Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 1

THE FORECAST By S. Waather Buraan Partly cloudy today; widely Scattered tbundershowers In afternoon or evening; high 80. Tuesday -tempera tares: 75: 56. Precipitation, .94, Sunrise to-day, sunset, 8:07. More daU 16.

Five-Second Editorial Other' feople look" Fiinny io You, Don' Laugh, Just Think How Funny You Probably Lock io Them. EIGHTY.SEVENTH TEAE-VOL. 82, NO; ST" flOUX CITY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951. 20 PAGES. CARRIKR Daily San 35c Mail 1 in Daily t5c Kiowa, S.

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n-i-! wL-i vNKv.k- 'iti Star Visits Graves Parents in Iowa Clarinda, la. () Film star Marilyn'Maxwell returned to her southwest Iowa this week to visit relatives and old fiends. It was her first visit here in 10 years. Miss Maxwell Visiled the graves here' of her father, and mother, both of whom have died in the She left here Tuesday morning for Oklahoma City, to rejoin the Bob Hope veterans hospital tour. ALLIEDiORCES IN BITTER FIGHT a Lylp Hall.i proprietor at Hall's Hall and his wife were home during: the storm and the roof of the summer home.

The Vogels reside in Morningside and-wercnot present during the 000 TuesdaySxStorm split a tree in front of the Henry on the east end of Brown's lake and blew pa'Hof the trunk squarely onto OsP In the debris of his bathouse and refreshment ttand which was hurled east of its foundation 0 Freakish BabvJornado Rips If Brown's Lake AfeaMany 1 I Through Escape Injury him and pushed him, hurling anches and parts of the bdat- houSearound him. Clairsvbrother Earl was sitting in his 1929Tfcjd coupe just northeast of the boathouse when the storm struck. He dropped to floor of the car as the blackness, roar and water enveloped him. He said he saw parts of the Loat- nouse tJy oyer ins neaa and a'ine TO Future Cuts oji Beet Would Be Erased- Jolinstpn Irked 1 Washjngton. (AP) -The 1.1 a hanking jcommiuee voted Tuesday ta forbid price rollbacks below the' January-Febniary level canceling among other things most of the future cuts planned for beef.

The, action set oir a strong protest from mobilization officials, led by Eric Johnston, economic stabilizer, who 'said It will be "bad news every American Michael V. DiSalle, price stabilizer, said "would re-'. ward those people wjho had ntfTcgard for attempt's: to sta- bilizc the economy under voluntary controls" by propping their price increases. But Chairman Maybank of the banking committee tended the action would spur pror ductioh by removing facing producers and would thusi help combat inflation. The administratipiJ had asked for a two-year cxjtensfpn aivl: broadening of contrcj powers, but-the senate committro voted to extend price, wade and rent con trols only until ntxl March 1.

'Refuse to Give Authority. Shortly after Maybank's committee voted, the backing comrrittee handed the administration a second setback. That group voted down a proposal toj give price stabilizers authority1 to license business operators as a means of controlling prices-: Such powers were u.ced in world war 2 arid permitted the government to shut down -business which violated eeilng: Both actions came as the two committees nearcd the endki)f their' job of rewriting! trie -defense pr.o-ducticn'act, which carries control powers, to extend the l.iw past its present expiration date of June -30. Both groups hoped to finish the chore Wednesday and "get bills out. The senate committee's pricing plan, if by th senate and house, would prevent DiSalle from setting a price ceiliha below the average level: of January 24 to February 24, unless the ROLLBACKS '(Continued on Page 16, Col.

2), day night, although the water had receded. Laige sections of bank nearithe. bricTgt.i had cave'd into the and it was'fearcd that the span might be weakened. The sewer backup wreaked its worst havoc on 'W. 28th, W.

29th and Rebecca streets. Water gurgled fcom sewers in the section, turning streets into rivers. The water crept over curbs' and some basements in area were flooded. Residents! turned out Tuesday evening wjfh shovels and hoses Tei-nove the layer of mud. Sioux City's flooded area.

was roughly, bounded by W. 2th street on th north, Rebecca on the west. Perry-crfk on the cast and W. Eighth street pn the south. Except for puddles, most of the WEST SIDE FLOOD (Continued on Page 16, Col.

7) 000 000 1 Vfl- if STABILIZING diate area; were picked upland hurled eastward by the wind The storm hit between noon and 12:10 p. the time at which Hall's electric clock- stopped when telephone and power lines went down. Several of the 14 cottages just north of the Hall boat- house were; inhabited at the" time of the storm, but no one was injured there. The state conservation area on the southeastern edge of the lake, where Izaak' Walton league headquarters are situated, was mildly hit by the southern fringe of the big wind. Just before the storm, witnesses said, the sky.

turned black, and wind blew swirls of sand from the Missouri river, several miles west of the lake. Clair Hanson was standing in the doorway of the boathouse when the twister hit the lake's edge. He started to run to the Hall home a quarter of a mile FOR HIGH RIDGE Crest Changes Hands-Six Times Sabre Jets Win BY WILLIAM C. BARNARD Tokyo. (Wednesday.) Bitter mountain', fighting erupted on the eastern end of thciKorean war front' Tuesday while the Chinese communist airfcrce jlost its challenge of allied air superiority for the thirdl straight day.

The fifth 1. airforce announced that four Russian-made M. I. G. jets damaged when 30, enemy nlanes jumped 27 '-United States Sabre jets near the Man-ehurian border.

Dogfights bla2cd briefly from 30,000 on down. until the reds broke off and fled north to safety. That' brought the bag of enemy planes destroyed 'ori damaged since Sunday to incFudingi six positively, de-" strdyed. After Tuesday's action the Fifth airforce failed to' make its usual anno-uncement that all United State planes returned safe, hint- there may have been some allied losses. During the three days a total of.

195 M. I. G.s and 'Sabres have traded shots over, so-called M. I. G.

valley near the Yalu river in extreme northwest Ko rea. It "was the most determined appearance of the red-nosed M. I. G.s in several months, but apparently Was no rtfhre successful than all the other encounters. Lone Red Flier Comes Over a single- engined communist nuisance (rai der, was out again early Tuesday.

The clane' bombed- and strafed the Uijongbu area about 10 miles north of Censprshjp blacked out details koreXnwar (Continued on Page 16, Col. 8) I The woman was taken fJ Wall Street "mission. Throngs' of curious added. the difficulty of residents' who feared their hemes might be threatened by the rampaging creek. Floyd Helt, 509.W..

19th street, complained that sightseers and their cats were" so jammed around W. 20th and Center streets that he and others who livb irrhe area had difficulty getting to their homes. Unable to drive because other cars blocked him, he saidj lie wdura 10 nis nomc, A street department crew Taxs day afternoon used a power winch to clear tree stumps and other 'debris which was jammed undr the Geneva' street bridge near W. 17th street. The south approach to the bridge was 'covered with water and police still had it blocked Lto traffic Tues-000 000 -k 4 Joe Mycka of Sioux City surveys the damage Photos hy Newman, Etaff Photographer is in the: background.

Two cottages Mycka on the lake escaped with If east He was thrown to injury and helped search in the Hall's beach area at Brown's lake Tues ewer Backup as 1 rs Only One Person Hurt Buildings and Trees Shattered BY JACK VCAREY i 1 i freakish wind slashed a destructive path east ward from Brown lake Tues day, ripping up trees, smashing buildings and narrowly missing dozens of persons on the lake's edge and at nearby Salix. Only Clair Hanson, 60J boatman at Hall's beach ori the east edge ot. the lake was Injured. He was taken to Sloan by his brother Earl, 63. of Sloan, where the Injured man was treated for sprains of both wrists and a twisted back.

The boathouse at Hall's beach, where the injured boatman lived, was picked up by the twister and carried more than 30 yards eastward. Lyle Hall, operator of the boathouse and beach," estimated damage to the beach and his nearby house at $10,000. Boats, and trees in the imme stricken area and street department graders were at Work Tuesday night helping to clear the mud away. Another villian in Tuesday's drama was. pesky Perry creek.

The creek ran bankf ul throughout the afternoon and sent water cascading down side streets borr dering it in many places. The creek started to recede at 3 p. m. and by 6 m. had dropped six' to eight feet below the rim of its banks.

"Today, Sioux Cityans, can look for more of the same type of veather. Partly clou- 1 dy skies with widely scattered thundershowers are predicted late In the afternoon. The weather bureau reported it had received unofficial reports that an inch and a half of rain fell in brief period of time north 000 000 2, 1 at Brown'sJalte. in their nearby escaped injury. 4- i trees such as The Russell Urges Water Test for Flooded Wells Dr.

j. Tierney, city health officer, Tuesday night cautioned west side residents whose wells have been flooded to boil their water until the purity of the wells has been established. Special containers lor sampling well water may be obtained at the office of the health department. Dr. Tierney said.

The city will test the samples. health officer also urged typhoid immunization for all persons in have not rnunized. the floded area who always been im- WOMAN BLAST il DIES Storm Lake, la. Special: Mrs. -George' Duke, 73', died here Tuesday1 of suf-- fered in an explosion set off in her gas-filled basement.

The Monday morning blast, one of nine reported here in recent weeks, also critically injured her 80-year-old husband and L. A. Gruber, appliance company work man. The blast occurred when Gruber attempted to light a hotplate in the basement. 1 Investigation revealed that propane gas hrd leaked from a main line and seeped into the Duke basement along the sewer lateral.

Funeral Thursday for Kingsley Man, Drowning Victim Kingsley, la. Special: Fun eral services fox Leslie King, 44, prominent Kingsley farmer who drowned Sunday va Storm -lake, will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Lutheran church here. Rev O.

A. Soeldner will officiate. Burial will be in the Kingsley cemetery, directed by the Dickisdn funeral home. beach, stands i VCT Walters cottage owned by minor damages. rowboat was hurley between him and another car several yards to the In the other automobile were Mr.

and! Mrs. John 'Petit. 813 W. Fifth street; Nelda Swindle, daughter of Mr. and IMrs.

Orville Swindle, 4506 Madison street and the PetitsV 2-month-old twins; Sheldon and Sharon. 1 The Petit party had teen fishing when they saw the darkening sky and headed their! boat tp the shore. They ran to the car and were just inside when the worst of the wind hit. So great was the impact that their car was shoved several yards to east. They TWISTER (Continued on Page 16, Col.

3) ter could not drain' into the Big Sioux in a heavy rain Water seeped 'into the basement of at leat one home in the community Tuesday afternoon. In Sioux City, two persons were evacuated from their menaced homes near 'Perry creek, but both probably will return today. Palma Olson, -about -70, was taken in a Mannlng-O'Toole ambulance from her residence at 210 W. 16th street to a friend's, home in another section of the city. A blind woman who resided alone was taken from her home at 1600 Hamilton street shortly before water surged through the door.

Detective Sgt. Roy, Lander rescued the woman after leaving the police department 1 switchboard to' assist with relief 000. .0 i I -I w. 1 i I' I 1A NV'; 7 1. i ground at least three times, he said, as the storm literally chased Per of Sioux City.

This probably was the cause of rampant -streams in the area, including the Floyd river which was running, slightly above flood stage Tuesday eve-r ning. The Floyd had started to recede by nightfall, however; The Big lioux fiver ran high Tuesday, but stayed within its banks. Scattered flooding was reported in Stevens, S. as the result of insufficient drainage facilities. About a foot and a Thalf of water-tood in the underpass on highway Y7 in Stevens Tuesday night, but traffic was rot unimpeded.

The downpour in this area prbmpted a number -of Stevens residents to run out and dig ope a culvert which had been 'closed up for a year about three blocks south of highway 77. Some residents said that because of the clogged culvert, wa-000 000 7 1 'ijjunii' iwWiinynCTr' 1 mi mi in 3 4" i day where twisting wind bent the one above like matchsticks. P. Fi A. OFFICIAL GETS DISMISSAL Wash i gto Sec ta ry Brannah Tuesday discharged tJuy-W.

Cravens 52, administrative assistant o.f the agriculture department's' produc-j Jjtion and marketing adminis- tration commodity office at Minneapolis, for alleged conduct. The sdis-' charge becomes, effective "Friday. A-spokesman for Erannan said tn.e action -was indirectly connected with the recent discharge, on tie same prounds of E. M. head the Reconstruction Finance, corporation office at Minr rfcapojis.

The R. F. C. charged that Ijowlar.ds had made money in cpnnettion with storage of farm products i gqverriment- okvned Badger ordnance plant at Merrimack, Wis. The Spokesman said Cravens had a clos-e relationship with Rowlands and an associate, Jule in the highly profitable storage operations.

He said the relationship involved the receipt of 'favors. Cravens has formally denied alny Wrongdoing. He has a right to appeal to therivil service com-rjiis-sfon, He is a' war veteran and native of Milacar, Minn. Operated on Tipoff j' W. S.tuart Symington, new head of the F.

announced charge of. Rowlands last month. He said that the latter had been ''tipped" in 1949 by an agriculture department" official that the department's Commodity Credit corporation soon would need storage space in that area for sur- CRAVENS Continued on Page 16, Col. 1) FEATURE INDEX pg.t: 12. 12.lPuzzle Pg.

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Society. Sports, Uncle Ray. Weather. Mud Blankets Big Area in Wake of Heavy Downpour Dejected westsiders werel burrowing out pf a blanket, of mud deposited on their streets, and homes after .94 of an inch of rain fell in less than an hour Tuesday. Primarily responsible for the mucky west side scene was a widespread sewer back The backup resulted when the mam sewer became clogged with mud and debris at 26th and Isabella streets, street department officials said.

By nightfall the main jam had been cleared away and water had receded from the streets, leav ing a thick layer of silt. Hydrants were turned, on the 000 000 "WW 4 1 it. v-m 4. ft 1 -l I. x-fsi? -swi 'JzLr 1.

J-U'r" NICE FOR BOATING A sewer backed up as Perry creek rose Tuesday in the vicinity of 19th and Geneva streets. A stalled car 1 Photd hy Nwman. Staff PTaotorrathrt stream, raised bankf ul and in some cases out of) its banks by a brief but heavy downpour, swilled muddy water arainst the bridge. couldn't make it in Geneva street. Picture was made at 19th street looking north.

(Another, picture on Page 16.) A BRIDGE-EYE VIEW Perry creek had a number of persons fazing with interest as it swelled to the level of the bridge at 16th and Geneva streets Tuesday. The fast-runnin?.