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TIMES -DEMOCRAT Rain Tonight, Thursday, cloudy with occasional rain. TEMPERATURES Today, low 30s to mid 30s. Thursday, mid 30s to near 50. DAVENPORT BETTENDORF, IOWA WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1906 EDITIOI 3 112 TH 10 YEAR CENTS Dial 326-5111 76 PAGES ATTACK AT PEARL HURLED U.S.

INTO WAR Of Tomb 1- 1 JIMAkPY waters now so tranquil, so serene were aflame with burning oil, with men struggling toward the shores of Ford Island, with fire-blackened corpses. In the 110 minutes the Japanese attack lasted, the U.S. Navy lost more men than it lost in the Spanish-American War, PEARL HARBOR (AP) More than a generation has passed, and still the tiny droplets of oil filter to the surface of the water, bursting into a kaleidoscope of color above the sunken battleship Arizona. Twenty-five years later, the memory of Dec. 7, 1941, lingers, a recollection of horror, of disbelief.

The men who died that day, 2,409 of them, now are names on the walls of a gleaming white memorial. The memorial, inside Pearl Harbor, straddles the sunken battleship from which the oil still seeps aand aboard which remain the bodies of 1,102 officers and men of the United States Navy. The Arizona is a watery tomb. Gene Lindsey of Jefferson City, president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, has led an unprecedented number of survivors to Hawaii for the 25th anniversary of the Japanses attack on Pearl. Lindsey was a signalman aboard the destroyer Chew, moored about 500 yards from famed "Battleship Row" when the first bombs fell.

"Everything happened all of a sudden," he recalled. "When the Arizona was hit, she just exploded." A bomb set off the battlewagon's forward ammunition magazine. "one-in-a-million" bomb went down her stack. She took a school of torpedoes. More bombs dropped on her deck and flames shot hundreds of feet into the air.

"It was something I will never forget, nor will any of the men who were there," Lindsey said. Throughout that day, Pearl Harbor's 1 PEARL HARBOR (Continued On Page 2, Col. () Shock Treatment Mit Per Mustache If a lady ventures forth with a wacky hairdo that may look like an abandoned goo-ney bird's nest, I doubt that anyone will openly express shock or amazement. But let a man who hasn't had one before grow a mustache, and hoo-hah it's a subject for starkly frank criticism, minute examination and 1 i on, screams and groans, an occasional compliment and infinite jokes. Nobody is neutral about a mustache, and everyone feels compelled to pass judgment on it.

The mustache is discussed and evaluated as if the wearer were just something that happened to come with it, like the pin on a lady's corsage. WD Chicago Rail Cars Plunge; 1 fo) t'i JW5k y. if Bump Jgj 1 i 1 3 i i- 3 i ir -f i 1 i 1 t. i I 25 Hurt In Rare Accident By MARGARET SCHERF CHICAGO (AP) Two cars broke away from a train and plunged off an elevated railroad structure during a rainstorm today, killing one person and injuring 25. The rare accident occurred while an eight-car train approached the Indiana Avenue station at 41st Street on the south side.

The rear car fell 25 feet to the ground and landed on its side. The steel car crumpled like a paper sack. The next-to-last car also toppled. It crushed an empty automobile under its hard nose and came to rest head down and tail up against the elevated structure. Carried 50 or 60 The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) estimated the southbound Jackson Park train carried between 50 and 60 passengers.

Walter Jessers, 23, a passenger on one of the cars that remained on the elevated structure, said he felt the train jerk. "I felt the train dragging along for about 10 feet, then stop," he told a newsman. Then, he said, he heard a sound like metal ripping. John Petrica, 52, a CTA collector, saw the accident. "The first car fell rather slowly and landed on its side," he reported.

"The other car was just dangling down. The dead man was identified as William McCoullough, 49. Firemen removed the injured and rushed them to Provident, Michael Reese and Mercy Hospitals. The elevated railroad runs south from the main business district, takes a short jog to the east at the Indiana Av- CRASH (Continued On Page 2, Col. 4) Dead AP Wiraphote Ahead News owners and operators of the Detroit News and the WWJ stations.

WQAD went on the air in August, 1963, and its facilities include a studio aud office building at 3003 Park 16th Moline, and tower and transmitter on Highway 150 near Orion, 111. Approval was given the deal by stockholders of Moline Television Corp. Tuesday night. Among principal stockholders are Coyle, Harry L. McLaughlin and Dr.

L.S. Hel-frich, all Moline; Richard Stengel, Victor B. Day and TV FIRM (Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) Says 'Twist A station wagon rests in a hole after a flood-eroded highway collapsed near San Diego. (See Story Page 28).

5.5 MILLION PRICE Detroit Firm Buys WQAD-Tv Station Dangling from the UUJ 'Cycle kj spur is Death By DOBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON, South Viet. Nam (AP) Two youthful gunmen assassinated a leading South Vietnamese politician in Saigon today, and police announced that one of the assassins confessed he was a Viet Cong terrorist. The gunmen, firing at close range from a motorcycle, killed 58-year-old Tran Van Van as he rode in his car to his office. One Is Seized A short time later, one of the pair was seized when he fell off the motorcycle near the residence of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.

The other assassin escaped. Van, a wealthy, Paris-educated landowner long promir nent in Vietnamese politics, was a leading member of the Constituent Assembly which is writing a constitution for South Viet Nam. His slaying a few blocks from Premier Ky's office overshadowed war developments. Only minor ground actions were reported from the fighting fronts although U.S. bombers kept up their raids over North Viet Nam.

U.S. destroyers shelled supply barges just off the North Vietnamese coast. Find Bombs U.S. officials reported the discovery of two 62-pound satchel charges in an ammunition dump at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, which was VIET- (Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) Ask Big Overhaul Of Draft CHICAGO (AP) A nation al draft conference reached seeming agreement today that a major overhaul of the nation's draft system is needed along with the elimination of student deferments and an intensive study of the feasibility of an all-volunteer professional army.

The conferees applauded a summary report by Prof. Roger W. Little of the Univer-sity of Chicago calling for a broad revamping of the selective service system, including: Enlarged registrants pool and a redefinition of local board sizes. Elimination of student and occupational deferments. Public education program to alert 18-year-olds to all facets of the program.

Tightened control over local draft boards to eliminate inequities in classification. And making organizational functions of local draft boards "more compatible with reality." tomobile after a derailment today in Chicago. War Cost Estimates Jump $9 Billion, LBJ Reports I know all this at first hand because for no good reason, except the fact I recently had five days off, I started to grow one. And that's when the comments started. Admittedly some have been ciever.

Like the lady who called and asked, "Well, how are you coming with Mein Kampf?" Then there was the gal who said. "With that mustache you look like Ward Bond on Wagon Train. Ward Bond, hat is, not James." "But Ward Bond's dead, Isn't he?" "That's what I mean." Initially my wife made dire threats of having her hair cut short as a man's, and dying it purple. She gave that up when I just gave her one of the Latin-type shrugs that seems to go i a mustache. Now she just looks at it with a cryptic Mona Lisa-like smile that is most upsetting.

My 4-year-old Terrie insists on- calling it a "beard." "If your beard gets longer you'll look like Jesus," she says. "It looks lousy," a feminine colleague volunteered. "If I had a razor I'd shave it off you. I know how to make you get rid of it. It makes you look 20 years older.

Yaah!" "It shocks me every time I see you go by," said another fellow worker. "I keep thinking you have dirt on your face." "Alio, Pierre," said a photographer who just walked up to my desk. "If you start smoking those lousy French cigarettes I'll worry about you." I gave him the Latin shrug, coupled with a gesture learned in Italy. "I dig it," said a gentle soul with true good taste. "Man it looks great," opined an artist with a noble beard and mustache of his own.

"Keep it up and you're sure to get an offer to march in some anti-Viet Nam parade," another person suggested. Bus driver Bill Clark, who long has sported a dazzling mustache, leaned clear of his bus window as he saw mc crossing a downtown street, pointed at his hirsute adornment, and shouted, "Hey, Jealous!" Dick Hopkins, Davenport barrel magnate, looked, stepped back, and shouted, "My gosh, I didn't know you were in the brush business!" Waitresses in two different restaurants have commented somewhat caustically. One asked "Is this the season for growing mustaches? My husband just grew one, and he looks terrible too." But the hardest question of all to answer is "why?" I'm sort of beginning to wonder that myself, Chuckle Husbands are like fireplace fires. Unattended, they go out. AP Wirtphoto car rests on an au than many observers had expected.

Since the chief executive had long been citing the forth- LBJ (Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) INSIDE- Medics Win Deadly Game Page 44 Obituaries Sports Markets Page 28 Page 40 Page 50 overhead tracks, this elevated train dicted earlier that war outlays would top the budget figures by anywhere from $5 billion to $15 billion, the figures he cited at the news conference were perhaps a bit lower FOLLOW US Hairdressers Get A Second Chance Page 49 Bcttendorf Regional RI-Moline Page 35 Page 8 Page 38 By WALLACE KOENIG WQAD-Tv of Moline has been acquired by broadcasting interests in the Detroit area, subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission. Announcement was made today by Francis J. Coyle, a Moline attorney, who is president of the founding organization, Moline Television and Peter B. Clark, president of Evenwg News Detroit.

From Detroit it was learned the sale price was $5.5 million. The purchaser is reported to be Universal Communications a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Evening AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) -President Johnson estimates Viet Nam war costs between now and next June 30 will exceed earlier budget projections by $9 billion to $10 billion. He plans to ask Congress next month for a supplemental appropriation to bridge the gap, he told a news conference Tuesday in his federal building office suite. The President remained mum about the possibility of a 1967 tax increase, but said facts needed to make a decision are falling into place.

Although Johnson had pre MRS. BOBBITT -LBJ's Sister I PARENTS EXPECTED GREAT THINGS LBJ Always Bossy, Sister COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -In a childhood recollection of President Johnson, his sister says he was "always bossy" and their parents always expected him "to be in high places at least a senator." Mrs. O. Price Bobbitt of Austin, told a reporter for the Columbia State Tuesday that the President was "given more responsibility" by their parents because he was the oldest of five children.

"I think he thought he was papa," she said. "He was always bossy." Mrs. Bobbitt said that before her mother died, she had drawn up a genealogical history. "People have told us that never before has there been a president who has had as much material available on his forebears," she said. "My mother was well educated and she prepared this material for all of us and because she thought some day Lyndon might need it." Mrs.

Bobbitt said having a President in the family "hasn't really changed our life very much except that we picture of a drawing of an early inauguration. It was a picture that had been in a book mother had." Mrs. Bobbitt was in Columbia visiting friends after spending two weeks in New York. Her husband is vice president of the Texas Broadcasting Austin. The Bob-bitts have one son, Phillip, a student at Princeton University.

"Everywhere I've gone, I've had the problem of being Lyndon's sister," Mrs. Bobbitt snid. "Since he's gotten to be President, I've given up it's bigger than both of us." do have more obligations." "Lyndon has always been in public life and really this is just a promotion for him," she said. Mrs. Bobbitt said she doesn't get to see much of her famous brother.

"I get up to Washington a couple of times a year and we try to get together at Christmas." A Christmas gift for the President? "He's always happy to get books and family pictures anything about his early history. Last year, I gave him a.