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The Rapid City Daily Journal WEATHER: Fair and warm-er today. Partly cloudy and cooler Thursday with a few showers. High today CO, low tbnight 32, high Thursday 50. Final Edition Price 7c The Newspaper of Western South Dakota'' WIIMHVP RAPID CITY. S.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1955 Many Share Credit For Technical Knockout Against Polio flnnm nnnm AJ s. i nu ixo runnies Capitalistic Barkecp Finds Daily Worker Dull Reading Dimes March Vital To Punch INOCULATION RU STARTS in LONDON Ito-A bartender frinrf of ours named Percy emprcmrf ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter We asked him what faults he had to find with the Worker. "Look at this front page," he said.

'Bulgarians 'Conquer it from deep inside the Communist Daily Worker today and pro- ANN ARBOR, Mich. "(to Men money and angry parents deliv. iiuumeu juugment: "It'll never replace the fashioned newspaper." old- to erca the technical knockout polio through the Sulk vaccine Many Cities Prepared To Start Next Week said. "Fair gave me a start, that did He may bo on. solid ground But at the moment the Red nartv Ana you know what it's about? ine men many scientists making discoveries step by step it about some dancing troupe organ all four pages and 80,000 paving me way to a vaccine.

irom sona. What kind of a lark The money 10 million dollars or is that?" copies oi is striving to do so. Because of London's newsnnnnr I fir .0 Ij I lUU Hi 'Jl vf VI By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Doctors and health officials in communities across the nation. more in March of Dimes fund He read off some other head strike, nowin its 20th day and no from the public to support this re lines: 80 to 90 per cent effective against paralytic polio. From city after city came reports that inoculations were scheduled to start Monday or sometime during the following week.

A num search. To this extent the vaccine cheered by success of the Sulk "Catastrophe in Cotton Human Realities of Slump in Our Oldest Industry" "Shopworkers want vaccine, today turned to the. huge i fcumeimng tne American peo ple created. task of Inoculating millions of children against polio. ine parents angry at the 15 shilling rise" "Teachers ena in signt, tne Worker is the only daily publishing here.

It's read avidly by people who normally wouldn't fondle it with a set of tongs. It fetches premium prices on the black market. What an opportunity for stealthy invisible killer and de- Bitter Over Pay" "Don't Make Most local inoculation programs spoiler of children, determined to extinguish its nerve consuming H-Bomb, Calls Union" 'Bolder' U.S. War Plan for Europe." wore expected to begin within about a week of yesterday's announcement that the vaccine was lire. couple of weeks of that and I'll Today the Victory is within erase be so deep in the dumps they'll whii a successful vaccine, devp.

opea oy ur. Jonas E. Salk, of Pittsburgh, a dedicated scientist Langer Vows Inquiry In nave to sinK a shaft for me," Percy commented. "Don't they know any happy people? And where's their comic strips?" Any further remarks? with incisive mind. Shipments Start iuuojr uie urst Datcnes of an ber of cities however, said they did not expect to begin until early May.

Start Saturday The earliest starting date so far came from San Diego, where authorities hope to begin inoculating by Saturday. The first shipments of vaccine went out to state and local health organizations last night shortly after the federal government formally licensed it for general use. The official approval was given by Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby after Public Health Service scientists evaluated reports on last summer's vaccine field test. Opinions vai led on how long tlie vast inoculation job would take. Houston, planned to start next Tuesday and hoped to got all its 60,000 eligible children inoculated in ono day.

In other cities improved Salk vaccine are mov. Corsi Case Well, yes," said Percy. "I found out one thing here I never knew ing from pharmaceutical houses to recognizing This, the Worker said in a front-page editorial: "No new reader who comes again must find he cannot get the -Daily Worker. All newly won "ground must be consolidated." This led us to interview Percy, who might be Ascribed loosely as newly won ground, to see whether he is so far in a condition of consolidation. Well, we've got news for the Worker and it's not good.

"I want to be fair about this," said Percy. "But to tell you the truth, I think I'd rather have my Daily Mirror." public health officials and doctors before. In their nature column. Lis. WASHINGTON M-Son.

Kilgorc ten to this: 'Newts lay their eees omces to begin inoculations of some 30 million children or more singly, wrapping each in a leaf of (D-WVa) said today he agrees there should be an inquiry by Con DR. SALK AT POLIO VACCINE BRIEFING Dr. Jonas E. Salk, right, who dtv.lop.d th. polio vac cino which ii being valuated, confan at Ann Arbor.

with Dr. Thomaa FrancU ltft, who evaluated and correlated the report releaied Tueiday, and Basil O'Connor, National Foundation for In-f antile Paralyiii. wis spring and summer. water A man likes to know things like that. Interesting and gress into operations of the Refu witnm nours after the official gee Relief Act, as demanded by verdict that the vaccine is up to useful.

Help me in my work, that hdward J. Corsi and promised by win. Sen. Langer (R-ND). Storm per cent enective in preventing paralysis, it -was licensed by the National Institutes of Health for You got any.

Idea when the Cripples Large Area Langer announced last night that newspapers will be back?" a Judiciary subcommittee on im migration which he heads will public use. Dimes, contributed to the National Foundation for Infantile Par. conduct full and complete" in. health authorities said the project -Traffic Stalled In Wyoming wouia move as fast as the avail alysis will pay for enouch vaeein quiry to see how the program is working. He said he hoped to work able doctors could manage.

Most estimates indicated that only rare for free inoculations of nine million children all first and second out detailed plans at a subcomit- Deceptive Calm On Island Where April 15 Invasion Predicted tee meeting this afternoon. ly would more than a week be grades and some in, third erarlos Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn). mean required to administer each shot in the series. The.

rest will be administered by doctors to patients, with hieh while, asked Secretary of State priority urged for children and Millions There was no nationwide figure Dulles to explain security aspects of his ouster of Corsi as a State Radiator-High Snow Halts Autoists pregnant women. on the exact number of children Dust Causes Colorado Death By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Department adviser on refugee At last, polio is on the wav tn By FRED HAMPSON who will receive the protective problems. QUEMOY ISLAND (to Only two aeieat, control, eradication. shots this year but the final count ben. Aiken (R-Y), however, said Palatable Worms SAN FRANCISCO W) Blolo-gitlt have diicovered a worm thai ii good to eat and ii chock full of vitamini.

It ii the palolo, rSng-thaped affair which lives in the coral reefi of Samoa, Fiji and other tropical Pacific iilandi. A Univeriity of Hawaii re. search team Carey D. Miller. Florence Pen and Harold Catty yesterday reported on it to the Federated American- Societiea for Experimental Biology Starts In 1909 The victory did not come pasilv days short of the oft-rumored target date for Communist invasion; In an interview that while the will be in the tens of millions.

Inoculations for nine million chil Corsi case might have been "mis AMARILLO. Tex. WV-A serine As with most great achievements of medical science, it built from Quemoy's soldiers and civilians alike said today they see no indica dren are being provided bv thp onzzara that extended from Wyom handled," he thinks "there was nothing else Secretary Dulles could High winds whipped up mountain However, most defenders here don't expect one because the Reds still don't have airfields close enough, as they now have near the Matsus. Also, the beaches here are heavily defended. Quemoy's strength is a military secret but as the rumored invasion days approach it can be said that Quemoy is stronger in men and arms than it was a (Page 2, Column 7) tne minds of many men.

ous drifts of snow that nearly stop National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which ordered its sup-(Page 2, Column 8) tion the Reds are coming yet. I visited this disputed island to do." mg to Nebraska and southward into the tip of the Texas Panhandle paralyzed the area under a shroud in 1909 Dr. Karl Landstenier dis. ped all traffic from southeastern covered polio was due to a virus. Wyoming along the.

Rocky Moun "I think the secretary probably realized he was faced with an im day and saw one of its almost of snow today. an infinitesimal disease agent far tains into southern Colorado to daily artillery exchanges with the possible situation, with the House An area comnosed of oaris of smaller than bacteria. aay. Deep drifts closed several Colorado, New Mexico. Texas and (Judiciary) committee opposed to Communists a few miles away.

Nationalist guns coughed and in Now the case was known, but main tranrcontinentaL highways Oklahoma was the final target of corsi," Aiken said. no control. rrom east or the Continental Divide in central Wyoming to Colorado tne assault as tne two-dav storm. Fleet Alerted To Help If Chiang's Plane Should Fall TAIPEI, Formosa (to Units A few years later, polio spread a couple of minutes I could hear the shell burst on the distant main Integrat Kep. Walter (D-Pa), chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee ion Springs.

U. S. 85 and 87 were block like a conflagration through New the second within 10 days, apparently approached its end. on immigration, has said Corsi ed at several points. East-West Highway crews worked to free highways closed included U.

S. 30 of hundreds of, autoists and truckers Sioux Falls Death Ruled Felonious and 21 the U.S. 7th Fleet, including the YorK uty, striking hard with death and paralysis. Parents fled the cities with their children. Polio had made its panic known.

It came mysteriously and still to Problems caught in a soggy snow that once belonged to organizations later put on the attorney general's subversive list. Corsi has disputed this. A Republican, he has held (Page 2, Column 6) stacked up radiator hieh over many highways. A bus was re day science does not know exactly But it wai blinding duit stirred up bv winds preceding the itorm that closed highway! and cauied at least one death in louthern Colorado. At least two dozen persons were flagship, were alert for rescue operations if anything happened to President Chiang Kai-shek's plane during his trip to and from Quemoy, official American sources said today.

land or on the island port of Amoy. The Reds fired back and the thump of the shells could be heard as they burst in the distance on this 50-square-mile island. One shell carried clear across the five-mile channel and as much of the island before it burst on a promontory a mile from, the airfield when we were over it. The Nationalists say there are few casualties from the shellings. The countryside is laced with ported stranded near Capulin.

N.M. SIOUX FALLS (IP) A coroner's Told Court jury Tuesday afternoon ruled the now. No Distinction Again and again it flared here and there. It felled adults as well Isolated The snow was reDorted IS inehps State's Demos death of Norval J. Williams, 29 being sheltered in rural Wyoming The ships were ready to heln deep at Clayton.

N.M. Dalhart year-old Sioux Falls laborer, was filling stations and farm houses. By KARL K. BAUMAN WASHINGTON (to-North Caro if for any reason the plane came felonious. had been isolated from highway and telephone communioatinnK as children.

felled. a man destined to become a United States Scores of school children were Launch Contest The three-man Jury did not name lina told the Supreme Court today tj i mrcea to remain overnicht for nearly 24 hours. Clayton was that a "forthwith decree" abruptly Cheyenne as 60-mile-an-hour winds down in the Strait of Formosa. Vice Adm. Alfred M.

Pride, fleet commander, left Keelung on the heavy cruiser Rochester yesterday ditches and dugouts. Father Ber the assailant of Williams although one of the two witnesses testifying at the inquest said Williams was abolishing segregation, in public nard Druetto, a bearded priest president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He, like so many others, rose above his handicap, and inspired the March of Dimes. Now money was poured into the search for For Magazine scnoois might result in that state's morning for the alert and returned aDonsning its public schools sys beaten and kicked by James Iron, shell, 24, Rosebud.

from Marseilles, France, and the only missionary on Quemoy, says the people here all have cellars seven hours later. tem. MITCHELL (AP)-Expense-paid (rips to Washington, D. and the United Nations headquarters in I. Beverly Lake, a North Caro knowledge.

President and Mmc. Chiane and spend increasing amounts of ..1 jjnue ana Dig iacts and npw Ironshell demanded preliminary examination in a hearing today in municipal court. The examination was set for Monday. Ironshell is made the trip to Quemoy, only six miles from the Communist time in them. lina assistant attorney general, said the chance of North Carolina's mixing the races in schools in the techniques came from many men, New York will be provided for three South Dakota persons who buried highways and automobiler even on downtown Cheyenna streets in snow.

Chevenne school buses were unable to leave the city last The stranded pupils were housed with friends and in classrooms. Seventeen inches of snow had fallen at Cheyenne by noon. A snow plow has succeeded In clearing a path to nine oersons, including a baby, stalled north of (Page 2, Column 6) Except for the shelling and the (Page 2, Column 8) always busy defense builders, Que near future "is extremely remote." sell rhe greatest number of subscriptions to the Democratic Digest. moy wore its usual deceptive air reachable by telephone only through Denver, Colo. Frank Vail, radio station manager at Clayton, said all roads out of the town were blocked by snow drifts.

Highway maintenance crews, he said, were fighting the drifts to reach stranded motorists including some stranded highway patrolmen and county police. Power company spokesmen said Keyes, and Conlen, were without electricity because of line breaks. A survey by the Amarillo Daily News, limited by storm ravaged communications, indicated that only the northwestern tip of the Texas Panhandle was affected but that it was under a paralyzing blanket of snow and ice. being held without tiond. Williams was found on a city sidewalk Sunday evening.

He died before reaching a hospital. Police ar LaKe made the statement In reply to a question by Justice Harlan. Harlan had asked whether the state of peace. At its nearest point it is "ess than five miles from the Red it was announced today. Ward Clark, Canistota, state Democratic chairman, said the rested Ironshell for questioning island port of Amoy, in the generalissimo's private plane.

During the 6'2 hours the couple spent at Quemoy visiting Nationalist headquarters and artillery positions, the Reds did not fire a single shell against the island. A Taipei newspaper said this might have been due to a six-hour shelling the Nationalists gave Amoy the day before. was going ahead and trying to comply with the court's ruling that Couple Who Knows Polio Overjoyed Vaccine Can Help MILWAUKEE LPI-Mr. and Mrs mainland. The garrison commander, Lt.

Gen. Liu Yu-chan was absent on shortly alter Williams was found. segregation is unconstitutional. The coroner's jury ruled that Williams died "by means of an as Lake said he could not eay defi Little Quemoy a satellite island nitely wnat steps XNorm Carolina will take but said the state has sault upon his person, including beating, striking and kicking by person or persons unknown, the Leo Linnemanstons. of Milwaukpp alternatives, including the closing ven nearer the mainland today cut his political officer, Col.

Tien Shu-sin, said the Communists have at least 2,000 craft of all types in this area and plenty of men and guns to try an invasion. oi tne scnoois. Priest Refuses To Identify Bank Robber DENVER (to A Roman Catho cause of death being felonious." who lost four of their eight children to polio during an eight-day period in 1952, heard the results of the As for making plans for integra- Dr. Arnold K. Myrabo, patholo banc polio vaccine test announced gist at McKennan Hospital, testified at the inquest that Williams' death was caused by a cerebral Dust lowered visibility in much (Page 2, Columi.

7) Temperance Week PIERRE W-Gov. Joe Foss today State Central Committee will the subscription competition for Ihe promotion of the party's national organ, Any South Dakota resident 14 years of age or over is entitled to enter the competition that begins April 15 and closes June 11, 1955. All persons participating in Vhc campaign will receive commissions for each subscription sale in addition to being eligible for the airline trip to New York and Washington, Clark said. He addod that all interested persons may receive additional information by writing to State Democratic Headquarters in Mitchell. Search Pays Off CINCINNATI (to A da ndplinn Yale Senior Wants To Renounce $350,000 In Trust NEW YORK 'to Eugene F.

yesterday and said, "If only The couple was overjoyed by the Salk vaccine's trium.Dh hocanw lic priest refused today to disclose cfhe Weath the name of a repentant bank rob two of their remaining children se, aside bv nroelamatinn ini in said, Worth Carolina is in a position of a man who knows there is a possibility he will be executed within 24 hours. Such a man, he said, is in no position to make plans to remodel his home. Lake cpened the third day of argument before the court in the issue of how and when to end segregation. He had begun his argument Tuesday, shortly before the court recessed for the day. ber who confessed to him the hold Suter a Yale University senior, up of the Colorado State Bank are young enough to be susceptible to polio.

Linnemanstons said he plans to take the children to a By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 23 as Youth Temperance Education Week." "It is very Important that" the is seeking to renounce a $350,000 here. Yesterday, the priest returned trust fund and says he prefers to rely on "two hands and a head of doctor for vaccination as soon as supplies are available here. to authorities $6,850 in bills he said hemorrhage as the result of blows with a blunt instrument or blunt object. Mrs. Loretta Crow, Sioux Falls, told the coroner's jury Ironshell hit Williams and kicked him five to seven times after he fell.

She said the assault climaxed an argument which followed an afternoon of beer drinking by Ironshell, Williams and her. Mrs. Crow testified that Ironshell came up to her and Williams while they were walking toward Williams' home after Williams had been asked was part of $7,780 taken in the young people of the nation be appraised of the destructiveness of intemperance," the governor's proclamation -said. He urged observanrp my own." The student's petition, filed in daylight robbery of the Colorado as nao attorneys for Virginia and South Carolina who preceded him State Bank Feb- I7- IJ? said the Surrogate's Court, is opposed bv of the week with special emphasis The couple's four children, three girls and a boy, ranged in age from 4 to 16. They all died of bulbar type polio.

Linnemanstons said, "I was telling my wife it would really be Lake pleaded that time was needed robber gave him the money- hunter who found a box of un-negotiable bonds valued at On education. to Wnrlf nut u. a. Any. uonaia is.eney quoted the priest as saying: "My The South Dakota Women's Chris-! to the fund trustees.

They told Surrogate William T. Collins that under his father's will Suter may not receive the principal of the trust until 19G3. By that time, they added, the lips are sealed. I have a sacred tian Temperance Union voted at its schools. 1953 convention to sponsor the week.

(Page 2. Column 7) wonaenui it really does obligation by which I must abide even if it means my life." SOUTH cloudy southeast, fair west and north, warmer west today. High 55-65. Partly cloudy, little change in temperature tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 35-40.

24-HOUR RECORD TO 7 A. M. TODAY hi lo pp Rapid City 52 30 .12 Airport 51 30 .14 Philip 52 29 .40 Hot Springs 49 20 Fort Meade 53 33 Hill City 48 16 Deadwood 47 21 Chadron 42 24 .25 Valentine 46 31 .02 was given a $100 award yesterday. Vernon Presley, his wife and their friends had stopped near Dayton, to look at the dandelion patch. Presley stumbled over a box stolen from the home of William Peebles, of suburban Silverton.

Presley was rewarded on the box's return. to leave an east side tavern by the operator. The witness said Williams fell to the sidewalk after Ironshell young man, now 23, may have struck him and didn't move even a change of mind." Collins has reserved decision on when Ironshell kicked the downed Suter's request. man. Kelley said the priest "asked that he not be named and I respect that confidence." Kelley said the priest promised to relay a message that partial return of the money would not ab-sojve the robber of "criminal responsibility." "I hope now that he will decide to clear his consciencp pntirpiv Auto Workers Arid Companies Continue Peiping Blames U.

S. For Crash by coming to the proper authori- (iae miA Wage, Benefit Talks DETROIT (to Auto industry ne Light Showers iToNG KONG (to Hong Kong's gotiations over the guaranteed an. government ordered a full police nual wage and other new contract issues settled today into a long And Cooler Air Slated For Hills African-Asian conference in Indonesia next week. Only three Indian crewmen have been reported rescued. "Secret Agents" A Peiping broadcast last night charged the crash was "prear investigation today into the crash of an Indian airliner chartered by Red China.

But the British colonial authorities said the possibility that the plane was sabotaged here as Peiping radio charged was "extremely remote." v-uuier temneratures and mnm showers are for this area ranged by secret agents" of the united Mates and Nationalist inursaay after the mercury reached into the 60s today. Getting the most moisture yester- Sheridan 50 31 Pierre 54 31 Aberdeen 55 26 Watertown 65 31 Huron 63 31 Sioux Falls 62 37 Pickstown 61 36 Lemmon 55 23 Mobridge 54 26 .13 Sioux City 62 44 .12 Bismarck 55 24 Williston 57 35 Duluth 45 35 Paul 62 47 Rochester 57 46 Abilene, Texas 70 47 Chicago 78 60 Denver 43 23 Des Moines 60 52 .07 Helena 55 37 Kansas City 77 55 .13 Ixs Angeles 85 Miami 91 71 New Orleans 81 61 .71 New York 50 41 .60 Phoenix 78 Seattle 49 38 .25 Washington 73 46 China. w.k. vw.waia ill aoillllKLUll dliu Hong Kong dismissed the Commu. aay was the area around Philip nist charges as "ridiculous" and grind expected to continue until an early June deadline.

The CIO United Auto Workers was scheduled to meet in separate afternoon sessions with General Motors and Ford. Negotiations with American Motors Co. also were due to start today over the same issues. The GM talks were due to recess today until the middle of next week. The Ford conferences, which began yesterday, were expected to last all week.

The motor companies have uniformly refused to take any position for or against the UAW demand for year-around pay, but have stressed voluntary policies to pro- utter nonsense." The plane's The airliner came here on a regular flight Monday with passengers from India. After discharging them, it refueled during an hour's stopover and then took off for wnere .40 of an inch was measured Rapid City received .12 and the airport .14 after 6 a.m. yesterday. Mobridge recorded .18. IT WAS ANOTHER CASE of the car comino out second bait In owners, Air India International, confirmed that mechanical trouble a tangle with a dietel locomotive at the had delayed its departure from The anticipated showers will be North Borneo and Indonesia with the party frora Peiping.

light and scattered over the state. Bombay for Hong Kong for sev eral hours. Une of the passengers from according to the weatherman. No severe cold is seen and overnight readings tonight will be near the The four-engine Constellation intenection of East Boulevard and the main line Chicago and North Western Railway lrackt Tuesdar mght. Uui.

N.welL 44 3102 Omaha, and Mrs. S. G. Williamson. 56.

1006V, ColumbuVwer. hospital! lied at St. John Hospital for Injuries they received in the accident. Newell received multiple cuts and bruises and was being examined for other injuries Wednesday. Mrs.

Williamson had minor bruise, and alight njury lo her right knee. Both were passengers in this 1949 Bulck driven by Mrs. Newell who was not injured. She said she did not see the train or the flashing red lights before the southbound car was struck by the rear of the train backing east through the crossing. Newell, riding on the riqht side of the front seat, was pinned between the seat and the dashboard, and jacks were required lo free him irom the wreck.

(Journal Photo). I India, Luigi Pirola. of Milan. Italv. went down Monday night in the said in Tokyo today that th ireezing mark.

Watertown was the plane's captain had complained warmest spot in the state Tuesday South China Sea between Borneo and Malaya. Nineteen persons were aboard, including eight Chi with a top of 65 while fort Meade heatedly in Bombay that the craft was not airworthy. mots regular employment. did the best for the Hill with 53. nese.

Communists a route to the (Page 2, Column S).

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