Tugs Secure Heavy Tow Lines To Stricken Tanker Floundering in Pacific
MBghway Funds From Pentagon tinted
Rayburn Points To
tack of Progress
Made in Defense
Washington - (UPD - Speaker
Sam Rayburn said today "we
have not made anywhere near
the progress we should have"
in military defense against
Russia. He said he is not at
all satisfied with what has
been done.
The veteran Democrat told
reijorters he does not know
what has gone wrong.
But he commended to every
American a warning Tuesday
night by Rep. Carl Vinson (D-
Ga.) that more money must te
spent for defense and "drastic
sacrifices" must be made now
to overcome Russia's lead in
missiles.
Argument Over 'Leaks'
Rayburn commented as an
angry new political contro
versy flared over Republican
charees that Senate Demo
crats had "leaked" national
defense secrets in the current
debate over whether U. S
military strength is adequate.
Vinson is chairman of the
House Armed Services ComT
mittee. .
Rayburn continued:
"He indicated - as I believe
- that we have not made any
where near the progress we
should have in our defense. I
don't know why. I don't know
whether our engineers and
scientists have not been turn
ed loose or what."
FDR JR. BACKS KENNEDY
. Washington-UPD-Sen. John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) won a
declaration of presidential
support Monday from Frank
lin D. Roosevelt Jr.. son of
the late president. Roosevelt'
a former congressman, said
Kennedy "is a winner."
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TANKER DISABLED A Coast Guard heli
copter, arrow, hovers over the fantail of
the disabled wine-tanker Angelo Petri as
she wallows in heavy seas near San Fran
cisco. The whirlybirds took 20 of the ship's
40-man crew to land and safety before the
Petri's anchors caught and held, preventing
her from drifting inshore to the beach. Tugs
are en route to aid the vessel.
(UPI Telephoto)
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Drosecution climaxes its cross-
eiramination of Dr. R. Ber
nard Finch today when it tries
to break down his story that
he accidentally shot his wife
in the back in a struggle over
the death gun.
The crew-cut "surgeon will
wind up one week on the wit
ness stand after prosecutor
Fred N. Whichello tried to
prove the "improbable odds"
of Finch's tale that the gun
went off as he. threw it away.
Finch, 42, and his red-
haired mistress, Carole ire
goff, 23, are charged with
murdering Mrs. Barbara Jean
Finch, 36, at he West Covina,
Calif., home last July 18.
Bills Mentioned
The state, which contends
Finch killed his wife to pre
vent her from getting $750,
000 in community property in
a divorce settlement, sought
to show Tuesday that the doc
tor was having a tough time
paying his bills.
Whichello brought out that
Finch allotted $2,000 monthly
to cover general expenses, in
cluding, the following items:
-$395 for child support and
house payments to his urst
wife, $82 for a maid, $2o0
for a new Chrysler, $171 for
a new Cadillac, $250 for gen
eral household expenses, $171
for mortgage payments on
his home and at least $34 for
a slip in which to dock his
boat.
Also country club and
tennis club dues, legal fees
and expenses for trips to play
in tennis tournaments.
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Market Rally of
Tuesday Extended
New York-flJPD - The stock Eastman Kodak
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market extended Tuesday's
rally during the first hour in
generally routine trading to
day. Fractional gains predomin
ated in the list, with indus
trials picking up well over a
point in their average. Rails
also firmed, while utilities
favored the downside.
An accumulation of buy ord
ers delayed the opening in
Electric Autolite, following
news the company, has invited
tenders of its stock at $54 a
share. The issue closed Tues
day at 50 up 1.
DOW -JONES AVERAGES
New York-tlPD-Dow-Jones
final slock averages: 30 in
dustrials 628.45, up 9.02; 20
railroads 150.80, up 1.06; 15
utilities 85.94, up 0.45, and
65 stocks 207.50, up 2.30.
Sales Tuesday were about
2,860,000 shares compared
with 3,350,000 shares Monday.
Tuesday's prices on selected
stocks:
Allied Chemical 49 5a
Alum Co. Am. 953i
American Can . 408
American Motors -. 813i
AT&T 82i
Anaconda Copper .... 60
Armco Steel .: . 631b
Bendix Aviation 70 V
Bethlehem Steel 50
Boeing Air . 29 i
Caterpillar Corp 30 7
Chrysler Corp 61 5i
Continental Can 453i
Crown Zellerbach 471s
Curtiss Wright 26
Dow Chemical 90 '4
Du Pont 235 li
Firestone
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..124
General Electric 8914
General Foods (xd) 1024
General Motors 47 Vs
Georgia Pacific 45 "4
Graham Paige 2a
Greyhound 20 '4
Gulf Oil ' 311J
Homestake Mining 41 ',i
Idaho Power 46 'i
I. B. M 420
Int. Paper 116
Johns Manville 47?a
Katy 53a
Kennecott Copper 903,i
Lockheed Aircraft 28 is
Montana Power Co. 23
Montgomery Ward 48
Nat'l Biscuit 551J
New York Central 28
Pac Gas & Elec 63
Penney. J. C. .116'i
Penn RR 155
Radio Corporation . 62 3i
Richfield Oil 78
Safeway 37
Sears 4534
Shell Oil 35','s
Socony Mobil Oil 39
Southern Co 403i
Southern Pacific 21 2
Standard California 45
Standard Indiana 43 Vx
Standard N. J 48',2
Sun Mines 63i
Texas Co 773.
Texas Gulf Sulfur 1...
Tex Pac Land Trust
Transamerica
Trans World Air
Tri-Continental
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
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153;
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Search Pressed for
Colorado Executive
Morrison, Col. -(UPD- An Air
Force helicopter joined the
search today for brewery
executive Adolph Coors III,
whose mysterious disappear
ance continued to' baffle au
thorities. Coors, 44, board chairman
of one of the nation's largest
independent breweries and a
porcelain plant which manu
factures ceramic nose cones
for missiles, disappeared Tues
day morning. -The search was
concentrated in the nearby
rugged Rocky Mountain foot
hills, where Coors may have
been lost overnight and per
haps was seriously ill or injured.
A new gas range has been
developed in which there is
no exposed flame. The gas is
burned in a central burner
and air at 1,000 degrees F. is
conducted to plates on top of
the range or to the oven.
United Aircraft 38
unneu rtirunes (xa) : oU','4
U. S. Rubber 56 '4
U. S. Steel 87 li
Youngstown S & T (xd) 117'.i
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Efforts To Save
Vessel Resumed
At Daybreak
San Francisco (UPD T w o
tugs secured heavy tow lines
to the stricken Angelo Petri
today, raising hopes that the
world's largest wine tanker
would be saved from destruc
tion by pounding waves.
A fleet of three tugs and
the Coast Guard cutter Taney
resumed at daybreak the grim
fight to save the 21,800-ton
vessel anchored within sight
of San Francisco.'
The operation had been
temporarily called off several
hours earlier today to rest the
crew of the stricken vessel,
which is carrying a cargo of
2,500,000 gallons of wine,
1,500,000 gallons of cotton
seed oil and 1,500 tons of mis
sile fuel. '
Visibility in the area was
good and the waves were re
ported slightly smaller than
the 25-foot waves that ham
pered operations thus far.
Twenty six men of the Fc
tri's 40-man crew remained
aboard in an attempt to save
her, although only one anchor
kept the tanker from being
pounded to pieces in the surf.
The tanker left San Fran
cisco Tuesday en route for
the East Coast. As it pushed
through heavy seas outside
the Golden Gate, a high wave
suddenly smashed over the
bow, flooding the engine
room and disabiling the
rudder.
The vessel, drifting without
power, flashed an "S-O-S"
and dropped two anchors
with the hope that at least
one would catch and hold.
The Petri drifted helplessly
for two miles toward destruc
tion before the anchors
caught. Coast Guard helicop
ters then picked up 20 of the
crewmen and flew them to
Ocean Beach, just 3 13 miles
to the east.
Tugs were able to get two
lines aboard the tanker Tues.
dav night, but both were
snapped by the force of the
sea.
The Petri raised enough
Dower to pull one of its
anchors up part way, but the
captain. Edward A. Lehm Jr
of San Mateo, Calif., kept the
other anchor fast because he
had feared that the lines
might not hold.
Time was an important fac
tor in the battle. Although the
heavy seas continued, a break
was expected in the violent
storm that ripped the coastal
areas during the past three
days.
Winter Pear Crop
most Cleaned Up,
ureau Report Shows
The 1959 crop of D'Anjous,
Bosc and Cornice pears from
the Rogue River valley and
other winter pear growing
districts of the West Coast
will be pretty well cleaned
up by April, since 74.6 per
cent of the crop was sold
Jan. 1.
This would be considerably
earlier than last year and re
flects the success of two con
centrated advertising and
sales promotion campaigns di
rected by the Oregon-Wash-
mgton-California Pear Bu
reau, according to R. A.
(Dick) Patterson, general
manager of the bureau at
Portland.
He said an equally impor
tant factor was the coopera
tion of Medford area shippers
and those in other growing
districts. He pointed out that
it was the desire of the indus
try this year to move the en
tire crop when pears had
their top eating quality. This
meant, then, that a majority
had to be sold and delivered
before Jan. 1.
The bureau reported that
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winter pears sold and deliv
ered totaled 6.7 per cent,
with another 10.9 per cent
sold and stored in the west
for future deliveries. This
showed that 74 per cent of the
total crop was sold, Patterson
said.
The 63.7 per cent of winter
pears sold and delivered on
Jan. 1 compared with only
50.7 sold and delivered Jan. 1.
1959.
The 1959 crop pack-out was
the equivalent of 4,550,226
boxes, compared to 4,423,181
in 1958. As usual, D'Anjous
packed out the most. 3,282.-
658 boxes, compared to 3,098,
265 in the previous year. Co
mice and Nelis were gainers'
in 1959 over 1958. Cornice
packed out 225,493 boxes as
compared with 150,126 and
Nelis 302,458 boxes as com
pared with 92,684 in 1958.
Patterson said the first pro
motion started in November
and the second began nation
ally Jan. 25. Efforts of adver
tising and sales promotion
were concentrated in two
campaigns for the 1959-60
marketing year rather than
three projects as in the past.
Patterson said the move
ment of West Coast winter
pears starved "real slow after
Jan. 1 and it wasn't until the
second promotion started that
pears really began to sell
again." He believes that spe
cial effort for promoting the
1960-61 crop should also be
concentrated in December.
'If we don't," he explains,
'winter pears are shoved
aside while the retailer is
busy sSelling Christmas trees
and other holiday goods."
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Washington - (DPB House
highway investigators, critical
of added defense costs in the
inter-state road-building pro
gram, might recommend that
the Pentagon pick up part of
the tab.
Rep. Gordon H. Scherer (R
Ohio), a member of the sub
committee investigating the
superhighway program, told
United Press International to
day that he believed such a
recommendation was one of
the major aims of the inquiry.
Scherer said he would be
"inclined to go along with"
any proposal that the Defense
Department pay at least a por
tion of the cost of the planned
41,000-mile interstate road
network.
Scherer made the statement
as the subcommittee recalled
D. K. Chacey, assistant chief
of Army transportation, for
further questioning. He was
the first witness at the open
ing of the investigation Tues
day. The subcommittee also
heard Armlon Leonard, vice
president of the Heavy Spe
cialized Truckers Conference
of the American Trucking as
sociation, state Tuesday that
the 16-foot underpass clear
ance recommended by the De
fense Department was not
adequate. .
Thousands of bridges on the
superhighway system were
built with clearances between
13 and 15 feet. Some law
makers have charged that this
happened because the Defense
Department took two years to
come up with, its recommendations.
Meanwhile a group of
House Democrats planned to
introduce their "Brannan
Plan" farm proposal under
which farmers could vote for
production curbs designed to
Frogmen May Seek
Sub in Argentina
Buenos Aires-flJPD-The Ar
gentine navy was reported
preparing today to send "frog
men" into the Neuvo Gulf off
southeastern Argentina to de
termine ' once and for all
whether a foreign submarine
is lurking in its depths. .
Skin-diver suits whose wear
ers could plunge as deep as
200 feet beneath the surface
less than half the estimated
450-foot maximum depth of
the gulf-were said to be on
the way to the naval task
force in the area.
The navy closed the ap
proaches to the gulf to com
mercial shipping Tuesday for
unexplained "tactical reas
ons." The only other official word
about the sub which has been
reported in or near the gulf
intermittently for the past 10
days was that seven Argen
tine warships and half a doz
en planes are "continuing pa
trols in the area."
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