Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - September 13, 1954, Hamilton, Ohio Stales j - Savings Bonds Jtte injured in IB tragic in Hamilton and HAM I LTD N JOURNAL mi nun tomtit mm limits ta of 187*. SEPTEMBER 1 3, 1154 Vol. 22* PRICE FIVE cents 22 PACES SEEK TO DESTROY RED PARTY hamilton scattered NOf as COOL low 5�4I. warmer u. s. NINE PERISH AS TYPHOON HITS JAPAN Storm Cuts 300-Mile Wide Path Across Lashed By Wind And 5,366 Reported Communications Out TOKYO Typhoon June cut a 300-mile wide path of death and destruction across the southern Japanese mainland At least nine persons were eight missing and 5,366 Kyodo News Service The storm slammed into teeming Kyushu Island with winds up to 110 Winds 90 as the typhoon roared Three southern Kyushu lashed by an 88 tidal waves and cloudburst were They are with 120,000 75,000; and Nobeoka 88,000. The newspaper Yomiuri said a flash flood may have virtually wiped Out The storm paralyzed communications in the The U.S. Air Force said the storm lumbering northeastward at 17 would move across western Honshu into the Sea of Japan Misses Populous Areas Its present course would carry the storm through but It would miss the populous Osaka and Weather experts described the storm as even more powerful than the 1934 typhoon worst in Japan's Muroto killed more than 2,000 and demolished 40,000 Some 15,000 Japanese in the path of typhoon June left their homes for higher ground to escape raging waves churned up by the All planes on Kyushu were Schools were The typhoon was expected to smash across Kyushu and hit the southern tip of the main island of Honshu before roaring out to but the Weather Bureau said the storm may veer toward the Tokyo TROUBLE FLARES IN VIET NAM PARIS armed camps in Saigon headed toward a showdown today on which finally was going to run the Viet Nam The Vietnamese Army chief of Gen. Nguyen formally repudiated Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's order that he leave the country and go to the French News Agency the general threw his own forces around Saigon them the Premier's militia which had been stationed on guard the army began accepting for transmission all stories by correspondents discussing the These had been stopped by the Premier's censors The crisis developed over the weekend when the Premier dered to go to France a The general refused formally today to board the plane made ATOMIC PLANT WORKERS STRIKE Ohio work on the Portsmouth Area atomic in Pike County reported halted today by a walkout of some 15,000 building A union spokesman said t h e Goodyear Atomic civilian operator of the is taking over with But union leaders declined to classify the work stoppage as a general Neither spokesmen for the contractor nor the would confirm the extent of the work were at gates this Last Friday between 2,. and 4,QQQ electricians fitters walked the job end efforts wade the weekend to get ' New POST OFFICE BUILDING AT NO. CANTON Rep. urged General Summerfield ta investigate the aged 4k new post Lady Of Finance Washed Out Railroads And Crops Resemble Jagged Wound Across Territory Raked By Hurricane Maine railroad tracks and crops lay like a jagged wound today across territory raked by death-dealing hurricane Edna from Massachusetts to Nova The death toll reached 20-13 in New England including 8 in Maine where trapped in foad Mary Moody 62, of has been tagged the First Lady of Finance since she the business empire founded by her late W. L. Moody Jr. In a routine Mrs. became the executive head of a 400-million-dollar enterprise comprising 50 separate organizations throughout the They include insurance hotels and Adenauer Shows Drop In Popularity Germany political riptide menaced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arid his pro-American foreign policy today as his Socialist foes merged as the strongest party in a state Although the coalition headed by Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union appeared sure of holding control of the government in the Soviet Zone frontier state of the 12,000 lead in yesterday's balloting was seen as a clearcut exposure of the old leader's suddenly dwindling The rural the house of the Bonn the 78-year-old Chancellor's plea for a vote of confidence in electing its new Campaigning for overtures to Russia to unify East and West the Socialists outscored the Christian Democrats in the same state that accorded the GDU a 2-1 margin over its arch rival last year when Adenauer was reelected In today's final the CDU the Socialists 384,870 to 396,798. The vote was cut almost in half from its 1953 peak of 637,570 in The Socialists picked up 38,269 votes over last year's of 357,798. Adenauer fought to save his international prestige with a speech in this state Friday in which he described NATO membership and unconditional German sovereignty as his new U. S. HIGHWAY CONFAB OPENS Ohio of President Eisenhower's proposed 50 billion dollar highway construction program starts here today during the second annual National Highway Conference of County The three - day session sponsored by the Road Assn. Scheduled to address the group today are Ohio Highway Director S. O. Rep. John M. Vorys of the 12th District and J. Harry McGregor of the 17th McGregor is chairman of the subcommittee on a division of the Public Works The President has proposed an investment of 59 billion dollars in highway construction during the next 10 in addition to funds currently being spent on highway The program is ported by the SYMBOL OF PEACE SENT TO RUSSIANS SAN of w white California roses was en way to Premier of as a peace symbol lop him and his 14 top Jo the gov rases were sent express the State at the conclusion of Us m convention here yesterday the ern world for and washouts by streams was blamed for much of the that went Wild Under a record eight Inches of Telephone lines went out of Maine Gov. Burton M. Cross vice on a scale that once again er an air survey set loss there saw repair crews head from than seven million New England into on top of 10 million wrought 12 where their task was complicated days before by hurricane j by road washouts that caused a Cross asked President Eisenhower | temporary ban on travel by all but U. S. Confident Of Quemoy Plans Believe Air And Too Much For Invader WASHINGTON 0P| -' President Eisenhower presumably has been advised by the military that are confident Quemoy Island could be defended from any Red invasion attempt with U.S. sea and air power alone - if there is a political decision for such ' Military officials attending the j unusual Sunday session of the tional Security Council are ported to believe that any by Red Chinese forces to land on hard by the Asiatic could be repelled out any help from American ground Dulles Report Secretary of State just back from the Far told newsmen at Denver that the defense of Quemoy is related to the defense of Formosa and is being in. that Stopping at Denver to report to President Eisenhower and the National Security Dulles said it is primarily up to the military chiefs tp recommend whether effective protection of Formosa requires U.S. defense of If a decision should be made to defend Pentagon strategists would rely on the gunfire and planes of the big 7th Fleet and the fighters and of the Air Give Objective objective would be to crush the transportation - and air and ground support of a Red invasion fleet before it could reach the shores of the not to attempt to match the Communist troop manpower in invasion beach The United lo 10, NIPPON LEADERS COOL TOWARD REDS TOKYO Wl government cool today to a statement by Soviet Foreign Minister V. Molotov that time is for resumption of normal relations between Japan and Molotov made the statement in reply to questions from a Japanese Government leaders pointed out that Japan has always been ready to sign a peace treaty similar to the San Francisco treaty signed by the United States and most other non-Communist The treaty went into effect 1952. A foreign office spokesman said Japan always been prepared to establish normal diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. on the basis of the San Francisco Peace Treaty or on the basis of substantially the same principles that are in that The Russians walked out of the San Francisco conference in 1951, and technically are still at war with THREE AMERICANS RELEASED BY REDS HONG KONG UK - A United Consulate official said today three ordered deported from Red China after more than a year in Communist would not arrive here The three Richard 37, itf National Broadcasting Donald 2$, New York International News Service and Benjamin 30, g of telephoned from the Hong China border that there was no indication when the trio would He did not elaborate hut said tta harder watch was suspended until Radio yesterday the trio ordered from Kong borders Peiping Hugh Francis York had of espionage & sentenced to We ta to declare Maine a major disaster Apple Crop Hit Two-thirds of Nova Scotia's four million dollar apple crop was counted All of Maine's dead were drowning Four persons perished in one in another in Nova Six highway fatalities in New York State were attributed to the Southern New braced for devastation reminiscent of the 1938 was spared heavy property damage and even in the areas hit not emergency Late last night state police said the main routes again were Hundreds of New Englanders left their coastal lowland returning to find waters still In although At the Kennebec River rose 20.5 feet from normal - five feet higher than its peak during last spring's Fireman Drowns Two of Maine's hurricane victims perished in a daring effort to rescue a family of 10 from the top of an automobile engulfed by little Sandy Stream at New Federal Immunity Law May Be Applied At Dayton By ART PARKS Ohio congressional hearing on reported subversive activities in the Dayton area opens today with a former undercover agent for the FBI on the stand and a hint the new federal immunity law may be used in Dayton for the first First witness was Arthur Waitress CINCINNATI M - Police said James 32, of Indianapolis would be arraigned today for the fatal shooting of his 26, in a downtown He was held on suspicion of Mrs. Coffey was shot In the head three times in the kitchen of a hotel cafe at lunchtime after police said she refused to discuss a possible The and who lost an eye because of war were the parents of two He told reporters this found that she was going around telling people I was I hated to hear she had told my own kids I was dead and she was going around with other men just like she didn't have a went to the restaurant and saw saw me and I went up to her and dead has Why did you tell people I was started backing out of the door into a hallway like and I followed her into a linen She didn't want to I asked her why she didn't want to sit down and talk this thing looked at me and I had a gun in my She ahead and I started shooting and then I Coffey was under indictment in Indiana on charge he raped a 12-year-old girl he had hired as a v MAN IMPRISONMENT CLEVELAND Wl - A former W. man surrendered to police last night and was quoted as saying he wanted to be locked up so he wouldn't commit any more The man was Melvin 26, an unemployed laborer with a wife and three small 3, Larry 2, and six His 23, told a porter Jordan the television my luggage and our furniture to play the She said she and the children owed two weeks rent and would be Police advised her to go W the relief Jordan was not charged but police said he told them he took fU from a from a drug mi Hi a beverage 4. P. OK ATHLETIC mm 8. & 4�an pi Ohio's athletic died in hM Right of heart admitted to the hospital visiting a Uah of Asst. Fire Chief Alton 47, and Ruth 8, one of the were swept downstream when floating debris broke a human chain to hurricane sixth tropical storm of the broke up as it moved inland on the Mexican coast California Beauty Hailed Miss America who for many years was an FBI agent inside the ranks of the Communist group In the Dayton Strunk was unmasked some months ago when his testimony was used to help convict E. Melvin Hupman and Walter Lowman of false in their affidavits under the Testimony Limited His testimony then was limited largely to the Hupman and Today he faced a committee of the House Un-American Activities and his testimony presumably was to be permitted to cover the entire field of reported Communist activity in the Dayton That area includes the village of Yellow Springs in which Antioch College is Rep. Gordon Cincinnati Republican who heads the stressed in an opening statement at today's hearing that congressional interest in alleged subversion in the Dayton - Yellow Springs area had its origin in a number of complaints from residents of the He said in his prepared Statement a considerable the committee received complaints and requests for an The in accordance with its attempted to check these complaints As a result of our staff's investigations and the full committee ordered these They are not being held because of but as a result of the investigations of the Other subcommittee members are Kit Clardy and Francis Walter Frank Tavenner was the committee to DEAF MUTE REPORTS THEFT PHILADELPHIA Wl - A deaf mute was robbed as he dozed on a subway station platform Frank 37, was awakened by two through his He chased the who jumped to the tracks and fled through the Molinaro scribbled on a piece of been Call for and handed it to a By the time police Molinaro had jotted down on a pad details of the robbery and a description of the two Police picked up two identified as John P. 34, and Leonard Lecato 22, both of ' The two were ordered held in WOO bail each for the grand jury on charges of larceny and unites la couple LOS ANGELES wheelchair wedding has united a paralysed insurance broker fnd who lost both legs agreed Censure Probers In Final Round Gen. Zwicker Is Scheduled To Testify Today WASHINGTON Investigating senators head today into what they hope will be the final round of public testimony on censure charges against Sen. McCarthy Gen. Ralph W. who tangled with McCarthy in a hearing last Feb. 18, was called before a inquiry committee which is studying the Wisconsin senator's official There were that difficulties may arise in getting a full Senate to return before the Nov. 2 elections to vote on a resolution by Sen. Flanders calling on the Senate to censure McCarthy for unbecoming No Plans To Return In advance of today's Sen. Murray said in anj interview he has no intention of j quitting campaigning to come back to Washington for a i There was no indication how many other candidates share Murray's but Sen. McClellan enough senators will be willing to return to decide the by a substantial who criticized McCarthy and others in a report on the said he believes any recommendations that may be made by the inquiry committee headed by Sen. Watkins will have great influence on the Watkins said that once the hearings have the committee will start work immediately on its He said there had been no decision on whether the report will include specific recommendations to the Unless It does recommend some senators it will be difficult to get Senate members to return before the Nov. 2 BY BROWNELL Strategy Mapped At Washington Confab DULLES To ATLANTIC America of 1955 - Lee Ann Meriwether of San who entered as Miss California - breaks down and sobs at Atlantic N. after she donned the robes as the new ATLANTIC N.J. LB - A long-stemmed beauty from in the crown and robes of a embarks today on a yearlong whirlwind tour as the 1955 Miss Lee Ann Meriwether of San who wants to be an actress and says there's no special in her right bet But the pageant who selected her from among 49 other charmers Saturday were more enthusiastic over Lee's measurements - which shape up this Bust waist 22 and hips 35. By Dior In her first interview with Says 0\ S. Military Might Will Thwart Any Assault Against Formosa BULLETIN DENVER - President Eisenhower said today the National Security Council has reaffirmed American policy of defending vital interests of the U.S. wherever they may The President made the statement to newsmen in discussing an extraordinary session of the Security Council at the Summer White House DENVER of Slate Dulles - fresh from global strategy conferences with President Eisenhower and the National Security Council - says American military might will thwart any Chinese Communist assault against Nationalist And FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and Atty. Gen. Brownell say that so far as the Red threat on the home front is the administration's goal is to destroy the Communist in the United They reported a new drive toward that objective is well under and that some by a new granting froriT been going to the FBI to tell about the activities of fellow News Conference Held Hoover and Brownell made those statements at news conferences at the summer White House yesterday after conferring with the Then Vice President Nixon and other men Lee confided that she didn't think she'd give Marilyn bers of the National Security OFFICIAL DENIES CHARGE WASHINGTON federal official has charged that Clyde L. ousted assistant commissioner of Federal Housing accepted more than from apartment builders who dealt with William F. special deputy housing administrator who probed a reported multimillion dollar federal housing made the accusation yesterday in bis final report to Administrator Albert M. McKenna called Powell Czar of the nation's postwar rental housing who was fired last after reading the report told a deny that Mr. McKenna or anybody else has evidence that any builder or promoter ever paid me any money during my tenure of office with in connection with official JUDGE ACCUSED OF LOADING JURY Ohio ic Mayor M. in a television show yesterday cased a Republican judge of loading the jury that reported gambling in some Columbus Mayor Sensenbrenner asked his you think 13 Republicans handpicked on the grand jury would be fair to a little Democratic Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. they were hand the result of a Wood Picked but replied later when When James Madigan and Socorro were wed Saturday at the Church of Immaculate Heart of mb rolled to the altar in Both are 87. Megan's the was also in a was the maid of Miss Rita Joseph was paralysed by thi same nerve ease and has paralysed since by put people m I could trust that I The appointments were not on a basis they were popple who were financially not beholden to The judge said it was most of the 15 were people I work with are he to 12-Year-01d Boy Slays Father Ohio said sixth grader David Larry 12, admitted shooting his father to death yesterday after coming home from Sunday Chief George Hodgson and ] kingum County Prosecutor Joseph McNerney said David in a signed statement admitted he had planned for two or three weeks to kill his John 36-year-old because was mean to threatened me and mother a thousand Chief Hodgson said the statement gave this account of the David came into the house while his father was alone and in He took a fancy caliber target decorated with imitation from a hiding place and shot once but missed his are you the father going to kill David said he told his The statement quoted David as my finger was on the trigger I couldn't stop I don't know how many times I The father staggered from his and grabbed David's The boy fired Coroner Daw said the last shot followed the right shoulder blade into heart as he was leaning ROY SCOUT HELD IN 14 SLAYING LOS ANGELES w - A 14-year-old Roy Scout is held at Juvenile Hall today on suspicion of murdering his Police said Larry a Scout patrol fired five shots from rifle at Jrven Woodrow 4Q, a after a quarrel between and ry's The mother Loucks pulled her out of a truck by her had been she ul mew ta kill wanted to scare ' % Mrs. mother of 13 three by - said the argument was over who was a birthday cil met for three hours in extraordinary session for top secret discussion of the Communist menace abroad - particularly in the Far East. Dulles hinted in advance of that meeting that the council might reach a decision as to precise U.S. policy on the question of whether American defense of the Nationalist island of Quemoy is essential to effective defense of Dulles told newsmen that the first that is a question for America's military chiefs to He added that Eisenhower and the other members of the Security Council would study the advice of the armed forces but would not necessarily follow it. Adm. Arthur W. to 10. FOXHOUNDS SENT TO FLUSH ESCAPEES Miss. hundred heavily armed men waited today to see if their strategy would flush two murderers from a densely wooded area north of State highway FBI agents and local policemen turned loose 4Q hoping fugitives Gerald 26, and Minor 35 a native jot would think they were get scared and come out into the The fugitives escaped from Hinds County Jail here early Friday after tossing acid In their jailer's they with a length - of They slugged two other store the pickup truck and The patrol issued orders to any to capture the Both fugitives under death sentence when they lego was of slaying en mar. god Sprber helping kill a fellow at the Mississippi Columnists Churches Classified Deaths iSali w li 4
