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Traffic a 1282 0 iim Dentils 0 2 Invftlvinjl InlurV ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Seeing the Alton Community jot Mot-e him 119 Altttft ttlft Hlftl Established January 15, 1836. Vol. CXX, No. 261 ALTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1955 Be Per Copy Membef of Hie Abated Car in Fatal Crash At Public Health Forum Discuss Aspects of Polio DEATH M. Buechler of.East St.

Louis was killed when his car collided with two others, on'Kt. 67, Thursday. Two persons were injured. The smashed car was being hauled by a wrecker when this staff photo was taken. 3 Seriously Hurt Man, Woman Killed In 2 Area Auto Crashes Two persons were killed an three seriously injured in tw area auto crashes Thursday.

One Rt. 67 south of Jersey ville near the Delhi junction one man was kille instantly and two others wer seriously injured a three-ca crash. The other crash was about p. m. on Rt.

Ill three miles eas ot Granite City. Dead: Charles M. Buechler, 29 East St. Louis. Mrs.

Virginia Starkey, 31, 570 N. Kansas Ed wardsville. Injured: John Rhoads, 20 of McClusky Ralph D. Irvin, 21, of 105 Dooley Leland A. Peterson, 32, Belleville.

State Patrolmen Wilson Schultz and W. 0. Culbreth, with Sh'er- iff Herman Kirchner and De puty Sheriff George Poleet, in vestigated the crash near Jer seyville, which was the one in which Buechler "was killed instantly. Buechler was said to have been duck hunting in Calhoun County. Schltz said this morning that William R.

Martin of White Hall, who was following Irvin's car, witnessed the crash. Martin told -authorities that Buechler was headed south on Rt. 67 and that Rhoads and Irvin vehicles were both headed north, Rhodes, according to iMartin, pulled out to pass Irvin and collided head-on with the ler car. Buechler's machine then bounced over into the path of Iryin's car. Irvin and'Rhoads were moved by Brothers ambulance to the Jersey Community Hospital where were emergency Irvm was moved Jersey Hospital to A11 '6 Memorial, Hospital night.

Mrs. Starkey was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth 1 Hospital at Granite CHy, She died there about 9 p. m- from Injuries incurred the mishap, state police reported. Mrs.

Starkey, according to State police, was north on Rt. Ill toward Edwardsville when- the multiple collision occurred about mile south 'of State Aid Rt. 35 near Lakeside Airport. Other cars involved in the mishap, state were driven by John, W. Kaus, 25, of 2424 Alby 'Alton; and Ralph Burnett, 39 St.

Louis. Burnett, travelling north on Rt. (Continued on Page 2, Col. AEG Official Suggests H-Bomb Show of Force By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON atomic erttergy commissioners were lined up today against a colleague's plan for a H-bomb "show of force" to impress on world leaders the need for The proposal, -made by AEC Commissioner Thomas E.

Murray In a New York speech Thursday night, also met some outright opposition in the Senate. But some senators said the idea was worth considering. Murray's idea outlined at the olden Jubilee Dinner of the Ford- lam University Law School was to call representatives of all the nations -to at he termed a folio was discussed at a pubic forum sponsored by the Greater Alton Association to Commerce Thursday night at East Junior High School. Drs. E.

K. DuVivier, Paul Pierce, Joseph J. M1 a and Physical Therapist Garth Taylor of Alton Memorial Hospital were the speakers. Following the speaking program, audience questions were answered. Dr.

DuVivier gave a general view of polio from a public standpoint. He said there are only 30,000 cases per year in the U. S. and that, at so-calhd epidemic there is one case per 100,000 population. He noted thta 50 per cent of the cases are marked by complete recovery and only eight per cent make it." He observed that the average person is "not likely" to contract polio and there is only a slight chance of its being fatal.

Transmission of the disease is mostly person-to-person transfer, doctors bcleve, said Du- Vivier. Discusses Vaccine Dr. Pierce's views were de- voted mostly to the aspects of prevention of polio by administration ot the Salk vaccine. He pointed out the research thaf lead directly to ihe discovery of the Salk vaccine can be traced back almost a half- century. He mentioned the 1909 discovery.

that polio is a Virus disease. In 1949 it was demonstrated that three main types (and many strains of the virus exist. Also In "49, three Harvard scienists found the virus can be grown on artificial culture. Tn '53 gamma gobulin tests began to show spine temporary protection against polio could be obtained. With this background, Dr.

Salk wns spurred on to his vaccine discover in '53 which led to a groat, survey test in '54, New Program Developed Concerning the situaton that developed from the vaccine nationally last spring, Dr. Pierce said one company had made the faulty vaccine which resulted in 114 recognizable cases of polio. This was caused by a method of preparation that did not eliminate all the active virus from the vaccine material. The situa- ton led to a whole new program of testing the vaccine and methods were reviewed and revised. With the result that today's vaccine is a product that is very much safer than that used last Spring," Pierce said.

Rehabilitation Taylor told of the-methods employed to rehabilitate polio patients' physical and strengthen their morale. Dr. Mlra was on an emergency call durng the forepart of the session, but appeared later. His view of the subject was presented from the orthopedic surgeon's standpoint, He said, in part: "It is generally considered that recovery of muscle "power in the paralyzed groups can take place as long as one year after the onset of the illness. As a rule, however, most of the recovery takes place during the first six months.

A completely or totally paralyzed muscle seldom recovers. At the end of year, the condition is considered to be chronic and surgery is seldom indicated before this time." 'meeting at the atomic'summit." Such a meeting, he said, would be icld at Eniwetok, in the Pacific Proving Grounds used by the AEC. There, he. said, these leaders particularly the Russians and Communist Chinese should witness an H-bomb explosion in what envisioned as a "show of force, a declaration of American power and a demonstration of the strategy of deterrence." Shortly after Murray's speech released, his four AEC col- eagues issued a joint statement eclaring that "commission tests the Pacific have never been designed as a 'show of force' but re solely for the development of veapons necessary for defense of he free world." They said the AEC several months ago formally rejected Muray's motion to invite foreign ob- ervers, including Communists, to iiiclear tests in the Pacific. Last of Luer Kidnapers Is Paroled Percy Michael Fitzgerald was granted a from Menard penitentiary.

The state parole board, although announcing the parole said he is, still held pending negotiations with the State of Missouri, That is the state to Fitzgerald had asked to be paroled'. It is necessary for a state to which a convict is to accept the convict before he is released. He was the -last to be paroled of those convicted in the kid- naping of Alton banker August Luer. Another man, Lloyd "Blackie" Doyle, may still be in prison in Texas on a conviction there on another charge. Doyle had been linked with the but was not brought to trial with the The late Mr.

Luer, banker and (Continued on Page 2, Col. Then Bites Fire Chief Dog Alerts Family When Garage and His House Burn WOOD barking Stumpy, the pet terrier at the lome Mr, and Mrs. William McEwen of 906 Penning ailed to arouse enough interest i Mrs. McEwen Thursday after- con to enable Stumpy to. point ut that his dog house and the amily garage were on'fire.

This phase incident was For 1956 Possible Democratic Ticket Predicted By JACK CHICAGO qf ft possible Stcvenson-Ketauver spread today amqng Democrats forward with new-found confidence' toward next year's presidential nomination. The party's state ph.a'rri?en took the center of the after the Democratic Committee voted Unanimously 'Thursday to open Us 1956 convention doors to additional delegates. Paul Ziffren, California natlonjj pommltteeman who helped sponsor the idea, said the expanded convention represented a new high of optimisni among party workers. "We've got a Jot of Democrats who want to get in on the ground floor in the business of ejecting the next president," "he said. A 2,744 delegates and 1,896 alternates, wiU be eiigiblo to ptten.4 the They havft i total votes, an Increase of 14? from 1952.

Individual members of the national commit had their own Ideas about the Identity of their presidential nominee, but Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania national committeeman, said sentiment for Adlal E. Stevenson appeared to be ing rapidly. Lawrence said there was talk of a ticket headed by Stevenson, with Sen. Estes Refauver of Tennessee as the presidential candidate. Kefauver, due here later in the day, has maintained he wouldn' be interested In second'place.

He has- said he will announce next month whether he plans to run again for the presidential nomination he lost to, Stevenson In 1952. Some Democrats thought that JJ plauver" raiy and lost ouWor it he didn't run at might he persuaded to take second place on the ticket, Important to Stumpy because he was inside the doghouse and unable to free himself. However, a neighbor, seeing the situation, notified Mrs. McEwen qf 'the blaze and the fire department took over from 'there. But the Incident was not completed without a minor misunderstanding; Upon being freed from his burning tarpaper-covered domiplle, the friendly Stumpy scurried about happily, barked joyfully and ended by jumping upon the person of Fjre Chief Tom Terry, who was not, aware that Stumpy was act- Ing Jri gratitude.

On the contrary, Terry was convinced that Stumpy proposed jo do him bodily harm and when Stumpy leaped up and bit into a sleeve of his coat the fire chief hauler! off and smpte Stumpy. Mrs, MoEwen told firemen that the entire was her fault. She wss burning some papers Jn a can at the rear of Ike Checks Dulles'Talk To Nation GETTYSBURG, Pa. ff Presi dent Eisenhower checked word-for word today the report Secretary State Dulles will give 'the American people tonight on the Geneva four power stalemate. In his temporary quarters in the Gettysburg post office, the Presi dent, pencil in hand, went-over the text, marking in suggested changes and voicing his approval of other language, Dulles joined Eisenhower at 10:30 a.

m. (CST) for the final consulta tion on the all-important report on the post-Geneva international situa tion. Elsenhower had'been at work on other matters for more than hour. Dulles' talk will be carriet by CBS-TV p. m.

CST. A delayed telecast is plannei by NBC at 10:30 p.m., and broadcasts are scheduled by NBC at 8:30 p.m. and ABC and CBS at 9:30 p. m. Stratton Tells Plans for River Road in 1956 Assurance that $1,000,000 more of work would get under way in 1956 on the McAdams Highway was given by Gov.

William G. Strat- tqrf to W. T. Wodcock, executive director of the Greater Alton Association of- Commerce, Thursday. Woodcock was attending the organization meeting of the advisory board for the governor's new Dl vision of Industrial Planning and Development, and had a personal interview with the governor afterward.

Stratton told Woodcock he had ordered the Illinois division of highways to get' plans and specifications for the work prepared so that work could be done in 1956. Initial contracts on highway work already have been let. They involve construction of a bridge across Piasa Creek. Meanwhile, it was said at the French Village district office of the highway division, a resident engineer has been assigned to the highway project and has been on the job "about a week." He is Glen H. Sawyer of North- moore place, Godfrey, Problem Erased Set Production Of Salk Vaccine By.

ALTON L. BLAKBSLEE AP Science Reporter KANSAS CITY Polio' experts say the green light is on for full-scale production of safe, potent vaccine through removal Airliner Crash Kills 27, Injures 46; Most Passengers Were GIs Tragedy On Take Off At Seattle SEATTLE chartered liner loaded with GIs. homeward bound for the holidays crashed shortly after takeoff today and at least 27 persons died it exploded and Forty-seven others Including the three-man crew, survived the crash. The four engined DC4, a nonscheduled airliner chartered to the Army by the Peninsular AirTrans- port Co. oE Miami Springs, carried 66 servicemen who came VICTIM REMOVED Victim of chartered plane home from the Far East-Thursday.

crash at Seattle last night is carried passed the tail sec- They were bound for separation tion. Plane carrying 73 persons faltered on takeoff and points in the East and for a re- glanced off a house. (AP Wirephoto) of a troublesome bottleneck. Simultaneously, they answered some doubts and questions raised by some health officers concerning the vaccine at a meeting of the American Public Health Assn. In essence, experts said there is no re'ason to'doubt the efficiency or safety of the Salk polio vaccine.

One spiked a rumor that Canadians stopped making vaccine because they kept finding live virus in the vaccine. Dr. R. D. DeFries of Toronto, said the reason they're, building a bigger plan' to "carry on a'muqh bigger vaccina tion program next year.

Others, including Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the vaccine cited evidence the vaccine could protect very young infants, that vaccination had nothing to do with the outbreak of this year's epidemic in Massachusetts, that use of even a single shot had dras- tjcally reduced paralytic polio in he States this year. But a couple of health officers leld to their reservations that some inoculations of vaccine might lave been the cause of 'spread of polio to other members of the fam- ly. Virus experts disagreed, or said the assumption was by no means proved. A committee of experts appointed by the U.

S. Public Health Service reported the cause of a roublesome bottleneck in vaccine (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1.) Union Strike In Argentina Is Called Off BUENOS AIRES ff Argentina's five-day-old government, apparently victorious in the first ma jor challenge to its authority, an nounced Thursday night Peronista labor leaders had called off their faltering general strike. The announcement came after old-line Peronista leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), deposed by the government when they issued their strike call, had met with Labor Minister Raul Migone. The communique said the CGT leaders had "resolved unanimously to cease immediately" the three-day walkout.

CGT, mainstay of the toppled dictator Juan D. Peron, called the strike in an obvious attempt to discredit the provisional government headed by Maj. Gen. Pedro Aramburu while it was new and un- ried. The strike knocked out some industries such as meat pack- ng but "free laborers" in the ransportation and communications ndustries defied the strike call.

Tivo Sons in Navy Mrs. John Gramates Proud To Be Full-Fledged Citizen "Who was the country's first resident?" the naturalization examiner asked, Mrs, Peggy Gramates, wife of 'ohn, answered. "And who was the President during the Civil War?" Again Mrs. Gramates gave the ight answer. She had been preparing for a ong time for this moment which now faced her at Belleville.

"Do you have any children?" "Yes. Three. Two sons in the favy." "Oh. Why didn't you tell me be Often Repeaters the when the telephone rang and she went to answer, it, she said. After the telephone convsrsation was completed, Mrs, MeEwen said, she went about her housework and assumed the subsequent bark- Ing of Stumpy was his usual vocajiztng $vhich occurred when persons walked through the alley, The doghouse and garage sustained, only minor damage.

Three and 'one-half years ago a house at Bethaito occupied 'by the MeEwens was destroyed by fire. 25 Per Cent of Illinois Mental 5 Patients Alcoholics, Report PEORIA, HI. ff The head of the Peoria State Hospital says that about one-fourth of all patients admitted to mental hospitals in Illinois are alcoholics. Dr. Daniel A.

Manelli said this average also holds true for the Peoria hospital. He made his statements in an address at the first of a series of hearings by the Illinois State Commission on the Care of Alcoholics, The commission was created by the last General Assembly to explore the field of alcoholic treatment. Dr. Manelli told the hearing that more than one-half of the 25 per cent are voluntary patients and that more than half also are "repeaters." Qne, he said, has been admitted 19 times. Dr.

Manelli proposed a screening process which would weed out applicants who seek "a refuge rather than treatment." Dr. Otto L. Bettag, director of the state Department of Public Welfare, said general admission to Eli- nois mental hospitals have been decreasing but that admissions of alcoholics: continues to increase. Pr, Manelli told the commission the Peoria S.tate hospital is understaffed and, heeds more physicians and nurses, but has difficulty obtaining qualified help, In answer to ,3 question by Sen, Roland v. Uhonstj a cpnjmls- sipn member, pr.

ManelU said higher 'salaries wwiJ4' jjejp to.pb- tain more qualified, nurses, fore. That answers everything!" So Mrs. Gramates is a full- fledged citizen of the United States today, as she goes about the business of helping her husband cpnduct his shoe-shining and hat cleaning shop near East Broadway and Alby streets. And a woman prouder of the fact you're likely never to see. To help her celebrate the occasion, one of her sailor sons, Tom, is home from over the waters.

He's stationed at Newport, but he's here on a leave. The other son, James, is at Alameda, Calif. A daughter, Essie, is still Jn high helps with" the family shop, too. Back in Gramates, who had been in this country since 1926, and obtained his citizenship, went back to Greece to find a wife. got caught up in a web of European events that kept him and his bride there till things got straightened out in 1946.

All three of his children were born-in Greece, Then, with his growing family, he hustled back to the land of his adoption as fast as he could, Though his first venture on this side had been in St. Louis, John settled on his return in Alton, opening up the Riverview Hat Shop. Since then all three children have obtained citizenship certificates, but JQl 1 Mrs. Grftmates it was more difficult. She worked hard in'preparation; finally went to fieljevflle Thursday for her final examination admission to citizenship, Air Force Plane Crashes In Nevada LAS VEGAS, Nev.

IP An Air Force transport with 14 persons aboard crashed high in the saw- tooth Charleston Mountains. while en route to the Nevada atomic bombing range Thursday. An arctic rescue team from March Air Force, Base, braving subzero temperatures, combed on foot through the snow early today in an attempt to reach be wreckage at about the elevation. The rugged range in the high plateau country was shrouded in clouds and whipped by high wind and intermittent show. The wreckage, sighted by, searc planes through a rift in the cloucl Thursday, lay on a high slop next to Mt.

Charleston 27 niiles northwest of here. The aircraft had been due a Groom Dry Lake, 50 miles north of the AEC's Camp Mercury, after leaving Burbank, 225 miles southwest of here. Air Force headquarters in Wash- ngton, D. said the aircraft, be- ieved to be a C54, carried Air Torce personnel and "some civil ian consultants." It was not disclosed how many of each. The mission was described as "routine." Install New Bench Mark At City Hall A new bench mark to provide city datum from which all street grades and elevations in the city may be officially reckoned has been in the lawn at the northeast corner of Alton City Hall.

It replaces the city's previous official bench mark which stood about 25 feet further east in Court House square, but which had to be removed in construction of the metered parking lot immediately east of the city building. City Engineer Fairfield today was preparing a resolution for adoption by the City Council which will record the relocaion of the bench mark, and make (Continued on Page 15, Col. 1.) Stratton To Call Special Judge Vote SPRINGFIELD. ov. Stratton was reliably reported today as having decided to call a special election to fill a vacancy in the Third (seven- county) Judicial Circuit.

The special election will be called for April 10, the Telegraph learned. Madison and St. Clair counties are included. The vacancy was caused by the death last March of Judge Edward F. Bareis of East St Louis." The special election will held in connection with the Apr 10 primary, thus causing a min imum of expense, following fa ure'oC attorneys to agree on one candidate.

The attorneys of the circuit have agreed on two candidates, both Democrats. One of these was to be selected by the attorneys and if approved by political party chairmen his name would have gone on ballot at a token election, to be held one precinct in each of the seven counties. Democratic county committees approved the plan. Republicans of three counties A'ere reported to have failed to agree to a "token" election with a lone Democrat 'candidate. Re-publicans of three counties agreed, and those in the seventh haven't acted.

This situation is reported to have been presented to the governor. union with their families at Thanksgiving. Also aboard, in addition to the crew, were a woman and three children and a'reserve pilot. Today's crash came brief minutes after the plane left Boeing "ield on a flight to irst scheduled stop. The ship plowed into a hillside in a residential broke into pieces nd burst 'into flames.

'A huge hunk hit the rear of a house vhere a mother and her, five chil- ren were sleeping. They escaped ninjured. Suffers Shock Eugene Casey, 19, of Chicago, ne of the survivors, said he was eated on the left side of the plane iear the emergency door when it lit. Casey in a hospital suffered shock and severe burns, said the takeoff had been delayed by a snowstorm which had covered the Seattle area during the day. As it neared the crash site, he said, -the "whole plane started jarring.

I saw wires snap. ''I don't'know? got but. I walked right through the fire." Part of the plane came to rest in the yard ot Mrs. Donald Renard. Mrs.

Renard said there was a "terrific explosion," and "the next minute my yard was full 'of soldiers. Every available ambulance was to the scene and the injured ivere rushed to three hospitals. Hours after the crash, the coro- ter's office still was trying to com- lete identification of the dead. The soldiers were among the 2,33 who arrived on the transport en. R.

L. Howze from the Far Dast. They were loaded aboard non(Continued on Page 2, Col. 2.) River Stages V. Bureau 7 a.m.

Sea Level 7 a.m.. Dam 26 lise .38 tage (Zero 393.48 M.S.L.I 419.00 Tailwater 394.03 Family Tradition Boys, 15 and 11 9 Get Curls Cut, Abandon Feminine Clothing KENOSHA, Wis. young rothers shorn of their waist ngth blond, curly hair and di ested of girls' clothing for pos- bly the first time in their lives- deed life today as boys. Puzzled welfare officials, mean hile, investigated to determine thy the parents of the two boys, 5 and 11, were apparently raising hem as girls. Winter Comes Violent Storms Diminish But Rain, Snow Continue in U.

S. By TUB ASSOCIATED PKESS as far south as southern Colo- Snow and rain fell in western were in the 20s or lower, states today but violent storms Bui it was colder in the south, which lashed broad areas of the with temperatures in the 30s as nation this week appeared diminishing. The windy, snowy, cold weather was blamed for at least 13 deaths. Nine persons were missing and presumed dead. Four other persons were reported snowbound in the mountains over Boulder, which was hit by an 18-inch snowfall Monday.

The arctic air which has gripped Ihe northern Rockies and northern Plains States for several days appeared nearly broken. The Weather Bureau reported only a few areas reporting below zero temperatures. Temperatures in the icy belt climbed as much as 20 degrees compared to Thursday morning. However, readings through the far as the central Gulf States. Readings were 20 to 30 degrees lower in the southeast.

The coldest November weather in Montana's history, with temperatures more than 30 degrees be low in some areas, also was felt in Wyoming and Colorado. Heavy snow hit the western slopes of the Rockies Thursday. A storm from Alaska struck the Pacific Coast, bringing rain into northern California and snow as far east as Idaho. Snowfalls ranged from 2 to 6 inches In the Pacific northwest. Traffic was snarled in many cities.

The snow in the western mountainous regions ranged up to 15 to 20 inches. The parents, unnamed by authorities until the investigation is completed, said they saw nothing wrong in having their boys wear curls and not attending school. The father said he was from the South and reported his wife was from dbwnstate Illinois. Miss Janet Theleen, Kenosha County juvenile probation officer heading the investigation, said the parents will face a Juvenile Court hearing. No other charges were filed, she said.

The situation came to light Wednesday when a local hotel notified authorities that it had found the boys and their mother huddled in the same bed in a darkened, unheated room. The hotel management said they had been living in the room about a month and seldom left it. One of the boys oc- caslonally went out for bakery goods. The girls' clothing when found in the taken to a hospital for examination for signs of malnutrition, Their mother was in a hospital room at Kenosha County Jail, The father told police long hair- was a tradition in his family and said his hair was not cut until he was 18. He reported he was era.

ployed by a. drivers' school in Chicago, about 55 miles south of Kenoshar The boys apparently did not tend school, the Welfare inent said. The mother was ed as saying she taught them and the father said he hired tutors for them. The woman said sho and hoys followed the father, traveled a great deaj..