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Show n n n. ' n - O d(cMoj ' ' " j ' P '.. rr Wm7 i I n- v i f i x i x5 EIGHTY-SIXT- i i i ii x i i a. r ; i i .... - ., J o iiDinni v i J rfS iii Releases' By United Press International The Salt Lake County grand heard eight witnesses and invited four others back next week for a continuation of general hear-- . jury ! - - . , . J. By ROBERT SERLING I United Press International BALTIMORE (UPD Army in agents telligehce 'investigated to the possibility that military day secrets werestolen from the brief case of a defense specialist killed in a Capital airliners crash near ' here Tuesday. The victim was Charles W. Drannbauer of Kansas (jJityixan rying classified documents relat ing to SAGE. He was the super Ironically, the fog lifted minutes after the orash. balAfter the crash, the helium-filleloon's bag collapsed and folded over the wreckage, hampering the efforts of rescuers. The bag contained more than one million cubic feet of helium. Reported in satisfactory condition at Fort Dix was Lt. Robert D. Ecoff, Camas, Wash. He was the only resident of "the Far West hospitalized. One engine of the blimp penetrated the hangar roof. The gondola, which houses the crew, smashed a hole 25' by 15 feet, in the roof. The crash scene was only a short distance from where the German Zeppelin Hindenburg burst into flames May 6, 1937, and was destroyed with a loss of 36 '' lives. r. The Hindenburg, inflated with highly' flammable hydrogen, also was coming in for a landing when it crashed. The Navy blimp was carying eight officers and 10 enlisted men. One man carried down a ladder on a stretcher, had lost most of his clothes in the crash. He had a compound fracture of one leg, a broken arm and apparent head : injuries. out on an . The been, had blimp , routine flight when it d came in for the landiri gin fog and light mist at (Continued on Page Four) d 1 ; ot The-Defens- radio-controlle- .j ' Ike Confers With Steel Union Boss i 1. 'S "ti. ,. t yy J " , ' , v-v- ' ' . (UPD U- A tot aide was indicted congressional today on charges of publishing and circulating anonymous campaign literature intended to defeat form er Rep. Robert H. Mollohan (D r vhi w.va.) v A federal Grand Jury returned : a - three-cou- non-sto- indictment against nt ; (R-W.V- a.) Wallace. F. Bennett The panel accused Jaques of e putting out a pamphlet, called the "United Miners Jour nal" and patterned after the Unit ed Mine Workers Journal, which cast Mollohan in an antilabor ;'V"."--tr light; A Justice Department! spokes man said Jaques was on Moore's staff at the time the pamphletwas circulated last fall) in the First West Virginia Congression al District. Moore defeated Mollohan in the Democrat's bid to unseat him. Jaques was charged with violating the federal, corrupt practices act which bars distribution of anonymous campaign ma erial. ! - Keith H. Jaques, former execu tive assistant to Rep. Arch Alfred Moore Jr. and now legislative assistant to Sen. - i 38-ho- four-pag- J ur one-da- y I s -;' - ; ...... ' billio- two-mil- n-dollar, ii . j : j King Proposes Exchange of U. S., Russian Mothers WASHINGTON (UPD Rep. David S. King had suggested that the United States 'and Soviet Russia try to ease cold war tensions by . arranging an exchange visit of 100 mothers from each country. "Nearly everyone, except! mothers, has had a try at winning the peace," he said in a statement. "I urge that we now give mothers a chance."; (D-Uta- h) i controversial $2,100,000,000 omnibus housing bill;' to the House for action. , . The vote of 4 opened the way for a showdown ' fight between ' 8-- j congressional Democrats f and administration forces next week. A 6 tie vote by the committee April 16 had keptf the measure bottled up. Committee Chairman Howard W. Smith and Rep. William M. Co I m e r switched votes today and joined six other Democrats to clear the legislation for debate. All four committee Republican voted against it. The committee specified, however, that administration forces in the House can offer a substitute to the bill which would waer down its cost and eliminate public housing portions of the projr gram. j House Leader Republican Charles A. Halleck of Indiana predicted the substitute, endorsed by President Eisenhower, ' would be ;r adopted. Speaker Sam Rayburn, w h o scheduled .debate to begin Tuesday, declined to predict the out- fy ar f j: i . ' Three Jets Crash In the Atlantic; Search Continues balanced budget, feels that both he House and Senate Democratic bills- would call for too much - r . OtherNiongressibnal news: Fair Trade: The House t; , - 9, rje-ta- ; ever-growin- j ( Mom; 3 Girls Killed in Fire 1 i . de-scrie- ed Iliiisi i HERALD INDEX ' - ,. M 3--4, .................. A ' IS A 340-'fo'NAVY AIR VEHICLE SMACKS HANGAR Navy blimp, above, crashed into top of hangar at Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J. today, killing one 'officer and injuring 17 men. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) ot j f 12-1- 3, 1 - U ' ifc ':,'' "w -- V ' "''.'.' 'ft,'. Cloudiness to a considerable; extent today and tonight with scattered showers or thunder showers. Partly cloudy Friday. Lower temperatures. High today 80 to 83. Friday 75 to 78. Low tonight 58 to 60. ' ' - HERTER PLAN WOULD SPEED UNIFICATION Secretary of State Christian Herter handed Russia todajr a dramatic offer to trade global troop cuts for quick restoration of freedom for 11 Germany starting With Berlin. The plan calls for free electicjns in East and West .Berlin as a test of how unification, would go. shows divided isolated and also Berlin. It country Newsmap gives routes into! par titioned Berlin, which is located in East G ermany the Soviet zone. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) all-Germ- an , i 1,7? Jf v I, ' i'l ri i : j0m W : ', M mm M mop Cuts For German Fre&dom By SpTEWART HENSLEY United Press International GENEVA (UPD Secretary of A. Christian Herter Statef today, knew something about the West's plan before; it was presented, indicated in a speech :at Wednesday's session of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference thai Moscow rejected in advance any western move to link political steps on Berlin and Germany with sented, a comprehensive 'western peace plan'' providing forj reunification of Germany in four; stages. It would take effect over a period of 2Vi years and the U.S. would join the; Soviet Union in' a dramatic cut ;of armed! forces along the way - , handed Russia a dramatic western offer to trade "global troop cuts for quick restoration of freedom for all oi Germany starting with Berlin. European security. Troops j to Remain! But Soviet Foreign .Minister AnHerter, heading off for the West Both East and West Berlin, Herdrei "Gromyko, who obviously at today's session formally pre- - ter said, should be given frce elections first-i-"- as a first step" towards reunification of the two v ' Launches Central Utah Project Germanys. But western troops would remain in West Berlin juntil the last stage of the Herter pljan, which is a final !c peace treaty with a freely elected government. Union did not stall If top long, Germany thus could be- I come free and united by the end ' " . j iliiesMar! Breaking Of G rp und for Ve m a Da m Assistant InVERNAjLi (UPD terior Secretary Fred G. Aandahl said todajy the $1,600,000 Stan-akDam near Vernal is "just the beginning of a vast water . storage plrogram" for . Utah. made the comment in Aandahlj speech prepared, for delivery at ground breaking ceremonies this afternoon that will begin construction on jtie dam. 0 Utah's population- - Is now but aiithorites predict it will reach 1,475,000 by4975 and 2 million by the year 2000 he said. He declarjed this growthof pop- er the-Sovie- , 880,-00- i He pointed out the dam and neighboring reservoirs will bring water to about 115,000 acres of rrigatcd lands which suffer from ivater "shortages every ' j. i ' year.' Aandahl o was nearly to- - , give a, signal Co.i Morrison-Knudse- n Inc.. Workmen to start four large dirt moving machines carrying earth 1, from the dam site. Schools were dimissed at Noon and Vernal stores closed at 1 p. s m. for thellceremonies. " Other speakers included Sen. Frank E. Moss Gov. Lfeoxge u. Clyde, former Sen. ArtluR V. Watkins. Vernal 'Mayor LestexRj Miracle, and Region al Reclamation Director E. O. Larson. Moss, in his prepared Speech, said, "Today marks, a begining hi the development ofothe CenCAN A VE R A L, Ma. tral Utah , Project. Nowfthat we The Army successfully are started, we! cannot affbrd to Army Hails (D-Uta- 'j 18 th Jupiter i Launching CAPE (UPD - launched its" 18th Jupiter ballis- stop. Our population is grow tics missile early today. Air Force and in development of water re troops, who will take over the sources we must always be sevmissile when the Army completes eral years-- ahead of the; game." Watkins," now special assistant its test firing, participated in the to the secretary of interior j noted firing for- the fourth consecutive for the current fiscal year that time.' $B8 million has been appropriated n The potential hydrogen bomb carrier roared down the At- fi)r reclamation projects in or dilantic tracking range in its 18th rectly connected with Utah. He said the figure was more than the successful flight in 19 tests l c'pmbined total for the first 50 of The Army's, announcement, since the beginning of the years to was success mean interpreted Bureau of Reclamation in 1902. the Jupiterj,. streaking about 1,500 Watkins Mr. declared! that miles dowlirange at 10,000 miles g conceremonies d per hour, "dropped its stituted historic another milestone nose cone in the preselectfor reclamation development in ed impact area. The Army pronounced the Jupi the! state of Utah. The Central ter ready for operational use al "I Utah project is a major participat-- ( Continued on Page Four) ter a similar flight May 6. v - 52-to- wedge-shape- gjround-breakin- J t of 1961. blation "'will increase the need jfor more and better water sup plies, n- all-Germ- an i j! The West had little hope that Gromyko would readily accept anyi package that would deprive the Communists of a tmajor satellite, such as they have now in East ." . 'Germany.In his speech Wednesday, Groni- yko said that "Such an approach... would amount ti a complete block j ing of our work." . , ; j - But the Britain, West and France Germany,' as nations-- was thi NATO well as all united behjind Herter) in an package providing: Cut in Armed Forces of Reunification Germany in four elections free through j with vote a free stages, starting in all Berlin and formation of a German joint East German-Wes- t 35 j of commission delegates to election law. write an Establishment of a system of European security by gradual West-fincludin- g j all-Germ- an thinning out of troops and establishment of grojjind inspection. power troop cuts around the world, with jthe U.S., and Russia reducing their forces, to 1,700,-00- 0 men each alt the final stage. Presenting thd plan to. the Big our conference Hertew described "tne principal clauses ot a itas settlement' of" the problems aris!'. ing frbm the lajst' war." is on Hertcr'Meclarld that it these basesthlt the remaining provisions forNl final peace settlement could bjNqcgotiated. "An examination of thq plan," Herter told Gromyko, &hows that our government have gone very far to meet Soviet preoccupax tions." j. Herter "We earnestly hope,' Soviet the governadded, "that ment will for its jpart make a comparable effort and thus make it possible to find a!t least a basis for mutual understanding."1 & . j Ike Breaks Ground for $75 Million viiisic Center in Rehabilitated N. Y. Slum Area urban blight as well as a symbol o increased interest in American culture. j"IIere at Lincoln Center Americans will have new and expanded opportunities for acquiring a real community of interest throughout common contact with the performing arts," Eisenhower said. j" American technology, labor, industry and business are responsible for the 20th century freedom of the individual making free a greater portion of his time n which to improve the mind,! body to of tbt (Continued on Pago Four) problem lating approach By MERRIMAN SMITH forming Arts. Another of the buildUPI White House Reporter ings will be the new ihome of the NEW YORK (UPD President Metropolitan Opera. Eisenhower today hailed creation Eisenhower flew Ihere from of a center for the performing Washington! for a visit to arts in what was recently a New dedicate the center, to visit a York slum as 'a "great cultural world trade! fair, and to make a adventure" which will transmit a major evening address on Amerihuman message for peace and un- can, scientific efforts. derstanding throughout the world. Speaking beneath a blue and The President turned the first white canopy on a mild and sunny shovel of dirt on the site of a day before thousands crowded into new hall for the New York Phil levelled tenement grounds above harmonic Orchestra, one of six Columbus Cjircle, Eisenhower said the Lincoln Center was a stimumajor buildings in the ! 15-ho- I dollar Lincoln. Center for the Per - ' ' ' iPmSJr v vv""V . i - r,:'Jis If lit Com- merce Committee, over Justice Department andSFederal Trade Commissions opposit ion, apbill which Nvould let a proved manufacturers set minirntjm retail prices for (their product's It would in effect reinstitute on a nar tional basis a uniform "fair trade law" to replace state statutes which have been repudiated by the courts. The legislation, enwould permit- manudorsed 20-facturers of brand; or trademarked il goods to tell distributors what on should be charged prices their products. The proposed law still faces a long road in Congress. Defense: Informed sources said the House defense appropriations subcommittee has given tentative approval to the 39 billion dollar defense spending! level recommended by Eisenhower. The subcommittee was said to have provided more money! than Eisenhower asked for some programs but keep the overall figure - at about what he advoctated. Parks: Interior- Secretary Fred A. Seaton asked a Senate appropriations subcommittee" to restore more than six million dollars cut" from the Park Service budget. He said the funds are needed to maing tain facilities for an number of vacationers at national parks and to buy land so that several Civil Wars Battlefields can be preserved from commercialization, Pick 28 CGS 6th pgh Strauss 1 r s.) ' come. "i j The Senate already has passed a housing bill calling for $2,653,-00- 0. The President; fighting for a spending. Ar. i rTs .) (D-Mis- Vi c& . .1- the p p ttXHlt if'&S j WASHINGTON (UPD The and often stubborn powerful House Rules Committee relented today after four weeks and sent I n$r jm:z r a F. nnun- Controversial Measure Sent to House Floor For Action, 8 to 4 (D-Va- i WASHINGTON Housing Bill 6-- e , :f 18-ho- ur ' - : communications for the Eastern Defense Command. Find Briefcase Empty NEW YORK (UPD President The Baltimore Nes-Pds- t said Eisenhower today scheduled; a Drannbauers Iwiefcase was found late afternoon meeting here with in the wreckage but "no docu David McDonald, president of the ments were in it.' De United Steelworkers Union, now partment refused to comment onU engaged in wage negotiations with the Army investigation. the steel industry that can have trtff onf rvri oA Vrr Investigators for the Civil Aero x wii vtiva Tiafinnal kx unu uuiiuuui nautics Board (CAB) uncovered feconomy. evidence that the Capital plane, a AWhite !House spokesman said jet-- p owered Viscount, "came the union leader's visit with Eisapart in the air" during a violent' enhower Tat the Waldorf-Astori- a thunderstorm. Hotel was essentially a social All twenty-seve-n passengers and call." the crew of four perished. Th But Press Secretary James C. p flight Hagerty did not rule out the pros plane was on a from New York- City to Atlanta. pect that the two men would dis Drannbauer was en route from cuss the steel negotiations. White Plains, N.Y., for confer ences in Atlanta on defense com Steel in NEW YORK (UPD munications problems.! are expected to After an incomplete $tudy of the dustry negotiators a union employment reject today wreckage of the sleek turbo-pro-p would include that spreading plan airliner, the, CAB . and other work week., sources reported a number of de- a Steel contract; talks resumed velopments and pieces of evidence after a recess called to pointing toward the cause of the give the industry team1 time to crash. prepare; its rebuttal. Wreckage Widely Scattered - four The For one things, the wing of the from eight negotiators and four from the plane was found some distance Unitedindustry union have Steelworkers from the fuselage wreckage, indi- until 30 to write a June midnight cating probable structural failure. new .contract for 500,000 steelAlso, the wreckage was strewn workers that would avoid a e over a path in1 a straight steel strike. line, pointing to "progressive disunion team spent the first The, : integration." of the joint bargaining two There was evidence of ''an ex- talks days its ideas on how presenting plosive force." But the! CAB em- to improve job security in the inphasized this did not Necessarily unemployment. mean an explosion in the ordinary dustry and reduce v program 'called for9 The unions , sense of the word. A wing that a wage increase and failed structurally would tear fewer hours, pensions and unemployopen the side of the pressurized higher "benefits. ment cabin, resulting in sudden and viThe industry negotiators have olent decompression that resemcontract exproposed a 'one-yebles a conventional explosion. on a "take it tension, practically, Always alert for the possibility or leave it basis." of sabotage in mid-ai- r distintegra-tio- n The union! called this "economic of planes, the CAB investinonsense." ' gators searched for any chemical The firmness of the industry's sign that a bomb might have stand, against increases in em. caused the tragedy. They found ployment costs this Tear was 110 such evidence. made plain Wednesday by Charles M. White, chairman of Republic Steel Corp., the industry's third . (, biggest producer. White told Republic's annual meeting that further increases in wages or fringe benefits, "are wholly unjustifiable." "The challenge facing us now is to remain firm in our determinaMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (UPD tion to negotiate a contract that he said. "Let Searchers hunted today for the is on Air of three Force (Continued wreckage Page Four) jet planes which crashed mysteriously info the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday. The search was interrupted over night due to high winds and weather conditions which handi T capped helicopters. Divers from the Coast Guard and Navy at Charleston ' were expected to join the search for the EUREKA, Calif. (UPD A wo bodies of two of the pilots killed man and her three young daugh in tne r iuu a,ore jets, uoast Guard officials reported the re- ters were killed Wednesday night when a fire raged through their covery of one body Wednesday. frame house in a mat The pilots; were Capt. Mack ' of ter minutes. Bulger, 30, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Allan chief Fire Pettingill Lt. Delano D. Lund, 26, Baker, the blaze, which occurred Mont.; and Lt, Morris L. Uden, blocks from the fire sta five only 29, Buffalo, Kan. as "the worst in Eureka Fire tion, Department1 history, in terms of human life." Eureka is a town of 25,000 locat ed on the north coast of Cali 24 fornia. Central Utah News .10-1- 1 Classified The victims were identified as Comics ....8 Annie Jo Hallmark, in .her I late Editorial .................9 20's, and her three daughters, National, World News . . ..... 2 Jannie, 7, Mary An, 4, and Pat Obituaries . . . . . . ..... ... .... .4 ty, 3. The Father, James, also in 16, 17. 18 his late 20's, was taken to Eureka Society ......6--7 General Hospital with second de Sports Stocks .......4 gree burns, a gash on one leg and suffering from shock. lense Bennett Aiide Indicted By Grand Jury j Tele- - who was an expert in SAGE, a huge electronic system which warns of enemy attack and helps direct "defenses. A spokesman for AT&T in Kansas City was quoted as saying Drannbauer may have been car- (R-Uta- h) j employe 'of tlie American .i Included in those heard was Leonard Warner Bowne who is serving a life term for a murder. The elder prison Bowne said he would complain, about the failure' to prosecute prison guards implicated in illegal drug traffic at the .', prison. The. session: with the eight appearing in priyate lasted all day. Army Fears Air Crash Victim Had Secret data N.J. (UPD A LAKEHURST, huge Navy blimp crashed into its hangar while attempting an instrument landing in heavy fog early today at the Naval Air Sta- tion here.1, One officer died while rescuers, using acetylene torches and heavy cutting equipment, worked for more than six hours to reach him in the blimp's shattered gondola. He was identified as Lt. (jg) David Malcolm Loyd, Vega, Tex. The- other 17 crew members were injured. Six were hospitalized, one in critical condition. The others were treated for minor injuries, mostly cuts and bruises. Capt, Van Evers, commander of the air station, said it was "miraculous" that there was not a heavier casualty toll. A Navy spokesman Nsaid the blimp, valued at between four and five million dollars, had just ,been advised by radio to regain altitude and try a new approach when the gondola slammed into the side of the hangar, about 20 feet from the roof. Rescuers using aerial ladders braved the danger of a possible explosion and fire to rescue crew members from the gondola, which dangled precariously over the edge of the hangar roof, 125 feet above ground. One Westerner Hurt Fire trucks stood alongside as fuel leaking? from the damaged blimp poured into the hangar ings. May Have Been Stolen New Jersey Hangar 343-fo- i I Rules Group GRAND JURY HEARS EIGHT WITNESSES C ; C . J PRICE FIVE CENTS THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959 UTAH, Crashes: p 17 Crew Members Hurt In Crash at . 1 J E- r f Wednesday roof. 1 LJ Vji surrtY Jo ' ,f'.S&" f- - 1 YEAR, NO. 203 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, H v? . ." 1:3 SOViET-ZOrJ' 1 C? C?' ur Surgeons Find Lancer I umor in Joining's Lung WASIIINGTON (UPD A cancerous tumor was found in the lung of Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs r.t Staff, the Defense Departme.it announced todayj The department said the entire diseased portion! of the left lung was removed in an operation Tuesday, and there was no evidence of involvement in any other areas of the chest. Defense officials said they expected Twining to be out of the hospital, in three or four weeks and to be back on the job a couple of weeks after that. ' - |