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JOIN Cancer Drive NOW Nmha llnuntal ISTmD November a 31 a La Morning and Sunday NewspapermJmmKclm RENO NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING APRIL 2 1955 10c DAILY 15c SUNDAY ON NEWSSTANDS EIGHTY ITH 112 PHONE 3 4121 Hundreds Dead Injured in Earthquake 1 JOIN Cancer Drive NOW OURTEEN PAGES TODAY Jolt Shakes 3 Provinces I In Philippines Offers Planes Tax Board Ousts Jones Hicks To Speed Relief Of Victims 1 MANILA Saturday April 2 Philippines officials today listed more than 550 persons dead missing and injured in an earth quake that rocked three southern provinces for seven hours riday Reports from the office of the governor of stricken Lanao Prov ince said an on the spot inspec tion team which had toured the three provinces worst hit placed the dead at 170 In addition the report said 100 persons were missing and 300 in jured Thousands Homeless are the report added Wrecked water supplies high ways clogged by landslides and shattered communications added to the suffering of the stricken areas and hampered the efforts of relief teams to reach them with needed food clothing emergency shelter and medicines Lanoa was hit the hardest of the three provinces on Mindanao on which the earthquake cen tered The others were Misamis Oriental and Misamis Occidental Brig Gen William Lee com mander of the 13th Air orce offered the assistance of his command and of planes from Japan if needed to bring relief to the quake battered area ive oot issure President Ramon Magsaysay to whom the offer was made de clared a state of public calamity in the earthquake area He will fly to Mindanao today (Saturday) to survey the extent of damage and the requirements for relief Magsaysay also released 500000 pesos ($250000) from his discre tionary funds for emergency re lief Pacita Madrigan Warns social welfare administrator who wit nessed the quake in Ozamis city said she saw the massive shocks rip gaping five foot wide fissures in the earth army trucks in Santiago were swallowed up in the great cracks in the she said Panic swept the native quar ters she said Many residents fled to the mountains Superstitious residents of the remote town of Cagyan de Oro prostrated themselves and chant ed the hog call an boo to appease the supernatural pigs within the earth which they be lieve cause such disasters The Lanao area has a popula tion of approximately 1000000 More than 2000 homes were re ported reduced to rubble and up ward of 10000 persons were said to have been left homeless Many of the buildings however are of light bamboo construction and can be rebuilt quickly ree Austria Agreement Supported By West Allies LONDON April 1 (UR) United States Britain and rance have agreed to issue a new pledge ot independence for Austria authoritative sources said today A three power statement re stating the plea for the early conclusion of a long delayed Austrian state treaty is' to be issued to coincide with Chancellor Julius forthcoming discus sions with the Russians in Mos cow The West will make clear its feeling that Austria must be given her full independence unimpaired by new restrictions or limitations the sources said CIO Rubber Workers Close 19 actories NEW YORK April 1 UR) CIO Rubber Workers shut down 19 plants of the United States Rubber Company across the country today following expira tion of their collective bargain ing agreement at midnight Company and union officials agreed there had beerijio break down in negotiations A union spokesman said they had ad journed at midnight and would resume on Monday with what he expected would be similar friendliness Wages pensions and hospitali zation agreements are not at issue they are traditionally ne gotiated after aigning of a gen eral agreement on 60 day notice by the union i Matsu Quemoy uror Mounts In Washington Democratic Sehators To Oppose Defense Of Islands WASHINGTON April 1 A number of Democratic senators today demanded that President Eisenhower make clear that the United States will not defend the Quemoy and Matsu islands Led by Sen Wayne Morse (D Orel who proposed evacua tion of Chinese Nationalist forces from the off shore islands they asked for a public declaration by President Eisenhower Sen Joseph McCarthy (R Wis) on the other hand urged Mr Eisenhower to make it crys tal clear to the Red Chinese that the islands will be defended Mc Carthy was "confident that the Reds would not attack in face of such warning The Democratic demand was counter to the stand taken by Sen Walter George (D Ga) chair man of the Senate foreign rela tions committee He has said he is satisfied with Mr tactics in the ar East crisis The President has not said whether he will order forces to the defense of the small islands off the China possible stepping stones to an invasion of ormosa The administration po sition appears to be that defense will depend on the situation if the Reds attack that is whether the attack is a forerunner to an in vasion of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's bastion on ormosa 1 The demands by the Democrats and McCarthy came in the wake of more confusion over the Presi intentions and fresh debate between Democrats and Repub licans over whether either repre sents a or an peasement McCarthy told the Senate that Democrats are working behind the scenes in support of a nich type in the ar This deal he said proposes the exchange of the Quemoys and Matsus for a Communist promise not to attack ormosa The confusion over the islands was further compounded by Sen Alexander Smith (R H) He repudiated today a statement he made last night that Mr Eisen hower does not think Russia will support a Red Chinese attack on the islands Smith said he was wrong in representing Mr Eisenhower as having said that at a White House conference yesterday Smith said it was an expression of his own feeling Shortly before Smith repudiated his impressions of Mr Eisenhew er's' remarks yesterday another senator disputed them This senator who asked that he not be identified said Mr Eis enhower gave the impression that the administration does not know whether Russia would back up Red China in a Matsu venture The White House said it had no comment on what was discussed at a private conference Conservatives Gain In London Election LONDON April 1 UR) Prime Minister Winston Church Conservative party scored big gains in the election of new London county councilmen re turns from voting showed today The Labor party has con trolled the 126 man council for 21 years but the Conservatives regained 14 seats they lost to the Socialists in the 1952 elections Returns thus far showed Labor won 69 seats and the Con servatives 36 with votes for 21 seats still not counted Jet ighter Plane Crashes in Sound SEATTLE Wash April 1 (IP) An 86 Jet fighter plane crashed into Puget Sound about 10 miles south of Whidbey Island Wash about 12:30 (PST) today the Coast Guard here reported The Coast Guard was sending a helicopter and amphibious air plane to the scene The fate of the pilot was not known The Coast Guard said it had not de termined the base from which the downed plane had taken off Stassen Refuses To Accept Writ Senate Investigators Claim ormal Subpoena Served in Dispute Reds Ignore Sharp Protest On Blockade Counter Moves Slated By West Allies In Berlin CHICAGO April 1 Col Robert Rutherford McCormick Editor and Publisher of the Chi cago Tribune was was one of the most powerful and controversial journalists of his time died in his sleep today leaving behind a vast newspaper empire McCormick was 74 or1 nearly half a century he waged'a vigor ous and forthright battle for and became one of the biggest He died at 3:47 a EST at his suburban Wheaton home with his wife Mrs Maryland Mathison McCormick and a step daughter at his side But ironically McCormick himself the scion of a great in dustrial and newspaper family deft no children of his own Speculation immediately arose as to who would succeed to his mantle at the Tribune inancial circles here believed it might be a triumvirate of Tri bune executives Vice President Chesser Campbell Managing Ed itor Don Maxwell and Treasurer and Business Manager Howard Wood All were referred to re Maximum Term Grunewald Mystery Man Sentenced NEW YORK April 1 Henry Grunewald Washington influence peddler was sentenced to a maximum prison term of five years and fined $5000 today for tax fixing It was the first conviction and sentence except for a 90 day contempt term for the onetime Washington mystery man who first came into prominence during a 1951 congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Depart ment ederal Judge Archie Daw son sentencing Grunewald and one co defendant today termed them who gnawed away at the foundations of opr govern ment by bribing government offi Editor Publisher McElroy touched body with the document and that this fulfilled the legal requirement for service It has been served under the Kennedy told reporters if a person refused to acceptit if it touches his person The dispute erupted yesterday when attitude was first conveyed to subcommittee mem bers One of them Sen Sam Ervin (D C) compared Stas sen to Despite the furor three aides appeared before the subcommittee as requested to day with neither a senator' nor an OA lawyer present The dispute arose after Sym ington charged that agency wanted to award the Pakistan contract to the highest bidder the Agricultural Con struction Co Los Angeles which bid $2430980 Symington said the low bidder at $1448923 was the Columbia Steel Tank Co Kansas City An other Missouri firm was second low he said WASHINGTON April 1 oreign Aid Director Harold Stassen embroiled in' an angry row with Con gress refused today to accept a subpoena from the power ful Senate permanent investigating subcommittee The subcommittee insisted the subpoena had been served and that Stassen must honor it The dispute between Stassen and Senate investigators flared to a fever pitch when a subcommittee representa tive Robrt McElroy tried to give the foreign aid chief a subpoena ordering him to appear before the subcom mittee Wednesday The subpoena also ordered Stassen to bring with him rec ords dealing with a government contract for grain elevators in Pakistan Sen Stuart Symington (D Mo) has charged that Stas agency wanted to give the contract to the highest bidder The subpoena incident came after Stassen bowed to the sub committee and let three of his aides testify about the contract under conditions laid down by the senators At one point he had said he would not let them appear McElroy went to of fice in the oreign Operations Administration (OA) building to serve the subpoena But a spokesman for Stassen said the cabinet level official refused? to take it from McElroy Subcommittee Counsel Robert Kennedy insisted the sub poena had been served He said Dies in Chicago cently by McCormick as my three The Tribune itself said that McCormick began making ful for his succes sion as long as several years ago and that full details will be an nounced after his funeral The Tribune announced that private funeral services will be held Monday for McCormick at his Wheaton home Cantigny arm with burial on the grounds The funeral service will be con ducted by the Rev Robert Bowman Stewart pastor of the irst Presbyterian Church in Wheaton which McCormick at tended The Tribune said Mrs McCormick requested that flow ers be omitted The newspaper said a firing squad of Eighth 5th Army sol diers and a bugler would perform the last military honors for Mc Cormick who was an artillery commander in the 1st Division of World War I The newspaper said McCor mick was desirous of passing his empire to management which had grown up with him had been trained by him and had his con McCormick was best known for his editorial campaigns against prohibition against the of ranklin Delano Roose velt British imperialism and bal He carried the slogan American Paper or on his Tribune along with another slogan World's Greatest President Rejects Nomlhee Criticism WASHINGTON April 1 President today re jected criticisms of his selection of Allen Whitfield for the Atomic Energy Commission today by nominating him for a full five year term Whitfield an Iowa Republican previously had been nominated March 16 for the remainder of a term1 which expires June 30 1955 Rep "Melvin Price (D Ill) criticized the appointment as po litical BERLIN April 1 The i Western allies charged today that the Soviet imposed economic blockade of West Berlin was litically and demanded that the and road tax on trucks entering the city be lifted immediately The Western demand was con tained in separate but identically worded notes from the high com missioners of the United States Britain and rance to Soviet High Commissioner Pushkin in Bonn They asked that the Soviets take steps to have the Commu nists abolish the taxes on the' vital truck traffic which supplies the ree World outpost deep in' the Soviet zone since it be justified purely on economic To rub it in the Communists invoked their old slow down tac tics before the blockade began at midnight They held up great lines of trucks at both sends of the 110 mile lifeline until the deadline passed and they could begin collecting their tribute The West protested vigorously to the Soviets and vowed counter measures but for the morpent at least they had no choice but to ante up to keep the trucks roll ing It was estimated the taxes would run to $10000000 a year The Communists themselves denied they were trying to the Western powers but it was freely admitted this wras the first of the retaliatory measures the Soviets have thought up to punish West Germany for ratify ing the Paris arms treaties The Western allied high com missioners met in Bonn and draft ed a sharp protest to the Soviets The West German parliament pleaded for Allied intervention in the The West considered cutting off East Ger imports via the Western zones But the actions had no imme diate effects The blockade began promptly at the stroke of mid night on the seventh anniversary of the start of the great land blockade of 1948 and the Commu nist press hinted at new meas ures Leather jacketed Communist border guards went into action long before midnight The rush of trucks to beat the deadline ran into maddening delays with the guards poring over identification papers and inspecting trucks till the traffic slowed to four vehicles an hour Tw hundred trucks piled up at the Berlin checkpoint of Dreilin den Another 100 piled up at Helmstedt at the other end of the 110 mile long lifeline Horns blared and drivers cursed but the Communist guards plodded through thejr work without look ing up Those Tears Newspaper Advises In Gown Incident HONOLULU April 1 The Honolulu Advertiser today advised Mrs Durries Crane and her dress designer to those over the identical copy of Mamie Eisen gown all an Adver tiser editorial said and millions of men in the last war wore clothing identical in nearly every respect with that worn by Mamie's husband give or take a few Hong Kong Jubilant In Sudden Downpour HONG KONG April 1 Residents of this British colony which is running short of water were jubilant today because two and one half inches of rain fell during the past 24 hours a third more than the total for the past four months The colony now gets a three hour daily ration enough for bathing and drinking UAI niKl2 CUAPh of hope presented by Leroy nULUlIXVI OnvMJ Curtis 6 Denver Colo who recovered from cancer President Eisenhower joins in launching American Cancer 1955 crusade at White House meet ing Gov Walter Kohler Wis chairman of board of directors watches proceedings (International) Luxury Hotel In Las Vegas Given Orders Threat Issued Gaming Licenses May Be Suspended June By ROBERT BENNYHO United Press Staff Correspondent CARSON CITY April 1 The state tax commission voted unanimously tonight to suspend the gambling license held by the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas as of June 1 unless "satisfactory is shown that Marion Hicks and former Lt Gov Clif ford A Jones have of their interests in the casino The commission's unprece dented action came as the climax to a lengthy investigation of charges that Jake Lansky and George Sadlo gamblers linked by the Kefauver crime report to such underworld characters as rank New Churchill Rumors Spread Resignation Predicted By Party Member LONDON April 1 Con servative member of Parliament Baxter' former editor of Lord Daily Ex press said today he thinks Prime Minister Winston Churchill will resign in matter of Baxter did not commit himself on how long is a of But Tuesday is only 72 hours away and declara tion did hot change the general expectation that Churchill will step down as prime minister on that day Baxter still is'regarded as close to Beaverbrook who in turn is an intimate friend of Churchill The Express on March 19 was the first British newspaper to say flatly that Churchill would re sign Speaking at Birmingham Baxter said think the resignation of Sir Winston is a matter of hours and the accession to authority of Sir Anthony Eden is a matter of Speaking to a group of women members of the Conservative party Baxter also predicted the next general election will come next month "I will bet he said the election will be in Terrorists Hit Violence Breaks Out In Cyprus Area NICOSIA Cyprus April 1 (UR) Terrorists unleashed a coordinat ed bombing attack on military in stallations a police station and Radio Cyprus early today It was the first widespread violence since Greece made its claim to this British bastion in the Mediter ranean Sea At least one person was killed and one injured The government reported a number of arrests Explosions rocked Nicosia and outlying centers with such precise timing the populace feared an air raid and blacked out their lights Uranium Processing Plant to Be Built WASHINGTON April 1 The Atomic Energy Commission said Thursday that a uranium processing mill will be con structed at Edgemont The AEC told Sen Karl Mundt (R D) that construc tion of the plant is expected to begin as soon as the contract is signed The Mines Development Co Inc Golden Colo w'ill build them under contract with the federal government No has been set for the plant but previous esti mates have ranged as high as $3000000 It has been estimated that 100 men will be employed Probe Slated Dulles to Be Queried On Press Release WASHINGTON April 1 Senate Republican Leader Wil liam Knowland said today the administration should explain the recent of the Yalta papers to avoid a similar in the Knowland joined with other members of the Senate foreign re lations committee in unanimously demanding explanation from Secretary of State John oster Dulles Dulles will testify at a closed committee meeting after the Easter recess Snafu a slang word used in the Armed Services during World War II means normal all fouled Knowland told reporters he ex pects papers on other World War II Quebec Teheran and Potsdam to be released later And he said he hopes they will be made public in an orderly normal way through release to all news services and newspapers at the same time One of two main questions the senators want Dulles to answer is: Why and how were the Yalta papers released to the New York Times about 20 hours before being made public generally The other is: Why were unoffi cial notes and memoranda such as social conversations and din ner toasts included in the pub lished documents? Jelke Convicted By New York Jury iNEW YORK April 1 (UR) Ten men and two women con victed Minot (Mickey) Jelke 25 year old heir to a $3000000 oleo fortune today of two char ges of compulsory prostitution The former social registerite blanched as jury foreman Jesse Berlin an insurance broker and father of two sons brought in the adyerse decisions at 1:15 am Court Clerk George Kelley re quested the verdict on both counts as Jelke stood erect and impassive before the bench Berlin replied pn the first count he said on the second Assistant to McKay Offers Resignation WASHINGTON April 1 Larry Smyth assistant to Inte rior Secretary Douglas McKay and information director of the department today announced his resignation effective May 1 Smyth will return to the staff of the Oregon Journal at Port land Ore where he was a po litical writer before taking his present post in ebruary 1953 McKay said he was accepting Smyth's resignation "with keen He said he would an nounce successor later this month Costello Joe Adonis and Lucky Luciano held secret interests inhp Thunderbird casino "'Hicks owns 51 per cent of the casino Jones a Democrat who declined to seek reelection last fall after holding office for eight years has an 11 per cent of the Thunderbird gaming layout' Move It was the first time in the his tory of Nevada gambling that such stern action has been taken against a major gambling club The action was the latest in a series of "get moves made by the commission to prevent un derworld figures from taking con trol of the state's rich gambling business The commission gave no specific reason for its action immediately but indicated formal findings of fact and conclusions of law will be filed shortly in accordance with a drastic new gambling control act signed into law by the gov ernor only four days ago The final action was discussed by the seven commissioners head ed by Gov diaries Russell dur ing an hour long executive session which reporters were permitted to attend on a partial off the record basis It was apparent from the dis cussion which preceded the sus pension vote that the commis sioners believed Hicks was guilty of permitting Lansky and Sadlo to have" what they felt amounted to an indirect interest in the Thunderbird casino Loan Involved Testimony taken previously during a series of public hearings here and in Las Vegas disclosed that Sadlo loaned Hicks a total of $197500 in 1947 and 1948 of which $160000 was used in construction of the hotel and $37500 went into the casino bankroll Other testimony showed that Sadlo subsequently assigned 50 per cent of the $160000 loan to Lansky whose brother Meyer Lansky has been described fre quently as an underworld bigwig Sadlo and Jake Lansky were described in testimony as part ners in numerous ventures Photostatic copies of the pair's income tax returns showed iden tical listings of interest payments from Hicks over a period of sev (Sce JONES Page 8 Col 1) Dock Blazes erry Building ire Controlled SAN RANCISCO April 1 (UR) A searing fire swept through a section of the historic 57 year old erry Building on San waterfront today causing what firemen estimated at between $500000 and $2000000 damage The fire broke out in the late afternoon in a central shop used as a maintenance headquarters by the state harbor commission and quickly spread through the north wing of the building where ex tensive remodeling was under way ire Chief rancis Kelly said the fire was brought under con trol at 6:10 PST but re ported fire fighters were still spot blazes that broke out from smoldering embers.