The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

ESCANABA DAILY PRESS (Serving Upper Peninsula's Leading Trade Area) Year, No. 267 RSCANAHA, MICHIGAN. ATI RD AY. NI A in 30. 196ft lrt PRICK tkn cknts Wobbly Airman Quits Pod Job; Set For Steak leg and into had two BUFFALO.

Airman l.C. Bruce Barwise, a bit wobbly after three days in a floating survival capsule, says ip wants to klr a few steak dinners before trying it again. The 34-year-old airman and thp capsule were hauled out of icy Lake Erie at 2:15 p.m. Friday, after spending 72 hours afloat together. The capsule, about big enough for a man to sit in, is 2 by 2'j foot It's designed to safeguard crewmen who bail out of supersonic aircraft and is planned for the B58 bomber.

would do it Barwise told newsmen minutes after emerging from the capsule. Then he added: not tomorrow." The rugged-looking six-footer from Bovev, Minn said he slept onlv six of the 7" hours. time get feeling about half mast, they'd start squawking over the intercommunication system and throw another survival problem at you." he said. Hie capsule, designed watertight, was tied to a toast ship 75 feet away. There, experts monitored the airman's condition with instruments and by radio conversation.

Barwise complained of cramps throughout the test of frigid lake water seeping the capsule. a leak in the caj he reported. to pump out water every Otherwise he said it was smooth sailing The Air Force it planned no radical changes in the capsule as a result of the tests. Barwise told newsmen he a lot about ham and eggs, but a steak would taste very to me right He lived on concentrated survival foods in the capsule, Diamond-Dentured Negro, 57, Arrested For Stealing Ring MONTGOMERY, Ala rAP' Julius Croft. 57-vcar-old Negro who sports a diamond studded front tooth, was in jail today on a charge of stealing a $2,350 diamond ring During a hearing Friday, the manager of a downtown jewlcry store.

Albert A Watt, said Croft switched a rirg for the more expensive stone Watt said Croft, part time construction worker, walked away with the $2,350 ring while his credit was being checked. Sleeping Driver Killed PORT HURON Hubert Kidd. 25, of Port Huron, died Friday after his auto collided headon with a truck 12 miles south of here. Police said Kidd apparently fell asleep. Richard Johnson.

42. of Buffalo. N. the truck driver, was hospitalized. Weather bv nurrau and UPPER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Sunday.

OUTLOOK FOR Monday: Part- cloudy with no important change in temperature. ESCANABA AND VICINITY: cloudv and mild tonight and Sunday; low tonight around 22 high Sunday about Mostly southwesterly winds 5 to 10 mpli tonight and 8 to 15 mph Sunday. TEMPERATURE Yesterday at noon 26 Today at noon 30 Highest vesterday Lowest 1. st night High record this date 38', lihtfi Low record thi, date -20 1915 PRECIPITATION 24-hr to 7 am. (inches) 0 Accumulated total this mo.

1.58 Normal this month to date 1.43 Total January 1 to date 1.58 Normal January 1 to date 1.48 Sunrise Tomorrow 8:10 a.m. Sunset Tomorrow 5:24 p.m. temperatures, past 24 hours Albany 22 Miami 63 Albuquerque 23 Milwaukee 21 Anchorage 19MplsSt. Paul 16 Atlanta 47 New Orleans 41 Bismarck 14 New ork Boston 28 Okla City 27 Buffalo 25 Omaha 19 Chicago ...........32 Philadelphia 30 Cleveland 28 Phoenix 45 Denver 31 Pittsburgh 27 IDes Moines 20 Portland, M. 25 Detroit 28 Portland, O.

41 Fort Worth 30 Rapid City 31 Helena 31 Richmond 41 Honolulu 71 St. Louis 31 Indianapolis 31 S. Lake City 23 Kansas City 24 San Diego 53 Los Angeles 56 S. Francisco 53 Louisville 35 Seattle 45 Memphis Iampa Dairy Farmers In Detroit Area Vote To Strike DETROIT Milk producers said today they will quit delivering milk to Detro.t area dairies unless price demands arc met by tomorrow night. Representatives of dairy farmers voted Friday in favor of the str The price agreement between the Michigan Milk Producers Assn.

and more than 60 dairies in southeastern Michigan expires Sunday night. The MMPA represents about 12.000 dairy farmers. Negotiators for the farmers vaid they would not a drink nu milk price in February and March lower than the present wholesale price of $4 95 per 100 The dairies' best offer so far is about $4 49 100 pounds Tide Turns In Algiers Mrs. Eisenhower Cancels Trip To Insurgent Move WeakensSouthAmerica Chessman Fights Date With Death SAN FRANCISCO Chessman's efforts to 1 escape San Quentin's gas chamber Feb. 19 -his eighth date with now before the S.

9th Court of Appeals. The 38-year-old convict-author. convicted in 1948 in Los Angeles of lane terrorism, gave notice of appeal Friday immediately after U.S. Dist. Judge E.

Goodman rejected Chessman's petition for release from state custody. Judge Goodman said he could find no merit in any of Chessman's appeals for a writ of habeas corpus, but he suggested broadly that the condemned man might seek 11th hour relief from the California Supreme Court and Gov. Edmund Brown. Goodman described as Chessman's argument that his 11 '2 years on San Quentin's death row constituted "cruel and unusual The judge aLo noted that Chessman emphasized he is facing execution under a law that no longer is on California statute books The State Supreme Court's majority approval would be neccs- i sarv for Brown to exercise clemency because Chessman had two prior criminal convictions. Before his 1948 kidnap, robbery and sex perversion conviction he had been found guilty of robbery.

Asian Flu Loses Punch In U.S.A. By FRANK AREY Associated Press Sclcncr Writer WASHINGTON AT no-good bug from the has been busy this winter, but appears now to be losing its punch. Public Health Service doctors say Asian flu has broken out in parts of 20 or more states in the last few weeks. But they predict that by next nth flu-1 ike diseases will be "pretty well a thing ot the past for this year." Outbreaks can be exacted in other communities during the nt several weeks, and the Public Health Service advises vaccination But present evidence suggests the rate is tapering off There's nothing so far to indicate a widespread epidemic as there was in 1957. That was the year Asian its first authenticated appearance in the an estimated 20 million Americans, killing about 5.000 This outbreaks have been major health problems in Los Angeles.

Detroit, Pittsburgh and parts of But health service doctors say that nationally 1 not getting any worse and it certainly spreading widely as it did 111 Shopper Flees With Free Meat, Leaves Rest Of His Order DETROIT Some short, fat man has had to face his wife after returning from the store with only one item from a long shopping list The list, including soap powder, corn, potatoes ano the like, was found on the floor of a supermarket The last item read: all the meat can free The word was underlined The man had dropped the list and other groceries and fled with only a package of meat after manager James Jonna the meat under his coat and tried to stop him. Italy Has Deficit ROME AP 1 Antoni3 government Friday night drafted a record budget of for the 1960-61 seal year that would leave a deficit of near- 54ly a haif-billion dollars. Fervor Of Mobs State Sales Tax Declines After Sets New Record DeGaulle Edict Of $32,569,560 RO.MHI\(> Ol A NAGOGt at Kansas ity led to the finding of a Nazi uniform and other equipment In the home of a teen-ase boy. The items include a army jacket, metal helmet, knife lettered with SS and a swastika armband, pictured with police property elrrk l.lo.vd Ferril at Kansas Cltv. Police said their Investigation disclosed the existence of a neo-Nazi youth party in at least two hish schools.

(AP Wirephoto) Rouman Surprised By Move To Ban Any-Deer Season LANSING fAP' Two iogi-la- tors from some of Michigan's prime deer country have caught conservation leaders off guard with a proposal to ban antler less deer hunting for one season shocked and said James L. Rouman. executive director of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs. honestly don't see any reason for it." The came from Sen Charles Prescott R-Preseott1 chairman of the Senate Conservation Committee, and Rep. Emil A City, longtime member of the House Conservation Committee They a ked the State Conservation Commission by letter to declare a moratorium on shooting does and fawns in the I960 season in all but Allegan County and other fruit-growing areas where deer cause considerable damage Too Early To Decide of those men have been staunch supporters of the Conservation deer management policies," said Rouman made a stirring talk backing any- dcer seasons when the com mi sion was considering 1959 hunting regulations last August." I Gerald Eddy, Conservation director, said the letter likely would be considered by the commission at 'ts Feb.

10-11 meeting here. He dcclmed comment on the proposal. too early for the commission to decide what wi re going to do this year," he said haven't finished our surveys on the results of the season and don't know yet what kind of starvation losses we'll have this year." Little Opposition In their letter. Peltz and Prescott both vowed of the department's deer management program. A one-year moratorium on doe and fawn killing, followed by a careful study of the effects, probably would substantiate the department's thinking on harvesting antlcrlcss deer and help continuing opposition, they said.

The proposal, they said, was as an experiment had very little opposition to any-deer seasons from our member clubs and we haw felt much from people generally either." said Rouman Game for the State Conservation Dept said letters on the issue from hunters and others were fewer than ever last year. ALGIERS The French armv struck its first blow today to break the week- old uprising of rench settlers against President Charles de Algerian policy. Paratroops sealed off the barricaded areas of downtown Algiers. ALGIERS LAP) The French insurgent movement appeared weakening today under the weight of President Charles de Gaulle's attack Insurgent leaders stridently condemned his stand against compromise, but there were signs of a turning tide. Paratroop Gen Jean Gracieux irsued an order putting Tcrritori- 1 als 'National under I his command, intending thus to subject them to the orders of De Gaulle's government Hundreds of these uniiormed civilians have resistance at the bar' ricades.

Collapse Imminent Gracieux instructed all thp Algiers Territorials, numbering from 30.000 to 40.000, to re- at their headquarters in uniform this Full compliance could mean the virtual collapse of the insurgents' armed feases. The Territorials normally serve with the army two or three days a month, sometimes fighting Algerian na ionalist rebels. The insurgent leadership called 1 off the general strike they had I promoted in all except essential to emphasize their demand that Algeria remain forever French. Workers are to go back on their jobs Monday. Crowds which have turned out in the thousands to visit barri- ca led Insurgents dwindled.

Heavy rain through Friday night and intermittent showers today kept down pro-insurgent enthusiasm. Peace and calm were restored in other Algerian cities where the infectious spirit of revolt had sprung up briefly. Streets Empty There were reports, so far not fully confirmed, that some torials immediately dissociated themselves from the insurgent There was visible shock to morale of the insurgents in the face of the order by De Gaulle that peace be restored None of these signs was SI VO Insurgent leaders tried to whip up mob fervor But the streets were comparatively empty and drooped at the barricades. There was present one fundamental danger that kept the embers of revolt red Insurgent leaders have gone so far now in violent that they may have reached the point of no return Rightist chieftains such as Jo- tPlease Turn To Page 10, Col. 3) LANSING took in its biggest sales tax collection in history this the State Revenue Dept.

reported. Clarence deputy revenue commissioner, said January collections on December business were up $806 374 or 2 6 cent from the same month last year. The all-time monthly record was set despite a drop in auto sales tax collections which totaled about $700,000 from a year ago. Use tax collections rose to 781.560 compared to $1,614,399 in January of 1959 1 Cigarette tax collections soared Soviet Officials Russian Missile Start U.S. Tour Report Not Rosy WASHINGTON (AP Sen.

Henry Jackson says defense leaders have changed their estimates of Soviet missile power since a week ago, and this time have taken a much more pessimistic view. It was a week ago that Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates Jr gave a House committee what was described on extremely rosy, reassuring picture of American military might compared to the Soviet Unions. of the rosy color that Mr Gates had in his presentation has been taken out." Jackson told newsmen Friday after hearing secret testimony of Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Gates had contended the United States will have no gap in ts power to deter any Soviet atomic attack. This compared to other estimates that the Soviet Union will have a 3-1 superiority in long(range missile power during the next three years.

NEW YORK (AP sad D. Polyansky, a v.et officials, unruffled a tense member of the Sovi Prts.dium. nd.ng at lcllew.ld A rport Fri- They repaving a visit made day. promptly began a round of by n.ne American governors to calls on American officials. the Soviet Un.on The Soviets said Premier Nik- Sunday they btgin a tour which ita Khrushchev had s.

nt wiil them to New Jersey, best wishes to the American South Carolina, Honda. Him pic." Colorado, Utah, Montana and The g.ant TU114 turbojet a r- North Dakota, liner made three passes at the runways before finally setting down safely. The delay was blamed on the Soviet un- famil aritv the airport. "We have come here w.th an open heart and inten Two Leap As Tram Hits Truck; One Dead TWINING A freight train smashed into a truck at a crossing Friday, fatally injuring Gus LeRov Lashbrook of Twining. The truck had skidded into the path of the train, but Lashbrook and the driver, Virgil Russell, 33, als 1 of Twining, jumped out before the collision.

But the train knocked empty cattle truck onto who died a few hours later tn an Au Gres hospital. ANN LANDERS Sv ndicatetl ('olunin STARTS MONDAY FEBRUARY 1ST in the ESCANABA DAILY PRESS Ixmt one-half a million dollars to $1,489,301. Lock attributed most of the increase to smokers who in a reserve supply of cigarettes before the new tax hike went into effcct. Lock, who is due to take over as commissioner at midnight Sunday when incumbent Louis Nims retires, characterized January collections as good" but expressed disappointment in the drop in auto tax collections. However, he noted that overall collections in the fiscal year which began July 1 are running about 17 million dollars ahead of collections for a corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year.

Mystery Package May Be New Clue In Airline Crash PALM SPRINGS. Calif. Mamie Eisenhower canceled plans to accompany the President to South America next month after getting word the trip will be an extremely rugged one from a physical standpoint. White House aides who returned last weekend from an advance survey said the weather almost everywhere they Brazil, Argentina. Chila and was intensely hot.

It Is time in Latin America. The aides also noted the plans were for Mrs. Eisenhower to ride in such heat in a good many motorcades with the President through crowds which arc expected to be huge. The White House physician, MaJ. Gen.

Howard M. Snyder, was consulted and he recommended that the 63-ycar-old first lady abandon her plans to go along. Announcement that he would not accompany her husband was made Friday by White House press secretary James C. Hagcrty who is here with the President for a weekend of golf. Mrs.

Eisenhower is visiting her ailing mother. Mrs. John S. Doud, in Denver. Hagerty said Mrs, Eisenhower is not ill but Snyder felt the heat would be too exhausting for her.

He said another factor was her dislike of travel by plane. PHOENIX. Ariz AP new piece has been added to the considerable puzzle surrounding heavily insured ex-convict Robert Vernon And the FBI is as close-mouthed bout this one as it has been about the entire investigation of the 65- vear-old Dallas naturopath, who once was listed as missing in the crash of a commercial airliner. 1 Hie latest activity came Friday when FBI agents picked up a mysterious package from Dallas at the Phoenix Airport. Authoritative sources said the package was personally handed to twv agents by the captain of a Two Soo Trains Off Next Week WASHINGTON The I Line has been authorized to discontinue operation of two passenger trains between Minneapolis, Minn and Sault Ste.

Marie. Mich. The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the to discontinue trains Nos. 7 and 8 next cf No 8 operates from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie daily except Saturday and No.

7 from Sault Ste. 1 to Minneapolis daily, except Sunda v. The Soo line wanted to discon- tinue the two trains effective Oct. 2. but the ICC received protests and ordered the trains continued during an investigation.

The ICC said it found financial losses justified cancelling the runs. Bond Issue Is Sold To Restore Old Fort At Mackinaw City LANSING A $150,000 rid issue has been finance the m.tal restoration work Ft ehilimackinac near Mackinaw City. The Island Park Comm ss.on said Friday the successful bidder was fc Co. of Chicago, '1 lie firm offered 2 cent int. re and a $1,030 premium.

The part ally restored fort, built by the French in 1715. vviU be opened to the public July 1. Ultimately, the plans a 1 of ,11 nd' to com pi te re tor.it,on of the historic s.te over a nod of two or thue The will be retired by d- mission charges the rt 50 cents for adults and 25 cents childi en Fifty Escape Fire In Australian Hotel SYDNEY, Austra .1 ty persons, many of them honeymooners, hurled their belongings through windaws and dashed to safety in the.r pajamas when fire swept through a luxury hotel at southeastern ghlands early Channing Trains Backed By PSC LANSING The Public Service Commission has moved to prevent the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Pacific Railroad from nd.ng its train sorv- between Milwaukee and Chan- n.ng, Mich. The railroad plans to lake trains 14 21 out of service next week.

Perm.s to abandon the 230- m.lc run was granted last week by the I nt rstate Commerce Com- mi.s.sion. George Hill. PSC chairman, he would petition the ICC for a rehearing. PSC representatives test-fied last fill! that discontinuance of the two trains would mean serious hardships far residents of the western Upper Pen.nsula. They also contended the railroad overstated its expenses and underreported its revenue from the two tr; us.

The hi a rings were held at Gre Bay, W.s., and Iron Mountain. Mich. U. S. Senator Pat McNamara today urged immediate reconsideration of discontinuance of the Chippewa train service in the Upper Peninsula.

The discontinuance was authorized bv the Michigan Public Service Commission on Jan. 21 effective Feb. 8. would have -ei adverse effect 011 the transportation requirements of the urea," stated McNamara, arly in the vicinity of Iron TODAY'S CHUCKLE Mother of a small boy to psychiatrist: "Well, I know whelhc-i oi not he feels insecure, but ever; oody else in the neigh- borhood commercial after th plane landed But the FBI declined to say whether it was connected with the investigation of Spears and the Nov. 16 crash of, an airliner into the Gulf of Mex- i ico The crash killed 42 persons.

Since arrest in Phoenix Jan 20 on a charge of interstate transportation of a stolen car, the FBI has been making an intensive investigation into the possibility I he planted a bomb on the airliner. carried $100,000 in travel insurance. His wiie has said in Dallas that Spears told her a friend and fellow ex-convict, William Allen Taylor. 60. of Tampa, took seat on the plane.

Only 13 bodies were recovered from the wrecked plane, two Navy ships are attempting to locate the wreckage in deep water about 50 mUes off the Ixiuisiana coast. The ships were forced to sus- operations overnight by 35 mph winds. Two divers working at the 240- foo. depth reported they could barely see their hands in front of their faces and had to feel their wav along a bottom of gray mud to two feet deep. Gen.

MacArthur Goes To Hospital NEW YORK Douglas MacArthur. who celebrated his 80th birthday last Tuesday, is in Lenox Hill Hospital for an examination of a urological condition. is nothing alarming about Gen. said Col. Gordon Barclay, Army public information officer.

Dr George W. Slaughter examined MacArthur at his Waldorf Towers apartment Friday, and recommended that he enter the hospital for observation and study." The general, a veteran of two world wars, walked unassisted from his apartment to a limousine which took him to the hospital. He was reported comfortably for the He is expected to remain at the hospital several days. The hospital said the tests he is being given include urinalysis, blood count, blood chemistry, chest X-ray and an clectro-cardi- ap a m. The chief aide, Maj.

Gen. Courtney Whitney, retired, said there was no record that MacArthur had ever been a hospital patient before. Retired Diplomat Messersmith Dies In Houston At 76 HOUSTON, Tex career diplomat George S. I smith, who helped smooth over troubles with Argentina as U.S. ambassador to that country at the close of World War II, died Friday at the age of 76 Messersmith left the State Department in 1947 to assume direction of the Mexicr.n Pow'cr and Light Co.

in Mexico City. He served for more than 30 years in the U.S. foreign service, including ambassadorships to Cuba and Mexico. Messersmith entered Methodist Hospital at the Texas Medical Center here about 10 days ago. Cause of death was not announced.

With him when he died was his wife. Marian. The body was to be flown to Lewes. today for set vices and burial. Roscommon Boy, 13, Shoots His Mother After Running Away ROSCOMMON 13-year- old boy angry at restrictions placcd on him for running away shot and critically wounded his mother here Friday, State Podice Sgt.

Carl Harrison said. Thomas Bcnwarc, an eighth grader, sobbed to police that he mean to hurt his mother so bad that he just wanted to scare her and hurt her a little so she wouldn't come after him if he ran away again. The mother, Jean Benware, 38, was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Grayling in critical condition. Sgt. Harrison said the boy ran away overnight three or four weeks ago and came home of his own accord.

His parents restricted tus free tune sharply, Hart said, and the boy wanted to run away.