Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - June 1, 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts SAILORS DROWN AS MARINES OVERTURNS ARMY ORDERS MASS FLIGHT FROM FLOOD Clears Area on Both Sides Of Columbia Homeless One Dead 18 Injured in Six Automobile Accidents Mar Holiday Week-End LOWELL long Memorial day day was marred by a half dozen automobile accident one of cost the life of a bridge man and the other ing in injury to 18 persons The first automobile fatality in Concord in two and a half years occurred yesterday morn ing when Joseph 24 of died en route to a hospital after the car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Sudbury road near the home of Joseph J Ecker Jr The crash marred Concord's perfect recorA for which Police Chief William G Ryan and the town will be honored at the second annual highway safety conference in Boston Thursday night Thomas F Gallagher 21 of Cambridge operator of the car and James Hanon 20 also of Cambridge treated at Emerson hospital re- leased A fourth passenger 24 of bridge remains in the hospital suffering from a fractured skull broken ribs a broken leg and multiple injuries First Fatal Since 1945 Officer Robert E Kelley in- the crash which curred at 2.43 a m the first fatal one since Nov 27 1945 when a five year old schoolgirl from West Concord was killed Officers James E Finan Edward A Borenson took the injured to the hospital Local Man Badly Hurt A Lowell man James E Brown of 78 Bridge in condition at ua Memorial hospital with a fractured skull and multiple in- juries as the result of a crash in Tyngsboro at 3.30 a m Sunday Brown whose car collided with a large trailer truck on Route 3 was found unconscious by tiie roadside by Officers J Elmer Jordon and Glenn Wilbur of the police who had re- to a call from Town Clerk George R Robeson who heard the terrific crash at his home nearly a quarter mile from the accident scene In addition to a fractured skull Brown's tongue is almost severed and he is suffering from internal injuries Riding with Brown and treated at the Nashua N H hospital Helen Thomas 22 of 102 Clark road Lowell James Laganas 102 Clark road Lowell Willard Park Hardware avenue Littleton Jonathan Winn 25 of 12 Watson avenue Lowell 2 Mae Simmons 31 of 12 Watson avenue Lowell and Erbane Everett also of Watson avenue All are colored police stated and Winn is a patient at the erans at Rutland Heights Mass The truck driver George C Boyd of New Hampshire treated at the same hospital and held observation with the rest of the injured Traffic was tied up for nearly two hours as police and teers worked feverishly to remove the injured from the wreckage which lay scattered over a wide area of roadway Chelmsford Residents Hurt Four Chelmsford residents were among six persons injured in a collision in North Acton Sunday afternoon and were treated at Emerson hospital Concord for their injuries They Mrs M J Taylor 74 of 15 Adams avenue ford who was the most seriously hurt receiving a cut forehead contusions abrasions and sible fractured ribs Harold B Corson his wife Blanche their Harold B Corson Jr ing with Mrs Taylor in car sustained numerous tions about the head and face in addition to numerous abrasions Robert Richardson of derry N H driver the ond car involved and his ter Betty 15 also were hurt he receiving a three inch gash on his forehead and the girl a fractured arm and lacerated knee Both suffered from shock State police said that the on Thirteen PORTLAND Ore June 1 CUP engineers ordered all persons except to flee from a area along both sides of the Columbia er today as the flood situation in the Pacific northwest reached the proportions of a national ity The evacuation order covered 43 drainage districts and it was believed that persons would be forced to leave their homes No official estimate of the number of persons affected was however Engineers headquarters evacuation was well way It was reported by the however that Mayor C C of Wash had decided not to abide by the notice since the city was protected by one iest dikes in the flood con- trol system Water would not rise more than four feet in view at the present stage if the dike did break it was reported Lieut Col D evacuation of the districts has been under way on a voluntary basis for several days and that it was largely in all but a few districts Homeless Mere than persons were homeless throughput the west before the new order was issued Those included the dents of Vanport city which was wiped out Sunday when the lumbia river smashed a dike The number of dead in the edy has not been determined New torrents from the bia broke through three more big dikes today and swept across a huge area Of North Portland A score of communities were flooded or threatened on the Washington and Oregon shores of the river It appeared that the entire tern of levees and ing lands lower lumbia was in danger of ing Down Issues Order Col O UJ S engineer issued the mass tion order at midnight He said all persons except actively fighting the flood must leave districts on both the Washing ton and Oregon banks of the Columbia from confluence with the Sandy river mouth at Astoria Shartly issued his order the three dikes collapsed here and a fourth devastated Vanport City The new breaks let a wall of water pour into a residential district of homes and over the land face track the Portland Amphitheater and eral auto courts Flee A hundred volunteers dropped their sandbags and fled THE 6 o'clock BBd COUNTY TODAY'S INDEX Amusements 15 22 Classified IS 20 21 22 23 6 Lookout Deaths Dr Hurlock Editorials Have You Heard 16 Snorts 3 Poter Edson 6 Programs 9 K is 19 Women's News IB 17 County News Today on Pages and 12 Associated Press International News COMPLETE Press Press 70th Year No 128 Lowell Mass Tuesday June I 1948 24 Pages 4 Cents Capsizes Off Va Men Were on Way Back to Task Force Va June 1 Twenty-two Marines 13 Navy in Hampton Jast night when a Navy launch swamped in choppy waters while returning 90 men to day liberty Rear Admiral C F Sprague commander of a 12 ship task force whose sailing for the Mediterranean was delayed by the tragedy f sued statement to men at m today from his the aircraft Preliminary report of loss of life or missing personnel may be placed at 22 nine Marines and 13 Navy Report considered ate and includes best estimate of possible stragglers men absent over now in The open launch was swamped in a and rain storm at p m as it was returning a liberty party to the Kearsarge an- chored two miles off the Norfolk Naval station The attached to the carrier was swamped when only 200 yards off the Kearsarge's port the Ore On Trans-Jordan Capital Raids May Have Blasted Hope for UN Encircling Tel Aviv Jewish Airmen Drop Bombs C Dies at Home Aged 68 Years the Denver avenue dike way near the lake that had been port City United Press Correspondent William who was dike when it collapsed said en- tire housing units from the Port wreckage were picked up jy the and carried through the break Shortly afterward the front dike at the foot of Inter- state bridge across the bia river from Vancouver Wash gave way That let another dy stream pour out over the lands 24 Known Dead By Max Boyd CAIRO June 1 Amman Trans- Jordan a few hours before Arab league leaders met there today on- a cease fire proposal for the Palestine war Dispatches from King Ab- little capital across the Jordan from Palestine said the bombing aroused bitterness Ob- servers there said the raids may have blasted away the faint hope a United truce The attack came as the Arab allies reported their troops and armor massing on a front in an effort to throw a noose around Tel Aviv the heart of Israel There were 24 known dead RAF Hit in the entire north west and damage was estimated at The Willamette river moved up on the city's seawall to a flood stage of 29.5 feet covering in- plants and entirely rounding the Portland Union tion At Vancouver Wash the lumbia headed toward a crest of 31 feet The interstate bridge from Portland to Vancouver was declared unsafe Flood waters swirled through low-lying areas at a rate authorities described as alarming In Washington floodwaters The British announced Haifa that an RAF field Amman also officials in Trans-Jordan m near Arab said six Arab civilians including two children were killed The Brit- irh put the total dead at 12 and the wounded at 30 in Amman said only one plane was sighted in each of four runs over Amman the last just at dawn They said about 10 bombs some of them incendiaries were dropped but that the only erty damage was to a building housing a worker's family The British said several grounded craft at the field were damaged Tel Aviv has been the target from the Lewis river washed Egyptian attacks from the through woodland and forced the city's residents to evacuate Another persons moved out of Kalama five miles northward when the Kalama river flooded the city Two thousand persons were evacuated from south Kelso when the river ened Kelso proper poured into southern residential districts Premier Byron Johnson de- clared a state of emergency in British Columbia and authorized the army to take all measures to stem floods in the Fraser river valley Water spread 30 miles across the valley air virtually every day since May 16 One such attack wrecked a bus terminal with a heavy loss of life Little Hope Indications in Cairo had been the Arabs would accept a four-week truce plan of the curity only on condition the Jews repudiate their new state of Israel The Jews have given every indication they would resist such a demand While the political leaders talked there no sign of a up in the fighting Official word from both sides indicated a jor battle is brewing along a winding front from salem to Tulkarm an inland city in Arab territory equidistant from Haifa Tel Aviv Former Supt of Welfare Dept Widely Known Make Last Minute Effort to Halt Threatened Bus Strike Union Officials Confer in Boston Report Drivers Would Settle for Weekly Store Hours Changed for Today Tomorrow LOWELL The retail stores throughout the city will be open tonight until o'clock Also because of the holiday Wednesday will be a full day among the chants doors open all day until 5.30 p m transportation in this area will come to a lull stop here tomorrow unless minute con- in Boston today avert C Queenan j walkout Sunday by a superintendent of the city's majority 2100 union fare in eastern Massachusetts prior to his retirement drivers will complete their months ago and a tun today but will ber of the school committee operations at the today at his home 36 Litchfield I nine of the day's runs tomorrow Terrace in the Acre He was o'clock Jury Deliberates Accident Suit suit which arose from ari auto accident in East Chelmsford nearly three years ago was deliberated by a jury in superior civil court here today after both sides had completed the presentation of testimony in the case Defendant in the action is old R Colwell of who is being by Dorothy V and Edward M Reid both of for and othy E and Alex G Trumbull both of Lowell in two separate actions The Trumbulls are seeking damages of for personal injuries allegedly in the accident involving the Reid and Colwell machines at the intersection of Brick Kiln road and Carlisle street East Chelmsford on Oct 22 1955 Dorothy Reid is suing to recover for property damage to her car and Edward Reid for personal in- juries allegedly suffered He was appointed ent of the welfare department in 1934 during the administration of former Mayor James J Bruin Prior to that he had been in the men's clothing iness in Lowell for many years Stricken Late Last Year He was The strike will virtually para- commuter traffic between Lowell and surrounding towns as well as service in the area Want Week As a result of the strike vote and management officials went into an hour seriously geeki j last year and submitted thc differences existing resignation as welfare tendent in February of this year He was born in Lowell July 23 the son of the Jate Owen and Maria Higgins Queenan He received his education in Lowell schools and entered the clothing business as a salesman He worked for many years as a salesman for the Merrimack Clothing Co in the old Associate Hall building in Merrimack street He was elected to the school TJ S WASHINGTON June 1 AP condition of the treasury May 27 Balance between the two factions The Mobile fflood Unit Here Tomorrow LOWELL Mobile of the Red Cross is at Liberty hall Lowell today from 1 to 7 p and Thursday from 10 a m to 4 p More needed city is to fill tion is being taken by the Red Cross and donors -are asked to call 6349 or Governor Approves The STATE HOUSE Robert F Bradford day approved legislation ting the city of Lowell to not in excess of 51000 for its T agement citizens committee The drivers this measure was passed by the legis- the company offered a lature last week It was an-hour this offer sored by Senator William C Geary of Lowell and Senator it voted to strike strike looms over and stems ion's recent a one favor of tion of the week ently the drivers and mechanics work a week at a base rate of 51.35 an hour This amount is increased to an age cents an hour by the pay drivers receive for warming up their The company points out that the bringing base pay to 51.40 an hour places the drivers in this area almost at the top of the heap nationally in rate of Union officials ever are concerned with ing the pays of Its members to somewhere near the amount week Although the union has been reported as seeking pay increases ranging from 15 to 30 cents an and the company is re- adamant that its five cent offer the best ion indicates that the drivers would settle increase that would net them weekly on a week basis This would of George J Evans of Walcefield 1 approximately 10 cents an hour tne The claims that anything over the Jive cent figure would force it to operate in the red or increase fares committee in 1904 and served for buses run On two years through He week as a result the served briefly as city messenger during the administration of the late Mayor John F Meehan in 1910 He was a member Knights of Columbus of the thc St drivers Would Mean Cut Adoption of the week without an increase in pay would effect a pay cut of proximately weekly for thc Lawrence Tribune Up to Lawrence Tribune has 1 gone up to five cents.a copy beginning with issue The former price was Vincent de Paul Society of St Patrick's church and the Holy Name society of that church He was also a director of B F Butler Co-operative bank He is survived by his wife Mrs Belle McCarthy Queenan a daughter Mrs Joseph L Elholm a sister Vera J all of this city a brother James of Washington D C and many cousins Frank Connors Chef Call Mr at TOPSY'S at Maiden Mass Maiden Associated City Employees SPECIAL MEETING On Salary Schedule TUESDAY AT 8 MEMORIAL HALL Library Bldg LATE NEWS BULLETIN WASHINGTON June 1 L Lewis argued today that he is not required to bargain with the arbitrary Southern Coal 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