Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - March 22, 1955, Waterloo, Iowa New Read in More Hornet in Northeast Iowa FIRST WITH THE NEWS I Complete weather forecast I ESTABLISHED 1858 WATERLOO IOWA TUESDAY MARCH 22 1955 TWENTY-EIGHT PRICE SIX CENTS 66 DIE NAVY PLANE Ike Won't Talk With Reds Opposes Top Level Conference Wants Evidence of Soviet Good Faith Before Meeting WASHINGTON AP Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday dent Eisenhower is opposed to a top level conference ot the Western Powers with Russia at this time After the regular weekly ing of GOP leaders with the President Sen Knowland Calif told newsmen that hower still 1 There must be some specific evidence of Soviet good faith be- fore he would be willing to meet with Russia's Premier Bulganin 2 Such a conference should not tuke place in any event until afler the Paris agreements been ratified The agreements provide for arming West many Discuss George Proposal Tax Study Group OK by House Remove Senate Restrictions on Personnel By WILLIAM D Courier Staff Writer DES MOINES The Iowa House Tuesday ap proved a Senate resolution creating a tax study commit tee but not until it had re moved Senate restrictions on the personnel The Senate had limited mem on the 12 man commit tee to four pointed by the speaker of th House four senators appointee by the president of the Senate and two each house to be their regular weekly meeting with President Eisenhower GOP leaders Sen William Knowland and Rep Joseph Martin right tell men Tuesday the Chief Executive is opposed at this time to a top level conference of the Western powers Russia At left is Associated Press reporter Marvin In the the Senate GOP floor ground is Murray Snyder a presidential press secretary AP leader and House Republican Confesses Killing Children Wife the governor version permits and House Leader Martin Mass reported I ho President is opposed on these grounds to the proposal by Sen George chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations tee a top level conference of trie major powers as soon as Knowland George posal was discussed at the session with the GOP ers Eisenhower has made it clear repeatedly Knowland added that he feels there should be no ing of the heads of state of the major powers until the Soviet shows by deeds rather than words that it is sincere about trying to ease international tensions No Such Red Steps Knowland recalled that hower has said several times that the Soviet government could good faith by such steps as agreement on an Austrian peace treaty unification of many of Korea So far Knowland added there has been no on the part the Soviet Government of any willingness to take such steps Knowland said he wanted to make it clear that the President and the rest of the administration feel George has every right to his opinion But George's position land declared is not the view of the government at this time A newsman told Knowland that the senator seemed to be gesting that the President be thinking about a top level con ference sometime in the future Linked to Formosa Knowland replied he had nol meant to convey that impression by using the phrase at this time Nobody knows said what the next year the next five or the next 10 years may bring George lias linked his call for m big power conference with the Formosa situation George chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee said in an interview he fears the Chinese Communists soon may at lack outposts of the Chinese Na bastion I believe if Russia thought sh could get a the big powers she would do her best t restrain the Red Georg He has expressed in the pas some doubt about Moscow's abil ity to control Peiping's actions George made it clear he spok for himself alone in proposing meeting with the heads of th major nations without advance conditions sians on the Rus Marine Attack Follows Blast of Atomic Bomb LAS An atomic bomb with a oar that was heard 300 miles a Way and a punch that southern Nevada opened a dress rehearsal for time for calling a special session 11 1 1 1 f i 1 1 rl 1 wi i n appointed by The House the governor to appoint his four from either within or without the legislature Rep Earl Miller urged the House to lift the Senate restriction on the governor's appointees Defeat Fund Cut He asserted There are many people back home whom I feel qualified than I am to work on this problem I think owe it the governor to allow him wide discretion in his committee members The house also amended the senate resolution to reduce the McALESTER Bea T Galbraith 34 socially prominent McAlester is shown in happier times with his three children to Jere 5 Frank 7 Sarah Ann 4 Galbraith was charged with murder in the death of his wife Mary 35 The wife and three children were found dead in their blazing home last Thursday County Attorney James Whyte said Tuesday Galbraith has confessed he killed his wife and three children AP Churchill Hints He Tanker with Labor Unrest Jet Fuel Won't Retire Turns Back warfare Tuesday in the chill dawn of the Nevada esert The bomb sixth in the current series of nuclear weapons ests in Nevada was detonated on a steel tower with brilliant golden flash seen 500 miles away A lorce of marines surged nto the blasted areas in ers from a rendezvous 10 miles iway as soon as dangerous cleared for a mock at- ack on a mythical enemy ar- nored task force They were joined by 800 more who had watched he jolting blast from trenches 500 yards from the atomized ower Their was to attack wo sham enemy positions in the Yucca basin firing range cling them and destroying them n a two-day maneuver The bomb that paved the way or the assault which was by a force of 115 aircraft with a roar that rocked southern Nevada and was heard and felt as far away as Los An- geles 300 miles southwest of the est site DUCKS CAUSE CRASH BEDFORD ist jammed on brakes to avoid two ducks taking a spring stroll across Route 31 The A one driver exit and bruised dead duck Seen in San Francisco The flash seen clearly in both Los Angeles and San 500 miles northwest of the proving ground and was felt in he High Sierra town of Bishop 200 miles to the northwest In the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills one resident Bob Hill said he felt two shocks the first like a good size cannon four or five miles com- ing 27 minutes after he saw the flash A lesser shock followed sec later he said Observers in Las Vegas 70 miles south of the proving ground and on Angel's Peak about 50 airline miles away saic the explosion was one of the larg est of the current series Second Biggest Blast They said it appeared to haw been exceeded in potency only bj shot of this series a man-size tower blast unofficially to have the strength of 40.000 tons of TNT Minutes after the flask lighted the sky a shock wave into Las Vegas rattling window and dishes chande liers There no reports o damage however Residents of Henderson Nev an industrial suburb 15 mile southeast of Las Vegas report ed feeling a double shock wave and the same phenomenon was noted at Angel's Peak where the waves struck with two loud Wild Spring Storm Hits By the A wild spring snowstorm ashed the central section of the lation Tuesday Winds with gusts up to 40 churned the flakes into linding clouds in Chicago transportation was slowed there and motor vehicle traffic was to a cautious crawl Chicago's Midway Airport was closed temporarily A fall of three inches was precast for Chicago but it came after a freezing rain had put a dangerous coating on the streets The snow piled up in most of Illinois The fall measured lour inches at Peoria five at Quincy and eight at Moline A wave of freezing cold moved in behind the the second day of spring Iowa Roads Slippery Additional snow ranging from iwo inches at Ottumwa inches in the area fell in Monday night and ended Tuesday ing Strong northerly winds which swept the state caused erable drifting The Highway Patrol said roads were ice and throughout most of the state Cold weather which entered northwest Iowa Monday into the eastern sector Monday night Lows ranged from 1 be- low zero at Sioux City to 17 above at Ottumwa The Weather Bureau said new storm system was heading southeast from Canada Only light snow is expected system since the moisture supply is being ried with it from the Pacific Northwest and there will be no reinforcement by Gulf the Weather Bureau said warming trend to handle the committee's tax recommendations from GO days to days after the study com- makes its report The house also beat down an attempt to cut the propriation for the committee to Extend Sales Tax The resolution now goes back to the Senate for concurrence In the senate a to extend the state sales tax to beer and cigarets was passed day There was little debate on the measure LONDON Minister Winston jovially i Parliament Tuesday io avoid being led away by all the ter in the papers about his mored retirement Churchill's jocular comment did not still a widely leld belief that his retirement is Flares Up Across U.S The now House It would The aging remark was prime made in minister's an goes to the add a penny to the cost of a pack of cigarets and to the price of a bottle of beer Senator Knudson Lake said the was offered by the Ways and Means Com- as part of its effort to in- crease state revenue without imposing new taxes on any more necessities than we had to He estimated the would produce about to additional revenue Passed to Consumer Senator Dewel asked whether the tax on beer and cigarets would be passed on the consumer said application of change with former Socialist Defense Minister Emanuel well intervened ing a question on whether Churchill would follow the American lead and appoint a disarmament minister Shinwell In fact will the right gentleman Churchill have much further opportunity to appoint Churchill wiped his chin for a long moment with a flowing white handkerchief pulled from his breast pocket Then eyes twinkling he re- right honorable man Shinwell really must no be led away by all the chatter in the papers The exchange came as Chur chill took the floor for wha may be one of his last major debates See TAXES Continued on page 2 col APPROVE FERGUSON WASHINGTON INS Th Senate unanimously Tuesday President Eisenhower nomination of former Sen as U S ambassador to the Philip pines End 2 Days of Terror in Cave Under Busy Street NEW YORK Two and one-half days oE terra ended for three Tuesday when police dangling on ropes 150 feet above the rescued them from a cave under one of New York's streets The two girls and one boy explored the cave afternoon They were trapped until a m Tuesday without food or water in their dank prison HELSINKI Finland tanker A r u b a has back from its trip to Red China with tons of jet uel for the Communist air orce the Finnish Union said Tuesday The crew of the big tankei week against ning the Chinese Nationalist blockade and demanded the put into the port of Ceylon He refused and ordered the ship to sail vard as long as the men vork The crew members keeping h touch with their parent union n Helsinki by radio announced hey would sail only as far as he Nicobar Islands at the of the Malacca Strai leading to Singapore No Answer From The owners ship noti led Communist China of the action and asked for further in should the put into a neutral port for trans shipment of the cargo or coul the Communists load it another ship on the high seas Peiping did not answer anc Aruba's owners stopped th in the Indian Ocean am ordered it back to Constanza in Red Romania where the kero sene was first taken aboard The announcement by th Union ended a wav of speculation throughout th world as to the shipping com next move and Commit nist step A union spokesman in sinki said the order to the ba's captain to turn around was sent by the Finnish owners late Monday We know definitely that the Aruba has turned and is ing towards the Black the union spokesman said By United unrest flared across the Tuesday as a wildcat teel strike idled women operators slapped faces and pulled and shotgun Blasts ripped a lome There was no immediate sign ol i break in the south's widespread ail and telephone walkouts Aboul persons were affected On the West Coast Harry Bridges International lien's Union and the AFL Sailor Union of the Pacific both claimed lie job of unloading a hatch on the freighter Pacificus As a re- sult the hatch went unloaded and She Pacificus stayed tied to the San Pedro Calif dock Another dispute labeled a cat strike by union officials forced the sheet and tube mills of the Pittsburgh Steel Co at lenport Pa to close and idled persons Walkout Spreads Only 40 workers were involved at first but the walkout spread through the plants despite a order by David J ald president of the CIO United Steelworkers McDonald told officers of the Hits Side of Mountain in Hawaii No Survivors of 57 Passengers Crew of Nine HONOLULU A U S Navy transport plane with 36 aboard crashed into a Hawaiian mountain early Tuesday and the Navy an- there were no vors The big plane crashed and ex- into flame on a private estate only yards from the southeast gate of Lualualei Naval Ammunition Depot The scene was near Oahu's west coast 29 miles northwest of Honolulu At the time of the crash there was a low and it was raining heavily AP Correspondent Roy soyan the naval depot that the plane crashed about halfway up the side of the mountain said the wreckage still was glowing about three hours after the crash which came at 2 a m Carried 57 Passengers The plane carried 57 sengers and a crew of 9 the Navy reported The big transport took off from Hickam Field here late Monday and was 4 hours and 26 minutes eastbound when it turned back tiie Navy said five miles leard the crash and described it one big explosion like a He said the whole sky was red for an hour and a naif The in San Francisco said the turned a flight to the mainland because of radio trouble The transport a was loaded to its full in temperatures Tuesday was to be followed by a new surge of colder air late Wednesday and Thursday Weather They had spent more than 50 hours praying yelling selves hoarse to overhead on the Parkway and trying to dig their way out with their fingernails It was terribly dark and we just prayed and they said between bites on burgers brought by their ing officers Thank God you found us They owed their lives to the of detective who located the cave on a slim clue from one of the children's mates The adventuring trio year-old Jacqueline Jock Weber and Ronald Tevlin IS a stone cliff using in the to caves under the While the teenagers explored one of the caves with a ight dirt and rock shifted all but an opening too small to crawl through The girls were reported ing Monday afternoon by their father Detective Bob Herbstman be- gan questioning friends of the trio on the assumption that they were runaways One friend o the missing children mentioned the caves to Herbstman The dc investigated his slim leac and discovered the youngsters plight Improved Play System Sought for Riverview A program of recreation for Riverview las been approved by the ning committee of United ces Story on page 25 City in Brier 25 Classified Advertising 22 23 24 25 Considine Feature Fare Inside Markets USW Local 1187 it was an illegal work stoppage and employes should return to work at once and process your grievance through the regular channels At Laurel Miss two women strikers against the Southern Bell Telephone Co engaged in a pulling fight with a The women were fired alter the which was the second such incident in the CIO tion Workers strike against the company More Cables Cut Charges of sabotage continued and at Atlanta Ga telephone cables were shattered by gunfire cutting off service to 500 families The Miss Sine was also cut Negotiation sessions continued but neither side indicated about an early settlement violence erupted in All aboard were military personnel and two civilian ents Woman and Child William Joest a resident of the area said he heard the plane pass over his house too low for comfort Then came the crash The Air Force said that aboard besides the Navy crew were 17 Air Force 4 Navy 12 rines and 22 Army personnel plus a woman and child under 5 The latter two were military ents Capt J F La Spada executive officer of the Marine Barracks at the depot said he saw the plane just before it crashed and screamed It's going to hit the mountains The plane turned on its ing lights and the pilot ly saw the mountain he continued Tried to Bank He tried to bank but was too late It smacked right into the precipice about 200 feet from the top Clarence Hoe civilian employe at the depot said the plane sounded like it was just above the roof and when it hit it sounded like a hundred gasoline drums exploding Hoe one of the first to reach the scene He said it was impossible to get close to the plane because of the intense heat Hoe reported the plane's body was in one piece and had fallen into a gully The wings were broken off Cmdr J Smith of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier said the was an from the Moffett Naval Air Station near San Jose First Fatality Washington headquarters of cousin where the CIO united said the plane took off Auto Workers are waging a from Hickam Field Hawaii or prolonged strike against for Travis Air Force Base tor Kohter Co Bernard Daane who went to work for the strikebound firm three ago said two shotgun blasts were fired into his home at Sheboygan Falls Wis Northeast Iowa 7 Radio Sports IB 19 Television Uncle The south's rail walkout had so far avoided major violence but it virtually shut down the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and two subsidiaries and tied up rail com- throughout Dixie WALKS GIRDER TO U S DETROIT Jean Claude Simard 23 was rescued from a girder 80 feet above the traffic level of the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor Ont Simard was booked for Woman's 10 11 12 gal entry into tht United States Calif officials said that since January 1951 the Pacific division of MATS has carried over one million passengers antr crossed the Pacific over times without a passenger The crash of the Navy trans- port plane was the second ter to a big airliner this week On Sunday night 12 persons were killed and 23 injured when an American Airlines plane meted into a muddy field near Mo The world's worst air or 129 American servicemen 1 when a giant crashed and burst into It 1953 near Tokyo
