| Show In NEWS BROADCASTS t11:-- I aan I pm 9:30 pm Sports 11 pm Station HALL Intermountain Network 1:10 ) t t r1 :!ky II Jr A t EI 1 i ---- a -- Er WEATHER t ' I s' i nky 11 - Cloildy Mild (Details on Page B-- 8) PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS ' SALT LAKE CITY UTAII SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 15 1946 VOL 154 NO 62 I 1 IP' 1 i 0 c 1 ' ' L c—r"1 1 1 1 1 - 1 ZI 3 111 1 1 4 ‘ n fü 01121 1 6-14- ear 11sles7 1 '111-1- ss i 4 ! 1 i - - nr1 7 5 7 61't 1mo lame - ' emitl t c:w -- 111 re 7 b 4 17 C! 1) 3C1 Li4 '1 -- "17 7t j etdii”iitau 0 e prblo i 1 40 ifs" iles 1 : r ' ') 1I 2 1 r tig-hte- ser 'warranted" One official who worked with Wyatt in the national housing agency had this to say of thenew program with the proviso that - once-flourishi- ths roots of Wyatt housing tree& "Production of building mate1! rials has been increasing enorrnously and there is no doubt that we will get housing in 1447 But we don't get as much housing or favorable-price to veterans it as we had anticipated" as On the other hand Frank W Cortright executive vice president of the National Association oB Home Builders predicted a large volume of comparatively low-cohomes and greater activity in lie field of construction rioted that the steps ordered by 1 st ON Section A Editorials Intermountain News State News Local News Section B Local News Sports Radio ' 14 9 10-11-- 12-1- 5 '1-2-3-8-- i Mines Section C Local Society State Society Kathleen Norris Washington Notes Club Calendar Your Garden Fashions Horoscope Section D 1 ) ' E lection in 4 CI Hollywood Books Art Musid Movie Guide Centennial Queen 410 ''' ' -1-- ' i:i KK10----- - 1 - -- i - R4 ! 0- tc '4 -- ' 4 '-- - '''' - ' '''' ' K 4 '- I ! - '' ' :: i z- - i - ti -- -- - - - ' - i - ‘4 ' ' ' ' ! -- ' - Y: VI - --' :i '''' ' ' ' ' i: - ' J '' - -: ' ' t P - ' t i - :' '‘ : 9 - r- si- - - 2 i'e44001- - - -- t-- - 4 4 - i 7 - tf ' ': t i Y ' - 'r: - -44'' -- ' ''' st - 1 ' ::--- - ''' '" 4' - ''' ' ''''''''' -6 6 7 6 7 10 12 12 13 1 2 3 6 - S t4 T - ''' ''' 41: 'e 003' t:- ' - - '' '' ' 4 '' :zoz — 1 t 184 4 - l ' - r I k '' 1 -' ' '4"' tt ' ' s '' i or 6 lf i i ':M' ' 1 : - "" 1 CRACK-U- P r" ':-- ' planesEye """": View of Rail Wreck 4 : i--I " da'sum L 1 '' k ' ' i' ::121 ' !' 1 - J ' 0 - ''''' ' 2 - i i ' ' '' ' - LIKE TOY 1 - ' ' ' - 4 it 1 s - : ' '"--- J' - - ' ''' 0' :" ' - ' 44 ' - 4 ' i - t -- k- siding in order to allow the fast- A ' - By DON L WATKINS Viewed from the air the scene of Saturday's train collision looked like a pile of toys scattered over a living room carpet It was as if some juvenile enI ' ' : '''" '::2 4'1' : ' gineer had inadvertently pulled the ' i 0" - ' ''''''''' -' '' wrong switches on his toy train : ' 174: 777:71'--:: i (Editor's note: The accomi414:: 1Nt-'-f4--e4- -ff0wim40a t 2v4 'Ik 9e 'itfr)':"A 4' 44w 44ie story was written by panying ' Don L Watkins Tribune staff NI? A YITI A member who piloted a plane 17 175 was cars to No cab make with and The train over the scene of the Western locked 57 No and passengertengine City together freight attempting Freight engine was "old 57'8PP final run at approximately 11 Fox junction siding In order to let eastbound "Texas Farm Special" Pacific railroad collision SaturROOT) after what Saturday from San Francisco have rigid of way on trip to Salt Lake City 1:15 ara Isterr they collided head-o- n seven miles west of Salt Lake day) t - - 7 s - 1 - ' -- -7-: - — - 1 ' - a40---- - - - ''''' "-- '"- 1 : ' - -i-: - - — -- '' -- - ':1 ' - ::7- : - : 0- -:- C:--''- : :-- 7- - :'::1 r s- 3 -! -4- :: ''--7:- :' 1 ' c e"01 AS SCORES MISSED DEATH IN It " CPTIV ' ‘ ' z 1 ' N Assembly Okehs Arms Cut ' s - ' - a ' days ' A‘ "I 1 I - 1 get" '1" ' r ''''''''''' I :f-4 - ‘ - i it e ' - ' - ' - T' - - Optimism over the arms proSoviet gram was the keynote Foreign Minister V M Molotov tailed for home with American assurance that international conp trol of atomic energy with disclosure of all the facts would be given top priority in the plan to discard arms The optimism was reflected as far away as Moscow where the government newspaper Izvestia declared the work of the United Nations and foreign ministers' council here had been "fruitful" and "substantial" The paper said - ---- step-by-ste- omb EiSelOSUITS ' that "one cannot fail to see a trative budgets of 819390000 for substantial achievement benefit- - 1946 and $27740000 tor 1947 and establishment of a working capting the cause of international pital fund of 820000000 The peace" States contribution finally These developments came after United to was scaled down Irom 4989 Secy of State James F Byrnes 3989 Russia 634 and willnav Ernest British Foreign Secy Britain 1148 Bevin and Molotov addressed the Great 2 up of the U N's last Setting late and assembly Friday night body to be formed—the major early Saturday trusteeship council—with the elecThe secretariat gave up hopes tion of Mexico and Iraq to the last of reaching final adjournment Sat- two seats Great Britain France in the midst of urday night long See Page 6 Column 2 anover minor and debates items nounced another plenary session for 2:30 pm (E S T) Sunday The assembly recessed at 7:55 pm (E S T) until 9:15 pm for dinner si t1 o The arms reduction program was approved unanimously SaturWASHINGTON Dec 14 (UP) day morning amid a wave of ap- —The Meadows in the Republican national comFlushing plause mittee Saturday atinounced the assembly hall The 54 member nations then resignation of Miss Marion E turned down by a vote of 36 to 6 Martin as assistant chairman and the Russian demand for an imme- director of the women's division diate global census of troops and The resignation is effective Jan 1 ' Woman Resigns GOP P o n : 7- ' ' - i''' d : 4 : y west-boun- - - - - 7(4 z--: ' ' ': 4 AL X-ra- ' Ik 1 k :--:- 7-' -- a 0 - - ' :' :--' ' ''''clr - t- ' ' east-boun- -- "e ''' They were ing of minor cuts or bruises The collision which took place about 7:15 am seven miles - I- t-of here was between an west Western Pacific RailAll d !f road Co passenger train and a freight Aboard the CA two were 201 passengers and 47 crew members The wreck occurred when the westbound freight train con' - ---1 sisting of engine caboose and 17' cars failed to make a scheduled- - 1- - - '''' - 'si-':- : --- 00-- - kept at St Mark's hospital for extended treatment but the examinations and patchother 30 Were being released after - - " ''--'- z k -- - - -3i- f":r- -- : " J- - J ''' - ' ' -— ' ''''''''''''''''22-7 ' 1 !' ” I t' 1 43'-- : '' 1 i I 'tf1 m - n Of the 41 hurt only 11 had ser:ous injuries i - ' s '— - - head-o- death --- --- --- HLii 1 - ' -' - '' ' 1''1:g:11-7-'-'---- - ' - - th collision of two trains near Salt Lake City early Saturday injured 41 persons and caused heavy property damage —but a major tragedy was averted when all aboard escaped A -'-" t- - ''' - - ' rt i By BEATSON WALLACE ws ' C--- '''' ' Low Men In Primary NEWS' YORK Dec 14i Un-:Collins and Wall were low men Russia lost her fight to In a four-wa- y Senate primary in lay openFriday atomic American the 1942 The top men James O bomb secrets immediately but the Eastland who subsequently won Nations assembly approved and Wall Doxey entered a runoff aUnited acclaimed plan for universally Witnesses testified contributions arms reduction which would in were made toward the campaign time scrap all weapons of mass "deficits" of Collins and Wall in destruction the interest of gaining their support for Doxey who was backed by Bilbo The testimony was that $11000 to $14000 for Collins was paid to Cecil Travis a campaign aid of his 'That statement was wh011y untrue" Collins insisted Denials also came from witnesses Collins had called to his hotel room when he learned Bilbo was coming for a conference with him and from Miss Lura Harrison a stenographer Collins had hidden behind a bedroom door Miss Harrison said she had destroyed her stenographic notes but recalled what was said because Collins and Bilbo did most of the talking and the "not more than five minutes" Collected Witnesses Collins said when he learned that Bilbo was coming he hurried out and "collected all the witnesses I - " -- v 7- i N -4: 4- 4- warerry could : - w ' - t '1' ' - T ''''- '" ' ' :" ' ' : 1 1 -:- Aw-- 1 ' - ': 0 ''' - ' -------' t WASHINGTON Dec 14 C11— Senators trying doggedly to dis- cover what became of a $25000 campaign contribution by a war contractor in checks drawn to Sen Theodore G Bilbo (D Miss) heard from Bilbo himself Saturday thath "I never did get a dollar of it" They heard from former Rep Ross Collins who knocked down a witness for saying he got about half of it' that he was paid nothing They heard from Roland Wall another politician said by witnesses to have shared in the pot that he was promised WOO and collected 6000 And they never did establish where all the money went when the Senate war investigating subcommittee recessed until Monday Then they hope to learn more from a key witness who had been missing until he turned up - in a hospital at Quitman Miss- Friday night He iis Ed former secretary of Bilbo who wrote the committee he had been threatened with death if he should ' - 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' - U N'Assembly Picks N Y as Headquarters NEW YORK Dec 14 (A—The United Nations general assembly Saturday night picked Manhattan's east side for its permanent Capital The vote was 46 to 7 Haiti was absent The assembly greeted the result with great applause The action taken in about 30 minutes of short snappy discussion climaxed a year's search for a permanent home for the new world peace agency San Francisco and Philadelphia were the principal contenders at the end until John D Rockefeller Jr presented his surprise offer of $8500000 to buy land for a site in Manhattan's east side 1 Vote Against N Y In the final voting Australia Egypt El Salvador Iraq Lebanon set and spilled all the cars helter skelter The flat land where the accident delicate blend- ocinuorrieda had the patterned carpet These were my reactions as I approached the wreckage of the two trains from 1000 feet up I got a better look after losing the 500 feet altitude Obviously some of the wreckage already had been cleared away and I noticed workmen busy with machinery and handtools removing debris Other persons seemed milling about adjacent to the wreck scene Bend In Tracks For several miles on either of the trains the single track as an artist's Jaus straight t a few hundred yards side was line east of the scene of the accident there was a slight bend i n the railroad tracks '' There were 11 cars of the westbound passenger train standing on the tracks apparently undamaged— Two cars immediately in back of the locomotive tender i were jacknifed though upright tremendous indicating impact when the trains met ' consist- !raveling passenger train 13 cars ing of engine caboose and to proceed to Salt Lake City The engineer of the freight train P J McKenna 258 E 17th South realizing he couldn't get into the siding in time to clear the tracks stopped his train and was backing it up—avoiding a forward moe- ment impact that would have in- creased seriousness of the crash-- when the passenger train collided 'with it 'Wreck Locks Engines The engines wereflöcked with considerable damage to both Late Saturday Western Pacific officials said damage to the passenger engine amounted to $2000 and that the freight engine "had made its last run and now is standing demolished in the salvage yards" Thee eastbound passenger train a "Texas Farm Special" carrying Texas and Louisiana delegates from 112!ref‘entna tional Farm Bureau convention in San Francisco left San Francisco at 6:30 am Friday ard was due in Salt Lake Oty at 7:33 am (MST) Saturday The Tooele Valley freight train pulled by freight engine No 57 left Salt Lake at 6:57 am and was scheduled to turn off at the Fox ' Junction siding some seven miles west of Salt Lake City A' combination according to railroad officials of possible earlier schedI ule for the passenger train and Iinsufficient time allowance for the freight train can be attributed as the cause of the wreck Freight Near Siding The l'reight train was just approaching the Fox siding when engineers of both trains Mr McKenna of freight No 57 and L H Sorenson 148 W 8th South of the passenger train apparently saw each other and started applying brakes in an attempt to avoid the crash Trainmen reported the passenger train was about a halfmile from the Fox siding and traveling approximately 80 miles an hour when the engineer started applyirg brakes in an effort to siow down since distance made it impossible to stop In the meantime Mr McKenna stopped his freight train and was backing up when the two engines crashed head-o- n They eventually came ta a stop approximately 130 yards from the siding and it is believed they traveled "locked" for approximately 35 yards Impact of the crash of the freight cars from the Caboose and engine demolished the entire structure of the freight engine and the subsequent blast of the freight boiler set all wooden The portions of the caboose afire dam-See passenger train engine was Page 8 Column 1 : : ' ' - ' - - conference "I did this because I knew Bilbo" Collins added Sen Homer Ferguson (R Mich) asked what the witness meant "Well I'd known that individual for about 35 years in politics" See Page 6 Column 3 Collins replied "I could not retain my self respect and support any one he was 1 ' ! s 4r - - i I e-- 4t I ' ' : 4 0 r-- ---- ----- f0-3 Tn not be identified: t e "This really cuts the 4 ilbo Demes 0- 110000 Where new houses and apartI rnents are built to be rented the sent ceiling for all the units in the project will average $80 — some may be more and some less ' 1 'Until now a Cat $80 ceiling was Imposed — The allocation of raw materials to manufacturers of building materials may be dropped April 1 if production continues high More federal financing will be given to rental housing "I am determined that a vig- orous housing program will con- tinue to be carried out in 1947" said a presidential statement The techniques we will use are those that will work today 1 am interested in results and 1 ii am convineed that this 1947 proI gram will produce results" I action followed in large part the recommendations of real estate and construction industry leaders who contended that more homes would be built -without government restrictions- than with them Every control Mr Truman re- moved represented a reversal of the program advocated by Wyatt former mayor of Louisville Ky v‘ho quit last week as housing i expediter when the White House would not give him the authority and rules he wanted The president said that while the ' Finance Corp will Fotruction continue to assist producers of prefabricated housing and industrially built dwelling components It will do so "when it is warrantd " The R FC financing matter was one particularlyin dispute Wyatt wanted power to direct RFC to Tnake prefabrication loans He had some $60000000 in such i (I loans and gotten about $4000000 The president apparently settled that point finally by putting it bp to R V C to determine phat is 1 ii - At 7 ---- 414:It 10436'—'so""""""""'"-"7"--"--"-----7" '' i w--- fo' Pok ' controls of the Wilson Wyatt program and ordering new steps t to aid rertal construction The $10000 sales price ceiling on new homes was abandoned and the ¶SO a month rental ceiling liberalized The priority system on building materials was junked The way was cleared for : anyone veteran or not to build a house for his own occupancy with government permission Here are the changes effected by the president's order: Aiiyone may build a house for Until now Lis own occupancy only veterans could get permits Priorities on building materials Win be dropped - –Some increase" in nonresiden-SharinVal construction will be permitted The price ceiling is removed on rew houses built for sale It was - ' ' : 4 t ----- 1 4 'under the decontrol shower tonight washing away the major - i ) - A H06 4 4 f t i4 I i f Dec 14 CFI—President Truman put housing WASHINGTON 1 0 t ' Jtbaiilloils $10 000 Ceiling Price In 'Vigorous Housing Program' 1 - te''''''Y's''''""-fi- k-6- 1 0 - P Passenger II ams Freigh Nearing Si g ing F '74 t'' L01' Atli - ''t 7 pm4 2111 s Further substantiating evidence terrific force of the collision was the position of the two loco- the track motives of - They looked as though they on reports that G 0 P Chairman lots against New York City welded together were Carroll Reece had asked for her Australia and the Arab states ' Slack Coal Dumped has held her She resignation thus carried to the end their fight She said she - New post since 1937 Australia York The passenger engine appeared would remain as Republican na- against favored San Francisco in the long intact but the freight locomotive tional committeewoman f rom contest had nothing left but the front Maine She is a native of Bangor committee The headquarters 8 Column 6 See e proposal for their reduction to 'the size of a peacekeeping police force Other U N developments at Saturday's plenary sessions inIsrE W YORK Dec 14 (A'— cluded: Police and fire department of1 Approval of U N adminis- ficials whose tired emermcy crews have recovered 37 bodies from beneath the ruins of a ManCROSS-COUNTR- Y hattan tenement said Saturday they believed there were no more dead under the tons of rubble S Deputy Fire Chief Edward Muto and Police Inspector Frederick WASHINGTON Dec 14 CrE)—A priceless collection of McKenna said however that digging would continue "until we original American documents will be taken on " swing across long-rang- Soars to 37 ' - EXHIBITS SET OF AGED U DOCUMENTS proposed that the assembly accept the fete unanimouslyand thanked Rockefeller for his offer to buy y the land for the skyscraper Page ' - NAs : GRIDIRON CLUB cap-ever- ital Eduardo Zuleta Angel of Columbia chairman of the committee who has been suffering a heart attack left his hospital bed to come to the assembly and make hls report Austin Asks Vote up assembly question immediately after returning from its dinner recess Warren R Austin former U S Senator and now chief of the Unted States delegation to the assembly asked for unanimous consent to move the site item ahead of a number of other minor matters on the agenda in deference to the chairman's illness Zuleta old the delegates that the year of work by the committee had made possible the quick acceptance of Rockefeller's offer which was made suddenly during this week as it appeared the question might have to be postponed until next year Zuleta said that the skyscrapers and chimneys of Manhattan would not hinder the work of the United Nations He added that on the contrary they would "recall us to reality and life" - Skits RelegateDemocratic Circus to Dixie Circuit "forward to spark a nation-wid- e drive against alien ideologists Atty Gen Tom before Sunday afternoon C Clark 2515 The ruined building at Amsterdam ave where 22 fam"Liberty on Wheels" an exhibition of such landmarks ilies lived collapsed early Thursin American history as the official copy of the Bill of Rights day morning when fire weakened will tour the 48 states in a specially constructed fireproof the thick wall of an adjoining ice train house and caused it to crash down The purpose Clark said in an interview is to "reaffirm tenement the upon in the minds and hearts of the American people an underno more Officials believed bodies would be found even standing and appreciation of the basic principles of our girl Anthough a government" toinette Carrado still is reported The exhibition the attorney general said "will give missing millions of Americans an opportunity to view such monusaid the that they thought They in our history as the Bill of Rights the landmarks mental was another of body girl actually Antoinette This body previously Proclamation the original of the Gettysburg Emancipation had been tentatively identified as own handwriting of Patrick Address and the notes in his that of Rose Fucci 18 but later in he said 'Give me liberty which immortal speech Henry's another corpse was identified posi" ' ' me or death' give tively as the Pucci girl Other documents include notes of the proceedings lead- Workers recovered six more bodies Saturday Five have been ing to the Declaration of 'Independence in Thomas Jefferidentified so far: Mrs Serafina De son's handwriting and James Madison's manuscript notes of Vito between 70 and 80 Frank debates in the federal conventiFn Mazzini 37 Mrs Catherine GaeClark said the train will visit all large cities and many tent 29 Peter Sloane 38 and his small ones in "a tour lasting probably a full year" See rage 6 Column 3 daughter Louise 5 not know about the contractor's $25000 contribution during the campaign He said that if he had he would have pressed a whole lot harder for the 2000 he claims ' is still 'owed him He added amidst a roar of laughter from the spectators that he told some friends en route to Washington he might ask the Senate committee to help him collect it Asked by Chairman James M Mead (D N Y) whether it was customary for a defeated candidate to have his campaign expenses paid if he threw his support later to the victor Wall said it was in Mississippi He added incidentally that he had lived in Mississippi only 25 years and that because he was a North Carolinian by birth some of his opponents had tried to make out "that I was a Republican" Doxey who has been Senate kg ' ' still-crowd- ed ' I WASHINGTON Dec 14 (UP) The show was written and acted —Victorious Republicans marched by the newspapermen members of to the horse and buggy the Grldiron club After his administration had days" Saturday night in skits and songs presented at the annual been thoroughly lampooned Pres So did winter dinner of the Gridiron club Truman spoke briefly before Pres Harry S Truman and John W Bricker (It 500 other guests representing the Republican The Democratic circus was 0) party which like the Democratic in the depicted as folding up after a got a thorough going-ovrun relegated evening's satire sensational to the Dixie circuit until things tradiUnder the club's tion that "reporters are never got better Henry A Wallace was shown in present" at the dinner the rea retreat to instead of from Mos- marks of Mr Truman and Bricker cow With him were his marshals were not recorded The 'dinner was held at WashSen Claude Pepper of Florida recently defeated Rep Hugh Delacy ington's Hotel Statier Music for of Washington and Elliott Roose- the dirner and the show was provided by the U S Marine band velt Russian Foreign Minister V M under direction of Capt William Molotov was cast as left halfback F Santelmann musical director on a football team practicing for of the dub a game in the Peace bowl He Raymond P Brandt of the St the club wouldn't play unless he could call Louis made the traditional the signals When he did every- presidmt body but the left halfback lost his "speech in the dark" lie recalled- -See Page 4 Column 2 4 pants on the play Sen-ele- ct - 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