Delphos Daily Herald (Newspaper) - October 18, 1954, Delphos, Ohio DELPHOS HB HERALD OHIO Some cloudiness today with a high Fair tonight and Slightly milder Tuesday Low tonight with PRICE FOUR CENTS MONDAY OCTOBER 1954 TRIAL OPENS TODAY Thousands Flee Before Flood Waters OHIO RIVER ON RAMPAGE Boyhood Tragedy At Least 10 Persons Died In burgh Where the Flood Struck Saturday Property Damage Expected to Run INS Thousands of Ohio and West Virginia families fled today before the rampaging River which reached Its high est flood crest in nearly 10 The turbulent cresting at j feet above flood stage nl forced 600 families to flee their Pro perty damage was expected to run into the The created by the backlash of killer hurricane is bearing down today on with the flood crest IMS The ram paging Ohio river appeared today to he losing its Sunday punch which forced of families from their homes along its head The swollen by rains from the backlash of Hurricane missed its anticipated crest at Marietta today by four The waters had been expected to hit 41 feet early today but in stead hatted at 37 a foot above flood expected 8 More than families have rising Duffy as the weather bureau pre that the river would reach 41 feet at Marietta five feet above flood At an industrial city of water was already in the basements of downtown stores and rising at four Inches an The flood crest at north of reached above flood Further flood waters are beginning to re No deaths were reported in ei ther but at least 10 persons died in Pittsburgh where the hood struck As the crest of the flood ap businessmen and home owners in the river towns are moving everything out of base ments and first floors to upper Many of them are sand bagging the buildings against dam age by flood a dramatic fight against time is taking place on farms in about midway between Marietta and Large gangs of workers have been working since dawn Sunday to hand pick a bumper crop of bushels of valued at before an expected crest of hits the area Wednesday Mechanical pickers cannot bo used because heavy rains have made the fields a sea of Along the river In stretch between Portsmouth and New electric pumps have been put into operation hi the bat tle against the upsurging Even as workers battled to stive their homes and the wea ther bureau predicted scattered showers for the stricken The flood crest at Wheeling marked the highest water that the city of had since when the Ohio reached Although property damage was wise in the ways of the took it in Hardest hit was Wheeling Island and South The milp long Ohio river with a population of was about twothirds under lowers his head as he tells a coroners jury in Chicago how a boyish prank brought death to his Thomas Keith said he kicked Tommys ankle while they were playing on a river causing him to fall Into the The boy ran home but said nothing to hla i His friends body was recovered four days The drowning ruled an COLUMBUS TW public utilities examiners today recom mended that tho Dayton Power and ight ho ordered to a group of residing sido thecity of which is dissatisfied with service pro vided by theat municipal light Contracts For Atomic Carriers WASHINGTON INS The govern ments announcement of two con tracts for design of an atomic powered aircraft carrier was de scribed today as the forerunner of a construction program to be submitted to the next Con The almost certain to re c c i v e bipartisan congressional is expected to result in atomic steam power for a class aircraft car rier by Navy and Atomic Energy Com mission sources said that the first which itself may cost 100 million dollars or will be construction of prototype engines to be installed in a mock up hull on probably at the reactor testing station at Both the aircraft carrier itself and duplicates of the prototype engine for power at these sources con be built on schedules running a few months to a year behind construction of the which may take three The joint Depart ment announcement issued Friday said Electric has awarded the contract for engine design and while the Newport Shipbuilding and Bethlehem Steel share a contract for the UTAH GOP LEADERS MEET TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO ABOUT STORYTELLING CONGRESSMAN Confessed Saturday Night That He Never was a Celebrated War Hero or a Secret SALT LAKE CITY m Utahs COP leaders meet today to take up the matter of what to do about the Incredible behavior of their storytelling young Douglas The party including senior Senator Arthur find themselves convening amid an atmosphere of public amaze a fresh man congressman up for tion in Utahs first ap Saturday night on an im TV broadcast in Salt Lake City and tearfully confessed he never was a celebrated war or a supersecret lincs In Washington the GOP National and the Eisenhower administration adopted a strictly policy in deciding whe ther should step down as a candidate for Washingtons Republican leader ship took the position that the question is one for the Utah GOP leaders to acclaimed by the American Legion and the Junior Chamber of Commerce as an outstanding and the subject of countless glorifying pub articles and television ap blamed the sham on my own glib City Officials Arrested In Gambling Raid HC The story of Erics gambling empire unfolded today following the arrest of the Lake Citys a police a vice squad officer and some 36 socalled kingpin gamb ling The catches in the of swift raids carried out by state police Saturday were Mayor Thom as Police Inspector Jack Martin and Vice Squad Officer Ed ward Each has given long statements to Erie county admit ting accepting hush money from the Erie gambling They have been charged with Additional charges are expected to be filed Six months of painstaking in directed by District Attorney Damian re in the weekend crackdown which confounded the town of LAMONT PLEADS NOT GUILTY Fire Claimed Arson YOUNGSTOWN INS Arson pro j bers and Youngstown police are f investigating a fire which caused an estimated damage to the Central Store in Ohio Arson Inspector Michael said the merchandise shows definitely that the fires were The store has been picketed by members of the AFL clerks Union since May A court order limit ed the number of but there hns been no violence at the store Possible Typhoid Epidemic Fought TORONTO INS Health authori ties in hurricane and Ontario fought Unlay to prevent a possible typhoid ic in the of Hurricane Hazel which claimed a known 58 lives in the province and Jeft 30 persons missing and feared hurricane and flood death toll was in addition to 0 lives taken by last weeks hurri cane and subsequent floods in the United I Robert and his wife of when their car hit a steel polo ton Fri day Frenchman Sees Flying Saucer m A retired French customs official re ported today that he saw a flying land and a tall man dressed in a divers suit step Agence France said Damien described the saucer as a large red He added that the occupant jumped back into his craft and took off but when he saw two Awarded Medal For Safety CHICAGO INS fart editor of the Mason has been awarded the Omaha Criss award and gold medal for his safety The in Chicago Sunday is the largest oj its feted in the nation and is made ly to the or ing the most contri hi the field 9 health or a veteran of as a he has guided in his safety s simple We The heart and spre of ty problem lies implanting hi the heart and of the Ameri can people a deep and wish to live Martin Puts In Ping For UMT PHILADELPHIA K Ed ward Martin R plugged for universal military training today and declared also that he fears complacency in the more than Russian A Martin asserted the govern ments financial debt is alarrnins and said there is a disposition on the part of some people to take the debt something for future generations to worry Martin warned The danger is all the explosive of the atomic Debt destroys the value of the dollar more ruthlessly than any other factor in our financial The senators remarks were con in a speech prepared for delivery before the fifth annual Military um for reserve the Ar med Forces at the Naval hospital in In urging adoption of universal military Martin asserted Thousands of American boys paid with their lives in Korea and world wars one and two be cause they did not have the train ing or the equipment to do the job to which they were called in a time of national son of the late financier Thomas is shown with his wife in Federal New where he pleaded not guilty to contempt of Congress A Columbia University lec Lamont refused to answer questions put to him by Joseph during subcommittee about possible Communist Lamont was released in International PRESENT CASE AGAINST FIRED CODE CLERK i Government Prosecutors May Re veal Today the Secrets of One of the Nations Most Confidential Defense Churchill Makes Major Shakeup LONDON INS British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill has carried out a major shakeup of his bringing hi younger blood In a move seen as a possible pre lude to his Somo two dozen rising young mon were named early today to responsible positions and older men eliminated in tho considered also as a step paving the way for general elections next The major reshuffle reduced the age of top government officials by Political ob servers noted that most of the Changes were tho ones which would se rhade by An thony Eden if he took over the reins of government from Church Uit WASHINGTON INi Government prosecutors go before a special grand jury today and may reveal secrets of one of the nations most confidential defense Justice Department internal curity experts were scheduled to present their case against Joseph Sidney fired from the National Security Agency this month after almost 12 years as a code An official source said that the case has such sweeping tion that the government is pre pared to risk lifting the curtain of secrecy which surrounds the de fense if this is necessary to obtain an espionage The matician was arrested by the FBI on on charges that he im properly obtained highly classi fied defense intending to use them to tho injury of the or the advantage of a foreign I j The complaint alleged that the j man violated the J espionage laws by having posses sion of the documents from 1948 through A government prose cutor declared this was just one step short of To Open Hearings On Crime TV Shows INS of in Lake Erie while ing from a cabin cruiser with two companions Friday ucur Putin WASHINGTON INS Robert Hendrickson R has an that public hearings will open Tuesday into charges that television crime shows exert a bad influence chairman o the Senate Juvenile Delinquency sub a score of expert including net work officials and will testify at the which will continue for two The senator declared The sub committee has been told repeated ly that TV shows are loaded with horror and violence during the hours when children can watch such We do not know if such is the case and our sole objective is to through these public just what mental climate is created via this mass communi cations Girl Commits Suicide CINCINNATI INS A Cincinnati apparently happy and doing well in her school committed suicide Sunday night by tying a sheet over a standing on a and kicking the stool The Rosalyn was found hanging in her bedroom by her Rose Jier parents said they knew of no reason why she might dtf such a thing and said she had expressed no worries or eoni To Select Miss World Of 1954 INS A fanfare of sil ver trumpets hi a brilliantly lit London ballroom will proclaim the most beautiful girl in the world Sixteen lovelies from 16 including the United will compete for the coveted title Miss 1954 in and eve ning gown Americas Karin of a curvaceous js one of the favorities for top honors among those brave enough to hazard a American film stars Dan Ben Lyon and Errol Flynn and society beauty Lady Isabel Barnett are on the judging Winner of the contest receives a cash prize and a chance for a film Kills Woman Friend INS A 49 yearold nearby Willoughby who police said shot and killed a woman friend and then turned the gun on was in fair con dition today in County Mem hospital in Peter Kelly fired five shots into Rosp in Wil loughby following an argument early Dougherty operated Rough cafe in There were no witnesses to the JURY TO DECIDE WHETHER SAM MURDERED HIS WIFE WORLD NEWS The East German radio bragged today that Red candidates rolled up percent of the votes in Sundays rigged The East herded to the polls Sunday by Communist of were able to vote yes or no for a single list of candi To vote they had to stop out of line and enter a special booth under the eyes of Communist In West High Commissioner James Co riant called the election ridiculous and He declared thai the re sults would have no In past some East Ger mans have managed to express their contempt for the Reds by scrawling insulting phrases across the face of their But the Communist broadcast today an that less than one per cent of the ballots had been inval an indication that the polls were watched Panel of 75 Prospective Jurors Is Summoned for Possible Duty on the Jury to Decide the Fate of the Prominent CLEVELAND IMS The trial of handsome socialite Samuel charged with the blud geon murder of his pregnant opened today with more unsolved mysteries than a Although sex will play a big the unanswered questions will cast important shadows over the first degree murder most CLEVELAND INS Judge Ed ward Blythin refused today to do lay the trial of handsome Samuel Sheppard and ordered the immediate selec tion of a Jury Indian Prime Minister aha rial who arrived in Red China today for a may ask the leaders of the regime to back up their talk of peaceful coexistence with Sources close to Nehru pictured the prime who has been regarded as as be coming increasingly sioned over the prospects of peace in As a these sources Nehru may talk tough to Red Chinese leader Mo a when their forthcoming conversations get around to the subject of pre serving peace in Final returns in Austrias pro elections showed today that the who had open Russian lost ground even in Both the Reds and Austrias light wing extremists suffered what Interior Minister Oskar mer called a smashing defeat in Sundays The Socialists gained ground while the lives held More than two and onehalf mil lion went to polls in viet occupied Lower French occupied and in which rates as a prov They cast their ballots for 214 deputies to provincial The Communists lost up to 70 percent of their strength in some areas and suffered a setback even in the sensational in Cleveland in A hint by the state that the osteopath may not liave been alone the morning his was savagely beat en to death added another mys clement to the Prosecutor John Mahon guard edly told International News Serv ice that he hasnt ruled out the possibility that someone aided Uio He said other women in the extramarital life of the young Bay Village with the principal emphasis on viva Susan Hayes as the purport ed motive for the July 4 would feature the states crux Sheppards strategy was outlined by Associate Defense Counsel Fred Garmone simply The wrong mail is la jaiL The murderer is not in Sam was portrayed by his family as confident of acquittal as he began his battle against the electric Jailers said his ap petite was normal and that he calm and Sunday hehad a roast beef ner and listened to a football game in his cell two floors above the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas site of the A panel of 75 prospective jur including a pregnant was summoned for possible duty on the jury which will decide whe ther Sam is a real life Jekyll and Hyde split person or a victim of a cruel web of circumstantial Judge Edward Bly thin was expected to throw out two defense motions before Uio These were submitted by chief Defense Counsel William who claimed Ills client already had been convicted by the press in Clevelands most spectacular Paris Police Inspector Jean who touched off one of the biggest spy investigations in French declared today that a massive Soviet espionage ring still is operating in Dides in an exclusive interview with International News that he disclosures of a past few weeks were merely a smalle aside to the real espionage going Dides declared lit France today you have es on the cal plane and the malic The police officer who is known as a charged that the real Communist espionage network on a very high level in the government through a bloc of what Dides ab a police allegedly for on his activities after bo had been assigned to other began a chain of events that led to exposure of the leaks from National DETROIT INS A report in troit today estimated that 000 will be in Uio by Change Governs Renewal Of Drivers Licenses COLUMBUS IMS According to a new change in the regulations governing the renewal of drivers an Ohio license may be renewed any time within six months after the da to without having to take drivers The to become was announced today by Department of High Safety tor Present regulations state that any person not renewing his lit cense within a three month period following the expiration date must pass the full driver examination before a new license is Felty that tlie still becomes void on its expiration date and it is illegal to dirve with the license after that was expected t another cial meeting today to emergency py the spr of Londons crippling strike to other British Attention centered on try some strike
