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Floods; tSDizzaiirdls Iflireata'' Europe; AoieirDiDaoii Tiroops Seadloedl for GSesciuie London U.R) American commanders in Europe alerted VS. troops to be prepared for mass rescue and evacuation operations today in the face of ' threatening floods in several of the continent's mightiest rivers. Since Saturday at least 25 per sons have died in the severe storms buffeting Europe. - All three German-based squad rons of the U.S. Air Force's Air , Rescue Service went on a stand by alert at midnight on basis of reports - that European rivers were rising dangerously to lev- ' els near those of last year s dis astrous floods. Serious Threats Serious floods were threaten ing in the Rhine, Danube, Seine and the Saar. . Sailors of the U.S. Navy's Rhine River patrol readied res cue boats and stockpiled sand bags. , The Rhine was reported al ready out of its banks in many places and was lapping at the foundations of the West Ger man ' Parliament building at Bonn. : . " The U.S. Army's Southern Area Command headquarters at Munich dispatched the 54th En gineer battalion with 700 sand bags to shore up a dike at Er- bach, - Germany. And .the 93rd VS. Bridge company was called out to rescue three Germans from an , isolated -house near Ulm. New blizzards swept Northern Europe in the wake of rains, snows and heavy thaws which sent rivers up to danger levels. m Jfe -mam. w lorgtt I i) I f X.UJ mMM Get THE Genuine UIHTR mncTTD c JllllfllLI1 " WAS I1A M 1 5 AT HARDWARE STORES Seven vessels radioed distress messages off Northwest Europe in storms at sea so severe that even the huge American Liner United States had to slow down and delay its arrival in South ampton by 24 hours. It had been due tomorrow from New York with 404 passengers aboard. In Britain, airplanes trying to supply Scottish communities which have been cut off from four to six days by snowdrifts were grounded by heavy new snowstorms. In France scores of Burgundy villages were isolated by flood ing streams. . ; London itself was recovering from a black Sunday of 'destruc tion which brought an "end of the world" scare to parts of the city. . A freak smog blotted out the sun and turned London's mid afternoon light to the darkness of night. , : "; During the five-minute black out a bearded man stalked the streets of suburban ::, Croydon, shouting "the end of the world is nieh." Women fell on their knees to pray and thousands of frightened mothers hurried their children into doorways. A f our-engined British Over seas Airways Viscount passenger plane crashed in the gloom at London airport on takeoff but only, the pilot and an American, Willard Irle of Lakeville, Conn., were injured. Bill To Permit Appeals Planned Salem (U.R) - Decisions of state administrative boards 'can be appealed to the district courts under a bill slated for introduc tion into the legislature here this week. . . . Exempted in the bill is the state industrial accident com mission. The proposal has the blessings of the Oregon State Bar Associa tion and will be sponsored by the house judiciary committee. The bill has been named the Administrative Procedures Act. It sets up standard general rules for administrative bodies, but will be flexible enough to allow boards and commissions to make secondary rules pertinent to their work. Under the present law, some agencies allow the right to ap peal, but from others, there, is only the right of review. The new bill would allow an appeal to be filed in either the county where the petitioner lives or in Marion county.. The appeals could be made to a cir cuit court and carried from there to the Supreme court if desired.' Another clause provides that agencies .. shall provide for . a hearing, after a reasonable no tice,, over pending directives. JAPAN JOLTED Tokyo (U.R) The heavily populated Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan was jolted sharply by an earthquake early today. No casualties .or serious damage were reported. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PrM Future Writer Washington (U.PJ Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn pitched a hoe-down over the weekend. ' m All of the in vitations went out special de li v e r y to wheels and a lovely lady in the press coop, who w o u 1 d just as soon not be men tioned, since she hails from Harmon Nichols Texas. Anynow, the - lady reporter happens to Jive on a side street. So what happens: At 10:30 the other night the Post Office calls her and says it has a spec ial delivery letter for her and how the heck can the delivery man find her house? "Heavens," she says, "Don't you have maps around there?" The man on the nhone said he had maps but even a map didn't help. - v ' "But," the man said," we can tell you what it is all about. 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It's been a lone time since a green Ihurrib from Brooklyn has been on the Ag committe'e of the House. ' There were a lot of Jokes some time back when one Brook- Lt. Col. Joseph J. Kapral of Augusta, Ga., is sympathetic to ward servicemen who are look ing for a raise in pay. The colo nel has retired after 29 years of service. He was a private in the old days and he had a system for padding out his service pay, which was $21 a month then. His boss was a colonel, who own ed a police dog a fine pedigreed mutt, if there ever was one. Whenever - Kapral got broke, he now confesses, he would dog nap the mutt. The owner always put an ad in the camp newspap er at Fort Myer.' "$10 reward," he always said. The owner did not catch on for a , long, time, paying reward after reward. The owner was the. late Gen. George S-Patton. Some rather interesting new bills .have been introduced in the hew Congress. One would authorize the President to issue posthumously "in the name of George Washington" a commis sion as general of the armies. . Another calls for a joint res olution the fourth Saturday of August of each year as "Chil dren's Day in Sports." - ; . r Yet another is a resolution in the House to declare president ial Inauguration day a legal hol iday. All have been referred to pro per committees. VIRGINIA SHAKEN .. Farmville, Va. (U.R) A slight earthquake jarred buildings and rattled windows in Central Vir ginia today. The tremor occur red at 7:37 a' m: It lasted from three , to five seconds. There were no reports of damage or injuries. - Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. -Monday for Monday: other da v 5:30 previous day. Legislative Group Of Chamber Holds First '55 Meeting .. The legislative committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce met for the first time in 1955 this morning. The com mittee plans to have7:30 a. m. breakfast meetings during the current session of the state leg islature. ; Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford attorney and former legislator, is chairman. This morning's meeting was largely devoted to assignment of members to sub committees which will study var ious types of legislation, and then will report on individual bills to the full committee. To Present Policy : A policy for committee action will be adopted at next week's meeting. It is expected to state that. the committee will make definite; recommendations only on bills which have a general ap plication to the over-all welfare of this area. It was pointed out this morning that specific bills in which economic groups have an ' interest could not logically be, supported by the chamber as a whole, - inasmuch as chamber members represent all types of businesses. Bills on which the legislative committee recommends action will probably be referred to the chamber's board of directors so that the support ; or opposition will be from the chamber as a Whole. Tells Problems Bob Root, former member of the house of representatives, this morning discussed briefly 'the problems facing the legislature this year, pointing out that the biggest problem to be solved is a deficit ranging from $30,000, 000 to $60,000,000. Hammarskjold Duped, Nationalists Claim Taipei, Formosa (U.R) An of ficial Nationalist Chinese news paper today called U. S. Secre tary General Dag Hammar skjold's recent save the fliers trip to Peiping a "complete farce." 'It seems Hammarskjold was entirely outmaneuvered and out smarted by the Peiping bunch," the Kuomintang Central Daily News said. " ' - v , "Mr. Hammarskjold, .who had never . experienced the Commu nists before, was duped by Pei ing's sweet words," the news paper said. 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Leading violation carrying the automatic suspension penalty, was driving while intoxicated, which grounded 3110 drivers during the yeaar. Driving with a previously suspended or revoked license brought further suspen sion periods to another 1048 op erators. Newbry said the convinctions reported in 1954 represented an increase of about 47,000 over the preceding year but he added that most of the gain was due to in creased co-operation from traffic courts in connection with the state department's stepped-up li cense suspension program. TOO THOROUGH ; Tulsa, Okla. 4U.R) Police de cided today that a Collinsville garbage collector was too eager beaverish when it came to hur rying . out his duties. . They ar rested Doule W. Craghead, 47, for carrying merchandise out of a grocery store in a sack of meat scraps. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon -Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day Nationalist Guns Cripple Red Ship Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Na tionalist guns firing from tiny Yikiangshan : . in the Tachen island group crippled a Commu nist Chinese warships, the Na tionalists announced today. An official Ministry of Na tional Defense communique did not mention the size of the war ship but said damage was heavy. This was the only action re ported in - the Tachen ; chain to day. A subzero cold wave hit ting the islands, some 250 miles north of Formosa, brought fight ing there to a virtual halt. Nationalist warplanes spotted Communist Chinese MIGs over the Tachens Sunday but no dog fights were reported. PASSES CIGARS Normal, HI. U.R) Athletic Director Ray Hanson had been saving his money for : a long time to pay for the cigars he passed out to honor a blessed event. He happily handed out the stogies as Western . Illinois State - college defeated Illinois Wesleyan f or its first swimming victory in 24 years. 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