The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

jgj jSg I The Weather Fair low 28-38 high 62-72 OGDEN Fair high 60 30-35 with patches of frost Temperatures Max Min! Max Min Ogden 68 451 Los Angeles 65 56 Billings 59 36 Minneapolis 57 45 Boise 63 38i New York 71 53 Butte 46 28! Salt Lake 65 at Chicago 61 45 Portland 5 49 Las Vegas 95 65San Fran 72 ogden utah Tuesday evening april 20 1954 16 Pages 5 CENTS UN -'aacv Kids Who Raided Bank for J1 Piggy Dad Make Profit ST LOUIS (AP) Tommy and Geraldine de Paoli raided their piggy banks of $7 in nickels and pennies to help their day pay an $18 traffic fine last week So far they have gotten $7720 from people' who heard about their action never expected anything like! this to happen to said Mrsj de Pali never had any real luck sort of The father Lino de Paoli a substitute driver for an interstate bus line scraped up only $11 1 toward the fine after admitting he drove to the left of a street car He said his wife expecting a third child had complained of feeling sick and he wanted to get her home quickly Tommy 6 and Geraldine 8 saving their money for the baby expected in July decided their nickels apd pennies1 City Judge Robert Dowd who imposed the fine reimbursed the children when he learned what they had done You Have Until 8 Tonight To Vote for School Funds i Ogden residents have until 8 tonight to vote in the special school election which asks for an approximately 37 mill levy increase Voting is being carried on in 17 city elementary and junior high schools At noon today the number of who had voted -was below the 600 mark School officials however believed the voting would pick up this evening after people arrived home from work Two Ogdenites and two residents of Clearfield met death in the crumpled mass of crashed yesterday at Denver The body of one fi the victims wrapped canvas is being wreckage when peir light plane removed from the rums Pilot's Error Blamed for Death Of 4 From Ogden Clearfield Officials determined today the action of the pilot in holding the nose of his plane too high resulting in a stall was responsible for a crash yesterday in Denver which killed two well-known couples from this area one from Ogden and the other from Clearfield Bridgeman aeronautics inspector for the Colorado Public Utilities Commission made the report after an inspection of the wreckage He said a heavy load and gusty winds were contributing factors Victims were Roland Smith 53 and his wife Madge ploughed into five expensive east Smith 40 Clearfield William Denver homes on Dec 3 1951 WASHINGTON (UP) Sen Joseph McCarthy said today that the charges against him were designed by Assistant Defense Secretary Struve Hensel to stop jam investigation of Hensel for and possible law Hensel immediately termed the charges he (McCarthy) will make the charges without senatorial immunity I will guarantee a lawsuit that he will not be able to Hensel told reporters McCarthy-said the report that he and his staff sought favors for Pvt David Schine has greater aid and comfort to Communists and security-risks than any single other obstacle ever The statements were made in an 18-page 46-count answer which McCarthy filed with the Senate Permanent Investigating Subcommittee which plans to open public hearings Thursday on the dispute Hensel had anch has every motivation to act as he did in attempting to discredit the subcommittee staff examined and confirmed the serious allegation against Mr Hensel that whije he occupied a top procurement post with the Department of the Navy he helped to organize a ship supply firm for the purpose of selling priority goods to ships has been reply continued Mr Hensel while in a top procurement post for the NaVy and while general counsel and later Secretary of the Navy drew darge sums of money Believed tp be far in excess of his government salary from a ship supply firm which was operating with government sanction and with government priori California Plane Crash Kills Seven GRANDA HILLS Calif (UP) A C119 Air Force transport plane crashed and burned in' the fog-obscured mountains north of here today killing all seven crewmen aboard Air Force officials said the aircraft was on the way to Burbank field from Williams Air Force Base at Chandler Ariz when it ploughed into the 2500-foot mountain Names of the victims werej withheld pending notification of next of kin Granada Hills is about 18 piiles northwest of Los Angeles Sunnyside Miner Crushed by Rock SUNNYSIDE (AP) Willis Jones 50-year-old Utah coal miner died today from injuries received in a mining accident last night Officials of the Kaiser Steel Co No 2 mine said rock fell from the roof of a mine tunnel crushing Jones From Russians Robins 29 and his wife Geraldine Robins 25 of 748 36th St Smith was president the Box Elder Packing Corp and 'a partner demolished in that crash and cui c3tc Ttnhin! was eight men aboard the plane were the Smith Sales Co Robins was kilJed A maid -n one thfi dam his sales manager The four were aged houses was injured by fall-on a trip to Wichita Kans for a ng hricks while coming in for a landing at nearby Lowry Air Force Base! One of the exclusive homes was It's a Friendly Case in Neyada: Two Swap Wives LAS VEGAS Nef (AP) It was all very friendly as Millard Platt and Claude Fowler swapped wives yesterday Platt 35 was divopreed by Ar lene Platt 34 mental cruelty divorced by Vivian Fowler 46 who alleged extreme cruelty They went together to the Marriage License Bureau and to Justice of thcr Peace John Lytle who married them They acteF as eachl witnesses re all vqry they tola the marriage license clerk we are Returning to our home town Pomona Calif on grounds of Fowler 39 was 'Outlook Indochina Not Hopeless' WASHINGTON (UP) Styles Bridges (R-NH) said today after a congressional leadership1 conference with I Secretary of State John Foster pulles that the Situation in Indochina looks but not Bridges said as he left the State Department that ft was in the now to jsend American forces to Indochina Bridges chairmjan of the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee! was' one- of 15 Republicans antr Democratic congressional leaders-who took part in a lengthy private meeting with Dulles on the Indochina situation and the forthcoming Geneva Far East Conference Opposes Appeasement Informed sources Said Dulles arranged the bipartisan meeting to assure the lawmakers: 1 That there of Geneva and 2-That he considers it unlike? ly that American troops will be1 needed in Indochina The latter poipt has been the subject of brisk congressional discussion since Vie President Richard Nixcfn'said in an off-the-record speech last week that American GIs in Indochina if willbe no China at ght have to fight the French pull out Nixon stressed that he regarded this as unlikely Probes Comic Books NEW YORK (AP) A Senate subcommittee today starts investigation books and thir comic impact upon WTK William Robins of 748 36th plane crash yesterday in Denver WIFE OF Mrs Madge Smith was accompany ing her husband Rio Grande Flooded By UNITED PRESS Widely scattered thundershowers were forecast again today for Allison Would Cut Interest Rate City Charges Citizens Proposals by City Manager Allison that the city adopt a new procedure for basing interest rates on paving and other special districts designed to bring relief to owners of small homes is being studied by the City Council Mr Allison noted that Ogden has been charging a flat interest rate of 5 per cent He said he felt this was an unfair penalty against home owners who could not (afford to pay cash for street paving curb and gutter and the like Instead he proposed that the city I fix an interest rate based on the going market rate of that PwtiH" day In some cases this procedure could drop the interest to 2Vz per cent which woulq be a saving of 50 per cent to those who pay cash many cases a home is the only thing in the world a family man the-ftyv manager said In many cases the head of a family already is paying more for that home than he actually can afford when the city tries jto pave his street he be-fcoraei frightened knowing that if the program goes through he Vill really have a hard time meeting His suggestions met wdth quick) show of approval by the council 1 The method which the city has followed for years has been To borrow the money from one of the trust funds at the flat 5 per cent interest The Uty could make other investments with these funds the city manager noted Ogden May Get Patches of Frost Ogcfen may get patches of frost tonight the weatherman said 1 Miriimum temperature tonight will be 30 degrees and high tomorrow 60 according to the Weather Bureau Low mercury expected in the state will be 28 degrees tonight and high tomor-fowwilkbe 72 Th five-day forecast calls for occasional light showers with temperatures averaging below normal Diplomat Saved secret ary and MVD (secret Traffic Tangled Scores of police cars and fire engines screamed to the site of crash and thousands of Denver residents ran or drove their cars to the scene Traffic was tangled for more than two hours after the crash occurred Mr Smith had long been can aviation enthusiast Art Morten-son manager of the Ogden Municipal Airport said he taught Smith to fly about 20 years ago According to Mr Mortenson Smith was active as a pilot until about 1936 when he gave up flying for a period of years He resumed piloting about eight years ago and had his license reinstated Mr Smith had used his plane quite frequently in recent years on business trips Mr Mortenson said The 'airport manager said the plane left Ogdn at 6:03 am on a flight plan filed to Cheyenne Wyo From there the group went to Denver and the final flight hop was to have been to Wichita (Obituaries on Page 13) Peace Talks On? NEW YORK (AP) An NBC reporter in Tokyo said today that he had been informed secret are on between French officials and Ho Chi Minh in Saigon in an effort to work out peace in Indochina Police Catch Suspect Near Sunset SUNSET Radio contact between police cars throughout the state was credited today with the apprehension and arrest of an armed robber early today Officer Amasa -Baker of Roy city blocked Highway' fll near here at 1:40 a on a ja- dio call from Trooper Frank Grant vio gave' chase near farm- -ington as the car drove by The suspect was chased out of Salt Lake' City by city patrol ears who radioed ahead to state troopers a skimpy7 description of the get-away car The suspect was missed near Bountiful by Trooper Bob Haywood who joined the following pack of Salt Lake police cars The car w'as 1 again missed at Farmington Junction by Trooper Farlan Wood who also joined the pursuers Most of the police followed Highway 89 Trooper Spots Car Trooper Frank Grant' who was aware of the chase through his patrol car radio spotted a car fitting the description of the suspects near Clearfield He turned on it He said the car immediately picked up speed and continued on north Trooper Grant radioed to' Homer Metzger Clearfield police officer who joined the chase Officer Baker near Sunset turned his patrol car across the highway and the fleeing car stopped 1 The driver was arrested later by Salt' Lake police who were guided to the scene by radio They said today he earlier had confessed to one of four Salt Lake City holdups that netted robbers between450 and $500 They included two service stations a cafe and an apartment house office A cafe attendant Bill Vaughn was slashed on the arm with a knife in one holdup i Mrs Thomas Takes i Overdose of Pills ALLENDALE (UP) The wife of Parnell Thomas former congressman trying to regain his seat in New Jersey election was in a hospital today suffering from an overdose of sleeping pills police reported 1 Mrs Thomas was reported in condition buildings and buy them with long term payments like rent WIRETAPPING Atty Gen Brownell supported before a Senate judiciary subcommittee bis proposal to make wiretap evidence usable in federal courts in national security cases HOUSE -til April 26 In adjournment un- I INDEX Joseph and Stewart AIsop 4 Comics 18 11 Dr Crano 7 Editorial Page 4 Beulah Franee 6 Dr Jordan 7 Walter Lippmann1 4 Uhituancs 13 Drew Pearson 4 Radio-TV Programs 11 Sports 9 Theater i 12 20 and 50 Years Vital Statistics At Warden -A Pages I 4 13 8 6 7 4 the lower Rio Grande Valley where stagnant flood water has propeller dug holes in the pave-already damaged rich citrus cot-1 ment 0f a street and the light ton and vegetable crops and five I craft swept under telephone soon as it hit observers said The OGDEN Mr and Mrs St were two of four victims of a PILOT Roland Smith of Clearfield pilot andplane owner Weather is Mild By TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wet and cloudy weather was in prospect for areas in the northern half of the country today It was mostly fair to partly cloudy mer most of the southern areas Generally mild weather continued inmostof the country -Names in Jimmy Roosevelt James Roosevelt today moved to tend his unsavory personal publicity by offering his wife half of his earnings and property to settle their celebrated marital quarrel quickly with a divorce His attorney suggested that which generally meets his demands should end contested litigation and save the Roosevelt children embarrassment Roosevelt yesterday asked his wife Rpmelle to change her pending separate maintenance suit to one for divorce and in- dicated he would file a divorce suit of his own if she refused Roosevelt a Democratic can-didate for the congressional nomination in California has -been accused of adultery with 12 women by his wife in hek present suit which is still" undecided I Roosevelt claimed that he was $78000 in debt and has an income of $2600 monthly Mrs Roosevelt however claimed he is worth $2000000 At Kandy Ceylon Queen Elizabeth II and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh took off their shoes last night to climb the steep temple steps for a glimpse of tooth most prized religious relic Tradition calls for removing the shoes in Buddhist temples Katherine Thalberg 18-year-old daughter of Norma: Shearer and the late Irving Thalberg was married to a former Olympic skier in Reno Thurs- Fantastic Tug of Wgr sales meeting when the accident occurred Just Missed School The single engine four-place cabin plane just missed an elementary school and a hospital as it smashed into the intersection of Montview Boulevard and Ulster Street bounced more than 70 feet into a vacant lot and burst into flames Officials at Stapleton Field said the light plane valued at about $20000 had stopped at the airport for fuel before continuing on to Wichita The ship began stalling when it was less than 200 feet above the ground over the main north-south runway then veered sharply east and crashed Witnesses said the engine was still running when the plane hit Herman Feldman a Denver truck driver smashed window's on one side of the plane with his fists and dragged out Robins a few seconds before he died The fire fed by the gas load prevented further rescue efforts The plane burst into flames as wires without touching them as it bounded into the empty lot next to a Jewish rest home for tuberculosis patients Residents Fight Fire Residents in the neighborhood hooked garden hoses together in a futile attemDt to battle the flames They make much progress until fireman arrived Two Catholic priests who were near by administered last rites for the dead know if they were one said it makes no difference at a time like Both thp nearby Ashley Elementary School and the private hospital escaped damage The fact that the plane hit in the street indicated that Smith the pilot trying to miss such concentrations of persons A witness Robert Gruninger 27 of Denver said: no question in my mind that he deliberately rammed it into the lot to keep from hitting the Hears Plane Crash The crash occurred just across the street from the home of Mrs William Green was sitting at the table eating lunch about 12:30 Mrs Green said husband was lying on the bed resting when we heard a noise like a loud explosion There was an awdul noise We knew there had been a crash We looked out and saw a plane in flames a matter of minutes it was a tangled mass of Mrs Green said bodies vere horribly mangled and Mrs May Clark who also lives just across the street from the scene of the crash said she was sitting in her living room I heard a thump looked out the window and the plane was already in she said was nothing that could he The plane crashed about a mile from the site where a B-29 Wife of Red Washington Highlights Dulles Briefs Congress Leaders DARWIN Australia (AP) She made her final decision plice) chief at the Soviet embas-Blonde Mrs Vladimir Petrov to stay after a pre-arranged tele- Canberra joined her ex-diplomat husband hone call from Darwin for her epercussions een as a refugee from Soviet commu- first talk with her 45-year-old flight promised nism today after Australian police husband since he- fled early this serious displomatic Tepercussions jerked loaded pistols aw'ay from month with stacks of Red espion- between Australia and the Krem-two Russian escorts ushering her age data from his post as third ljn Sovjet Ambassador Nicolai WASHINGTON (AP) Highlights of the day in Congress: Leaders of both parties in Congress got a secret briefing from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Indochina and other Far Eastern problems (Details on this page) HOUSING A new inquiry into the govehiment housing insurance scandal opened with Sen Byrd (D-Va) ficials guaran lars in loans saying federal of eed 24 million dol-on a Long Island cases of typhoid fever have been reported The News Tries to End Suit day it was disclosed today The young couple currently is honeymooning near Lake Taboe in the High Sierra The bridegroom is Jack Reddish a former University of Utah student and a member of the 1948 and 1952 American Olympic ski teams President Eisenhower took advantage of clear warm weather today to loll restfully in the sun at the National Golf Course in 'Augusta Ga Mr Eisenhower was expected to handle only routine duties during the last two days of his Easter vacation British actress Simone Silva and Robert Mitch-um whose pose together at the Cannes film festival made headlines almost everywhere arrived in-Hollywood separately and do any posing Mitchum" refused requests of cameramen that he stand beside the English bit player he snapped went alb through this bunk in New where Simone posed in black panties and a mink jacket Mrs Mitchum was with him She objected and strenuously when her pose with Miss Silva appeared in some newspapers abroad It showed Miss Silva nude from the waist up Miss Silva went to Hollywood to do a movie for Hal Pekter who has taken over the former Charlie Chaplin studio She announced that think I can replace Marilyn in tears back to Moscow The 35-year-old last-minute switch to the free world followed a fantastic tug of war in which Australian police wrestled wildly to disarm two of her Russian guards as her Europe-bound plane stopped here on the first leg of its flight from Sydney The gun-toting Russians had tried to muscle local officials out of talking to Mrs Petrov Eight hours earlier some 1500 anti-Communists at Sydney fought with police in a vain effort to prevent her from being dragged aboard the BOAC Constellation by the Soviet embassy second secretary and the two armed Russian diplomatic couriers convoying her home Heard Her Screaming Russians in the crowd said they heard her screaming: do not want to go Save Mrs Petrov was said by Australian authorities to have been heading back to Russia in the belief her husband had been kidnaped and killed She said she thought he had been kidnaped po- Qenej-alov immediately lodged a formal protest at the Australian foreign ministry charging armed assault against diplomatic couriers and detention of a Soviet official to wit: Mrs Petrov Prime Minister Robert Menzies called an urgent cabinet meeting to discuss the possibility the Russians might retaliate against the small Australian embassy staff in Moscow It was revealed at Canberra that Mrs Petrov was a cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy handling the secret coded messages to and from the Kremlin If she decides to follow her husband in revealing what she knows about the inner workings of that embassy she may be as important as he in helping to track down Soviet espionage in Australia A royal commission with increased legal powers already has been authorized to sift the mass of documents Petrov turned over Menzies said that data revealed a large4 Soviet spy network in this country Other sources said at least 30 Austrians Were implicated VLADIMIR PETROV apartment project which cost only 20 millions (Earlier story on Page 2) 1 The Senate Investigations Subcommittee held a closed session seeking to complete rufes for public hearings in it probe of the row between Sen Joseph McCarthy and ton Army officials Temporary' Chairman Karl Mundt (R-SD) said televised hearings will start on schedule Thursday (Details on pis page) BUILDINGS The Senate pressed toward completion of debate on a Hopse-passed bill allowing the government to lease post offices and other public MRS Was A.