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Show - - WEATHER UTAH Mostly elear today and SEES ALTERNATIVE r-.s".-'. -;-: f : ',At some point we shall have t stop Soviet Imperialism or snb- it to Stalin's rale, f William C. Bullitt, former : . Ambassador to Moscow, Thursday, except for afternoons cloudiness and scattered thunder- ' thracni In tit uuth nnrtlnn tw . day and early, tonight.' Slightly : cooler today. Wanner again-' Thursday. ' Temperatures High 92 Low 5V Precipitation SIXTY-FIRST YEAR, ! NO. 48 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Legislators iveB Brigham City - Chamber Sponsors Tour Of Giant Army Hospital By WILLIAM B. HATCH United Press Staff Correspondent BRIGHAM CITY, Utah; Aug. 7 (U.R) Members of the Utah legislature today! inspected in-spected the I vast, now-siIent Bushnell army hospital a hospital that may become the home of most Utah state institutions. in-stitutions. ! The lawmakers camel to Brigham City to look over the mammoth hospital that the army abandoned, except. for a caretaker care-taker staff, a month ago. The government has indicated it might sell Bushell to the state for $1 if the state wants the $30,000,000 hospital. Before the state can move - any of its institutions to Brig-ham Brig-ham City, the legislature must ,. pass a constitutional amendmentand amend-mentand Utah voters must approve the move. Civic au- thoritles in cities now housing institutions are generally- opposed op-posed to such a move. The touring legislators were taken - through Bushnell by the commanding officer, Col. Robert M. Hardaway, and Capt. George Coleson, engineering officer. The officers asserted that heating heat-ing and sewage facilities of the hospital, which has a capacity ftf 6,660 patients, are "the- best, the most complete and most modern in Utah." ' They were to get additional Information In-formation at a luncheon today where they were guests of -the Brigham City chamber of commerce, com-merce, which. Is heartily backing the amendment to give the legislature legis-lature discretion as to location of the institutions. Before-the committee start- . ed out on Its long Jaunt, a letter let-ter was received from Mayor Glen Taylor of American Fork protesting the possible move of the state training ; school to Bushnell. ,': It has been proposed that if the state finds it financially feasible and economical over a long range period, that the state's hospital hos-pital for the insane, industrial school, training school and school for the deaf and blind be -moved to Bushnell. However, in order to do that a constitutional provision I which sets the state hospital at Provo and the state' industrial school at Ogden will have to be eliminated. . ! ' On the proposal now before the legislature, opinion is split Even the Utah county delegation, itally interested in keeping the hospital at Provo. can't Say yet whethec.it will vote for or against the proposal. Members point out that a yet nobody in the legislature legis-lature knows much about Bushnell Bush-nell jw its possibilties. They add that until this knowledge is made available, they can t vote honestly honest-ly or welL 200 Applyfor Quonset Huts Applicants to take part in the Quonset hut plan as a. means of temporarily solving veteran housing hous-ing problem passed the 200 mark today, leaving sponsors of the plan with the problem of the sur plus over the tentative quota. i While advocates of the plan could make "no commitments concerning con-cerning additional huts,' every effort ef-fort will be made to secure as many as needed if the project can be financed and carried to a successful suc-cessful conclusion. Answers, or at least partial ones, to the many questions being asked by veterans on the plan are expected to be forthcoming following fol-lowing a meeting this week of the mayor's housing committee, now set for Thursday night instead of Tuesday as previously announced. Agreement On Mining Premium Payments Reached WASHINGTON. Aug. 7 U.R Sen. Abe Murdock. D.. Utah, said today that - OPA officials had reached agreement with a group of copper, lead and zinc mining officials on administration of liberalized lib-eralized mining premium payments. pay-ments. , Murdock said in an interview that OPA bad given assurances that mine operators will not have to alter their accounting systems to get liberalized premium benefits, bene-fits, under the OPA extension bill. He said that several conference confer-ence between OPA and mine representatives rep-resentatives had clarified administration admin-istration of payments granting allowances al-lowances for cost of mining exploration, ex-ploration, depreciation and depletion de-pletion of resources. G ushne Once Over Kaiser Says Government Policy Towards U. S. Steel On Geneva More Generous Than oh Fontana Squawks 4f 1 V' v- V 4 J Henry Kaiser, west coasi industrialist, indus-trialist, who, says his Fontana plant didn't get a square deal from the government, in. contrast with Geneva, Utah plant. Two Children Killed In Traffic Crash CEDAR CITY. Utah; Aug. 7 mm nn i.:n i ' tHv rr h a triiAr went off a curve on highway 91. 30 miles south of Cedar City, and overturned. t,. u Kiio. 4oia be the three and four-year-old ) sons of a touring couple whose j last name was reported as Brous- sard. The parents were so dis traught by the accident that they were unable immediately to give out much information. Another son was taken to the Cedar City hospital for treatment of internal injuries. The parents were Only slightly bruised. Railroads Deny Taylor's Charges WASHINGTON. Au The Association of WASHINGTON. Aug. 7 (U.B- j i , Railroads again has accused Sen. Glen H. Taylor. D., Ida., of "in accuracy'' and again denied that former railroad men in army uniforms uni-forms overcharged the government govern-ment for wartime freight shipments. ship-ments. , In its second statement in the four-day-old dispute an answer' to Taylor's second statement the I AAR said the railroad men named by Taylor as officers who made: decisions' 'vhich cost the gov ernment too much money actually were empowered "to make no more than recommendations. Senator Taylor's second state ment in which he named certain railroad men as those who had power to make decisions' as to railroad rates charged the army is as inaccurate as his first," the AAR said. It said the men named by Tay lor "had power to make no more than recommendations which were, subject to review on five additional levels in the army transportation corps." Taylor also charged lhat the association . "did more than any other organization to keep freight rates on 'government shipments pegged at high levels." The AAR denied it. v - Structural Mill Activity! at Geneva Forecast By Iron Age With plate mill production of finished steel scheduled to begin either, late today or early Thurs day at the Geneva Steel plant, "considerable" structural mill operation at the plant is forecast in the latest issue of Iron Age, authoritative steel trades maga rine. , The structural mill at present represents the only other finishing finish-ing ; unit at Geneva besides, the plate mill. The slab mill, which has : been in one-shift operation since July 30, is -a semi-finish unit,' breaking down open hearth ingots into slabs ' for the " plate mill, or blooms and billets for the structural mill. The Iron Age article, written by Tom Campbell, news-market editor "for the magazine, gave no dale as to when It believed the , . . . ' : West, Coast industrialist Welcomes Probe Into His War-Time Operations; Questions Geneva Sale For 20 Cents On The Dollar By JOSEPH WltSON United Press Staff Correspondent OAKLAND, Calif 'Aug. 7 (U.R) Launching a scathing scath-ing attack on the government's policy concerning the Geneva Ge-neva Steel plant in contrast with his own Fontana mill, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser said- today he welcomed a congressional investigation ; into his wartime operations. He declared the results would make some industrialists and politicians think "an atomic bomb exploded." In a press conference called to explain his attitude toward to-ward "scandal mongers attemptng to deceive the American Ameri-can people," Kaiser promised to tejll the "real story" about his shipbuilding operations to. the house merchant marine and fisheries committee. He said he hoped that later congress would want another investigation "so that the people will know the facts about steel." These facts, he said, would include an alleged attempt by eastern industrialists to "drive Cali fornia out of the steel industry." Kaiser particularly referred to an editorial written in the Hous ton Chronicle, published by Jesse Jones, former head of the Recon struction Finance Corp., and statement by Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., who called him the "coddled darling of the New Deal." "During the war, Kaiser shipyards were short of steel," Kaiser said. The great steel corporations failed fail-ed to provide the necessary steel for ships. They had shipyards of their own. 'Kaiser 'Kais-er ,must be stopped was the slqgan. "We fought for our own steel plant. Investigation will show who supported us and who were against US. "There exists sworn evidence that a- representative of the'-de TT I icnsc piini wirp.. unaer me con of Jesse Jons and the TtFS.1 j8311 to me I will never recommend spending government money on steel plant in California to be operateel by you We prefer to v the U. S. Steel corporation spend government money in Utah on a steel plant to be operated by them.' " Kaiser said that U. S. Steel spent $200,000,00 of government money to build the Geneva plant while he had to borrow money to build his Fontana, Calif., plant . "After the war, we continued to operate Fontana," Kaiser con tinued. "Geneva, Utah, jvas shut down. The RFC said, 'on 'Fontana you will pay back 100 cents on jthe dollar. To the U. S. S'eel irnrnnration thf war apt ari- ministration said, 'we will accept Myour bid on the Geneva plant of 1 20 cents on the dollar' even though this resulted in a loss to taxpayers of 5150,000,000." Kaiser said that the people will ask why "character assass-( assass-( Continued on Page Two) Government Gets Check for Geneva WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U.R The war assets administration today to-day received a check for $12,-242,059 $12,-242,059 from the U. S. Steel Corporation Cor-poration as a dowa payment on the Geneva, Utah, steel plant. The huge plant, sold to the Geneva Steel Co., a U. S. -Steel subsidiary, was .built In 1942-43 at a cost of $190,000,000. The corporation cor-poration will eventually pay a total of $47,500,000 for the mill.' At the same time, U. S. Steel handed the WAA other checks totaling $65,013,200 as full payment pay-ment for steel plants at Duquesne, Homestead and Braddockr Pa. Built by the government during the war at a cost of $120,000. The Carnegie-Illinois Co., another corporation subsidiary has purchased pur-chased these plants. structural mill would resume operations, and Geneva officials themselves have remained -un communicative bevond their ore' sent announced program of slab and plate mill operation on a one- shift basis. . - - i It is known, however, that ad ditional open hearths, beside, the three now tuminc out steel are slated for operation " within v the next several weeks, dependent on the -available supply of coal and some other factors.' ." -" Campbell's article .contains - significant conjecture concerning the structural mill, hinting at production of rails, and of splice bars and tie plates, accessories to railroad track construction,' It said: ' ' ' "Should future plans call for . tConUaueA ti lutlti) FBI Checking Tampering Of Garsson Files BY ANN HICKS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U.P.) The senate war investigating committee com-mittee disclosed today that the FBI is investigating the alleged theft of committee files" on the Garsson munitions combine from a senate office building a year ago. George Meader, "committee counsel, said it was indicated that someorie took the committee's files on the Garsson case from its roonv in" the senate office build- inf late"t night and kept them for 'thrite hours. Daring tha three hoar int-erval. int-erval. aleader said, the Gars-Son Gars-Son case files were believed to hate been copied. He said that tie also had "missed some of his papers" In the case. Disclosure of the alleged tamp ering with the. files was made as some of the nation s biggest war contractors were being stung by the last Of federal investigations. The federal investigations of war Contractors reached from coast to coast. Other inquiries soon will spread to Honolulu, Rome and Paris. In New Orleans, famed boat- builder Andrew J. Higgins was revealed to be under federal investigation in-vestigation in connection with alleged al-leged war frauds. Special Justice Department Attorney J. Frank Cunningham accused Higgins and two of his associates of "making and causing to be made and presented pre-sented for payment and approval false claims against the U. S. government, 'knowing such claims to be false, fictitious and fradu-lerit." fradu-lerit." To this, Higgins replied, Obviously trumped up charges." Chairman James M. Mead, D., N. Y., of the investigating committee com-mittee announced that subcom mittees will go to -Los Angeles to look into alleged graft in construction con-struction of a 905-mile stretch of the inter-American- highway; to Paris and Rome. to investigate the sale of surplus government prop erty to foreign nations; .and to Hawaii to inquire into activities of Cpk Theodore Wyman, who was army -district . engineer at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked Dec. 7. 1941. Lightning Bolt Starts Blaze; Rain Puts It Out j 'i The electrical storm which 'passed over . Utah valley Tuesday afternoon about 4 o'clock, started a threatening grass and. brush fire in the hills above -the Ironton plant when a bolt of lightning struck, a projecting cliff high above the valley. The fire, .growing in intensity, in-tensity, might have assumed serious proportions but - for the fact that a. heavy downpour down-pour deluged the mountain-aide mountain-aide about 10 minutes later, doing' a thorough job of extinguishing ex-tinguishing the blaze down to the last spark. Convict Escapes Passenger Train FORT WAYNt. Ini, Aug. 7 flJJOtStaW troops and local police blocked highways' today in search tor Alfred Mhratole, 34-year-old convict who eluded two detectives Jeap for freedom from a passenger train last night. -Minutole. who. had completed a 10-year sentencer at Alcatraz for Toahk' robbery lnuNew York, was being returned " to New York to face , charges or armea roDDcry when;.h dived through a train lavatorywlndow late yesterday. Truman Foe Eliminated In 'Purge' Vote Slaughter Goes Down To Defeat, Opposed By Truman, PAC, Liberals By SAM SMITH. United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 7 (U,R) Enos A. Axtell, a political po-litical jack-in-the-box, won the Democratic nomination for Rep. Roger Slaughter's congressional seqt today as Slaughter went down under the opposition of President Truman, the CIO-PAC and lib eral-minded voters. Returns from 254 of 255 precincts pre-cincts in the Fifth Missouri congressional con-gressional district gave: Axtell. 19,741; Slaughter, 17,-424; 17,-424; and Jerome Walsh, 5,495. Axtell issued a victory statement. state-ment. Slaughter was still silent. Axtell, a former feed sales man lifted from obscurity by the pat on the back Mr. Truman Tru-man gave him three weeks ago when the president demanded de-manded that Slaughter be purged, grabbed an early lead in tabulation of yesterday's yester-day's ballots, and was never overtaken. The issue was Slaughter's opposition op-position to Mr. Truman's legislative legis-lative program. Axtell had the backing of the resurgent Pendergast machine, headed now by James Pendergast, Pender-gast, nephew of the late T. J, Pendergast who lifted President Truman from obscurity, and the CIO-PAC. The vote in the district was unusually un-usually heavy, but the strength Slaughter expected from a heavy vote failed to materialize. He had depended on the "silk stocking district" vote at the south end of the Polyglot district to overcome over-come Axtell's machine ward lead Slaughter had predicted that I he wQujd receive 5.000 votesvfrom Republicans seeking to embar rass Mr. Truman in the Demo cratic purge. Reports throughout the voting day indicated he prob ably did get a goodly vote in that category. The count last night obviously ob-viously was a shock to him for the evening found him confident he would pull through. The president in calling for his defeat asserted that if Slaughter had been right in his stand on administration-backed measures, then he, the president, was wrong. Elsewhere in the nation, all three senators and the majority of representatives whose seats were at stake, emerged victorious. victori-ous. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., was assured another six-year term by his renomination over Martin Hutchinson, Richmond attorney at-torney a CIO political action committee candidate. Nomination is 'tantamount to election in a Virginia Democratic primary. Sen. Harley Kilgore, D,., W. Va.. running with the endorsement of the CIO-PAC, also has won, re-nomination re-nomination handily, beating J. Buhl Shahan, Elkins, by an overwhelming ov-erwhelming majority. . v ' Sen. Frank P. Briggs, who was (Continued on Page Two) Russians Accused By LaGuardia GENEVA, Aug. 7 (U.R)-Directbr General F. H. LaGuardia of the UNRRA accused the Russians to day of draining - off Austrian products badly needed by the Austrians, and in effect called on the organization's council either to back him up or. throw him out. LaGuardia charged . that Rus sian authorities were engaged in aciivitity in Austria which violated vio-lated the rules of UNRRA. Jf the disputed activity is in accord with the Potsdam agreement and he said he didn t know whether wheth-er it was or not then- the dif ferences ought to be ironed out by an "appropriate international authority," he said. Speaking for two hours and five minutes before the UNRRA council. LaGuardia charged that the Russians contracted for the delivery of 15,000 tons of crude " petroleum pe-troleum - from Austria to Cxechslovaklan firms, and. re- ' QuisiUoned land with t pe- ' tentlal production of some 79,000 tons of foodstuffs 4 year. He pleaded with the Soviet delegation dele-gation here to use its good offices "so that we will -have no misunderstanding mis-understanding and no irritation concerning the use" of products from the Russian-held land, every pound of which he expected to be used m Austrian economy. - GENEVA, Aug. 7 U.f) Unaer secretary of state William Clay ton told the UNRRA council to night that the. United States. gov ernment would make no further contribution to the UNRRA.' Clayton said that instead of re leaf the nations now must, look to the reopening . of world : trade. Formeir Axis Satellites To Present Cases At 1-lMation Conference Rules Commission Okehs Brynes' Proposal That Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland Send Envoys To Saturday Session By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 7 (U.R) The peace conference rules commission com-mission today ordered the secretariat to invite the former Axis satellites to appear before -a full session of the 21 powers Saturday to present their cases to the victors. A proposal by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes that Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland be asked to send their representatives to a plenary session of the conference was adopted. Byrnes pointed out that the rules commission already Young Killer Indicted For Third Time CHICAGO, Aug. 7 (UJ) William Wil-liam Heirens, 17-year-old confessed con-fessed killer, was indicted "for a third time today on a murder charge, and it was revealed that he admitted beginning his career of theft and burglary af the age of nine. Heirens was indicted today scarcely an hour after the Cook county grand jury met for the murder of Mrs. Josephine Ross, widowed housewife. He has confessed con-fessed her slaying, and those of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan and stenographer Frances Brown. He was asleep while the grand Jury acted. The confessions were given yesterday to State's- Attorney William J. Tuohy and his associ- ates, who for 14. hours took hislerd,uggested that Aug. 10 be story of his crimes and conducted him through a reenactment of the murder. He Unfolded a horrifying tale of theft and murder, admitting admit-ting some burglaries, replying "I don't remember" when questioned question-ed on others. . Authorities belatedly disclosed dis-closed a transcript of part of the questioning to which he was subjected late last night and early today. This portion showed that Heirens admitted stealing women's clothing at the age of nine. The youth said that he broke into basements to steal -the gar ments, and sometimes wore them. Heirens said he continued this sort of theft until he was 13, when he found he could get satisfaction' out of burglaries on a larger scale. Some of .the loot from a clothing cloth-ing robbery conducted when he was 12 still is hidden where he left it, he said, in an upper attic of his grandmother's house. Cripple Escapes . Electric Chair BOSTbX Aug. 7 (UJ John F. Noxon, Jr., 49, Harvard- educated lawyer, won his long battle today to escape the electric elec-tric chair for the murder of his imbecile Infant son. Gov. Maurice J. Tobin, with the approval of the executive council, coun-cil, commuted the crippled Pitts- field-attorney's death sentence to life imprisonment. The action had been recommended by the state advisory board of pardons, Atty. Gen. Clarence A. Barnes, and State correction commissioner J. Paul Doyle. Noxon's wife, Margaret, Mar-garet, had made a personal appeal to the governor. 1 Correction commissioner Doyle announced that Noxon, an infantile in-fantile paralysis cripple, would be transferred from his "death row" cell in the cherry Hill sec tion' of state prison to a regular cell. He said Noxon " would be assigned to some task which woujd -enable him to sit in a chair perhaps a clerical job in some prison shop. Robinson Predicts Speedy End To Occupation of Japan WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U-R) Rep. J. W. Robinson, D Utah, who returned Monday , from a round-the-world trip, predicted today that large-scale U. S. occupation oc-cupation of Japan will end within with-in five or six months. j "There seems to be no real! reason for our troops staying there: much longer;" he'said'The peo-! pie cooperated with our authorities authori-ties - and seemed determined to build a new and better Japan." Robinson and four other: congressmen con-gressmen visited Japan on i the first leg of a junket which took in the first Bikini atom bomb .test,,hel?hilippineJndependence celebration, an audience with had approved a provision for the five former enemy countries to "state their views in accordance with conditions which will be laid down." The rules commission met this afternoon for a session in marked contrast with the knockdown dispute dis-pute of last night. A threat of another trying clash was averted by the withdrawal of a proposal designed to liberalize the voting procedure on the treaty making commissions. The commission unanimously unanim-ously adopted . a rule for voting in commissions which makes it possible for any minority fin a commission to present its views to the conference con-ference and ask for a decision decis-ion there. Another rule, proposed by Byrnes, provided that none of the Big Five be allowed to serve as chairman of a commission, and no delegation be allowed to hold more than two chairmanships. Byrnes, presenting his propos al for inviting the states for whom treaties are being consid- set as the date for hearing them. He recommended that the hearing hear-ing be before all 21 nations represented rep-resented here, rather than the respective commissions on which all nations are not represented. In the last analysis it will be the conference as a whole which makes the. recommendations to the Big Four in connection with the drafting of the final forms of the treaties, Byrnes observed. Andrei Vishinskyfj the Soviet Union's No. 2 delegate after V. M. Molotov, supported Byrnes on the proposal for hearing the former enemies. But he asked that provision also be made for the possibility, that they might be heard by the commissions dealing with their specific cases if such hearings were deemed advisable. ad-visable. Byrnes agreed at once to amend his proposal to that end. - The makings of another bruising battle like that of ' yesterday and last night were contained in a proposal intended in-tended to liberalize the voting vot-ing in the commissions. It was withdrawn by Herbert. V. Evatt of Australia. The Evatt proposal would have extended to the treaty -making commission the same procedural rules for both majority and twp-thirds twp-thirds vote recommendations which the rules commission approved ap-proved for the peace conference itself. Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at 'Philadelphia, postponed, rain. two fames. Brooklyn , rain. at New York, postponed St Louis at Pittsburgh, night. (Only games scheduled). AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Boston, two games, postponed, rain. Detroit at St. Louis, night New York at Washington, night Cleveland 300 000 0 Chicaeo 001 002 00 "Reynolds and Hecan: Rieney. Haraes (1) Hollinasworth (7) and Hayes. Pope Pius, and a session of the Nuernberg war trials. He and-his party, stayed at the King David hotel in Jerusalem: two days be fore it was bombed. Robinson contrasted what he viewed as near total success in the Japanese occupation with the problems of German occupation. He said it was "unfortunate that the U- S. does riot have charge of all occupation, zones in Germany. He. said he came to the conclusion con-clusion that the Japanese occupa tion would end soon after confer ence with Japanese leaders and American occupation officials. He said he expected to return w ills home in.Provo,.Utah, with' in the next day or two. Bradley Graft Charge Backed By VA Files Case Histories Show Chiseling In GI On-The-Job Training WASHINGTON, Au. 7 (U.R) The veterans administration adminis-tration opened its files today to back with dramatic case histories Gen. Omar N. Bradley's, charges of petty graft and chiseling in the government's $27,00O,00O-a- month on-the-job training pro gram for ex-GI's The histories, which filtered through to the administration from its 62 regional offices, were made available to the United Press as two federal agencies moved to investigate Bradley's charges. The inquiries were be-ing be-ing made by the justice department depart-ment and the wage stabilization board. Bradley's complaints, made before be-fore a convention of Spanish war veterans in Milwaukee on Monday, were considered so sweeping that Chairman John E. Rankin, D., Miss., of the house veterans committee, said it might be necessary to revamp the GI bill of rights at the next congress. con-gress. "I agreejwith Gen. Bradley thoroughly that the on-the-job training program should be rear ranged," Rankin said. Officials of the veterans' administration ad-ministration .frankly confessed that they did not know the extent ex-tent of the chiseling. But they claimed that it existed on a wide scale and that unless action were taken immediately it would develop de-velop into a nationwide scandal. From practically every regional region-al office, they said, reports were streaming in about connivance between veterans and employers to circumvent the clear intent of the on-the-job training provisions provis-ions of the GI bill of rights. It grants subsistence of $65 a month for single men and $90 a month for married men while they take apprenticeship training in an "approved" establishment. State to Buy Bailey Bridge For Green River . SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7 (U.R) After repeated unsuccessful attempts to sink piling at the arte of the collapsed Green River bridge, the Utah state road commission com-mission today ordered the purchase pur-chase of a $25,000 army portable "Bailey Bridge." The bridge ordered is of the type used extensively during the recent European campaign. It is designed to support heavy and constant truck movements. Action of San Francisco army officials was needed today- to complete the purchase of the bridge, according to Kay n. Leavitt, Utah state road commission commis-sion head. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas contacted con-tacted the war department in Washington with the request for the bridge. The senator's .help was asked by Chief Engineer Roy W. McLesse after continued failure to sink pilings. ' McLeese said that the geologic cal structure of the river bottom completely foiled road engineers attempts to construct a temporary span over the collapsed portion. He reported that as many as six pilings had been -swallowed up by the river bed In one spot while in another just a few feet away the solid rock base made it impossible im-possible to imbed supporting: timbers. Delinquent Tax Returns Mount WASHINGTON, Aug. 7QJ.R)--Secretary of Treasury, John- -W. Snyder said today that more than 111,000 delinquent tax returns totaling $170,000,000 were filed voluntarily in 'the , fiscal year ended last June 30.: -;.;, . . One of the voluntary delinquent delin-quent payments was for $2,000,-000, $2,000,-000, Snyder said. He said this payment pay-ment was accompanied by an admission ad-mission of extensive tax juggling over a period of several years. . Snyder said that the intensified drive against - tax evaders : had been very successful. |