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Show , r, ., , 0 , - , , 1 II , ''.'. " ... GOOD 'OLD SUMMERTIME . Salt Lake and VicinityPartly cloudy , , , ) -,..., - - ,t - ' - '74.440,, ,,,,, . Price: ,Five Cents ' , , , . ' - , oti ni, eta .a...-- . FAMILY NEWSPAPER " ' IC 'OS . .. . oil ) I . 1 16 , , -- , , .. , , ,. . 1 ,.... ...... . .. ,. . -- ,..0, -- . .r.,.... t .. .,. ,, , LL ,,, , t,... I 1 , Welfare Help v - - , ' .',. ''' ''' ....' , .. . ,.. .. f: :, 64.400 ,,,,,r4I. ... 'ff,.., , ,,. : .. . ... . ,L se. -- ' 1 -- , ..i. ' - ' ; , t 0-- -- - ., . e ...,:.. ,,..:, Rescue Crews e te,4 ses e t Ilf 1 1 , ' ' (Via'Telephone to The Deseret News) , ' :. l - l'ess IIs '4 e'e ell closed. , , ' "' - - 1. e se s ., ;'.. , e. .. ' r -. e , - - - , - - - - eseeseesseesseesseseseseeeseeeeessesess f 4 -, . and the throughout-Uta- ) - t , . , , ' . L.. , ., s , s ' , . , .' t , i a,8,:uitt , i t ' , of- RESIDENTS FORCED os' k OUT ATI GuN- pluiN I . - I . i i , ii t ;t tf 1 ps, uagi4 Truman Releases 1 '44::: 1 i of people who , ' , l , one knew how many might be concealed in the crumpled houses, the submerged streets, the sunken cars. Sheriff Martin T, Pratt laid. "It is beyond the realm of possibility that in all these shattered buildings. nisLe of toppled and power tifIlt:s,perulionar.1 S.- . Memorial Rites. ! their way oot, that none should have died. 71.'4 are going to find there bount I mlil not vboedntiturseine how guess any. We will not find rltavsetr vriec: ttee tem ' s body until cedes, and that will be a matter of weeks." , "There have ben a number of ,cleaths," was all .the Red Cross, coordinating a list of the 1 I Ii ficials reported, end the Church , I welfare prograin has really been for their own. Of caring . ,. , I missing, cou.id aay:, Dozens ef afirsat - Immediately after the s-(API sai-d- "So did I. although.lwas ef n-the' VANPORTOreeMay. 81. floodWho refugees, crying bewilderedly in - I Flood-Relione I of of the , ones, this residents ,. lucky .. Church leaders, working under guessI , . Portland evacuee centers, re- Many the direction of George L. Scott, stricken city refused tii leave their got my wife and boy out alive.. ' The of yesterday's Memorial Day observance conported missing relatives., a a "It's hard and funny feeling forced president of the Portland Stake, hatoemmesweitohtidirpaownliceguonffalcers By The Associated Press) I tinued t day as many Salt Laker' took advantage 'of the ex- 'Example Cited ibut it hit me hard to talk 31 alSout, set a 'WASHINGTON, May central telephone clear(AP) tended ,,weekend to visit canyons and beaches, while for many New pledges to preserve peace, ing up ." a is: President S. Truman D. L. "But many of them may be in families The said bulletins today point for daencdt roerd another othe it was another day of remembrance for the missing ones freedom and liberty were voic- and opened wide the facilities of sued bypoliice and floodswept sections in .the Portland Housing tbousewsat; tch.etrheoses, mo PeriegeedrY. place," reported Mrs. . ed in many lands yesterday as the storehouses and other welBruce area" west a "disaster bono ed yesterday. Kay Larson, Red Cross official. ',l Authority. operator of the city of to tribute this one was his of said truck Americans war of use t dered Douglas how paid a Red Cross photoge propfare She oftold surplus agencies. ; 18,700 residents, indicated there City, county and - federal The first reports filtering in was Illttle immediate danger. them. and rehabilitation. rapher took a picture of a man; war dead. erty Countrys t most as were as well stores floes, c, abandoned it at the bottom Mr. Truman. acted aboard the crying for his lost wife; and then, President Truman Interrupted were fragmentary, Richard C. Horns and sirens were blown of He t closed today and parking on exit-wan and carried in counselor hours later Stratford. evacuee another of ramp second Williamsburg, presidential yacht when the railroad embankment a weekend of Potomac River downtown streets was free. the Portland Stake said, but by the city crumbled. two of his three children to safe- on Which he is spending most of center, found the wile- mourning - I yachting to place a wreath at this morning, most of the families protecting His wife , her lost husband. carried the third.' ty. the day.More than 3000 gathered yes- Many did not bear them. the tomb of the unknown soldier had been accounted for. , "The people just didn't believe "I've got the receipt for the The White House said the pres- - , With thousands of evacuees , e terday in Memory Park for the . Vernon' Stoddard, fornier resi- that there was a break," said one final payment on that buggy in ident "expresses his deepest sym- - scattered through Portland in Arlington National 'Cemetery. 0 man memorial services at '3:30 i schoels, homes, and public builda radio address he voiced dent of LaGrande, Ore., whose officer. "They wanted to see the my pocket nowmade the last pathy" for flood victims, In e t , check had patriotic organ- By. p.m. Forty-fivThe disaster order covers those ings, a the Memorial Day wife and three children barely water first before fleeing theirl payment rriday," he said. the that hope to escape'through water homes. Many stopped to pack' "I'd sell it cheap now." a izations participated in the cere's, parts of the states of Washing- - still not succeeded in making around the globe managed celebrations waist deep five minutes after belongings Idaho in the val- - full list of the missing. e . ton, Oregon-anor aid neighbors." mony which included presenta- - PROVO e- - The largest class di would underline two things: The wall of water, which crashthe dike flooded area, told ley' of the Columbia River and Rescue, workers reported seethe first gold star next- - graduates in the history of Brig- - "That the government of the how fast the waterstherose. i ed through a dike yesterday and its tributaries. small p o w or I emblem in Utah to Mr. and ham Young University last night ttnited States works only for "I had been at church," she ing many men in roared through the great Sprawl. .. the Kootenai Idaho second-stor- y northern In into ' Mrs. Alben Bergstrom of Trernon- - heard Pres. George 'Albert Smith peace in the world, and in order said, "and, after meeting, bad lboats breaking ing town knocking people and River Valley is included. 0 Other evidence of loot-rin, we mule have gone to a store I owned on the windows. to surplus property houses before it like tenpins, will addition In Mar-- 1 al i It was not seen. Sheriff. ton, who lost four sons in the of the Church of Jesus Christ of ttoaattaih.thattopeace 1 enforce it." outskirts of Portland. My wife tin Pratt said they might be forthe ,WoradrerAsasel$tos not recede until the flooded , Latter-da- y war. Aindmthienistharantdiosno,f Saints, and Henry D. In a second ceremony in Wash- - called me there and said Columbia goes down. The Coliun. T the the mer belongoccupants salvaging s Dr. Robert D. Searle, president Moyle, member of the Council - bia is due to crest here tomorrow. Mr. Trumail(((put a rose warning had been given. Before Si Pa. of JOHNSTOWN, distribution ington, titianMay large permits I ee until alter that can the res.. Westminster College, speaker of the Twelve, urge them to live in a floral anchor thdt" was drop- she finished talking to l me .she ings. and Navy mate- - ' Not look 4 of . (AP)The Vanport, Ore., flood titles of Army cuers Many Report Seeing Bodies of the day, said that "we measure the gospel of Jesus Christ, as ped in the Potomac in honor of said the water had started to seep through the submerg59th r!'aMisr. by the price special features of the Seventy- - his predecessor, Franklin ell under the, door." had not been occurred one day before the acted upon recom- - ed first stories, or the splintered bodies Truman theyaltte of freedom Although . , , Roosevelt. . plying the city 'ye pay.' recovered by daybreak, reports anniversary of a, similar disaster mendation of Maj. Philip B. nem- - hoieses. Boats, s c o n d Annual Baccalaureate Rescued by Firemen the night, found no The president also sent a mesMayor Earl J. Glade, County e . , told of many victims. A -t- he historic Johnstown flood. ing, public works administrator, throughout, possible Commissioner Homer W. Jaynes Services at pyu. , "She put- down the P h o it e sage to the Jewish war veterans sheriff said be saw four A dam burst across the South who had received pleas for aidtone in the houses' second .floors. of the United States holding their about the same instant that four deputy and Leslie K.; VanFrank, Unitee , The 837 ' in a car being crushed Fork Without Warning .. the governors of the th persons students graduating River and sent a wall of from Veterans' Council chairman, 'Nee- .. i 53rd, annual memorial service in firemen came crashing into the under a states. ' floating building. A resThe dike broke without warn. ad a wreath atthe foot of the and an overflow crowd of par- New York. room. They took her and my cue worker said he saw a man water raging through the western House said White The eF war memorial in- the a town that had been ig'ing upon enough that we pay ents, friends, faculty members "It park. A Administrator Raymond Foley ing to a Ilog. He was knocked Pennsylvania City of 50,000. l told li that morning that "you and students, lammed every :part the' --.Mask By, Choir . went debris and is making a check on flood will only also atters'itit was to warn whirling by made vain and to to leave. "Don't tolerance time have bring fight ter that was waist deep in less down. Many persons said they ' I excited." those in the path of the flood but damage. .world," he said Music t get , ten than minutes after the dikes saw childreb being swept away. : The dikes bad been Inspected " I e Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir. un'- auditorium, ballroom and lounge, in that message: "Let us hold broke. the warning came too late for Robert , LaRoche, r 4' and 1I high of direction only J. by night Spencet, - See BYtt'GRADS Saturday der the engineers, to I the the time " heed. got "By dike, Navy Air Corps veteran, tola of oseto . rage 5 e j usti the director of the housmg au. Cornwall. In addition to the paabout 20 minutes later, the water seeing a man trying to climb up The loss of life in the Johns, triotic organizations, many othe, thority which runs Vanport, and , , had already covered many of the the side of his house. The man town flood is listed- in the Ency. i the : 'e chairman of the housing s01,!., groups participated in the Arv- automobiles and houses were the at between Britannica lost his footing and wes hit by clopedia ices. Before the mass ceremony, hoTrhi ) e like ' 2000 match at 5000 the and a log. and together Individual services were held it; Were reported eo sound ' crunching '' damage boxes," he added. . "Me' n watchianPgPcried," Laroche $12,000,000. that Sunday morning the Vaneert various cemeteries. , , ' ' I Housing Authority distributed Simple ceremonies also were 'I" held throughout Salt Lake Coununder every doorstep a state- I J ment saying that no danger was , ty in honor of hundreds of war ,, 1, 31', ( I event PRAGUE, but of May ( AP)The ' thatin ' expected, dead. Veterans organizations conBy The Associated Press the need to evacuatep-- a siren I ministry of interior said today ducted services and graves were , ' blank balThe nation's holiday weekend traffic and other acciden770 . '' ', , decorated with wreaths and flow'''', "The Housing Authority feels .. 4 4 lots in Sunday's parliamentary 0 , tal deaths today had exceeded the National gaiety Council's Salt Lake City ers. unvelled ' . electiontheir means of showinj tetTibly, terribly sorry," said Les. , a mod. estimate long before th ehomeWard-boun- d rush of highway Jordan accidents. Page B-Two die in Memorial week-en- d W.. ter to the Humphreys, attorney for ument erected in honor of 236 ittavel began. entries arrive for Junior Livestock- Show. Page B-- ' opposition First . the Housing Authority. after the I government. war dead who served in World for at The total the council the fatalities Nation ' Communist-lepredicted National disaster struck. "But all you can d e period The ,.WASHINGTON, May 31 (AP) Wars I and IL s, , A-, -, toto 244 is on after the bad climbed advice the toll of in but enter one GOP be Taft depend Front Page only shortly ticketthe platform. urges midnight specific -P- aul Robeson, Services were also held in Dra- 225, singer, Negrb ' A-., i 144 of the dead, drownwith 6,429,145 votes, the coMpetent engineers?' : traffic for N. edreceived U. awaits Jew accounting day, mishaps Page replies. Arab, conducted the by to senatorial Cemetery.. refused per tell it 1. , today . ministry said. There had been no accidents, including Looting Appears plane committee whether he is a mem- World Draper Post 83, American Legion, ings 35, and miscellaneous I1 ..,- doubt of dire Communist victory. , e44' and in Pleasant Green, Cemetery crashes, 65. clutched five peanuts Doctors girl. fasting by by puzzled .. ; ber of the American Communist es, The ministry said the totali The w iltakeslieaster. .gave the ' In Magna where Daughters of The traffic deaths alreadzilre 32 more than the council Party. He said ha is willing to Page t Within 13 vote was 7,199.846 of a registra- - first wail Utah Pioneers and the - American had predicted. A-, , ' afterward, succeeding Arabs close in on Tel Aviv. Page go to jail rather than tell, tion .of 8,005,887., There was no minutes Legion combined for- services. I Robeson appeared before the, Sports Deaths by states from traffic, drowningsttnd miscellaneous of how many in- - billows of water began rooring It ' Other ceremonies were held at avnanliodunbcaelmloetsn the town, sweeping plaYe Senate B-. Judiciary, cast. A total through Committee,' were Utah in T leads Miller causes, Jorresepectively: ' Page 1 South at Herriman,' Bluffdale, crush- ' along with several other wit- - ' e Reds trip Bees in first of 806,041 voters did not go to the lag children off their feet, h Arkansas, CaliforAlabama, Arizona, League series. Page B-cars dan, and Midvale cemeteries. , , houses, ing swirling nesses, to oppose the ballots declared ,polls or had their I . . nia, Connecticut, . ' toys in the brown current. 'OR Communist Control Bill. He Editorial . Services Today .. invalid. N-Some lootingby boatmen prediscards executive rubber stamp. Page said he thinks members of the Florida, Illinois; Indiana:. Georgia, Congress st In some localities the prow' f Some communities had their workers done a y Act. ballots ran as high as 39 per cent. tending o be rescuehorror-filleIowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Communist Party "have Survey analyzes members..who voted for I d in the services today. Murray Amen- America." place in "K .. magnificent job votes for , Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 100; Many district returned hours. Six men were ar- Legion Post 60 conducted he declined to answer a Page night , can But 98 to from Minnesota,-,4-2-ticket Page Page the government Mississippi. services at 10 a.m. in Taylorsville Michigan. Missouri, specific question by Senator F er rested at daybreak by the sherF 100 per cent... 30-0- ; Peeler , . New Jersey. and at 11 a.m. ' in Murray today ' Montana, iff's deputies, their boat reported Nebraska, as to his party Comics guson Mohemia-Norfor Poet The figures Confidentially Your: .....-F-filled with loot taken from sec- while' Sandy American Legion New York, North Carolina, Okla- membership:: : Ohio, Nation.2..2-vote .,, . F Radio 5,454,301; and-sto.. Total Puzzle 11:13 Log am. in homa, .... Post 77 held rites at apartments. "Nineteen leading Americans' Crossword Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Caro-F al Front 4,929,250, blanks 525,051. Scene Today The search far victims 4era ors are going to jail for refusal to Garden Sandy Cemetery. At Bingham lina, flakota , South Na.2-- F Tennessee, 1,745,454; F t Texas, Total . . Hi ... Slovakia: Tales ), last night and of Society American ..., I1 Legion members, question and if nee' West easraryer Ithat, blanks .2;14, 8-- 3 Urinal Front Utah, 1,499,895; Virginia, Washington, 3ports ...,... will join them," Robe- Les Gf) Post 30 placed wreaths on the ! .....4-3 , See FLOODS Os Fags t graves of veterans. INI;LadiAASIL ' son uld. :? Eheeksok L Obituaries Wisconsin, Virginia; Wyoming, ,- - , , , -- , y --- ., -- s frenzied-evacuation-- 7 or of 1 .- ' for-relie- ay . , - . d Flood Recoils g, , ' thegp 1889 Disgster - - , - is-h- ot fce Hit 244, , ' . Throngs Ballot. Against Reds in Czech. Vote' - - Holiday Deaths 32 Moare than Were Prdicted ... ., 2. ' ' 2. . , - A-2.- , ' ' , 8. rapsoono. . 2. all-Uta- 0; Mundt-Nix!lawa- ', 0; Taft-Hartle- 3; A-4- 1; , 2; 11-- 1; b, 4-- A F-- 5I 5 2; a- ry 1- -F . 6-- .11-- . , ,,- ,- , . , . A li4 1 13-3-- 6: - ,. , . ' . i Inside 'THE NEWS' Sinber Balks Att Red Ouert i .. . , ' ck 0 . if .est round-the-clo- - of-k- in - 1 . rresmtth , ' 1 - Hear. araik ' . . lyi Graduates, , Army Surplus . k. . - , i '1 ' -- : , Pledge Peace I Many' 7 an ' Ne Bodies Recovered No bodies have been recovered from the devastated town. But no , - Suyroundinq Area Observe Double Holiday .. , Memorial( Ritesqlonor Parents Four ,Sons S. i lost. ---- . na- - 1 'f .... "This does not mean that this covers all Church members in the area," Bishop Carman said. I , "There are a number of workers, , , - , ;, ss , s, and dental and. medical students . -- se' ----- -1' ,, , e, who might have moved into the . e et , A area in the past two weeks of ,, ' 'at ,4 , whom we would have little, or --4 no record." , . , , '- f , e "For the most part, however, see 40, , -- ,.., ' , , , . ', we have fared far better than , - .'N''''-'''- - e 1 es ,' s, ,e, ' e Pree esee -".1. se others who were also unfores .4-, see . . . . ,s tunate," he added. , , ,: ,,, , es.' ' Most of the people who had to ,' ,'''.. s .se ' ' ''' '7' ' ,flee before swirling flood wates 'es' ee.'''',', .,,,,,,e'sre, a. 'eees. e,.." ee ,eeees, essl ewe- ees eee e.g. ...see,74 . . time --es s!'",! inese short, borror-filled- -' 1little had yesterday afternoon, time to do much ;more than es- DEATH TRAPLHousing ,units such os these,. consisting of 10 to 12 opartments each, in cape with what they were wear- were 'torn from their foundations- by. wag of water from broken dike,- trapping many , . ,a, ing and what they etsüld tarry in housing project, (AP Photo) their (arms. Welfare Agencies Acts it ,, I The Red, Cross, with 18,000 for peerpsc:nws assudawdeanmi; ,..- - 1 . 4 . , i, , , ' , ..., ' , , , , 4 , , ' . - tion today is this MurrosYCity Cemetery where wives, mothers, fathers and frieridshave come to place flowersin the groves of those who are missing, many of whom gave their lives in World Wars 4and II.- (Photo by W. ,Claudell Johnson, staff 'photographer.) ' - , - .. s .,,,, - , , 7 , E , , t ... - IP . e-- -- . ' .. - , - 't - , en . . .. e. , , -- e 1 . .,.. . - I 4 b,,, . ,. ' .s, , ie. 1.00 , , '1'':',e) 4 VANPORT, Ore.. May 31 (AP) Another dike was threatening se, to break today under the raging ' ;', flood that destroyed this town - . ,..,, of 1R,100 people yesterday as completely as a mashed toy vile , lege. .JCveryorm except tNescue work- e s ert, hunting bodies in the ghat.. tered town of Vanport, ' were .. ordered out of the area to avoid being caught in a second break. ,The water from the flooding Columbia threatened to spew .... ., s, . , over an already-alerte- d suburban se s distriet and ttie $1,500,000 Port. ss , land Meadows race track. e ' The new 'danger. slowed the search of 'the brown, debris'. splattered lake that covers what was the thriving town ' yesterday e of Vanport. '' , 15 to uo feet waters, Murky I deep, still concealed -today the , i secret of how many lives ,were . ses -- Mars R,..y..0.40.1. ' ' ,, . ' 4. .....................ess. ..., , Victim Bodies . . In the Vanport city area were approximately 35 L. D. S. families whose homes were threatened by the flood waters. Of these, only ten families have not been completely accounted for, according to Bishop Ralph Carman of Uni, versity Park Ward. - 4'1e ........,-....,...., : , - . , . , ,. , flood-strick- .e4--sre'c' e '''' ''s ' , Saint families in the Vanport City area fared. e better than most, preliminary reports from Church of Jesus '' :Saints Christ of Latter-da- y leaders in the Oregon city dis- seleseNite J-- 4 se ...k "41 ..--- e e'r ts es ,,.. , . "s . :: , A , i - Still Hunt1 - .. PORTLAND,- - Ore.Latter-da- y s ,pse, 'es ' ''' - 4 , ,,. Flooded City. , ' .. - , f...,;le ba 1 i . Sét Up f or . ,ii 4 .. ( et , ' ' , ,,,, - .. ' ,, ,... ....... . , ., :, 1 . .. 71 A,- V P . 1 44 , ., '5'. ( 1 ' i E Bp ' , . - ,, ,. 4 ' ...,. .,,., . . ,, -: , , , - - n ' , ,,.0 eQ) .., 4 . ... i j , - . . ; : C.."'M . . ..,. - , 0 is.; , , . . , .. - .. '(.?- . ' , nj '' .' Vol. 350. No. 55. 98th Year ' , , . . " (0), S, ,, , 4 , ,' . . , ' - t ' - - . -- . EDITION , , t,' .. , 4, 4 . ' 4. NJ , Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday Evening, May 31, 1948 , - . --- z. ., ' , . Final Home ' '34 1 ' II i ..,44. . 1114 -- . THE - . :,,tdk . , ' je , , - N. ,, . . ,z 1 ' '1 .. -- with few' light showers mostly along the mountains. Low tonight near 58, high tomorrow 86. 4 , - , tonight. and tomorrow t ...':', -, , , 4im,PMEMos I . ,, , . J4. under-floodligh- ts - |