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eeirelhieirs Seek Hosft By INleoir Peiseidleini! WEATHER: Clear except for some high cloudiness tonight and Tuesday; little temperature change. Saturday's high 71 degrees; Sundays low 40, high 74; today's low 44; today at 11:30 a.m. 74. SMOG: Moderate eye irritation Tuesday. Morning burning prohibited.

wf let 73RD YEAR NO. 46 POMONA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1957 THREE SECTIONS 28 PAGES Wr Second Boy Found Searchers Seeking Lost 8-Year-Old LOS ANGELES (AP) Searchers on horseback, on foot and in a helicopter hunted near Pasadena today for an 8-year-old boy lost in the mountains since Saturday. A second 8-year-old boy who became lost in another Southern California mountain area yesterday was found chiller! but unharmed early to day. He is Timothy O'Shauq nessy of Hemet, who became separated from his father while hiking north of the Riverside County mountain resort of Idjllwild. Search for Thomas Eldon Bowman of Redondo Beach centered in Arroyo Seco above Devils Gate Dam northwest of Pasadena.

Police said they were mystified how the boy could remain unfound for so long in the broad canyon. They found no footprints near the dam reservoir. Officers later decided to drag the reservoir and obtained a boat from the Navy. Grappling hooks were to be used to search the lake bottom. Four hundred persons hunted between Devil's Gate Dam and Angeles Crest Highway yesterday in a vain search -for the Bowman boy.

A sheriffs aero detail helicopter cruised overhead while hikers and riders scoured the creeks, trails and undergrowth. Four Pasadena policemen continued the search after dark, when the main hupt was called off until dawn. The Bowman boy vanished while hiking with his father, Eldon Bowman, 1209 Irene Redondo Beach, a mile and a half from the dam. Young O'Shaughnessy became separated from his father, Thomas, while hiking yesterday near the Banning-Idyllwild road. Thirty men started an all-night search.

4 i 4 STREAMLINER HALTED BY KANSAS DRIFTS Snowdrifts piled op in the worst blizzard of the Great Plains since 1931, hold the Union Pacific Railroad streamliner, City of St. Louis, captive three miles east of Winona today. Davis Mathias, Denver Post photographer, made this photo from a low-flying plane. (AP Wirephoto) Behind Generalities Secret Directives Reportedly Formed In the News Today Paragraphs About People, Places 9 S.P. Trains Are Halted by Midwest Storm LOS ANGELES US) Southern Pacific Co.

said today the Midwest blizzard has halted nine of its Los Angeles-Chicago passenger trains. Eight of the trains are being held at Kansas, Texas and New Mexico towns. The ninth is stalled at Miss-ler, and is in some trouble, the railroad said. Navy helicopters are flying food to the stranded passengers and crew. Southern Pacific said the scheduled departure of the east-bound Golden State Limited from Los Angeles at 1:20 p.m.

today has been canceled. The eastbound Imperial is due to leave Los Angeles for Chicago at 8:35 p.m. today if the storm abates. The railroad gave this report of its stopped trains: Golden State trains which left Chicago Saturday and Sunday are held at Pratt, Golden State which left Los Angeles Friday is stalled at Missler; Golden State which left Los Angeles Saturday is held at Meade, Golden State which left Los Angeles Sunday is held at El Paso, Tex. The Imperial due at Los Angeles today is held at Liberal, Imperial due in Los Angeles tomorrow is held at Harrington, Imperials which left Los Angeles Friday and Saturday are held at Tucum-cari, N.M.

Train Carrying 200 Stranded LIBERAL, Kan. UP) A Rock Island passenger train carrying 200 passengers, 25 of them ill and under doctors care, remained stuck today in snow drifts near Meade, with no immediate prospects of rescue. Earlier reports that the passengers numbered only 92 and had been removed from the train proved erroneous when an emergency telephone circuit to the stalled train was established from here early today. A doctor and sufficient medical supplies to care for the sick passengers reached the train late last night on a National Guard Weasel snow vehicle. A Liberal pilot equipped his light plane with makeshift skiis this morning and took off with food supplies, planning to attempt to land near the train.

Clear skies and winds that, had dropped to 20 miles an hour favored the attempt, the pilot, George Githens, told newsmen. Supreme Court Rejects Desegregation Delay WASHINGTON UP)' The Supreme Court today rejected Virginias attempts to delay desegregation of its public schools. The tribunal did so by refusing to review lower court orders directing the admission of Negro pupils to public schools in Charlottesville and Arlington County. Union Pacific Train With 400 Aboard Mired By ASSOCIATED PRESS The worst spring blizzard in 30 years continued to rage In the Midwest today, paralyzing transportation and crippling communications in many sections of eight states. One major train, carrying 400 passengers, and an estimated 7,500 highway travelers were reported stranded but none were believed in danger.

Four deaths were attributed to the storm. The train was the Union Pacifics City of St. Louis, westbound from St. Louis to Los Angeles. It was mired in drifts ranging up to 18 feet near Winona, Kan.

about 50 miles from the Colorado line. Snowplows were expected to reach it about noon today. Storm Moves East The Weather Bureau at Kansas City reported the storm was causing high winds and heavy snows this morning in northern Missouri and southern Iowa as it moved toward Illinois and Indiana. Snow also was still falling in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and. Nebraska.

Conditions had eased somewhat in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Forecasts for more heavy snow were in effect from northeastern Kansas and neighboring sections of Nebraska eastward into, parts of lower Michigan and Indiana. Accumulations of from eight to 10 inches were predicted for parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri with generally lesser amounts expected over affected portions of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and lower Michigan. North central Indiana had freezing rain and snow. The snow belt was fringed to the south by rain.

Farmer Happy Despite the immediate hardships resulting from the three-day storm, farmers welcomed the moisture. In some areas it was sufficient to bring expression of belief that the prolonged drought had been broken. Temperatures were not se- vere generally only a few degrees below freezing thus minimizing chances that serious injury would be suffered by marooned travelers. Estimates of stranded motorists included 1, 800 in New Mexico, 1,600 in Colorado, 1,200 in Kansas, 1,000 in Texas, and uncounted hundreds in Nebraska and Iowa. Omaha was choked by 14 inches of snow and the fall continued this morning in the teeth of a 36-mile-an-hour wind.

Lincoln, 60 miles southwest, had a similar situation. Schools in both cities were closed and some business houses failed to open. There was snow 14 inches deep in the Council Bluffs, Iowa, area, and more falling. The Southwestern Bell Telephone reported the storm did more damage to its properties in Kansas than any previous blow. Construction crews from many parts of the Midwest converged on the battered state to restore communications (Continued on Next Page) Irish Several hours later, the group began leaving.

McDonald said he heard loud voices inside the tavern. He returned and saw the bartender, William B. Collier, had a gun pointed at McDonalds cousin and was threatening to shoot him. I told the bartender not to shoot him, McDonald said, and he turned and shot me. I hit the floor, then pulled myself up.

They put me in a car and I blacked out I came to on the operating table. Collier is free on bond and awaits trial on a charge of malicious shooting. McDonalds cousin is also free on bond and is charged with assault and Beck Slated To Appear Tomorrow Question Worth $270,000 Set For Senate Quiz WASHINGTON UP) An attorney for Dave Beck said today the Teamsters Union president will without question or qualification show up for a hearing tomorrow by investigating senators who have a $270,000 question throw at him. Becks attorney, former Sen. James H.

Duff, told newsmen: Any report that he is not coming is just plain bunk. The senators want to ask Beck about his turning over $270,000 to the union, which recorded it as repayment of loans, when so far the senators have been able to determine there was no record of the money having been lent to Beck. Neither Loan Nor Gift Sen. McClellan chairman of the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, said, We know that Beck took from the union treasuries some There is no evidence of a loan nor of a gift. McClellan said thats as far as I could go in characterizing the transaction, pending Becks appearance before the committee tomorrow.

Beck had been expected to arrive here from Seattle today, but his airline reservation was canceled last night. He has said he borrowed between $300,000 and $400,000 in Teamster funds, without interest and without security, before he became president 6f the huge union 4 Vs years ago. He said the loans were made while he was head of the Teamsters 11-state Western Conference. Beck claimed he has repaid the money in full. Last Obstacle In Suez Raised CAIRO UP) A U.N.

salvage team today raised the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet, the last obstacle to passage of ships thru the Suez Canal. The 841-ton tug was to be towed away during the next several days but there was no official word yet when Egypt will open the 103-mile waterway to ships, about 75 per cent of the canals normal traffic before it was blocked during the invasion last fall. The Egyptian frigate Abukir still partially blocks the southern entrance to the canal, but the can skirt this obstacle. U.N. officials have said the Abukir should be cleared by April 10 and that the waterway will then be open to all ships that formerly used it.

on production was not felt before today. Labor minister Ian Mcleod has appealed to employers in the industrial plants to meet with the unions. The strike is being masterminded by the Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Unions, which also has been running a strike of Britains 200,000 shipbuilding workers for the past 11 days. Confederation bosses met shipbuilding employers at the Ministry of Labor here, raising hopes that peace is in sight. Industrial sources say that if a settlement is reached in the shipyards, peace would probably follow in the industrial plants within a day or two.

4'' 4 4 Av.v, w.w age as a result of radioactive fall-out. Eisenhower also pledged U.S. cooperation with the military committee of the Baghdad Pact. Eisenhower and Macmillan promised to support U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammars-kjolds quest for a settlement of the disputes with Egypt over the Gaza Strip, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez CanaL Macmillan told a news conference the talks had been a great success because weve reached a number of conclusions on some large issues.

Weve tidied up a lot of points, and we've set in motion methods of better cooperation on questions still unresolved. Informants said the Britons guarded reference could be taken to mean: 1. Eisenhower and Macmillan signed understandings on ways of handling jointly certain international problems. These presumably include American readiness to give or lend-lease missiles to Britain, American willingness to join in easing Allied bars on nonstrategic trade with Red China and the formulation of an international convention to safeguard freedom of oil pipelines. Also reported included are plans for joint action in case of any sudden worsening of the Middle East situation for instance, if the wobbly state of Jordan collapses or if new fighting flares between Israel and the Arabs.

2. The two statesmen agreed to drop all thought of shortterm pressures to force Egypt into a settlement Of current Middle Eastern disputes. Simul taneously, they undertook to act (Continued on Next Page) Proves Nonfatal of the no vital organs or blood vessels. But they added that chance played a large part in McDonalds survival. In that brief interval of con-scienciousness that might have been his last, McDonald thought of his family.

He wasnt worried about the hereafter. I had communion that morning, St. Pats morning, and I had just been given the last rites. I just worried about my family. I wondered what would happen to them, he said.

"We have two sons and my wife is expecting. McDonald entered an inn with a group of friends. They had a few beers and sang Irish songs. THOMAS BOWMAN Game warden Bill Jolley found the boy early this morning at Forester Lake. He said the boy' was chilled but that he was in fine condition.

Deputy Sheriff Brady Barton returned the boy to search headquarters at the Idyllwild fire station, where he was reunited with his father. Eight members of the San Dimas Mountain Rescue Squadron, led by Eddie Rankin of Glendora, joined in the search yesterday and were called back early today. Planes, Ships Search For Missing Transport TOKYO (U.P) Planes and ships criss-crossed the Pacific off Japan for the fourth day today in a fruitless search for a C97 transport plane which disappeared Friday with 67 Americans aboard. Search planes and ships found white kapok pillows, yellow objects and other articles in the shark-infested waters, but none of them were from the Stratocruiser which plummeted into the sea on a flight from California to Japan. Witness Complains Of Threatening Call SEATTLE (U.P) Police today were investigating a complaint that a Teamsters Union employee made a threatening telephone call to the home of Howard Sylvester, who testified last Thursday before the Senate Rackets Committee.

Sylvester, a Seattle real estate dealer and public relations man, said his wife received an anonymous call Thursday night after he had appeared before the committee. West Germany Army Chief Visits U.S. NEW YORK UP) Lt. Gen. Adolf Heusinger, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the West German armed forces, arrived by plane today for a 17-day tour of military installations in the United States and Canada.

Heusinger was invited by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and by the Canadian Department of National Defense. Six Western Nations Form Common Market ROME UR) Six western European statesmen bound their nations today in a common market aimed at wiping out customs barriers from the North Sea to the Adriatic.

Representatives of West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed treaties for the common market and the atomic pool plan. British Stamp Sold At Auction for $12,600 LONDON UR) An unused Mauritis stamp, worth a penny 110 years ago, sold for 4,500 pounds ($12,600) today and the buyers said they got a real bargain. The price, paid by English collectors Harry Nissen and W. E. Lea.

was the highest ever achieved for a single stamp at at British auction. Ike To Brief Congressmen Leaders To Hear About Bermuda WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower summoned top Democrats and Republicans in Congress to a briefing today on the Bermuda conference. The White House announced that the President, Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles will participate In the discussions. It described them as aimed toward briefing members of both. parties in Congress up to date on Eisenhowers meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan of Great Britain.

Nixon spent about 40 minutes this morning reporting informally to Eisenhower on his 22-day good will trip to Africa and Italy. The chief executive and vice president took advantage of their first opportunity to get together since Nixon got back from that tour and the President returned from the Bermuda conference. Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty told reporters the President had shaken off a head cold and ear trouble but still has an occasional coughing spell which his doctors expect to continue for a while. Eisenhower sounded and looked chipper this morning at a White House ceremony at which he presented a medal for bravery and another for service to two young men. Hagerty told reporters that he knew of no agreements reached at Bermuda of which the press was not informed.

He was told that stories coming out of Bermuda mentioned secret agreements on the Mideast. I know of nothing on that, Hagerty replied. 1 1 Israeli Police On Trial for Killings JERUSALEM UP) Eleven Israeli border police went on trial today charged with killing 47 Arab villagers on Oct. 29 in a curfew incident near Kafr Kas-sem close to the Israeli-Jordan border. The trial, which has been postponed twice, is expected to last two months.

IN TODAYS P-B Amusements P. 5, Sec. 2 Bridge P. 4, Sec. 2 Church Calendar P.

6, Sec. 1 Classifieds P. 4, 5, 6, 7, Sec. 3 Comics P. 4, Sec.

2 Crossword P. 4, Sec. 2 Draftees Veterans P. 10, Sec.l Editorial P. 4, Sec.

Financial P. 2, Sec. 1 Literary Guidepost P. 6, Sec. 1 Obituary P.

2, Sec. 2 Sports P. 6, 7, Sec. 2 Stamps In the News P. 3, Sec.

3 TV Radio P. 4, Sec. 2 Valley News P. 1, 2, Sec. 3 Weather Report P.

2, Sec. 1 Women P. 8, 9, Sec. 1 TUCKERS TOWN, Bermuda UP) President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan today were reported to have spelled out secret policy directives on key world issues in Europe, the Middle East and Asia aimed at pinning down the revitalized 1 1 1 h-American partnership. After the windup of the Big Twos four-day meeting, informants said a number of solid written understandings lay hidden behind the generalities of their joint 800-word communique.

In their 11-point statement, Eisenhower and Macmillan yesterday announced the United States will supply certain guided missiles to help hard-up Britain streamline its defenses In the atomic age. They also offered to swap limited observer facilities with Russia at future nuclear weapon tests tests which they premised to restrain to lessen the risks of causing genetic dam- Business Taxes Are Continued WASHINGTON UR) The Senate Finance Committee today voted a 15-month extension of three billion dollars worth of annual business taxes after turning down proposals for relief to small business. Also rejected was an amendment by Sen. Williams (R-Del.) to cut the oil and gas depletion allowance from 27 to 15 per cent. The present corporation income and excise tax rates would be extended thru June 30, 1958 under the bill sent to the Senate floor by the committee.

Heart Wound Luck LOUISVILLE, Ky. UR) Ed-ward J. McDonald woke up on the operating table at SS. Mary Elizabeth Hospital. A Catholic priest was administering last rites.

I thought it was all over, McDonald said. But McDonald had the luck of the Irish with him, or, as he puts it, maybe St. Patrick was watching over him. McDonald was shot thru the heart on St Patricks Day. The wound closed behind the bullet.

The 31-year-old Irishman is looking forward to having the lead removed from his back today. Surgeons said heart wounds do not always prove fatal and that in this case, the bullet hit Roosevelt Offers U.N. Panama Canal Control CHICAGO UR) Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Calif.) has proposed that the United States offer to turn over control of the Panama Canal, to the United Nations providing Egypt takes the same step with the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. Roosevelt, son of the late President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, told an Israeli bond dinner last night that his plan for UN control of the waterways was one phase of a long range program aimed at settlement of the Middle East crisis. Whittaker Takes Oath As Associate Justice WASHINGTON (A) Charles Evans Whittaker today became an associate justice of the Supreme Court by taking oaths to support the Constitution and to administer equal justice to poor and rich. Members of his family, associates in law practice, and other friends were among spectators in a crowded court chamber who saw the 56-year-old Kansas City-, jurist take his place as successor to Justice Stanley F. Reed. Nixon Discharged After Treatment WASHINGTON (UP) Vice President Richard M.

Nixon was discharged from Walter Reed Hospital Sunday after being treated for a cold he picked up on his tour of Africa. Hospital authorities said Nixon was much improved'' and that he was discharged after consultation with his doctors. Pilot Completes 26th Crossing of Atlantic SHANNON, Ireland UR) Max Conrad, former band leader from Winona, completed his 26th crossing of the Atlantic Ocean today in a light plane. The 54-year-old veteran of flying hours, made the flight in a twin engine Piper Apache. He landed at Shannon airport after a flight from Gander, Nfld.

Permanent Wave Fluid Fatal to 3-Year-Old DENVER UP) Three-year-old Bobbie Jean Barnes of Newcastle, died at Colorado General Hospital last night, five days after she swallowed neutralizing fluid from her mother's permanent wave kit. Doctors said the neutralizing fluid contained poisonous potassium bromide. Million-Man Walkout British Industries Feel Strike Effects LONDON UP) Britains booming aviation, automobile and heavy machine tool industries were hit by the full force of a million-man walkout today. But prospects of a speedy over-all industrial peace brightened. Strikers outside plants guarded by picket lines were told by union bosses new talks in London might lead to a settlement of wage disputes.

The walkout in the factories is the first stage of a snowball strike patterned to involve 3 million workers in 4,300 plants by 6 if a 10 per cent wage increase demand is not met. The stoppage began Saturday. Plants normally are closed over the weekend so the full effect 4 I.

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