Show W3Wt?"WsySNlWS3S!F!i&aUW'iEiiiSi'- - f THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Tuesday June 1 1948 Miami SOUTH ST PAUL Minn May CP) — Flames raced with prairie fire speed Monday through a section of the huge corrals cf the South St Paul Union Stock-yard- s SI six-blo- ck Co The dealers’ division 75 cattle ears 50 head of cattle and a test barn were destroyed The loading division was damaged heavily Three firemen were overcome by moke One required hospitaliza tion but apparently was not in serious condition The fire was discovered by passerby In a shed of baled hay near the loading sheds situated on the west side of the yards The rs cover an area yards of a mile long and a half mile wide The combination of an unsually dry spring and inactivity at the yard during the recent strike of the CIO Packinghouse Workers union created conditions aiding rapid spread of the flames The wooden sheds and stock pens were tinder dry The pens were littered by bedding straw which could not be removed while the yards operated on curtailed schedules during the packinghouse strike The yards were returned to activity only last week The flames sped through the pens and had gained great headway before firemen arrived Approximately 2000 head of took were turned out of pens South St Paul firemen who called in 10 crews from St Paul brought the fire under control Within 2’i hours three-quarte- full-sca- le New Color Film Plan Mud Puddle y MIAMI Fla May 31 (UP)— George McDonald told police Monday he was bitten by a drunk lying on the sidewalk As he was walking home a man prone on the ground suddenly raised up and nipped him on the ankle Police called to investigate found Lawson Rogers in the place and position McDonald had indicated Rogers was ar- rested - Alabama Vote To Test 'Bolt’ May 31 (NYT) — A demonstration of rouxcolor a remarkably realistic color motion picture method was given here Monday The process which evidently is far more accurate than present color processes and basically no more expensive than black and white has crested & sensation In the French motion picture industry since its announcement six days ago “From the air Vanport looks like just & big patch of muddy water filled with toy houses — and heaven knows wrhat e’e” said two United Air Lines pilots who flew over the flooded Oregon community Monday morning The two pilots Capt J H Howell and First Officer C H Gallion arrived m Salt Lake City Monday afternoon after a scheduled flight from Seattle During many flights from their home base at Seattle the pilots have often noticed the neat symmetrically laid out community of Vanport Hard to Recognise “Onecan hardly recognize the devastated area as the same place" Capt onHowell said “Houses end and piled one are tipped y against the other What were buildings are sprawled ex-at odd angles with only the roofs I can’t aee how anything posed can be salvaged and what is worse how many of the residents could escape" he said On their flight to Salt Lake Citv the plane makes a short stop at The Dalles Ore "As we landed at The Dalles airport a short time after the dike had burst at that point I saw a small house sur rounded by water Just 15 minutes later as we took off there was no house there at all” Pilot Gallion said Freight ’Cars Swamped “At The Dalles we saw' ere trying to pull a passenger tr out of the flooded area Thge no way of saving the hundred there" he freight cars trapped said According to the two pilots only the railread and Industrial hit portions of The Dalles wasdike-breby the main force of the new Monday morning As they flew up the Columbia river they saw many small communities flooded out and at one place saw a large river boat partially submerged and jammed against a lock in the MONTGOMERY Ala May 31— Another test of southern reaction to proposals to bolt the Democratic party rather than accept Pres Harry S Truman and his civil rights prograin will take place Tuesday when this state’s voters engage In a runoff primary for selection of delegates to the national convention The contest is considered politically important on a national and regional scale since Alabama is the first southern state to pledge all its presidential electors and many of its convention delegates are against Mr Truman Also Alabama alphabetically starts off the roll call at the convention and there have been rumors that it will name someone other than Mr Truman $ On May 4 15 delegates four were of them delegates-at-larg- e elected in the first primar along with 11 presidential electors All of the presidential electors were pledged against Mr Truman or any other civil rights advocate Of the delegates elected five favor walking out of the national convention if Mr Truman is renominated six are opposed to walking out and four are uncommitted Alabama has a convention delegation of 25 members This leaves 11 delegates four of them to be chosen Tues- nver day There is a field of 21 candiAt Portland the pilots said dates of whom 11 have pledged a United and West Coast Air Lines “walkout" eight are opposed and abandoned the Portland Columtwo are uncommitted bia Sunday night “Alairpoi T Tlra N CopyrteM though the 'dikes were still holding they were not expected to Georgia Unit Will Vote much longer" they said stem-wheel- ge cTribtme Cake Mam Solidly ATLANTA Anti-Truma- 6--af ci structions but piere was no doubt about the sentiment Party leaders said repeatedly they would fight Mr Truman’s nomination and wduld fight his civil rights pro- 60000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD Continued from Page One cross-chec- k of Vanport refugees in an attempt to determine the mber of missing persons but an orderly count was virtually Many families were impossible the separated in the first surge ofVan-port wall of water that devastated late Sunday afternoon A thorough search Is being made through the second floor from house to house but search of the first floors cannot be started until the water goes down” said Multnomah county sheriff Martin Pratt DIKED IN PRICE! One hundred national guardsmen were mobilized in Portland on orders from Maj Gen Thomas Eh Rilea adjutant general and went on the job in danger areas Another 100 men from Forest Grove Hillsboro McMinville and other communities near Portland stood by at the armory for emergency tasks A complete breakthrough of the Columbia at the Denver avenue fill near the main entrance to Vanport was believed imminent Remaining residents in an extensive area east of the avenue were ordered out Fear Many Dead By midmorning day he pumped seven bullets into his father’s body because “I hated his guts” after his dad refused to buy him a motor scoooter The fatal shooting of Elmer L Weitzel 50 Glendale CaL deputy city attorney occurred Sunday night after the father and son Robert Weitzel returned home from spending a day at the beach Weitzel frowned on buying a scooter claiming they were dangerous and slapped the boy’s face several times during the discussion Robert told officers “My father's demeanor toward me was arrogant” he added “I could no longer live with him" Several hours after returning home Robert took a rifle he often used on hunting trips with histo father the doorway of “I walked the front room where father was laying on the sofa listening to the radio and I fired sven shots" Robert held on suspicion of murder related “I fired until 1 knew in my own mind that he was dead 'Tve been thinking of shooting him for the past six months” Mrs Weitzel the mother saw Robert aim the gun but paid no attention because the boy often did that with an unloaded gun “Then 1 heard the ‘first shot” “He kept it Mrs Weitzel said up 1 didn’t think he hated his father so much He must have been practicing those other times” PHOENIX Ariz ' May 31 (CTPS) — A mother of two young daughters and an elderly man who scorned marriage laws o run away together and start a new life Monday were held in jail here on murder warrants charging they poisoned the man’s wife They are Airs Lydia Witt 45 d buxom mother of daughters 2- and 6 61 years old and August- Pusch dignified church-goin- g widower who had been a fellow worker with his paramour’s husband Both formerly lived in Wahpe-to- n N D wThere Pusch’s wife Minnie 61 died last September after a lingering illness - dark-haire- year-and-ha- lf water had ROAMER I — coated color - corrected - tion ROAMER lens - II - war-housi- ng Fom LOGAN May 31— Two Logan families temporarily living at Vanport Ore were saved Sunday because they went on a picnic Mr and Mrs W Boyd Jacobsen and two children and Mr and Mrs Richard F’ugsley and their two children were absent when the dikes broke but returned to find their homes and all belongings lost Mr Jacobsen told his parents Mr and Mrs William C Jacobsen in a telephone call “the only we have are what we are clothes main-lin- e tracks wearing Monday afternoon a diver enMr Jacobsen and Mr tered the floodwaters near the attend the dental school inF’ugsley Portto Denver court entrance Vanport land across the river w'here many automobiles and buses were caught by the onrushing wa-- ! ter The cars and buses will be Stadium Village Units tiyi together and pulled to high Moved From Vanport ground strucMany of the two-stoTwo goldfish swimming in a tures UniIn Stadium the Village bobbing bowl adrift on of Utah housing versity project floodwaters were rescued in what originally came from Vanport used to be Vanport Ore war boom towh near Portland which was smashed Sunday Save Expectant Cat by a wall of flood water to An expectant cat was hauled About 20 buildings ir the unisafety from a tilting tin roof unit were torn down in versity was the Vanport largest housing Vanport in 1945 for shipment to area in the United States The the campus where they were’ rewent constructed at a 'cost $26000000 wartime project of about up in nine months on a 647-aclowland site between Portland and $500000 university officials said Vancouver Wash It was com- Monday night pleted in the summer of 1943 Almost immediately it became Oregon’s second largest residential community mushrooming to a population qf 48000 There were 800 residential structures with 10286 separate apartments Additionally there were 179 service buildings three grade schools seven recreation centers four shopping centers two administration buildings a post office fire department chapels branch sherunnecessarUy hu Pon t borrow iff’s office and jaiL If a loan soItss yourm Sold On Until the community was named see me Remember I me today you I Coroe in phone Vanport City a contraction of Vancouver and Portland it bore Leant $25 to $950 or mare the name of Kaiserville All its residents worked at shipyards Tin&Srial FINANCE The U S Weather bureau evac405 Continental Bank uated its airport station Sunday Bids Phone Tivtortaf night as Columbia river overflow 2 Location! ca 2nd Floor Utah Oil swept close to the airport’s main Bldg Phone buildings and closed commercial air traffic in and out of the field lens $2975 coated f45 - - $43 f56 taking lens f45 viewing lens shutter speeds 125 to 1200 sec and bulb built-i- n seekers The Columbia smashed a levee Dalles Ore 90 miles upreports of actual drownings at were unconfirmed Several refu stream from Portland flooding industries and threatgees told of seeing many persons riverfront to invade the downtown disdisappear under the torrent of ening water that crashed through the trict A railroad spur embankBut ment buttressed by sandbags at community until bodies were found none of least temporarily held the water the reports could be substantiated out of the city of 8Q00 Pres Harry S Truman proclaimed th northwest an emer Logan Families aveci gency area and announced that "Will Flood Vanport yJl needed surplus properties TiifeaM Uh Wlr be made available for care of at UNIFLEX I — Nation Week End Deaths Hit 385 un- All achro-m- flash synchroniza- built-i- n By UNITED PRESS “We haven’t any idea how many dermined about two lanes of main Streamed Pleasure bodies will be found but there thoroughfare between Portland homeward on the nation’s highmay be several hundred" Pratt and Vancouver three-da- y said Mounting suspicions in the four months since the widower and Mrs Witt fled together prompted an investigation that resulted in exhumation of the body and the discovery it contained strychnine’ State’s Atty Vernon Forbes flew here Sunday from Wahpeton with murder warrants The couple was seized at a small ranch 19 miles east of Phoenix which they I had purchased and were develop? ’ ing as a home for themselves and Mrs Witt’s daughters Che prosecutor said Pusch and Mrs Witt had been carrying on an illicit romance in Wahpeton for four years and that he has statements that they were frequently' seen in their love making Universal captures vacation memories 22-cali- Columbia flood waters surging to crest continued to cause wideTowms underlined along river suffered greatest spread damage damage Vanport was wrecked when wall of water rushing through a broken dike engulfed the city Woodland Kelso were threatened gram They emphasized however evacuees Men women and children who Georgia Democrats would not bolt the party or the national conven- fled for their lives from the Van-po- rt tion if they lose on the convention disaster were given food and floor shelter in Portland as Red Cross and other relief agencies set up emergency stations for care of victims Hundreds of Portland and other Oregon residents were stranded In Vancouver Wash when the big interstate bridge over the Colum- bia was declared unsafe for travel Rail traffic between the cities was halted by water that covered radio’s newest sensation NOW Where Floods Rage in Northwest er n Widower Friend Arrested In Poison Death of Wife LOS ANGELES May 31 (UP) — A freckle-face- d boy impassively told police Mon- two-stor- May 31 UPV— Geor23 national conDemocratic at tha gia’s ry nsoratrr Lu1 ftat Lak C’ty aaA aacond vention votes lined up solidly peat affaa atimdar act af kartA 1879 aaa matt against Pres Harry S Truman 8’jbcrlpooo rata Utah idarto Nevada Monday month awl acd Sunday day A delegation was seSIS OO aiaawnara 8150 yaar la adraftca U U L daity ard Sunday month SI 75 lected by the state Democratic T T'tbtma i a mambar af tha A aao executive committee The deleei ad Fra a Tha As©oatad Praaa U were instructed to vote as a gates y to tha oa for rape tnt't ad axciuidv a I tha frecaJ aawa print ad in unit — there could be no dissenters rawspapar aa wu aa aU A P There were no other formal in- d wpafcrhaa th-- a Pilots Relate ak PARIS IXht 143Salt Ekwtft Passer-b- SCORNED MARRIAGE Denied Whim Boy Shoots Slays Father Drunk Puts Vanport Now Crews Prone The Bite on St Paul Battle Blaze In Stockyards ! 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