Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1947-08-16
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ON THE INSIDE THE WEATHER TODAY Cardinals, Dodgers Win •..... Page 2 Fair Saturday, except some cloudiness in the Indian Independence (Editorial) . Page 4 west portion. Slightly warmer Saturday. Sun Firemen To Join Dads' tlub ........ Page 6 OWlll1' day generally fair and warmer. Eatabliahed 186S-Vol. 79. No. 21~AP News and Wirephoto Iowa City. Iowa. Saturday. August 16. 1947- Five Cents I Men Die In .. Sifting for Clues Police Search Please, Not Again! Sixteen Die Are Flying Saucers Java Despite For (I ues In Back To Plague Ust When E~glish Mystery Death Iowa City's "tlying saucer" ,ave U.N. 'Yidoryl I a r peat performance in the nor- Mine Explodes By LARRY EDWARDS thern sIdes last night. Ambulances Dismissed Both Sides Follow The rea along the Iowa river Phones in the CAA weather of southeast of Hills where the body fice at the airport and The Daily As Hopes Fade For Cease-Fire Order , of Robert D. McCullough, 34, of Iowan newsroom began to ring Rescue of Miners Wape\lo, was found Thursday, With New Attacks shortly after 9:15 p. m. Accounts was examined yesterday by Sher WHlTEHAYEN, England (JP) iff Albert J. Murphy. b gan with the words: By STANLEY SWINTON Sixteen miners were known today The spot is located about one "I don't believe In llylng sau GAROET, West Java (/'P)-The to hAve been killed and 95 others Quarter of a mile east or the river, cers, but ... " c,a~e-fire order issued - by the still were tr!lJlped in a deep un and on Dnd one-halt miles south About 15 phone calls were re Dutch and Indonesians in the East dersea coal mine which was swept east 01 Hills. ceived by the CAA weather oence Indies Is a mockery here in the by an expolsion last night. ' D.O. B nder, state bureau of in a short space ot time, Max Otto, front lines. A bulletin issued by the national investigation agent, r turned to 733 W. Benton street, reported. More men are dying now than coal board said ventilation in the Des Moines yesterday With the A "Mrs. Hugh Hart, out near the when the war was olficially on, 135-year-old William mille had bullet that was found in the skull. airport," was the first caller who say soldiers and oWcers who are been restored and ther was no reported she had secn "something doing the actual fighting. sign of fire. Thellll(bOdY was diSCOV~ by different thAn anythlna you have A rock barrier blocked a mine The cease-fire order had been Lelona Smith, and Kenneth Coop heralded as the Uni ted Nations se ven seen." She told of a lI,ht pa sage for 250 yards. Rescue er, tenant farmers on land owned I curity council's first great victory moving back and forth across the teams made up of miners from the by Albert Droll and G.I. D lor peace. sky, "almost quicker than the eye area were striving to reach. the France. .ft For the Dutch, the cease-fire in can s trapped men. The two men were inspecting r'31lty meant there WOUld. be no A person Irom the "R. Mont J. G. Helps, area manager at the drive on the Indonesian capital of the tence for repairs, when they gomery residence on North Du national coal board, said at least discovered the body. Josjakarta nor the small chunk- or I buque," also reported the blob of three separate rock falls block~d central Java still held by the·Re Cooper said Smith went to see light in the sky. the main passage In the mine two publicans. ElseWhere, they are what looked like a pile of rags Reporters and a taxi driver, miles from the pithead. The p lt Molinuing to move forWlIrd jn the against a I nce port and, with Harold Eggenburg, Iowa City, head is on the shore in Cumber shaking knees, he said, "My God Ilt\\ v.~l!.as ttll!.y officially term drove to the edge or town on land county at the northwest cor "o«upied." . Pete, it's a man". North Dubuque. There was the ner of England and the workings Whlle cut off, these areas never Coop r did not b Iieve him tiny spot of light, bouncing around slant downward under the sea. were occupied .a t the tJ me of the I until he saw the legs of the vic in the sky. Eftorts to photograph Officials apparently had liltle cease· fire order. tim, then they both immediatly the mystery failed. hope that the men would be The Indonesians, who lifter the notitied Sheriff Murphy. Otto, at the airport, altered one brought out alive. Most of the Coroner F .L. Love occompan first cease-fire order announced possible cause for the phenomena. ambulances standing at the pi~ they, too, planned "mopping up led Murphy to the scene, nnd the Minneapolis, Rnd Rochester, head were dismissed. and protective" action, now seem body was brought to the Hohen Minn.; Lansing and Pellston, Hundreds of people, Including chuh mortuary In an ambulance. to b,e pushing just as hard and in Mich.-all had a strong display of white-taced wives and children of just the way their staff officers in Murphy said it was undoubtedly northern 1igh ts last nigh t. the trapped miners, blocked roads washed there by flood waters In Jogjakarta outlined to me months DEPUTY SIIERIFF Marold Glaspey and Sheriff Albert J . Mu~hY, cordln.. to coroner F.L. Love. Pape1'1l on the body were Identified by A1tho~h Olto, a CAA aircraft leading to the colliery beside the June. ago. (right) look at the spot where the body of Robert D. McCullou,h, of Sheriff Robert R. Lewl of Wapello, who was convlheed It was the communicator, said the overcast Irish sea. The body, according to Coroner In some areas the Dutch pro- Wapello \Vas foulld Thursday by 'farm workers. The dotted Ilne Is an bolly of lhl' mall mts luI' since February 13. The build was taken to last night was approximately at After the coal board's statemeqt Love, was badly decomposed, and clilm they occupy, but where ac- outline of thl! position In which the body was round. l\lurphy and De Molue. by state agent D.O. Bender for 1I1llllysis In Ihe Iliboratory the 14,000 [001 level, both he and a was issued shortly before dawn, tuallYa slender line at blond dutch Glaspey searched the area lor clues concerning the death of Ihe man, ,here. Love aald thto bullet was either .38 or .32 caJlbre. had 9 bullet in the ~kul1. Love police' ofCicia1 had another explan- said the bullet seemed smaller many began walking slowly back youths have just staked perimeter who had a build In Ills kull. The body was badly decomposed, ac- (Dally Iowan Photo by Bob Thompson) tlon for the light. to their homes in the dark grimy .32. Bleall. in a few towns, the Repu.bli- 1------ .----.-:--:-- - - --- .~~............ .,.....-----~- than aSS and might be a "It's probably a searchlight at "The vIctim could have been town of Whitehaven. elm$ were striking 00W11 from the k Id the All Iowa Fair," at Hawkeye The ex.plosion spread panic k B b Is D I dead up tel six months, but being Downs near Cedar Rapids, they mountains, sniping and avoiding Je.ws Stria e ack af Ara Sr. tate eparlment Wor In A tion- in the water and under summer through Whitehaven. It appeared 1rontal clashes more etCectively agreed. A d $un, rapid decomposition could to be Britain's worst mine disaster Ther was no one to argue with the Dlltch forces were , indicate dea th occurred two or In years. ~:~in~~en Denounces Romanian ro un either explanation. Ten pltworkers In the mine three months ago," sold Love. lIe at estimated three mOL1ths as the best the I1me of the blast were rescued guess on the matter. a short time later. Neither the sheriff or the state The scream of ambulances had ogent would oCfer an opinion as sent women and children rushing I Drop Strife to the mine. The women wore :i~:~~i;f{~:'~;~~~E~l ~:!,~~~~,::~,~~~ ~~~~~~~, ,~~~:~w ~ ,~,,~~~; ~~~~,;~;~~~N "~;Cd~~~~ :~:~ Tb,~ .. Q!.~P.e to wheth r he died aCCidentally, and attacked us," said Capt. Baltus rour children, were killed in Pale- last night declared recent Arab at- of Communist strong-arm tactics THE YEAR'S WORST hurri by suicide or murder. shawls against the k.n1fing cold Van Dam. "Monday between 200 stine's new racial war yesterday tacks were n "rehearsal tor things in eastern Europe, charged the Ro- cane lunged in land 100 miles Identi [ication of the body was wind oft the Irish sea. and 300 attacked again, shouting os the organized Jewish under- to ('ome" and were intended to manlan government yesterday north of Tampico. Mexico, yester made through papers found In a To Celebrate Helps' statement said the explo 'freedom' and using vickers guns." ground struck back at what it cal- create an atmo:'Phel'c "10r starting with subjecting op~sition pollti- day, but its fl'inge was enough billfold on the victim. sion occ.urred last night at 5:4() lo The Dutch used fighter planes ~o led "Arab brigandry" in the Holy Grganiled Arab Lerror against ca l leaders (0 "thinl degree" tor- to whip Tampi('o with 1l0-mile- The body was identified by NEW DELHI (IP)-Millions at cal time 10:JO a. m. Friday, CST. strafe the malinta in area there.