The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1954, Page 8

——.. : THE KEY WEST Citizen Monday, November 15, 1954 Missing Men Are Sealed In Mine To Block Deadly Gas By CHARLES STAFFORD FARMINGTON, W. Va. m — Beaten by deadly gas in their at- tempts to rescue 15 miners, or re- cover their bodies, mining men last night completed their grim task of walling up entrances of Mine No. 9. One man was dead. Fifteen were missing and presumed dead. The Jamison Coal Co. pit was rocked by a violent explosion Sat- urday. A second Saturday night sent flames roaring from the ven- tilation shaft. : A third, a sort of pouf, shook the tiny mining valley yesterday evening. The job of sealing No. 9, in an effort to cut off the flow of air and smother a fire burning deep underground, was completed late last night, It will not be reopened until tests show the air inside is safe enough for rescue teams to enter. That might take days or months. School Closed Also closed today was James York Elementary School, only a few hundred yards down the valley Tom the mine entrance. Officials jeared another explosion or escap- ‘ng gas might endanger the chil- dren. Rescue erews worked their way almost a mile down the slope and nto the passageways of No. 9 late daturday. Deadly carbon monoxide ‘umes from the mine fire forced chem back, After three hours of confernces ‘yetween company, state and fed- al mine bureau officials, the de- dsion to seal was announced early jesterday, State Mines Chief Frank B. “ting, visibly moved, explained, ‘There ig just nothing else we can ‘0.” He said the action would re- aove any slender hope that some of the men might still be alive. / Lewis Approves Miners began walling up the ive openings with the approval of |' ohn L, Lewis, United Mine Work- rs chief. Lewis, who spent two hours at the scene yesterday, said the seal- ag appeared to be the only course. fe commended officials directing As the miners labored to close ‘Ye entrances, gas pressure began uilding up in the wrecked ele- ator portal and the destroyed ‘entilation shaft, Another explo- ion ‘was threatened by the highiy ombustible methane gas, No one could say what caused : Methane Gas Viee President James Hyslop of “xe Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal orporate stock of Jamison, sur- uised that the blast resulted from gnition of methane ga: But only 30 minutes before. it touched id, ve air was clear, “Something suds| enly happened to release a con- ov portion of methane,” he aid, One man, working at the en- vance of the mine, was killed. ‘wo, a short distance inside the aain portal, heard the rumble nd felt a rush of air. They eached the surface in a state of. ear - collapse but unhurt. The shereabouts of the others were .ot known, ‘ Toneymooners Die n Tightly Sealed Touse Trailer REDFIELD, N.Y, —A, honey- ~nooning couple and the bride. room’s soldier brother died in reir-sleep yesterday when a gaso- ne lantern apparently burned all oxygen from their tightly house trailer, state police ral New York community. They had left for a combination . gasoline lantern, a practice they aid was used frequently by hunt. .rs for heating purposes. *riends Honor Mrs. Eisenhower WASHINGTON \—A few rela. ‘ives and close friends joined Pres- Legitimacy Of Doctor’s Son Is Questioned CLEVELAND #—A_ suburban Policeman testified today at the murder trial of ‘Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard that he once heard a Tumor the young osteopath was sterile. Under questioning by Sheppard’: chief counsel, William J. Corrigan, Patrolman Fred Drenkhan denied, however, that he ever heard other / Police say Sheppard’s seven year old son, Chip, was illegitimate. Drenkhan, a cool, matter of fact type of police officer from Shep- Ppard’s suburb, Bay Village, was the first policeman to examine the Sheppard home the morning the osteopath’s wife, Marilyn, was bludgeoned to death in her bed. In the midst of a minute cross examination, Corrigan suddenly asked Drenkhan about a meeting of law enforcement officers held by Coroner Samuel R. Gerber shortly ufter the murder. Corrigan wanted to know if Drenkhan heard Gerber say Shep- pard was sterile. “I heard that, but it was not Dr. Gerber,” he replied. “Who said it?” Corrigan per- sisted. “It was a rumor,” Drenkhan said. “We received some letters.” Drenkhan also said that he was unable to recall a statement that Dr. Sheppard killed his wife be- cause she was pregnant. She had been pregnant about four months when she was killed. Corrigan also shot this question at him: “Didn’t you hear it said at a meeting at the county morgue that the first child of Marilyn Sheppard was an illegitimate child?” “I don’t recall that statement,” the witness replied. Corrigan was cross examining Drenkhan for the second day, seeking to shake his story that so far as he could tell, no bushy haired intruder broke into the Sheppard home to kill Marilyn Sheppard. Her husband insists that is what happened that night. The state says Sheppard mur- dered his wife during a quarrel over Susan Hayes, a hospital tech- nician, and other. women. Admitted Slayer Hangs Self In Ohio Jail Cell LANCASTER, Ohio —A 20- year-old youth who admitted mur- dering his infant son and his wife’s grandmother hanged himself in his jail cell yesterday. It was his sec- ond suicide attempt in three days. Authorities said Joe Chamberlin confessed beating his 6-week-old. son to death because he cried. While being questioned in the death of his son, they said he ad- mitted he -beat Mrs, Elizabeth King, 76, grandmother of his wife Donna, 16, after Mrs. King refused to let him make a long-distance telephone call. Mrs. King was found unconscious in her home last May 17 and died 10 days later. The death had been listed as accidental from a fall. Chamberlin tried to take his life Friday, slashing his wrists with a hacksaw blade. Yesterday he suc- ceeded, hanging himself with a strip of blanket. dent Eisenhower last night in a|’ alute to his wife Mamie o n her birthday. a the First Lady’s relatives attending a White House birthday supper were her mother, Mrs. John 3. Doud, and her sister, Mrs. George Moore. In the morning, President and -{rs. Eisenhower attended services at National “Presbyterian ind the First Lady’s pastor wished . “ more days of good ner a e b 28 * Way From Home oe od SCOUTS FROM “DOWN UNDER” — The AP Monitor in The Citizen news room got a lot of attention from three Rover Scouts from New Zealand and Australia who were in Key West Saturday. Left to right as they watched for “news from home’ are Graham Spraggen and Brian Hetherington from Auckland, New Zealand, and Jim Frazer from Melbourne, Australia, They will spend a few days at the Boy Scout camp on Summerland Key before going to Mexico and the western part of the United States. They will sail next February from -Vancouver, British Columbia, on the last leg of their “world tour” that began 212 yea rs ago.—Photo by Spillman. Seouts From “Down Under” Arrive In Time For Downpour By SUE JONES Three Rover Scouts, one from Melbourne, Australia and two from Auckland, New Zealand, heard about Key West — “where the sky is bluer and the sun is brighter than any other place” — ’way up in Connecticut so they arrived just in time for Saturday’s record rainfall! The young men, Graham Sprag- gen, Brian Hetherington and Jim; Frazer looked rather skeptical when we told them it wouldn’t last and said they “hope it won’t because we want to spend a few days at the Boy Scout Camp on Summerland Key and get in some | fishing.” Graham is 23 years old and hails from New Zealand and Brian, 25, is also from New Zealand: Jim, the Australian is 22. The three Rover Scouts left their homelands two and a half years ago to attend the international Rover Scout meeting in Switzer- land. Work Their Way’ Since then they have been work- ing their way through Europe and England and then to Canada. The two New Zealand boys have been together most of the time and | Jim joined them in Toronto, Can- ada. From Canada they came to the | States and have visited the New England States, New York City | and Washington, D. C. | They had planned to camp for a while in the Shenandoah Nation- al Park in Virginia, but “there was too much snow.” | On the way to Key West they | spent a night in Melbourne, Flor- ida, where Jim got a bit homesick when he saw the Australian gum trees in that city. Claude Spear, who brought them to The Citizen office, promised to take them out to East Martello so he could see some Australian pine trees. Visit Navy Hospital Spear, active in Boy Scout work, had taken them out to see the Nayal Hospital where they visited with Dr. R. S. Simpson, another active Scouter, and got a personal- | ly conducted tour of the facilities. They were very much interested in the plant at The Citizen and the AP monitor. Spear planned }of the 80 seats in the | legislature. Labor held 37, the to take them to the Aquarium, to the turtle crawls and other places of interest around the Island, After’ they leave Summerland |Key, the boys will go to New Or- leans and to Mexico. After Mexi- co, they'll go to the Grand Can- yon and see something of the west- ern part of the country before sail- ing in February from Vancouver, British Columbia, on the last lap of their round the world “‘tour.” Those P: Girlst They were in Miami on day and got a bang out Of the Veterans Day parade. “We never saw anything like those bands with all the pretty girls,” one of them said and added: “We've never been treated any nicer than we’ve been treated since wei got to Key West. The people at the Siboney where we're stay- ing, Mr. Spear and all Scouters we've met have certainly, gone out of their way to show us ind and see about arrangements for us to camp at your Boy §rout camp.” They left then — after a last |look at the monitor to see if there was “any news from home,” PRIME MINISTER IS, STILL INPOWER | IN NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON, New Zealand —Prime Minister Sydney @, Hol- land still holds power today follow- ing New Zealand’s general elec- tions, but his parliamentary ma- jority has been whittled down. Virtually final returns from Sat- urday’s balloting showed the Pre- mier’s Nationalist party holding 43 use old house the Nationalists held 50 seats to the Laborites’ 30, THERE’S AN AWFUL Lor OF WATER IN KEY WEST — Navy equipment was pumping water out of the Navy housing project near Rest Beach. Scenes like this were common throughout the city yesterday in the wake of Saturday's record rain.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder, L The Weatherman Says: Key West and Vicinity: Generally fair today thru Tuesday. Continued warm and humid. Low tonight near 73 and high Tuesday near 84. Gen- tole to. moderate southeast and south winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy with oc- casional rain extreme north por- tion this afternoon, otherwise part- ly cloudy and widely scattered showers and few thundershowers thru Tuesday. Little change in tem- perature. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate southeast to south winds thru Tues- day except becoming north and northeast over extreme north por- tion Tuesday. Partly cloudy and widely scattered showers. Western Caribbean: Gentle to moderate mostly northeast to south east winds thru Tuesday. Partly cloudy to cloudy weather with Scattered showers. ‘Weather summary for Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Area and the East‘ Gulf of Mexico: There are no signs of aby tropical storms today. Tonight at midnight the Weather Bureau -will close { hurricane teletype system and re- open again next June. However, should a hurricane oceur anywhere in this region prompt advises will be issued at intervals as long as the hurricane threat exists. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., Nov. 15, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal 83 7 W vi} Precipitation Total last 24 hours __ .00 ins. Total this month _____20.65 ins, Excess this month —_19.61 ins, Total this year ______55.71 ins, Excess this year 9.01 ins, Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 99% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M, 29.94 ins—1013.9 mbs, True Alcoholics Are Small Portion Of Problem Drinkers DALLAS — There are nearly four million ‘‘problem drinkers” in the United States, says Dr. Duke McCall, president of the National Temperance League, Inc. He told some 200 persons open- ing the league's three-day conven- tion yesterday that of that number, 750,000 are “true chronic alcohol- ies.” McCall is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at isville, Ky. LIFE-TIME — fhe Only Battery with a 6- Year BONDED GUARANTEE eVasily more power, quicker starts! eBounces back to life after being completely run down! Lasts years longer. ONE PRICE FOR ALL CARS $29.95. 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Yesterday construction worker Eddie Seaton got into the sewer through a second manhole and prodded her toward the manhole she had entered. When she balked, he ‘splashed her face with water from a pail he had carried dowa with him. At the manhole, the 600-pound heifer, held by wooden barrk cades, was hoisted out on an ime provised sling attached to a crane truck. Beware Coughs Following Flu Afiertheta isoverand gone, thecougk at follows may develop into chronic bronchitis if neglected. Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes into the bronchial system to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, Creomulsion is guaranteed to | please you or druggist refunds money. | Creomulsion has stood the test of | ‘many millions of users, prorfolk ot Oklahoma City Omaha Pensacola Pittsburgh __ St. Louis uw. San Antonio _ | San Francisco Seattle _____. Tallahassee Tampa ___. Washington FLYING FARMERS (Continued from Page One) ces of the barn own (the owl him- self is not wanted, please, he just | is supposed to eat bats, if any) migrations of numbers of bats, (not night hawks nor birds but bats), the Monroe County Audubon Socie- | ty would like to have the informa- | tion to assist Jennings in his re- | search concerning this important} public health problem dealing with the possibility of the spread of ra- |bies in Florida. WATER DAMAGE (Continued From Page One) Tavern, 218 Duval St. where a neon sign caught fire at 2:30 a. m. Sun-| day. The next was at the Land O’Sun Dairy, Truman Ave., at 3:10 a. m. Sunday and the other occur- red in an automobile owned by po- lice Lt. Buster Cerezo, Total damage in the blazes pro- bably would not amount to, more than $200, firemen said. Firemen were kept busy Sunday pumping water from flooded areas. 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