Iowa City, Iowa

THE WEATHER TODAY ON THE INSIDE Dodgers Win; Cards Split .......... Page 2 Fair and continued hot and rather humid today, Characters Give Police laug~ ...... Page 3 and tomorrow. High today 95 to 100. Low to Congres ional Tours .. ............ Page .. e· orrran. night 72 to 75. F..tab1iahed 1888-Vol. 79, No. 281-AP Newa and Wirephoto Iowa City. Iowa. Friday. August 22, 1947-Five Cent. City to Open Lightning Smashes No Relief from Heat Wave in Sight· JEscape Impossible Seven New Bridge, Injures 6; I Sit 'P" B d: As Ceiling Falls in Soviet 'No's' Bids on, New Hurls 4in River Iowa C·1I, y ce 1 ua ,IIon re y a At Theater, Injures SO August's tenacious heat wave aj810 centered in the midwest while cool, pleasant Make Total 18 COLUMBUS, Ohio (JP) - Six Weather was the rule on both coasts yesterday. MEADVILLE, Pa. (JP)-Police persons were bospltalized last Iowa City's hlah mark for the day was 98 defl'ees and the low was 73. The tem- reported approximately 50 people Fire House ni&ht for injuries received when perature had cooled considerably by 9:30 last nlah~to 82-but the humidity was up were injured last ni&ht in the cai lightning smashed a crowded to 79 percent. lapse of a large section of ceilm. Argentina Seeks End Burlington Street Broad street bridge across the The continued hot weather has placed Iowa City'S ice situation in "pretty bad con- In the central part at the Park the- Of Veto Privilege; Parking Plan Aired; Scioto river in downtown Colum dltion," accordin, to Clarence J. Englert at the Englett Artificial Ice company. ater. bus. He said Ice "is being rationed to out-ot-town dea.lers" and "dock service is cur- Two hours after the accident Sf Hot Battle Expected tailed. When customers come to persons had been treated. or ad Resolution Deferred At least four of the Injured were th plant and ask lor 100 pounds mllted to the. city's two hospitals. 'LAKE SUCCESS (JP)- Russia pulled' from the river and others of ice, we give them 50." The others received first aid at the vetoed the aspirations of Italy and The city council in a special were. picked up on the bridge Austria for membership 1n the meeting last night passed a resolu after the lightning struck about The company is still supplying scene. Ice on demand on the delivery The ceiling fell 60 feet to the United Nations yesterday and pro tion to open bids on constructlon 6 p.m. routes and to consuro rs living fioor with such suddenness that voked an angry outcry over the oC a city maintenance garage and Firemen discounted reports that in the university housing areas, he no one had a chance to escape. big power voting privilege tbo temporary fire house. The build two automobiles were also hurled · .. 1. Ing is to be located in the 300 said. Dr. H. C. Winslow, president ot Soviet Union now has used 18 JI Into the river. Dragging opera The ice supply is rupldly dis- the Park theater corp., and a pro times to block security councU block on South Gilbert street near tions failed t6 locate any cars. ~ the city scales. appearing and the company is minent BUr,eon, helped treat the maj orltles. .. JI Police and fire rescue units con trying to arrive at a plan where- injured. He said the theater had .... Bids will be accepted until tinued searching the river for Argentina moved swiftly to seek .. .a by all consumers can be served, been remodeled only last year at Sept. 8 and the)'l will be acted traces of possible missing persons. abolltlon of the veto privilege by .. .. even though in limited amounts. a cost of $87,000. .. ...a upon at a council meeting that A gaping, 1 DO-Coot section of Bubarltting a resolution for the same date. "We've never had this sltua- Leo Conrad, manager of the consideration of the general is concrete railing and half the pave lion before. It's due to the pro- theater, said a larje steelmeshed The new auxiliary fire house, ment on t.Rt! south side were sembly when it meets In !~ew designed to house new fire equip longed hot spell," he said. section of the cellin&" about 20 by York Sept. 16. thrown into the river. The span Englert said the company had 25 feet, collapsed without warnln, ment and later to serve for city was roped off and traffic halted The Argentine government ask maintenance storage, Is estimat completely. been contacted by ofticlals of the as about 1,000 persons were wlt ed that the assembly call a gen ed to cost about $12,000. Scores. of pedestrians were state lair in Des Maine, who nessing a picture. The theater eral conference of all the United Plans to use the old Alert hose traversing the bridge when the appealed lor help to meet the ice seats about 1,500. Nations three days after the 55- house as a secondary station were bolt struck, accompanied by heavy shortage there. He said he had "It (the ceillng) folded like an nation body concludes Hs forth to refuse. umbrella, billowed out In the cen- discarded because renovation of thundershowers. coming session in order tl) con the building was considered too A crowded bus approached 100 About 16 tons oC Ice are being ter, hit on both ends at the floor sider revfsing the veto section of costly. Another plan to erect a feet from where the lightning used at the state fair each day, and then collapsed," Conrad laid. the U.N. charter. quonset hut for this purpose struck and driver Harlan Wright The Associated Press reported. Tbis move was expected to set btollght the objection that a qu'on said passengers were tossed about Appeals had been made to 12 off the hottest battle in tbe assem_ set is not a permanent enough by the impact but np Injuries midwest cities for aid, but witb bly yet over the veto. Since the building. were reported. out success. Bilbo Dies organization was founded the The new fire house will be con While the shortage is not ser small powers have fought unsuc structed of concrete and hollow ious, fair goers will be subject cessfully to a boUsh this big power tile. The new fire equipment wJll to a partial ration System. privilege. be housed elsewhere until the Elsewhere in the midwest, ac Louisiana As Russia ran her string of building is completed. Police Watch cording to The Associated Press In vetoes to seven lor this week, Voting on the resolution to al the heat Is on. NEW ORLEANS, La. (A')- Council President Faris EI Khoury low parking on Burlington street Bismarck, N.D., reported a high Death came yesterday to Theo- ot Syria used unprecedented lan was deferred until further investi o! 105 degrees to rank first on dore "The Man" BUbo, endln, a guage in announcing that the gation could be made. A petition Youths Escape the heat parade. Des Moines and Soviet Union had blocked Italy'l from bu~iness men on Burlington Sioux City had 99 degr e readings. two-weeks light for his life and membership in the U.N. in favor of parallel limited BALTIMORE (JP)-Two young street No rell [ was !n ~Igh t. stilling his strident cllim, to a El Khoury said: llarklQi was lojresl!nted. py Alder cousins strolled OUt ot Bal timore. At least deaths were attribu city court yesterday, past the 59 seat in the 80th cOn(l'ess as Mls- "The resolution is obstructed man W.H. Grandrath. ted to the heat, 30 in Chicago, arms of polic~ waiting to arrest slsslppl's senior senator. He was by one of the permanent members DISCUssion of Burlington park , two In downstate IllinOiS, 21 in ing centered around the advan them and sped aW4Y In a car 69. of the council." :..::.:.:..:.'::.:.:.:.:.~:.~:.:.:.~ Ohio, four In Indiana and two in tag~ ot parallel parking to slow while the frustrated cops looked __ ""'""-:-_--:-_____ I Th vinegar-tongued, wizened * * * down , speeding on Burlington. on, all with the blessing of a , Minnesota. politician, who won the election The UnIted States and Ru•• ia Several citizens appeared to ap judge. - ------------ A sharp reduction In 1948 meat in 1946 on a platform of "white widened their breach yesterday peal for parking on that street JUdie Michael J. Manley kept I Cobb Hits 334 MPH I supplies app ared inevitable on supremacy," succumbed suddenly with a new exchange of diplomatic and tor more rigid enforcement the cops, from Maryland and Call New Budget 'Fallacious' Despite CroHwinds I the basis ot an official report that at Fountain hospital. It was a blows over Germany's future in against speeders. Pennsylvania, at bay with an •I , the heat wave has cut corn pro- swift revenal of an apparent Im- dustry and the Red anny's con WASHINGTON (JP)- Key con- of 8 blll it will be, and I don't Traf!,i& engineer Dick Holcomp order that the cousins, William spects to the lowest level since BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, the severe drought of 1936. provement Wednesday when Hnued control of the Chinese port told thf council that 41 parking H. Miller, 18, and George R. Mil gressional Republicans, the chalr- know what the President will do, Utah (JP)-World record holder The federpl mid-month corn Bilbo sat up and declared. he was ,.01 Dairen, while pullin, farther spaces could be provided along ler, 20, of Westminster, Md., be men of the appropriatil;lg and but I am confident that congress "feeling fine." apart on other is!Nes too.

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