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Show TN! WEATHElt .CLOUDY, SCATTERED SHOWERS WEATHER, REPORT,PAGA VOL 331.' ,9 0 1 A4 - SALT- - LAKE- CITY, UTAH, SD R 23, 1950 WDAY-MORNIINIG,--AP- - EDITION METROPOLITAN FIRST FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN THI MOUNTAIN WEST rle tOoth Yitor 0. at ,I PRICE 15 CENTS Contrasting Police Work Tells Its Own Story Salt Two pikes of police work demand attention. They were One wu classic in its perfection. The other demonstrated Lae tits exciting news of the week. CO) the tumbling floundering of fumbling cops at their bewildered worst As this is written, that case still does. Consider the classic" na ditt. .M4'44.P.,,',iIVIM00VT?,,MWA..??Mgh,, first Last Stinday,,,two convicts escapedfroM the state prison.' The circurnitanceiLvere Infuriating. A mmiiiimum Inmate whd had been assigned the job of driving a marketing truck in and out of the prison gates was under orders to check his physical presence to a guard every half hour. Somehow the guard who was supposed to take the check failed to do so. The man was ignored for four hours. 'Then another inmate tipped Wardel Severson that this man, a killer named Petersen, might be missing. He was. He had taken another prisoner with - The - Severson wasted no time in recriminations. guard's in due would be to investigation subjected appropriate laxity time. The immediate job was the recapture of the escaped, .S.;S. ' . 4tairThi,.. 0 aer, 4 fb - , WASHLNG'rON mer , 44' ,,,smor e '...ose AO' :, qv it,A uss Target, , ays Acheson AIR DEMONSTRAitoN WATCHES - ELGIN FIELD, Harry S Truman scans the sky through his field glasses as he watches the aerial . fire power ,denionetratton put on by the rorce. (AP N,Slrepttotol,., U rurnan .1. - -- erales Si. i:litd PJJiglit By ROBERT G. NIXON ' EGLIN FIELD; 71a.71INS)----A sizzling red parachute flare that drifted to within a few feet of his heed gave President thrill Truman lit, unscheduled --watched Saturday- while-It tremendous display of Amer. lea's combat air power at Eglin Field. Thit nations. front-lin- e Air Force put on an amazing ex. hibition lior the president of what 1050 kir war might be astonlike, and it did ishing realism that 'saw fragmentalion bombs end block-bu- s ter$bu rstiñg furiously throughout the mock battle Meets were kept alert. almo"tlnyariabli, ice's bornber---;;America'- s- CENSUS TAKER - Another Million r. S. IS READY Hew Homes Seen Director By. FHA - The display of air power for the president followed a mighty showof Autclica'sr ground atrength,r put on for Truman s Friday at Fort Berming; Ga. Both demonstrations were bailed by Mr. Truman as evi- Is Plane Clue --- n , Yearly Gambling - - Losses Set at , Twenty Billions ' WASIIINGTON (INS)The senator slated to direct an investigation of nationwide crime syndicatess said Saturday that milk the public gambling-ringof 20,000,000,000 dollars a year. tu'- Sen. Ketauver ged speedy approval of his resolution to have a Senate committee conduct a sweeping into crime and gamblirtg, and the tie-u- p between, the two. in-'wi-ry , FortBemvingr--thartAmerien'e ''-- - multi-billio- - on Mlles Vow to Resist Comics '..16-pag- e Editorials Tinsocial News Gardenz, led March months of 1349 completed the "downward adjusbment to the 43group force fixed by the pres- ident ' 24, reported that the last six ' 27-3- - , one-four- th - -- - -- - , Obituaries .1?-- 1 .; .. A-1- Radio. Television Scene Today Society ; ;..C-Seetio-n Sports - : Sec. Farm-Garde- n ..... Theaters Vivian kleik 1 - F-- 3 Ti ' 1r-2- -3 B-- 3 Weather A-- 2 recun ahte ft 0. East-We- st B-- 2 C4-- 7 Hi-Tal- es - anie 1 , - ' Section , k se A-- 4 - He said this paring down meant the inactivation of seven troupe alreadybeing formed earlier in 1he inectivation of six Air Force ins;allations and the complete closing of eight additional installation rk LUCKY GLANCE, SPRINT BRINGS SEASON'S 'CATCH' 1 7 fighting services. Air Force Secretary Spiting.t(112..410 leXres...thil.22Tt-Al2r- il - ed A-1- ner, the-sa- otibt-tharthit-tvas - - Friday-testifi- , - and houses this year with the defense and diplomatic policies la IiiisliFitIrlialrlirthrT budget makes the situaaccent on homes for middle and togethir will eventually bring Ilona tion worth looking into." low income families, about real peace. This year's buaget la about Richards who formerly re' Mr.- - Truman 'flew back- to 42,000,000,000 dollars.- - ' sided in Salt Lake City, said, Washington Saturday afternoon Meanwhile, it loolfed like an that President Truman's sign-la- g well pleased with what he eidsting Senate committee may a dol- called the "precision and coof a new lump the gun, on Kefauver.--,lar housing bill his set the stage ordination" he witnessed in the' Sen. McFarland authorities in Berlin ,were refor continued high level hous- two days of defense demonstra- chairman of a commerce sub- ported by high government ing production throughout the tions. committee considering a bill to sources Saturday night to be nation for the rest of 1950. The president said that he throttle the booktniking racket, to use machine guns HI The IRA directo-- 's statement will spend the Fourth of July declared hia group ,is deter- ready to prevent a massedl necessary name as other government of- at Valley Torge,:tistoric winter mined to exhaust all sources- inficials speculated tin the possi- quarters of George Washing- a drive for facts on crime hi;- march of , young Communists bility that as many as 1,300,000 ton's Revolutionary Army, and fluence in local governments. from the Eastern zone of Gernew tmits might be constructtd will visit a Boy Scout encamp A parade of mayors and po- many, by Russia. lice chiefs on Thursday in 19501ó itetilliew record high and march of 500,000 youths britorne before the Mc Into West Berlin has been schedRichards said that the conFarland group that crime and Winds uled for May Whip Town struction gambling are linked up in coralready High industry American' officials were said at record levelshas ruption of ,law enforcement BUENOS AIRES (AP) producing And every man who had a part in the hunt, whether it been The arm to shot a the all lo nificials by Cyclonic winds, ripped through regard ,Ber,lin as a "cross- rsupported given errand or not, performed ably and well the new law. He said was a which 'would Iroads " in the cold war and rethe tiny town of Brillante Colo- the legislation ' in a classically good job., 'Sufficient money is avail- rado,. 180 miles northwest of outlaw Interstate transmission scdved not to be dislodged from able to builders for housing and Buenos Aires, Saturday killing of racing information on which Compare that with the egregious dillydallying reprethe German Metropolis. from what I have seen of the One person and injuring 40. bookies depend. sented by the Salt Lake City police forces alleged "hunt" , If young Communist demonbuilders' plans it looks like Pro- far a man who abducted and a fivecriminally attacked straters as be will greatduction attempt the proposed greatnr - year-ol- d kindergarten child 1Vednesday. er than last year." zone march across the Police Chief L. C. Crowther put the "search" it seems At the - same time, federal line, Allied authorities will represumptuous to use that word; we apologize to it and Will economists discounted chances sist firmly, it was stated. of any substantial decreases in ask the city to pay extra for its use in this connectionnot Relatively "peaceful" means under the direction of an officer trained and experienced in home prices this year. Instead, will be used if a march is begun steel lumber and said NEW YORK (AP)The catch of the seasonor any rising the kind of detective work that finds the kind of criminal- they despite refusal of permission by probably Will result in prices 'seasonwas made Saturday by'Alfred Forchino. , pervert who assaulted this little girl, - the4llied governments. These: some hicreases. He was 'passing by a housing development when he tear might include fire hoses, Instead Chief Crowther assigned the "hunts' to the diThe government acted quickgas, and the like. happened to glance up, reetion of Capt. E.' J Steinfeldt presumably because the ly after the new law became Butif these faiL the Western At a filth floor window he saw a baby teetering on attacker's ravaged victim is stilran infant of five tinder years, effective. One major rhange reare prepareit to use authorities ' cent the ledge. per and Captain Steinfeldt is chief of the department's. "youth duced by machine or such other guns the maximum amount of InterForchino sprinted to a position under the window and weapons es may be needed. bureau.' est FHA will insure on a mortThe- - ,Allied comniand, whit held out his bent arms. In his proper capacity Captain, Steinfeldt Is one of the ge. includes -Fraate:. down.-d plummeted most meat intelligenVhard-working, tbe cooperitiVe,-an"prwas declared to be resolved that He made catch. the carinsure will FHA loans oducve police officers Salt Lake City has ever had. But his only west Berliners shall not be subA Passing motorist drove Judith Myers,- two, to a skill is the curbing and amelioration of juvenile delinquency. rying an interesfrate he higher jected to the terrorizatiori' of than 4.25 per cent plus a 4 per hospital. Her condition was described as "not serious." marching colturtos. in the style Continued sent insurance premium, of Nazi demonstriartons. Page pays Off. It may take days or weeks or sometimes even years, but it works. Three days and three hours after the two fugitive felons' escape from the prison Was known, the thoroughness of the search paid off in Orem. Alert and alerted Sterling Harding. chief of the three-ma- n polio force of that town of 10.000- persons, tabbed thi two men walking down a railroad track. One a convicted killer, .the other desperate, they were easily dangerous- Overlooking no detail Warden Severson had warned all cooperating police about that. Smart, cagey and competent. - Chief Harding took no chances. Be 'radioed for help. Lieut L A. Christensen and Trooper Lawrence of the State Highway Patrol and Don Walker, Pleasant Grove's marshal, arrived in a matter of minutes. - Guns drawn, they were unarmed. They surrendered. The hunt was over skulking danger abated; the warden could relax. , 4. - dence of U. S. preparedness, but WASHINGTON (INS)--Fede- ral he emphasized that everything Housing Administration America is doing In a military lie said, in a radio talk Franklin D. Richards. Saturday way is purely defensive. Ile fact that it it reliably "The predicted the construction of expressed hie ' conviction, at estimated that the gambler? -,anothesmilliors,now-apartment- s, , - -- PIEREE, S. D. (AP)---census taker met a farmer froift flood bedeviled Sully County. She asked him the standard question: "Do you have running water in your borne?" "Nope," said the Armen frPshly chased from his home by an overflowing stream, "but if I opened the door I would." e for-th- - Rubber Raft IN HOME? YES, highest-rankin- - Shot Riddled WATER RUNNING litest types of fighting aircraft, including Jet planes so' modem that few except the g millcountry's tary men have yet seen them. A giant,. B48 hugest war plane was emong the craft demonstrated. All the fighters used were and Gashed through the skies like ' miniature comets. At one point, as the planes threw everything they had at the 800 square mile Eglin Field target area, a red, incandescent parachute -- flare.- was carried close to Mr. Truman '''by the Wind. But it passed safely be' area. yond the 'stands. SHOWED TRE BEST At no time did the president Put on display for the chief seem the least perturbed by the executive were some of Amer incident, but simply watched with interest as an officer called standby fire engines to move in and douse the flare. bide-and-se- ek it ',S. Chief i - was cheeked. The process was implacable. Every fresh shred of iriformaticrn, whether it seemed reasonable or not, was sifted, checked to the police and sheriff's offices in the proper area. This went on for three days. -the warielei iipiratters, no There wasno secrerywith the newspapers, no attempt to barnbeam!s the public. The only thing that mattered until it was accempliihed was: Get these men back! The routine moved !Ike clockwork, with the warden intelligently aware of every tick(' In every neighborhood where the searched-fe- r pair might be, state, county, and city, town or village peace . y . - -- - (AP)--Secretar- Saturday that the United States had speeded up development of semi-annu- al 4,4 it.-to- .. usefut , (AP)--For- - 46.." The warden put The machinery of recapture to work. His performance was benutiful to behold. Here was a pro. lessional, who knew his job, and worked at it. Two members of the Desereti News staff spent that afternoon with him. Both bad bad experien'te enough as police reporters in one city and another during Their time in the newspapering trade to have seen other 'officers in one version or another ' of Warden Severson's predicament and to recognize masterly performance when they saw It. This was it The warden was annoyed as he had a right to be but ha was imperturable: He was tense akanY gaqd offirer4, ; when a hunt Is on; but he was cool, He was as aware as Utah State were his observers that any escape from-th- e Prison looks bad because of the unconscionable record of escapes which were, in fact, responsible for Severson's having been called to the post he holds. Be wasted no emotion thinking of blots on his espy book. His chore right then was to get those men back. His arms were the state police not only of Utah but of e of Idaho. and Nevada; Wyoming, of ColoradoV-i- f need-bcounty sheriffs and their staffs; local police of communities where the escaped inmates might appear. By radio'llnd telephone be stayed.in constant touch with all who might It is the nature of such affairs that "positive identifies tion" of the fugitives came from all directions. Fugitives are magicians until they are caught Simultaneous reports bad them 'positively" seen on a train beaded into Giroredo; Ort a road running to Evanston. Wyoming; on a freight trabs running to Price. The last sounded like the best "identification, though all reports were scrupulously cov. ered by quickly alerted state and tounty officers. CsrhonCounty's Sheriff ,David ,Wallace is a firstrrate peace officer. He threw his Men around the railroad yards at Price before the train pulled in. The hoboing riders who had been spotted in an empty coal car were nabbed They were not the wanted men. "No news is not always good news," the warden said, and the machinery ground on. Every rumor was investi- -' gated. Every clue Was traced down. Every "identification NowlMore Terrible' , two-vict;- ni s of Defense Johnson said President Herbert Hoover, Saturday, urged a', new weapons more terrible than any the world has ever Seen. rider interest ht the boys Johnson declared a belief that this country leads in fashion. and girls clubs of America a variety of siew arms that 4'may mean the (Efferent. be ing as a means of bnproving tween victory And deleatin war,7 the lot-o- f In bis report. the derprivileged children. secretary told America ,that Ha "The surroundings in conatomic arsenal is trrn longer a gested areas of cities and their effect on the livte of small number of bombs of girls and bo3rs form a marsingle type and size?". in Ameriginal black ,spot He also said that America's, ' ea," he said. trinaried dolalt Vetting forces The former president, are proficient and are getting chairman of the' board of the boys clubs of Attlrielk, "equipment superior to that of ora addressed the filthatilltial I any other nation.. conference of the girls clubs BY IttSSIA 8ITERED of America.. Be disclosed that Rusta's By EDWARD E. B0'.lAtt atomic explosion last Septem..r- See- WASIII!qqlON her, coming far itarlier-tha- s State in of A,chetion se retary been expected,' had stepped up U.S. development of new war Urgent plea for national unity, tools that "surpass in destruc- said Saturday night the United tion power arty arms previously States is the Kremlin's chief known." Ile did not explain the target in a drivit for "dominion nature of these weepons. The Deferuie Department re-- 1 ovrr the entire world. "We are faced with a threat port for the last half ,of 1349 in all sober truth I sal this heavily accented the importance of new means of destniction., lt we are faced with a threat not also highlighted the conserra; only to our country but to the tion of military manpower and civilization in which we live." COPENRAGW1 (INS) An the elimination of activities "not he declared. rubber liferaft strictly necessary" for national But, Acheson said, if In , unoccupied Americans unite to demonstrate punctured by possible machine-gu- defense. Feb. 23 a 61Kulaing and fight5i4 faith firkSattirdity niglitWai ài ported found 'Thursday in the the chapter of tbe report deal- in freedom, the" can "carry the free world forward to strength Baltic, the sea where the IL S. ing with the economy Program and would enable this be said secinity." yibich charge Russia shot down ten Defense DePartment to cut anrho secretary, sounded that Lliraval airmen Apra a. Steed proxiseskr 111,200000,000 bens aaanalag A Stockholm dispatch to the the president's defense bqidget cast address to the American Copenhagen Politiken said this for the year ending Jtute 30.) Society of Newspaper Editors. second raft to be fished out of at its closing session here. itIAN1POWTS CUT. the sea watt found by Swedish Tim United States veill "go At the end of 1913, aimed fisherman 54 miles southeast of tile Swedish Wand of Gotland. services manpower totalled 1,; on,. trying to lind z COSTUT1011,- ' In addition to the holes this 551,000, a net decrease of 2000 grotmd for agreement with was raft burned on the bottom, officers and 83,000 enlisted men Rani. Acheson said, but be asserted no agreement is p,sand the Swedish reports caused in mix month& until the Soviets abandon sib', Immediate speculation that it At end, the US. had "the idea of aggression." wu from the missing, unarmed 38,000yeses military airplane, with IT. S. Navy Privateer That real. and Present threat 5408 more being obtained with plan.; TS. S:Air force headquarters funds already authorized. John- of aggression stands in the way. of every attempt at understandin Wiesbaden earlier announced son also reported that 11.001 of ing with the Soviet Union.," be discovery of the raftbut omit- the existing aircraft ted any mention of holes in its en, 2000 of them IPn;(74M said. "And that word 'ag,resbottom or that it also is partJohnson noted that Russia's sion includes not only military ly burned. achievement of an atomic Continued on rage There seemed to he little .ame- earlier than esz pected" and forced the US.. to raft mentioned in the Politiken revise the timetable for ImprovINSIDE TODAY'S ansince Air Force the ' report its defenses. nouncement located the site as ing of Army, Nary and DESERET NEWS the same distance and direction AirReports Torte secretaries faled in of Gotland. some details of how reduced ' ClassiEred Ads military funds are affecting the NEW YORK 4 1I Johnson Reports Arms HOOVER URGES SUPPORT FOR BOY, GIRL CLUBS -- , - -- 1:6 PARTLY , 1850 TOKYO (INS) 111 The wreckage was Wreckage identite4 of a 4 military transport' es that of the missing plane plane which crashed late the numbers appearing on with 35 Americans by aboard was sighted Sunday on parts of the wreekage.P The helicopter hovered over mountain slope in central scene to direct ground the Japan. The wreckage of the plane. cue squads which have bZen.which crashed While enroute harking their way up the dif front Manila- - to Japan., was Bruit terrain since dawn. In plane was first spotted by a 7$. Air Force addition.. a 9 1 and confirmed by a heli- dropping flares to guide the copter sent to the scene. Store than 3500 Amerkan One of the passengers On the plane was listed as Pvt. Grover 'soldiers, airmen and Japanese M. whose home is in Lpolice and firemen have been Coalville. Utah. participating in the search, No signs of life were seen which wa,s ballad overnight by - 'fog near the wreckage, The Plane carried 27 Amen U. S. Air Force headquarters in Japan stated that the wreck- cans passengers:Including lour age is scattered over a wide male and one,wontan members of of a trade'rnission 'which had area on the wouthwevt sJope t 'C-5- Fri-nig-ht - , - - - B-2- B-1- - Son-tine-F- ines rugged kli.;Mirtigatake.-abou50 miles west of Tokyo and ,Japanese barter agreement. added. There smile also two other "There are no signs of sur- women aboard, two 'teen-ageInd a crew of eight. vivors." rs - 7 - '- - |
