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Show 10 Thursday. April 17, 1947 DAILY HERALD Price Reduction to Be Sought In The Construction Industry By AUSTIN a WEIIBWE1N United Press SUff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 17 0.R) Tne next step; in the administration's administra-tion's anti-inflation campaign will be a special appeal to the construction con-struction industry to cut housing prices, a source close to the White House revealed today. President Truman's economic advisers were said to feel that price cuts in such a -key industry would lead to lower - -prices in other fields. The administration's appeal will be made to industry leaders lead-ers at a series of private meetings meet-ings to begin soon, this source said. The president's advisers will rely on "moral suasion" to convince con-vince the industry it .should cut prices voluntarily. Mr. Truman already has made similar appeals to industry as a whole. The administration does not feel that the response thus far has been satisfactory although several firms have announced price reductions. Meanwhile Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.. O., told a reporter that he "fully endorses" Mr. Truman's Another Nitrate Freighter Blows Up Early Today TEXAS CITY. Tex.. April 17 (U.R) The freighter High Flyer, loaded with nitrate, blew up in the Texas City harbor today, adding add-ing to the havoc caused by yesterday's yes-terday's series of blasts which killed an estimated 700 persons, injured thousands more and caused caus-ed at least $125,000,000 damage. Celebrations Lead to Bloodshed Third Explosion Reported to Be Of An Oil Tank TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 17 (U.R) A minor explosion the third of the morning believed to be an oil tank going up, rocked the blast-devastated water front today. The. freighter High Flyer sank after two explosions in her cargo of nitrates. campaign for lower prices. How ever, he questioned the presi dent's statement of last week that another round of wage in creases would be justified if prices are not cut soon. Taft agreed that commodity prices must be lowered to prevent a dangerous economic spiral, but he said that for the time being a general wage increase is not war ranted. Recent price increases have been mostly at wholesale, he said, and government figures show the cost of living has "hardly "hard-ly increased at all during the past four months." "It should be pointed out," the senate Republican policy leader said, "That the increase in the cost of living since 1939 has been about 55 per cent whereas wage rates have increased 70 per cent and weekly wages or take home pay has gone up 74 per cent." Another argument against wage increases was made in a report prepared by. congressional economists econ-omists for the senate labor committee, com-mittee, of which Taft is chairman. chair-man. The report said wage boosts how inevitably would bring still higher prices. The latest response to Mr.' Truman's Tru-man's appeal for voluntary price cuts came from Charles B. Dul-can, Dul-can, manager of the Hecht, Co., a large Washington, D. C, department depart-ment store. Dulcan, a direction of The National Retail Dry Goods association, promised cuts in "all categories of merchandise" and said other retailers must follow suit. Dulcan was congratulated by Sen. Joseph t. O'Mahoney, D.. who, said that price cuts now are "an investment in the maintenance main-tenance of the market." New Rate Hearing To Affect Utah SALT LAKE CITY, April 17 (U.R) Another rate hearing affecting af-fecting Utah has been called by the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. H. W. Prickett, traffic counsel for Utah department of publicity and industrial development, will attend the commission hearing scheduled for next Tuesday in Washington, D. C. The hearing will affect transcontinental trans-continental rates both east and westbound. The hearing comes on a petition from the U. S. maritime mari-time commission for upward adjustment ad-justment of rates so that water-born water-born freight can compete with rail-borne commodities. The hearing will affect both canned goods and bulk steel. 100 Years Ago April 17, 1847 All the camps near the Missouri are now very! active. The Saints who are to go with the pioneer company are hurrying to catch up. Their friends at the settlements take provisions forward tov them as long as they are within distance. At the settlemens. preparations are made for putting in crops, or otner companies west, or another an-other winter at the river settlements. settle-ments. April 18, 1847 The load on the shoulders of the men at the river settlements is very severe, because the five hundred families fam-ilies of the Mormon Battalion boys have to be taken care of as well as the families of the men who are at the settlements. Sickness, mostly ague and black leg, is rampant. Oxen die, and cannot be replaced, and milk cows have to be hitched to plows and wagons: This is not good for the milk supply. Laraine Day III At Film Location HOLLYWOOD, April 17 (U.R) Production was at a standstill on the Lone Pine, Calif., location set of "Tycoon" today because of the illness of actress Laraine Day. Miss Day. bride of Leo (Lippy) Durocher. suspended manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, collapsed yesterday from nervous exhaustion and a bad cold and was taken to Lone Pine hospital. She was expected to remain re-main there at least two more days. A movie company of 487 persons per-sons was idled by her illness. LaFollette and Wolcott Receive Collier's Awards WASHINGTON. April 17 (U.R) Former Sen. Robert M. La Fol-lette, Fol-lette, Prog., Wis., co-author of the congressional reorganization act, and Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R.. Mich., today ware named winners of the $10,000 Collier's awards for distinguished congressional congres-sional service in 1946. President Truman will present each of them with a silver plaque at White House ceremonies this inoon. Colliers will present checks of $10,000 each to schools in Wisconsin Wis-consin and Michigan designated I by the winners. Wolcott named the Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences as recipient of the check for his ,state. La Follette has yet to make a selection. A JUST SHIPPED 36 Frostniaster HOME FREEZERS $159.95 (JET YOUR ORDER IN WHILE THEY LAST WASATCH Furnace & Appliance Co. 348 W. Center Ph. 833 Progress Claimed By School Head OGDEN. April 17 0J.R) Definite Def-inite progress is being made toward to-ward preventing juveniles released re-leased from the state industrial school at Ogden from being recommitted re-committed for addition crimes, H. Parley Kilburn, state industrial school superintendent, revealed here today. Kilburn said that only seven per cent of the students stu-dents , released during the first quarter of this year had been returned re-turned compared with 16-20 per cent during the same period in 1945. COAST GUARD SHIPS ORDERED ON DUTY NEW ORLEANS, April 17 (U.R) All available coast guard vessels ves-sels and personnel in the Galveston, Gal-veston, Tex., and Freeport, Tex., areas have been ordered to go at once to the scene of the Texas Tex-as City, Tex., explosion. UvULr "j All In this II" MHBTSPi convenient (y titPmiiA form! F I i " H it - vj Riotous observations of Korean Independence recently caused at least eight deaths and many serious Injuries at Seoul, Korea, when Com-muniata Com-muniata and Nationalists, who had separate celebrations, clashed. Hera Communist are made to Juieel before being taken away for Questioning. 'Stratofreighters' To Fly Pacific FAIRFIELD, Cal. (U.R) Six Boeing "stratofreighters," 60-ton air transports, have been ordered for use on the Army Air Trans port Commands Pacific division, Brig. Gen. Bob E. 'Nowland, division di-vision commander, announced. The faster, longer-ranged transports trans-ports have a capacity approximately approx-imately four times as great as that of the C-54 skymasters now in use. "The proposed use of the 'stratofreighters' on the San Fran cisco-Hawaii route may enable us eventually to reduce trip requirements re-quirements between those terminals," term-inals," Nowland said. 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