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New York (U.PJ Victor Risel,
anti-racketeering labor column
ist, -was splashed in the face by
acid thrown by an unidentified
man early today. Doctors said
he is in danger of losing his eye
sight. U.S. Attorney Paul W. Wil
liams said Riesel was to have
been a witness before a special
Grand Jury investigating rack
eteering in the garment indus
try, and "I regard this as an
attempt to intimidate witnesses
in the government's investigation."
Williams called FBI agents
and the chief of his criminal
division to an immediate con-
xerence in an attempt to get a
line on those responsible."
The attack was made about
3 a.m. when Riesel and a girl
assistant left Lindy's Restaurant
at 51st st. and Broadway and
prepared to enter her auto.
Attacked Racketeering
The two had gone to the res
taurant after a midnight radio
broadcast in which Riesel inter
viewed two members of a Long
Island building trades union
fighting the local dbmination
of William C. De Koning Jr.,
son of a Long Island labor czar
and convicted extortioner.
In two previous appearances
on the program, and in columns
which appeared this week in 193
newspapers across the country,
Riesel had attacked labor rack
eteering on a broad front, in
cluding the New York garment
industry, the trucking industry,
and the New York waterfront.
He also had attacked Southern
segregation moves as they affect
the labor field.
In a column which appeared
Monday, Riesel wrote:
"Now there's still plenty of
muscle around, and they can
put acid on dresses or 'stink
bombs' on food in restaurants.
But that's crude. The dress
trucking racket works another
way these days."
1 Can'l See'
Betty Kevins, Riesel's assist
ant on the radio program, in
which he was making vacation
appeara-ices for Barry Gray,
said the shabbily dressed young
man approached them as they
neared her car around the corner
from the restaurant.
Egypt Makes New
Aggression Charges
United Nations, N.Y. (U.RV
New charges of aggression
flared today between Egypt and
Israel on the eve of a peace mis
sion to Palestine by U.N. Secre
tary general Dag Hammerskjold.
Egypt charged in a letter to
the U.S. Security Council that
Israel deliberately attacked
Egypt cities in the Gaza Strip.
The letter said 33 civilians were
killed and 92 were injured.
At the same time, United press
dispatches from Jerusalem re
ported an Israeli charge that
Egyptian forces had made seven
attacks on Jewish settlements
along the Gaza border.
The Egyptians said Israeli
troops attacked four Egyptian
cities in the narrow Gaza Strip
of Southern Palestine.
Barnhari Low Bidder
On Building Addition
H. Barnhart Construction com
pany of Medford has been award
ed the contract to build a one-
story concrete block addition to
the Pacific Telephone company's
equipment building in Gold Hill,
J. H. Creager, local manager said
today.
Barnharfs bid was $7,600.
The only other bidder was Wiley
company of Ashland, which bid
$7,892.
Work on the 21x25-foot addi
tion will be started about April
10, Creager said, and is sched
uled for completion about mid
September. The addition "will be
used to house more dial central
office equipment.
Josef Stalin Attempted To Be Superman,
Malenkov Tells London Press Conference
London (U.R) Former Soviet
Premier Georgi Malenkov today
publicly repudiated the leader
ship of his political mentor, the
late Josef Stalin whom he
charged had attempted to be a
superman.
Malenkov succeeded Stalin as
Soviet Premier. He now is Soviet
minister of power stations, a role
in which he is winding up a tour
of British conventional and
atomic power installations.
Supernatural Features
In repudiating Stalin, he told
a press conference that Stalin
had tried to assume "super
natural features" in pursuing his
"cult of personality."
Malenkov thus fell in step with
the new line set at the recent
20th Soviet Communist party
Miss Nevins said the man came
out of a dark alley alongside
the Mark Hellinger Theatre as
if he were seeking a handout.
She said she saw him throw
something into Riesel's face.
"At first I thought it was
water," she said. "Then Vic put
his hands to his face and said,
'My gosh, my gosh.' "
Miss Nevins said she led the
stricken writer back into
Lindy's. Riesel told Manager
Fred Schuterman: "I can't see.
There's a film over my eyes.'
Schuterman called police who
took Riesel to St. Clares hos
pital. Doctors said Riesel's vision
was impaired and his face badly
burned by the acid. They said
he was able to distinguish light
and moving objects but that full
damage would not be known
immediately.
Lumber Industry
In Confusion Oyer
Notices by FHA
Portland U.R) The West
Coast lumber industry was
thrown into confusion here to
day when the Federal Housing
Administration issued official
notices that boards now manu
factured by many segments of
the industry did not conform to
FHA standards.
The notices said building con
structed of the "illegal" boards
would not be eligible for FHA
loans.
Emergency Meeting
The Portland Home Builders
Association called an emergency
meeting to consider the situa
tion. '
Portland is headquarters for
the West Coast Lumber Grading
and Manufacturing Association
which March 15 revised grading
rules by dropping the thickness
of boards from 25-32 to 3-4 inch.
The new thickness has been
common for several years at'
thousands of sawmills both in
the western fir and southern
pine regions but was only recog
nized officially last month and
the new dimensions stamped, on
the boards.
Lumbermen here said much
of the southern pine lumber
manufactured east of the Missis
sippi is already 3-4 inch and may
come under the FHA ban.
Said Not Feasible
The FHA notice said "it is
not considered feasible to ac
cept the new specification pend
ing a change in American Lum
ber Standards rule or an agree
ment by a majority of the indus
try on some other standard thick
ness."
The AL.S nas scheduled a
meeting in Chicago to consider
board dimensions April 20 but
H. V. Simpson, executive vice
president of the West Coast Lum
bermen's Association here, said
it would take some time for the
ALS rule to be changed.
Smooth Seas Carry
Grace Toward Monaco
Aboard Constitution (U.R)
Movie queen Grace Kelly today
sailed on calm seas, an omen
of good fortune, to Monaco to
become a princess.
The Constitution, several hun
dred miles at sea, knifed through
moderate seas to Miss Kelly's
storybook wedding to Prince
Rainier III.
Miss Kelly, the 70 members
of her wedding party and the
ship's other passengers welcomed
the relaxed atmosphere aboard
the vessel in contrast to the
actress' frantic press conference
before sailing time.
' Stewards, recovered from the
excitement of the departure, re
moved from Miss Kelly's luxuri
ous stateroom armfuls of flow
ers, trunks, hatboxes and the
scores of gifts which jammed
her accommodations. '
Congress in Moscow by party
secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev.
The pudgy former Premier at
tacked the "cult of personality,"
which is Communist doubletalk
for the downgrading of the Stalin
legend, at his first formal press
conference outside Iron Curtain
lands.
Newsmen Ask Views
Some 250 newsmen crowded
into the Soviet Embassy to ask
Malenkov his views of Soviet
policy. Their questions ranged
from arms shipments to Egypt to
intervention in the Kashmir dis
pute. But main interest centered on
the first opportunity given West
ern newsmen to sound him out
on his stand on the new Soviet
.line on Stalin. .
Mysterious Blasts
Off Florida Coast
Being Investigated
Military Exercises
May Be Responsible
Sarasota, Fla. U.R The
Coast Guard said today a mys
terious explosion which rocked
70 miles of the Florida Gulf
Coast may have been caused by
"night exercises" of the Navy or
Air Force.
The Coast Guard in Miami re
ported that the cause of the
blasts was still unknown and
was being investigated.'
Restricted Area
"We know there is a restrict
ed area off the coast and that
it is used for night exercises by
either the Navy or Air Force or
both," a guardsman said.
The "rumbling explosions"
were felt along the coast from
Englewood, some 30 miles south
of Sarasota, to Indian Rocks
Beach near Clearwater.
Alarmed shoreline residents
swamped local radio stations
and newspapers with calls. Sev
eral windows were reported
shattered in the Bradenton area.
A flier, E. T. Denham Jr.,
said he saw two flashes from
the gulf that looked at first like
"lightning flashes from a big
thunderhead squall."
No Storms in Area
"I checked my weather re
ports and the sky and saw there
were no storms in the area, so I
figured they must be explosions."
He said the blasts appeared to
come from a spot in the gulf
West of Sarasota.
Fred J. Kruea, leader of the
Civil Defense Ground Corps at
Englewood, also said he saw two
flashes from the gulf at 9:05 p.m.
(EST).
A Coast Guard helicopter and
amphibian were quickly dis
patched from the air station at
St. Petersburg. But both re
turned with negative reports.
Fluoridation Vote
Called at Ashland
Ashland The Ashland city
council Tuesday passed a reso
lution calling for a special elec
tion May 18 on fluoridation of
the Ashland water supply.
The council did not adopt a
specific ordinance for fluorida
tion, but called for a vote on the
general issue.
Registered voters will cast
ballots on the proposition:
"Shall the City of Ashland,
Jackson county, Oregon, add
fluoride to the public water sup
ply in accordance with regula
tions of the Oregon State Board
of Health, with the cost thereof
to be added to the water bill of
each user not to exceed 15c per
month?'
The action follows a public
hearing last month at which pro
ponents and opponents discussed
the proposal. A show of hands
at that time indicated the ma
jority present favored fluorida
tion. A group of Ashland physicians
and dentists presented a petition
urging fluoridation to the coun
cil earlier this year.
Famous Engineer Leaves
Estate of $7,000,000
Redwood City (U.R) Col.
Daniel Cowan Jackling, Wood
side, Calif., the world famous
mining engineer who died March
13, left an estate valued at $7
million.
He left $500,000 outright to
his widow, Mrs. Virginia Jol
liffe Jackling, and $400,000 to
relatives, friends and employees.
The remainder of the estate was
left in trust for his widow. On
her death, the principal goes
to charities, churches and vari
ous colleges to provide loan
funds for engineering students.
He was asked to speak out on
the Soviet campaign to reduce
the Stalin myth to human pro
portions, since Malenkov was
one of the men who worked inti
mately with the late Soviet dic
tator over a long period of time.
"This question has been dealt
with in the party conference and
in the press afterward, "Malen
kov said.
Foreign to Party Spirit
But he went on to attack the
"cult" as being "foreign to the
spirit of the party."
He spoke of the "supernatural
features" which he said the ex
ponents of the cult had sought
to assume.
Malenkov meticulously avoid-
ted using Stalin 'i name.
HlT
Hammarskjold
Rome Conference
On Mid-East Crisis
UN Secretary-General
To Leave on Friday
United Nations, N.Y. U.R)
U.N. Secretary general Dag
Hammarskjold said today he
planned to hold a top level con
ference with his Middle East
aides in Rome Saturday before
proceeding on his peace mission
to Palestine.
He told a press conference
that he would "take all the time
necessary" to ascertain the sit
uation in the troubled Mid-East.
The Security Council, which au
thorized his personal survey
mission yesterday, instructed
him ot report on his findings by
May 4.
To Leave Tomorrow
He will leave here tomorrow
for Rome, via London. He said
he had summoned for confer
ences in the Italian capital Maj.
Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada,
chief of staff of the U. N. Pales
tine Truce Supervision team;
Henri Vigier of France, political
adviser to Burns, and Henry La
bouisse of the United States,
chief of the U. N. Palestine Re
lief and Works Agency.
The Swedish diplomat said he
would spend about three days in
Rome, going then to Beirut, Le
banon, to begin his tour of Mid-
East capitals in an effort to find
a means of ending the mounting
threat of war between Israel and
the Arab nations. '
The secretary-general said he
may look into many matters in
the Middle East beyond the
council's directive that he con
vey compliance with the Pales
tine armistice agreements and
U. N. peace directives. These
matters, however,, would, not be
part of his formal report, he
said.
The resolution sending Ham
marskjold to the Mid-East was
sponsored by the United States
which asked early and urgent
action on means of reducing the
tension.
Sehorn Transferred
From ASC Office
Talbert (Tab) Sehorn, office
manager for the Jackson county
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation committee for the
past 'five years, will be trans
ferred to the state ASC office
in Portland, it was announced
yesterday.
Date of Schorn's transfer has
not as yet been set. He will be
program specialist in Portland.
The ASC committee will re
ceive applications for the posi
tion here until April 13.
The committee said applicants
must be high school graduates
between 19 and 65 years old and
must have at least two years of
farm experience or equivalent
training. They also must have
at least two years of responsible
office experience.
Applications may be filed in
the . ASC office in the county
courthouse. Two applicants
were interviewed by the com
mittee at a meeting Tuesday.
Leeland Ross, -new farmer
field representative, was pres
ent at the Tuesday meeting. Ross
replaced Ted Dunwoody who
recently resigned.
Vofer Pamphlet Mailing
To Households Ruled Out
Salem (U.R) Dave O'Hara,
head of the State Elections Di
vision, said today a proposal to
send voters' pamphlets to each
household rather than to each
registered voter was unwork
able. The household delivery plan
has been recommended to the
Interim Committee on Elections
by its research staff as a money
saving move.
O'Hara contended the new
plan would require a canvass of
many communities lacking house
mail service.
Alaskans, Hawaiians
Must Pay Their Taxes
Washington U.R Internal
Revenue officials said today rep
resentation or no representation,
residents of Alaska, Hawaii and
District of Columbia still must
pay their taxes.
A Fairbanks, Alaska, jury this
week acquitted former Internal
Revenue collector Jack Marler
of a charge of wilfully failing to
file an income tax return. Mar
ler pleaded "taxation without
epreseniation,'
tie
RIPPING THROUGH FOUR STATES, tornado kills at least eight persons, injures more
than 75. This is destruction wrought in Drumright, Okla., where five died.(InterTvational)
Tornado Victims Start Cleanup
As Storm Moves Over Atlantic
By UNITED PRESS
The remnants of a vast killer
storm moved out into the Atlan
tic Ocean today, leaving a heart
breaking job of reconstruction
behind.
The final death count in the
two-day barrage of tornadoes
and storms stood at 43. Hospitals
Stevenson, Kefauver
Wait Illinois Test
Chicago U.R) Adlai Steven
son and Sen. Estes Kefauver test
their strength again Tuesday,
this time in Stevenson's home
state.
It is not a clear-cut contest.
Stevenson's name is the only one
on the Democratic ballot. Voters
will' mark their presidential
preference and elect 50 dele
gates to the national convention
as part of the state's primary
election.
Write-in Campaign
But Kefauver backers have
been drumming up. a write-in
campaign for the Tennessee sen
ator, especially since his victory
over Stevenson in Minnesota
and his showing in Wisconsin
this week.
Though this', is Stevenson's
home ground and the Illinois
Democratic organization is be
hind him, Kefauver's backers be
lieve they will elect some dele
gates 'favorable to their man.
Herbert Lockwood, who heads
the Illinois Kefauver clubs, said
the number might hit 20.
There also has been a last
minute campaign for write-in
votes for Gov. Frank J. Lausche
of Ohio.
The Illinois vote is strictly a
popularity poll. It is not binding
Lumber Wholesalers
Promise Support
Eugene (U.R) Lumber
wholesalers and mill shippers
representing some 40 southern
Oregon firms agreed yesterday
to support similar Northwest
groups in handling traffic and
lumber problems.
The meeting was held as an
outgrowth of an Interstate Com
merce Commission order, effec
tive next Monday, which bans
slow freight routing for sale-in-transit
lumber. They claimed
such an order would hurt whole
salers and many small mills.
Robert Taylor, chairman of
the Eugene area group, said it
was voted unanimously to coop
erate with similar groups in
Portland, Seattle and other cities.
A resolution asked the traffic
department of the West Coast
Lumbermen's Association to re
frain from making recommenda
tions to the ICC relating to rail
service which might be detri
mental to green dimension mill
operations.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 516.57, off 2.08; 20 rails
171.44, off 0.20; 15 utilities
67.08, off 0.06, and 65 stocks
181.78, off 0.49. Sales today
were about 2,950,000 shares
compared with 2,760,000 yester
day. Wealher
FORECAST: Fair tonight with
.colder temperatures. Variable
high cloudiness Friday. Low
tonight 28-30. High Friday 65.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 64
Lowest this Morning 38
were jammed with many of the
estimated 500 injured. Hundreds
of families, their homes wrecked,
searched for new dwelling
places.
In Washington, U. S'. Weather
Bureau officials said the 12-state
tornado rampage may go down
as one of the worst in the nation's
on convention delegates.
But a big Kefauver write-in
would be a stunning blow to
Stevenson.
On the Republican ballot, can
didates for the nomination will
be President Eisenhower, Calif
ornia Sen. William F. Knowland
and a perennial . office-seeker
from Chicago named Lar Daly.
Knowland's name was entered
before Mr. Eisenhower announc
ed for a second term. Then,
under state, law, it could not be
withdrawn. ' Knowland has not
campaigned ' but his supporters
have been plugging for him any
way. Corn Allotment
Tentatively OK'd
Washington (U.R) Senate
House farm conferees tentatively
agreed today to increase the
1956 corn planting allotments by
18.6 per cent. These are the allot
ments that commercial corn pro
ducers must comply with to get
price support.
The conferees adopted a Sen
ate plan which would set this
year's allotment at 51,000,000
acres instead of the 43,000,000
acres fixed by the Agriculture
Department.
In announcing the action,
Chairman Allen J. Ellender
(D-La.) said the Senate-House
Conference Committee now has
"just about buttoned up every
thing" in the farm bill and ex
pected to complete action tomor
row. The final bill is expected to
be put before Congress next
week. Its supporters believed
President Eisenhower is relax
ing his opposition to it and will
sign it. They based this belief
on his news conference remarks
yesterday.
Portlander Beaten
By Gang of Youths
Portland (U.R) Albert M,
McHenry, 21, told police today.
he was beaten by a gang of six
youths while parked with a girl
friend on Council Crest last
night. "
McHenry told officers that
while he and Barbara Goshorn,
18, were parked another car
pulled up behind them. He said
the door on his side opened and
that he was pulled from the car
and beaten up. "The girl sounded
the auto horn and the youths
fled.
Police later questioned a
youth who said he and five
companions had been there. The
youth denied taking part in any
beating and would not identify
his companions. He said the
group intended only to frighten
the couple but that the situation
"got out of hand," Recording to
detectives Einar Moen and Phil
Jackson. The youth was released
to his father.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo
Smith designated April 15 to 21
as home economics week in Ore
gon. , ,
history. Other tornado barrages
have killed more persons, but
few have ever moved so fast and
covered such a wide area.
The storms came raging out of
the Southwest Monday and hit
their climax Tuesday night when
they killed 17 persons in western
Michi2an.,The vicious Weather
front kept going east, but lost
much of its power trying to get
over the Appalachian Mountains.
Winds got up to 75 miles an
hour at Rochester, N.Y., and a
tornado funnel was sighted
whirling over Vermont. Winds
up to 70 miles per hour bit West
Virginia, while a dense fog de
layed shipping in New York
City and made driving hazard'
ous through eastern and central
Massachusetts.
The fog lifted in New York
shortly before midnight, how
ever, and the winds died. Fore
casters said the East should have
clear, sunny weather today.
The twisters' final toll in terms
of lives and millions of dollars
probably will not be known for
weeks. Long after a tornado had
passed, the fatality count went
up in Tennessee with the death
of an infant hospitalized victim.
State by State Toll
State by state, the death count
was Michigan 17, Wisconsin 8,
Tennessee 5, Oklahoma 5, Texas
3, Kansas 2, Mississippi 1, Minne
sota 1, and Kentucky 1.
Twisters and storms also
spread havoc through parts of
Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska
and Arkansas.
The worst-hit states called
upon their full resources to clean
up .the wreckage.
Damage was estimated at $11,
000,000 around Grand Rapids,
Mich., with 69 buildings de
stroyed and 186 others damaged
or destroyed. National Guards
men and other authorities sealed
off the entire disaster area.
Woodcock Resigns
City Council Seat
City Councilman Dick Wood
cock, who has represented Ward
II on the council for the past
3 13 years, today submitted his
resignation.
He has moved from Ward II,
and no longer is eligible to rep
resent that district on the coun
cil. The resignation is effective
immediately. Woodcock said he
hopes that eventually he can re
turn to city service in some ca
pacity, possibly on the council
again.
His successor, under the city
charter, will be named by the
council. Its next meeting will be
April 17.
Woodcock was elected for a
four-year term starting Jan. 1,
1953.
70 Indicate Participation
In Fire Training School
About 70 men have indicated
they plan to participate in a
foreman's fire training school
here April 19 and 20, according
to Lewis L. Simpson, secretary
manager of the Southern Oregon
Conservation and Tree Farm
association.
Arrangements for the training
course were made in coopera
tion with state apd federal agen
cies. Instructors will be furnish
ed by the state and federal for
est services, Simpson said.
The need for a foreman's
training school developed dur
ing last September's forest fires
in this area when supervisory
personnel had to be brought
Victims Trapped
Beneath Rubble
Of Old Building
Six Perish, Six
Others Injured
New York (U.R) The brick
front- wall of a burning one
story building collapsed on a
squad of firemen .Wednesday
night, killing six of them and
injuring fix others.
Five of the firemen died in
stantly in the roaring mass of
rubble and the sixth casualty
died shortly after he was taken
to a hospital. Two of the injured
suffered broken bones and the
others sustained cuts, bruises
and shock.
It was the worst toll of fire
men taken in a New York fire
since, 1932, when eight firemen
were killed.
Others Narrowly Escape
Several score more firemen
narrowly escaped injury Wed
nesday night by scrambling to
safety when the cry went up
that the wall was falling.
Fireman Joseph O'Keefe, 29,
who was on a ladder with two
of the men who were killed said
"I heard a cry, 'watch out, watch
out, it's going in!" I had no
chance to do anything. The next
thing I knew, I was going
down."
O'Keefe said "I was lucky. I
rolled when I hit but it hap
pened so quickly the other men
never hao a chance."
Marquee Supports Melted
The fire was in a former
theater building, now used for
the manufacture of artificial
flowers.. . The intense heat of
burning chemicals apparently
melted the thin supports of a
heavy marquee on the front of
the building causing it to col
lapse, Fire Commissioner Ed
ward Cavanagh said.
The falling marquee i tore
loose a large section of the front
wall which collapsed, smashing
ladders and equipment, and
carrying the screaming victims
with it.
County Receives
Instructions for Aid
Jackson county has received
instructions from the civil de
fense agency to apply formally
for federal disaster relief aid,
according to County Engineer
Paul B. Rynning.
Word was received last week
that the county's preliminary ap
plication for $62,289.19 in fed
eral aid has been approved by
the federal civil defense admin
istration. Rynning said at least five
copies must be made of all items,
with four certified copies going
to the government. Total claims
must be in by June 29.
Included in the request is
$562.50 for Rogue River debris
clearing; $1,331.65 for Rogue
River police protection; $86,600
for emergency road and bridge
repair; and $1,640.04 for equip
ment damage.
The items are part of the
more than $100,000 cost caused
by the December floods.
Governor Advocates
Clean Communities
Salem (U.R) Clean commu
nities to match Oregon's scenery
and draw a record-breaking
tourist crowd here advocated by
Gov Elmo Smith today in desig
nating May 14 to 20 as clean-up
and general beautification week.
from outside the area, Simpson
said.
He pointed out that local fore
men are more familiar ' with
men fighting fires in this area,
as well as the topography, burn;
ing conditions and other factors.
Simpson urged mills to make
a special effort to send men to
the school, as mill crews back
up logging crews in fire fighting.
He noted that last fall the need
for trained foremen from the
mills was acute, and that only
one or two operators had any
trained personnel in mill crews.
The school will be held at the
state forest patrol1 headquarters
on Table Rock rd. Lunch will
be furnished by the forest patroL