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t RESCUED FROM MOUNTAIN PERCH Italian mountain
eer Claudio Corti is given nourishment as he lies on a
rescue sled near Grindewald, Switzerland after he was
broujht down from ML Eiger. Corti was trapped with
three other climbers high on a ledge of the mountain.
Two of the three still missing were feared to have plunged
to their deaths in a blizzard.
Navy Civilian Cuts
To Drop 3200 From
Western Shipyards
Washington OF) The Navy's
planned defense cuts mean at
least 3,200 workers in West
Coast shipyards will be dropped
from Se Navy payroll during
the current fiscal year.
The Navy joined the Defense
Department economy drive Wed
nesday, announcing it will drop
a total of 18.9)0 civilian em
ployees, most of them by Oct. 31.
Hardest hit on the West Coast
will be the San Francisco, Mare
Island and Long Beach ship
yards, Oakland Supply Center,
and North Island Naval Air Sta
tion, all in California, and the
Puget Sound Shipyard in Wash
ington. Completed by June 30
In most cases the reductions
will be made this fall, and i
all instances they will be com-
Vibrations Blamed
For Earth Cave-in
Killing 6 Workers
Dresden, Ont. (W The vi
bration of a heavy machine was
believed today to have caused a
cave-in which buried six work
men alive under 200 tons of blue
day.
Rescuers used a crane, bull
dozer and shovels to recover the
bodies of the workmen, all
Dutch immigrants, who died
when the 35-foot deep sides of a
wat? plant cofferdam collapsed
Wednesday night. Four other
workers escaped safely.
. Several workmen on the scene
said they believed the vibration
of a piece of heavy machinery
loosened the sides of the struc
ture, rolling 15 t 25 feet of
clay onto the workers as they
poured a concrete fonn&ition
and layed pipe for a city water
works pumphouse.
Investigation Promised
Dresden police promised an
intensive investigation into the
accident. Authorities also indi
cated Ontario provincial investi
gators may enter the probe.
The dead, all employed by the
Keillor Construction CcT., of St.
Thomas, were identified as Jan
Oldervening, 45; Dick Ryksen,
45; Jan Bremer, 42; Nenne Ho
vius, 45. and his son, Wilfrid,
23. and Henry Drenth, 50.
Dresden is about 40 miles east
of Mount Clemens, Mich., and
about 50 miles northeast of Detroit.
Marine Convoy Trucks
Overturn; 20 Injured
Belhaven, N.C. W Two
trucks in a Marine convoy on
its way to fight a big forest
fire overturned in separate acci
dents today, injuring 20 men.
Eighteen Marines were in
jured when a truck carrying
25 men overturned in a ditch
near here. They were taken to
a hospital here.
Another wreck involving a
truck in the same Marine Corps
convoy from Camp Lejeune,
N.C, turned over 30 miles east
of here. Two men were injured
in this accident.
The convoy was moving slow
ly along a foggy highway toward
an area where a forest ftre has
burned over 75.000 acres of
swamp nd forest land in the
pst two weeks.
pleted by next June 30.
The Navy said the San Fran
cisco Shipyard, which has a
present complement of 7,489
civilian workers, will be reduced
,to 7.200 by Dec. 31 and to 6,900
by June 30.
Mare Island Shipyard, which
has -9,786 civilian workers now,
will be cut to between 9,000 and
9,500 by June 30. The Navy said
the Aact number had not yet
been determined.
jOakland Supply Center, which
has 6.003 civilians now, will lose
149 by Oct. 31 and a total of
343 by June 30.
Vhe Long Beach Shipyard,
with a present complement of
6,583, will be reduced to be
tween 6,200 and 6,500. A spokes
man for Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel
(R-Calif ) said it was hoped that
incoming repair work would
keep the reduction to the mini
mum figure given by the Navy.
North Island NAS in San
Diego county has 7,907 civilians
now and will lose 553 in the
next fiscal year.
Puget Sound Shipyard, which
has 11,327 now, will be cut to
between 9.900 and 10,400 by
Dec. 31. The exact reduction
sflll was to be determined.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
CD-Ore.) said the Navy announc
ed a reduction at only one in
sllatiorrin Oregon, the Tongue
Point Naval Station near As
toria. The base, which has 223
ci-ftlians now, will lose 17 by
Dec. 31.
India Observes
Independence Day
New Delhi (W India cele
brated its 10th independence day
by carting away statues reminis
cent of British rule and releas
ing some 15,000 convicts from
civil and military prisons.
For most Indians, the observ
ance also marked the 100th anni
versary of the Indian mutiny,
which is now regarded here as
this country's "first war of inde
pendence." The Mahasabha Party, an orth
odox Hindu group, angrily boy
cotted the centennial celebra
tion. Mahasabha ' leaders say it
should have been held May 10,
date' of the massacre at Meerut
that, touched off the mutiny.
Premier Jawaharlal Nehru,
ignoring technicalities, told a
crowd of 200,000 at a flag-raising
ceremony outside Delhi's his
toric Red Fort that today is a
day of "special significance" in
Indian history.
Nehru declared that India
"wants friendship with all coun
tries" even Pakistan, with
which this country has been con
tinually at odds during its 10
years of independence. .
'Shasta' Nuclear Device
Firing Again Postponed
Las Vegas. Nev. ran Unfa
vorable weather conditions again
have forced the 17th postpone
ment in the firing of a medium
sized nuclear device at the Ne
vada proving grounds.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion Wednesday postponed its
Shasta test until Friday at 5
a.m. (p.d.t.) However, the AEC
said if wind conditions fail to
improve sufficiently to fire
Shasta, another device, dubbed
Franklin Prime, would be trig
gered instead.
Steeves' Wife Won't Discuss His Literary Or Marital Troubles
Fairfield, Conn. W The , ning Post's cancellation of a con
wife of Air Force Lt. David A. tract with he husband for his
Steeves, 23, who told a tale of survival story. Mr;. Steeves, 21,
remarkable survival after an
airplane crash, declined today to
discuss his literary or marital
troubles.
Mrs. Rita Steeves refused to
comment on the Saturday Eve-
Rivert and Harbor
Congress Open Meeting
Portland W The Northwest
Rivers and Harbors Congress
opens a three-day meeting here
tonight with a reception and buf
fet dinner.
said, "any dealings were between
my husband and the Post." She
added that "quite a sum" of
money was involved.
Number of Diicrepancic
-The magazine has said it
dropped the story because of "a
number of discrepancies" in
Steeves' account of a 54-day
struggle to civilization after bail
ing out of a jet trainer in the
High Sierras of California May 9.
The Air Force said it is con
ducting a routine investigation,
but added that - it has found
"nothing to disprove his story."
Steeves, on temporary assign
ment at Boiling Air Force Base
outside Washington, denied any
discrepancies and said, "It looks
like they want to bring it into
court."
As for the possible divorce,
Eisenhower Signs Bill
To Delay Termination
Washington 0ft The bill
which postpones the deadline for
termination of federal controls
over the Klamath Indians tribe
of Oregon was signed Wednes
day by President Eisenhower.
The bill postpones termination
from 1958 to 1960.
Steeves said, "It seems as if I
am being rejected by a person
I love more than anybody in the
world. . ."
Mrs. Steeves would give no
details of her reported plans to
divorce the airman except that
their differences arose before
his crash.
Her attorney said a divorce
was "in the discussion stage.'"
Plane Not Found
The Air Force said Wednesday
Steeves' plane has not been
found yet. A search is under
way in the Sierra for the wreck
age to find what caused the
crash.
Besides being unable to find
anything wrong with his story
to date, the Air Force said it i without leave. It said the inves
had no record that Steeves had tigation would probably take
ever been absent from duty 'long time."
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