The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 1

lOKECASX Cooler TEMPERATURES Midnight 70 5 a.m. ..69 10a.m. ..75 1 a.m. ..716 a.m. ..70 11 a.m.

..78 2 a.m. ..70 7 a.m. ..72 Noon ..80 a.m. ..69 8 a.m. ..73 Unofficial 4 ajn.

..69 9 a.m. ..75 The Minneapolis Star Highest year ago. 73; lowest. 63 Vol. LXXIII No.

205 MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 21 1951 Price 5 Cents Come Aboard, It's Aqua Time! cof Mmt OeadL torm Lashes City I if! t- J. Family Blown Out With House i1 a m. 1 k. rft 1 i 1 I Houses, Stores Smashed Tree Damage Is Worst Recorded; Power Cut Off The Twin Cities area was wringing itself out and fighting back to an even keel today after the most violent summer storm in its history. Power and transportation crews, police, firemen and other emergency crews were working on a round-the-clock basis to untangle the debris of a wind and rain storm that slammed every section of the city and its suburbs.

Three persons were counted dead, scores more Injured and property damage soared Into the millions, with the worst tree luminal 1 rs 7 aofHM--." tj I 'J it i m. v. rhotna lor the Mlnnrapntli star bf Arble 0. Johnson age near his ftmashed car. Dazed, he crawled inside for a moment, then went in frantic search for his wife and their son, Charles, i.

Herbst suffered a back injury, Mrs. Herbst and the baby suffered shock, ruts and bruises. Under pressure of the lOO-mlle-an-hour wind Friday night, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Karl R.

Herbst, 6215 Fourth avenue Richfield, burst from its foundation and was scattered across the area. Herbst found himself crawling in the wreck- Minneapolis Star tolorphoto kr Jo Liohoff Welcoming all Aquatennial visitors to i Stoffer and Commodore Evald C. Bank wave Minneapolis, Queen of the Lakes Helen Jane I a greeting at Lake Calhoun. damage in the city's history. Outstate.

a fourth fatality was recorded today as the result of a highway washout near Wabasha, Over the state, the series of violent storms produced heavy rain damage, but wind damage was not as severe. During the height of the storm at 9:30 p.m. Friday, winds roared across Minneapolis and St. Paul in gusts up to 100 miles an hour the highest ever recorded by the weather bureau. Sustained velocity recorded at the airport before instruments were knocked out temporarily by the high winds and the power failure was recorded at 80 miles an hour also well above the previous record of 65 miles for five minutes.

Both of the previous marks were set in the big windstorm of Oct. 10, 1949. Power and communications Storm Doesn't Wash Glitter From Parade i. 4 i4 TTi mri ifcnr 'u Controls Bill Goes to Conference b. WaU a Thousands Line City Streets to Watch Aqua Event By ALTER JOHNSON Minneapolis Star Stall Writer Minneapolis streets, drenched by a thunderstorm a few hours earlier, were washed in brilliant colors today as floats and marchers and spectators assembled for the 1951 Aquatennial parade.

The grand and glittering event was to wind through the loop starting at 2:30 p.m. from the WI'i officials agreed with the weather bureau that in extent of damage and disruption of service, Friday night's storm was the "most vicious" in their experience. The weather bureau described the Twin Cities storm as one of a scries of violent thunderstorms moving within a parent storm that extended from the Dakotas to Lake Superior. Similar storms, of somewhat t. Ilw 1 ft aMTiTU Tall a 't II WASHINGTON UP) A stripped down economic controls bill, minus most of the added features President Truman wanted, was passed by the house early today.

The measure, extending wagei price and other controls for one year, now goes to a senate-house conference committee to iron out differences between it and an eight-months extension voted by the senate. On the whole, the two differed but little on several major points; none on a few. As the house bill finally emerged, it was a patchwork of amendments which appeared to satisfy neither Democrats nor Republicans entirely. Eric Johnston, economic sta less intensity struck at Water- ysnatea i a. town, S.

Madison, and Rochester, Minn. THIS IS THE CAR WHERE HERBST FOUND MOMENTARY SHELTER AFTER HOUSE BLEW AWAY At Watertown, one house was blown down and trees smashed into others. In Rochester and throughout southern Minnesota, the storm produced a terrific rainfall, reaching 4.51 inches at Rochester, and including flash floods bilizer, said the bill does not give at several points, including Chaska, Minn. Rochester bore the brunt of the storm downstate. Forty persons were evacuated from homes and cabins along the Zumbro river, and police and firemen were called out for overtime duty to sandbag a section of the river near highway 63.

Chinese Get Recess in Truce Talks MUNSAN. KOREA CP) Red China's two armistice negotiators took the leading role from the North Koreans for the first time at Kaesong Saturday and obtained a recess until July 25. The Chinese, hitherto staying in the background, began calling the signals after the Allies firmly refused to include the subject of withdrawing United Nations troops from Korea on the proposed agenda. An allied staff officer said that at one point the Chinese Reds' whispered conferences interrupted a statement by North Korean Gen. Nam the chief Red delegate.

The Communists said they wanted the recess "to enable both sides to study the proposals thus far presented." After today's meeting, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief United Nations negotiator, flew to Tokyo to confer with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, United Nations supreme commander.

Newsmen there asked him if things were going all right and he replied: "I guess so." He had no further comment. (Howard Handleman, writing from Munsan for the International News Service, said that Joy had presented the Reds an agenda on a "take it or leave it" basis and that it was then the Communists asked for a recess. (Joy, the INS reported, made it clear to the Communists that so far as the United Nations is concerned, the agenda is now complete as it stands and there will be no discussion concerning the withdrawal of foreign troops. (Earnest Hoberecht, United Press writer at Munsan, also declared the Communists had been told bluntly there'd be no troop withdrawal talk. (Frank H.

Bartholomew, UP vice president, who was in Kae-song when the recess was arranged, said the correspondents were wagering even money that there would be no more ceasefire sessions.) JET SHIPMENT WASHINGTON UP) A boatload of ready-to-fly jet fighters will leave the United States Monday for western Europe. AdT. GAt TOR HFATINO 1 still Till)le Call Cionslroma courthouse. The first of thousands of spectators arrived hours early to take spots of advantage on downtown streets. The mass of rainbow colors included 40 floats, 60 bands and drum corps and 30 marching units.

In the spectacle were screen stars, national political figures, and two separate bevies of beautiful girls 40 candidates for the title of 1952 Queen of the Lakes, and 13 visiting queens. Meanwhile, producer Al Shee-han called off the two performances of the Aqua Follies scheduled at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. today. Sheehan said the stage was under water because of the rise in the level of Uirth lake after the' rain storm.

This would not interfere with swimmers, he said, but would make it impossible for dancers and musicians to work. Engineers of the city park board spent all morning in an effort to pump water below stage level, but were unsuccessful. Ticket holders for the canceled performances, including Fri consumers "the break they deserved." But administration house leaders conceded it might have been worse. In the gruelling 14-hour wind-up session ending early this morning, they were able to snatch at least partial victory out of a fight studded with defeats over the past two weeks. They knocked out an amendment freezing price and wage ceilings for 120 days at July 7 levels.

They succeeded in reversing a previously-adopted requirement that price ceilings on farm and manufactured' goods must reflect costs plus a "reasonable profit." Administration forces also managed to reverse an earlier Controls Continued on Page Two day's, may apply at the Aqua Two fires occurred, and two firemen were overcome in fighting one of them in an old soap factory converted into a home. Washouts on two sections of the Milwaukee railroad tracks blocked Twin Cities-Chicago rail traffic in the southeastern section and United States highway 61 was blocked by a landslide north of Reed's Landing. Farther west, the Great Northern's Empire Builder was held up for eight hours at Maple Plain because of washouts west of Minneapolis. Other trains were re-routed. Mrs.

A. W. Wagner, 22, Al-toona, was killed early today when a car crashed through a thin coating of blacktop pavement hanging over a 20-foot washout near Wabasha. She was en route to California with her husband, 25. He was injured.

In the Twin Cities, the storm began shortly after 7 p.m., with only a foretaste of its final fury. Heavy winds stirred up a sharp rain and drove traffic for cover. Rain fell intermittently. Then, shortly before 9 p.m., the storm began in earnest. Follies ticket office in the North western Bank building for a NEIGHBORS FOUND BABY IN POTATO FIELD, MRS.

HERBST CRAWLING TOWARD THIS WRECKAKGE Sidelights of Furious Summer Storm change of date. Sunday night's performance will go as scheduled. For smiling Helen Jane Stoffer, Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes, the gigantic parade was also the biggest birthday cele STORM NEWS ON THE INSIDE "Like typhoon on Okinawa," says veteran. Page 3. Wind Rolls taxi a block, Injuring two.

Page 3. Houses Smashed in Richfield Area. Page 9. Hill District Hardest Hit in St. Paul.

Page 9. Rural Damage High, 150 flee cottages. Page 9. Gospel Tent "Collapsed Like Umbrella." Page 11. Eight Injured at Silver Lake Camp.

Page 3. Pictures on Pages 9 and back page. of 145 SE. Bedford street Were miraculously spared when a tree fell neatly between two machines, one the car of a California visitor. A falling tree also dropped carefully between two houses on Fourth street SE.

in the bration she has ever known. The Golden Valley girl, 19 today, presided over her birthday and the parade from a crescent-shaped throne. Long strands of red roses were draped over the white flowers which covered the float. A light plant city limits many trees, among the oldest standing in the city, toppled like match-sticks during the height of the storm. The Michael McKey residence, 2711 SE.

Delaware street, was damaged by a toppled tree, and another tree fell on a car parked in the street two doors away. Automobiles parked in front crew of 40 men operating six trucks was assigned to clearing streets until dark tonight and through Sunday. The park board office, swamped with calls, urged residents: "Please do not call unless trees are blocking traffic or hampering power and telephone service." NEAR THE SOUTHEAST DAMAGE TO TREES on Minneapolis park board properties was estimated at $50,000 by Gregory Lucking, park board horticulturist. "From the standpoint of tree damage, it was the worst storm in the city's history," he said. The cleanup, not counting removal of will take at least a month, Lucking said.

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