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Show ---, ENS 0 COD g7g I. g 11 1 THE WEATHEi PARTLY CLOUDY SONE SHOWERS WEATHER REPORT, FACIE LAIZGEST DAILY. C.IRCU.LATION t CF ANY SINCLE , A-- 2 THE MOUNTAIN SALT LAKE CITY NEWSPArER NE:WSPÁPER WES-T'- t VOL 339.: Na, 102116 Ye'or 28. SALT LAKE'CiTY, IrTAH, ! MONDAY,-APFIL'28;:49- P. R ".I.-- . ,!. , 4 ' hea , p ffiedd6.,,7. -- aiv ÄERIALs,VIEW SHOWS A FLOODED SECtION'OF,SALT , PRES,' McKAY RETURNS, TO SALT-LAKDESK : t;i(.(L),:.....11.-40.z.ste)7:i.ililz.- 0.: WASHINGTON alP)--T-he destroyer Hobson sank with most of her ,crew four ,minutes after being hit by the Carrier Wasp, the Wasp's commander relatect.Monday. The big carrier hit the Hogson amidships, and the destroyer broke in two Capt. B. C. McCalfree, commander nt- the aircraft carrier, said engines were backing at emergency speed at ot the collision" which caused the worst peacetime the navaliflisaster of modern tames. Miles due east of Boston and McCaliree's report was ra- 700 miles west of the Azores, - . p tie , dfoed to Atlantic Fleet head- Norfolk, Va., Which feleased the dramatic details of the efforts to save the survivors of the collision Saturday night Sixty -- one sur.vive'rs w e r a Picked up At least 176 crAt members still are missing, The toll could be higher. The Navy released a partial list of 159 are listed crew- members N,V1;. as missing.- The collision occurred 12Q0 uartet-8d while the Wasp and accompanyqing destroyers were taking part maneuvers and a lir high-spesimulated air strike. "At 12:00 p.m.' (7:20 p.m. MDT) the Hobson 'crossed , the bow ,of the Wasp from port to ed starboard and was struck amid-shion her starboard side," McCaffree said. !'The 'Hobson rolled On her -- vizi side and, her keel dug deep into the Wasp's bow. p "All Wafp engines were backing at emergency speed at the time of the collision. The HobBALLOT son broke into two parts and My choice for Democratic sank four minutes of the Wasp, then dead rforlinatioa for president is; - ' the" water." 4, ) liEF4tLIVE11,.. , Rescue Frew. went into oper) ation. So fast did they, ; work, KEItg, MeCiffree reported, that "some iTtvrNso.N4T.:ti ) survivors were actually pilled from the Hobson while lifejailEH ( RUSSELL eta, floats, nets and lines ,were more Otto op 4 De mot tofu tot thiown over the sid to the men estotidatI. It you art undo' 21.. &out in the water." ' 40 uot veto ut &IL) Th14 Wasp launched eight NA5TE small boats to pick up other ADDEESS men in the water.-,- ' CLIP AND mArLio Politica) But the majority of the HobPditort Deseret NMVS, P. O. Box son's crew apparently was be Salt Lake City, ttat,t4 !low docks at the time of the cot- , latet-aloligsi- , ' ... ' de David - - succeed. :,: I .0. McKay, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, :was at his desk Monday followtng an absence of ten days from Church headquarters. He left Salt Lake City April I8,by automobile for Mesa, Arizona, where he dedicated the newly cornpleted Mesa 'First Ward chapel Of the Maricopi. Stake, , Sunday, , April 20. Earlier that day he ad- ; , SOUTH' AND FIRST-- WEST' STREETS' t- lagway. E President LAKE CITY NEAR ELEVENTH LI rani :Eisenhower WASHINGTON- - arP)Pres ident Truman Monday appoint- ed Gen. Matthew 13. Ridgway as the neW supreme allied coinmandét in Europe and named Gen. Mark W. Clark to replace Far East. Ridgway Ridgway will succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, "whose release ai supreme allied mender in Europe will Ibetome dressed- - several--- hundred , effective 4une seminary , students at a North The COUneil, Atlantic testimony session in the : meeting in Paris, asked Mr2Tru-- 1 Tempe LDS Institute., From Mesa the Church man to desigante an American leader went on to Southern and he chose Ridgway. California where-li- e spent was nom-- , the followint week, return- - , Formally,. Ridgway hutted the by president an&the, to Salt Lake during the actual appointment made by the week-end- ., NATO council. ' The preside at the sami time disdosed that, at RidgAlfred M. way's reque,-4-'0eGranther will continue as chief of staff in Paris. Clark, who will succeed Bldg- WASHINGTON .(UP)The Way as head c:f the Far East Defense Department may seek Command and commander , in chief of U. S. forces in Korea, legislation:- to bar "suspected is now commander of the Army subversives or potential sabo- field forces, stationed at Fort teur?! from dense planta and Monroe, Va. -41 defense connected areas such as darn'. power DAcIDALL The .department's. views were revealed In a letter to Sen. XitttO(AL LEA Grit Hubert H. Humphrey (13,- rbiltig M tit tAmiti, tight chairman of a labot I Oniy gazt)- subcornmatee which is consid, AMEPtIC411 Lk ering the problem of at 11,044441 LAS VEGASThe Atomic Energy Commission and - ,- " It&bbisLitimg. r11411., To:',.Stildy. Martial Law rt 1 t) ' ;1 C4 hi Army brought gharges against ert,W, classified (AP) Thai properly recording ourt Martial' Military information in private failing properly to t j."Gen. 'Rob- tecords gndclassified safeguard military infor r military ' formation" OrOW, hose diary a,ttache'ln,Moscow was mmunist by tc,ipted arents in aermahy st year Army arlhoun emerit by Fp( rqtary Pace said t at Grow been charged Wi h d '4, , 'wAsHINoTpN f , momentarily.' in Elsewhere the state flood waters cut the main Denver tit, Grande Western Railroad line at SpznLsh, Fork and threatened three U. highways. Hard bit Salt Lake Cityl-w84-- ; as working overtime in the corn paratile lull Monday, prepar- - .) ing for soother "river" which was esPected 1- ." flowing South Street within a matter of hours. Thirteenth South Street from Fifth East Street west had al- .13y NORMAN' It'ROIVEN ready been turned into a "riv- er" by sandbagging the sides The roaring Spanish Fork and 'running floodwater down River rose to the highest level the street in lieu of traffic in its histpry Mgoday, washing water-- was overflowing out a bridge on the Denver and Mountain Dell Reeervoir Mon- - Rio Grande Western Itatroad day and the overflow soon was main line Trains Were being rerouted expected to surpass the 350 second foot capactty of city- - over Union Pacific tracks bestorm sewers, 'efter which it tween Salt take City and Den-wi- ll be run town Twenty first 'vet ,Passengers of , a wrst South Street. .,bound passenger train stoppe4 It Commissioner Grant f.t. Butt at Helper were carried to Wa'S Lake City by bus,' The bride bidite said the in no dap,,ler of sollaps;ng and was, washed out at p For !' , T,e Army 'announced this step, Pace said, alter investigations hertand atroad. , Grow had written in the diary that he thought war with Russia See S. L. FLOODS on rage was imminent: - River Cuts D&PGW Rade - L..." - By 3011N R. TALMAGE'. mobilized men and eciiiipment 1!.Ioriday to fight the worst 1100G crisis In the state S rustory. In Salt Lake City, water levels were somewhat down from Sunday's peak, but more than 100 elty blocks were affected by rood waters, sorrrtr nt them completely submerged. The respite was expected to be of brief duration,- - as heavy actditional runoffs from Parley's and City Cr.,!eks were expected rst down-Twenty-fi- fl rk H .' ttah a representative of the Marine Corps, announced Monday that the joint AEC Maxine Corps atomic detonation scheduled for Tuesday morning, had been canceled for at least 24 hours." Chief reason for the postponement, it was learned, , as unsettled weather and rain showers which have been falling on southern Nevada for the past 48 hours; When the test does take Vice, bayonet armed Ma- rine infantry-mewill view the explosion "at a to nearer the heart of the explosiopthan any other point combat troops who havellarticipated in similar exercises," Immediately after the detonation, the Marines will charge actoss interVening ground to the zero point of the . detonation. ,L:':..1,4-...4-)...;- Council 7.Mtpts'- pafeils-6..- MARINE ATOM MANEUVER POSTPONED OVER RAINS irt,-th- , ,Li..7.LIU : '1 Saboteur Law May Be Askeä ;.:Li-- A----f Sr. UTAII rLooDs on ilk-- 1 - - |