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XCI No. 358 MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAy 17, 1958 Details Page 4 68 Elsawhtr Showers Minneapolis High, 85 fSlDAY IEMHRATUSE5 hi hi aaa www line SEARCH IS ABANDONED France Declares Emergency Missing Woman Letters Describe Perils in Alaska i By GEORGE GRIM Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Rescue parties Friday officially called off the search for Mrs. Mary Dragoo, Ortonville, native who dis Koaas appeared Monday in the Alaskan wilderness of Glacier Bay thers as a training officer at the naval air station, Wold-Chamberlain airport. (PICTURE Back Page.) A Hutchinson youth, who would have graduated from high school in a few weeks. He was riding his motorcycle through Hutchinson's main business district.

A 9-year-old Minneapolis boy pulling his wagon along a Minneapolis street. A 19-year-old Minneapolis youth, working on a farm near Dexter, Minn. A Fargo, N. national monument. Horace Campbell, editor of the Daily Alaska Empire at Juneau, told the Minneapolis Tribune by telephone that and driven by Abbie Geelan, 60, 259 Dayton avenue, St.

Paul, was heading west when it pulled out to pass a truck, Dr. A. B. Niedfeldt, deputy coroner, said. RIDING with Miss Geelan, a nurse for many years at St.

Joseph's hospital, St. Paul, was a friend, O. J. Pruden, 270 Dayton avenue, St. Paul.

Their car crashed head-on into one containing Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Hewitt, Webster, Texas, and Hewitt's sister, Mrs. Lucille A.

Traffic Continued on Page Four The woist single day traffic violence of the year in Minnesota killed 13 persons Friday, five In one accident. The dead include: A Texas man, his wife and his Illinois sister returning from a post-retirement trip into Canada. A middle-aged St. Paul nurse and a friend driving to visit her relatives in North Dakota. Two Breckenridge, women heading home after a visit with relatives in the Twin Cities.

A navy, lieutenar.t commander returning to 1 is duty Too Lai U.S. Jobless Benefit Roll Dips 70,900 Sharp Decline Attributed to Seasonal Pickup WASHINGTON (UPJ Unemployment among workers covered by jobless benefits showed the sharpest decline in almost a year in the week ended May 3 as outside work continued to pick up, the government reported Friday. Officials said the decline was not as sharp as usual for this time of year, however. The 3,194,000 workers carried on state benefit rolls May 3 also was more than double the 1,427,900 listed in the corresponding week last year. THE FIGURES also did not include the 50,000 or so workers who exhaust their jobless benefits each week.

The labor department said insured unemployment declined by 70,900 in the week ended May 3, bringing the total reduction in benefit rolls since mid-April to 168,000. As a result, the latest total was the lowest since Feb. 15. Officials attributed most the Doctor Walked Away Paris Tense as Pflimlin Gets New Powers From the Tribune Wire Servicei The French national as-1 sembly Friday night gave Premier Pierre Pflimlin virtually dictatorial powers for three months to stamp out a right-wing plot to seize power. Paris, tense but quiet, bristled with heavily armed troops and police at all strategic points as the historic bill to declare a state of emergency was approved overwhelmingly, 461 to 114.

The council of the republic (senate) approved the emergency powers act early this morning, 211 to 94. THE TIRED, hollow-eyed premier of three days, who faces a full-blown revolt of the French community in Algeria, told the assembly he needed emergency powers to beat back a "plot against the republic and established order." Pflimlin had two Immediate aims: TO BRING Algeria, governed by civil-military committees of public safety, back under the control of Pans. TO AVOID bloodshed between backers and opponents of Charles deGaulle in France. The bill gives the govern-i sweeping powers of i arrest, house searches, curfews, censorship of press, ra-I dio and television, trial by I military courts, ban of public meetings and strikes and re-j striction of residence for the population. PFLIMLIN was expected to take immediate steps to re- inforce his position by calling veteran Socialist Jules Moch back to his old post as minister of interior.

Moch has a reputation for being fearless in dealing with street mobs whether from the right or left. In an overnight session of the council of the republic, Pflimlin challenged the right- France i Continued on Page Four They Have a Beef MEXICO CITY, Mexico UP) A campaign to increase meat eating in this cattle-raising country is urged in a national bank report. A survey shows the average Mexican eat3 about 23 pounds of meat a year. BIT OF TEXAN IN on A 17-year-old Spring Lake Park youth. The 13 deaths came in seven accidents.

A head-on crash near Melrose, 30 miles west of St. Cloud, killed five persons. Another head-on crash near Rockford in Hennepin county killed three. The Melrose accident was first, at 11:45 a.m. on highway 52 at the south edge of the city.

Authorities said there is no curve, no intersection, no obstructions at the point. A 1957 Rambler owned and was pulling. "A man grabbed her arms and tried to pull her away, but the lion was stronger. "She had light brown hair and she quit holler Wesley ing. The man kept hitting the lion on the head trying to make him stop.

"The lion started walking around inside with her in his mouth. He was growling. I ran away." PHOTO FOR '-t a -sP'' searchers had completely covered the area where Mrs. Dragoo, 43, wife of a park ranger, might have become lost during a hike. The Juneau Rescue council, a volunteer organization, reported that planes, coast guard boats and ground parties had joined in the search, he said.

The Glacier Bay harbor also was dragged, according to Campbell. THE EDITOR said no theories had been advanced to explain the dis appear a nee. "She may have wandered back into heavily i inhered areas, but it seems unlikely. And the sun stays up until 10 p.m. this time of the year, which should help keep a person from get-tnig lost," Campbell said.

Her husband, Parker Dragoo, formerly of St. Cloud, and some neighbors in the sparsely settled Glacier Bay area, were reported still hunting for some clue as to Mrs. Dragoo's whereabouts. A glimpse of the kind of country in which the Dragoos lived is afforded by letters the missing woman has written to her aunt, Grace Kaer-cher Davis, 4139 Colfax avenue former clerk of the Minnesota supreme court. With their daughter Mary Marcia, 11, (the other daughter remained at University of Washington) the Dragoos left the United States early in February for Glacier bay national monument, probably the least-known of the national park system's charges.

"WE STILL have bear around -here," Mrs. Dragoo wrote Mrs. Davis. "There is quicksand, too. I haven't seen any of it, but I have heard about it.

Mary Marcia and I have been very careful where we walk. It has a green topping on it. The cows walked right into and down they went.Then we have poison hemlock along many of the creeks. It is the first thing green in spring and lethal." When the opportunity to Alaska Continued on Page Five RUSSIANS' PIANIST VAN CLIBURN mother, Mrt. Harvey at Kcnsico cemetery, Valhalla, N.

Y. Broadway's first ticker-tape parade ever given a pianist is scheduled for 1 'Y-mrk' fb (V YUKON RftrrKM Columbia TO Print Vancouver MILES 100 Gunman Robs Market, Escapes With $1,000 A gunman held up Stillman supermarket, 2717 E. Lake street, about 6:30 p.m. Friday and escaped with more than $1,000, police said. The man, about 45 and swarthy, pulled the gun on, Ella Walstrom, 41, 525Z Twen ty venth avenue a clerk at one of the three check-out counters.

"Don't say anything or I'll shoot," he warned her, Miss Walstrom and flourished the pistol, police reported. The robber took two bags of change containing $40 0 and the contents of one cash register. He fled out the front door. Miss Walstrom told police the man spoke with an ac cent and wore a blue suit There were about 50 customers in the market at the time. A WIRtPHOTO ARRIVES IN NEW YORK Cliburn, given ton a big huff Cliburn Tuesday.

And he has a sell-out concert coming up at Carnegie hall before he New York next week for his home. 6kclr A Area of Search ALASKA 1 Chj; "5 A MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE BY WILLIAM SEAMAN THE DOCTOR LEFT WHEN HE FOUND IT TOO LATE TO BE OF ASSISTANCE The body of Ralph Leonard Fossum, 9, was covered in street where he was hit by automobile GIRL GETS TOO CLOSE Caged Lion Seizes Tof, Rips Her Apart Van Cliburn Returns toil.S. oi the drop to a continued seasonal pickup in farming, construction and other out door work. They said manufacturing employment, hardest hit by the recession, had shown little improvement this spring. THE BENEFIT figures generally are regarded as a relia-able index to the over-all em ployment situation since two- thirds of the nation's workers are protected by the state insurance systems.

The department said 7.7 per cent of these insured workers were on the benefit rolls May 3 compared with 32 per cent for the comparable jweek last year. Russia Issues Call for Radical Arms Solution LONDON CD Russia Friday broadcast a statement of willingness to. negotiate what it called a radical solu tion of the disarmament problem. It added there can he nn agreement if the west tries to dictate terms. The foreign ministry said: "The Soviet Union is in favor of a radical solution to the problem of disarmament.

It is ready to reach agreement on this with other interested states, any day. "If attempts continue as hitherto on the part of the western powers to impose their own terms dictated by the narrow interests of a certain military grouping of states, there is and can be no foundation for agreement." THE STATEMENT re viewed past Soviet proposals for nuclear test prohibition, for an atom weapon -free zone in central Europe and for renunciation of the use of nuclear weapons. But it did not explain what was meant by a radical solution. The statement said President Eisenhower's Arctic plane-patrol plan to avert surprise attack would not help and reiterated that the west has not tried seriously to achieve disarmament. It said again that the Soviet announcement of a nuclear test suspension showed the Russian aim to ease international tension.

THE SOVIET vetoed the Arctic patrol plan in the United Nations security council earlv this month and criticized U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold support of the idea. In a sudden disarmament move at the U.N., Hammarskjold named Anatoly Do-brynin, former Soviet diplomat, as head of the department of political and security council affairs. Then he removed the disarmament question from that department and announced he will take personal direction of dealings on It tt the UN Rain May Make Lakes Rather Wet for Eager Anglers Rain will greet opening-day anglers as the Minnesota fishing season begins today. (FISHERMEN HUM Pag 20.) Cooler temperatures forecast for northwest portions of, the state.

Top readings for Minnesota will range from 75 to 85. Scattered showers and thundershowers are predicted for the Twin Cities. South to southeast winds will range up to 20 miles an hour. Friday's high was 85. High today will be 85, low 55.

Rain and cooler temperatures are expected elsewhere in the Upper Midwest. to conduct the opera. "Eugene Onegin" is a new production of the Met this season, and it was used to open the New York season last fall. Beside the benefit of novelty in itself, the opera had a cast including many of the Metropolitan's most admired stars. (ANOTHER Story and PicturesPage 18.) George London sang the title role of Onegin the libertine who spurned the love of a young girl on a rural estate, only to find out after he had Opera Continued on Fage Flva His Train of Though Was Derailed Saturday, May 17, 1958 Sunrli 5:42 a.m.) lunttl 1:37 p.m.

Policemen pricked up their ears Thursday night when a radio dispatcher sounded the alert and announced "Some kids stole a train." There was a long, poignant, crackling void on the air for several minutes as the enormity of the thing spread in ever-widening circles among the blue-coated set in the Twin Cities area. Then th disnatcher came back on. "Correction," he said. "I misunderstood the guy that phoned in. It should be, some kids stoned a train." Scattered showers and thunder showers are forecast today for the1 Twin Cities, High today will be 85, low 55.

An early reference to Syt-tende Mai, which is, of course, today is found in a Minneapolis Tribune for May 18, 1870. "Our Scandinavian fellow citizens celebrated the birthday of the liberty of Norway last evening, according to an announcement in Harmonia hall." TURN THE PAGES TO: 2, 3 Women's 18 4, 5 Sports 19-21 Editorial ...6 Mkta. 21, 22 Music Lovers Cheer as Met Opens Season in City NEW YORK Young pianist Van Cliburn returned Friday from a triumphant trip to Russia observing that "there is a little bit of Texan in the Russian people." "I'm from Texas," the 23-year-old artist said as he stepped off a plane at Idle-wild airport, "and in the south if people like you they go crazy about you. "From the reception I received I think there's a bit of Texan in the Russiansand I told them so. "THEY ARE very sensitive and really love music, and that doesn't mean only Russian music." The 6-foot, 4-lnch pianist recently won the inter-national Tschaikowsky piano competition in Moscow and has been the toast of Russia ever since.

Waiting to greet him at the airport were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Cliburn, Kilgore, Texas. "Hi sweetie," said the son as he spied his mother.

"I'm trembling," she replied in the excitement she had displayed upon reaching the airport. THE PIANIST brought along a lilac bush given him by Soviet admirers and some soil from the grave of Tschaikowsky. He said one of the first things he wishes to do is plant the lilac, using the soil, on the grave of another noted Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff is buried WASHINGTON UP) A 2 -year-old girl visiting the zoo with her grandfather was seized by a caged lion and killed Friday. The lion pulled the screaming girl through the bars of its cage despite the grandfather's frantic efforts to save her, and tore her to pieces.

The girl, Julia Ann Vogt, and her sister, Judy, 4, had come here with their mother from Chilliwack, Canada, to visit their grandfather, Harry Jackson. The grandfather took both girls to the Washington zoo. APPARENTLY Julia Ann wandered through an opening in an outer barrier and got too close to the lion's cage. The grandfather was in such a state of shock that he was unable to give a coherent account of what happened, and as far as police could determine there was only one other witness. This was Wesley Dildy, 12, who was visiting the zoo with a group of other school children from Princess Anne county, Virginia.

"THE REST of the class was down the hill," he said. "I heard a loud scream by the lion's cage. I ran up to look and this little girl was in front of the lion cage and the lion had caught her by tho leg By NORMAN IIOUK An excited crowd that completely filled Northrop auditorium Friday night welcomed the Metropoli tan Opera company back to Min neapolis for its 14th annual season. The stir in the audience was raised to an extra height by the opera given, Tchaikovsky's "Eugene One-cin." and the Mitropoulos fact that Dimitri Mltropoulos, former conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, returned A 'r-i'-i r-1 i r-.