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Hurricane's Movement Now Erratic

M I A M I ( L T D — H u r r i ­

c a n e Cleo . w i t h t o p w i n d s

of 115 m i l e s a n h o u r , d r i f t ­

ed e r r a t i c a l l y n o r t h w a r d

t o d a y on a g e n e r a l c o u r s e

w h i c h , f o r e c a s t e r s s a id it

w o u l d p r o b a b l y m a i n t a i n

for s e v e r a l h o u r s .

Cleo. which moved west-north­west most of Friday, made a gradual shift to the north. A re-connais ante plane pinpointed the center at about 1.000 miles east-northeast of Puerto Rico at 11 p.m. It was also about 2.0W miles east southeast of both Miami and Cape Hatteras.

Cleo, the first hurricane of the season, reduced in velocity from 145 to 115 miles p(er hour Friday.

TONAWANDA Serving the Tonawandas,

Kenmore, Town of Tonawanda

c w E s t a b l i s h e d 1880 8 3 W e b s t e r S t . , N o r t h T o n a w a n d a , N .Y. , S a t u r d a y , A u g u s t 16 , 1958 12 P a g e s S e v e n C e n t s

r RecountisOrderedp|ane c r a s h e s on Nantucket; In Town District '

„ A r e c o u n t will b e g i n M o n d a y of R e p u b l i c a n b a l l o t s

cas t T u e s d a y in o n e of t h e T o w n of T o n a w a n d a v o t i n g

d i s t r i c t s . Raymond E, Sinclair, 31 Sunny- think that write-in vote* counted.

dale Drive, asked the S u p r e m e Court for a recount in the) 68th voting district where he be

weather bureau this is a severe

At first, Mr. Sinclair was be­lieved not to have been elected in

ieved the district. There were no votes ite-in recorded for him. He c h e c k e d

after the Tuesday primary w i t h toirney. his supporters and learned that

court 36 had written his name on their

22 of 34 Aboard Are Killed at least 36 vvi

But the San Juan emphasized that hurricane.'"

Miami forecaster Gilbert Clark said Cleo's path made it difficult to assign it to any definite direc­tion.

Trials Begin BAGHDAD. Iraq -UPD-The

first of about 100 high govern­ment and military officials of the deposed regime of King Faisal went on trial here today before a special high military court. The trials opened just one month aud two days after the coup which brought violent death to the king and Premier Xuri EsSaid and established a new republican government.

Bank Robbed RICHMOND. Va. I I PI -Po l i ce

and FBI agents joined forces to­day in the search for Richmond's first bank robber in 24 years The lone b a n d i t held up a branch of the First and Mer­chants National Bank at closing time Friday and e s c a p e"d with $37,000.

Still Radioactive Bl RLINGTON, Vt I PI -

Eighty-two Marshall I> . i ld tn dusted with fallout horn th< 1954 Pacific bomb tests still arc ra­dioactive, it was disclosed today This was disclosed today in a report at the concluding sessions of the First International Con­gress of Radiation Research.

Crash Kills 4 BFDFORD. Pa. <UPI« — Four

young women were killed and the husband of one was injured criti­cally Friday night in a collision involving a tractor-trailer- and three automobiles.

Byrnes in Hospital COLUMBIA. S. C. (UPD —

Former Secretary of State James v . Byrnes was resting today in the Columbia Hospital following a hernia operation Friday. The 79-year - old former Supreme Court justice and governor of South Carolina was described as in ' v e ry good condition."

he received votes.

O. Clyde Joslin said the application to the directs the Board of Flections ballots. to begin .the recount Monday. A The only way he can insure his check w ith election inspectors Mr. election is to have a recount—one Sinclair said, showed that ballots in which he has one or more ex-were listed as blanks in the! dis- tra votes. He needs only one vote trict because inspectors did n o t for election

2 Leaders Named vJ

For United Appeal A p p o i n t m e n t s of t h e K e n m o r e a r e a c h a i r m a n a n d

a s s o c i a t e c h a i r m a n of t h e 1958 U n i t e d C o m m u n i t y

C h e s t - R e d C r o s s A p p e a l w e r e a n n o u n c e d t o d a y . William J. Powell. 25H Fayette

WILLIAM J. POWELL Appeal Chairman

m-.

\ Ave., will be area appeal chair-| man. Mrs. Marne A. Dubs, 171 | Doncaster Rd.. will be associate | chairman.

In announcing i their appoint-: ment, Philip E. Duchscherer, sec-s tional vice chairntjian in the Coun-: ty Division, said he has named i "an unbeatable team." Charles j B. Wall, chairman of the appeal's | county division, said the goal for I Erie County outside Buffalo will ; be $296,789. Specific quotas for

each of the county's eight sections ;and the towns in each section will

: be determined soon. Mr. Powell and Mrs. Dubs are

already experienced in appea work. Last year, Mr. Powell served as associate chairman to LeRoy A. Townsend in the Ken­more area drive. Mrs. Dubs was chairman of the residential divi­sion.

Mr. Duchscherer said that the town and village area had "spec­tacular success in attaining 102.6 per cent of its 55.500 quota be­cause of closely coordinated and synchronized team work of the 1957 leaders.

Mr. Powell is a special repre­sentative of the Connecticut Gen­eral Life Insurance Co. and a member of its Vice President's Club and Honor Roll. He is a member of the Kenmore Lions Club, Buffalo Athletic Club and is

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GOING. GOING. GONE: Here's a pictorial report on gaso­lene prices in the Twin Cities and Town of Tonawanda area.

From the figure quoted at left, the price for regular skids to the reported low of 23.9 cents per gallon on ri

T o l R o c k e t Diplomats in Gun Battle

is Believed Anti-Reds Invade Legation P f Hungary in Switzerland Moon-Aimed

• Nominee OK'd WASHINGTON < UPI - T h e Sen­

ate confirmed today the nomina­tion of Barbara Bates Gunderson. Republic National Committee-woman from South Dakota, to be a member of the Civil Service Commission.

5 Die in Collision BUTLER. Pa. U P I - A violent

head-on collision near here today claimed the lives of four members of a Wilkir.sburg family and a Mercer County railroad worker.

U.N. in Recess UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. H'PI

—The U.N. General Assembly emergency session on the Mideast was in recess for the weekend. Talks will resume Monday.

CAPF CANAVERAL, Fla. 'UPI —An immensely tall rocket with a knobby contrivance on top stood gaunt in an Air Force tower on Cape Canaveral today. It ap-

a past president of the Lindbergh parently was ready for a widely PTA. In 1955 and 1956, he was or- anticipated "shoot for the moon" ganizations chairman of the Unit- Sunday. ed Appeal in the town and village The Air Force and Defense area. Department still would not con-

Mrs. Dubs has served as a firm that the big test, marking d i p l o m a t s u n t i l t r a p p e d b \ volunteer field worker, team cap- man's f i r s t uncertain leap to § w j s

tain arid section major. She has .bridge the chasm between the been a March of Dimes and Chil- planets, was imminent u , i e

in the head by a Hungarian dip­lomat during the fight. The two

B E R N , Switzer land (UPI)—Two anti-Commun­ists invaded the Hungarian Legation here today and shot it out for 90 niinutes w i t h armed Communist

more than half an hour before for information during the height the Hungarians appealed to Swiss o f t n e battle.

3 pol ice , of the attackers wis shdt

Gordon Dean Dies; Former AEC Chief N A N T U C K E T , M a s s .

( U P I ) — A N o r t h e a s t A i r ­

l i n e s p l a n e c r a s h e d a n d

b u r n e d F r i d a y n i g h t on

f o g - b o u n d N a n t u c k e t I s ­

l and , k i l l i n g 22 of t h e 34

p e r s o n s a b o a r d , i n c l u d i n g

f o r m e r A t o m i c E n e r g y

( O m m i s s i o r t C h a i r m a n C o r ­

don E . Deark

The twin-enipne Convair was tilled with vacation-bound week­enders on a flight from New York to Nantucket when it slammed to earth near the airport and disin­tegrated. The dead included the entire crew.

The other 12 persons among the total 34 aboard were injured, some critically.

Seats, bits of flaming fuselage and wheels were hurled helter-skelter into woodlands east of the airport .when the two-engined air­liner crashed.

The body of Dean, a week-end "vacation commuter," was identi­fied by his wife. Baby Survives

A baby. 2-year-old Cindy Lou Young, was hurled alive from the w reckage but her mother w a s killed. The baby was among those hospitalized. .

Eye-witnesses reported that the plane split apart like an eggshell, enabling some passengers to es­cape just before it burst into flames.

A m i d the flaming wreckage. strewn about pine woods near Nantucket Airport, year - round1

residents and summer vacationers risked death when fire neared gasoline, tanks, to carry survivors t o safety.

Joe Indio, editor of a Nantucket weekly, said^he first tire alarms sent hundreds r u s h i n g to the scene. When he got there. Indio said, huge chunks ot the plane were still burning.

MRS. MARNE A. DUBS

dren's Hospital Building F u n d The maximum goal of the test Campaign volunteer. Mrs. Dubs is to orbit an instrumented satel-is a past president of the Chatham Bte of under 100 pounds around surrendered when besieging Swis

Associate Chairman Alumnae Association of Buffalo.

Nice Weather

Is In Store I

For Weekend One of the best weekends of the

summer is in store for Western New Yorkers.

Mostly sunny skies will greet picnickers today and the temper-; ature will be in the middle 70s with low humidity. Fair and cool weather is on the schedule for to­night with the low around 55 de­grees in the cities and somewhat cooler in the rural areas away from the lakes.

Tomorrow will be generally

Police Iron Out

Pressing Request Patrolman Arthur Hall an­

swered the switchboard at Kenmore Police Headquar­ters yesterday and was mildly surprised to learn it came from Batavia.

The caller was a Victoria Blvd. man who had left his home several hours earlier and forgotten to shut off an electric iron.

^Patrolman Francis Robert­son was dispatched to the house to turn off the iron.

DECREASE NOTED

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government has reported that the number of Americans drawing jobless benefits dropped to 2,342.-100—a new low for this 'year— fair, with somewhat in the week e n d e d Aug. 2. peratures and humidity But the Labor Department in- cury may climb into the 80s again, dicated at least half of the de- Variable winds, 5 to 15 miles-crease ""as due to workers ex-an-hour, will prevail urful Mon-hausting. their benefits. day.

Bell to Lay Off

Area Employes

the moon and obtain a crude tele- P o l i c e threatened to open up vision picture of its eternally a S a i n s t t n e m W l t h t e a r § a s -hidden "dark side." The attack was reminiscent of

Informed sources have noted that carried out by anti - Red that Sunday is the best day for Romanian refugees on the Corn-such a test. If the rocketeers can munist Romanian L e g a t i o n in not get it off then, they have the Bern three years ago. The Ro-next three days when the moon manian refugees held out against still is relatively close to earth— Swiss police for two days, within 230.000 miles. T h e two anti - Communists

Only a short period of each day slipped into the Hungarian Lega-w ill provide a celestial alignment tion on Sulgenbach Strasse around favorable for shooting and the 10 a. m. A short time later whole thing could be called off for; passers-by reported to police they another month. ; could hear the sound of shooting

All signs of a major missile echoing inside the Communist dip-launching w e r e evident here.'lomatic outpost. Activity continued far into Friday The battle waged On inside the night on the Air Force service building for some time. Finally tower, its bright lights showing Minister Jozsef Marjai waived through a squall line that en- diplomatic immunity and sent a closed the cape. All living space frantic appeal for help to Swiss in nearby motels was sold out. police. W h i s p e r s were circulated by Officers armed with tear gas "beach telegraph." and tommyguns closed in on the

As for the kind of shoot planned, building. The two men holed up

police. F o r e i g n diplomatic l n the February 1955 raid missions enjoy extra - territorial t h e R o™anian Legation, anti-Co

. . . . ., . , , munists stormed the building m Pi.ni . , . „ , rights and thus are considered as _ e a r r h f p v i H p n r p n f P , n i a n . P P

P l , o t A , s 0 D l e s

tor-v- r e n d e rK

e d c ° n l y ahfr a T ' d a y "All he could say was "Hold m »

The scale of the gunfire indi- s i e « e b>' Swi s-S Po l! c e- The-V u e r e back," said Indio. "A litter crew cated the diplomats had a con- a i T t

e S t e d ' t "ed and sentenced. c a m e d n i m o f f ..

siderable arsenal of their own • ^ X T i , * ! T* ' h w a s t h e ***»* c r a >» o f * uoerami arsenal ot their own. i n v a 4 e d t h e Hungarian Legation Northeast Airlines plane in Sooth.

In line with longstanding prae-; also were prepared lor a long e a s t e r n Massachusetts in 11 police at t.rst refused siege if necessary. m o n t h s ; A f o g . d d a y c d a i r , m e r

c ' o n \ crashed Sept. 15, 1957 at New Bedford, killing 12 and injuring 12 others.

to disclose any information in the Police summoned a news incident. Terence for this afternoon to

The legation telephone was an- lease a communique on the swered when UPI in London called cident.

re­in-

Help Wanted Ads 19 Women Pilots Prove Helpful

Land at Buffalo Mail was the flexible fabric of interlinked metal rings used as defensive armor used by Knights of Old.

Male i or female1 workers are located quickly through the Help Wanted Ads in Ton­awanda NEWS Classified sec­tion.

When you need workers for any type of job. just call LU 1000 for a helpful Want Ad writer who'll phrase your ad *br best results.

Clarence Theurer Dies at Age 73

Besides Dean, the dead in Fri­day's crash included the pilot, Capt. John Burnham of Marsh* field, Mass., a veteran of eight years of service, arid his co-pilot, David Carey of Nantucket.

The stewardess, Eileen Dabek. 25, of Manchester.• N. IL. also was killed. She had been flying only since January.

From the sky belore dawn the scene, was eerie. Jagged streaks of lightning . and pouring rain

oom to tragedy. From the air, emergency lights could be spotted ringing the area. Fires Put Out

By 4 a. m. e.d.t, all the fires were out.

Some of the survivors w e r e The pilots brought, their crafts flown to the famed "burn center"

down at Buffalo Airport for Cus- of Massachusetts General Hospital

In 3-Day Race T h e a n n u a l 312-day Inter­

national Air Race for women was . underway today with the 19 female' added £l p i l o t s all successfully nego­tiating the first official "touch­down" point at Buffalo just 25 miles from their Welland, Ont., starting point.

inspection and refueling

Clarence J. Theurer IMcKinley Ave., Kenmore. suf­fered a fatal heart attack Thurs­day at Crystal Beach.

He was a retired chief inspector

toms much in the same order as they

73. of 366 took off—at 30 second, intervals— from Welland Airport.

Miss Dorothy Rungling of Fen-

wick, Ont., first off from Welland

of the Army Corps of Engineers was also first to reach Buffalo].

in Boston, which was set up after the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in 1942 that killed 492.

The airliner, a Convuir. had left New York's LaGuardia Air­port as Flight 258 about 10:30 p. m. e.d.t. after a two hour de­lay c a u s e d by weather and crowded week end traffic condi-

Town Democratic Committee To Elect Officers Wednesday

Paris Murder Called Most Brutal in Years

Town of Tonawanda Democratic Committeemen wilt meet Wednesday to elect officers for two-year terms.

Chairman Philip G. Kaye said* the committee will pick a chair- meeting place but hope to select PARIS (LTD—A young Span-man, vice chairman, secretary o n e o v e r ^ e weekend. iard was in jail here today await-!

and treasurer. Mr. Kaye is seek-; -political observers have raisedjing trial on charges of killing a ing re-election. speculation that a split might oc-i Russian-born woman in one of the

Other incumbent officers in- cur in the committee over Mrs. 'most brutal murders discovered dude Charles P. Henry, vice DiPota's failure to get the Demo-1 in Paris in many years, chairman; Mrs. Helen J. DiPota, cratic nomination to run for thei Police said Vittorio Behgoa has secretary, and Constantine C. 40th District Congressional seat, j confessed that he smashed Irene Boyle, treasurer. Mrs. DiPota, who is still in the j Zweginzoff's skull with a wine bot-

Mr. Kaye said he may ask the November general election on thei tie and slashed her body with a; committee to create a second vice j Liberal Party ticket, carried the carving knife, chairman's seat because of the in-Township in her bid for the Demo-! Bertjgoa was picked up Friday creased membership of the com- cratic nod but lost, out in the 40th night in a bar where he had been mittee. District to Mariano A.

Democrats have not picked a Buffalo.

the rocket Standing.in an extended behind a locked door of a strong-More employes will be laid off T n o r m i s s i ( e tower was certainly i room and prepared to battle it out

T h l ^ l r " W e d n e s d a y a t B e l l A i r c r a f t C o r p ' s like nothing ever fired here be- to the bitter end. - Kenmore and Riverside plants. | f o r e s h o r t l y a f t e r 1 1 ; 4 5 a m t r o o p .

Local 501. United Auto Workers! Apparently completely assem-'ers brought the two men out, one CIO, late yesterday was notified j bled in the last day or so. it in a state of collapse from his that 138 maintenance and produc- j looked to be almost 100 feet tall! wounds. tion workers will be laid off. [and towered above other missiles! The Hungarian Legation, an old in the Buffalo District. Friends She made the leg in 12 minutes-L tions at the air center.

A Bell spokesman said the lack in position along the cape skyline, stone residence surrounded by said that he had been fishing be- the approximate time for all the. LaGuardia officials said t h e of contracts makes the move nee-, The moon rocketeers can only walled lawns, is barely five min-jfore he was stricken. others. , plane made a normal takeoif but essary. [hope to do a portion as well asjUtes walk from the Swiss parlia-; Born at Preston. Ont.. Mr. The weather was ideal for fly- as it neared Nantucket it

The union local president. Cas- an electronic brain did Friday injment. j Theurer was educated in Buffalo ing and the forecast south of here into an "instrument imer Walas. said Bell layoffs intending up a Bomarc interceptor Police were alerted by pedes-ipublic schools, including t h e was also favorable. The race ends At the last minute the past 12 months have cut mem-j missile against a B17 drone. jtrians as soon as the gunfire former Central High School. When at West End in the Bahamas fog worsened and the Na

up of hi< local from 8,000 to' The Bomarc was fired by push-, shattered the u s u a l Saturday,'he was retired in 1954, he had The ladies began taking off'from tower failed in efforts to warn b u t t o n from Kingston, N. Y.,.| morning calm of the upper-middle-; completed 29 years in Federal Buffalo almost as soon as customs' the pilot the airport then was fog-more than 1.500 miles from the!class neighborhood. [service, including an 11-year per- here almost launching site here. But the shooting kept on

went approach."

the scattered

2,500 in Bell's area plants.

Col. Nasser of Egypt Pegged As Master Trouble-Maker

Lucca of babbling I crime.

drunkenly about h i s,

The E aster trouble-maker in the Mideast is Col. Nasser of Egypt.

That's the opinion of Edgar Ansel Mowrer, NEWS colum­nist, who says that Nasser is the one who incited Iraq's re­cent revolution.

Mr. Mowrer believes that America's action in catering to

Nasser will lead to new trou­bles in the Mideast. His reasons are given in his article today on Page 2.

Other features: TV Listings Page 9 Church News page 3 Family Workshop Page 5 Daffy Dodgers Page 6 Integration Progress Page 8

- as soon a.s customs' for iod with the U.S. Lake Survey. He [clearance was granted and then-

was an inspector for an industry planes were serviced. at Pittsburgh before he entered . the U.S. service.

Mr. Theurer was a member of the Pilgrim-St. James U n i t e d Church of C h r i s t a n d of Harmonie Lodge 699, F&AM. He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Hardy, and a son, Wil-lard Theurer.

o

TO LEAVE HOSPITAL HOLLYWOOD (UPD — Bing

Crosby's young wife, Kathy, and their new son, Harry Lillis Crosby III, will leave Queen of Angels Hospital today, a spokesman for Crosby sai4.

Yam the

ttay NAGASAKI, Japan (UPD—

A youth who stopped a speed­ing train by standing on the t r a c k s explained that he merely was trying to take a photo of a rushing train from "an ideal angle."

bound. The Civil Aeronautics Board at

New York ordered three investi­gators flown to the scene im­mediately to find the cause of the crash.

Dean was the first identified by airlines officials in New York as a passenger. They said he had b e e n a "frequent commuter" to Nantucket during the summer.

Dean was appointed to t h e Atomic Energy Commission in 1949 and served as chairman from 1950 to 1953.

The crash came less than 48 hours after another civilian air­line disaster, the crash of a KLM Dutch Super - Constellation off the Irish coast, which killed 99.

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