The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

The Weather UTAH Showers tonight clear ing -tomorrow colder low 25 high 50 OGDEN Partly cloudy cold-r low 30 high 43 Temperatures Max Max Min Of Cl Aartln BUUad I) OMiBMipotli 4 44 34 N( Of It 33 43 Batt 33 33jPortUa St 33 Chlcara St 34jsU 44 43 Laa Vtf aa It tlj SU Gears It 41 ft 83rd Year No 57 OGDEN UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 10 1954 10 Pages 2 Sections 5 CENTS i i liort jdtic now Pine May Moil: Fill WM WASHINGTON President Eisenhower said to- day that Sen Flanders (R-Vt) did a service by pointing up the great danger of party-splitting strife in his Senate speech critical of Sen McCarthy (R-Wis) Eisenhower said he wanted to make it dear he was not issuing any blanket endorsement of Flanders speech but he added: 1 It was for Adlai in Indochina as should be captured 7- For the' first time since it was put into service in 1937 Pine View Reservoir may not he filled this spring The reason: Too little snow on Ogden River water-A possible drought next summer in Harrisville Farr West North Ogden Perry and Brigham City rely to supply precious irrigation water during dry summer months All told some 15000 use Pine View water on lawns gardens and farms It is unsuitable for drinking 1 Unhappily the same gloomy water situation exists throughout most of the state the Soil Conservation Service reports Less than-normal flow is expected in all snow-fed streams On the Wasatch Front watershed in the Farmington-Ogden area the SCS and Weather Bureau have found that conditions at present are worse than any year since the drought year of 1934 Ted Schmidt chairman of the Weber County chapter of the American Bed Cross said today he thought' it was about time someone tracked down the vicious i 1 1 GONE WITH THE BLAST Police Sgt LeRoy Bennett demonstrates with hands length of missing tank gun barrel before hoodlums inserted dynamite or gunpowder last night Blast tore out chunks of masonry work and broke windows in American Legion Hall behind (in rings) Roar Heard tor Miles Hoodlums Rlow Up Gun on Legion's Tank A World War II tank mounted at the American Legion hall at 24th Street land Adams Avenue probably fired its last shot last night when hoodlums jammed gunpowder or dynamite into the muzzle and applied a match The resultant blast tore off a six-inch length of the barrel end Its heavy steel fragments damaged a door and facade of the St Catholic Church across the street gouged holes in brick and stone of the building behind the tank and dug deep divots in the lawn The sharp roar of the turret gun about 10:15 pm could be heard for miles around Police Sgt Robert Holstein said For the next several minutes his switchboard was swamped as residents phoned in to inquire about the explosion All available police rushed to the scen3 Two women told Police Officer Timothy Dyer they were near when the detonation happened They Worse Condition On the Ogden River sheds which are In worse condition than the expected runoff for Feb 1 was 73 per cent of normal and this figure is now lower since the precipitation during February was also sub-normal Uneasy over prospects of a shortage David A Scott superintendent of the Ogden River Water Users Assn recalled today that only in the year 1940 did officials worry about filling Pine View reservoir As it turned out however' there was actually some overflow then experienced a drought in 1934 but that was before the Pine View Dam was Mr Scott said The water content measurement for March 1 made by the SCS and Forest Service showed only half as much water on the Mount Ogden snow course as the average for the past three years Only at one station was the water content near normal Normal At Low Elevations On Weber River watersheds the water content is about normal in the lower elevations but considerably bebw the average in thq upper mountain regions The over-all water outlook for the state is for about 70 per cent of average In Southern Utah on the East Fork of the Sevier River the snow cover is 20 per cent of average Most favorable prospects exist on the watersheds of the Uintah Basin of Cache Valley and of the American Fork area There snow cover varies from 86 to 130 per cent of their long-time averages rumors people spread about the Red Cross each year at fund- drive tinie He-went into action when a worker told him her son reported he had bought a Red Cross sweater in Korea for $11 Schmidt put in a call to the Pentagon in Washington and they in turn relayed a message to the outfit in Korea in which the local man was located When he was questioned1 the soldier admitted the $11 he spent was a gambling debt and he mentioned the Red Crosssweater as a means of concealing the debtJ how all these rumors start about the Red Schmidt said we aim to put a stop to He said the Red Cross whose goal Is $54000 in Weber County this year is handicapped by the recurrent phony rumors The rumors and the facts are exposed in a pamphlet published by the national Red Cross A portion of this pamphlet is reprinted on the editorial page (Page 4-A) of Standard-Examiner The remainder will be in paper 1 Loyally Day Parade OK'd Ogden annual Loyalty Day parade which features thousands of marching students along Washington Boulevard will be held as usual this year And an effort will be made to improve and enlarge it Ogden School BoanF decided last night Fate of the parade in future years was not decided however The board verified May 14 as date for the parade and called for appointment of a committee to plan the parade make the day mean During a brief discussion it was pointed out that since the parade has been already listed on the calendar and many parents and others had been planning toward it officials felt they should go ahead with it The issue was debated at a board meeting last month Most bitterly opposed to the event was the Ogden Principals Assn 1 Having gone on record 100 per cent in favor of abolishing the parade they protested tjiat the event was hazardous caused a delinquency problem and had very little educational value -Names in dows and chipped brick and stone At least one piece was hurled across the street to the west and embedded itself in the roof of a filling station An attendant there said the concussion threw a bottle of oil from a ledge on the inside of the window across the room Openings Welded The tank World War II sur- plus has been mounted on a concrete slab in front of the American Legion hall since 1949 and is owned by the Baker-Merrill Post 9 Col Albert Wilfong said to prevent children from crawling inside all openings to the tank had been sealed and welded The turret end of the gun also had been sealed which probably accounted for the fact the far end of the barrel blew up The culprits probably aner loading in the gunpowder and wick police said 12000 Hear Graham LONDON Police said today they turned away 5000 persons who sought admission las night to Harringay Arena where Evangelist Billy Graham preachec to an overflow crowd of 12000 The Graham Organization saic 1000 standees were in the arena which has a seating capacity for about 11000 persons 2 Repeated that he favors consideration of Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood bills separately There is a move in the Senate sponsored by Democrats to tie Alaskan statehood to a pending nil which would make Hawaii the 49th state 3 Made it clear that he does not see at the present time that any good would come out of a four-power conference of the United States Russia France and Great Britain The President was told that Prime Minister Churchill of Britain had again advocated such a meeting Eisenhower smiled and said he has disagreed with the Prime Minister in the past on some matters Vice President Nixon has been picked by Republican leaders to make the official reply to Stevenson He is to speak Saturday night over the television and radio networks that carried speech Nixon reportedly was selected by Eisenhower after McCarthy announced he was going to demand that NBC and CBS give him free time to reply to what he called attack on me McCarthy called1 the choice Nixon to reply for the Republicans excellent But he said he intended to test whether the networks could refuse him free time to fire back personally at Stevenson McCarthy said he will employ counsel to test whether the networks can deny him free time to reply McCarthy said that as he sees it equal free time should be given to the Republican Party to Eisenhower and to him McCarthy said he will speak for himself and over the same networks as Stevenson and at their-expense if possible He said that if the Federal Communications Commission has a rule which guarantee that right rule has got to be McCarthy was offered free time if he desires it to reply to a CBS TV program on which Commentator Edward Murrow said last night the senator repeatedly has stepped over the line between and Republican leaders in the Senate shied away from comment on Sen assertion on the Senate floor yesterday that McCarthy intention or through was doing his best to shatter the Republican Party Flanders the first Republican senator to strike out publicly at McCarthy by name said that the Wisconsin wide-ranging hunts for subversives were divert ing the nation from serious problems to an extent to our future as a Too Busy to Reply McCarthy said time to answer Republican Flanders said he found to praise and much to deplore in He credited Me Carthy with a housecleaning job after the Republicans came to power last year But declaring that dangerous attack is from without not from the Vermont sena tor went on to discuss the problems of dealing with communism in various parts of the world out side the United States With the world split between Communist and anti-Communist camps he asked is the part of the junior senator from dons his Flan ders said goes into his war-dance He emits his war-whoops He goes forth to battle and proud ly returns with the scalp of a pink Army This was reference to Dr Ir ving Peress a New York dentist whom McCarthy has called Fifth Amendment peress says that is McCarthy has rebuked the Army for giving Peress an honorable discharge after he refused to answer questions about any Com munist links Sen Cooper (R-Ky) promptly commended Flanders for his speech saying it was characterized by sanity and a sense of proportion But such GOP leaders as Know-land Ferguson and Sen Bridges of New Hampshire president pro tem of the Senate said they hac no comment Ike Planning Talk on His Tax Program WASHINGTON Presl-dent Eisenhower announced to day he will go on television and radio probably next week to discuss informally the philosophy ehind the tax bill The President making his plans known at a news confer-snee made no reference directly to a pending House bill to cut excise taxes by about 912 million dollars a year His announcement also came against the background of a Democratic move to boost personal income tax exemptions by $100 at an additional loss in revenue The administration has not en- dorsed the excise cut and the treasury has indicated strong opposition to the exemption increase Eisenhower did say" that his address will deal with the general philosophy of his tax program In the past he has repeatedly stressed that the government has to get the money to pay its bills and that the aim is to get it with the least burden to the economy and to the people House leaders of both political parties were predicting close to unanimous approval for the excise cut The bill also would postpone for one year scheduled cuts other excise rates The administration wants that part of the measure Hours of political debate were In prospect however over different aspects of the first major tax bill to hit the House floor in thi congressional election year The Senate has not acted on it The bill would level off at 10 per cent all excise or sales tax rates now above that figure except for liquor and tobacco effective April 1 Sponsors said this would bring a wide range of price as well as tax cuts save shoppers substantial sums and give a boost to business to help combat the present economic dip In the background a big fight was shaping up for next week when a bill to overhaul almost all tax laws is scheduled on the House Floor Democrats will fight to add a $100 increase in individual income tax exemptions for each taxpayer and each dependent The bill up today would slash the present 25 per cent rate on long distance telephone calls cut in half the 20 per cent tax on movies sports and other admission tickets and on furs jewelry luggage cosmetics pock etbooks wallets cameras film and light bulbs and cut one-third the present 15 per cent rate on sporting goods pens mechanical pencils lighters local telephone bills and rail bus or air passenger fares On the other side it would cancel about $1070000000 in excise tax reductions scheduled April 1 under present law Don't Condemn POWs Says Ike WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower said today that American prisoners under Korean War conditions should not be condemned too severely for what they said under torture The comment was made in response to an inquiry about the of germ warfare made by Marine Col Frank Schwable while a Communist prisoner in Korea Mr Eisenhower said the rules of war had changed sharply under the impact of new hatreds and prejudices and that now few men could stand up under the im-pact of incessant brain washing INDEX Dr William Brady 6A Comics 2B 33 Dr Crane 7A Editorial Page 4 a Peter Edson 4A Beulah France 7A Gallop Poll 4A Obituaries 53 Drew Pearson 4 A Radio-TV Programs SB Sports A 9 A 20 and 50 Years Ago 4A Theater 4B Vital Statistics 5B Al'Warden EA Pages 6A "A Stevenson to say the Republican Party is McCarthy and half 2 He believes the CBS and NBC networks did the fair and proper thing in giving the Republican Party free network time for a reply to Stevenson while denying it to McCarthy as an individual Eisenhower said that any political speaker might mention critically the names of 20 or more persons and that it would be impossible for the networks to give each of them time for rebuttal The White House gave added emphasis to use of the for assertion by authorizing its direct quotation Ordinarily the news conference statements may not be quoted directly Is In Good Humor Eisenhower seemed in good humor smiling when the subject was raised in talking about the Flanders speech but he stamped his foot and was grim in some of his comments on what Stevenson 1952 Democratic presidential candidate said about defense policies in an address at Miami Saturday Stevenson had questioned in a Miami party speech whether the new military program with emphasis on atomic and other new weapons is really affording the country the best security Eisenhower said that he is doing nothing in the Defense Department that he does not believe is for the best interest of the country He is notgoing to demagogue about it either the President said his face flushed Firmly Elsenhower said that he is as concerned about the security of the country as any sin gle individual could possibly be No Change In Operations Eisenhower said that there had been no procedure change in operations of the joint chiefs of staff He said he always dislikes slogans and believes the tag is not truly descriptive of the military program The subject of Flanders speech was brought up when a reporter asked Eisenhower whether he sympathized with what Flanders had to say Flanders had told the Senate that McCarthy 'intention or through was his best to the Republi can Party Eisenhower said he agrees generally with what the Vermont senator said main thesis was that the great Communist danger to the United States was from without and that McCarthy with his concentration on internation al subversion was diverting at tention dangerously from the external threats He said the Republican Party is now the party of responsibility so charged by the people He said there was great danger in internecine warfare He said that procedures that were irregular and were aimed at aggrandizement of an individual an obvious reference to McCarthy were doing the country great damage How About War? On other matters the President: Declared emphatically that the United States never will become involved in any war unless such a step results from constitutional processes He made that reply when asked what would happen if any of the Americans stationed 'Fair Play' Rules vestigations subcommittee inquiry into reported Red activity in defense plants summoning to the witness stand five workers from an electronic laboratory at utley TAXES Hours of oratory but near unanimous approval in the end is predicted for the first major tax bill to hit the House floor this year The general tax overhaul measure would knock down to 10 per cent most sales tax rates above that figure (Details on this page) DISCRIMINATION Although Senate passage seems most unlikely the Senate Labor Committee meets to okay a bill to ban discrimination in i see the' mischief-makers about Dangerous Chief Says The flying barrel pieces could have caused serious injury or death to passersby and also to the perpetrators of the prank Police Chief Maurice Schooff said A check at hospitals disclosed no injured persons were admitted The chief said apparently the hoodlums shoved a quantity of gunpowder or a stick of dynamite down the muzzles of the 37-millimeter gun projecting from the turret inserted a fuse and lit it The pranksters then likely ran for cover behind the Legion hall The jagged barrel bits which lobbed from the relic slashed through edges of stone of a doorway of the Catholic Church ricocheted and damaged the door Other fragments chipped stonework above another doorway Other bits of steel cut into the Legion building broke win Utah Won't Let MacFadden lump SALT LAKE CITY Ber- narr request to go jump in the lake Great Salt Lake that is has been turned down by the Utah Aeronautics Commission MaCFadden recently wrote Gov Bracken Lee for permission to parachute into the lake on his 86th birthday in August The governor turned the letter over to the aeronautics commission The commission ruled that the dangers of such a jump into the salt water would be contrary to the commission's policy of aerial CHURCH POCKED TOO A door and walls of Catholic Church across the street from tank at 24th Street and Adams Avenue were damaged as fragments from gun barrel foreground flew in several directions Crosses mark locations caught Pal O'Brien i Fronts in Las Vegas Milford Accident Delays UP Train MILFORD (UP) Union Pacific today reported a derailment of one freight car 16 miles west of here which delayed the westbound passenger train City of Los Angeles two hours Rail officials said there were no injuries and small damage to the tracks in the accident yesterday Egypt Reds Sign Pact CAIRO (UP) Egypt and the Soviet Union signed a trade pact today that is expected to boost by 50 per cent the present 28 million-dollar annual trade between the two countries The News William Los Angeles businessman said some of the Las Vegas operators welcome the latest addition to the strip and some are not so enthusiastic I think there will be room for he said believe Las Vegas will double in population in the next two years There seem to be any limit to the The financier said that backing was coming from New York Texas and California businessmen adding that their names cannot be revealed until they meetrthe approval of the state of Nevada jr In Istanbul Turkey devout Moslems sacrificed lambs in thanks to Allah for the safe return of President Celal Bayer today after his visit to the United States Jack Webb star of the television show faced court orders today to show why he should not be held in contempt for failure to pay a property settlement to his actress-wife Julie London Miss London who won an interlocutory divorce from Webb last November served the television star with a court summons yesterday charging Webb failed to pay her $350000 she claims he owes her under a property settlement South Korea Going 16 Geneva Rhee Warns Against 'Sellout' SEOUL (AP) President Syngman Rhee has indicated South Korea will attend the Geneva conference on Far East problems but insists must have ironclad assurances there will be no sellout of Rhee likewise makes no secret of his views that the April meeting achieve Congress Highlights Move over Jack Dempsey and Joe DiMaggio Pat is getting into the bistro business The smiling Irishman is the figurehead of a group of mon-eymen who plan to erect a restaurant hotel and casino on Las famed strip been after me for some time to use my name for some kind of said all my name has been before the public for a good many years and has acquirecT some degree of respectability Other fellows Toots Shors Dinty Moore Luchow etc spent years bpilding a reputation for their names mine is already made have a little dough in it but nothing compared to what the guys with the money are putting up Mostly I just lend them the name The only stipulation is that I be on the premises at least 24 hours of every week I may be there more But if a picture job comes up excused I get paid less but I still get paid a dandy deal do is a number or two on the stage behind the Jbar But mostly just mingle among the guests and maybe tell a few' stories what I like to do anyway and I might as well get paid for backer is his friend And he voiced a that South Korea wait for unification for endless months while idle talk drags on Rhee has given several warnings since the July armistice that he will try to drive north to unify Korea and move out the million-man Chinese army The South Korean president said his country needed further information from Secretary of State Dulles before announcing its decision on the Geneva meeting soon as information is received I think we shall be in a position to decide what to Rhee said Rhee Lists Wants All the major countries except South Korea have agreed to go to Geneva April 26 GOP Suggests WASHINGTON (AP) The-Senate Republican Policy Com-mittee laid down for rules governing committee investigations The proposal would give more power to committee members less to the chairmen But there is no provision for action against chairmen who might disregard them FARM Secretary of Agriculture Benson assured the House Agriculture Committee there will be a gradual cautious shift to the new farm program if adopted The program features flexible price supports and a modernized formula to determine farm MCCARTHY HEARING McCarthy went ahead with his in- Saves One of Six Dies LA JUNTA Colo (UP) Car Bangert 36 rescued one of his six children from their flaming home here today and then perished with the other five when he returned to the flaming structure in a vain effort to save them 1 2.