Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - September 8, 1950, Ogden, Utah The Weather cloudy today night and Saturday but becoming mostly cloudy scattered showers and thundershowers ing afternoon and evening High both days 80 to SO Low tonight 50 to 60 Minimum humidity 30 to 35 per cent Winds southerly Gusty to near 30 miles per hour near thunderstorms Temperatures Temperatures for the period ending at seven a m Max Min Ogden 87 Minneapolis New New York Phoenix Pocatello Portland Provo Min 80 52 i ea 82 62 95 66 88 60 82 51 65 51 Albuquerque 58 Atlanta 75 64 Boise ss Boston Butte Cheyenne Chicago Denver Detroit Las Vegas Logan Los Angeles Miami Milford 62 70 54 81 49 75 63 84 54 77 60 79 65 86 57 67 61 88 72 80 Salt Lake San Fran St George St Louis Seattle Washington West 51 87 C2 73 56 85 62 78 58 71 44 79 61 85 43 238 The United The Associated OGDEN CITY UTAH FRIDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 8 1950 NEA Servic AP Service 30 SECTIONS FINAL EDITION Brigham's Choice Sizes Jeanne above accepts the roost coveted title in Brigham Peach queen crown Placing the token of esteem is Carol Warnke last year's queen Cleo Rasmussen second from right is attendant Jackie Jensen right is the other attendant Celebration Starts With Big Parade BRIGHAM CITY Sept ham City's annual Peach days bration was launched today with a colorful parade Both spectators and officials de- clared the line of march was ful even for Brigham City where outstanding parades are seen an- Queen Attendants Occupying the honor float were Lou Jeanne Christensen queen of the festival daughter of Mr and Mrs Merlin Anderson and Cleo Rasmussen daughter of Mr and Mrs Clark Rasmussen and Jackie Jensen daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Voge the queen's ants Junior queens were Nancy Burtcher queen daughter of Mr and Mrs Gayle Burtcher ants were Sandra Gordon ter of Mr and Mrs Sam Gordon and Dawn Hall daughter of Mr and Mrs Bruce Hall The parade led by the junior division included more than 30 col- floats and six bands Outstanding Floats Among outstanding floats were the Pony by Tremonton Tribute to ham Civic Hill air force base's display on the part the base is playing in the Korean war and a float entered by Intermountain In- dian school The Indian school entry carried a number of young Navajo boys dressed in native tume complete with silver jewelry and a woman weaving a Navajo rug One of the outstanding entries in the junior division was the float Peaches and Cream Game Scheduled Tonight at the fiesta goers will see the Box Elder high school Bee football team in action against the Jordan at the Bee stadium Take Heart Folks It'll Be Cooler With Shower Too Cheer up Ogden Cooler weather and more showers are on their way for this vicinity cording to CAA weather ers at Ogden Municipal airport Their five-day Scattered showers thunder showers over the week-end with temperatures averaging near mal which are cooler than they have Deen early this Fair weather is forecast fcr Monday through Wednesday with rising temperatures to become much above normal by The weatherman gave Ogden a treat last bit of a shower inch precipitation in the form of a mild rain Maximum temperature day was out of the gay nineties to 87 degrees with 61 degrees minimum early today still above normal for Sept 8 Bulletins By the Associated Fress National Boston 000 100 6 1 New York 000 000 7 2 Spahn and Cooper Hearn lie and Westrum Brooklyn at Philadelphia night Pittsburgh at St Louis night Chicago at Cincinnati two night games American St Louis at Cleveland two night games Detroit at Chicago night Philadelphia at Washington eight Only games scheduled And here are the junior top peaches Left to right are Sandra Gordon attendant Nancy Burtcher junior peach queen and Dawn Hall attendant Marine League After Johnson WASHINGTON Sept 8 UP The Marine Corps league today called on President Truman to boot out Defense Secretary Louis son from his cabinet Surprisingly however the gates to the marine convention re- a section of another tion which called for the firing of Secretary of State Dean Acheson The resolution against Johnson charged him with short-sighted inefficient and dictatorial policy It was passed with only one dis- vote The marine league vote came as two administration members of con- gress both planned to introduce legislation could re- open the squabble between dent Truman and the leathernecks They wanted a place for the marine corps commandant on the joint chiefs of staff Gef Ouf Says GL This Is My Foxhole WITH THE 24th DIVISION IN KOREA Sept 8 UP A 24th Division GI ran into an occupational hazard last night on the Korean battlefront Crawling toward the safety of a the Yank suddenly found himself staring into the eyes of mountain lion The GI was quicker on the draw Bombed With Pamphlets TOKYO Sept 8 Nations forces are spraying red rean areas with The Parachute News It is a Korean language pamphlet that tells of U N ress in resisting communist sion Davis Fruit Losses Hit This Season FARMINGTON Sept 8 is on the market comes from to fruit farmers in Davis county have reached the dollar mark this season DeLore Nichols county agent declared today age to crops was attributed to a late spring and unseasonable storms The pinch will be more ent next spring when many ers will be forced to borrow money for next season's operations the of- said Loss Held Serious A loss such as this in a of this type is more serious than in some areas because here this is practically the farmers only means of the county agent explained In addition to the loss to the concentrated areas and it is these few growers who are making the money not growers as a Nichols declared No Cherries Shipped The agent said there were no cherries available for shipment from Davis county where in mal years 50 to 60 carloads of this fruit are shipped There are 1200 cases to a carload approximately and about 15 pounds to a case At normal prices this would be a loss of a car or a total loss of for 50 cars Losses to apricot and peach ers who normally ship fruit from here or sell it to the canneries will equal if not surpass this amount the agent estimated He pointed out there also were AH tu me 10 me ne uut also were growers themselves young people losses to smaller growers who had their own fruit for canning and fruit for local consumption Tomato Situation Concerning the tomato crop Mr Nichols said the fate of this crop depends greatly on frost conditions If we have a late fall farmers should have good crops However if comes early losses will be heavy The agent reported the outlook in the county who usually earn money necessary for their ing have been unable to obtain work in the orchards There has been a tendency on the part of the public to gloss over the loss to the growers and com- plain about the high cost of fruit which is available Peaches are now selling for from to a bushel considerably higher than a year ago The public should take Parents Lose 1st Round in School Fight Judge Cowley Refuses to Halt Board Judge Charles G Cowley of Second district court today refused to grant a temporary writ of injunction prohibiting the Weber county school board from effecting its con- solidation program in Ogden valley Judge Cowley declared the matter was much too serious in nature to be determined until all merits on both sides could be heard Today's hearing was set for ments on a suit brought by a dent of Huntsville representative of parents of school children of the seventh eighth and ninth grades affected They charged the school board had abused its dis- cretion in the plan to transport Another Article Page 85 junior high school students 17 miles down Ogden canyon to the Wahlquist school in Marriott Charge Denied In a tense courtroom Glen E Fuller attorney for the valley charged that the school board had deliberately this situation in order to whip the people into line Fuller charged that the school board had acted illegally and was not carrying out its responsibility to taxpayers by its acts Samuel C Powell attorney for the board denied this asking What about you people in the Don't you think you are jeopardizing the taxpayers money by your Parents in the valley have re- fused to comply with the school program and have not mitted their children to be trans- they have held meetings of protest Questions Authority When asked by Judge Cowley if the entire question did not boil down to a matter of dollars and Attorney Powell said no He said the consolidation program which will close out schools in the valley Taylor and a portion of Hooper school was effected with the thought of im- proving the educational program Powell also questioned the power of the court in issuing a ing order against an act of He pointed out that the school board was an arm of the state Still No School Fuller objected and cited cases where the Utah state supreme court had upheld the wishes of the people in similar cases A second hearing on the case is expected to be held soon at which time a decision is expected on a petition for a permanent injunction Meanwhile Huntsville residents present at the hearing today said Our kids will not go to school until the matter is decided They said a mass meeting was uled for tonight at eight o'clock in the Huntsville school into consideration the fact the fruit for sugar beet crops is good Truman Signs Control WASHINGTON Sept 8 President Truman today signed legislation giving him virtually wartime discretionary control over the nation's economy The new law put together by congress after the communist in- vasion of South Korea has the double-barreled objective of ring defense production and ing down inflation It would the dent's and price controls consumer rationing alties for hoarding and real estate and consumer credit controls Quints to Get Look at N Y NEW YORK Sept 8 AP Those five of a kind the Dionne quintuplets will make their first trip to the big city next next month The Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation said yesterday the year-old Canadian girls will pear at a dinner here in honor of the late New York state governor Oct 19 Godfrey Facing Active Service WASHINGTON Sept 8 Arthur Godfrey will spend next week on active duty at naval air stations at Pensacola Fla Corpus Christi Tex and Memphis Term The radio and television actor has a reserve commission as a lieutenant commander and has had considerable experience as a ian pilot South Koreans Fall Back As Reds Attack in Rain Where Fire Began in Local Hofel Battalion Chief C E Mueller looks over the spot where the blaze began in the Panama hotel at 2510 coln causing the death of one man Man Dies of Burns as Flash Blaze Rolls Up Stairway One man died early this morning from a flash fire which badly damaged the Panama hotel 2510 Lincoln early last night The victim is Jack L Morgan 34 Firemen said he was overcome when the blaze roared up a stairway from the second floor and mushroomed into the third floor hallway Fire Chief L L Hadlock said it was believed that Morgan opened the door to his room as the flames leaped up the stairway and was overcome by the flame and smoke Railroad Unions Won't Give in On Pay WASHINGTON Sept 8 CAP The railroad and con- unions declared today they will not compromise their demand for 48 hours pay for 40 hours work on the nation's railroads The announcement chilled hopes that the two major unions would accept terms recently agreed to by A F L switchmen The unions also stipulated that the effective date of any settlement should be October 1 and that any later settlement must be made retroactive to that date Other settlement terms the letter said should be effective as of last July 1 The 48 for 40 proposal would provide a work week with an hourly wage boost of about 31 cents A presidential fact-finding board recommended 18 cents which the union rejected In negotiations conducted by Presidential Assistant John R Steelman the railroads raised the offer to 23 cents plus a cost of ing sliding-scale arrangements un- der which wages would rise one cent hourly for each one point of increase on the cost of living index This was the compromise which the A F L switchmen approved Who Said America Was Land of Quickie LONDON Sept 8 UP The United States long has been re- on this side of the At- as a land of cocktail party infidelities quickie divorces and numerous But Europe's divorce rate today is booming far faster than erica's On the U S side of the At- Americans generally look at Europe particularly Italy as the land of big families and many babies But the statistics show the American birthrate is higher than that of any country in western Europe In the divorce race Great Brit- ain is leading the field followed by Germany and Sweden Divorces here are up 500 per cent over the number granted be- fore World war n despite some of the strictest divorce laws in the world A survey showed that more people still get divorced in the U S about 25 per population but almost every nation in western Europe is rowing the gap Blood Bonk Stalled LAKE SUCCESS N Y Sept 8 UP A U N blood bank for Korea is stalled over the Red Cross policy of designating the race of donas A U N committee ob- on the ground that tions run counter to the U N ter and proof that all man blood is the samp He suffered first second and third degree burns over the surface of his body and seared lungs The victim was rushed to the Dee hospital after being found in his room He died at twelve forty-five a m six hours after the blaze Others Escape Several other tenants of the tel which caters to persons of ican nationality escaped without injury just seconds after the fire was spotted The hotel had been denied an operating license by the city several months ago officials said However it was explained the owner had informed city officials that he would operate the ment on a basis in the same manner as a Obituary Fage vate home This action placed the unit out of the city's licensing Police Chief Maurice J Schooff said Witnesses said the fire was first noticed as it burst from the window of a second story room facing coln William Stewart manager of the Road King Cab company who was at the company office directly across the street managed to throw a fire bomb into the room This halted the blaze for a moment he said However it was not long be- fore the fire again enveloped the room Capt Robert G Penton and Chief Hadlock were conducting an today in an effort to mine the exact cause of the blaze It was believed it may have started in a folding type Murphy bed Firemen had the blaze under con- trol in a matter of minutes after arriving on the scene They said the second story and its tures was destroyed The flames also badly burned the hallway stairway and third story hallway There was considerable water damage to the entire ture flanked on either side by other establishments All available fire equipment was summoned The blaze drew a large crowd of spectators Six Ogden city police patrol cars with flashing dome lights blocked all traffic from the vicinity tating operations Like Needle in Haystack This Ring in Backyard LAYTON Davis County Sept just like looking for Well anyway Davis county sheriffs officers had concluded today searching for a diamong ring valued at tossed into a back yard by a frightened boy is a chore equal to treasure hunts of old The ring property of Mrs John Alex Layton reportedly was taken by a Layton boy who entered the house with Mrs Alex's son Upon discovering the loss Mrs Alex questioned the youth who officers said admitted the theft and confessed becoming ened and out into the yard At last reports officers and volunteers were scouring the Alex family's back yard Truman GI Dependency Allotments WASHINGTON Sept 8 President Truman today signed a granting monthly allowances of to to enlisted servicemen to help care for their families This is in addition to their regular pay To be eligible for these ances the enlisted men will have to allot part of their pay to their lies These allotments will range from to monthly depending on a man's pay grade The allowances are retroactive to Aug 1 It is estimated that from that date to June 30 1951 the cost to the government will be about Enlisted men in the lower three pay grades will receive an ance of for one dependent Those in the four higher pay grades will be allowed for one dependent All seven pay grades will be granted if they have two de- pendents Likewise all grades will be allowed if they have three or more dependents Enlisted men in the lower three pay grades are required to ute from their monthly pay Men in the next two higher grades and will allot and those in the top two grades and Deductions from their pay re- main the same regardless of the number of dependents Truman Aids WASHINGTON Sept 8 AP Sen McCarran said today President Truman's avowed refusal to sign his stringent nist if congress passes it might lead to a Republican victory next November The Nevada Democrat said Mr Truman's statement that he would not sign the McCarran if it was sent to the White House was the most colossal mistake I have ever heard of being made by the dent Must Pay a Month LOS ANGELES Sept 8 AP Xavier Cugat the rumba man must continue alimony payments of a month until his estranged wife's suit for separate mainten- atice comes to trial Superior court yesterday rejected a plea from attorney to set aside the alimony order on the ground that the bandleader had not been properly served with the suit of Actress Lorraine Allen The wife contends Cugat is deliberately staying on the road to avoid legal processes in her suit Tallulah Got lust CINCINNATI Sept 8 AP A suit brought by Actress Tallulah Bankhead against tor Gamble Co has been settled for the company said she said the amount was a substantial sum Miss Bankhead had sued the company because of use of the name Tallulah in a radio jingle about a shampoo The company's ment said it had stopped using the jingle of our volition some time ago Flanks Exposed With Allied Ships Grounded TOKYO Saturday Sept 9 UP Tank led spearheads of three communist divisions attacking under cover of rain rolled back our ern Korean defense line sub- Friday South Korean forces fell back in three sectors of the fluid front between Pohang and and as darkness fell Friday the com- were posing severe threats to allied units ing the Pohang airfield and to vital four-way highway junction United Press Correspondent ert Bennyhoff reporting from below Pohang told of the South Korean retreat and said t exposed allied flanks on both eft and right He did not say how far the forces of the South Korean capital division had re- along the mountains and among the rice paddies north of but presumably it would place the enemy some four to five niles from the city and only about 50 miles on a direct highway from our Pusan supply base Kains Ground Airmen The torrential rains virtually grounded allied air support and the communists their best chance yet to build up their forces all around the defense perimeter American officers ex- heavy new attacks both at the Taegu northern hinge of the line and in the Masan area at the tar southern end of the line The next two days are they said Being Evacuated At Masan the South Korean had begun evacuating 000 inhabitants of the port in a move to stymie activities of a small group of North Koreans who have infiltrated the city The evacuees were being taken by rail and ship to rear areas be- tween Masan and Pusan The front between and Pohang today was swaying and indefinite United Press Correspondent ert Vermillion on the northern said the South Korean Eighth division maintained a pre- carious hold on Friday with red tanks and infantrymen ust outside the town to the north southeast and south Three tanks and a battalion of red troops kept the road closed to allied fic Friday afternoon At the eastern end of the line where it dips below Angang and then curves upward to include the allied airfield at Pohang can and South Korean defenders of the airfield were in serious ger of being cut off and isolated with their backs to the Japan sea The Korean 15th division a out- iit was moving eastward to join 12th and fifth enemy divisions n the push toward Threat to Airfield The threat to the airfield arose when two battalions of communists drove a wedge between the South Korean capital division six miles northwest of and the South Korean Third division de- fending the airstrip If not stopped immediately it will cut the last mountain trail escape route Fighter planes have not been using the field since an earlier red drive through Pohang four weeks ago However cargo and planes still are landing there on emergency missions Bennyhoff quoted Lieut Col Thomas B MacPhail military ad- viser of Mount Pleasant Pa as saying it was difficult to under- stand why the South Korean forces fell back again today below Angang and above MacPhail said he did not believe enemy had too strong a force in the push toward last week-end when we were wide open U S 24th division troops five to seven miles north of caught the impact of the nist rush after it had carried the South Korean tions The Yanks and communists were fighting a bitter battle late on the approaches to the big transport base keying the defenses of the broad valley leading due south to Pusan only 47 miles be- low A U S military adviser de- scribed the situation in that sector as very serious at this time It was a lightning reversal a few hours after the of the communist push and expressions of confidence that the east wing of the beachhead defenses had been stabilized somewhat Mothball Engines ALBUQUERQUE N M Sept 8 UP F G Gurley president of the Santa Fe railroad has an- that the line is taking 55 steam locomotives out oi balls in order to meet Korean war traffic demands
