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CURIOSITY Gets Farther Thin POMPOSITY REGISTER Tkmn STAR-NEWS WKATHKR fair and warmtf through day with temperatures rmflni from a of tonight iO or little higher on Pmatftd till VeL Mo. 92. International Mews leretoa SAHDUSRY, OHIO, SATURDAY. MAY 21, 1955 Sandusky TRIO ESCAPES FROM ERIE-CO JAIL Instantaneous Interest In Centennial Alumni Reunion Was Big Factor In Success HE whole town'a buzzin' 1 And here's why. Way last winter some folks in Sandusky thought It would be a good idea to take notice of the fact that this year's high school graduating class is the 100th class that will have received diplomas from Sandusky High school.

And, as people interested in such educational and historical landmarks usually do, these folks wanted to make whatever recognition that was decided upon, an event that could be shared by the 8,500 or so one-time boys and girls who had also graduated from Sandusky High. Symington Cites Lack Of Missiles Egypt' fians Duel Israeli Troops In 2-Hour Battle GAZA, EGYPTIAN ISRAELI FRONTIER, May 21 tian and Israeli forces fought a two-hour duel with mortars and artillery on the border of the bloody Gaza Strip today. The new outbreak of hostilities between the two nations occurred In the same area near Kissufim and Eir El Balah where Israeli troops last Thursday blew v.p an Egyptian outpost in a publicly proclaimed "retaliation" raid for the death of three Israeli officers in a land mine blast on Tuesday. An Egyptian military spokesman said Egyptian suffered no casualties in the sharp new battle this morning. But he said the Egyptian guns were believed to have inflicted casualties on the Israelis.

The Egyptian spokesman said the Israelis crossed the border in six trucks and tried to attack the same outpost they hit Thursday. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli military spokesman said today's trouble was started by the Egyptians and that Israel fired back. He said the Egyptians opened machingun and mortar fire on an Israeli patrol moving along the border and that the forces of Israel returned the fire with mortars and artillery. Four Directors, Officers Elected By Auto Club Here The annual meeting of the Erie County Automobile Club was held in the office at 426 Huron-av at which time the four directors whose terms of office were expiring were re-elected by the membership for another term of three years. They are Fred Volmer, Edward Rosino, Lynn Curtis, and Adam Beckloff.

Proceedings for last year were reviewed and the clUb enjoyed another successful year. Travel was much more -extensive this past year and the trips were much longer than usual. Many went to foreign countries but California and Florida were more in prominence. At the reorganization meeting, Oscar Reinke was elected president; E. B.

Ackley, first vice-president; Harry Bremer, second vice- president, and Otto C. Holzaepfel, secretary and treasurer for the coming year. Lee Asher, Elmer Borchardt, Clarence Krueger and Charles Rhinemiller are other members of the board of directors. So they formed a committee. And the committee met and decided that they'd be willing to do the planning and make the arrangements' if some of the rest of the graduates would like to get together and talk over old reunion, they decided, and gave it a long name so that everyone would recognize.it for what it was event of rather large significance in a young country where anything that has happened' for 100 consecutive years is worth a bit of fanfare and proclamation.

The Alumni Centennial Reunion they called It. The date was easily selected, SatOTdayr-May- 38, the. Saturday before commencement. The next step was to decide who to invite to the reunion. There was only one answer to that question.

Have 8,500 Invitations And everybody was invited. An announcement was made by local press and radio and return postcards were sent to an 8,500 name mailing list which had sprung into being before the diligent inquiries of 40 some volunteer class agents and their hastily organized committees. Even the committee foresaw maybe 750 Sandusky High Alumni attending a reunion-dinner-program-dance combination at the local Junior High school. At the outside, maybe 1,000 would want to come, said several of the more optimistic committee members. Then everyone sat back to see what would happen.

Here's what happened. Local interest was instantaneous and, as the word spread, reservations began to come In from all parts of the Washington State and New York City, all aaying they'd be in Sandusky for the Alumni Centennial Reunion. All, that is, except a number of servicemen stationed abroad who sent their reluctant regrets. Reservations Roll In Within a few hectic weeks, the total reservations numbered nearly 5,000 people. To be sure, the list was not exclusively Sandusky rligh grads, for many alumni wanted to introduce a non SHS husband or wife to yesterday's school mates.

And they'd all be there, all the classes that is. because more (Continued on Page 6) Spain Pledges Aid To A-Power Plans MADRID, May 21 has pledged co-operation with the U. S. in a program of peaceful development of atomic energy 'n Spain. The Spanish cabinet, presided over by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, approved agreements Friday which will permit U.

S. technicians to bolster Spanish power facilities with atomic power plants. ST ATI VI MS BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Earl GuU- singer, Clyde, a daughter, at Memorial Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. William Richey, rural Port Clinton, a at Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Olms, Fremont, a son, at Good Samaritan Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wurm- aer, Castalia, a daughter, at Good Samaritan Hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Irick, Port Clinton, a son, at Providence Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Browne, 1221 Columbus-av, a daughter, at Providence Hospital.

Temperatures May Enter 80's Here Sunday, Post Says Temperatures in the 80's may be recorded Sunday as the weatherman today promised fair weather through the immediate week-end. Meteorologist Donald S. Post said the low near the beaches today would be in the 70's and 80 inland. High Friday was 67 and low Saturday 50 degrees at 5 a. m.

Low tonight is predicted for 58 and the high tomorrow in the 80s There is to be an increase in cloudiness Sunday afternoon with some prospect of rain by Monday morning, the forecaster said. Appeals Ruling To Aid Haymes' Case SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (UP) government's deportation case against crooner Dick Haymes lost strength today because of a recent ruling of the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of an obscure Filipino fisherman. Haymes, Argentine-born hus- iband of actress Rita Hayworth, was arrested for deportation on August 6, 1953, a month after his return from a whirlwind trip to Hawaii during his courtship of the film star.

The ruling, written by Circuit Judge William Healy, reversed a deportation order against Filipino fisherman Alejandro Raca Alcantra, who left Seattle to go to Alaska for the fishing season and was picked up for deportation upon his return. The opinion, concurred in by Circuit Judge Walter T. Pope and District Judge Oliver Hamlin, held that a territory was not "foreign soil" under the meaning of the McCarran Act, so that the fisherman could have not been considered to have left the United i States. Armed Forces: Present, Future tasl 1939 '40 '41 Pictograph illustrates the strength qf U. S.

armed forces from 1939 through 1956. Figures for 1956 are estimated. Peak was reached at the end of World War 2, 1945. Start of the Korean War in June, 1950, brought an upsurge in manpower, which has leveled off gradually since mid-1952. Expected 1956 strength shows the effect of the Administration's "New Look" in the military, which calls for fewer men and more air strength.

NUMBER: COMBAT SHIPS JUNE IMS COMBAT DIVISIONS JUNE 1936 Here's the changing In naval, ground and air strength. Estimated 1956 figures show an increase in air power and a decrease in naval and ground forces strength. Troops Massed To Drive Rebels Qui Of Mekong High-Ley el Talks Assured' Molotov At Frisco For UN Celebration UNITED NATIONS, N. May 21 Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov's decision to attend the United Nation's tenth anniversary celebration in San Francisco, increased the chances today for a concurrent Big Four foreign ministers' meeting. Secretary General Dag marskjold ordered all preparations a If tit made for the possible ministerial PQ JQ SjlOlS UP 10 meeting at which the four diplomats would discuss the Afeal A da for summer talks among their AUlllUl UlGd, chiefs of state. Hatnmarskjold, who flies Paris this evening to make arrangements for the August conference of atomic scientists in Geneva, received a cable from Molotov Friday advising that the Russian minister will participate in the anniversary week, June 20-26. The event in the Golden Gate city, expected to draw at least 40 foreign ministers and hundreds of lesser ranking diplomats fiom 60 nations, will Commemorate the 1 1945 signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco's Opera House. There is still an open question as to whether President Eisenhower and possibly Prime Min- TTm 'ister Siri Anthony Eden 0" Britain The wm jouT ney-to San Francisco for government began massing troops today for a large scale offensive against rebel forces in the Mekong River basin which threatened to blockade Saigon so tightly that "not a single grain of rice will get through." The Hoa Hao Buddhist sect and the semi-gangster Binh Xuyen sect threatened to cut off Saigon and its Chinese twin city Cholon from all food supplies.

a brief appearance. Another prom inent visitor likely to attend the celebration is former President Harry S. Truman. Meanwhile, U. S.

Ambassador James J. Wadsworth indicated that the UN atomic powers will call on the Big Four leaders at their projected parley in Switzerland or Sweden to break the nine- of year deadlock on disarmament and I atomic weapons control. Reject Stretch-out WASHINGTON, May 21 Public Health Service today rejected the possibility of stretching scarce polio vaccine supplies by reducing the amount given in each shot. Simultaneously, it made another recommendation that could slow the mass inoculation program still further in the interest of safety. It urged caution before administering first shots of the vaccine during the period coming later this summer when the polio season will be at its peak.

That period ranges from mid-August to mid-September in various parts of the country. The service said it will be safe to give second shots during that time. But it said inoculations should not be started then without "careful consideration of all the circumstances in the particular episode." Complacency Could Lose Lead Of U.S. Armed Fores Day FBI, Police In Slates Hunl Slick Bank Bandii Team Two Trusties, Burglar Scale VentSaturday One Awaits Transfer To Prison; Others Grand Jury Action Two recent escapees of the JACKSONVILLE, May 21! (UP) Police in five states alongj with the FBI pressed a wide) search today with a helicopter andj 0sborn gt arm an Gtl- planes as well as roadblocks for Marked By disciplined bandit team which' upol is man sentenced by robbed the First National bank of co common pleas court today children as hostages. by climbing through ft The FBI said it had "absolutely itilator shaft, Sheriff Alton f.

nothing" new on the $86,727.12 robbery and was seconded by Highway Patrol Chief Tom Car- By International News Service Millions of Amerioans trooped to Army, Navy and Air Force bases today to see Armed Forces Day demonstrations of the latest weapons as Sen. Stuart Symington warned the U. S. is "not trying hard enough" to overcome Russia's ten-year lead in development of intercon- The former air secretary, renewing his demand that the Eisenhower administration conduct "not a'crusade of secrecy, but a crusade of truth" on national security, issued this Armed Forces Day warning: 1. Up to the present.

America has "no actual or planned defense whatever" against ocean-spanning missiles, armed with nuclear warheads, which could be launched from Russia. 2. Russian capture of Nazi V-2 missile factories and experts in 1945 "should have given them a long running start on this, the most terrible weapon of all." He noted they have had "over ten vears to lengthen the range of the V-2." Concentrate On B-52 3. Haying the missile lead, the Soviets may have had no reason to build intercontinental bombers on the U. S.

scale, but Pentagon announcements show they passed'' the now obsolescent B-36 bomber and are now building B-52 types. Symington 's statements in a (UP) speech at San Angelo, 'nderscored an Air Force warning that "dangerous comDlacpncy" cost the U. S. superiority in Mie air. Top Afr Force officials said the 'J.

S. holds an overall qualitative 'ead. but Russia has more and the Soviet Union is train- more engineers and scientists, For CD Funds Meanwhile a new move is shap- ng up to get Congress to grant President Eisenhower's request for 12 billion dollars to develop Civil Defense plans for handling an H- bomb attack. Sen. Warren Masnuson, (D- said he will write the mount into an indeDendent bf- 'ices appropriations bill in which the sub-committee he heads is now "onsidering.

In New York, Federal Civil De- "ense Chief Val Petersen said trjat 'ocal officials must set up an adequate Civil Defense program or 'he American nennle will Insist on federal supervision. Young reported. The sheriff identified the inett lisle, who said "this is one of the as Alfred Tucker, 20, East smoothest, if not the smoothest, 001 a Donald Dishon, 23, find- job ever pulled in Alabama in my' la y- awaiting court, action 24 years as a law enforcement after 8 captured earlier this officer." month in Chester, W. as None of the victims was harmed'capees from Osborn state fartd; and no shots Were fired. Four of the bandits invaded the home of Jesse N.

Wood, assistant vice-president and cashier of the bank, Friday and while two remained to. guard his family, the other pair forced Wood to accom- 0 CK pany them to the bank where they! ch ck at 9:30 and Edward W. "ulton, 26, GalH- polis, sentenced to the MansfJold, Reformatory on two counts tf breaking and entering With approximately 30 prisoners in jail, the trio was not discovered missing until the regular morning waylaid and tied up seven other members of the bank staff while wailing an hour for the bank vault to open. Police said a fifth man drove their getaway- car which was, found abandoned two miles north of this little teachers college town. Wood quoted the apparent leader of the gang, a smooth-talking well dressed man, as saying, "One outcry, one alarm and your wife and children die.

Get that through your lead." Before leaving the bank to pick said. It is believed the three men kit the building between 2 :30 and 4 a. m. Sheriff Toang snM the saea went up through a ventilator shaft to the roof of the Jail and then came down an drain pipe on the east side of- the bnUdug, opposite the esV fice. They disappeared into the night and were reported still at large early Saturday afternoon.

Both Tuckerand Dishon were be- frie-co Sheriff Loses Arsenal CLEVELAND. May 21 (UP) Erie-co sheriff Alton Young came to Cleveland Friday to bear some FBI experts tell how to avoid bank robberies and returned to ky today a much wiser man. While attending VOTE TERMINAL TOWER SALE CLEVELAND, May 21 (INS) Stockholders of the Terminal Tower Co. in Cleveland Friday night to sell the 52-siory skyscraper to.Roger Steven; of Detroit for $11,450,000. Ohio Has Plenty Of Water, Problem Is Distribution BY ROBERT JAIN United Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND.

May Any history of conservation Ohio must include the name of John H. Byrne of Cleveland. Byrne is a water zealot. Specifically, he is a Lake Erie zealot. "The Great Lakes are the largest fresh water hole in the world," the vigorous 70-year-old said today.

"Men and animals have always gone to water holes, and today people and industries are flocking here." "But we have plenty of water," 2 Toledo Youths Held After Attempt To Extort $2,000 TOLEDO, May 21 (INS) Two teenage Toledo boys, 14 and 15 years old, were held at the Child Institute in Toledo today after allegedly admitting trying to extort $2,000 from a father under threat of harming his five-year-old son. U. S. Commissioner John Barone set bond at $2,500 for the two when they appeared before him Friday night. H.

O. Hawkins, FBI agent in charge of the northern Ohio area, said the two attend a Toledo a "professional" extortion letter to Law- ire nee Falise of Toledo. lie said. "Our problem is distribution." Like many other Greater Cleve- landers, Byrne feels the effect of bad distribution at his bachelor's quarters in Euclid. Outlying faucets have a tendency to dry up during the hot months and Home- limes apartment dwellers with a splendid view of Lake Erie can get nothing in the kitchen sink.

Planning is the answer, according to Byrne, planning and a realization that what is planned for today will not suffice for tomorrow. Water Use Increases "We're using more water per capita than ever before," he said, "and our population is going up too. Ten years ago Akron's per capita usage was 80 gallons A Now it's 135 gallons, and still Byrne said three things were responsible for greater water use: increased industrial demand, higher standard of living in the home, and the discovery of the power of supplemental irrigation. "Farmers are just realizing that rainfall is not properly spaced for maximum growth," he said. "We have an average of 39 inches of rain in the watershed, but in four out of five years irrigation is needed." So now, with the slippers-and- pipe stage of life put off indefinitely, eager-faced John Byrne is off on another crusade- On May 5 he launched a plan for co-operative water handling between eight northern Ohio counties with a meeting at Baldwin- Wallace College, Berea.

Students Want To Know B-W students were eager to know the future of the area. "Many of them are going to depend on industry for their living when they graduate," Byrne said, "yet they don't want to live in an industrial area. "The answer again is water. Water in the right places and in the right quantities. And to make that possible, we have to plan for a wide area." Byrne's basic idea is for two pipelines.

One of them would go from the lake to the source of the Cuyahoga River near Chardon. That wold increase the supply of water from the river. The other pipe would go to the upper Black and Rocky Rivers Cops Suspect 'Eye' Aids Killer Private lye Kike close friend of a No. I awapeet la a aeries of fas his letast crime- sehrtag adveatnre. Shayae ealest a ssatderer to prove his awat liMwari and also that af fct Murttarv Laer Hamilton.

Itonl alias £a9JnTis DIATH HAS 3 LIVES ly Irtft HaNiday Starts Monday in The Seaister -Stsf west of Cleveland in Cuyahoga and Lorain-cos. Byrne aimed his efforts at preserving the forest cover up until a couple of years ago. "Then it began to dawn on me that this would never be a forest area again," he said. "This is going to be an industrialized section and rainfall just isn't enough to meet demands." Irrigation Needed Ohio is one of the most fertile sections of the country, yet Byrne pointed to crop figures to show (Continued on Page 7.) $4 Million Loss In Colo. Floods; Clean-up Started TRINIDAD, May 21 (INSi Estimates today placed the damage at $4,000,000 in southern Colorado cities hit by floods following springtime rainstorms.

Trinidad, inundated by the Purgatoire River overflow, suffered approximately three-fourths of the total damage while La Junta, on the Arkansas the north, absorbed the remainder of the punishment. The clean-up operation began Friday to remove the muck and debris left by the roaring waters finally trapped by the John Martin reservoir east of Las Animas, Colo. possessfdn of from a HUTonstAd I Fulton only recently was teneed te an. indeterminate) term In the Mansfield Reformatory and was being held la tha Jail pending removal to Mansfield. atatewide alert was given all law enforcement agencies, the sheriff said.

m. 4 ing held for the Erie-co grand Jury up their companions back at the 99C pin tnm Wood house the gunmen hung a 0sborn atat farm The Mwit "Bank Closed. Legal Holiday" oignj md Reformatory twttea Jei Pilot Seeks U.S. Round-Trip Record In Flight NEW YORK, May 21 (UP) F-86 Sabrejet pilot took off at the crack of dawn today from Los Angeles in an Armed Forces Day attempt to become the first man in history to fly to New York and back between sunset and sunrise. The pilot, First Lieut.

John M. Conroy, of "the California Air tional Guard, hoped to breakfast at San Fernando Valley Airport, lunch at New York's Mitchel Field, and get back to Los Angeles for dinner before the sun sets. If "Operation Boomerang," as the jAlr Force has dubbed the flight, goes off as planned. Conroy will have plenty of time for tails and canapes before dinner. He's due back at 7:40 p.

n. (est) three hours before sunset. 10th floor of the Federal Reserve Bank building, Sheriff Young lost- Two rifles, three shotguns, one pistol, two revolvers and ammunition for all eight weapons. The sheriff's arsenal was stolen from his 1953 sedan labeled in big letters on the "Sheriff, Erie County." Young told Cleveland police that he parked the auto in the downtown area Friday morning and discovered tha bvr- glary early this morning. LAVSCHE NOT CONSIDERED CLEVELAND, May 21 Tift Cleveland Plain Dealer said today in a dispatch from its Washington bureau that Gov.

Frank J. LauschS "is not being considered by national Democrats for a spot on the 1958 ticket." News In CHICAGO, National Safety Council today awardad citations to six persons and 10 organizations, including tha Ohio state highway auxiliary patrol for their contributions in 1994 to highway safety. PARIS to issue "European" postage stamp tag! can be used anywhere in western Europe has received almost eonj- plete agreement, it was announced today. Only British authorities art' holding out on the plan for the franc, ($.07) stamp BONN, Chancellor rat! Adenauer met with his top defense planners today for the aaev ond straight day in a major effajHt to spaed rearming befera tfcft Soviet can block it tofMfrtk hV plans. 1 CLEVELAND, ments were set today to htgkf court of anneals Mcndav Samuel plea reversal of his second dagjifi 1 4ar nopvantJalsV.