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THE WEATHER Clearing today and tomorrow The Sun: Sets today 7:05 Rises tomorrow 5:26 (Other Weather Data On Page S) NOT WORTH DYING FOR a piV i gO a i i i i i i i i i i i i our high- i and i means they really ours. Jim too a clrfv- ers heem ffi-1 own exclusive i to the road. VOL XCI--No. 40 PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955 "PRiCE: Waning Hurricane Connie Moves Into Pa. Ike Signs Bills For $1 Minimum Vaccine President Nears End Of Hundreds Of Measures Sent Him By Congress-Action Pending On Three WASHINGTON Lfl President Eisenhower has signed law-; providing a new SI an hour i i wage and free polio vaccine, and Beared the end of the of bills Congress sent to him.

Only three bills were left today on which action was pending. These concerned the a i SEOt President Svngman transit strike, land for a Colorado Rhee 1 i lif ed lhp i i River project and continued stock- a i of his i a demand piling of some domestic i a Aides said the President wanted more information on Rhee Lifts Deadline On. Truce Groups ROK President Acts On Assurance U. Seek Commission Withdrawal No exact count of bills signed or A'etoed has been made yet. The President has been working on hundreds at his White House i a Gettysburg, a 'home 0 wi since Congress adjourned Aug for a nations truce supervisors to get out of Korea.

He advised against violent demonstrations. Rhee said he acted on assurance from Asst. Secretary of State that the U. s. make efforts soon" to seek peaceful withdrawal The new i i wage.

four-nation truce commis- tive next March 1, applies to 24- million workers covered by said Robe rtson gave the Fair Labor standards i a It is expected to mean wage in- Qw at i ghou creases for about 2.100.000 em- be a eve mhing." Rhee ployes. mostly in the South. a in a a old i i was 75 cents a We ht be i derstood 'if hour. Eisenhower had recommend- tne demon5nrations continued until HEAVIEST DAMAGE torrential rain yesterday and last night did more damage here than the winds of Hurricane Connie as she passed over this area. Probably the heaviest damage is pictured above.

A block-long section of the cement basement walls of the shopping center under construction at Washington and Sycamore Sts. collapsed when undermined by tons of water pouring into the big excavation. The collapsed section was on the Washington St. side of the project. (Rose Studio Photo) ed a 90-cent i i Union bor leaders wanted SI.25.

the of lhe Neutral The polio bill provides 30 million a orea dollars to be allocated to the states a 't ment, broadcast in to provide free polio vaccine Korea wo hours mid state programs. Allocations will be ght a i was released bv the made on the basis of the state's population under 20 years of age and per capita income. The money will be available until next i I a a ruary. This gives Congress. I harbor.

The! a a i a a 1 Russia Will Cut Armed Forces Reduction Of 640,000 Men Will Be Mode By Dec. 15, Moscow Says MOSCOW a "certain reduction of tension in internation- It followed three mob assaults a i relations." the Soviet Union said it will cut its armed forces Nations Supervisory Commission government office of public information. Connie Does Slight Damage In This Area 11 Perish, 3 Missing Storm Follows When. Schooner Sinks Damage In Chesapeake Bay 13 Others Dramatically Saved As Storm Pounds Old Ship On Pleasure Cruise To Pieces HURRICANE DIANE'S COURSE MAY TAKE IT EAST OF BERMUDA Done By Rains Winds Weakening As Big Blow Spreads Over Ever-Widening Area-Death Toll Reaches 34 LANCASTER. T'a.

UP)--Connie the I A I Fla. I.H--Diane, a a i An lt i i i a stop-and-go hiirricaiir, surging Cleijt schooner off on a a i I in (,, along at last at a a 20 i cruise was pounded lo pieces i (mr her a i moments, slonu-1 a a a Hay. X''-''. would a noi ao ss Ma a i 11 dead and i i it. well to Uie east of i a son-Dixon I I I I I a i a The season's i a today for the i a a in a tod (iv.

An hodv was today on the beach south of hen-. It a season storm had i of 11.1 i a hour over a i i i area near the not Identified i i a but i State Police said il was a of mt a a a a i a a Tliirleen others were a a i a 1 i to ly rescued a liy i s)ow Sl and i imlice. a i a a a i i was predicted and i i In i i i a who poured i this bench resort i i i i palh was fldvisod i mvrl a fro east of a i I'. I I I a i storm a i I It.s a i lage of a floods nnd i along the A a i seaboard. Spreading over nn ever-widening area i a i winds, thi; i i a a a a rather than bringing it.

For of miles to nt of the ns poured down on i i and countryNde. a Bureau snid i a a about 1.20(1 i east of a i wallowe, in a record- i Beach. a a i 2(; i i deluge of amwst a foot Six of the were rescued by two beach "to see if we could lend a hand" and a to two at a i in a U-foin loiiK.u.de W.O wcsi. through waves as i as a a There was i of the boat, the Levin .1. a out of a swept a in The storm death had climbed except a I a i i i i h(M ok si t( i a i.

.1 TM ...1. i 1 1 i a was i i i a the tf to 7 miles per near Puerto Hleo' of rain. i ran a and crooks in a a dozen a nee of the GALE WINDS AND RAIN WHIPPED BY CONNIE SWEEP NEW JERSEY NEWARK, N.J. Wl--Gale winds and torrential rain whipped by the advance of i a Connie swept vening next January, chance toj stopped aV'a I men by Dec. 15.

New Jersey today, leaving an esti- see if anything further should bei a a barricade thrown across' Tne official Soviet News Agency I mated 125,000 homes without. Tass said the government decided ver on a reduction as a further step to lessen international tension and es- Hundreds of persons wore evac- tablish confidence among ated TM ow areas along The actual strength of Russia's armed forces has never been disclosed officially. A British spokes done. Other bills signed yesterday i nia a nd I a causeway linking the Wolmo to gaf U. S.

guards, reinforced by police dogs, drove back the demonstrators with smoke grenades, tear high pressure water hoses, charging Polish and Czech members of the NNSC are Communist spies, had demanded that they leave by midnight. Riotous Korean demonstrations and assaults en truce team compounds in the past week have injured 22 U.S. soldiers and about 100 Koreans. A screaming mob of 3.000 Koreans assaulted the gates of a truce team compound at Kangnung (Continued On Page 3) elude those that: Establish a commission with a I $10,000 expense account to plan a memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The memorial would be built with funds raised by public subscription. Increase pension payments for an estimated 52,000 widows of railroad employes, raising their monthly maximum payment of $40 to an estimated S54.30, starting ne January, with an increase to immediately, to make their, payments equal to those from social security. More than double the amount of American farm surpluses the government may sell for foreign currencies from 700 million dollars to 1 1-2 billion. Continue federal aid to school districts from overcrowded classrooms as a result of federal activity. The President vetoed a bill which would have provided additional retirement benefits under the Civil Service system to federal employes who hav been employed by states on federal-state programs in five types of agricultural work and in! programs of vocational, Eisenhower said he vetoed it because he wdl ask the next session Communis of Congress to bring federal em-! ployes under the social security Airmen Speeding Toward Homes 9 On Final Lap Of Long Journey From Red China TRAVIS A I FORCE BASE, en on SWISS BUS CARRYING TOURISTS GOES OFF ROAD, 25 ARE KILLED BOURG ST.

PIERRE, Switzerland (ffi--A. bus carrying French tourists on a holiday plunged off the road on the Great St. Bernard Pass near here today and at least 25 persons were killed. Police said five persons were off from this sprawling base northeast of San Francisco last night. The men arrived yesterday.

One" took Capt. John W. Buck of Armathwaite, to Sewart AFB in'Nashville. From Nashville the plane was to take Maj. William H.

Baumer to his mother's home in Lewisburg. Pa. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's former personal plane, the Bataan, carried Col. John Knbx Arnold and Lt.T Wallace L.

Brown to their homes in Montgomery, Ala. extracted still alive from the shat-j The. third plane carried at least tered wreckage of the bus', but all the other occupants, including the driver, were killed. The bus was enroute from the French resort of Chamonix to the monastery at the top of the pass. More than 30 men.

women and children spending their holiday at Chamonix had gone on the one-day outing to see the monastery and its famous dog kennels. four men and possibly five to their homes. The first scheduled stop was Pious Falls. S.D.. from where Airman Harry M.

Benjamin was to take an automobile some fiO miles to his home in Worthington. Ninn. Later scheduled stops were Minneapolis, for Sgt. Howard W. Brown: Akron.

Ohio, for A i a (Continued On Page 3) Airman Meets Son First Time, Confers With. NEVADA CITY, Calif. Daniel C. Schmidt, disturbed and irritated from a long day of homecoming, met his son for the first time and held a lengthy but inconclusive conference with his remarried wife today. The meeting was held in private and the 22-year-old flier, a prisoner of the Chinese Communists months, said he would have three or four more meetings i his auburn-haired wife before a i any his marriage.

The wife. says she married logger Alford Fine. 21. last September in the belief Schmidt had community until "we get this thing worked out." And as he had done before when he landed yesterday at Travis Air Force base near San Francisco, SChmidt begged for privacy. "Quit following us around," he asked television and newsreel cameramen clustered in front of Berliner's office as be left.

Shortly after Schmidt left the law office for a local hotel. Una and the baby were hustled into a waiting car and taken back to her hidden trailer home. Fine was not on a Una's trailer, which she shared with Fine i Berliner advised of her cabin and debris i i roll loitered off the tered the spongy a I coast. "I i see a bit of a bigger a a door." said one police officer. "She have taken a i i beating." The 10 dead included 6 men.

3 women and a 9-year-old i Most of were from New York. Eight bodies were a to a i more, two to A a i The in i i i skipper of the and his crewmen, all of A a i One of a 17-year-old i a i school senior, gave reporters a Hurricane Is Termed "Only Bad Crops Not Badly Hurt; Roads Again Clear Of Water The Petersburg section was counting the damage done by graphic account of the i a Connie as she passed through last i and first checks Rain Does Most Damage In State Virginia Is Spared Severe Battering Given North Carolina Coast I 1 i i a a high in the of llurri- today a a ds parked by the showed that it was nothing i payee's eastern sihore that wrought bv Hurricane Hazel's She had been out since a on i i last October. i a of i i in the a persons i i and feared dead in accidents i or i i i to the Connie appeared to be following, a a long wait, the track of a i i a I a slashed across the North Carol a a i a urea last October. Then high winds damage and heavy a toll. This i great i i was the i a rains.

And 1SOD miles to the south and east forecasters a a on a new tropic-born i a a i 115-mile i on a i course a appeared headed away from any major land a a Forecaster Henry Ada at. i a i a said tin-' a Iess a a i a i past a i a a a i path a i i bejfore i i a i i in the i of I a i i a i the Old i a i a records were broken in uated from low areas aiong the was (1 I i a i a i i records were oronen in coast and i a as a record 4.7SJ Some i i a described Connie I A a i otl i be- lninll) W11R a i York, liy m. the August: inches of rain fell during the storm as "only a bad storm with a fo 1 pc l1 1 'J n. irl 0 st'nu'k" a lh i a a i i readied a flooding period. rains" and did only i damage a ol of i wrong-winds.

man in London today estimated the! Flood and widespread I lo property total armed forces at 4.750,000 men. He listed the strength as: Army. air force, navy 750,000. The Soviet a ouncement said: "Recent developments, in particular the results of the Geneva conference, show that a certain relaxation of international tension has been achieved. i "With a view to promoting the relaxation of international tension and establishing confidence among the nations, the Soviet government has decided to reduce the armed of the Soviet Union by men by 35th December, forces 640.000 1955." Russia announced tAvo weeks ago its armed forces would be cut by 44.000, men that number of troops being withdrawn from Austria under the terms of the Austrian independence, treaty.

Russia said the Soviet troops would be out of Aus- by Oct. 1, about a month ahead of the treaty withdrawal deadline. At the Big Four summit conference in Genevo, the Soviets proposed that the United States. Britain, France and- Russia all (Continued On Page 3) cut COMMIE PAPER CALLS COL. ARNOLD'S STORY "VICIOUS PROPAGANDA" TOKYO (M Peiping's People's Daily today, termed "vicious propaganda" Col.

John Knox Arnold's story of being mentally and physically tortured by Chinese Communists trying to force a confession. of Silver Spring. was one of 11 airmen released by the Chinese Aug. 4 at the Hong Kong border. The People's Daily editorial, quoted by Peiping radio in a broadcast heard here, was the first Chinese Red public comment on Arnolds' story of torture.

He related it to a press conference at Tokyo last Sunday. The colonel, gaunt and strained, left Travis AFB in California last night on the last lap of the trip to his home in Montgomery. Ala. At the news Conference. 'Arnold told of being beaten, kicked, placed in pain-inflicting manacles, and being, "forced to stand until you screamed." power failures were reported from I An i a of the a a here both shore and inland areas.

Some! could not be given by city The a slartec i over a at ot lines went nos, water pump, the a i i a 2 0 1 "nshu.Rhl of gules and ram t- ire down power and commumca- motor. police headquarters were without electricity. Public Service Electric Gas the state's largest utility, estimated 120,000 of its customers out of service. Falling trees and top- who pointed out that it was too early but it would be i HI was" estimated tha Hazel lef han S500.000 in damages when she struck this area. i a lions power i leveled tobacco "A big laid the boat on its side." i Marvel a i fast SUi' 8 Highway department of- off jVoi (h Beach a i pling power lines, combined i i a reported that most of i oth a)1 lashed together, made moisture damage, caused the disruption.

New Jersey Bell Telephone estimated about 20,000 phones out of order. Red Cross disaster units moved into the Raritan Bay area of Madison township where almost 300 summer residents were evacuated. Another 27 families were evacuated from North Plainfield when Green Brook overflowed. area highways and secondary Nazi Spy Sent Back To Germany it Jo a duck i a i i It was there were spotted tne aam- tnrough the i.driven rain by be to i had come to help i a i roads are now passable a ing undulated last night. One high- 1 way official said most of the a age on the roads would shoulders, which in a places were washed out.

Last night a a i 8 aTld George Route 10 was closed at the a 31 vear old construction board Air Line Railroad underpass between U. S. 1 and wo a a hree several hours but early today traf- (h( 4 foot out fie was flowing as usual board motor boat. City manager Roy Ash saiclj was no( i i this morning that wind did a a been Twk i damage but. water created; a she ru lie bottom.

a big headache for several a a a last night as sewers backed and a a on a i basements flooded as did a a a )n August when she streets. I grounded at the mouth of the Chop- City Engineer Yvhitworth Gotten, a La(er Coast a 1 corn crops in a areas, tossed trees across streets and highways a forced residents of low-lying areas to seek shelter elsewhere. At least i highways i were blocked today by high water re- i i cloudbursts In sections where the storm did its worst. a i a a i into i was cut off bv a washouts in i On Pnge and more was coining. i a i a 4.3 inches in a 2 1 and inches attrib- New York Area Gets Heavy Rain 9 Deaths Are Caused By Record Downpour NEW YORK W) The New- Metropolitan area a tiled to was enough to cause flooding problems.

A 100,000 New York City dwellings were without, i i because of felled power lines. Basements in thousands of homes and i i were waterlogged. I Jorsey a homes were without, power temporarily. Flooding was reported in shore and inland areas. Long Island fanners who had been praying for rain a few days ago watched i precious iopsoil wash away the storm-driven floods.

Hut not. all of the a i a was lost. In Pennsylvania the rains had erased the worst drought in recnt years. Crops, lawns and pastureland perked up. and farmers said prospects for potatoes, tomatoes and a other vegetables were improved immensely.

Pennsylvania land had been so dry a weather observers found it soaking up an a i i percent- reported a number of small trees folmd a i dead but safe, a today in almost a foot of a i age of the a i a This minimized were blown down. He also said city (- ew es snuth of A a i i whipped by 57 miles an hour i flooding conditions, although the crews were expected to a later she "limped i a i on the i of i a Con-i was scheduled to crest, at 2 feet most of the damaged sewers back! (Continued On Pajfe 3) i normally 1 placid i River phones were put out of order DIDP 0 fm- a Ti-hitP last nitrht I rJKUUljn fire this area for a while last night but sen-ice would be restored by id-da v. Hesse added that most of the phones were out in McKenney and Dinwiddie. construction One Of 2 Who Sneaked In From Sub Deported operation today. WASHINGTON FIRE pel, one of two Nazi, spies who phone company, reported that FLAMES FIND WAY sneaked into this country from a German submarine during World War II, was bound for his native Germany today.

The Justice Department an- nouncd yesterday that Gimpel, now 46, was deported under proceedings that had begun in April, The order said that Gimpel was deportable because "at the time RICHMOND Cfl Mrs. Lerov i i a thought she had things pretty well battened dow-n against the onslaught of i a Connie here yesterdav. but she failed 10 area to the Tidewater section when Connie inflicted more severe damage with stronger winds. distance service was up about 2d down the kitchen It caught fire. Mrs.

i i a who'd been nerv- The record August di- above bank-full stage in Philadel- rcct.lv, or indirectly, caused i phia. deaths. Transportation was a major Fallen power lines left almost 100.000 New York City dwellings without, electricity. Thousands of basements were flooded. Approximately i inches of rain has fallen since the downpour began at 8 p.m.

Thursday. It still was pelting down this morning. a a a normally of his entry, he was an immigrant per cent last night as many local not in possession of valid entry residents attempted to contact rel- papers." He was taken from a i ond friends in the North Federal Prison at Atlanta, Carolina area where the i a New York City and placed aboard dwelt her strongest blow. i were deserted. problem in the storm-flooded areas.

The worst was at New York, where a power failure knocked out Grand Central Station LaGuardia Airport sloshed under 12 inches of water and. Idlewild Airport also was shut down. Motorists all aiong the Eastern seaboard had to be alert for unexpect- the S.S. Italia, which sailed yesterday. His' companion.

William Cole- Corn and tobacco crops in Dinwiddie. Prince George and Chesterfield Counties stood the i paugh. 37. who was born in with a a success (Continued On Pace 3) (Continued on Page GAMES POSTPOXEO Pittsburgh at New York, postponed, rain. New York at Baltimore, postponed, rain.

Philadelphia at Brooklyn, postponed, rain. New York at Baltimore wet grounds U. S. To Send Atomic Fuel To Number Of Countries GENEVA UP)--The United States the richer, power grade fuel was reported today to have de-! be sent, but they apparently will 4 cided to export to certain conn-1 be only those which have closest! tries atomic fuel of a grade i i i of friendship with the i stepped i her i in i afternoon to i a a i from the sink. She called the fire a which gave this a a i The wind had blown a aerial on the roof of.

an a i i house across some i wires. The electrical current zipper the tin roof of the i i a ed lakes in low road sections. Sports events again were' erased. National League baseball games In Brooklyn and New York, Wightrnan Cup tennis matches in Xew York rain a few days ago, the torrents and the Davis Cup inter-zone finals washed a a topsoil and in i a i a a i operations. Worst disaster of the storm was Toppled trees in a i i of an old three-masted ty knocked down i wires, schooner in Chesapeake Bay.

Of a 0 i in deadened radios i 2 7 persons aboard, only ID were a of a homes and pre- rescued, with 11 others known dead the occupants from get- and 3 missing and presumed lost. storm forecasts. High winds New York's toil climbed to 11. New 1 Jersey 5. a i a 3.

In a a a in ew Washington a car plunged into ram- am mto the P. 1 ems (1 i i totalled 11.02 i Rock Creek, i i four A dram pipe earned it up to i i In sink a it. started a i i a i i sink a a The previous record was Mrs. i i a says i a i i i SPl in down the sink next i fell i students from a i a Shore resort areas from 10.42; to New York had absorbed a heavy i On 1 -1) been killed when he and 10 to separate last week, is crewmen bailed out of a B29 over parked higher up in the rugged Sierra country but newsmen don't North Korea. i 2 son.

a know whore, ny was brought to the law 1 She appeared nervous nnd fice of Harold Berliner, a a i she nor Berliner would make torney. for tho i A a a to meetinsr, i i i S'psterday a a Schmidt, he i a a Una had cfivoii "every i to say He said he i i a i she would stay i would remain in this high i a i husband No. 2. ft? cient to operate atomic power- stations. This information came from a highly qualified source who said Belgium probably would be the first nation to get such Up to now the United States has not shipped any atomic fuel abroad States.

Even it was learned, sUl(ipn Thailand. United States insist on a i of Ulem a a i i in Wash- but it had agreed to supply 27 countries with enough 20 per cent enriched uraniun-Tto operate one re- inspection rights to make sure the fuel is being used only to operate power stations. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U. S.

Atomic Energy i sion. made it clear at a news con-i Clear kies, Warm Weather Follow Record Rain, Winds i Clearing skies and warmer tern- the weather is expected to get back mgton. were drowned last i poraUlI es6 grcete(I Petersburg on a regular schedule, according to when automoo.le plunged a i a a i a lo weatherman, who Has experi- AT A WASHINGTON UP! Four ex- into rain swollen Rock Creek a 1at I' i sai(! a i tries with enough per cent en- Terence earlier this week the i Pel a out of aroa rtu ing yesterday's storm. enoii -u pei trol down a 20-foot a According to records at Hie Fort search reactor. Leading a i i i including Dr.

H. Bhabha of I i a president of the current a i conference--sav a i fuel i a actors or a i fuel to any Iron a i nation. and into 10 feet of a i'iiig i Friday brouglit on by the enced some big headaches in the i i of Hurricane Connie. a h'ye days. Rain--and of i on At.

noon 'oday the mercury had moved to degrees i an expected high of S5. The reading at I Leo Climatology Laboratory. the same i yesterday was a Strauss pointed out a Absorn a i who has sewers to U. S. law it is forbidden to export i i i in nearby A i Ya, The and streets a i a i a export to Red others.

One of the i i was a girl, I inches pelted I i section, a i i cool and a i 72, only one degree to back tip. base! below a i lo flood. This morning's low of 67 was at- The velocity of i for i i i 10 a i clouds i i i i for a (ion. lips of out from a were Some people ore so unlucky their Horse wouldn't come in if they bet on merry-go-round. gh operate a sta ion i a i a or a of Soviet i i i as Somsak a a i area i Connie's i i for a of' wV'iimn I a i i a a M.

and a a recordrd as i i lo more rani on i section The VM een 7 uH i -ision of Suited both sn.ler.N at i cam, 10 p. m. a a way to patches howpve; onlv i a i of power i a i i a i bh-e a r.oon sun out for research and a i i of a i grade lo be ii; --d gelrs. a a i a i a Sak to i i i i i i i isotopes i i i a i i would i i a 1-een al iug IMP i a a a i i Hi, ou.look for omorrov. for i i i i i i i i a I i i v.

Lake- i clear itie temiieia- isotopes. p. i It could net be learned to i a i i to detect any i i a Southern i i Lake(other countries besides Belgium i of the a Fla. i clear i i i Now Uiat Connie has tures in the high.