Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              Pittston Man Murder Victim; Neighbor Confesses
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49th YEAR — No. 43 ~ 68 PAGES
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FOUND DEAD AT CAMP
 
Hose House, Fire Truck, 2 Homes Missing
New Floods focono Tragedy HiteStatesjSfafe Flood Toll
Brings to 87
State Police Rescue Eight After Search
By I'nited Press
The bodies of 31 guests at (amp Davis, near East Stroudsburg,    were   re- HARTFORD. Coiin. (IPX—covered last niffht, bring- New disasters .struck yester-ing  the  total  of   known day in six Eastern states rfgad in Eastern Pennsyl-1
vania's worst flood to 87. The Camp Davis vic¬ tims were found about a mile and a half down stream   from   the  camp
Overi 50 Die
Dams and Bridges Collapse; Damage Runs into Billions: Shortage of Food
> where more than  150 per- .sons have died m floods.
Bursting: dams, hueklinit bridges and explosions wrouKht new havoc from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania.
" '^''^ site, State Police report-
Nine   others   were
Damage   was   esUniated billions   in   Massacliusetts,   Rhode,    - i Island,   Connecticut,   New   Yori{,ied. New    Jersey    and    Pennsylvania.Ifnimrl  allvo Delaware waa warned to brace fori*"""" «"''«•
new floods. I    An unaccountable number
The entire flood region was de-of persons are still listed as
clared a major disaster area.: _,{_,_;__ „i„_..,u-._ ;_ 41... Thousands of families were home-i™'SSing elsewhere in the less.    Others were stranded with-lstorm area.
°'^^.,J°^ »*'J? "'*'" °'' '"'"* ^°''|Long Fight to Camp
children. A Connecticut ham radio      r^ ,       . ,
operator  his   towns  only  contactj   _ Mate    trOOpers    waged    a
with   the   rescue   centers,   wept; bitter fight for more than 24
The OlendaJe Hose (^'» fire truck disap¬ peared along with the hose company building as the Spring Brook Creek overflowed its na¬ tural barriers and smacked into tilendale, Belin ^'iUage and Moosic Borough.
There is no trae« of the vehicle or the build- inc in the top photo—only water—where the hose eompany had its headquarters on the .Hoosic - Daleville     Highway.      The     one-story
—Liika«lk   Studio
Structure was washed away along with two new homes nearby.
Kvidence of the widespread damages in the .Moosic area is tlie washout of the steel bridge (lower photo) on the Moosic-DaJeville Highway, about one nUle east of Boeky Olen Park. Sec¬ tions of Moosic as well as Bella Village and Oiendaie, were isolated.
[when he described the widespread damage around him. BuoiiiesH   Center  Wiped  Out
IVo flood-weakened Rhode Is¬ land dams burst open yesterday morning, sending muddy torrents
ithrough  nearby   Woonsocket  and
i cutting the  town  of 50,000 popu-
' lution in half.
The waters unearthed long- huried coffins in a Woonsocket tVnieterj and sent (hem careen¬ ing through streets that had lieen  turned  into rivers.
Entire towns were ruined and death and devastation was spread through the valleys that lie be¬ tween Connecticut's beautiful roll¬ ing green hills. Flood miseries were worsened by a baking-hot sun and shortages of food and drinking water.
Winsted, Conn., with 9,000 resi¬ dents, waui one of the hardest hit communities. The business center was wiped out and 85^ of its factories   were   ruined.   Civil   De-
3 Valley Men Rescue Mony In Poconos
(Special to Sunday Independent)
STROUDSBURG — Three Wyoming Valley pilots, skilled in landing and tak¬ ing off on a dime in their tiny  109th  Field   Artillery
Area Storm Costly, But Not Tragic
Thankful it had been spared any of the tragic fa¬ talities mounting in number
R-i^-i- „ „i .. •,— 'lin neighboring areas. Wyo-
Battal.on observation planesl ^j^g Valley slowly returned
2 Teen-Zigers Are Arrested After Slaying
A teen-age boy and girl wanted for questioning in connection with a "cleverly planned murder" of a Bucks County poultry and egg salesman   were   taken   into
have   been  able  to  air-lift^^''n^oJj^^'fj'ty'^ast' nighV'as custody yesterday at a farm
hours to reach (amp Davis, only to find all 14 buildings had been swept away by the raging waters of Broadhead Creek. The 31 bodies were found as troopers worked their way downstream.
Survivors of the worst -single tragedy of the record flood were identified a.s Alrg. Jennie Johnson, .Jersey City, N. J.; lier daughter, Nancv, 19: Beth Liddle, 11. address unknown; Sarah Lacropane. Brooklyn. N. Y.; Elizabeth Lacropane, Brooklyn; Linda Christiansen, Staten Island, N. Y.; Elizabeth Dubel. Bell- ville, N. J.; Rowan Lawyer, Orange, N. J.; and Warren Baker of Brooklyn. Found On Debris Island , .1.     . ..,.       ,       ,1    ^''*- Johnson, found clinging to
fense    authorities    authorizedja floating island of debris in tl^e
I'°"!!!'_'!f." '°..''_^f*l*_T^?-?-»'/*"_'^-is«"rli"K  W'aters  along with Beth.:
she, her daughter and her two sons were sitting in their! bungalow Thursday night when a wall of water crashed against the structure.
"It seemed as though a dam had broken," she said.
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KILLteR   HIDES   F4rE T"**' ""*•"* '"«'"'• •«•¦ »• "' « Klix*beth st. Pittston,
IVM.LiLjE4M%,   niI/ILi£9   r A^^Cj      I, escorted from Pittston's City Hall yesterday aftemoon
after he eonfessed the slaying of his W-year-old neighbor, Dominick Colarusso, of 134 Tompkins St., Pittston.
Chief County Detective Joseph H. >IlUer (left) and Pittston Police Chief Patrick O^rlen (eenter) took Butera to Wyoming Barmcks for farther interrogation. Butera told Chief O'Brien that there was an Argument aver rooney, but police gave little credence to the motive given by Butera.
The shooting took plaoe In the kitehen of the Butera residence, Elizabeth and West BaUroad Sta., PittatMi. Fonr M eaUbr* slugs hlPtha vietlm and the fifth struck a ehair.
ed  grocery truck and help them-jaij selves   to   bread   and   vegetables. Babies   went   without   milk.
^^he   h a r d - h i t    East ^flfcidsburg and Pocono re-
dozen.s  of  persons  trapped! j-_ in . thf»    h o 1. /) ^ k ; f    iroo* "ye
Si so^^^rea.
Rushed here from Indiantown Gap where the 109th Field Artil- '•ry i« on maneuvers, the three pilots, Capt. William J. DeRose of Kingston, Lt. Henty Liebold of Shavertown *nd U. John C. Cole- «nan of West Pittston, have kept their little two-ptace planea In bhe *'Lfvery flying hour of the dray.
These pilots have even landed on plowed fields to take off ill. Injured or persons isolated at potentially   dangerous   points.
East Stroudsburg, cut off from points   by   collapsed   bridges
all
»nci swirling torrents of water, eneer the little planes as they hop I" and out to take off persons needing treatment or deliver sup¬ plies.
Oapt. DeRose. senior pilot, and "IS two 10»th flying companions «'lll ever receive the thanks of the P«ople of the Stroudsburg-Pocono sreas. officials said, in lauding fn* Sibility and bravery of the men.
The three pilots are veteran air- ">en and have special skills in Picking landing and take-off ¦pots considered Impossible by other pilots.
"The ground crew chief on the •oens is Sgt Mitchell Wojtobitz of Wjximing.
tired municipal em¬ ployees and utility work¬ men were able to take their fir.st break since Thursday. But for many municipali ties, firms and homeowners, too, there are months of work ahead before the dam¬ age wrought by the record rainfall is corrected.
City, borough and township of ficials eyed budgets shattered through the forced expenditure of large sums for machinery, tools, pumps and sipeciailty equipment and the hiring of hundreds of extra workers to meet the crisi.s.
In Wilkes-Barre City alone, where the storm caused the slight¬ est damage, Public Works Di¬ rector Oliver J. Price said the ex¬ pense of cleaning streets and pay¬ ing wages of extra workers would exceed S.I.OOO.
The more hard hit communities, such as Plymouth, Ashley, Nanti¬ coke and Moosic, will probably have to float loans to meet storm expenses.
No Damage Estimates
private   properties
at Lake Como, Wa.^^le Coun¬ ty, by State Police.
Russia Says It Will Free 3 Americans
WASHINGTON (IP)—Rus¬ sia has infonned the L'nited States that three Americans held prisoner for seven years
She quickly herded her chil¬ dren to the camp headquarters, where   other   members   of   the
ond floor, and then to the attic.
Peter Butera,29, Korean Mobs
Admits Shootingll7jf^'„, After Argument
SEOUL (lP)~Angry South Korean mobs stoned fel¬ low Koreans employed by the Americans yesterday but were repulsed by U. S. troops
By JAMES OOGCO
Independent Staff Beporter
A Pittston man, Dominick Colarusso, 6.>, was killed by I using tear gas grenades and camp had gathered The water ja hail of buUets in the kitchen of a neighbor's home yes-i powerful fire hoses.
we*^ ™?i^VmoveX 't^^^- i *"«**>' afte™OOn. I    Hundreds of Koreans took p.rt
Ptriice are holding Peter BuUra, 29, of 35 Elizabeth St., '" '*", "^^^^^ '" * "^ eruption Pittston. at Wyoming Barracks. He admitted he fired the To' rut"^mmuTj[1™'^'iS!."^
Children   were   screaming   hys-i,  .... 1   •   •
terically as the flood waters con-|fat*' ShotS, explaining
'I lost my head," police said.
Colarusso,   who   lived   &tP-
They are wanted for questioninglOl" more will be released, the lapsed.
tinued to mount and seep into the
liuried Into Water l^^'^   TonipkinS   St„   Pittston,ie„tin«   first   assUtant   district   at-
A^    then    the    buUding    col-l «'-«*-™sh«d to Plttston Hos-jtorney;   Jaseph   H.   .Miller,   chief
TheiPital **^  12:55 P.M. He diedicounty     detective     and     Edward
[tors from this divided peninstda. U.S.    military    police    at    en*
I American air ba.^e fired choidng tear gas grenades at 300 ROK demonstrators who attacked their
buUding
-c.^   ,     ,, .-r      Mrs.   Johnson   said.   ITieF"^' "'¦  '^^•¦^" 1. . i.i. xic uxcu.—'-^j     v.c^..^l.,c     »....     •^""•" own   people   Other  US-employed
in  connection  with  the deatli of State Department announced women and children  were hurledlan hour later from three bul-i^'^"^'"*"' county detective, made a^^,,,^^^, ^^^^^  stoned  at  an ™'!'^J??!"\L^.'-?i!*^*[^\i"!'..'**^ Unto the_ rampaging waters. ilet  WOUnds in the right sidei'*''*'^""'"*'^ '"''*''"**"°"-.        _    Icoast port
The Americans are Pvt. Wilfred;    '*^- Johnson said she clung tO|Qf  ij^g   hodv  and   one   in  thp     Feldmajin   announced   that   Bu-jp »       „^      ,^
was    found   crushed    beneauh    w..^»...   »     » , 	
large    freezer    on    his    <JcliveryIt;umUh of Xiie8bury,*MaBs • "pv"'her   daughter,   but   they   became truck,   whioh  had  plunged   down, Murray Fields of Bayside, N   Y I separated   in  the  torrential   rain.
an embanknient a/bout five miles      • ~    •    • •   ~     .•'--•- >.—        	
southeast of RiM;«lsvUle.
An a\itiop8y later revealed two bullet holes in his body.
The teen-^c^s, known to have the victim's death, were John Sohur, 18, and Virginia Tunstall, 16, both 9t Philadelphia.
The Honesdaile State Pol(ce were informed by teletype that the boy was familiar with the lake region iSind urged to be on the lookout. They picked up the pair at the farm of Ruiben 'Willdaims, Lake Como.
right arm.
and Frederick Charles Hopkins, ajThe cries of children and women I ^^^^   wnptied    his_ five-shot man the government did not know I filled   the   night   as   the   roaring was being held by the Russians,    iwaters scattered the campers.
The SUte Department said iti had asked the Soviet foreign of-1 "» *•"* *'^^ '"• **** *•••'• fice in Moscow on July 16 to re- '''»*'•• *••• ''"t thing I lentiem- lease Cumish and Fields "whose| l*>*d was grabbing hold of a presence in the Soviet Union bad; pJece of wood, then a bigger one. been reported by returning pris-^ Finally, something stopped me, oners of war ..." * as though  I  had  struck  a  log
"In   addition,   the  embassy   was! Jwn," Mrs. ilohnson said. advised   that   a   third   American.!
tera will be charged wiih murderi
formally on Monday afternoon at     The    new    outbursts    came    as
an  arraignment  before Alderman President   Syngman   Rhee   again
32 calibre Harrington-Richardson^Harry Morrissey, Pituton. Buterai*PP**'*<* '" Koreans to protest ths
revolver in  the  rapid volley. Thelhas engaged Atty. Ettore Agolino,!Presence    of    Polish    and    Caeeh
fifth  bullet  imbedded  in a chair. Pittston, as his counsel. ;truce   inspectors   in   "an   orderly.
District Attorney U>u\» G. Feld-j   The   district 'attorney   said   hs Pe*ceful   and   gentlemanly mann    and    atate    police    ioinedimav he reaHv ^.^ nr.«eni rh* ,.««» ner.'"
ioi"*''! j may be ready to present the case Pittston poUce officers in the in-;t<# the  Grand   Jury  on  Thursday!    An estimated 300 demonstrafcoi* veatigation. \or Friday.  He said  major phases massed  outside  the   U.S.  Stii  Air
Butera  told   authorities   he  be-jof   the   investigation   have   been;Force   base    in    Kunson   in   tb* came   involved   in   an   argument! concluded. I south-west coast last evening,
with the victim over money. The! When asked if Mrs. Butera wasi When the first of a convoy of Frederick Charles HoDkins would WhUe holding frantically to the;'"^'**'K*V'"^'*^<*«<1 "PO^s thatj in the kitchen at the time the Air Force trucks taking KorMa be released iboard, she heard little Beth shmit-i'he  murdered  msn  was  carr>ing|8laying took  place,  Feldmann  re-ennployees   home   paj^sed   through
•The date and  place of the re-|ing for help  "I reached out and °" » ~'",*"" o'^^'l^f^lr I'v,'"^'!!: ?''^^  *"?-*   "no _ comment."   A^the gate, the demonstrators b.««a lease of the three Americans wereltouched her and pulled her in. Wei^J' ^"l"'T.'Lf "ff.'^Vf 1 JI^° ^ The  teen-agers  were  taken   to I not specified by the Soviet foreign! spent   the   night   there   until   wc,  "¦ """"^ ""¦"'""" °^ ^"* *"°**'" Wayne County Jail. loffice." I  (Continued  on  Page  9,  Sec.  1)
brother of the assailant. Juan, 16,!throwing   roclis, also was in the home at the time. Police   revealed   that   Mrs.   Bu¬ tera   has   filed   a   domestic   com-
Three New Features Added to Sunday Indepdent
Damage   to '^L^^^^cel:r^l.!le:WyomingVaUey'so^ncOTr^^ Page  11. Section  1.
ing but was in another part of the home.
Pittston Police Chief Patrick J. pis'nt Friday morning against her O'Brien, Sgt. John Korick and husband, Antonio. Police said that Patrolman James O'Brien rushed-^"'""'" <*'^ "ot spend Friday to the Butera home, Elizabeth end'^'^ht at home, of West Railroad St. after theyi A post mortem at the hospital His column  wiU  be found: learned    of    the    shotting    frtmiiwas performed by Dr. E. J. Kie-
neighbors.
The mob rushed the fint tmek and tried to pull the Kere*a- employees off. But Amerteaa military police drove off the at- tack« with tear gas and stagger* ing streams of water.
In the east coast port of Kan^
[;r';;siii;n'^;rto-mai^Vguess:iplete Sunday newspaper, in-|^\^tf lf^^"3"!f^i J^^ ff^i^^Z a^i^to
column IS designed as a guide to
One veteran adjuster said dam age is so widespread there hasn't (Continued on Page 2, Section 1)
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ine ounuav   iimt-pcjiueni,, i .„:_uv— 1;,^,   county   coroner,   assisted   by nung, about  100 other South Ko-
Harold  Hoiwell, deputy coroner.     reans    threw    rocks   at    Korean*
[working for the U.S. Army wh«n
troduces to its continuously ;';cr,;r;n;ndari;rand sp;iirnrof f^'r?vh^ Trtl'^LZ «„^!.to.f t^ZJTn^'^^L'^'^xJ!^! of J'^^lUlJru tl^ ^* ^^ r'"" ""^^'^'°' *"" ^'^''^
growing   family   of   readers everyday words. c^?^snd^^ ut n^^^^ /h^e  h^.^' S?S2^ *^ P»troto»n ^fj^^** »»••««•  *»»e   "O-   morning. It was the second mch
f.,^„„ fk..»<.   «,i/Uf;/vTi«I   foo   TMi<Jier .IUl i^iitnr '^"^ *"° solutions to those hun- O'Brien. ttms heart. lattack in two days at K»n«aung.
today  three  additional   tea-T^er and lAUtor ^,  dreds of kttle household problems      P*Ue« asked, -Wlierer' „ .   ,      ^, .»-•••
tures    which    the    manage- ^^om and  reared  m Cmcmnatl, ^^^^^ ^ i      j; ' Born   m   Italy,   Colarusso   cameC
.«onf i'a nnnirinooA n/ill nrniro Ohio, and With years of experience ''    '^*^^   •    *^ w™- "jpmou,    xtrrwv wn *"o ^^  ^^^ country  at  an  early   age
ment is convinced will prove ^, ^.^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^.^^^ ,,^. provide, the Answer 0^ a„d „ttj^ in Yatesville.   He has,
highly interesting. hind   him,  Mr.   Williams'   column     Miss Ashley's column U now ap-   ^Ir'^^J^c.^'*,^*^^,^^^   been   a   resident  of   PitUton   thei
Tho    features    "Better    Enr-   *'*'   ''*«"    appearing   in    leading pearing   regularly   in   more   than   Z^   ui^_f    ij^^l^ ^   last 26 years.    He was a member! lish." by D. C.'wUli«,.s. "How inewspaper.  throughout  the '^^''-""^^^^l^"^''^.^^ ^ the p.V^ f^n^.^^   )! C>ur   Lady   of   Mount   Carmel;
Gan IT?r' by Anno Ashley and ,^0-^for more than 20 years. 'throughout the country   Many of, 1- p- d^utch. «
•q^k and Learn" by A. C. Gor- !    He  maintains  that  by   learning j her ideas are received from read-1   chief    O'Brien    ashed    Butera,     Surviving    are     the     following! don are among the most wide- i^he meaning (rf one  word a day. ers themselves, who address their|.TVhat happened?" children:   Anthony   and   WUIiam,!
ly read in the Jiation, appearing i'»^     correct     pronunciation     and,problem*    to    Miss    Ash ey.    She,    Butera replied, "I kist my h*»I. Pittston:   Raymond.   Miami.   FU., in   hundreds   of   leMling   news-   spelling,   we  can enrich  not onlyjtries  to  answer   them  all,   either;He was trjing fca get money from Mrs.   Kenneth   Emmons.   Niagara!
our vocabularies but our lives. Aithrougb her column or by a per-roe." JFaUs    N    Y      12   grandchUdren !
Igood    command    of   the    English sona] letter. To insure a personal!    Butera was lodged in the Pitts-jalso  sisters,  Mrs.  Angeline   Zam-I
D. C/WilUams'  column "Better.language   is  a  powerful   asset   in reply,   however,   she   asks      that ton jail, while the  district attor-[betti,   Yatesvill*:   Mrs.   Filomcnai
presents to our readers both    the    business    and    •ocial;(Continued on Page 2, Section l)iney and hi* aides Jonathan Val-1    (CoiiUnusd on Pac* 9, S««. D    '
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I'm a /inn drt rer, Mceept I can't 6ocfc up" woman telltJfg eop after she ttaUeci tmffte «n South Main St., between South an/i RoKit. and ^nd to get sn- other drfi:tr to tmck Ker ear into a meter spars.
Marti b\i» running interfer¬ ence lor »mall Md tportt oar thr9ugh foot of K'ater ea Afota St.. Pl^moutK ,
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