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Tot Forecast "Freezing drizzle ending, tonight. (Complete Forecast on Page 2) El CITY EDITION VOL 80. NO. 24 ST. JOSEPH." SATURDAY.

FEBRUARY 23. 1 957: 16 PASES FIVE CENTS WO Death Plaiie Believed on MowstormMat Elts-S Glenn Gray Killed When TruXrti 7 Yesterdays late afternoon snowstorm claimed two iivesand -crippled traffic-en citstreets for mort than two hours; Anti-Israel Move Goes Before-ljrN Penalties -Sought Until Evacuation of Egypt Occurs UNITED NATIONS, N. Feb 22 WV-Six Dead -as-ar-esult-o caraccidents-are Grayr 51, 6649. Sherman street, and Russell Allen Her-. I 5- Arab-Asian nations flrwiivl" drivtag wUided-with- a cityFive city crews went to work at Arao-Asian nations linaiiy hlnrk on fith tn t.

UnliAa man, 54,. Savannah, Mo. Mr. employed by tlie St. Terminal Railway was i killed when the pickup truck he street at 6:30 p.

ro. It was It was the first traffic fatality" in the city this year. Traffic Officer Uoyd Pasley said the Gray truck" skidded sideways into the bus. The victim was thrown into the street by the im pact of the: collision. Hospital officials said the man died from a fractured skull.

Car Overturns In Ditch Mr. Herman, owner of the R. Herman Oil Co Savannah, was injured fatally when the car he was driving went into a ditch and overturned on route H. That accident occurred about p. Fillmore, Mo.

Both accident? were the result of slick pavement, officials said. Less than an hour after snow began falling streets and highways became precarious. Central Police Station was flooded) with accident reports. Officeri wereunable io handle the rash of accidents and callers were advised to make reports at Central Police Station today. The two fatal accidents were the only serious ones reported In the area.

30-40 Accident Calls" i Police LieuL J. S. Fen-ell, es timated thatlhetweenJ0 and 40 calls concerning accidents came in I at Central Police Station within I i a two-hour period. The collisions came to a halt after cinder and salt crews began nuttin? ahrasivex hn th ihwls. difficulty was encountered in locating the crew members to call them to work.

City bus schedules went by the boards when attempts of to get out of the downtown district congested all streets in that -section. Busses Loan 40. Minute Sherman-Wallace of the St, Joseph Light Power Co. said some busses were tied "up as much as 40 minutes on Edmond street alone. The carriers were back on" schedule again at 7:30 p.

m. State troopers reported that highways- w-ere hazardous-throughout -the area. An employe of the city' street epartment-escribed-the- result- ing conditions from the storm as "the worst in recent years." He said an icy film formed when the very wet snow first began to fall. Continued light snowfall on top of the ice reduced tire About 6 p. m.

traffic on Mitchell avenue, 8th to 12th, was virtually at a standstill as cars piled up for traffic lights and then barely got tmderway fighting the slick street. At the same time a line of -southbound cars on 8th street extended from- Mitchell north to See DRIVERS on Page income would have exceeded in some Where it went has been a topic of intense local interest for-many years. Answers Call of North' Mrs. Ford was born in Minneapolis in 1873. Answering the alluring call of the North, ihe went to Nome with the stampeders of 1900.

She married Sheldon Ford at Spokane, at the turn of the century. They later were divorced in Nome. With a poke fun of gold, she came to Fairbanks in 1906 after the Nome rush petered, out and-- Death May Remove Alaskan Mystery Radio Beam HMay Have Stalled on Turn Toward 7 City Airport Oliver Wendell Holmes was attempting an instrument landing at Jtosecrans -Field-Thursdajrriight when his plane made its fatal The 30-year-old Florence, -his single-engined company plane crashed five miles north ol Amazonia. -7 The plane's wreckage was -potted yesterday morning; less '( than a mile from the Rosecrans Field mmdirectional radio1 range It: la -believed the lone occupant of the plane located the radio beam and then" made a sharp turn back south ward in orderto stay on 1 the transmitter's designated course. The plane apparently stalled" during the tum.

It Is also possible that the plane Iced up as it was preparing to land. Temperature was at the freezing mark and freezing was. falling at the time. civil aeronautics authority -began "its -official- investigatiorr of -the- mishap yesterday afternooiu Aviation Safety Agent Glenn Brown drove to St. Joseph, from Kansas City to make the study.

Snow Hampers Probe "We were hampered by the light snow which covered the wreckage shortly after the investigation be. gan," Mr. Brown said.The highway patrol has, done an excellent Job studying the- circum-stances leading to the crash." Mr. Holmes represented the National Pool Equipment Co, of Florence. Ala.

His wife and two small daughters live in that city. He was flying to St. Joseph to confer with Raymond Hersch-mann in regard to the North Side swimming pool. 'Mr. Holmes' firm manufacturers pool in kit form.

He had been with the company for 11 years. A complete set of plans and specifications for the pool were planer The pools -manufactured by his firm are Installed by the Pressure Concrete also of Florence. That firm-is now ref pairinf: JophVniain sewers. Given Clear Field Shortly after 7 p. m.

Mr. Holmes radioed Rosecrans asking for a weather report and landing permission. At that time he was only a few miles south of St. Joseph." The plane was given exclusive permission to use Rosecrans Field about 7:45 p. m.

aftef contacting the air route traffic control in Kansas City. All air? port lights were on at the time. Airport officials suspected that the plane was In trouble when it failed to land after receiving special permission to fly Jh the Rose-crans control zone. The pilot was "'attempting ah instrument landing since the cloud ceiling was 800 feet and visibility was limited to --three' Milton T. Holmes, brother of the dead man, arrived in St.

Joseph by plane last night. He made arrangements with the Rich funeral homo at Savannah to return the body to Florence, Ala. Ike Defers Next Move WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 -President Eisenhower, and Secretary of State Dulles decided to await a new message from Premier David Ben-Gurion before "determining their next 'move on the question of sanctions against Is-rapj Eisenhower and Dulles conferred for 90 minutes at the White House, on the stubborn crisis revolving arounoHsraei's refusal- to pull its troops "territory captured from Egypt last fall.

ATTanrouncCTftenrDy" White House4 Press Secretary Hageiiy after the conference made it clear that in spite of of presidential anneals. Eisenhower and Dulles still' hope for drastic revision of In withdrawal ot the forces. Demos in Bv LARRY UALt SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 22 UA bmhday-took-a i bacjjyjomght Democrats' annual Jackson Day wlebratiort and from the start it looked like a The climax comes at a dinner SenWohn priri-cipal speaker. Alsrf Ton proeram are Sen.

Stuart Symington of Missouri, 2 1 7. i At Least 5 on C124 Die SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Saturday -The United States Far East air forces said today five persons were killed and 20 were unaccounted for in the crash of an air force Globe-master transport in the Han River last night. The plane carried 139 Americans. A spokesman said 134 persons have been taken to hospitals 125 to the 121st evacuation hospital in Ascom Qty and nine to Kimpo air field dispensary northwest of Seoul.

Hospital officials said only one of the injured was in serious Minutes after taking off from Kimpo for Tacmkawa air base near Tokyo, the pilot of the C324 radioed that his No. 3 engine had failed and that he was returning to Kimpo. Seconds later the aircraft came down on sand bar in the broad Han River1. The air force said the double-deck carrier buret into" flames as it hit and was destroyed except for fhe tail section. The blackened skeleton of the plane" rested in more than three feet of water today.

Nmes-of-the-injicsgduid dead were withheld until relatives I notified. called sembly today to condemn Israel for. failing to withdraw Jrom Egypt. They asked that Israel be penalized with economic, military, and financial sanctions. --The move came as Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced to a tense and crowded; assembly that Egypt consented to the U.N.

emergency force taking over, the Gaza strip from Israel. Hammarskjold also said Egypt had consented to U.N. assistance in putting an end to all raids across the border from either' side. Israel has refused to budge from the Gaza strip until assured there will be no more raids. Worried delegates saw new hope in the Hammarskjold announcement and waited for Israel's reaction.

Malik Presents Case Foreign Minister Charles Malik of Lebanon presented a resolution toThvoke restnefiohs until Israel evacuates Egypt. The -assembly ten adjotmjed thrMaaVTasraebate runtiTMon- day to give the United States more time to talk with Israel. President Eisenhower has been attempting to work out some method of obtaining compliance with the assembly-desires short of restrictions. The resolution was sponsored by Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Pakistan. However, Malik said it had the support of ''innumerable" U.N.

members. The resolution noted previous requests by the assembly for Israel to evacuate Egypt and asked the assembly to "view with grave concern" Israel's failure to comply. Four Provisions Then it called for this action: L. Condemn Israel for not withdrawing. 2 Urge all states to deny economic, military and financial assistance to Israel until she com- pliea.

-ll-- 3. Request all states to co-opep ate with Hammarskjold in "implementing the restrictions. 4. Request the secretary general to report on the implementation of this resolution and the previous requests See Here, Now" KANSAS CITY, Feb. 22-HLB Police today were looking for a burglar with chapped, hands.

The intruder failed to open a safe at the Peterson Manufacturing Coroffices thenTan- sacked through the secretary's desk on which was left her bottle of hand lotion, and the following" note: "Don't hide the lotion any- nore. Thenote- "The Where Plane Crashed These two photographs show distant and close-up views of the scene of the crashthat tookjhe life of Oliver Holmes, Florence, Ala. At the top is bjT aerial" picture crash area of the Reuben Miller-farm about five miles, north of Amazonia. -The -circle marks the wreckage of the Beech Bonanza plane. The Dockers Go Back Today NEW YORK, Feb.

22 J.f)-Union leaders today ordered long-shoremen back to their piers from Maine to Virginia at 8 a. m. tomorrow. They have been on strike for ten days. The back-to-work order from headquarters of the striking International Longshoremen's Association (Ind) was held up most of the Hay tor a tabulation of a New York vote on proposed new con- tract.

Late in the day, I. L. A. President William Bradley set the return to work deadline after it was announced that New York dockers favored the new coniracT 6.R29 to 4.017. The vote appeared to be the final obstacle to resumption of dock-work.

Contract deadlocks in Baltimore and Norfolk were settled overnight All other ports had come to terms earlier. "This time we mean it. the men go back to work tomorrow," said Earlier, in the week; a similar back-to-work order of his had been defied by the strikers. Mamie in Hospital for Yearly Checkup Feb. 22 tfv-Mrs.

Dwight Elsenhower went to Walter Reed army medical icntcr today for hef yearly phsical examination, the White HSuse re ported. "Mrs. Elsenhower entered the hos-f pital early this afternoon and will be our tomorrow morniftg, White Hageny of Wealthy Recluse FAIRBANKS. Alaska, 22-B-Death has ended the stranger-than-fiction career of a wealthy Fairbanks recluse. She prowled-trash piles while carrying titles to half a.

million dollars worth of property in her shopping bag. Tiny, ragged Mrs. Hulda Ford died in a hospital here yesterday marks highway. The road of ah ailment which doctors attnhutM she and K. In the bottom photo, a spectator looks at the larger parts of the wrecked craft.

In this wreckage were plans for the proposed North Side swimming pool here. The Alabama man was bringing the plans to St. Joseph for The aerial photograph; was taken by Lieut. Homer King pilot of one of the. civil air patrol search planes.

Teen-Age Mob Storms NEW YORK, Feb. 22--wild dungaree-clad teen-agers by the thousands stormed the Paramount theater today for a rock roll They smashed glass and -danced barefoot in the aisles. Their ecstatic screams drowned out the savage beat of the music that held them in sway, v- sMwent into Two girls were slightly injured in the jostling mob outside the big theater on Times Square. Others had shoes, scarves and otherarddesof sclothing jripped from their bodies in the but- persevered Police Have Rough Time Tuesday she was found lying helpless in a- room, in old ho- -tel building. She was rushed to a hospital, but her condition was beyond hope.

Physicians -asked her if she didn't ant' to make out a will. She-snook -herJieadJeehly rfr pUficL That w.asJMdaTotd'f last word. A hundredTrnd seventy-frve-TKFjlatteraturedrAlan FreedrJrigtrj junction is that of highway 275 er jackets studded with metal and truck driver caps, Pretley Buttons Abound fc-i Many wore Elvis Presley buttons to epitomize their admiration for the popular rock n' roll singer. Presley was not a part of either the movie or the stage show. The disc jockey who specializes in the rhythmic rock 'n roll beat.

Freed, who also starred in the WovrerDonrKnock the Rock, later said he didn't see anything wrong with his audience's be- vior Impossible The-scientists- have jujt-n-nounced that dollar bills carry silly, course. these, da-s. rerfeCUon. Jamboree guests of honor tonight at a din ner at the Hills Country Club, given by some of Blair's honorary" colonels. ftTtlra-breaklasfj Brown is ched- Young Democrat- of the Year, and Blatr-as-the-ewtstanding Miorouri Democrat of the Year.

Aflnipnr-ri. v4.m.hav-r luncheon for the visitors tomor row noon, and a reception 'for Sen, Kennedy and state officials Ts 8eTTorrtomorrow afternoon. Roll Show was 83. A dance hall girl in the Gold Rush days, Mrs. Ford was one of the few to parlay her earnings into a fortune! The Daily News-Miner described her aa.one of Alaska's richest women if not the richest.

But uf her declining years "her mind seemed to. slip," as the old-timers put it. OnceJklvactoita- The woman whom old sour- doughs described as having been vivacious and beautiful as a young woman of the gold camp era became a recluse. She lived in shacks, wore rags and gleaned from garbage cans She had. a blunt reply and a sharp- tongue for -any- who- suggested she should have medical attention.

Her death may lift thfe. shadow of mystery from her fortune. For years she had been collecting rents from-storer -and o'isposing-of expensive properties. i Speculation has been that her picture, showing Edmond street the hill? only to end up backing to lice were hard put to maintain even a semblance of control. The Paramount normally seats 3,500 persons, Fronr early-morning until mid- afternoon the- movie- house was packed with 3.700 boy8 and girls, hynwilling to leave and cent on string through performance after performance.

There was no Their attire wasA-irtuatly-a urn- form. The girls wore sweaters and ooys woi -black-ieath- r- I 1 "i i- v- Jilip I i JDr rr 51 1 "If" "r-- I -y I I sl '''J zr Ji HappyMoodat State happy for other reasons too. they entered the Colonial Hotel, carried the state for Adlai Ste- -They, along with 'Brown, for-vensOTast4overabeFpTtwy-eieCt-4 mer7Gov, Forrest and ed a full set of state and other state officials, were the miKht Jiavc'tQ takelaback jeaL Not' so here in the heavily Republican Sevenih District ot southwest Missouri. Charlie i Brown did something last year the Democrats have been for years, He upset veteran Republican Rcp. Dewcv-Shwi" "of Gakteckgrom kepLcontrol ol both houses in the It all added up to an old Kashioned love feasts played with for' Me.

Senj Symington, his secretary, Stanley Fike, and Democratic Na- tmnal Helloran of arnved by jtonclajg this i Blaif and his son, Jim Tom Blair. -Both Symington and Blair were besieged with wishers as Govryames T. BtanTKcprt.nartesritA -tiemocratie victury tn thet Wvfiigfe'lleIfcaMutnlyT oae t3. OrPrcongressman In is-. soun.

And. thcDcmocrats.love him for District-is like. Lindbergh Jyi.ng;-uTe engine plane. Early arrivals among the thouV jiiands of Democrats, for "Miahtu Touah Urwina 1 i 4 to the. west, one motorist lac.

Sth street. QayetJa4iLaid ijl7.able, to tnake With all the other dicnitarics on hand, you might think a freshman congreKma Snarled traffic backs up on Edmond street as the result of sliek wreets caused by yesterday snow: All hills were causing 1 5 1 traffic Cc-ups until salt and cinder crews went into action. lit this -I 1.

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