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8 A Feb. 14, 1959 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MITCHELL RULES Nixon Helping Oregon Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Statehood KANSAS CITY STAR SUED BY CARRIERS TVA STIRS PROTESTS WITH BRITISH DEAL Dog Trapped 3 Days in Tornado Debris Is Reunited With Owners derful. A party like this in the Valentine stale." Enthusiasm for the centennial has been mounting for months. The state is spending nearly $3,000,000 to finance the long celebration. And thousands of men have sprouted beards for the occasion.

But there was not always enthusiasm in Oregon for statehood. In three straight elections, in 1854, 1855 and 1856, the people of the territory voted to stay out of the Union. One of the big issues was taxes. The Oregonlan, following the Whig point of view, said statehood would cost an additional $88,000 a year in taxes. And for what purpose, the paper asked? Just so more Democrats could hold office, it said.

But the Democrats won out, jtl'' 1 ti i wiping I i 4 i -1 ii -1 I PORTLAND, Feb. 14 (AP) The state of Oregon Its reluctance at joining the Union forgotten began celebrating its one-bundreth birthday anniversary today. Activities today Just 100 years after President James Buchanan signed the statehood bill centered or. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who came to lend a helping hand.

Nixon speaks first today at Astoria, an old port town near the mouth of the Columbia river, where a centennial stamp will be issued. Then he wiil speak at the capital at Salem, and come back to Portland for another talk tonight. Nixon got a jubilant welcome on his arrival in Portland last night. As he strode bareheaded from the plane into a driving rain, he received a lei from Gov. and Mrs.

Hatfield. As Nixon arrived downtown, a Democrat, State Senator Richard Groener walked up, shook his hand and said: "Remember, Mr. Vice President, this is a non-political visit." "Sure, not a word," Nixon replied. Inside the hotel, 150 college students shouted a greeting and Nixon said: "This is won DROPS SUIT TO PREVENT PLUMBERS EXAMINATIONS A petition for an Injunction to prevent the Plumbers and Drainlayers Examining Board of St. Louis county from holding examinations was dismissed yesterday by the plaintiff, Harry Peterson, a plumber's laborer.

The suit was filed Feb. 6, in a dispute over interpretation of the county plumbing ordinance. A spokesman of the county counselor's office said it was the result of a misunderstanding. 48-Star 'Antique' Flaes. SEATTLE, Feb.

14 (AP) A surplus store here is advertising "antique American flags." They have 48 stars. GREENVILLE, Feb. (AP) Secretary of Lahor James P. Mitchell said last night he is not a candidate for Vice President in I960. "Once I leave the Cabinet, I want to lead a less complicated life," he said.

Mitchell's remarks came at the conclusion of his talk before a Lincoln Day dinner in this western Pennsylvania community. He also said that until segregation is ended the position of United States internationally will not be as secure as it should be. He said the Republican party does not need to apologize for its stand on discriminatory practices regarding race, color and religion. "The job of getting rid of discrimination was started in the Republican party as an inheritance from Lincoln," Mitchell said. He also said one of the top objectives of the party is to "help the American labor movement rid itself of gangsters and hoodlums who have infected it." "I foresee quite a bit of trouble in passing future labor legislation because of Democratic opposition." He however, it would be passed.

Mitchell said he favored the Administration's labor bill because it included the prohibi-tion of secondary boycotting and blackmail picketing and granted the right of the Secretary of Labor to investigate the validity and accuracy of union reports. William 1.. Axt Dies. URIAH. Feb.

14 (AP) William L. Axt, who organized the musical department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood and scored many motion pictures, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 71 years old. Axt worked on many films, incuding Parnell, the Garden Murder Case, Reunion In Vienna, the Thin Man, Rendezvous and Penthouse. Bv Port -Dispatch Photoraphr.

Trixie, dog tripped three days in tornado wreckage, in joyful reunion last night with ANTHONY COLE, 2 yeirs old, one ol its owners. the third floor of the building on Olive street. The children were taken to a hospital but rescue work en overlooked Trixie. It was trapped under timbers and bricks. Sander, 4278 Lee avenue, returned Trixie to the Cole children after the Red Cross had found them on Enright.

There was a scene of jubilation and after that ice cream for everybody. It was the second reunion for the Cole children since the storm blew out the walls of their apartment early Tuesday. For several hours their mother was listed as missing, and the children waited alone at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. See tomorrow's Post-Dispatch for the correct solution to the partly on the platform that representatives in Congress comd collect $4,500,000 owed the state for fighting Indians.

There was some grumbling over that later. The state got only $424,000. The Oregonian later said of statehood: "The people have made no demonstration toward a rejoicing or jubilee." FIRE IN CHURCH SACRISTY Several cassocks used by altar boys were destroyed by fire last night In the sacristy at St. Ferdinands Catholic Church, on Charbonnier road in Florissant. The fire, confined lo a closet, was extinguished quickly by Florissant firemen.

It was discovered by parishioners who were eating in the church basement. Cause of the fire was not determined. Hearts and Glowers. CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AP Guess who was arrested today on a disorderly conduct charge for fighting with his wife? Joseph Valentine, 36 years old, that's who.

I 11 KILLED, 8 HURT AS FIRE SWEEPS ASHLAND, Feb. 14 AP Fire cut through an old apartment building early today, leaving 11 dead and one missing. Eight were injured. Among the victims were six members ol one family, including an expectant mother. She jumped from a window of the second r.oor, then died after 'giving birth to a stillborn son.

The fire broke out at 1:01 a.m. and quickly cut off the only exit, a stairway at the front of the reconverted theater. "Almost right away people began jumping out of the windows," said taxlcab driver Anthony Blackwell, who discovered the blaze. Blackweil said he saw seven occupants standing at windows in the rear of the building but "they disappeared when a section of the celling apparently fell." Like Acetylene Torch. "That fire cut just like an acetylene torch," he said.

Delmar Fannin, one of the 20 occupants of the stone-front structure, said he was awakened "when the fire flapped the rug at my door like wind. "I heard a woman scream but was unable to tell where It was coming from. Then I smelled smoke." Fannin's wife and sister jumped to safety and he and a brother-in-law were brought 'out by firemen. Coroner Russell Compton said the missing person was 14-year-old Jack Kirk, believed to have spent the night with his father. The father was among the victims.

Compton listed the other dead as: Jack McKenzie, 30; his wife Polly, 28; her stillborn child; and their son, Jackie, Dickie Joe, Johnny William. James Powell, about 22; Mrs. Grace Blanton, 50; Frank Artist, about 50; and Clyde May, about 50. 'Didn't Have a Fire Chief Burris Hensley, a veteran of 46 years with the department, said. "I've never seen a blaze as destructive as this one." He said one of the occupants apparently made an attempt to put out the fire with an extinguisher "but it was moving too quickly.

Those people just didn't have a chance." Hensley, unable to give a cause for the fire, said he found a fire escape assembled in the yard at the rear. "It was to be installed next week." Three Killed in Hotel In Reno, Nev. Fire RENO. Feb. 14 (AP An early morning fire swept a downtown hotel today.

Firemen reported three persons killed and four seriously injured. Flames broke out about 6 a.m. and raced through both upper stories of the Grand hotel, a half block from Reno's casino center. The cause and extent of damage could not be determined immediately. Firefighters and police rescued pajama-clad guests from window ledges.

A policeman was boosted to the marquee of a shop and helped three per-Bons to safety as smoke billowed from the three-story building. Firemen believed a cigarette dropped by a sleeping guest may have touched off the flames. Coroner William Beemer identified one of the dead as M. V. Fudlg of Oakland, Calif.

Burned to Death in Montreal Apartment Fire. MONTREAL, Feb. 14 (AP) Two persons were burned to death and nine injured in a fire which swept a 56-unit apartment building early today. The fire, of undetermined origin, broke out in the brick building shortly after midnight, sending 125 occupants Into the freezing weather outside. Firemen found the bodies of an elderly woman and a young man in the ruins.

Eight or 10 persons were rescued by ladders. Several jumped from windows. 35 Burned in Fire it Ontario Dance Hall. KINGSTON, Feb. 14 'AP) An oil stove knocked over in a dance sent fire racing through a crowded hall early today.

At least 35 persons were injured, some seriously. About 150 persons, mostly teen-agers, were in the one-story frame Circle dance hall. Dancers were turned into human torches by the blazing oil. Many were forced to dive through windows when the doorways became jammed with the escaping crowd. A nursing supervisor at the General Hospital said most of me injured mere were Deing i treated for second-degree burns to the arms and upper parts of their bodies.

Firemen managed to control the fire quickly. The damage was limited to the roof and interior walls of the building. TWO KILLED AND TWO HURT IN COLLISION IN ILLINOIS SESSER, 111., Feb. 14 (API-Two persons were killed and Iwo others injured in a on collision near here last nieht. Dead are Thomas J.

Chois-cer, 27 years old, of Ewing, and Miss Janice Adams, 18, of Benton. State police said Chnisscr's rar and one driven by Ronnie D. Osburn. 18, of Logan, collided on State Route 37 south of Sesser. Osburn suffered serious injuries and another passenger, Keith A.

Kirk, 17. of Logan, fuffered minor injuries. Miss Adams was in Osburn's car. OLDAPARTMENTS of 40 are on be js at city of saw the the KANSAS CITY, Feb. 14 (UPD The Kansa- City Star was named yesterday in a United States District Court suit that charged it was engaged in "subtle monopolistic practices." The suit was filed by 44 members of the Kansas City local of the Newspaper Carriers Co-operative Association.

The carriers charged that the newspaper has refused to allow them to deliver other forms of news and advertising and asked that the Star be restrained from requiring them to live up to a clause in contracts with the newspaper. The Star said it would withhold comment pending examination of the suit. The carriers objected to a clause which says they may not "sell nor circulate any other newspaper except by written consent" of the Star. They emphasized that they are independent business men working for profit and said they could deliver other news and advertising if the Star would allow them to do so. They asked for three times whatever monetary damage It is determined they have suffered.

The Star was charged with 10 violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The suit was filed by attorney Ray D. Jones who filed a suit Thursday for furniture dealer C. C. Jones, operator of an appliance firm.

He charged that the Star refused to sell him advertising space In 1951. Jones has filed 10 other suits against the Star in the past year, mostly for small newspapers in the metropolitan area. Tornado Fund Continued From PaieOne. earlier. Patricia, a seventh-grader at St.

Gabriel School, wrote: "I know it is not very much, but it is all I have at the time and will send more soon." Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gates, 1054 Etherton drive. Crest-wood, sent $5.28 with this message: "The 28-cent donation Is a contribution from our four-year-old daughter, Nancy's, piggy bank on behalf of her one-year-old sister. Terri, and her dog, Wonnie.

She requests that the money be given to some children so that they can buy anything they want. God bless you all in your work." Contributions should be sent to: Tornado Relief und, cart of the Post-Dispatch, St. Louis 1, Mo. N0RTHWO0DS OFFICIALS ASSAIL NEW TAX FORMS Officials of Northwoods have announced opposition to Asses sor Francis H. Kennedy's new forms for assessing household goods in St.

Louis county. A letter signed by Mayor B. W. Ammann and all members of the Northwoods Boards of Aldermen charged Kennedy with setting unrealistic furni ture values and listing as lux urics goods which are necesi- ties. "By this form, you will either make sworn liars out of every one or you will severely penal ize those who cannot conscicn tiously value their household goods at a reasonable low tax able limit," the letter said.

The officials urged that Kennedy revise the forms as soon as possible. GARCIA SAYS LUXURY YACHT IS PHILIPPINE NAVY FLAGSHIP MANILA. Feb. 14 (UPIV President Carlos P. Garcia yes terday designated his $2,500 000 presidential yacht Lapu I.apu as the Philippine navy's flagship.

He said it would ne made available for use in mercy missions and humani tarian purposes. Opponents of Garcia have criticized the acquisition of the yacht, now undergoing finishing touches in a Tokyo dockyard, as "extravagant." Japanese shipbuilders have described It as the "most luxurious in the world." In an executive order, Garcia said that the ship may be used for sending relief to disaster stricken areas in the Philippines and for transporting needy Filipino settlers to their place of resettlement. BONN-MOSCOW TRADE PACT BONN, Feb. 14 (AP) West Germany and Russia concluded a trade agreement yesterday covering exchanges for this year. Foreign Office sources reported last night.

The two delegations agreed on a list of goods to be exchanged in the second year of the $750,000,000 Sovlet-Ger-man trade agreement, which lasts for three years. The total value of goods to be exchanged this year was set at having suffered considerable pain during that trip. Development of an Inguinal 'groin) hernia had been reported previously. When he came back from Europe, doctors advised him to have an immediate operation. When Dulles entered the hospital Maj.

Gen. Leonard D. Heaton. Walter Reed commandant who performed the surgery yesterday, described him as "worn out." Marmillan Expresse Regret Over Dulles's Condition. LONDON.

Feb. 14 tUPD Prime Minister Macmillan expressed "great regret" today over news that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has cancer. He wished Dulles "speedy recovery." Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd joined Macmillan in the expression tf regret and hope PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14 (VPD A United States Government decision to buy a multi-million dollar steam-turbine electric generator from a British firm brought a hornet's buzz today from this manufacturing center of heavy electrical equipment. Genesis of the angry protests was the Tennessee Valley Authority's award of a contract for a 500,000 kilowatt turbine to C.

A. Parsons Sc of England. Westlnghouse Electric whose bid for the job was $6,000,000 above that of the British firm, blamed higher labor costs. But It added that the precedent-setting award was "definitely a threat to the nation's security, as well as to the employment security of Westinghouse men and women." Local 601 of the International Union of Electrical Workers, which represents about 11,000 workers at West-inghouse's big East Pittsburgh plant, telegraphed Presi dent Eisenhower, members of Congress and federal officials demanding an immediate investigation of "this shortsighted policy." WestinRhouse vice president L. B.

McCully said in a letter to the firm's 190,000 employes that loss of the contract cost them 1,080,000 man-hours of employment. Also lost, he said, was 370,000 hours of work for workers of supplier companies. Representative John H. Dent 'Dem.) Pennsylvania, said he would seek a congressional investigation of the impact of United States foreign trade and aid policies on unemployment in the nation. He said benefits to foreign competitors granted by last year's extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act was costing American firms contracts.

Texas RE A Co-Operative Awards Contract to Swiss Firm. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) The Rural Electrification Administration said yesterday a Texas electric co-operative has awarded a contract for turbine generators to a Swiss firm, but the REA has not yet reviewed the action. The contract was awarded by the Medina Electric Co-operative of Hondo, to Brown-Boveri Corp. which underbid the Elliott Manufacturing Co.

of Jeannette, Pa. Officials said the contract calls for either two or three 22,000 kilowatt generators at the option of the co-operative. The REA spokesman said the contract will be reviewed to see if it meets the agency's standards for foreign equipment purchases. These include a requirement that the foreign bidder's price must be at least 6 per cent below the price offered by United States suppliers. Dulles Continued From Page One.

spirits. His blood pressure is 125 over 70. His temperature has been normal since the operation. His pulse is 70. "A small nodular implant on the hernia sac was removed with the excess sac during the course of the operative procedure.

This nodule proved to be an adenocarcinoma on microscopical examination. The fluid evacuated at surgery contained free cancer cells on cytological examination. No further surgery is contemplated. In the immediate future radiation therapy will be used." Won't Guess on Chances. A reporter asked White what Dulles's chances of recovery are.

"That's something I can't answer," White replied. He said it was not possible to make a doctor available to newsmen for questioning about this. White said he had given out "as full and complete a report as we can give you at this time." He said radiation treatment of Dulles will start next week. White was asked if Dulles could consult with any officials of the department over the weekend, if he wanted to. White said he doubted if Dulles would consult with any of them "for the next few days." He described Dulles as being in very high spirits.

Mrs. Wheaton said Mr. Eisenhower was alone with Dulles during most of his visit. She said a book the President car ried as he left the hospital had been borrowed from Dulles's bedside table. She said the President had expressed interest in the book, and Dulles, who apparently had been in the midst of reading it, urged Mr.

Eisenhower to take the volume. The book, it was learned. Is "What We Must Know About Communism," by Harry and Borano Overstreet. Visitors At Hospital. Others at the hospital who were in adjoining rooms while the President visited with Dulles were Under Secretary of State Dillon; Gen.

Wilton B. Persons, assistant to the President; Gen. Andrew Good-paster, staff secretary to the President; Dr. A. D.

Daughton, Dulles's personal physician; Joseph Greene, an assistant to Dulles, and Allen Dulles, Gen. Snyder and Gen. Heaton and White. White said Dulles was told earlier this morning that he had cancer again. He said the family and the President were notified about the same time.

Since Dulles was operated on In 1956 medical reports on his condition some as recently as last November had showed no recurrence of the disease. Con cern arose yesterday, however, that Dulles might have cancer when the full medical report on his condition was delayed for 24 hours after the hernia operation. Dulles entered the hospital Tuesday after he returned from conferences with Allied leaders In London, Paris and Bonn. He was described as CASH-CROSSWORDS PUZZLE which was published February 8, 9 and 10. If no contestant submits the correct solution, the big cash prize will be increased to A small mongrel dog, Trixie, was rescued from tornado wreckage at 4269 Olive street yesterday by Doyle Sander, a roofer.

Last night, the dog, wagging its tail rapturously and bestowing canine kisses on one and all, was returned to its owners. It had been trapped for three days. No less happy were Anthony Cole, 2 years old, and his brothers, Gregory, 4, and Vincent, 8, who had thought Trixie was dead. The children and their mother, Mrs. Ocie Mae Cole, are staying with friends at 4212 Enright avenue.

When the tornado struck, dog and children were sleeping on Tornado Continued From Page One. tims still needing assistance will be continued through today and until noon tomorrow at Red Cross chapter headquarters, 4901 Washington boulevard, and at Samaritan Temple Methodist Church, 4234 Washington. A Red Cross "roving canteen," a station wagon, toured the disaster area today, giving out stew, soup, spaghetti, milk, coffee and rolls. Clean-L'p Operations. Men who were forced to foreco repair and salvage work in their wind-damaged homes in order to continue at their regular jobs were tak ing advantage of the day off today to proceed with clean-up operations.

The roving canteen was intended particularly to assist these men Traffic was blocked off yesterday in the 3800 block of Evans avenue, where firemen and other city workers were knocking down walls of several badly-damaged buildings. Bates School, 1912 North Prairie avenue, which was se verely damaged by the tornado, is scheduled to reopen Monday. Twelve other St. Louis public schools were also affected by the tornado but they were open this week. New Tracking Equipment.

Meteorologist George N. Brancato said the Weather Bureau's station at Lambert-St. Louis Field has received many the component parts of new radar-tracking equipment expected to be installed by December. Erection of the tower and dome for the equipment prob ably will be completed within the next several months, he said. The Post-Dispatch described Thursday United States Weather Bureau plans to install new radar equipment here to facilitate observation of storm disturbances up to 200 miles away.

Estimated cost is Brancato said the present tracking devices have a maximum effective range of 30 to miles. If the new equipment had been installed, it might have given as much as an hour's warning of the approach of Tuesday's tornado, the St. Louis meteorologist stated. Indicate Intensity. New radar storm-tracking devices not only are effective at greater distances, but they also better In indicating intensity of any weather disturbance discovered, Brancato said.

Heavy rain which causes attenuation, making signals fuzzy the radar screen, would not such a handicapping factor wuh the new equipment as it with devices presently in use Lambert-St. Louis Field, he pointed out. Tuesday's tornado, which swept diagonally across the from southwest to northeast, was preceded and accompanied by driving rain. Brancato reported that a relatively inexperienced employe the Weather Bureau staff an echo with a "hook-like" shape on the radar screen at Lambert Field shortly before twister struck. The peculiar -type echo, which may be indicative of a tornado, was seen at 1:49 a.m.

Tuesday, about 20 minutes before the storm first struck here. The echo Indicated a meteorologic disturbance 20 miles southwest of the airport. Echo Fades Out. The employe called his findings to the attention of an experienced forecaster, but when other man looked at the radar screen, the echo was fading out, Brancato said. The forecaster came to the con- 5 INLEACILLLARK.

LEACHVILLE. Feb. 14 fAP) Officers searched this northeast Arkansas area through the night for a man who forced a 59-year-old woman baby sitter and a 21j-year-old girl to accompany him on a wild ride yesterday. The woman, Mrs. Hugo Schwarz, was abducted with her charge, Sue Jane Sentency, at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Leroy Senteney near Weiner. Mrs. Schwarz and the child escaped unharmed when the man stopped at a service station near Bowman, 40 miles north of Weiner. "That man's kidnaped us and he's stealing my car," Mrs.

Schwarz shouted as she ran into the service station. The man drove off quickly. He was spotted at Leachville last night by Night Marshal Hillman Potter, who recognized the license number of the car from a police boadcast. Potter forced the car off the road inside the city limits and two men fled. Potter caught one, but the other got away.

Police said later the man wno was apprehended probably did not have any connection with the kidnaping. Mrs. Schwarz said the man burst into the Senteney home where she was babysitting yes terday afternoon and demanded money. She said he ransacked the house, made her load some of Senteney's clothes into her car and then, taking her and the child with him, drove away. While the intruder went from room to room angrily searching the house, the little girl followed him, offering her dolls.

Mrs. Schwarz said the man had his hand in his pocket and "I didn't think he had a gun but that was no time to find out." The eirls parents knew nothine of the abduction until it was over. Mrs. Senteney was attending a P.T.A. meeting and Sentency, a farmer, was on a trip to town.

Two daughters of Mrs. Schwarz live in the St. Louis area: Mrs. Gerard A. Just, 8542 Church Road, Baden, and Mrs.

Robert Olmsted, 13061 Lake-ridge, Spanish Lake. Gen. Marshall's Condition. FORT BRAGG. N.

Feb. 14 (AP) Gen. George C. Marshall, who suffered a stroke at his nearby Southern Pines home Jan. 15.

continues in satisfactory condition at Womack Army Hospital. He was head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff In World War II and later was Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. elusion that what he saw was not a signal from a tornado. "Radar is not perfect tool In finding tornadoes and other severe storms," Brancato stated." All tornadoes do not give an echo with a hook-like shape. "Everything considered, our ability to pinpoint a tornado is practically nil.

We can only point to a general area. Sometimes that is as large as half a state." The mcteoroliglst said the much stronger radar equipment at Scott Air Force Base showed nothing conclusive of a tornado's approach early Tuesday. "Looking at pictures taken of what appeared on radar at Scott base, it appears there was an indication of some disturbance, but nothing conclusive of tornado," Brancato said. for the correct solution to the Cash-Crosswords Puzzle which will be published in the Post-Dispatch tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, February 15, 16 and 17. Cash-Crosswords offers a big cash prize EVERY WEEK! A new weekly Cash-Crosswords Puzzle Is published each Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and contestants may send in as many entries as they wish.

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