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Show -THE, WEATHER- ; r UTAH: Cloudy ih afternoon with snow flurries beginning north portion ' In evening .' and spreading Into central portion- to : night. Wednesday, broken cloudiness cloudi-ness and scattered snow flurries. Slightly warmer this afternoon and tonight. 1 JINGLING THENEWS UNIFORM TOLICT S'ew photographs of CHUB CHILI t hi , show - lb UNIFORM Is still In tow; ; ot that he doesn't GIVE hoot. At PROBABLY can't buy a SUIT. Stan Arnold Temperatures; High , 32 It Low OO004 Sixtieth year, no. .166 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGHAPH NEWS 6SRVICB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY,' UTAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1946 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS Geneva Bids Deadline Set For Aprlll ) Operation Schedule Will Not Be AHected By 30-Day Bid Delay J ' The 30-day" postponement Jfor opening bids on Geneva, (announced Monday in Wash ington, will not affect current bperation of the plant be- 'cause the present contract Lmth the R. F. C. runs until July 12 or until 30 days after liisposal, according to Dr. Wal ;ner Aiainesius, president. Press dispatches from Wash tngton Monday revealed a 30-day i. . t . ... . ... itjeiay in tne ultimate disposition Ijf the plant when R. F. C. author ities moved the bid opening date Trom March 1 to April 1, giving 'iie Dresent unsettled strike con- tiitions as their reason. It was felt iteel compaines would be able to levote more attention to bids for "he mill if they were delayed a Tionth. giving the national situa Jon that much longer to clear up uid free attention for Geneva. , Meanwhile, with an operation opera-tion contract extending until' July It unless disposal - is made before that time, Geneva Ge-neva will continue on its present status. Recent government gov-ernment employment figures, placed the plant payroll at about 900 persons. Dr. Ma-thesius Ma-thesius said between 600 and 700 hourly rated employes are 1 working in actual production and maintenance. News of expanded coal pro duction at the Horse Canyon mine jvas revealed today by Dr. Ma-hesius, Ma-hesius, who said an initial order f 8,300 tons for export to foreign 1-ountries through government channels has been received. He paid he did not know just where fhe coal was going, but the plant Jias orders to ship it to Long 3each. Production at the mine has been stepped up to between 3.000 lirTd 3.500 tons daily in anticipa tion of the: orders. Before the ex pansion order was received, tne nine was putting out about 1,600 bons daily. Mr. Matheslus said. LThe Geneva mill itself is using tibout 1,000 tons daily. Geneva Steel's Die iron output rom its one blast furnace now in pperation is between 550 and 600 ons per day, and the plant is ex-)0rting ex-)0rting through government Channels "nearly as much as it is Snaking," according to R. G. Glass, Mce president in charge of opera- ions. . The iron is understood to be go- ountries. Two representatives of rhe Russian government were at ne plant today, vnr. mass said, riewing pig iron which the plant uas stockpiled. Tne pig iron itockpile is not large, Mr. Glass tated- ! Four Russians visited the plant i few days ago to survey 90,000 Lons of steel slabs which the mill rolled and stockpiled between W-J day and Oct. 12. Any neco- jMations or decision to buy either riie slabs or pig iron will not be made with plant officials, but ivith government authorities, Mr. Glass stated. K Pig iron shipments to Bethle- fjem Steel's west coast, properties ftrom Geneva were halted some Rime ago on a protest from auth Tjrities at Kaiser's Fontana mill. l. ' t Committee Cuts Truman Request fi WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U.R) uui5t appi uii laiiuiu turn- Vflittee today voted $5,594,146,286 for independent government of-'flces of-'flces and agencies in the next 'fiscal year a cut of S46.730.216 (from President Truman's original rreauest. f The total, however, was $1,- 3Z9,3B0,21U nigner than appropriations appropri-ations to the same aeencies in the Pcurrent fiscal year, ending June 30.: The overall increase was ac- (counted for primarily by greatly increased obligations and activi ties of the veterans administra tion. p The committee allotted VA $4,- 931,142,415 or 87'i per cent of the proposed appropriations. This was .53,481,085 less than the . budget i bureau had asked for VA but $1,- f 182,174,413 more than the agency's appropriations for this year. ane largest item oi appropriation appropria-tion for the veterans administration administra-tion and the largest single item in the entire bill is $2,148,387,000 for the payment of veterans bene fits. This is for such things as 'subsistence allowance and tuition Pfor veterans receiving education. loan and . readiustment allnur. ranees to unemployed veterans. J The committee also recom-Jmended recom-Jmended $147,442,500, largely for hthe construction of 30 new veter-,ans veter-,ans hospitals. This would bring to $390,262,500 the total appropriated under the $500,000,000 previously authorized for veterans hospitals and',facilities. Russia Raps British Policy In Indonesia, Greece atUNOPa r ley Charges Touch Off a Series of High Level Conferences on How to Handle New Soviet Request for an Investigation by Council LONDON, Jan. 22 u Russian charges that British policy in Greece and Indonesia threatened world peace today to-day touched off a series if high level conferences on how to handle a concurrent Soviet request for an investigation by the United Nations security council. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet vice foreign commissar and foreign policy expert, arrived a few hour after the Soviets injected the situations in Greece and Java into the UNO Truman Program Certain to Face Fight In Congress WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UK-Administration (UK-Administration leaders in con-cress con-cress today saw signs of troubled days ahead in their effort to win approval of President Truman s legislative and budgetary programs. pro-grams. At least three items in the big legislative package which Mr. Truman sent to congress in his 30 ,000 -word message yesterday were meeting stubborn opposition opposi-tion from members both inside and outside his party. And his $35,860,000,000 budget for. the 1947 fiscal year; a sharp reduction over present spending, did not satisfy all demands for governmental economy now that the war is over. Opposition also was certain for his request for continuation of the present tax structure in-order to maintain the present high rate of government income. While the president was pretty .sure r of "getting some tentative victories In the ad-ministration-controlled committees com-mittees . of congress, a good portion of his legislative pro- , grain will have tough sledding sled-ding on the floors of the senate sen-ate and house. For instance, the house labor comimttee approved by 13 to 3 vote a 'measure to keep the U. S. employment service under federal fed-eral control until June 30, 1947. 'Eut when it comes to the floor j Friday, its supporters aren't too certain of the outcome. Rep. Ev-jerett Ev-jerett M. Dirksen, R., 111., already 'has announced his intention to offer a substitute to return the USES to the states within 30 days Meanwhile, Rep. Frank Hook, D., Mich., is trying to stall a house labor committee vote on President Presi-dent Truman's requested legislation legisla-tion to set up fact-finding boards in labor disputes. Hobk plans to offer a motion calling on the committee com-mittee to resume hearings on the bill. On the tax front, some members mem-bers of-the house ways and means committee are in favor of cutting individual income taxes again and dropping the heavy wartime war-time increases in excise taxes. Rep. Harold Knutson, Minn., ranking rank-ing Republican member of the a t n 1 1 i tvv ill i & uuuvvu . win jto repeal the war-time excises. 1 Most congressional interest centered cen-tered on the budget portion of the president s message. Reaction was generally divided on party lines. Democrats thought it was fine. Republicans, however, eyed with suspicion the president's efforts ef-forts to move toward a balanced budget. AUTONOMOUS IRAN GOVERNMENT STEPS OUT LONDON, . Jan. 22 (U.R) Radio Moscow reported today that the autonomous Azerbaijan govern ment' has decided to establish direct di-rect trade relations with foreign countries independently of the central government of Iran. Socialist Gouin Receives Bid To Head French Government PARIS, Jan. 22 (U.R) Felix Gouin, Socialist president of the constituent assembly, was report ed reliably today to have receiv ed and accepted a bid by France's three main parties to head a new government succeeding that ' of Gen. Charles DeGaulle. U n o f f i c i al but responsible sources said the Communists, Socialists So-cialists and popular Republicans had agreed to nominate Gouin. They had been whirling through an unbroken series of conferences confer-ences all day in an attempt to find a compromise candidate acceptable ac-ceptable to the Big Three parties. par-ties. The formal nomination of a new chief of government to be called premier as against De Gaulle's presidency was put off until tomorrow when the assembly met for five minutes. It sat in silence while De Gaulle's letter of resig nation was read. The assembly's decision to wait until tomorrow to nominate a premier reflected the troubled In decision of French political lead-1 en-after '-a-day- - of jockeying proceedings. Many high quarters regarded the move as aimed at counteracting Iran's formal charge that Russia interfered with Iran ian internal affairs. Ernest Bevin, British foreign secretary, discussed the Russian charge at a morning cabinet meet ing before commons reconvened after the. holiday recess. In com mons Prime Minister Attlee indi cated Bevin would have a statement state-ment on British policy in Greece and Indonesia, but did not hint when. Americans Meet The American delegation met this afternoon. A spokesman in sisted that the Soviet charges based on the presence of British troops in Greece and Java were not discussed. But immediately thereafter Secretary of State James F. Byrnes left his hotel and told reporters he was going to see Bevin The Greeks and Dutch at the UNO meeting gave the appearance appear-ance of being pawns in a big power game. The Greek foreign minister, John Sofianopoulos, said he was trying, to get an appointment appoint-ment with E. N. Van Kleffens of Holland and seeking instructions from his government at home on what if any position to take on the Indonesian problem. . One official suggested that a solution might be for Britain to propose security council inveBti gations of Iran, Greece and Indi- nesla. The view was based on British contentions that they had nothing to hide or fear. .. Vishinsky. Russian vice foreign oommissar and head of the Soviet delegation to London,, landed at Tangmere airdrome, Sussex, after a flight from Berlin. He was unable to attend the early sessions of the UNO meeting because of business in the Balkans and Mosow. Russia and the Soviet Ukraine last night asked the UNO security council to investigate and act on what they described as threats to the neace arising from the nres- enre of British tronns in Greece and Indonesia. Russia specif ical-' .... Iy accused the British of inter- fering in Greek internal affairs the identical charge made against the Soviet Union before the UNO by Iran last week. Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin met hastily after midnight for a long talk. Plans were made for a full cabinet meeting. British officials indicated Bevin might make a public statement today answering charges. the One British official described , . the Russians move as retaliation "on a schoolboy level" for the Iranian request that the security council investigate Russian actions ac-tions in Iran. He expressed doubt whether the Soviet Union could obtain the, required majority of any seven of the 11 council members to add the Greek and Indonesian issues to the agenda: - jamong the nation's three major parties. The communists withdrew their bid to name their general secretary, secre-tary, Maurice Thorez, then, despite de-spite a round of conferences and compromise proposals, they, the socialists and popular republicans" republi-cans" were unable to agree on a leader for the coalition government govern-ment they sought. The crisis precipitated Sunday by De Gaulle's resignation reached reach-ed its worst deadlock so far when the communists, contrary to general gen-eral expectation, rejected the socialist so-cialist nominee, Vincent Auriol, to head the government. Communist Com-munist leaders then renewed a demand from which they had been diverted momentarily for nomination of Felix Gouin, so cialist president of the assembly. Gouin announced he was not interested. in-terested. With no solution in sight, the assembly held a short session, to hear De Gaulle's letter of resignation, resig-nation, adrdessed to and read by Gouin. Then It adjourned until 3 p.. m.-tomorrow. . ... j Short Blames Marshall For Pearl Harbor War Department Trying To Make Him The'Scape-goat. The'Scape-goat. Declares General By JOHN Li. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 au?)Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short today accused the war depart ment of trying to hide its own guilt by making him ' "the scapegoat" for the Pearl liar-J bar disaster. Not he, Short asserted, but Gen. George C. Marshall and the war department were to blame for the fact that the army was caught napping by the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. , The deposed commander of the army's Hawaiian department broke a four-year silence to declare de-clare the Pearl Harbor investigating investiga-ting committee that the war department de-partment should long since have confessed its own failures. "Instead," Short said, "tbey passed the buck' to me, and I have kept my silence until the opportunity of this public forum was presented to me." Short was relieved of his command com-mand 10 days after Pearl Harbor. Har-bor. He retired soon afterward with the rank of major general. Short preceded his formal statement state-ment with this opening summary: "1. On Pearl Harbor day I was (carrying out orders from the war department as I understood them. "2. At no time since June 17, 1940 had the war department in dicated the probabaiity of an attack at-tack on Hawaii. In none of the estimates prepared by G-2 (intelligence) (in-telligence) war department was Hawaii mentioned as a point of attack, but the Philippines were mentioned repeatedly. Information Abundant "3. There was in the war de- partment an amundance of infor- - Jmation whlcli was vital to me but which was not furnished to me. This information was absolutely absolu-tely essential to a correct esti- mate of the situation and correct decision. My estimate of the situa- tion and my direction were made witnout the benefit of this vital L ' J rJ": ruf ? 18 mTlorma"on ?hIiZ'VrZaZZl,: . " - " ' " ""- say wna is oeine coiisiuei eu. , mrklnir it invpRtiffation Ca;S0iavHorithT 'il said thi had hrd I Th bi reZe Tby 'Mr. Tru-nP Tru-nP On 8n an o.ft Llrt from Benjamin F. Fairless, Pres- man would have given the boards gone on an all-out alert. I ident of y s steel Corp linfce subpoena power and would have '4. When I made the decision.; Fairless rejected the president's provided a mandatory 30-day based on the information avail-j proposed settlement. 'cooling off period before a strike ou.c i. 8" " "en, iu yie-i ,VrPn; it0386' ItnePrtedHmeari ures taken .. . the war depart-! ment had nine days in which to"""," " , w,c "V tell me my action was not what' way to avt a national meat fa - they wanted. I accepted their silence as a full agreement withj . I . ; . 1 T ; l l,,c tuun iaeii. i am cunvincea1 ,hat a1' who read the report! thought that my action was cor-1 (Continued on Page Two) All's Quiet On Picket Line I packers would get higher prices Provo'3 steel strike situation! on top quality and luxury grades continued quiet today, marked byiof meat, but the price line would the fact that it is one of the very Russian 'few cities in the nation with one! That would give packers finan-jsteel finan-jsteel mill operating and one j cial aid toward meeting the work- IrloseH hv f hr clrilre T , .. . . Local observers said that while there were perhaps other cities in the country with this situation, due to the fact that a few mills nave signed an agreement ana are now working, they felt that Provo was unique in the nation bv having one steel mill closed by the CIO and another kept open 'y ine A- or wnicn nas jurisdiction at Geneva. CIO pickets, about 15 to a shift, were peacefully camped before be-fore Columbia Steel's main gate in three tents, issuing clearance to office workers and supervisors, and about 100 production men who are producing coke oven gas for regular customers of the Mountain Fuel Supply company in Provo, Springville and Spanish Span-ish Fork. Four pickets to a shift were camped before Republic Creosoting's plant, closed down tight except for activities of office workers and supervisors. Although handicapped by having hav-ing their direct-line gas shut off from Columbia Steel, workers' of the second shift at the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe plant broke a plant record for pipe production last night, according to O. Harvey King, vice president in charge of operations. The plant, employing a total of about 325 persons, is substituting wood and coke stoves for gas heat. Unless the weather turns severe enough to freeze air and water lines, production is expected to continue, Mr. King said. The pipe plant also buys pig iron from Columbia Steel, but Mr. King said the supply of pig iron on hand is sufficient unless the strike lasts "too long." The pipe plant also has a possibility of buying buy-ing pig iron from Geneva Steel, operating one blast furnace at its normal rate. of 550 to 600-tons dally Strike Seizure Of Meatpacking Industry Seen Action by Truman Is Possible Today, Says White House Secretary WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 xt.) President Truman is considering seizure of the meat industry and some action ac-tion is possible today, the White House announced. White House Press Secretary Secre-tary Charles G. Ross made the first disclosure that plans for seizure of the strike-bound packers pack-ers are being considered. Asked whether any action would be taken today, Ross said "I don't know, but it is possible." Ross added that it was impossible impos-sible "at this moment to say just what will be done." At the same time Mr. Truman Tru-man notified members of bis steel fact-finding board to continue examination of governmental gov-ernmental data pertinent to the steel strikes while remaining re-maining available "for further furth-er consultation." The three board members are Nathan P. Felinsinger, Judge James M. Douglas and Judge Roger Ro-ger I. McDonough. Inasmuch as Mr. Truman has already recommended settlement! of the steel dispute by a wage increase of 18li cents an hour, it appeared unlikely that the board would take action leading to any! other figure. ! rOSs knew of no developments! Hn the steel dispute. Asked wheth- fr seizure was being considered strikes while the board is Th arfmjnistmt.'nr. wa Aaiar- - d tc Ttake ovVr 1 he idle plick - , u..r u i v, jbj k ,rket. One alternative reportedly under discussion called for an immediate appeal" to the 300.-000 300.-000 striking CIO and AFL workers to return to work while efforts for a final settlement set-tlement were resumed under a new government formula for price relief to packers. Under this plan, it was said. ; be held on the lower grades. ers' wage demands but would still " Tinst the Hoffman not increase the cost of meat for;"' wsi3gfoT i .inuuoit was 10 iu o. ,wwi.ic Secretary of Agriculture Clin- ton P. Anderson, who was be lieved to favor seizure, said the i black market which sprang up with the strike was disturbing the cost of living more than j would a meat price Increase. Stocks Recover On Steel News NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (U.R) stocks made a quiet recovery to- day on favorable steel and dividend divi-dend news. ' Officials of the war mobilization mobiliza-tion and reconversion office announced an-nounced that a steel price rise will be forthcoming before the end of the month based on December De-cember figures and not on wage considerations. That helped the steels to rally and imparted strength to the whole market. Strikes Costing NEW YORK, Jan. 22 U.R) The worst wave of strikes in the nation's na-tion's history - is costing the 1,-630,000 1,-630,000 workers involved an estimated esti-mated $13,500,000 dally in lost wages, a survey revealed today. - More than $100,000,000 in. wages already have been lost in the four big strikes now in progress. These involve 1,426,000 workers work-ers in the steel, auto, packinghouse packing-house and electrical industries. . Daily loss in wages in these four Industries is $12,143,800, according, ac-cording, to company and ' union estimates.' i .Losses - to the companies - in rops t May Sue for Job William Clark, above, of Prince-ten, Prince-ten, N. J., may sue the federal government for reinstatement in the life-time judicial post he left o u.Aa Thi court of appeals, on which bench there is now a vacancy. Clark i contends that under the selective j service act he must be reinstated,! but his demand has been rejected j by the department of justice. 1 Diluted Version Of Fact-Finding Bill Is Approved WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U.R) The house labor committee today o ' u v v ' i- ' ? I Cs Zi . J, ' i " w f. i '' approved a watered-down version a day. In the General Motors of the bill to authorize President i case, a fact-finding board recom- Truman to set ud fact-find Ina1"161? an Increase of 19'2 cents boards jn 8erious labor disputes. As approved bv the committee the bUl would no't authorize fact - finding boards to subpoena com - ; pany records and would not for- onnlH hp railed. i As approved by the committeej" 'S' "XST v .. mu! iPlants 4n 30 states where 7jO,000 "vn 1: w,t ",vaf"'". ,C J j would give congressional author- ing boards. Mr. Truman already jroad operations and a growing has appointed such boards in theinumber of employes in steel-General steel-General Motors and Steel dis- using factories also were idled, putes. Secretary of Labor Lewis : Accusatlon Called ..Lle. L D. OLiiweiitiiuai.il iius auLiuiiivtru similar boards in other cases. The vote to approve the diluted measure was 10 to 8. The committee approved It after rejecting: a motion by Rep. Frank Hook, D., Mich., that committee hearings on the motion be resumed. The committee rejected a mo- tion bv ReD. Clare E. Hoffman. n i . iu ...!iU k' "a ntr ... IVllCn.. LO HDUrOVU inu UI l WlUl rnmmittee memhers sairi that they believed the bill would come ' m t 1 P A ' before the house for action some time next week. It is expected that both the! cooling-off period and subpoena : provisions will be offered as j amendments on the house floor, i Reorganization Of UP. & L Complete SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 22 (U.R) The Utah Power and Light company today mailed stockhold - crs an explanation of a stock re- organization program that was completed at the close of busi - ness yesterday. Under the reorganization, preferred pre-ferred stockholders will have full control of the company, which formerly was an affiliate of the Electric Power and Light corporation. Workers $13,500,000 Daily volved runs into many millions Loss of income to the 500,000 more. workers in the electrical and Biggest loss in wages has been! packinghouse workers strika is suffered by the 175.000 workers estimated 824.000,000, $12,000,-cf $12,000,-cf the General Motors Corp.1000 for the 300,000 packers and plants whose strike for -a 30 per a similar amount for the 200,000 cent wage Increase is now in its ninth week. These workers have lost between be-tween $62,000,000 and $72,000,000. On the basis of a 40-hour work week, the loss is $62,000,000 or $312.80 per employe. -Basing the estimate on a 45-hour reconversion recon-version work week the company said it intended to establish, the lossi, would be , $72,000,000, or. $423.60 J?er-worker - Steel lin)gS 53aYem Low Murray Charges Industry Plots Death of Unions Fairless, U. S. Steel Head, Holds Unions Responsible for Strike; Murray Charges Anti-Union Conspiracy by Industralists By ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22 The national steel strike dropped ingot production to a 53-year-low today as CIO President Philip Murray charged that American industry, "fattened with war profits," was set out to destroy labor unions. Murray charged industralists were "determined to eliminate, if they possibly can, true collective bargaining between management and labor unions." "They are hell bent to place themselves above all laws and rules of equality and justice," Murray declared on a radio ad dress nK e,ve of the second hesteel strike which has ld,ed 900,000 workers, "It is their clear aim to exact unconditional surrender from the American people and the United States government," he cairt "Thr nan hf no niiPKfinn ; but that an evil conspiracy has been hatched among American Dig DUSiness. inis conspiracy challenges our very basic demo ; cratic institutions. President Truman recommend-ied recommend-ied settlement of the steel workers' work-ers' demands with a wage in- . . 1 AO .1 .. fTk ..V.Ivn accented. U. S. Steel Corporation refused to. grant more than SL20 an hour. ' M V , As Murray spoke the pickets of; State Industrial Commissioner ;his stcel union PatrolIed more.E. M. Royal said that as far as ! . ! ! NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U.R) t NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U.R)-- enjaminr. ra riess, pre n dent of the United SUtes I Steel corporation, said today i that responsibility for the na- j tionwide steel strike rests ; with the United Steelworkers union (CIO). workers were on strike. Approx- , t , J00(m ffice work8 6.. Murray renewed his charge that U. S. Steel President Benjamin F. Fairless, representing big steel had on Jan. 12 admitted to the fairness' of the union's compro - mise offer of lO'.i cents nn hour. Fairless has termed Murray's accusation a "base lie." U. S. Steel inserted full-page advertisements in newspapers .throughout the nation reprinting Fairless' reply to President Tru- ' m - - rif aim at ninnAeal Tn vuimuiwiumv fcsauKrwons. the answer. Fairless said there 'was no basis for an, 18fc cent anlnts to keep themselves warm Ihour increase and that it was while they watched the gates. ., ,. . . UAurovor the tentc were nnvthlnf , cerxam lo resun in great unan- iharm. not only to th s cor- i INI HIMIII 1111 L Mm LI J L1IC UaCl 3 JK j Praton but also to the users of steel. With 200,000 tons or steel a day choked off by the strike, the American Iron & Steel Institute predicted current steel inventories or larger steel consuming companies may be exhausted within two weeks. If the steel strike continues con-tinues the automobile and electrical equipment appliance appli-ance Industrie s, already plagued by walkouts, will be closed. j The steel mills of the nation j were scheduled to operate at only j 4.9 per' cent of production this jweek a drop of more than 93 per I cent from last week's rate. Prod- uction of ingots and steel for cast ings will approximate 89,700. In 1893. according to the steel Institute, In-stitute, the weekly average was 86,352 tons. (Continued on Page Two) electrical workert. Both strikes are now In their second week. The "nation's 750,000 steel workers work-ers are losing a total of $6,540,000 daily, according to the union. However, H. E. Lewis, chairman and president of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. said in a radio broadcast, last week that the strike would cost workers $5,Q00 uuu in .wages oauy No Sign Of Settlement In Utah Strike j By MURRAY M. MOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 22 (U.R) Utah's far-reaching copper and steel industry strikes Went into their second day today with no sign of settlement and more than 5,000 workmen still idle. , A check of union, industry and- government spokesmen brought a unanimou8 answer: he knew, there was no resumption of negotiations in prospect be tween the three struck copper companies and striking members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO). , "However, in any misunderstanding mis-understanding of this sort between management and . labor," Royal pointed out. "Immediate resumption of negotiations can be effected by a change in the outlook of either party or by outside ' factors. "Anything can happen at any time." Picketing of the major indus trial units involved was spas modic and cold. Utah highway j patrolmen, arriving at the plant this morning to guard against possible violence, reported that many plant gates were completely deserted until well along In the day., At the Ironton plant of .Columbia .Colum-bia Steel Co. near Provo, striking i - .1 '"' axeei wornOT sev up wires -- - " - - - ou, warm-xar irom as I -- - M still worked to keep domestic gas flowing to central Utah com munitles. ' The strikes had secondary effects ef-fects on such operations as the-Hercules the-Hercules Powder plant at Bachui, whose output goes primarily to the copper mines. Powder manufacturing manu-facturing was being curtailed. Some rare metal mines had to. change operations because of the -strikes shutting down smelters -that usually handle their ores. A , The mine workers strike wa$ directed against the Utah Coppfcf , Co., the American Smelting and Refining Company and the United T SUtes Smelting and Refining Company. The steel union-company.', dispute halted operations' at -the Columbia Iron mine at 7' Cedar City, the Republic Creosote Co. at Ironton and the Griffin Wheel Co. here In i.: addition to the Columbia, f . Steel plant at Ironton. ' j . In aorth Salt Lake, the Cudahy Packing Company plant was still -struck by CIO packing house workers. . Wages were the major points Of dispute in all cases. TWO NOMINATED i ( BY TRUMAN WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 i0J9-. Richard Parkhurst of Massachusetts Massachu-setts was nominated by President , Truman today to membership on . the United States maritime com' mission. , ,.' , At the same time, Clarence L . Ymmg of California k was nominated nomi-nated to be a member of the clviL: . aercaiauticSw boards yy " - |