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There bas been another big pen
itentiary riot this time in South
Dakota. It has quieted down after
23 hours of turmoil and disorder.
Fortunately, there was no blood
shed. (The dispatches reported
that the only casualty was a con
vict who got hold of a bottle ol
hair tonic and drank It and died
as a result.) . .
As these words are written. Gov
ernor Sigurd Anderson has Just an
nounced that he will order an in
vestigation into the riot's causes.
I hope, while he's at it, he does
some delving into what might have
happened if all the inmates of the
South Dakota prison had been con
structively employed at regular
hours, with their earnings
(less board and room and such)
deposited to their account to be
paid to them when discharged so
that they would have a nest-egg
with which to start life anew aft
er having paid their debt to so
ciety. I think we need to do some
thinking along that line. These
prison riots are getting TOO NUM
EROUS. Their frequency suggests
that something is gravely wrong
with our prison system.
Oregon's board of agriculture Is
making a study to determine cost
figures before setting up a price
schedule for milk sold at funns
in gallon jugs. This morning's
dispatches say that more than 20
gallon-jug dairies are now oper
ating in the slate, and some of
them admit that they sell below
present milk control prices.
At the election next month,
there will be a measure on the
Oregon ballot to repeal the Ore
gon milk control law. I'm going
to vote against it. As I remarked
in this space a few days ago,
nearly everybody in these modern
days has some sort of price con
trol for his services, and if any
body is entitled to price support
it is the hard-working dairyman
who works from dawn to dark,
seven days a week.
Be s 1 d e s, public health and
PURE MILK are all bound up to
gether. If the public health is to
be guarded adequately, we must
have strict standards of milk san
itation. Proper milk sanitation
costs money and a lot of it.
If we permit milk produced un
der Unsanitary conditions' to come
into competition with milk pro
duced under strict sanitation rules,
the ' unsanitary- milk will run the
sanitary milk a bard race.
If the public health is to be
protected, we must mrumo
strict milK sanitation. If we are
to do that. It seems to me, there
must be price protection for- milk.
Bui
lt does Beem absurd to say to a
dairyman whose milk is produced
in full accordance with the es
tablished sanitary standards that
he can't set his own price for it to
customers who come to his farm
to get it.
It would be more in accord with
sound free enterprise principles if
we enforced strict sanitation
standards and let the price of
milk AT THE FARM, cash-and-'
carry, take care of itself.
I donbt if, under strict enforce
ment of sanitation rules, there
would be much cut-price selling of
milk at the farm.
Saar Future 1
Topic Of Meet
PARIS Wl French Premier
Mendes-France and Saar Premier
Johannes Hoffman met Wednesday
rfor a talk on the future of the
Saar, a question France wants set
tled before West Germany is re
armed. Menties France got a 350-113
vote in the National Assembly
Tuesday, authorizing him to go
ahead with the London accord on
bringing west German troops into
the Wests defense against com
munism. But at the same time as the
treaties are put up for ratifica
tion, he wants .to be able to pre
sent an agreement on the Saar,
the coal bearing border state
whose German-speaking people are
linked economically to France.
Germans regard the Saar as a
part of Germany.
Hoffman and members of his
cabinet are having long talks with
Roland de Moustier, French sec
retary of state for foreign affairs,
in preparation of a common stand.
Mendes-France also sat in on a
portion of these talks.
For some time, a compromise
whereby the Saar might be inter
nationalized has been discussed.
The French Premier and West
German Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer are to confer here Oct. 20 in
a new effort to achieve agreement
on how the area might be put un
der International control.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Partly cloudy through
Thursday with a few showers
Thursday. Hlfh Thursday 63; low
Wednesday night 37,
High yesterday - 44
low last night , , ,35
Frecip. last 24 hours . .3
Since Oct. I - 7
Same period last year
Normal for period -.
1.73
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Latourette
Rules On I(F
Legal Tangle
While Andrew Joseph Bushman,
54-year-old alleged sex offender,
still languished in the county jail
Wednesday after seven months of
legal battling, new complications
were added to the case.
Chief Justice Earl Latourette of
the Oregon Supreme Court, who
was confronted with a series of
motions and counter motions in
volving the constitutionality of the
state change of judge law, tossed
the issue back to Judge David R.
Vandenberg for a decision.
Late Tuesday the case was
brought before the Klamath Falls
jurist again.
Judge Vandenberg upheld a mo-
lion filed by Defense Attorney
George Proctor to strike an affi
davit of prejudice which was filed
by District Attorney Frank Alder
son. Alderson stated in his affida
vit that Judge Vandenberg was
prejudiced against the district at
torney and a fair trial could not be
obtained in his court.
In allowing the motion to strike
the affidavit of prejudice. Judge
Vandenberg said the law under
which it was filed had been re
pealed In 1947. Therefore, the court
held the affidavit was Irrelevant
and Immaterial.
Vandenberg then overruled a de
fense motion opposing a change of
judge in the Bushman case. As a
result, if Bushman is ever actu
ally tried, the action will be heard
by Circuit Judge Ralph M. Hoi
man of . Oregon City who has a
general assignment in Klamath
County.
Proctor said Wednesday that he
still maintains the change of judge
law is unconstitutional. He Is plan
ning further moves in the case.
According to Proctor, under the
change of judge action, his client
has been denied his constitutional
right of a speedy trial. Bushman
has been indicted three times on
the same set of facts. '
Circuit Court Clerk Charles De-
Lap said Wednesday that he had
been notified by Judge Holman
that an indictment returned by the
county grand jury against Lenton
Holmes, 18-year-old Arkansas cot
ton picker, had been dismissed.
According to DeLap, Judge Hol
man dismissed the Indictment on
a motion of Defense Attorney U.
3. Balentine when it was found
that Holmes had pleaded guilty in
Klamath Falls Municipal Court to
a charge of vagrancy based on the
same facts included in the grand
jury indictment. Holme was in
dicted on a charge of entering an
automobile with intent to steal.
Sheriff Murray B r i 1 1 on said
Holmes will be returned to the
city Jail to complete a 30-day va
grancy sentence.
Dock Strike
Mushrooms
LONDON HI Britain's mush
rooming dock strike spread to
Southampton and Glasgow
Wednesday and a wildcat bus
man's walkout crippled teeming
London's surface transport sys
tem.
More than 2,000 Southampton
longshoremen downed tools in a
one-day token stoppage supporting
the 30,000 men already out in Lon
don, At Glasgow, 1,000 dockers
staged a lightning strike following
a local dispute over pay rates for
handling certain types of cargoes.
The London waterfront stoppage
became virtually complete with 3.'
500 men joining the strike at Til
bury, near the mouth of the
Thames River.
Portland Warehouse Fires
Set By Confessed Arsonist
PORTLAND Wl An arsonist
Tuesday night started two fires
causing losses that may run half
a million dollars, and police early
Wednesday arrested a youth await
ing trial on charges that he set
three other blazes Sept. 1.
William D. Browne, chief of de
tectives, said Richard Ray Kidd,
20, signed a .statement admitting
he started last night's fires with a
cigarette lighter after drinking
six to eight quarts of beer."
The blazes, near the downtown
Willamette River waterfront, were
only six blocks apart. They sent
flames leaping high over the low
er business district.
Most of the city's fire equipment
was pressed into action. Nine fire
men suffered minor injuries or
were overcome by smoke.
Thousands of persons watched as
firemen battled to keep the blazes
from spreading to other valuable
business properties.
The two big fires were preceded
by a minor blaze in a downtown
rooming house. It was quickly con
trolled. Kidd insisted he had no
thing to do with that one.
An hour later the first of four
alarms sounded for a fire which
virtually destroyed the warehouse
and showrooms of the Western
Door and Plywood Co. five blocks
away. This blaze, fed by paint,
turpentine and oils, raged fur
hours.
Once, firemen climbing to pump
water Into the building were en
dangered when ladders propped
against a wall caught fire. Guests
were evacuated from a hotel next
Price Fin Cents-M Face ; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 2941
DA To File
Charge On
Curley Coon
son said he will file a homicide
charge late Wednesday against
Florin M. (Curley) Coon. 51-year-old
barber, whose wife was found
Tuesday apparently beaten to
death in the Greer Hotel.
- Alderson announced the charge
wnuiri h fnpri after an autODsy
performed by Dr. George H. Ad-
ler, county coroner, snoweu mc
woman, Lily Nyqulst, Coon, 60,
came to her death as the result
of injuries to the brain and cer
tain abdominal organs.
if,. ntn -una fniinri dead in the
hotel room after her husband had
called Dr. Adler and said she was
very drunk. Coon told Dr. Aoier
he was going to take his wife to
Hilllside Hospital Immediately for
treatment for alcoholism.
While he was waiting at the hos-
nital fn- Knnn nnri his Wife to aD-
pear. Dr. Adler said he was noti
fied by Police Chief orviue Ham
ilton the woman was dead
n4 netuHua T? TJ. Ariltlns.
who Investigated the case, said he
had been informed by jjr. Aaier
that the woman died sometime
early Tuesday morning, several
hours before Coon phoned for med
ical aid.
that he and his wife had been
drinking heavily and that tney en
snaoH fn a florht. Conn said the
woman fell on the floor and he
lifted her to the bed.
When police were called to the
hotel by the manager of the place,
they found the woman's nude body
lying on a bed. The body was cov
ered with bruises and black and
blue marks.
Chief Hamilton said as soon as
a warrant is served on uoonne
will be transferred from the city
to the' county JalL . . y . -
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Bahamas Brace
For Hurricane
xta-vtt pin tm The southeast
ern Bahamas braced for hurricane
winds today while food and cloth
ing was rushed to stricken Haiti
in the wake of the storm.
Hurricane Hazel, with lessened
winds up to 80 miles an hour over
a small area near the center,
whipped through the Windward
Passage between Cuba and Haiti
ami rnntinued north - northeast
ward toward the southern Baha
mas and the open sea. It was lum
bering along at six miles an hour.
Gales extend outward 75 miles
in all directions.
At 5 a.m., F.ST, the disturbance
wis just south of Great Inagua
expected to move into the Inagua
Nayaguana and uaicos xsiana
areas during the day.
Th storm nnnarentlv lost some
of Its strength in its passage be
tween Cuba and Haiti, but the
weather Rurpnit said it should re
gain some of its intensity now that
it had left the mountains oi nam
and eastern Cuba behind.
door. Windows of a large furniture
store across the street were crack'
ed by the heat. Flames ' leaping
from the building blistered the
paint on parked automobiles.
Just after As3t. Fire Chief Eddie
Buatwright announced this fire
was under control, someone in the
crowd shouted that another olate
wns under way six blocks away
and only a block from the first
fire.
Many of the firemen with equip
ment were rushed to the scene.
They found a three-story ware
house and an adjacent two-story
building occupied by a sawmill
equipment manufacturer on fire.
They climbed to the roof of an
adjacent vacant furniture store
building in an effort to protect it,
but within minutes that was in
flames, too.
Firemen, aided by fireboatn in
the river, worked Into the early
morning hours before controlling
the blazes. '
Loss in the Western Door fire
was tentatively set at 3240.000.
Owners of property destroyed In
the second big fire made loss estl-
I mates ranging up to 1250.000.
On Sept. 2 Kidd, an accountant,
confessed to police that he set
thiee fires the previous night, In
cluding a 1100,000 blaze at a fur
niture company warehouse. He
was bound over to the grand jury
but was released pending trial
when Municipal Judge John Mur-
chison reduced his bail from 10,-
000 to 33.000.
After his first arrest Kidd said
he set the fires after drinking "20
to 25 beers" and that ha was sorry.
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U. S. CONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Sam Coon, were quests ell day Tuesday at coffee hours in
Klamath Falls homes. Here they chatted briefly with quests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Ryser, 2224 Main Street, in mid-morning. (I to rl Mrs. James Barnes, co-hpstess, Mrs.
Coon, Mrs. Ryser and Congressman Coon,
Fort Klamath Hosts Republican Voters'
Rally; Coon Explains Indian Bill Action
The C.I. Clubhouse at Fort Klam-
ath was crowded to capacity Tues
day evening when the Wood River
Unit of the Oregon Council of Re
publican Women sponsored a vot
ers' rally, at which U.S. Congress
man Sam Coon was principal
speaker. , , .
Mrs. Claudie Ldrenz. president
of the. unit,, opened the meeting
and Raymond , Loosely was master
of ceremonies and introduced can
didates .and their representatives.
Among those present who spoke
briefly were Troy Cook, candidate
lor county ' Commissioner; Eva
Cook, running for county treas-
urerj-Mrs.- V;-- K. O'Nell, . 'Who
spoke on behalf of State Represen
tative Ed Geary; National Repub
lican Commltteewoman Olive Cor
nett, who spoke for U.S. Senator
Ouy Cordon; Wyatt Padgett, who
spoke briefly and played the tape
recording of Senator Cordon's
speech before a veterans' group in
Fortland last Friday; Roy Mur
phy, who outlined the qualifications
of Governor Paul Patterson, and
Floyd Wynne, alternate chairman
of the Klamath County Republican
Central Committee, who exposed
half-truths which have been ut
tered ir. criticism of the Eisen
hower administration.
COLONEL SWIGART
Death Claims
Col. Swigart
A well known auctioneer of
Klamath County, William Franklin
Swigart, 64. died Tuesday noon at
Hillside Hospital.
He was born at Maquon, Illinois,
In 1890.
Col. and Mrs. Swigart had re'
turned a month ago irom Rocfca
way where he had operated a rid
ing stable business for two years.
On his return he stated there Is no
country like the Klamath ceuntry
Moving to Klamath in 1918 from
a cattle ranch in North Dakota,
he engaged in the auction business
and bought and sold livestock for
several years. In 1938 he started a
skating rink on South Sixth which
he operated lor tour or live years,
moving it later to the VFW Hall.
He became ill this week at their
home, 5718 South Sixth, and cause
of death was a cerebral hemor
rhnge.
Survivors include the widow.
Alma Swigart, a son Paul, of Can
non Beach, and two grandsons,
Terry and Rocky.
Funeral services will be held
from the chapel of Ward's Klam
ath Funeral Home, Friday, at 10:30
a.m. Interment will be In Klamath
Memorial Park.
Mrs. Swigart will return with her
son to the coast lor an extended
visit.
Oscar Klttredge, who has en
tered the political field for the first
Urns by filing for the post of state
enator on the Republican ticket,
stated:
"I could make a lot of campaign
promises, but if elected, some of
those promises might have to be
reconsidered after the legislature
convenes. I would rather tell you
that I will Insure equal represen
tative to every person in the 17th
District. I am deeply Interested In
education and will strongly support
Oregon Tech, Another plank In my
platform is pvactlc: I and economi
cal stale government wnn a view
to eliminating waste and lnetflcien-
cy that takes too much of our tax
money."
A thorough discussion of the mea
sures to be voted on at the Novem
ber 2 election was conducted by
George Proctor, member of the
Klamath County Republican Cen
tral Committee.
Sam Coon. Renublican Congress
man, seeking reelection, told the
audience the Washington side oi
the Klamath Indian separation bill.
The final bill, he related, was in
troduced by the Interior and In
sular Affairs Committee and re
vised in a meeting of the Klamath
Indian representatives and their
attorneys with the Indian Commis
sioner and the Assistant commis
sioner.
Alturas Man
Shoots Self
ALTURAS Paul Robinson, 48,
died at his home in Lake City,
about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday. Ac
cording to Sheriff Buck Server of
Modoc County, death was caused
by a self-lnfllcted bullet from the
man's 30-30 rifle.
He was not known to have been
suffering from 111 health and no
reason for his action nas Deen
niven. according to the sheriff s
office.
Robinson was the son of the
late B. B. Robinson of Cedarvllle,
who died last June 16. His grand
father Kressler and a man by the
name of Bonner established the
first trading post and the flr3t
bank at Cedarvllle.
Formerly a supervisor In his
own district before the redisrict
ing of Northern California, Robin
son was a candidate In the Novem
ber election for county supervisor
at Surprise Valley. i
Survivors include the widow,
Dorothy and a daughter, Mrs.
Flovd Smith, both of Lake City:
two sons. Irwin, stationed at the
Air Force base at Hamilton Field
and Bsey of Lake City; also an
older brother, Basil Kressler Rob
inson, owner of the Big valley
ranch in Lake County.
Funeral services aro in charge
of the Kerr Chapel of Alturas.
SHOOTING HOURS
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California
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"It was only then that I
ranged for a hearing before the
House committee," he recalled,
"The three Klamath Indian rep
resentatives, Jesse Kirk, Boyd
Jackson and Wade Crawford, were
present and Indicated the bill met
with full approval, so the legisla
tion went through in that form.
'Later," he added, "each one of
those three men came and person
ally thanked me for getting the
legislation through just as they
wanted It."
Coon told the group of his pleas
ure at receiving personal mail
from individuals . in his district.
.adding that his letlarer trdm Ore
gon usually average about 25 a
clay.
During the question and answer
period that followed his talk, the
question of the transmission line
which would have brought Bonne
ville power to Southern Oregon and
lar jsortnern California, arose.
"The state of Washington is now
getting more than 70 per cent of
the power produced by Bonne
ville," he declared. "Oregon is
getting less than 30 per cent of it
In a very few years, Washington
will be getting 83 per cent of the
power and Oregon less than 17 per
cent. It Is pretty obvious that
Washington does not want to turn
over any part of the share it Is
receiving to any other state," he
concluded.
A social hour following the con
clusion of the talks, with refresh
ments prepared by the women of
the unit.
Tonight, the Republican congress
man will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Alta
mont school gymnasium, sharing
the plulform with State Senator
Brown, of Grants Pass, who speaks
i: "The Truth About Neubergcr."
Thursday evening he will appear
at the Bonanza Library at 8 p.m.
at a nonpartisan voters' rally spon
sored by the Bonanza Farm Bu
reau Women.
A thorough . discussion of the
measures to be voted on at the
November 3 election was conduct
ed by Gcorgo Proctor, member of
the Klamath County Republican
Central Committee.
Voters Favor Democrats In
Alaskan General Election
JUNEAU, Alaska Ifi Alaska
swung strongly Democratic Tues
day in Its general election which
in recent years has proved an ac
curate indicator of national trends.
The political pendulum, which
went the other way In 1952, swung
back to give E. L. Bartlett an In
creasingly wider margin for re
election as delegate to Congress
and assure his fellow Democrats
overwhelming control of the legis
lature. The political divisions In which
Anchorage and Fairbanks are lo
cated apparently elected a solid
20 Democrats to Uie legislature.
It Is a complete reversal from
their election of 17 Republicans
and 3 Democrats in 1952.
On unofficial returns from 91 ol
the territory's 263 precincts, but
including almost all the large
I ones, Bartlett had 8.275 to 3.180 for
i Mrs. Barbara Dunock, a Repub
lican member of the legislature
from Anchorage. That boosted his
1 slice of the vote to 73 per cent,
1 compared with 56 per cent he
I polled In winning the 1952 election
Irom Robert Reeve, an slrline op
erator. , Citing the claim that "As Alaska
! goes, so goes the nation," Bartlett
predicted in a midnight statement
that the mounting Democratic
margins Indicated a national vic
tory for the party next month.
"On the basis of early returns,
I which have maintained a consis
i tent pattern Irom Uie atari, it Is
Man, Wife
Terrorized
By Gunfire
How a Medford automotive deal
er and his wife spent a night of
terror under gunfire on the Klam
ath Indian Reservation near Beat-
ty was revealed Wednesday by
state police.
Police Sgt. Earle Tichenor said
two men, one an ex-convict and
the other a 22-ycar-old Beatty res
ident, are held in the county jail
on charges of assault with intent
to kill In connection with the case.
The suspects are James Clinton
Anderson, 32, recently released af
ter serving 13 years in Oregon
State Prison, and Wayne W. Scott.
ranch worker.
Complaints against the two men
were signed by Albert Bianey
Mcnasco Jr., of Medford.
Here are the highlights of the
harrowing story told by Menasco
to Sgt. Tichenor and District At
torney Frank Alderson:
Sunday at about 3 a.m. Menasco
and his wife were driving along a
dirt road near Beatty in a pickup
truck. Menasco noticed another
pickup with two men and a worn-
i In it following nis car.
When Menasco stopped to ask
directions, he said one of the men
in the other car yelled "Let's get
them I" Menasco speeded away un
der a hall of bullets. At the foot
of the hill, he said one of the'rear
tires on his truck was punctured
by a bullet. He and his wife
leaped from the truck snd took
reiuge behind a log In a clump of
brush. He declared the men kept
firing into the brush until dawn,
Once during the night, Menasco,
said, the other pickup left with one
of the gunman and the woman.
He said the man who remained
at the scene started yelling to the
Menascos to "Come out."
"We kept very still," Menasco
explained, "Finally after daylight
the truck with the two other per
sons in it returned. They picked
up their companion and drove
away."
Sgt. Tichenor said Menasco got
a good look at one of his assail
ants and later identified him as
Anderson through police photo
graphs.
Sirt. Tichenor said a statement
was obtained from Scott Implicat
ing himself and Anderson in the
shuotlng affray.
Last July, Anderson figured In
shooting at the Halfway House in
Bly. He was reported to have
slashed the throat of Alfonso Tor
res, Mexican lumoerjacx, wno is
held In the county jail on a charge
of assault with a deadly weapon.
Anderson said he attacked Tor
res with a knife after the Mexi
can critically wounded Leon Jen
kins, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co,
employe, in the Halfway House
barroom.
Set. Tichenor says Anderson
served 13 years In the state pris
on for manslaughter.
Aid The United
Fund Drive
Give to help help to live.
Support health, welfare and
character building a r e n c Ik a
through your Un 1 1 ed Fund.
Klamath County's second Unit
ed Fund Red Cross drive
tarts October 20.
not too soon to forecast a Demo
cratic victory In Alaska which
easily could assume a landslide
proportion," Bartlett said In
statement issued here.
". . . Alaska almost always has
pointed the way the nation will
vote In November. This makes it
fairly sure the Democrats will or
ganize the national House of Rep
resentatives by some 30 to 40
seats."
Prominent Issues In the Bartlett
Dlmock congressional contest were
over which party has done the
most for the statehood cause and
which has done best by Alaska In
allocation of federal funds. Mrs
Dlmock also appealed for election
or a Republican to support Presi
dent Elsenhower.
Both candidates supported Im
mediate statehood for Alaska,
Bartlett contended the Republican
administration had let down the
statehood cause. Mrs. Dlmock ar
gued that the Republicans had
drafted the best statehood bill ever
and countered that the Democrats
never had enacted statehood dur
ing their long national regime.
Legislative candidates also
brought In the federal Issues, and
the Republicans asked for support
on the basis of the territorial legis
lation they put through in the last
session.
In the contest for two other ter
ritorial offices, labor commission
er and treasurer, the races were
nip-and-tuck, with tha lead Chang
Ids hands often, .
Caribbean
Town Swept
Into Sea
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Ml
Mounting unofficial reports of
death and destruction from hurri
cane Hazel put the toll -at Aux
Cayes alone, the major town on
this Island republic's stricken
southwest peninsula, at 300 dead
and 350 injured.
Aux Cayes has a population ct
20,000. Previous reports said Jere
mle, the peninsula's second-rank-,
ing city, was almost entirely swept
into the sea.
Jeremle's population is listed at
11,138. The population of the town
and surrounding district is at
around 68,000.
A radio report from Marfrano
rubber experimental station in the
area hit Tuesday said- two men
from Jeremle reported:
The prison hospital was1 swept
away. Homes of nuns and priests
were washed Into the sea and the
bank damaged. Most of the small
er homes in the town vanished un.
der the pounding of the hurricane
driven waters.
The two men gave their report
after struggling to the rubber sta
tion over a mountain path.
There was no official estimate
of the dead or injured, or of prop
erty damage. The two survivors
from Jeremle urged that a special
appeal be sent to President Paul
Magllore for help.
U. S. STATION
The settlement of the Martrano
rubber experimental station of the
U. 8. Department of Agriculture
was washed away.
The only connection with Jere
mle was by the footpath that
wound over a mountain. Roads
were impassable. A steady rain
hampered relief work Wednesday
and Impeded communications.
The Marfrano station ltaeu re
mained intact and the supervisor's
home is still standing, the message
said. It was transmitted by radio
SCIPA. 8CIPA is a Point Four
agency, the Inter-American Coop
erative Agricultural Service.
Jeremle is 16 hours Irom Port-
au-Prince on the north coast of
the Peninsula over a narrow moun
tain road that is dangerous in the'
best weather. It ranks as the sec
ond city on the peninsula, Tight
behind Aux cayes, a bustling port
of 20,000 in the fertile Torbeck
plain, where sugar, rum, coffee,
cocoa and rice are shipped to world
markets; .
AMERICANS MAROONED
Flvo SCIPA employes, including
three Americans, were marooned
in Damiens College five miles
north of Port-au-Prince Tuesday
while establishing radio communi
cation with' Aux Cayes.
The Americans were SCIPA Di
rector Edwin Astle, Business Man
ager Malcolm Jensen and exten
sion specialist George Vanden
berg, a radio ham.
The water tosb around the col
lege while they were getting in
touch with Aux Cayes, from which
news remained meager.
While rain flooded Port-au
Prince streets, the government
mobilized flat-bottomed boats and
other equipment for rescue work
at Damiens and nearby Croix des
Missions.
TYPHOON
TOKYO Wl The raging typhoon
mat capsized and Bank five fer
ries Bt Hakodate Sept. 28 took a
confirmed death toll of 1,218, with
196 still missing, the Japanese Na
tional Railways said Wednesday.
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ROBERT TRIVITT, 510 North
Seventh, wet on hit vay fo
Fairviev School this morn
ing at the early morning
photograph; cam by,
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