Long Beach Independent (Newspaper) - August 14, 1956, Long Beach, California FEATURES INDEX Amusements Classified Editorial Markets Shipping Guide Sports Women Phone HE No. HE 2-5959 30 PAGES f V 1-0 N 6 BE A C H f Independent LONG BEACH 12, AUGUST 14, 1956 WEATHER Mostly sonny today and Wednesday but night and early morning low Little change In temperature with a high near 80. high 80, low 61. VOL 18 351 HOME Clement Charges Grab GOP 16 Killed as Cafe Blows Up Gas Blast Wrecks Crowded Building at Meal 60 Hurt MONTI Utah A crowded cafe in the uranium mining center of Monticello was leveled by a gas at dinner time Monday killing or injuring every one in the eating Sheriff Seth Wright of San Juan County said 16 persons were killed and up to 60 persons The Red Cross reported 13 were known One person succumbed during the 61 mile ride to emergency hospitals in Colo. It was not known if this fatality was included in Wright's Sheriff Wright said the ex- plosion leveled the Lariat Cafe in the community's downtown i business section shortly 7 p.m. He attributed it to al connected to the just that COUNTS Fire Started by Keynoter CONVENTION CHICAGO Frank G. Clement charged Monday night that President Eisenhower has looked on from green fairways of while Vice President Richard Nixon ated as the Republican firebrand Real Fight On Behind the Scenes CONVENTION CAGO The ripped into the Nixon team Monday night as. In a firebrand speech that keynoted the opening the 1956 Democratic National Con- the Tennessee governor also charged the Eisenhower administration has opened the door to unprecedented spree of grab and Clement roused the delegates to frequent cheers and applause as he pounded home charge after charge against the and The handsome black-haired in the there was in- jured or Sheriff Wright He added some of the injured walked away from the rubble dazed Miss greets President Harry S. Truman at the Democratic convention in Chicago Monday The 20-year-old beauty sat with the Iowa delegation for an hour and a she was brought by Herschell Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate to Iowa headquarters where she greeted delegates and Miss Morris was in Chicago en route to Vov who delivered the keynote address at the Democratic national convention Monday evening ing demonstration by reaching out to touch a banner from his state or Ms keynote with such vigorous I they got their 1956 convention gestures that the built-in air rolling in the midst of a furious j condition in the rostrum frt inK failed to do its job of keeping him Beads of perspiration bubbled Reds Try to Snarl Suez Meet LONDON Communist East Germany announced day night it would try to crash Hurricane to Rip Into Florida Today MIAMI Hurricane Betsy bore down on Florida's famous Palm Beach resort area Monday night with its 120 winds and the Weather Bureau warned it might drive inland to Lake scene of the 1928 worst disaster in the state's Runs for i 66 Days i WASHINGTON An atomic ship engine has been run ifor 66 straight days and nights Sen. Russell Sends Johnson Stock Up battle for presidential I Off to a sedate start at an afternoon they tossed On his forehead and rolled down a rouser in traditional neck beneath his Practically every seat in the cage's international as a CHICAGO Lyndon B. Johnson's stock candidate for the Democratic rose Monday with an unqualified The U. S. Weather in an 11 p.m. advisory that the West's Suez conference Betsy was continuing along i here as an uninvited course at a point 360! appeared to be the first southeast ot speed of the storm had I dropped from 18 to 16 miles per Storm forecaster Walter Davis said winds of hurricane miles an hour or r c expected to Britain immediately rejected the The surprise announcement came from East Berlin as British troops leaving for the Mediterranean crossed paths with invited diplomats arriving for Thursday's It coincided with an sion of full support by the United States lor French demand for tional control of the Suez East German Premier Otto Grotewohl's office in Berlin said Atomic Energy Commission dis- closed It said the test conducted with a land prototype or model of atomic engine of the is believed to be longest full power run completed by any type of pulsion sea or The AEC said if the contains a similar had made such a it could have gone around the world submerged at top speed and thousands of miles It added that a cred submarine of similar power would require about ESPECIALLY CHICAGO Look all take your pick and you'll come up with the Russell of a contender for the party's 1952 arrived unexpectedly on the convention scene and announced he will anything I to boost the Senate Democratic leader for the Johnson went through a busy day of On hand were all party bigwigs from ex-President Truman on But thp real battle for coveted presidential nomination was being waged behind the convention and in downtown hotels where ers of Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman battled for Richard votes among Q Qg run we're having Like He conferred with Adlai E. and Averell Harriman jRuss Deny i Holding Fliers MOSCOW W Russia denied Monday that it j gallons of fuel for a similar is detaining any U.S. Air to fill 160 railroad the on Page 2, Col. 7) Clement started There were some standees in the Former President Truman tened with grave his arms as Clement drove home his At one Truman leaned back and laughed heartily when Clement said the lican Party offer nothing better than a Teapot the great depression and Dixon and as well as Benson and Clement touched off a ing ovation for Truman when he said greatest asset of this is that the former president is present to remind Farley Almost Didn't Get In CHICAGO a the Democrats to ference 16 years makes anu and fellow Sen. I nominee He will support any that this convention In o t h e Symington of parts of the are began the day by holding a 35-minute con- ference with They Out afterward they dis- the Isle the not the start pummeling the Florida Qr from planes shot this i But fringe winds of lesser force were expected during the morning hours on Page 8, Col. 6) down by Soviet The denial was in a note to southern The flags flew from Miami north to Fla. The storm were displayed from St. Wider Tijuana Augustine in the north to Key Mexico Maldonado of Baja to comet mft the American Embassy from Foreign It Gales extended outward to a U. S. note to The American note accused American the center 150 miles to northwest and 75 miles in the I cow July 16. Russia of holding hurricane some ai The atomic reactor that made record run operated at an But HRH and mister ran into quite a Scottish White Symington said In 1940, Jim Farley of New former Democratic was the leading candidate in opposition to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid dented third term at the opening of the may Clement himself received a mighty ovation at the end of his He finally cut off the cheers for himself in his And Florida stands to get a strong blow today if Betsy wnite they get to Democratic National Con- but concentrated on ways t into He'd forgotten his ticket and gate attendants didn't recognize to achieve party harmony on doesn't sheer off But WM figures the biggest storm hit Chicago yesterday me storm nit power of 100 per they Jim for the 66 days and tne convention used only part of its uranium j out or fuel the I AEC The reactor is located at the Florida's southern Nearly persons perished including and divorce marriage and swept Panama and Suez mation on The U. S. note referred to two American They were a Navy privateer lost over the Baltic with 10 men aboard April 1950, and an Air Force that went down with 12 aboard over the Sea of Japan or near June 13, 1952. The Russian reply said the Soviet Union had made a ful of the reports U. S. servicemen were being j held in Russia and found to be and Leigh Loses Her Baby LONDON Actress Vivien Leigh has lost the baby she was expecting in her actor husband It said the engine now has j sir Laurence Olivier said resumed operation at The would have been power levels to obtain their Miss Leigh is ne missing more than AEC national reactor and demanded station in At the end of the test the reactor had hundreds of hours of full operation the announcement ing test data and to train the Navy's Olivier is 47. They have been married 16 CELEBRITY NIGHT Smog Prober Booked on Knight for Vice Presidency Finally someone got him in. as temporary convention Party leaders were lavish ta their praise of the Former Postmaster General James Farley called It of the best keynote speeches on Page 2, Col. 3) In endorsing Russell said the Texan is one man we've who could win the presidency from the He labeled the more active major candidates lot Of Russell's announcement raised speculation that he will try to persuade Johnson to be a more active 80 Bodies Discovered in Mine Depths Belgium through the Star Spangled got the v an bodies were found ner without once clutching banner over DOuL OU Uv i i HST Bess Steals Show CONVENTION CHICAGO This was celebrity night at the Democratic National Harry Truman and Roosevelt stared at each Missouri went running across a crowded And over to the Truman seats with Frankie Boy Sinatra tne Missouri state delegation through the Star Spangled got the wrong LOS ANGELES smog inspector was booked on cion of soliciting a Edward J. 34, was arrested on order of Louis J. enforcement director the Air Pollution Control The Russians agreed to meet with the other notions to discuss the Suez But the Russians have made it clear that they agree with Nasser in his right to seize and nationalize the Suez They compare the issue with other waterways controlled one but erected on the soil of They in affect soy Nasser has as much right to nationalize Suez as the United States has to have complete operational con- Qf Air of the Panama The Russians would inject It was the first such into the conference the placing of all such waterways in the nine years of the under international This include the and many other strategic con- It is probable there will be a lot of propaganda on this But it should bo clearly understood that the right of nationalization by is not the The Eage 14) Gov. Goodwin J. Knight said I Monday he was as a Republican vice presidential candidate a statement that was greeted with mixed tions by delegates here for the State Federation of Labor con- Labor officials who are bers of the Republican Party generally acclaimed the ment saying Gov. Knight be more acceptable to the labor vote than Vice Fuller The director accused Big of soliciting from the son Tree Service of Fuller said after the offer allegedly was the com- pany reported it and arranged to hand over to Big last July 31. Some delegates adopted the view the statement was inasmuch as a sizable portion of those attending the convention follow the cratic Party balloon also stirred comment in S a n on Page 8, Col. 3) GOV. KNIGHT blazing Bois Du sceen of Belgium s worst mining there are still people alive in the there are not a mine official Mine authorities said in tion to the 80 bodies reached at the 179 miners still were eleven bodies previously were re- Rescue workers fought smoke and intense heat in a gallery at the Iowa Will Send Real TALL One DES MOINES Leo Hoegh Monday ex- a 23 Vz stalk of corn which he plans to take to the annual Iowa picnic at Long Calif. Hoegh said the picnic committee had asked him to brins a stalk of depths of the I mike for Cazier Coal Most the lowed and the hubbub of i Mrs. Roosevelt occupied He was making a row the show was on a walkie-talkie While Party Chairman Paul M. Butler orated on startling facts as his total mileage in behalf of Democrats in the last 19 months Mr. Truman chatted with the lady to his left he pointing to the cut sign which the mans were chit-chat almost drowned out the earnestly spieling Butler Although Mr. Truman Mr. Truman wore a convention ted President Harry S. He also wore a tremendous The tion broke into a storm of plause when Butler spoke of Mr. Truman's 1948 presidential the former wasn't paying by the former President's When the photographers be- gan snapping the Trumans on their Judge Samuel I. sitting behind reached down them and held a for button to the Without n or Ing a Mrs. Truman pushed the button down out ol At that a delegate Mrs. wearing a pearl necklace and a flowered pillbox signed numerous She shook hands with one man who told husband was the Prominent in huddles on the convention floor during the ning was the bald head of James A. He moved up down a side
