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OTTAWA HERALD Vol.M No. 75 OTTAWA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3,1960 7 CENT! EIGHT PAGES Side Swipes Employment figures for February are almost identical with those of a year ago, according to Robert F. Wasson, manager of Ottawa office of Kansas Employment Service. There was a little cut-back during the last of February because of weather conditions, but employment will pick up again as the weather improves. There were 197 new applications in February as compared with 208 in January.

The office, which serves Franklin, Miami and Anderson Counties, placed 106 workers in tihe 149 job openings. There were 211 initial claims filed for unemployment insurance as compared with 396 a month ago. A total of 1,140 weeks ol benefit were claimed. "Our office is continuing the testing program, 1 Wasson says "By the last of this month we will have tested 60 high school seniors for general aptitudes." Phone Business Booms NEW YORK (AP) The storm skyrocketed the telephone business in the metropolitan area. The day's phoning in the five Bor oughs hit a record of 29,579,538 calls.

The previous record for one day was 26,983,930 on Dec. 9, 195' during the subway strike. Chief Can't Quit NOVI, Mich. (AP) So wel liked is former Police Chief Lei Begole the Village Council refuse to remove him from the payroll Begole quit his job to head the police in nearby Cheboygan. The council refused to recognize hi resignation and sent him a checl for $182.75 covering a two-week period since he left his job Feb 15.

Begole said he would put th paycheck in the bank but would accept no more. The council said it would continue to recognize Begole as police chief and still pay him while he is in Cheboygan. Begole said he had no plans to return. Meantime, the Novi police are under the supervision of an acting chief. J.S.

Being Blamed For Munitions Ship Disaster Cubans Contend Ship Explosion DON'T SPILL employees use a snowplow and trucks to clean deep mow from 2nd between Main and Hickory yesterday. Snow on the street measured about three inches. (Photo by Jack Fenton) Two Features The Herald starts Monday two special features. One is a timely series on your income tax. Written by James Marlowe of the Associated Press, this five-part series will help you fill out your income tax and it may even save you some money.

The other is a sports feature entitled "You Call It." This feature will run four weeks. Written by Ben Olan, baseball expert and statistician for the Associated Press, it gives some of the problems big league managers face. Baseball fans are given the chance to second guess the managers in this series. Safe After Week In Arctic Snow Mercury Dips Below Zero, Sets Record A couple of weather records were broken in Ottawa last night and yestesday. The low mark of 1 below zero during last night was the coldest ever recorded for the date.

Previous record low for the night of March 4-5 was 2 degrees above zero in 1952. The other State Democrats Cheer Rivals At Hutchinson HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Presidential rivals John F. Ken edy of Massachusetts and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota rapped Republicans and kidded and praised each other Friday night before a crowd of 1,300 assembled by the ansas State Democratic Convention.

The completion of the process of laming delegates to the Demo- ratic National Convention was the main business today for the record broken was the high temperature yesterday. Temperatures climbed no higher than 14 degrees here yesterday The previous record low maximum temperature for March 4 was 28 degrees in 1917. Ottawans walked around under a cloud cover today after two days of sunshine. The weather Bureau said this morning some light snow can be expected in Kansas today. Later it was reported snow was falling as far east as Junction City primary campaigning in Wiscon- in for speeches to the Kansas )emocrats.

Kennedy voluntarily cut short us speech to 12 minutes after a late arrival by Humphrey and ong orations kept the audience in heir seats for more than four Courtroom First Aid Pays Off NEW YORK week a trial witness collapsed on the chair and died of a heart attack in Kings County Court. Judge Hyman Barshay decided to do something about He bought a small portable" bottle of oxygen for the courtroom. Friday a witness in another court, Pearl Harvey, collapsed apparently from a heart attack An aide raced for the bottle and applitd it until a police emer gency unit arrived. Attendants said the oxygen probably saved the 38-year-old woman's life. She was admitted to a hospital for treatment.

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP)-Two men who lived on moose meat sausage and dry biscuits, who slept in ice igloos and drank snow water for a week were safe in Kotzebue today. George Baumann, 58, polar bear hunter from Nevada, and Lee Holen, 43, Anchorage pilot, were rescued Friday, a week after their light plane was forced to land on an ice floe in Chukchi lea. Holen described their ordeal in a telephone interview from Kotze- about 200 miles north of through the top layers of the floe, ilost hope," Holen said. "We kne After two days Holen said they' we'd make it, but we were awfull left because of the ice's instability i happy to see those Eskimos an Using a raft fashioned from the j(heir dog teams." plane's gas tanks and often leaping from one rotting ice cake to another, the two made it some 30 miles to shore. Onjy their sleeping bags and the snow igloos that protected them at night kept them from freezing He said they spent their first night sleeping on the wings of the lane, which partially sank onvention.

The two senators interrupted hours. Humphrey was more than an in the near zero temperatures, Holen said. Holen said they hiked down the coast toward Kivalina for four days. Thursday night they met a party of Eskimos who took them into Kivalina. "We never were discouraged or Talk Marathon In Senate Has Civil Rights Advocates On Ropes By JACK BELL I WASHINGTON (AP)-It wasn't upposed to come out that way at all.

but Southern filibusterers have about worn out civil rights advo- ales with their marathon talk in he Senate. There are unmistakable signs hat those most grateful for the weekend break in continuous Senate sessions will not be the Southerners but those who originally sought to exhaust them. This come about through expert platooning of the 18 civil opponents and the inability of the bill's supporters to work out any comparable system. As a result, many of the civil rights advocates are physically groggy and tired mentally from more than five days of around-the- clock sessions. Some of them said privately they expect their firsl restful sleep in a week when they relax in their homes over the weekend.

The Southerners look as fresh and as peppy as when the session started last Monday noon. Captained by Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga), they divided themselves into three teams of six men each. Each team takes on a 24- hour shift.

Each member is responsible for a four-hour speech, although some have talked longer. After their stint, each team can go members home for Was Sabotage HAVANA semi-official newspaper Revoluckm charged today the United States was directly responsible for Friday's French munitions ship disaster in Havana harbor. Unofficial estimates said from 40 to 100 persons perished in the blast. The government itself hinted sabotage caused It was the second rescue thi week. Max Eastman, hunter froi Omak, and his pilot, War ren Johnson of Anchorage, had ac companied Holen and Baumann i a separate plane.

They, too, wer forced to land on an ice floe and were rescued by Air Force helicopter Monday. Two other hunters, pilot Ward Carroll, and G. Stanley Gordon of Former Police Judge And Wife Found Dead ROELAND PARK, Kan. The bodies of a former Roeland were killed in the light plane Feb. 19.

Anchorage, crash of a Their bodies were seen on an ice floe which drifted away. A search for the bodies has been abandoned. Cutter "At Mercy Of The Seas" Park police judge and his wife were found Friday night in the den of their home. Each had been shot once in the lead in what police said ap- eared to be murder and suicide. Police found a pistol the hand of Thomas Beckham, 3.

His body was slumped on a chair about three feet from the body of his wife, Kate, 70. Police said two notes were bund, one of them addressed to the FBI. Contents were not dis closed. hours of rest and relaxation before going back on the job again. On the other hand, since they have to provide most of the bl members who must answer quorum calls to keep the session going, civil rights advocates have had to snatch sleep on uncomfortable cots near the Senate chamber.

Just to make it tougher, the Southerners rout them out three or four times a night to answer roll calls or to vote down some motion to adjourn. Dixie Senators Have Up Full Head Of Steam explosions. But the devastating independent re- hour late because of airplane en line trouble on a flight from Superior, Wis. Humphrey said: "I've been up in Superior, Jack preparing the folks for your meet ng next week." "I'm certainly glad Hubert wa able to be here," Kennedy with a grin. "I'm glad he didn' make that wonderful speech to the people in Wisconsin." Kennedy received sustained ap plause when he entered the hall contrast to the somewhat restrained handclapping accordn Humphrey an hour later.

"Thank you for that almost un believable expression of neutral! Humphrey said with a smile Polls show Kennedy trailing slightly behind Sen. Stuart Sym ngton of Missouri among nationa onvention delegates already chosen in Kansas, with scattered support for Humphrey and Sen. Johnson of Texas. No candidate has a majority and many of the Kansas delegates have ex- messed no preference. Each of he 42 delegates will have one-half vote in the national convention.

Humphrey frequently was interrupted by vigorous applause dur- ng a 50-minute blast at Republican farm, Fiscal and civil rights policies. Speeches by Rep. James Wright of Texas, on behalf of Johnson, and Rep. Charles Brown of Missouri on behalf of Symington, took almost an hour and Kennedy reduced his long prepared address to a few general criticisms of the Eisenhower administration. About 900 persons paid $10 a plate to attend the dinner.

The others sat in the balcony. Gov. George Docking introduced the speakers. State Rep. Dale Saffels of Garden City is permanent chairman of today's convention.

SANDWICH, Mass. (AP)-Bat- by raging seas as a late- winter blizzard spent its wrath on Southern New England, the Coast uard cutter General Greene was aground today on treacherous ape Cod sands. Her skipper said she was "at the mercy of the seas." The ocean-going tug M. Moran ship which the General Greene had set out to to safe harbor at by another cutter. The General Greene was driven aground Friday at the height of the storm, and her crew of 24 was brought ashore aboard an amphibious "duck." The 125-foot cutter was trying to aid the M.

Moran, which had lost her rudder, when a towing liawser fouled one of the Greene's two propellers. General Greene dropped two anchors but they dragged on the sandy bottom, and she was driven to the beach. Salvage attempts were put off until the 70-mile-an hour storm ended. Long Refinery Strike Ended KANSAS CITY eight- month strike at the Sugar Creek refinery of the Standard Oil Co. was ended Friday night by a vote of the strikers.

Members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union voted 199 to 140 to return to work while Seneca, she was able to scream Court Upholds A Conviction TOPEKA (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of Bobby Joe Spencer for the murder of his landlady, a Kansas City, widow. Spencer was scheduled to hang last Aug. 31 but got a stay pending a decision on the appeal. Pulled To Death In Water Pump SENECA, Mo. (AP) A woman's shawl, entangled in an electric water pump, quickly wound around the belt pulley and strangled her Friday.

She was Mrs. Leroy White, 39, mother of three. Alone at the home northeast of negotiations for a new contract continue. Work rules are the main points at issue. The OCAW contract covered more than 700 workers when the strike began July 8.

P. C. Livesay, refinery manager, said: "It is possible there may not be as many jobs available now as when the strike began. There may before her breath was choked off A neighbor, G. W.

Clark, heard the scream and found her body in the pumphouse. Sees Big Change In Life Of Man COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) A physical educcition professor be those who will not be rehired- jsays athletics will replace man's It is difficult to tell now just activity of work in the many are going to be able to coming age of automation. Dr. Delbert Oberteuffer of Ohio use." The refinery continued operations with more than 20o persons crossing the picket lines.

Livesay said production was maintained at 83 per cent of capacity. Lamb Insured Payment Plan, adv WASHINGTON (AP) senators pounded ahead with their ivil rights filibuster today, sus- ained by the prospect of a break their talk marathon by night- all. Perhaps because of the antici- ated recess for the sabbath. Southerners relented somewhat i their demands for quorum calls nd let civil rights advocates sleep hrough the early morning hours rom about 6 a.m. Sen.

Allen J. Ellender (D-La) ports said an unloading accident might have caused the explosions that spread ruin and death along the waterfront. There were no official estimates of the death toll. Newspapers reported from 41 to 50 dead and a TV station suggested 75 to Revolucion, which often speaks for Prime Minister Fidel Castro, headlined its account of the fiery destruction of the Belgian arms cargo "sabotage." "The United States had pledged that these anus should not reach Cuba," the newspaper asserted, without amplification. Revolucion said an American passenger aboard the munition ship was being held for investigation.

It said he took photographs of the ship en route to Havana. The U. S. Embassy said it had been unable to locate the psssen- Dixie whose name was given as Six Children Die In Home Fire EVANSVILLE, (AP)-Six of the seven children of Mr. anc Mrs.

Jack Dietsch died Friday night in an explosion and fire that swept through their home on Evansville's Northwest Side. Five brothers, Michael, 9, Greg ory, 8, Dennis, 5, Timothy, 4, and Tommy, 3, were suffocated or burned to death in the house. A fireman found their baby sister, Roxanne, 20 months crawling on the floor in the burn ing house and passed her ou through a window, but she died as she reached Deaconess Hos pital. The mother, Eileen, 34, and seventh child, Madonna Jo, 6, go out of the house but were reported in critical condition at the hos pital. The husband and father was a work at the Colonial Bar, whicl he operates.

Mrs. Dietsch anc the children were in bed when the fire broke out. The cause of the blaze was no determined. State University told a group of physical educators here Friday that they hold America's future Nominated in their hands. "When all industry and businc'? boils down to pushing buttons he said, "man will have to revei to physical activity for survival.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Prcsiden Cisenhower has sent to the Senat 'ie nomination of Herschel Jougan to be postmaster at Stan Kas. NEW over the Chamber of Commerce budget lor the coming year are (from left) Floyd Coffman, retiring president, Robert Pence, preoldcnt for 1960, Miss Peg Carr, manager, and Chandler, treasurer. was elected at a board meeting Friday. Chandler re-elected and Miss Carr was retained aa manager. Elected vice president was John Sheldon.

held the floor for morning after a 2 much of the hours and 41 minutes speech by Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), who ordinarily lim- ts his talks in the Senate to less nan 30 minutes. There was a difference of opin- on over whether advocates of civ- 1 rights legislation gained or lost ground in the week of almost con- inuous sessions which began last VIonday noon. Sen.

E. L. Bartlctt (D-Alaska) said they unquestionably had, but Sen. Gordon Allot (R-Colo) disagreed and predicted they would reconcile their differences and force a halt to the filibuster of the Dixie forces. In a separate interview, Sen.

Barry F. Byrd (D-Va) said flatly that the civil rights advocates cannot get the necessary two- thirds majority to shut off debate the seven-point administration bill now before the Senate. "Kansas" Fags Are Popular JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesians have popularized an American-blend cigarette named after an American state. "Kansas" brand cigarettes, manufactured by a local affiliate of a Belgian firm, were introduced into the Indonesian market in 194B. There is no special reason for having chosen the name, officials at the factory in Malang say.

The company planned production of a number of brands named after American states, but Kansas still remains the first and only brand. The firm is managed by a three-member board with an Indonesian as principal director and two Belgians as assistants. It employs 2,000. Production of Kansas cigarettes, made of a blend of American Virginia and Javanese tobaccos, Is limited owing to difficulty in importation of American tobacco, officials said. A yellow package of 10 Kansas cigarettes costs the equivalent of seven cents.

Don Chapman of North Bend. and expressed belief he was under detention. After a midnight emergency Cabinet session, President Osvaldo Dorticos told a nationwide TV audience that Friday's explosions aboard the freighter La Coubre "had all the characteristics of a barbarous and criminal attack on the people of Cuba." Pro-government sources right out and called the explosions the work of saboteurs. But as indignation mounted, the independent newspaper Informa- cion said the collapse of a loading net filled with explosives, as well as an act of sabotage, figured as a possible cause. The usually reliable Informacion set the casualty totals at 44 dead.

258 injured and 13 missing. The conservative Diario de la Marina put the total dead at more than 50. Another six persons were reported injured in the dock disaster area this morning in what Havana Radio described as a hand grenade explosion. The radio said those hurt were among rescue workers sifting through the dockside wreckage caused by the ship blasts. The semiofficial newspaper Revolucion said all information gathered by Castro's security forces "indicate it was produced by an act of sabotage promoted by an international plot against Cuba." Three AP Staff Men Are Held HAVANA (AP)-Havana police today detained three members of the Associated Press staff in Havana who were making final check on the French munitions ship explosion in Havana Harbor.

They are Richard Burlington, N.J., and. Cuban staff members Alberto Lanier and Carlos Villanueva- An American tourist was with them. Castro placed his military and police forces on a standby alert in the wake of the blasts which wrecked the freighter La Coubre carrying Belgian munitions. Cuban labor leaders and radio- TV announcers flatly branded the blast as sabotage. A usually reliable source close to the government said a time bomb had been found in the ship's freezing unit, but this was not officially confirmed.

Some Castro elements suggested a sneak light plane raid by government foes set off the explosions which demolished three waterfront warehouses. The Cabinet decreed a day of mourning for the French crewmen of the ship, dockworkers and fire fighters who died in the series of blasts. The unloading of the freighter, bringing 76 tons of munitions, was well under way when the firsl explosion ripped the ship's rear hold with roar that rocked capital. Fire burst out. Police and firemen raced to aid of 27 workers in the hold, but many apparently perished immediately.

Bullets set off by the. firt whined through the strickep area as police and soldiers tried desperately to clear out panic-stricken crowds of civilians. Firefighters and pier worker! who had boarded the ship to rescue explosion victims were caught by a second blast about a half hour after the first explosion. Prescriptions Raney Drug CH2-30Q1 Adv,.