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RECORD FLOOD PERILS CENTRAL IOWA
DES MOINES OPV—Tbe greatest
flood crest in history rolled down
™* es Moines River Valley in
central lowa today as the state-
peril from marauding rivers
continued.
The wily cheerful note in the
disastrous four-day-old floods was
• recast of generally fair weather
or several days.
New rains in central lowa yes
terday added to flooding strain
on the Des Moines River. In the
Northwest the Floyd River was ex
pected to crest for the second
time in three days at Sioux City
today.
More than 1,000 families were
homeless in lowa and the number
*• expected to multiply. The
death toll was one lone drowning.
However, the loss in prop
erty and rich farmland will total
millions of dollars.
The greatest threat was on the
Dea Moines River, which cuts
dirough the heart of lowa past
Fort Dodge, Boone and into this
capital city.
M Boone, 40 miles north of Des
Moines ,the river was expected to
crest today at an all-time high of
23Vi feet, nearly four feet above
the previous record.
Des Moines’ new levee system
will get its first serious test when
• crest of 27 to 28 feet, four feet
above flood stage, strikes late
Thursday. The previous record
stage was 27.3 feet in May 1903.
National Guard companies were
doing emergency duty et Fort
Tuesday, June 22, 1954
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whero a battle to save the water
works is being made.
At Sioux City a crest two feet
higher than the 20.8 level of Sun
day was expected today. The Floy
rolled near the tops of levees but
officials were optimistic they would
hold. Trucks loaded with 3,000
sandbags stood by if a leak should
occur.
Another series of flood crests
surged down tributaries of the im
portant Cedar and lowa rivers in
northeastern lowa. Waterloo and
Cedar Rapids prepared for crests
later this week.
The lowa office of the federal
Soil Conservation Service estimates
725,000 acres of crop land has been
under water during the last three
weeks from torrential rains. How
ever, this figure does not include
the overflows of the last two days.
Vote Put Off
SEOUL UP) Member* of Presi
dent Syngman Rhee’s Liberal
party today postponed until Mon
day a scheduled National As
sembly vote of confidence in the
Cabinet
Opposition lawmakers charged
that the delay was voted illegally.
Political observers said the delay
was agreed upon because* of inde
c samioingla dseertohfbeLeralion
cision among leaders of the Liberal
party, which controls the Assem
bly.
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' OATH OF OFFICE TAKEN—Now officers of the Disabled American Veterans wore installed in
impressive ceremonies held Saturday night at American Legion Post Home on Stock M#nt| r
Shown as they took the oath of office are, left to right, Emilio Norcisa, 12th District Commander;
Anthony Ulehar. Chapter Commander; Frank Romagutra, standing in for Dr. A. H. Hamilton,
senior vice commander; and Herman Gordon, chaplain.—Citizen Staff Photo. Spillman.
Southeast Asia Anti-Red Move May Be Topic
_By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
"WASHINGTON Ufl President
Eisenhower probably will urge
British Prime Minister Churchill
to cooperate in setting up an in
ternational conference on anti
communist defenses in Southeast
Asia against communism when the
two meet here next weekend.
Churchill and Foreign Secretary
Eden are due in Friday. Their
talks with Eisenhower and Secre
tary of State Dulles will be in
formal and, aides indicate, as
secret as possible.
The Indochina crisis is the No. 1
topic. Others include the organiza
tion of a European Defense Com
munity and atomic energy prob
lems.
U. S. officials said that the
American government is still ur
gently interested getting a united
front of Allied European and
Asian nations set up to halt Com
munist expansion in the Indochina
area. They' think a conference
would be useful to that end.
Until about two days ago author
ities figured Britain would most
likely go along on some move to
ward creation of a Southeast Asian
alliance. That estimate was based
on the official belief that Britain
hd decided the Geneva confer
ence would fail to produce peace
in Indochina.
But on Friday and Saturday,
France organized anew govern
ment which staked its existence
on getting an Indochina peace in
30 days. Then the Reds at Geneva
offered new concessions to keep
the talks going and agreed to mil
itary discussions on ending the
war in Laos and Cambodia as well
as in Viet Nam.
The Geneva developments re
portedly brought new hopes for
peace to British leaders although
Americans remained skeptical.
Eden and the U.S. chief dele
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gate, Under Secretary of State-
Waiter Bedell Smith, flew home
Sunday to report. Both stopped
en route to see the new French
Premier, Pierre Mendes-France.
Smith is due to participate in
intensive consultations here.
Quite apart from the Southeast
Asian problem, the formation of
the Mendes-France government
provided no encouragement at all
here to bolster waning American
hopes for French approval of EDC.
A year or so ago Churchill was
quite interested in the possibility
of taking West Germany directly
into the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization as a possible alternative
to EDC. At Bermuda last Decem
ber he dropped his advocacy of
that in favor of pressing hard for
EDC, which Eisenhower was then
insisting upon.
Margaret Truman
Is Hailed As
“Darling Marge”
MOUINTAINHOME, Pa Ml -
Margaret Truman was hailed as
the “darling Marge of the summer
theater circuit” following her dra
matic debut in tye Pocono Play
house last night.
Miss Truman appeared fct tbe
role of Katie Grey, a young Amer
ican schoolteacher who finds love
briefly and unhappily 00 a Euro
pean vacation, in the play “Autumn
Crocus” by Dodie Smith.
Her performance drew such au
dience comment as “smoothly
done” and “very professional.”
She was greeted off-stage by
cameramen and newsreel crews.
A critic for Variety magazine
said, “Her character portrayal and
acting was gracious and honest.
She made the character she por
trayed truly shy and drab as it
should have been.” The critic, who
declined to be identified, predicted
Miss Truman would become the
“darling Marge of the summer
theater circuit.”
The daughter of the former
President remained in hourly tele
phone contact with her father, re
covering from an operation in a
Kansas City hospital.
She had decided to go on with
her scheduled performance after a
check with her mother Sunday.
She plans a full nine weeks of
similar stock appearances, wind
ing up at Philadelphia Playhouse
in the Park late in August.
107 Isn’t So
Hot There
PRESIDIO, Tex. Ml —Shucks, h
was only 107—so anybody eould
tell the reporter was kidding when
he asked how people were standing
the heat on the first day of
summer.
“Aw, this Isn’t hot,” said OXver
Harper, 54, the hardware man and
weather observer. “Lots of tines
it gets up around 112 or 114.”
In fact, it got up to 111 Jtne
10, when people most places wtre
still wearing suits to work. So you
can see summer started off down
right cool yesterday, especially in
comparison with places like Phoe
nix, Ariz., where it was 111. Pn
sidio often is the hottest place k
the country.
“Why, I’ve been to Dallas vhra
it was only 99,” Harper said,
shaking his prematurely white
head. “I tell you, that damp heat
hurt me worse than 119 does
here.”
This is an adobe town of about
1,200 persons nudging up to the
Rio Grande in the big bend of
west Texas. They grow cantaloupes
in the dusty fields nearby and lead
an easy-going life in the town no
body has ever bothered to incor
porate.
At the Starr Hotel, the manager,
Mrs. Mae Starr, a middle-aged
lady with graying black hair and
brown eyes, laughed at questions
about the heat.
“We’re standing it fine,” she
said.
“Oh, of course the lobby is full
of young men who came in here
to spend the afternoon.”
Heat drove them in for a siesta,
eh?
“Certainly not,” shesaid. “They
—why, they just wanted to get out
of the dust I tell you, it’s not
ho.”
Truman Isn’t
Out Of Danger,
Doctor Reports
KANSAS CITY, (ft -Harry S.
Truman’s physician said last night
the former President is getting
along as well as expected after
his emergency operation but added
“It’s a pretty rough situation.”
Dr. Wallace Graham said he had
not allowed his patient to watt yet
and he was not yet out of danger.
The 70-year-old Truman, however,
was talking about getting out of
the hospital.
He underwent the operation for
removal of his gall bladder and
appendix Sunday.
He is expected to remain in
Research Hospital for at least 10
days.
Mrs. Truman, who sprat much
of her visit to her husband’s room
reading the many telegrams he’s
received, said, “I think he is pro
gressing. He was comfortable and
he wasn’t bothered by the heat
today.”
SNEAK THIEF
PILFERS PYTHON
HAGERSTOWN, Md. UPV—Some
one sneaked a suitcase from a car
in front of a hotel here yesterday,
probably thinking it was full of
suits, but what he actually sneaked
was a snake. And what a snake!
Harry Albacker, a traveling en
tertainer, said the suitcase con
tained a 60-pound, 10-foot python
he uses in his act. He said he
had just fed the snake and that
it probably won’t move until it gets
hjngry in a couple of days.
He said he would remain in
I agerstown awhile in hopes ins
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Hundreds of watchers gathered
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