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Thursday, August 25, 1955
VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 181
Need over billion and a half
for major repairs after storm
Loss of life and
destruction called
appalling
WASHINGTON (TP) The array
engineers todiay estimated flood
damage in northeastern states
at $1,600,000,000 and said the
area faces “one of the biggest,
toughest flood rehabilitation
jobs since the one Noah faced
after the great flood of Biblical
times.”
Lt. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis/
dhief of engineers, made the
statement after a personal in-1
spection of the disaster areas/
He said the “loss of life and the -
utter destruction we saw had a
most appalling effect upon us”
Sturgis said “no one can es
timate” what will be required
to put the flood-stricken areas
“hack on their feet again.”
He said his preliminary esti
mate” of the physical damage
will “undoubtedly have to be
revised in two or three weeks”,
after the engineers have com
pleted their survey of the de-]
vasfaition. t
The government is already (
throwing money and manpower j
into the six-state area in a mas
sive effort which could cost
m'ore than 100 million dollars.
Pick UP Second graph . .
With advance approval of
congressional leaders Presi
dent Eisenhower ordered into
effect yesterday an overall
plan for using funds and re
sources already available to
numerous government agen
cies. They will look to con
gress for reimlbursment next
year.
“This means a special ses-,
sion of congress will not be
necessary,” reported James C. j
Hagenty, White* House press J
secretary, as he outlined the
steps already taken or planned:
The Red Gross meantime!
boosted its disaster appeal
goal from five million to eight
million dollars as if faced grow
imp reports of damage.
It said at least 702 homes
were demolished and more
than 14.000 heavily damaged
by last week’s flood. Its latest
V eatchcomblng
• Big news must be slack to
day around the world — Mo
Oarthv is back in the headlines.
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• A surpise in today’s Daily
Sitkla Sentinel — Storm Warn
ing is posted for the first time
Since our so-called spring. It’s
kinda early for such a thing to
harper to us sun worshipers.
—4—4—
• Less than 10 days until the
mighty hunters will be out in
the hills for three days.
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• And thus ends the Una
Schmidt sags.
count Showed 10,562 families
homeless and dependent on
charity for survival.
E. Roland Harrirhan, Nation:
a'l Red Cross chairman, said i
the “needs continue to grow •
in the disaster affected areas,” |
and urged chapters throughout!
the country to consider as
“rock bottom” the fund goads:
assigned them earlier.
The agency reported “virtu
ally a deluge of gifts” to its
disaster fund had followed ap
peals by Eisenhower and other
officials, but stressed that the
need is growing.
Eisenhower made a new ap
peal yesterday, saying donors
shouldn't wait to be asked by
I tihe Red Cross, hut “should
seize the opportunity to force
upon them more than they can
use.”
Five more bodies of flood
victim • were recovered yester
day in Hartford, Conn, and
iar • numbers of persons still
were unaccounted tor in Penn
sylvania and Connecticut.
That threatened to raise still
higher the storm’s death toll,
which was revised downward
slightly yesterday to a new
figure of 176.
True spirit of amity;
at Geneva will be !
i
put to test soon
WASHINGTON UP) Secretary
oi state Duties said today East
‘ West negotiations at the forth
| coming Big Four foreign min
! isters meetings will put to the
test the “’true spirit” of amity
developed at the summit confer
ence at Geneva last month.
Dulles tote newsmen this was
a point intended to be made in
President Eisenhower’s foreign !
policv speech before the Ameri
can Bar Assn, at Philadelphia
yesterday. Dulles said there
was, no new policy in the speech
I
Baseball today
CHICAGO (7P) The seventh-,
-pkce Washington Senators,!
(beaten 15 times previously by'
the Chicago White Sox, refused
; to be treated as “cousins” to- i
dlay and Wall coed the pennant
I moded Comiskeys 6-1.
DETROIT f/P) Ray Boone
and Charley Maxwell each col
lected a double and a home run
today, leading the Detroit Ti
gers to a 6-1 victory over the
Boston Red Sox in the first
gome of a doubleheader.
NEW YORK f/P) Warren
|C 'hi cooled off the New York
i Gants with a six hitter today
!■' ' ad: nr Milwaukee’s second
fpbace Braves to a 3-2 victory,
jjim Hearn blew up in the 7th
after pitching one-hit ball for
! six innings and the Bnave-s scor
i ed three runs in the b% inning
on three walks, two singles,
and a force play. j
Derby prizes will
be given Friday
Forty “four prizes will ibe
awarded to the winners of the
Salmon Derby at a program set
for 8 p. m. Friday evening at
the ANB Hall, the Sitka Sports
men’s Assn, announced this
morning.
All winners of prizes are urg
ed to be on hand to receive
their awards.
The swards range from an
aluminum boat with outboard
motor for the largest fish to a
6-months subscription to the
Daily Sitka Sentinel for the
smallest entry in the Derby.
U S.-Red China fail
to agree on freeing
of prisoners
GENEVA (JP) The United
States and communi:- f China
failed attain today to agree on
a formula for freeing 41 Am
ericans detained on the Chin
ese mainland.
S. Alexis Johnson, U. S. am
bassador to Prague, and Wang
Ping-Nan, Red China’s envoy
in Warsaw, met for two hours
and five minutes in the PCme
of Nations. They emerged to
announce that another meeting
would be held Saturday.
Toddy’s meeting was the i
11th devoted to the first item
on the ambassadors' agenda
— the return of civilians of
both sides to their respective;
countries. The talks are pro* |
ceeding in the strictest secrecy'
and both envoys declined to
discuss the difficulties they
have encountered.
Spokesman for both sides de
dined comment on a report
from New Delhi that the Un
ited States has asked India to
help in the repatriation of any
Chinese Nationals living in the
United States in case agree
ment is reached here.
McCarthy blasts Eisenhower
for appeasement of Reds
Record of retreat
and surrender for
2£ years is charged
WASHINGTON (IP) Senator
McCarthy (R-Wis) today let off
a new blast at the Eisenhower
administration, declaring it has
established a “record of appease
ment. retreat and1 surrender”
to communism.
He called on this country to
aid anti-communist forces in
South Korea, South Viet Nam
and Formosa in their fights a
gainst communist opposition.
“I am convinced such a policy
is the only alternative to an ap"
peasement policy,” McCarthy
said in a 4,000 word statement
highly critical of the Eisenhow
:r administration.
McCarthy’s newest attack on
the president and secretary of
state Dulles was release by his
Wet weather near
coast states today
by The Associated Press
There were wet spots along
the coastal sections of the
south Atlantic states and in
wide areas of the west today
but Skies generally were clear
in most of the mid-continent
and northeast.
Rainfall amounts were hea
vy in some southeast areas,
with Cape Hatteras and Cher
ry Point, N. C., and Jackson
ville, Fla., each reporting near
Iv two inches. Miami’s fall
measured .75 inches.
Showers in the west extend
ed from the middle Rocky
mountain region northeastward
into the northern plains but
falls generally were less than
one inch.
Una Schmidt-husband on
second honeymoon in Oreg.
Airman and wife
reconciled, give up
divorce plans
PORTLAND, Ore.(/P) A Sur
prise reconciliation pu't airman
Daniel Schmidt and his wife
Una on a belated honeymoon to
day and wiped out his plans for
a divorce.
She came here yesterday af
ter he had talked with her by
telephone at her hideout near
San Jose, Calif., and their re
union. said a neighbor, “was
something wonderful to see.”
They promptly went into se
clusion and were reported to
be at an Oregon beach resort
today.
Schmidt was released from
a Red Chinese prison last month
to learn his wife said she bad
thought him dead and had mar
ried another man. In California
I where he spent three weeks
trying to untangle bis problem,
[ Schmidt filed for divorce and
i asked custody of their small
1 son.
I But. said the neighbor, “be
I loved her and she loved him
| and they never bad a chance to
I get together. Since he got back
| they had only seen each other
; across a desk with a lawyer ore
! sent. You can’t settle anything
that way.”
The neirbbor — Mrs. Robert
Thomas — said she understood
arrangements for Una’s trip
here were completed shortly alf
ter Schmidt arrived here Mon
day to visit his mother, Mrs.
Ray Peters.
office here. Mary Driscoll, the
senator’s secretory, said Me
| Oarthy dictated it before he haft
’ for Wisconsin a week ago.
j McCarthy said in his state
ment, the administration’s “re
i cord of knuckling under to com
rnunism” has occurred mostly
in the Far Bast, the area in
which the communists have
made “serious' efforts to beat
us down.”
“I contend that the record of
the past 2 Vi years shows that
the Eisenhower administration,
at the beginning of every crisis
took a stronlg position, but
eventually fell back in the face
of communist pressure and set
tied back into the old appease
ment rule.”
French troops try
to encircle fleeing
tribesmen
OUED ZEM, Morocco (JP)
j Three thousand French troops
with 35 tanks. 40 motorized gun
carriers and ICO trucks are de
ployed near here, trying to en
circle fleeing Beiibr tribesmen
beforethey can reach mountain
hideouts.
The tribes staged murderous
raids in the region Saturday.
Officers in Meknes, directing
' the operations in the “insecur
I ity area” about 100 miles south
east of Oasaiblanca. said their
men are meeting some resist
ance but that the tribesmen are
withdrawing rapidly wiherever
1 passible.
At the same time, “rattisage”
(intensive search) operations
•are continuing in villages of the
region where the French sus
pect leaders of last week’s
bloody raids are hiding.
French troops have not hesi- ’
tated to buim homes of those
suspected of eom|olicity in the
uprising which left 80 dead in
Qued Zem alone. Military
planes droned overhead while
the searches continued.
(continued on page four'
Marine forecast from Thuris
diay to Friday.
STORM WARNING
A strong pressure gradient
will cause southeasterly winds
of 25 to 35 mpih with strong
gusts over outside waters Sitka
to Yakutat today and tonight.
End of warning.
Outside waters Sitka to Ya
butat southeasterly winds 23 to
35 mph with strong gusts.
Rain occasionally becoming
moderate to heavy today. Rain
and drizzle tonight.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Sitka southerly wind
25 to 35 mph with strong guests
j this afternoon and tonight,
j Cloudy today through Friday
with intermittent rain this af
ternoon and rain tonight.