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Show 1 Wednesday, April 16, 1947 DAILY HERALD Texas Explosion Kills 200-700; 140-Mile Gulf Area Rocked (Continued from pare one) in Austin two battalions of the Texas state guard it Houston had been alerted for duty at Texas City. Some 150 state guardsmen from La Porte already were on the scene. All available highway patrol and police cars converged on the scene, along with fire de partments from all over the popu lous, industralized gulf coast. Doctors and nurses were being rushed into the area along with every available highway depart' ment truck and every ambulance in a 100 mile range. ''' Meyers, phoning the United Press in Houston from near the scene, said he couldn't get close enough to tell whether it was ripped by an explosion or had caught fire. He said "the whole town is wrecked; buildings are standing but windows are out everywhere; a great fire has broken out among the oil tanks and refinery area along the waterfront; I can feel the heat from here." . Meyers estimated 90 storage tanks were on fire; clouds of black smoke added to the pall of death over the city. Buildings were shaken as far away as Freeport, 50 airline miles from the blast scene. Fireboats and coast guard vessels ves-sels were rushed into the area. Nearby Pasadena said 45 injured in-jured were jammed into its hos pitals and private homes were taking care of the overflow. The stricken area radioed it was short of flat gauze and blood plasma. The state health depart ment said 2,000 units would be en route by air shortly. Houston was Legion 'Pressure' Tactics Scored SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 W.PJ Sharp disapproval of "pressure "pres-sure politics" of the American Legion has been voiced by H. H. Fisher, secretary of the Fisher Brewing Co. Speaking before the Salt Lake Rotary club. Fisher, who is also publisher of the club magazine, said that the legion should devote less time to politics and more to sponsoring badly-needed education educa-tion of the public in Americanism. SPECIAL! Spring is just around the corner. Now is the time to give your heating equipment equip-ment a thorough check-up. Here's what we will do:- 1 Oil and clean fan motor. 2 Oil Stoker 3 Check all controls 4 Change filters ALL THIS FOR.... 7.50 Write or Call 463 or .464 Adamsbn's 490 West Center, Provo rushing all available equipment and medicine. Three units of Texas Rangers were enroute to help soldiers and police keep order and prevent looting. An "initial appropriation" of $250,000 was anounced in Wash' inston by Basil O'Connor, chair' man of the American Red Cross, to meet emergency needs of Texas City victims. Huge fires, sending smoke spiraling into the air for miles, raged in oil storage areas along the busy waterfront The $19,- 000,000 Monstanto Chemical company plant, ripped by blasts which followed the ship explo sion was afire. Acrid, chemical fumes covered the city where the explosion had heaped debris and injured per haps hundreds. Fire equipment from the entire gulf coast area was on the scene. Telephone lines were down and the power was clipped off. In Dallas, Magnolia Oil company com-pany officials quoted direct tele phone reports from the Pan American Refinery in Texas City as savins that the city morgue held the bodies of 75 victims, of the explosion "and more bodies are being brought in.' The Magnolia officials said they had been informed over the direct line apparently the only circuit operating into Texas City that the explosion of the nitrate ni-trate laden former Liberty ship had blown up about half of the Monsanto plant. The vessel was loaded with ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer ingredient in-gredient more explosive than T-N-T. A Texas City telephone opera-erator opera-erator flashed Houston to "send the Red Cross: Thousands are injured." in-jured." One unconfirmed report, based on a Houston fire department estimate, said as many as 700 persons per-sons might have been killed. There was no immediate official statement or estimate from anyone any-one in the blast area. North Salt Lake Livestock NORTH SALT LAKE, April 16 (U.R) Livestock: Cattle 253. Best steers 21.00- 22.50; medium to good 18.00-20.00; common 15.00-17.50; best heifers 20.00-21.50; plain kinds 17.00- 19.00; best young cows 14.50-16.00; 14.50-16.00; plain fat cows 12.00-13.00; common and medium 10.50-11.50; canners 7:50-10.00; best bulls 14.00-17.00; choice vealers 22.00-25.00. 22.00-25.00. Hogs 1984. Sheep 2585. Fat lambs 20.50-22.50; 20.50-22.50; ewes 7.50-8.50. National Guard In Utah to Be 6,000 Strong SALT LAKE CITY, April 16 (U.R) The Utah National Guard will be a first-class fighting unit. Brig. Gen. J. Wallace West, Utah, adjutant general, predicted here today. West said the . guard now boasts 20 ground and four air force units. At the completion of the expansion, ex-pansion, he said, there will be 44 fully equipped units with a complement of more than 6,000 men. County Commissioners Say Funds Not For New Provo River Bridge v Utah county commissioners today to-day agreed on. the need for a new bridge across Provo river at the boat harbor, but declared they felt they didn't have the money to construct it s Chairman George A. Cheever and Commissioner Reed J. Knud-sen Knud-sen told the Provo city commission commis-sion and' a delegation from the Provo boat club that they could FIRESTONE GARDEN HOSE will give years and years of service 5.95 FIRESTONE STORES 223 West Center Divinity Is Sought For Hirohito's Son, Agency Complains TOKYO (U.R) Emperor Hiro-hito Hiro-hito has renounced his "divine" rights, but some officials close to his son appear to be striving 'to restore them to the crown prince, the Jiji Newa Agency reports. The Japanese press service said bitter disappointment" was felt against "hopelessly f eudallstic and overbearing" officials by all the people in the Kansai district, south central Honshu, over the recent 16-day tour by Crown Prince Akihito. Jiji said Hiro hito's son was forbidden to come into close contact with "ordinary human beings" during the visit. Squads of nervous - looking policemen were placed all along the railroad tracks and streets where the prince passed, showing little difference from the elaborate elabor-ate precautions taken in the pre-surrender pre-surrender days for members of the imperial family, Jiji reported. All of the platforms of the Mai- bara railway station were scrubbed, scrub-bed, washed and swept no less than three times immediately be-j for the arrival of the Prince. Passengers Barred General passengers were driven out of the station before the 13 year-old Prince arrived, Jiji com plained, saying "the tense at mosphere of the station under the water-tight guard was ridiculously ridicu-lously feudalistic and plainly anachronistic." All regular service trains which had to pass the special court train with a gold chrysanthemum crest of the im perial coach were stopped and kept in sidings, causing delays and confusion. Jiji said that in Kyoto, the sight of "arrogant court and police officials clearing away the loyal citizens as if they were untouch able animals was shocking." The imperial limousine, the news agency claimed, sped through the streets at a terrific speed as if the officials were fearfully fear-fully fleeing from the admiring citizens who had lined up several deep. Even when the prince walked for a brief moment, returning the greeting of the public, the accompanying ac-companying court officials im patiently conducted nlm back into the limousine, Jiji said, as if they were afraid of exposing Akihito to the common people. Bank Loans Show Gain In Utah SALT LAKE CITY, April 16 (U.PJ Loans by Utah banks as of March 28, 1947 have increased 59.5 per cent over those of the same period last year, a report of J. Melvin Knapp, state bank commissioner, com-missioner, revealed- here today. Savings and checking deposits, however, have increased only 3.3 per cent, the report said. Total money loaned was $151,-778,048 $151,-778,048 this year as compared to $95,281,290 last year. S. L. Teachers to Get $540 Raise SALT LAKE CITY, April 16 (U.R The Salt Lake City board of education approved today a new schedule which would allow city school teachers to get a raise of at least $540 a year. Under the plan, teachers with a bachelor's degree will receive a minimum of $2,200.- The maximum maxi-mum for the same class gf teachers teach-ers is boosted to $3,468. 3 Si CLEARANCE Thurs., Fri. and Sat., April 17, 18, 19 Lamps (Flourescent Type). m mis Orig. 17.95, Now Aw") Shell type mr Orig. 9.95, Now U J Breakfast Quick y Af Orig. 19.95, Now Lifetime Guaranteed Electric Broilers ft Orig. 19.95. Now J.50 Monitor Carpet Sweepers m mot . Orig. 8.89, Now JOg Reynolds 4-qt. 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Every Afternoon (excepting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation. Corpora-tion. 90 South Firt West Street Provo, Utah. Entered as second class matter at the poatoffice tn Provo. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county. SI. 00 the month; SS 00 for six months, in advance. $12 00 the year in advance; by mail anywhere in the United States or its posses-Ions. posses-Ions. $1.00 the month: $6.00 for six months; $13 00 the year la advance. Deaths James W. Anderson James Warren Anderson, 58, Sanpete county wool grower, died Tuesday at the home of a sister, Mrs. Fred Averett, Springville, following a two-year illness of heart trouble. He was born Jan. 30. 1889, in West Jordan, a son of Enevald and Violette Edna Gardner Anderson. And-erson. When a small child he moved with his parents to Sanpete San-pete county and received his education edu-cation there. Mr. Anderson was a sheepman and rancher in Sanpete county until two years ago when heart trouble forced him to retire. Since that time he had resided with M,rs. Averett. Surviving are six brothers and three sisters, Duncan and Victor Anderson and Mrs. Fred Averett; Springville; John Anderson, Lake Shore; Carl and William Anderson, An-derson, Chester, Sanpete county; Enevald Anderson, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Maude Ridge, Provo, and Mrs. Beth Jensen, Mapleton Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Friday at 1 p. m. in the Springville Fourth-Sixth ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be at White's Fort in the West Jor dan district. Friends may call at the home of Mrs. Averett Thursday Thurs-day evening and Friday prior to services. Services are under the direction of the Valley mortuary. Career Russians (Continued from page one) lis charges as "complete eyewash." eye-wash." "He had access to the ambassador ambas-sador anytime he wanted it, subject of course, to the ambassador's ambassa-dor's schedule," Burrow said. "He attended staff meetings with the ambassador twice a week and could remain behind and talk privately with the ambassador as many of the staff do." These officials, Willis charged, choke off all information which might be even slightly favorable to the Soviets by sitting at the head of the embassy's "channels" and directing that all communications communi-cations go through them. "They won't let anything out of here that would let anybody think we can get along with these people." he said. Willis cited as an example a report re-port he made after a Ukrainian trip which he "had reason to believe" be-lieve" never got beyond one of the embassy first secretaries. not give a definite answer on the matter, however, until after conferring con-ferring with' -County .Commis sioner Sylvan W. Clark, absent from this morning's meeting. it was believed Commissioner Clark was ill at his home today. His fellow commissioners said he left his office late Tuesday with indications, of a flu attack. When asked by Mr. Cheever if the city felt the cost of the bridge should be shared between the county and city, Mayor Mark Anderson said he felt the city was doing all it could with its plan to hard-surface the road to the harbor, from where the present pres-ent hard-surfacing ends just past the 'airport road. This will cost the city, the mayor said, in the neighborhood of $20,000. Mr. Knudsen said the county coun-ty had a road budget of 9100,000 for the year, but that $20,000 of this was taken in road department bills carried over from 1946 and now payable, pay-able, and that the county needed to spend 130,000 on badly needed equipment which was unobtainable during dur-ing the war years. "This, he declared, would account for1 half of the county's road budget for the year, and the county has 1700 miles - of road to Improve and maintain. main-tain. Cost or the needed bridge would (run as high as $10,000, the two county commissioners asserted. All agreed that the present single-lane bridge was in good shape and could still be utilized, and that the problem could be solved by building another bridge near it of similar width, thus giving giv-ing two-lane traffic and enable simultaneous incoming and outgoing out-going travel. As the condition now exists, only one-way travel is possible. Mr. Cheever said that while no definite answer could be given given until further conference with Mr. Clark, yet "we have talked the matter over and with the funds available we felt we weren't in a position to spend anything on the bridge." He declared de-clared the county must build three bridges in the southern part of the county which are imperative from the standpoint of flood control and flood danger. "I for one do not feel it is entirely en-tirely the city's responsibility," Mr. Cheever said, "but it is a question of the county not having money available for this purpose." pur-pose." Members of the city commission commis-sion and boat club delegation countered with arguments that in reality it was a matter of county-wide county-wide importance, and that people from all over the county and a large part of the state used the boat harbor. Lynn Levitre, boat club member, pointed out that the county collects an eight mill levy annually on Provo city's as sessed valuation of about $12,-000,000, $12,-000,000, amounting to roughly $96,000. Commissioner Knudsen declared the city gets many county services for this money, naming welfare and care of the aged as an example. Mr. Knudsen declared that a bad drainage condition along the route planned for the city's hard-surfaced hard-surfaced road wpuld make the project unfeasible. Mayor Anderson An-derson denied this, asserting that the road from Cox's corner to its present terminus was built under the same conditions, and that proper engineering and drainage had made it one of the best roads in the state. Mr. Knudsen reminded the group the county intended to gravel and improve the county road leading east from the boat harbor on the north side of the river to connect with the lower Geneva road. City Commissioner J. Earl Lewis and boat?lub members mem-bers declared most of the travel to the boat harbor would still be over the Provo city road and across the bridge because of its approach and travel tendencies. Boat club members declared that it would be 'foolish to try and crowd and expected 15,000 to 20,000 people into the area for the May 30 Centennial boat re gatta with the little one-way bridge still in use. Bennion Offers Safety Formula COLUMBUS, O.. April 16 (U.R) A prominent Utah public util ities executive, Adam S. Bennion today offered a formula for industrial in-dustrial safety that he described as the "four P's of performance." Bennion, vice president of the Utah Power and Light Co., spoke at the annual Columbus meeting of the all-Ohio safety conference. The Utah industrialst described safety programs as "a business enterprise" and pointed out that "business rests upon performance, perform-ance, it can never be merely academic." His performance formula was based on four objectives a systematic safety program, emphasis em-phasis of the personal equation, definite delegation of authority to safety engineers, and encouragement encourage-ment of "punch" or creative drive by the safety workers. I EA Discusses Frozen Foods The preparation and car of frozen foods and the upkeep? operation op-eration and installation of home freezing units were discussed Tuesday evening at the monthly meeting of the Utah county chapter chap-ter of the Intermountain Electrical Electri-cal association. Alys Price, Utah county home demonstration agent, talked on guidance in purchasing and installing in-stalling the new home lockers, and showed a film entitled "Frozen Freshness" to the chapter chap-ter members and their wives. Arthur J. Reynolds, manager of the Intermountain Electrical association, was guest speaker of the evening, and reported on the progress of other chapters in the state association. The discussion on frozen foods and the film stressed the fact that much of the spoiling of frozen foods could be traced directly to improper care and packaging, and this was one of the main items in Miss Price's discussion. Henry Heisch is president of the local chapter of IEA, with Eldon McKell vice-president and H. G. Barton, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Heisch conducted the meeting. Wallace (Continued from Page One) not want to be asked that ques tion in public. Contrary to usual custom, there will be no White House news conference this week, the United Press was told upon inquiry. And, against precedent, prec-edent, Mr. Truman does not now plan a question-and-answer session ses-sion with members of the American Ameri-can Society of Newspaper Editors Edit-ors who are meeting here this week. Heretofore the editors usually us-ually have been received at the White House for an off-record discussion with the president. This time they are to be received with a word of greeting only, it was said at the White House today. Some Democratic congressional leaders talked about a joint congressional con-gressional resolution repudiating Wallace, but later seemed to have dropped it. A resolution would smoke Mr. Truman out because it would require his signature. Republicans Re-publicans might go along with such a plan. But some of 'the quicker G.O.P. political minds believe be-lieve the Democrats should do their own house cleaning. Misuse of Game Licenses Found Further cooperative investigations investiga-tions into alleged misuse of resident resi-dent licenses by Idaho and Utah citizens were brought to light today to-day when the Utah fish and game department revealed that a Poca- tello, Idaho, resident had been fined $50 on a charge of using a Utah resident license during last fairs deer hunt. LaVere King, deputy Utah war den for Cache county, reported the arrest of John Hull of Poca-tello Poca-tello on a charge of violation of Sec. 30-0-13, dealing with use of improper licenses. Hull was fined $50 by Justice of the Peace Jessie P. Rich of Logan. The case came in the wake of the arrest of a number of Utahns, most of them from the northern part of the state, who were fined in Idaho on charges of using Gem state resident licenses. The two-state investigations were conducted con-ducted by state and federal game wardens. The Hull case is the first reported re-ported involving an Idahoan charged with violating Utah license laws. However, other cases are being investigated, the game department reVealed. Young Promises Complaints In Zoning Ordinance City Attorney Dallas H. Young said today he is beginning an investigation in-vestigation into charges of city zoning violations, and that he would move at once with complaints com-plaints against anyone found in such violation. Mr. Young discussed the matter with the city commission today. auer me lauer passed a motion Tuesday asking him to . proceed with prosecution against anyone who had "constructed buildings or is keeping or pasturing animals" ani-mals" in-conflict with city ordinances. ordin-ances. Some discussion was had as to who should sign such complaints, and Mayor Mark Anderson declared: de-clared: "If no one else will sign them, I will, and we'll find out where we're at on this thing. 100 Years Ago April 14, 1847 The famous Mormon hymn," "Come, Come, Ye Saints" is one year old today April 15, 1847 Two years ago today a United States deputy marshall had come to Nauvoo with writs, but due to some clever clev-er work on the part of Brigham Young and other prominent men, no arrests were made. - April 16, 1847 Brother C. C. Rich made a last trip back to Nauvoo from Winter Quarters to see if he could dispose of some of his property there. He left his family without food for one meal. 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