Show Tribune Telephones Damp In Drought? for news and editorial depart- Salt Lake City vicinity Utah Wyoming Nevada — Scattered showers Idaho — Fair warm Weather map on Page 23 EM ments Information Busi- sports scores EL ness advertising and circulation EM No 122 VoL 173 Salt Lake City Utah — Tuesday Morning August 14 195(5 — Copyright 195(5 Kearns-Trlbun- e Prlee Five Cents Corporation Ha Rush-Hou- r Clement Reads Off Tragedy i May Tally 30 Hurt the 14 It ah Eye Witness dead In the Montlcello gas exHighway Patrol: Robert L Buies Newcastle Ind Whole Place Appeared to ‘Blow Away’ By Don Robinson Tribune Correspondent MONTICELLO Aug 13 — ‘The cafe was there one moment I looked then the next— it just wasn’t' there” That's how Mrs Bernice Saull of Monticello described the terrifying experience of seeing the Lariat Cafe explode Monday evening She was backing away in her car from the Triangle H Motel owned by Mr and Mrs Frank Halls when the blast disintegrated the Lariat Cafe (Mrs Halls The Tribune’s Monticello correspondent was shaken but not injured seriously in the blast) Windows Shattered Windows on all sides of the cafe for a block around were shattered and large plate glass Henry Gorman' Riverton Theodore Ceniore Smith Franklin Ky Edna Sisk Dove Creek Colo William Beryl Harvey Houston Tex Roy William Grisson Leon Rex Kan the Miller’s was dead on arrival at St Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction Colo County Cororner Sherwood Snyder said of concussion Lynn Curnnett 1 low Ariz Mrs she year Yerlai 'AdamS boy titled The dead and injured weren’t wreckage and found debris tered over a block area It’s hard to believe anyone could survive that blast From Colorado Doctors and nurses were brought to Monticello from 1 handing Moab Dove Creek and Cortez Colo Ambulances from a wide area were pressed into service and before their arrival station wagons trucks of all descriptions and private autos were pressed into emergency service to carry injured to the San Juan hospital A private p$me fleto some of the more seriously Injured including an infant to Grand Junction hospitals My wife a registered nurse accompanied one plane load of victims to the not iden hospitals for £ue Jpag of Iairlat Cafe disintegration by Monday night portrayed by this photo Pieces of Attacks Spice Convention Start By W II Lawrence New York Times Writer Aug 13— Fierce attacks upon President partisan Dwight D Eisenhower Vice President Richard M Nixon and Republican performance in office marked the opening Monday of the Democratic national convention Impassioned orators held the spotlight while a mad scramble for delegate votes continued in downtown hotels among leading contenders for the presidential nomination and the right to oppose Mr Eisenhower in the NoNo major vember election breaks developed to indicate a basic change in the status of any aspirant Symington A Compromise? Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois still was the acknowledged front runner His managers remained confident he would be nominated Thursday night in fewer than four ballots But backers of Gov Averell Harriman of New York bolstered by the support of former President Harry S Truman claimed new delegate gains Signs of activity also were noted for Sen Stuart Symington of Missouri as a possible compromise choice if the convention deadlocks CHICAGO record of the Republican Party as a whole He announced a “indictment" he said called for sending the party of "privilege and pillage" into political oblivion after November He centered his fire upon Vice President Richard M Nixon as man slinging “the slander and spreading while the top man peers down the green fairways of indifference” He added: “We are not afraid to fight— and we are not going to sit back and watch one of the Republican candidates smugly attempt to lift himself above and beyond his party meantime holding hands with the vicehatchet man of the Republican Party who —w i t h o u t intervice-hatche- t half-truth- Raging Betsy Aims Blast at Florida Coast MIAMI Aug 13 (UP) — Hurricane Betsy swept toward Florida's gold coast with hour winds Monday and the Miami Weather Bureau raised Ilurrican warnings from Miami north to Melbourne Fla The tropic howler first of the year to reach full hurricane strength was located in an advisory 460 miles of Miami and moving on a course which would bring it to the Florida peninsula in the vicinity of Palm Beach $2 Million Damage The Weather Bureau said the tempest which killed one' person and caused an estimated two' million dollars in damages while raking across populous Puerto Rico was expected to buffet San Salvador and the northern Bahamas with high tides hurricane winds and heavy seas Tuesday morning “At this time the most probin a position to go into detail" able point of entry on the Florion his talk with the President da coast is the vicinity of Paint Knowland made this forecast: Beach and the weather should “I think the ticket will be the begin to worsen early Tuesday same in 1956 as it was in 1952" forenoon” the advisory said Issues Warning Knowland also predicted that “All precautions for the proMr Eisenhower and Nixon will in November “by a tection of life and property be should be begun at once in the substantial majority" Mr Eisenhower has s a i d larea of hurricane display” Miami merchants began Nixon is acceptable to him as a vice presidential candidate ing out aluminum and wooden but he has not closed the door shutters to cover big plate glass windows along the city’s prind- on other candidates The President has given liar-- pal shopping street At Eal old E Stassen his disarmament Harbour on the north end of adviser a month's leave to work Miami Beach workers lashed for the nomination of Gov down loose beams and other Christian A Herter of Massa- equipment at a huge partially chusetts completed hotel While saying he was “not d j I 1 - s - Knowland Confers With Ike Forecasts Victory for Nixon j Late Tribune Wirephoto rubble from the blast were found for block around At least II died (Photo by Don Holdnson Tribune Correspondent) In Monticello Is f - 48 explosion The Red Cross called for an emergency shipment of blood It was being flown in from Salt Lake City by a plane from Hill Air Force Base Building Splintered Mrs Bernice Saull who was lOToint ‘Indictment’ near the cafe at the time of the All three of them conferred blast said there was one terrific with Sen Lyndon The building was separately of explosion Texas the Senate Johnson splintered leader He is In a posimajority The cafe had been connected tion to influence greatly the to new Monticello’s only Monday course of this convention by the natural gas system A witness Steven Hazelwood leadership he gives to the risked his life to shut off the south Gov Frank Clement of Tengas after the explosion Mr Hazelwood one of the nessee keynoted the convention first on the scene saw the with a gloves-ofattack upon the Presibroken gas pipe and realized gas See Page 9 Column 2 dent his vice president and the ute talk with President Dwight D Eisenhower Monday and preToday’s Qiuckle dicted Vice President Richard N Nixon will again win the No 2 spot on the Republican ticket this fall Knowland (he Senate Republican leader said hp talked politics and legislation t( Withus it was slap slap affairs with the Presidentforeign But 4ing'ehe wouldn’t say whether he and Mr Eisenhower had specifically “Jingle? What was that?” “Our medals" discussed the vice presidential mchfnF like nw situation FemeCoi Mite jH5 Set i —Salt Completeness haul-GO- ‘Circus’ Veils Platform Draft Demos Plan Move io Cut Income Tax fcrence from Gettysburg— charges 20 years of treason to the Democrats and accuses the membership of the Democratic Party— that means you and that means me my friends and fellow Americans— with treacherous conduct” The young Tennessee governor just 36 mixed his partisan shafts with appeals for divine guidance to bring the Democrats to victory no matter who their candidates may be Hope for Office “Precious Lord take our hand lead us on!" was his peroration which he described as “the hymn of inevitable vic- By Associated Free CHICAGO Aug 13 — Demo cratic platform drafters proposed Monday night that their party pledge a $200 a year Increase In personal exemptions under the federal income tax This would put the exemption at $800 a person It would save lower income families an average of about $10 a year for each tory" member His friends hoped this speech This recommendation was prowould catapult Clement into the posed by a 16member subcomvice presidential nomination as another orator William mittee It will be laid before flic just Jennings Bryan stampeded the full committee probably Wednes1896 Democratic convention to day night nominate him for the presiDeny ‘Prosperity’ dency following his famous Committee experts estimated "cross of gold" speech such an exemption would result Clement President charged Eisenhower had evaded and in a total reduction of five biland lion dollars a year in income delegated responsibilities said he must answer for the taxes based on present rates Republican record in this camEarlier the drafting commitpaign Making a play on the tee had taken issue with the name of the President's Those charges and many "inothers came in p dictment" the keynoter read off He said they add up to a "sordid record of broken promises and untedeemed pledges” He called oh the American people to “rise up as one man and smite down these moneychangers” and called on the Democrats to wage a fighting campaign "We "are not going to sit back and watch one of the Republican candidates smugly attempt to lift himself above and beyond his party meanwhile holding hands with the vice hatchet man of the Republican Farty who — without Interference from Gettysburg— charges 20 years of treason to the Democrats” Gov Clement declared Cannot Escape I le said President Eisenhower eannot escape responsibility for the GOP record "The President's record and his party’s record are one and the same He cannot pry them apart” In his "indictment” the Tennessee governor accused the GOP of among other things forgetting the farmer liquidating labor's gains and sacrificing - jf and her Colorado city All of Moab’s doctors but one By Associated Press and all the nurses were taken WASHINGTON Aug 13 to the disaster scene I brought a carload from Moah as well as Sen William F Knowland Page 9 Column 4 Calif) emerged from a 30 min- n r -- TAijd ir windows of the establishment were blown In their frames Monticello across the street to the Halls Jerry Adams 16 daughter of motel Dave Winscott a San Juan Mrs Leon Adams Lenore Harden Wilkins MonCounty deputy sheriff who lives ticello sister of Mrs Adams about three miles from the cafe The blast was believed caused said he felt concussion from the an accumulation of natural by blast gas in a small basement Only one thing around Monti East of Town cello seemed definite and that Is located on US cafe The was that no one knew full ex 160 about one quarter mile east tent of the injuries I walked of here through the County Hospital Most of the suffered where doctors and nurses from burns WitnessesInjured said bodies of worked area wide frantically the dead were not mutilated a I counted 12 blanket-covereThe blast scattered debris bodies in the halls and on the over a wide area and was felt front lawn three miles away Sheriff Seth Wright and his Calls lor aid went out to coma at deputies worked feverishly as far as 100 miles munities — such as multitude of tasks Nurses and doctors were away the at order hospital rushed from Moab and Cortez keeping trafand death scene Most of the injured were to and identify fic attempting to Cortez and Durango taken the dead and injured as mutilated as I had imagined they would be for the most part I looked over the cafe scat- 7 Wins- A tentative list of critically injured recovered from the explosion scene Included: Mrs Helen Bales Newcastle Ind a tourist Mrs Irma Ransdall cafe owner Mrs Glen Wilkins Monticello Mrs Betty Reese 23 a waitress Mrs Don McPherson 38 Colo X dic'd daughter Nancy 18 Monticello A Mr Morroeeo about 40 One T Mil- daughter of 9 Indictment been “Bensonized" by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson Sordid Record’ Pueblo Colo 3Ir and Mrs ler Clearfield Jackie Miller nt By O N Malmquist Tribune Political Editor CHICACO Aug 13— Gov Frank G Clement of Tennessee charged the Eisenhower administration Monday night with opening the door to "an unprecedented spree of giveaways grab and greed" Keynoting the Democratic national conventkwith a caustic attack on all things Republican the Tennessee governor called for a Democratic victory In November to ‘‘restore the people to power" He accused President Dwight D Eisenhower of looking on from "the green fairways of indifference" while the GOP ‘‘vicehatchet man" (Vice President Richard M Nixon) spread “slanhalf truths” against the Democrats in 1954 he ders andv railed Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "the greatest Full of Fantasy missile In the history of American diplomacy" and he said the American farmers have By Robert F Alkire Tribune Staff Writer MONTI CELLO San Juan County Aug 13 — A shattering gas explosion in a crowded cafe killed 14 persons and Injured up to SO others Monday about 6:30 pm The explosion shattered windows throughout this uranium boom town and demolished the year-olcinder block Lariat Cafe Here Is a list of 12 of plosion as released to the 0-Poi- press Republicans’ James C Ilagerty Clement said Mr Eisenhower "cannot Jim Harertyize his way through this whole campaign" Enthusiasm Design Gov Clement's speech was designed to produce the first real enthusiasm of a Democratic convention It began slowly despite a modern record of getting under way within three minutes of the appointed hour of 12 noon The opening gavel found fewer than 25 per cent of the delegates in their seats and the reception to the See Page 4 Column 1 secretary Midtccst Storms Slap East Stales By Aftftoctated Preai Thunderstorms belting the Midwest over the weekend moved over the eastern and New England states Monday A few thunderstorms still lingered over the lower Great Lakes region but the major storm activity extended from New England to the Tennes- see Valley Most of the nation had fair and generally warm weather Hottest spots were in the southwest where temperatures neared the 100 mark Scattered showers or thunderstorms were predicted for Tuesday over much of the Intermountain Region with little change in temperature claim that they created “record prosperity" for the nation In a tentative plank on domestic policy the drafting committee said the claim of prosperity was an "illusion" for many groups including farmers low income workers aged persons on pensions and young persons socking had education ‘Correct Inequities’ The drafters said in a plank financial policy that “a fully expanding economy can yield enough tax revenues to meet the inescapable obligations of government balance the federal budget and lighten the tax burden" They said the immediate need on to grant tax relief to lower income groups to “correct the inequities in the tax structure which reflect the Republican determination to favor the few at the expense of the many” - Fledges Reduction The drafters also criticized the Republican administration's management of the federal debt saying that it had increased interest rates paid on borrowings They said this benefitted a few to the detriment of the general taxpayer the small borrower and small and middle class investors in government bonds Tha plank would pledge the! Democrats to a reduction in such rates If returned to power the Democrats said their party will “release the springs of abund-SePage 5 Column 8 wfas Unhappiness By James Reston New York Times Writer CIHCAGO Aug 13 — Who said the circus was dead?-Barnuin his hey-danever outproduced the Democrats They have gathered here this week more clowns more more solemn nonsense more tight rope walkers more electric noise and fireworks than was ever gathered under any aide-sho- big top In history The place is full of fantasy Normally serious Intelligent men experienced sweating under the presidential fever are worse than men under the Influence of women and booze They can convince themselves of anything and they were doing so Monday in hotel rooms all over town Truman ‘King Lear Here Is Harry Truman playing the role of King Lear grasping for his lost political domain and dividing the party he came to Chicago to unify Here Is Sen Lyndon Johnson a heart-patienproclaiming himself a “serious candidate" for the most arduous job in the world and proposing to give away the "health issue” which is the main hope of a Demo- the small businessman to his big corporate competitor But Gov Gemont said the Democrats are not just against the Republican Tarty "we are just for the American people" ‘Close to Heart’ He said his party Is “close to cratic victory the heart of the people" and Here is young Cov Frank G "possesses the leadership and Clement of Tennessee tossing experience to conduct the af- out thunderbolts in the stock-yard- s fairs of America successfully on and telling the multitude the home front and on world that the Democrats are in a missions” harmonious mood — "happy In reference to the civil rights calmly confident and Inspired Issue he predicted “no unsolv-abl- about the outcome In Novemdifferences on this or any ber” at will the result other subject ‘Characteristic’ Claim convention was ever a more unof advised there If lie representatives uninminority groups to ponder happy unharmonious under which party's leadership spired unconfident collection of they had received the greatest human beings Chicago has total benefits "including the never seen them but Clement's food your children craved the statement is characteristic of a luxuries their hearts desired peculiar aspect of politicians in and the rights their dignity de- heat of battle manded" That Is to say in the midst I le also urged that "the South of the struggle they all seem remember that whatever rights to get the Idea that If they say have been in question Old Man something it must be true or See Fage 4 Column 1 See Page 5 Column 1 e In Today’s Tribune Chicago— and Convention To Tragedy in Monticello CONVENTION CONTENTS— Keynoter Frank G Clement scores GOP as a party of "pillage and privilege" civil rights plank acceptable to South reported prepared by platform drafters Adlal Stevenson seeks to fend off stretch drive by Averell Harriman and bevy of “favorite sons” including Lyndon B Johnson (Pages 1 4 5) AROUND THE WORLD— Arabs warn West against using force to settle Suez Canal dispute with NasserrTTritlsh seek Eden peace pledge AROUND THE UTAH SCENE — Cafe blast in Monticello kills 11 Tribune flics staff members to area for on the spot reports pages 1 9 Barton Kay Kirkham 19 accused of murdering two Utahns arraigned and counsel appointed Sen Wallace F Bennett reports he has been assured downtown site will he considered for proposed Salt Lake federal building 15 INTFFiPRETIVE AND INTERESQUE— From the New York Herald Tribune David Lawrence analyzes Truman maneuvers James Reston New York Times Washington Bureau chief say Truman making convention a “circus" i |