Show MRBKgBBm The Weather - tffAH -- - Decreasing — CS cloudiness : ' v Sunday with snow flnrrlM near assents Ins Sunday morning Fair vn pm Mas Mia' Sunday night ami Monday Colder Sunday nlhl High Sunday and Monday 35 to 48 OGDEN AND VICINITY— Decreasing cloudiness Sunday Fair lull j night and Monday Colder Sunday sight High Sunday and low Sunday Monday near S M Si Chicago1 trver La Vacaa nht The United Preu The Associated Press OGDEN CITY Nature Takes Over on Busy UTAH East-We- SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 24 WEA 1952 A I' aervlre SFKVK PAGES- -7 E U Mw York WiaaiUa P 13 PoeaUlla M XT 11 Mas Mia S IS SI St " gaaM°lf Orleans 38 New 33 40 : SS l 43 a St Prfrrt) ISSalt Laka rrn Ktu ' IS 31 IS uS5 SI 30 PRICI 10 CENTS SECTIONS Rocks Block Auto Traffic On Route 30 Highway st SturUi Boulders Big as Houses Crash Down on Weber Canyon Road Near Echo tsSSM- - MWBfiK& v& r: ' JflOMHe i Hoover Has No Room lo Talk Brannan Insists TOPEKA Kan Feb 23 (AP)— Secretary of Agriculture Brannan tonight struck back at former President Herbert Hoover for criticizing the moral atmosphere of the administration Brannan said Hoover sat silent fn the same cabinet with men involved in the Teapot Dome scandal but "now casts doubt on the moral fibre of public employes" In a Washington speech on Mon- oay Hoover had spoken of ' sick ening conduct" on the part of some government officials Same Herbert Hoover Brannan in speech prepared for a Washington day dinner at mum cipal auditorium and for national broadcast said this was "the same Herbert Hoover who sat in the cabinet of Warren Harding along with Albert Fall and Harry Daugh-ter- y and didn't utter a word" ' Brannan whose agriculture department has recently come under some fire in congress continued: 'Tall and Daughtery were the guilty parties in the Republican Teapot Dome scandals in which they profited to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars delivered in little black satchels Only Eight Days "Yet only eicht davs after Fall's hasty resignation from the interior department this is what Hoover wrote him: 'In my recollection that department has never had so constructive and legal a headship as you gave it I trust the time will come when your private affairs win enable you to return to public life" Brannan added: "This is the man who now casts doubt on the moral fibre of nublic emnloves " As for the shortages turned up in guvernmeni-owne- o stored in private warehouses grain now under congressional investigation Brannan said there had been no collusion or dereliction on the part of department employes He said the blame must be placed on private firms Alaska Statehood Proponents Gain mm Fh WASHINGTON Senate proponenuts of statehood ior Aiasna were reported today to have Shown a mnrlrAH pair in strength during the past two It still unlikely however thatappeared the pending statehood bill would survive a vote next Wednesday to shelve it An administration spokesman in the senate- --said h — -wont nave indicated the senate would vote oy a margin of four or five to send the bill back to committee TWo weeks ago it was expected the measure would be snowed under bv much larger margin The administration source attributed the improved prospects to a pickup in strength among for Parage of a — Repub-iimnLm- " Hawaii statehood to Hits French Entry PARIS Feb 23 (UP) — Gen Charles De Gaulle said tonight French membership in the European army would lead this nation into "bankruptcy and degradation" Winter Warfare Make shopping asy — beat old man weather" by using the standard - Examiner Classified aectton and your telephone This ad appearing in paper is a good example today's of the many bargains to be had by just r'Muug Uj your pnone: WASHERKxc 1 i ran nuuve au correct phone number by turning to "the bargain cen- Standard Examiner Yfitl want-ad- s 4 'X w V "fe- tJ r Willi Automobiles began piling up at both sides of the Slid e moments after Motorists climbed out to witness the wrath of nature and realized the heavily traveled highwav would be blocked for hours Lesser rubble of slide can be seen in this photograph (Photos by Har old Richlhs Ogden Standard-Examincorrespondent) —— ' : 4 I These huge boulders weighing hundreds of tons made U S highway 30 a mere footpath yesterday after- noon They crashed down from the mountain side in an avalanche of earth and dust The boulder at the Union Pacific railroad tracks right bounced across the highway and lodge a short distance from — — er d Pair Has 19th Child and Two Psychiatrists Big Three to Ask NATO to Cut She's Only 35— Cheat Death German Contribution to Defense by Still Wants More Think Billet! Baby-Face- LISBON Portugal Feb 23 (AP)— A delegation of the three western occupation powers in Germany flew to Lisbon At Least 45 Days SALT LAKE CITY Feb 23 (UP) tonight to plead with the North Atlantic Treaty organiza- Utah's two slayers tion (NATO) for reduction in the proposed $2670000000 Verne Braasch 24 and Melvin Sul21 livan Saturday won at least a West German contribution to European defense stay of their scheduled Tuesbaby-face- d 45-d- ay r F T :i i Match Folders Pop up at NATO LISBON Portugal Feb 23 (AP) — The order for U S military men was interrupted by a spate of giggles at the NATO conference today Pranksters distributed scores of match-foldewith the slogan: "I like Omar" The reverse side said: "Bradley for president headquarters ' SHAPE Rocquencourt cs rs France" That's Gen Dwlght D Eisen- hower's home base Top American officials burst into laughter when the matches suddenly popped up at a conference table at which Ike's old friend Gen Omar Bradley was sitting r Ridgway Praised For Explanation WASHINGTON Feb 23 (AP) — President Truman today commended Gen Matthew B Ridgway for the explanation he gave of why United States forces are fighting in Korea "I congratulate you on your message as to why we are in Korea" the president said in a mes"It was excelsage to Ridgway lent" I West German leaders told repre- sentatives of the U S Britain and France before their take-of- f from Bonn that the proposed contribution was "politically unacceptable" In West German currency it totals liy billion marks New Hitch Follows The new hitch in efforts to build a European army under Gen Dwight D Eisenhower came shortly after France stricken by an eco nomic crisis had scaled down her own contribution to the proposed Combined army The French agreed to furnish 12 divisions and 27 air squadrons insisting that Germany's manpower contribution be less than that Informed sources here feel that in view of France's position it is not unlikely that plans for a German contribution of 12 divisions may be reduced The controversy over what Gercontributions manpower many's shall be came at a time when the United States had decided to press for removal of practically all wraps remaining on West German war industries according to informed officials here A spokesman for the occupation authorities said on their arrival tonight that "we are bringing to the North Atlantic council the West German government's viewpoint on the subject of Germany's contribution to European defense" German Offer Previously at Bonn the Germans had offered as their contribution to a solid defense against the threat of Soviet aggression 10800000000 marks $2570400000) The slightly higher figure was set by a NATO committee for the fiscal year beginning next July 1 In recommending the higher figure the NATO group said it would equal about 105 percent of West Germany's estimated gross national p idud The group added that the U S is contributing 176 percent of Us estimated gross national product11 Britain 128 percent and f ranee percent The allied high commission in Germany met for the second day with West German Chancellor Kon-Ra- d Adenauer in Bonn today before dispatching representatives to Lisbon with the German counterproposals The feeling in Lisbon is that the German view will get a full hearing but that there is a hard core of resistance led by French Premier Edgar Faure to any reduction in the German financial contribution " Ridgway supremefcommander of United Nations forces in Korea said in an address to the far east department of the Reserve Officers association earlier this week that it was deplorable for many Americans still to ask "Why are we in Korea?" He said the pattern of communist intentions is "now spread across the world where even the blind can s see" Serve McCIoy Vodka BERLIN Feb 23 (UP) — Russian occupation officers served pressed caviar and vodka tonight to American High Commissioner John J McCIoy and other western officials at a party held to mark the 34th anniversary of the Soviet army U S to Take Long Look At Airport Situation WASHINGTON Feb 23 (AP)— The United States is about to take Its first long hard look at its airports Not just the'jinxed ones The whole noisy works There are more than 60 airports with metropolitan areas They are the primary concern vears — For harfscead — McUant uif —" ivmvusj the housing developments which jmivc surrounaeo many oi tnese airports have accepted the roar and o discomfort of rtlanoc their lot in life their payments for the city's privilege of having air service to its doorstep New Awareness But Istf'fv th!--' (ieei a awareness of the hazard overhead especially in bad weather Since the recent sri nf thras limisn crashes at Elisabeth N J in which H8 were kiUed there have been references to air traffic as "an umbrella of disaster" President Truman has named a three-ma-n enmmlstinn tn mv studv of the relationshin Htu-aaccidents and crowded airports 'Tor some time now I have been seriously concerned about airplane accidents In the take-o- ff and cheek-by-jo- — — lnw-fKnn- landing of aircraft especially in "I have been concerned about the loss of life and I have been concerned about the anxiety in some of our cities" There have been studies of accidents and airports before —by congressional committees by government agencies by industry organizations But none with the scope or on the scale of this new survey Earlier Stndies Earlier studies have concerned themselves more with the question of greater airport accessibility of reducing the automobile commuting distances between air terminals and civic centers The forthcoming survey will have a somewhat different theme: How to make airports safer how to reduce the hazard to surrounding areas how to cope with air traffic how to chooseincreasing sites for new airports Mr Truman appointed Lt Gen James H Doolittle famed former air force general and e racing pilot chairman of the commission Doolittle is now a New York oil company executive and a part-tim- e adviser to the defense departone-tim- ment day execution by a firing squad Federal District Judge Willis W Ritter after two days of arguments ordered the delay to give himself further time to study the case Say Righta Violated Attorneys for the youths convicted of the brutal 1949 robbery-slayin- g of Howard Manzione Beaver Utah service station attendant contended their constitutional rights had been violated because they were refused counsel immediately after their arrest appeals for clemency U S supreme courts The stay of execution to be delivered to Point of the Mountain prison late Saturday by a marshal came while preparations for the double execution — first in the state's history — were well underway 'Low Mentalities' The youths were to have died before a firing squad directed by the Iron county sheriff Attorney A Wally Sandack said Braasch and Sullivan admitted killing the popular young athlete but contended their broken home backgrounds "low mentalities" and absence of "constitutional guaranteed protection of civil rights" warranted prison sentences rather than death HOLYOKE Mass Feb 28 housewife (AP) — A gave birth this week to her 19th child since marriage in 930— and said she'd like still more Mrs Joseph McClain of Hampton Pond named the latest addition Leonard and said: "I'm delighted to have such a big family and I'd like more children My health however won't permit it for awhile" McClain 47 a truck driver married his wife when she was 13 The family lives in a camp eats 66 loaves of bread a week and 60 pounds of potatoes They go to church in two shifts Fifteen of the 19 children — the oldest 21 — are living two-sto- ry Want McGraih to Previously had been denied by the Utah and 10-m- Coronation to See Lots of 'Rabbit' Explain Income WASHINGTON Feb 23 (AP) — Critics of Atty Gen McGrath sought today to get him before a congressional committee to state under oath whether he has become a millionaire while in public office Rep Hillings Mcwith Harold E Stassen thatagreed Grath should be called and questioned about his finances Hillings is a member of a house judiciary subcommittee which is e just getting started on a inquiry into McGrath's official conduct as attorney general and into the justice department which he heads Wants Him Called Hillings told newsmen he believes the group which has not yet scheduled any hearings should adopt Stassen's suggestion that it call McGrath for testimony about what Stassen terms his "accumulated wealth'' since becoming governor of Rhode Island in 1940 Rep Chelf chairman of the subcommittee said that "in due time McGrath will be given an opportunity to appear before the committee" although he added there are no plans to call the cabinet official immediately aa Stassen had suggested f) full-scal- (D-K- LONDON to be worn the coming Elizabeth II Feb 23 (AP)— Robes by lords and ladies at coronation of Queen will carry more white rabbit than royal ermine Prices London tailors agreed today are too high The date of the coronation has not yet been set The speculation is that it will be held sometime next summer But tailors said they were ready to accept orders Even with plain white rabbit collars and ersatz cloth that looks like the real scarlet velvet the robes to be worn by lords and ladies will cost about 245 pounds ($686) each For those not touched by austerity the price of a real robe in top quality velvet will come to about 1250 pounds ($3500) At the 1936 coronation of King George VI a robe with all the royal trimmings ermine and real velvet cost about a fourth of that For peers and peeresses really hard hit one London tailor said he could offer the best deal — he will rent out a good fitting royal robe for 25 pounds ($70) ermine-trimme- Be Sure to Look Inside ior 1952 Progress Edition If you hadn't already noticed how bulky today's Sunday aminer is take a look inside at the Progress Edition It's got stories and pictures of Ogden in an eventful 1951 when war bases boomed industry took on more workers and population rose There are many accounts of fraternal social and educational groups — with many pictures On four fronts — industry transportation community and region Ogden and vicinity is in the spotStandard-Ex- 38-pa- ge light All regular subscribers get the edition at no extra cost Extra copies will be available at all newsstands A copy will be mailed anywhere in the U S if you'll send the name and address of a friend or relative and 25 cents to The Standard - Examiner circulation department t d y) Insane for Years SALT LAKE CITY Feb U (AP) — Confinement in a mental institution was recommended today for the used car salesman accused of kidnaping a teenage boy and holding him captive 79 days Two psychiatrists said their examination of John D Billett indicated the pudgy Salt Laker has suffered for years from a type of insanity that "might make him increasingly dangerous as time went on" District Attorney Brigham E Roberts said he would recommend that Billett be placed in a federal Institution for the criminally in sane where facilities are available to care for him Ufa Place In Utah "There is no institution in Utah which could conform to the recommendations of the psychiatrists" Roberts said Judge David T Lewis received the report in Third District court He delayed for two weeks the time in which Billett must enter his plea to the charge Lewis said he would decide before then whether to begin proceedings aimed at sending Billett to a mental institution In U S district court where he is charged with bank robbery Billett had filed a similar application for a mental test Judge Willis W Ritter set Monday for a hearing Billett is charged with kidnaping boy Ricky Henrickson who disappeared from his home here last October When he was arrested on the federal bank robbery charge last month Billett led police to a house in southeastern Salt Lake City where Ricky was found chained to a bed Police said the vuuwi iuiu mem tic iiau vecu ouu jected to sexual abuse Billett denied that claim The bank robbery charge accused Billett of stealing nearly $21000 from the Eighth South branch oi the First Security bank Most of that amount was recovered Device Saves $400 Ogden 4th Takes A Day at Arsenal WASHINGTON Feb 23 (UP) — First in Tourney A machine once called impractical by experts is saving $400 a day at the Detroit arsenal the army said today It cuts the 294 teeth in a tank turret ring gear in 30 minutes a task which formerly required hours Before adoption of the device developed by Andrew C: Dickson civilian chief of manufacturing at the arsenal engineering experts had thought it was not practicable Ogden Fourth L D S ward hoopsters tonight won the division three championship defeating ftga in Ogden high school eyville 44-gym Kaysville earlier cinched third by 5 Clearwinning over Clinton field First ward beat Ogden Fifth to take fifth place Mantua won seventh beating Plain City 31 36-2- 52-4- 7 50-4- 0 Details on Page 10A Taf t Ike Viewed Running Neck and Neck by May 1 wf it SSfi WASHINGTON Feb 23 (AP) — Ths "Rnnhliran: will rirlr a of national convention delegates the next two months — and pres- eni signs inaicaie sen laix ana Gen Eisenhower may be running nearly abreast in official results by May L During March and April a total of 641 G O P delegates will be selected in nine primaries and 14 conventions This is more than half the total national con- vention vote of 1205 To clinch the nomination at the convention open-- 1 ing in Chicago July 7 a candidate must sew up 603 votes Demos Also Busy The Democrats also will be busy in March and April choosing 462 delegates in seven state conventions and nine primaries President Truman is sure to get the lion's share of them — if he wants them In the Democratic national convention beginning July 21 in Chicago there will be 1230 votes with 616 needed to nominate Truman can have that many and more whenever he says the word By the time the months are over Eisenhower backers will have pected delivery of most of New York s 96 votes The amount of impetus to be given the general's candidacy by primary results in such states as New Hampshire New Jersey and Pennsylvania — home areas of some of the top Eisenhower back-stat- e ers — will be demonstrated Satisfied With Four Taft will have tested his popu- lar strength in New Hampshire — where he has said he will be satisfied with tour out of 14 delegates — and in Wisconsin a hay area for him The Ohioan probably will have accounted for most of Illinois gg votes and will have in reserve for May an expected large majority of Ohio's 54 California's big state bloc of 70 votes tucked away for Gov Earl Warren primaries and conventions in the smaller populated states in May and June now seem unlikely to make either Eisenhower or Taft a first ballot winner w-'- ECHO Summit County Feb 23— A mammoth landslide carrying boulders as big as houses crushed down blocking U S highway 30 two miles east of Echo this afternoon as winter played havoc in the mtermountain area Traffic on the main east-we- st highway into Utah from Wyoming was expected to be blocked for at least 10 hours — The slide occurred at four-thirt- y possibly much longer p m Miraculously no one was hurt ' Blasting powder and the states — — — — heaviest motorized equipment wasigL ' expected to be needed to clear the highway Union Pacific railroad tracks paralleling the highway were not blocked Ledge Broke Loess Highway t coopers at the scene said a large rock ledge above the highway apparently broke loose They estimated thousands of tons of rock and dirt covered the two-lan-e JflftCYO Sunday Feb 24 (UP) highway It was the first The allies today handed the comsuch slide in many years munists a complete list of 44000 Boulders as big as houses split "kidnaped" South Koreans held in the highway by the allied prison camps — Including force of their fall Others bounced those responsible for the bloody over the highway and lodged just Koje island riot The accounting was requested off the side Some of these were even larger than those lodged on by the communists yesterday When red delegates were asked for a the road Initial checks of the area covered similar report on 50000 missing by the slide indicated no person fr alhed prisoners however they vehicle was caught beneath it This hastily changed the subject was almost considered a miracle The 44000 prisoners ware as traffic past that point is extremeIn battle by the sJBaa out ssaaa "reclassified" freaa military ly heavy officers said Near witnesses to the natural prisoners to "civilian internees' slide were State Trooper Howard griaam they proved that they nad Powell Harold M Richins state been "kidnaped" and forced to mad foreman and LaVel Stephens serve in the red army employe Saw Billowing Cloud Some are communists and it apThey said they rounded a curve peared that thase were to blame at the site just in time to witness a Monbillowing cloud of dirt and dust gar the Koje outbreak last obstruct the entire area They ware day when 6000 fanatic internee forced to stop and wait several yittng "kill GftP mobbed guards minutes before being able to de- m the island prison southwest of termine what had happened persons were niaill Seventy-siWhen the cloud cleared they killed The riot had little actual conmanaged to scramble over the debris and caught a ride into Echo nection with the truce talks but where they spread word the reds had made it clear that they Trooper Ted London said lines planned to make it the key issue tar of automobiles buses and heavy drive to stall the aagotto trucks piled up dn both sides of the tions slide In a matter of moments At : He communist campaign was exone time the lines extended for pected to be a long and dirty one several miles in both directions ttjrtyd mainly to make the allies Bus passengers were being unload- abandon their refusal to force ed at the scene and allowed to prisoners to return to their climb over the debris to reach buses homes on the opposite side Some reds believed the battle Until the busy highway is cleared already was won all traffic from the east will be Voluntary repatriation Is now routed through Randolph Wood- djMaras an issue and it was yasjr ruff into Logan canyon Wahar sine that killed it" a communis county sheriffs deputies and state ajaswiian said The negotiations troopers were detouring traffic are now covered by the smell of the from the west at the mouth of blood of our dead' Weber canyon Jack Craven district engineer for the state road commission and ( Harold Brunker of HuntsviUe I rushed to the scene It was jiurlssl I a iicrnpi wouia dc mane i ) open a temporary road around the slide Work was started shortly after List 0t 44UUU I Prisoners Handed Reds hard-surfac- ed cap-mm-m j x Kpr Claim 25 On dark The main highway may not be cleared and repaired for several days officials said All Others Open Other than the closed Weber canyon highway all other arterial routes highways and roads through northern Utah were reported open "but slippery and heavy" Drifting or more snow officials emphasized could block numerous highways within minutes to comchange travel conditions pletely Motorists were urged to equip their vehicles with chains The weatherman said there will be decreasing cloudiness Sunday but with snow flurries near the mountains in the morning Towrassl evening skies are expected to clear and it will be colder High for Sunday and Monday will be between 35 and 45 with a low Sunday night of 28 Ogden canyon was open but the threat of snowslides from heavily laden slopes continued Drivers were cautioned to avoid the corse if possible Snow Basin Open Snow Basin ski resort win operate on the usual Sunday schedule If travel conditions are favotahla said W Franklin Richards Ogden city parks superintsnhsV ant Soars were advised to tela phone the resort lodge dial to find out if it is open 63 Limit Tax Will Shift Burden to Poor ItfASHINGTON Feb 23 AP) — Staffs of two congressional committees said today a proposed 25 per cent peacetime ceiling on federal income taxes would "tend to shift the individual tax burden from the rich to the poor" 8Kb a ceiling has been endorsed by a number of state leg 1 of the senate-hous- e economic committee and the house small business committee presented a seric of arguments against the proposed ceiling in a report to the 25 members of the two groups The committees have not acted on flat staff fsrdtnes Tape staffs jpjptaiia waa It Proponents of the ceiling that 28 states now have a ed congress to call a constitutional convention to act on such a tax limitation The Virginia general o assembly acted this week must call such a convention con-ten- d Con-Sat- if 32 states request ''vever it several states nave taken action to rescind their resolutions The whole matter is clouded with legal arguments The congressional staff report said only gftates have resolutions which appear to be in force now e starting City Manager E J Allison said city snow removal crews had bean on the job steadily since eary yesterday All city streets had not bean cleared at a late hour last night he said The crews will stay at it until all streets have been opened he said Snow or rain pelted large areas of the nation yesterday press reports said Rain or drizzle occurred from southern Texas eastward to the south Atlantic coast Below zero temperatures were recorded in ra:t of Montana Wyoming the Dakota? Minnesota Wisconsin and Michi- gan INDEX Joseph and Stewart EditotiiKrk- Peter Edaen ij Hup Poll Obituaries 11B IV4rf I)rr Radio-T- A eeeeaeeoaaeae 1 V Society Sports Theatau Vital Statist Al Warden OB IB-S-B V SA UA m MB : |