Winona Daily News, The (Newspaper) - June 1, 1954, Winona, Minnesota Colder Showers Wednesday Afternoon or Evening THE Formerly The Winona In Our 99th Year of Publication Chiefs vs. Lea Gabrych Park Wednesday VOLUMI 98, NO. 162 SIX CENTS COPY uar ne TUESDAY JUNE 1, 1954 Crash at Duluth Kill Howard Nance returned to his farm home day at to find it cracked open by a Scores of cattle and other stock were buried under flattened barns and farm A short time the storm tore a path across Ft. knocking down twisting roofs and flattening hundreds of the city's giant elm No one was reported to have been seriously Child Killed in Attack By Hixton Dog Coroner Terms Wounds Wis A black labrador dog re- bread from the hand of a 4-year-old Monday morning went suddenly berserk and fatally slashed and the child before her horrified parents could tear her from the dog's Judith Ann daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver La died en route to the Black River Falls Hospital of a broken neck and fractured Dr. Robert Black River is the first time in my practice that I have seen a fatality from a dog ney Jackson ty described 'the child's wounds as worst I have ever just The child's mother and grand- Mrs. Evan at whose farm the attack are both under a physician's care for severe No Witnesses There were no witnesses to the dog's The dog was chained to a ing hundred from the Hegge home two miles west of At a.m. Judith Ann told her parents she was going to give the dog some She went outside and moments later the Sagens and Mrs. Hegge heard They rushed to the child too late to save her from the infuriated No explanation was offered for the animal's The parents said the owned by and Mrs. William had been friendly and playful the child on many The are aunt and uncle of the dead Dr. Krohn when the child offered the bread to the dog he may have nipped her That taste of blood may have set him off. Something made the dog go Jensen called Jackson County Sheriff Paul Cooper to pick up the dog and take him to veterinarian Dr. Ben Shlimovitz at Black River HOLIDAY DEATH 18 in 25 in Wisconsin ver U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The nation's violent death toll over the extended Memorial Day holiday mounted past the 500 mark Traffic as the In other 1 be Tests for rabies will made and the dog Dr. Krohn said there have been or three dog bite cases a week for the last several He said many of the cases ed involve Sitter Judith Ann is survived by her a a her maternal grand- and her paternal Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Funeral services will .be held at p.m. the sen Funeral and at p.m. at the Pigeon eran the B. will be in the church Friends may at the Jensen Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Judith Ana was born at hall Community Hospital May 26, 1950. State Liquor Tax Receipts Decline ST. PAUL Wl Val state reported today that liquor tax receipts in May dropped more than under the cor- responding month of 1353. The May collections totaled There were at least 345 persons killed in auto accidents from 6 D. m. Friday until midnight The death toll on the highway was more than 100 above the num. TODAY Two New Russian Defections By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Two more viet secret agents of the highest rank have recently and are now telling their stories to the American intelligence The names and identities of the defectors have quite properly been It is that they were key gures in the Kremlin's espionage net in They are said to have worked in two of the great centers of European Vienna and but this has not been The meaning of the news is far greater than may appear on the There is much more to these defections than mere spy with mingled overtones of E. Phillips Oppenheim aud George To grasp consider how Washington would react if half 'a dozen officials of the Central In- including at least three in top should suddenly defect to the It would then have to be assumed that the whole American gence system had been and that many vital can secrets had fallen Soviet The those which are already just that kind of The two whose whereabouts are a closely guarded are understood to have occupied posts at least and probably super- ior to that of Yuri who led the parade in was Second Secretary in the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo for lic It can now be that he had ministerial rank in the Soviet intelligence ber in auto mishaps over a comparative period of time two weeks earlier and topped the 340 estimated by the National Safety Council in a In addition to traffic 86 persons lost their lives by ing and 70 others were killed in accidents of miscellaneous In the two-day holiday last 501 were The record rial Day death toll of 571 in a four-day period was set in 1950, This year's traffic toll was near the record of 363 in the three-day Memorial Day holiday of 1952. An Associated Press survey of violent deaths was taken from 6 p.m. May 14 to midnight May 17, the same time as the rial Day and showed a total of 243 traffic 50 drownings and 66 miscellaneous deaths for a total of 359, Minnesota Toll 18 for Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesota recorded 18 violent deaths over the long Memorial Day nine of them killed when a National Guard transport plane crashed into a gravel near Until that shortly before the state had reported but five traffic only half the death figure predicted by highway department for the ex- tended There were also four Latest motor victim was infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn who died in a St. Paul hospital after a car collision on Page Column 5.) DEATH TOLL New new added to ice. The other known are the somewhat lower ranking en Page 1, Column Cohn Denies He Asked Army Give Schine Post Disputes Testimony Of Sec. Stevens and Counselor Adams WASHINGTON M. Cohn denied ever asking that Pvt. G. David Schine be assigned to the New York mony from both Secretary of the Army Stevens and Army or John Cohn insisted Adams was in declaring that Cohn exerted extreme pressure to get a New York assignment for chief counsel for the Carthy Investigating was on the stand for more cross-examination in the 24th day of the Special Counsel Ray H. Jenkins recalled testimony that from Nov. 18 to Dec. 8, Cohn re- tried to get Schine signed to the New York Pressure Charged wealthy young New had been a McCarthy consultant before he was drafted into the Army Nov. 3. The Army accusee McCarthy and Cohn of improper pressure for favors for The McCarthy camp the Army used Schine to try to the sub- committee Into dropping Its of the Jenkins wanted to know If testimony about the Nov. 18-Dec. 8 period was or Cohn declined to use either but he was McCarthy sub- committee counsel said status was discussed only during that Cobn said Adams at that time never in- he felt he was being abused about Cohn from bis ory of his conversations with reasonable say Adams had been Presses far Answer Jenkins pressed for a or answer as to whether Cohn wanted Schine assigned to the New York area after Schine completed his eight weeks basic training at Ft. N.J. Cohn first said that couldn't be answered yes or but later out with a He added that the subcommittee wanted Schine available for some important subcommittee when that would not interfere with it was up to the Army to decide what ar- rangement could be worked Cohn also denied a charge by Adams that the McCarthy shifted its hearings from New York to Washington on Dec. 8-9 because a newspaper strike in New York City would prevent the subcommittee from getting Cohn put in the record a note he said had been handed him saying the strike was not under way on Dec. 8-9. The strike ended Dec. 9. Draws Rebuke McCarthy broke in to say if there was anything improper about shifting was the man at McCarthy said he would be glad explain why the hearings were held This drew a rebuke from man Mundt who declared testimony should be interrupted only for points of or points of personal and statement by the senator from Wisconsin was Nine Persons died late Monday when this a Air tional Guard crashed two miles northwest of Threa of five survivors are in critical French Speed Defense Plans For Hanoi Delta By LARRY ALLEN The French speeded plans in the Choben Valley today as lation spread that four Vietminh divisions knifing toward the Red River Delta from Dien Bien Phu planned to hit that sector For the past week the French have been mopping up shadow infiltrating into the area 40 miles southwest of Some French sources estimated the my's main striking force could reach the valley on the Black River in about four French Army sources in Saigon said a fifth rebel division which took part in the Dien Bien Phu capture the 351st Artillery already has reached its base 45 miles northwest of The other four divisions 304, 312, 308 and 316 are moving along a mountain rotate which the French are bombing daily with American supplied Bearcats and Corsair fighter These units are expected to reach their basos in about a The French continued other up operations inside the Monday they reported 52 Vietminh killed and 16 captured in scattered Truax Flier Killed In Madison Crash First Lt. Richard H. 26, Grosse was when hit Scorpion jet crashed and in a 200- yards from state highway 51 near based at Truax Field was alone .in the He hid taken off from the base only two minutes be- crash which occurred in a his wife and In- fant daughter lived in Typical Of The Thousands of Memorial Day services was the one held Albert 107, sole survivor of the Union pauses as members of the 16th Corps fired a volley over the in in the Forest Hills tery at A soaking rain failed to dampen the Memorial Day spirit of the old v Survivor Crawls Out of Wreckage M. Sgt. lay on the floor of the shattered feeling as blood seeped down face happened so fast and the plane was so dark and quiet crash that didn't knew what to do be cras one of the survivors of the crash of the Ait National Guard plane here Monday folded his hands behind his v at St. Hospital and recited Central Counting May Last a Week By ED MORSE N. Y. UB A narrow margin of victory in the war for control of the mighty New York Central Railroad seemed likely day along with the prospect that the count of millions of proxies would last into next The shroud of official secrecy that has cloaked the labors of 40 persons engaged in tabulating the proxies was to be lifted at 11 when three law acting as election scheduled their first report since last Wednesday's tumultuous an- Indications were that their re- port would leave nobody any the wiser as to whether Financier Robert R. opposition or William Central will win mastery of the world's second largest privately owned rail After the raucous goings-on at the meeting last the general feeling in Albany was that Young had Talk around Albany over the was to this is getting It learned that the 40 workers had been told to expect a longer They've already been given next Sunday off from work and their hours have been cut from 10 to 8 hours a WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST Winona and Vicinity Clearing and colder Wednesday partly cloudy with local showers likely by late afternoon or at night A little warmer LOCAL WEATHER Official for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. 73; 49; 73; Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. 82; 59; 76; Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. 78; 48; 58; trace; sun sets tonight at sun rises morrow at AIRPORT WEATHER Central Max. temp. 76 at p.m. Low 51 degrees at a.m. Noon 57, wind from the at 15 overcast at 15 eter at humidity 66 per cent. events of a near incredible all knew we were coining in in fact we joked about he guy cracked that least we're close enough to walk None Seemed Worried of the others seemed ried about but I bad a funny feeling when we banked over the highway and a car seemed so close I could almost touch The muscular 33, spoke softly but pausing now and then to feel the head bandages that covered cuts and fog seemed pretty the worst I ever landed in. Then came around and I heard that crashing All hell broke it was it was all and I didn't hear one moving I was afraid of a and my first thought was to get out of Crawls Through Hole The married and the father of two said be yelled to before ing through a gaping hole near the plane's forward A long time M. Sgt. Earl answered him and the two fell exhausted to the grass after leaving the said they decided to stick together and search for they struggled to a highway and then to the house of Mrs. sell Mrs. Westberg and two relatives returned to the bouse after an un- successful search for the plane in time to see the two airmen in the concealed the emotions that must have been tumbling through Some of his best friends died in the was one of the List of Dead And Injured Minn. is the list of the dead and injured in the transport plane crash day Maj. Frederick A. Kemp 36, pilot Capt. Victor 33, co-pilot Col. C. about 55, retired 125th Field Artillery com- mander Capt. William Chisholm C. 31, Lt. John 24, Duluth Elmer 33, Duluth Allen luth Charles 23, and his James 21, both of Duluth Critically all of George 32 Donald E. 24 William 24 Treated for minor both of Earl 35 William 3) Transport Scrapes Hits Gravel Pit By JIM KLOBUCHAR Minn. The death count mounted to nine today in the crash of an Air National Guard transport one mile from the Duluth Municipal Airport day Five bodies were from the broken remnants oi the gined craft and four other airmen died en route to hospitals or shortly after being Latest to die early today S. Sgt. Allen Five were one Two who almost miraculously walked away from the wreck to summon help were described in good The piloted by World War H and Korean erick A. Kemp 34, wai on a return flight from apolis where most of the pants had witnessed the Speedway Race Thunderous Roar Kemp and Capt. Victor 32, the were killed when the im- pact crushed the plane's A huge hole torn in the mid- section and parachutes and tronic equipment were strewn about the twisted Mrs. Russell who a short distance from the lined pit where the trans- port said she heard a thunderous roar that shook her house as the plane passed was an awful then Mrs. Westberg her sister and brother-in-law cled the area in a car for several minutes seeking the downed Unable to find the they returned home and in the way saw two dazed survivors M Earl Sugars and M. Sgt. William One of them been a crash iback and told Mrs. berg to summon Mrs. Westberg said Sugars looked and She gave him some coffee and aspirin while they awaited Lt. Col. Ralph M. com- mander of the 179th Fighter In- squadron to which but two of the 14 aboard were said Kemp the runway on a first landing attempt and radioed the control tower that be could see the runway and would circle for another Wing Touches Ground Jerome said the plane's right wing apparently scraped the ground as Kemp banked and the ship plowed through the He said the plane originally to have stopped at Minneapolis be- cause of threatening weather 1 Near Kemp was in- formed by radio from Duluth that the airport there was clear instrument Jerome The crash came about with a ceiling of 500 feet and bility of four Jerome described the to Indianapolis and back as a tine and maintenance He said the airmen agreed to take the flight this week instead of next week in order to see the auto
