The Record from Hackensack, New Jersey • 1

mmxi WEATHER Mostly fair this afternoon; high temperature today SS degrees. Cloudy to-night; low 72. Partly loudy tomorrow; high 85. Continued humid throughout. For further information see weather map oa Page 5.

Complete Index on Page 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS EDITION Vol. 61 No. 60 24 PAGES Two Sections Dailv Ejtrrpt Sunday 150 River Hackensack. J. MONDAY AUGUST 15.

1955 Entered aa 2nd Claw Matter tn P. Hackensaca, N. Act of March 3. 1379 PRESIDENT ARRIVES AT DENVER DD1W ALERTS GIVEN AREAS IN WAY OF NEW GALE pa ULPIDJIIIOIDIN OlJlljLi mm IN-HURRICANE EEMATH A Hurricane Diane Heads North With Winds Up To 115 Miles ONE DEATH LISTED Gales, Drenching Rains Disrupt Power In 60,000 Area Homes; Mop-Up Proceeds Quickly Connie Damage Is Put At $10 Million On Coast Miami, Aug. 15 (rfv-Coastal residents from Northeast Florida through North Carolina were alert Hackensack Hard-hit Bergen County, soaked by rain and swept by gale winds Saturday, was still digging out of storm damage today.

Snapping tree branches and wind gusts up to 65 miles an hour broke power lines and brought power failures to at least 60.000 Public Service Electric and Gas Company customers in Bergen, said a spokesman today. ed today to keep a close watch on urricane Diane, the year's fourth tropical storm, which is headed in 'that direction at about 15 miles an jhour. At 5 A. M. (E.

S. T.i, the weather bureau reported the hurrican was centered about 670 miles east south-least of Jacksonville, and mov-iing toward the west northwest, i Hurricane winds, estimated as 'high as 115 miles at the center of storm, extended out for 150 miles north of the storm's eye. RESERVES CALLED In all but a few scattered areas and Demarest Place, and Mercer down in at Shea Chevrolet on last night, the situation was so serious that crews from Passaic River Street. Werner Shop and r- Tk President Eisenhower chats with his mother-in-law, Mrs. John S.

Doud. shortly after his arrival at Denver last night, to begin another vacation in the Centennial State. Left to right are Mayor Will F. Nicholson, the President, Mrs. Doud.

and Colorado's Democratic Governor, Edwin C. Johnson. (A. P. Wirephoto.) and Hudson Counties were shipped 'T a 7 FF many cracked tree hmbs and hnn.

At downed wires throughout the City, tions. At least a00 Public Service workers were out on emereencv TEANECK Hurricane damage a uf over the weekend "nans "ed to a flooded intersec tion. downed wires and branches Approximately 3,000 phones in without anv serious damage, and a Bergen were knocked out by the few flooded basements, police re-storm, according to New Jersey nnrtpd while gale-force winds extended 350 miles to the north and east. Winds along the Northeast Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina coasts are expected to begin to increase tonight, if the hurricane continues at its present rate of movement. Bell Telephone Company officials.

Traffic was snaysed for a while Service has been restored in all Saturday at the Plaza and West but a few isolated cases, they Englewood Avenue intersection aQlded. when the thorouehfare beram Eisenhower Starts Tee, Trout Holiday President Greets Friends, Neighbors On Arriving For Colorado Vacation "ections of the North Carolina coast were raked by winds from 'Hurricane Connie only last week. Damage was estimated at from $7 'to $10 million. Heavy rains fell Phone repair crews have already I flooded. Police said the area a been alerted and given standby roned off and traffic rprnntpr! un.

John H. Crossing of Zii Chestnut Avenue, Bogota, had trouble crossing River and Mercer Streets, Hackensack. Saturday when flood waters inundated the intersection. Here Crossing, trousers rolled up. gets an assist from Traffic Patrolman Thomas Aletta.

as far north as New York. Storm forecasters, issuing the alert for Diane, warned residents to be prepared for possible hurri LYRIC BUILDING By MARVIN L. ARR0WS.MITH cane warnings during the next Denver, Aug. 15 (JP) If ever a man seemed glad to be hours. assignments in case hurricane Diane should strike any section of the East Coast.

Linemen were sent to widely scattered States last year when other hurricanes caused widespread damage. The Rockland Electric Company, which S3rves several North Bergen towns, said hundreds of customers were without electricity during the hectic week-end. It reported most of the damage cleared up today. Utility companies weren't the only ones that sent out men to fight til the water subsided into clearing storm drains. SWITCHBOARD SWAMPED The biggest tie-up.

however, took place in police headquarters at the telephone switchboard. Captain Robert Fitzpatrick said three patrolmen had to be assigned to switchboard duty to handle the swarms of calls from residents anxious to know where lightening had struck, if highways were clear, and how soon would fallen branches would be cleared. Shipping in front of the storm MAY BE RAZED! back, President Eisenhower does in starting his fourth summer vacation in a row here in Colorado. was advised to exercise caution. Diane formed while Connie was WARM WELCOME still dumping heavy rains on the! vance of adjourning.

He signed Middle Atlantic Stales. It first Given 60 Days There was a warm "Hi. Ike nnp mrasiii-p rlpalinc Wiih land for i Beared August 11 about 420 miles To Conform To Code I from the airport crowd and from a Colorado River ornipct. and an- northeast of Pureto Kico and! his l.atavpftp Slrppt npiennors as .1 1 the the hi nPw 7rm Washington las a.rned at ending movea Hackensack The aimed at ending Lyric build storm damage. Firemen, Fitzpatrick said the department i nlnmhit Kn rs c-t mist tia 1 1t 3 WPS fl I'fllMX.

1IIL1 I II II I'utiat i V'Uiuitiuia uu atiu svii-vi fioiii. ing at 165-7 Main Street has been A 1 t- I i i I 11 Hh and Civil Defense forces in almost 'recalled all off-duty men during settling into its present pain. 1 car strike the hurricane and emploved the Km miixiiiv. 11 iiiikn It rolled through tne Atlantic kill -Us sure nice to be nere again. hvnasint Rprmtida to the (Continued on page 2.

column 3) condemned as a result of Friday morning's fire that caused upwards of $300,000 worth of dam-jage. Wilbur H. I.ind, city building vided for continued stockpiling oi Along witn me cniei executive every Bergen town were called out for a variety of tasks everything from untangling traffic jams to standing guard over fallen wires. TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR ramp his hnlnvpri enlf cluhs. which some nomesiic minerals, tie aisoi" he hoped to use today at Denver's allocated SI million in federal noted Bermuda, but! clorV cw lhc DuiWin BOY, 2, DROWNS I hpt-rv? Hll 1 niinlrv I lull ailfl ill'au nip, nuuivcm j.h on 1 iiwii.

V- rimn Nnk we siorm was 100 i ay He said the owners, listed a The nis trout tisning gear ror nse in a much damage. Hcalty Company of 227 Pas- slream high in the Kocky Moun- Mrs. din not accom-j ,1,, iorm rlaimrd its ine storm gave lenatly police one unprecedented task. Called to i i HIGH DITCH in Rrinsh-owned 1C. "avc ipany the President to Denver, tains later in the week.

1 til Hn.a itr.it (an lah tlaaa a the Franciscan Convent on Knick first lady home town, but a a a.nrsi laay nome town, nui Thic thp fminh s.immpr in snc -CMrt ir, jnhn Rastinirr row the President has vacationed Plans to return here with Auc-i Saturday in heavy seas. m'' PJ The general alarm fire was re- I II V. V'lUl tlllU. III II 1 oil a I HIIUJ, a iuiiin.nn 11 it, u-inhia for thp nav to address the i tttutMi. jus auidii unite iias urvu ntic, sam wftunriiiuu nuwuiu 1 lAmpriran Asmviation rnnvpn- i 22 A.

M. Friday and upenca sain -v i Koa "Tf l5 brought under control l.itr- in 1U.C OHM lit. iivi SUN in WUIIltl V. .1 .1 1 11.. morning.

Tcanrrk, May wood. erbocker Road, they helped evacuate a nun from an elevator which was caught between floors by a power failure. Hidgewood forces fared what was described as the worst flooding in 10 years. One man in that village was knocked unconscious during the storm by an electric shock in his home. In Fort Lee.

police had something else to worry about. The storm touched off sev- Englewood Tot Walks Away From Uncle Englewood A 2-ycar-oId boy who drowned in a storm-swollen Englewood drainage ditch was amon; the 12 persons who died in New Jersey accidents this week-end. Tlif, Anrlprcnn ft I River Edge, and Utile Ferry i jjninrd forces with Hackensack to! 'control the blae 1 The building housed Rogrrs! i Clothes. Fanny Farmer's and Abel-j json's jrrlry store on the Main, 1 Street level, and business offices! pari 01 most uays uiuie nanuiiiiKj nave i nice mi, u. r.isni' 01 PCJisicrs nip limy on inr the affairs of state a President can hower called to her husband yes-'alrrt, and if warnings are needed never leave behind.

Iterday morning as he left their they will be given plenty nf tune Just before he left the White I farm at Gettysburg. Pa for Wash-j Meanw hile there is no cause for House Eisenhower acted on thejinglon enroute here. undue alarm." he said last three of the 471 bills whichi Eisenhower remarked he had Kone of the winds inside the Congress passed shortly in ad-l (Continued on page 2. column 2 I storm has remained constant for 2 davs. and weathermen said little eral burglar alarms and kept thf-ml-v; Armorv Street, fell into ditch busy checkine each one above.

To the rear of the stores al Englewood Avenue and Jay change in intensity Is expected. cnangr in imrnMi, f-- In Ramsey, one restaurant own- Street on the cast side of MacKay TK. he old l.vric Theater, hid- Japanese Remember Fast, v'-jr I i ol the theater could be seen from 3 cr reported mat tor tne first time aw4 i Ult. I I.r 1. mi in iMiTwin int.

in- prcpai eo "00 dinners by candlelight. Palisades Park Girl Is Billcn; A Copperhead? liia.f llumniit vnlunlerr-firrmen David Schmidt and Joseph Srallan tuke a once In-a lllrtlnie trip bv rowhoat lo rescue Mrs. Louise Dance from her flooded home. More than fret of water, a product nf hurricane onnie's wrath Saturday. Islnntrd the Rrnoksiile Terrace dwelling.

The volunteers' tcamanship was just one of the many talents dlsnlavrd hy firemen during the wrek-rnd sliiiin. Slate Street, and It bordered on the City parking lot on Stale Si reel. Fire Chief William Krorisham said the blaze began in the auditorium of the unused theater He Look To Future With Hope Tenth Anniversary Of Defeat Observed; Religious Observances, Newspaper Sections Mark Day I added that vagrants have been Palisades Park A 13-year-old known to use il tor a sleeping CELLARS FLOODED Although the situation in Bergen was generally worse than many other Jersey counties, some areas ucre particularly hard hit. At the neak of the storm, reported Puhlic Service Electric and das Company. 180,000 customers were without power.

The unrelenting cloudbursts, according to Associated Press, flooded thousands of cellars, and fire departments helped home owners pump the'waler out. and mav have started the RACER SCORES FIREMEN USE girl was taken io r.ngiewoua TOKYO, Aug. 10 japan iranKiy ana solemnly ooservea pitai laie yesterday aiterniKin ancriiu-e accidentally. Iter an! an) lodav the tenth anniversary of its crushing defeat in 1945, dis- receiving a bite or sting from Several firemen were injured by an unknown animal, police reixirted. flying glass, and a few others ON UPHOLSTERY! BOAT ON JOB Mary Ann tlubner of 105 fc-ast cussed with equanimity the occupation that followed, looked with hope to the future.

i werr treated for Sim ke poisoning None required hospitalization, how ever. Brinkerhoff Avenue was bitten on the leg yesterday while walking on Shinto prayers before green- Broad Avenue near East Washing-banked altars in manv cities. ton Place. What hit her is yet lo some exposed returned late Park early Saturday night. Waters in the channel were described as considerably above the normal 3-foot level because of the heavy rains.

Near the youngster at the timt were his uncle. James Anderson of 34 Armory Street, and Randolph Allen of 2tl4 Franklin Street, both of Englewood. They were sitting on a blanket in the park with another man, James Butler of 211 Warren Street, Englewood. when the boy apparently wandered over to the ditch. Butler told police he saw the child caught on a branch over the rushing water.

But by the time he got to the scene, the youngster had been pushed downstream. Butler said he finally pulled tha boy out and applied artificial respiration while the uncle and Allen went to police headquarters for help. Police tried to revive the boy. Attempts at Englewood Hospital also failed. Anderson and Allen were later questioned by Police Chief Jack Abrams.

Englewood detectives, and Assistant Bergen Prosecutor Fred Galda and County Detective Captain John Ducoff. The boy's death was one of five New Jersey week-end fatalities at-(Continued on page 2, column 7) The entire row of stores, start- llv Uproivi'S Turn -lilni-v Tn Ifncriin rvacuees from ing with Wh.lan al the corner 1 UNI sailors 10 KCSCUC towns wen of Main and Mercer Streets south. Construction I TIZC OIlKin In Flood ISaturday night tc Evacuees from to some towns. Thev spoke and read of peace, be determined. The girl fled fromi Some streets along Barnegat Bay PRAISE FOR S.

Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama keynotcd the day with a statement which praised the U. S. occupation for averting starvation and thus staving off Fascism and Communism. Japanese mourned the war dead of all nations in Buddhist and prosperity, and politics on this the scene without a hresge department store, wasj anniversary of abject surrender by glance. A passing motorist picked filled with smoke.

Some of llic at Mantoloking and Bay Head By ROBERT BUTTON By LEONARD GOLDBLATT (Sppclal to the Bemcri Evening Iti-ioid) Dumonl Firemen here chalked "ded until the waters ceded early yesterday. Among the proud people. (her up and brought her lo poiiccstores next to the Lynr hiillitmgi Some attended sports events. Al- headquarters. She was then takeniremained closed Saturday, as (hey! TcIve-yenr-old Jimmy Hunder- u.

nil luiiiiiv "ii'J 1 1 in- inundated spots was the bay front received water damage along with fund, whose boy-built car in the most all scanned big picture and to the hospital. braving the heavi boat Saturday. summer home of State Senator storv suDDlements in their news-l Hnsmtal authorities say therelthe smoke All-American Soap Box Derby here in in papers, showing Japan broken andlare two minute holes on her leg Main Mreet was closed rulay earned the hopes of Bergen est seas ever encountered tneiiuaiK Anion tssexi. devastated on Aug. 15.

1945 but possibly a snake bite, say police. luntil alxuit midnight Police and County, N. and Rockland Coun-I town's fairly dry history. In Bergen, this was the town-by- forging rapidly ahead today. The area around the holes, con- fire department members stood ty.

N. was flying back home! An jfioiater nome on Brookside P'clure of the storm's after- $1,300 STOLEN lne newspaper Asam saia an sidcrably swenen wnen mc sin me luimus puum- iay as a cnampion among Tprrare owned hv Mr I rmiseimatn when the Japanese want the past 1" years of arrived at the nospuai. suDsioeaiui io picvcm an ouiuiean in mc champions HACKENSACK River Street Dance called for police for peace to continue on and on, but following cutting and draining of -smoldering rums. i As far as speed was concerned HACKENSACK under the railroad overpass was flooded and had to be pumped by IContinucd on page 2, column 1) The brook which crosses Lafay members of a Fire Department. ette Avenue overflowed, placing warned today liberty descended the inflamed area.

on them from heaven almost acci-i Sergeant John Moffatt, on desk dentally. duty when the girl was brought in. Mainichi said: "It is not a sim- said the bite might have been from pie matter to build a middle of a copperhead. Copperheads in the road democracy but that the past have been reported in the Dance property in 5 feet of iratttc was DiocKea at itiver street u-aipr Pnii.p naecprt Tttrc Tianpo' i and Salem Street. River Street.

Lumber Company Safe problem to volunteer firemen who Opened: Tools Found obtained a boat owned by Patrol is the happiest road for Japan." Palisades Interstate Park. With Yomiuri spoke of Japan's eco- the recent storms and construction nomic progress but cautioned a blasting on the hill ot tne completely independent economy ough, these poisonous reptiles may Legislature Begins Work On Bills Meyner Vetoed Action Due On Measures To Hike Jobless Pay, 1 11 uiiii.iiiuiini.nmLi aamimii iiiimuuiji ni im.o, jiimmn I i x'h I and diplomacy is still remote. have been washed down into the man Charles Kirchbaum and made the rescue. The English-born resident praised the volunteers. She said she will write a personal commendation to the Mavor and Council.

Mrs. Dance still has about 3 feet of water in her cellar. Her large We must recognize anew we valley. Moffatt said. Hackensack Burglars who worked under the cooling effect of a large fan took at least $1,300 from a safe in Comfort Coal and Lumber Company offices at 123 Anderson Street, police report.

Between 8 P. M. Saturday and 6 A. M. today an unidentified person or oersons broke a window, on the can be saved only by He emphasized, however, that Yomiuri concluded.

this is merely conjecture on his It was a day of reminiscence, nart. He added that the hospital Set Up Board For Chimney Rock Program Politicians and Government offi-Would analyze the fluid taken from cials who were ministers or eirl's leg and make a further yard, recently landscaped, is snaked ministers at the time of the sur-Report some time today. second floor on the south side of the building to gain entrance. They Her home near the New Milford! Trenton, Aug. 15 (JP) The New Jersey Legislature meets render neld a quiet party at a Tokyo hotel.

mrrr'aTr, 1 UTT I i7Ti went to the office on the ttrst tioor, line was the only one here badly: today to commence work on bills conditionally vetoed by Gov-damaged by water. The heavy rains iornnr Rnhprt Mevnpr I west side of the building, police Leaders of both conservative i i 1 All 1 I LLLCli swelled the brook from the disposal! nn t-R parties naioyama uemocrais said. plant to New Milford to more than A punch method was used to nnen the safe, which had a tear BY BANDITS CLUB Holdup Man Gets $100 At Route 4 gas shell attached to the door. Police said the tear gas went off. and the rival Liberals took the occasion to plug for a merger against the threatening strength of the Socialists.

A right Socialist leader praised the freedoms Japan has found under thp nccunatinn-snnnsorprl The cash box was on the floor. Gasoline fetation Fort Lee A gas station at 100 feet wide in places. Not to be entirely distressed, Mrs. Dance told her rescuers, firemen David Schmidt and Joseph Scalian, "I never thought I'd have a boat ride on my own grounds." BLAST TOLL RISES near a hammer and two screw drivers when police arrived tendant was knocked unconscious HEARING STARTS FRIDAi fjnance Most of the measures are to bejduced a week ago but awaits amended in line with Meyner's; public hearing, recommendations and re-passed. The hearing starts Friday and High on the list of these are two may run into next week, measures to increase maximum i The Senate is ready to pass a weekly unemployment compensa-; bill'providing for referenda in 12 tion and temporary disability paper ballot counties on the ques-benefits from $30 to $35.

Meyner tion of using voting machines. The found technical flaws in the orig-i measure provides for loans to the inal bills. 1 counties to finance purchase of the Main reason for the Legisla- voting devices. constitution, hut said reactionaries and robbed Saturday morning George Brown of 179 James Street, were threatenina it. A left Socialist! when a masked bandit stole $100 Dolice reported leader professed to discern similar Rav ChadwicK oi rneips ve danger.

He said the constitution a porter for Comfort, called police a 6 A. M. today to report the theft. Police said the $1,300 total may climb when the cashier comes to work today and is able to check the amount that was in the safe. nue.

Bergenfield, night attendant at Morris's Sunoco Station on sta.ids in danger of being revised tor the worse and plans for bringing in atomic weapons are crushing Japan's national livelihood. ture's summer meeting is a $76 senate Majority Leader Wayne Route 4, was taken to Englewood million program for water suDDlv.lDumnt Warren said the up- Hospital for treatment. These were slaps at Hatoyama Mysterious Ohio Explosion Claims Twenty-Second Life Ashtabula. Ohio. Aug.

15 (fi The blast which ripped the village square at Andover last Wednesday has claimed its twenty-second life. Ruby Shellito, 17. died at General Hospital here yesterday. The girl, who would have been a senior at Andover High School, was working as a waitress in the drive to revise the constitution to He told police a man about 5 feet 11 inches, of medium build, and wearing a handkerchief over his face had hit him with a club permit Japan to rearm. He didn't The program includes construction' house alsd might act on some of a reservoir at Chimney Meyner's recent appointments.

Somerset County, and expansion1 He said tne appointment of former of three existing water systems in state Senator Edward J. O'Mara North Jersey. I'D-. Hudson) of Jersey City to the The only expected action on Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corn-water is introduction of a bill set- mission probably would be con- duck the issue. From his summer villa at Karuizawa he said he after he had rifled the cash reg ister.

JIMMY HUNDERFL'XD W. J. KING King, All-American Soap Box Derby general manager, congratulates the Bergen-Rockland Soap Box Derby champ, last night, at Akron, 0. A trunkload of athletic equipment went to Jimmy for having built the car with the best upholstery of all 154 in yesterday's race. (A.

P. Wirephoto.) wants a new election fought on precisely this issue. our Family Newspaper 58,140 Daily Circulation Last Month Police sent out County and State it ex-: ting up a 5-member board in the firmed as a matter oi courtesy. alarms. Gateway Restaurant when ploded and burned, BOOK OF BANDY CHECKS State Department of Conserva- c.

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