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Spokane Chronicle from Spokane, Washington • 6

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Spokane Chroniclei
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6 Spokane Daily Chronicle, Thursday, June 14, 1956.1 the Northwest Man Dies in CLE ELUM, June 14. two persons careened out of highway 35 miles east of North year-old George K. Dewey of hospital with critical injuries of Aberdeen. Pass Accident An automobile carrying control on the Snoqualmie pass Bend last night, killing Aberdeen. Taken to Cle Elum was Gladys L.

Frisbie, 44, also Victoria Has "Hot" Rainfall VICTORIA, B. June 14. rain" fell on Victoria last week end, the Pacific naval laboratory said yesterday. Dr. William English, head of the marine physics group at the laboratory, said two gallons of rain water would have given a radioactive count somewhat less than a luminous wrist watch.

Dr. English believes the cause of radioactivity in the rain was the hydrogen bomb explosion over Bikini 23 days ago. Boeing Pilot Wins Award NEW YORK, June 14. -The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences yesterday announced that A. M.

(Tex) Johnston, chief of flight test for the Boeing Airplane company at Seattle, has won the Octave Chanute award for 1956. The award and $200 are presented. annually for "a notable contribution made by a pilot to the aeronautical sciences." Second Body Is Recovered AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho, June 14. (UP) The second of five bodies for which search parties have been looking along the Snake river near here since last Thursday was spotted through binoculars last night and was recovered from the water. The body of August Hondo, 37, Heyburn, was pulled from 1 the river near the spot where he sank when he and four other fishermen were dumped from a capsizing boat eight miles downstream from the American Falls dam.

State Legislators to Meet in Seattle SEATTLE, June 14. (UP)-Several hundred legislators and their staffs from throughout the nation will meet here August 30 through September 1, John L. O'Brien, state representative, said today. O'Brien said the delegates to the national legislative conference will tour Lake Washington by boat, visit the Boeing Airplane company and attend a salmon barbecue. O'Brien, speaker of the state of representatives, heads the Washington legislative council, host of the conference.

Portland Gets Set for Throngs PORTLAND, June 14. (. )-Portland, preparing for a convention expected to draw 10,000 educators to this city July 1-6, began looking for house trailers yesterday. The Oregon Education association, planning for the National Education association's annual meeting, said it could use "up to 100 house trailers." A spokesman said all hotel rooms have been booked, college dormitories reserved, and that planners now were turning to private homes and trailers. 2 Feared Drowned in Columbia THE DALLES, June 14.

(UP) Wishram, youths, Robert Leachman, 19, and Larry E. Cohea, 20, were believed drowned in the Columbia river yesterday after falling off a raft near Wishram. Two transients reported to sheriff's officers they had seen Leachman and Cohea launch the cork raft in the river and then heard them scream a few minutes later. The unidentified witnesses said they saw the boys, both employees of the railroad, trying to swim to shore and then go under. Water Down; Bridge to Reopen PORTLAND, June 14.

-The Morrison street bridge over the Willamette river in Portland opened for vehicular traffic yesterday after being closed nearly two weeks by high water. The swinging draw span of the bridge cannot operate when the water in the Portland harbor goes above 25 feet. Water backed up that high in the harbor in the Columbia river's spring flood, but has dipped below that level. Move to Cut Rates May Boost Trade SEATTLE, June 14. (UP)-Efforts to secure more Inland Empire trade by using new rail-freight rates were being planned today by Seattle and Tacoma firms.

A study made public asserted lowered rail freight rates on less than carload shipments will give Puget Sound shippers an advantage over Portland. The new rates will undercut truck charges in most cases, the announcement said. The new rates will give Seattle and Tacoma shippers an advantage of about $2.50 a ton over Portland in shipments to Spokane, Fred T. Nolan, traffic adviser for several groups of shippers, said. SIX CUT; MARQUEE FALLS IN STORM CINCINNATI.

June 14. Cables holding a 40-foot marquee over the entrance of a downtown Cincinnati hotel snapped during a severe storm last night, letting the massive marquee crash to the side. walk. Six persons were cut by glass. None of the six was trapped under the metal and glass marquee of the Sheraton Gibson hotel.

But at least two of them were shoved through a restaurant window which was shattered. It was not known whether a lightning bolt or all accumulation of rainwater caused the collapse of the front part of the marquee. Choice Flowersfor the Sick and Shut-Ins "Sent by Wire Anywhere" PARRISH SELLS FLORISTS 826 Sprague RI-1475 Opposite Davenport Hotel Soap'n water will clean un your feet but they won't clear up ATHLETES FOOT Make this test. Get instantdrying T-4-L, casy, any drug This powerful fungicide will give relief HOUR or your back. Today at all good drug LABORATORY SITE PICKERS NAMED WASHINGTON.

June 14. -A committee to consider sites for a proposed $18,915,000 animal disease laboratory was named by Secreof Agriculture Benson yesterday. Washington State college has been reported of the sites under consideration. Heading the 10-member committee is Don Collins of Kit Carson, president of the National Cattlemen's association. The committee is scheduled to meet in St.

Louis June 27 to enable various groups to tell where they think the laboratory should be located. The other committee members are associated with livestock, agriculture and veterinary groups. They are: Wilbur Plager, Ames, lowa: Avila, Red Bluff. Merrill Warnick. 'Pleasant Grove, Utah: W.

B. Young. Storrs, Dr. C. H.

Good, Cheyenne, Don Turnbull, Kansas City, Dr. H. E. Kingman, Chicago; Harold Hutton, Oklahoma City, and Carl Neuman, Chicago. Man Spends Time Traveling in Plane but Goes Nowhere PARIS, June 14.

-Nicolas Benjamin, a man without a country, has traveled 15,000 weary air miles to nowhere. And he's still flying. On June 8. Mexico expelled him. He was denounced as an imposter by the Roman Catholic church for masquerading as the Rev.

Georges Gabriel. Born in Turkey before the turn of the century, Benjamin apparently belonged to what is now Lebanon as well as anyone could figure it. The Mexicans packed aboard a plane bound for Paris and Beirut. En route he destroyed his identity papers, air line officials said. At Beirut, Lebanese authorities wouldn't let him stay.

Back he went to Paris by Air France plane. He was kept at Orly field while new papers were obtained from the Mexican embassy. Then Air France and Benjamin departed once more for Beirut. Lebanon still didn't want him. He arrived back in Paris yesterday.

The French tucked him aboard another plane last night, bound back to Mexico. "BLOCKADE" PLANNED WASHINGTON. June 14. (A) Representative McCormack of Massachusetts, Democratic house leader, announced today he intends to block house consideration of bill to increase postal rates. His statement to the house apparas ently means the bill is dead for all practical purposes for the remainder of this session.

OPTICAL EXECUTIVE DIES ROCHESTER, N. June 14. UP) -Joseph F. Taylor, 67, chairman of the Bausch Lomb Optical company, died yesterday. Food Hangover? (Gas, Heartburn, Acid Stomach Tums give top-speed relief.

No water, no mixingtake anywhere. Always carry Tums. Still Only 10 TUMS FOR THE TUMMY ACCORDION SALE TRADE-INS, CASH, TERMS Hoffman Bros. Music Co. W.

Riverside MA-6841 NOLAN APPLAUDED IN LONDON SHOW LONDON, June 14. (UP)-A celebrity studded audience gave actor Lloyd Nolan a standing ovalast night at the final curtain of the London premier of "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial." The applauded enthusiastically during the show, a highly unusual thing on the London stage and there were cries of "bravo" and "encore" from the galleries. All of the cast except Nolan and film actor David Knight were British. Limited time only! Save $2755 on a new HOOVER Constellation, (cleaning tools included) Exclusive doublestretch hose cleans twice the area of any other make of cleaner. Full horsepower motor gives you more suction.

Regular Price $97.50 JUST $6995 while they last! HOOVER DEMONSTATION 4th Floor THE MAIM AND WALL IPOLANE TELEPHONE 1141 COLLEGE LEADER TO HEAD CHURCH KNOXVILLE, June 14. -A man whose son and son-in-law both are ministers has been selected to head the United Presby. terian church in North America for the next year. Dr. Robert Wesson Gibson, 59, president of Monmouth, Dr, K.

W. Gibson college, was elected moderator of the church's 98th general assembly last night. He succeeds Dr. George A. Long, president emeritus of PittsburghXenia Theological seminary.

Gibson's son, the Rev. Robert W. Gibson and his sonin-law, the Rev. John L. MeCreight, both are United Presbyterian ministers.

FINES ORDERED FOR 5 RIOTERS CRYSTAL BEACH, June 14. WA police magistrate has imposed fines ranging from $200 on five Buffalo youths arrested during Memorial day riots at the Crystal Beach amusement Three were white and park. two were Negro. Charges against two others who appeared for trial yesterday were dismissed. An eighth defendant failed to appear for trial and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

The seven tried yesterday were ordered deported and were escorted to the Peace bridge, connecting Fort Erie, and Buffalo, by provincial police. PFOST TO SEEK ELECTION AGAIN WASHINGTON, June 14. (R- Representative Gracie Pfost (D- Idaho) has announced that she will seek reelection. She says she will contine her fight for a federal dam at Hells canyon if returned to congress. Mrs.

Pfost, now serving her second term as representative from Idaho's First district, also said she would fight for more aid to farmers, small business men and elderly citizens. 13 SEATTLE MEN SOUGHT BY JURY SEATTLE, June 14. (A- -Authorities were searching today for three Seattle men wanted as material witnesses by the Multnomah county grand jury which is investigating vice conditions in Portland. The men are Joseph MeL Laughlin, cigar store operator; Thomas E. Maloney, described by The Seattle Times as a race track figure, The and search Morris was Auschleester.

day after Presiding Judge Henry W. Cramer of the King county superior court signed an order directing that McLaughlin, Maloney and Altschuler be taken into custody. order was drawn by Charles 0. Carroll, King county prosecutor. at the request of Attorney General Robert Y.

Thornton of Oregon, who is directing the grand jury investigation. Trouble Repeated at Illinois School GENEVA, June 14. (P) State and county police were called last night to put down another wave of unrest at the Illinois state training school for girls. Ten girls were involved in the latest uprising. On Tuesday night 125 teen-age girls rioted in the school's disciplinary, cottage and caused an estimated $1000 damage.

Last night's unrest developed shortly after supper. School offi-24. cials said four girls assigned to kitchen duty in their cottage attempted to escape. In another cottage, four other girls made a similar escape move. All eight were captured on the institution grounds and placed in the disciplinary cottage.

Later, a girl in the hospital cottage refused to return to her room and broke some glass in a dining room door. Summer Treat! DUTCH LUNCH Assorted meats, Swiss and American cheese. potato salad, pickle, buttered toast and celfee, milk or iced tea. 65c SWEET MAID lunch fountain 411 Riverside, Paulsen RidE. -MA-1494 Navy Seeking Bids on Bayview Job BAYVIEW.

Idaho, June Sealed bids are now being accepted by the navy for improvement the water supply David Taylor model basin field station at Bayview. Bids must be submitted to Cmdr. George Ohl public works offiat 13th naval district headquarters in Seattle. Bids must be in by June 28, Racial Fight Seen as Isolated Event HONOLULU, June 14. (M -The navy's district commander said last night he did not believe two recent outbreaks of fighting among Negro and white sailors indicated the navy's racial integration policy was a failure.

"They are just a couple of isolated instances," said Rear Adm. Clarence E. Olsen, commander of the 14th naval district. Olsen said if fights break out among white and Negro sailors hecause of real or fancied racial prejudice, "they brought the prejudice into the service with them. They won't find it here." Saturday about a dozen white and Negro sailors from the carrier Lexington fought for 30 minJutes and one white sailor was stabbed fatally.

Marriage Licenses Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June William Higgins. 32. and Juanita M. Crow. both Spokane: Edward Clark Cole.

43. and June N. Probstfeld. 38, both Spokane: Edward Clark Cole. 43.

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Shop Friday From 9:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. Just What He's Looking For the Curtis has what Dad wants! DAD'S DAY--June 17 THE TOP TEN "Most Wanted" GIFT ITEMS AS DAD SELECTED THEM In True Marasine's Survey SHIRTS (All Types) SPORTSWEAR Famous VAN HEUSEN Slacks by Seven Seas, from $2.95 $10.95 up.

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A large selection every one a tremendous value every one will give you long wear and satisfaction. Come Friday and choose from all these famous makes: Simmons Englander Relaxer Special group of Simmons mattresses and box springs 10.88. cach A large group of 70 odd mons, one of the most inally specially priced pass up the values in 10.88. mattresses and box springs famous makers of fine at 38.88 and 39.95. You this group.

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