Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - December 12, 1946, Ogden, Utah ill The Weather Partly cloudy south cloudy north today tonight and Friday few flurries or sprinkles over mountains extreme north portion not much change in temperature high today 40 to 50 low Friday morning 25 to 30 Temperatures Tor 24-hour period ending at leven m o 33 Omaha 39 60 Albuquerque 31 511 Phoenix 38 63 Atlanta 50 40 47 Bismarck 5 Or 45 54 Boise 29 47 Butte 21 21 51 Chicago 40 481 Rock Springs 30 Denver 36 Lake 37 42 Grand June 25 San Antonio 46 67 Las Vegas 37 45 59 Los Angeles 50 Louis Minneapolis 23 Seattle New Orleans 68 New York 39 Okla 48 52 41 53 16 57 44 60 30 Seventy-seventh 117 The United Press The Associated War Bureaus Put Under One Chief Only Housing Left of Office of Temporary Controls WASHINGTON Dec 12 UP President Truman day set up the off ice of controls to take over the functions of most of the remaining federal war agencies except for housing Mr Truman named Mai Gen Philp B Fleming to head the new agency Fleming will continue to also as federal works ad- ln Key Positions into the new agency were the office of war mobi tion and reconversion the office of price administration the ian production administration and the office of economic Truman named Frank Built Oak Ridge Plant Creedon was manager of con- Mnn Son administration in charge of its construction and housing M Foley was made head of the national housing ad- He has been in the federal housing program since 1934 At the same time Mr executive order setting up the office of temporary con- ordered the immediate termination of the economic stabilization board and the of the wage stabilization board as of Feb 24 1947 The president called a major housing conference this afternoon with all the officials he named plus other government heads involved in the housing program These include Maj Gen P B Fleming heads now office of temporary controls Scheme Of Limiting Arms Granted Approval Amendment Drawn To Prevent Check On Atomic Studies NEW YORK Dec 12 AP A united nations tee today approved the basic principles of a world-wide arms limitation program viding for inspection and con- trol machinery free of the big power veto With unexpected speed the nation group went through a draft resolution paragraph by paragraph and approved the entire draft with only two amendments After the measure was approved in full the United States sought to add another paragraph ing that nothing in the tion would alter or limit the work the atomic energy commission CITY EVENING DECEMBER Makes Sacrifice NEA Service AP Service 20 SECTIONS FINAL EDITION Leon Blum Blum Takes Over Role of Premier On Interim Basis PARIS Dec 12 UP Leon Blum 74 socialist leader of Looms With CIO Demanding Hikes Industry Is Fearful Nathan Report May Launch New Spiral WASHINGTON Dec 12 leaders de- clared today the fresh insistence that wages can be raised without boosting prices may lead to another series of serious strikes They recalled the C I O had employed the same argument m Brick Wall Collapses On Roof of Tenement Eight Die Many Hurt agency George E Allen a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp with whom Wyatt had trouble Mr Truman declined to malce any statement on housing pending hf conference this afternoon but ne did discount reports that an in- crease in recent ceilings was in immediate prospect Steelman to New rest John Steelman has been re- conversion director and also head of the economic stabilization of- fice In the reorganization he was from these posts to a new role as assistant to the Mr Truman told reporters Steelman would continue to aid him in coordinating federal agency programs and policies The president explained that OPA controls on rents sugar and rice be continued by the new over-all agency He said that the new office would be responsible for carrying out the remaining of OPA and CPA and certain reconversion functions He remarked that the ties powers under which civilian production administration operates expire March 31 except ing materials unless extended by heads of OPA and CPA have resigned pPA trator Paul Porter going to head a U S economic mission to Greece CPA Administrator John D Small Is returning to private assistant to the president Iranian to Send Three Messages To lew Congress WASHINGTON Dec 12 President Truman declined today to talk about prospects for tax reductions at a news conference which he said he will send hree separate messages to the ew congress Told that the Republicans in were saying they would ot cooperate if he makes al recommendations Mr nan asked who can say what is which now is trying to devise world atomic controls Vishinsky Objects A debate on this issue was touched off when Soviet Delegate Andrei Y Vishinsky objected to its inclusion but most of the gates felt that no major principle was involved and that their mam task was completed The American reservation was adopted unanimously The whole plan now goes to tne political committee and then to the general assembly for The resolution with the can reservation also was approved unanimously Provisions Included The new provisions injected into the arms 1 Added a requirement that any program adopted by the security council must be approved by a special session of the general assembly in addition to a stipulation already accepted that it must be ratified by individual U N member states 2 Laid down a specific tion that any arms reduction gram must provide for the con- trol of atomic energy to the ex- tent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes Little Debate Offered The provisions were offered by Canada and accepted with little debate the first by a 10 to 9 vote and the second unanimously Meanwhile the general assembly in plenary session debated a already approved by the political committee that all member states immediately recall their dors and ministers from Franco Spain Polish Delegate Oscar sought to have as the functions of the office of economic stabilization are concerned the president said the duties of this agency were ally terminated that prices and wages were decontrolled and most items removed from rationing Economies Predicted Mr Truman predicted that the consolidation would result in economies of operation and ma more rapid liquidation of nel and government property longer needed The reconversion advisory will be continued for some time members had asked to be of their duties at the earliest consolidation order reestablished the office of reports He transferred to ft Te functions of the government information of the budgel the advertising and movie units of the reconversion of the office of con- tract settlement were transferred to the treasury Certain functions of wage stabilization board were transferred to the labor ment Strikes Make War Powers Essential WASHINGTON Dec 12 AP If it hadn't been for strikes dent said today it would have been possible to end the war emergency before now The chief executive made the flat statement without elaboration during questioning at a news con ference The subject was brought up by a reporter who asked when th might recommend ter of the war emergency H declined to speculate but that it could have been done be fore this if strikes had not inter reconversion pressing its initial postwar wage demands in the steel automobile and other heavy industries Teacher of Blind Fatally Injured When Hit By Car Mary Elmer 38 of North land a home service teacher for many years of the Utah last sion spring but that prices had gone up following the wage increases In preparing for a new round of pay demands C I O l Murray said yesterday u i- O unions will embrace as their guidepost a survey contending that present industry profit levels v Blum it -7 1 France's popular front will permit wages to be raised trances pie ri regime today was elected premier of a prospective crisis ment designed to give the warring political parties time to put their tangled affairs in order The national assembly gave Blum 575 of 590 votes cast The re- mainder were scattered The near unanimous vote of the assembly for the veteran socialist leader who agreed to the dacy only as a sacrifice and on a purely temporary basis ed prior agreements by the com- popular republicans and left republican union to vote for him Nation The election was a stopgap Lange so u ii L tv ish debate postponed because of light attendance at the session but was voted down 21 to 18 He said his recommendations in us state of the union message vould call for what he believes o be necessary for the welfare of he United States This message will embrace his he adding that members of congress were entitled o have theirs Lewis Discussion He refused to be drawn into a discussion of the administration's uture policy toward John L is chief of the United Mine ers against whom the government is waging a court fight Mr Truman told questioners the Lewis matter was in the courts and he would have nothing to say about the mine leader or about the recent coal strike The president said he would send separately to the new controlled congress a state of the union legislative message a sage on the budget and a third message on the report to be made soon by his economic advisory maximum employment council Renew Merger Plea These messages the president said will be sent to Capitol Hill on separate days Asked whether he saw any chance for reduction of taxes the president said he did not want to discuss what recommendations he Barney Dne To Be Arraigned Friday Arraignment in Ogden city court of Sheldon J Barney sailor of Monroe accused of the knife killing Feb 27 in an Ogden motel cabin of Dee N Lane 50 S C will be conduct- ed Friday about ten a m M Elaine Peterson Weber county at- torney announced today The county attorney Glenn W Adams district and den were m session late this afternoon to determine whether Barney will be charged with first or second degree der it was reported Barney will be represented by Attorney R Hackett ot Ogden Captain C K Keeter said The youthful defendant has been confined in the prison section of the city and county building since Dec 6 when he was returned to following his arrest on a potato farm near Idaho Falls Ida He had been the object of a search since the charred body at first believed to have been that of the sailor was found on the blackened framework of a bed in the frame cabin measure designed to meet the ent need of a government which could handle increasingly grave domestic and international lems France has had no ment since Premier Georges Bi- dault resigned Nov 28 to make way for reorganization in keeping with election returns In the more than two deadlock among the parties Bi- dault and Maurize Thorez com- munist leader had failed to get a majority when their names were put to vote in the assembly Blum's first task was to try to get together a temporary ment for a few weeks to push through a budget for the last ter of 1946 and to tackle the mounting tide of inflation and slide of the franc Blum accepted the invitation from all parties to head the inter- im government on condition that no candidates oppose him an said Demonstration of Unity A communist communique said the party's support for Blum was intended to demonstrate unity of the working classes Andre a socialist party leader announced that Blum gave his qualified acceptance of the premiership after receiving from the heads of all French par ties and urgent appeal to lead the country from its political premier of the lar front government which ruled France for a stormy period in 1936 He was the first socialist premier He a German prisoner during the and since then has played an elder statesman to cent without hiking prices or cutting profits much below time peaks Former Government Planner This survey was made for the C I 0 by Robert R Nathan con- economist and former ing government economic planner and war agency official Nathan cautioned that unless wages are increased promptly or prices reduced sharply lagging purchasing power on the part 01 workers may plunge the nation into a depression The Nathan report drew the sertion from Walter B ger executive vice president ol tne National Association of that it means an invitation for a new round of wage demands possibly followed by another series of serious strikes for adult blind died in a local hospital today of head and other injuries suffered Wednesday night about seven p m as she was crossing the pedestrian lane at Goddard and Washington Her doctor said she received a possible fractured skull and other injuries Traffic Officers T Clark Olsen and Jack P Biddulph said driver of the car involved was G W Walker Jr 36 of Fresno Calif He was booked for investigation The police report said Walker was proceeding along Washington at apparently lawful speed m a of other southbound and because of the many lights and other moving objects he did not see the woman until the moment of the impact Others Still Buried in Debris Must Be Dead Building Condemned Years Ago Is Charge Fire Said Started By Small Boys Playing NEW YORK Dec 12 brick wall of a flaming ice house crashed upon an adjoining se here early today killing or injuring a majority of the 92 persons who Ld in the six-story building which regents said had been condemned years ago While firemen and police emergency squads searched effort to reach at least 30 persons still preliminary check showed eight known dead 25 injured It appeared that almost all those still in the ruined brick building were injured or dead The cries of some of through debris in an missing group hides of could be heard at inter- vals One man who had screamed almost constantly for many hours Get me out of was removed alive A priest crawled through a hole in one of the shattered brick walls and administered last rites of three persons whom he believed were beyond hope A detective who also entered tne wreckage told of finding four bodies Four persons died in hospitals to which they were sent after five alarms sent fire and rescue ment to the scene at Amsterdam avenue and street on New York's upper west side The big A similar reaction came from George Bomney general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers association No A F L Comment Nathan replying to reporters questions on his latest report said he still felt the spring wage boosts could have been granted without price increases and added the same situation is true now There was no immediate comment on the I O Miss Elmer who herself is j the Ice the Co some 15 years ago was wrecked by fire and explosion and it was the rear wall of the big building which crashed upon the tenement How Blaze Started Police Capt Thomas V Hannigan blind was crossing the street to the east Police said they did not know immediately er she was accompanied by a friend who is usually with her during her visits to Ogden The woman was a home case worker teaching braille to adult blind and she occasionally m- i adult classes at the Utah j Weather Hinders Search Parties South of Rainier SEATTLE Dec 12 ed streams and washed out bridges today hampered coast guard and army search parties in their forts to comb a mile area immediately south of lofty Mount Rainier which is believed to hold the fate of 32 men ing since Tuesday aboard a mine corps transport plane The national park service office at Longmire reported goal of the hunt said none of searchers had arrived there during the night although they school for the deaf and blind But the A F L con- 0 Venezuela Calms Revolt Speedily CARACAS Venezuela Dec 12 was a Friday the 13th Just As Unlucky as Others CHICAGO Dec 12 AP morrow is Friday the 13th which to some is an omen of ill luck taut the National Safety council says forget it and relax The council however suggested to be careful as there will be just as many accidents tomorrow as any other no more Tomorrow will be the second Friday the 13th this year and for those who worry about such dates there won't be another until next June That will be the only Friday the 13th in 1947 unscathed today after an abortive document I The government of mands on industry as too high and dent Betancourt emerged contended the C L O wage in- creases were responsible for ing the line on price ceilings The A F L convention said its unions obtained pay increases out strikes and without in any case breaking price ceilings had admitted they started yesterday afternoon's fire in the ice plant while playing with candles The identified dead Frank Moorhead a fireman who was among the first to answer what appeared to be a routine at eleven forty-five p m last Anthony Biancardi 11 was taken from debris piled high on the tenement's third floor and died en route to a hospital Daniel Dorato 21 a tenant Thomas Phillips 70 a tenant Rose 20 a tenant who was carried out dead She had revolt yesterday in wdo which Hived on the third her Soldier Has One Plea to Santa of Sight insurgents made a bold bid to cap- ture the president and overthrow his revolutionary cabinet All is Batancourt told newsmen last night He said all the instigators either had been captured or had fled the country There were no fatalities and only a few were wounded he added Many of the that their revolt had planes at the Maracay airport which they captured at the out- set of the uprising and attempted to flee the country the president said but most of the ships soon ran out of gas and were picked by government forces after making forced landings Two ships succeeded m ing Colombia where both pilots and 14 mechanics surrendered to authorities In one of the planes was Major Carlos Maldonado Pena described as a leader of the re- volt Only a few persons wounded during the revolt court said Most of them at Maracay where the fighting was most serious Loyal troops re- captured Maracay airport late mother who was rescued earlier Pinned for Hours Nick Sloane who had been pinned down for hours by a beam said when he was freed that his wife and three children and his brother were in bis apartment when the building caved m men had reached him by following urn were expected momentarily mire is near the foot of the foot mountain where an fied plane was reported to have been heard Tuesday afternoon about the time the plane would have been in the area Bridges Washed Out Coast guard spokesmen in tle said their communications car at Eatonville midway between Tacoma and the mountain ed the advance party was having difficulty moving into the area cau e of flooded streams which had swept out several Return of the hunt to Mount followed apparent col- Rainier of earlier leads and last night These included a report that a green flare was sighted by a farmer at eight p m last night in the mountainous area east of ledo in southwest Washington Searchers later said the report was just a rumor PHOENIXVILLE Pa Dec of you intermediary Chester R Perkins hopelessly blinded by a land mine in Germany and a patient in ley Forge hospital for 21 mo t umiR UJ yu a- T between God and me for I have already said that it is God-given to me once before gave it were afternoon It was the last point of resistance The leaders of the rebellion will get jail court said There will be no ex- it The rebels were when I was born but L lost linked with the faction of and Teams have missed it so much and him back to the Mount his cries of get me out of here u I don't know whether they are I dead or he said Bleeding he was given a hypo- and taken to Mether Cabrini hospital Pete Lagatta 68 who left for work shortly before the crash said his wife Mary 59 and his ter Julie 26 were trapped on the second floor and probably were son Joseph 35 was not It home when the building collapsed arrived shortly after the crash He went immediately to his father's nearby place of proposed search at Mount c south Of peak south Rainier was dropped ta however that he will make He did say will renew his request for a ger of the armed forces as one point in his state of the union message Virtue's BISMARCK N D Dec 12 AP Kenneth R Yeiter a bartender walked into the Bismarck Tribune newsroom and slammed six pieces on a desk The said was a reward given to a Bismarck contractor for finding worth of endorsed and checks owned by the con- tractor Idaho Senator Ready For Trip to Capital POCATELLO Dec 12 Henry C Idaho planned to board a train for the nation's capital today lowing a series of conferences with local groups throughout the state The senator said he would attend caucuses and conferences of Re- publicans in congress but did not comment on what committee he would seek Dworshak visited the upper Snake river valley area yesterday after meeting here with the nock county planning board At that meeting proposed flood con- trol on the Portneuf river was Following an inspection of the Palisade reservoir project shak said he hoped construction work on it would be speeded up in order that actual work on the dam can begin in 1947 I wm be blotted com examinations a tor Soldier do St want it Tna the way I want kins replied Dear Santa Claus Aren't we all children some ot all of us adult in though some Can't us are thing which I wanted smart clothing and Now I want tirely different no ish as a nor is it ary as a piece 01 as ostentatious clothing as or as energetic as a ment It is would think it can It isn't doesn't have He knows asking chooses let me beneath my Christmas tree two bright shiny blue eyes brimming over with good health and true vision Let me place them in my head then let me look out through the window at the snow lying deep and crisp and even as far as those beautiful eyes can see Let me drink in the looks of joy on the faces of those who lova me who have seen me groping ana stumbling in the dark for so long Let me hold those eyes aloft to the Christmas star that I forget the true meaning of mas Let me see all these things so that the memory of the last Christmas I saw might be blotted forever from my mind Replace the screaming of shells the rumbling of tanks the sound of tired ing feet with the singing of hymns the laughter of little sisters and the voices of thankful people Re- place the filthy smelly mud of battle and the drawn faces of ing men with the cool feeling of fresh clean sheets and the ful faces of men born anew Bring me those eyes for these purposes and I will be grateful forever to Him who once gave them to me If on Christmas morn I should not find them there I won't really mind and I will still be grateful to God for haven't I still a good mind a strong body friends who love me and a de- sire to justify the reason for my existence After all aren't these the important things in life? So Santa there it is That's what I want for Christmas Please try won't you From a grown-up little boy Corp Chester R Perkins and brought ruined house Building Long Condemned Lagatta said the building had been condemned as long as eight years ago but because of the war no one had been forced to move Father David Rea of St beth's church climbed up a der into the wreckage to give the last rites to victims of the crash Two of the persons he said Lopez Contreras and Gen Isaias were dead wers believed Medina Angarita both former 0 be wife and T nfi n-f A Tales of the horror and con- fusion that followed collapse of he building were told by witnesses many of whom were shaken by the blast Most of them thought it was an earthquake Then they heard the cry of In a matter of utes thousands many of them only partly clad crowded into the of the victims were favor of the Longmire area toward which the plane was reported headed Icing Conditions The missing plane was last heard from when she radioed at thirteen p m Tuesday a few miles south of Toledo and was ordered to fly higher because of icing con- ditions at its feet The plane was en route to Seattle from San Diego with a crew of three and 29 marines being transferred to Seattle Mount Rainier's cone on which the search now is concentrated is some 14 miles east of Alder where a fell feet and killed a test crew of the Royal Dutch air lines and the Netherlands 1 and Chief Pilot Harlan A of Transcontinental and Hull Western Air Lines presidents and leaders of the party overthrown in the revolution ot Oct 18 1945 Army Men Say Bilbo Talked Contracts WASHINGTON Dec 12 AP army officers fied today that Sen Theodore contacted them times about awarding dP war contracts in his home state of Mississippi Maj Gen Thomas M Robins retired t id the senate war investigating sub-committee that as early as 1940 Bilbo brought contractors down our offices and recommended them for many multi-million I McKay retired colonel now in charge of army engineer wartime contract records more than 40 different that were awarded in Bilbo was barred from examining witnesses Harriman in New Role Rivers Overflow In Washington By The Associated Press trapped in their beds as the blast sheared off the entire rear wall of the tenement and sent tons of mortar and plaster into massive pile of debris two stories deep One of the walls of the tenement and one of the ice house were standing at perilous angles and firemen feared that if they fell many of those still alive m the rubble might be killed Thousands of spectators ing friends and relatives of the were held behind fire NEW American v lines while rescue work proceeded Thorough Investigation Fire officials said the ex- plosion was one of the worst m the history of the city and at the time were prepared to in- the cause thoroughly Police Commissioner Arthur Wallander said that boys had been YORK Dec 12 The caught setting fires in the he last few daily banking has resigned years the last few lLa Yesterday there was a fire m the structure at five forty-five n m It was quickly put out At eleven forty-five p m men again were called to on PaRC Three the early More than 200 evacuated from farms to round in Auburn Wash oday as amphibious army and sheriffs cars moved rescue operations to Kent ahead of the crest of the worst flood toi nit western Washington since Flood waters were within two blocks of the heart of Kent and were said to be s deep at one place on tne Water was reported within s x inches of the top of a dike soum of Kent protecting the west valley weather bureau said that the raging western rivers had reached and should subside day Crests of the and Green had started leveling ever Washington alra alread off and re- run into of dollars
