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Show Death Toll In Circus Fire Reaches 153 With ; 15 Bodies Unidentified IW WILLIAM D.CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent M A RTHTlPTl rvinn Tiiiw a mm CPHAddItl6nal warrant charg-. charg-. lay manslaughter were issued by Investigating officials today as the death toll from the worst fire in circus history reached 153 with 15; or th bodies ma undienunea- Host of the victims wers children ' Wilfoa nimmlirfmiM Ihiuw IT. .Acnaeay saia no arrests nsa seen mad under the new warrants but State U Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, Al-corn, Jr., disclosed that evidence had been uncovered which he be lieved Indicated criminal aeglig-ene. Five Areus ofldals already have been arrested cm technical charges or manslaughter and were released on pau. As the death toll from the Cam fat "big Cop" mounted almost nouny state war Aominisxrator Henry 8. Uosle announced that zs persons were listed as missing. The 15 unidentified victims, he said, may be among them. Identification experts were called n to assist In establishing the identity of 15 as states, county and city officials continued three parallel Investigations Into the fire which turnea nmrsaays mat inee of the "biggest show on earth" Into a charred mass of bodies. By actual count, 128 persons, most of them children, remained under treatment at hospitals, and the conditions of 22 were regard' ed as critical. Doctors, using plas ma, sulfa drugs, and penicillin worked desperately to keep them alive. While Kennedy refused to elab orate on the new warrants, Al corn, after a conference with State Police Commissioner Edward T fTIlrv mM "that If the evidence already In our possession Is sub stantiated, prompt prosecution will follow." Alcorn said he had Information "tending to indicate" that the tent had been treated with paraffin, thinned win gasoline, "enough to! make ft highly inflammable." He added that all this information was being checked carefully. Flan on state buildings flut tered at half staff as bodies of the victims still unclaimed were removed from the improvised morgue at the Hartford Municipal hnntltal Pwiwii with m1alvN still missing were to view mem later. All day yesterday, grief -strick ea little processions of fathers "and mothers shuffled through the armory arm-ory seeking their missing little sons and daughters. Narrow army cots rested In nest rows in the drill shed with their blanketed burdens, some of which were not hidden completely. The arms of one small ''girl were crossed before her face Just as if she had held them in an attempt to protect herself from the flames as ueata etrucK. Parents, puffy-eyed with grief WARNING CAR OWNERS Don't risk your future INSURE YOUR CAB NOW! See LA VON E. PAYNE Representing Stat Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. S3 West Center St. Nest Door Mitchell Jewelry Frovo, Utah PHONE 467 100S-R would stop at a cot, and ginger! lift a blanket This might ba the one. But more often than not. It was a disappointment. Sometimes a doctor was able to find some Identifying mark but usually it was the dentist who was successful, using two wooden spatulas to fores open the Hps and examine the teeth, The sad-faced down and other circus artists still were stunned by the disaster. They sat around in little roups talking little, as If In disbelief that so many of the people peo-ple who came to taught at them had died In the flajne which brought the summer tour of Ring-ling Ring-ling Brothers Barnura and Bailey! to at least a temporary nut Fifth Var Loan Sales Nov Exceed 16 Billion Goal WASHINGTON, July f flIEV Sales in the Fifth war loan drive today exceeded the Slt.OOO.OOQ.OOO goal and now stand ft $16,500,-000,000, $16,500,-000,000, Secretary of the Treasury Henry aforgenthau Jr., announced. Of the total, $4.2$0,000,000 were purchases by individual sub scrlbers, and the remaining $12,-400,000.000 $12,-400,000.000 represents sales to corporations and other non-banking investors-Success investors-Success of the drive was announced an-nounced a dew hours before the official close of the fifth war loan campaign. Sales throughout the remainder of the month will be credited to the actual totals, however. how-ever. Sales to Individuals fell short of the goal by $1,750,000,000. but Moreen thau predicted that with continued efforts of the thou sands of war bond salesmen throughout the country the $6, 000.000,000 individual goal will be exceeded. The overall total may reach an all-time high of the $20,000,000,000 The $16,000,000,000 goal was the highest single amount of financ ing ever attempted by the government gov-ernment of this or any other country coun-try for any purpose. "There is still a large volume of sales attributable to the fifth war loan which has not been re ported,' 'the secretary said. "This is especially the case with in dividuals whose bonds ar Issued to them through more than 75,-000 75,-000 agents In every state, county and local community in tit united states." . Morgenthau said a large percentage per-centage of sales to individuals are made through the payroll de duction system affecting 27,000,-000 27,000,-000 workers. Because of differ ences in systems of payment At usually requires two or more payroll pay-roll periods for a worker to ac cumulate amounts for his regular purchases and for extra war bond subscriptions as well. This means Chat additional sales already made to individuals will continue to 'be reported. He said only about two-thirds of the total bond subscriptions by individuals had been reported up to today. "Results of this drive win be good news to the men on the fighting fronts." Morgenthau said, "but we should not forget that the sale of war bonds is a continuous con-tinuous obligation and opportun ity for all on the home front. K6 Did, Hundreds Hurt In Connecticut Circus Firo PAGE 8 nafiJTtuVAn SUNDAY HERALD R9W!itee?efcW! y 4 - mmmmm - -XT -4 A3i sw. 4 t 2 Firemen spray water on charred ruins of the "Big Too" of Rinrlin Brothers-Barnum and Ballev dmu at Hartford. Conn., tnim at least 146 person, mostly children, were killed and hundreds injured when the giant canvas teat caught fire, billowed down on tvuiz iv,vw persons. Mother, Son in Hospital as Funeral Held for Two Daughters, Fire Victims Pretty Soft You Vote for Yourself When You Vote for FEWER Taxes (no sales tax) Bureaus Commissions Regulations Oppressions f V GAME Give the Fish and Sam bach to the Sportsmen! they pay for it! 5Jo IBi?a&(Bim ILe For Governor on The Republican Ticket Primary Election, July 11 J. BRACKEN LEE'S Record Guarantees You Fewer Taxes - Regulations Commissions (Pd. political Adv.) By MART HABRINGTOX United Press Staff Correspondent HARTFORD, Conn July 8 (OB Louise Toth took her four children chil-dren to the circus. Funeral services win -be field today for two of her little girls, burned to death in flames which climbed the "big top" where the Toth family was sitting in the reserve section, because it Was the first time they had seen a circus. Louise will not go to the funeral. fun-eral. She is stretched on a hospital hos-pital cot, her body covered with burns; Her little boy, Albert, 4, is on a cot beside her, and physicians physi-cians are not sure he'll live. He has burns on his face, head and arms. The bodies of Regina XManne. U and Joan Francis, 9, lie in White handcarved coffins at a funeral parlor. Their mother does not know they are dead. Allen, her husband, concealed his grief and horror to relieve his wife and little Louise. 7. who escaped from the blaze, "lied." "I got out ail right mommy," Louise told her mother. "I ran when the fire shined on the tent. and a nice soldier pieked me up ana earnea me nome.-' She let her mother believe that the same soldier helped her cwo sisters. Physicians told Louise's family fam-ily that she may live, with the help of plasma injections and an oxygen tent. She is only so. At a Hartford funeral home, relatives who .had visited Mary ana Albert In the crowded muni' cips.1 hospital ward, eat in folding chairs near the twin coffins, part ly covered with roses and ribbons. "It was to be a party for them," the girls' aunt, Mrs. Mary Totn Grant, said softly, "Fe- gina's birthday was the first, and Joan's the third they had their first permanent end went to their first circus." She had a tiny gold locket to her limp hand. The locket was the only possible Identification for the little girl when her father fath-er found her in the armory morgue. mor-gue. "Regina died in the hospital.' Mrs. Grant said, "but Joan never got out of the circus tent alive She never would push anyone for fear of being rude." Price Revision Made on Cotton WASHINGTON, July 8 UJ The first price revision under the new 1944 Stabilization act requiring requir-ing ceilings on major cotton items mat win reflect parity to farmers farm-ers has been made bv the office of price administration. A one cent a yard increase was ordered in manufacturers prices for denim, brineine the nrice to 21.S cents a yard. The OPA said anv sossible f. feet on consumer prices, following uuo acuon, wouia ninge on the decision as to whether to allow cutters, wholesalers and retailers price increases and the amount of the Increase, if allowed. Newly-built Shasta Dam. which regulates the flow of the Sacra mento river, is the highest overflow-type dam in the world 602 feet. RamshavToHead Utah Poultry Unit SALT LAKE CITY, July 8 OLE) W. E. Ramshaw of Salt Lake City today assumed presidency of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooper ative Association, with Erval Saunders of La Verkin, vice president. Clyde C. ISdmonds, association manager, speaking at the prod ucers' annual convention at which officers were elected last night in the Newhouse hotel, declared there is far too much government in terference in the poultry industry. ' Government regulation of the nation's $2,000,000,000 (B) poultry industry is greatly resented by producers, who feel they could bet ter manage their own businesses. Edmonds asserted. 4 - 4 9 7 1--fiTri-ii?' jt- It will be soft sleeping for this Yank doughboy if only he can hold on to the prize he picked up in recaptured Cherbourg a nice, comfortable mattress. Dramatic Rescue mm Arm Amputated After Accident SALT LAKE CITY. July 8 OLE) Alice Paetz, 16, was reported in fairly good condition at the LDS hospital today following amputation of her lower left arm, necessitated when she man gled it in a meat grinder at the Archie MacFarland meat packing plant aere. WHEAT FUTURES UP 4 CENTS CHICAGO, July 7 OLE) Wheat futures climbed four cents' a bushel and other grains ruled strong on the board of trade to day. The trade regarded latest news from Washington as indicating indicat-ing that the loan rate may be in-creased in-creased to 90 per cent of parity, Opinion prevailed that the govern ment may inaugurate a wheat support program. Within four years of the end of hostilities there will probably be some 800,000 civilian nlanes in service. Spanish Forli To Install Kev 7ater lines To Improve Pressure in Pipes Probe Continues In Fatal Crash Of Troop Train JELLZCO. Tenn.. July 8 (HE) The confused facts of a traeic troop train, derailment in the north Tennessee mountain country 12 miles north of here Thursday night were still locked today in the twisted steel coaches that plunged into a canyon-like ravine, taking at least 19 lives. The official death toll, as releaed by an army public relations officer of-ficer last night, stood at 17 servicemen service-men an dtwo trainmen, but Jel- llco Police Chief Hubert Perkins told the United Press that approximately ap-proximately 20 bodies had been re moved from the debris and that eight others had been sighted but not extricated. L. R. Murray, Louisville and Nashville railroad agent, estimated that the total number of dead would be between 25 and 30. Murray said that seven bodies were removed from the wreckage last night after 17 deaths had already al-ready been announced and that he understood at least one other body remained lodged in one of the crumpled cars. The injured were being removed today from emergency hospitals to the Moore general hospital near Asheville. N. C-Sightseers C-Sightseers were barred last night from the scene of the trag edy a forested gorge, split by a mountain, stream and rimmed by 150-foot cliff-steep banks and the area was under constant patrol of military police. An estimated 1.000 soldiers just through with basic training were on the train when the engine and six coaches jumped the tracks, on a curve. Ninety-two passengers were hospitalized and about 12 others were given emergency first aid and released, the army said- AntMlew Dealer From Texas Gets Badly Wrought Up BY HELENS MONBEEO United Press Staff CorerspondeBt WASHINGTON, July SXE) i ne new aeai squad operates uae skunks and dogs," Gen. W. Lee O'DanieV, D., Tea, retorted today wnen informed that the war production pro-duction board was asked how he got the newsprint to begin publication publi-cation of an anti-new deal news paper July 4, He asserted his paper, the "W Lee ODaniel News." had been given a "dean bill of health," by me wpb regional board In Dallas, Tex, and added: "It 'clipped the aew deal's ears back twice In Texas and it's going to do it again. That's what it's lor." O'Daniel said he had not yet received the letter which Arthur! Tralnor, director of WPB printing print-ing and publishing division, ad dressed to Mm yesterday asmng when and where O'Daniel bought a year's supply of critically short newsprint to start publication of the "News" at 100,000 copies an issue. "It's the new deal fashion to turn news over to newspapers to start a smear campaign before an aaaressee receives ms letter, ne told a reporter. "The new deal squad operates like skunks and dogs, you know that old game. The dog can run faster than the skunk but he can never catch up to it and you know why. Going into the question of his supply of newsprint, O'Daniel said that frequently the national office of a federal agency "forgets" that it nas regional offices. He said he had received a let-1 ter from George L. Noble, Jr., of! evidence of violation of the WPf the WPB regional office In Dallas i limitation order' by QTJanJeJ in which Noble, replying to a Ft. I newspaper. SPANJ$H PORK A' t20.000 culinary waterworks Improve ment project Is underway here to pressure, that deprives many i amines of sufficient water and creates a serolua fire hazard, ac cording to Byron Geallson, city clerk. The city has sufficient water while water Is running to wasta through the overflow at the story city are suffering because of low pressure and the water will not come through their taps, either because the pipes have been fiued up with lime or the pipes were not large enough to carry tjM pressure needed. Watering oJK wns out oz turn, nas also bees an outstanding problem. Mora than SS blocks of pipe trench have been designated for digging up and approximately 15.000 feet of two and four inch pipe will be laid Every street from whose real? dents complaints have been Trade to the city officers is expected t9 be improved with the project. Labor for the project Include some of the imported Mexicans and local labor. The program t being directed by city engineer; Al Sorenson of the CaldweU-Richards CaldweU-Richards Civil Engineers of Salt Lake and Liadsey Snell of eityj watermaster of Bpanisn Fork, If directing the labor and the pro ject. r EastJ COM driver ACCIDENT REPORTED A car driven by W. E. Thorai son, 58. of 658 North First was slightly damaged In s lision with another vehicle ho TUT XTT .hM..tr fl9 . mj ... ... mMuiviavn. WW, v& East Fourth South, at the inter-l . J n. . w C il m' Ktuvn n. r ouriB ooaub BUG First East, at 9 a.m. Friday. Neither of the occupants we hurt, and the damage, to cars was very slight. Worth publisher,-said inquiries' b his. office "failed to reveal any 3 The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is already caring for about 45.000 refugees in Europe Yugoslavs, Greeks, and others. AT ONCE! Local man wanted for permanent perman-ent full-time inside work. Experience Ex-perience unnecessary. This is a good job for a man who wants to assure himself of continual con-tinual work. Troy Laundry Co. S75 W. Center St. ' i - I 7 VOTE FOB J W. Democratic Candidate for State Representative Second Legislativt District s. JULY 11, 1944 He has lived In this community all of his Ufa He has always supported all the farm organizations and their programs. He has always stood for better schoolsand higher education. He has spent much of his time sponsoring' projects such, ay the Deer Creek and Geneva Steel Plant. He has always been In harmony with the Assistance Program Pro-gram for the Aged and all otherwise dependant people. He has served as Director of the State Department of Public Welfare for four years. He has served as County Commissioner for ten years, from 1927 to 1937. His varied experience will qualify him to represent District Two in the State Legislature. Paid Political Adv.) The dramatic photo above shows British air raid wardens rescuing a woman from a house to southern England struck by a German . "flying robot" bomb. Cherry Growers We are paying: highest cash prices of Bins:, Lambert, and Windsor Cherries for shipping. Contact or leave word for. MORRIS VANCE or DON NELSON ROBERTS HOTEL-sterling HOTEL-sterling H. NELSON CO. HELP YOTO BOYS .This Primary Election Is Vital VOTJ want Utah to cooperate cooper-ate to aid this WAR and you want POST WAR OPPORTUNITY OP-PORTUNITY for your boys and girls in the service. WINNING THE WAR can be aided by the cooperation of Utah with the Federal Government Senator Child Is an overseas veteran of World War I, he has a son In this war. POST WAS JOBS depend upon expansion of industry. For this expansion, we must have an EFFICIENT, HONEST HON-EST State Government in which trust can be placed. GIUE US A LEADED OF INTEGRITY - GIUE OUR BOYS the KIND of GOIEQUIT THEY FIGHT FOR 9 LETS VOTE TUESDAY for CHILD y,- 3 Paid Political Advertisement By These Parents of Servicemen:- Delbert m. Draper R. t. Ilogan Thomas C Band W. D. Hammond Sirs. Alf Gana June Kendall t. llarold Reese Abel & RJch John tangford raraeH Black 9. 9. White Stanley Dunford Amos Sevan Walter II. Gleaves Lila Sweeten F. p. Champ John (Jack) B. Slater Geo. A. Critchlow Oscar W.f McConkle H. L. MtUllner Ira Hnggina Stanley . Child Democratic Candidate for GouEnnon W -k Tftr iftr iftr |