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84 2 a Jn t'noff icial. MT! i 20 Pages Vol. 125 No. 108 Seven Cents SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1955 On Guard for Over a Century Ettablithed in 183 1 PI aced in Billions a mage in I to Build. incoin Huge Rivers Run Wild In 9-State Disaster Hundreds of Communities Under Water; Thousands Homeless Free Press ire ServieeB HARTFORD, Conn.

Torrents of flood waters were dumped across nine unprepared Mid-Atlantic and New England states Friday with a staggering loss of life and property. I ID) iant PW Guilty Of Killing Detroit GI Double Slayer Who Aided Reds Gets Life NEW YORK (UP) Sgt. James C. Gallagher, 23, Brooklyn soldier, was found guilty Friday of collaborating with his Communist captors in Korea and murdering two disease wracked fellow American prisoners. He threw them out of their prison huts into sub-zero temperatures, witnesses testified.

The sergeant was sentenced to life in prison the maximum. Gallagher was convicted of the "unpremediated" 'murders of Cpl. John William Jones, of Detroit, and Cpl. Donald Thomas Baxter of Waukon, la. It was testified that Gallagher murdered the two in 1951.

The men, ill and unable to walk, froze to death after being ejected from their huts. JONES was the son of Mr. -lf-v 7 Me gttr 1 tr Uhll W' NSi The casualty toll rose to 100 in the deluge that followed Hur-j ricane Diane. Seventy-eight were known dead and 22 were missing and feared dead. In the worst hit areas, flood waters still were rising Friday night, although most of the rains had ceased.

4 IX WESTEKN Connecticut and Massachusetts, the floods crumpled businses buildings and tore bridges from their founda tions, rollirrg them downstream. Towns and villages were cut off. Property damage was estimated at far more than a billion dollars. Thousands were homeless. Governors of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut proclaimed a state of emergency.

Pictures on Back Page Gov. Abraham Ribicoff, of Connecticut sounded the sentiments of all in his wire to President Eisenhower: "We are faced with a major disaster." Hundreds of communities were flooded, and many residents clung to roofp and tree-tops until rescued by boat or helicopter. Others were swept to their deaths. Highways and railroads were Vilr.nlror! Hr wnfthnntr. a nrl land- ann Vmr-kiintr vania.

New York and New Jersey and the river valleys of Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. The floods were caused by record-breaking rainfalls which followed Hurricanes Connie and Diane. The heavy rain from Connie saturated the ground so much that when Diane's rains fell, the water rushed over the ground into already swollen streams, sending them out of their banks. ARMY, COAST GUARD and National Guard forces used 9 of Paper He Has Served Theft Storv Called Hoax Pperlal to the Free Prm ANN ARBOR Robert A. Riggs, 23, Friday admitted to sheriff's officers that his story of a $469 robbery of his service station Monday was a hoax.

He said he wanted to collect insurance. He was jailed for in- vestigation of attempt to de- fraud and making a false report of a felony. Buildings Near Novi Due by '57 5,000 Jobs to Mean 30-Million Payroll A multimillion dollar assembly plant and office building will be constructed by 1957 for the Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Co. Ben D. vice president and general manager of the division, said the plant will employ 4,000 to 5.000 and have an annual payroll of 25 to 30 million dollars.

The new plant will be on 325-acre site in Novi Township, 28 miles northwest of downtown Detroit. The plant, a 1.500,000-square-foot building-, will be completed hv 1957 if authorities agree to rezone the acreage from its pres ent agricultural ciassmcauon Mills added. PLAN'S CALL, for a modern building similar to the new Ford assembly plants in Louisville and San Jose, Mills said. The project is part of Ford Motor latest 625-million-dollar expansion program. All manufacturing operations now performed at Mercury Division plants in Wayne and Los Angeles will be consolidated in the new plant, Mills said.

Divisional offices now in the former Henry Ford Trade School building in Dearborn will be moved to the new office building adjoining the assembly plant. Mills said employes for the new plant will be recruited from communities near the plant site and in the Detroit and Pontiac area. Bus Union OK's Terms WASHINGTON ()-An end to Washington's 50-day streetcar and bus strike appeared in sight Friday night when the AFL union accepted settlement terms proposed by the District of Columbia commissioners. Walter J. Bierwagen.

president of the union, said: "We are no longer on strike. We are ready to go back to work." But the Capital Transit Co. still must accept the agreement before the strikebound vehicles can start rolling again. Company officials will meet with the commissioners again Saturday. The terms of the agreement would give each union member an estimated package of 14 cents an hour 10 cents for increased wages, three cents for pension benefits and one cent for fringe benefits.

You'll Find: and Mrs. Michael Jones, of 450jbridges W. Lantz, Detroit. Hardest hit were thp three- His mother and his sister. Mrs.

state border area of Pennsvl- Eddie Guest, with Special Edition 60 Years on the Job; Eddie Guest Loves It Five More 90-Plus Days Due Weather Bureau Sees No Immediate Letup The Weather Bureau was apologetic Friday, but it stuck to a prediction of at least five days of temperatures up to 10 degrees above normal. Friday's temperature climbed to 94 while the humidity almost doubled Thursday'? benevolent 25 per cent to reach the high 40's. WILLOW RUN Airport's weather station reported a scorching 99 degrees at 1:30 p. setting a record for Aug. 19 in the Detroit area.

Highest temperature in the state Friday was endured by Saginaw, with an official 100. The record number of plus-90 days for any August 14 in 1947 is in danger of being broken. Friday made the eighth day this month, with at least five more in sight. July set the tempo for extended heat, beating the previous July record, also 14, by three days. Little or no rain is forecast for the weekend.

Ex-PW Sues Reived Wife For Divorce RED BLUFF. Calif. (U.R) Airman Daniel C. Schmidt filed He was accompanied to the courthouse by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, who has publicly turned against her daughter to support him.

The young airman was tight-lipped. His complaint charges the 21-year-old Una with being an "unfit" mother and asked permanent custody of their two-year-old son, Danny, Jr. To Quit Radio HOLLYWOOD (VP) After 23 1 2 years on the air, comedian Jack Benny is quitting the weekly grind of live radio to concentrate on television. There is a possibility, he said Friday, that the best of his old radio shows will be repeated on the air by recording this fall. Busy Boys RICHMOND, Va (JP) Two teen-aged boys, picked up on auto theft charges here, admitted having taken some 100 cars, chiefly bright colored convertibles.

The boys, 15 and 16, said the cars were used "to pick up pretty girls," then abandoned. ypR lease Doctor located Jefferson in Grosse Point area Irieal for professional group. TCxedo 1-0S02. at. He Chases Solemnity with Quips At Fete of Free Press Veterans boats, amphibious vehicles anda, divorce complaint Friday helicopters to rescue thousands charging his twice-mated wife, of stranded residents and camp-1 Una, with "extreme cruelty" ers.

The stricken areas contain-: and unfitness as a mother, ed scores of summer camps forj The 23-year-old "Enoch Ard-boys and girls from New York en" returned recently from a and its suburbs. i Chinese prison camp to find Troops were dispatched by I had been sharing his bride with helicopter to halt looting at another husband. BY LOUIS COOK Frf Prei Staff Writer Everybody tried to make a solemn occasion out of Eddie Guest's 60th anniversary in newspapering. Everybody but Zenith Tucker, of Detroit, attended the court-martial. His father, Michael, 54, said in Detroit that "if I'd had a chance to ote, I'd give him the same medicine he gave those other boys." He said his wife, Loretta, 53.

"feels the same way." Gallagher was found innocent of two of the specifications in the charges. One alleged that he committed the "unpremeditated" murder of a fellow American prisoner identified during the trial only as "Dunn." The other alleged that Turn to Page 4. Column 4 FOR MOM, CHILD One Crisis After Another BRIDGEPORT. Conn. IU A woman holding her baby in her arms found herself suddenly dangling from 300 feet in the air Friday when a helicopter rescued her from a rooftop.

The woman, one of scores rescued by helicopter in the Waterbury Naugatuck area, had been made fast to the helicopter cable when a sudden gust of wind drove the whirlybird straight up. The ship rose 300 feet before the crew could reel in mother and child. by James Dugan, of 2523 Spiingle. Accompanied by a party of Indians," they will be greeted by Historian George W. Stark, master of ceremonies.

The group will be. piped ashore by the Pfeiffer Indians, of St. Paul champion drum-and-bugle corps, and the Arthur Black orchestra. th jnited States, Canada ana France will strike a patriotic 6 Decades 29 Plucked From Atlantic In Ship Fire WICK, Scotland (U.P Twenty-nine crewmen of a fire-wrecked freighter leaped into the North Atlantic Friday and were plucked to safety by lifeboats of the luxury liner Kungsholm. The Swedish-American liner raced 65 miles to the aid of the British coal-frighter Argobeam after an engine-room fire robbed it of power.

Capt. George Watson of the Argobeam and his first mate decided to stay aboard the stricken' vessel to keep salvagers from claiming it under maritime law. Tugs were on the way to take the freighter in tow. Fall Hospitalizes Judge O'Brien Probate Judge Patrick H. O'Brien, 87, was held for observation in Harper Hospital Friday after a fall in his home.

Doctors said his condition was not serious. The giant, citywide festival is designed to draw attention to the recreation and commerce afforded by the River and the rebirth of Detroit through its rising Civic Center. First event Saturday will be a re-enactment of the landing of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac 254 years ago. HE WILL BE portrayed by Polio Report Will Blame Safety Rules New York Times Service WASHINGTON The impending Public Health Service report on polio cases after inoculation by Cutter vaccine will blame inadequate safety standards, rather than the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. While this report will not be issued until next week, its con-! tents were divulged Friday by an industry spokesman.

I THE REPORT will center on the exhaustive investigation by public health officials as to what caused two batches of Cutter vaccine to carry live virus. A total of 72 cases followed inocu lations by Cutter vaccine. The Cutter product was taken off the market April 27 as soon pa the first six cases had been reported. More rigid safety standards were developed by scientists. III the.

Chips BADEN BADEN. Germany (JP) Baden Baden's gambling casino announced Friday it will use gold chips at its roulette tables on special occasions. "Very Happy" That was the report from the person placing the ad below. The reason she had sold the refrigerator and got the price she wanted. WESTINGHODSE Refrigerator.

Good reasonable. VE 0-0000. You, too, can find buyers for your unneeded equipment, appliances, or furniture, through Free Press Want Ads. Just call WO 2-9400 or gr to your nearest Free Press Want Ad Station. Winsted, which had been evacuated as flood waters riicrtr? in .1 In Derby, A.nsonia, Nauga tuck and Waterbury, huge buildings disintegrated under the Turn to Pago 2, Column 5 Altlee Recovers From Brain Clot LONDON (JP) Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee has recovered from a cerebral thrombosis (blood clot on the brain), his wife said Friday.

"The thrombosis has been resolved and all i3 well again," Mrs. Attlee said. note, reflecting Detroit's varied background. Other Riverama events will follow quickly. AT 11 A.M the tugboat race will begin.

The mighty workhorses of the River will churn upstream from Fort Wayne to the Civic Center. At noon, the River Cafe opens. The outdoor tables in the park behind the Veterans Memorial Turn to Page 2, Column 3 Eddie. He looked at the throng which rose to respectful attention as he approached the speaker's rostrum and he smiled a little. Before anybody could brace himself Eddie said: "It's like being at your own funeral, but it's better.

You smell the flowers and hear the eulogies and after it's over you can get up and walk home." It was Eddie's way of protesting that he is not ready to become a cold newspaper institution, chiseled in granite. OV THE EVE of hi 74th birthday Eddie was having a wonderful time but he wanted everybody to know he is still a working newspaperman and Friday was another day, another deadline, and another poem. Eddie hasn't missed a deadline since before the turn of the century and he doesn't intend to miss one for a long time to come. He came to work at the Free. Press In the summer of 1895.

He chalked up baseball scores outside the building, worked in the business office, was an office boy and finally became a reporter in 1898. His first poem appeared Dec. 11, 1898, and Eddie wes off to a career that has made Turn to Page 4, Column 7 CADILLAC WILL LAND AT 10 A.M. Detroit's Riverama Festival Opens Today Amusements 1 Astrology 8 Bridge 19 Churches 9 Day in Michigan 18 Drew Pearson 5 Editorials 6 Financial 10 Movies 5 Radio and Television 19 Sports 11-13 Want Ads 14-17 Weather Map Women's Page 8 BY GEOFFREY HOWES Free Frees 6tff Writer Detroit will make its bid Saturday for a reputation as a city of fun as well as of industry. Riverama will open at 10 a.m.

in Civic Center Park, starting nine days of merrymaking and exciting events. "Let them be days of festivity and color throughout the city, in which every citizen shall feel a TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO YOTJR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 new excitement at being part of Richard S. Mitchell, of 3275 Detroit," said Mayor Cobo's proc- Rochester. His lieutenant. Alternation.

Iphonse de Tonty, will played.