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VOLUME XVI
Thursday, November 3, 1955
NUMBER 230
Record rains leave trail of
floods in West Washington
Trains and roads
blocked by slides 1
in British Columbia
by The Associated Press
Heavy winds anl near record
rains left a trail of floods and
deibris across western Washing
ton iand British Columbia today
Rivers /were running out of,
their banks over wide areas,
seven secondary highways in
western Washington were re
ported closed by water or slides
A Canadian Pacific train was
derailed iby a rook and mud
slide 61 miles east of Vancouv
er. Other lines were blocked by i
slides. British Coluimibia roads,
were cu/t. It was described at,
Vancouver as one of the worst
storms in that rainy city’s an
nals.
Storm relief came over much
of the northwest during the
morning, as the heavy rain
shifted northward, but a new
blow was on the way from off
northern Oregon, the weather
bureau said. It was due to hit
Thursday night.
Leo Anthony, wife,
hurt in accident
FAIRBANKS (/P) Leo Mark I
Anthony, and his wife, who,
were injured in an automobile
accident near Paxson Lodge on
Richardson highway Wednes
day night are doing well at St
Joseph’s hospital this morning
Anthony, who is a well known
mininlg instructor for the Uni
versity of Alaska, suffered a
jbrain concussion and his wife
fractured a leg and shoulder.
Anthony conducted mining
classes in Sitka last winter.
V eatchcombing
• Gee. ’tiz only a week un
til Veterans Day. To the old
timers who rememiber the ex
citement set off when Novem
ber Uth, 1918 hit the United
States — it will always be
Armistice Day.
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• Read a comparison between
schools in the United States
and those of Britain, France,
Italy, Germany. After it was
completely digested — if the
better points of the conflicting
systems could be incorporated,
in one—that would be a school
we would have liked to have
gone to.
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• Seems as if Washington is
having a very wet time of it.
But then tis “wet” in both Ore
gon and Washinlgton — though
they try to make out that Al
aska is much “wetter.”
• I personally wouldn’t like
to spend the night out in this
weather — even if I were lost
while out hunting.
! • Warm weather melted snow'
from mountainsides to add to]
already (bulging rivers.
Ship crossings of the Colum
bia river bar were stopped ear
ly today because of wind, gusts
ujp to 50 miph and waves of 20
and more feet high. The bar
was reopened before noon as
several ships waited to pass
each way.
The 33 foot fishing vessel
Violet, was being escorted by
a coast guard cutter up the
coast to Neah 'Bay after it fail
ed to get into the Columbia. It
is owned and skippered by IJen
neth Kelso of Vancouver, Wn.
Hoquiam reported the top
rainfall of about 4Vs inches in
24 hours.
President makes
new strides toward
recovery today
DENVER !/P) President Eisen
hower today made new strides j
toward recovery and arranged
to visit socially tomorrow with
Gen. Max-well D. Taylor, army
chief of staff.
The president’s doctors gave
him permission to walk any
where he pleases on the eighth
floor at Fitzsimons -army hospi
tal. Heretofore he had been al
lowed to walk at will in his
room on that floor, but his
movement elsewhere had 'been
restricted.
The White House announced
that Taylor, on tour of army
installations around the coun
| try. will come to Denver from
1 Colorado Springs.
| James C. Hager:y, president
ial press secretary, said the
, visit with Eisenhower at the
hospital will be purely social.
The president also had a so
cial visitor this morning, Ellis
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Assembly backs
premier Faure in
vote of confidence
PARIS (JP) The French na
tional assembly today voted
330-211 in favor oif holdinlg
new general elections next
month, but a cloud of parlia
mentary confusion bung over
the future of the plan.
Endorsement of the govern
ment’s bill to end the present
assembly Jan. 2 — thus ad
vancing the elections from
June — came on a vote of con
fidence for premier Faure
The support of 88 members of
the 94-memfor Communist
group gave the government its
victory,
Rut now what happens was
anything but clear.
The fate of the bill is up to
the council of the republic,
the senate. If the upper house
does not act within the next
two weeks the whole early
election project may have to
be tossed out the window.
Two youths do a
"Huck Finn"
Two teen-age lads, aged 15
and 16, sailed off in a “'bor
rowed” canoe — in the early
hours of the morning, fulfilling
their frequently voiced threat
to “run away from home.”
The boys, both of whom re
side at Jamestown Bay, for
some time have talked of wish
•ing to make a trip by small boat
to Seattle. From all available
evidence, they loaded a neigh
bor's canoe with sleeping bags,
rifles, a couple of tpack-boards
and provisions, before heading
out on their great adventure a
ibout one o’clock this morning,
in below freezing weather.
Both are experienced in the
woods and at hunting, so little
fear was held for their safety.
A party, headed by the father
of one of the missing lads, left
this morning iby boat feeling
confident they would be able
to find the youthful adventur
ers and bring them home today
Isroeli-Egyption forces bottle
on demilitarized frontier
Worst fighting of
current disorders
is reported
JERUSAiLEM (TP) Israeli and
Egyptian iforces battled in the
El Auja.Nizana demilitarized
ifrontier zone in the worst
(fighting between them since
the end of the 1048 Palestine
war.
Reports of casualties from
(both sides gave a total of 204
Israelis and 50 Egyptians kill
ed in the clash, which started
last night.
The battle was for the El
Sa-bra checkpost, which accord
ing to the Egyptians, has
changed hands twice. The post
Dulles implies Molotov fears
free elections in Germany
Big danger Dulles
says 'perpetuating
German disunity'
GENEVA (/P) Secretary of
state Dulles told Soviet for
eign minister Molotov in the
Big Four conference today that
the (greatest danger of recreat
ing German militarism lies in
'perpetuating German disunity
Spearheading a Western ef
fort to press Molotov nearer
Western ideas on unification of
Germany, Dulles in effect ac
cused the Soviet Union of be
ing afraid of the results of free
and secret All-German elections
The Western powers have
proposed such elections as an
essential first step in their uni-J
fixation program. ' j
Molotov has argued here the ,
necessity of preserving what he !
considers to be communist ac
complishments in East Ger
many. Dulles and his Western
Appeals court
okays rate hike
WASHINGTON (ff) Increas
ed parcel post rates which be
come effective Oct. 1. 1953
were upheld today by the U.
S. Court of Appeals.
In a unanimous decision, the
court sustained a lower court’s
dismissal oif a suit broulght by
a group of greeting card man
ufacturers challenging the ac
tion of postmaster general Sum
merfield in raising the rates.
Summer fie Id asked and re
ceived Ifrom the Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC)
authority to increase parcel
post rates by about 30 per
cent. The rise increased gov
ernment revenue from parcel
post by about 200 million dol
lars a year.
associates have declared the
German people must 'be free
to choose the kind of institu
tions and social systems they
want.
Dulles, speaking from notes,
said that risk is inherent in
free and secret elections. Und
er the communist system in
East Germany, he said, with
only one list of candidates on
the ballot — he held up an East
German ballot to the confer
ence — the leaders could be
sure of what would come out
of the voting because they
were sure df what went in.
Dulles attacked a proposal
which Molotov had made yes
terday for forming an all-Ger
man council of West and East
German parliamentary repre
sentatives. He said this propo
sal was “most “noteworthy in its
complete failure” to comply
with a directive on Germany
issued by the Big Four heads
of government here last July.
Short, snappy
session on tuna
Fishing in San Pedro
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (JP)
Hearings on the tuna problem
by the senate interstate and
foreign commerce subcommit
tee on merchant marine and
fisheries started late yestrday
but quickly recessed until to
day.
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash)
was late in arriving because
of a plane delay. He told fish
ermen he will seek passage of
a bill establishing tariffs or
quotas on tuna during the next
session of congress.
“The serious situation in
the tuna industry is getting
worse instead olf better, and
the government owes it to the
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is in the demilitarized zone buit
inside Israeli territory.
Israelis, complaining it had
been occupied previously by
Egyptians 'in violation off the
'armistice, seized it in an at
tack last night. The Israeli for
eign ministry today announc
ed the attack had succeeded
in “expelling the Ebyptian in
vader" Ifrom Israeli territory.
A military spokesman in Jeru
salem said 50 Egyptians and 4
Israelis had been killed.
But a spokesman in Cairo
said an Egyptian counterattack
reoccupied the El Safbra post.
He said 200 Israeli soldiers
had been killed.
There was no confirmation
of the counterattack from the
Israeli side tout U.N. armistice
observers said there was inter
mittent artillery and mortar
fire in the zone today. One Is
raeli official said the situation
! was quiet at 4 p. am. sifter ex
change of fire which he called
I “not serious.”
! El Safer a is afeout 9 miles
south of the El AujaJN izana
U. N. armistice hoadquiarters
and dominates a strategically
important plateau on tihe bor
der.
Gruening's son is
missing from job
! JUNEAU (/P) Peter Gruen
, ing, son of former governor and
Mrs. Ernest Gruening and man
! aiger oif the United Press bureau
in Sydney, Australia, has been
missing the past eight days, it
was learned here yesterday.
Word of Grueninig’s disap
pearance was received by his
parents in Washington, D. C.
They teephoned their other son
Huntington, here. Hunt Gruen"
ing is operations manager of
Alaska Coastal Aarlines.
He left here for Australia
yesterday afternoon after ob
taining an emergency visa to
aid in the search for his bro
ther.
t
Bomb expert, CAA
officials probe
plane wreckage
LONGMONT, Colo. UP) A
ubamlb expert, FBI ai?s.nts and
other government investigat- ,
ors sifted the wreckage of a
lUnitfd Air Lines plane today
to determine iif possible sabo
tage was involved in the crash
which killed 44 oersons.
1 At the scene of the disaster
, which occurred near here Tues
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Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
Ouitside waters Dixon En
trance to Yakutat northeast
erly winds 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon and tonight.
CLEAR