davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Homer news., 1955-07-07
SPEND FOURTH IN HcaER

Dorothy Fri or, Lila Potts and Mildred Wilson of Anchor age and Jim Kennedy and Joe Bishop of Fairbanks spent the hol iday in Homer. While here they visited Mir. and Hrs. Earl Day and family.
Homer news., 1955-07-07
MARRIED BY COMMISSIONER

Betty King and Daniel Couch, both of Anchorage, were married by conmi ssioner Gene King at his home Satur- day even ing, July g. W.
Homer news., 1955-07-07
AWARDED cAA CONTRACT

The Inlet Service has been awarded 6-months contract to supply the diesel. oil, fuel oil and gasoline to the CAA stat ion in Home rs
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TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Clouds
with occasional rain early to-
night, low around 81. Tomorrow
partly cloudy, little change In
temperature.
virginia-Mostly cloudy with
showers ending over west por-
ton early tonight, low 58-63 in
west and 63-6s in southeast.
Tomorrow clearing, preceded by
rain in southeast. Little change
In temperature.
Maryland--Cloudy with oc-
casional rain ending this eve
ming, low tonight 57-64 in east
and 50-58 in west. Tomorrow
partly cloudy and cool.
Winds-Northwest 1915 miles
per hour tonight.
Haywood pollen count-26
grains per cubic yard of air for
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.Sofe FoiIs Burglars
After Great Labor

Burglars who spent several
hours chopping their way
Through a roof and ceiling to
ENTER the Division Drug Co., 60l
Division avenue NE, went away
Iempty-handed, police believe.
Aaron Rosenstadt, manager OF
the store, reported the damage
to police yesterday. They esti-
mate it took several men along
time to chop hole in the north
east corner of the asbestos and
Stag roof, then hack their way
through the ceiling beneath it,
This mode of entry eliminated
the danger of setting off burglar
alarms.
Once inside, the burglars
knocked a hinge off the safe and
beat on the dial but couldn't
open it. They left the way they
came in, apparently without any
loot.
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Search Planes
Hunt Canoeists
FRINGE ALHERT. Saskat

PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatch-
evan. Sept. ~ iPl.-Search
planes secured the barren lands
of the Eastern Northwest Terri
tories today for six canoeists--
five of them from the United
|States--last heard from SO days
ago, Il
A Royal Canadian Mounted
Police plane began a fight ovei
the 700-mile water route be-
Ilieved followed by the party. Ar
Air Force plane from Winnipeg
Joined in the search.
Leader of the missing group Is
Arthur r. Moffatt, So, of Nor
wich, VT. The others are Bruce
LeFavour. 20. Amsterdam, N. Y;
Peter Franck. 10. San Mateo
Calf; Fred Pressle. jr., Crosse
Point, Mich; George Grinnell
New York, and Edward Lanou-
ette. 81, Sac Paulo. Brazil.
The canoeists left Stony
Rapids, in North Saskatchewan
June 20 to follow a route taken
in 1893 by DR.. j. B. Tyrell, a
Canadian government surveyor
They expected to arrive al
Baker Lake $50 miles south OF
the Arctic Circle. September Is
Mr.. Moffatt left a note with
police at Stony Plain giving the
party's projected route. Since
then, the only clue as to the
whereabouts of the party was
discovery Of a supply cache APP
Iproximately half way along the
proposed route at Dubawnt Lake
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Air Force Says 1t Won't Bother
|Whoopinq Cranes Resort

range will be disclosed. The
record Is to be studied by the
Strategic Air Command and
later by Pentagon officials.
One protest came from Can
ada, where the cranes spend
their summers. The United
States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice joined in.
Once numerous in the United
States. the birds now are down
to a handful. Fish and wildlife
experts have said this is a critical
year for cranes. They hope as
many as 20 birds, estimated to
be gain Of five over last year
may make the 5,000-mile flight
from Canada to their southern
wintering grounds.
Game officials say the extended
Air Force range would be only
"a mile or a mile and one-hali
from the boundary of the Arkan-
sas National Wiidlife Refuge
wintering grounds.
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HURRICANE
Continued From First Pag,

SVhNhAuCW EEulu Euot dSC
and president Of Codrington Col
ilege. While the storm ragged he
went by car and foot about his
parish. helping those in danger
The college was packed with
refugees today.
Major highways on Barbados
were cleared today. The islands
only airport reopened. but opera
Itions were difficult without any
ground to air communication
because Of "a break in power
lines.
Bridsetown Slightly Damaged
A reconnaissance plane which
flew over Barbados today sale
houses and crops were leveled al
many places. Bridgetown. the
capital, was only slightly dam
aged.
T The plane pilot reported that
st. Georges, capital of Grenada
appeared not to have been dam
aged seriously. However, damage
was observed elsewhere on the
island Several persons were
known to have been killed on
Grenada, and hundreds were left
homeless. The pier in Grenada 4
harbor collapsed during the blow
Three ships were sighted aground
in the harbor
Reports from the Leewaro
Islands were scanty, but they
apparently escaped the blow
British Guiana, on the South
American continent, reported
strong winds and rain, but nc
damage or casualties.
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BY the Associated Press

The Air Force has emphasized
Fit isn't going to take any action
Immediately, at least, that will
disturb the almost extinct
|whooping cranes on their Texas
Iwintering grounds.
A request by the Air Force for
additional ground around the
Motagordo Island gunnery range
touched off controversy earlier
this year. This would extend
the range to areas where the big
birds spend the coolest months.
IWildlife experts said. They add
led that this would seriously dis
turb these rare birds whose
numbers they are trying to in
crease.
An announcement yesterday
said a careful study of the rec
ord Of q public hearing held last
month at Port Lavaca, Tex, is
being made. Later the .final de-
cision on the extension Of the
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|lniegrationFoes
Meet in GEORGIA

/ ATLANTA. Ca. Sept. "a LR.-
About 200 Georgia political lead.
ers Of all factions have formed
a States Rights Council Of Geor.
gia, Inc, on a Statewide level tt
maintain segregation and to op.
pose all organizations working te
destroy segregation.
A statement OF policy given
inewsmen at the end of closed
organization meeting last night
said the council was devoted to
the maintenance of harmonious
race relations in the State
through preservation Of the ira
ditional establishment Of segre-
cation in both public and private
places"
Carter Pittman, an attorney OF
Dalton, Ca, was elected presi-
dent. He pledged the council
would oppose all organizations
which have been working for
many years to destroy segrega-
ton in all phases Of public and
private activity"
The meeting was organized by
Roy ". Harris, Augusta attorney
and longtime Georgia political
figure, and called by Gov. Marvin
Griffin. Former Gov. Herman
Talmadge. a leading advocate
lof continued racial segregation,
was present.
The group took over the al
ready chartered States Rights
Council Of Georgia. Inc, organ
lied in December. 1854. by Hugh
&c. Grant of Augusta.
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3 Hit by Car,
Driver Held

An Arlington driver was held
overnight by District police for
a court appearance today after
an accident in which he was
charged with injuring three pc
and crashing through
a street barricade.
Willie Walker, jr.. %, colored,
Of the 100 block OF South Barton
street, Arlington. wigs fcharged
with failure to give fun time and
attention and driving without a
valid permit. The accident oc-
CURED about midnight at North
Capitol and r streets.
When he appeared before
Municipal Court Judge Mary
Barlow. the case was continued
to october 3 and bond was set
at $500.
Two pedestrians were adj
mitted to Casualty Hospital in
fair condition. They are Miss
Mildred johnson. %, colored, of
46 s street NV. with a possible
hip fracture and head cuts. and
Mrs. Sarah Drumgoole, 20, coll
ored. of 81 Florida avenue NE,
with possible fractured pelvis
and leg.
A third pedestrian, l.. C,
Thomas, colored, of 1921 r street
NV, was treated at the hospital
and released.
Police said Mr.. Walker struck
the three on T street just east
of the intersection, then knocked
down several barricades holding
lanterns. narrowly missed a deep
excavation in the street and
turned left on Lincoln road be-
fore stopping.
The owner of the car. Raleigh
Brundage, colored. of 100 block
of South Barton street. Arling-
ton. who was a passenger in the
car, was charged with permitting
an unlicensed driver to operate
the automobile.
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shutting away from the back
Iof the house" Just before she
missed several diapers and two
baby gowns from q clothes line
Earlier still another woman
told Of being asked to warm a
bottle for q screaming tiny
Iyoungster. carried into her home
by a blond woman she hadn't
seen before.
The baby's father. DR.. San
ford Marcus, sleeplessly worried
both about his new, son and about
the infants mother, Hanna, 20,
Il just want my baby" is all
the mother murmured from her
hospital bed. Mrs. Marcus
parents and her brother were
killed In Nazi concentration
camps and she was smuggled out
of Germany.
The mother. refusing food, is
being fed intravenously and kept
under sedatives. Her physician,
DR.. Louis Goldstein, said, she is
in very poor condition"
Both q student nurse and a
nursing supervisor saw a blond
woman just outside the hospital
nursery minutes before the baby
twas stolen.
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Peterson to Tour
Hurricane Areas

RALEIGH. N. c.. Sept. "a R)
Val Peterson. Federal Civil De.
tense Administrator met with
Gov. Luther Hodges and otheI
State officials here today beforl
leaving for a tour OF Eastern
North Carolina. badly damaged
by Hurricane lone.
Mr.. Peterson arrived here yes.
terday and assured Gov. Hodges
everything the Federal Gov.
eminent can do under the Law
is being done and will be done
in North Carolina" 2
However. his statement brought
a tart retort from Senator Scott
who issued a statement from his
Raleigh Office.
Senator Scott charged the Ag.
riculture Department is hold.
ing back" badly needed assist.
ance. He declared "the real need
today In Eastern North Carolins
is for the Farmers Home Ad.
ministration to make refinancins
loans to the thousands of farm
ers who have been all but wiped
mt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
SAILOR, II, BATTLES FOUR POLICE
SLUGS NURSE IN FISTIC SPREE

BALTIMORE, Sept "a H1--Eston l. Campbell IT.
sailor from Gary In who is stationed in Boston
into court yesterday officially labeled by police
the most belgeren and violent youngster have
handled
oficers testified the 14s-pound youth claxed tavern
hopping spree by
Insulting and smuggling her husband
Besting two policemen and smuggling be-
fore the four officers able to get him into patrol
wagon s
Knocking down nurse at the hospital where he
taken for first aid.
Cursing everyone within earshot
Standing before the bar Of justice yesterday with cut
lip and bump his forehead Campbell said:
Il" happened dom know about it, I'd been drinking"
Magistrate Linwood Roger imposed 60-day jail sem
disorderly charge but suspended the
sentence because Of Campbelfs age.
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Woman Diaper Thief
Hunted in Kidnapping

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. "a (P1
Of policemen, press.
ing a desperate search for week.
old Robert Marcus, knew today
only that a woman resembling
the untidy, buxom blond kid
naper:
l. Is in the San Jose area, "a
miles south of here;
q. Is stealing diapers. and
8. Does not know, apparently
much about caring for q tiny in
FAINT.
Those slight clues conferred the
biggest search in Northern Cali
fornia history. The baby was
stolen from Mount Zion Hospital
in San Francisco last Monday.
The hunt continued at other
California points also, with tips
coming from as far east al
Sacramento and as far north as
Marin County. Police vainly
tracked down another from
Atlantic City, N. j.
Two women told San joss
police Of a furtive woman whf
stole diapers. The latest Of those
accounts came from Mrs. Loi,
Freeman. who saw a woman
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ISnlafFlers5ees
1856 Tax Cut

Senator Smathers. Democrat.
Iof Florida, joined today in the.
g 70 wing expectation among
members Of Congress that taxes
win be cut at the 1856 sessions
But he expressed hope that
the reductions will not be made
effective until July 1. BY that
time, he said Congress should
know what American commit 3
ments are likely to be in the.
International situation and
whether the budget is going to
be balanced. 8
the Democrats tried to cut
taxes at the last session. said
Senator Smathers, sand now It.
appears the administration is
getting ready to Join In the
request"
The Florida Senator said he
hopes. however. that any recon-
mendations for tax revision will
be consistent With the mainte-
nance Of sound fiscal policy.
The Senator, who is on the
tax-Writing Finance Committee.
said the reductions should go to
those In the low-income brack-
cts.
II the level Of business actiyi-
ty is kept at the present level. I
think corporation and excise
rates will be continued where
they are" the Senator added.
He was referring to the fact
that unless Congress acts to ex--
tend them, the corporation in-
come rate will go down from So
to Al per cent, and the excise
rates will go back to pre-Korean
war levels on April !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24

INAACP, Mr.. Diggs praised tn,
Judge and prosecution. bu
sharply criticized defense wit,
Enesses and the Jury.
The boys mother said she wa.
"a little amazed" at the brevity
iof the jury session.
The verdict still left unans.
wercd the question Of what hap.
pened to young Till. II the body
yielded up by the river was no
his, then where is he? And whose
body was found in the river?
Sheriff Strider said he would
continue his investigation in al
attempt to identify the body.
District Attorney Stanny Sand,
ers Of Leflore County said h,
would seek a kidnap indictment
at the November session of tn,
Grand Jury.
Byant and Milan were indictet
for KIDNAPPING by a Tallahatchit
County Grand Jury, but judy,
lSwango dropped the charge a
the request of Mr.. Chatham
when the neighboring county
took jurisdiction.
The charge carries a maxi
mum penalty of 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
|GuiId Units Oppose
Action in Firinqs

NEW YORK, Sept. "a tR.-
Grievance committees having the
first but not final decision in the
case of two New York newspaper
men dismissed for invoking the
Fifth Amendment in a Commu-
mist inquiry have voted against
seeking reinstatement.
The decision was made yester-
day by the CIO American News
paper Guild grievance commit
tees at. the New York Times and
the New York Daily News. Still
to act on the question are the
full membership units at the two
newspapers and then the govern
ing body Of the guilds New York
local.
The case concerns Melvin L,
Barnet, a Times copyreader. and
David A. Gordon. a Daily News
reporter.
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has donated sic, 600 to the fund

has donated $4,000 to the fund
A Pan American plane flew in
Is tons of food, medicines and
clothing donated by the Texas
cities of Brownsville, McAllen,
San Benito, Corpus Christi
Kingsville, Raymondville, Har-
lingen and others.
The situation was steadily i'm
proving in Tampico, an oil port
Iof 10000 which was battered
by the years eighth hurricane
late Sunday and Monday.
The Panuco River continued
to drop after flooding the area
for three consecutive weeks.
Threats of dysentery seemed to
he fading.
But the death toll still climbed
as new bodies were being recov-
cred in isolated areas and in
the debris of the larger cities.
Reports from Panuco said 80
had drowned there. bringing the
Mexican toll Of Hilda to 238. AL
most 400 were still missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24

DENVER, Sept. a. R.-A
broken wrist watch, its hands
stopped at lao. spurred Denver
detectives in. a round -the- clock
search for a crazed glnman who
killed a young musician, Their
beat and shot his girl compan-
ion.
The watch, q string OF broker
pearls and a spent .22-calibes
bullet casing were found at thu
scene where Joyce Danielson
%. said her attacker left hei
for dead.
Detectives described the watch
as Of q mans military variety
It's crystal broken ana the STRAP
missing. it had stopped appar.
emily at 100 am. Friday Wher
Miss Danielson, q hospital tech.
nician, beat desperately at thu
killer.
She said he knocked her te
the floor Of the car he had taker
from her escort. Hubert Hahn
81. and fred pointblank. Tit
bullet pierced her left shoulder
Miss Danielson then wa
thrown to the road, Her assail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
Watch IS Clue to Gunn1on
Who Shot Man and Girl

ant drove the auto at her head
til tires grazing her face as the
battered girl averted her head
just in time. She then staggered
a quarter OF a mile to a railroad
track where she told her story
to a train crew.
She is In st. Luke's Hospital
where she Is employed, in fail
condition.
Officers found the body of Mr.
Hahn. trombonist with the
Denver Symphony Orchestra
covered with weeds IN q gully
north Of the Municipal Airport
He had been shot seven or eight
times.
Miss Danielson said the young
gunman had slipped into their
car earlier as she and Mr.. Hahn
sat listening to music while
parked near the boarding house
where both live.
The car, Its steering wheel
Ifiecked with blood, was found BY
police early yesterday parked
near the same spot where the
tragedy began.
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Battered Tompico
Still Receives Aid

TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept. "a
R)-President Ruiz Confines has
ordered three months pay for
all government employees in Hur-
ricane Hilda's path. Relief flooded
into storm-ravaged Tampico and
nearby areas.
A nationwide drive was
launched for money to aid storm
victims. The Mexican National
Lottery heads the list of donors
The lottery, operated by the gov
Iernment for charity purposes
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Probe 10 Study
|benzedrine
Hypnotic Habits
By MIRIAM oTTENBERG

The Senate Narcotics subcom-
mittee turns its full attention
next week to such thrill pills
las benzedrine and to the sleep.
ling pills which d witness said
yesterday had caused more
deaths than any other form Of
poison.
Subcommittee Chairman Dam
liel said he wanted to examine
1.-THE effects of the amphetanines
THE stimulants in the drue
family. He said he wanted tt
lhear more about the use Of ben.
lzedrine by truck drivers.
| Food and Drug Commissions
George P.s Larrick is scheduled
Ito tell the subcommittee how ths
lbarbiturates have been used ane
ABUSED. their addicting qualities
land the number Of deaths from
intentional or accidental over.
fdoSes.
4 DR., Havelock Fraser, assistan
director of the Addiction Re.
search Center at the Fedora
Narcotics Hospital. Lexington
Ky. told the subcommittee yes.
lterday about the increasing USE
Iof barbiturates.
| He said they were now being
produced at such a rate that the
annual supply would furnish "a
tablets for every person in the
United States. Z
Approximately one out Of every
five addicts committed to Lex
lington, he reported, is addicted
to both barhiturates and mar
cotics. Addicts cannot be COM
United to Lexington for barbitu-
]rate addiction alone.
He said addiction to barbitu-
rates could result from taking
THE pills under doctors orders
flor pain relief but he hastened
ito add that such medical addicts
form no appreciahle proportion
Iof the barbiturate addicts be-
cause If they have q sound per-
sonality they can get Of the
drug.
IF patients follow DOCTOR
orders" he said. they won't
have any trouble. THE danger is
lin overdoses."
DR.. Fraser drew a terrifying
picture of barbiturate addicts
during their withdrawal from
the drug. He said they suffer
lconvulsions, Authorizations and
decisions: run a fever as high al
/ 106 degrees. sometimes fracture
their skulls in falls as they fight
against nightmares and become
Iinfantile.
| He recommended pooled ia.
Icilities for alcoholics and barbi.
Eturate addicts.
DR.. Lawrence Kolb, former
assistant Surgeon General Of the
Public Health Service and notice
authority on the causes of drue
addiction. also testified at yes.
iterday's afternoon session.
DIR. Kolb attacked the "yer,
dumb notion" that addicts can
mot be cured. He said thousands
Iof addicts have been cured. He
pointed out that before the Har-
lrison Narcotics Act. women ex-
lceeded men as addicts by two tc
one. But women. he said. obeyeo
the law, curbed their drug habits
and now there are six men ad-
diets to one woman addict.
He opposed making narcotics
legal AS for disqualification. he
suggested letting the addicts vol
Iunteer for treatment the first
time. II they returned to ad-
diction. he said. further treat
lment should be mandatory.
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Cargo Plane
in Pacific

HONOLULU. Sept. "a lR.--A
Flying Tiger DC-4 cargo plane
with FIVE men aboard Is believed
down in the Pacific about 1000
miles west of here. Search
planes and ships pushed through
darkness early today in a vast
rescue attempt.
The four-engine ship was car
rying military cargo from Travis
Air Force Base. near San Franz.
cisco. Il
1t. Jack Benson OF Coast.
Guard search and rescue, said
the plane in its last message
lat 8:48 pm. Honolulu time re.,
ported it would ditch.
A report at 8:06 pm. said
the plane had mechanical trou-
Bile and was then at 5000 feet
The last message said it was
| at 500 feet.
Military planes were sent from
| Hawaii and Midway Island.
some 500 miles from the strick-
en- crafts last reported position.
Other planes and ships in the
area Joined the search. aE
Flying Tiger headquarters in
Burbank, Calf, said a pilot. two
co-pilots and two navigators
ware aboard. !.
G. NJ. Messenger. maintenance
vice president, identified the
crew members as Capt. A. j. Ma,
chado, pilot; w. F. Gin and r.
&c. Hightower, co-pilots, and R.
c. Olsen and Dominick Ven-,
tresca, Ilavigators. Capt. Ma
.chado is one of the lines. top
pilots and Mr.. Olsen is chief
navigator for the company, the
Flying Tiger spokesman said.
All are based at Burbank. (
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
Nireiniun Heads
Postmaster LEAGUE

GALVESTON, Tex, Sept, "a
up Williams E. Massie of Tyro.
Va. was elected president Of the
National League Of Postfnasters
at the conclusion of its conven-
ton yesterday,
Other offices named included
Cassius Bill Gravitt, Washing
ton, who was reelected secre-
tary and legislative representa-
tive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
RESORT FORECAST


Southern Jersey and
ocean beaches--Tomorrow
partly cloudy and cool,
highest TOTS. Northwest
erly winds 1920 miles per
hour
Upper and lower bay-To-
morrow partly cloudy and
cool, highest in middle los.
Winds northwesterly 1920
miles per hour.
Skyline drive-Tomorrow
partly cloudy and cool, high
around 20. Good visibility.