Show Temperatures The Weather period (Temperatures for the ending at 7 a m tcMteyU Max Min Max Mm! 75 48NW Orleans 91 OS Ogden 08 02 47 91 New York Atlanta P 61 45 Phoenix 94 81 Billing 89 44 64 38 Pocatell Bismarck 47 66 S2 63 Portland Boise 80 53 60 46 Provo Boston 88 52 99 42 St George Butte 82 SO 54 45ISalt Lake Chicago 60 45 75 48 San Fran Denver 86 51 85 56 Seattle Las Vegas 67 50 78 45:Spokane Logan 71 53 Los Angela 68 54 Washington 24-ho-ur UTAH — Decreasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow cooler tonorth night high both days 6 sooth low tonight aod with 56 in Utah's Dixie OGDEN — Cloudiness with scattered showers today decreasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow and tocooler high today low tonight morrow 62-7- 2 35-4- 68-7- 8 4 62-6- 5 37-4- 0 68-7- 0 I ihty-f- i rat Tn The United Preu Tke Associated Press 117 OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING POW Camp He's Unharmed But Is Hostage On Koje Island 68 Truman Today Ready to Do as He Damn Pleases By Combined AP and UP WASHINGTON — President Truman is 68 today WASHINGTON (UP) — Communist prisoners have seized Brig Gen Francis T Dodd commander of the prisoner camp on Koje Island off Korea and are holding him hostage army headquarters announced today The eastside drainage of the North Fork slope of the Wasatch range is still packed heavily with snow as this photo indicates Hot sun or warm rain will turn this beautiful white blanket spread over the top of the range into ugly Drown streams oi water coursing uuwn mc i Dodd and another officer were seized by communist war prisoners at the gate of one of the compounds yesterday the army said ' "A demand for his immediate release unharmed has been ignored by the communists" the army said The officer seized with Dodd managed to escape later His name was not given The army reported that the communist prisoners had sent out a note in Dodd's handwriting "indicating he is unharmed" City to Move Disputed Semaphore Transfer of the traffic semaphore light at 25th St and Har-to rison Blvd three blocks east the intersection of 22nd St was authorized by the city council yesterday evening City Manager E J Allison" informed the council the light originally had been hung at 25th St contrary to recommendations of the city's and state's traffic departments Those two agencies at the time he said had recommended installation of the semaphore at 22nd St and Harrison Blvd in order that traffic flow would be properly platooned However the light finally was hung at 25th St because of pressure from residents of the vicinity he said Traffic men from- the start had maintained that semaphores should be hung at alternating intersections to give vehicular traffic best spacing Will Fit In With Plan When the light is transferred to 22nd St there will be semaphores at 22nd 24th 26th 28th and 30th Sts and will fit in with the recommended plan of traffic control for that segment of Harrison Blvd Mr Allison said In providing the council with background of the situation the city manager said the issue was renewed recently when a petition signed by a large group requested erection of a semaphore at 22nd St as a protection to children of nearby Lorin Fair school The petition was forwarded to the state road commission: That body said it would be willing to have the light at 25th St placed there but would not provide a light for the 22nd St crossing - 'Ike's In but les I'm denuded of snow on the Ogden side there Although slopes of the Mount Ogden range are pre tty well as this view from the South Fork road east mountains of the on eastside the snow left is plenty of of Huntsville shows Experienced water men say the temperatures of the next few days hold the key to flood situation Blow From Bat Fractures Skull Of Taylor Youth WILSON— Reid Dayton 13 son of Mr and Mrs Theone Dayton of Taylor received a basal skull fracture yesterday after- noon when struck across the right ear with a baseball bat while playing ball The youth was taken to the Dee hospital in the Weber county sheriff department ambulance His condition today was reported "fair" Greyhound Bus Hii by Strike Greyhound bus service out of Ogden to points north northwest and west was halted today as 1000 A F L drivers shopmen and ticket sellers of three lines struck at midnight for fewer hours and more pay Affected here was Union Pacific Stages part of Pacific Greyhound Lines with 60 drivers operating through Ogden Service east and south was still available Also struck today were Northwest Greyhound operating north of Portland Ore and Oregon Motor Stages operating 'only in Oregon States now affected by the strikes are Utah California Arizona Oregon Nevada New Mexico Texas Idaho Washington and Not'-DulMontana Pacific Trailways busses and Interstate Transit Lines were still — SHANNON Ireland (AP) John out of Ogden operating Foster Dulles predicted today that Gen Eisenhower will be elect ed the next president of the United- States but added that he doesn't count on being secretary of state Dulles indicated however he considers himself the "obvious" man for the job The Republican party foreign affairs expert was interviewed here ECHO — A Union Pacific train as he flew home after conferences caboose was virtually destroyed with the general in Paris He had shortly before 2 p m today when refused to say whether he would smashed between a streamliner and support Eisenhower's candidacy steam locomotive traveling in opWhen it comes to secretary of posite directions on an Echo sidstate" he continued "there are ing often factors which decide against Crew members were unhurt but the most obvious person Some- would not discuss the accident times the post has to be filled by Full details of the crash weren't one who will form a bridge be- available It was believed howtween the president and certain ever that the locomotive had political sections backed the caboose on the siding Dulles was slated to get the top as a streamliner rolled onto just U S foreign affairs post had the same set of tracks Neither was Thomas E Dewey been elected reported moving at a high speed president in 1948 Dewey now is a Jacked up in the air by the imchief Eisenhower backer but pact the rear car appeared to be Dulles activities as adviser to the a total loss A window was smashed state department —a post to which out of the streamliner engine but President Truman named him and were which he recently resigned — and beyond that its damages a slight his outspoken support of the present administration's policy in Europe has incurred the opposition May Get Oi! Strike of some sections of his party DENVER (AP) ei Refusal of 22 AFL and Independent Deficit Overestimated oil industry unions to call an end WASHINGTON Con- to their week-olstrike may send (AP) gressional tax experts calculated the wage dispute to President Trutoday that President Truman's man He is working hard to get the budget overestimated this year's strike settled and is hopeful an government deficit by $25 billion agreement will be reached howand next year's at $27 billion ever Caboose Smashed On Echo Siding dO d 30 Ogden Still Radioactive Due to Wind From Nevada Ogden was still radioactive today but only a third as much as yesterday A milliroentgen of radioactivity not enough to hurt you if you lived all your life in it was recorded yesterday by the Geiger counter at Weber college It was blown in on dust and clouds from Las Vegas test site Nev A like amount was measured in Salt Lake City Yesterday's amount was about a third the human tol eration level That means if it hadl been three times greater it would have begun destroying body cells faster than they could be replaced However E Smith Murphy of the college's physical science division said workers in U S atom laboratories are exposed to as WASHINGTON (AP) — The much as six milliroentgens announced ton in as department justice "g" day government will pay $85 mil get) for several hours a day Mr Murphy said he thought ra- lion in damage claims arising from dioactivity would disappear by tomorrow Gamma rays weakest of federal seizure of the Midwestern the three rays emitted by the trucking industry during World atom bomb are the only ones that war II The announcement said this will can travel this distance in quandischarge" damage "completely two and are alpha tity The other claims amounting to about $50 milbeta Murphy said there were a few lion filed by 91 motor carriers beta rays yesterday but not enough seized by order of President Roose velt in August 1944 to be harmful to human beings reThe human body can easily place cells as fast as they were Hotel Appeals Closure destroyed by yesterday's feeble TALLAHASSEE Fla (AP) — rays Murphy said The whole state was whipped by Attorneys for the $4 million Sea high winds yesterday that brought Isle hotel at Miami beach plan to in the radioactivity Gusts as high appeal an order to close the hotel as 55 miles an hour were recorded for 30 days for allegedly permit at Salt Lake City and up to 20 in ting bookmaking on the premises An appeal would mean the luxOgden in Nevada caused urious establishment could keep A the winds expected to weaken as its doors open until the courts de cide the case they pass east toward Wyoming It was worse in Idaho where a house near Twin Falls was lifted eight inches off its foundation A barn chicken house wagons and fencing were blown A-bo- Nation Will Pay $85 Million for Trucking Seizure (pro-pounc- ed milli-rentge- low-pressu- re "I feel like 28" he told reporters His physician Brig Gen Wallace Graham said that despite the burdens he has carried duryears ing his seven in the White House the president's health and well being are "even above the average of men of his age who have not been under similar strain" Raring to go into retirement next Jan 20 when he leaves the White House Mr Truman told a news conference that after 30 years in public office he intends to spend the next 10 years having a good time and doing just as he damn pleases He got bushels of presents as he put it this morning before starting his birthday working schedule by holding his 303rd news conference He was in peppery spirits crises-studde- d Idaho Slaying Suspect Escapes From Burley Jail BURLEY Idaho (AP) — Searl Ward on trial for slaying his mother after her body was found stuffed in the trunk of his car in Arizona broke out of a cell and escaped from the Cassia coun ty jail last night or early tooay was A state - wide search vet launched for the eran who was declared insane by a psychiatrist but found sane enough to stand trial by a district court jury Sheriff Saul Clark said Ward his way through apparently sawed the bars of his third-floo- r jail cell and dropped down an elevator shaft to the second floor on a rope made of a torn mattress cover From there he went to the basement and escaped through a window in the ladies' rest room One Other in Jail Only one other prisoner was in the jail and Clark was questioning him in an effort to Set more details on the jail break Ward is charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his mother Mrs Alice Ward at their farm home near Almo Idaho March 4 He was arrested in Arizona a day later after a service station attendant noticed blood dripping from the trunk of his car In a statement Ao Arizona officials Ward admitted shooting his mother with a 32 caliber rifle ld 2 Brothers Drowned NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Fiore 29 and Patrick Fiore 22 brothers drowned yesterday when a mentally retarded third brother Anthony Fiore 19 pushed one of them off a New York bay pier in Brooklyn police said The other brother died in attempting to rescue the pushed man Outlook Much Brighter Allies Smash Weber River Along Big Communist River Is Lowered Ogden Base Supply The flood picture in the Ogden area looked much brighter SEOUL Korea (UP) — Allied again today Cooler weather cut down the runoff The city's flood planes in the biggest single atwar today fighting officials declared the immediate emergency is over tack of the Korean the in miles smashed two square City Manager E J Allison issued the "break camp" a of Suan ancient walled town order for emergency flood control headquarters at Madison — major communist supply base 35 Ave and Ogden river miles southeast of the North Korean capital at Pyongyang Four flights of Fifth air force struck and marine fighter-bomber-s at dawn with 12000 gallons of flaming napalm Other planes swooped across the blazing target area all day and dropped hun dreds of tons of bombs and napalm By nightfall the town was such a flaming shambles pilots could not find another upright major building The Fifth air force at 5 p m reported 165 supply buildings destroyed and 18 damaged A huge concentration of red supplies including trucks fuel and ammunition went up in flames Ready to "Harvest' Communist Mig-1-5 jet fighters swarmed southward from their Manchurian bases in a vain effort to halt the attacks American Sabre jets downed two of them and damaged a third Allied reconnaissance planes had watched Suah for more than a month while the reds hauled in supplies On Thursday Fifth air force chiefs decided the "rich plum" was ready for a flaming harvest The attack coincided with: arrival in Korea of Gen Mark Clark who will succeed Gen Matthew B Ridgvuay as U N supreme Commander - away Fox Once Worth $100 Million Dies a Poor Man NEW YORK (UP) — William Fox 74 fabulous pioneer of the movies who once was master of $100 million died today He got into the movies as the operator of a "nickelodeon" and became a titanic figure in the giant industry that sprung from the early "flickers" But he lost his power and fortune during the depression of the early 30's became a bankrupt served a prison sentence for defrauding the government and died a relatively poor man 4 Drown in Month In Idaho County BOISE (AP) — Ada county recorded its fourth drowning fatality in the past month when a Austin Texas boy fell into an irrigation ditch yesterday The boy William S Quinn Jr his mother and two brothers were on their way to Seattle to take a boat Saturday for Japan where the boy's father M Sgt William S Quinn is stationed nine-year-o- ld Loganife Drowns At Old Springs Near Plymouth PLYMOUTH — A Logan man drowned between midnight and 1 a m today in the deep waters at Udy hot springs aban- doned swimming resort near here The victim was Melvin Andrews who was in swimming with two companions Olin Allerft Box Elder county deputy sheriff said hot water bubbles up from the earth at the scene of the drowning arid the depth in some places isn't known The body of the victim was in water between 30 and 50 feet deep Allen said It was recovered today at 6 a m The officer said the three men Andrews and Morris Everton of Logan and yin Farr of Preston Idaho had neen swimming for some time when it was discovered Andrews was missing Authorities began a search shortly after Participating were Ed Sylvester and Olin Allen Box Elder deputies Ray Poulter Logan officer the sheriff of Cache county and Keith Lamb of Plymouth- — City prisoners have preferred the hard work of diking banks of swollen Ogden river to loitering about in their cellblocks and they had their reasons: The chow was better out there and they were given a credit on their prison term for each overtime day worked on the 2-d- river When Police Chief Maurice J Schooff began assigning jail crews to flood duty April 28 several decided they weren't feeling well and so stayed behind in their cells Others after a day at sandbagging chores decided it was bad for their health and asked to be returned to city duty But Chief Schooff moved Lock Wong the prison cook to an improvised kitchen at Ogden stadium and told him to "feed heavier — four times a day when necessary" The cellblocks were practically empty after that In addition to the city food prisoners received meals sent up by private restaurant and coffee and donuts from the Red Cross Some of them never had it so An average of 25 city prisoners were on flood duty during daytime shifts the chief said Man-mad- Me-Lee- se le Wilkinson Cool temperatures for the past few nights have slowed the Weber runoff to the extent that no more from eithwater will be er the East Canyon or Echo dams now river than is being officials declared Only rain showers were forecast and should bring no new dangers watermen said Warns of Runoff A warning of things to come was voiced yesterday by State Engineer Joseph M Tracy He said a recent survey of snow and Uintah Wasatch the in depths mountains showed a record snow-pacstill capping the rough And the snow holds a peaks record 50 per cent —or more — wa- Lter content Tracy sam Despite eany runeus oi recora size which account for the present flood situation along the western mountain slopes Tracy said the survey indicated no hope of improvement in the state Elsewhere id the state: Spanish Fork Line Cut The Spanish Fork river snapped the culinary water line into Span ish Fork Mayor Marceuus mel son declared a state of emergency by-pass- by-pass- k SLC Girl Dies Of Car Injuries SALT LAKE CITY (UP)— Mari- Salt lyn Huntsman a Lake City girl died last night three hours after being hit by an automobile Police listed the driver of the car as Robert E: Smith Salt Lake City He told officers he did not see the girl before his vehicle struck her Marilyn was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Huntsman Investigating officers said the child was thrown 20 feet and landed in a cement culvert when struck by the auto ld Good chow and lots of it is being ladled oat to city prisoners assigned to flood control duty by cook Lock Wong (right standing) with Polk Chief Maurice J Schooff in charge of work crews assisting od i two-wee- k Prisoners Prefer Diking to Life in Cellblock good Police continued their blockade e embankments which of both ends of Provo canyon as extend along the channel from crews fought to keep U S hightin-coi- n just below Ogden canyon to way 189 in the canyon from crumAve will be left in place bling into the rising Provo river as protection when the later run- This waterway also threatened an access road to the Geneva steel off comes plant D D Harris superintendent of In Salt Lake City creWs continthe Weber River Water Users as- ued to blast obstacles in the path sociation said things along the oMhe surplus canal carrying walower west side Weber looked ''very very much ter from the city's lake Flood exSalt to Great the and above brighter" today both to "bail out" plans began perts below both the East Canyon and part of the submerged west side area City Engineer Roy W Echo reservoirs A David river said pumping will start soon the Ogden Along Scott water users' association in the area north of the 13th Sosuperintendent said the level in St sandbag canal The Surplus canal and Jordan Pine View dam w$s about the same today as yesterday He said river which carry Salt Lake City's he was able to hold back a little food waters to Great Salt lake more water in the dam lowering were holding their own There is still danger to U S the level of Ogden river by several inches highway 40 west of Salt Lake City In Weber canyon particularly over which much transcontinental at Morgan flood waters were no traffic flows Some families have returned to Contrary higher than yesterday to reports the Como Springs the city's residential area which bridge was still holding this morn- had been evacuated early in the ing and was still open to traffic flood viiiMiii niau&s vic Highway Stffl Open Ofeden City Manager Allison toU S highway 30S the Lincoln highway was still open east of day extended the city's appreciaMorgan providing access to Salt tion for "wonderful Lake City The dikes there hold- and assistance" from volunteers ing the water back were undis who have been on river emergency turbed jobs since April 28 Allison particularly thanked WeMorgan county commissioners surto route a ber Ogden county war veterans who paseeking trolled the river course and barri veyed the Mountain road yesterday with an eye cades to keep the curious from toward opening that but they danger and from interfering with-flocontrol work More than town sets in a bend of the river verts along the way Reopening 100 vets had volunteered their pothe road might be beyond the lice services on a daily basis from : J county's scope the commissioners 8 a m to 4 a m Hill He thanked also air force thought Morgan county commissioners base for supplying enlisted men proclaimed a state of emergency and equipment and Boy Scout yesterday as the Weber ripped ptroops the Utah school for deaf away at Morgan's south side The and blind for supplying labor and town sits in a bend of the river Utah general depot for supplying which snakes its way through this equipment "and also the many other organizations agencies arid wide spot in Weber canyon individuals who volunteered their Classes Morgan Resumes assistance Allison is of the opinion that School resumed in Morgan yes terday and by today most pupils flood waters would have swamped were 'able to attend classes me many blocks on both sides of the 1064 residents of the city ap stream since April 28 had it not peared to be winning their fight been for successful work in buildto keep the raging Weber out of ing dikes faster than the stream went up Main St Jim Murdock civil defense co ordinator for the Morgan area wh has been in active charge of flood work resigned late yesterday and has been replaced by Cole Green-Hunts-vil- The Feed's Heavier two-stor- y PAGES— TWO SECTIONS Cool Weather Helps Reduce Floods Here Still Plenty of Snow on the Slopes Beds Seize General at Service AP Service NEA 1952 MAY 8 Ogden Railroader Loses Both Legs v £31117 xwa&eiicv t wheels V IVOli UUIU :w o oi !£-- l Mtaill of a freight train at today while on duty as a switchman withthe Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co Mr Roskelley's condition at St Benedict's hospital was reported "fair" The left leg was severed just below the knee and the right the 1:30 a m leg at the groin officials of' the Investigating v vr n x t saidj it J a t: i uiey cuman i uuu the to accident any The accident occurred in an isolated section of the yard One report said Mr Roskelley was somehow knocked from the top of a box car which was part of a moving freight train He fell beneath the wheels 1 eye-witne- ss Vet Benefit Bills Pass WASHINGTON (AP) — Two compromise bills boosting veterans' benefits payments an estimated $202 million annually were passed by the house today and sent to the senate INDEX Joseph and 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