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The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 1

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THE FAMILY PAPER WEATHER SHOWEKS DISPATCH moun BA IE 75TH YEAR NO. 249 NEWSSTAND PRICE 5c FORTY PAGES. MOLINE-EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,1953 Massachusetts Hit by Twister 1 1 1 7 TTT a (3Tl 85 fa fljfi era Wm Storm Leaves 700 Persons Hurt in 11 Communities Asks for Unity by Allies Quad-Citians Get Tornado Scare 1 WORCESTER, Mass. tf Th most devastating tornado ever to strike New England smashed through populous central Massachusetts Tuesday night taking a toll of at least 85 dead and more than 700 injured. At least 2.500 were left homeless in 11 communities through which the storm left a path of death and destruction.

At dawn, eyewitnesses said, the smashed area resembled pictures they had seen of the damage wreaked by the atom bombs on An "advisory" tornado araing issued by tne U. S. Weather Bur eau station at the Quad-City Air port Tuesday afternoon creased the foreheads of Quad-City residents into worried frowns. Already awed by the tornado- Japan in World War II. MINNEAPOLIS President Eisenhower said today all the free rations of the world must stand together in the "total defense" aganist communism.

He declared fhe United States, even though the strongest nation on earth, "cannot make our own decisions, fight and stand as only we ourselves may choose." "There is no such thing as partial unity. That is a contradiction in terms," Eisenhower said in a speech prepared for the National Junior Chamber of Commerce. The President also took occasion to defend his controversial cut in the Truman administration's Air Force budget, declaring his pro Authorities said they won't know how high the death toll might dealt devestation in Michigan and Ohio, resident heard. the warn ing and swept the skies with anxious glances. The warning was issued at 2 p.m.

by all weather stations in a reach until rescue workers finish debris for those who might possibly still be buried. Crushing Wind The crushing wind caught many digging through every pile of families in their homes as they were sitting down to their evening meal. Others were killed in stores, factories and on the streets. The tornado struck here less than 24 hours after a similar storm fairly large area in the Midwest. 3k.

gram wui mean "fewer planes in t. vmo Particularly alerted was northern Illinois and southeastern Iowa. The local weather station re tneory, more planes in fact more il.il swiftly and less expensively. ported receiving hundreds of telephone calls. When would the In pointed words, Eisenhower declared that the insistence of his black funnel come? Automo hit sections of Ohio and Michigan critics on "mcgic numbers" an bile traffic in the Quad-City noticeably lessened.

with a toll of 139 dead and 1,000 injured and 15 million dollars in property damage. The storm's boiling center struck Worcester and adjacent towns but Clouds Add Alarm The conviction that the dread tornado was heading in this direction increased late yesterday its destructive force was felt over apparent reference to those insisting on a 143-wing Air Force is not reasonable." Names No Aames The President named no names today's speech, his first on a five-state tour that will keep him away from Washington until Sunday night. Outlining- what he called 'our hole concept" of the conduct of tX" rxi an area of about 40 square miles. Pittsfield in Western Massachusetts and Exeter, N. also felt afternoon when some lay observers noted that the formations of cumulus clouds which had been travelling in an easterly direction suddenly shifted northward.

The conclusion was that the clouds, and the effects of the tornado but no deaths were reported there. Worcester alone counted about 55 dead and 400 injured. Big Houses Lifted Big houses were lifted completely off their foundations and thus the wind, were beginning to sweep in a huge circle and that ar a "vacuum" was slowly being formed. world affairs, Ei.scnhower hammered on the theme that unity with allies of the free world is necessary the globe over. He said: "A total struggle let us never forget it calls for a total defense.

As there is no weapon too small-no arena too remote to be ignored, so there is no free nation dropped yards away. Automobiles were tossed as much as 150 feet. The weather bureau issued an "all clear" at. 9 p.m. Tension dis V- In Holden, Mrs.

Ruth Oslund appeared when the announcement 1 I too humble to be forgotten. All of us have learned first from the 'V was made. Bureau officials said today the tornado warning was not ill-ad-visd, inasmuch as some severe thunderstorms and very severe rains developed over considerable portions of the danger areas. wr i Ntiii-w. AIRVIEW OF WORCESTER TORNADO DAMAGE Assumption College, where three nuns and a priest were killed last night, is pictured at top in this photo of tornado damage at Worcester, Mass.

A retreat was in progress at the Catholic college at the time of the incident. A National Guard officer described the scene as "just like a place that had been shelled" and said survivors were dazed and in a state of shock. Residential homes in the lower part of the picture were smashed or twisted from their foundations. (AP Wirephoto) onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression that all free nations must stand together, or they shall fall separately." And this "essential, indispensable unity." he declared, "means compromise." Eisenhower set out this concept of indispensable unity as his reply to those who lean to what he called "the fortress theory" of defense. This, he said, is the theory that sire uhv th ctrnnct a linn in 3 Die in Blast Of Locomotive hysterically told police the wind whipped her two-weeks-old daughter out of her arms and out of sight after she ran from her house in the belief she would be safer in the open.

The baby has not been found. One eyewitness told how he saw a mother and her small child crushed to death beneath a big trailer truck that had been lifted by the wind and carried several feet. Debris was carried by the heavy wind as far as 40 miles away. A big housing development in Worcester was almost completely leveled. A new five million dollar building of the Norton Company, a Worcester machine tool plant, wa reduced to a tangled jumble of steel and bricks.

Two Catholic nuns and a priest were killed at Assumption College (Continued on Pac Tirol Where To Find It To Release Taft Says HINTON, W. Va. UV-A Chesa- peake and Ohio steam locomotive Editorials Kinsey Story Vote To Quiz 3 Korean Officials Moline Page p. p. Hip Ailment 4Is -Serious' the world cannot stand by itself if-.

A Hy whv. particularly in Asia, "where! V1I xm.llll mwiVJ Social Feature puiung a long coai ixam cnuggea 14 into the Hinton yards Tuesday and 16-17 exploded in a cloud of black 21 smoke. The three crewmen were 22 killed. 23 Killed were the engineer, W. H.

28 Anderson, 62; fireman, Joe Sulli p. Radio-TV Comics p. Theaters p. 5V UPV The South (line that will separate Allied and PUSAN, Korea van, 47; and brakeman, O. B.

Sports 34-35 Assembly voted Red forces during a truce Korean National WASHINGTON UPt Sen. Taft (R Ohio) announced today his hip ail Wranf Ads pp. 37-39 Richmond. Meanwhile, thousands of Korean BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dr.

Alfred C. Kinsey will disclose his zealously guarded findings about the sex life of women on Aug. 20. Newspaper and magazine writers here this week are reading proofs of his long-awaited book, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female." They are pledged not to tell any ment "is a serious one" that will youths snaked through Seoul streets in apparently well-organ-j keep him from being active as today to question three high government officials concerning the truce negotiations. No date was set.

Assemblymen said they want to hear quickly from Major uCU.UUOw-Uui.a. Senate floor leader for the rest of so many of our sons have died in freedom's name, cannot we make cur own decisions, fight and stand as we ourselves may choose" Declaring there can be no "partial unity," Eisenhower demanded: "How -a Where can there be retreat from this unity? Surrender Asia? That would mean leaving a vast portion of the population of the entire world to be mobilized by the forces of aggression. Surrender Europe? That would mean more than doubling the industrial power of those same (Communist) forces. "Who is there who thinks that the strength of America is so 5- '-v -1? 1 1 Snouting "Yankee go home: this session of Congress. Returning here from a four-day mil.

iniriiirjirti i mi i 4 J-x tfi i. one but their editors what the book one out inr euuu wn. u.e ro they marched on U. N. and U.

S. buildings, but were held back by military police. shi resigned delegate says until Aug. 20. The Kinsey book! TT xt itT.

checkup by doctors in a New York hospital. Taft hobbled on to the In Washington, the State Depart- Acting Prime Minister Pyun few weeks later." Yung Tai. and Defense Minister mem reportedly teared mat un-Senate floor on crutches and said less Switzerland changes its mind administrative assistant. Jack! One reason for the secrecy is to prevent some book authors from book author from Shin Tai Yung. Martin, would issue a statement A spokesman said the Assembly iinmnin? the pun oublishing what later.

great its burdens so easy HtA. Hp i purports to be condensations of the voted to question the three after 'female book. Dr. Kinsey explained, (hearing lawmakers who returned final agreement on the truce would be delayed. The other four nations named to take custody of the prisoners India, Sweden, Poland and Czechoslovakiawere expected to serve.

future so secure that is (Continued on Ta Two) in from conferences with President 7JU Syngman Rhee cite some "astound ing facts." He did not elaborate. -tr- I r' (it it f. Martin's statement, approved by Taft, said: "Senator Taft returned to the Senate today after a further consultation regarding his hip condition with leading doctors. "Thev have advised him that Sweden announced Tuesday it would. Despite South Korea's violent op Rock Island Man Is Killed On Andalusia Rd.

Project position to any truce that leaves PANMUNJOM United Nations and Communist truce negotiators their work apparently all but finished today handed staff the devastated country divided. officers the job of putting a Ko American officials reportedly were still hopeful the defiant Rhee would be persuaded to go along with an armistice and not carry out its rean armistice into final form, then the condition is a serious one, and that while he can attend the Senate and keep up with tiis work there, he will have to take a good deal of rest, and pursue a course of treatment which will prevent his being active as floor leader during the balance of the session." ROCK ISLAND A 59-year-old Rock Island construction worker recessed indefinitely. All signs still pointed to a cease threat to keep on fighting. fire within the week, but these 1 Si fA i i developments clouded the picture: 1. Switzerland announced it would not serve on the five-nation prisoner repatriation commission unless South Korea approves the truce.

2. South Korean leaders reitera- Baby Is Swept From Mothers Arms and Lost ited bitter opposition and anti-ar- HOLDEN, Mass. One of thei most tragic stories of, the tornado' was injured laiany yesieraay au-ernoon while working on an embankment job on the new section of the Andulusia Road near the entrance to Loud Thunder Forest Preserve. Dead is Joseph Vargo, 2412 7th an employee of the Central Engineering Davenport, for the last 42 years. Coroner Leslie H.

Banning said Vargo apparently was killed instantly when his head was run over by the rear dual wheels of a dump truck. Driver of the truck, identified by state police as Monte L. Dual, 24, of 2029 4th Rock Island, was arraigned last night in Milan police court on a charge of failing to have a driver's license. State Patrolman John R. Er-hart said Dual was released on tCootinuM Put Tw mistice demonstrations raged in Seoul for the second straight day.

3. A spokesman for Syngman Rhee dashed reports that the South Korean President will fly to Washington to make a personal appeal against the truce. Rhee, he said, 1-. if AN IRONWORKER AND ENGINEER picket the nearly completed educational building of the Jwill not leave Korea "at this time Official forecast for Moline and vicinity: Partly cloudy. Occasional thundershow-ers tonight and tomorrow.

Warmer tomorrow, with a low tonight of 65 and a high tomorrow of 85-90. I was that told by Mrs. Ruth Oslund whose two-weeks old daughter was swept out of her arms and lost. More than 150 men searched unsuccessfully for hours early today for the infant. Mrs.

Oslund told state police she ran outdoors with the baby in the belief it would be safer in the open. The baby was immediately whipped away. mi; 'First Congregational Church, Moline, this morning as the strike of four Qnad-City union building crafts continues. The floors and ceilings of the building are all that remain to be completed, according a building contractor. The strike started last Monday and has shot down major construction jobs.

The unions en strike are the engineers, steelworkers, sheet metal workers and cement finishers. All are of grave situations." Details of what went on at today's plenary session at Panmun-jom were not disclosed. Lower level officers reportedly went to iwork on a review of the cease-fire CUOUCDC (seeking wage increases. Other union building crafts nave been una Die lo wotk wnere memoirs wnUW fcw striking organizations are employed. (Dispatch Photo) JOSEPH VARGO.

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