The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 11

Weather Cooler THE HUTCHINSON NEWS-HERALD KtMV-FMTofer fopOa at 78TH YEAR NO. 306 HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950 SINGLE 5c Tornado Damage Totals Millions $3 Billion Foreign Aid Bill Passed Washington The senate passed a $3,122,450,000 foreign aid bill Friday after economy advocates had taken a $250 million slice off the next Marshall Plan installment. The vote to approve the big measure was 60 to 8. Final passage climaxed three weeks of sporadic but heated debate Dn the global aid measure, which the house passed Mar. 31.

Besides providing (or continuing the Marshall plan of economic aid designed to bolster Europe against communism, the bill calls for assistance to Korea and other areas. Although administration leaders lost in their effort to win approval Small Business Aid Is Urged Washington (AP) A broad pro- of the full $3.100 million requested gram of assistance to small busi- for the European recovery pro ness, Including government-insured loans up to $25,000, was proposed to congress by President Truman Friday. He said It would cost the government very little, would yield the nation "great returns," and he asked for action before congress adjourns. He told congress that while business is thriving, it is not growing fast enough. He said small businesses have a key role in Ameri- gram, they scored a victory by gaining clearance for President Truman's "point four" plan to aid areas of the world.

By a 37 to 36 tally the senate adopted a $45 million authorization to start the "point four" program After rejecting 41 to 33 a Republican move to turn the matter over to a bipartisan commission for further study. Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn) of the appropriations committee can prosperity, providing jobs for gerved notice( howeveri ne more than 20, million. And the government, he added can and technlcal aid proposal Ba id he geek ock the $45 when the actual money i oil comes up later. TOTAL and Mm. Lee Bennlnjton and two children escaped serious Injury In wrecked apartment of Barton Courts shown in center.

Note washing machine itlll standing. $200,000 Loss At Great Bend Great Bend (AP) An injury list of 30 and damage estimated at $200,000 were counted Friday night from a tornado which ripped through a veterans housing project near the former army a i base west of here late Thursday night. Of the injured, only eight were admitted to the hospital here and none was in serious condition. The others wer treated for minor in' juries and released. Entire area was Uttered with (law and broken wall and roof debris.

Winds Sweep From Plains To Wisconsin The Associated Press Winds of hurricane force battered midwest Friday from gh plains to Wisconsin. They left at least five dead, scores Injured and property damage nning into millions of dollars. Tornadoes, snow, rain, hail and blinding dust the smashing inds. The gales whipped off the flatlands of Kansas and Nebraska an 80-mile-an-hour clip and reached as much as 88-mllea- n-hour by the time thty hit Minnesota and Wisconsin. Violent winds reaching 88 miles- Jogeph federal hous 'ing project manager for Pratt and should promote conditions under which well managed businesses have ample opportunities 0 i growth." i The present bill is an author-, Grfiat Bendi sajd 2 00,000 dam He proposed a five point pro- 1 ization measure which puts con- estjmate included buildings at gram to carry out his purpose: ress on record as av tne project, known as Barton 1.

Insurance, "on a self sustain- aid, but appropriates no actual CourtSi and personal property. ing of bank loans up to money. Duffin said that of the courts 21 The house previously had ap-: buildings, most of which were repayable within five years. He likened this to the pres-j proved the "point four" plan but cnt federal insurance of loans for i trimmed the amount to $25 mil- home improvements, with banks I on bearing a portion of the risk. He said an insurance premium could be fixed to cover all probably expenses and losses.

t. The creation of federally chartered and promoted national Investment companies "to provide equity capital and long-term loans for efficiently-managed businesses unable to finance themselves on reasonable terms through the organized securities markets." The companies would be supervised by the federal reserve system, but eventually would be owned by private investors and institutions. 3. Broadened lending powers for the reconstruction finance corporation, with relaxed collateral requirements on loans to small concerns if management abilities and potential earnings provide reasonable expectation of repayment. He also recommended that the present maximum 10-year maturity on all types of business loans be" increased to at least 15 years.

4. Establishment in the department of commerce of a clearing house for scientific, engineering and managerial information of interest to small business. 5. Centered responsibility in the secretary of commerce for the entire program, with the exception of the proposed national investment companies, which would be under the federal reserve. As passed by the senate and house the big foreign aid measure authorizes $2.850 million for the European recovery program; $100 million for Korea; $100 million for economic aid to the China area; $25,450,000 for Arab refugees in Palestine and the "point four" plan.

The legislation now goes to a senate-house conference group to work out differences in the two bills. The biggest senate fight came over the Republican drive to whack up to $1 billion off the Marshall plan program for the were maintained by the highway patrol, which took over after the national guard was called off at The Weather Kansas Generally fair Saturday and Sunday; warmer northwest Saturday, highs 60-65; IS to 25-mile per hour west to southwest Saturday, diminishing by night. Dear folks: Washington, D. is not the only place of the big wind. (Signed) Joe the Weather man.

Hutchlnson Weather (By CAA at airport) Friday'a high 66 at 4 p. m. Low 46 at 7 a. m. At 6:30 p.

m. 84. Barometer 28.24 and rising slowly. .12 inch total. 68 mph at midnight 60 at 9 a.

7 mph at 7 p. m. U. 8. weather observation! (or 24 houri ending at p.m.: next fiscal year starting July 1.

The administration forces beat back the billion dollar reduction proposal of Senator Kem (R-Mo) a tidy margin, 62 to 17. But on the next move to cut it $500 million they just squeezed through on a 40 to 40 tie vote. It was a coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans which finally put across the $250 million reduction on a 47 to 33 roll call vote. The voting came after warnings from Democratic leaders that deep cut in the Marshall plan funds might force this country to increase its defense outlays vastly. The house "economy drive" chalked up an undisputed minor victory by cutting $2,950,000 from the 1951 budget of the public hous- ng administration.

But it still was more than $930 million short of its goal of a $1 bil lion cut in a $29 billion appropriation bill for government operation next fiscal year. Mta. Preelp Amarlllo 7.1 48 Boston 53 47 Chicago 82 64 Cheyer.nt. 46 25 .14 Denver 83 2ft .30 Detroit 81 49 Dodge City 67 37 Fort Worth 77 Goodland 31 Tr Havr 8(1 29 Kaniai City 72 .18 Tr Little Rock 81 71 Loi 71 Ml Miami 80 71 Mlnntapolll 73 44 New Vork 6 48 .10 North 84 30 I.IK Oklahoma City 75 57 .0) St. Loull 84 72 KprlngneH 7A er, Tojwka S4 51 WaiMaiUSi SI -to Wichita 48 .16 48 33 unit dwellings, 17 were destroyed or made unlivable.

Eight of the 17 were levelled and nine were partly destroyed. The Red Cross announced that the government has agreed to turn over 30 houses at the war-time helium plant south of Otis for temporary use of families made homeless by the tornado. Ray S. Schulz, president of the Barton county Red Cross chapter, said the families will live at the Otis site until they can find other quarters here. Otis is about 25 miles northwest of Great Bend.

A crew of 28 men, furnished by the state employment service, was busy cleaning up the debris. Road blocks around the area 1 p. m. Tornadoes also hit at Ray, 20 miles southwest of here, and at Zook, 28 miles southwest. At the Wayne Cosman farm, wo miles north of Ray, all build- ngs, including the house, were wrecked.

The Cossman family escaped injury. Buildings on three other farms in the area also were damaged. Rainfall measuring 1.05 inches accompanied the tornado at Ray. Great Bend got 1.06 inches more than was here during all of April. Coover To Run For Cong ress IT WAS Roy Rush shows twin ions, Roy and Joe.

10, heavy chest of drawers which pinned her to bed when twister hit apartment. Boys received minor cuts. Mrs. Rush was bruised. WindHitsUnitSuddenly Cimarron (AP) Leigh Warner, state Democratic chairman, said Friday that Morris Coover, Kinsley business man and farmer, plans to seek the Democratic nomination for congress from this district.

Coover had been mentioned as a possible candidate for United States senator. He recently was instrumental in starting a movement to use 16 percent more wheat flour in bread. Fatzer To Leavenworth Topeka (AP) Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer said Friday he will open a series of law enforcement conferences with city officials at Leavenworth Saturday. Declaring he is planning similar conferences with city officials at Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita and other towns, the attorney general added: "The fact that Leavenworth is first isn't Indicative that I'm picking on them." Fatzer said he will meet with Leavenworth Mayor Ted Sexton and other city officials there to discuss "law enforcement" and their "responsibility to enforce the city ordinances and state laws." The attorney general's latest move followed a statement in which he said he was renewing demands for "impartial" enforcement of laws against gambling whether it be "in pool halls or country clubs." By Bob Wellinf ton Great crazy dipping tornado ripped apart the Barton Courts housing addition three miles west of here late Thursday night, hospitalizing 10 persons and leaving more than 200 homeless.

More than 300 persons were living in the units. Twenty-nine persons were treated at St. Rose hospital and released. Some were treated at the women's annex of the Lamed State hospital, a mile northwest, of the housing addition. Police Chief Herbert Browning estimated that about 50 persons other than those hospitalized required a doctor's treatment.

British Come Up With Cold Cure London (AP) A group of British scientists announced Friday development of a new drug which may cure the common cold overnight. The drug- is called CF9. The scientists said it may be used in treating diseases in the virus group, including' influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox and infantile paralysii. Admitted to the hospital were: Mrs. George Brannan, scalp cuts and possible back injury; Mrs.

Donald Benson and daughter, Sharon, both scalp cuts'; Lee Bennington, scalp and arm lacerations; Mrs. Bennington, possible foot fracture, Gary and Julia Ben nington; Mrs. Joe Rozar, and bruises; Mrs. T. E.

Smith, cuts and back injury; Eddie Tharp, 3, severe head laceration. Nearly every treated or admitted at the hospital was In night clothes and soaked by the torrential rain which followed the tornado. Ned Darr, manager of the municipal airport, at the field just east of the housing addition, said he was in the observation tower and saw the tornado dip into the dwellings, rip those in the center of the square apart and bounce over the rest. Chief Browning said the firs word received of the disaster came when a "young man in a car drove up in front of the ita tion and yelled to us." All phone and light wires had been torn away by the wind. Browning said four ambulances and two trucks were dtspatchet to the courts along with severa trucks.

The Barton county Red Cross swung into action, sendini a unit out a midnight. The 130th field artillery battalion of the Friday admittance to the ddition could be gained only by a pass obtained from Browning. James B. Duffin, general hous ng manager of the Public Hous ng Administration, said the courts contained 21 buildings of which 18 were occupied by 81 families. ver uttujJicu Eight buildings were leveled, inches of jain which Ben Ames Williams, Author, In Crash Tola Ames Williams, noted author, and his wife narrowly escaped injury near lola when their station wagon collided with a truck in a dust storm.

Both vehicles went into the ditch. The driver of the truck was not injured. Ames and hia wife were on national guard under Capt. Blvie their way home in Boston after a Gray was mobilized and at 12:30 on the davenport. Thursday nigh he slept in a bedroom.

Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Ruby and friend, Richard Nelson, were si ting at a kitchen table when th storm hit.

'There was a big gust of win the windows blew out and walls started to shake," Mr Ruby said. "Then the lights we out." "I just screamed an screamed," Stephanie Ruby, said. The Rubys were in one of the four units not wrecked. They suffered minor water damage from hour raked Superior, and he Duluth, area viciously, uperlor's main business district nd its water front were hardest it. Damage there was estimated several million dollars, with eavy steel coal bridges and ware- ouses in the dock area leveled.

The storm struck Superior :30 p. m. and lasted only one minute. A traveling crane toppled a coal dock, injuring five men. At Fond Du Lac, 250 miles outheast of Superior, Henry Alpen 4, was crushed to death by the uge framework of an outdoor the- ter screen, blown over by the wind.

Iowa reported three dead; Texi and Nebraska each one. The njured toll in Kansas mounted to 2. Five were hurt in Missouri and 3 in Texas. At Des Moines, Wallace Boswell 5, was electrocuted by a fallen wire. A falling light tower killed Harry Konchar, 33, at Madrid, la.

Tom Basye, a fifth grade pupil, was killed by a cupola which blew iff the consolidated )ysart, la. school at destroyed beyond repair and four were still habitable but twisted out of line. Most of the men of the area are oilfield workers. Many away from home. The Red Cross had set up temporary headquarters in the munic- under disaster Hampton was up to 84 miles an hour whipped across the midlands.

Des Moines and Kansas City were in Jie middle of the vortex of the strongest storm center veteran weather forecaster J. R. Lloyd re calls on the central plains. Gusts of wind reached 84 miles an hour at Des Moines. The day- ong winds battered the Kansas My area at a 76-mile-an-hour clip.

Trees were uprooted; plate glass ivindows were shattered; power ines were snapped; planes were grounded and roofs ripped away with the fury of a hurricane. The wlndH followed a series of tornadoes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. There was snow, rain and hail and occasionally the sun would break through the dust. In central and western Nebraska the storm acted like a blizzard. Eastern Nebraska was rattled with something akin to a tornado.

At least one death resulted. There were four Inches of snow at Goodland. Buildings on eight to a dozen farms around Nebraska City were damaged. Several were levelled. The area was deluged with a three-inch rain.

Winds ranged up to 71 miles an hour at Omaha and snow up to six inches deep blanketed central and western Nebraska. Many road were snowbound and some schools were dismissed. up to 65 miles an hour fanned the flat whcatlands of Kansas, churning up dust and cutting visibility almost to zero. Three women were blown from their feet in downtown Kansas City. Two of them were able to about 5 9.

injuring 11 persons, damaging about 20 farm homes and causing heavy livestock losses. In Atchison, where reached 70 mlles-an-hour one man was cut by glass bown from a third story downtown building. Fire fanned by high winds destroyed 2,000 sheep and a large feeding barn at the St. Joseph, Mo. stockyards.

The blaze was whipped by wind gusts up to 76 miles an hour and the fire department wai helpless in its wake. John W. Bennett, president of the St. Joseph Stock Yards estimated loss at $105,000 from the fire. Tents of a carnival were ripped shreds at Chillicothe in central Missouri.

The roof of one house here collapsed under the weight a 81-mlle-an-hour wind. The Rockies had snow. Falls up seven inches were reported in parts of Wyoming and Colorado. swept into South Dakota and south central North Dakota where snows uphto seven Inches were reported. By nightfall the winds began to diminish around Kansas City, they had slowed up to 40 to 50 miles an hour and the weather bureau said they should peter out during the night.

At Liberty, classes at William Jewell college were dismissed when the wind meter on top of Marston Hall recorded 80 miles an hour before the instrument aroke. One student was struck by, flying shingles. The Clay county, Missouri, soils office said erosion damage to fields was the heaviest ever recorded In he county. A 12-acre oat field on le Harvey Wren farm six miles est of Liberty lost over an Inch topsotl. Recently seeded alfalfa elds were a total loss.

Thou- of tons of fertilizer blew way. Four persons were reported inured as a result of gales at To- eka, Kas. Mrs. Mabel Stromer. Jurlingame, was cut by fly- ng glass from an office building window.

)odge Citian Must Serve Prison Term Dodge City M. M. Thompson, orrner Goffe ft Carkener here, must serve a prison term for ipal building and chairman Tudor i asking citizens of the city for i clothing. Plans to feed the home were being made. Bert Mrs.

G. H. Likes, whose bus- Wright, transportation chairman, band was at home, said they had was using two trucks to assist the just gone to sleep when the storm uard th cleanu work hit. "The wind was blowing hard and It had hailed a little." she mid. "I dozed off and when I courts woke up everything was real slstin 8 the Then there was a big jwork.

wooxh. I heard the windows rat tic then I apart. Then 1 was out on the ground." Also aiding In the cleanup were city workmen using city trucks, according to Mayor J. A. Mermis jr.

Mermis spent the night at the police station as- drection of rescue rise and continue against hte wind The third, Mrs. Edna Singe was badly battered. She was car ried inside a store for protection against the gale. It took six me: to steady the stretcher on whlc she was carried to an ambulance Police were flooded with 25 calls for help in Kansas City i one hour. About 125 trees wer either uprooted or blown there.

Twenty-five show window were smashed from store window and 60 telephone and electric pow er lines were down. Bill King was injured fatally 1 jthe Perryton, tornado as he imbezz'iement. Judge Karl Miller of the Ford county district court Friday re- ected an application for a parole and ordered Thompson taken to to serve a one to 4- year term. Thompson was charged with cashed a check made payable to the company by a client and pocketing most of the money. He left town after taking the funnds and later was arrested in Chicago.

tne windows rai- The housing situation in Great I attempted to rush his family to tee I Bend, he said, was tight, and the safety. Thirteen persons were In- ion iroune i aorinnolv. oss ne Barton units will make lured there, four seriously. Ithe situation worse. He said he I knew little the city could do 1m- The north wall of the apartment mediately to ease the housing collapsed along with the east and shortage west ones and the roof.

"I got up and called the children. Two were in one bedroom and two in another. They all answered me and said they were all right," Mrs. Likes said as she burst into tears. "Hearing them say 'mother' was the sweetest sound I've ever known." Two miles north of Ray every building on the Ray Cossman farm was demolished by the twister, but the Cossmans were not hurt.

Damage was reported nearby on the Andrew Irion, Edgar Bird and John Miller farms. At Zook Robert Atwater suffered vacation in Arizona, threw a cordon around the a fractured leg and was taken to St. Rose hospital. Several Mrs. Likes was unhurt and the OU8es an the school bus garage children received little more than were hlt scratches.

One son, Henry, 11, had been in the habit of sleeping ricKrlptlonit Prut. adv. College Student Guilty Of Parsons Robbery Parsons (AP) William A. Bachman, 24-year-old Pittsburg State -college student, pleaded guilty here Friday to charges of first decree robbery and grand larceny. He was sentenced by Judge Hal Hyler to a term up to 21 years on the robbery charge, and IB yeara on the larceny count, with terms to run concurrently.

Arrested at Pittsburg earlier this week, Bachman admitted the $161 holdup of an auto store here Apr. ll, and theft of a getaway car. Blinding dust, which rode out He a ma rried and the father ol Paso in southwest Texas and left Lubbock, in a choking atmospheric condition, plagued the Kansas wheatlands. Some said it was the worst since the eary thirties In the days of the dust bowl. Viaibility at Salina was limited to a block or two at times.

The sky there was veiled by clouds and dust. It was much the same at other central Kansas towns, most of which reported winds rang ing from 50 to 85 miles an hour. Tonutdle ripped through the countryside near Horton, three children. Intercepted Letter HARRY B. TRUMAN Blair House Washington, D.

C. Dear Harry Can't you put some of appropriations In the trilllonaT We're tired of common old millions and billions. Yours, Hutch.