Show i Tribune Telephone til ft - T call any department of the Salt Lake Tribune dial For information service nd aporta acorn dial VOL 168 NO 69 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH MONDAY MORNING 'T’V Russ Demand Rebuke for U S Atrocity ' t 1 Weary U N Delegates Hear Gromyko's Propaganda Charges 3 t f t r? -- A MOSES LAKE WASH Dee B— A grim sifting of men and metal was under way Sun- 21 day as the Air Force sought an answer to the world's worst single airplane crash It killed 88 servicemen here Saturday a few seconds after they left for a Christmas at home Sought are (1) the clues to the Identity of a large number of mangled and burned bodies which will bear no name and (2) what caused the crash which snuffed out the lives in those bodies Two teams of air specialists are on hand at nearby Larson Air Force Base for the grim I": w Lost on Agenda Natty in a dark blue suit Gromyko took the rostrum just 24 drama-packehours after he exploded the accusations in a night letter to assembly President Lester B Pearson of Canada Weary delegates slumped In their seats and there were apectaton in only 35 bleary-eyethe public galleries The Russian charges were the la't item on the assembly's agenda and delegates wanted to dispose of them as soon as possible so as to get away for Christmas and New Year’s holidays session The marathon night-lonresulted High U S diplomats spent their Sunday hurriedly preparing a comprehensive reply to the charges They said they welcomed a quick airing ae the assembly could dismiss the charges as ’’false slanderous and defama- 'U iVN X V J i PRICE FIVE CENTS Wlrfphote BRITISH PRINCE Egy pt SKEPTICAL $ t : 4 t i - J- tory” Long Session The two countries clashed first on the subject Sunday afternoon in the steering committee which finally decided to recommend the early debate The assembly met in Sunday but was busy stamping approval on a series of economic measures until just after n midnight Gromyko then launched into of generalized repetition charges of brutality by "Amerl-Se- e Page 6 Column I Reds Repulsed In Drive on Sniper Ridge SEOUL Dec 22 B — Chinese Reds stabbed four times Sunday night and early Monday at a United Nations position on the a t slope of battle-scarreSniper Bulge Each time south Korean defenders of the central front height threw them back It was the only action of tig nificance on the early Monday by falls of powdered snow hovered a few degrees above zero Sighted Fighters U S B 2$ Superforts bombed two recently developed Communist supply areas on the west corst of North Korea during the supply niht One was a taget at Namsanggye eight m'les southeast of Sinanju installathe other was a tion at Yongyong 11 miles southwest of Sukchon crews reported they The lighted Red fighter planes but that the fighters failed to attack bombers destroyed Allied 8 an estimated 30 Communist supply trucks Sunday night the Air Force reported American and South Korean fighter-bomber- s pounded Red artillery troop and supply positions on the eastern front north of the Punchbowl Sunday afternoon Snow Cover Front Ground action came to a standstill Sunday after Chinese Reds temporarily forced 8th Army defenders from two western front outposts shortly after midnight Saturday The Cflinese gave up the two positions without oppo-s- i on at 7 a m Sunday Up to five inches of snow blanketed the front Predawn snow squalls dumped another Inch of powder snow on the precover Tempervious four-incatures remained below freezing throughout the day d battle-frnt-duste- d s e 45-ac- h Today’s Chuckle 0 “Do you enjoy my company?” you Garmisch-Fartenklrche- n peared agreed upon The plane experienced a normal takeoff despite a alight snowfall at the time But when only a few hundred feet in the air it faltered shuddered and nosed down It struck the ground a glancing blow and plowed along the flat field breaking into small almost indistinguishable bits— all except the huge tall piece from which most of the survivors came Thousands of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline spilled from the plane's tanks as they wrenched and tore apart Igniting from some spark it envel-Se- e Page I Column 6 Orders Arctic Ocean Nov 22 24 Nov 7 C-I- 52 Killed I9 19 Mining LONDON Dec 21 B— A crisis is reported building up in Buckingham Palace: Prince Charles is beginning to have New York Times Service his doubts about Santa Claus CAIRO EGYPT Dec 21-- The Word from the palace is that the heir to the government of Gen Naguib dethrone is beginning to ask creed Sunday night a general some awkward questions His purge of public life in Egypt grandmother was said to have The decree provided that peremerged from one recent question-- n session sons convicted of corruption or with the word: “This is the last abuse of power would be barred Christmas Charles yvill believe from political activity and public la Santa Claus” office Nevertheless taking no The decree was retroactive to chances Charles has sent off a full list of requests I to the Jan L 1939 It provides for ImNorth Pole prisonment and fine in case after sentence a banned individual takes public employment or engages in activity from which he has been banned Seek Short Trials Minister of State Radwan said a special court consisting of three judges of the higher courts and probably four army officers W0Ud be Wt Up to try cscs un‘ Bv Associated Press der n accelerated program Each Autumn wept its way out defendant will be limited to one across the country Sunday with defense attorney in order to a mixture of rain sleet consider- check the practlce of dragging able fog and some snow out trials interminably in hope Winter started at 444 pm that change o( cabinet would EST but the temperatures gen friends of the accused into bring erally weren’t wintry except in Montana and the New England power Role of Army states Maine reported some near Penalties provided in the dezero weather naRaiq swept up from the South cree include loss of Egyptian Atlantic states through the Ohio tionality as well as loss of the Valley Into the Midwest where right to hold public office or to with temperatures in the 40s it engRge in political- activity In was 10 to 15 degrees warmer than addition anyone convicted of corruption must restore to the state Saturday Fog shrouded much of North sums illegally obtained through ern Illinois limited operations at the abuse of power while In of- three Chicago airports and A demand for a purge of the dered traffic Skies over the Intermountain j corrupt Egyptian political caste area Sunday generally were together with nationalist agita cloudy and snow fell over parts tion has been at the base of the of Utah and Idaho explosive situation that existed Streets in Salt Lake City were in Egypt from the end of the after an early Palestine war to last summer’s morning onslaught of rain that military coup that brought Gen Naguib to power changed to snow Anchor agaa Dec 20 24 66 Killed four-year-ol- d Nov Nov C-- 20 ll 15 Winter Enters U S Scene With Bluster - hin-Rce- ! d U S RECORD BROKEN Utah Leads All States in Election Vote By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING Chicago Tribune Writer the Dec 21—Publication WASHINGTON complete official returns of the 1952 preside-tielection discloses the extent of the revolt' of an aroused electorate which swept the Democratic regime from control of the national goval ernment 61547861 American citiA record-breakinzens voted on Nov 4 nearly 13 million more than voted when Mr Truman was chosen to succeed himself in 1948 Republican Dwight Eisenhower received 33927549 votes and Demog crat Adlai Stevenson received 27311316 a plurality of 6616233 fob the Republican ticket Amongthe states Utah leads with votes cast by 88 per cent of its eligible citizens Mississippi brings up the rear with 23 per cent Altogether it is the Southern States with their restriction by laws and discouragement of exercise of the franchise by Negroes that brought down the average voting percentage to 64 Of the most populous states Illinois ranks ninth with a voting percentage of 77 California sixteenth with 75 New York twenty-thir- d with 71 Pennwith 73 Ohio twenty-sixtwith 67 In the Middle sylvania thirty-firs- t West Indiana is in tenth place with 77 par h cent Iowa twelfth with 76 Wisconsin nineteenth with 71 with 74- and Michigan twenty-nint- h per cent Sixty-fou- r out of every 100 citizens of vot-ip-g age went to the polls the greatest outpour-ln- g of eligible voters since 1880 when 72 per cfcqt of the (male) electorate chose Gen James A Garfield Republican' over' Gen "Winfield Scott Hancock Democrat by a margin of 7018 per eent of popular votes In 1940 sixty-on- e eligible citizens voted £8 in 1944 and 53 In - 1948 There were 75324849 citizens registered for the 1952 election and of these nearly 82 per cent voted Nearly 20 million were not regia-tere- d ’ - " -- No lf e 7 9 UNITED Mining 9 Killed SMffS No v 24 RCAF fiombe 8 Killed No Novy 12 II Killed Petrol Bomber f Sen Russell i i J A Charges A A x F ‘Flaws’ WASHINGTON Dec 21 (INS) —Sen Richard B Russell (D Ga) chairman ot the Senate Armed Services Committee Su day led congressional demands for an “exhaustive investigation" of tha Pacific Northwest-Alask- a series of air crashes Russell charged that there is a serious flaw in Air Force preps-ratio- n of planes and crews Ha said the armed services’ preparedness subcommittee probably will take action on tha Moses Lake Wash crash In which 88 servicemen were killed Saturday Other congressional leaders recommended grounding tha Globa giant triple-decke- d masters of the type which cracked fap In Washington state ' Cites Mounting Toll Sen Russell said flatly that tha mounting toll of lives and planes lost In Air Force crashes indicates something is wrong either in the condition of tha planes training of crews or lm vestigatlon of weather conditions An Air Force official said three teams of investigators have gone to the scene of tha tragedy He added that the question of will depend grounding tha ' on their findings However tlje Pentagon Hid no tingle causa is apparent for the series of 19 crashes beginning Nov 7 Two ef them Involved Globemastera la all 288 lives have been lost la less than tw months - t i’ Po nemo ConOl — AP WlrqOutt Map locates points around North Paclfie rim where military plane have crashed in past six weeks climaxed by the Mosea Lake Wash disaster Lives lost tn crashes exceed 200 Ike Committee' ICY STARES APLENTY Stars Take Off for Hawaii Debate Top End Up in Chilly Alaska Level Revamp 7 By MARVIN ARROWSMITH Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - PresideDec 21 D Eisenhower Dwight met for two hours Sunday with nt-elect committee he recently named to study and streamline organization of the executive branch of the government The conference at the general’s Columbia University residence was his first with the group since the members were appointed three weeks ago James C EisenHagerty hower’s press secretary said the President-elec- t and aids discussed the preliminary report on the committee’s study Special Project The study was started as a special project by Temple University Dr Robert L Johnson president of the university wrote Eisenhower about the study last month and told him that when it was completed the university would be glad to make its findings available to the new administration Johnson said then that the study would be the basis of recommendations for simplifying the structure of the executive branch On Nov 29 Eisenhower advised Johnson that he was naming a special committee to work with the university These members of that commutes met with Eisenhower Sunday: On Committea Nelson A Rockefeller of New York former assistant secretary of state and coordinator of affairs Dr Arthur S Flemming of Delaware O president of Ohio Wesleyan University and chairman of the manpower policy C9mmlttee of the Office of Defense Mobilization and Dr Milton Elsenhower president of Pennsylvania State College and brother of the general Jlagerty taid tha committee’s final report probably will not be submitted until after the new administration takes office ALASKA Dec B— A plane loaded with 38 Hollywood personages landed Saturday at Kodiak Alaska instead of Honolulu where the passengers thought they were headed for was bound from Los The Angeles to Korea via Honolulu so the actors and actresses aboard could do some shows for the troops in Korea The troupe expressed amazement when the members stepped from the plane in the far north instead of in sunny Hawaii The Kodiak Navy base was covered with its first white Christmas snow in 10 years Forced to Return The Hollywoodlans scrambled to change to northern attire They started out again for Korea but heavy fog in the Aleutians forced them back to Elmendorf Air Force Base here They are expected to try again as soon as weather conditions permit The group included Carolina Cotton Paul Douglas Jan Sterling Walter Pidgeon Roscoe Ates Keenan Wynn and Rory Calhoun The pilot of the plane is Capt Elmer Dunn of Portland Me It was not explained how the group could fly all the way to Alaska without noticing they were (1) flying north (2) going over land and mountains instead of water and (3) not noticing that it was considerably cooler than was to be expected In Hawaii Plana Changed ANCHORAGE 21 C-5- 4 A Hollywood committee spokesman said in the movie capital that flight plans were changed because of wind conditions in the Pacific He said he didn’t know if the passengers were informed or not Original plans called for four planeloads of the entertainers to leave from Burbank Cal Dec 19 in Military Air Transport Service (M ATS) planes One was bound for Korea with who arrived the entertainers here as its passengers A second was to go to Alaska the third for Greenland Newfoundland i ( j la Congress Rep Paul J Klldsy (D TexV a member ef the House armed services group said “I think w ought to see if there is any ree son for the number of crashes in the same general area” As for grounding any Air Force planes he said it would he “up to the Air JYlews M£KIC C-- 46 II Lost Inter-America- n The total number of citizens of votirig age in the 1950 census was 94802019 Of these there are more than five million migrants who fail to meet state residence requirements for voting about two million men in the armed services wfio are not given the opporunity or do not maintain a voting residence one million adults in hospitals 200000 tn prisons one and one-hamillion illiterates and 570000 inhabitants of the District of Columbia who are disenfranchised by law Of the net eligible of about 8414 million nearly 73 out of every 100 voted Pacific Oceon IS 1 I9 a slush-covere- ’ J 4 Jail r ines For Corrupt OVER SANTA Reuters News Agency PARIS Dec 21—One man was crushed to death and five others were feared dead Sunday night as avalanches thundered down the slopes of Europe’s mountain peaks Winter struck savagely in the Mediterranean area with floods whirlwinds and mountain blizzards Two persons were drowned on the island of Cyprus when their car skidded into swirling flood waters Near Bordeaux France 1000 persons were evacuated from their homes after rising flood waters burst a dike and loosed a wall of water from the Atlantic over coast land In Pyrenees At Gavarlne in the Pyrenees 68 French workers were trapped In a tunnel for 48 hours when an avalanche crunched down and blocked their escape The huge snow-mas- s swept away and killed an Italian worker and ripped up workers’ shacks In the Alps near a giant avalanche struck Saturday from the slopes of a 9505-foo- t peak and engulfed four German policemen on patrol duty The huge slide gathering momentum for 1000 feet also buried an Austrian civilian Swift Gales German and Austrian Fifty mountaineers trekked through 90 mph gales Sunday night to try to find the bodies but falling snow driven by the icy wiads forced them to call off rescue work until Monday The searchers using high powered flashlights poked long poles into the deep drifts In the' hope of finding signs of life Experienced Alpinists said they had never seen so big an avalanche the area It was 300 feetVide and hurled stones and earth 30 feet into the air jobs One is concerned with It inidentifying the dead cludes mostly dental technicians as teeth are the only means of identification for some of the remains The other is a team of experts who will sift the stories of the 30 survivors — those who can talk— and the remains of the largest military plane to get the answer to the question: Four of the investigators for the Air Force’ flight safety research program are four generals Others represent the Civil Aeronautics Administration This much su rvlvors ap toll of ortr tl dead Men who survived wreck rode In this portion which remained intact Air Force personnel probe shattered tail eee tion of Globemaster which crashed with g company Wyoming— Weather map on Page 17 Grisly Sifting of Men Metal Starts in Worst Air Crash iii stunt” are Nevada— Cloudy Light snow cloudy 22 1952 DECEMBER I ress Raises F or Air Disaster Probe j myko went before the U N General Assembly in a dramatic post midnight speech early Monday morning to demand immediate condemnation of alleged U S mass murder of Red prisoners on Pongam Island Korea U S Delegate Ernest A Gross followed him and called on the assembly to “expose this shabby midnight propaganda “What with?” OoaJy Skifi Salt Lake City and vicinity— Partly cloudy' Utah—Continued cloudy Idaho— Mostly cloudy t j UNITED NATIONS N Y Dec 22 (B— Russia’s Andrei A Gro- 159-mi- t - Force" Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rodgers (R Mass) however telegraphed Defense Secretary Robert A Lovett demanding that the tripledecked transports be grounded until after an inquiry At the same time she deplored and the fourth to the Caribbean No word has been received crowding servicemen into one “like cattle” The $18 milherein the one that was to come plane lion Globemaster which crashed to Alaska Has Honolulu got a Moses Lake is capable of cap at load of actors plane Hollywood men but dressed in furs and mukluks rying 200 had only 116 semcemen aboard please? Involves Secrecy ' Pilot Has Option One Senate armed services The Air Force in Washington said the pilot on flights eastward member who declined to be Idento the Orient has leeway in pick- tified pointed out that the total ing his route depending upon number of Globemasters in operation is a military secret He weather conditions In case of the plane load ot said this made it Impossible to Hollywood figures the Air Force determine the ratio in tie numsaid the pilot apparently decided ber of Globemaster accidents An Air Force spokesman to take the northern route Instead of the central one because agreed that the secrecy surroundof high head winds on the latter ing the C124s made an exact de-The plane arrived at Kodiak termination of their safety recfrom Los Angeles via Tacoma ord impossible Sen Estes Kefauver (D Term J Wash the Air Force said and then was cleared from Kodiak to another member of the armed Shemya after repairs had been services unit said “One of the The plane however was di- armed service committees either verted into Anchorage the Air the House or the Senate ought to Force said because of low fuel look into the matter pressure on one engine fully-equippe- d Two Dock Union Chiefs Face Extortion Charges in N Y NEW YORK Dec 21 UP— The They are accused of extorting recessed New York state crime $2500 from the John W commission hearings spawned Grath Corp a stevedoring firm fireworks along the waterfront between July 1 and Dee 15Tby and in the courts Sunday If McIn Brooklyn and in New Jersey threatening “trouble authorities reported two dock Grath did not employ a hiring : union leaders were arrested On boss of their choosing The Clemente and Cosmos arextortion charges under an Indictment that grew out of' the rests were the second and third with ‘roots in the probe of the sensational ’hearings And In Albany the state crime commission which closed capital Gov Thomas E Dewey up slop Friday until after the announced he would meet With first of the year the New York City Bar 'Assn The first arrest Friday in to discuss “Influences" on the Newark N J was that of exlocal bench— and possibly else- convict Pasquale Ferrone 43 where In the state— disclosed in Springfield N J secretary of the hearings an Elizabeth N J I L A locaL Ferrone was accused in a New Arrested Sunday yrere Michael Clemente 44 business agent of York Indictment of shaking down local 856 of the A FLr Interna- a group of fur dealers for $45- tional Longshoremen’s Assn 000 to unload $2H milliqn worth and Alexander Cosmos of of Russian fun tied up to a Rutherford N J a delegate of “patriotic" dock strike against r Soviet ihlpmenta the same local -- ’ A i V V fi ft I ? &J: |