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Show S WHO'S LOONEY NOW? ! . . , t NUTRNBEEG. May 4;0 ' TC&Ither Funk, minister t eeo-Bomle eeo-Bomle affairs In Nazi Germany and the anther ef national social-ism's social-ism's economie bible, tried , te bUaii the allies today for the rise ef Adolf HiUer. Le VOL 23. NO. 49 THE WEATHER UTAH Considerable afternoon cloudiness Sunday, with scattered scatter-ed thundershowers, mostly sooth-east sooth-east portion. Temperatures: High 75 Lew 42 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, vUTAH, SUNDAY. MAY 5. 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Soft Coal Strike Held National Disaster In Statement By Truman American People Have "Barely Begun" To Feel Its Full Impact;, Grim Warning Issued That It Will Take Months To Mend Damage By CHARLES 1L HEBBOLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4 (U.R) The White House tonight to-night called the soft coal strike a "national disaster" and told the American people they have "barely begun" to feel its full impact. ' From now on, it warned, the effects of the 34-day strike will spread so rapidly throughout the nation's economy econ-omy that it will take months to mend the damage to reconversion recon-version progress. The grim warning came as angry senators demanded I presidential seizure ox we mines, Veterans Get On New Housing Priority Veterans will receive first preference pre-ference for homes in Utah county's coun-ty's new three million dollar, 500-unit residential program announced an-nounced Friday by state FHA director Gordon Weggeland. Contacted Con-tacted in Salt Lake City Saturday by the Herald, Mr. Weggeland gave direct assurance of this fact. Mayor Mark Anderson said Saturday a meeting will be called soon of city and county authorities author-ities and veterans' agencies and groups, at which Mr. Weggeland will explain the plan, slated to get underway within 30 days.. Further details as to price of the new homes were riven by the state FHA director Saturday. The 500, of which about 300 are slated for Provo, will average approximately approxi-mately 16,000 in price, he said. Federal rules require that at least "half "of the homes be built to sell at $6,250 and under, and the balance may sell from $6,250 to 110,000. "We will try to develop as many houses as possible in the lower 50 percent bracket to sell for around $5,500, total cost," Mr. Weggeland said. No house will have less than two bedrooms, he indicated. Of the total 500, about 200 are planned for "better class homes" to sell from $7,000 to $10,000, he announced Friday. - He estimated about half of these "better class homes" would be located in Provo. . Queried as to the probable location of the Provo homes, Mr. Weggeland said this is not being revealed at present to prevent undue real estate speculation. The new program will "mean nearly three million dollars in construction, he said, of which at least half will be spent in Provo. This is approximately one-third of the wartime housing program for .the county, which saw eight and one half million spent to build over 1,900 housing units. Of the latter ' amounts, Provo received 1,016 units -costing four and a half ' million. Vets Housing Bill Snagged On Subsidies WASHNGTON, May 4 (U.R) Legislation to carry out the ad-v ad-v ministration's 2,700,000 - unit P emergency housing program for veterans snagged on the controversial contro-versial subsidy, provision today. , House conferees refused to ac-'y ac-'y cept an offer by their senate op- posites to cut the amount from S600.000.000 to $400,000,000. I, The senate offer will be put to n JVk house vote next week, probably Thursday. If it Is rejected, the subsidy previa m described by President Truman as "the heart ' of his program may be junked entirely. The senate-house conferees f reached agreement en all other conflicting phases of -the legislation, Including the other major controversy-gov-f "eminent guarantees in pre- fabricated houses. i s . "i The subsidy provision is the 'A' only one now holding up final , action on a compromise comer- ence measure. The house originally ' rejected the subsidy provision entirely ' the senate version called for "ieOO.OOQ.OOO in subsidies. The I 1 jsenate-house conferees will re- Sume after the house acts on the senate offer to prune $200,000,000 from its subsidy provision. 77 On the issue of pre-fabricated bouses, the senate originally vot- 'd for 100 per cent guarantee of 250,000 pre-fabricated units, con r j.- (Continued on Page Two) and the government prepared to clamp now restrictions on deliveries deliv-eries of what little reserve coal is left 976,400 tons as of May 1. As the crisis deepened, there still was no prospect of any Immediate settlement of the dispute which already has caused the government to order a 50 per cent cut In . railroad passenger service by May 15; forced big cities such as Chicago and Washington Wash-ington to start brownouts, and threatened to cause general gen-eral Industrial and business paralysis In a few more weeks. These were the latest developments develop-ments as bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers (AFL) remained deadlocked in their dispute: 1 The Railway Express agency banned all express shipments, effective ef-fective May . 10, except for essential essen-tial services. The embargo was announced through the office of defense transportation after a conference with the express agency. ag-ency. 2 Union and management representatives rep-resentatives held a futile two-hour two-hour negotiation session and re cessed until Monday with a plea from Federal Mediator Edward F. McGrady that they go to church tomorrow, get down on their knees "and pray to God for guidance guid-ance to find a solution to their problems." 3 Solid Fuels Administrator J. A. Krug said further curtailments curtail-ments on soft coal consumption were necessary to prevent the European relief and rehabilitation rehabilita-tion program from collapsing. 4 Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., 111., demanded presidential seizure seiz-ure of the mines to stop what he said "could easily become an insurrection in-surrection against the government" govern-ment" Sen. C. Wayland Brooks, R., 111., joined Lucas in demanding demand-ing government action. UMW President John L. Lewis was denounced de-nounced as a "Bully" by Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La. 5 Lewis was reported today to discuss a settlement of the strike, only if other issues including safety and welfare provisions and payment of $4,000,000 in claimed overtime wages are settled before be-fore wages and hours are discussed. dis-cussed. 6 Edward R. Burke, president of the Southern Coal Producers association, said in a radio speech (MBS) that the operators will agree to pay the best wages ever earned in the coal industry; negotiate ne-gotiate a shorter work day and week; "move heaven and earth" to prevent all avoidable mine accidents, examine the extent of hadship cases and jointly establish estab-lish a fund for their alleviation. 7 The army announced that, in keeping with ODT restrictions (Continued on Page Two) J Xij u i i i i i i i i . i i i i ill m Soviet Rejects Proposal for Compromise Hints Plan To Trade Russian Claims To Mediterranean Bases By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 4 (U.R) Russia Rus-sia tonight turned down a new American compromise proposal on Venezia Giulia and hinted that she was pre pared to trade her claims to Mediterranean bases if Trieste Tri-este and most of the disputed area around it were given to Yugoslavia. Yu-goslavia. Soviet Foreign Minister Via- cheslav M. Molotov held out stubbornly for full satisfaction of Yugoslavia's demands for Trieste, saying that if agreement could be reached on this he "would be more favorably inclined towards other Italian desires." Russian demands blocking agreement on the Italian treaty include a Soviet trus-. trus-. teeshlp over Tripolitania and a military base in the Dodecanese Do-decanese Islands, both bitterly bitter-ly opposed by the British, as well as $300,000,000 In reparations rep-arations .from Italy. Molotov rejected a compromise proposal by U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes for a pleb-escite pleb-escite in the area between the Yugoslav and American lines in Venevia Giulia. Suggests Plebisite- Byrnes' proposal to let the populations themselves decide whether they wished to be un der Yugoslav or Italian rule was met with a counter-proposal by Molotov for a plebisite in the entier dispute territory of Venezia Giulia and Istria. Both Byrnes and British Foreign For-eign Secretary Ernest Bevin refused re-fused to agree to that and the plebiscite suggestion was dropped drop-ped for the time being. The former meeting lasted for two hours and 15 minutes, ending at 7:25 p.m. without the slightest slight-est sign of agreement between the two rival camps. Debate will continue con-tinue tomorrow in a small informal in-formal session in French Foreign Ministers Georges Bidault's Luxemburg Lux-emburg place office. In both the formal and earlier informal sessions, Molotov backed Yugoslavia's claims to Trieste and the Hinterland to the limit. Byrnes and Bevin both were equally adamant for keening Trieste Tri-este under Italian rule and shaving shav-ing down Yugoslavia's claims to the surrounding area. Bidault generally supported Britain and the United States but offered a slight compromise which would still retain Trieste in Italy and split Venezia Giulia (Continued on Page Two) NonRioting Convicts Under 'Watchful Eye' of Marines 3JSi. ..... ' ' -, y?-: ' -ft. ' . (jr l t, f Nov Alcatraz prisoners, who did hot participate, in the riot, are corralled into the recreation yard under tne waicniui eyes or r eaerai guards in tne yard a nd marines on the wall. The battle against riot ing convicts continues in the adjoining main cell block. Arabs Seek Intervention Of Russia Against IL Sv Britain CAIRO. May Arab societies . have received aoviet aDDrovai oi a man to send an Arab delegation to "Moscow to seek Russian help against the British and Americans in Pales tine, the United Press was in formed today. Arab leaders have approved the plan and members of the delega tion representing all seven Arab states will be selected at a joint Barkley Sees Approval For British Loan Industry Crippled By Lack of Coal; Brownouts In 3 Cities By SHIRLEY HUTCHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, May 4 (U.R) The coal shortage crippled the nation's industry tonight and plunged three cities into semi-darkness. Thousands of railroad, steel mill and farm equipment em-ployes em-ployes were working prt time Alabama Escapee Run Into Jail By Yakima Cops YAKIMA, Wash., May 4 (U.R) A 28-year-old Canadian war veteran vet-eran who escaped in 1943 from the Alabama state penitentiary where he was serving time for murder was held in the Yakima county jail today following an altercation in a downtown tavern. Officials identified the man as Henry Bush, alias Jesse H. Cupps, convicted in 1940 for a 1938 slaying. Bush was removed to the Yakima Yaki-ma county jail after city officers discovered him in an attempt to dig his way out of the city jail with a spoon-handle they said he concealed in his hatband. Officers said he used the snoon handle to dig mortar from bricks in the jau wait or not at all. Brownouts affected the daily lives of six million persons per-sons in Chicago, Washington and Philadelphia. Negotiations on te coal strike recessed and federal mediators told both sides to "go to church Sunday, kneel down and pray to God for guidance to find a solution solu-tion to these problems." The Illinois commerce commission commis-sion gave railroads almost blanket permission to trim schedules, and five roads operating out of Chicago Chi-cago already have announced cuts ranging up to 40 per cent. The office of defense transportation transporta-tion has ordered nationwide rail curtailments beginning May 10. On Reduced Schedule Pullman-Standard Car Manu facturing Co., employing 12,000, people, said the company s plants at Chicago, Worcester, Mass., Hammond, Ind., Michigan City, Ind., Butler, Pa., and Bessemer, Ala., already were operating on reduced schedules and were threatened with shutdowns. The railway express agency banned all except essential shipments ship-ments beginning May 10. The nation's largest steel producer, pro-ducer, U. S. Steel Corp., operated at nine per cent of capacity in Pittsburgh. (The Carnegie-Illinois steel plant at Youngstown, O., (Continued on Page Two) (U.R) LeadingfArab congress scheduled to meet this month in Cairo. A private report to the United Press said the Russians will be asked to aid the Arabs in event any joint Anglo-American effort is made to implement the Palestine Pales-tine inquiry committee's recommendations. recom-mendations. One of the main recommendations recommenda-tions was the additional immigration immigra-tion of 100,000 Jewish refugees into Palestine. The idea of an Arab mission to. Russia reportedly originated with Jamal El Hesseinl, chairman of the Palestine Arab higher committee. The report said Hesseini invited the Soviet Minister to the Levant to visit Jerusalem yesterday and witness the 12-hour Arab general strike. The general strike paralyzed the Holy Land and resulted in demonstrations within the old wallaced city of Jerusalem by 15,000 Arabs led by Hesseini. WASHINGTON, May 4 (U.R) Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley, Ky., tonight pre dicted passage of the British loan by a 12-vote margin as its ad vocates, armed with a petition to limit debate, drove for a vote early next week dn the $3,750,-000,000 $3,750,-000,000 credit. After a breakdown of repeated efforts by Barkley to gain a voluntary vol-untary debate limitation, Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., filed. WASHINGTON. May 4 (U.R) the cloture petition, which he de- fj?e or e wage increase United mine niei oonn Jewis WUJ Lewis' Stand Revealed Explosion Rocks .ts Munitions Dump In German Area By E. G. VALENS United Press Staff Correspondent FEUCHT, Germany, May 4 (U.R) United States army units began evacuating Feucht, eight miles southeast of Nuernberg, tonight, to-night, as fire swept out of control through the giant Muna ordnance works and thunderous explosions rocked the countryside 3-Day Battle Ends In Final Blaze of Fire Surviving Convict Rebels Captured in tKe Blood-Spattered Cell-Block C; Resistance Collapses; Rebel Weapons Accounted For By ROGER JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (U.R) The three-day battle of Alcatraz island federal prison ended today in a final blaze of gunfire that killed three convict ringleaders Joseph Paul Cretzer, Bernard Paul Coy and Marvin Franklin Frank-lin Hubbard and resulted in the capture of all their fellow fel-low rebels in blood-spattered cell-block C. Federal prison director James V. Bennett informed the United Press that Coy was killed "probably last evening, Cretzer "somewhat later,' and Hubbard about 8 a. m. today, to-day, during the final, attack by Alcatraz and Leavenworth sharpshooters. The three rebel chieftains were found in death, stiff and cold, beside their guns. "The other conspirators were taken into custody when the three men in possession of the weapons were silenced and the weapons recovered," Bennett and Warden James A. Johnston told the United Press) at 5:15 p. m. "The total number of conspira tors has not yet finally been established, but we know the most active were Cretter, Coy, Hubbard, (Miran) Thompson, Sam Shockley and two or three others whose names we cannot yet reveal. "There was no resistance at the end of the battle this morning. It should be remembered that the main body of the inmates were held in the yard until yesterday afternoon and locked into their Feucht is a mile and a half I cells immediately where none scribed as an effort "to prevent further stalling on the loan. Members generally were skeptical that the gag rule one hour per senator could be pushed through the chamber cham-ber on the required two-thirds two-thirds vote Tuesday. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O.. who Intends to vote for cloture, predicted it might delay the loan proceedings even further.. fur-ther.. The issue already has dragged through three weeks of debate. Barkley told reporters he expected ex-pected the loan approval by approximately ap-proximately 12 votes, but expressed ex-pressed some concern that strong support would be found for an amendment ceding to this country coun-try Atlantic bases now leased from Britain. Barkley maintained maintain-ed that amending the loan would be tantamount to "killing it outright," out-right," pointing out that such action would require 'renegotiation 'renegotia-tion and probable defeat in Britain. Brit-ain. There were indications that the cloture petition may never come to a senate vote. Under the rules it must lie over until Tuesday, by Which time Sens. Lister Hill, D., Ala., and Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., predicted that debate will end. Johnson told the senate the administration's ad-ministration's case for the loan "was a disgrace to the nation." demand to settle the coal strike depends on what the operators are willing to do in meeting his demand for a union-administered health and welfare fund and other union non-wage proposals, it was learned tonight. The operators have said consistently con-sistently they could not agree to union administrtaion of the welfare wel-fare fund and have insisted that wage demands be considered first. Lewis was understood to be adamant that the mine owners make specific proposals on the union's nine original demands and agree to pay the $4,000,000 in claimed overtime wages before he will -make a specific wages before he will make a specific offer on! wages and hours. This was revealed in the first authoritative detailed statement of the union's position since the now - deadlocked negotiations opened. - It was learned that Lewis wants the strike issues determined in 1. Payment of the claimed overtime over-time wages. - 2. Specific proposals by the operators op-erators on the health and welfare fund and other original union demands. de-mands. "r " v Agreement on wages and . hours, with a t specific proposal to ' be made by tne umw aixer proa-ucers proa-ucers say what they will do" on the other issues. from the ordnance works, which were believed ta contain t least 300.000 tons ofhells, bombs, TNT, powder and poison gas of the deadliest types. At 11 p. m., German time, (5 p. m. EDT) the fire was only quarter .of a mile from where the poison gas is stored. Civilians were fie e i n g Feucht and Regenbach, a mile from the works, as they had fled their flaming towns in war days. Long lines of women wo-men and men pushed baby carriages and hand carts away from the towns as red hot shell fragments screamed out a mile from the explosions and evil-smelling smoke billowed bil-lowed np into the. sky. V-2 rockets stored at the dump were going up 10 to 15 a time. Each rocket weighs one ton. By lip. m., there had been 25 such blasts. The army established a special command post at the edge of could possibly join those still re sisting. "As soon as a further check has been made and investigation has proceeded, further information informa-tion will be made available." Fighting stopped with a last-ditch last-ditch attack by resolute prison guards, who shot their way into the shell-pocked stronghold of the stir-crazy desperadoes. All the outlaws' weapons have been accounted for. They included a rifle and .45 revolver, found alongside the bodies of Coy and Cretzer, and possibly an automatic rifle and shotgun which- had been reported in the convicts' con-victs' possession by eye-witnesses. An unknown number of co-con spirators were captured or taken Marine Hera Says Alcatraz Toughest Yet The United Press has obtained an exclusive interview with marine ma-rine Warrant Officer Charles L. Buckner who led a detachment of U. S. marines in a 30-hour siege of embattled Alcatraz island. Buckner Is a distant relative ef the late Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who died in action lead-in lead-in r the 10th army on Okinawa. The 35-year-old ruddy - faced. 200 - pound marine makes, his home with his wife at 128 North Bellvue, Memphis, Tenn. While on duty at Treasure Island he lives at the Esperance naval bousing bous-ing unit, San Bruno, CaL By W. O. CHARLES BUCKNER U. S. Marines As Told to tho United Press SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (U.FS I've been a marine 12 years. I fought on Bougainville and Guam but you can say for me that Alcatraz Al-catraz island prison is the toughest tough-est defensive position I ever saw. Thirty three of us marines went on the rock Thursday after Warden War-den James A. Johnston called on Treasure Island barracks for help. Some of us dressed in prison jguard uniform and we opened up on the cons with anti-tank by surrender in the sult rifle grenades from the west slope through cell-block C. An Alca-'0f tne island traz spokesman told the United! We Rot a hoie cut through the Press at 3:30 p. m. (PST) that trtn of th rollhlnrk roof late Nuernberg s walled, inner-city, in All tne rebel convicts nave been yesterday and lowered grenades the Club Americana. Each new locked up."1 !on strings to let 'em have it. : . . . r . .r. I waraen ionnsion, it. victor "a was xoiiowea by tne rattling .over foredoomed insurrection, of falling tile- from the war-; personally pulled the lever which bomoea ruins. shut all cell doors again for the Tho cmnVo rlrhii1 hanff nvr ..... t V, " ' 7 ,v j first time since slippery uernai a unit- rtiiu a iioii uic druuuu wri ..! r- t.i,.m.k..ti ,t with two guns, opened the gates for 24 of his felonious colleagues at 2 p. m. Thursday. center of the fire and explosion, and the flames are spreading toward to-ward "the heavy stuff." Windows rattled, doors shook and plaster fell in Nuernberg, eight miles away. The area in the. immediate center cen-ter of the .Muna works which (Continued on Page Two) Tho futile, tragic mutiny which took the lives of two guards, three convicts, and inflicted wounds on 14 indomina table (Continued on Page Two) Negro Awaiting Death Prays For Divine Intervention HOOVER IN KOREA SEOUL. Korea. May 4 (U.R) Herbert Hoover arrived in Seoul today from Shanghai for conferences confer-ences with American government officials regarding the food problem prob-lem in Korea. Hoover said he planned to leave tomorrow for Tokyo. CRUDE OIL PRICE RAISE . INSIGNIFICANT CHICAGO, May 4(U.R) A 65-man 65-man committee representing the oil-refining Industry iaid today in report submitted to the OPA that the price of crude oil would Increase only a fraction of a cent a gallon , u price ccuings were removed. , ST. MARTINVILLE, La., (U.R) Willie Francis, strapping strap-ping - 17 - year - old negro,' prayed for divine intervention, interven-tion, today as the state de-, de-, bated whether, it could place 1 him in the electric chair for 1 a second time' after he sur- ' vlved the first attempt to take his. life. . Gov. James Davis granted Francis, a condemned murderer, mur-derer, a- rep rj eve until Thursday while the . state studies "the, case and an elec- - trician' examines the death ' chair.. Fred S. Le Blanc, state ,' attorney ' general, .said a . special ruling. would be nec- essaryv j-. Francis, when led frighten-' frighten-' ed but unharmed from the execution room in the Parish jail yesterday said: "The Lord , was with me. c No one was able to explain why .the state's portable elec- trie chair, brought here for the occasion by Executioner Brady Jarrad of - Shreveport, failed to work. ' We brought Francis in," said Sheriff i Leonard Res-weber. Res-weber. vVHeifwasquiet and seemed resigned about his execution. , ' " t "We strapped him in the chair and threw the switch. "After the current passed through, we unstrapped him and he was perfectly okay. He was not harmed in the least." - Francis was convicted a year ago of the fatal shooting of a St Martinville druggist who surprised him in his home. Those tough guys screamed in fear and maybe In pain Just like the Japs on Bougainville Bougain-ville when we poured It on 'em. Those anti-tank grenades gren-ades really POW when they burst 'Let me out,' one guy yelled. But when guards started to let 'em out they got a blast of rifle fire from cell tiers. The convicts haven't a chance to get out alive, and they didn't have a chance right from the start. They're worse than the Japs just wanton killers. The Japs had something to fight for and a chance to . win. But these stir-crazy stir-crazy cons could only kill and then die themselves, Yesterday, morning I went around on. the; slope of the hill over there In front of Block D thats the bunch of cells that runs right across the northwest face of the prison facing right out of the Golden Gate. We found a little break in a hedge by the road and we fired rifle grenades at the cells where we. knew the men' were holed up. I quit at noon simply be-eaose be-eaose my shoulder and face were so sore and burned I wouldn't have shot off an-, other f. those things, at To jo , Mmselfv .i ; tf ..W"- - Those : guys ,ln! the .cell block yelled plenty when we ploppeoV the. rifle . grenades . in. . But they didn't come out We already Jiad bored some holes in the roof over Block C V -v- t There was a guard stationed at . (Continued on Page Two) |