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imtm Start Every Day Right Final Edition Weather, Forecast Fair, Cooler, Less Humid Heather Table on rage 3 ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. CXVII HARTFORD 1, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, PAGES Entered As Sernnri Clgs Matter, Post Oltire. Hartford. Conn. 5 CENTS Truce Delegates Call Indefinite Recess In Talks Worcester Area Hit; 738 Hurt; Homes Lost Housing: Project Smashed; Shrewsbury, Holden Bear Brunt; National Guard Ordered Out; Death Toll May Rise WORCESTER, Wednes-, chines finally came to a halt, they i Iff WfWMmt jWx Fund Raised for Child With Leukemia Stolen day, June 10 (IV-The worst New were as flat as if crushed by a England tornado on record lashed giant press through 11 Central Massachusetts rhn HMHnn communities before sundown last night, claiming 69 known dead anc headquarters, for disaster units smashing hundreds of home and he stormnc-ken town of 6,000 habitants.

A State Police cruiser, Staff Aides Map Demarcation Line Switzerland Refuses To Serve Unless South Korea Signs Accord MUNSAN, Wednesday, June The known injured tntal.rf 7-S a sholt wave radio- Parked AlSe? said nlanf thc inulk' was Ri ii means oi coinmuincaiioii. 10 (if I Allied and Red truce jJudv Tassis, a leukemia victim, delegates recessed indefinitely "The management of the inn today subject to call of either, a id tw strangers came into the bar just before closing time side while lower level staff of ti- Monday, ordered two beers, and cers iron out the last technical lctt Aftor they had gone tne details of an armistice ending the bartender 1hat the Judy three-year Korean War iFund coin box was gone. The subject mater ot Wednes- T. ua nrnhahiu r. vi.iiT iiajit-u ill lilt" I UII- Die or dwellings and factories.

State police estimated 2,500 were homeless in the area crushed by The populous area was battered within 24 hours after a similar! storm smashed through Ohio and Michigan, claiming 140 lives i MK Home, Flattened Outside of Worcester the town, of Holden and Shrewsbury were particularly hard hit with about inn homos rnivu-lnW inn homes renorted i-pHmppH in rubble in each community. ine Known death total included '1 in Worcester City Hospital. 5 at Memorial Hospital, 3 at Shrews bury, 1 at Barre, 2 Catholic nuns and a priest at Assumption Col lege, and 2 women at Southboro. i 00 uuj fcu-jiiuiuii: iiiliiiq ai i ail- munjom was not disclosed. Staff officers resumed their talks soon after the plenary truce session ended.

While all major policy issues 111 1 heon eMinH oroni. case has been turned over been settled, events outside ,7 m'1" r. shingles clapboards and newspa-dared a state of emergency in the pors VICTIM OF NATURE'S FURY: A lone woman picks through the rubble of her home Tuesday evening after the furious onslaught of the Worcester, tornado. In the upper right the kitchen sink can be seen piled on top of kindling that was once a home. Hundreds of houses were flattened as this one was as the twister skipped through Worcester and several neighboring towns at twilight.

All available ambulances, fire trucks, emergency help and National Guardsmen were called to the scene as the Red Cross sped blood and plasma to the stricken area from as far away as Hartford (Worcester Telegram Photo). tof and cointv flinns withnnt nsincr fnrmal authority. "I have authorized se-; mm iown managers io go wT" ZZ? aJTS a'Sa lCr Tiain 011 he Boston and wotk lie, er sa.d. jAb Rairoad in Worcester Hn 1, tHinJ-' area was stopped for a time by dollar build ng of the Norton Com-, storm 0', Pant- wa In Franklin, about 30 miles south eve ed. A hmisinc rlmn immnnt Midwest Twister Deaths May Top 140; 1,000 Hurt; Property Loss In Millions CHESTER, June 9 (Special) Residents of this town are boiling today.

The meanest thief in local residents' memory stole a container of money Monday night off the bar of the Cove Road Inn. The money was for the Judy's P.nnH Nnifhhnr Fund a fund hf- jne raise'd to help 7-year-old I I It? UUA ilrtU UUUV3 UlLLUiC on it, as well as the story of her plight. People in the area, who recently gave 147 pints of blood im i. i to State Police. Woman Gets Prison Term For Swindle Margaret Robington Mulcted Bingham's Son of $100,000 NEW HAVEN, June 9 Mrs.

Margaret Robington, 61, of Trumbull, accused of mulcting a former United States senator's son of $100,000, drew a three to five year sentence in State Prison today from Superior Court Judge John M. Comley. The judge said he marveled at the "gullibility" of Hiram Ring-ham of Salem, Mrs. Robing-ton's victim. The state had filed five charges; miner MIc PrthiMrAn i against Mrs.

Robington, a real estate operator, who was released only last March from the State Prison for Women at Niantic where she had served a two and a half year term for theft of an automobile in Bridgeport. The charges were Theft of $22,500 in securities and cash Feb. 1, 1949; embezzlement of $18,000 the same date; theft of $30,000 Feb. 4, 1949; embezzlement of $27,000 the same date, and obtaining $500 under false pretenses July 10, 1949. Enters Guilty Plea As her trial was about to start, Mrs.

Robington told the court she would plead guilty to the embezzlement charges. The other three pr0secuted, but retained on file), Xhe state cnarges that Mrs, persuaded Bingham to turn his money and secUrities over 1o her. promising him a itification of the victims who were worked to brush back the ava lanche of destruction. Governor G. Mennen Williams his vigil at disaster headquarters -a window shat jtered dime-store in downtown Flint.

1 The governor wired President Ti'iunnhfwi'nf QtlinfT Hint VI i si li try a I have the conference hut cast a cloud over the prospects of an easy armistice. South Korean Mobs Protest South Korean anti-truce mobs boiled through streets of the republic's cities and towns. The National Assembly shouted defiance of armistice terms. Pei-ping Radio blasted President Eisenhower's move for a post-armistice security pact with South Korea. (More shadows were cast on the scene from Bern, where the cabinet announced that Switzerland would not serve on a five-nation Prisoner Repatriation Commission unless South Korea approves the truce.) An Allied spokesman said of the Panmunjom meeting: "Today's session again was an executive session.

Plenary sessions were recessed pending administrative work done by staff officers." The indefinite recess was requested by the Reds. Even so, progress at Panmunjom still pointed towards an early armistice. Khee's Trip Off There was an unofficial report Syngman Rhee might fly to Wash' ington or Tokyo and make a last-ditch fight against a truce he regards as dooming his country to Communist conquest. However, an official Republic of Korea spokesman in Seoul said today President Syngman Rhee would not fly to Washington "at this critical moment." Rhee's government has angrily denounced the impending armistice with the Communists. The spokesman, Karl Hong Ki, said the president could not leave the country when it is facing "a most critical situation." South Korea's National Assem- areas struck by tornadoes be de-i Vuu" dared' disaster areas.

The Presi-idaniaSe was, Hyna, Hont nnw-Hv (hniwhich counted one dead and Cey- tornado stricken Michigan regions within the city limits was ham ii.r i mered to the ground by the powerful wind. ICeHriierM M'urli hv Seu Holden, a suburban residential 'town of about 8fl0, had two new housing developments badly damaged. Nearly all of the comparatively new dwellings, ranging from $15,000 up, were leveled. Under the glare of mobile search lights, rescue workers feverishly dug into the rubble of what had been comfortable homes in search of other victims. National Guardsmen from Wor cester, Fitchburg ahd Boston were mobilized quickly to join in the rescue work.

Red Cross officials sent disaster units to the scene and set up facilities for providing blood and medical supplies to the communities. Highways lammed Highways into the area were I jammed in a matter of moments latter word of the disaster spread. National Guardsmen were ordered to duty in Worcester and civil defense units were activated, i Gov. Christian A. Herter i hastened to the area from Boston.

mobilized. Onfv emereencv ve All airm ah iMafA rtsli.A iirai'Ai hides were permitted to enter the Mined in sheet-covered rows at the Rational Guard Armory in Flint. At Cleveland the tornado killed itf11 11 a ten mile path infliet- a property aamage estimated I at three million dollars. Other Ohio communities visited by the killing winds were Wood Ion where one other victim was at 500 thousand dollars. A tornado stuck at Brown City and claimed one more victim but inflicted little property damage in the Lapeer County town.

Four were killed in the Norther Michigan resort center of Tawas City. Property damage here was confined to a few buildings. major disaster areas. The Cross gave $100,000 for Flint; Salvo Continues disaster relief. The sum wasj The salvo of tornadoes contin-matched by General Motors, which ,0 swing nor(h through Michi-operates some of its major antsj in pjjnt jgan, hitting first at Erie where The Flint tornado rode a roller! five died and cars and trucks on coaster down Coldwater Road in; highways suffered the brunt of the the city of 163,000, about 70 miles damage.

The twister dodged Erie north of Detroit. It ripped and lproper by a mile. lurched upward and dove dowm i i again. It chewed up homes and! funnel dipped pinned whole families in a a8ain aJ Am Arbor where of bricks and timber. another victim was killed.

It Mothers clutched at lost infants 'missed the city proper, inflicting in deathly silence. Fathers in many its force mainly on nearby Mil-cases died harboring wives and! ford and Pleasant Lake. Property youngsters in their straining arms, (damage at Milford was estimated Desperate calls for blood plasma, anti-tetanus and other medications were relayed on the police radio to State Police headquarters in 7 "as 0Sl0n Ug, Wh'Ch rUShd "PP to Holden. In Up. a bld dono.r and hi 1 a up )- c'on SXrf neigtltJOl From Washington, the Red Cross said $100,000 had been set as a preliminary disaster fund for the tornado-racked section.

Debris from thc tornado carried some 43 miles to thc suburbs of Several, communities near the capital city reported flying A lesser storm struck at Exeter. N. about 70 miles northeast of i nere. extensive property damage was reported at Exeter, but no 'deaths 01 Worcester, two nouses were smashed by an electrical storm but there were no casualties. Eye Mlfiienses Tell Slorieg As the sudden storm raced out of the area, eye witnesses began recounting their harrowing experiences.

Mrs. Collette. who said the tornado came in "trailing long black clouds and moving like a snake," was in her small apartment with her two children. Catching a glimpse out of the window of the approaching storm, she yelled to the children "Quick, it's a tornado." and ordered them to lie on the floor. A factory worker, John Barry, told of the sky darkening and cardboard blowing around the plant.

"The the roof fell in," he added. Frank Crotty of the Worcester Telegram-Gazette said the devastation in one section of Worcester "was incredible to These New England eyes." "We thought the 1938 hurricane wreaked the worst havoc," he said, "but this, although in a smaller area, was infinitely worse." The hurricane struck the southern New England coastline killing some 700 persons and town of Wallingford on Aug. 9, 1878. Thirty-four persons died and property loss amounted to about near the intensity of the Wallingford twister. Since hat time the following tornadoes were experienced: Pittslield, Mass.

July 16, 1879, 2 dead, 520,000 damage. Lawrence, Mass. July 26, 1890, 8 dead, $60,000. Enosburg Falls, Vt. Sept.

30, 1907, no dead, slight damage. Fitchburg, Mass. July 17, 1924, 2 dead, $730,000. Woburn, Mass. Oct 23, 1923, one dead, $200,000.

East Hartford, Conn. July 10, 1926 no dead, $8,000. Coos County, N.H. May 3, 1929, no dead. $200,000.

Portland. Me. May 16, 1929, no dead, $23,000. Concord. N.H.

July 23, 1916, one dead, $60,000. Brooks said he recalled a severe twister in the North Providence, R.I., area about 13 years ago and added that "there were two tornadoes and a waterspout in New England in 1932." "One of the tornadoes hit the Kittery, Me. Portsmouth, N.H., area last September or October, and the other struck thc Putnam, region. The waterspout occurred in Bridgeport, Conn." Sky Scanned For Sign Of Danger Here Watchers Fearing Tornado See Rare Cloud Beauty Display By RICHARD h. MOl KEY While dealing a tragic blow-to the Worcester, Mass.

area, nature treated residents of Cen- 0f her artistry Tuesday eve- ning Filled with apprehension after hearing of the death dealing tornado at Worcester, people here watched the skies anxiously for signs of predicted severe thunderstorms. But instead of black destruction their upturned eyes saw only the splendor of fast developing thunderclouds caught in the slanting rays of the setting sun. This area, lying in a valley between two powerful storms as a cold front passed to the sea, experienced only the cool winds driving the storms. Beautiful Sight The beauty of it defied descrip. lion.

But it was not unappreciated. Interspersed in the flood of calls received at The Courant concerning the tornado were pleas from persons asking if the cloud display could possibly be caught by a photographers color camera. Topped by "towering cumulus" clouds of brilliant white, un- matched even by fresh winter snow. the cloud mountains turned to pink and delicate rose shades as they boiled in turbulent air and were captured by the lower rays of the sun. Closer to the ground the clouds (Concluded on Page 2, Column 6) would correct the condition and Two delicate operations bv St.

ond last Wednesday. Smiles Happily But it wasn't until Sundav that Hajtlicki was allowed to eat a Diy, nmng up unanimously uemnuScnarges were thon nolIed (not Virtually everyone of the 50 id aamage in 1 ne millions, homes in the Kenilworth section of Inland areas also felt the lash Shrewsbury were flattened. tnat la years ago. section is located on a hill. '8" Twister Recalled Among the Worcester dead werej The last tornado to cause eon-a 71-year-old grandmother.

Mrs. siderable damage in New Eng-Annie MacDonald Hutton, and her, land centered in the Connecticut The disaster streets Coldwater and Kurtz especially had been rubbed into the soggy earth. di 'enched by torrential rains that proceeded tne tornado. I he streets: were there at 8:30 p.m. Monday.

At 8:40 p.m. they were gone. For many the nightmarish inter lude ended later with sobbing iden- .15 WsfrAVU -A FLINT, June 9 The list of tornado dead in nine storm-1 Hnnnrf Miehian and Ohio cities including Flint and Cleveland, soared to 140 today, and officials feared it would go higher. More than 1,000 persons were in jured. and property damage ran into many millions of dollars as the result of six savage twisters which raked sections of a 350-mile belt above and below Detroit last night.

Flint Has 112 Dead At least 112 persons were killed in Flint alone in a disaster ranked as the state's worst weather tragedy in history. Mothers and children were killed. Whole families were wiped out. The worst of the half dozen tornadoes dipped its devastating snout up and down a strip of factory worker homes and whirled them into a horrible death trap for those within. Other twisters pounded sections near Tawas City, Brown City, Ann Arbor, and Erie in Michigan, and Elyria, Ceylon, and Wood County, Ohio.

Over 650 were bruised and battered but escaped death in the Flint tornado which like a fabled giant trampled on homes and lives in an eight mile swath. Some 450 Michigan State Police aided by scores of police and fire men, and civil defense workers from neighboring communities, Korean War Tapers Off to Patrol Action SEOUL, Wednesday, June 10 Wi Only the sharp crack of patrol rule ure broke the stillness last night of a war which has tapered off sharply as truce negotiators move clo6e to agreement. A heavy overcast kept most Allied war planes grounded. Communist propeller-driven planes, which bombed Seoul Monday night, approached the South Korean capital again last night but turned away without dropping any bombs. South Korean troops fell back to their frontline positions in Eastern Korea after failing to knock North Koreans off an outpost near Luke the Gook's Castle.

Earlier the South Koreans had Uh i re-esiannsnea their Iront line in Tuesday. U. S. soldiers were in volved in small Central and Western Front clashes. In one, the Americans virtually wiped out a reinforced Chinese Red piatoon, possioiy men.

near 'Frot. The U. S. Eighth Army said about 40 Chinese were killed or wounded. I granddaughter, Barbara Ann Hut- ton, 6.

The fury of the tornado was: i Actually she used the Imonev to nav off rrnditore ivhn r- had forced her into involuntary bankruptcy in state charged. Bridgeport thej Bingham's father, now chair-i man of the Federal Loyalty Review Board, was a Republican U. S. Senator from 1924 to 1933. The son, a Democrat, has (Concluded on Page 2, Column 8) its s-year-oia leaaer, snouiea ap- proval 129 to 0 Tuesday of a reso- lution calling on the South Korean Army to be prepared to advance north unless the truce requires Chinese Reds to get out of Korea and the North Korean army to band.

Aam. Aruiur rvi.uuiu, hi-ai. chairman of the U. S. Joint a i n.lf 1 Chiefs of Staff, planned a meeting Wednesday afternoon with Rhee.

It was supposed to be a courtesy call by Radiord, now on a military inspection tour. However, the top American military man would be in a position to give added emphasis to the U. N. Command truce stand that Korea should be unified by peaceful negotiations after a truce and not by more blood-letting which already has cost more than 2,009,000 casualties. Peipinff Attacks U.S.

Offer Peiping's Red radio charged Tuesday that Eisenhower's offer of a mutual security pact to South vividly described by Mrs. Mar-! $200,000. jorie Collette, 34, who said "Itj Harvard Prof. Charles F. blew a divan and the refrigerator Brooks, director of the Blue Hills right out the window." observatory, Milton, said New Car ('rushed Flat England gets about one tornado Houses crumbled to kindling and a ycar -and ones that cause con-automobiles were whisked about! like cardboard toys.

When the ma-1 (Concluded on Page 3, Column 7) Massachusetts Tornado Worse Than Walling ford's Jaw 'Frozen' 20 Years, DP Eating Normal Now A young displaced person from ieat a meal in normal fashion. Korea encouraged "the Syngman Poland found out this week howithe Polish orphan agreed eager-Rhee clique to sabotage the Ko- it feels to open his mouth and'ly. rean armistice. In Seoul Rhee met late into the night with-his Army officers while the streets outside boiled, Picture on Page 2 Francis surgeons were necessary tacks that killed Tr wwnded 166 Edmund Hajtlickii 25i of 'to permit Hajtlicki to regain theC Main St who came t0 tne United; normal use of his mouth. Theyj Only seven scraps were reported States three years ago, had not had to create two new along tne 155.mil'e Xi 4 I I r4 1 I I i A V.

I JT r. im vwl11 aDIe t0 open hls moutn was I 'U years, lie was a Victim iay in aim me seo r.T. wnai uociois can a trozen iaw, U. S. Eighth Army compound tne resujt of an jnfec.

hurled rocks at U. S. military po- tjon when he was ive ypars od surgea what doctors call a "frozen iaw tie was rorced to subsist totally, on a diet ot liquids and soft BOSTON, June 9 UP The; tornado which cut a swath ofl death and destruction through 1 central Massachusetts late was the worst in New England history much more deadly than that, which took 34 lives and caused $200,000 damage in! Wallingford, in 1878. Charles F. Brooks, Harvard; professor of meteorology andj director of Harvard's Blue Hill: Observatory In Milton, said: "We get an average of about: one tornado a year in New England with ones that cause considerable loss of life and property occurring about oncei every 20 years.

I New Fnsland had 3fi tornadoes' in the 34-vear neriod endinsr 1919 with six deaths and a total property loss of $2,032,200, he said, quoting from a survey published by Snoden D. Flora of the University of Oklahoma. The Wallingford disaster came on Aug. 9, 1878. An earlier tornado occurred Aug.

23, 1831 in the Cambridge-Medford area of Massachusetts. The number of and the property loss is not recorded, hut it was nowhere so id mea He smi ed hanni Hpiahu nn th, rnirai 10 oamcaues guaiuuiB (Concluded on Page 2, Column 6) Today's Index Pa ire Pace f0O(1s- he devoured the food and asked Meal times were difficult for for a mirror so that he could the young immigrant. In orderjstiok out his tongue and look at. Alsop Col. 14 Financial 22, to get lood into his mouth, he had to push it info the narrow between his virtually.

clenched teeth with his Employed by a local printing firm, he had resigned himself to going through life with this: handicap until about five weeks ago. His teeth were giving him trouhie and he paid a visit to a dentist. it. It was the first time he had seen it in the 20 vears he had been afflicted bv the ailment. Hajtlicki won't be able to test his new jaw joints on a thick steak for several weeks.

He needs a set of false teeth which will be provided as soon as pos- sible. But in the meantime, he's getting all the pleasure in the world out of opening his mouth fclillHI.W Amusements 10 Haskin Bridge 12 Jacqueline Bvrnes 2 Legals Citv News 8 Obituaries 24j 6j 24 15j Classified 24-28 Radio TV Clubs Comics 13 Society 13 1 21 Sports 17-19 Crosby 15 Star Gazer 12 CAMP COURANT FUND Previously acknowledged $10,198.83 Clergy Trust Funds of Christ Church Cathedral 20.00 31st Reunion Class 1922, West Hartford High School 15.00 E. J. Skinner 10.00 Total $10.243.83 FACES OF TRAGEDY: Reflected in the expressions on this family's faces is the bewilderment and sorrow brought to hundreds by the disastrous Worcester tornado Tuesday. Made homeless when their house in the Great Brook Valley Housing Development was flattened by the twister, the family wanders in search of shelter, dry clothing and food (Worcester Telegram Photo).

Crossword 24 Town News 201 the dentist advised Hajtlicki to and passing in softer foods with Editorials 14 Women's Pg. 12 Undergo an operation at St. Fran- a fork and spoon just like ev-Farm News 16 Your Stars 12 cis Hospital which he felt sure erybody.