FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 Anti-Red " Rap Co K = munism With Signs, Rocks MUNSAN, Friday, Sept. 18 VP)—Trouble brewed today in rapidly filling stockades where hot-tempered anti-Red Chin ese and Korean prisoners of war showed signs they would refuse even to meet Communist "explanation" teams trying to win them back. Indian troops guarding these stockades in the demilitar- Flood Dam Will Open Tomorrow SALTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 17 (AP) —Conemaugh Dam—the 10th of a planned integrated system of 17 flood control structures for Pitts burgh and the upper Ohio River Valley—goes into operation to morrow. The dam, built at a cost of 46 million dollars, is located 7 1 / 2 miles from Saltsburg. U.S. Army Engineers say the huge structure will protect Pittsburgh and river towns from a repetition of the St. Patrick's •Day flood of 1936. That flood left 94 million dol lars damage in Pittsburgh and a 25 million dollar loss in Wheel ing, W. Va. Other river towns also suffered extensive damage. The dedication ceremonies cli max nearly a quarter of a cen tury of work on the part of civic organizations for an adequate flood control program., Senators, congressmen, a gov ernor and 10 mayors from Penn sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia head the list of dignitaries who will attend the ceremonies. Several thousand persons ex pect to motor to the site of the dam for the dedication. Others will arrive in a special train from Pittsburgh. Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis Jr., chief of the U.S. Army En gineers, will make the principal 'address at the dam and also at a banquet in Pittsburgh several hours later. State Rests Case In Riot Trial BELLEFONTE, Pa., Sept. 17 (W) —The state rested its case today in the trial of 15 inmates charged with riot in the three day uprising at the Rockview Branch of the Western State Penitentiary. After Edward L. Willard, Cen tre County district attorney, com pleted his presentation the defense put five witnesses on the stand in Centre County Court before Judge Ivan Walker. Two of the defendants, William Holland and Vernon Masterson of Philadelphia, testified in their own behalf. Both denied they had de stroyed any prison property or had taken part in the rioting. National Fire Losses NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (iP)—Es timated ,fire losses in the United States during August amounted to $107,713,000, an increase of 90.8 per cent over losses of $56,462,000 reported for August, 1952, and an increase of 43.7 per cent over losses of $74,928,000 for July 1953. tAtHAURI Released tiro United Artists L ized zone faced the touchy task of finger-printing nearly 2000 anti- Red Chinese who yesterday ripped off identification tags and with held their names. This seemed an obvious move by the captives to shield relatives behind the Bamboo Curtain from possible Red retaliation. Throw' Rocks at Reds An Indian spokesman later indi cated that the five-nation Repat riation Commission might turn back future deliveries of prisoners without identification cards. Yesterday's arrivals of fiery anti-Reds showered rocks on a convoy of Russian-made jeeps loaded with Communist observers, interpreters and correspondents. In sharp contrast, - American truck and jeep driv e r s who brought the prisoners in a convoy to the stockades near Panmunjom were cheered and applauded as they -left the area. 14,000 in Stockade Today the Indian guards had the task of keeping in line a rec ord day's. delivery of 2420 anti- Reds, 1000 North Koreans, 1420 Chinese. This brings to 14,000 those put in the "Indian Village" stockades, with about 9000 more to come. Within another wee k, the Red "explanation" teams will start try ing to get these men to change their minds. rvival . h .11CW For Siames a NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 17 (IP)—Eight surgeons separated Lou isiana's Siamese twins today and a doctor said the odds "look good" that both will survive So far the operation is satisfactory," Dr. L. L. Weismuller said, although the 8-week-old girls "are definitely not out of danger, I would think infection is the chief danger." The twins soft-spoken father, Mayor Ashton J. Mouton of La fayette, thankfully said: "God Almighty has been very generous so that we could have our two little girls perfectly nor mal. "The prayers offered by so many good people helped make the operation a suc c es s," he added. Mouton and his wife waited in a private room during the oper ation with a Bible in their hands. Each 20 minutes they received a progress report on the 2-hour and 55-minute operation that sep arated their daughters. A staff surgeon said he believes a new page will be written in medical history if both girls sur vive. To his knowledge, he said, never before have both twins survived such an operation. The girls were joined near the Begins A Limited Engagement MONDAY - SEPT. 21 Doors Open 4:30 p.m. Daily not be oversold-see it! -HOLIDAY MAGAZINE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Hospital Head Says McManus 'Did Not Know' CANANDAIGUA, N.Y., Sept. 17 (1P) The director of Rochester State Hospital for the Mentally 11l declared today that Fred Eugene McManus, the youthful ex-Marine who has admitted five killings, "did not know it was wrong" to kill. Dr. Christopher F. Terrence, tes tifying at the 19-year-old youth's first-degree murder trial in State Supreme Court, said that Mc- Manus was suffering from schizo phrenia. "He did not know the nature and quality of his act," Dr. Ter rence declared. Schizophrenia is a mental dis ease marked by loss of contract with environment and disintegra tion of personality. McManus is accused of the pis tol killing of William Allen Brav erman, 19, a Hobart College stu dent from Rochester, last March 27. He has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. Dr. Terrence's testimony ran di rectly counter to the report of psy chiatrists at Willard State Hospi tal, who said last spring that Mc- Manus knew the nature of the act with which he was charged and was capable of standing trial. It took Chacchia 55 minutes to read the question, which covered virtually all the testimony taken in the trial up to date. It included McManus' confession that he killed Braver Man to get the Roch ester lad's bright red convertible, and also killed four other per sons during a four-day spree through the East and Midwest with his teen-aged sweetheart, Diane Marie Weggeland, 16. Diane is a ward of the Children's Court. . base of the spine. The sacrum, a part of the lower vertebrae, was fused. They also were joined in the dural sac, the covering of the spinal cord at the lower end, and shared a common lower intestinal tract. The girls, Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne, were born July 22 in Lafayette: During the de livery, Carolyn Anne stopped breathing but was revived by ar tificial respiration. A few days later, they were brought to New Orleans Founda tion Hospital. 161111011110 Fred Astaire Cyd Charisse Oscar Levant "BAND WAGON" Doors Open 6 p.m. ADVENTURE IN SPACE! "RIGHT TO MARS" Gary Cooper "RETURN TO PARADISE" - 36s at '‘.:l4ee--:land , 4^, or ussia THULE AIR FORCE BASE, Greenland, Sept. 17 (iP)—B36 bomb ers of the United States Air Force already are beginning to try out this new airbase at the top of the world as a springboard for strikes at Eurasia should Russia turn to war. A half dozen of the far-ranging 836 s have come here during recent months, it now may be disclosed, from their home bases 3000 Two .k • cleans • c;ow a'issong Without Tr a,ce GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 17 (JP)—Mrs. Donald Maclean, who vanished last Friday, appears to have slipped out of Switzerland for a rendezvous with her hus band, himself missing from his British Foreign Office - post for 27 months. The most impressive police search in recent Swiss history had failed tonight to pick up the trail of the Chicago-born Mrs. Maclean, 37, and her three children after she parked her Chevrolet sedan in a Lausanne garage at 6:50 p.m. Friday and darted across the street toward the railway station. Whether Mrs. Maclean met her husband in a neighboring country or was being taken to him by friends of the missing British spe cialist in. American affairs were questions baffling police. Maclean and Guy Burgess, a fellow diplomat who was occa sionally his drinking companion, dropped out of sight on a trio from Britain to France •May 26, 1951. Officials suspect that, either voluntarily or as kidnaping vic tims, they landed behind the Iron Curtain. Mrs. Maclean's car was the prin cipal clue found in the quest for her and her children, Fergus, 9; Donald, 7; and Melinda, 2. She turned it over to the garage attendant, Marcel Micheli, about eight hours after she left her Gen eva apartment, presumably to spend a weekend with a friend "from Cairo" in the Montreux region. Prowler Shoots Mon CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 16 (IP)—A 22-year-old man said he was shot and critically wounded early today in his back yard in a struggle with an unidentified prowler carrying a rifle. Thomas Wisilosky is in Con nellsville State Hospital with a gunshot wound of the chest. c. 4." "Zsi. I :al 0.1 '4l RC'• 404.1.4 • $ "an early Americora Liu." .. ~r ; Hello State • • We are still making history with our outstanding °STEAKS °SEAFOOD °SUNRAY DINNERS Potters Mills at the Corner of Routes 322 and 53 PHONE CENTRE HALL 48-R-3 miles away in the United States. Here at this northern tip of Greenland is the northernmost of the chain of bases operated by the Northeast Air Command. And only 1700 miles away on a direct line, describing an arc over the polar ice, is the coast line of the Russian mainland with muni tions-making cities and the capi tal lying a few hours beyond. Nearer are such potential So viet bases as the islands •of No vaya Zemlya and Franz Joseph Land from which the Reds could launch their own strikes with hydrogen, atomic or conventional bombs, against North American cities and the string of Arctic airfields which form the northern bastion. But this powerful airbase in the ice and rocks of the Arctic is much more than a springboard for thte 12,000 mile range 8365. It brings Russia in a retaliatory bombing war within range of the swift-flying 847 jet bombers or the older piston-engined 829 s and Bsos. All three types of the medium bombers have, operated into and out of Thule either in routine training operations or experi mentally. Together with providing a base for retaliatory bombing of Eur asian targets, Thule and the other bases of the Northeast Command have an equally important mili tary mission. Thule and the bases south of here in Greenland and Labrador exist as a system of warning for an interception of a sudden strike by Red long-range bombers. Pittsburgh Youth Sca res Neighbors PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 (!1 3 )— Police said a 16-year-old boy ter rorized his neighborhood today by hurling a butcher knife at a man, threatening to kill a woman and diving through a plate glass win dow before "officers captured him. Patrolman Leroy Riley identi fied the youth as Albert Cohen of the Mount Washington section. ?, "e 4 • 4,- z 5 tz 4 4 ; r ‘,' - PAGE FIVE
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