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1- Sy 5- y- i 4 Jf V- '0 l4 f. 11 V' r- i- iv- 1 i- 7 fgg-AJJg! I All tke News, All the Time ROCK AND -ARGTJ The Weather Rain and Mild 107th Year No. 138 MEMBER OK AUDI1 BUREAU OF ClKCUuATlONS ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1958 -THIRTY-SIX PAGES UkJ) associated press A EWSoTAJID PRICE FIVE CENTS v. Rear Wall Falls Late In Afternoon Reuther Urges. Unions Propose R.e form' Laws rees Some Soviet Scientists Vaguely Hint of Spectacular Step would take it more than 250,000 miles beyond the moon before it returned to settle into its orbit.

Lean to Huge Sputnik In Washington, guesses based on intelligence information letm to the possibility of a mammoth Sputnik, p'erhaps five or six carrying a successor to the mar The rear wall of the River! Theater collapsed early this after noon, having been weakened con siderably by the fire and water. Initial jforts indicated, soma damage was caused to a portion of an building of the Rock Island Transfer Storage Co. Firemen earlier today said plans were to be taken to brate the wall. because of its weakened condition. The future- of the Riviera Thca ter, 112-114 18th Rock Island, remained in doubt today following a fire early this morning which caused an estimated $35,000 damage to the theater building and contents.

The blaze, reported at 3:40 aun. virtually was. under control when it broke out anew near the front of the building, resulting in a call for off-duty firemen. Firemen confined the blaze to the theater building itself although smoke seeped into the Harms Hptel, immediately north of the theater building. Fire Marshal William E.

Norris today noon said an investigation of the blazie indicates that it probably started from a short in elec- trical wiring near footlights on tha stage. He said the investigation will continue. Damage to the theater building -as estimated at $25,000 and contents damage at $10,000. The building is owned by the estate of the late Alford W. Crampton.

The First National Bank of St. Petersburg, is executor and trustee. Insurance on the building totals $47,000. The theater contents are owned by John G. 'Koletis, who has operated the theater since 1923.

It formerly was known as the Majestic and was the scene of many vaudeville shows in its long history. Robert D. Danico, who manages the theater for Koletis, this morning said any remodeling of the theater for renewed operation must await a conference! with the building owners. He said the building lease provides that in case of sucli an emergency the building will be re- built if there is mutual agreement of- the landlord and the tenant. Danico has taken, over -actie By WILLIAM L.

RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst A mammoth Sputnik? A moon-high satellite? Whats next the heavenly cold war What does the Kremlin have up its sleeve in the Soviet space program? Vague hints suggest Soviet sci- enlists are working on something spectacular. There also are hints that Soviet politicians would like to tie the next venture to something new in the cold war: air offensive. Its been almost five mbnths since the Soviets launched their second i artificial earth satellite. Sputnik II. Perhaps the Soviets have been trying and failing with new launching attempts.

Or perhaps they plan to time their new shoot for a propitious moment. Just in advance of a summit meeting, their next space venture would have enormous propaganda impact. Speculation on Soviet plans runs all the way from manned devices or platforms to just an--other Sputnik. It is even, possible, say some Western scientists, that the Sov iets might try to throw a Sputnik on a huge elliptical course which Democrats Push For Fast Action. On Highway Bill WASHINGTON W) Democratic congressional leaders pushed today for quick action on the highway construction speedup bill to try to get it to President Eisenhowers desk next week.

The Senate passed the big antirecession measure 84-4 and immediately asked for a speedy conference with the Holise on it. The House quickly agreed today to the request. The bill would pour an additional $1,800,000,000 in federal-state funds into the nations roadbuilding program this year. It would make available 54 billions over-all for the roadbuilding program this year, although much of the actual spending would come later. Passage of the bill is expected to provide 88,000 new jobs this year.

The measure also for the first time would set up federal incentives to the states to regulate billboards along the superhighway network the interstate system. shown above. Fire Capt. Vernon H. Sellers is shown on the ladder on the stage as Company No.

6 was still on the scene at 8 this morning. (Argus Photo; additional photo on Page 31.) i RIVIERA THEATER DAMAGED BY FIRE Damage estimated at $35,000 to the building and contents of the Riviera theater, 112-114 18th Rock Island, was caused by fire early today. The stage area where the fire Is presumed to have started is A Cleanup Act Is Needed WASHINGTON l)--Walfer Reu-thcr agreed with Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass) today that organized labor should make concrete recommendations for legislation to curb union corruption. I agree we ultimately must get out of the area of noble jjeneral-' izations, Reuther told the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee.

This was Reuthers second day of testimony at committee hearings into violence during the four-year strike by the United Auto Workers, headed by Reuther, at the Kohler Wisconsin plumbing fixture firm. Scn. Kennedy, chairman of a Senate Labor subcommittee now considering anti-corruption laws, said organized labor is not helping Congress much when it refrains from making recommendations. Reuther said he favors giving labor the maximum amount of freedom to clean out its own house, but agreed with Kennedy andSen. Ives (R-NY) that some legislation is needed.

He said he will have such recommendations when he testifies later before Kennedys subcommittee. Backs Smear Charge Reuther said he agrees general ly with AFL-CIO President George Meanys comment that the recent rackets committee report on hear ings held last year was a disgraceful example of the use of sensationalism in an effort to smear the rade union movement. Reuther said he thinks Meany meant there was overemphasis in the report on headline material rather than sober comment on the corruption problem. -Reuther said the kinds of abuses turned up by thp committee have no place in the laber movement. Neither, he said, have the Becks and Hollas.

He referred to former Teamsters President Dave Beck and his James R. Hoffa, both subject to rackets committee corruption charges. Reuthers criticism of strike violence and mass picketing in the Kohler' strike eased tensions on the main point of Reuthers testimony the Kohler strike. Reuther disarmed questioners In a surprise move when he con ceded that some of his unions members did engage in improper violence and mass picketing in the UAWs bitter, four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. in Wisconsin.

Typist Says of Sacks Fine for Spads, not Dads WASHINGTON, N.J. LA When the N.J. Power Light Co. asked its women office employes if theyd choose a sack dress for Easter, typist-clerk Dolly Rush replied: When I am in my Easter duds No sack dress will you see. Sacks look better filled with spuds Than they do filled with me.

IMPROVE SHIP RADAR NEWPORT, R.I. Wl The Navy says it has successfully tested a new radar system in destroyers whicn increases the warning distance of an oncoming air attack by 100 per cent. Index Rock Island Federal Court Opened at Dedication Rites tyred dog Laika of Sputnik There is an outside possibility the Soviets may try to send up a space platform a sort of intermediate station for moon flights. There is no serious speculation about space ships in the sense of craft capable of carrying human beings to the moon, but an attempt to send up a manned rocket 1 cannot be ruled out On the political side, the Sov- iets seem to be preparing for a heavenly cold war. There are indications they plan spectacular proposals such as international control of outer space and even of the moon.

Unit Urges Act To Hike I Farm Pay WASHINGTON Wt The House Appropriations Committee said today lagging farm income is a major reason for the recession. The committee voiced disappointment because, it said, no proposals are being made to bolster farm income at the market place. 4 It did so In sending to the House for debate next week a bill to provide $3,216,988,539 to finance Agriculture Department activities for the fiscal year starting next July 1. In another action, the committee approved $750,000 for the new Civil Rights Commission in the 1959 fiscal year. The step was taken over opposition from Southern members of the appropriations group and is certain to provoke a battle.

Votes 9.5 Billions The committee acted a day after the House voted 9a billion dollars in new funds to run two major departments and 17- federal agencies in the coming fiscal year. In approving the agriculture money bill, the committee said reduced farm income is one of the major reasons that there are an (Continued on Page 32) The Globemaster was en route from Kelly Air Force Base. San Antonio, to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City. Xhe C119 took off from Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, for Carswell AFB. The planes fell within about 600 yards of each other in rugged scrub oak country cut by ravines and gullies.

One Burns Fiercely The C124 burned fiercely. Pools of molten metal glimmered around the wreckage. The CL19 did not burn. Bill Carlton, Bridgeport, saw the falling wreckage from his car. It looked like great big flakes of sheet iron falling.

You couldnt tell it was a plane, he said. The Cil9 struck a plowed field, missing W. J. Mann by only a few feet. It ricocheted into a wooded area.

Mann was plowing with a tractor. All 1 8 Aboard Die as wo Air Force Planes Collide We have the responsibility of the ages on our shoulders, Judge Mercer told the attorneys who crowded the courtroom. If you fail, and I fail, then America becomes weaker. He declared this must not and would not happen. I The judge was the last to speak in a program that included numerous talks and introductions and the admitting of 28 Rock Island County lawyers to federal court practice.

The county Bar Association was in charge of the program. Charles C. McAndrews, association president, presided. Judge Mercer, presiding judge for the northern district of the southern division of Illinois, said regular case work will begin soon as possible, but could not state exactly when that will be. Some cases are ready for trial now, and others are ready for pretrial conferences, he said.

One case now is ready for trial by jury. He said he would meet soon with the bar association to explore the machinery to establish proceedings. He told the attorneys that when they file federal cases, they should specify that they want the matters tried at Rock Island. This will instruct the court clerk at Peoria, where cases must continued to be filed until a clerk is appointed for Rock Island. The judge said later that he had strongly recommended the appointment of a fulltime deputy clerk to serve here.

A deputy U.S. marshal also Is needed, he said. (Continued on Page Two) management of the Semri and Memri Drivein Theaters. Both he and Koletis have an- interest in the drive-ins. Curtailed Operations The Riviera Theater, oldest independently run movie house in Rock Island, had been operating only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights since March 17.1 It employs about 10 persons and seats 484 customers.

This morning's blaze was the -s'econd large fire in Rock Island in 10 days. A blaze on March 17 caused $78,400 damage to the for-' mer Immanuel Lutheran School building and contents at 1919 5th Ave. Virtually the entire inside of the theater building was gutted by this morning's flames. Starting apparently beneath the stage, the fire burned a large. -hole in the stage floor and swept up stage curtains and into a.

false ceiling. A boiler room Is located beneath the stage. Just as firemen brought, the blaze under control at the rear of the building, it spread through air conditioning ducts to the front of the building above the projection, room and balcony. It was then that a call went out for off-duty firemen. One company remained at the fire scene late this morning toguard against further outbreak of flames.

Only a few small hols were burned through the roof of the eoncre-te building. The rear wall of the building sagged noticeably outward this fnorning. Employment Pickup Seen Before May WASHINGTON LV A Labor Department report indicates the possibility of a. slight employment pickup between mid-March and mid-May. 1 But it says the increases are expected to be considerably smallec than those in the corresponding period last year and that they will be centered largely in seasonal nonmanufacturing activities.

This estimate was based on hiring plans of employers as report cd to local public employment offices. It was included in a report which said joblessness rose between mid-January and mid-February in four fifths of the 149 major employment areas in the United States. The' report said the rate of increase slowed after mid-January. Seventy of the 14 major areas now are classed as having substantial labor surpluses. This means that in each of these 70 areas, more than 6 per cent of the total labor force is out of work.

I i VOTE STRIKE IN RUHR ESSEN, Germcrny- MB Most- of the German Ruhrs reon and steel workers have voted to, strike the nations steel industry unless they get a satisfactory wage 'boost. -The workers demand an 8 per cent raise. The employers association has refused to go per cent. BRIDGEPORT. Tex.

Of) Two Air Force planes rammed together at dusk Thursday and the crippled craft fell like flakes of sheet iron. All 18 servicemen aboard died. In a strange turn of the cards, the planes apparently were seeking greater visibility and. safety by dipping below an overcast. No Chance To Chute They were so low the occupants had no chance to parachute.

One was a huge C124 Globemas-ter based at Hill Air Force Base, Salt Lake City, Utah. The other was a C119 cargo plane based at Carswell Air Force Base, the great Strategic Air Command installation at Fort Worth, 45 miles southeast of here. The Globemaster carried a crew of 10, and five passengers picked up at Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex. The C119s' crew numbered three. Ike Plugs for Extension of Trade Pact By MARVIN L.

ARROWSMITII WASHINGTON UP1 President Eisenhower says letting the administration's international trade program lapse would jeopardize the jobs of many Americans and build up the deadly peril of communism abroad. It also would mean a return to the law of the jungle in trade relations between nations, the President said Thursday night in addressing a bipartisan dinner here and a coast-to-coast television-radio audience. Eisenhower plugged hard for his request that Congress extend the Reciprocal Trade Act for five years. He also wants authority to cut tariffs as much as 25 per cent. Faces Opposition The program faces rough going at the Capitol and is under fire too from some businessmen 100 of whom staged an opposition rally in Washington.

The 1,200 diners Eisenhower addressed gave him warm ovations at the start and conclusion of his talk and interrupted him seven times with applause. The dinner, sponsored by 128 organizations backing the administration program, climaxed a day long conference at which Democratic and Republican leaders joined Eisenhower in calling trade extension vital to United States interests at home and abroad. Adlai E. Stevenson, twice the Democratic nominee for president, led the list of Democrats providing a bipartisan touch. House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex), in a speech read for him because he had a conflicting engagement out of town, sounded a note similar to Eisenhowers in saying the Soviet challenge to the free world in economic competition is unrelenting and deadly.

Rayburn added: It will profit us nothing if we gain the moon and lose the earth to the Russians. The President hit hard at both the global and the home front aspects of the trade program. Alluding to the' U.S. business slump, he said: World trade makes jobs for at least 414 million American workers. At a time of slack in the economy like the present, these jobs should not be placed in jeopardy by crippling our trade program.

Rejection of the program, he added, would destroy far more jobs and job opportunities than it.coflld possibly preserve." PER0N DISAPPEARS CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic WV Juan D. Peron has vanished from his hotel here and diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires say the former Argentine dictator has gone to Europe. Rock Islands Federal Court. was opened officially this morning with an hour-and-a-half of dedica- tion ceremony and oratory, accompanied by a forecast of a substantial load of federal case work. Federal Judge Frederick O.

Mercer, first to preside in the sleek courtroom in the new Federal Building, declared to the dedication assemblage: This court belongs to the people. Its success, he said, depends on the lawyers who represent the people, and on the judge. BLUES COMPOSER DIES W. C. Handy, above, 84-year-old composer of The St.

Louis Blues and other jazz classics died today at Sydenham Hospital, New York City, the Associated Press said. The blind Negro song writer was taken to the hospital Sunday night frojn his N. Y. home. He had been under treatment for pneumonia and complications.

Handy suffered a stroke about three years ago. He wrote both the words and music to St. Louis Blues in 1914. It netted thousands of dollars in royalties. Doing Good Turn Results in Death LINCOLN-, 111.

Lfl Ray Gilmore, 61, headed toward a Lincoln hospital to visit his wife and newborn baby Thursday when suddenly a -chair loomed in the middle of the highway. His sister, Edith Gilmore, who was at the wheel, steeled around the obstacle. Then, as an afterthought, they decided to return and remove the' traffic hazard. Gilmore, of Mason City, climbed out on the highway seven miles east of here and reached for the chair. A car driven by Pearl II.

Bol-yard, 38, of San Jose, 111., struck and killed him. Bolyard was not held. Today Rock Island Federal court opened and officially dedicated. Page 1. Fire causes $35,000 damage at Rfviera Theater.

Page 1. Augustana debaters enter Ohio tournament. Page 29. Modern Woodmen assets Increase $5 million in j937. Page 7.

I Two youths nabbed after alleged holdup attempt fails. Page 11. Milan" Search for. missing father, 27. Page 3.

Moline Scottish Rite spring reunion to close tonight. Page 20. East Moline Committee to study proposed boat launching site. Page 20. Davenport Thordsen proposes one-way traffic on Main St.

on trial basis. Page 33. Forecast Tonight Partly cloudy and continued mild. Tomorrow Occasional light rain and a little cooler. Low tonight in the mid 30s.

High tomorrow in the upper 40s. High yesterday: City 51; air port 52. Low last night: City 34; air port 30. Wind volocity at 6:30 a.m., 6 miles per hour. Precipitation in the last 24 hours, ending 6 a.m., none.

Relative humidity 6:30 p.m. yesterday 35; 6:30 a.m. today, 83. Sunset today, 6:34 p.m.; sunrise tomorrow, 5:51 a.m. OPENS FEDERAL COURT Federal Judge Frederick O.

Mercer, Peoria, left, who presided at the opening of Rock Island Federal Court in the new Federal Building this morning, is shown above on the bench following the Judge Mercer is talking with Charles C. McAndrews. Rock Island, president of the Rock Island County Bar who was in charge of the dedicatory program. (Argus Photo; additional photo on Page 32.) NEW HATS Mrs. Dwight D.

Eisenhower (left) and Mrs. Richard Nixon sport new Spring hats at a luncheon and fashion show in connection with Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington. The First Ladys hat is an upswept creation with red peony petals designed by Sally Victor. Mrs. Nixons is an off-the-face straw pillbox covered with pink flowers.

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