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Newspaper Page Text- - v'.:.-v.;.--,-:-.:.-.n v. .;. .W ...'V 0 -. - . ,.'.'0. .. - o o o o o o 00 o o Capital Ailournal 9 o 0 o e ft 1? THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR tonight anil Jhursday except lor lair night and O early morning foj or low cloud. Low tonight, J3; high Friday, 68. 2 SECTIONS (2S PogesJ 67th Year, No. 216 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 21, 1955 S!ST.."5.&r?;S Price 5c 8 Perish In Coney Isle Fire 15 Others Hurt as Flames Sweep Tenements NEW YORK (! Wind-fanned flames swept through four frame j rooming houses near New York's t Coney Island amusement park ; early Wednesday and eight tier-j sons perished. Fifteen others, several rescued, in dramatic action by fircm?n, were injured. j Nitres vi the rierd could not he , established immediately. Bodies were burned so badly that the sex of only two a man and a woman was established. Among the injured were men and women ranging from 33 to 80. The blaze broke out only two hours alter another fire in a bath house on the Coney Island board- walk seven blocks away. The co incidence aroused suspicions of au thorities. The second fire occurred about ft a.m. in a mir'dleclass residen tial and rooming houcc area heav ily populated by Italians. It was brought under control two hours later. Winds which buffeted the Vew York area after passage of Hur ricane lone offshore made the firc fighting more difficult. Fire Battalion Chief Charles Burns gave this description ot the scene when firemen arrived: "People trapped as they slept stood at their windows in a ter rible slate of shock. "Even when we got ladders up fn (he windows they seemed pa ralyzed. "We had a great deal of diffi culty persuading them to leave the burning buildings. Most of them were elderly." A priest from a nearby Roman Catholic Church donned a fire man's hat and coat to enter one of the burning structures. After ward be said: "I administered last rites to one adult and one child on the first floor, and another adult on the second floor. 'They could hardly be distin guished as human beings." UN Bottles Up Chinese Issue VXITED NATIONS. X.Y tfc ine l'.a. i.cnerai Asscmmy sine- tracked for another year the peren- nial question of seating Red China; ana prvpnreu iimay 10 caan an asenda for the current session. Overriding demands by Russia's Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov inai ine Aiian nra sei a scat, I943( for faih,re to carry out Hus the Assembly adopted 42-12 a U.S. ,sia s Valta agreements on Poland, motion to shelve the question until, But he snvs it was so snarD that , . . , In Ms opening session yesterday, the lOlh Assembly also unanimous-!in ai ly elected Chile's Jose Maza as it Molotov made his bid for Peipinc 12 minutes after the session hrgan in a mild speech contrasting sharp ly with the explosive utterances Soviet delegates have made on the issue in previous assemblies. It was the sixth straight year the Russians have tried to unseat the Chinese Nationalists in favor of the mainland government Indoncsi. which abstained last year, voted this time aatnst post pu.it ponement. Others voting against the U.S. motion were Burma, j White Russia, Czechoslovakia, 'of Crescent City. Calif. Denmark, India, Norway, Poland,! Col. Uavi S. Parker, acting Su-pHph thp Xnvipt I'kraine. the Portlnnd district encineer. said the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Abstaining were Israel, Afghan istan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. Portland Fire Battled for rwTi it I MVPf1 I I f ill l PORTLAND (UP The Man chester building in downtown Port land suffered heavy damage to its interior last night when a two- alarm fire that firemen hattled for almost three hours swept through the structure. Unofficial damage estimates ran over 17,1.000, mostly to contends. Eight firms in the seven story, building suffered damage, much of it from smoke and water. Fire Marshal Dale Gilman said the fire broke out in the northwest sec tion of the fourth floor and spread I throuah walLi and ceilings. Mast of the smoke and water damage nrrurred between the Street and fifth floors. The hla2e was discovered short. ly hrfore 10 p m. Today's Index Section One Theaters ... KditoriaU locM. ........ lMlfty - Section 8, 1, Two Sporti - P-l-S "nmtr ' Television a. Heme Page ) Chmififd -10. 11. 12. Tl rialfifd , It. II I--. w r f its !,,pl islsW luuh Charred walls and wreckage of one ot four frame rooming houses evidence the fury of the wind-driven file in which eight persons perished today at Coney Island, seaside resort at the end of Brooklyn. Fifteen other persons were injured and several rescued in dramatic action by fire men. (AP Photofax) Harry, in Memoirs, Takes Peace Credit Truman Tells of Drcssin;-I)own To Molotov ' Bv ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON W Harry S. Truman says he believes his ad ministration paved the way for pre-1 venting a third world war for "as far ahead as man can see." I it Hid sn the fnrmrr Prpsirient : rnntendt hv makinc sure of this , rnnntrv't milit.n v strrneih and hv HnalinP with Soviet Russia on a - V" "'."V. '-give-and-take'' basis. Truman leaves for conjecture lne oxact language he used in a face-to-facc dressing down he gave uUS5jan Foreign Minister Molotov at tne white House on April 23, Molotov was stung 10 protest. i!Versalion ditfers from Truman's. havc never hecn lalked to ,ike that ,c ,adn lncsday he to d the mv ,if(... Truman recal,s ho - SJJil .YLl ! . . . ..... i tort ed: "Carry out your agree- Blaze Stalls Ocean Drcdjre y O PORTLAND l'P Fire broke out in the engine room of the Army Corps of Engineers seagoing Ur.r.0. drnlia nniMcon oi II a m ..v- today and the dredge was reported ; dead at sea some 190 miles west ; fire has been put out and that no one was hurt. The Davison carries a normal crew of 4i! men. Col. David S. Parker, acting' en route to Honolulu to dredge in the Hawaiian area. He said efforts uvre being made to start one of the dredge's two engines. Extent of damage was not known. The U. S. Coast Guard buoy ten- Her Balsam was roceedinB to Ihel Davison to mw ncr 10 an rran-isey Cisco. A .avy iK'Mrtiytr e.sniii ds'i reported in the vicinity of the Davi'-, Rnn Dl,t it was not known if thoicend. He said Heusner was trying two vessels were in contact. State Boards Eye Feasibility Of Creating Junior Colleges A studv of the fea.sihilitv of es- irjblishing state-financed junior colleges in Oregon w-11 be under- liL-.n hv npnnl mmmiftw tn. 'be appointed by Dr. John Rich-. ard.s chancellor of higher educa- tion. and Dr. Hex Putnam, super the board (o the administrate ol- intendent o( public in,truclion. Ificers ol the two hoards. At a joint meeting Tuesday oC Kducntors' and ci'tiz.ns of Mend the Board of llieher Education and , appeared before the last IrgLsla- the State Board ol Klucation. held lure and uT2td & change in tire one'e rach year. Dr. Richards said T ni ai me lasi sessntn ui.ine icx- lature a bill amending the pre sent junior college law was passetl hy the house but the senate com irmttee w rduration fclt that more j study should be given the subject hoards. teachers were permitted to com- i before the law was amended. Slate Superintendent Putnam plete their fifth year of prepara-i It was theahought of the ehan- made 3 progress report on teach- tion on a provisional basis and( Clilor that a special committre er education, telling the members were given fivT year in which to' presenting Ovoth 'opflx could of Ihe two boards that major complete Ihe final year of tudy. study the subject and ' bring n nrogre.ss has been made during, Another fenge outlined hv Put irecommenda'ii'in of any changesQhe pat year in the field ol ec-nam concerns school 'iHiniira-! jinthe law ireemed desirable, in-londary teacher training. iuwntinued on Tlje 5 Column 4;1 ' 0 O O O O u G Fatal lilazc Scene at Conev Island ments and you won't get talked to nomah County to escape the tax like that." for that year, contended it should The story, of the now famous ! not have been placed on the as White House session is told in Life ' sessmcnt roll until after Jan. 1, magazine's current issue in the ; n, because it didn't complete first of five instalments of the "Truman Memoirs." The instal ments make up the first volume, which will be brought out in book orm m Aovemoer oy uoun.eaay "J-0, , , . $fi00,0(10 for this and a second vol ume, to be published early next . f 41. . u-. . j "ll 01 liHOMiiiittuii Himui utu in-; vln,nt nf thn alrtmin hnnih nft. 1 or ho herame I'resirient. He recalls ' Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, his chief of staff, as saying in his i "sturdy, sally" manner: I "That's the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an ! expert on explosives." Adm. Leahv s version of the con- p!osjvCR but .., did not know about1 '", ' . K u . ! ; later recommended against using , the atomic bomb on .Japan be- I cause 1 did not want my coun try to be the first to use that vi- iimi, in tmij Ufiniii uii iiuii.ui ii- tbatants." Truman relates a long trans Atlantic telephone conversation with then British Prime Minister j .fhnrrhil nil Ann 9.1 Thnr. ... , ' . , . . ; lumunuea on rage s i-oiumn i;a"? , " vm"7 i I jL Ipvitrkl' ' -i-J ! I Fall Kills Worker EUGENE n A workman making final adjustments on new ireiunt eievaior m a "rmiure More liere was crushed to death 1 ciay alternoon. The elevator came down on 'Nicholas J. Heusncr. 4ti. as he worked in the elevator pit. Deputy Coroner Howard Ram-. saio me acciocnia loucmng have caused the elevator to des-' a wiiiiiv ivmiiik hiilii iiiimu 'to get out of the pit when hit. cludin? the manner in which inn- ior college should be operated and financed. UpmhiTt nf holh tw.arH votpd in favor of setting up the com-: mitlee and lefl the anpoinlmtnl ol junior college law providins lr more unanciai support noni ine state. The present law permits letting up of junior coltes but the greater i?t of, the expi.e must be borne by the Irmj! school Aluminum Co. Must Pay Tax'" Reynolds Aluminum Co. has to pay personal properly taxes on machinery and equipment at its Troutdale plant lor the 19S0-.il fiscal year, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Thp rnmnnnv ulirh sued llllt. acquisition ot the property until after that date. But the Supreme Court, agree ing wilh Multnomah County Asses- WMey w Smj,hi pojnted ()It 'that in December, 1949, the com- pany accepted a letter- of intent ii tun tin. uuii.ii fii'm mm. "i ennS purcnasc oi ine piani, piac- ing the company in possession of tne properly. i .,. . UM1UIUII1K illHim- rtl mii.wm.i County decision, the Supreme Court ordered the olficers of the Eastern and Western Lumber ( o. to pay $7K2.4!i5 to stockholders of the company. The stockholders claimed they were induced to sell their stock below its actual value by reason of fraudulent misrepresentations. The company now is defunct. The decision was by .luslicc George Rossman. It upheld Circuit ;Iud Alfred P. Dobson of Port Chill Heralds Fall in State PORTLAND UP With autumn's ollldl Uds . 'temperatures Oregon dipped U',Io,l... . ..kill.. f-11 coldest The 4:30 a. m. reading at Klam ath Falls was 31 but the mercury n and hv f 2 w"si . ii, was still on its way d B a. m. a minimum of t-i.r,.rtf.l lit, U'.-.lh.r llnri.-.n . . ' ; 1 ''T' V . A M , . 1 city's coldest this early in Sept em- uer. uuier eMern uregon pomis were nearly as cold-Roseburg 3 ;ano Aaiem .w. While most of the reported mini- mums were in the 30s. Pendleton I cooled off only to 48. However its Tiiowlav hih nnlv i m. nf ne owes(jn the ta'c. 0n U,e coast readings were in tne lnw 40s and Astoria dropped below that to 39. Pntn.im unnnnnriwl that effori. ive July 1. l!;7. Drovisional sec- ondary certilicates will be issued tn lhiiw nrrimirlii hitih irh(ml teachers who hove a baccalaureate ! deeree Irom a standard college, university or teachers college ap- proved hy Ihe State Hoard of Edu-j cation. Orriiun school law nnd Oreson history will continue to'be rcuuircrf nf all teachers, Putnam said. Oregon school law, however, unicn was previously a iwo-ipi.ir- tcr hour course, will in the lut be covered in -ie unit in a re quired prcfc.Monil course, Beginning in IDl. hih .Hhonl Senators Dig Into Utilities Hanker Concedes Slocklcss Hole In 3Ierer WASHING TO N ifl A Wall Street investment hanker conced- i ed Wednesday neither lie nor h;s ; (inn owned any slock in a Wash-: inston State utility at a time lie! joined in a letter seeking to pro mote a merger of the company with another concern. Chandler Hovey .lr. partner in the firm of White. Weld and Co.. told a Senate subcommittee, how ever, that his company had owned stock at various times. Under questioning by Sen. O'Ma honey iD-Wyo). Hovey said the firm held blocks of.Puget Sound Power and Light Co" stock at va rious times in an effort to "main tain a market" The senator. for that security serving as chair man at (he hearing, commented that this appeared to he different from the position of a "bona fide" I stockholder. I Hovey was the first witness as the antitrust and monopoly sub- committee began an investigation of public utility mergers. At the outset, the probe centered on a proposed merger of two Wash- ington State utility companies . Washington Water Power of Spo- kanc and Puget Sound Power and Light of Seattle. I The subcommittee also is seek-; to make the government liable ing to find out whether Electric! for a penalty which could reach liond k Share Co., one of the big 1 222 million dollars, holding companies required to get i At issue is a contract for con rid of many of their satellites und- version of the present air defense er the 1035 Public Utility Holding 'omnanv Act, is trving to extend s inllucnce in the Pacific North- west. Joseph W. Burns, chief counsel to the subcommittee, said that Kbas - co Services Inc., a management and engineering firm which is a; wholly owned subsidiary of Elec tric Bond k Share, has been ex panding its influence in the North west. (Continued on Page 5 Column 5) AT esro romts To Abductors SUMNER. Miss, m Wrichl pointed a knobby finger at; ,i, n . .villain wcuihmi;i,v biiu saiu. "There he is identifying him as one of the men who abducted the sharecropper's nephew in the early r.,r;n k.... a., no s ....., uh. Then the 64-year-old f a r m e r i pointed out 24-year-old Roy Bryant. I Milam s half-brother, as the second I man who roused the Wright family from bed at 2 a.m. and took Em mett Milam Louis Till away. Bryant and Milam are accused of murdering the Chicago Negro hoy because he allegedly whistled at Mrs. Bryant. Dist. Ally. Gerald Chatham called Wright as the state's first, witness. Testimony began shortly after Chatham said he had six new wit nesses who would place the de fendants "with the Negro boy sev eral hours after he was taken from Mose's i Wright's) shack." He also said the witnesses would place the accused men in the area where T il h i i V ' ,nt Chatham said the witnesses have absolutely newly discovered evi- dence," but did not elaborate. Blonde Hunted T ) 1 C1 1 I II I IlV I Til J UllttiCH ! SAN FRANCISCO Worried oftiiers in three counties .searched intensely todav for babv Robert Sla who w;)S snatched (rom h j( , cri MondnVi resum-! n(),y by a bllxom hlonde with a craving for motherhood. U, Donald Scott, chief of San ' Francisco's general police detail on the case, said it was "very possible" the woman had been seen at San Jose, some ."i0 miles , so,h of nere jn Santa Clara County. But he also pressed the hunt in San Francisco and in Marin Coun ty to the north. Robert, just 3 days old whn kidnaped from the nursery at Mt Zinn Hospital, is a son of Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Marcus. In San Jose, Mrs. Henrietta Guerrcra (old police she opened he, door yesterday morning lo a milk for a tmv. screaming babv. , Mrs. Gucrrera. who had not heard then of the kidnaping, re-; i-jilW-it later Hint thi slrnnrc wnm-I an generally answered the descrip- Ition - lurnished liy hospital attend-.i ants. lhat a new I., h. note denverea when the baby reinsert the wnrml'" ,nl! s"v,('1 K""'in ,,llK'e yes-1 my nr, Guerrera nnd ihe terday "noted" Hussl.-i's apolosy ,linie nnsiiccefuUv attempted to -'""1' a P"1""' lh:l1 ' ' oflicer. s,M,ihe it with olive oil in the belief would be disciplined for threaten- n:,d cramjff. A(i,,r p. r,,.rrf. n,i.i,.l l a tlor for the babv. uilinan lelt? walking tow; fls d(iwni.vn San Jose. Vi rallicrl")(inili ''tl.ximiim v.t.ril.v, M: minimum fArtav T. Tnl.l '4-hour pf'clpo.'lnn : fnr mnnth: I Mrm.l 9. i...fln pr.rlpll.llnn. 1 nnrmil. ! Biv.f hHV -!t ta (ll'te" "v I'. H.sin.r nur.M) G ;coent 02 . : ejo 8U8n3 On Rebels' Terms; Junta Names Chief House Probes Demo-Labeled Bonanza Deal AF Contract for Phone Hookup Hit for Lack Of Congress OIC WASHINGTON lAV-The House Appropriations Committee launched an investigation today at wnnl House Democratic Leader MtCormick of Massachusetts called a $2,400,000,000 "bonanza contract" between the Air Force and private telephone companies. 'he Air force replied that the contract plans had been fully re-1 C(mrtitional surrender from the ported to congressional committees loyalist followers of Juan D. Pe - earlier this year, and that Con-!ron, g"ss has already appropriated! The rebels established Maj. Gen. "substantial" funds for sites and Eduardo Lonardi as provisional construction of facilities. It said cancellation of the contract now communications system to a i semiautomatic ground environ- ment (Sage) system. The Air j Force contract is with a group of private companies headed by I lie ! American Telephone and Tele - I graph Co. and the Western Klec- trie Co The companies would build the communications system and lease it to the Air. Force at regular toll charces for a 10-year period. Engineering and construction work already is under way. Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) of the Appropriations Committee ordered the Inquiry after McCormnck dis closed a ruling by Comptroller General Joseph Campbell that the contract lacked consrcssional au- morizauon. tmt nnd (n wz was included in cn uca Dcn,nt "cr Mose The Air Force confirmed (his,, - crmm rennrlrd under arrest for but Asst. Secretary Lyle Gnrlnck saiu caiupucn nna ai vcu iu iu- consider the ruling. ' The effect of the ruling by Cnmp- . bell, the government's chief audi- i .,. ; u ,,,, u , ..i . P... ....,., ........ ... contract unless Congress specific- ally approves. Eden Cabinet Lifts Spy Lid LONDON Ml Prime Minister Eden met with his Cabinet Wednes day to put final approval on a government report on the Burgess Maclean "runaway spies" case. Eden, fully recovered from a re cent attack of influenza, drove up to London from his country home to preside over the meeting. Tt. l'nUinnt mnt in tl.A rr.iU( nf .the most serious newspaper attacks made on the Foreign Office in rc-sjncG Tuesday that Di Pietro was cent years for its handling of lhojundcr arrest. case of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Brit ish diplomat s who fled to the Communist East in l!i.il after serving as longtime Rus sian spies. For lour years the Foreign Of fice' uml('r l)otn '"',,)or ( on sma,ivi' governments, main, taim.d tiyht secrecy over detail. of the men's defection. This wa broken onlv last week-end when former Russian spv Vladimir Pet rov disclosed they were Soviet aR(.nIjl for a lonc time The Foreign Ollice t firmed Petrov's disclosures and said Burgess and Maclean were under investigation when thev lied. I Spurred by angry newspaper criticism, the government prom-1 ised an official while paper this week giving details of the case. U.S. Accepts Soviet Apology For Gun Threat to Rep. Holt I WASHINGTON U'P) Thfi t'niled Stairs has now rrlurlanily accepted Russia's apology for the mg Ru.s.sian officer who threatened Rep. Joe Hull R- Calif; in Mo.s-: cow on Aug. 31. The State Department previous ily bad branded Muscows reply "unsali.sfaclory." It said today in'.' lloll at pi.slol poini. SlaTe Dep.utment Spokesman Henry S.ivdom etnpli.'i.'ii J. ho.- cir. thof the Soviet version of Ihe inc;de;'t as s(;t forth in.lhe Sovtet reply lo an earlier American pro- test wavan ' i-.sati.sfactorj . .dis- tor!.n" ot the incident. Nivnai sain aep.rumni in- fnr:d Moll at Van Nuvs. Calif..1 today of lh, Soviet reply-The de-', accompanied hy an American Km - partmrnt said i1 i now willinj t 6 iv ollu lal. sout'. to IaV snnv consider the m.Vfief eio;ed and hasiphnioaraphs in a Moscow hurti Informed M' 0 of it- Secuion. istasGiveUp Unconditional Surrender Forced M IXKTIN NEW YORK. (IN A Mutual Broadcasting System corres pondent in Buenos Aires re ported Wednesday that Juan 1). Peron "is now in rebel hands." The correspondent, Jack Count en, said Peron was taken off the Paraguayan gunboat where he took reiugc Tuesday. He predicted Per on would be tried as a war criminal by (he new Argentine government. BUENOS AIItKS W Argcn- tina's rebel forces Wednesday won 0SrCemenl apparently with mi - (temporary) president of the na- lion. A brief communique did not dis close Pcron's fate, but the rebels in their four-day revolt gave as one of their conditions of surrend r the handing over of the man who ruled Argentina for a decode. The last authoritative information .a ,;m aiH,ard a Parnminvan oun- boat jn Bucos Aires Harbor. I ti,0 communique read over the siaie radio said the two sides had reached "complete accord" and the loyalist forces had "accepted the points stipulated by the re bels." The rebels had announced be-1 fore peace negotiations began that they would accept only an uncondi tional surrender. I.nnnrrli in 10M rpfirpH Vnlun. Inrilv (rnm thn armv nftnr uritinff a letter protesting the plan-Inter abandoned to designate Eva Pe- ran a viw-nrnttiHent Hp ivn nr. in a cimrttiim rnvni, i : pint ting against Peron. iig hpjinn Ills a I'll! V career in 1914 and rose to command of the 3rd Army. He is a 59-year-old artilleryman. Gunfire sounded in Buenos Aires only a few hours before (he peace uns announced. Tank guns blasted apart the main headquarters of the Alianza Nacionalista. Pcron's strong-arm alliance. Later, secur ity forces were reported to be oc cupying an Alianza branch eight blocks from the smoldering head quarters. Later, Hugo di Pietro, secretary general of the General Confedera tion of Labor, came on the air over the state radio to urge the work ers "to keep calm and continue working." Di Pietro's big labor union had been one of the pillars of Pernn's strength. One of the problems fac ing the new regime was the re action of the Argentine working fnrce, There had been rumors The junta, which was headed by Gen. Jose Domingo Molina, broad cast a warning that any violence would be met sternly. The capi tal city had been tepsc but gen erally free of violence since the revolt begnn last Friday. Before the tank attack on the Alianza building, the junta said 40C to .100 heavily armed Peron istas were holed up there. Although (here was no immed iate report of persons killed or wounded in the attack on the building, it was believed the cas- ualties were high. Unofficial sources said IS per- j sons, including two women, were arrested as they fled the build- ing. ((Continued on Page S. Column 2 .Suyrtiim declined lo sive llolt'A . rrnciinn " lho department's lec i nnd thought decision or to make ence on tne incident public, DC- Site I!. S. objt-ctions to the Soviet j version of what happened, Suydarn Said: i "However, in spile of the dif- i lenni! ver.siorw. the diparlmenl nas now poicn 111:11 ine ,ioviei rov- ei nine nt iias oxinessed rexret lir thc iinprupcr conduct of the olh- cer wlw pulled the pislol, and has also noted that Ihe Soviet novern- inieiii juis si.ueu yi.u oi.siiiom.oy achon will he taken atlainst him by !ie 'Aiet uovrrninent. "tndc llie.se riu'iimstaiu es. the deparhiient is wi'lina to consiile? the nutter closed and so has in- formed Congressman lolt.. and , pre.siim.ibly any furlher tftinmenl wio ioim-iMMn nun. The incident ocriwri-d when iioii.trrs. Iwhile lloit WB Vui(j liussia Death Toll in 2 Hurricanes May Top 200 166 nrarlTlOO Missing In Mexico; lone Off Halifax By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS While Hurricane lone whistled over the North Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, shattered towns in North Carolina and Mexico count ed a sad toll of death and ria mage wrought by her and her sis- tcr storm, Hilda. ! Mexico was left with at least 1M 'dead and 100 missinR in the Cult iport of Tampico and surrounding Urea where Hiida hit. Continuing I floods threatened to raise this toll. i With refugees crowded together ami water supplies douiittui, autn- orities were fearful of epidemics. In North Carolina, which took (he brunt of lone before she veered out to sea, five persons were dead and property damage was in the minions. lone turned to a northeast course Tuesday and missed the northern coastal stales. A mass of cold air from the northwest, flowing at an altitude of 10.000 to 30,000 feet, shoved lone out to sea. All shipping was cautioned the storm was centered Wednesday morning 150 miles southeast of Hal ifax, N.S., traveling at a fast clip ot 45 miles per hour. uaics extend 300 miles from the storm center to the east, south and southwest and 200 miles to the west and north, the Weather Bu- real! reported. Hurricane - Hilda spent herself Tuesday in the north central mountains of Mexico, but rain- swelled floods still harrasscd sfrfelc BerJin Faces Red Squeeze BERLIN Deep in Communist territory, West Berlin today ncr vously eyed the new Russian-East German treaty. In Moscow, where the new pact was signed yesterday with the an nounced purpose of restoring East German sovereignty, East Ger many's Communist boss Waller Ulbricht threatened a new traffic squeeze on West Berlin. ulbricht, deputy premier and East ' German Communist party secretary, talked with correspond ents after Soviet Premier Bulganin and East German Premier Otto Grotewohl had signed the new pact in the Marble Room of (he Grand Kremlin Palace. Ulbricht warned that new traffic measures around Berlin may be necessary "unless the government of West Germany and West Berlin abandon their cold war attack against our Commu nist German Democratic Republic." UAW Assails Ford's Boost DETROIT W - The CIO United Auto Workers said in a statement Tuesday night that "the Ford Motor Co. cannot justify the prica increases" it announced Monday. Ford announced that suggested list prices on its I!i5fi model Ford cars will be increased an average of less than 5 per cent. The in creases range from $4fi to $W on the various body types. A spokeman for the I'AW issued a stntement in the absence of UAW President Waller P. Reiilher. who is reluming from a jl'AW-CIO hy Ihp Ford M The eco ted the (LAW-i uj ny ine rorn inior lo. could he absorbed out ot tne ex tremely favorable profit position ; jn (he of jltom,)hnM at. tnbuted tn the new UAW agree ments is totally unjustified and represents a gouging of consum ers.' Car Found in . Search for 2 PORTLAND -The abandoned auioiiioDiie 01 iwo women mission sinwe they went lor what was lo have, been a short drive Sunday, was, found Wednesday on a dirt road on the northwest slope 9of l.areh Moufttain. east fl here, 'I he shenti's olfue c.-led for blutxihoundsbwhen no Iraie of th 'iui n I in nearby shel- 1 The missins jivonien are Mr., i Av a F- FerRuson. M, d Mn. Rernim N. Sharju, 73, the latter l .cmymoj. - S3 0 o o o o O O O 0 o