Show Temperatures The Weathe iturcs for the MMMSS a m today Mas M:r riasli'ii 5 Omaha aKw2msjc am so sspnoertix 4 m Pncatello 83 461rovo Putto piHp ur Generally clear mornings bffomim partlv cloudy afternoon today and Saturday A few isolated thundershowers over mountains in northern portion Saturday afternoon Slightly warmer today High today and Saturday 86 temperature to 94 and 9S in Dixie Low tonight 55 to 6V Minimum relative humidio to IS per cent Wind southity ern 15 to 20 miles per hour in the west portion and 10 miles per hoar in the rut fr TTTAH— totyighth Yf-N- o V Standard The tutted freiti The Associated Freia 211 OGDEN Lee Demands On Europe Prison Inquiry Council Hit UTAH FRIDAY EVENING lHa!lf today fought for greater inWilliam F Hobbsl Omaha check dependence from control by ease may lead back to Ogdea 12 the member governments I Churchill fiery advocate of a united Europe called for the establishment of the consultative assembly of Europe as a free parlia- Sheriff Waits JM""' Further1 Data first Churchill In Hobbs Case "crippling limitation" ment In one of his er ' t men-anc- sex-slayi- One-Mon- th Build-ieaPthr- a Paul-Hen- ri Capps Case Still i Unsettled Other Appeals Planned Close Vote Night two-pag- Bring 'Mac' Home R-S- Refinery Awards Plant Contract multi-millio- ns Republicans Hit 'Delaying Tactics' of Administration ' - i- pJA"1 i W ! ar (R-Or- I Bulletins e) Bad Winds Slow i Fire ! 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SO D 3S FINAL EMTIOff -- m 4 S M Ysllat SECTIONS O r MfBt 73 Angelos Spring SMK SsHsW Lake San Antonio MMM : as Lo n fa 54 T3 Rot-- S9 Ch--a- 101 to Agrees Vaughan Answer Questions Truman Aide Willing to Appear at Senate Hearing Stories of Gilt Freezers Enter 'Influence' Probe WASHINGTON Aug 12 UP—Maj Gen Harry H Vaughan will appear before senate investigators and tell his relations with the capital's "influence salethem (AP) — - A Washington Aug 12 (AP— smen' about was learned today it Advocates of President cutting minimum wage bill seemed arms Truman's aid $1450000000 when the Just military aide will testify was today to have a clear — n bill gave up the fight in the house not disclosed It president's be next week But Chairman Clyde may ifthv— road ahead of it in for?iSn affairs committee today decided to make their stand R Hoey They of the senate investigating committee told the senate following house j on the house floor instead "has indicated a willingness to appear bereporters Vaughan passage of the measure fore the and testify at any time the committee committee Senator Taft of Ohio chairman fairs committee votes on it Ifbn- — — wf of the senate G O P policy com day desires"'Vorys Representatives Committee mittee told a reporter he will sup nn4 to want members ask tf wkA titl WlrHrl f l"Y!8t 11 his floor He predicted been him with about port the friendship for Velt'TIC spearheading the drive fll most Republicans will join him If lla 111 cuts told newsmen they plan no "five percenter" James V Hunt IWW i speeches to SALT LAKE CITY Aug (AP) the assembly yesterAn elderly man who was struck what he day rapped and killed by an automobile near called on asthe Salt county line this morning was identified tentasembly debate imposed by the council's committee of foreign mintively as John Ransom 81 Lima Sheriff Mac M jWaxie today said v isters Mont he would make ro decision as to Detective Sergeants Earl Worl-to- n Forerunner to Parliament whether he woulji go to Omaha and Clarence T Smith made The committee of ministers rep- Neb to question William F Hobbs the tentative identification They said they had talked with Ransom resenting the 12 governments 29 of Ogden until he had received which formed the Council of Eu in April in connection with an inrope is the guiding body of thei additional information from Omaha vestigation they were conducting new European organization Officers who investigated reportThe authorities committee has the power to deed the driver identified himself as Sheriff Wade commented howcree what subjects shall be debat- ever that he would ' Charles Dale Capps 18 of Bounprobably nevW son Mrs Nettie of ed tiful by the consultative assembly Capps er be I talk with satisfied until conis term a for who Churchill and other advocates of Jail serving some form of European federation Hobbs in person'' tempt of court in a row over the space" insurance of another son killed in Conditions Described hope the assembly may be the foreHobbs sought for some time for runner to a genuine parliament of the war in connection with the questioning an After of the Europe with legislative The victim carried no identificainspection powers was across national boundaries Shirley Gretzinger tion In a pocket officers found prison Smith said: cutting a "All the buildings are in a bad At present the council — divided arrested in Omaha August 3 on a $382 in currency He was about 60 state of repair with plaster off into a consultative assembly and a check years of age and has been senMotorists told officers the man in many places leaving wood lath committee of ministers— has only tenced charge to serve two years in the had been walking in the center of exposed" This condition he said advisory powers to promote greatwould be conducive to the rapid er European unity Nebraska state prison the highway " Mrs Capps was first given an 8prad ot Churchill's oratory "If I receive information from Inspired by Warden Mason W Hill who has the assembly delegates clearly inincorrect version of the accident Omaha authorities indicating that at the jail and collapsed when she said he will welcome the aov- - dicated they will seek greater auHobbs can be more definitely incomwas informed it was her son who "n0!? investigation than the ministerial termed thority intend volved in our investigation I will Smith's report just another reason mittee shall have was killed they leave immediately" Sheriff Wade She recovered quickly when giv- why the construction at the Point No lab declared He also indicated that the Mountain prison site should en the correct version as later inf- of if Ogden city police travel to ormation-reached the sheriffs of- be rushed to completion Belgium's Spaak will be of steel and unanimously elected assembly pres- Omaha he would not fice concrete ident yesterday appointed a Want to Question Others Hill said fire extinguishers are committee to meet with Meanwhile Weber county depplaced at numerous points In the the ministerial committee to seek their search for present prison and guards have abolition of the gag rule He uties continued been trained in fire fighting pro- warned the delegates against try- "three or four"' other suspecti in the gruesome July 20 slaying of cedure "But if we had to evacu- ing to move too swiftly ate a large number of prisoners high school is not possible to remake Eu- the pretty "It from one of the cell blocks the rope to our heart's desire in one student whose body was found in only place we could put them month" Spaak declared "You a thicket at Riverdale would be in the open yard" he must make a choice among probPolice Officers Ray M Clawson added lems After this session there will and A M Garside also are waiting The governor echoed Hill s views others It is indispensable that for information on the questionin urging anew prompt comple- be ing of Hobbs real and' something tion of the new prison He said sult from our work practical re Hobbs according to the police ofSALT LAKE CITY Aug 12 (AP) he still feels that the new prison ficers may be a key figure in the As Mrs Nettie W Capps Bounti- should be completed before availinvestigation of the murder of the ful Utah Gold Star mother be- able state building funds are "scatbaby sitter They report sending e a letter with all the ingan her tenth day in the county tered around" on other state projformation obtained on the murder it appeared that at- ects nil today to Inspector Gren to question tempts on the local level to free Olsen on Committee Hobbs on this information her had failed Mrs Eleanor Boyd of Long The committee set up four subUse Lie Detector May Beach Calif president of the Gold committees to begin investigations Star Mothers of America Inc ar- immediately and report Green has informed Ogden police back at WASHINGTON Aug 12 (AP)— that a lie detector among other rived yesterday to aid the another meeting Sept 8 These woman The senate foreign relations and means will be employed in quesgroups were: Mrs Boyd held a conference of Finance — Ward C Holbrook armed services committee voted 13 tioning Hobbs more than two hours with Third Bountiful Officers Clawsoh and Garside chairman: State Rep to 12 today to ask Gen Douglas to return from Japan said they are also waiting for a District Judge Ray Van Cott Jr Dilworth S Woolley Lake' MacArthur but failed to reach any agreement C J Olsen Ogden for a report to congress report from federal bureau of inon the release of the prisoner Senators reported this vote pri- vestigation officers in Washington Buildings and facilities — Dr Mrs Boyd indicated she might Adam S Bennion Salt Lake vately as they came from a closed D C on results of examination take action in Washington D C chairman: Ray S McCarty City and door session of the two commit- of a number of articles found in a tees with the aim of having a writ is- Clarence L Palmer car allegedly driven to Salt Lake sued to reopen the case in a cirAdministration and general poliThey said the vote followed a City by Hobbs cies — Rabbi Louis E Cardon long and angry debate cuit court of appeals It was The Gold Star Mothers president chairman: Bruce R McConkie and reported an effort might be made to get the committees to reconwho serves on a special council of Dr Robert D Steele the veterans' administration said Prisoner conduct and employ- sider the action she was interested in the Capps ment—Dale R Curtis chairman President Truman told his news case to try to effect a "just mediaFullmer H Latter and Dr C H conference yesterday he would order MacArthur tion" Hardin Branch return whenever Mrs Capps was jailed when she the general himself requested it MacArthur said in Tokyo today he fefttsed to obey a court order indoes not want to return at this volving disposal of national ser- Lindbergh in Germany SALT LAKE CITY Aug 12 (AP) time vice Ule insurance payments She MUNICH 12 was ordered to place insurance polTwo Democrats — Byrd of Vir- The Salt Lake Refining company Germany Aug — Colonel (UP) LindA n Charles trust fund for — today announced award of a ginia and Russell of icy payments in the benefit of her dead son's three bergh who is on a special army were said to have joinedGeorgia contract for design dollar Repub-licaII mission in Europe visited !!: hircn the in supporting the move to and construction of a 'catalytic Before he was killed in action Moschendorf German refugee camp summon MacArthur as a witness cracking plant here in the battle of the bulge her son here yesterday He left for north on the administration's foreign c c rinney ar president said arms aid bill Jacob L Capps named his mother Germany afterward went to the Bechtel the contract beneficiary of his GI insurance corporation of San Francisco The catalytic cracking unit will be built Mrs Boyd cited a letter from as part of a $10000000 expansion ¥ B Sims chief of the life inof the company's facilities here! he surance claims division for the vetsaid erans' administration She said the Finney said the new unit will letter shows Van Cott violated fedboost processing capacity of the reeral laws in ordering Mrs Capps finery and will increase the plant's to turn over $53 60 monthly insur output of high octane gasoline ance payments to the First Se- - By Jack Bell ' heating oils and diesel fuels The kThere nn hat hmii filllnni — — unit will be in operation by the iu'i company as trustee Au ST?-?- ' RePub"c on ne said the letter further AP"7 any biR" Taft de- end of 1950 he said s Truman that the Salt Lake Refining is a subj "P "e MV consistently sidiary ReDublican filibuster m tZuZes ! divof Standard Oil of Calitoito-ltoThe earlieT fornia ""1 monVreved broueht G O cnarues r counter aooroDriations committee ni" pay rour-veattorney iee mcwrrea aunng J01 that the Democrats are stall- - Iand there have been so many of court battle the tnese that there have been delavs mg congress adjournment Senator Morse told a ' "The Republican 8ft n congress reporter he thinks there is a Dem-- ! approved all appropriations bills by ocratie plot to keep congress in June 15 last year The Democrat WASHINGTON Aug- - 13 (AP) session and thereby keen ReDubli- - leadershio of the 81st can't nraiu Truman today nomcan lawmakers off the stump this responsibility for the fact that inated Gen Joseph Lawton U there still are two basic biUs lins to be chief of staff of Col17: -- Llthe Senator Lucas of Illinois the which haven t even been w army Collins vice chief of staff Democratic leader retorted that up for senate consideration"brought 2J was aasaed to saeceed General tnia is only a figment of the sen-- ! Omar N Bradley I p Bradley was Bad winds Thursday night forced ator's imagination" nominated yesterday to the highon the Hunt gulch fire Senator Wherry of Nebraska the On the adjournment front Morse est gfbcrews salutary rank m the coantry— tn the Payette national forest to re-- G O P floor leader and Senator told a think there elHdraaaa of the joint chiefs at treat several miles and rebuild their Taft of Ohio chairman of his par- - a definitrmove afoot adamong staff u r TOiniro (Kim in u poney committee too issue ministration Democrats to delay xyi Catliaa was been in New — L IT oa so wm nx O G P that ine money quitting members Orteaaw May 1 1S9C He was prmiKui The fire fighters were forced to bill question won't have graduated from the military seeking the top of the ridge between Carev much time to campaign this year d acadesny and was creek and Fall creek although the Leadership The v know that mm of ti a seeesMl lieatenaat April lire aio not increase in acreage called reporters together like Senator Taft of Ohio laiWln Wherry 1917 He saw service in both AO additional men were added to tn tetl thm Hit Mr Donnell of Missouri and myself are World wars the 1050 to 1100 men now at work Truman in complaining tht at delays pretty vigorous campaigners and on the fire there was actually reflecting on the Dam- - I think they want to hamstring us DETROIT Aeg 12 ill — The ' Gustafson chief of fire ocratic j as much as they can 'Moras said leadership CIO United Anto Workers incontrol for the U S forest service The president made his filibuster-- ! Lucas said that he is as ternational executive board toWashington D C- flew down to the statement at a news confer-- 1 anxious as anybody to gojust home day aathorised a nationwide fire from region 1 headquarters in delay ence yesterday He said the Illinois primary In strike agatest the Ford Motor Missoula Mont today He had Senator Taft said forcefully that which he is expected to seek recompjmv "if and m hen III SSiry bec r in Missoula on routine bust- - there hasn't bean any Republican nomination will be one of the ear- - to Whi the jeat demand- - Of I best to be held next year j filibuster workers" is 26 —: Full Arms Aid GOP Favor Bloc to Carry Demos Pledged Fight to Floor WASHINGTON Aug 12 Government Lake-Dav- Serrl- - Srnrice Taft Predicts SALT LAKE CITY Aug 12 (AP) — Gov J Bracken Lee By today called for a full investigation of conditions problems and policies of the state prison STRASBOURG France The governor promised to support recommendations of Aug 12 (AP) — Led by Winspecial investigating committee of citizens which met to ston Churchill the new Coun'organize yesterday cil of Europe's first assembly in citizens "There is no 12 NFA AP 1949 Saaflr Churchill Asks Less Controls point devoting their time to these investigations unless the elective officials are willing to follow their recommendations" he said urging the committee to investigate everything they wish and "cover nothing up" Senate President Alonzo P Hop-kt- h chairman toid the governor his group would bring back an impartial report "We'll let the chips fall where they may" he said The governor's directive to the committee coincided with a report by Salt Lake City Fire Marshal Willis J Smith branding housing conditions at the prison as a "violation of all legal and moral laws" Smith said the ancient buildings in the Sugar House section of the city constitute "one of the worst e fire traps in the city and a to the lives of the 449 inmates crowded into its limited 12 TUT" 'Cower Nothing Up Governor Tells Man in Center Of Road Struck By Car Killed AUGUST In Custody Clear Sailing : nun minimum Pay Bill Seen Limitations Citizens Committee Fire Marshal Brands Ancient Buildings Firetraps CITY xamxner rnrj una ' MH j 1 t 1 (D-N- C) VT'lo°! eiiis - lvJt V 75-ce- nt further committee action but will his sanenMul efforts to get it make their fight when the bill building permit issued for T ifotagU comes before the house reports that he fW track a deep freezer from emAmendment Rejected ployers of his pal John M iraMft Their decision tp toss in the and several other items linking him sponge in committee followed de- with others under investigation feat yesterday by a tie vote of Burners of Freeier Gifts a Richards' amendment to reduce That Vaughan will tell hi gtaaay the amount of arms" aid for Atlantic pact nations to $580495000 and sooner or later was disclosed asw 1 The capital buzzed over rerejection today on a technicality of a similar amendment ports that several prominent — Before adjourning until next ernment officials received Qafll the committee nrwter-- trom naragon s lormer Monday morning i uif y saia a i least one tn adopted several amendments de- doss signed to reiterate the hope of the the persons mentioned in unconU S for world peace and calling firmed gossip—stemming from - a on administrators of the aid pro- couple' of senators who wouldn't gram to bring about "unified di- be quoted— did not receive a freezrection and effort" in developing er White House Press Sc retaiV Charles G Ross said he had "no defense plans The senate judiciary committee information" about a published remeanwhile recommended confirma- port that Mrs Truman got one tion of Attorney General Tom C Chief Justice Fred H Vinson and Clark to be an associate justice of Treasury Secretary John W Shah the supreme court The vote was der had no comment on repom 9 to 2 purporting to link their names with freezers the Clark Urge Approval 2 The committee heard testiThe committee also recommendmony that Presidential Assistant ed— 9 to 0— the confirmation of Sen- John R Steelman once indorsed Hunt— the "five per center" ajfBp ator J Howard McGrath to be attorney general succeeding activities as a procurer of government contracts for business men Clark Chairman McCarran at started the investigation Evidence was produced that first declined to say who voted Major General Aiden H Wait£ against Clark Later be fold re- Chief of the army chemical corpa porters that Senators Donnell who is under suspension pending and Ferguson opinvestigation of hts relations with posed confirmation Taft forecast eventual senate passage of the measure in about the form it was approved by the house yesterday on a 361 to 35 vote Bill on "Mast List" Senator Lucas of Illinois the Democratic leader has put the bill on the administration's "must list" It carries out a pledge made in the Democratic national platform last year so far as raising the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents an hour is concerned However as it passed the house the bill would take perhaps workers out from under the law About 22000000 are now covered Lucas said he anticipates no serious trouble getting approval of the measure when it He said however that four pending money measures will have to be cleared before it can be brought up for action He wouldn't guess when that might be Exempts Some Workers The bill exempts some workers who have been put under the law's adminisoperations by wage-hotration and court rulings Among these would be some workers engaged in production for interstate commerce and employes of local and retail establishments 75-ce- nt (D-R- I) ur (D-Ne- v) —— r— - Hunt once dictated memorandum to Vaughan in Hunt's office The was delivered to memorandum Vaughan s office by Hunt's sacpfc tary Waltt's memo belittled candidates for his job whom he had praised in official reports Truman Doesn't Object Disclosure that Vaughan will tescame after Senator Joseph B tify said The only threat is a committee to American security and world McCarthy had demanded his appeace comes from the Soviet member pearance L'nion President Truman has said he has no objections to Vaughan's testift Nation Must Be Contained Mr Truman told a news conDealings with Russia he said ing yesterday that he did riot cannot be based on normal dip- ference know whether the Tanforan charge lomatic negotiations and that na- was true tion can be contained only by 'acin view of that tive' participation of the united theMcCarthy said should himself be general of States with the other nations out that called He pointed western the world" in addition to being The United States with atomic Vaughan aide also is the presimilitary bombs in "significant quantity to haul them can dents coordinator of veterans afand check the "aggressive designs" of fairs Housing Expediter Tighe E Soviet leaders Vandenberg said The air orce places first em- Woods has toid the committee that for phasis on its strategic air com- Vaughan" twice- interceded track big mand which operates under Lt "friends who bought the 1947 The at San Bruno Calif in Gen Curtis E Lemay the was being repaired at a and superforts Vandenberg track time when materials for veterans' said Woods said were scarce He said the air force housing track permit on will have four groups 10 he issued13 the 1948 just 24 hours aft9 January medium bomber Vaughan called his office and groups: six strategic er "please hurry" reconnaissance groups of which said The deep freeze story caught the one tactical retwo will be connaissance group six troop car- committee unprepared to air it fulrier groups 20 fighter groups and ly now It "broke" yesterday when one light bomb group This com- Albert J Gross a Milwaukee manmakes them told of position was approved by the joint ufacturer who freezers to Vaughan sending deep chiefs he said and others here He revealed the joint chiefs have written the committee that they Mar tc-i- - Boh are of the "firm opinion that the Gross said the freezers were paid concept of strategic bombing and the extent of its employment as tCotttttraeO on Pag twn-Anow planned are sound" tColumn fivei a Vandenberg Comes to Defense Of B 36 Stresses Atom Role WASHINGTON Aug 12 (UP) — Gen Hnvt S Vandenberg said to-- ! day Russia is America's only pos sible enemy atomic bombing in the event of war has "the" first priority and the joint chiefs of staff are now selecting targets The air force chief of staff denied all allegations made against the superbomber that it is either an inferior vehicle for an atomic attack or that it is a plane through political pressure Iptfht He testified before the house armed aievices committee The committee is investigating alleged procurement irregularities and the whole concept of war planning as now being done by the air force and the joint chiefs of staff of which Vandenberg is a member As for rumors of irregularities — first 6 in purchasing of the raised by Rep James E Van Zandt a )— Vandenberg recalled that part dealing with Air Secretary W Stuart Symington's possible ties with the 6 manufacturer Floyd Odium board chairman of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp B-3- R-- 6 B-3- (R-P- B-3- "Utterly Unthinkable' "That Mr Symington could have entertained the idea of jeopardizing the security of this country by favoring inferior airplanes for the monetary advantage of a political party or because of the personal influence of an individual manufacturer is utterly unthinkable" Vandenberg said The statement quoted also referred indirectly to allegations that Odium's position as Democratic campaign contributor might have caused the air force to regard the 6 more highly Vandenberg discussed the theory underlying strategic bombardment and approval of plans to conduct it by the joint chiefs of staff The chiefs include besides himself Admiral Louis Denfield of the navy and Gen Omar Bradley of the army now to Become cnair man of the joint chiefs "It is pointless to talk in riddles' j B-- W 36 - B-3- B-2- 9 48-gro- up B-- 36 B-2- B-4- 's i ' j 1 1 mmam GTON Aug It CAP)— mmmmmm authority for the tall roads to boost freight rates again waa iconpled today with a warn ing mat farther increases may mean business Authorizing a new four par general sate advance tna: in htlMM eooimer ceit commission may be reluctant to broadly that e5S permit any later hike The ide caUed attention to shipper protests that the rail carriers by raising charges may "prion tfcahpelves out of tha market and said: "It is now taken as axiomatic that increased freight rates do not ajMkarily or invariably result in iMMgsed operating revenues "The successive increases whMh authorized since June 30 WBVf 1946 have brought us to the point' Wbait all concerned concede that well as ' the carriers must ri whether further in IB con-ridti- ji i MMsBllulfMM m law Mat thus defeat their plat Howevear the commission fOWM-thathe industry had shown a need for more income particularly in view of the week which is to be -- made effective for soma apeficers Sept 1 and granted the new advance The- change may be mida nn 15 'days notice to the pub- - t 40-ho- lic - The fresh four per cent upping of rates will add au ut fmOOOOwS a year to rail freight billings The cHMkission estimated in this connection that the weak wjtt increase expenses soma ftMO00uMO 40-ho- ur aphnally With this action freight rate have been 'advanced about 5T in the postwar period overall hike in charges amounts to some 13000000000 a year jgjg-cen- Sa Baseball Today By the Associated Press National Leagae : Hwven innings — called because too ooi o—2 t o oiio 000 0—0- 3 0 WM York aaHliowy and Semi nick: Jones iHbfllian Hansen and R Mueller Htthia - Boston st Brooklyn and Pitta at St Louis night games (Only game schedulad) Imp ijMlcan Leagaa Ullpt: HHpngton Hp Scarborough ffnples and 300 001 003— 7 12 201 047 Olx— 13 14 m 0 0 Gettel Westeroth Evans Stobbs and Second Washington at Boston New York at Philadelphia ('hiajlp SBMtand' and St Louis at games ht Author of 'Gone' Badly Hurt by Speeding Car — ATLANTA Aug 1? AP—Mar-- 4 Mitchell southern little the garet lady who made the high courage of a lost 'cause into "Gone With the Wind"! was nearly killed last night by a speeding car Police said the quiet middle-age- d author of the fabulous ro mance of the war between the f states wa knocked to the pave-men: ana araggea i" reer She was taken to City hospital where physicians and nurses said she wa too gravely hurt to be moved even for She Was placed under an oxygen tent and was given a blood transf usion early today after her blood pressure fell Attendants DOWNEY Idaho Aug 12 'AP) said she responded satisfaetorily Damage from a fire which swept Will Need tout Heart a large Farmers Grain Cooperative Hospital attendants made if plaht Inc elevator yesterday wa esti- that Miss Mitchell would need a mated at $150000 About 28000 stoat heart —as stout as the one she gave Scarlett O'Hara— to pull bushels of grain were lost The blaze broke out at the top through Miss Mitchell — in private life Of the elevator and spread rapidly down the sides of the structure be- she's Mrs John Marsh received tween the wood siding and metal a possible skull fracture internal f injuries and an injury to bar sheeting Farmers ami residents of the area right lag Her face waa badly aided the Preston fire department bruised She was struck by a ear owned in controlling the blaze Cause of Margaret Mitchell the fire was not determined but it and' driven' by a 'taxi i mi many The company said the ailment for several years said ha was thought a bet motor or friction employe from one of the conveyor belts at i vehicle was not used aa a taxi- - j was about a step behind' bis w ife Otherwise he too would have the top of the structure may have J cab I Her husband victim of a heart injured started the blaze B-3- $150000 Fire at ai Revenue Loss Via Rate Hike o) h) iff x-ra- ys Grain Elevator MaaW : I - a 3mj the' driver— 28- D Gravest— with Hugh UMeld mRen driving "speeding and driving on the wrong side of the ce charged They quoted him as saying ha tried to avoid striking Mils Mitch-pBgp- w ild have 'missed her If she "had not run back towards the curb " into the author as she and her husband John R Marsh tartMl across the street in front of Peachtree Arts theatre not far from their Peachtree street hoagg "There was a loud crash eg mm car fait her" he related "It dragged " her IS feet before it The vehicle plunged tatAed south f rtt SI stopped std oooooo Cepies Miss Mitchell started out to ha mWMmmmmm feature writer and wound up by penning a novel that literallv swept the world "Gone With the Wind" her only book has been translated into a dozen foreign langaajpe 'Mat has sold nearly f 000000 copies It came out In 1930 fourteen I years after she went to work as a girl on the Atlanta Journal and H years after aha aaarned Marsb-- It drew immediate acclaim and in 1937 was awarded tha Pulitzer prize for the year s best novel |