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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Tues., July 13, 1954
Hot Air Wave
Bakes Plains
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The biggest heat wave so far
this summer baked central sec
tions of the nation Tuesday with
little real relief in sight.
At least eight deaths were it-
tnbutcd to the heat.
The mercury zoomed to an un
official 121 degrees in Pittsburg,
Kans., Monday and plus-100-de-
gree readings were common
from the Rockies eastward to
the Great Lakes.
Local water shortages develop
ed in some communities from the
heat and lack of rainfall, but no
widespread crop damage has de
veloped yet.
In Kansas City, where the
temperature reached 109, so
many people turned on their air
conditioners that power lines be
came overloaded. The Kansas
City Power and Light Co. said
power use hit an all-time high
Monday night.
Midwest City, an Oklahoma
City suburb of 20,000, ran out of
water as 107-degree heat led to
record consumption. Officials
said shortages will occur daily
as long as the heat continues
These all-time high heat
records were set Monday:
Columbia, Mo., 113; Spring
field, Mo., 108; Rapid City, S. D.,
109; Dallas, Tex., llu.3; UKia
homa City, 107; and Casper,
Wvo.. 104.
The temperature reached 90
or above in all states except a
strip along the Atlantic coast
from the Carolinas to New Eng
land and in the northwest over
Washington.
Governors Argue
Ike's Road Plan
BOLTON LANDING, N. Y. W) Governors divided sharply Tues
day on how to carry out President Eisenhower's bold proposal for
a 50-billion-dollar transcontinental highway program.
Almost without exception, Republican and Democratic governors
agreed that the country needs a 10-year expansion of roads that ;
would shape up as one of the country s greatest permanent, nonwar
(Construction programs.
But there was a distinct feel
ing among leaders of the 46th
annual Governors Conference
here that the President had laid
down a challenge to them in the
historic controversy over state
and federal powers.
Against a backdrop of confer
ence demands that the federal
government get out of the road
building business, Vice President
Nixon put to the governors at
their annual state dinner Monday
night a presidential suggestion
for an interstate road program
designed to provide transport for
200 million Americans by 1970.
WAR NEED
Reading notes the President
had prepared for a speech which
Eisenhower canceled after the
death of a sister-in-law, Nixon
told the governors in the Presi
dent's words that the appalling
inadequacies of America's high
ways must be solved "to meet the
demands of catastrophe or de
fense should atomic war come."
Eisenhower suggested that the
governors study a proposal for
federal-state cooperation under
which Washington might "ad
vance funds or guarantee the ob
ligations of localities or states
which undertake to construct
new or modernize existing highways."
To some governors who had
been plugging for abolition of
federal gasoline and auto taxes
so the states could finance their
own road building, this sounded
not only like continuation of the
federal aid program but an ex
pansion of it.
Gov. Dan Thornton, Colorado
Republican and chairman of the
conference, gave reporters this
interpretation of the President's
message:
A CHALLENGE'
"The President is tossing a
challenge to the governors. He
says 50 billion dollars is needed
for roads in the next 10 years.
The states are being offered the
opportunity to go ahead under
local management.
The inference is that if the
states don't do it, the federal
government will."
In advance of a conference
panel discussion of the issue,
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York said in a separate interview
that he docs not believe the
President necessarily implied
that the federal government must
remain in the roadbuilding bust
ncss.
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AUSTRIAN FLOOD PATROL Police In a rubber raft row through a street in the
heart of Linz, Austria, seeking victims marooned by flood waters of the Danube River.
There are 15 persons known dead and thousands have been made homeless in the
current rampage of the rain-swollen Danube and its tributaries through Germany,
Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Chief of Army
Knee Deep
In McCarthys
SHANNON, Ireland IAV-U. S.
Army Secretary Robert T. Stev
ens found himself knee deep in
McCarthys Monday when his
ulana stooped at this internation
al airport en route from Paris to
Washington.
The secretary has been touring
Army units in West Europe.
Operations officer Charles Mc
Carthy cleared the plane for land
ing.
At the control tower microphone
was Jack McCarthy.
The immigration officer who
okayed Stevens to leave the plane
was another Jack McCarthy.
The customs officer who learn
ed he has nothing to declare just
passing through was John Mc
Carthy. Stevens went to the airport post
office to mail some postcards and
got his stamps from Tom Mc
Carthy. Messenger Nick McCarthy took
his order for a cup of coffee, and
lounge attendant Taddy McCar
thy brought it to him.
"I seem," said Stevens, "to be
in McCarthy country."
Hague Served
Papers at Rite
JERSEY CITY, N. J, W Frank
Hague, former Democratic chief
tain, was slapped with two sub
penas Monday whilo attending
funeral services for his nephew,
city commissioner Frank Hague
Eggcrs.
When the first subpena was
penas was thrust at Hague out
side the funeral home, a near
riot followed in the waiting
crowd. The second subpena was
served on the 78-yoar-old former
mayor while his car was stopped
for a traffic light on the way
homo from the funeral.
The first subpena ordered
Hague's appearance in a court
suit brought by the city to re
cover three million dollars. The
second demanded Hague's appear
ance at a city commission hear
ing July 21.
For months, summons servers
had sought to hand Hague the
papers that would bring him into
court and betore the investigat
ing committee which is looking
into the city's financial affairs
during his and Eggcrs' adminis
trations. The city suit names Hague, Eg
gcrs and John F. Malone, and
seeks to recover funds allegedly
collected from municipal em
ployes as campaign contributions.
Morse Blocks
Picketing Bill
WASHINGTON W Sen
Morse (Ind Ore) Tuesday blocked
a bill to forbid picketing in the
streets surrounding the White
House.
"I don't propose to be a party
to police state methods in the
United States," Morse said.
He cast his own vote and the
proxy vote of the absent Sen.
Nccly (D-W Va) at a public hear
ing to provide the 2-1 margin by
which a Senate District of Co
lumbia subcommittee shelved the
Meeting Called
By McCarthy
WASHINGTON im Sen. Mc
Carthy (R-Wis) Tuesday called
for a Senate investigations sub
committee meeting Thursday
which could produce action
demands for the firing of some
staff employes.
McCarthy, the chairman, told
newsmen he was calling tne
meeting specifically as a step to
ward his long-deferred investiga
tion of alleged Communist infil
tration in defense plants.
He said he will invite the sub
committee's members, however,
to let him know in advance if
they want to take up other mat
ters. Sen. Jackson (D-Wash)
promptly announced he will
move to take up staff problems.
Jackson said, however, it would
be prematura to say now what
steps he and the other subcom
mittee Democrats may propose.
All three have-joined in saying
there should be a staff house
cleaning. And on June 17, as the subcom
mittee would up 36 days of hear
ings into the row between Mc
Carthy and high Army officials,
Sen. Potter (R-Mich) said he be
lieved some firings were in order
among employes on both sides.
Potter named no one. Tha chief
target of the Army allegations
was subcommittee counsel Roy
M. Cohn.
Potter and the three Democrats
constitute a majority of the sub
committee, which has four Re
publican members.
GIs, Red Troops
Fight Rising River
VIENNA, Austria Wl Ameri
can and Russian troops worked
within a few hundred yards of
each other outside Vienna Tues
day in an effort to save a U.S.
airfield and two Austrian villages
from floods.
The waters of the swollen Dan
ube River raging downstream
after leaving 70,000 homeless in
Germany and Western Austria
threatened the U.S. Air Force
base at Tullin. Isolated in the
Russian occupation zone of Au
stria, it is 22 miles northwest of
Vienna's American sector.
German officials said the air
field was "pretty much out of
danger" unless the waters took
a big rise.
Floods from the Danube ap
proached within 200 yards of the
field, inundating the communi
ties of Tullin and Langenlebarn
and flooding a road connecting
them with the airfield.
The Russians sent troops and
trucks to one stretch of the road,
while the Americans sent trucks
and scores of airmen to another
stretch.
The police said there was no
actual cooperation between the
Cold War opponents.
"They pass by each other on
the highway, but they ignore
each other," one official said.
The flood, the worst in centur
ies in central Europe, took an
other victim Monday. A 3-year-
old child fell into the swirling
Danube near Vienna, bringing
the total dead reported in Au
stria and East and West Germany
to 28.
Conservative estimates placed
property damage at hundreds of
millions of dollars.
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The out-voiced chairman, Sen.
Reynolds (R-Ncb) announced he
would file a minority report on
the action with the full district
committee, which could revive
the legislation.
Rep. Gentry (D-Texas), author
of the House-passed bill, testified
it had its beginning in what he
termed "the disgusting and re
volting spectacle" of a picket line
that ringed the White House
ground last year in futile ap
peals for the condemned atomic
spies, Julius and Ethel Rosen
berg. The two spies finally were
electrocuted.
Barking Dogs
Gain an Hour
WATERTOWN, N. Y. UPl A
barking dog's life, the City Coun
cil says, can begin an hour ear
lier each morning.
The council voted to amend a
recent ordinance that stipulated
that dogs "are not permitted to
howl or bark between the hours
of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. so as to
disturbc the neighbors."
Yielding slightly to the pro
tests of dog owners who had
trouble convincing their pts, the
councilmen moved the morning
curfew back tp 7 a.m.
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