SATURDAY. MARCH 1. 1958
23 School Children Die j
As Bus Falls Into River !
PRES':ONSBURG, Ky„ Feb. 28 (/P)—A loaded school bus]
hit a wrecter and an auto on a lonely mountain road today j
and dropp’d into a rain-swollen river, apparently carrying 1
23 childrext and the driver to their deaths. j
Sixteen others, some pushing, shoving and screaming,j
i fled through an emergency door
fand windows before the bus sank]
into 30 feet of water. i
The National Safety Council
called it the worst highway ac
cident involving children in
the nation's history.
Twelve hours after the disaster,
rescue workers called off the;
search. A loudspeaker across the
river announced the paren tsj
agreed to suspend operations until
daybreak. No explanation was
given.
Police Seize
Hidden Arms
In Algeria
BONE, Algeria. Feb. 28 UP) -
Police today removed three tons
of arms from a Flying Fortress!
and kept a guard on its part-
Ameriean crew despite official
word the men are free to leave.
The World War II vintage with cables dragging the stream
bomber landed here Tuesday be-; i* l hopes ,°f snaring the vehicle
. . _ ~ . .;and bringing it to the surface,
cause of engme trouble on a flight; Befor f s f arling down an in .
from Israel. The four-man crew c i] ne , jhe bus had stopped to
was quoted as saying the plane pick up nine students at a wood
\vas bound for Venezuela. * n suspension bridge, just 200
_ . , „ from the scene of the mishap
But when the cargo, listed on on US- 23 about three mi i e s
a manifest as spare parts in box-: from here.
es, turned out to be arms and! State police said the nine werei
ammunition, the French slapped 1 among those listed as missing and
a blackout on the landing until I presumed drowned.
they investigated. They suspected! Donald L. Horn, driver of the
the weapons were intended for!wrecker, said he answered a call
Algeria’s rebels. to pull a truck out of a ditch
The French Foreign Office 1 three miles from here,
broke the story in Paris with the! t 0 P u “ J* across
announcement that the plane is highway, he recalled, when
at liberty to leave when it wishes h us rounded a curve and
and the crew members are not: struc £ wrecker from the
under restraint. rear - ’ Horn said the bus then
veered into a parked car and
UAW Blasts Kohler toded for the river. _
On Strike Threats
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (#>)—;
A regional director of the United
Auto Workers denounced the’
Kohler Co. today as an “arrogant
and dictatorial” firm that wanted
a strike.
Testifying before the Senate'
Backet Committee, Harvey Kitz-i
man, UAW’s Region 10 chief in'
Milwaukee, accused the Wiscon-i
sin plumbing fixtures firm of;
a company arsenal, train- 1
ing antistrike troops and making;
“open and brazen preparations |
for industrial warfare.” j
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Flood Danger West tO PreSS Reds
Remains High A B
in Eastern Pa. At UN on Disarming
I NEW YORK. Feb, 28 i.PI-The’ WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 (/P>—The United States andits
[worst flood threat m two years- ~
[abated somewhat today in the European Allies have decided to press Russia to resume dis-
as a heavy ram and armament talks in the United Nations despite a Soviet threat
[wind storm moved off toward. ...
[Canada. The storm soaked some, to boycott such meetings.
jareas with more than three in- Diplomatic officials who disclosed this today said the
[ Flood danger continued in parts Soviet f- wousd .be ashed to attend
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ameeting m rlt ln a^?. ut
| But in New York and New Eng- i ree wee^s °t the -5-nation Dis
iland, officials said the danger arraa ™ ent Commission,
seemed past. i To set the stage for this, Al-
At Allentown. Pa., the Lehigh’ lied diplomats are reported ready
‘River rose rapidly and a crest of t 0 a PP eal privately to Moscow to
[l6 to 18 feet was forecast. Flood abandon its boycott threat for the
istage is 14 feet. [sake ot breaking the six-month
! The Pocono Mountain area, hard disa ™ament deadlock.
[hit in the 1955 floods, was being Soviet leader- have repeatedly
eyed apprehensively because of a vowed they would have noth
!heavy runoff from rainfall and * n 9 to do with the commission
[melting snow. on the grounds that its member-
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, ship is stacked 4-1 in favor of
there was scattered local flood-, the West.
iog Traffic jams developed in Anticipating a possible Russian
Philadelphia suburbs after the refusal to back down, the Allied
Schuylkill River went over its nations are understood no have
“2“ 229 flooded _highways. -decided to turn to the UN Se-
The Delaware River was 10*i_ C urity Council for new instruc
feet above normal and still rising tions if the Soviets stay awav.
at Easton. Pa. Anied p!an reportedly j
Ckaomir. I agreed to in Paris yesterday bv
Chessman Loses Appeal i the Atlantic Pact Coun-
LOa ANGELES, Feb. 28 —, cil, became known as Harold!
Convict-author Caryl Chessman Stassen fired a new volley ofi
[today lost what may be his last criticism at the government's dis-l
chance in his 10-year fight to'armament policy. '
javoid death in the gas chamber.! Stassen, who quit two weeks '
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