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By UNITED PRESS
Thundershowers snapped a
three-week heat wave in the
Midwest Saturday but a hur
0 ricane named "connie" whipped
its way across the Caribbean
Sea, threatening the South At
lantic Seaboard.
The Miami Weather Bureau
cautioned southeastern coastal
interests as far north as Cape
Hatteras, N. C, to watch for
possible hurricane warnings and
advised against making extend
ed trips in sea craft without
radios.
Aids Farmers
Meanwhile, cool air brought
on by showers gave new life
to farmers in mid-continent and
brought relief to swelting city
residents.
The rain began- to fall Friday
night in a band from Eastern
Kansas to the Southern Great
Lakes region and from Eastern
Colorado northward into the Da
Q kotas.
The wetherman said the cool
air was moving slowly eastward
and might bring3 relief to the
heatweary East by late Satur-
day.G
May Return0
Put he cautioned that the heat
would probablyi return again in
full force Monday.
G Showers dropped early morn
ing temperatures into the East
into the 80s from near 100-de-gree
readings.
In North Dakota, however,
they took more violent forms.
A udden, fierce thunderstorm
with winds up to 70 miles per
Jjour snapped a radio transmitter
Jower, blew down power lines
Gand tore the roof of a state pris
Cpn farm building at Bismark
(Friday.
Michael McDermotf
3 Dies in Washington
Washington CJ.P.) Michael
J. McDermott, for 26 years top
State department "spokesman,"
Hied Friday night of a heart con
dition at the age of 61.
A native of Peabody, Mass.,
McDermott joined the depart
ment's press setftion in 1920, be
coming its head in 1927. He was
the official department spokes
man with the press and a top
line diplomat.
In 1953, he was appointed am
bassador to El Salvador. He re
tired from the post several
months ago.
The genial, heavy-set Irishman
(yeas known to thousands of
Washington officials and news
men as "Mike" or "Mac."
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OVERJOYED BY FREEDOM after release from Chinese prison camp, 11 U. S. airmen ar
rive in Manila for physical checkup before resuming flight to California. From left, front:
Sgt. Howard W. Brown, St. Paul, Minn.; Airman John W. Thompson, Orange, N. J.; Airman
Daniel G. Schmidt, Redding, Cal., and Airman Harry M. Benjamin, Jr., Worthington, Minn.
Rear, from left: Col. John K. Arnold, O.; Lt. John W. Buck, Armathwaite, Tenn.; Lt, Wal
lace L. Brown, Banks, Ala.; Capt. Eugene J. Vaadi, Clayton, N. Y.; Maj. W. H. Baumer, Lew
isburg, Pa., and Capt. Elmer F. Llewellyn, Missoula, Mont (International)
Murray Predicts Approval for
Controversial Hells Canyon Dam
Washington U.R) Chair
man James E. Murray of the
Senate Interior Committee pre
dicted Saturday that the next
session of Congress will approve
five big water and power de
velopments, including the con
troversial Hells Canyon dam.
The Montana Democrat join
ed with Sen. Clinton P. Ander
son (B-NJVI.), chairman of a sub
committee on irrigation and re
clamation, in a statement tag
eing the five projects as "priori
ty matters" for Congress next
year.
Other Projects
Besides Hells Canyon, the pro
jects are the Upper Colorado
Basin storage, Ventura in Cali
fornia, Washita in Oklahoma,
and Fryingpan-Arkansas in Colo
rado.
The Hell's Canyon project on
the Snake river on the Idaho
Oregon border has been the sub
ject of a bitter fight between
public and private power advo
cates. The Federal Power Commis
sion last Thursday authorized
the Idaho Power Co. to build
three low dams in the area. Mur
ray, Anderson and others favor
federal construction of a single
high dam.
Their joint statement assert
ed that the first session of the
Democratic - controlled 84th
Congress had "arrested and re
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Policy Re-established
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has been re-established," the
Longview Boy Scout
Found Unharmed in
Abandoned Mine
Spirit Lake, Wash. (U.R) A
44-hour search for 12-year-old
Bennis Lloyd, Longview, Wash.,
Boy Scout ended at dawn Sat
urday when searchers found the
boy alive and well in an aband
oned mine eight miles north of
Grizzly Pass in the Mt. St. Hel
ens area.
The boy disappeared from an
overnight Boy Scout hike about
10 a.m. Thursday. He told fel
low Scouts he was going to re
turn to camp, but none of his
companions took him seriously
until ha failed to return.
Weak from Hunger
Dennis was found by James
Ray and Bio Bill Kratzenstein
of the U. S. Forest Service. They
reported the boy uninjured but
weak from hunger and exposure.
A pack-horse party was dis
patched immediately from Spirit
Lake ranger station to bring the
boy out of the wild, rugged
country. With the pack party
was J. H. Oberteufer, chief
Scout executive of' the Portland
area council.
The boy was found 11 miles,
by twisting trial, from Spirit
Lake ranger station.
Parents Overjoyed
Parents of the boy, Mr. and
Mrs: Robert Lloyd, were over
joyed when news came ihat their
son had been found. 'They had
spent a sleepless Friday night
at the ranger station. "We had
not given up hope. We were
sure Dennie would keep his
head," Mrs. Lloyd said.
The radio flash from two
mountain lookouts to the ranger
station came only 30 minutes
after a small army of mountain
eers, national guardsmen, forest
ers and state patrolmen had
spread out over the rough Griz
zly Pass area to resume the
search!.
U. S. Nudists Name
Leaders for Year v
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) An In
diana businessman and a Kansas
housewife were named "nudist
man and woman of the year" at
the annual convention of the
American Sunbathing associa
tion near here Saturday.
Earl Barrett, Granger, Ind.,
who has been active in helping
defeat antinudist measures in the
midwest, was elected "man of
the year." Mrs. Maria Park,
Newton, Kan., who was nudist
queen at last year's convention,
was named "woman of the year."
The convention is being held
at Sunway ranch near Deer
Park, about 30 miles north of
here, which is headquarters of
the Sunbathing Society of Spo
kane. Reed Suplee, Palmerton, Pa.,
was reelected president of the
Sunbathers for his second term.
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statement said. "Now there re
mains the task of reinstituting
a policy of driving and .dynamic
advance."
The two senators said Con
gress "independently initiated"
new construction starts on five
public power projects: Hardin
Yellowtail in Montana, Yakima
Rosa in Washington, Provo in
Utah, Cougar in Oregon, and
Ice Harbor in Washington.
In addition, they said, it com
pleted "the break-through of a
paralyzed program" on five wa
ter projects: Palo Verde in Cali
fornia and Arizona, Santa Maria
in California, Michaud Flats in
Idaho, North unit Deschutes in
Oregon, and Foster Creek unit
Chief Joseph in Washington.
Court Martial at
Fort Lewis Hears v
Defese Witness
Fort Lewis, Wash., (U.R) A
court martial hearing enemy col
laboration charges against 1st
Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin, 38, of
BJanchard, Okla., met in a morn
ing session here Saturday to
hear a defense witness.
The unidentified witness was
allowed to testify out of turn
because he is leaving for Eur
ope today.
Deney Charges
Erwin denied charges he col
laborated with the enemy dur
ing the early months of 1951
while a prisoner of war in North
Korea.
Friday, a sergeant who was a
member of the Central Peace
Committee of PWs in Korea
said "I felt like I had been
done a very mean injustice" by
his fellow POW's who elected
him to the committee.
Staff Sgt. Leroy Carter, Jr.,
Seattle, told of constant threats
the Chinese and North Koreans
used against CPC members to
get what they wanted from the
prisoners. He also described his
deep fear of reprisals.
The CPC was composed of
United Nations prisoners of war
from all POW camps in North
Korea. It was the key weapon
of the Communits in their so
called international peace of
fensive. Wouldn't Trust Erwin
Earlier, Capt. Sheldon H.
Foss, Hampden Highland, Me.,
said he would not trust Erwin
to serve with him. He said Er
win was too "eloquent" in his
statements about Communist
doctrine when requested by
Chinese Reds to address the men
of his compound in POW Camp
No. 5. -
Foss said he was a member
of a prisoners' detective squad
which kept tabs on officers
whom the group believed were
not conducting themselves as
they should and said he believed
Erwin had once informed on a
major.
Edmund Kiernan, Dana Point,
Calif., was named vice-president:
Registration at the open-air
activities has passed the 500
mark. Next year's convention
will be in Palmerton, Pa., and
the 1957 session is scheduled for
San Jose, Calif.
The Pacific ocean covers
about one-third of the earth's
surface.
Manila Newsmen
Get Visas (or
Visit to Russia
Manila U.R) The publisher
and the editor-in-chief of the Ma
nila Chronicle and a third Chron
icle official have been granted
visas to make an observation
tour of Russia and other Iron
Curtain countries, the newspa
per said.
In a special dispatch under a
West Berlin dateline the Chron
icle said Publisher Eugenio Lo
pez Sr., Editor in Chief Ernesto
Del Rosario and Secretary Jose
Cosca will soon visit Russia.
Lopez, a wealthy industrialist,
has been on a world tour since
last May. Del Rosario recently
left Manila to join Lopez in
Europe.
To Leave Saturday
The Chronicle said Lopez Del
Rosario and Cosca will leave
Germany for Paris Saturday to
pick up their visas and then
travel by plane to Moscow by
way of Prague or Berlin. They
expect to stay one or two weeks
in Russia.
The Chronicle, said President
Magsaysay had given permission
to the three Chronicle officials
to travel to Communist coun
tries. Filipinos . are generally
banned from travelling to such
countries. .
Russians Release
73 Austrian POWs
Vienna, Austria (U.R); Soviet
authorities Saturday turned over
to Austrian government 73 pris
oners of war and civilians held
for years in Russia for alleged
war crimes.
Sunday, August 7, 1955
Visiting Russians Mingle
With Indians, Cowboys at
Old West Show in Wyoming
Sheridan, Wyo. U.R) Three
visiting Russians, wearing western-style
leather thong "bolo"
ties, caught some of the flavor
of the old west Saturday as they
mingled with calf-branding cow-
Ike Plays Golf
Under Hot Sun
Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Pres
ident Eisenhower played 18
holes of golf in the sizzling sun
Saturday with an old Army
friend and a former Democratic
Pennsylvania state senator.
The weather here was no re
lief from Washington. The
Gettysburg temperature at noon
was 98.
After his early morning golf,
the President returned to his
farm on the edge of the Gettys
burg battlefield. He is spending
the better part of a week here
working on legislation passed in
the congressional adjournment
rush.
Mr. Eisenhower's golfing part
ners were Brig. Gen. Arthur S.
Nevins, who owns the farm next
to the President's, and John S.
Rice, former senator and local
manufacturer.
The Austrians arrived at
Voeslau south of Vienna, early
Saturday aboard a train. Soviet
authorities had requested that
the time of the arrival be kept
secret.
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MEDFORD (OXEGOW) MAS. TXIIUME SEVEN
boys and 2,000 Indians.
The rope - twirling cowboys
really caught the eye of Petr
Badmindra, and he insisted on
trying his hand at swinging a
lariat. He declined, however, to
actually try to rope a calf.
The Russians flew here to wit
ness a pow-wow of 2,000 Indians
decked out in their tribal
finery from the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
They paused to talk with 97-year-old
Dewey Beard, believed
to be last surviving Sioux brave
of the battle of the Little Big
Horn better known as "Cust
er's Last Stand." Like the Rus
sians, the aging Sioux warrior
spoke through an interpreter.
The three Russians were up
at the crack of dawn Saturday
morning as they wound up an
overnight visit to the huge, 173,-000-acre
Keeling Ranch near Gil
lette, Wyo.
Eat Hearty Breakfast
After packing away a hearty
breakfast of hot cakes, bacon and
eggs . washed down with hot
coffee they were given a
demonstration of calf roping
and branding.
As usual the Russians fired a
barrage of questions, jotted down
copious notes.
The Russians were genuinely
appreciative of the reception
they were given here -1 and
throughout their trip.
The leader of the delegation,
Yuri Golabash, said he hoped
the friendship would lead to a
"good life for everybody in the
world."
Talbott Successor
Still Not Selected
Washington U.R) Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson
said Friday night "I haven't
talked to any" one man yet"
about succeeding Harold E. Tal
bott as Air Force secretary.
"I am being careful on this
one," Wilson said.
He was asked about Talbott'
replacement as the list of ru
mored successors to Talbott grew
bigger. The White House had
no comment.
Talbott resigned as air secre
tary after Senate investigators
conducted an inquiry into his
business activities. His resigna
tion is effective Aug. 13.
One of the latest persons men
tioned for the post, Cincinnati
publisher David S. Ingalls.. said
in Lisbon, Portugal, where he
is on vacation; that he "really
knows nothing" about the re
ports. Ingalls is president and pub
lisher of the Cincinnati Times
Star and a cousin and former
campaign manager for the late
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio).
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