Severe Storms Mtt Bflidwestern
OJonofted States; Damage. Heavy
Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Tornadoes,
hail, severe thunderstorms and
dust hit the southwest in fur
ious profusion Friday night and
early Saturday, causing heavy
damage.
Four tornadoes were reported
in Missouri, two in Oklahoma,
two in Texas and one in Arkan
sas but no fatalities were re
ported. Lt. F. E. Damp of the Missouri
Highway Patrol said a twister
hit Lutesville, Mo., damaging 50
buildings and demolishing one.
Damp said there were a few
minor injuries, but no one was
hurt seriously.
Another tornado hit Sikeston,
Mo., about 35 miles southeast of
Lutesville. Officer Lucius Her
ring of the Sikeston Police' De
partment said two large ware
houses and 23 other buildings
were destroyed or damaged, but
no one was hurt.
Radio Station De-Roofed
Tornadoes were reported at
Blodgett and Bertrand, Mo., and
strong windstorms hit the south
eastern Missouri area.
In Oklahoma, a farmer near
Yukon reported seeing a funnel
and the Oklahoma Gas and Elec
tric Co. said an observer saw
another one 20 miles south of
sulphur.
At Duncan, Okla., high winds
whipped the roof off radio sta
tion KRHD, knocking the station
off the air. Broadcasting was re
sumed about an hour later.
Towering thunderstorms
moved across the northern part
of Texas Friday night and early
Saturday. Heavy hail storms
were reported at Loving and
Graham, Tex., but no one was
reported injured. Hailstones at
Graham were about the size of
golf balls, and damage to roof
tops and crops was reported
heavy in the area.
North of Abilene, Tex., a tor
nado was sighted over Phantom
Hill lake, but there were no re
ports of damage. More than an
inch of rain fell in the drought
stricken are during the storm.
Another small tornado hit
near Holiday, south of Wichita
Falls, Tex., and blew down a
garage, damaging a truck.
.The Fort Worth weather bu
reau said huge thunderstorms
built up over the northern Texas
area, where a warning of pos
sible tornadoes had been issued.
A tornado roared through the
small Arkansas farm community
of Pocahontas, destroying four
homes and damaging 12 others.
There were no reports of in
juries, which Leon Williamson,
a mail carrier, said "was a mira
cle." Four houses were blown
off their foundation and dam
age was heavy to roofs, doors
and windows in 12 other homes.
Many of the residents saw the
black, cloud approaching and
took refuge in itorm cellars.
Dust was kicked up by winds
that reached a velocity of 55 to
60 miles an hoar in west Texas
and eastern New Mexico. Visi
bility was down to a mile at
El Paso and a half-mile at Salt
Flat. '
WoM son Fails ann Bid
To et RAW Control
Chicago U.R) Fiancier
Louis E. Wolf son failed in his
immediate bid for control of the
$720,000,000 Montgomery Ward
mail order house, but claimed
Saturday that he won a "tremen
dous victory." ;
It appeared that, pending an
actual ballot count not expected
to be completed for three weeks,
Sewell L. Avery had retained
control of - Montgomery Ward
& Co. after stockholders .elected
a new board of directors Friday.
Avery, the 81-year-old iron
willed boss of the huge firm, de
nied that he thought of retiring.
It was believed that he would
step down as chairman of Ward's
board of directors because of his
advanced age, and he told the
"stockholders at the meeting that
he would retire if he were "un
desirable." Kick Or Two
He later told newsmen, how
ever, that "still having a kick or
two in me, I haven't devoted any
time ' to the thought of retirer
ment.
A Wolfson spokesman said he
learned that the present direc
tors of Montgomery Ward would
hold a meeting next week and
Avery would be asked to step
down.
Wolfson said after the stormy
stockholders' meeting in the Me
dinah Temple that he was "cer
tain" of getting complete control
of Montgomery Ward next year.
He conceded that he would
not gain a majority of five direc-
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tors on the nine-man board when
the results of the voting will be
announced, but he said he was
"sure" of electing three or four,
including' himself.
Wolfson'i Claim Disputed '
Management disputed Wolf
son's claim to three or four di
rectors, and said he would get
only two or three. Avery said
that "outside of the holdings of
his own group, Mr. Wolfson re
ceived only a small minority
vote."
The meeting was marked by
cheeripg, booing and whistling
of some of the 2,500 stockhold
ers. It was. convened at 11:40
a.m. EST, and was adjourned at
5:45 p.m. until Friday, May 13,
when a report on the voting will
be made. .
300 Japanese Set
To Work in Salvage
Project Off Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
More than 300 Japanese workers
will be employed in a $10,000,
000 three year salvage operation
along the Aleutian Island chain
beginning May 10, the Anchor
age Daily News reported Friday.
Joined in the operation will
be Peterson and Sharpe Engin
eering Company of Reno, Nev.,
and the Nishimatsu Construction
Company of Tokyo.
May Have Troubles
The project may immediately
run into trouble, Charles Pugh,.
manager here for the territorial
employment service, indicated.
He said the firms had not checked
with him or with the service's
Juneau headquarters for clear
ance for the imported workers
as required by law.
Gov. Frank Heintzleman of
Alaska announced April 1 that
the Bankers Life and Casualty
Co., Chicago, had submitted "a
low bid for salvage work on the
Aleutian chain and the contract
had been sent to Washington for
approval.
Since that time the Anchorage
office of the employment service
has taken 600 tentative applica
tions from laborers at the re
quest of the Chicago firm. A
representative of the firm was
due to arrive here April 15, but
was delayed to .May 1 by "co
contractual arrangements."
Charles Peterson of the en
gineering firm said six Japanese
businessmen flew from Anchor
age to Cold Bay Friday to inspect
the site. Peterson said they also
would visit at Shemya and Attu
before returning here.
v The salvage materials consist
mostly of lumber and scrap iron,
with the metals going to the Iru
maru Steel Importing Co. in Jap
anese ships.
The contract covers Cold Bay,
Shemya, Attu, Adak, Unmak, Un
alaska, Kodiak, Great Sitkin and
Wisha.
Mental Hearing for
Man Carrying Gun
Ordered by Judge
Washington (U.R) Municipal
Court judge Saturday, commit
ted for. mental "observation a
man who mentioned during a
telephone conversation with
Vice-President Richard M. Nix
on's office that he was carrying
a loaded revolver. .
Judge Armond W. Scott or
dered the man, identified as
Clifford .W. Bryan, 34, of Los
Angeles, ' committed to District
of Columbia General Hospital
when he was brought into court
for arraignment on charges of
carrying a deadly weapon.
Case Continued
Scott continued the case until
May 24 pending a hospital re
port on Bryan.
Bryan was arrested late Fri
day. '
The Secret Service said as far
at iC knows, Bryan ."never
threatened Nixon or anyone else
either directly or indirectly."
It said Bryan came here to
attend a Civil Aeronautics Au
thority hearing on aircraft safe
ty ar d apparently was upset or
didn't agree with some of the
things he had heard at the hear
ing. .
Bryan is an aircraft inspector
in California, the secret service
said. They did not say what he
protested about specif cally at
the CAA hearing.
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Eisenhower to report on the threat of full-scale civil war
in the Indo-Chinese nation. Just arrived from Saigon,
General Collins said that the U. S. is "behind the legal
government of Viet Nam."
First-Hand Reports
(Q)ii EMwgees Slated
By UNITED PRESS
A congressional subcommittee
will get a first-hand report from
Europe on why Iron Curtain
refugees are not being admitted
to this country in greater num
bers, informed sources said Sat
urday. Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.) of the Senate Investi
gating Subcommittee confirmed
that two staff members have
been sent to Europe to make a
general study of the refugee pro
gram. But other sources said the
staffers will concentrate on what
has caused delays in processing
refugees.
Specifically, they will look
into complaints that refugees of
ten are . kept in camps for as
much as two years while U.S. of
ficials make security checks and
go through other complicated re
quirements of the 1953 refugee
law.
The subcommittee will decide
on the basis of the staff report
whether to hold public hearings
on the refugee problem.
In hearings just completed by
the Senate Refugee Subcommit
tee, two conflicting views were
given for delays in the refugee
program. Edward J. Corsi, oust
ed State Department immigra
tion adviser, charge State De
partment Security Officer R. W.
Scott McLeod and a small group
of congressmen have deliberately
sabotaged the program.
But MeLeod denied this and
said the complicated law itself is
resopnsible for the slowness of
the program.
He told still another subcom
mittee Friday an arm of the
appropriations committee he
plans to issue 32,000 visas this
year and 130,000 next year. But
he conceded that so far -most
visas have gone to relatives of
American citizens and not to true
refugees. The relatives are al
lotted half the quotas under the
Refugee Law.
Other congressional news:
Automation: Rep. Irwin D. Da
vidson (D-NY) proposed a con
gressional investigation of auto
mation, the fast-moving trend
toward greater mechanization of
production. He said that automa
tion "like a Frankenstein"
threatens to "destroy our work
ing men."
, Subversion: A House un
American Activities Subcommit
tee will investigate possible sub
version among youth groups on
the West Coast late in June.
Hearings arc planned in San
Diego and Los Angeles, Calif.
Gas: The Senate Commerce
Committee will begin hearings
May 3 on legislation to prohibit
the Federal Power Commission
from regulating natural gas
prices at the well and before
the gas enters interstate trans
mission facilities.,'
Federal Reserve Board Boosts
Cash Requirements to 70 Pet.
Washington (U.R) The stock
market investor who wants to
buy stock today must put more
cash on the line than at any
time since early 1953.
The Federal Reserve Board
raised the cash requirement Fri
day night in its second move in
less than four months to scotch
stock market speculation.
Before the increase, the invest
or had to cover at least 60 per
cent of the price of his invest
ment with cash. Now he must
pay 70 ner cent cash. The rest
he may borrow from his broker.
For the speculator who does
much of his investing on bor
rowed funds, the new higher cash
requirement means less specu
lating, and that is just what the
board wants.
The board has taken stensi to
tighten up a little on other forms
of borrowing in recent months,
indicating confidence in the basic
strength of the nation's current
economic boom and no fear of
hurting it.
The board's actions indicaU'
more a fear than the boom or
some element of it might hurt
itself by booming too high and
then tumbling.
Only last Monday. Chairman
J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of
tne senate Banking committee,
warned of "excessive speculating
activity" on the stock market,
Youngster Gets in
Wrong Line; Receives
Two Vaccinations
Wheeling, W. Va. (U.R)
It wasn't the extra lollypop,
he just got mixed up.
That's the way 6-year-old
Gary Bonenberger explained
Saturday how he became the
first child in the nation to .
receive two shots of the Salk
anti-polio vaccine on the same
day.
Gary was one of 332 children
who were inoculated at Madi
son school in Wheeling. As
bonus each child received a
lollypop.
But Gary Insisted it wasn't
the second lollypop he was
after. He said that after he
received the first shot he ac
cidentally wound up in an
other line and got an injection
in the other arm.
His anxious mother, Mrs.
Joseph . Bonnenberger. tele-'
phoned Dr. Jonas Salk's office
in Pittsburgh to find out if
Gary would suffer any ill ef
fect. Salk's secretary assured her
the boy would not.
reminiscent of the days before
the 1929 crash. Fulbright's com
mittee recently held hearings on
the. market boom and is now
working on a report of its study.
"Overcautious"
Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.)
who is ranking minority mem
ber of the committee and fre
quently battled with Fulbright
during the hearings, said the
board was perhaps "overcau
tious in raising the require
ments, but added that he would "
not quarrel with the decision.
"Speaking for the stock market
itself, G. Keith Funston, presi
dent of the N. Y. Stock Ex
change, said "we realise the
board is just as concerned as the
exchange is with maintaining
share ownership of American -business
on a sound credit structure."
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