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Show 6- CLEANUP PAINT UP FIX UP tonight and Thursday oxcept scattered afternoon clouds east portion. Frost hither valleys tonight. to-night. Warmer Thursday. Tens neratures Thursday morning ZS-SS Start NowLet's Beautify Provo and Utah County t ana near 45 in Utah's Dixie. SIXTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 227 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY,- APRIL 16, 1947 se: , PRICE FIVE CENTS . ' , ' i rsw nsoa . JUL (CL(dl ; Stalin - Marshall Parley Fails to Break Deadlock British, American Delegations Slated To Leave Moscow Tuesday; Stalemate f Unchanged On German, Austrian Treaties - MOSCOW, April 16 (U.R)-An authoritative source said today that Premier Josef Stalin and Secretary of State George C. Marshall "accomplished nothing" in their face ;r j wv "iC un iasi nigni to oreak the Big! 4 t our deadlock. Referring to the stalemate of the council of foreign ministers on such vital German issues as reparations, ecoxi-omic ecoxi-omic unity and a four-power disarmament treaty, an au-. au-. . jthoritative informant said: ItlnlntAV ?A Tm I "The situation has not changed For Completion Of Austrian Treaty t MOSCOW. ADril 16 flJ.R) u was me soviet s intention to , i i .... ivi tumpieiion -oi tne Austrian Aus-trian peace treaty at this session of the Big Four. a Driver In Child's Death Pays $7.50 For License Lack -i Global Flier. V r '; l i i Republicans Predict Early Passage Of Union -Control Bill Milton Reynolds who sponsored ; one iota from before the meeting. ! the historic flight around the ii accompiisned nothing, j world in 78 Hours, 55 minutes and Asked whether that meant the!58 seconds lopping more than 12 Moscow confcrcnpff wnuirt r.A hours off the record set in 1938 abruptly, the informant said he by ?oward Hughes, millionaire! did not think so. He said the min- movie"maKer-isters movie"maKer-isters would need several days to A . . go through the Austrian treaty,! VvrtMrl HllAfC even though a final agreement on1 " - wl IU I (A Moscow broadcaster said Foreign SeereUry Ernest Ern-est Bevln and the entire British Brit-ish delegation would leave Moscow by train next Tuesday, Tues-day, and that Marshal planned plan-ned to depart about the same tilne') I the world sitting backwards in A limited report of the confer-! wtshSnlodT e She? 2?l'.0.i.i Bombshell to receive the JX C- A: lta-4conmuiona-of President Tru Wo" ? "T-nothing to fhe pressman for his record-breaking fiih WASHINGTON. AprU 16 (U.R) House Democrats today de nounced tne UUP union-control bill as a measure tt promote in dustrial war. .But the Republicans had the votes includins a aood many southern Democratic ones. They predicted passage by a two-to- one margin tomorrow or Friday. nouse Democratic Whip John W. McCormick said the bill was evidence of "confused, uncertain, desperate" GOP leadership. Rep. John F. Kennedy, D., Mass., said the measure would "strangle" the labor movement. But another Democrat, Rep. O. S. Fisher, Tex., thought the bill should be toughened. It. now would outlaw the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining, jurisdic tional striKes, and secondary boy cotts. Fisher wants it to ban un ion shops, too. Chairman Fred A. Hartley, Jr., of the labor com mittee was opposed to such an agreement. Other congressional developments develop-ments included: Foreign Policy The House foreign affairs committee . approved ap-proved President Truman's $400,-000,000 $400,-000,000 program to help Turkey and Greece resist Communism. It wrote in a provision to rjermit NEW YORK. April 16 (UP) the United Nations to intervene Milton Reynolds, who rode around i"1 the program. i ne House committees ap proval of the Greek-Turkish aid bill came as the senate began day-night sessions in the hope of passing 4he measure before the week end. Sen. Arthur A. Van-denberg, Van-denberg, R., Mich., said quick action is necessary because the foreign situation is expected to deteriorate soon. Arms Embargo Congress took Ship Blows Up, Setting Off Plant Blast Telephone Co., Union Reject Peace Formula Strike To Go On Until Wage Demands Are oay. union 1 140.Mile Gulf Area Rocked Bv Exnloslnn. iS?A?&iJS! At Texas City; Fires, Gas Fumes Spread; rsumatea zuuu to 3500 Persons Injured a cautious look at President Truihrpnk th AaaA, ; Lop 12 Hours Off Record man s request for authority to ban munitions shiftments to nations na-tions considered potential enemies ene-mies of the United States. Al though many congressmen thought the request seemed valid, they said it had come as a surprise sur-prise and that they wanted more time to study its imDlicatinns The president asked congress in a message to renew the export control act or i4u but to scrap a section of the 1939 neutrality act requiring '-'impartial" armament sales to other nations. Rents The house banking committee postponed a scheduled meeting on rent control until house Republican leaders decide whether to approve a 10 per cent increase in rent ceilings. Chairman Chair-man Jesse P. Wolcott, R., Mich., hoped party leaders would express ex-press their views in time for the committee to take action on rent control extension bill early next week. Powerful Time Bomb Found dent of the striking National federation of Telerihone Workers, said today that only a specific waire offer run In British Colonial Office mQn t r Vi i. n J 1- 1 I 1 . t i until u .: w JT -j j . ,. i iui um ictuiu-uieaKing Ilieni until he himself decided to cavint 7 I,....-. k 6. Thurman A. Willis, 22, 213 jsomhing. Seconds. South First East, forfeited $7. so More than 12 hours lator Mar.! The histmir tiioht in the Provo city court this morn-! shall did agree to tell the nress' 12:06:56 a. m. toriav when rni ! ing when he failed to appear in i 4,131 he talked with Stalin for 90! William Odom. pilot of the Bomb- ! Powerful time bomb was found connection with the charge ofjminutes. and that he had asked shell, set the plane down on run-'today Dover House, colonial not, naving a utan driver's lic-IIor Tne appointment last week. 'way four at La Guardia Field : olfice adjunct in the heart of the LONDON, April 16 (U.R) A ense The charge resulted from investigation in-vestigation of the accident Saturday Sat-urday whieh claimed the life of little Garth Brush Jr., 4, Richfield, Rich-field, Ida. Provo police said Willis Wil-lis held an out-of-state- driver's In A If A n-i 1 i .A4 f i . 1 a . (.. A.w.i.i, aci lor iasi nigni. ; wnere u iook on at o:ii p.m. The authoritative source indi-"caluraa'" cated that a wide ranee of sub jects pertaining to problems of the' Big Four council were discussed. In the end, neither Marshall nor Stalin had budeed an inrh trnm '. license at the time which he tnfl American and Russian posi-j thought was valid. The little boyitions taken in the council meet-: was killed when he dodged out in8s. the informant indicated. i irum in iront ot a parked car in-; American sources said thev to ine pain oi wuiis' machine Karl Monson. 49, 891 West Sixth South, forfeited $125 this morning when he failed to appear in answer to a drunken driving charge. Provo Pro-vo officers arrested him Tuesday night. P. D. Bates, Orcm, pleaded innocent in-nocent today to speeding charges and his trial was set for May 1. Delone Liebhart. 471 South Utah Avenue, forfeited $25 on a speed ing cnarge. The Bombshell's heater was out and its oxygen supply was exhausted, but its two engines were running as smoothly at the end of the 20,000-mile journey as they were at the takeoff. Thp hlark evhanct cti-eolro V ua-o .... . ... . .... 'niViniv th. k . i X. Sla,ln.neath motors were the only! 1 7 J """".' lc U1 ine con- evidence tnat it had completed ferenre anri the tmmAWi. ..... - . - - ... - tiiijiiEU u iw i ill ill - Mm pinna 1 1 1 nni nim -. of Oermany rested in Snvi.t j . , wwf iv in riiii i 1 1 1 1 wii if ris ft ivnrun in a total of 62 hours and 55 minutes actual flying time. nuenaii government area, thwarting a sabotage attempt de scribed by Scotland Yard as a "terror reprisal" for the hanging of Dov Gruner. The bomb, made of 24 tions to end the 10-day-old national telephone strike. Beirne eaid he was "confident the union will win" its fight for increased wages and improved working conditions and added: "The strike will go on until we do win." He made the statement after af-ter both the union and the American Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph Co. rejected the arbitration arbi-tration formula whereby the government had hoped to end the strike at 5 p.m. tomorrow. tomor-row. Secretary of Lbor Lewis B. Schwellenbach promptly broadcast an appeal ap-peal to the public to "demand" "de-mand" that the plan be accepted. ac-cepted. "The health and safetv and welfare of the people of the United States depend udoh the constant maintenance of the telephone tele-phone industry," Schwellenbach saia. l am asking you who want telephone service and who pay the telephone bills to demand nt each side that they accept the propSsSl:"""" Beirne said he did not think the NFTW'a top policy committee would "seriously consider" anv a charwoman in a wnnW lav-a J?.ucr"enVor comPany proposal tbrv. Official. alri it AS no- "if1 laue to include a specific ful enough to have "blown the IJ9" i ---.7 WWUJli 111C ff member policy committee must approve any agreement before the nation's 325,000 strike-idle telephone workers go back to their jobs. . The union raised five principal roof off" Dover House anrf dam aged neighboring buildings along Whitehall. Scotland Yard officials were quoted as saying they were con vinced that Dlantin? of the bnmh IU I wa a HA IhArttto QlfAmnt am . V, .i. ; ; . ; . , - . sticks of gelignite, was found by; colonial office in direct reprisal I lenbachs arbitration nronoVal for execution of Gruner. Jewish I bearing down hard on its failure hands. Four Jewish a Underground Men Hanged in Pales- Safe Crackers Strike 3 Times Geneva Plant Union Elects New Officers underground member tine. The Yard opened a search for a "well dressed woman" who 'called at Dover House yesterday. incy oeiieved she might have cached the bomb during a call to inquire about exports to Palestine. Pale-stine. Many Palestinians were un- I The Bombshell lopped 12 hours. JERUSALEM, April 16 (U.R) lrf,to?d to ?ach day at the Ha mini.ioc nH tn...- .n- tfluev. uruner. a British armv vet- uivision in wover .w ......... wi.v. iwui 0WWllU3 Ul 1 . . . k i r n, i . , . eran ann Tnree other lauiich uic muiu ui 91 uuura, ailu It , uu- minutes set by Movie-Maker jderground men were hanged in to include a "general wage offer ana retroactivity. Some government officials believed the union might be ready to call off the strike for an immediate $5 to $6 ' weekly wage increase with other Issues left to arbitration. arbitra-tion. Beirne declined to comment com-ment on such speculation. Government quarters felt that miiiuua sci ivjovie-iviaKer . . - - .n- ' ,.,iu . rr. , , Howard Hughes in 1938. Hughes' Acre Prison oday while 100.000 'thred taPe" Th? nomb n route across Russia was some British soldiers stood guard 2 ma,i noor, of. Dov" Huse, r nnn mite hnrton tnon r. against expected rem-isal attacks about 100 yards from the mam by Reynolds. "I wouldn't make that trip: M rx n n . K . ) . ,1 Mi: 1 I Vu, nfi r, , ! again iui a nunuiiru iiuiiiuii uoi- 2701 I?, h ci?enC,Va local;lars," the 54-year-old millionaire Americ? rin Steelworkers of pen-maker said as he stepped HaTCa,n, ' W-rC Jounced J down from the plane. '.v i,iK reierenoumi election. The local holds 'the bar-' it - . gaming agency for the Geneva! College Studeflt April 16 Officers include: Jack Manning,! SlaVS Wife Self ck three iPresident; Harry Edmunds, vice! " TT,.,C' JCM BOZEMAN, Mont., April D 7 V17 1 1 1 AC SALT LAKE CITY. (U.R) Safe crackers stru times this morning at three SaIt'Pres,dent: Jack L. Jones, record i n I. a . i i: . . inn CAAtow... ; 1 T ... . now uu9wc iiiuu ana maae on al j - mitnaei j. rviscn.; ir pi Vemnr. whim -,11 rial sprrotoi-v o. I." . "jv.i -"i" a - U. , . -. . -.. 1 4viimiia hjLdbC way. UU1- ireaaurer: Will Holman. dav shot hi wife U tn Heath in 16 Robbed were the Hut-Silt tavern, tav-ern, the Oriental cafe and Underwood Under-wood corporation. The Hut-Sut tavern suffered the heaviest loss with approxi mately $700 taken from its safe The Oriental aie, lost about $200 to the burglars while the Under wood corp. lost about $100. Police said the job appeared to have been done by professional safe-crackers. These were the first safe-bracking jobs since Feb 24, according to police. Stocks Improve Despite Threat Of Steel Strike NEW YORK, April 16 (U.R) Stocks improved moderately today to-day despite a prediction that the nation faces a possible steel strike May 1. The magazine Iron Age. metal-: working journal, said that unless present conditions change radically, rad-ically, "It is a 50-50 chance that the steel industry will be shut down by a strike" that would start May 1 at United States Steel Corp. Steel shares moved up, however, how-ever, showing late gains ranging guide: William Blackett and Par ley rord. guards, and Joseph Rowley, Jack Coger and Carlos Orton, trustees. Plant grievance committeemen include: George Strasburg, blast furnace; Reed Ungerman, coke plant; Grant reay, structural mill; Roy Niel-son, Niel-son, plate mill finishing; Harry Edmunds, open hearth; John J. Hinand and Carlos Orton, maintenance; main-tenance; V. M. Fitzgerald, transportation, trans-portation, and James J. O'Connor, rolling mill. Officers will serve until June of 1948. their trailer home, then turned his heavy rifle, a war souvenir, on himself, Gallatin County Sheriff Charles Rice said. Rice said the two were dead on arrival of the police. Friends told officers the younc couple had had "marital difficulties"- and she was to have taken a train today to return to her California home. Rice said White shot his wife witn a heavy German rifle he had brought back from Europe, then killed himself. . The couple had no children, Rice said. Irgun Zva) Leumi. the underground un-derground organlaation to which Gruner and the other three executed men belonged, has warned repeatedly that it would wage a veritable war against the British if Gruner died. The gelignite sticks were bbundiScnwcllenbacn' arbitration pro posai, although rejected, had narrowed the range of differences differ-ences between the two sides. The company, in its reply, agreed to consider regional arbitration colonial office building. It was understood to have been set to go off at 1 p. m., the start of the lunch hour. Dover House is a three minute walk from Prime Minister Clem- lent Attlee's official residence at 110 Downing street and a short 'distance from Scotland Yard. Previously it had offered only local arbitration in reply to the union's demand for industrywide arbitration. SALT LAKE CITY, April (U.R) Officials of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company are concerned about the continuation of the telephone strike. Orson John Hyde, Utah manager ot the company, said here today. To clarify the comoanv's rjosi tion Hyde has issued a statement saying that the "company can not agree to arbitrate the union BULLETIN NEW YORK. April 16 (U.R) The coast guard here ta-day ta-day received reports from coast guard officials at the scene of the Texas City. Tex., disaster which estimated tha dead at 200 to 1.000, and injured at 2tf00 to 3,500. TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 16 (U.R) A series of explosions explos-ions m Texas City rocked a 140-mile Texas Gulf Coast area today and a police radio report fcaid gas fumes, feared poisonous, pois-onous, were filtering over a region where several hundred persons were killed or injnred. The report, picked up by Galveston police 10 airline miles away and relayed to Houston, said authorities were ordering the evacuation of several hundred persons. . Huge fires raged among oil refineries flanking Galveston bay, covering the disaster area with black smoke visible for 10 miles. Bud Meyers, Houston Press reporter on the scene, said 400 to 500 persons were killed. He said highways leading from the area were clogged with ambulances and cars bringing out more dead and injured. in-jured. , The disaster was touched off when a French Lines freighter, loaded with ammonium nitrate, blew up at dock where Police Chief W. F. Laddish of Texas City said "hundreds "hun-dreds were working." The ship explosion touched off a series of blasts at the nearby $19,00G,000 Monsanto Chemical Company .plant. Fire spread to refinery and oil storage properties flanking the dock area. Chief "Laddish said there was "rin nnssihTo vi-a'v ft mate how many are dead and dying." He said the toll would run into the hundreds and that force of the blast demolished the city hall a full mile from the scene. Red Cross estimates of the dead run from 200 to 700. Galveston newsmen placed the total at more than 200. The gas fumes were believed to be from the burning-chemical burning-chemical plant and from nitrogen stocks piled on the docks. One report said half of the plant was in shambles and the rest was burning. The Texas City police department said 300 small homes occupied by dock and refinery workers were near the ship which exploded and were hardest hit. Meyers, from the scene, said pieces of the French Lines ship the Grand Camp, former American Liberty ship were blown as far as four and five miles away. i Dr; W H' Lane a Monsanto Chemical Company official, offic-ial, said up to 500 Texas City residents had lined the dock to watch the ship burn when the explosion hit. "The ship disintegrated," he said. "I am told that two other ships loading nitrate blew - up too. Reddish brown fumes ofl nitrogen dioxide began pouring uiu once. Hampton Ellis of Houston, who was sitting in a 10th floor room of the Buccaneer hotel in Galveston Gal-veston 12 miles from the blast scene said it felt like an earthquake earth-quake had hit. He said the blast "almost knocked me off the bed." Reports that the blast was felt came from Beaumont and Port Avtkiiw TA m.'.IL. 21 16 iiiiir nines away, ana Charles Jackson, the third nrnniPop ,s?ue or cnanges in us .pen r sinn man t r whtrh Career 'Russian Haters' Dominate U. S. Embassy in Moscow, Charge MOSCOW, April 16 (U.PJ Ar- "They have built their reputa-mond reputa-mond D. Willis, director of th . - -- ' w. wviti. tiua- olall UdlCIB, VV1111S Said. UUT OP Hanged with Gruner in the r i i grim stone Crusaders castle 25 LUIlCer ttClQ 111 miles north of Haifa were Dov r . I C l Rosenbaum, 21, Eliezer KashaniJ rQtQl jhOOllllQ 19, and Mordechai Aloshi, 20. All n . w three were arrested Dec. 29 while IJn DOOrd YflCnt trying to crash a road block and uwm were sentenced to die for carry-. HAVANA, April 16 (U.R) nig urearms. Charles Jackson. 1 Strnna nrmv nnu -ll aboard th riath vokM Calli-i. B -. w. . iriw..v.w ail - . . j u . . vt a. . m a am a roads of northern Palestine lead-; today that Patricia Schmidt functions T normr-'T considered i ing to Acre. The hanin wr fired the fatal pistol shot at John secret without advance public er Mee without intending ,"""ltni- warning. They were witnessed by o do s during an argument DENIES, PARTICIPATION the British commissioner and a aDut her clothes. STRIKE INCIDENT few other officials. . "I've never believed the. shoot-; ST. GEORGE. Utah April 16 A curfew was imnospri on tha ng was purposeful." Jackson told I m pi ih. c i' ? Jewish quarters of Palestine al-; e United Press ; me'nt today ' denied that it had luus auuiianeousiy Witn tne ex- : T u ".l . : nre Part n the incident last ci-uuun. vii jews in tne area were: rao .ufV' c,u wiii,WUi oau WIV Saturday in which pickets of the employes con ; ibution or anv told not to leave their houses. homicide charge. The formal Cu Jerusalem streets were empty an charge "homicidio inten-in inten-in the dawn hours as armed cars tional ' carries an implication of mounting loudspeakers announced i malice aforethought. Tomorrow the curfew. ; afternoon she will re-enact the shooting for the benefit of the! Protest Filed In Broadhurst Will United States information service here, charged today that "career Russian haters" dominated the American. embassy in Moscow. Willis said the "Russian haters had effectively scuttled attempts to improve the exchange of information in-formation and cultural relations with the Russians. He made the charges as he departed for Wash-ingto Wash-ingto to "report and resign. ' The information officer said o muie man a point in Beinie-jthat he had been deliberately hem and Follansbee steel. The ; prevented bv foreign rvif f. rise in steels brought buying in to motors and the rails. Motor shares were up as much as a point in Chrysler. Norfolk & Western, up 2. had one of the best gains tin the carriers. ficers who surround Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith from per- iorming tne job for which he was sent here by the state depart' eration was designed to find a way to build American-Russian friendship. friend-ship. That imperils everything they stand for." Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company were sprayed with water from a city fire truck hose. from residents of Palestine, more man isu miles north. Gov. Beauford H. Jester said (Continued on Page Two) Evacuation Of Gas Infested -City Requested HOUSTON, Tex... April. 16 (U.R) The Houston police radio heard reports shortly after noon today' irom uie oaiveston and Pelley ponce stations that Texas City authorities had ordered the im mediate evacuation of the entire explosion-damaged town "because or spreading gas fumes believed to be poisonous." Houston police said the abpeal called for every available automobile auto-mobile to help, transport refuaees. The population of Texas City is more tnan 18,000 persons. court. Jackson also was in jail in lieui of a $10,000 bond, charged with! withholding information from the I police. The 27-year-old River i rYiFhJ6:' Aprii 16 (UR)in bail, however, a business as-, United Press Staff Correspondent Denmark and Sweden still to eo, Wallace Winding Up Another Bean Ball for Pres. Truman me win of the late Dr. W. D.jsociate of his father's arrived orwaunursi ot Caldwell, which here to arrange the bond. leaves property to his widow. Gladys Broadhurst. todav was -t- i n : termed as inoperative because it! I OuOV S DQSGball oiuiiij ucmeu wiius allegations, -uviuiciiuj uuiaxnea wniic saying, "we aren't for anything. or anu-anytmne in this office. We are only for one thing here we are pro-American." Among Willis' charges were that he had difficulty in seeing the ambassador, and that Smith had ordered him transferred to Budapest. Willis called this an effort to-"shanghai" him. Elbridge " Burrow, embassy ment's office of international in-counselor, characterized the Wil xormation and cultural affairs. (Continued on Pa.e Two) Mrs. Broadhurst was feloniously uivuiveo in nis death. The charge was contained in a protest filed in Caldwell probate court by the three sisters of the retired chiropractor, who was Slain On a Innalv erts nf rnafl in eastern Oregon last October J KSSt.JttV . mi,. . .x - 1. , " V lrt-niv.i a&A-jrv Minn, Mrs. Annie M. Adams and Mrs. Bertha Jack. Mrs. Broadhurst is serving, a life sentence for complicity in the siaying. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louii ... 0 Cincinnati . Munfer and Garagiola; Erautt and Lamanno. Pittsburgh at Chicago, postponed. rain ana mow. Boston at Brooklyn, postponed, rain New York at Philadelphia, post- E Philadelphia at New York. nut. poned. rain Washington at Boston, postponed, cold weather. Detroit at St Louis, postponed, rain and cold. Chicago at Cleveland. iuulnnil rain and cold. By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, April 16 (U.R) Henry Wallace is winding up another an-other bean ball for President Truman's foreign policy and ex pects to pitch it in Paris the lat ter part of this week The White House hopes Henry doesn't do it. Mr. Truman and his strategists have decided the only thing the president can do about the Wallace uproar is sit-it out. saying and doing nothing himself although his attorney general. Tom C. Clark, did lambaste Wallace Wal-lace in a speech last night. That would be pretty arood strategy if Wallace would subside. sub-side. But he is on a grand tour of Europe with France, Norway, If Mr. Truman can survive the j half away, barrage of at least four more speeches by Wallace without-being forced to say something about his former secretary of commerce, a lot of people will be surprised here, including a couple of hundred hun-dred reporters. newspapermen want to ask Mr. Truman the $64 political question of the moment. It is whether he still confidently expects ex-pects Wallace to campaisrn for the Democratic presidential, ticket next year. He was pretty confi dent about that last week, a day or so before Wallace ooened ud his foreign policy. The president evidently does (Continued on Pag Two) Blast Breaks Every Window In the Town (Editor's Note: Bud Myers, reporter for the Houston Press. was amonr the first to reach th scene of disaster at Texas City today. Ills ere witness follows.) TEXAS CITY. Tex., April 16 (U.PJ There isn't an unbroken window in this town on the Galveston Gal-veston Bay and confusion holds the upper hand everywhere. On onr way Into town wa passed ambulance after ambulance am-bulance leaving- the city with the dead and injured. They were being taken to Galves- . von There is no doubt that casualties casual-ties will run into the hundreds! People are running in every: direction, many of them showing blood through their clothing where they have been cut by flying glass. The word we got when w reached Texas City was that a nitrate ship had blown up in the Houston ship channel. There are broken hunks of the ship to oe iouna lour and five miles from the scene. Jt towering fire has broken out among the oil tanks and refinery re-finery along the waterfront. Th heat of the flames burns mv cheeks even from this distance. It seems an impossible task to get any closer to the scene than I am now about a mile and a In all, there most be St -oil storage tanks on fire. They are burning; out of control con-trol and fire equipment seems to be helpless. A hug , cloud of smoke is spirallnr over the seen and reached about It miles into the sky. it is almost like night la ; some places. Fire equipment from every town in -the area has. been rushed here, and the whine of the sirens and clang of the fir bells is deafening. - - There are wrecked cars all over the streets and debris litters the roofs of almost every build ing. - ' 7 4 |