Show J- v The Weather Temperatures UTAH — Showers of light rain and snow colder 3040 high Boise Bntte OGDEN — Colder low 33 84th Yoar with light high 45 "TST79 S3 Billings 42-5- 4 showers Max Min Max Min I SI 32la Angeleg S5 CO Ogden Chicago Las Vegas ""T” APRIL FRIDAY EVENING UTAH OGDEN 1955 1 30 Pages W° 3£Jttlnneapoll York 28 Salt Lake 39San Fran 40 47 27 49 16 17 4TjNew 41 42lWest Yellat 68 38 SI Cents 2 Sections crl A Inxsp 58 46 69 68 MANILA P I (UP) — A wHUi series of earthquakes jolted Mindanao Island with destructive force today crumbling thousands of building? 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Siamese Twins L Robber Can't Talk S x SALT LAKE CITY (AP) CHICAGO (UP)— Siam’s separated Siamese twins cooed and heldx hands in the same crib toac- - today They didn’t like being cused Utah bank robber hovering between life and death with bullet fragments in his brain The U S marshal’s officewas assigned guatd duty afterTederal bank robbery charges verejiled Officers said the accused man appeared to have 'regained con- sciousness at times but apparenwas unable to talk because of tly the brain injury James A Sanchez 26 Salt Lake City was shot and critically wounded yesterday as he fled the scene of a holdup at the Pioneer Branch of Walker Bank it Trust in Co inwas found "the robbery later tact’ where the robber had tossed it as he was pursued For 11 hours yesterday nobody knew who the unconscious man was He was identified through his fingerprints' and the identification was confirmed by his mother Mrs Amy Sanchez Bank officials and police said Saoche entered the branch near downtown Salt Lake shortly before noon and asked about a loan He then pulled a gun on the loan manager M S Burdette bank managert said marched him to a teller’s window ordered money stuffed in a white sack and-fleBurdette said he lit out after the bandit and was joined in the chase by Sgt A L Flowers in a squad car The pair cornered the bandifr in an alley and Burdette said this is' what happened next: “Then the officer hollered to him- to come out with' his hands up but he had one hand in his overcoat poqked and pulled a gun: The officer fired of course —two shots I think” Only one of the shots struck Sanchez A physician who operated on him said that there were so many fragments of lead in his brain that removal was well-nigimpossible He gave Sanchez a chance to live 'separated The twins from Thailand the present name for Siam were separated in a 3Ms- -' houry operation at theUniver- sity of Chicago Billings Hospital Tuesday All their lives they had been joined by a band of tissue on their stomach They shared a common king-sizliver After the operation nurses o put Prissana and Napit in a big crib but at some distance from each other As a nurse described it- “when the first one came out I of the ether she reached out her hands to touch the face qf her sister who had always been beside her “When sjie couldn’t reach her) she started howling We had to move them back close together so they could touch each other” “They’re happy as can be and even holding hands now and then” the nurse said -- TheO loot-take- e Pol-piny- n v (' Auto Kills Child ‘ d On Provo Highway ' -- PROVO (AP) — Ronald Eugene Mason was struck by a car and killed as he ran across' U S Highway 91 near d the northern city limits last night Witnesses said the boy son of Mr and Mrs Mario W Mason was narrowly missed by one) car and ran directly into the path of the one that struck him The boy lived with his mother at the Riverside Trailer Park near the accident scene The driver of the car was idem tified as Dr: Darrel Carl Jensen 29 a Pleasant Grove dentist h ’ 0 i Four-year-ol- - 50-5- Eisenhower Said to Believe Russians Don’t Want a Major War at This Time Separated Miss Each Other : Federal authorities took over day the task of guarding an Names in the News By JACK BELL WASHINGTON their grandfather McCormick Joseph editor-anpublisher of the Chiand McCormick took over cago Tribune and one of the as president in 1911 most prominent newsSeveral years ago McCormick paper executives died yester-da- y began making preparation for the future management of The McCormick who was 74 died Tribune and its properties in’ fn his sleep at 2:47 am at his this country and Canada He farm home near the Chicago ' discussed this problem with his suburb of Wheaton Among -- board of directors telling them those' at his bedside were his his objective was to make sure widow and his stepdaughter ! The Tribune and-itproperties The veteran colorful newspapecontinued under n management had been ailing r-publisher which had grown up with him since April' 1953 when he sufhad been trained by him and fered an attack of pneumonia - had his confidence Details will after returning from a Eurobe announced after the funeral pean trip Col McCormick stepped into He' underwent an abdominal an executive post at The Triboperation for adhesions - lasts une when it had a daily' circuvJan 19 and a week later went lation of about 2Q0000: At a 4o his home in Florida Howrecent check — last Septemever his condition became ber — The Tribune had a daily worse and he ’returned to a circulation of 892058 and a Chicago hospital No further Sunday circulation of 1392384 operation was advised and he' The Tribune largest standard' newspaper in ' this -sized returned to his farm home March 20 The gravity of a circulatory ailment from which McCormick suffered together with a rapid decline in his liver function made him weaker daily since he returned home His doctor' VI said death came peacefully McCormick who gained the title of colonel from World War I service was the key man in a publishing organization whichowns the two newspapers with the largest Circulations in the U S—The Chicago Tribune and the NewwYork Daily News the latter founded in 1919 by the colonel and his cousin Capt Joseph M Patterson who A'died in 1946 The Tribune was founded bj CoL K JLL McCormick Me-di- ll d -- na-ttion- ’s - -- - s - s ’ 8 - r - h m M (AP)— Presi- dent Eisenhower was described today as believing Russia does not want to fight a major war now — nor support !one Sen H AlexanderSmith (R-Nsaid Senate leaders got that J) iri impression a talk President yesterday with the said war talk does not serve peace Indicating that the President follow up on that in his meeting with senators Smith said the emphasis was on “the undesirability of war talk” The New Jersey lawmaker second ranking Republican on the - i Another highly placed senator put it mqre directly This senator did not want to be named but he said that was the nature of the answer when a question was raised about the Kremlin’s likely position as to the Nationalist-held Chinese coastal islands of Quemoy'and Matsu TUS Keeps Silent The Unitecj States is committed By UNITED PRESS s to help defend Chiang April bowed in today with one on the Formosa but stronghold of the worst dust storms on record administration has kept silent as to any defense of v the outpost and a cold snap that dropped temislands peratures as much as 30 degrees Smith said he did not want to The beginning of the first full try to quote! the President But month of spring thus carried on he said his understanding is that the administration believes Mos- the violence and destruction cow is likely to clamp the brakes which have marked the young seaon any Red Chinese moves that son since its start March 21 might spread into something Winds died somewhat today much bigger Smith added it was emphasized over five Southwestern states at the White House that the Ori- - where a “black blizzard” spread ental mind is unpredictable and'a massive dust cloud 400 to 500 therefore there is no real assur- miles wide and 14000 feet high ance as to what may happen even The Weather Bureau reported against Soviet wishes continuing blowing dust early toHas No Crystal Ball That was (another way of put- day in northern and western Texting what Mr Eisenhower said as southeast New Mexico and at a news conference Wednesday southern Oklahoma — that he has no crystal ball to tell the future with assurance At Snow and Cold Wave In addition Oklahoma panhanthe same news conference the infordle roads were covered with from President said he had no mation to indicate a Red attack three to six inches of snow and around April 15 He gave an im- state patrolmen discouraged traplied rebuke to Adm Robert B vel The cool wave dropped temperCarney chief of naval operations for stating a view that such a atures 20 to 30 degrees in the move 'is likely Mr Eisenhower Plains and brought falling temperatures tp parts of the Midwest Temperatures were in the 30s early today in the Northern and Central Rockies across the northern plains and northern border states and into ‘Northern New England Summery temperatures moved Los behind the cool front in itcountry each day proclaims an recorded Angeles self on Page 1 as “The World’s March 31 high of 85 degrees and Greatest Newspaper” fair warmer weather settled over Colorado Wyoming The tall 4 colonel shaped The Tribune’s policies and and New Mexico dipped into the frequently they were provoca-- 1 40sTemperatures where last Southeast in the i’ tive all cold week’s killed practically It foughr federal prohibition of the Dixie 10 in crop peach ferreted out medical quacks states argued against foreign involvements and opposed entry of 1 the United States into World War II right up to Pearl Har- -' bor The 'Tribune was a constant To critic of the Democratic adminD Rooseof istrations Franklin velt and Harry S Truman — WASHINGTON (UP) — Presiand it brandished its broaddent Eisenhqwer paid tribute to sword at (many Republicans too Publishers Joseph Pulitzer and The colonel had a knack for Col R McCormick today as capsuling his views in succinct “staunch champions of a free statements! Such as this one made on his return from a press so essential to our own freedoms” 1948 visit to Europe: The White House issued the “American public opinion is not represented by the striped following statements on deaths: pants boys” “In the passing of Joseph The colonel a supporter of was dis-- Pulitzer and Col Robert R McSen Taft Cormick American journalism appointed when Gen Dwight D Eisenhower won the Republi- has lost the services of two of its outstanding publishers can nomination in 1952 McCormick was the grand“Although frequently on opson of Cyrus H McCormick posite sides of public issues both were staunch champions of a free inventor of jthe reaper press so essential to- our own Gen Francisco Franco freedoms “Mrs Eisenhower joins me in Spain’s chief of state today awarded the Order of Eliza- - extending personal sympathy to beth the Catholic to James A their families'for the great perFarley U S Democratic Par- sonal loss they! have suffered ty leader jand former postMcCormick 74 publisher of master general The award the Chicago Tribune died today was in the annual honors list and the Pulitzer edion the 16th anniversary of tor of the St Louis h Franco’! civil war victory died yesterday Col McCormick Chicago Tribune CoL Robert R re April Brings Cold Snap and Dust Storms Kai-shek’- I - ? 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Ike Pays Tribute Two Publishers j ‘ i j Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the White House visitors came away “Veassured” He said there was “a feeling there will be no attack now” George Agrees of the Chairman George Senate Foreign Relations Committee has said he does not ber lieve Russia wants any conflict now And he added he thinks jthe Soviets would be reluctant to “foot the bill” for any Chinese Communist attack on Formosa or its outpost islands On the other hand Sen Know-lan- d of California the GOP leader has contended the record shows Russia has encouraged Chinese Communist aspirations in the Formosa area He adds that no one safely can forecast intentions of the “fanatical” Reds Sen Lyndon B Johnson of Texas the Democratic leader said that at the White House session “no commitments were asked and none given” by his party members A similar bipartisan briefing for House leaders was held a day earlier Johnson said the senators were told that Eisenhower had made no decision on whether the U S will help the Chinese Nationalists J defend Quemoy and Matsu Because of this he said “the question of war or peace still is unsettled” in the Formosa area (D-G- Dies After: Body Of Relative Found! — A CHEYENNE Wyo-AP- ) Cheyenne man died a short time after the mangled was found body of his in plane wreckage near Rock Springs yesterday The father-in-laFrank Patterson suffered a stroke Sunday! He was related to Lester Zier-li-n of Cokeville Wyo Zierlin and Ted Thompson were killed Wednesday when their light plane crashed into White Mountain about five milej5 northwest of Rock Springs 76-year-- son-in-la- w w By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) — Seif i George from Democrat ld Georgia has moved into a vacuum in the Senate and has become in effect there President Eisenhower’s strong right arm on foreign policy George in his own right and as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is the most respected and influential Democrat or foreign affairsin the Senate — where the Democrats who have a majority could give Mr Eisenhower the miseries But George has backed the President repeatedly on foreign policy and has rallied other Dem- i their (R-Ohi- o) N - -- who showed up yesterday at a Washtea and reception wearing a dress just like that of Mrs ington Dwight Eisenhower (right) models the bright green and white print in her apartment In the receiving line at the Mayflower Hotel4 the two “look alikes” chatted pleasantly about their similar tastes Mrs Eisenhower the guest of honor waves to a friend during the reception Mrs Dyrries Crane (left) P Post-Dispatc- Sen Georg West Charges Russian Tax on Berlin Trucks Is Political NEW YORK (UP) —Henry W Grunewald Washington influence peddler was sentenced to a maximum prison term of five years and fined $5000 today for tax fixing It was the first conviction and sentence except for a contempt term for the Washington mystery man who first came into prominence during a 1951 congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Department Federal Judge Archie O Dawson sentencing Grunewald and one today termed them “termites who gnawed away at the foundations of our government by bribing government offi- BERLIN (UP)—The Western Allies charged today that economic blockade of West Berlin was the Soviet-impose- d y one-tim- e cials” Max Halperin a New York attorney convicted of passing his client’s money to Grunewald to bribe tax officials was sentenced to five years and fined $8000 Daniel A Bolich former assistant commissioner of Internal Revenue was hospitalized today with a heart ailment which first struck him during the trial He will be sentenced April 14 Both men sentenced today were continued in bail $30000 for Grunewald and $5000 for Halperin pending appeal ocrats to his support It was ho wonder the President this week publicly expressed his respect and admiration for the Georgian Vacuum Created The vacuum has been created by the performance of Sen Knowland of California Republican leader i nthe Senate ' Ordinarily a President could expect his party’s Senate leader to carry the ball for him on foreign relations Instead of being Mr Eisenhower's main reliance Knovland has repeatedly differed with him and said so The resulting impression is that the- - Republicans are split down the middle on foreign policy Mr Eisenhower has been trying to handle the Chinese Communists carefully with restraint George goes along with him on tlys Knowland has been calling foi a far more aggressive policy even to a blockade of Red China Takes Stand And in a situation which lay squarely athwart both domestic politics and foreign relations — the Yalta papers — Knowland felt it nesessaiy to take a stand opposite Mr Eisenhower’s For a week the Republicans beat the Democrats over the head with the Yalta papers acn count of the wartime meeting Then Mr Eisenhower stepped in He said he opposed their use for political partisan advantage Knowland oft “politically inspired” and demanded that' the “exorbitant”! and “abnormal road tax on trucks entering the city be lifted immediately The Western demand was contained injnotes'from the high commissioners of the United States Britain and France to Soviet High’ Commissioner :G M Pushkin in Bonn Bribery Case Promptly ' J y Grunewald Gets 5 Years in Tax 90-da- 9 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interstate Commerce Commission today threw out government claims that the railroads owe it between two and three billion dollars in refunds on World War II military freight bills The commission found that the Justice Department had no basis for seeking such refunds The railroads contended the government’s wartime rates were lower than those quoted for any private shipper The Justice Department contended that because of the- - huge volume of military freight handled by the railroads fog the Armed Forces the charges should be reduced to levels very much lower than those collected Records Radioactivity throughout the country to riow-dow- n Drei-linde- 110-mile-lo- ng fjve-mil- p al -- easures ' A - blockade nounced: “I don’t agree with I intend to discuss Yalta whenever I believe it pertinent” Then although he didn’t sayvit he opposed Mr Eisenhower’s in 1956 he said he was against drafting him Jo run It seems Knowland makes it known repeatedly he is strictly his own man and not Mr Eisenhower’s His conduct must have exasperated Mr Eisenhower many times But the President who almost never issues a personal rebuke to any of his lieutenants has been patient with Knowland while at the same time being patient with the Red Chinese with whom Knowland is very impahim rd-electi- on tient They“ asked that the Soviets take steps to have the Commu- nists abolish the taxes pn the vital truck trafficrwhiclr supplies the free world outpost deep in the Soviet zone since it “cannot be jWified purely on eco' nomic grounds” To rub it in the Communists tacinvoked their old tics before the blockade began at midnight s Two hundred trucks piled up n at the Berlin checkpoint of Another 100 piled up at ' Helmstedt at the other end of the lifeline Horns blared and drivers cursed but the Communist guards plodded through their work without looking up But once the tax became effective things changed The border e guards worked faster and a line of backed-utrucks at Berlin terminus cleared within a few hours Traffic appeared nor-mby dawn withno noticeable difference in lhe number of v trucks The West protested Vigorously to the Soviets and vowed but for the moment at least they had no choice "but to ante up to keep the trucks rolling It was estimated the taxes would run to 10 million ' dollars a year Could Revive Airlift In Washington it was reported that the United States and its allies could quickly revive the Berlin Airlift if the Communists decide on another complete land counter-m- TOKYO (AP)— Japan today began a daily record of radioactivity in the air particularly of rainfall and dust at 15 stations However officials added that they do not believe the Russians will go all the way and close off the city to land barge and rail traffic "flie Communists themselves denied they were trying to “blackmail” the Western powers but it was freely admitted this was the first of the retaliatory measures th Soviets have thought up to punish West Germany for ratifying the Paris arms treaties -- t - Korea Sends Dutch Eggs (AP) — More than 60000 duck eggs arrived today from Holland Only one was broken The eggs contributed to the Korean people by the Dutch Committee of Aid were rushed to hatcheries SEOUL Inter-churc- h INDEX Joseph Alsop Dr William Brady t Comics Community Pages Dr Crane x' Roosevelt-Churchill-Stali- ld L Mag-saysa- Her Dress Was Just Like Mamie's Sen George Becomes Ike's Right-Han- d Man On Foreign Policy GOP Knowland No Help i i a) earth Reports from Lanao Province in the Southern Philippines said at least J64 persons were killed Sixteen were reported missing" Scores were injured and 5000 were reported homeless x The quake apparently centered in Mindanao the southernmost and second largest of the Philippine Islands Strong shocks also were felt on Panay Island 200 miles to the north There were no reports of casualties from the other stricken provinces of Misamis Oriental Misamis Occidental and Surigao The governor of - Misamis Occidental Province in Mindanao said Philippine military officials reported the surface of Lake Lanao dropped six feet during the quake The lake is about 15 miles long and eight miles wide The head of the Red Cross at Lanao said the quakes struck between 2 am and 9 am For nearly eight hours the earth trembled and shook The ground split open as much as a foot Sand and hot water were reported issuing from cracks in the ground Some houses toppled into Lake Lanao The tremors caused landslides Fears that the earthquake was connected with an atomic explosion added to the panic Mayor Angel Medina of Iligan City hastily wired President Ramon to confirm that it was “just an earthquake” V Sea Knowland A 12A 6B 7B 14AJ15A 13A 6A 12A 6A 10B 6A 7B Editorial Page Beulah France Walter Lippmann Obituaries Drew Pearson' Radio-TPrograms L‘ 4B5B Sports ' 8B Theater Page 6A 20 and 50 Years Ago 10B Vital Statistics Women’ Page &a12A ISA V t V V i V |