Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 1

lb, TORNADO SHOWS No Wic.kv1 a maa-ai-ine-wofia wind tlattened corn northwest of Matt Birkel's farm, tore what used to be a car out of his garage, and wrecked his house, pushing sides of rooms into the basement. The corn was pasted to the earth along a path 150 feet wide. Stalks as far as 25 feet on each side of the beaten atone were bent i over. The car was carried by the tornado over to a plowed field south of the demolished house. Birkel's neighbors brought tractors to get the aides out of the basement.

Birk el's farm is about five miles north of David City. After the tornado roughed up the Birkel place, it moved on to the Jess HookBtra farm, about a quarter mile aoutheaat, doine heavy damage there. Hookstra, who was milking a cow when the tornado hit, lost all his buildings. Hookstra ul- fered several broken ribs. (Journal Photos.) A.

Storm Ml oamaage is iniigin Tornadoes Flatten Crops, rmmk Homes; At Least 6 Injured; Platte Area Gets Worst Blow and Nebraska State Journal CITY EDITION CITY EDITION FOUNDED IN 1867 KNk No. 3 Yew Ml LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952 Stevenson Calls on States to Halt Wave Of Central Power Goirigto-' Washington. build more stromtly aKainst thei flood waters sweeping toward the this wave will go on unless the states -periorm those necessary functions of government which don't have to be performed in Washington," Then he said: "The people will demand the services and if they don't get them at home will District of Columbia, i record as governor oi Illinois, ripped Into his Republican critics, STEVENSON GAVE his views turned some of his criticism at Democratic rally at the 1111- against former President Herbert nols State Fair in introducing the Hoover, and also poked some sar-main speaker of the day, Vice casm at Dwight D. Eisenhower. turn-to- Alben Barkley of Ken states are the dikes which we can tucky.

was released after trestment the Wahoo hospital. The storm leveled everything hut a corncrlb on the Vellnsky farm five miles south of Yutan. The Fred Witte family took ref uge in the basement of its farm home near Yutan until dead livestock was blown in. Near. Ashland the wind cruahd a three-story, basement type barn in which farmer Virgil Owen was milking cows.

He was pinned beneath a cow after being tumbled into the basement. It took Ashland firemen two hours to get him out. He was taken to a Lincoln hospital with a dislocated shoulder, and was reported recovering Thursday, ACROSS THE ROAD on the Ed Ballou farm a big machine shed and large barn-, were destroyed -and on the Otis Ballou Jr. farm one of the biggest bams in the, Ashland area went down in tna Wind. The roof was blown from large Implement building tn Ashland.

Ceilings In apartment on the top floor collapsed. ELSEWHERE. rain, hall and high winds took up where the tornadoes left off. Aside from the Ashland area. Auburn and Talmage were hardest hit from the telephone standpoint, the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company reported.

The storm, labeled "one of the worst this summer" by telephone officials, gave repair crews a major headache. About 1,000 telephones were knocked out of service at Auburn when many branches, crashed through drop lines leading to homes. At Talmage, the storm caused damage to every house and build ing in town. Trees were uprooted and blown down, crushing buildings and blocking streets. At times the storm seemed to be a 100-mile-an-hour straight wind and at other times it hsd the ap FIVE CENTS his speech In a few paragraphs which he listed with pride the achievements of 1 dmlnlstra tion in Illinois and then went on say: i "IT HAS BEEN said that per haps no state in our time had so-ttuickiyr-t oon't know whether you cau it a 'new deal forvIllinofs, or a 'fair deal' a but 1 know that it has been a 'no dear state eovernment." The people will oemana ine services and if they don't get them home they will turn to Uncle WashinBton pay for them will (snrinn beiore ga oac nome.

"Because our enemies are Dig, because business and labor and an-lrultura are bia. because everything Is big and organized nnwadnva. nur federal covern- ment has inevitably become big too. But it should be unen cumbered in the discharge of its monstrous major' duties oy a lot other jobs it need not do." THEN STEVENSON added as aside to his previous reluctance to become a presidential candidate: "While I want you to sweep me down there, don't sweep ny more government Jurisdiction down there! hometimes one must overcome a feeling of reluctance about changing jobs. But the re luctance I feel about bigger and bigger jobs for the federal government Is reluctance I won't over." Stevenson appeared to be com paring his own ability as an ad- tikmit ha art nt jHt.II unv-rnmnf Un the but "THE EXPERIENCE and train- Stevenson gave his own philoso phy of government, defended his theGOIrestdenttah riominee.

Stevenson gave the bard core Box Cars Get Trip Through Asnuuvi-A scene resemmuig a "full scale wreck" was left by Wednesday night's twister on the Burlington Railroad tracks about a mile north of Ashland where about 20 box cars were blown off siding. The cars, which were awaiting repair at the Havelix shops, were picked up by the wind, dropped on me opposite side or the main tracks, then lifted up again and carried back to the siding track where they had been standing, according to a Burlington official IN BEING BLOWN back, some were dropped on top of others that had been left standing, it was re ported. Some cars were blown off their trucks and the trucks over turned, It really messed them up." the official said. The railroad did not expect to get the wreckage cleaned up until Friday. But about 10 cars of in to or at iter of an get Additional Storm Lincoln Precipitation Oi hoyn In 13:30 rm THumlii) Airport .20 In.

City In. Eastern Nebraska was still groggy Thursday from a weather dealt haymaker which slugged the are dmWhe-ii(hti-The variety of punches thrown included tor nadoes, high'winds, electrical storms, heavy rains and hail. Hardest hit was a tornado-stiuck area about 60 miles long extending from near Columbus to east ot Oretna. The 'section roughly within the big bend of the Platte River was-spotted with de-. mollshed farmsteads, roofless houses, uprooted trees, power and telenhnne linen and flHttened crops.

At least six persons were injured and several families lezt homeless. First reported Impact of the! storm was about four miles south east of Richland where power failure stopped an electric clock at the Henry Hopp farm at 6:20 p.m. Farm buildings, machinery and haystacks were strewn about the farm. Several Other farms in the community about eight miles east of Columbus were also hit, according to John Ingold, assist ant chief of police at Columbus. THE WIND "struck once' north of the Platte near Richland, flat tening seven buildings on the farm of John Bauman.

The rest of the damage was south of tlis river. Butler County Sheriff Joe Mey- senberg reported that three farms were demolished In the area and on a fourth all but the house were wrecked. Other farms in the area reportedly suffered lesser damage and some loss of livestock. Marines Drive Back 2 Fierce Attacks on Hill SEOUL, Korea Wl MarinesJ beat bark two fierce Communist attacks to retain their newly-won hold on Bunker Hill in Western Korea. The battalion-size Red assaults were the third and fourth futile seized early leathernecks.

Tuesday by the A -U. N. briefing officer said New, 2, 4 The twister anparenlly brushed the Octavla vicinity and moved into the David City area, leveling two farms completely and seriously damaging two others. FIRE CHIEF Walter Stier of David. City, aid done to rural property and to crops will be "probably over $100,000" when all the damage is surveyed.

Jesse Hookstra, whose-farm Is about one-half mile from the Matt Birkel farm which was com pletcly destroyed, was listed as the only injury in the David City vicinity. The family had taken refuife Hookstra was milking a cow at the time the tornado hit, Sheriff Meysenberg aaid. Dashing out of the barn he was struck by a flying board and suffered several broken rlba. Tht Hookstra and Birkel farms are about five miles north ot David City. John Burkholder't farmstead, seven milea northwest of David City, was leveled.

Other damage occurred in the Brainard Vicinity, CHIEF STIER of David City said the storm "came mostly from the north," at about 6:30 and lasted for only a few minutes. It was accompanied by rain and hail, which stripped stalks in cornfields. Three persons Injured In the Yutan area were taken to a Wahoo hospital. They were George Kuhr who suffered facial in juries. Mrs.

Kuhr, with head In juries, and 5-year-old Frank Ve- linsky Who bad both arms broken. CHARLES VEUNSKY, father of Frank, bad an arm injury but Ashland Pumping Halted 4 Hours 1 Wednesday night's storm felled power lines between Ashland and Omaha, cutting off the city's wa ter plant at Ashland for about four howrsi from to The city purchases all of its power operate the plant from the Omaha Public Power District, and oime ot the power lines were knocked down The city offset the power in terruption by turning into the system sll available deep water wells in, Lincoln. Plant officials said that the city "lost little ground" in its water flow because of the interruption, and added that all 4-. 7 rj i i COMFORT EACH OTHER The parents of Cpl. Frank Walla of Seward, who was killed In La Crosse, early Wednesday morning, comfort each other after being told of his death.

Journal Staff Photb.) Murdered Man's Parents Take Death News Calmly which had been blown onto thejministrator when he said: "It is main track and halted traffic enough to have bright Ideas inff the nan hfpn rnmnvn by early-Thursday-morning. IN ANOTHER tornado freak In until you are confronted with the the same area, officials reported concrete pressures and the clay that on a pile trestle bridge the'to day operating responsibilities. wind- lifted rails and ties of ft their stringers, slammed the deck pearance oi ine twister. THE TALMAGE electric distri- butlon system was wrecked, street lights were blown down and th telephone system almost totally destroyed. No one was Injured.

The new agricultural buildbis! at Talmage' High School, not yet completed, was flattened. Tfie chimney on the brick school bouaa was toppled through the roof nd Into the gymnasium. More than a dozen communities In Southeast Nebraska as far southeast as Plattsmoulh reporVed -telephone and power lines out. Consumers Public Power Company reported extensive damage SPRINGFIELD, Til. WDemo-j eratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson called on the 48 states Thursday' to give such good government to their people that they will halt the "tital wave" of centralized power sweeping toward Washington.

n- mc iiiat -uiajur vfjucuir built; his nomination, Stevenson warned Guardsman's Death Laid To Robbery LA CROSSE, Wis. Investigators checking the slaying of Ne braska National Guardsman Cpl. Frank R. Walla, 42, of Seward, were convinced Thursday he was slugged to death in a robbery attempt. City detectives and the Criminal Investigation Department of Camp McCoy, where Walla was at summer camp, questioned about SO persons during the night.

Among them were members of the 84th Infantry Division, to which Walla belonged, and his companions earlier in the evening he was lain. Investigators said they have accounted for the dead man's activities on Tuesday night until about 1 a.m. when he left a tavern alone. AT 9 P. they said, Walla was known to have $25 in his billfold.

It was empty when found later about a. block from where his body was discovered. The said Walla appeared to have been killed by repeated blows, of a fist. No instrument was used. Detectives said fhey were sure Walla wasn't dead when he was left on the yard side of an alley where his body was found.

They said it was likely he was tossed over the fence from a car which drove into the alley. However, police were puzzled by the lark of evidence of a struggle. The 180-pound Guardsman and bridge repairman was neatly dressed in uniform and his tie wasnt even rumpled. THE CRIMINAL Investigation Department was reported investigating every possible angle at the camp. Under surveillance were cars about the camp.

Detectives, meanwhile, said they had a "very good" description of a car a witness reported teeing at 1 a.m. Wednesday about two blocks from the place where the body was found. The witness said she saw a man shoved from the ear. He ran, she reported, and was chased by the other men In the ear, who overtook him about a block away, nearer the yard where Walla was found. Coupled with the investigation of the S4th Infantry Division members was an order restricting them to within a 15-mile radius of the camp.

WALLA, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walla of Seward, died of a brain hemorrhage. His body was found at 5:07 a.m. Wednesday in a yard by an alley three or four blocks from the downtown district.

The Nebraskan was in training with the Headquarters Company, Second Battalion, 134th Regiment of the Infantry division. The group will end its two-week sum mr training camp Sunday. Walla's body is at llelwig and Morse Mortuary at La Crowe. Funeral arrangements will rnade by the Nebraska National Guard. Stay Slim Keep Trim I Jut reach for Robert Vada; The delicious new milk drink that contains 1m than one-balf of one percent butterfat.

Buy tt at your door mt fanratit store, Adv. down and left rails bowed in theiing.of four years in Springfield jtunity to explore and, I hope, tolattempts to recapture territory nA ffiven me a unifiue master in some measure the means Dy wnicn competing parties, competing branches of government, competing groups In the commun ity can be brought to common action for the common good." unerring in me nepunuran can, nmmunisi cauau es were neavy.tuu fay Thur(lflay morning, mld-rtsy, he said, dead enemy pointed out thai" nor- The damage is on the railroad's Ashland-Sioux City line. The Weather -Kh tow, mt rm.m Mrftaa i lanm, iri or -iii UFO mar m. kra mwww wnw wa niiaa rtkcaa) VrUlmi Krknuiin I'mrtir n-a lialai -M PrMn to aZU imZLtiilm, HimrZ I torntat Parlt for a chiuige In sen 'iZLt' th' hour'PImouth line at a point ea. east lies east of Panmunjom, the! mil i i IK mini llur.

Allied wnrril.infii rnntlniied irt (,,.,,,,, c. l. a LII1H II, MI. "I I IMVI inoillni thill a i.l-.i A of the Alvo road. About 12 polea were wrecked In that area.

Rains were heaviest at Auburn where 2.S9 Inches fell. Valparaiso got 2.17 Inches with other read- wir.9. But a new doctrine Is Air Force said they knocked out abroad in the land a doctrine ofine troop bunkers and three gun Izi'ngs of 1.80 at Tecumseh. 17 By PHIL HOLMAN Journal SUM Writer SEWARD The family -of Cpl, Frank Walla took the news of his brutal death at LaCrossc, calmly Wednesday afternoon. 1 Mrr- Walla, who was-working with a city paving crew, seemed a little numb after being told that his son had evidently been killed while stlending summer camp with tht National Guard unit from Sewsrd.

Mrs. Walla was picked up by this reporter snd Mr. Walla as she was walking home irom went town. The conversation something like this; $limbcr, Hit fX P. I CVU FRANK R.

WALLA "Come here mother, we have bad news." "What is 'Frank he's dead." "Oh, no, Mrs. Walla said In a whisper. No tears were shed by the white haired little woman but her hands twisted endlessly with her handbag as we drove slowly to the little white house on the southeastern outskirts of town. In the house, Mrs. Walla looked wondeiingly at pictures of her son taken when he was In the Army during World War II.

"He liked to hunt," she said, "and had a collection of souvenirs brought home from Germany with him we'll have to notify his brothers and sis-tors he didn't have any enemies." Mr. Walla went directly into a little room off the room where Frank slept. He didn't say anything. Both appeared not to have realized just what had hap pened. Kannas City Nrwupaper Announces Higher Rate KANSAS CITY The Kansas City Star has announced an increase of 22 cents a month In subscription price for its morning, evening and Sunday edition's effective Sept.

1.. The new price in the Greater Kansas City area will be 40 cents by the week and 61.74 by the inronui. uutiias ot ine imnropnn-j jtan area the hike will be five Icents a wek. 5 Times by jKsmm, ana aiiiea or is jiko ouying a surprise pacx-rrM at a novelty store. Mayl)e the one, or maybe it will ex- ln VAiir farm ln 'nUr 1 1 STEVENSON RAID the leader- 20 Communists near Bunker Hill.

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LINCOLN was missed by the brunt of the storm but sbsorbed high winds, rain, severs electrical storms and some hall. The City light and water department reported the most serious power damage at 33rd and Normsl where wind or lightning tore a wire down disrupting electrical service In Southeast Lincoln. Lighting knocked several other transformers out of action, the department reported. Consumers reported scattered power interruptions In Lincoln with the only line break occurring at 42nd and Vine. tieriricai storms appearM om Esrticularly severe in northeast incoln.

The weather outlook in eastern Nebraska is for more scattered thunderstorms Thursday night and Friday. Cooler weather is due to move Into the srea Friday. Rainfall reported by the Weather Bureau and the Lincoln Trlephone and Telegraph Company for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday! ta4 ,.7 rm ii id ry. Um, J.

H. LINCOLN Grant said the first holt knocked them both to the ground, and aft cr the second bolt he found he could move only one leg. 'The third bolt was the he said. "It took me up snd tossed me over 2Hfoot cliff and knocked me out." Grant said when he rrgainH ron loiifws he could hear Brikoff screaming on the summit. There were fo more bolts, he said, and the fifth scored a direct hit on Ik ikoff's back.

When Grant reached Brikoffs side he found him did. Grant jaid heat from the lightning was so great It melted cans In the pari on hil b(k. Hospital attendants here said the youth suffered second and third degree burn, SEATTLE W) A young mountain climber struck five times by lightning si he and a companion stoid atop Mt. Stuart in the Cascades says he considers himself "the luckiest man there is, to be alive." After the third bolt. I thought 1 wanted to die," Alan Robert Grant, 19, Seattle said.

Grant's companion. Paul Brikoff, 10, was killed in the storm that struck Jut after they reached the summit of the t447Q-foot peak. Grant spent three days on the mountain waiting rescue. Ha was removed by a Ccaat Guard helicopter. TORNADO PATH Ar Eastern Netiranks twister cut a swath from Richland to Gretna Ir a fierce wlnd-rain-batj storm Wednesday night.

The tornado first lashed Richland, then moved southeastward to brush Octavla, then on to David City and Brainard. Wahoo barely escaped the bit hlo but Yutan, Gretna and Ashland felt the wind's Jorta, (Journal Man.) aa Tm I a-rf4 a.