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Friday. June 1. 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Highway Safety Delegates Map Plans To Alert Own Communities San Francisco (U.R) Dele-! into it and then you'll have a gate to the weitern regional ! police state." conference of President Ein-I said the live, of 100,000 . Americans can be saved in the hower Committee for Traffic ,,,. Safety mapped plans today for "do it yourself safety programs in their own communities. The 700 delegates, taking their cues from warnings that the fed . eral government may step in if the highway slaughter gets any worse, met in state panels to discuss alerting their own cities, counties and states to action. Foremost in their thoughts was the problem of reducing the nation's annual highway toll of 38,000 deaths, 1.350,000 injuries and $4,000,000,000 economic loss. Great Penalty In a message to the opening session of the two-day confer ence Thursday, President Eisen hower said the nation is paying a "great penalty" because "we have not been willing to disci pline ourselves to live together on our public roads." Howard Pyle, former gover nor of Arizona and now deputy assistant to the President, told the delegates that "no domestic problem facing us today is more critically urgent than the prob lem of highway safety." He warned that if the people themselves don't solve the prob lem, "some demagogue will see that the federal government gets "The answer is an organized citizenry, dedicated to the idea that the automobile shall not be known and used as a guided mis sile for the destruction of life and property." "If organized citizens will sup port methods of accident preven tion, they can cut traffic deaths in half within six months," Pyle said. "That will mean 20.000 lives saved every year 100,000 in the next five years." Another warning of possible federal intervention came from Judge William J. McGuiness of Oakland, Calif. He said: "People who fight against road blocks, against use of radar in traffic control, against automo bile inspections and similar en forcement devices on grounds that their constitutional rights are being infringed upon have some surprises in store for them in the way of far greater restric- j tions if the nation's driving rec ord is not improved. "Today's traffic fatality emer gency calls for drastic measures. I am hopeful that American mo torists will come to their senses and correct the situation through their own efforts." Virgil Pinkley, editor and pub lisher of the Los Angeles Mirror News, called on news media to 'humanize" cold traffic statis tics. He said this would bring home to the public the mounting highway carnage. He also warned that the na tion is well on its way this year to surpassing the record number of highway deaths reached in 1954 39,969 persons.- success Los Angeles has had. In Pinkley said the problem of 1939. he said, it had the worst getting the message of traffic traffic rate in the country. Ten safety across to the public is not years later, it led the nation in insurmountable, pointing to the safety. Subcommittee Approves Crooked River Money ' Washington (U.PJ A House interior and insular affairs sub committee ' approved today a Senate-passed $6,339,000 author ization for construction of the Oklahoma City (U.PJ Mrs. Henry Martin, 79-year-old moth er of Lyle C. Wilson, vice pres ident and Washington manager of United Press, died Thursday night after a long illness. Crooked riyer reclamation proj ect in Crook county, Ore. Buffalo Officials To Study Race Riot On Excursion Vessel Buffalo, N.Y. U.PJ Buffalo city officials and civic leaders held a special meeting today to discuss means of preventing an other teenage race riot like the Memorial Day fracas that result- Masked Men Kill Two in Bungled Holdup Attempt New York (U.PJ Two mask ed gunmen killed two men, one of them a Polish-language news paper editor accused of having Communist ties, and critically wounded a third man Thursday night during a bungled holdup attempt. The shooting broke up a home coming party for Polish-American tourists in a tough neighbor hood on New York's lower East Side. Thomas Dombrowski, 40, edi tor of the weekly Glos Ludowy (The People's Voice) in Detroit, was killed instantly when he lunged at one of the bandits grabbing for his mask. The thug j fired once, hitting the editor in the chest. Killed on Wild Shot Frank Grodzki, 45, of New York was mortally wounded by one of the two wild shots fired by the jittery second gunman. Grodzki died undergoing surgery to remove a bullet from his head. Walter Nogas, 72, of Newark, N.J., was In critical condition at Bellevue hospital from a stomach wound. The panicked gunmen, who wore handkerchiefs over their faces and hats pulled sharply down on their foreheads, escaped without any money from ban quet quarters of the Club Po- lonia on the tough-infested low er East Side. Charge Investigated Police investigated a charge from unidentified Communist sources in Detroit that the kill ings had political Implications. Dombrowski, who in 1952 re fused to tell the House Un American Activities Committee whether he was ever a member of the Communist Party, was one of some 30 guests attending the party in honor of 46 Polish Americans who toured Commu nist Poland. The travelers had just return ed aboard the French liner Liberie after spending seven weeks in Poland. ed in scores of injuries. The FBI already is conducting a full-scale investigation of the riot at the request of U. S. At torney John O. Henderson. Causa To Be Studied . Mayor Steven Pankow called today's meeting of city fathers, police officials and civic organ izations to discuss causes of ton rioting between white and Negro gangs that boiled most of Memorial Day at Crystal Beach, Ont., and on the aged excursion m boat that shuttles New Yorkers between Buffalo and the amusement park. The rioting started on an early afternoon boat trip from Buffalo to the park, 12 miles across Lake Erie, and continued most of the day. It reached a climax of terror that night wiien gangs of boys and girls ran wild on' the three-decked boat, the , Canadians, terrorizing hundreds j of fellow passengers. j When the boat docked in Buf-; falo late Wednesday night it was met by police who took j soma 30 sobbing, hysterical i white girls to headquarters until their parents could call for them and calm them down. 12 Youngsters Arrested Both white and Negro teen agers sustained injuries in the rioting and 12 youngsters were arrested by Buffalo and Crystal Beach police. 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