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T-I-I- 2 A' IL'-E EI Tern to ths exciiinj TV HAKDY GUIDE ih Tcday'a EKQUKIER and NEWS Tcrt! Sncv Flurries FIFTY-FlFTH YEAR BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1955 14 PAGES CITY EDITION PRICED 6 2 Die As Mn mmm AN rr jr jn-n D) I 0) 1 JW Motel JVuZaI CHICAGO (U.R) Fire side hotel for men early today sub-zero temperatures, and firemen said at least 20 were dead. 7 77 mi Im Tmm Vrecks (By tht Associated Press) Two passenger trains carrying a total of more 4 i A 'A Firemen, hampered by the bitter cold and ice which formed on the ruins and turned their coats Into Iron-like coverings, went slowly through the charred and steaming wreckage, hunting additional vic tims. Others Hospitalized At least a dozen other residents of the structure, the Barton Hotel which Included the upper four floors of the five story building, were taken to Cook County Hospital. Doctors said some might die. Many of those In the hospital were Injured when they leaped to the ground or to nearby roof levels Five Below Forecast For Tonight The weatherman-promised a lit tie relief Sunday from the winter's most widespread cold wave which grips the eastern two-thirds of the nation.

After a forecast of five below tonight, the Battle Creek flood warning station says the mercury will rise to a Sunday high of 18. At 7:45 aJh. today, the thermometer registered zero in Battle Creek. Shortly before midnight last night, overcast skies cleared, snow flurries stopped and a full moon shone. Occasional snow 'flurries are forecast for the Battle Creek area this afternoon with clearing skies tonight.

Elsewhere In the nation, the frigid air sent temperatures tumbling from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the-Rockies to the Atlantic coast. The south got a stinging, Icy blast, too, but it was not as cold as predicted. In Miami the mer-' cury went down to 40. It was zero in much of the southeast, below zero In some places. Readings of zero and below were reported in Kentucky with -10 in some mountain areas.

It was near zero in parts pf Virginia and Tennessee. The Caro- linfle liviT-TT AlaViama an1 XTi sissippl also got their coldest weather of the winter. The "big freeze" continued south to the Gulf Coast with readings in the 20's in many inland areas only a short distance from the coast. JP Wirephoto. WASHOUT WRECKS TRAIN The Maine Central passenger train "Pine Tree Limited" -was wrecked last night by a washout Just in front of left coach -which Is last car of the train.

Two milk cars In front of train fell Into the Kennebec River (background) near Augusta, Me. No one was seriously Injured. Matusow Says: False Political Statements off the rails last night but passengers or any of the killed or even seriously transport passengers to their destinations in busses from Water-ville. A railroad spokesman said a rainstorm that soaked mosV of New England and forced the crack Pine Tree Limited to run about 40 minutes late also apparently weakened the roadbed ll4 miles east of the Kennebec railroad siding, about 5 miles north of Augusta. Western Star Derailed All 12 cars of the Western Star, Seattle-Chicago passenger train, were derailed near Sank Center, Minn, injuring 40 of the 190 passengers.

None was seriously hurt. Two passenger cars and two mail cars were tossed onto their sides and most of the cars that re mained standing jackknifed to form a zigzag pattern. The two mail cars were tossed about 100 feet from the tracks. A spokesman for the Great Northern Railway said the wreck apparently was caused by a rail breaking in the 14 below weather. Praise Soldiers John Obert, Alexandria, Minn.

newspaperman, said eight soldier passengers who were returning from Korea "worked like fiends' freeing others from Xhe upset cars. Passengers said the train went off the tracks with a Jolt, then they felt a floating sensation as the cars tipped and dropped down on the snowy ground. "There were no hysterics," said Ray J. Peters, Minneapolis, rail road ticket agent who was among the passengers. Peters said the eight soldiers "lit matches, told everybody not to get exicted, and started to see what was needed." Most of the pasengers remained inside the cars for protection from the cold until buses came to pick them up.

Most of the injured were released from hospitals after treatment. DUJILILE iTIin LONDON (AV Moscow Radio announced today Russia had eaUed for a conference in either Shanghai or 'New Delhi on the question of Formosa. The broadcast said the Russian Proposal called for the participation of these countries: China (presumably Communist China), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France and nations of Southeast Asia. Britain is believed to have already rejected the idea of a Formosa conference without the participation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists. Report AfihSil Mb 'Massing On Cliino CodsI Tachen Evacuation Completed; Fleet Steaming Southward TAIPEI, Formosa (U.R) Nationalist China today reported a new Red inva sion threat buijding up against Matsu Island, 150 miles south of the abandoned and booby-trapped Tachen Islands.

Matsu and Quemoy Island, 150 miles still farther south, are the kev remainnin? Island outrtosts guarding the approaches to Formosa now that the Tachens have been abandoned to the Reds. Fleet Steams South The mighty UJS. 7th Fleet which had covered the evacuation of the Tachens steamed south today. American engineers placed mines and booby traps in the wrecked Nationalist stronghold before the last supplies were loaded aboard waiting ships and a spokesman said the Chinese communists "would have a ticklish, dangeraus time at Tachen." There was no Communist opposition as Vice A dm. Alfred M.

Pride's 7th Fleet steamed toward Formosa, its gigantic evacuation task completed. But a Nationalist communique said Communist "invasion fleets" had reappeared in the Matsu area, midway between Tachen and Quemoy. Island Devastated United Press correspondent William Miller, with the fleet at the Tachens, said Pride's flagship the cruiser U-SJS. Helena, escorted by a flotilla of destroyers, brought up the rear of a huge amphibious fleet that had been assembled for the operation. A stubborn mudbank held up the final evacuation.

An American LST stuck in the mud about 200 yards offshore and could not clear the harbor until high tide. The fleet would not sail without it. Miller flew over the island at dawn today for a last look and reported it was truly the "dead man's Island" that Gen. Liu Lien-chi, its Nationalist garrison commander, had promised to leave. Every House Flattened "It was completely deserted." Miller said.

"Fires which had raged throughout the night had stopped. Smoking holes were all that were left of once strong Nationalist Chinese pillboxes. Every house had been flattened." Rear A dm. Lorenzo Sab In, fleet which performed the actual evacuation, said "nothing was left behind." The last Chinese Nationalist soldier left the Tachens at 11 pan. (Please Turn to Page 5, Column 4) izes in heavy castings up to three tons.

Replaces Hand Operations The -new sand slinger will convey prepared sand through a sys-( tern of conveyor belts to a highspeed slinger head. There, a centrifugal device will send the sand out of a nozzle at high speeds into the casting mold. The foundry has been making sand molds by hand-operated air rammers. The new shake-out machine will shake the sand out of the molding flasks, and a new conveyor system will return it to storage bins, eliminating hand handling. The last expansion project at the foundry was the construction of a 40 by 80-foot pattern storage building which was completed last summer The building is fire-resistant, and is set apart from the main foundry building for better fire protection.

The new storage building has two overhead cranes to handle heavy patterns. Dobbertin Oberg are the general contractors for the new addition, and Reichert Steel Fabricating Construction Co. is the steel work contractor. 'Encouraged' NEW YORK Pj Harvey Matusow, self-described ex-communist and former FBI Informer, says he was encouraged by Sen. Joseph R.

McCarthy (R-Wls) to make false statements during the 1952 poli-ical campaign. Matusow, testifying yesterday at a federal court hearing on a retrial motion by 12 convicted Communists, said he made "false statements," during the campaign of three years ago, and added: -'Encouraged' McCarthy "My manner of presentation and by theme was encouraged by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and, In fact, was at the behest of McCarthy and maae during tne neat of a political campaign." McCarthy, told in Milwaukee last night of Matusow's testimony, said: "I would have no comment of Matusow at an." The 12 Communists' appeal for a new trial is based on an affidavit by Matusow that he gave false evidence against them and with the knowledge of Roy M. Conn, then an assistant TJ.S. attorney at then-trial on conspiracy charges.

Tack of Lies Conn, also in Milwaukee last night where he spoke before a Republican women's group, commented: "I wont dignify his pack of lies. than 300 passengers plunged miraculously not one of the crew on either train was injured. A Boston to Bangor passenger train slid off a rain-gouged roadbed bordering a lonely Maine riverbank area during a driving rainstorm. None of the 114 pas sengers and 6 crew members was seriously injured. 2 Cars Fall Into River Two of the train's seven units a storage mail car ana an empty milk tank car hurtled down a steep, 15-foot embankment into the ice-covered Kennebec River.

Four passenger coaches plunged off the twisted rails stopping Just short of a water-filled ditch. One of them came to rest leaning against an embankment at a 30- degree angle. The others tilted but did not, overturn. "The most amazing tmng was that nobody screamed," said Jane Lauten, women's editor of television station WGAN-TV In Portland, who was in one of the passenger coaches. Send Rescue Train The Maine Central Railroad early today sent a rescue train to the wreck scene and arranged to Founders? Day Celebrates MSC 100th Birthday EAST LANSING (0 Michigan State College marked the start of its 100th birthday celebration to day with an elaborate Founders' Day program attended by hun dreds of distinguished guests.

The first of three major events was the Issuance of a new commemorative three cent stamp Jointly honoring MSC and Pennsylvania State College as the first of the land Brant colleges. Albert J. Robertson, assistant postmaster general, and repre sentatives of national stamp so cleties attended the ceremonies. Dr. James B.

Conant, US. high commissioner to Germany and president emeritus of Harvard University, was the speaker for the afternoon convocation. Special guests included some 900 representatives of colleges and universities, educational societies and business and government, in eluding more than 40 college presidents. Thirteen honorary degrees were scheduled for presentation at the afternoon ceremonies. At the evening dinner, MSC President Dr.

John A. Hannah will present 27 distinguished serv ice awards. The will ac cept a series of six paintings by Detroit Artist John S. Coppin depicting the History of the institu tion. Africa Extremists Map Race Reprisals JOHANNESBURG.

South Africa (Leaders of an underground group of Negro extremists' met secretly today to discuss possible reprisals against the government program to move non-whites out of West Johannesburg. The group, known as the bitterly opposes ihe policy of the African national congress to resist South Africa's race laws by nonviolent methods. The Berliners, who are believed to number about 200," have the reputation for being a tough, Quick shooting, knife packing gang. They took their name early in World War to identify them selves with the then successful Germans fighting the British commonwealth nations including the South African whites they hated. Negro leaders reportedly are try ing to dissuade the Berliners from violent steps that could explode into an all-out race war.

Meanwhile the congress went ahead with plans for a protest strike it hopes will paralyze Johannesburg by Monday. i Afternoon in a Night 'Cf by McCarthy He (Matusow) has adequately de scribed himself." Cohn said he thought Matusow "was telling the truth" at the time of the Communists' trial and that "I stui think he told the truth." Cohn, former chief counsel of McCarthy's Senate permanent In' vestigauons subcommittee, was asked if he expected to be called as a witness In the Communists' hearing, and tfb replied: "I certainly hope to." Cohn added, that Matusow's tes timony- at the trial of the 12 was thoroughly corroborated by other witnesses. Matusow also testified yesterday he had sent affidavits to the New York. Times and to Time Maga zine saying he had lied In accusing them of having Communists on their staffs. His original statements, Matusow said, were based on "conjecture ana Apologized to Bishop Matusow told of meeting Meth odist Bishop G.

Bromley Oxnam in Washington and telling him "I want to apologize for a speech I made against you Oct. 5, 1952. in a Methodist Church in liveny ville. IU." In that speech, Matusow said, he had accused the bishop of "supporting Communist fronts." As almost every schoolboy knows Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. But ceremonies on his birthday traditionally revolve around Springfield, for it was here he spent much of his adult life and it is here he lies enshrined.

One of -the first wreaths slated to be placed on the tomb today was that of President Eisenhower. Col. Richard D. Boerem, adviser to the Illinois National Guard, was assigned that duty. The American Legion made its 21st annual Pilgrimage to the tomb, led by National Commander Seaborn P.

Collins, Las Cruces, (Please Turn to Page 5, Column 4) 1S mm Former Stage, Screen Star Ona Munson, 48, Found Dead swept through a near west as smoke and flame cut off their escape by stairways. About 250 men were In the hotel when the blaze began about 1:50 Chicago time. Score were carried or helped down, ladders by firemen. More Dead Msgr. William Gorman, fire department chaplain, said shortly before 7 a.m.

that one or two other dead might be In the structure, but he believed most of the dead had been found at that time. Most of the dead found near doors, in hallways and near windows leading to fire escapes, indicating they had struggled to escape from the flames. It was the third extra-alarm fire in the area near the western borders of the Chicago Loop since Thursday. In the first two, vacant buildings which were being de molished as part of a super-highway clearance project were wrecked by flames, and five fire men were slightly hurt in one. One Dies in Leap Police said at least one of the (Picture mm page Z.

dead In today's blaze was killed by a leap from an upper floor. Coroner Walter E. McCarron, on the scene shortly after the fire was reported, said he would conduct an Inquest Monday, using a "blue ribbon" coroner's Jury to direct the investigation. McCarron recalled that -several Chicago fires in the past two years had taken lives and said he was going to demand prosecution of those responsible for the conditions which led to fatalities. Life Is Precious "Life Is precious, he said.

Tt's about time we did something about these places that take lives." Firemen rescued one man who had slept peacefully In his room for 2 hours. They carried. out one barefooted man who repeated over and over "God, it's cold." At one point, flames shot through the roof of the building as high as 15 feet. Flames leaped out the side walls, but since the building was located on a corner, it did not threaten nearby structures. Building Destroyed The building was virtually de stroyed but the walls stood.

Twenty-five engine companies, five truck companies, two tower units plus auxiliary equipment answered the 5-11 alarm call, the city's top emergency fire signal. JP Wirephoto. ONA MUNSON Lady at the City Center Theater. Only recently she acquired an interest In a soft drink business and commented: "This is something more stage people should do. I think that everyone in the theater should have some sort of business would bring in money for them when they're not working as actors." Other stage hits in which she appeared were "Hold Your Horses," "Refleoted "Accent on Youth," "Petticoat Fever," "The Bishop Misbehaves," "Hitch Your Wagon," "Twinkle Twinkle," "Manhattan Mary" and "Hold Everything.

1 Party's mission Is "to save America by keeping our money and strength at home." "We must extricate ourselves from all of the foreign entangle ments the Democrats have in' volved us In," he said. "We must cease squandering billions on subsidies to foreign competitors for our own markets. These billions, he added, should be Invested in defense. Taft Snp porters The Lincoln Day program was under the aegis of six organiza tions. Sponsors described the "Re publicans who attended as "con' servatives" and, for the most part, rank and file members who sup ported the late Sen.

Taft of Ohio. A spokesman said reservations for a luncheon In the middle of the program had been received from 1,700 persons from 24 states, the bulk of them from Illinois. Sponsors called the program, running from 10:30 ajn. to 6 pjn. EST a "seminar" and said no resolutions or similar actions were High, Humble Pay Tribute At Abraham Lincoln's Tomb New Plant Addition to Double Battle Creek Foundry Output NEW YORK LB Actress Ona Munson, 48, former stage and screen star, was found dead yesterday in her apartment, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Miss Munson, who climbed to stardom via vaudeville, left a note reading: "This is the only way I know to be free again please don't follow me." Reportedly HI Police, quoting friends as saying she recently had been ill and despondent, listed her death as suicide pending an autopsy. She was found dead in bed by her third husband, stage designer Eugene Berman. He had left her in the morning, seemingly asleep, and had returned to their West 86th street home in the afternoon to take her shopping. A native of Portland, Ore, Miss Munson started her career at the age of 14 with Gus Edwards' vaudeville troupe. Went on Stage In 1924, she went on the legitimate stage with a touring company of "No Other GirL" Two years later her name went up In lights on broadway as the star of "No, No Nanette." From the theater it was a quick step to Hollywood in then-silent films with Joe E.

Brown and Ben Lyon. Years later, as Belle Watling in "Gone with the Wind," Miss Munson gained an Academy Award nomination. On Radio, TV She also broadcast on radio, and had been making occasional television appearances. Her last stage appearance was last year when she appeared in a revival of "First Foremost 'Ham' In Nation Due Here Tuesday The nation's outstanding radio amateur will visit Battle Creek Tuesday. He is Benjamin S.

Ham lltnn. 35. of LaMesa. Calif. He will be the guest of Federal Civil Defense Administration oi- ficials who wil take him on a guided tour of FCDA headquarters.

Mr. Hamilton will arrive Tuesday morning by plane from New York where he Is making a series of radio and television appearances following his receiving the Edison Radio Amateur Award from General Electric Co. Thurs day in Washington, D.C. i i Mr. Hamilton is a junior college electronics teacher in San Diego rvinntv fiaHf.

According? to the award, he has developed "an outstanding Civil Defense and disaster emergency radio network" in his home county, tr nrn. nominated for the award by Wadsworth, assistant director ofthe San Diego uouniy CD organization, and Mark Tomas, manager of county's Red Cross chapter. Mr. Wadsworth will ac company Mr. Hamilton nere.

Fire Extinguished, But Feud Still Bums GRAND RAPIDS Wl A fire which burned the insides out of a $50,000 East Grand Rapids home last night was out today, but blazes of the verbal variety, still flickered between East Grand Rapids resi dents and the Grand Rapids fire department. Flames broke out at 7:15, pjn. in the plush home of Herbert C. Remien, a Grand Rapids insurance agent who lives in suburban East Grand Rapids. East Grand Rapids fire fighting equipment, consisting of a' pumper and auxiliary, could not control the blaze.

East Grand Rapids resi dents began to besiege tne urana Ranids fire department to send aid. Grand Ranids eauiDment arrived. but nearly three hours aiier we fire broke out. Chief Frank H. Burns of the Grand Rapids department said his city has contracts for fire protection for anm-oximatelv 125 nlaces outside the city, including county institutions, but none with East Grand Rapids or Remien.

Ot.hpr than tn those 125 nlnrp.n Burns said equipment could be dispatched outside the city only by authority of the Grand Rapids city, manager. Allied Sen. McCarthy was scheduled to take over as the final speaker at 4:30 pjn. (EST). Kit Clardy, a former congress' man from Michigan who was a member of the House Un-Amer lean Activities Committee, devoted part of a prepared address to criticism of Americans for Demo cratic Action and the Committee for an Effective Congress.

He also said: "So long as the Stevenson, Reuther, ADA, left-wing philosophy retains control of the Democratic Party machinery so long as they put up candidates who subscribe to the theory that we have nothing to fear from the Communists within our midst the hope of the nation must rest with the Republican Party ana tnose southern Democrats who have not forgotten their heritage." Sponsors of the one-oay meet- ins were the committee of one thousand Republicans, headed by Gen. William Hale Wilbur (Ret) of Highland Park, the Abraham Lincoln republican Club, and four other Chicago area croups. SPRINGFIELD. 111. U.E This prairie city that claims Abraham Lincoln as its most revered son today solemly observed the 146th of the Civil War President's birth.

War veterans, government officials and others made pilgrimages to the tomb on a' knoll in, nearby Oak Ridge Cemetery, where Lincoln was buried after he died by an assassin's bullet in 1865. Eisenhower Wreath Placed Others paid their respects at the simple brown house near downtown Springfield, the only home Lincoln ever owned, and at the restored village of New Salem, where he lived as a young man. 'Keep Strength Home The Battle Creek Foundry Co. is building a 3,600 square-foot addition to the plant at 985 N. Ray mond which will enable doubling the foundry's production capacity.

Carl J. Lofgren, owner, said the new 60-by-eo foot aqoiuon win house the foundry's cleaning de partment, where chipping, shot blasting and grinding operations take place. New Equipment Planned The cleaning department will be moved to make way for some new sand-handling equipment, including a high-speed sand dinger which will be used in making sand molds, and a new shake-out ma chine which will speed up removal of new castings from the molding flasks. Mr. Lofgren said the new equip ment and better use of available floor space will double the productive capacity of the foundry.

He said that since the foundry went back into operation after fire in 1951 there has been a steady increase in business. The foundry; employes 45 persons, and special Club colony, worried will watch it on the loser. cameras will only not losers. That hate to pass up Mutiny) will be tacx II try exit call your name," stockholder at Bing Crosby, out of the hospital, removed. Katy Jurado among supporting Overall there movie folk about Many feel that main event corning Others figure is too early to commented: "It's bad 'enough agalact you are can be 3 to one." LUrlon Brando to te nominated he wl show.

The tailored suits everybody and Orace OUy ard Ftclris ZlrCx cf fcrra. 'Oscar' Nominations on TV Tonight HOLLYWOOD (JP) The movie explained Bogie. "Besides I'm a Romanoff's." a favorite for "The Country GirL' about that egg-on-the-face look, will turn out reluctantly tonight for the first telecast in history of the Academy Award nominations. TV at home. He's Just a few days Jan Sterling High and summed up the feelings of all potential Oscar nom inees when she asked her dressmaker to whip her up something that would look flashy enough for a winner and subdued enough for, a Poses Dilemma NBC-TV has promised that the picture the reactions of winners, poses a dilemma for actors who such a huge audience, win or lose.

CHICAGO VP) Sen. Malone (R-News) today told a rally 01 conservative Republicans that "our foreign policies are largely die' tated by so-called We was teamed up with two other senators McCarthy of Wis consin and Dirksen of Illinois and three other sneakers on a day-long program of speeches. What About 1955? The over-all theme was: "What must the Republican Party do in 1955 to preserve the republic itself?" Maione, in a prepared saures, said no VS. business or manufacturing interest subject to competition from foreign imports is fully independent. He added "The State Department most of its personnel a carryover from two Democrat administrations has destroyed the independence of these enterprises by Its foreign trade and foreign aid policies." Itltut Save America I He said the United States is the only nation "that fights other rocple's wars and pays for them, too." He stated the Republican where he had a kidney stone (The Broken a favorite actresses, will be at Romanoff's.

Anti-Climax? has been some resentment among the telecasting of the nominations. it takes away too much from the up March 30. 5:30 in the afternoon Pacific time, go to a nightclub. One top star showing up when the odds only five to one. On this one they the Is sure but so far hasn't indlcatei whether -new Brando, who wears smartly instead cf T-shirts, may surprise show up.

(The Courry Audrey Hep-fcurn Bin HsU- (The Country are all out The telecast win begin at 9 pjn, ana wiu pick up from four spots NBC Bur bank, Ciro's, Romanoff 'a and the Cocoanut drove. Potential nominees will be scattered throughout all four spots. Judy Garland Star Is wl be with emcee Jack Webb at Eurbaxi as wd Jaze Wyman Bogie DecHnes Huxcimrey Bozart Caine JP Wirephoto. PAINTS LINCOLN SrUTlAL Thomas Hart Benton is shown above at Kansas City working before an 8 -foot rural of Abraham Lincoln which he said would be his personal gift to Lincoln University at Jefferson City, Mo. The school was founded in 18S5 for Nezro students.

Benton said he has worked Intermittently on the paintisg more than a yerr and it soon win tee finished. at Romanoff's. lie was supposed to be at the downtown Cocoanut Grove but he declined: That trip's too far to drive.