Tucson Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - September 7, 1953, Tucson, Arizona THE Variable cloudiness Continued hot U S Weather Tab IB Pan 91 Unofficial noon sun FINAL NO PASSING 15 SCHOOL IN SESSION Photo FAMILIAR SIGN RETURNS These signs which herald the reopening of schools will appear again on school streets tomorrow Motorists are reminded that the brief message on the signs means the maximum speed within a school zone is 15 miles per hour and that cars cannot pass one another in the zones VOL NO 214 TODAYS NEWS TUCSON ARIZONA MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 7 1953 FIVE PAGES LABOR DAY DEATHS NOW STAND AT 396 Vacation Ends Its School Days School Days f By CHARLES HOFFMAN Summer vacation officially comes to an end tomorrow as more than 35000 of younger generation return to a book and classroom schedule It will be the start of the 195354 school year More than 25000 will enter public schools from the first through the 12th grades sonic 3519 are enrolled in view Robison Rose and Sam chial schools over 500 in private while the University of Arizona expects 5000 The remaining school children attend coun ty schools HEAVIEST public school en will be in the Tucson system where more than 20100 children have already registered Amphitheater with an enrollment expected to exceed the 3024 mark Tucson high school riding on the crest of a enroll ment largest in its history will operate on a new plan Aimed at providing more class rooms and keeping off a double shift it calls for elimina tion of school study periods re in students lining their studying at home rather than at school SCHOOL students have been given a choice of class hours either the a m to p m or a m to p m shift In the meantime however at least H of tho elementary school will swing into the program until new schools and ad classrooms relieve the situation Those on the double program will include Blenman Davidson Elizabeth Borton El Rio Ft Lowell Government Heights Peter Mary Lynn Menlo Gardens Mission Album Will Be Serial The popular Arizona Al bum feature in the Citizen is going to undergo a change on Thursday designed to make It even more his Informative Material in the Album will bo presented in chapter form with all pictures and stories dealing with specific subjects in early Tucson and Arizona history being grouped to tother Chapter 1 will pass Old Tucson Street Scenes starting with the first one Thursday and running over a period of weeks Other chapters following will be devoted to the Univer sity of Arizona missions min ing Indians cowboys and ranching and all of the areas which have given Tucson such a colorful and exciting back ground New arrivals and oldtimers alike will find he Album chap ter on old street scenes enjoy able reading fare on the Citi zens editorial page Many persons will want to keep an Album of their own chapter by chapter Be ready for the first number of Chapter I Thurs day Hughes Amphitheater with its largest enrollment in history has no double sessions planned Heaviest enrollment will be in the Amphi theater elementary school with 950 setto start classes Amphi high school with 934 registered is expected to hit the by the end of the first month of school while the junior high school with 304 pu pils is expecting 500 students before school gets well under way JAKE TUCSON Amphitheater high school also will operate on a new schedule this year which will eliminate the possibility of double sessions The high school will go on an day with a lOmin ute homeroom period Classes will run from am to 4 pm Last year the high school was on a day schedule with classes from am to pm Catholic high school will start its classes at am tomorrow With a registration already sur passing the has had to close its freshman registration The school now en tering its second year as a four high school is headed by a new principal Rev Bonaventure J Gilmore of the Carmelite order who succeeds Rev George M Dyke Largest parochial school enroll be at SS Peter and Pauls which has gone over the Among he countys larger schools Sunnyside is setting new enrollment records with 1600 scheduled to report tomorrow HERE THE first graders will go on double session with five morning and five afternoon cUisses Flowing Wells school on West Prince road also will set a new enrollment mark and will open its doors tomorrow for the first time under its new dent George N Smith who suc Ralph W Roda More than 500 children will pour into the classrooms but the school has no double sessions scheduled The university opens its 195354 school year tomorrow with Us annual freshman week program aimed at giving exclusive atten tion to the problems of freshman students Registrar C Zaner Lesher has estimated 1200 freshmen and a first semester enrollment of 5100 students ASSEMBLIES tests confer ences and teas will make up most of the week which will be high lighted by the picnic at pm Sunday in the Greek theater sponsored by Associated Students and the Student Religion council For returning students regis tration will be held in Bear Down gymnasium on Sept 12 and again on Sept 14 with classes sched uled to start Sept 15 Germans Vote Adenauer In Victor Gives Army Pledge BONN Germany UR Chancellor Konrad Adenauer strengthened by a landslide elec tion victory said today the West German people have given a clear mandate for a European defense community This community will include a German army to fight beside the western nations against any Communist attack THE SOCIALISTS used to de mand a plebiscite on the ques tion of the European army Adenauer said at a press con ference This election was such a plebiscite The majority of the voters clearly voted for the idea of a European defense commun ity Adenauer summoned him cab inet to meet tomorrow to discuss the election victory which gives his coalition a majority of 125 in the bundestag The victory of pro American coalition was a major victory also for the western democracies in the cold war and a humiliating defeat for Soviet Russia threeparty team smothered its opposition under an avalanche of votes in yes election who chose to stick with the west during the next four years The voters turned out In droves to endorse the rearma ment platform of the chancellor and ignore warnings from Russian Premier Georgi Malenkov that an Adenauer vic tory would lead to war At the same time voters re moved the Communists and the German Reich party from West by denying them even one seat in the bundestag lower ADENAUER VOTES LEADS PARTY TO VICTORY Scorpion Serum Saves Girl serum has saved another life The Safford Inn hospital re ported early today that Deborah Cruni daughter of Mr and Mrs James Crum of Safford is out of danger and resting well The tot was stung late yes and rushed to the hos pital A plane was flown to Miami to obtain a supply of serum as her life hung in the balance For two or three hours after it was administered there seemed to be little change in her condition then she began improving The serum was per by Dr H L Stahnke di rector of the animal research laboratory at Arizona State Col lege at Tempe Truman Blasts GOP dent Harry S Truman told a La bor day audience there are plenty of signs of a return to the old philosophy that the object of government is to help big business Truman who frequently has taken the position since he left the White House that he wanted to be charitable toward the new administration while it is getting its feet on the said he didnt think the people voted last fall for a change in the social and economic principles that have made us so strong and prosper BUT THAT is the kind of change we are getting he said in a prepared address at a rally of Michigan CIO and AFL groups in Cadillac square He singled out the administra tions policies on interest rates labor public housing power and the governments efforts to bal ance the budget by cutting na tional defense i We have to put first things first he said And the security and safety of this nation comes ahead of everything else as far as I am concerned 1 dont see how anyone can take chances with national defense at this time in the worlds history I HK a firstclass air force and an air raid defense system would be worth quite a lot to us now even if it the budget lor a while and deferred a tax cut for some years to come Saying he was a great believer in balanced budgets the former j President said he kept the gov eminent budget balanced until an emergency came along that was a lot more important than all the balanced budgets in the world Photo SHERIFFS LINCOLN IN ACCIDENT AT TRICKY INTERSECTION Sheriff Frank Eyman left surveys damage to his departments Lincoln sedan which collided headon this morning with a Plymouth sedan at the complicated Ala meda street and Sixth avenue intersection Driver of the Plymouth Lawrence Cam brin of 2950 N Castro ave received a cut on the nose Fifty feet behind car Alameda street begins oneway traffic going west to Stone avenue At the inter section stop sign however the street is clear traffic going from Toole ave nue stopped at the sign after leaving Toole avenue just as Ey mans car entered Alameda in the left lane crashing into the stopped car headon Damage to the Plymouth was estimated at The sheriffs car was only slightly On labors own front he said its leaders have the responsibility of holding the gains that labor has them against a spirit of reaction that is using the election results of last fall to get back in the saddle again BUT HE also told they had a greater responsibility that of acting not just as the repre of a particular group but as leaders in promoting the welfare and progress of the whole This means he said that labor must act to keep the unions free of corruption and commu nism the way George Meany AFL president and Walter Reu ther CIO president are doing It means that the branches of labor ought to work together work in greater unity for a com mon I am glad to see that your leaders are doing just that Truman praised the Wagner act as the Magna Charta of labors rights and said IWAS IX the senate when congress passed that law and I am proud to say I voted for it I was in the White House when the first attempt was made to cripple that law and 1 vetoed that effort But the Republican SOth congress tried it again And they overrode my veto and put the law on the books The law is a bad law and during the last there was a promise made by the Republican candidate thatll was going to be amended in a way that would correct its injustices But 1 havent read of anything being done along that Ive been reading the record Sec Labor Page 2 Ike Dulles Hold Meet Eis and Secretary oE State John Foster Dulles today tackled a docket of major foreign policy problems Indochina o Germany The importance of the business chief and his stale secretary was indicated by the fact it had to be conducted oh a holiday Dulles arrived here last night aboard an air force plane put at his disposal for the trip and started his conference with the President today Ive got a docket of aboul 10 to discuss wilh the dent Dulles his ar rival at Traffic Kills 287 So Far National Safety Council Estimate Of 440 Motoring Fatalities Nears By Associated Tress At least 396 persons have died in accidents in the 78 labor day week end as the holiday period moved into its final 12 hours Traffic mishaps claimed 287 lives Fortyone persons were drowned and 68 died of miscellaneous accidental Missing PWs To Be Listed U N To Ask Reds For Men freed on the final day of Operation Big Switch boarded a troopship for home today while fears mounted that the Communists had not sent back all Americans who wanted to return The UNT command prepared the Communists a list of missing persons men like Capt Harold Fischer of Swea City Iowa FISCHER a sabre jet pilot shot down 10 MIGs before failing to return from a mission over North Korea on Apr 7 1953 Two days later Peiping radio said Fischer had been captured Ye the big Korean war prisoner exchange ended Sunday and Fischer was not among the 111 Americans freed For three years allied intelli gence officers have compiled a list of men believed to have been captured Operation Big Switch re turned 3597 Americans Oper ation Little Switch in April re turned 149 Some Americans died in camp The list minus the names of all those men will be handed the Communists shortly with the de mand that they produce or ac count for the missing men THE group of returned Americans added a bitter finale to a month of stories of brutality in Red stockades These were fliers who under relentless physical and mental tortures signed false confes sions that they waged germ war fare They said they did so under a strain that buckled human en durance Some held out for months but the Reds continued their tortures even after the armi stice Sec Communists Page 3 Hot Days Still Ahead This is my September Little children get along School begins and I am glad What a summer I have had mi No it isnt your imagination really is hot today and the weatherman forecasts more of the same for the opening of the school year tomorrow Ami by tomorrow those high clouds may develop into some show ers in the mountain areas Local highs yesterday were 105 at the university and 102 at the weather bureau their lows were respectively CO and 71 Gila Bend tied with Indio Calif at 109 to take top honors in the nations heat slakes Statewide ex were Phoenix 10574 Douglas 9759 Yuma 10874 Grand Canyon 8150 and Flag staff 8042 THK NATIONAL Safety coun cil had estimated before the holi day began that 440 persons would die in traffic mishaps during the 78 hours between 0 pm Friday and midnight Monday The coun cil forecast was slightly more than five deaths an hour The average was maintained the first day of the period then it dropped off a little Yesterday with rain in the midwest and in some other sections of the coun try the pace quickened Then later it fell behind the council estimate again Ned H Dearborn council dent said he expected the pre holiday estimate would be reached and probably exceeded after travelers slarl on their ways home Inclement weather will play an important part as always Dearborn said LAST Labor day holi day period claimed 558 lives in 432 in traffic mishaps The record for this holiday was set in 1951 when persons died in accidents of all kinds In that year persons were victims of traffic accidents also a record for the holiday Here is the total with traffic drowning mis deaths in that order Alabama 501 Arizona 310 201 California 11 4 4 Colorado 501 Connecticut 100 Delaware 0 0 0 Florida 8 2 0 Georgia G 2 0 Idaho 000 Illinois 15 1 18 Indiana 11 0 2 Iowa 7 0 2 Kansas 2 2 0 Kentucky 610 Louisiana 510 Maine 3 0 0 Mary land 12 4 0 Massachusetts 3 1 1 Michigan 15 5 1 Minnesota 300 Mississippi 200 Missouri 2 1 1 Montana 102 Nebraska 400 Nevada 000 New Hampshire 200 New Jersey 311 New Mexico i 0 0 New York 19 1 5 North Carolina 11 4 0 North Da kota 000 Ohio 21 1 1 Oklahoma 7 0 Oregon 911 Pennsylvania S 2 9 Rhode Island 121 South Carolina 3 0 0 South Dakota 2 0 0 Tennessee 6 0 1 Texas 11 0 3 Utah 100 Vermont 3 0 1 Virginia 1111 Washington 700 West Virginia 421 Wisconsin 815 Wyoming 501 Chicago Fire Kills 14 per sons including seven children died today when a fire flashed through an old build ing in a congested section of the south side Two buildings on either side of the structure also were hit by the fire but not as severely FIRE OFFICIALS said they ex to find more bodies under The taller building at S State St housed an estimated 75 persons and possibly more police said The residents of the other two buildings a struc ture at 3014 and a building at 3618 S State St to taled 75 additional persons Forty pieces of firefighting equipment fought the extra alarm blaze which reportedly in the rear of a business estab at 3010 S State st The neighborhood Is heavily populat ed by Negroes Tucson Tonight Tomorrow This is Tucson Cowboys Appreciation night with fes preceding the baseball game at Hi Corbett field Open to the public TONIGHT 5 leaves Santa Rita hotel for Hi Corbett field in honor of the Tucson Cowboys Pregame program Cowboys vs Phoenix Senators Final game of the summer at Hi Corbett field TOMORROW 10 AMTO 5 exhib its open to the public without charge at Desert museum in Tucson mountain park near Old Tucson Books discus sion at Congregational church N Second ave Dr John D Ellis discussion of Horn ers Odyssey No charge Index Eisenhower lauds lot of workers Page 2 Nogales bull fight misses fire Page 6 Phoenix father ad mits mercy killing Page 11 The Dog of the Week Page 18 finds stand of rare trees Page 24 Ariz Album 10 Hallo 20 Comics 19 Meetings 9 Crossword 19 Radio TV 18 Editorials 10 Sports 15 16 Films 17 Womens 12 13
