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The Weather Jour ACA Phone Tor VTact Ad to The Ithaca Journal for quick service. Dial 2321 before It a.m. and your Waat Ad will be In tb am day's Journal at p.m. -ff The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: South-Central York Partial sunshine, warm and humid today and Tuesday.

Few. hwen today. High both days, 85-90. Lw tonight, 6a to 70. For detailed forecast, see Page 4.

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. THE GREATEST NEWSGATHER1NU ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD 140th YEAR No. 191 FOURTEEN PAGES ITHACA, N.Y., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1955 PRICE FIVE CENTS ALf WesternPowers New arnings Raise orm Wfl, fife. tates Get Alert on 3 i 1 III tl I 3k t-- te-6w 3Ci jt 5 nil 1 1 UP FOR VIEW at the International Conference on Peaceful use of Atomic En of the U.S. first full-scale atomic power plant, a pressureized water reactor artist's sketch PRESIDENT EISENHOWER explains the interior of his plane to his wife, Mamie.

Ike flew to Washington and from Jhere to Denver. Mamie will stay on the farm until later this month, at Gettysburg-, Pa. slated for erection in Ship- Prison Guards Halt Rioting WALLA WALLA, Wash. UP! Guards armed with rifles and tear gas ended an inmate rebellion at the trouble-rocked state penitentiary early today six hours after it began. Warden Lawrence Delmore Jr.

said 10 officers seized as hostages in the second such uprising at the prison in six weeks were released unharmed. Only 12 convicts were directly involved in the latest outbreak, Uelmore said. However, ne re ported, at one time early in the disturbance almost all of the pris on population of some 1,600 was at large within the walls. There was no damage except for a few windows shattered by guards who fired tear gat into cellblocks to put down the riot, he said. The prisoners released one officer-hostage shortly after the rioting broke out during the dinner hour with word that "all sorts of dire consequences" would follow if prison authorities did not jneet prisoners demands.

The inmates had full control of the prison at the time, the warden said. But after guards had retaken the prison wing by wing, the rebelling convicts agreed to release the other hostages. "No promises were made except that they would be returned, to their cells and interviewed individually in the morning," Delmore said. "The reason given was that they were seeking transfer." Hostages also were seized in a rebellion July 5 but were released after state officials agreed to some convict demands, including a re quest for prison reforms and discharge of some personnel. Firemen, Tenant Overcome in Fire SYRACUSE UPi A dozen firemen and a tenant were overcome by smoke Saturday night in fighting a $209,000 fire that destroyed a three story business and apartment About 30 persons occupying 15 apartments on the second and third floors were left homeless.

Fire Marshall John Dacey said the loss would exceed $200,000. The cause was not determined. power plant pingport, Pa. STATE POLIO Cases Increase urinir Week ALBANY (JP) Polio incidence in the 57 counties outside New York City continued to rise last week as 74 new cases were reported. This compared with 60 new cases in the preceeding week.

There have been 336 new cases reported so far this year, an increase of 80 over the corresponding period last year. The new cases included these nearby counties: Broome, Tioga, and Cayuga, Chemung, and Onondaga, one each. Morse Predicts Loss by GOP WASHINGTON OR Sen. Morse (D-Ore) continued Congress' post-session political sparring today with a prediction that the voters will toss "the Eisenhower admin istration out of office" next year Morse's forecast was in a state ment replying to a contention by chairman Bridges (NH) of the Senate Republican policy to com mittee that party voting records showed Democrats had blocked key parts of President Eisenhow er's domestic program. The 1 study tabulated which way the majority of each party's sen ators voted.

Bridges said it show ed Republicans were 921z per cent strong for the President's domes tic policies: Democrats, only 45 per cent." Bridges statement was an ob vious plea to voters to return con gressional control to Republicans next year. Democrats now have narrow margins in both the Senate and House. Morse said Bridges vote studv is typical Republican hokum" based on a "major false assump tion, namely that all Eisenhower legislative recommendations were sound ones." Singer Dies DETROIT George W. Heck-endorn, 51, who as George Dorn sang with orchestras of Vincent Lopez, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, died Saturday. Connie Claims Lives of 14 In State ALBANY 0B New York State today counted 14 deaths blamed on Hurricane Connie and the torrential rains that preceded her.

The storm had dwindled to an ordinary low-pressure system in the Great Lakes area. Today's humidity was the only trace remaining of the hurricane. Connie whirled through the State Saturday night after her cyclonic winds had begun to dissipate. She still packed a punch, how ever. A treignter, Ked Cloud, lost the use of its rudder in Lake On tario's wind-whipped waves and was towed to Toronto.

A washout following a flash flood caused the derailment of a Delaware and Hudson passenger train in the Helderberg mountains. Fruit crops were damaged heavily. Three of the deaths were Upstate and 11 were in the New York City area James P. O'Connor of Rochester, former Monroe County, judge. suffered a fatal heart attack Sat- when he tried to lift a small boat from storm-tossed Canan-daigua Lake.

He was 68. Claude N. Mclntyre, 53, of Syracuse, a lineman, was killed by electric shock Saturday night when he touched a high-tension wire while repairing lines blown down in the Syracuse suburb of DeWitt. Miss Rena Goldstein, 19, of North Bergen, N.J., was injured fatally when struck by a falling tree Saturday night at the Copake Country Club, a Columbia County resort. She was a counselor there Scattered show jr yesterday added to the soaking rains.

New York had .21 inch to bring the month's total to 11.87 inches. Utica recorded 8.8 inches over the week end. Albany had 4.08 inches since Thursday. The weather bureau said the low-pressure system following the hurricane and a high pressure area over New England were pouring warm, humid air into the state that was expected to remain through tomorrow. Two of four cars of a DH ex press and passenger train jumped the tracks and tipped over west of Altamont, Albany County, Saturday night.

But the single coach. carrying 18 passengers, remained upright. No injuries were reported. The train was enroute from Al bany to Binghamton. The wind wreaked havoc in the apple and peach orchards of western and north-central New York.

The rain, however, did immense good for crops threatened by drought. Killer of Wife Wants to Die McALESTER, Okla. UR Dr. Ben T. Galbraith, who once said, 'I want to die as quickly as possible," will be sentenced tomorrow to life in prison for the murder of his wife.

The 34-year-old physician, a former president of the Pittsburg County Medical Society, slumped in his chair, white-faced and forlorn near midnight Saturday when the jury returned its verdict. The panel deliberated an hour. The jury, according to Oklahoma law, fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. Sentencing is a formality. Missing Scout Dead MUSKEGON, Mich.

Li A five-week search for missing Boy Scout Peter Gorham has ended with the grisly discoVery of his bullet-pierced body. "A Plans to Keep Armed Strength WASHINGTON America's European allies have agreed that the western bloc must maintain its military power at a high level if the United States, Britain and France are to conduct further effective peace talks with the Russians. Officials reported today that since the summit conference at Geneva last month there have been several exchange! of views in the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) Council at Paris. The 15 member governments are agreed, they said, that there is no evidence yet on the part of the Communists that would justify any changes in the scheduled western defense buildup. The Soviet government announced Friday night that it had decided to reduce Russian armed forces by 640,000 men by Dec.

15. The United States, Britain and France are expected to confer early this week on the Soviet move.j Over the weekend they welcomed it as a step in the direction of reducing armaments but they were frankly suspicious of whether the Soviets would make the full cut and just what Russian intentions were. Barring some surprise move that would drastically alter west ern thinking, they seem certain to go into the foreign ministers" conference with Russia at Geneva Oct. 27 in as strong a position as they held during the top level talks last month. But diplomatic experts are becoming increasingly uncertain how long this will be true.

They expect Russia to make a big play in coming months for public opinion pressure to force cuts in western arms expenaitures ana troop levies. Their gestures cost them little and their promises cannot be checked. The lack of means for verifying the announced reduction of 640, 000 men was immediately empha 6ized by authorities here after the Moscow announcement came through. The British foreign office spot lighted another aspect of the prob lem by saying it was difficult to estimate the significance of the re duction promised "since the Soviet government has never revealed the strength of their armed forces." Senatorial comment followed much the same pattern. Several agreed with Sen.

Bennett (R-Utah) who commented that the Russian move "might have more meaning if we knew what percentage of to tal Russian military manpower it represents." The British and American reac tion drew attention to the central Issue of disarmament as it is now shaping up for a United Nations subcommittee meeting beginning in New York Aug. 29. The Soviets want to cut back all weapons and troops essentially on faith and wih very limited inspection safeguard. The western powers are still determined to get agreement on a system that will let them know what is really going on inside Rus sia before they disarm themselves. Night Fighters Win Air Citation SAN FRANCISCO 1 The Night Fighter Assn.

has honored the 496th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, stationed at Landstuhl, Germany, as the outstanding air defense unit of 1955. The association, a subsidiary of the Air Force awarded a trophy to the unit Saturday during the AFA convention here. Lt. Col. Robert R.

Fishel of Ful lerton, squadron commander, and four members of the unit flew here to receive the awards In the croup was Cant. William J. Murphy of Gowanda, N.Y., a pilot. Doctor to Royalty Dies PETERSFIELD, England L5V-Lord Horder, 84, doctor to Queen Elizabeth II and four kings before her, died Saturday. How Will Seaway Affect Upstate? When "Seaway5 It mentioned, most people think of American "heartland" ports like Chicago, Milwaukee, Ouluth, and Cleveland.

Yet for many miles, the new ocean-connected trade route will go by lake and river cities in Upstate New York. What are they doing about it? What will the Sea-way mean to them? And what are New "York and Albany doing to keep trade flowing through present channels? The first of five articles on this subject appears on Page 8 of today's Journal. Diane MIAMI, Fla. (JP) A hurri cane hunter plane winged toward Diane, fourth tropi cal storm of the season and its report will determine where along the Georgia and Carolina coast hurricane warnings will be hoisted early this afternoon. Forecasters had expected to order warnings up at noon, but postponed the or ders until early this afternoon.

"We're working to pinpoint the area of hurricane warnings," said Cecil Gen try, forecaster in the storm warning center here. A hurricane alert already was out for those two states and North Carolina. Florida wah out of the alerted area, but Gentry said northeasterly storm, warnings (less than hurricane force) were a good possibility for the northeastern portion of Florida. Diane's peak winds are blowing at 115 miles an hour. Any wind of 75 miles an hour or higher is of hurricane force.

Diane has a band of hurricane winds 230 miles in diameter around its center. The storm moved forward in mid-morning at a 15-mile pace with no indication of slowing up. It was centered then a little more than 600 miles east-southeast of Jacksonville, and was moving to ward the west-northwest. Forecasters had expected Diane to turn along a slightly more northerly course and only yester day considered North Carolina and states north of there to be the most threatened. Since then, however, a low pres sure trough extending outward from last week's hurricane, Con nie, moved inland, and at the same time a high pressure ridge over the Atlantic moved westward and today covered the state of Virginia.

Connie's low pressure though serves to attract Diane, while the high pressure prevents the hurricane from making, the expected northerly recurve. "As a result the situation has become critical for the southeast ern coast, said Gentry. mere no longer is a question of whether we will issue hurricane warnings. The problem now is to pinpoint the area. This is being worked out and warnings without a doubt will be "ordered hoisted in the noon ad visory." Winds along the northeast Flor ida, Georgia, South and North Car olina coasts are expected to begin to increase tonight, if the hurricane continues at its present rate of movement.

Shipping in front of the storm was advised to use caution. Sections of the North Carolina coast were raked by winds from Hurricane Connie only last week. Damage was estimated at from 7 to 10 million dollars. Heavy rains fell as far north as New York. Diane first appeared Aug.

11 about 420 miles northeast of Puerto Rico and moved northeastward, later switching to a westerly course and then settling into its present path. It rolled through the Atlantic Sunday, bypassing Bermuda to the south. Rough seas and 35 to 40 mile winds were noted at Bermuda but the storm was too far away to do much damage. However, the storm claimed its first victim in the British-owned resort islands. Mrs.

John Bastin was drowned Saturday in heavy seas. Boy, 15, Survives Half Mile in Pipe CORONA. Calif. VftA 15-year-' nW hov was sweet a half mile through a 36-inch diameter under ground pipe yesterday but escaped with a head bump his only ap parent injury. Mike Elliott of Torrance, and three other vbuths were swim ming near a flood control dam.

Unwittingly, Mike swam into a structure housing the intake of a spillway pipe. He was swept under water into the mouth of the pipe by the swift current. His comDanions attempted to rescue' him then but failed. They then climbed to the top of the dam, halted a passing car and raced to tha nntfaU of th snillwav riDe. fBy the time they arrived, picnick ers had seen the unconscious Elliott float out of the pipe and pulled him to the bank.

An unidentified nurse revived him with artificial respiration. Late. News DOVER, England (JP) Abdel Latif Abu Heif, 27-year-old Egyptian, won the cross-channel swim today in a stirring finish after Thomas L. Park, Long Beach, swimming instructor, led most of the way. State Appoints Commerce Aide ALBANY Joseph R.

Mac- Laren of Hudson Falls, unsuccess ful Democratic candidate for Con gress from the 31st district last year, has been appointed a busi ness promotion representative in the State Commerce department. Commissioner Edward T. Dick inson said in announcing the appointment yesterday that the sal ary ranged from $8,250 to $10,290 a year. MacLaren is a business man. Atomic Energy Seen as Aid To Agriculture GENEVA Ufi A Swedish scien tist said today that atomic energy could give agriculture a big lift by bringing up to date the anatomy of wheat, corn and other plants Prof.

L. Ehrenberg told the Atoms-for-Peace Conference that experiments on barley and other grains had shown that radiation. by inducing mutations or heredi tary changes in the plant struc ture, "can increase the yielding capacity or upon spe cial characters of importance in agriculture." Ehrenberg said the anatomy and other characteristics of most plants are "still rather old-fash ioned," despite 50 years of intense breeding work. Radiation, he con tinued, not only can induce muta tions but can do it several thou sand times faster than nature works -the change. The Swede said experiments al ready had improved grain sizes, malting properties, baking quality, protein or oil content and maturing cycles.

Most plants, he continued, "need to be reconstructed in agreement with the requirements of modern agriculture, facilitating high mech anization and intense fertilizing of the soil, in this way increasing the yield and quality but decreasing labor and cultivation costy." In another conference session on dangers of radiation to the world's population, Dr. Bruce Wallace of the United States declared that genetic or hereditary damage from radiation was the "most insidious and potentially most dangerous" problem accompanying the extensive use of atomic energy even if limited to peaceful uses. ergy in Geneva was this San Marino Chooses Communism By STAN SWLNTON SAN MARINO (A The year-old little republic of San Marino has chosen to remain a Communist isle in western Europe for four more years. Ninety-Steven San Marinese who now live in Detroit, New York and Sandusky, Ohio, failed in their llth-hour trans-Atlantic attempt to win their countrymen over tof western democracy in yesterday's election. Instead, the communists and their socialist allies won a stunning victory in this 38-mile-square hill top nation, perched in the Apennines inside Italy's border.

The Reds and Socialists their political machine entrenched here since 1945 and operating with military precision literally carried the old, halt and blind to the 13 polling places for Sunday's balloting. To counteract the influx of cru saders from America, the Com munists gave hundreds of sympa thetic San Marino Workers free trips home from Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy. As a result, the Reds probably will control 37 seats in the 60-seat legislature, the grand council. Previously they had held only 31. The council elects the two captain re gents who head the government.

Polptical observers had watched San Marino closely to see if the voting would reflect a decline in Communist strength reported recently elsewhere on the Italian peninsula. The Red victory, however, was not expected to produce any startling change in the little republic. The leftists have tried to boom tourist trade and promote com merce. They have enacted no real Communist or socialist legislation. The task force of San Marinese from America were rounded up by Miss Marian Micheloti, energetic anti-Communist woman's leader who had been angered by the Reds' refusal to let her sex vote.

Most of the group from America came by chartered plane last week. The emigrants spent a busy weekend visiting relatives and friends to tell them what democracy had done in the United States and to urge support of the Christian Democrat cause. Ar mv unsure Of Teen Plan WASHINGTON President Eisenhower has set in motion the new abbreviated military training program, but some Pentagon of ficials say teen-agers may be slow to volunteer for the special six- month course. The start of the program in October- was authorized by Eisen hower in an executive order Sat urday. Volunteers 17 to 18Vz years of age would get six months active training, to be followed by IV-z years in the active reserve.

They would be draft-exempt. Eisenhower approved program quotas of 90,000 men for the Army and 5,500 for the Marines between now and next June 30. The Navy and Air Force plan to keep up their reserve strength through other means. With draft quotas now running about 10.000. a month, some defense officials said many j-ouths might shy away from the new training program, figuring they might never be drafted.

Eisenhower personally encouraged enlistments for the new President Glad To Vacation In Colorado JJElNVJiit If ever a man seemed glad to be back, President Eisenhower does in starting his fourth summer vacation in a row here in Colorado. There was a warm "Hi, Ike!" from the airport crowd and from his Lafayette Street neighbors as he flew in from Washington last night. And from the President, smiling broadly, it was "Hi, folks it's sure nice to be here again. Along with the chief executive came his beloved golf clubs, which he hoped to use today at Denver Cherry Hills Country Club, and his trout fishing gar for use in a stream high in the Rocky Moun tains later in the week. This is the fourth summer in a row the President has vacationed in Colorado, iiut it won De an vacation.

His. small office has been opened again at Lowry Air Force Base and he probably will spend part of most days there handling the affairs of state a President never can leave behind. I Just before he left the White House, Eisenhower acted on the last three of the 471 bills that Con gress passed shortly in advance of adjourning. He signed one meas ure dealing with land for a Color ado river project, and another aimed at ending the long District of Columbia bus and street car strike. The third bill he vetoed.

It pro vided for continued stockpiling 'of some domestic minerals. He also allocated one million dollars in federal aid for repairing Hurricane Connie damage to North Carolina. Mrs. Eisenhower did not accom pany the President to Denver, the first lady's home town, but she plans to return here with him Aug. 24 when he flies to Philadelphia for the day to address the American Bar Assn.

convention. "Have a nice trip," Mrs. Eisen hower called to her husband j'es- terday morning as he left their farm at Gettysburg, for Washington enroute here. A crowd of several hundred at the airport called greetings and then watched as the President stood with hat over heart for the Star Spangled Banner and went on to review an honor guard. Among the official greeters were Democratic Gov.

Edwin C. John son of Colorado, former Gov. Dan Thornton, a Republican, and Den ver mayor Will F. Nicholson. Also on hand was one of Eisenhower closest friends, Aksel Nielsen, a Denver investment banker.

Tomorrow or Wednesday the President plans to travel to Nielsen's ranch at Fraser, about 70 miles northwest of here, to fish swift-running and well stocked St. Louis creek for trout. It is one of Eisenhower's favorite fishing grounds and he usually does the cooking things like trout, charcoal broiled steak, flapjacks and vegetable soupi while there. Capt. Vaadi Returns Home LA FARGEVTLLE W-Capt.

Eu gene J. vaadi, home alter years in a Red Chinese prison, says he will return to duty after a leave at the home of his parents here. The Air Force officer met brief ly twice with his wife, Mary Elizabeth, when he arrived at Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, on Satur day. She was in tears when he left. No explanation was given for the coolness of the encounter.

Reporters did not ask for one. '''l THMM -1 OWNERS DAN DOWDS (left) and his son, Henry, both of Woodside, N.Y., check damage to their cabin cruiser somehow lifted out of water by wind, tide and heavy rains accompanying Hurricane Connie. The boat, which broke its mooring at Steinway Boat Yards, Astoria, N.Y., nestles high and dry under Hell Gate Bridge about a mile from its original berth. Refloating the cruiser posed a problem. VICTIM OF WIND, this building at Carolina Beach, N.C., was uprooted and set in the middle of a road as Hurricane Connie hit the area-.