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NEWS FLASHES Direct From Niwsroem Of Aclverilstr-Journi! By Telephone Dial Weather Montgomery: Mostiy fair with cool nights and mild days through Monday. High Sunday, 84; low Sunday night, 65. (Map, Details, Page 2A.) 140lh Year-No. 29 Fall Daj. Ni(U and Sunday Service By Tb AiMfUted Preai Montgomery, Sunday Morning, July 16, 1967 6 Sections-58 Pages PRICE 20c And ALABAMA JOURNAL i Bale's Fire Heroes Honored 1 I I i 1 0 Com 4 th Nigh Israel, Egypt Battle Of Violence By JOHN WILLIAMS Assistant City Editor The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has awarded bronze medals and $500 each to Mrs.

Rose Ellen Doane and Jesse Williams whose heroic actions in the Feb. 7 Dale's Penthouse Restaurant fire were credited with saving the lives of a number of patrons and employes. Notification of the awards came Saturday in letters from the commission to Jack Doane, husband of the 34-year-old Mrs. Doane, who lost her life in the fire, and to Williams. Mrs.

Doane and Williams were nominated for the awards shortly after the fire by The Advertiser-Journal. Gov. Lur-leen Wallace also placed their names in nomination, as did resolutions adopted by the Alabama Legislature and the Montgomery City Commission. The American Legion and Red Cross also endorsed the nominations. In its letter to Doane, Advertiser sports editor, the commission said: "Through the courtesy of the Honorable Lurleen B.

Wal- NEWARK, N.J. (AP)-Gunfire flashed again on a By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fourth successive night of midsummer Negro noting Saturday, exacting a new toll of dead and wounded. Only a few hours earlier, 300 white and Negro citizens had crusaded through the slum area with a plea Israel and Egypt clashed in new sharp air and ground bat to end the racial rebellion. tles along the Suez Canal cease fire line Saturday for the third weekend in a row. The tempo of violence in- creased as darkness deep Israel claimed its forces I ''i i -3 i I I I tA- ti I I -v -f H-F ened and thehourfora second citywide curfew Gov.

Wallace Signs Bills, downed six Soviet-built jets of the Egyptian air force four of them within the space of an hour and lost no planes of its drew near. The four-day death total climbed to 18 all Negroes except for a white police officer. Not included in the toll was an Sees Children other white detective, who died of a heart attack, attributed to exhaustion, although he had gone off duty. Among victims brought in Newark City Hospital on Satur HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Ala bama Gov.

Lurleen Wallace, re day in police-manned ambulances was Hattie Gainer, fatal covering from cancer surgery, visited briefly Saturday with 4 I I'" 4 Ms- -J SLi own. Egypt said four Israeli planes were shot down and claimed all of its aircraft returned safely. Cease-Fire Reported UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The United Nations announced Saturday night that a new cease-fire between Egypt and Israel had gone into effect at 6 p.m. EDT after the second consecutive day of battles with planes, tanks and artillery along the Suez Canal.

Israel pressed, through U.N. ly shot in the chest by a police bullet as she sat in the window of her slum home. two of her children, signed seven legislative bills and a resolution and appointed a man to of Her daughter, Marie, 22, cried hysterically: "All of a sudden a whole lot of cops were down fice. there and started shooting. There was no reason to shoot up Peggy Sue Wallace, 17, and George Wallace 15, arrived in Houston early Saturday by private plane and flew back to Alabama Saturday afternoon at the window." Once again the hospital itself became a target of nighttime JESSE WILLIAMS MRS.

ROSE DOANE Secretary-General Thant in New York, for an immediate snipers. Their bullets brought National Guardsmen rushing in halt to the fighting that raged with bayoneted rifles to throw a after spending most of the morning with their mother. The legislative proposals which arrived on the same plane concerned minor matters, Ed Ewing, Mrs. Wallace's press mainly the southern half of security guard around the build -AP Wirepholo the canal. Cannon and mortars MISS ALABAMA MISS UNIVERSE SYLVIA HITCHCOCK ing.

University Of Alabama Student Throws Up Her Hands In Glee Earlier in the day, James secretary, said. He said the bills mile waterway throughout the day. Meredith spent six hours in the not sector, where looting, fire covered the extension of city limits; approval of county ex With U.N. truce observers penses and the hiring of county Al abama Studen bombing Negroes have defied guardsmen, and where sniper duels with police have made ana court clerks. reaching Cairo en route to the canal, Israeli Ambassador Gideon Rafael conveyed to Thant an The resolution Gov.

Wallace streets hazardous in daylight urgent request that the U.N. okayed was the one approving and darkness. the Alabama legislature's team approach Egyptian officials "for the immediate, com Meredith said if armed troops Fourth of July recess. were withdrawn, "I am sure there will be absolutely no more Is Mi ss Universe The appointment she made plete and mutual cessation of all firing in the canal sector," an was of Walter Ellis Fitzpatrick trouble." Israeli spokesman said. "As far as the Negro is con to the chairmanship of the Bullock County Board of Revenue cerned, it's all over," he said Saturday's medical bulletin USA title the following month crown symbolizing the best of1 By KAY BARTLETT upon his return to his home in New York.

"They are in no on the 40-year-old chief execu universal beauty, at Miami Beach, Fla. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Miss U.S.A., Sylvia Hitchcock of tive said she rested well for ex mood for any more trouble. In tears the girl who bragged Miss Hitchcock says she chose Car Wreck Kills Five Miami, a student at the Univer They want the troops and the of swiping tomatoes trom tended periods during the day and was "up and about her to attend the University of Ala sity of Alabama, was chosen neighbor's yard when she was state police to go away." room for longer periods of a child strode down the runway Saturday night as Miss Universe 1967. bama, even though she is from Miami, because her brother, a wearing the shawl of Miss time." The doctors also said Mrs.

Wallace was "somewhat uncom Miss Hitchcock won the Miss Alabama title in a contest spon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five persons were killed Sat fortable" Friday night because Miss Venezuela, Mariela Branger, was first Other finalists in order of! professor of art at the University of Connecticut, recommended the Alabama institution. The 21-year-old brunette was sored by Capital City Jaycees April 21 and 22 in Montgomery. of abdominal pains, usual after urday when their car crashed into the rear of a parked truck on U. S. 31 at the north city lim the sort of operation she under Sponsored in the state competition by her University of Ala went.

finish were Miss England, Jennifer Lewis; Miss Finland, Rit (See ALABAMA, Page 2A) the fourth representative of the United States to win the bright, its of Gardendale. bama sorority, she won the Last Monday, surgeons at the Gardendale police said four passengers asleep in the car's Alabama crown over 18 competitors from over the state. She went on to win the Miss Montgomery Man Gives War Close-Up Montgomerian John C. Calhoun, manager of American Express Co. in Egypt, was the last American to leave Cairo after the short-lived Arab-Israeli war broke out.

For a thrill-packed, intriguing account of what he did and saw, turn to Page 2C of today's Advertiser-Journal. The inter-view by staffer Warner Stough, brings that overseas war a little closer to home. University of Texas M. D. And-j erson hospital and Tumor Institute removed a malignancy the size of a lemon from Gov.

Wallace's lower abdomen. backseat survived the crash. They said the car had Illinois license plates. Deputy Coroner W. L.

Allen Jr. said those killed were Fred Medical Forum Opens Monday Douglas Williams, 28, Mrs. Jessie Cook, 77, Kay Williams, 9, AU Sophomore Is Tallapoosa Cotton-Maid Dessie Lee Williams, 3, and Mrs. Roy Williams. They were all from Waukegan, 111.

The Advertiser-Journal is sponsoring a medical forum! lace, Governor of Alabama and Mr. Harold Martin, publisher of The Advertiser-Journal Company, Montgomery, our attention was called to the heroic rescue act of your wife, Rose Ellen Doane, by which she died helping to save an indeterminate number of persons from burning on Feb. 7, 1967." The letter to Williams, who lives at 2444 Council cited the former chef's "heroic rescue act" through which a number of employes and patrons were saved from death in the blaze which claimed 25 lives. Both letters stated that "in recognition of outstanding heroism the commission has awarded you a bronze medal and the sum of five hundred dollars." Advertiser-Journal co-publisher Harold E. Martin said: "The Advertiser-Journal is gratified that the Carnegie Commission has recognized the heroic actions of Mrs.

Doane and Mr. Williams in this manner. We join with others in Montgomery and Alabama in this expression of gratitude for their selfless action." Gov. Wallace's press secretary, Ed Ewing, reached in Houston, where the governor is recovering from surgery, issued the following statement on behalf of the governor: "Gov. Wallace is pleased to learn of these awards.

Certainly, the outstanding heroism shown by Mrs. Doane and Mr. Williams are highly deserving of such notice." Doane said of his wife's award: "Rose would have been pleased that something she took for granted as part of her job would merit this recognition. It is comforting to know that through her actions, others were helped to safety. I appreciate this expression of gratitude on the part of the Carnegie Commission and those who recommended her for the medal." And Williams said of his notification: "I am very proud of receiving this award.

I would like to thank each and everyone who participated in my nomination and gave the help which enabled me to receive the award. I appreciate it and thank Both Mrs. Doane and Williams, now 28, were praised by numerous Montgomery and state organizations for their actions during the fire. The Advertiser-Journal received numerous telephone calls and letters from persons throughout the state suggesting that awards of some type, principally Carnegie Medals, would be fitting. The Montgomery newspapers compiled a record of tne actions of both recipients on the night of the fire and submitted it for verification by the Carnegie Commission.

That commission later sent a field investigator to Montgomery to interview those who escaped from the blaze and conduct a personal investigation in connection with the nominations. Mrs. Doane, hostess at the plush skyline restaurant, remained at her post of duty, near the two elevators and stairwell, in an effort to direct patrons to escape routes. Her body was recovered along with those of the 24 other victims. Several Dale's employes recalled later that they tried to persuade her to leave before the flames engulfed the dining room and lounge but that she refused, saying she had to "help get these people out of here." Williams, after a futile attempt to extinguish the blaze shortly after it started in a cloakroom, was credited with taking two elevator loads of patrons and employes to the ground floor level and safety.

He returned for a third load but became trapped in the elevator himself at the 11th floor level when the doors jammed. Firemen rescued Williams through an escape hatch in the elevator roof and he and the firemen, also trapped for a while in the adjacent elevator, slid down the elevator cables 11 stories to the ground level. Williams told The Advertiser Saturday that he still lives with his grandmother at 2444 Council St. He is not employed at the time. He said he has visited relatives and friends on brief trips out of Montgomery since the fire but that he plans to remain in this city.

Williams said he hears occasionally from other employes who survived the blaze and that he still receives letters and calls from well-wishers and persons who want to thank him. 4 Monday and Tuesday at the Jefferson Davis Hotel from DADEVILLE Miss Nancy1 I 7:30 until 9 p.m. "It's the worse wreck I've ever seen," said one policeman. He added that an estimated 5,000 gathered and said the crowd re Washburn, 19-year-old Auburn 4. Each nisht four well-known Dhvsicians will discussi Ys.

University sophomore, was 1 4 and answer questions on major diseases. quired handling by police, fire named the 1967 Tallapoosa Dr. Julian Wishik. Dr. Harrv Till.

Dr. James Guest! 1 department personnel and police ON INSIDE PAGES Page Amusements Business Classified 8C-13C Crossword 14C Editorial Faces In The 3C Feature Page 3C Horoscope 11A Jumble 11A Markets 7C Montgomery Week 3C Obituaries -2A Society 1D-8D Sports 1B-5B TV Logs 6B Weather Map 2A Columnists County Maid of Cotton Satur and Dr. Fred Campbell will speak Monday on heart and reserves. day night in finals at Wind Creek Park on Lake Martin. I circulatory and lung and respiratory diseases, Police quoted a nephew of the Detectives Are Knifed In Hong Kong HONG KONG (AP) Com The alternate maid is Miss Speaking Tuesday on diseases of the digestive tract! Claire Simpson, a 20-year-old driver of the wrecked car who was following behind as saying his uncle "angled off the road senior at Auburn.

I and cancer will be Dr. Al Zdanis, Dr. Richard Dr. Forest Little and Dr. David Dunn.

I Dr. B. F. Dorrough will moderate the program eachi and crashed into the rear of a Miss Washburn is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Wash night, parked truck." The car was wedged beneath the truck. burn Jr. of Dadeville. She is There is no admission charge and the public is urgedf munist terrorists knifed three 5-feet-7 tall, has brown hair The truck, police said, had to attend. and eyes, and measures 37-25- pulled off the road to check its police detectives, hurled bombs and acid, and set fires Saturday and Sunday in a continuing 38.

load wave of antigovernment terror-ism by Chinese mobs. Police shot and killed a sus Be Gaulle Boosts French Canadian Separatism pected bomb-thrower, then smashed their way into a Com munist union clinic to recover PARIS (AP) President however, that the separatist! Quebec, the capital of French him to English-speaking Otta- his body. But other terrorists separatis t-minded French-speaking minority of six million, Charles de Gaulle headed to movement began on its own and Canada, July 23 wa. apparently had carried it away In the clinic, police found an ward the New World Saturday centered in the province of Que would have led naturally to The next day he travels by He may use the capital as the on what informed sources de bec. France, with or without De other bomb and cases of fire car to Montreal, the world's setting for a speech once again De Gaulle and his advisers Gaulle.

crackers from which terrorists scribed as a mission to encourage French Canadian second largest French-speaking believe the Quebec separatist The fact remains that Canada take gunpowder to make bombs. condemning U.S. actions in Vietnam. movement will result in auton will be the only foreign country city. And on July 2o he visits the Montreal fair, Expo 67, giving a He left France aboard the When France lost most of her omy within the next decade and wants France to profit by it, the to which De Gaulle has made two official visits, underscoring Six Chinese were shot and wounded when police opened fire on rampaging crowds that attacked police and set fire to dinner at the French Pavilion, He will not go to Ottawa cruiser Colbert Saturday morning and is scheduled to stop at the French islands of St.

Pierre the importance he attaches to informants said. The French president, there overseas possessions to England ir 1763, Voltaire quipped there was no cause for regret about until the afternoon of July 26, the voyage and returns home by plane the fore will stress the cultural and next day, and Miquelon next Thursday before landing in Quebec on Sunday for a five-day Canadian historical bonds between Que That De Gaulle, a stickler for bec and the "mother country," And the schedule of the trip demonstrates, almost by itself, the very "French" nature of it. He steams up the St. Lawrence River aboard the Colbert-named for Louis XIV's minister Canada, "a few acres of snow." For nearly two centuries Par-L virtually ignored Canada and only since De Gaulle regained form, insisted on visit. hoping to pull French Canada automobiles and store fronts.

Police raided two other suspected terrorist headquarters at dawn. In each they found explosives, knives, homemade daggers and bottles of acid. In one they found a dozen homemade gas rraks. Five men were arrested. normal protocol procedure by His trip to Canada is expected farther away from the federal visiting tho French province to place more strain on the ties government in Ottawa and to power in 19o8 has France to "rediscover" this part of the before goes to the federal between the 12 million English-speaking Canadians and the who did so much to spread the French empire and lands in ward Paris, they added.

They made a point of saying, capital cannot have endearedNew World,.

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