The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 71

V- 1 1 1 Bureau 1 1 4 Thunderstorms Tonight, i i Cooler Tomorrow as Clasi L'OhC Bridgeport, AUGUST 19,55. 1-. -v fr- BUte. Conn. FORTY PAGES 4 FOUR SECTIONS CENTS OF FORTOMOREOW President to View; iDev- astated Areas on Way From Denver Torringlon's Main Street Ravaged By Flooded Naugatufek HAILS RED CROSS Calls on 'Heart of America' to He'n of Disaster DENVER.

Aiur. President Eisenhower will six-state aerial I tion of eastern hurricane and I flood damage The i a an- his plans to a a Jook at the dnmage which has "taken many lives and caused Imuch property destruction. To Fly to Hartford Eisenhower told newsmen A summer White House that he will Cleave Denver by plane and arrive Hartford; to confer with Roland Harriman, chairman of Itbe American Ked Cross. of the flood ravaged states leo Tha.ve been invited to attend, Eisenhower appealed to Everywhere in the country to "pitch in and help" the Red Cross in a drive for relief funds. The President had planned to leave Denver tomorrow morning -tor He is returning to 1 address the American Bar I association convention in Pbila- delphia Wednesday.

I Departure The flood damage situation I caused him to change his plans, however, and 'advance his departure time to this evening so can take a look from the air the hurricane and Hood destruc- tion. will fly on to Washington Hartford conference, ar- riving 1 there; about noon and 'will I fceep his Philadelphia engagement Wednesday. I Eisenhower plans to fly over stricken areas of Pennsylvania, Kew Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and the Port Jervis area of New York. After that survey tomorrow morning, the President's private TH IIIT 1 IIIMJSTRY HIT -Connecticut's -'ravaging rivers which "br'ougKt destruction to widespread areas'of the state; began'! receding-to aormaj -today laying bare unbelievable desolation arid'dextesta-. tiom The latest Stale police count numbered the dead at 68-and the mjssing at-70.

Hope for-Missing Dims Hour by hour, reports boosted the number of missing persons, and the passed hopes 'for the missing dimmer. Many of the missing: are believed to be persons hurled into the rag- Biplane, Columbine will land at Bradley Field in Windsor Locks, About 8:30 encft -with and Cover- xiors of the six states who are (Continued on Eight) OFFICIAL WEATHER (Data froa TLS. Weather Bureau) BRIDGEPORT VICINITY cloudiness, warm and humid today with occasional show or thunderstorms this afternoon and early tonight; high today near Cooler fate tonight; low about 65. Tomorrow, generally fair and not as warm or humid; high around I5. i NfEW YORK CITY--Same for Endgeport.

TEMPERATURE Ixw today 72 Highest yesterday 93 Xowaift 70 Highest (Aug. 21, 1954) 73 Lowest (Aug, 21, 1954) 61 "Water temperature, 8 aum, 77 PRECIPITATION Today- (12 liours aan,) 0.27 month hunted thirty-fourth day of day of mer. Sun if ts p.mV and' rises sit tonidrfow. Moon sats Evening i star: --Saturn- (in -the "Mominr-star; Jupiter (riaen, In IJie Satum replaced -T' oy the raging Naugatuck rivfer Thurscfay night and all clay Friday, business center of Torrington'no is smashed and battered stretches along entire length the river. Itrtnskn The devastation 1,000 Die in Africa Riots; French Guns Blast Rebels By A A A CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aufc.

52 --(UP) French troops and Foreign Legionnaires uaing tanks'and Xiffht- cr planes blasted back At rebel bands ioday after a 'bloody weekend of raids, riota and gruerrilla fifirhting left an estimated 1,000 dead in North Africa. Sporadic rioting reported over although apparently most oC the incidents were email of nationalist Dependable casualty figures are lacking. One Paris newspaper put the death toll 3,341. Semiofficial figures, admittedly conservative, gave a total near 800. Experienced reporters in North Africa said a toll near 1,000 was more likely.

Rebels Ramova Dead Probably the exact number killed never will be known because of the rebels carried away many of their dead before the French could count them. While both Morocco and Algeria stlll'aeethed, French Premier Edgar- Faure and Foreign Minister, Antoine Pi nay, heading a cabinet "committee of 1 opened a week of talks with Moroccan leaders at the French resort of Aix JBains. Their aim. is a of self government for protectorate. French talks launched, a major operation this morning against the rebel tribesmen who massacred about SO French Oued Zem, a mining center in the Tad la region eouth of Casablanca.

cautious official report mid: "Operations have started. The (Continued on Eight) iToday'a Chuckle When tho a came home drunk hii Wife him "'If you doin't -atop I'm going Retorted hapless husbantl, "Promisee! all "'I get just prom' 3 EGYPTIANS SLAIN IN HEW GAZA'FIGHT PACT REJECTED BY G-E UNION Local 203, IUE-CK), Turns Down 5-Year Contract By 80-60 Cairo Reports Five Others Wounded In Exchange of Fire With Israelis (JAZA, 22 Egyptian-held Palestine, (AP) An Egyptian military spokesman today three were killed and five -wounded In a hour cx- of fire with Israelis near Gaza thia morning, Col. Salah Gohinr, director of the Kffyptlan war ministry's Palestine department, charged that the Israelis started the fighting. He said their attack was timed to precede the arrival'in Cairo tomorrow of, Maj. Gen 1 Edson Burns of-Canada; the UN truce supervision discussions ot the frontier situation with officials.

Death Toll Boosted An. official report earlier said one Egyptian officer had Jeen killed and four soldi era woiinded, but Salah said three had been" killed. An communique said fighting broke out when three Israeli armored vehicles opened fire on an Egyptian post at Ham an, East Gaza, xiear the' demarcation line. The communique, Issued by the department of' the Egyptian 7 War Ministry, said nearby Israeli opened mortar fire on the 'Egyptian post. During an exchange of Egyptian Capt, Amdul Habib waai- killed and four soldiers wounded, Five Israeli armored cars during the fighting com- said.

Egypt Ja lodging strong complaint with the United Nations mixed armistice? commission and "UN observers, added. 'O pan on tJathmg; In.Gity I. tf Ir; H. Patterson Harris, Fairtteld health director; today lifted the 43- hour ban onr swimming: at Falnleld The continued at municipal beaches in Bridgeport and Dr. Harrla said the action of the into the from thts flooded rivers.

Lifting of tfie consultation with SUtt Health department of fidals, he iaid, In Bridgeport, authorities reported condition of the bath ing an "poor." John Halpin yesterday than ten per cent of the membership of Local 203, IUE-CIO, met yesterday in the 'union hall on Hallett street to reject a five year work contract with the General Electric company. The vote was 80 to 60. The union membership, aceordinj? to Louis Santoianni; president, includes 1,800 persons. The union. however, is the agent for a total of 3,000 G-E production and maintenance employes here.

The rejected contract, agreed upon earlier this month by company and union negotiators, would give employes a pay raise of approximately 33 cents an hour flve years but did not include a guaranteed annual wage provision, and union members said it fell short in job security. Mr. Santoianni had described the pact previously as "the best settlement ever negotiated" or G-E Today he 'scored the "failure of tho' rank and file membership to attend this vital meeting," but promised that the union's two delegates to the G-E conference board would strive to 'bring: about further negotiation with the company (Continued on Page Eight) HOSPHAL5 ADMIT 6 MORE FOR POLIO Three Boyi and Three Girls Stricken In Area Over Weekend Health authorities today reported the high incidence of polio cases in the Bridgeport area continued during the with six newTpa- tlents admitted to local hospitals. At Enjjrlewood hospital a ai, old Bridgeport girl admitted yesterday with spinal-type 1 "polio, and on Saturday two Stratford boys, five-and seven ot ape; and a ahoV year-did gifVlfotti from taken'to the hospital Two the, children are bulbar-iype caseslT At Bridgeport hospl tar a 15-yoat 1 old Stratford girl was admitted Friday making total of 10 cases the-toiyn. Bridgeport Health department statistics, show a totaU of cases.

and three deaths for the city. Fairfield reported a total of eight cases Deaths in Nation Reach 188 With Toll Still Climbing The Flood Toll By THE ASSOCIATED 2KESS A staggering job of rehabilitation faced flood-wrecked communities of the northeast today.as stunned survivors found th'e death toll steadily mounting toward the 200 mark. The known dead already numbered 188. As additional victims discovered, it appeared the final count would go well above this figure. Pennsylvania and Connecticut, the states hardest hit estimated a total of as many as 130 persons still missing.

The latest count-since -the beginning of the floods last Thursday was: Pennsylvania, 93; Connecticut, 68; Massachusetts, 13; Rhode Island, one; New Jersey, New York, Virginia, 3. Damage in Billions As the rampaging streams rivers receded to normal levels, astonished citizens surveyed the heart-breaking devastation. It was so vast that only the broadest estimates of the damage could be made, but these ran to billions. Home -were wrecked or completely gone; factories were damaged, some beyond repair. Bridges were down and' roads washed out, with asphalt surfaces churned up.

Health hazards were a major survivors in most places-were ordered to boil drinking water. Emergency anti-typhoid serums were flown into isolated communities by helicopter. Dry ice was an emergency item and supplies were commandeered to refrigerate vital food supplies where regular refrigerators were still without electric power. On top of all their other problems, many flood survivors looked ahead to an, uncertain future with their regular jobs gone, at least temporarily. Factory damage in Woonsocket, B.

alone left thousands out of work. Buildings Condemned Some buildings that first appeared to have survived the floods were found so weakened that they had to be condemned. In Torrington, thriving industrial city of 28,000. dozens of stores, were smashed ind (Continued on Page Eight) Red Cross Succors Valley As Flood Brings Disaster By ALMA LOCKWOOD stately -old house at 271 Park avenue, utilized by the Bridgeport chapter of the American Cross and now transformed into a relief depot, the sounds of moving vehicles are heard as they load and rush supplies to stricken communities, up the Naugatuck Valley. sA yoice the 'Waterbtiry our trucks are going out what are your needs? 1 It Js Stephanie McCarthy, director of the Bridgeport cliapter, calling Waterbury Ked Cross 'from headquarters.

10 Trucks Yesterday alode, 10 truhkioads of life-saving headed' north toward the stricken area, t. Mrs. McCarthy -TJ-shaped airvangement- of tables, lining information sheet of, yellow paper, as she ceiveai" it No one around her too much attention to, the incoming cail thejr bii8fy; Concentrating particu re' 1 assigned. 4 This tragedy cltiae was no flood on the; Missouri river, no In a distant land with a strange name; waa heartbreak. striking along the highway and just around the bind.

if Those people had faces the, Red Cross" Seeks Mood Area Gifts Emergency for flood as announced by the Red 1 Crosi, are as carnned gaods, cially meat, and fruit mugar; flcur; paper, cups; paper toilet paper; cigarets, anti blankets. Denaiions rhay be left at Hed Crosi hoadquarters, 271 Park avenue, or Will picked up tf call EDIxon By HE ASSOCIATED State -Police supplied the following breakdown 'of Connecticut's known flood dead and missing as of 10 a.m. today (68 known 70 missing): Roxbury-- 1 dead. New Hart-ford 5 dead, 3 missing. New Canaan 1 dead.

Torringrton 4 dead, 1 missing. Winsted 6 dead, 4 m' ing. Canton-- 1 dead. East Granby-- 1 dead. Collinsvilie-- 4 dead.

Ansonia 8 dead. Naugatuck-- 8 dead. Waterbury 19 dead, 50 missing. Seymour 2 dead. Washington-- 2 dead.

Thomaston 1 dead. Ldtchfield-- 1 dead. Simsbury-- 2 dead. Hartford-- 1 dead. 1 East Hartford-- 1 dead.

Farmington 12 missing. Persons identified as having died in flood-stricken Connecticut communities are as follows: Waterbury 1 Stanley Mark. Clarence F. Rameikas, 37. Nancy Verrier.

Mrs. Mary Shimkus. Mrs. Margaret Pedaigis. Edward Meier, 72.

John Bergin, 30. Torrington Mrs. Lena Lemire, 48, Gustav Jaquemin. Stephen Lucas, 51. Naugatuck T.

J. Montambault, about 50. George Fellows, Henry Russell, 17, of Waterbury. Marjorie Bergin, five, of Waterbury. Washington Mr.

and Mrs. William Foulis. Hartford George Wiegold, 69. Winsted Man'ey Leshay, 73. Mrs.

Joseph 2appula, 57. John Gould, 27. Miss Mary Marchione. William Samele. 1 -Canton David C.

Murray, 2. Farmington Known to be missing: Patricia Ann Bechard, 7. Patrolman -Charles Hodkins. Jack Morin. Glen Davis, 7, James, 5, and Lawrence Davis, 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick. Collinsville Herman Hackbarth, 65. Missing: Three members of the Leonard Pomaski familv, New Hartford Edward Heacox.

Loiris Hitnnan. Mrs. Elsa 'Bouchard, 33, and daughter, Carol, -10. Misg-E Charmaine Bouchard, 19. East Grartby Holland.

Seymour- Josephine Cripps. Mrs. John Fliss. Litchfield Mrs, Kathef ine 'Ruoti Thomaston Mrs, Yvette -Ansonia tf Benedict ing to be crushed and smashed -or else sent down the streams. Meanwhile Governor Ribicoff announced that raging rivers which tore down concrete buildings, burst dams and flooded cities had cost state and its people "well over a billion dollars." "This is the greatest disaster ever to strike Connecticut," Gov.

Ribicoff said. "The destruction is almost beyond comprehension." 30 Communities Damaged The Governor promised to spare no effort to get the state back on its feet in the wake of the giant flood which hit more than 30 towns and paralyzed life in the western and northwestern areas. He called for a special session of -the Legislature to appropriate money to pay for the damage, but set no date, Mopping-Up Begins Mopping-up operations were well under way today and a State highway spokesman said the overall highway situa tion had improved greatly since the floods struck Friday, But the State Health department reported that at least 22 of necticut's 169 communities remained with health problems "ranging from comparatively minor to serious." Winsted, Torrington and Naugatuck valley communities- remained in states of emergency and sted was isolated. Huge problems faced the people of these stricken communities. They must repair roads, bridges and dams; they must find places for people to live; they must rid their towns of dirt, silt, and wreckage and bring about the restoration of heat, light, power and communication to those areas still without these Thousands Jobless But an additional-problem loomed scores of industries were knocked out by the flood waters, putting thousands out -of work and posing stiir another headache for; both the state and communities in which they were employed, Winsted, described "as "a trfvvn which just isn't there any was without power, gas and -drinking water.

Food being shipped to stricken residents there -over a four-hour Water purifiers were" being 1 rushed there today. Throughout, the Naugatuck Valley weary disaster, crews searched through war-like scenes- today for victims of the flood that yiay. include 100 victims before the count is over. In Waterbury, alone, persons died and 50 others were listed as missing, 7 Governor Visits Valley Governor Kfbicoff- spent yesterday visiting: the hard-hit cities, of (Continued on (Page Eight) Simsbury" lf and Margaret Easl: Hartford Fran Luckinghair; SI: Gity Donates To Flood ,000 ill Opeji Apartments Here For Flood Victims From Ya Some.ltX) refugee if amliles from 'the state prints permission, Mr. the stricken river area will -be allowed; temporary residence city old director: of the 'Bridge-' port 4 fiaiditoday.v Mayor a meeting morning and! BofothyjpL cor chairman of Housing Authority Foole for "this: action granted i rom Some 200 more will be available in BeardsHey; Terrace and ajpuUntnta eooa at Poc-le said.

-Conditions' or sadi, Require 'that -'refugees ptat two days has been to dilute any from (Continued personally certified by i faster committee; TDriSiC It, is necessary for tW committed to- guarantee the all Mr, Poole safa. rt A request from the. A.W- thority in nsceived 1 morning, Mr, Poole said, and is being- handles by Mrs, Stephanie Me-, Catthy director of the Bridgeport Red meeting oon time- with Red I' Cross and' officials, in a headquartersY 271 avenue, city of 4 BridgcpoPtlwaf donating $2,000 to launch a flood disaster The Mayor "said 1 the be used c. the Rcd; deemed most Bridge, Goren Classified Section Draftees' Guide Financial -News Health; Dr. Brady Radio-TV 'Sobwty'NJkWs lt? Sokolpky.

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