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Hit Avirag Circulation fl not, tnding Mar. 31, 1959 (ABC) DAILY 213,050 SUNDAY 283,144 Tilephoni PArkway 1-2700 Classified Ads CA 1-6300 The Same Continued fair, warmj high In high 90s. Low tonight In 80s. Pollen Count 88 DETAILS. MAP ON PAGE 4 1 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER AP Wiraphoto N.

Y. Harald Tribun. 119th YEAR NO. 128 DAILY FINAL EDITION SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1959 NEWS SERVICES! Asioeiattd Pr.ii Unittd Prti International 7p Single copies, 10c beyond retail trading zone. AIRPORT EXFLO fsirvi 1 14 on iiiiiirk LABOR CURB I "tmJkj A Js a Loss Is $1 Million; New Wing Blasted One man was killed and 14 other persons were injured yesterday when gas exploded in a Greater Cincinnati Airport, terminal building basement boiler room.

Dead was John Paul, about 30, Erlanger Road, Erlanger, divisional manager of Sky Chefs, an airport 3-Orbit, 3 Flop Missile Score By U. S. In Day By Associated Press After a busy day in outer space, the United States counted three successes, three failures yesterday. Three missiles rocketed into the sky successfully. A fourth, carrying a 12-foot balloon satellite, apparently functioned perfectly at the start But three hours later the JF' 4 ftr 14 i j.k-kii tr.

,4 sv LfliOMtUatrM National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington said the controls had fa.lod and it was presumed that the satellite had burned in tho atmosphere. A giant Titan missile exploded on It launching pad at ape Canaveral, and an attempt to recover a capsule ejected from the Discoverer Satellite near the Hawaiian Inland apparently failed. A Juno II booster rocket Carrying the balloon streaked rapidly into the sky above Cape Canaveral. It was announced that ail three stages f.red on schedule. THE BALLOON satellite, dubted Project Beacon, was designed to study the density of the air envelope surrounding the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.

On Thursday, Discoverer was shot into orbit successfully. Nine planes rigged with trapeze-like device tried yesterday to catch a capsule thrown out by Discoverer V. They failed. Ships waiting below also found no trace and the Defense Department said ttiere was little hope for re covery because no signals were picked up from the capsule, apparently due to a failure of equipment. The 91 -foot titan was preparing to blast off yesterday on Its first full power tent from the Cape when It blew apart.

There were no Injuries. Earlier at Cape Canaveral, a Thor missile, carrying a movie camera to photograph the earth from an altitude of more than 300 miles, was fired successfully. However, the capsule carrying the camera had not been found late in the day. THE OTHER activity at the Florida missile center saw a Navy Polaris launched from an underground ship's motion simulator. The launching appeared to be perfect.

Two other Polaris Rockets had fizzled shortly after launching. To complete the day's activity, a British Royal Air Force crew at Vandcnberg Air Base, successfully launched a 1500-mile Thor missile. Enquirer (Bob Free; Photo Rescuers Probe For Dead, Injured In Charred Wreckage at blast scene in terminal at Greater Cincinnati Airport Airline Flights Normal After Blast At Boone Port Related fory on Page 6-A. remember was a loud explosion like a thunderbolt." Currlmins said he had talked with Paul, his employer, a few seconds before the blast. STOOIJ IN DOORWAY "Mr.

Paul was standing in a doorway between a store room and the boiler room," he said. "After the explosion, I managed to walk through the fumes and the wreckage. "I never saw, Mr. Paul again." Paul's burned body was found at 6 p. 90 minutes after the blast, beneath three feet of bricks and debris in the boiler room.

All injured persons were able to scramble to safety, although many were dazed and momentarily trapped. The gas-fed explosion left its mark in nearly every room of the new wing. In the basement, the concussion knocked down a partition between the boiler room and paper storage room; destroyed a wall between the boiler room and a transformer area; shattered lockers tn employee's rest room; pushed out an east outside wall in the employees' new cafeteria, and punched holes In other basement partitions. Surprisingly, the boilers escaped major damage. One hot water heater was pushed over.

The other, a large heating boiler, was unmarked. DAZED, WALK AWT' On the first floor, an unidentified woman and child were, bruised when a partition was pushed over. Although they walked from the building and disappeared before aid could be given. Also on the first floor, a two-by-eight-foot chunk was blasted from an east outside wall and the ceiling vras damaged. Second-floor windows were shattered and the floor bucklpd, officials and volunteer fireriieji.

said. Seven Northern Kentucky fire departments fought an explosion-sparked fire In the basement storage room and second-floor boiler room for several hours. Dense smoke) hampered their work. The airport was quickly evacuated after the blast and fire. Three planes were delayed in landing for 15 minutes and three Delta Air Line flights that had landed just before the blast were loaded at an improvised area far from the explosion site.

Is Sent To Senate Final Result Is In Doubt As 'Tough' Bill Wins Approval, 303-125 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 LV) The House, in an atmosphere of anticlimax, did the expected today and formally passed the labor controls b.il endorsed by President Eisenhower. A roll call vote of 303-125 sent the bill to the Senate, which has passed an antlcor-ruption bill of Its own, hut with considerably less stringent provisions. The action was pretty much automatic, since the issue was decided last night. That was when the House, by a 229-201 vote, substituted the Eisenhower-backed bill for a milder measure supported by Democratic leaders.

The Senate wa in recess today, so it cannot act at least until Monday. The probability is that the two versions will be sent to a Senate-House conference where efforts will be made to work out a compromise. After passing its bill today, the House asked for such a conference. What may happen In conference is anybody's guess. Opponents of the 1 louse bill suggested the possibility of a deadlock and no bill at all this session.

ACTION THIS TEAR Sen. John F. Kennedy (I). chief sponsor of the Senate's bill, said last night a compromise might he difficult, but that "our responsibility now Is to try to reach agreement to get legislation this In Chicago, Vice President Nixon told newsmen he is confident the administration-backed bill will prevail, saying, "there is great support for a labor bill that is not punitive, and this bill is not punitive." Leaders of organized labor, who regard the House bill as a threat to legitimate unions, are pinning their hopes on the conference. They are rooting for a compromise that will eliminate provisions objectionable to them.

When the House met today to seal its verdict, there was an absence of the f.re which had marked the three days of debate leading up to last night's vote. It was all over in less than an hour. Many of the Democrat and most of the few Republicans who voted against the administration-supported bill yesterday crossed over today and Joined the triumphant Republican-Southern Democratic coalition. O.M.Y COP NAYS On final passage, 156 Democrats and 147 Republicans voted for the coalition which was sponsored by Reps. Phil M.

Landrum (D.Ga.) and Robert P. Griffin (R. Voting against it were 125 Democrats and three Republicans. Before wrapping up the bill and sending It to the Senate, the House rejected, 280-148, a move to send the Grlffin-Landrum measure back to the House Labor Committee. The move was a tactical gambit by the Republican-Southern Democratic forces and was designed to block any last-ditch effort to revive the bill which had been pushed unsuccessfully by the Democratic leaders.

Ohio Senate OKs Auto Tag Hike restaurant chain. The injured, all airport or Sky Chef employees, were treated at St Elizabeth Hospital, Covington, for burns, bruises and fractures. Four were reported in "serious" condition. All were In the basement of the newly-constructed east wing of the terminal in Boone County, when a workman's match apparently touch off escaping gas while restaurant boilers were being tested. Damage in the basement and two floors of the wing was estimated at more than SI million by firemen and officials.

The wing and new Sky Chef restaurant were to have been opened next week. The rest of the terminal building, although rocked by the blast, escaped damage, Byron Dickey, airport manager, said. The injured were: Mrs. Janice Dehner, 22, Spring Lake, Ky. Treated for shock and released.

William Cummins, 30, R. R. 2, Burlington, second and third-degree burns on both arms. Treated and released. Mrs.

Kittv Rlcherson, 33, 514 Oak Ludlow, body lacerations. Condition good. LISTED AS 'SERIOUS' Larry Strosberger, 34, 1658 Amsterdam Park Hills, second and third-degree burns over 25 per cent of his body. Condition serious. Robert Meyer, 35, 10 Janet Winston Park, third degree burns over his body, condition serious.

Mrs. Mary Belerlein, 32, 10 Orchard Florence, right foot injury. Treated and released. Mrs. Helen Patton, 31, 519 Dudley Edgewood, lacerations on both legs and arms.

Treated and released. Mrs. Fern Points, 42, Sherman, smoke inhalation. Treated and released. Mrs.

Betty Sidebottom, 39, 30 Edgewood Edgewood, body lacerations. Condition good. Mrs. Ruth Beacom, 32, 47 Ridge Hebron, possible fracture right arm. Condition good.

Mrs. Loretta Eldred, 37, 1247 Highway Covington, possle fracture of right shoulder, treated and released. BURNED OVER BODY Wlllard Pick, 28, 1315 Bel-laire Erlanger, second and third-degree burns over 40 per cent of body. Condition serious. Paul Rolfes, 42, 2049 Ar-rowwood Cincinnati, compound fracture of left leg.

Condition serious. William Limerick, 45, 20 Montgomery Crestview Hills, abrasions of left leg, treated and released. One of the injured, William Cummings, a Sky Chief employee, gave the first explanation for the blast. "Several persons In the boiler room were draining the gas lines leading to the two boilers," he said. "They thought they were getting air Instead they were getting gas.

Someone then struck a match. "The last thing I Flights in and out of the Greater Cincinnati Airport were quickly back to normal last night despite the explosion which rocked the terminal building yesterday afternoon. Three flights were ordered to circle the field shortly after the explosion at 4:30 p. m. Byron Dickey, anrport manager, ordered all air traffic kept aloft until he checked on the rause of the blast and whether there would be danger of further explosion, an F.nquirer reporter at the scene said.

The delay was short. A Trans World Airlines flight was the first to land after the order was withdrawn, approximately 20 minutes later. came an American Airlines flight. A Piedmont Airlines came next, after circling lor approximately three minutes. Airport radio communications with aircraft were not affected.

Bui radio communications of the airlines housed in the terminal building were out temporarily when the building was evacuated. They were back on the air last night. Each airline keeps in toujli with its flights until the airport control tower takes 5ve. TVie airport controls the phne3 within a radius of 30-50 miles, an airline official said. For a time, Delta Airlines was servicing and loading Rhee Predicts Korean Unity SEOUL, Saturday, Aug.

15 (JP South Korea's President Rhee today predicted that his divided country would be "unified, secure and prosperous in the foreseeable future." The 84-year-old President's prediction came in a Liberation Day statement. This is the 11th year of the Republic of Korea and the 14th anniversary of liberation from Japanese Mayor James Corcoran, Nurse's Aid assist one of the explosion victims Enquirer (Heist) Photo PASTOR AIDS The Rev. Paul Clangettl, pastor of Mary Queen of Heaven Church, near the scene of the airport explosion, brought to the scene a gas generator which provided rescue crews with light to probe dark, smoke-filled rooms for dead an Injured in the terminal's east wing. He bought the generator war-surplus and gave It Its first tryout yesterday. It worked fine.

building. Much kitchen equipment was in place but was not yet in use. The traffic jam which clogged roads leading to the airport caused some potential pasengers to miss their planes. Others were held back in the afternoon by airport personnel because of fear of further explosions. planes at the air freight building.

At least three flights were taken care of this way. The airport manager's office later reported that field operations were "back to normal." Sky Chefs a subsidiary of American Airlines, took the brunt of the explosion. Its kitchen operation adjoined the area of the new east wing basement, site of the blast. The operation was closed down. Sky Chefs operates a restaurant, bar and coffee shop in the terminal building.

It also prepares meals which are served on some American Airlines flights. Charles Harris, district manager here for American, said box lunches would replace the usual hot meal service. Sky Chefs had party moved into the new section of the One of the vetoes applied to a new law making news-paper. magazines and other second class postal matter tihjert to state nuisance law for the purpose of combatting obscene literature. The Governor said the present exemption should remain because Federal postal regulations were adequate.

The other three vetoes applied to enactments authorizing a $3 annual fishing license for married couples, who now must pay $2 each; require approval of township trustees for subdivision plats in areas outside municipalities and allow the liquor board to set minimum prices on carryout beer. The House sustained the Governor's disapproval of five other bills. They sought to lower from six to four feet the required height of hedge fences along township roads and other highways, to require rcflec-tonzed highway warning signs, to have local subdivisions divide election costs according to the number of candidates and issues involved and to require county payment for returning felons who have waived extradition. The Hou.se also sustained vetoes of three items in the appropriation to pay sundry claims against the state. Altogether the Coventor vetoed 21 legislative enactments In addition to his disapproval of the three sundry claim items.

i. Cincinnati -fv Skipjack Sets New Records For A-Subs PORTLAND, England, Aug. 14 The Skipjack, America's newest nuclear submarine, arrived today after Transatlantic crossing that was said to have set new marks for speed and depth. The report on the sub's performance on the training cruise was made by Cmdr. W.

W. Behrens. He said she "went faster than any other submarine has gone submerged and went deeper than any other sub." But how fast or how deep the Skipjack traveled was not disclosed by the 37-year-old Behrens. The Skipjack arrived nearly three hours late after being slowed by fog and high winds on the last leg of the trip, from Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Those aboard when she reached this channel port included Cmdr.

Barnaby Sam-bourne of the Royal Navy, who will command Britain'! first nuclear submarine, the Dreadnought. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 14 f.T Ohio motorists will pay $12 50 for their license tsgs next year unless Governor DiSalie applies an expected veto to a hill enacted by the legislature on final adjournment day. The Senate today completed passage of a House-approved measure Increasing the present $10 tag fee to raise another $15 million annually for local government to use for road Improvement. The measure would also add $10 to the cost of truck licenses and $5 to tag fees for farm trucks, motorcycles and house trailers.

Sen. Charles J. Carney (D.) Mahoning, told the Senate that DiSalie had threatened to veto the measure If it reached his desk. The Governor's office reported he had left on a short vacation to an undisclosed place before the Senate action. The House approved the $250 boost before the legislature ended working sessions last July 25.

The Senate wanted a $1 increase to start in VM'A. The Senate later approved a compromise but the House refused and the issue remained deadlocked. After considerable parliamentary maneuvering, the Senate backed away fiom its amendments to the House-approved bill to complete passage on a vote of 22-6. The House overrode four of the Governor's vetoes but the Senate recessed for dinner without action on them. Also awaiting action were vetoes of seven Senate bills.

j. "We heard the most awful crush. Then there vere no human sounds at all." Witness to automobile accident in which one died and four were hurt. Page 4-C. They either dressed impeccably or they dressed hke slobs Angle King says of British men on Young Ideas.

Page 1-C. think the prospects for peace are good Vice President Nixon. Page 6-A. HOTEL BURNS ri'NTA GORDA, Aug. It (UPI) Fire destroyed the 300-room Charlotte Harbor Spa and Hotel, a laudmark of Florida' roloorful past, today.

The loss was estimated at $1.2 million. The hotel was one of Florida's most luxurious and best known when it was built AO year ago and was a favorite spot for the rich and famous. Western writer Zanr, Grey used it a his fishing headquarters. Dominican Arms Seized; Trap Of Castro Is Lure BY ROBERT BERRELLEZ CIENFUEGOS, Cuba. Aug.

14 (JP Some of Fidel Castro's troops lured an arms-laden plane from the Dominican Republic to land at Trinidad by posing as anti-Castro conspirators and then trapped it with gunfire, military authorities said today. The Cuban-manned twin-engine C-46 and it cargo of weapons and ammunition were seized in a battle last night that saw two men killed on each side and all the plane's nine surviving crewmen captured. Castro saw the trap sprung. lie returned to Havana to tell the nation, more about the conspiracy tonight by radio and television. AV ARMY announcement in Havana and statements by officials in Cienfuegos, a south coast naval headquarters 40 miles west of Trinidad, gave this account of the operation: Castro's followers had put on a fantastic show to convince advance acouts that Trinidad Airfield was In the hands of participants In a vast conspiracy against the Prime Minister.

Maj. Wdliam Morgan of Toledo, Ohio, a rebel officer who pretended to join the conspiracy, sent out an appeal for arms. In response, a high Dominican official flew to Trinidad Wednesday from Cuidad Trujillo, the seat of Dominican Dictator Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo's government. The Dominican official was received at the airfield by armed men who shouted "down with Fidel Castro" and "death to reform." Morgan told the visitor his men held the airfield and the town of Trinidad, a farming CASTRO DIGS RIVAL HAVANA, Aug.

It Fidel Castro lashed out belligerently tonight at his old foe, Rafael L. Trujillo, boss of the Dominican Republic. Castro called him "the systematic enemy of Cuba." The bearded Premier reported to the Cuban people in a radio-TV address on cloak-and-dagger operation against what his government ha called a Dominican-hacked conspiracy. "If we could have kept nur plans against the conspirators secret for another 15 days," Castro said, "we would have raptured not only all the war criminals but Trujillo and his army as well." Castro and Trujillo have exchanged strong word in the past and their feud ha been blamed for creating unrest in wide areas of the Caribbean. Growing more emotiona.

as he warmed up, Castro declared the Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference now being held In Santiago, Chile, "is all part of a campaign against Cuba." Related story on Page 6-A. and commercial center of 15,000 ringed by mountains near the Caribbean. The show was so convincing the Dominican officer returned and arranged to send the arms plane. A lot of other people seem to have been taken in by the play-acting. A spokesman for anti-Castro groups in Miami reported yesterday that counter-revolutionary forces had captured Trinidad and were receiving reinforcements and supplies by air.

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Eighth St. These Cincinnati campers took swimming to beat t'rie heat yesterday, the hottest day cf the year. The girls are attending tie Salvation Army's Camp Swoneky, near Lebanon, Ohio. Yesterday's top temperature of 93 degree was the.

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