Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - December 3, 1959, Waterloo, Iowa Ntw RMd in Then FIRST WITH THE FRIDAY'S cloudy Complete NEWS ESTABLISHED WATERLOO IOWA THURSDAY DECEMBER 3 FORTY PAGES FRIGE SEVEN CENTS Officers Revolt In Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO AP air force of- seized several air force planes and reportedly jacked a ger liner Thursday in a revolt against President Kubitschek The civilian plane a Con- belonging to do Brasil had 38 passengers and a crew of 6 aboard for a flight from Rio to Belem The plane left Rio last night at midnight and was due at its destination on the mouth of the Amazon at 6 a m FIRST MESSAGES from there suggested the plane had crashed 20 minutes before the scheduled landing time But the air force later said air force men connected with the revolt managed somehow to drive the plane off course to the town of Aragarcas dreds of miles off course The passengers and crew were put off and the plane seized an air force spokesman said Three and perhaps four air force planes were reported earlier to have been seized and flown off to the north with the revolt THE SPOKESMAN said two small planes approached the passenger plane and forced it to turn west They drove it to an emergency landing field deep in the jungle The passengers and crew members were forced to de- scend from the plane and crewmen from the light planes took the big plane off from the field The scene of the currence is miles west of Belem The though safe were oit of contact with of- The scanty report of the incident was given through the tion system of the central Foundation a government agency The on Minister Henrique Teixeira FIREMEN BATTLE FLAMES EQUIPMENT AT RIGHT IS BURNED Courier Photo FCC Orders All Stations V To Report on Payola WASHINGTON AP The Federal ing out of investigations into rigged TV quiz shows Lott conferred with figures placed Lott in charge of the GOVERNMENT sources compared the flight to the pocket revolution in shortly after Kubitschek took office when an Air For major captain and sergeant seized an emergency air strip in the Amazon basin and took control of the town of They held out for 13 days before capitulating and were granted amnesty Placing Lott in control of national defense Kubitschek said I will not tolerate one minute of disorder COLLISIONS IN FOG SOUTH AMBOY N J Some 3b cars collided in a ries of separate accidents on the fogbound Garden State Parkway Thursday More than 20 people were injured in the pileups tions Commission ments to Jockeys day ordered every ing station in the country to report promptly whether any payola practice has figured in its operations during the past year The directive went out to stations It covers both commercial and educational outlets in the standard radio and television fields The FCC order in several court cases FTC sources said privately that action was likely against several record firms under a stations file sworn ments not later than Jan 4 covering station operations since Nov 1 1958 Payola is a term covering payments for promoting ords the object of Thursday's order is to trace down the sneaky commercials plugs on the air which are paid for but not so identified OFFICIALS noted that the Federal Communications Act specifically requires that all matter put on the air for which a remuneration has been paid to anyone must be identified as a commercial Penalties for violations could range from a sion reprimand to a license re- vocation proceeding In tion the Communications Ac provides for criminal penalties up to fine or one year or both for willful violations of any of its sections The new FCC action Anchor Up a Big One flW if WM far hours I wai i A 111 A ClU precedes VCI 1 U O section of the act which bans f hearings the FCC will arid unfair trade Monday on its powers to they did not name t late the content of companies programs r to End a ANOTHER AGENCY the 1 Federal Trade Commission is making an extensive tion of alleged payoffs by cording companies to disc to their ords Plugs On Shows NEW Starting the Columbia Broadcast 5 FTC Chairman Earl W System will eliminate from ner said investigators are ing on possible violations of shows commercials advertising products other than law by record firms in payments made to television The ban latest CBS radio disc jockeys Several tions of the country are being checked he said naming move strikes at a but profitable practice of charging manufacturers York Philadelphia having their products used and Chicago as among show prizes KINTNER SAID NEW RULE issued bribery has been by Joseph H Ream as a violation of the FTC vice president in charge standards and practices IOWAN that all prizes be paid LOS ANGELES OB out of a budget mond R Remboldt of the barred are free plugs University of Iowa was airlines and other stalled here Wednesday as facilities ident of the American new rule is also expected for Cerebral Palsy for the stop television ing year Dr George W N using their programs to gers of the University of other commercial was named president-elect in which they have an assume office next to Porte Fire Loss Is County Road Equipment Destroyed By MCDONALD Courier Staff Writer LA PORTE of undetermined origin swept a county tenance building here early Thursday causing an mated damage to the building and Jts contents French Riviera Dam Collapses Fear 300 Perish Massive Torrent Smashes Valley FREJUS France AP is Forty-nine A massive torrent released the thundering collapse of a dam left a sluice of -Destroyed maintainers a snow plow were two road two trucks and Gross Rips Hiring Defense Dept Advisers Courier Washington Bureau H R Gross plans to question Defense Department officials sharply what he considers the malpractice of ing firms to guide within that de- THE FLAMES leveled the building but volunteer men were able to prevent damage to a storage building next door and a grain elevator across the street Fire Chief Bruce Kline saic two or three grass fires were started near a bottled ga plant several blocks from the scene of the blaze by flying embers The grass fires were extinguished without mishap Kline said the alarm was turned in at about a m and when firemen arrived the roof had been practically con- Flames leaped as high as the nearby grain elevator on several occasions he said A number of explosions curred during the peak of the death silt and destruction Thursday along the rich an River Valley in the French At least 184 persons are lead and 160 missing estimates said the final oil would reach 300 j MILLIONS OF TONS of wa- er backed up behind the oot high Dam by ive days of heavy rain were upon the peacefully leeping farm valley ay night The water smashed uprooted trees rolled ver trucks derailed trains nd broke telegraph and tele- poles Hours rescuers be- an arriving and the waters into the full range of disaster apparent The mile wide valley 15 miles of Cannes was a canal of wreckage and lit The rushing waters partly this town of was founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C and was one the landing points in the Allied invasion of southern France in 1944 THE OLD ROMAN theater the town's main ist attraction was under wa- ter Lines of bodies lay in the morgues of Frejus and by towns Pierre Seraud watchman at the dam was picked up with his wife by helicopter day morning lion cubic meters of water nearly 10 billion gallons broke one blow carrying everything with it My wife arid L were able to get to high ground where we spent a rible night i Many bodies were ered in a sea of mud in Frejus FIFTEEN PERSONS in- two children clung to a shuddering old mill through the night and were saved before the building collapsed The French aircraft carrier Lafayette formerly the USS Langley served as a floating hospital and flight deck for 15 rescue helicopters The U S Air Force offered to parachute aid if necessary Top French officials rushed to the scene to assess the need for relief The navy prepared initially to feed Army engineers people loaded ment on boats to get emergency housing started The French WHERE DAM BROKE Gross a member of a House civil service subcommittee in- manpower castigated the Defense Department for hiring a ian firm for to and recommend the closing of thex Army's San Jacinto nance depot near Houston Texas Gross is opposed to the depot's closing as is the Army Race Through Your Shopping Like A Reindeer Spread before you in the Classified ads is Time gift guide column ply wonderful suggestions for what to give the family friends relatives What an easy modern method of checking names off your list with ideas like CHRISTMAS CEDAR Book Start HOUSE OT PIPES TOBACCOS NATIONAL Store ill M 17 M AD II Days Until IN TESTIMONY day Gross revealed that the depot's million worth of ammunition is apparently be- ing disposed of by towing it into the Gulf of Mexico and sinking it He said a recent newspaper story of the cap- sizing of an laden tug the Gulf con- him of this In ings before the House Armed Services committee last May the Congressmen were told there was no storage room for the ammunition unless er million depot was built to replace San Jacinto Gross specific complaint was that of De- fense Neil McElroy relied on an outside civilian firm er than on his own generals and colonels to learn whether the San Jacinto depot should be closed It is becoming altogether too much of a fix policy in government today to go out and hire people to tell those in the government what they ought to said Gross THE GOVERNMENT he in- listed can't operate both ways Either it gets rid of those civilians the officers in the Army Ordnance department said Gross or the government supplants its nance men and we go into this business exclusively of hiring outside management firms to tell the Army what to fire apparently when fuel tanks were ignited This comes at a bad time for said county highway engineer Joe Scheel of Castle Hill The need for such ment for snow removal tions is always time of year with us this SCHEEL SAID in the event of a heavy snow in the Porte from City area equipment other maintenance buildings in the county would have to be utilized The La Porte City quarters services the ships of Big Creek Spring Creek and Cedar Scheel said value of the maintainers is estimated at roughly each the two trucks about and 500 and the plow to The building was a wooden structure with a sheet metal covering and was It was lumber about 40 by 54 feet formerly used as a shed Cost of replacing the ing was estimated at to GENERAL DIES WASHINGTON Brig Gen Adam Richmond TO who retired from the 1947 after 30 years service died Tuesday Richmond served as judge advocate general in the Mediterranean area in World War H About 9 o'clock I heard a terrific he said I screamed to my wife We must save ourselves the dam Pleads Guilty To Embezzling DES Duane A Imrie 32 vice president of the First Federal Savings and Loan Co Council Bluffs pleaded guilty in U S District Court Thursday to a charge of embezzlement Judge Robert Van Pelt of Lincoln Neb set the time for sentencing at a m Jan 18 He fixed bond at Imrie was charged With willfully embezzling and con- to his own use 244 between Jan 20 1955 and Oct 6 1959 Sfeel Firms Hint New Offer Possible WASHINGTON steel industry's chief negotiator indicated Thursday the industry wouldn't necessarily stand pat on its latest offer to the union for a contract agreement Asked by newsmen whether the current industry radio appealed for money for relief The navy prowled the shore of the Mediterranean which is strewn for miles with wreckage seeking survivors It was feared many victims had been washed out to sea THE DISASTER disrupted rail and telephone traffic throughout southern France The coastal rail line was swept morn than a mile from its roadbed the 22-foot thick dam wai erected for irrigation six year ago THERE IS nothing said a rescue worker The neighboring farms were carried away with their occupants The road which led to the dam through the valley is no longer passable Everything has been swept away and what remains is covered with mud A policeman was decapitated by the blades of a rescue copter he was directing to a landing Although the valley is set in the midst of the luxurious Riviera vacationland it has been mostly inhabited farmers and by fishermen ing along the rocky coast It was seldom visited by ists Terrified families were swept downstream struggling to stay together Many had just gone to bed when the flood struck One woman floated seven hours on her bedroom dresser An old man walking his swept away in a ond THE HOSPITAL at luckily on high ground was jammed with injured and suffering from shock and exposure The morgue at the hospital was lined with bodies No help was available for the immediately villages Michigan Senate Passes New Tax Program LANSING Mich A 34 million dollar emergency tax package was pushed through the Michigan Senate day night in a new move to Dring needed revenue into the state's depleted treasury The package would increase state taxes on liquor beer and cigarets and tele- phone calls The Michigan Bouse of Representatives is expected to vote on the plan next week SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS November Coldest Ever This Year The weather bureau has confirmed what many persons November was the coldest in 1959 that it has ever been in recorded history here going back to 1895 Story on page 7 Cedar Classified 37 38 Comics 35 Considine Feature Fare 24 Northeast Iowa 13 Radio 23 Television Schedule 35 Theaters 24 Women's Pages 14 15 18 posal is its final one R Con- rad Cooper This is the offer we think is the proper one that should be accepted COOPER TALKED briefly with he was en- tering a new session with mediators To a tion as to whether he was op- Cooper a U S Steel executive I am always hopeful I wouldn't use the word op- In sum Cooper's remarks seemed to leave the door open for a possible new industry offer sometime before the in- last offer is to be submitted to the steelworkers in a poll in mid-January unless there is an agreement meantime THE CURRENT proposal calls for a three-year contract with gains ued by the industry at 30 cents an hour and by the union at 24 cents per hour Latest available government earnings for steelworkers show an-hour including overtime and premiums During present government mediation efforts Union dent David J McDonald has contended the industry was taking an inflexible position that left no room for real negotiation stream It took many hours to get the first rescue teams there found survivors often wandering in dazed lence Frejus about four miles be- low the dam suffered less than the isolated villages up the ley It was feared no houses were left standing along the upper reaches of the river The water was six feet deep when it reached the town Upstream it may have towered 40 feet in narrow stretches of the ley The dam was sorely strained after the heavy rains The ways were Wednesday opened wider only after a helicopter survey warned engineers of im- pending danger But at p m the dam burst Cat Nipped in Trap Associated The combination of the paw of Gloria the eat and a machine in a New York butcher shop made a howling success of this picture Wednesday machine age wai juit too much for Gloria and she let her paw stray into the machine which became a trap Police an ASPCA agent and what tools were at hand took half an hour to release Gloria who wat no stoic Her phony of and yowls to tht beat of the hammer and chisel
