neces.sary to protect the channel of the stream."
In   cases   where   the   excavation mav    result    in    accumulation    of
It will not cause elimination of the deep excavations and high spoil banks which turned a once beau¬ tiful mountainside Into an ugly eyesore.    In    fact,    the    bill    does
Boulder Strewn Mountain Yields Remains of Latest Air Tragedy
By SAXDOB M. Kl.KI.N
On a Mountainside Near Sunny Ridge. Va., June 14 (UP)-~By the light of kerosene lanterns and a few hand flashlights, tired and muddy searchers combed this rocky hillside tonight for the bodies of the victims of the Pennsylvania Central Air Liner crash.
T readied tlie scene of the wreck¬ age by jeep and by foot. After a six-mile drive in the jeep from the main highway below over a curv¬ ing dirt road that rose higher and higher,   we  hit   the  woods.
The road ended here, and we dro\p the jeep along a narrow trail for another four miles, with foliage slapping at the machine and in our faces. Huge Boulders Block Way
Then we faced a group of huge boulders. The jeep could go no farther, so we set out on foot along the Appalachian trail. After two and a half miles, we came to the
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newly-hacked road up the Virginia side of the mountain.
Following this to the crest, we were confronted by a low cliff. We clambered down, and 150 yards down the West Virginia side, we came upon the wreckage.
Parts of the plane were strewn for 200 yards down the mountain¬ side. The metal of most of the fuselage had melted until it looked like burnt newspaper. The tail of the plane was intact except for a tear in the back part.
Bodies were scattered on all sides of the wreckage. The body of one woman was wedged head-first be¬ tween two boulders.
Many trees were knocked down. Others were merely'toppled. Mo.st trees   in   the   area   were   scorched and  charred. Belongings   Scattered
Clothing, personal effects and shoes were scattered everywhere. A piece of women's underclothing hung limply from the branch of one tree.
Three    stretcher-bearers
Coal  Co,   publicl.v promised  In  its plan to refill strippings near higl>- ways and homes. Claim Difficulties Here
Anthracite operators, In the ar¬ gument against strip mining regu¬ lations, claimed the bituminous excavations are shallow in com¬ parison to the deep strippings of this area. Therefore the task of backfilling would be more expen¬ sive and difficult In the anthracite region.
The bill, sponsored by Reps. Harold Flack and Charles Rob¬ bins, provides for a filing fee of 25 per acre and a good-faith bond of $200 per acre. The filing fee is to be used for administering pro¬ visions of (he act, whereas the bond is to be returned after sat¬ isfaction has been rendered. The powers and duties of regulating are conferred on the department of mines and the department ol forests and waters.
500,000 HOMELESS IN CHINESE FLOOD
Hong Kong, China, June 14 (UP) —The most devastating flood in years raged through Kwantung province of south China today and press reports said more than 500,- OOO Chinese had been forced to flee their homes.
The Pearl River, which burst its banks a few days ago, was reported to have smashed 50 bridges and sunk 40 vessels. Towns in the flood area had six feet of water in them.
Rail and road transportation were stopped. Much of the rice crop was
destroyed   and   prices   of  rice  had
teams ^"'"=" "^ P^"" =""• were working their way up over ¦ Chinese press reports said Uie the cliff we had descended. They I situation was becoming even more slipped and .slid with their cum-1 serious and that because of the bersome burdens on the tortuous!flood it was impossible to deliver (Continued on Page A-14>        irelief supplies.
GANDHI WARNS PRINCES A? FREEDOM IMPENDS
New I>lhl, India, June 14 (UP) —Mohandcs K. Gandhi, hi* thin voice rising to a sharp crescendo, warned the ruling princes of India at his prayer meeting tonight that
May Drop l'.\ Appeal
They wire said to be veering away from the thought of imme¬ diate appeal to the United Nations in behalf of Hungary, where a Communist coup two weeks ago deposed   the   elected   regime.    The
the majority of their peoples
The President publicly denounced the currently Communistic govern¬ ments of these Soviet satellite states in signing the Balkan peace treaties recently ratified b.v the Senate.
At the same time he signed tho | facts arc, it was said, that neither Italian peace pact and, in a scp-'the UN nor the United States can arate statement, praised thr Italian do anytiiing about the Russian people and looked forward to a action in Hungary at the moment "strong, free and democratic Italy" if the Soviet Union is determineu of the future. ; to prevent it.
The   President's   harsh   criticism!    These officials now feel that the they must change their ways or be of  the  three  Balkan  states  which i best formula is to put the Balkan swept   from   power   on   the   waveivvere     German     satellites     during peace  treaties  into effect  and  see of   nationalism   flooding   India   In I anticipation   of  the   British  with¬ drawal.
Gandhi also bitterly condemned the princes, who, he said, are plan¬ ning to trample on the rights of their people by breaking away from India and becoming separrte states after the British transfer power to separate Hindu and Mos¬ lem states.
Sitting  silently  In  the  audience as Gandhi spoke was an unexocct- ed guest in the uniform of a Brit¬ ish   lieutenant   colonel,   the   famed Maharajah   of   Faridkot Indian 11-gun monies.
Negotiations Collapse; Curran Charges Owners Use Labor Bill Hedge
what happens next In Hungary anu elsewhere.
President Truman, by signing the peace treaties, completed U. S. action on the pacts, first to emerge from World War II. They will go into effect when  the other  bcllig-!
erents ratify them. i    New York, June 14 (UP)—Nego-
Blunt  Criticism ' tiatlons between the CIO National
Mr. Truman.spoke with blunlnessi Maritime Union and representa- in denouncing the three govern-; tives of East Coast and Gulf ship¬ ments. This country previously had j owners broke down tonight, in- dispatched strong notes  protesting | creasing  the   possibility   of  a  na-
Hungary's ex-Premier Arrives in New York
Wants UN Aid to Assure Democracy; Balka/is in Turmoil
I tlie Communist-dominated Hungar-^
I Ian  government.   He  said  he   was;
("sure" the UN would act.
I    "It is the foremost duty for the
I protection  pf  the  sovereignty  andj
liberty of a threatened people that j
New York, June 14. (UPi    Ferenc ; t^e UN should investigate," he said.
wealthy I Nagy, deposed premier of Hungary, j"i am sure the case of Hungary is
ruler   who   commands   an | arrived by plane tonight from Swit-Lj,jji[jj,. j^ tl,a^ ^f other nations and
salute   at   all   state   cere-'zerland   and   said   he   believed  theUjjg{ (^e UN general assembly and
i United  Nations   should   investigate Iggcurity Council will  talie action."
Nagy, accompanied by his wife, daughter Julia, 21, and son Laszlo, 4, stepped from a Trans World Air¬ lines plane at 8:37 p. m. EDT. They had left Geneva early this morn¬ ing.
The Nagys planned to leave later tonight  by train  for Washington. Nagy said he was "in no position
Second Flood in Week Has Thousands Homeless
By UNITED PRESS i    Thirteen    farm    levees    between
More thousands fled their homes I Rulo and Platte City, Mo., broke , j^'''^;^^j°|:j';^,,''^^''"J^p ¦•poy;'jb'iuVy"o^ today as the second devastating \ under pressure of the new Missouri j forming a governmcnt-in-exiie. He flood in a week swirled over mid-i River   flood.   Army  engineers   saidj^j^jj ^^ ^^J^ ^^^ ^j^y ^^^^ j^ng hp
about 4,000 acres of land previous ' -
the   .Soviet-inspired   coup   in   Hun- (Continued  on   Page  A-14
Valley Scene
Womnn giiitifj "'I'/i piercinrj i^rrraiH itt. sight nf sinder in Mallonj   Place   bus.
Eifihth grudf students of Grant Street School chijiping in to hire taxi to tramtport sirk clnsstmate to tlie building fur his promotion certificate.
The man bidding time of day to fireman sunning himself bi- tnre Eagles Hose House iri Pittston with, "Taking il easiif ami being told. "When we're taking il easii the citij ts in a lot  of  monei/."
Three school teachers start¬ ing out the dan after school elo.-ted, uith mechanical sweepers to sell to neighbors and friends."
.4 good share of customers in rentrnl city department store leaving their feet hriefbj when a little hoy's In;/ balloon burst in  tlieir  midst.
tionwide shipping tieup at mid¬ night Sunday, when the current contract between the union and the companies expires.
The NMU. with 90.000 members. is the largest of five CIO mari¬ time unions whose contracts with the ship-owners  expire Sunday.
Although two of the union* reached agreements with the oper¬ ators to extend their contracts, they stipulated that the agreements would be cancelled if any of the other unions failed to reach termj with the ship-owners. 200,000 Involved
Thus the deadlock In negotia¬ tions between the NMU and the East and Gulf coast operators foreshadowed a strike of 200,000 CIO maritime workers that would para!,vze shipping in everj- port of the nation. One of the unions In¬ volved is Harry Bridges' West Coast International Longshore¬ men's and Warehousemen's Union.
Meanwhile, the Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders' Union, independent, signed a contract with the Pacific American Shipowners' Association at San Francisco, but (Continued on  Page A-14)
FridaT ihe l»lili
western farmlands.
Rampaging rain-swollen rivers spilled from their banks in Iowa. Nebraska, Missouri, and Illinois, driving 17,000 persons from their i homes. Approximately 1,500,000 acres of rich cornbelt land were under water. Many crops were marked off as a total loss.
Iowa was the hardest hit of the flood-stricken states. Six rivers and   many   smaller  streams
would st.iy in the U. S. or exactly'
!rndred\>ThVc^^iial,::^rt;Vi::^i:,^rrorh^ '" 'Plane Took Off in Fair Weat Iter,
^'t^cking  Of  the   levees   relieved !^---^;-—-^,^,  prepared! RodlOCCf    AIIS   Well^THen   Hit
speech  of thanks in Hungarian to, .,        , ,,    ,,- ,    ,.      . ,j    u ul	
.a small group of Hungarian-Amer-'      Ltesmirg,   Va .   June   14    iLjPi    ( ourtney.    would    be   waiting
i \^.ij„ had come to the airport I* was Friday the 13th. but nobod>''her at  .National Airport  in Wa«h-
pressure to the the south, however Flood Forecaster Ralph Aldrich said  at Kansas City, Mo.
C.    O.    Tucker.    U.    S.    weather forecaster  at   Burlington.  Ia.,  said    .,        ,   ,,„,,„.
by   next   Th^ursday   or   Friday   the | ^nP\-V"hcck "'   "  would swell to a
for
to greet him, an  unidentified man! thought   much   about   it  when   the ington  in   a   few   hours.
kle him. Detectives; hist   four-'-nsined   PCA   capitoliner ^j  5.45 p   „,    Qf^y   ^^^f. ^^ iin„
kler   aud   took   him: "Baltimore" rolled up to the load- ^g„^^ „f[  ga^n it was in Cleveland,
away.                                                        ; ing gate at Chicago Airport ycstcr- „.i,ere    more    passengers    got on.
flowed,   in   every   section   of   the I ""'^¦"^ "''f "'^ aii-time record along 1    go^e spectators marched in front i day. Tlicre   was  Dr.  A.   H   Marko  and
state but the northwest. Ten thous-i* ^OO-mile stretch from Lima Lake, ^^ ^j^^ terminal building nnd %vavcd'     In   response   to   the   squawking his bride of a day, bound for Nor-
in   25   counties   were'"^*'' Q"'"''y- '"-J" '"^ ^"^ '"^^^e,   jgpgj,,jg    hearing    anti-Nagy    and! loudspeaker,  ihc  passengers began folk, Va.   where the voung doctor
oy.gr. !Mis.sissippi  River mark near the all
and   persons
homeless.
Near All-Time High
At Rulo, Neb., the chocolate-col¬ ored Missouri River crept slowly co a new all-time high of 20,90 feet. Thousands of acres In the fertile southeastern corner of the state near Rulo were reported under wat¬ er, and many families fled their lowland homes.
in  Pike County, III, .\l ottumwa Again
Residents nf Ottumwa, la., braced themselves for the second serious flood t'lere in eight days. Cit.v officiaI.^ sent sound trucks into the flood areas, warning resi¬ dents to leave their homes "before we have to send boats in after you."
The  Army  sent  12  planes  filled
pro-leffist inscriptions.
filing    aboard    the    plane    where, just   commissioned    m   the    Navy.
Nagy  never .saw  the  dernonstra-' Hostess Margaret  Walls of Gunth-i would receive his first orders, tors. i ersvillc, Ala. waited to greet them, j    ^nd    there    was    Dr.    Courtnev
Nagy  expressed  his  appreciation:     Margaret  had  almost   become   a|sniith, who lived in the Wastiington to  the  American  government   "forj flier herself.   She was accepted for ^^hurb of Silver Springs   Md.. and its  offer of  hospitality  which  will; tho Wasps during the war. but de-:,^,^^ national director of the Amen- enable   mc   to   give   all   the   facts  cided to become an airline hostess j.^,,  j^gj  Cross.  He had  come out (about Hungary) for publication to: instead. 'to Cleveland on  a mission of life-
the world." |    There    was    another    Margaret saving mercy-to help arrange the
,     .....   ......   .W..V   .^   K.»—o   ..—"     Asked what help hc expected the : among  her  passengers —  17-year- n^^ p.pj cross plan to make blood
Heavy rains eased in the rest ofj with   supplies   to   Ottumwa.     Thei democratic   nations   to   give   Hun-old  Margaret   KueppVrs  of   Wash-^nd   plasma   from   its   bank   avail- the state and the weather bureau pjanes,   loaded   with   500   blanket' Igary. the former premier said: ; ington   where the plane was going.,able to evervone.
predicted that surface water would I250 cots and food for an estimate'!    "When   the  big  powers  won  the j graduation Gift i    The p lane" flew on   to Pittsburgh
run off rapidly. iggoo evacuees were sent from Chi-iwaf every  country  was led  to be-'    The   young   Margaret   had   jus: Some got off   there  but others got
The Mississippi  River  crefet  was j cago last night and today. I lieve that  obstacle would occur  in  completed     her     course     at     St. on to take their places.
expected to arrive at St. Louis to-1    Crew of more than  400 workers! setting   up   a   democratic   govern-  Joseph's,  in St    Paul, M.nn     ThisFortunc Teller's H'arninf night  or early  tomorrow,  followed j labored  feverishly  to strengthen  a ment and no country would threat-' air trip •-her first — was a gradu-i    The   newcomers   included   Jamea a few hours later by the flood crest I new levee at Ottumwa, which they en their independence.    It was ex-' ation   gift   from   her   parents.   Mr   E   Terry, husband of the secretary flowing out of the Missouri into thei knew was not high enough o- long [pected  that  the  big  powers  would and Mrs. Fred Kuepprs    An aunt to  Rep.  George  H.  Bender,  R., O, Mississippi. enough to hold back the wa?srs. (Continued on Page A-14>        'and   uncle,   Mr.   and   Mrs.   John^        (Continued on P«f« A-14)