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By FRANK JENKINS
President Elsenhower says this
morning be will call a special ses
sion of congress IP NECESSARY
to appropriate money needed to re
store to normal the flood-devas
tated states In the eastern part of
cur country.
He made the statement to news
men after a conference with the
governors of the Northeastern
states and representatives of the
governors of North and South Car
olina. He had previously flown over
the devastated areas for a direct
look from the air at the damage
wrought by the storms and the
ensuing floods.
What do you think of It?
I think it s SPLENDID.
It will spread among all of us
the burden of a disaster that 11
borne by only a few of us would
be tragic and awful.
That's what government is for.
Civil Defense Administrator Va)
Peterson estimates this morning
that 15 million dollars will be need
ed from the President's emergen
cy fund to aid the devastated areas.
Put it like this:
Seventy - five million dollars
SPREAD AMONG ALL OF US
will amount to a shade better than
60 cents per head.
I think that in cases of wide
spread and crushing disaster such
as this we'll all be willing to put
up our share.
The forest fire in the Quartz
mountain area of the Fremont na
tional forest it's reported to be
the worst in the Fremont forest,
since 1951 started in slash and
ran into cutover area and NEW
GROWTH. It is presumed to have
been started by lightning.
As this is written, it is hoped
that it has been brought under
control and may be prevented
from spreading into virgin timber.
Only a few years ago, we'd have
shrugged our shoulders and said
cheerfully: "No harm done." In
those days, we looked upon timber
as a resource to be used up and
then forgotten. We thought of the
lumber industry as a TEMPOR
ARY industry. It cut out the virgin
trees and then moved on or
folded up.
It's different now. In these mod
ern days, we know that timber is
a CROP. When it is cut. it re
news itself by the growth of new
trees just as a pasture that
has been graaed over By livestock
renews itself by growth of the
grass.
So
While we're as anxious as ever
to save the. virgin trees FOR THE
NEEDS OF THE PRESENT
We're anxious to save the grow
ing trees for the needs of the fu
ture. That's quite a change.
This interesting little tale has
Just clicked off the teletype:
The state of Oregon has pub
lished Its first livestock brand book
in live years. It is being distribut
ed by the state department of
agriculture. In its 248 pages it lists
some 11,725 brands of which
8,668 are cattle brands.
The oldest brand listed in the
book is considered to be the first
used in Oregon. During the 1848
gold rush a man named Russell
Dement moved to the Myrtle Point
area. He Dicked up FIVE ELK
COWS, tamed them and branded
ihem with the letter D. The brand
is still being used by the Dement
iamily in Coos county.
Look at it this way:
The gold of Southern Oregon was
great stuff in its day. It built a
town of some 10,000 at Port Or
ford, where the gold supply ships
anchored. When Port Ortord was
destroyed by a great fire, the gold
tamp supply ships moved on to
the Umpqua river and built at the
head of tide at Scottsburg another
big town that missed by only a
lew votes being chosen as Oregon's
capita).
Southern Oregon's gold has been
mined out, but the livestock in
dustry that was founded by Rus
sell Dement STILL GOES ON.
Tribe Council
Meeting Called
KLAMATH AGENCY A spe
cial meeting of the general council
of the Klamath Tribe has been
called by Dibbon Cook, council
secretary, for Friday. August 26,
at 10 a.m., in the Beatty Recrea
tion Hall.
Notice of the meeting sent to all
members of the Klamath Tribe
states that the meeting is called
"in compliance to a petition ad
dressed to the secretary of the
Klamath General Council signed by
107 enrolled members, with in
structions to the secretary to give
notice of a special meeting in ac
cordance with Article X of the
constitution and by-laws."
Purposes of the meeting, as set
out In the notice, are:
"1. Consideration of the Teversal
of the January 18. 1955, resolution
creating the three man advisory
and coordinating committee, and
to question the constitutionality of
this action, also consider any mat
ters pertaining to the action, and
activities of this committee.
"2. Matters pertaining and con
nected with the Hunting Case now
pending in federal court.
"3. Tribes continued representa
tion In the above case and the
procedure connected therewith."
The notice closes with the state
ment: "It u to your Interest to
be present at all meetings of the
Klamath Tribal Councils, to pro
tect your interests, as well as to
express the general thinking of
the tribe."
Price Fir Cent If races
Fighters Control Fremont fire
East Oregon
Bank Robbed
In Daylight
UMATILLA, Ore. itf Two gun
men, possibly three, who held up
the Bank of Umatilla Monday, and
made off with 160,000, were the
object of an intensive police search
in the Pacific Northwest Tuesday.
Witnesses said they saw only two
armed men In the smoothly ' ex
ecuted daylight robbery. But Po
lice Chief Charles A. Roberts said
a third person probably had acted
as driver of a getaway car.
Roberts said he thought the hold
up was the work of "experts."
"They must have cased the bank
for weeks to be able to operate
that smoothly," he added.
ARMED MEN
The two armed men walked Into
the bank at noon shortly after
Waide deVore, the cashier, had
gone to lunch. One ordered three
women employes Mrs. Frank
Stewart, Mrs. James Rafferty and
Mrs. Vernon Stewart Into the
vault while the other stood guard
at the door.
One of the gimmen scooped all
the money in the tills and all he
could find in the vault, into a
shopping bag. He then locked the
women Inside the vault. Through
out the robbery, his demeanor was
polite and "gentlemanly," the wo
men said.
M. H. Neff, who came Into the
bank minutes later to ' cash a
check, heard the women's screams
from the vault and notified police.
ROADBLOCKS
Roadblocks were set up and
planes were sent out over the East
ern Oregon and Washington coun
tryside In search of speeding cars.
Police said they had a descrip
tion of what was believed to be
the getaway car. Roberts said he
doubted, however, that the trio
still would be using the vehicle,
One of the gunmen was de
scribed as young, slender and
slightly over six feet tall. The
other, also young, was about 5
feet, 8, with red hair cut short,
and a mole on his right cheek.
A spokesman for the FBI, after
consulting with deVore, estimated
the amount of money taken. Most
of the currency was in bills rang
ing from $1 to $20 but a few (100
bills also were included.
Regional Swim
Contest Planned
First of its kind here, a swim
ming meet of seven teams will be
held in Klamath Falls, Sunday,
August 28.
Including a team from Klamath
Falls, other cities entering groups
will be Bend, Grants Pass, Ash
land. Lakeview, Malin and Redding.
Dick Hicks, local swimming coach
announced the Klamath team Is
looking for a sponsor.
Tryouts for the local .team are
being held daily at the municipal
pool.
RUSSIAN GOODS I
NEW DELHI, India iP The;
AfganisUn Embassy here Tuesday j
reported a caravan of 65 trucks i
carrying commercial goods trom j
Russia had arrived in Kabul, the -
Afghan capita, The embassy s-aid:
another convoy is on the wav. The i
shipments are the first sent to j
Afghanistan under its new trade
agreement with Russia.
French Army
Moroccan Area Stronghold
i CASABLANCA if Armored might reach l.OUO in Morocco
; Fiench columns under fighter; alone. In Algeria, hundreds more
plane cover struck Tuesday in ! casualties were reported.
overwhelming strength at the) Monday night, fresh troops
mountain strongholds of Moroccan
tribesmen who launched an insur
rection Saturday.
Heavy reinforcing columns set
out Monday night from Rabat and
Meknes to join the already strong
French forces cutting off the
ba Talda area east of Oued Zem.
French officials would not dls-
close the number of troops em-
ployed but said, "When you go in
to those mountains, you don't do
it with 60 men."
Although' the operation was
characterised as a "punitive ex
pedition," French officials said
there would be no "repression",
which in French military termlnol-
ogv means no mass executions.
The main targets ot Uie expedi
tion are the 4.000 Berber tribes
men, formerly friendly to the
French, who rode out of the hills
to raid Oued Zem, where about SO
Frenchmen were slaughtered and
mutilated. '
Although 10 official figures for
the still grrwing weekend death tell
were available. French . officials
acknowledged privately that it
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SLEEK AND SASSY "LIBERACE," Aberdeen-Angus steer, with Elliott West, Poe Valley 4-H ex
hibltor at halter, topped the 1955 Rotary-sponsored 4-H, and FFA Junior Livestock Show
which opened August 21 at the fairgrounds. The grand champion of show from the Gerald
West herd won the grand champion ribbon from numerous other beef cattle entries. With
Elliott is his younger sister Cheryl, who showed the reserve grand champion of show, a light
er weight Aberdeen Angus named "Charcoal."
Elliott Vest Wins Junior Stock Ribbon
A grandson and a granddaughter
of the late L. A. West, "grandad-
dy" of the Klamath Falls 4-H and
FFA Junior Livestock Show at the
county fairgrounds, swept top rib
bons on beef entries into the West
kit bag to capture the grand
champion and reserve grand cham
pion honors in this year's show.
Judging of the winners was the
highlight of Monday's livestock
judging by L. J. Marks, Wheeler
County extension agent.
Exhibitor of this year's 4-H grand
champion steer, 1,025-pound "Li-
Fast Atlantic
Flight Tried
NEW YORK W Two British
airmen, tryintr for a. round trip
Across the Atlantic in one day, put
down their twin-jet plane here
Monday morning, ate a hurried
and early lunch and then started
streaking back to London.
The fliers landed at Flovd Ben
nett Field at 8:48 a.m., 7 hours
and ' 31 minutes after taking; off
from the London Airport.
They left for home at 9:23 a.m.
and hoped to make the return
flight in 6 hours and 10 minutes
in time for a leisurely, and slightly
late, dinner. That would get them
back at 9:15 p.m. London time.
Their we&tward crossing time
was almost, on the nose with their
expectations. They had aimed to
make it in V2 hours, with tail
winds cutting their return time by
an hour. ,
That would mean a 14-hour trip.
covering 6.920 miles.
The fliers, pilot John Hacketl
and navigator Peter M. Penny,
were flying a photo reconnaissance
version of the ;-.oval Air "rorce's
Canberra Jet bomber.
Forces Strike
clogged the roads moving towards
the Atlas Mountains and some vil
lages in the border hills were
evacuated.
French new:papers here called
the operation the most important
Kas-lsince those 30 years ago when the
Riffs under fierce Abd el Krlm
were put down,
The French cut off the area
from all traffic not escorted by
military convoy.
The reprisals In Morocco over
shadowed similar operations in Al
geria, where order apparently was
more quickly restored.
Th nn. nf nn.r.tinnt in P.net.
em Morocco embraced the worst
soreupots Oued Zcm and the
towns ot Kenifra and Khourigba
where similar fighting between na
tionalists and French troops and
settlers took place. All are 10..
miles or more inland from Casa-
blanca.
It was In the same area that
Gen. Raymond Duva. commander
of French troops in Morocco, was
killed In plane orish Monday.
(Earlier itory on page 71
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST S3, 1955
berace," an Aberdeen-Angus, is El -
liott west, 17, son of Mr. and Mr
Gerald West, Poe Valley. The am -
nml, 18 months old. Is from Uie
West herd.
Grand champion honors are no
novelty to Elliott who walked away
with grand champion honoib in the
1954 show and the reserve cham
pion ribbon in 1953. He also dipped
into honors" lor Southdown and
Hampshire sheep entries this year
taking: three firsts, two second and
a third place. Elliott is a senior in
Henley High School. i
Cheryl West, 11. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald West, took the 4-Hi
reserve grand champion honor on
"Charcoal," 930-pound Aberdeen
Angus from the Wickiup Ranehcro
herd of Santa Rosa.
The two animals will go into the
sale ring tonight following the big
barbecue for 4-H and FFA exhib
itors, their families, Rotarians and
other invited guests which will be
served in the grandstand.
Exhibitors will be served at 4:30
p.m. Adults will be served at 5:30
p.m. during the grand entry of
livestock.
.Jim Johnson, Malin. took cham
pionship honors in the FFA divi
sion with still another Aberdeen
Angus steer.
Janna Warren, Wocus. look
championship honors in the lhiht
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WATCHING THE 4-H, FFA FAIR thii morning a the Klamath
County Fairgrounds were Carolyn Brewer and Bobby Brower,
daughter and ion of Mr. and Mn. Erwirt Brower, Henley.
Carolyn wai showing her theep and Bobby a beef at the show.
; Hereford division with an animal
lrom . the Liskey herd ot . white'
, laces: medium Hereford top rib-
bon went to Nick Shuck.. Merrill
and Bill Denrbi'ii. Bonanza, topped
his class of Shorthorns, any age,
with a champion entry. The re
serve champion ribbon in this class
went to Mary Jane Fisk, Malin.
Other top 4-H ribbons included:
champion Hereford yearling heit
er, Vincent Cheync. Henley; re
serve champion Hereford cow,
Catherine Ahein. Merrill; cham
pion Angus yearling heifer, Nancy
Warren, Wocus; champion Angus
cow, Elliott West, Bonanza; cham
pion dhorthorn yearling heiter,
Gordon Kandra, Malin; reserve
champion Shorthorn yearling heif
er, Douglas Fisk, Malin.
Grand champion Hereford heif
er, FFA division. Ken Weatherby.
Malin: reserve champion Hereford
cow, FFA division, Lewis Kesler.
Malm; championship Hereford
steer, Jim Johnson, Malin,
Hundreds of visitors have
thronged the fairgrounds since the
show opened Sunday.
A complete list of winners in
ether divisions will be published at
a later date. m
The .show closes tonight following
the sale of livestock in the arena.
Bon Rhodes, Klamath Falls auc
tioneer, will cry the sale.
No. 3167
1800 Acres
Burned Over
In Bly Area
Approximately 1,800 acres of
heavily timbered land on Gearhart
Mountain in the Fremont Nation
al Forest was burned over by a
fire which was reported under con
trol at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Fremont Forest Supervisor John
McDonald said that 150 fire fight
ers Including SO .special fighters
from Corvallls, crews from the
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company,
Camp No, Six and haying crews
Horn the nearby Campbell and
Hyde ranches aided in bringing
the fire under control. Officials
nnd fighters from the Klamath
Forest Protective Association also
were on hand to battle the blaze,
FIRE TOPS TREES
The fire, which was first report
ed about H a.m. Monday, burned
a fine stand of mature penderosa
pine and white fir. The source of
the fire was not determined but
Herb Hadley, district assistant for
the Bly Ranger District of the Pre.
mont National Forest, said the
fire started in timber slashings in
the ' Deming Creek, Dutchman s
Flat area near the base of Gear
hart Mountain and immediately
began topping, or spreading
through the tops of the trees, mak
ing the fire fighters' job very diffi
cult. Logging contractor "Ned Putnam
had six caterpillar type tractors
aiding the fire crews along with
four other cats from other sources,
CREWS STAND BY
Fire crews were standing by this
afternoon to prevent any possible
spread of the fire which might
occur if the wind should come up.
This fire was the biggest on In
the F r e m o nj, Forest since the
Camp Creek fire of 1951 which
burned approximately 3,200 acres
of timber.
Fire crews prevented any dam
age to a Klamath County Road
Department rock crushing plant
which the lire completely sur
rounded. The crews were able to
save the plant by wetting the plant
down while the lire raged around
it.
U.S. Officer
Faces Charge
FORT LEWIS. Wash, ifi U.
Col. Pnul.V. Liles of Birmingham,
Ala., was charged Tuesday with
collaboration with the enemy while
a prisoner of war in Korea. The
1941 West Point graduate was a
prisoner of the Communists from
Oct. 28, 1950, until sept, l, ins.!.
Liles. now serving as Ft. Lewis
special services officer, was senior
otflcer among the prisoners quar
tered at POW Camp 12.
Charges served on Liles Tues
day morning by Lt. David J.
Creagnn Jr., of the post Judge
advocate section include giving aid
and comfort to the enemy.
The Ft. Lewis commanding gen
eral will be the convening authority
for the case.-Trial tentatively will
begin here sometime In Novem
ber, depending upon the availabil
ity ot witnesses.
Liles served 42 months In the Pa
rilic during World War II. earn
ing the Bronze Star, Soldier's Med
al and Legion ol Merit. He toon
part In the Guadalcanal. Bougain
ville and Luzon campaigns.
He was serving as a regimental
military adviser with the tith Rc -
public of Korea Division when he
was captured three dayi alter the
Chinese launched their attack
across the Yalu River.
Liles' wife. Harriet, also of Bir
mingham, and their three children.
Paul Jr.. 8. Donald. 6. and Pri
scilla, 1, live with hlin al this base.
Lakeview Uranium
Report Awaited
LAKEVIEW I- Uranium mine
owners near here expect to hear
tn about a week whether the i
Atomic FneiKv Commission is!
Telephone Sill
renoy 10 prepare contract tor ore;clir., seismograph recording sta-
hlpmenl
Field geologists lor the AEC sur
veyed the While King and Lucky
La inlnex over Ihe weekend.
Ko far. the AEC has not con
tracted for anv uranium ore in this
region although quality of ore In
recent finds ha been reported well
snnvc AEC minimum require
ment' .
WealJitti'
FORM-AST Klamath Falls and
vir-lnlty: Continued mild through
Wednrfiday. High Wednesday fi;
low Tuesday night 13.
High yesterday. ... R7
Low last night 4ft
Prerlp last 24 houra....MW .. 0
Since Oet. 1
7.00
8ame period Iml year
I4.s
.Normal for period. .....
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East Hood States1
Situation Studied
By MARVIN L. ARROWSM1TH
WASHINGTON I President
Eisenhower flew over the flood de
vastated Northeastern states Tues
day and then pledged he would
summon a special session of Con
gress if necessary to assure ade
quate aid.
For the moment, he appealed to
Americans everywhere to dig deep
into their pockets and help the
homeless and suffering through the
Red Cross.
With cities paralysed and indus
tries flattened, the situation Is one
requiring every agency to do
everything possible, Eisenhower
said.
And. looking Into the future, he
promised a study of flood preven
tion and flood insurance possibil
ities. IKE FLIES
Eisenhower ilew overnight irom
his vacation retreat in Colorado to
have a personal luok at the flood
damage and confer with governors
of the afflicted states. His plan was
to make a general aerial mspec.
lion, but the weather was murky
over New England and visibility
was zero at many points.
It was drizzling rain and an In.
ctTumeiit lnndmg was required
when his plane, the Columbine III,
finally put down at Hartlord, Conn.,
at 8:41 a.m.
Before flying on to Washington.
the President conferred with the
governors of the Northeastern
states and representatives of the
governors of North and South Caro.
Una. The southern stales were hard
hit when hurricanes Connie and
Diane swept In from the sea.
AID APPEALED
It was at Hartford that Eiseiv
hower appealed for quick and gen
erous contributions to the Red
Cross which, he noted, can spend
its money without the limitations
necessarily attached to govern
ment funds.
It was there, too. that he said
he would call Congress into spec,
lal session If necessary.
Flying on here, the presidential
plane arrived at 11:32 a.m.
(The President drove straight
from the airport to the White
House where he planned a confer
ence later In the day with Secre
tary of State Dulles.
The White House announced
Civil Defense Administrator Val
Peterson would fly back from Hart
ford later Tuesday and oonter with
the president on tn tiooa situa
tion. There was no indication
whether the President planned any
action relating to the disaster at
this lime.
IKE'S ADDRESS
The President will visit Phila
delphia Wednesday to address the
American Bar Assn. men no win
fly back to Washington and leave
with Mrs. Elsenhower for Denver
around & p.m.
Elsenhower laid heavy stress on
Red Cross contributions in his
Harlford statement. He said in a
broadcast;
"In my opinion everybody within
the sound of my voice will sleep
letter tonight If he turns in every
thing that ne can spare to meet
this great disaster that has hap
pened to our fellow Americans."
Then he added:
"I hope you will do it instantly
so that by tomorrow night Mr.
Roland Harrlnian here, the . presi
dent of the Red Cross, will know
that he doesn't have to be meager
Pacific Coast
Quake Felt
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
A strong 1 offshore earthquake
waR recorded by West Coast sels-
moRiaohs Tuesday snd observers
placed its center off the Oregon
coasl.
Tie quake, slarling at 7 34:09
a.m. PST on the University of
Washington seismograph at Seat
tle, was estimated at magnitude 6
or 6.5 on a scale which rates the
largest quakes ever recorded at
An observer at Ihc Dominion As
trophyMcal Observatory at Victor
la, B. O. placed the quake at 380 to
400 miles southwest of Victoria.
, Bn(i sniri ii .., sir0ng enough to
(i0 heavy damage had It centered
m populated area,
tInlv.r,,lv r r.n,,.,
moloHist estimated the center was
5.!0 miles northwest of Berkeley,
which also would place It off the
Oregon coa.st.
The quake la.sted 45 minutes on
Ihc University of California record
ing instruments,
The California TnaUlute of Tech
nnlORy also located the quake oil
Oregon after e.sumatlritf earlier It
wps further north off the const of.
i British Columbia. The Callech ei.
i moloithl. Dr. Charles Richter.
made the reunion on the basis oi
reports from Seattle and Berkeley,
tion
Circus Elephant
Escapes In City
KEf'NEWICX. Wn.ih. if- A
big circus elephant broke his chain
stomped through an east side resi
dential district here Monday night
and brought scores ol frantic calls
to police.
Aboul 150 employes of the Ring
llivf Bros., Barnum k Bailey Circus
finally cornered the animal at an
Intersection and put him back
where he belonged.
No one was injured but the ele-
nhant smashed a dozen fences and
I tore up some lawns and flower
beds.
or: stingy in the allocations ha
makes to these areas."
Harriman joined in the dramatlo
presidential plea, and pointed out
that the federal and state govern
ments are restricted by law ai to
the amount of aid which can be
provided In such , situations.
The President told newsmen he
wanted to make sure that federal
agencies were not "meager or
stingy" in dealing with the flood
created problems.
He said the federal government
will go into business at once on a
long range flood prevention pro
gram including insurance to pre
vent losses such as suffered during
this flood.
After the presidential confer
ence. Civil Dciensc Administrator
Peterson estimated 75 million dol
lars would be needed from the
President's emergency fund to aid '
the devastated areas.
Peterson said there now is ill,.
600,000 In the fund.' The President,
he said, will ask leaders of Con
gress for permission to make al
locations extending the credit of
the government up to the amount
needed.
In Eastern
Plane Crash
CHARLESTON. S. C. tP) A
flaming Cllft Flying Boxcar
crashed, exploded and burned In a
Negro, residential area near the
Charleston Air Force Base Tues
day, killing nine or more airmen
and civilians.
The base public information of.
flee said five of the 11 crew mem
bers were killed. None of the aix
survivors was believed Injured
critically.
Bodies of four civilians were
found shortly after firemen and
policemen were able to probe the
wreckage of the plane and three
houses lt hit In the densely popu
lated Liberty Park community.
Flaming debris was hurled over a
wide area. The plane waa on a
routine night flight.
DEAD CREWMAN
The Air Force Identified ttie
dead crewmen as Capt. Robert L.
McNeal of Wlndber, Pa,, the pilot;
1st Lt. Francis L. McShane, North
Charleston. S. C; tad Lt. James
John Maher, Wilks, Barre. Pa.;
Airman 3. C. Keith Halls, Smool,
Wyo.; and Airman 2. C, John W.
Olahn, Cincinnati, Ohio.
None of the injured crewmen
was from the Pacific Northwest.
The CI 19 was attached to tile
58th Troop Carrier Wing of the
18th Air Force. It had taken off
with another military transport
ship. A North Charleston fireman
said he heard both planes and saw
two tremendous flashes of fire
from the one that crashed about
2 a.m.
FIHE SPREAD
The fireman, whose unit was the
first to reach the site, said, "There
was fire everywhere. A man who
had been sitting on the road eat
ing a watermelon an Id he saw the
plane coming In and one engine
was on fire."
A propeller flew 100 yards,
through the window of a fourth
house, injuring a sleeping man and
his wife.
Only the three houses actually
hit bv Darts of the plane burned.
Chemicals and water, sprayed
quickly on the plane and nearby
houses, prooaoiy saved many lives.
Worker Killed
On Dam Job
THE DALLES ifi One man was
killed and six Injured when a large
wooden panel being moved into
place for a concrete form, broke
up and fell on the Washington side
of The Dalles Dam Tuesday morn
ing. H. B. Elder, resident engineer al
the dam. identified the victim as
Charles Beagle, about 69 or 60, a
carpenter from Lyle, Wash.
The names of the other Injured
men were not Immediately avail
able, he said, but added that the
first hospital reports Indicated
their hurls were no, critical.
The accident occurred shortly
nftr-r 8 a. m. at the site of fish
ladder construction.
A crane was swinging a wooden
panel, about 30 feet lomr and 10
or 12 feet high, to where a crew
of carpenters was waiting to put
It Into place as part of a form for
concrete.
Suddenly, Elder said, from some
cause not determined, the panel
I broke up, slammed down into men
standing atop already poured con-
crete, and shattered a scaffolding
on which other men were stand
ing. Some ot the men were hurled
30 to 40 feet down to the base of
the concrete wall where they land
ed on litter from the falling scaf
fold. Others clung to the concrete
wall on which they had been stand
ing. RACK TO WORK
NANTES. Fiance, im Thirteen
thousand striking shipyard work
ers went back to work Tuesday
after a week of rioting which
cauied ihe death of one man.
wounned scores and forced the
yards to shut down.
The workers demanded a raise
of 40 francs an hour (about 11
cents, an average boost of 2ft per
cent. Both aides finally agreed to
resume negotiations Wednesday.
Nine Killed