Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - March 22, 1952, Fayetteville, Arkansas fW IHI HMT Of THIS Win AP King and NEA Features imd with hard from 22 Mm Tomorrow with Trace of milt mow temperature 72 31 11 today 11 sunset 90 NUMBER JOS ARKANSAS SATURDAY MARCH 22 Tornadoes Kill 174 In Four Southern States Arkansas Is J he Hardest Hit Brush Off In Presence Of General This small Korean boy seems more interested in keeping his new shoes clean than he is in the presence of Gen James Van Fleet center at the Columbia in Seoul Korea General Van Fleet visited the home to help distribute part of the worth of goods given by the Third Army stationed in the Southeastern U S With the general are Col Charles R San Antonio Texas and Father Lawrence Yuan director of the home Steet Industry Rejects WSB Wage Boost Proposal New steel try formally turning down Wage Stabilization Board wage boost recommendations plans to separately next week with various CIO company unions In its hot day of the for a basic wage rise plus shop the try said such a wage increase would raise prices as much as a ton Economic Stabilizer Roger L Putnam who conferred with top steel executives here put in a call to Mobilization Director Charles E Wilson in Washington and Wilson flew to New York met briefly with the steel tives and returned to the capital There was no im- mediate comment on his ence with industry loaders But the executives released a statement They attacked the wage proposals which besides the cent hourly figure includes other improvements estimated to be worth an additional five cents an hour The proposed wage rates the statement would increase the direct employment costs of the steel companies by about 30 cents per employe would cost the industry a billion dollars a year Claim Step Backward Terming the union shop a long step backward in the struggle for individual the statement It is inconceivable how the board could have made which would be less in the public interest or more disruptive of the economy The recommendations go far beyond the existing lations and would if complied with completely wreck the stabilization program The four WSB members In Washington last night filed a formal dissent to the WSB The industry bers said the proposed in- creases go beyond per mitted by board regulations and policies and would have a major Inflationary Impact on the ec- American Grenades Kil Four Japanese Farmers 1 nese farmers were killed and wounded Friday by grenades totted by American soldiers on u drill ground near here the Army said The hnd been put off limits by the Army but ently farmers not ef Wit restriction Storm Warning Right On Nose Oklahoma Tinker Air Force base tornado warning system forecast the Arkansas storms right on the nose yesterday Tinker forecasts called for in an area 50 miles north of a line between Monticello Ark and Greenville Texas Dierks first Arkansas town hit was in the center of the belt College Of Education Announces Changes A new program of study in the field of education above the level leading to a Diploma of Advanced was an- today by Dr Virgil Ad- kisson dean of the University Graduate School and Dr Henry Kronenberg dean of the College of Education The program which will re- quire one year of study beyond the master's degree has proved by the University's Council The University will change the designation dt the degree granted for work done in the field of education from master of science to master of Both in graduate work in education are in line with changes being made in of the graduate schools of the country it was said Hard Freeze Predicted For Northwest Area Frank J Prince local weather observer reported that a hard freeze Is expected with ranging from 22 to 26 degrees This however ic not unusual for the month of March he said recalling the thermometer dropped to 11 degrees below zero March 12 1048 and March 21 the low was 2.1 Tomorrow will be generally fair with slowly rising tures Back Alimony Sought Santa Monica John Ireland Is being sued for by his for- mer wife Elaine Huth Ireland Ireland now wed tn Joanne Dru was ordered yesterday tn In court April 4 to show why shouldn't pay up Blizzard Tapers Off In West Rescue Operations Are Under Way year's worst blizzard in the Central Hocky Mountains tapered off today but rescue operations continued for a group of some 12 persons bound at In the group were Mr and Mrs Clyde Woods of Jensen Utah who were injured in an automobile collision during the blizzard rado Highway Department plow crews tackled waist-high drifts of snow way 40 in the northwestern part of the state Three deaths have been at- to the storm Regional Contest Won By Fayetteville Student Eugene Henderson 16 ville High School student won first place in the re- American Legion oratorical contest in Russellville He will en- ter the state contest Tuesday in Conway Henderson is the son of Mr and Mrs W V Henderson of North Walnut Street With day at the competition at sas Tech was his coach Francis I English and dramatics the high school Henderson won over students roni Van Buren and Harrison Suit Over Sidewalk Continues In Court continued before Thomas Butt In the city of suit to collect from Mrs C B Paddock The city seeks to collect the money It spent laying a new valk along the south side of the Building on the southeast corner of the Square Mrs riock has asked the court to dismiss he city's suit nnd charKes In nn answer that part of the walk Is built on her property rather than street the witness were heard Tht defendant win to be heard today Injured Total Over In Stricken Area Little Rock black fury of spring laced with rain left 174 dead in four Southern atates on the Mississippi River yesterday and than injured It was as if some vast artillery barrage had been laid on the stricken area in Arkansas West Tennessee Missouri and North Mississippi Damage to homes factories utilities and farms was expected to run mto the millions of dollars Worst hit was Arkansas where the winds killed 115 persons Forty died in West Tennessee eight in North Mississippi and 11 in the Caruthersville area of Missouri Throughout the night rescue workers hunted through the muck and debris victims Arkansas called 440 National Guardsmen to active duty keeping 100 in reserve at Camp Robinson and putting the others to work in the tortured areas The Red Cross sent disaster workers into the region A Little plane was loaded with 250 pints of blood plasma ip St Loufs to supply distributed by blood centers here Taft And Kefouver Meet Arkansas Struck The storms blitzed Arkansas rom the southwest section to the northeast tip White County in the strawberry country of Arkansas had 73 dead The towns of Judsonia and Bald Knob about 50 miles northeast of here were leveled Only the Methodist Church in Judsonia caped unscathed ng is said Marvin enden director of relief the Arkansas Welfare ment The whole highway south rom Searcy looks like picture scenes uf battlefields It is awful School houses churches and armories in many places were with the were jammed State's Worst Storm This was by far the worst storm ever to hit Arkansas iest previous storm was June 5 916 when 86 persons were killed The tales of death were many There were escapes too None vas more miraculous than that of a blind man Henry Wilkins 77 Marked Tree He sat helplessly vhile the wind shattered his home round him His wife was y hurt The dead by White County 73 Cotton Plant 10 England nine seven Center Point five lazen three Carlisle Marked and Hickory Ridge two each r u m an and one ach Byhalia seven and Manila one Tennessee Dyersburg 14 erson nine Moscow six and nc each in Medina Leach and Missouri Caruthersville area 1 quad Car Snatched Up At Dyersburg Tenn a black of wind dipped oui of the ky snatched up the squad car f Tennessee Stale Patrol Sgt oc Williamson and hurled it 300 arris At Ark Glenda Fern adie 15 went into town with cr parents and two brothers to ell strawberry plants They saw storm bearing down on them nd ran into a cafe for The sturdy brici building was aliened mother Mrs and her brother Ed killed Her father i id r Bobbie wore pulled from the uins critically hurt After five hours of digging in ic wreckage rescuers lenda dead At England Nathan Davis for his escape from cath his The Lord held the wind back he tall middle aged Negro said c saw the twister coming and an outside and fell beside his ar The wind twisted me over nd over but the storm went over car like NIC Lord was holding back and then It started tearing p the RaM Terrific Gov Sid who arrived t tarly last he ruin and suffering In that In terrible terrible The American Red Crou ed it had ordered disaster workers from all over the country into the stricken areas At some points hail rain and fire added to the misery and ered rescue operations Power lines and communications were knocked out Funeral homes were The dead were like wood at Searcy while attention was given first to the Injured Aid Stations were set up in National Guard ing building s in the disaster The first of- the death-dealing twisters hit Dierks a lumber town about 110 air miles west of Little Rock about p m Perfect Funnel a Little Rock truck driver was in England when the storm hit there He said ft sounded like hundred ing low and was the most shaped funnel you've ever seen of Little Rock was driving a transport truck near Judsonia when the winds came Suddenly a house came flying across the highway and smashed into the truck Fhipps suffered only scratches and into nearby Beebe with one of the first reports of the disaster National Guardsmen and other aid was summoned to Searcy sonally by Governor McMath He was at Heber about 28 miles from Searcy to deliver a speech when he heard of the He hurried to Searcy and managed to get word through to Little Rock Amateur radio operators helped relay emergency messages Damage Heavy At most storm-wrecked com- the residents were too busy handling the dead and in- ured to think about surveying property damage However chant Robert Sakon estimated the oss at England alone at to That will be only a drop in the bucket as far as the 1 overall damage Is concerned Tt will be days before thing close to an accurate is made As Sen Estes left of Tennessee stood examining i Wisconsin map in the Eau Claire hotel In Wls his Republican opponent Robert Taft of Ohio strode by They ed greetings and shook hands Their paths crossed as Taft headed for Wis and went through the rubber com- pany plant in Eap Claire Pace Takes Against Engineers Washington charges of fraud waste and in building dollar in North Africa brought a drastic shakeup today of Army engineers who handled the job Secretary of the Army Pace latt fae private tors working on the overseas project that he will suspend -or terminate their contracts unless they take prompt remedial Chairman Lyndon B Johnson of the Senate ness subcommittee which has been investigating the African project announced the Pentagon orders after receiving a letter from Pace outlining them Johnson said his watchdog com- Twisters May Hit In South Tonight Washington Weather Bureau said today tornadoes may hit new areas In Kentucky and Alabama this after- loon reaching western parts of Virginia and West Virginia will continue Its tion and public hearing on the bases Pace promised that the Army will take energetic action to re- cover all money shown by con- gressional hearings to improperly spent He also announced a conference week for all the con- tractors involved In the African They will be Informed frankly of the unsatisfactory features of the work to date and they will be on notice that these features be corrected unless action terminate or suspend the con- is to Pace said The rush order on the top-secret air bases was decided upon shortly after the Communists invaded South Korea in June 1950 The Army Engineers in charge of the asked five large ng firms to form a combine to rush completion of five bases Mrs Bertha Denny Hurt When Tractor Overturns Mrs Bertha Denny 56 ille wife suffered critical chest injuries yesterday when the com- i tractor she was driving ed and pinned her to the ground at her farm home She was ad- mitted to City Hospital here about 5 p m and attendants said this morning her condition is critical Mrs Denny's husband Clyde Denny discovered her ment but was unable to move the tractor by himself He obtained assistance and she was Drought to in a private vehicle night A E Stone Dies After He Is Found Amos E Stone about 65 of North Walnut Street was on arrival at County Hospital this morning after he wan found unconscious on East Spring Street near the College Avenue In- Death apparently re- from a stroke Found by pedestrian at this morning Stone wan taken to the In lance Hospital Authorities he wat on Batista Plain In Attitude First town Struck By High Winds Destruction Worst Ever Seen Soys School Supervisor ths first of a or more towns Arkansas Tennessee and to by t tornado The storm hit this west Arkansas lumber town of about residents at seven and narrowly missed the whirs classes were In session Howard County School Super- visor E of ville visited Dierks shortly the tragedy struck I've seen several storms ind tornadoes that may have covered a wider he said rve never seen anything like the de- struction in where thh one hit Houses were tumbled oil their foundations and demolished find household goods were for hundreds of yards Every tree In the path was twisted laid flat I didn't get to talk to many of the Injured Mostly they weri huddled together The State Police bad pretty much control They did a swell Little Arkansas communities were without phone service aa 300 Company Havana two Russians to Mexico last night them Havana Airport Fedor Zarkov and Alex were re- ported to be- Soviet diplomatic couriers A Mexican Airlines plane took them back to Mexico City The incident offered evidence that Cuba's dictator Batista will get tough with Reds They have made Cuba a center for from Moscow and Mexico to all Latin The Russians maintain a full embassy In Havana although Cuba has no diplomatic mission in cow Couriers and large ties of printed matter have come and gone frequently Red Cross To Gel Information The local Hcd Cross chapter Is able to get in touch with the Red Cross disaster headquarters In the tornado area and will contact the office for any on casualties people In this section may Mable Braden executive secretary said this morning She may be contacted by telephone at No 2436 THI Some folks after reading and hearing about the dis- tornado in South and Northeast Arkansas were of the opinion that Northwest Ar- kansas ought to turn out In mass tomorrow and pay the because it looks as If somebody's looking out for Air Force Cargo Planes Start Operation In Effort To Save Starving Cattle San Air Force cargo planes flew to Nevada day to team with Army bulldozers In to ave starving cattle nnd sheep Hamilton field north of San ordered the cargo to rendezvous at the Elko Nev airport There they were to pick up bales of hay and who are to guide the pilots to drop areas Aground Iron I 25 U.S Sixth Army build cleared lanes toward Isolated herdi Behind hem came trucks But Operation was decided upon after aerial surveys showed that Operation through would be too for some herds Newton Crumley an emergency director called for the ho flew over Northern County In Nevada nnd spotted so weak they couldn't shake off locks of The Nevada dis- aster to declared by dent Truman In allotting f In relief funds hai been covered by for two months rtported plete disruption Major their main lines open but their tion tines were hard bit in soffie places Little hours tornadoes had ripped across Arkansas a Little banker J V of ed a fund to aid the a contribution Hock newspapers Arkansas ocrat and Arkansas Gazette will receive to be made payable to Tornado Relief Fund Little Red Crosi here said a flight of Chicago and Southern Airlines from St Louis delayed night to allow shipment of pints of tp Little Rock An additional pinti of ths plasma was dispatched from Little Tlock to the storm areas night The Red Cross that authorities blind plasma for their localities contact the Red Cross blood bank here Carlisle Ark Ray Jones family was packed up ready to move when a their home yesterday Two sons Derald 15 and Doyne had returned home from shortly The twister killed both boys Little Hock-WPl-Offlcials of Ar- kansas largest Red Cross chapter didn't have to be called together first word of yesterday's tornadoes was received They ready were in session ing a progress meeting in the rent drive for funds Hazen Haien man said the twister which cd out five lives in the nearby Center Point late yesterday slow moving black cloud that just tumbled along Mrs Roach reported today that she watched the tornado for about 15 and saw It pick up a church nhd about a dozen houses One family outran the storm Martin saw the black cloud coming ed his wife and children loaded Into a truck and the storm's path
