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VOL XIV, No, 287 Twenty-Six Pages JAMESTOWN, N.Y., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1955 Price Six Cents JOURNAL IBS: TOST 1SS1
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Red China Frees 9 U.S. Civilians
3 Other Americans Also Get Nod to Leave Later GENEVA UP)—Communist China notified the United
States today that nine American civilians detained in China, including six women, were now free to return home. * ™
Red Chinese Ambassador Wangi Listed for immediate departure Ping-nan toki V. S. Ambassador U.j were: Alexis Johnson at their 13th meet- Miss Emma A n g e l a Barry a
.. . „..iji young girl living in Shanghai with mg that two other Americans could; £ e r J ^ ^ a t-Wte-Russian who leave at once if they asked for exit' w a s not an American citizen, permits and a third could leave I Ralph Sharpies Boyd. Shanghai within two or three months. j representative of the North Ameri-
The two ambassadors have beeni can Syndicate, born in Washington, meeting at intervals since Aug. 1, D. C , in 1891. negotiating the release of 41 Amer-j Mrs. Juanita Byrd Huang, a icans imprisoned in China or de- . Southern Baptist missionary mar-nied exit permits. j ried to a Chinese citizen, born
The announcement by Wang was i in Mount Olive, Miss., in 1904 Robert Howard Parker, a retired businessman, born is Philadelphia, Pa., in 1873.
Howard Lischke Ricks, mamager the Chinese Reds would release the« of Bills Motors Branch in Shanghai 29 Americans not mentioned on born in New York City in 1833. Wang's list, but the ambassadors) Mrs. Howard Lischke Ricks, his
the first positive result of the talks since they began.
29 Others* I'nmentioned There was no indication when
agreed today to continue their secret talks on Saturday.
wife, born in Shanghai in 1834. Miss Eva Stella Dugay, known
American delegation members as Sister Theresa, a nun in the were able to find only a partial' Carmelite Convent in Shanghai, identification for some of the born in New York City in 1833. Americans lusted for release by I Mrs. Nadesha M Romanoff, a Wang. A delegation spokesman j white Russian living in Harbin who said none had been imprisoned. See RED CHINA, Page 2
Russia Frees Two GIs, One Civilian BERLIN* •,¥)—A civilian handed
over to U. S. control by the Russians after seven years in Soviet labor camps was questioned closely today to determine his claim to American citizenship. . U. S. officials said that Frederick
Charles Hopkins told "so many different stories" that his actual citizenship could be open to question. The man reportedly said yesterday after the Russians released him that he was from New York
Hopkins is in the custody of intelligence agents. He is in good health in spite of his long years in camp, doctors said.
He was handed over by the Soviets yesterday along with Pvt. Wilfred C. Cumish, 39. of Ames-bury, Mass., and Cpl. Murray Fields, 36. of Bayside. N. Y.
Both soldiers had been missing since 1948 and may be tried as deserters. Tney were under guard today in the Army hospital until medical examinations are completed.
The three said they knew nothing about a report another American by the name of Grishman was in Soviet hands and was about to be released. The report came from Austrian repatriates in Vienna last week.
Officials said that Hopkins apparently had some reason for clouding his past and they had not yet discovered what it was. One authority said the man "acts and talks like an American."
Army spokesmen said it was presumed all three had been held in various slave labor camps for the past seven years.
The three were turned over to a U.S. State Department official, A. E. Dubois, at the Soviet consulate in East Berlin. The Russians had said earlier they would be released at Karlchorst and a U.S. liaison team had gone there to get them.
Dubois, who had gone to the consulate to pick up a visa, was stopped by a Soviet official, who said:
"By the way, will you sign this receipt for these three Americans?"
Dubois signed and took the three to the U..S provost marshal's office in West Berlin. They were
arrested immediately and sent to an Army hospital for examination. Cumish and Fields said they needed medical attention. Hopkins said he was in good health.
All three are scheduled to be screened by Army's interrogators after several days medical treatment.
The Army indicated that both soldiers might be subject to court-martial for desertion. In view of Cumisli's military intelligence work, officials were anxious to learn what he might have told the Russians during his captivity.
Authorities also planned to question the three about other missing Americans, especially soldiers who have disappeared from Berlin in recent years.
Austrian prisoners released by the Russians some months ago from arctic labor camps reported that the three men had been among their fellow prisoners. The Soviet Foreign Office was asked by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to release them and the Russians said Aug. 20 they would comply.
Fields told authorities on his release his name was Cpl. Michael Feingersch, although Army records had always listed him as Fields. Mrs. Herman J. Bailes, a sister in Bayside, explained that Feingersch was the family's name but her brother had his changed legally to Fields about 15 years ago.
Mrs. Bailes said her brother served in the Army in the early 1940s and received a disability discharge about 1943. During the latter part of World War H, she said, he worked in shipyards, defense plants and the Merchant Marine. He left his ship in a German port in 1947 and rejoined the Army in Germany, she added.
Members of the family said the statement of the released Austrian prisoners was the first information they had received about Fields since he disappeared in 1948.
Mrs. Burton Martin, a sister of Cumish in Rowley. Mass.. said their family usually spells its name Kumis She said they had thought her brother dead until she received a postcard from him last June from a Russian camp.
Cumish's divorced wife, Mrs. Preston Lane, and their two children now live in Plaistow, N. H.
Faster Than Sound Speed Record of 822 mph Set
PHILADELPHIA i^ -The three-day National Aircraft Show—the Aviation Industry's annual report to the public—was capped yesterday by announcement of the world's first official faster-than-sound speed record: 822.135 miles an hour.
A North American F100C Super Sabre piloted by Air Force Col. Horace A. Hanes, 39, bettered the previous official speed record by almost 70 miles an hour, in two dashes eight miles above Southern California's Mojave Desert Aug. 20.
Hanes flew the same F100C before an estimated 102.000 awed watchers at the aircraft show, immediately after*the new record was announced.
He made the fly-past, about 600 feet off the ground, at more than 700 miles an hour, still under the 760-mile-an-hour speed of sound.
Fred C. Crawford, board chairman of Thompson Products. Inc.. Cleveland, presented Hanes with the Thompson Trophy for a new record for a 15-25 kilometer (roughly 9-15 mile) straightaway course.
The previous record of 755 miles an hour was set in 1953 by Air Force Lt. Col. F.K. Everest, in an earlier-model F100A. over California's Salton Sea Until the recent development of equipment for measuring high altitude flights at supersonic speeds, speeds greater than that achieved by Everest could not be officially recorded.
In setting the new record. Hanes met the requirement of two dashes within a single half-hour per iod-one run in each direction—over an 18-kilometer (about 11-mile) "supersonic course" near Palm-dale Calif.
The record is the average of the two runs—a downwind pass at 870.627 miles an hour and a return flight, against a 50-mile-an-hour wind, at 773.644 miles an hour.
Informed sources said Hanes flew under instructions not to go
too fast, lest potential enemies get useful information about the speed capabilities of the F1O0.
Hanes is director or flight tests for the Air Research and Development command at Edwards Air Force Base, 'Calif.
New Air Force planes demonstrated were the F101 Voodoo, which made a fly-past at 697*2 miles an hour, and the Lockheed C130 Turboprop cargo transport, which flew here nonstop from Edwards. Calif., at an average speed of more than 300 miles an hour.
The security mixup involved the showing by the Glenn L. Martin Co. of pictures of the XP6M Sea-master, described by the company as the world's first multijet seaplane.
Available for inspection by all visitors—including representatives of the Russian. Hungarian and Czech Air Forces were three photographs which seemed to show the Skymaster in flight.
The Navy has refused for security reasons to release in-flight pictures of the plane. A Martin representative first said the photos displayed obviously were taken in flight. Later, a company spokesman said the$e were ground pictures, released earlier, superimposed on a sky background.
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French Seeking To End Strife In Morocco
Hold Conferences With Two Sultans As Fighting Continues
RABAT, Morocco l&—Two Moroccan Sultans on opposite sides of Africa were the objects of determined French wooing today.
The Sultan France wants to put off the throne she put him on two years ago, Mohammed Ben Mou-lay Arafa, received the new French resident general, Gen. Pierre Boy-er de Latour, for the first time yesterday.
The Sultan France exiled to Madagascar two years ago, Mohammed Ben Youssef, received Gen. Georges Catroux there yesterday.
Catroux, who has held high French posts in North Africa, flew to Madagascar to seek Ben Yous-sef's approval of Premier Edgar Faure's plan for Emited home rule in the turbulent North African protectorate.
The plan calls for replacement of Moulay Arafa by a regency to satisfy the Moroccan nationalists, permission for Ben Youssef to live in France although not to return to the throne, formation of an all-party Moroccan government and negotiations to relax French control.
There was no indication from Madagascar of what progress Catroux was making. The Moroccan nationalists have insisted Ben Yaussef must approve Faure's plan before they will agree to it.
Arafa May Quit There was some indication in
Rabat, however, that Moulay Arafa might be coming around to the French view that he must quit. A communique issued last night after his meeting with Boyer de Latour said the Sultan had emphasized the "divine nature of his mission" and "dwelt on the obligation he is under to remain on the throne until he is called to God." Eut it added the monarch showed h i m s e l f "comprehensive of all the political realities."
The resident general was reported convinced that Moulay Arafa would step down eventually.
The nationalists, meanwhile, had their eyes firmly fixed on Faure's announced aim of getting a settlement by Sept. 12. A group dubbing itself "The Hero of Independence" called a general strike for that date in Casablanca, commercial capital of Morocco and the seat of the strongest nationalist feeling.
Many feared the strike, if it materialized, would turn into another bloody uprising like the one which marked the second anniversary Aug. 20 of the ouster of Ben Youssef.
Europeans Killed The chief nationalist parties con
tinued their conferences on the Continent on the French proposals.
In Casablanca, police said they had arrested four Moroccans who admitted bombing a downtown cafe during the July 14 celebration. Six Europeans were killed and 37 were wounded. Enraged colonists surged through the city seeking reprisal and at least 64 French and Arabs were killed in the ensuing riots.
Violence was reported from various points in Morocco and Algeria. Two French soldiers were killed yesterday in Casablanca's New Medina native quarter. French soldiers were ordered to enter the quarter in the future only when heavily armed and ui groups of four or more.
Authorities in Algeria reported a rebel band raided a native village near Constantme Sundav night, killing seven notables and slicing off the noses of four other villagers. Presumably they were considered pro-French.
Valuable Redwood Groves Threatened By Forest Fire
SAN FRANCISCO tf)-Destruc-tive waves of flames threatened two priceless redwood groves today as raging forest fires blazed out of control in northern and central California.
More than 1,500 fire fighters battled flames whipping through the Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno. More than 7,000 acres were already blackened. Damage was estimated at more than $650,000.
The crackling flames reached within a mile of the famed General Grant redwood, the world's largest tree and possibly the oldest living thing on earth. Its age has been calculated at more than 3,000 years.
In the northern section of the state, between 17.000 and 18,000 acres were aflame in Humboldt County.
Fire fighters fought to save Rockefeller Grove, one of the few remaining stands of virgin redwood.
A brush and forest fire was finally brought under control in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, after more than 200 persons were forced to evacuate their homes in the Whispering Pines resort area.
The Fresno County communities of Hume Lake and Grant Grove were evacuated from the path of the Sequoia National Forest fire.
THREE SUB8 HUNTED OFF PHILIPPINES
MANILA (if)—Philippine army planes and navy ships today were ordered to search for three unidentified submarines reported moving southward off Itbayat Island off the northern tip of the Philippines. Similar previous reports of submarines have never been confirmed.
8 Killed, Many Injured In Area During Holiday
Lake Takes Second Victim And Seven Die in Traffic
Death took over the area's Labor Day Holiday with a vengeance, piling up a grim tally of eight fatalities, seven of them on the highways.
Chautauqua Lake claimed one* "" holiday victim, 62-year-old La-Verne Cook. Route 4- North East, Pa., who drowned while saving his 11-year-old grandson, when their boat capsized in the choppy waters off Midway Park Monday afternoon.
Dead as a result of highway accidents were:
Mrs. Dorothy Manley, 55. of 368 Lakeshore Drive West, Dunkirk.
Charles D. Bright, 22, Shelby, N.Y.
Frederick E. Dailey, 79, Olean. Mrs. Eva H. Fritts, 76, Govvan-
da. Albert Trott. 47, Erie. Pa Mrs. Faye Trott. 44, Erie. Pa.,
his wife. Karen Trott, 4, their daughter. Highways in Chautauqua and)
Cattaraugus Counties registered; Egypt struggled today to maintain
Israel Egypt Keep Shaky Peace in Gaza
Jerusalem Apologizes For Patrol's 'Error' In Crossing Border
JERUSALEM <*» — Israel and
SEARCH FOR CHAUTAUQUA LAKE DROWNING VICTIM—Upper photo shows fleet of rescue boats probing choppy Chautauqua Lake waters for the body of La Verne F. Cook, Route 4, North East, Pa., who was drowned when a 12-foot boat in which he was riding overturned near Midway Park Monday afternoon. Lower photo, Eldon Auge, Mayvi lie, R.D., dons aqua-lung in preparation for search beneath the lake's waters. Assisting him is his wife, while Chautauqua Fire Chief Norman Becker talks on two-way radio. Other occupants of boat are unidentified. (See additional fatality stories and pictures on Page 11, 15 and 16)
—Post-Journal Staffotos
Holiday Traffic Kills 430 80 Drown: Total Toll 599
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS America's motorists ran up a
near-record Labor Day weekend traffic toll that topped both advance estimates and last year's totals.
Delayed reports trickling in today showed 430 persons were killed in traffic accidents between 6 P.M. local time Friday and Monday midnight, compared with the record high of 461 set in 1951.
Another 80 persons drowned and 89 met violent death from miscellaneous causes for an over-all total of 599.
This fell short of the record
over-all toll of 658, also set in 1951. | there was The traffic toll was ahead of
the 400 such deaths the National Safety Council had estimated would occur.
Safety council statistics show that for each traffic death, 32 other persons a r t injured. Also, for ever three persons killed, a fourth person dies later of injuries.
A sharp upsurge of traffic deaths Sunday prompted Ned H. Dearborn, Safety Council president, to forecast the "worst Labor Day weekend in history."
However, he said later figures were morf optimistic and that
Pennsy Passenger Train Rams Freight; 26 Persons Injured
BUCYRUS, Ohio lf>-There were no serious injuries to be found today after a freight train and passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad crashed near here yesterday.
That was the report after rescuers and doctors checked over the cuts, bruises and two minor fractures produced in the crackup of the 19-car Manhattan Limited four miles west of this north central community.
The train, moving at 70 m.p.h., plowed into a derailed freight train about six miles west of here, throwing passenger and mail cars into a crazy jumble in an adjoining oat field.
An extra train crew aboard started through the derailed cars, helping passengers thrown from berths or seats.
A fleet of school buses, taxis and ambulances was formed to evac
uate the 200 passengers from the wreck.
Twenty-six persons went to City Hospital here for treatment. The five most seriously hurt were held overnight for observation.
Cause of the accident was not known. One theory suggested one or more cars of the freight derailed as the two trains passed.
Mail and baggage cars on the limited were the most seriously damaged. None of the passenger cars overturned.
The pasfenger train's fireman, G. H. Harris of Bucyrus, said he saw something on the track ahead just before the crash, and yelled a warning to engineer J. D. Kelly before running back to the engine room.
Fire broke out in the jumbled cars about eight hours after the wreck, hampering repair work.
Railroad officials said traffic will be clear again by early today.
Gladys Blows South, Threatens Rain in Flooded Mexico City
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. ff^-Tropi-cal storm Gladys, apparently weakening but still dangerous, hung over Mexico near Tampico today after turning away from Texas, her rains posing flood threats to a wide area.
The wayward storm turned away from Texas last night and the Weather Bureau said the middle
City, where she has caused the worst floods in the capital's recent history.
Weathermen at Mexico City already Jtiame Gladys for three days of rains. The rain has caused disastrous floods, affecting some 40,000 families.
Gladys slammed into the Mexican coast about 150 miles below
and lower Rio Grande Valley ap- Brownsville with winds of about parently was spared. But the bu- 70 miles an hour—five short of reau warned that squalls still could hurricane velocity. Then it turned cause isolated fash floods along the Rio Grande.
Squalls with winds ranging up to 50 miles an hour were occurring all along the lower Texas Coast.
Weathermen said Gladys* future movement was uncertain, but she was expected to drift slowly south ward, remaining over land and, weakening slowly. That would send
sharply south-southwest and passed almost dlrecty over Tampico, Mexico.
Half of Tampico was plunged into darkness by power failures. Wind damage in the city was heavy and families fled the low-lying areas flooded by the Panuco
and! River. The storm was last reported
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her rains sloshing toward Mexico See GLADYS Page I
good chance the 1951 record would not be topped.
Last year, 364 were killed in traffic accidents during the Labor Day holiday.
This year's holiday toll also topped mat of a nonholiday weekend tabulated last month for comparative purposes. An Associated Press survey of deaths during the Aug. 19-22 weekend showed 385 traffic deaths, 67 drownings and 85 violent deaths for miscellaneous causes.
Some safety experts contend the high holiday tolls in recent years can be attributed in part to an inadequate road network to handle the large number of automobiles in operation.
The National Safety Council estimated 60 million motorists were on the highways yesterday afternoon and last night in 25 million vehicles.
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS RUN BELOW AVERAGE
By The Associated Press Death struck a relatively light
blow in New York state over the Labor Day weekend.
Twenty-four persons died in accidents that occurred between 6 P.M. Friday and midnight Monday. Seventeen of them were killed on the streets and highways, three were drowned and four lost their lives in other ac cidents.
The toll compared with 42 over the Fourth of July holiday this year, 36 on the Memorial Day weekend and similarly high numbers on previous Labor Day weekend. Also, the nation's most populous state boasted a toll much lower than tolls in California and Texas, for instance.
Among the victims was a 6-month-old baby who lost her life in an apartment elevator acci-
See TRAFFIC Page 2
DAILY ALMANAC Western New York: Mostly sun
ny today but clouding up by tonight with a risk of a few light showers. High temperature 70-75. Low tonight about 50. Wednesday, generally fair and cool with a few cloudy intervals. Southwesterly winds 10-25 miles per hour, gusty at times late today and becoming northwesterly tonight and Wednesday. Good drying weather today and Wednesday.
Lake level today, 1,307.98 feet; year ago. 1,308.04.
Weather conditions for the past 24 hours ending at 9 A.M. as reported at the government weather station:
Humidity today .77. Maximum 81; minimum 47. Year ago: Max. 95; min. 54. Sun sets today at 7:42 P.M. Sun rises tomorrow at 6:45.
two traffic fatalities each while in Warren County, Pa., a family of three was wiped out Saturday night when their station wagon failed to make a turn on Route 6 about three miles east of Sheffield. Pa., and crashed.
Albert Trott, his wife and daughter died in the crash as a result of skull fractures.
Mrs. Manley died about 11:15 P.M. Monday night in Brooks Memorial Hospital about 15 minutes after she was struck by a car while attempting to cross Route 5, near her home.
Chautauqua County's other fatality occurred Sunday morning. Charles D. Bright, lost control of his tractor trailer about 11 A.M. on Route 82 in the Town of Ark-wright. The truck was laden with a merry-go-round for the County Fair at Dunkirk. Mr. Bright was found dead at the scene. •
Their deaths brought the Chautauqua County highway toll for the year to 25. Last year at this time, 15 traffic deaths had been recorded.
In Cattaraugus, Frederick E. Dailey, of Olean, died Saturday in the Olean General Hospital, about 19 hours after he had been struck by a car in that city. Authorities said the 79-year-old man suffered from acute secondary shock.
Cattaraugus County's second fatality was registered about 5:15 o'clock this morning with the death of Mrs. Eva H. Fritts. R.D. Gowanda. The 76-year-old woman was injured in a three-car accident in the Town of Persia, near Gowanda, Monday.
Four others were injured in the accident.
The drowning of LaVerne F. Cook off Midway Park Monday afternoon was the second in Chautauqua Lake this year. Last June, a 17-year-old boy, Richard Green, of Dewittville. lost his life in the water when his boat overturned.
a shaky peace along the tense Gaza frontier.
Israel apologized yesterday for the only clash reported along the border since both nations renewed their cease-fire pledge Sunday. The Israelis said one of their patrols had crossed into the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip Sunday night "through a mistake."
Egypt said the patrol of 20 soldiers opened fire on an Egyptian outpost. Two Israelis were killed and a third taken prisoner in th? ensuing clash. The Egyptians said they suffered no casualties. They returned the two bodies to Israel yesterday.
Delving back into the recent daily violence along the Gaza border, the U.N. Egyptian-Israel armistice commission held the longest meeting of its history yesterday. After 14 hours the commission's French chairman, F. X. Giacomag-gi, ruled that both nations had violated their 1948 armistice in the initial incident Aug. 22, a clash between an Israel patrol and an Egyptian outpost near Gaza.
"It is impossible in my opinion to decide which side opened fire first," Giacomaggi said.
Egypt said she lost four killed and nine wounded in the Aug. 22 incident, while Israel reported two of her soldiers were wounded.
Two days later Egypt withdrew from talks with Israel which Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, the U.N. truce chief, had organized in an effort to ease tension in the Gaza area. The Egyptians charged Israel was trying to use military action to affect the outcome of the talks. Israel in turn accused Egypt of provoking the Aug. 22 clash to torpedo the peace talks.
In the subsequent daily violent incidents an estimated 60 persons on both sides were killed, nearly
This year's Labor Day weekend 100 were wounded, and two Egyp-accident toll was in tragic contrast tian vampire jet fighters were shot to Labor Day 1954. Last year only (down over IsraeK territory. The one fatality was recorded in the two county area of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus.
The lone fatality was a 17-year-old Dunkirk girl, killed in a two car crash a mile east of Cassa-daga.
(See pages 11, 15 and 16 for detailed stories of the holiday weekend accidents.)
Youth, 17, Kills Father; Body Weeks in House
BOSTON tf> —Police Capt. Michael A. Clougherty said 17-year-old Arthur H. Martin, an honor student at Boston Latin School, admitted last night he stabbed his father to death and lived alone in their home with the body for five weeks.
Mrs! Isabel Martin, 39, last night found the body of her husband, Manuel, 51, on their bedroom floor. She had been away on an extended vacation.
Clougherty said the son told detectives he stabbed his father with a trench knife last July 28 during an argument over washing the kitchen floor.
No charge was brought against the boy immediately.
two nations agreed late last week to Burns' request for a cease-fire. They renewed their pledge Sunday after fighting broke out again Saturday, but each said again they would shoot back if attacked.
Nail Found in Head Weeks after Blast
TOULON. France M-\ French surgeon worked three hours yesterday to remove a three-inch nail from the head of a young woman.
The patient. Miss Evelyne Plotu, 20, apparently had suffered only burns and scratches in an explosion in a Paris fireworks store where she worked a few tveeks ago. But she complained of constant headaches.
An X-ray examination disclosed a nail had entered her skull and was lodged between the brain and the bone. Doctors said it probably entered through the left eye socket without injuring the eye.
The name of the surgeon was not disclosed.
Los Angeles Cools Off To 99; Frisco Quakes
LOS ANGELES (B—The 100-plus heat wave in Los Angeles has cracked, but just barely, and the forecaster predicts continuing hot weather today. A downtown maximum of 98 is expected.
Yesterday the high was 99. It was the first time since last Tuesday that the mercury had not sizzled up over 100 in the heart of the metropolis.
The daily maximums in the record-breaking scorcher were: Wednesday 101, Thursday 110 for an all-time high, Friday 108, Saturday 103, Sunday 101.
Gentle sea breezes and some high cloudiness are credited for the slight crack in the blistering weather.
Elsewhere in southern California yesterday the maximums included: El Centro 114, Needles and Blythe 113, San Bernardino and Burbank 111.
The heat wave death toll mounted in Los Angeles County. The coroner's office said 51 deaths were attributed to the heat since last Wednesday. The number of natural deaths was 277 in that period, nearly 2V2 times the total of 113 in the corresponding period last year.
The coroner said the heat was an apparent accelerating factor in many of these deaths.
FRISCO BUILDINGS ROCK IN QUAKE
SAN FRANCISCO (B—An earthquake set the earth to pitching Saturday evening from the San Francisco Bay area south as if a giant were shaking a 150-mi'e long carpet.
Buildings began to pitch and buck in downtown San Francisco at 7 P.M. PDT (10 P.M. EDTl. Lamps were sent crashing to the floor in residential districts and quake-conscious San Franciscans rushed into the streets In some sections.
The quake registered "strong" on the University of California seismograph, reaching a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale.
A spokesman said it centered about 130-150 miles south of here in the vicinity of HolUster.
The quake apparently followed the San Andreas and Hayward Faults.
Police headquarters at Hollis-ter, 130 miles to the south, reported "It shook the town for nearly three minutes", but thert were no reports of damage.
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