Independent Star-News, The (Newspaper) - March 9, 1958, Pasadena, California CLOUDY NO SMOG Frit Bejart oa Page independent THE DERBY SUkr SaOna the M I am MKi 15 120 PAGES t PIUS TWO MAGAZINES SUNDAY MARCH f to the AMU wcr KM thli tart rari Bob story on page C-l of Independent sports lection SY SY IT ZE Russ Ask Asian Zone i Photo Sandbags help protect George property from channel that has eaten dangerously close to his home City Blocks Sidewalk as Building Sinks Pasadena street department employes blocked off a section of sidewalk last night as a 2 story business building began to settle Into the ground cracking masonry and threatening to pop plate glass windows The structure Is the Led yard Building 314 E Union St It houses the brokerage firm of Paine Weber Jackson Curtis two real estate offices and a beauty shop Cracks appeared between the first second floors In the center section of the building Plate glass While Board Studies Deep Channel Licks at Homes By PEGGY POWELL A handful of are keeping a wary eye on the weather while they wait apprehensively to see if the county can help them Their hope is that they can get through the rainy season without having their washed Cause of their concern is a big one It's 20 feet deep about a block long and in places it's 30 feet wide It's a channel cut by runoff that into a churning river every time it rains rain grows deeper and wider By FLIEGERS MOSCOW INS The Soviet Union last night called for the establishment of a nuclear and free zone in all of Asia An official Soviet ment statement distributed by Tass accused the United States and its allies of plotting to increase tension and the danger of destructive war hi Asia This plot declared Russia would be formulated at n e x t week's meeting of the South east Asia Treaty Organization in Manila The peoples of Asia won't allow this the statement said from two days of unremitting and would demand the Navy Again in Rocket Effort CAPE CANAVERAL Fla UP The Navy edged its guard space rocket to within 35 seconds of a launching 58 Bodies Recovered in Rail Wreck cuts closer to two expensive s DE UP Rescue workers last night HEARING ASKED removed 58 bodies from the Last December the tangled wreckage of three Attorney Harold commuter trains that smashed Davidson asked the C o u n t together north of Rio de of Supervisors to hold Janeiro tearing on the matter At ing they had an said the cracks apparently occurred Friday night and yes morning He said he closed his office at 6 p.m Friday When he at- tempted to open Saturday morning the door was med shut because of the which would divert t he from going across properties and endangering their homes Letters requesting the hearing wen sent to each of the five supervisors the attorney said When he had received no reply by Jan 7 Davidson said he ed the clerk of the board j but finally had to its effort because oi scrub weather and technical ties Engineers assigned to the Vanguard project exhausted effort were virtually of at least 48 hours of rest In Washington Dr John P Hagen director of Project Van guard indicated that the next tempt of the colonialist attempt would take ers to maintain their yoke over the Asian people PROOF OF ACTION It charged the SEATO ers particularly the U S and place tomorrow WEATHER BLAMED said t the firing was called dff settling The door had to be pried open Police said the city had re- cently installed new sections of sidewalk beside the ture because the concrete had cracked The building is owned by First Western Bank cers said Dies of Heart Attack at Track attack yesterday as he was Jan 27 agenda When the leaving Santa Anita race track in Arcadia aboard a bus least two more bodies believed still in the wrecked cars Brazil railroad gave the estimate of 60 dead and and was told there was no record of the letters having been received by the super- visors A duplicate letter was miles north of Rio de A Los Angeles to the clerk and the matter Janeiro man died of an apparent heart was placed on the supervisors injured They began an into the accident one of Brazil's worst railways disasters 3 TRAINS COLLIDE One crowded train speeding through rain and darkness slammed into two others ed because of a signal failure at the village of Santa Cruz issue came up for discussion Broken hits of cars were scattered along the track In one small area 15 coaches were the basis of the weather clos ing and added that the launching would be uled as soon as practicable The Navy for an closed reason Is determined to fire this particular guard only during daylight hours For that reason it called off Friday's attempt before noon because delays hi the down or preliminary check said about 100 persons were made it clear that the firing not made dar There were technical delays again yesterday Vanguard rocket temperamental beast INDEFINITE HOLD But then things got rolling until EST when an indefinite hold was ordered because of a low cloud ceiling Safety regulations at the Cape require that there must be at least feet of visibility be- fore a rocket of this type is fired into the sky As the minutes passed the said he was told he telescoped Wires of the AS minutes passed the present information trie railroad snapped dissipated but Arising winds Davidson Police identified the not as Alexander Burnside it was not a public over the was pronounced dead at and the supervisors voted adding to the panic mar runner delayed the launc p.m matter to flashed and rain fell in torrents as dreds of men from a nearby Air Force and from hospitals worked in the night to pull passengers U.S ALLIES ACCUSED OF WAR PLOT Move Seen SEATO Parley ring of nuclear and weapons in their lands The statement said the SEATO meeting was an at- Britain of helping the rebels in Indonesia and said that maneuvers of the American Seventh Fleet and the British Far East fleet off the Indo- proof of such action Western observers saw last night's statement as another Crown Prince Soif At Islam Al Badr of Yemen left and United President Nauer sign federation Ike Proposes Extension of Job Benefits WASHINGTON OB dent Eisenhower yesterday archipelago represented posed to extend unemployment benefits for a brief period and said the government was of Russia's efforts to spending in a dissension among the Allies ber of fields to combat the eco- and dismantle NATO SEATO nomic slump But he strongly and the Baghdad Pact The statement called on the Asian nations to sign a collective peace treaty and warned them they would not be free from nuclear attack hi the event of war opposed a revival of pump priming of the WPA or PWA kind OUTLINES PLAN In a letter to GOP leaders of YEMEN UAR SIGN CAIRO Egypt UP Yemen's primitive monarchy yesterday formally federated with President Nasser's revolutionary A J United Arab Republic The signing ceremony was held at Damascus in what is of Union comprising now the province of Syria under UAR Nasser signed for UAR and Crown Prince Saif Allslam Al Badr for Yemen The federation will be called the United Arab States The charter left the door open will be assisted by a Council equal from numbers of members Yemen and UAR This setup will work to unify forces and foreign policy and coordinate economic and cultural affairs Ahmed ittle more than a tight alliance between two countries UAR He mre or is proposing to help spur member states will retain their size of South Dakota is international status and re- rated from Egypt by the Red It accused the Western Eisenhower out- ers of wanting to turn the lined measures he has territories of Asian members of SEATO into bridgeheads onto which inevitably would all answering blows directed against the aggressor The statement PEACE ZONE In full conformity of the and Yemen RETAIN uig aspirations of the eastern and flood t j nil 1 tn A pin e projects Some of the ures would begin to take effect Dam Disaster Recalled in Scene Today It was 30 years ago this week that the giant St Francis dam in San Canyon north of Saugus burst The wall of water that swept down the canyon and then along the Santa Clara River bed took 450 lives destroyed 700 homes Revisit the site of this dis- aster this week via a Scene auto adventuring travelog by Russ Leadabrand Flood riven San yon is the site of two large power stations Traces of the broken dam have been erased by time You'll find other ing features articles and hobby stories in Scene zine today Don't miss it County Road Dept County Engineer and County Counsel STILL STUDYING This week the County office told ent the two de- were still working Turn to Page 4 Leg Crushed Between Cars Arcadia A age amputation of his right leg last night after he was from the debris Thirty ambulances took survivors to hospitals No U.S citizens were reported aboard any of the trains SPEED A Federal Railroad System spokesman The ing train was proceeding at an unadvisable speed and struck employe faced possible the other two with tremendous impact He said the victims were without medical aid for between two cars The victim was Louis Lyon 455 N Canyon Ave Monrovia Doctors at Arcadia Methodist Storms which have flooded parts of Brazil damaged the signal system While two of the trains waited because the Lyon was car toward a lube rack of his service station at 4 W Foot hill Blvd Arcadia when the occurred TODAY'S FEATURES Auld Lang Child Care 8 City Classified Editorial 10 Finance Home Kids Scene Weather Forecast High cloudiness this morning mostly said the leg were out the third crushed below the knee j apparently moved on with no According to police warnings of any trouble ahead directing another New England Red Probe Set WASHINGTON INS The chairman of the House Un- american activities tee announced plans yesterday to investigate Communist party activity in New England Rep Francis E Walter D- Pa said a he heads will hold three of public hearings at ton court house March 18 through 21 Waiter said in a prepared statement that preliminary study indicates Red activities Real Show Theater 11 Valley News C5 Vital Weather Bll Your program It would be folly to push ai object as long and slender an unstable as the Van guard up into cross winds tha might topple it gain the speed to such forces Workers on th Vanguard say they prefer no to attempt a launching in 15 miles per hour even though ally the rocket is supposed t be capable of rising through winds up to 20 miles an hour The winds too died down and it turned into a beautiful warm sunny day with Turn to Page 4 Bunny this afternoon nnd tomorrow Little change in in New England are Minimum yesterday 42 in sets today p.m Sun rises tomorrow at tions threatening Boy Reported in Good Condition A Pasadena boy who a solution of carbon tetrachloride and household liquids in a suicide attempt because he feared being re- turned to Juvenile Hall was reported In good condition last night The 11 year old boy's mother told police she had threatened to return him to Juvenile Hall Minutes later she found him drinking the mixture which Included bon tetrachloride ant der laundry bleach sene shoe polish chocolate anil water He was taken to County General Hospital after gency treatment at ton Memorial Hospital lies all countries in Asia can and must set up a peace zone there would he no place or nuclear or rocket weapons Judging by everything the SEATO council session in nila is called upon to prevent this The statement reminded the Asians that it was they who suffered the effects of the first atom bombs dropped on Japan in World War II Observers in Moscow saw the Soviet statement as added evidence of the obsession the Kremlin leaders have with Turn to Page 4 lion people living in villages and towns on the western shores of the Arabian charter stipulates that peninsula His slate about the business and provide more jobs Among steps mentioned were speedups in the tempo of highway building reclamation projects aides to ing construction of federal gimes That means a monarchy like Yemen its own system within the Yemen's crafty old king Iman Ahmed has not handed over his country to Nasser as the Syrians did last month The terms of the federation NEW POLITICAL WIN Yesterday's federation ment was the third Arab union in six weeks and appears the loosest of the three in ture But politically it gives Nasser a new victory for as released by the Middle East of the Arab world 1959 or later quickly others are planned f or News Agency stipulate that Ahmed and Nasser will preside jointly over the United Arab States This means Ahmed re- tains virtual veto power over any decisions affecting Seek Clothing Strike End NEW YORK OP Emerg ency mediation efforts were yesterday to seek an early end to a strike that has halted output of three-fourths of the women's clothing pro in the nation The strike already had cost he industry an estimated mil ion dresses suits and coats The workers had lost more han six million dollars in vages Herbert H Lehman former ew York governor and U.S senator and a veteran of 34 ears as u labor arbitrator and Harry Uviller impartial ress industry chairman sat own with union and ment officials to try to find a to the first indus trial garment strike in 25 ears OFFICER KILLED HAYWARD UP California patrolman Raymond O'Connor was killed in- tantly yesterday when the car in which he was iding was hit by an oncoming ar on freeway Two Sailors Asphyxiated RIVERSIDE Two sailors were found dead in a hotel room yesterday Police said they apparently had been Investigators found the bodies of Angus T son 19 and Ronald R ter 20 in a room with the window closed and the gas heater blazing Both sailors had been stationed at Long Beach tion COUNCIL Nasser and Ahmed will form a two-man high council They The first and tightest of the unions was the merger of Syria and Egypt under one president and government It promoted Iraq and Jordan to form a rival federated Arab state under King Feisal gations of the two nations open a meeting in Baghdad today to work out the details Two Critically Hurt in Freeway Crash A Monterey Park man and his Alhambra woman companion remained in critical condition last night at County General Hospital almost 24 hours after their car SAUCY PERFORMANCE ANITA A PLAIN MIAMI Fla UP Curvaceous Anita Ekberg was pelted with tomatoes last night by a local stripper who jumped up from the front row of a theater where Miss Ekberg was appearing with comedian Bob Hope Amid an audience uproar in the Gables Theater Evelyn Treasure Chest West 30 was led to Coral Gables police station and booked on disorderly conduct and investigation of assault and battery Just as Miss Ekberg told Hope in a stage sketch I'm just an ordinary West You sure are and let fly with two tomatoes she produced from her handbag They hit Anita halfway down the front of her black strapless gown What's the matter with the blonde actress said In amazement Hope wiped tomato splatters off her dress muttering Nothing like this has happened since my old days in vaudeville Police quoted Miss West as saying Anita had walked out during a West performance at a Miami Beach night club Hope and Miss Ekberg continued their round of theater appearances in connection with a movie they made Paris Holiday Police said that whether Miss West Is charged with assault and battery Is up to Miss Ekberg was demolished in a San nardino Freeway accident They are Alfred kamp 38 of 1333 S Isabella Ave Monterey Park and Eleanor Kortus 1115 S Olive Ave Alhambra California Highway men said both were hurled off the freeway and onto the fic tracks 20 below Their car was strewn all across the freeway Feldkamp drove the vehicle into a retaining wall near the freeway's Baldwin avenue over- pass in El Monte Five other cars collided when drivers stopped to look at tho crash One man was injured CARRIER SAILS SAN DIEGO IP The raft carrier Shangri-La sailed for the Far East yesterday i taking the first squadron of I Grumman Tiger jets to tour the Pacific with the 7th Fleet
