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Show - r THE WEATHEH fGUNG THE NEWS UTAH Partly cloudy this afternoon after-noon tonight and Thursday, ex eept mostly cloudy .with few sbo flurries northwest portion thJs afternoon; colder north portion tonlg ht; high, 20 to 30; low Thursday, Thurs-day, mornlnf, sero to 10, except near 25 In Utah's Dixie. . ' ! , TIE THAT ONE bservers in the courtroom note Goerlng's THROAT: "ffltcted now, with "scaffold- it's TESTING OCT the nressure Temperatures-High Temperatures-High 43 Low 14 Precipitation .03. ;there,v" lv .Stan Arnold SIXTIETH YEAR, NO. 172 - T COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH MEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1946 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS Bevin Accuses Russ Before UNO Council; 4t Aggression Start" LONDON, Jan. 30 Fn accused Russia before the breaking' the three-power Aran's soveignty in what he pi an aggression. -A security council hearing on the Iranian-Soviet dis pute developed into a bitter an offered to negotiate with :tained jurisdiction, and the jbviets refused with a curt "No." evin appealed 10 ooviei vice oreign Commissar Andrei VI- ,ilnsky to withdraw his objection i . security council jurisdiction, .id quoted Vishinsky as acknowl Iging that the Russians blocked ie movement of Iranian security trees in the Azarbaijan crisis. Mr. Vishinsky says the Soviet ugh command stopped these oops and they were stopped," evin cried. "Then what is there negotiate about. 'If they were opped. Then the Soviet infring-1 infring-1 on the treaty" (Among Russia, rltain and Iran). tettlnius Agrees Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., of the nited States endorsed Bevin's jpeal, and urged that the secur-y secur-y council at least keep the if-ld- when negotiations between ussia and Iran under observa- France and China fell In behind Bevln and Stettinius. Even the Polish delegate, Zygmunt Modzelewskt agreed with the Anti-Soviet point or view that the dispute should be left on the council agenda during the proposed negotiations. N. J. O. Makin of Australia. resident of the security council, w in speaking for Australia Visitors Gather For if Leadership Week Evening Entertainments Will Feature Jymphorty Orchestra, Visitors began arriving from all parts of Utah and the ntermountain west today for. the. 25th annual Leadership Veek at Brigham Young university Thursday, Friday, aturday and Sunday, as the university prepared to throw apen its doors to the public aucationai "open house . Preparations are nearing completion for the registra-ion registra-ion of the scores of guests expected to attend, and 5000 ograms nave been printed in have been hticipation of one of the largest owns in the history of the event. Highlighting Thursday's classes iid discussions will be two sec- pns in art entitled "Adventures Sculpture" given by Verla trrell in the Art department at a.m. and 10 a.m.: a lecture by rofessor Joseph K. Nicholes in 0E on "The Chemical Atom" at i muni ai l a.m. and a section entitled "The I ble of the Home in Accident " ... t- r I Mart. Murray M. Moler, head the. itermountain bureau of nited Press will present a lec- re "Peace and Press Pacific!: "Z,J.: . "!".'- yle , also at 9 a.m. In room OA, Professor Hermese Peter-n Peter-n and Lorna Call Alder will ve a demonstration entitled Lesson Helps and Techniques for leacners of Small Children." The first Leadership Week to b.beld on the campus since 1942. promises one of the largest and chest offerings in the history of e gathering, with a special fa ulty of 125 members on hand to mduct the 189 lectures, class Hopkins Still Mystery After 2 Years in Nation's Capital WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U.R) hen Harry L. Hopkins died yes rday in New York he still had il8 capital city as baffled as hen he arrived during President bosevelt's first year of office and ?gan heckling congressmen. Washington never could figure jt Harry the Hop. He caused a bw In congress even before he hived here in 1933. He came to frect the leaf - raking and as-fted as-fted campaigns undertaken by e federal emergency relief ad-inistration. ad-inistration. First recollection fashington has of Hopkins was he June day In 1933 when the Ite senate Democratic leader Jo rph T. Robinson announced that he pending relief bill would have be amended. I Robinson explained that the Mary of the administrator would bye. to be upped from $8,000 as hen proposed in the bill, to $10,- 30. The senator added that Mr. oosevelt had a man up in Al- any'who was to be appointed to ie job, but that the man couldn't ike the job for less than $10,000. he senate wrangled a bit and ive HopkJn the $1000, ' r : Hopkins was the center of con cessional wrangles off '.and, on bom-that Itimeon; and it didn't, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev- UNO security council todav of treaty of 1942 guaranteeing said looked like "the' beginning wrangle of recriminations after Russia, but only if the UNO that he thought the case ought to be kept on the agenda until a solution so-lution Ir reported. Vishinsky bluntly repected,'an appeal by Seyed Hassan Taqui-zadeh Taqui-zadeh of Iran to the security council to keep the Iranian-Soviet controversy in its hands. i Taqlzadeh said Iran was ready . and willing to negotiate, nego-tiate, as suggested by the Russians Monday, but only on condition that the council retain jurisdiction. "If the Iranian government really and sincerely wants direct negotiations," Vishinsky said, "we are prepared to accept. But this business of placing the negotiations negotia-tions under the aegis of the security secur-ity council would make a fiction of it. Nol" Dispute Climax Vlshinsky's statement brought near a climax the first political dispute to come before the new borri security council. The United States, it was reported re-ported authoritatively, will oppose op-pose vigorously any trend toward letting the council wash its hands of the dispute, even though di rect negotiations between the Iranians Ir-anians and Soviets are opened. Earlier today, Trygve Lie, Norwegian Nor-wegian foreign minister accepted (Continued on Pace Two) Band, 3-Act Play in the postwar renewal of its discussions, and demonstrations scheduled for the four-day meet. Special exhibits and displays covering five diversified fields will lend color to the gathering as well as supplementing class rooming to stop and render aid activities, Symphony Thursday DfotivitiM Making each day's nmr.mt special entertainment "V, LY ..111 K .. J 1- i J viinig. uuuei xne airecuon oi vi "ZXTJ ' n ?X? ymphony orchestra will !"1 nc.!" "in mil irc1-"'" oaiuiuay un- der the baton of Dr. John R. Hall Iday. "The Hasty Heart," current London hit recently presented fori BYU and Provo audiences will be staged again for out-of-town visitors vis-itors on Friday night. nigh civic, church, and educational authorities are expected to attend, beaded by President George Albert Smith of the LDS church and (Continued on Page Two) bother him a bit. Congressmen complained he wouldn't even an swer the telephone when . they tried to reach him. The thin man with the stomach ulcers just laughed at them. Hopkins not only got away with his nose thumbing at congress, con-gress, but had time left over to feud with Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. Mostly they battled for the inside position with Mr. Roosevelt. Although Ickes is a pretty good brass knuckle man in that kind of a contest, Hopkins usually licked him. What was the reason for Hopkins' Hop-kins' hold on the president's confidence con-fidence and affection? The best explanation of it was loyalty. Many things were said about Hopkins, but no one ever charged him with double crossing his! boss. Anyway, Hopkins' own ex' planation was that Mr. Roosevelt felt that he had no personal axe to grind. . In return ' the president re warded Hopkins with favors large and small. He increased his salary irom S1U.WU to sis.onu a year during tne war and so far as the record shows at a time when the . government was . enforcing a wage freeze on the general public Truman Wants Speed Loan on To Britain WASHINGTON Jan. SO ceo President Truman today, asked congress to approve the $3,750,000,000 loan to Great Britain to enable her "to move side ty side whiv tne . -a . United States toward the common goal ot expanded world trade. Such expanded world trade, the president told congress in a long- waited message, "means expanded production, consumption and employment em-ployment and rising standards of living everywhere. The loan would provide Britain! with a S3.750.000.000 "line of credit" on which she could draw until 1951 to finance purchases of American goods and fill other needs for dollars. Repayments would begin in 1951 and interest would be 2 per cent. The interest, however could be waived in years when Britain's exports did not provide her with enough dollars to meet the payments. The agreement also provides that Britain is to pay $650,000,000 in settlement of lend-lease aid already al-ready received. Her total repay ments of principal thus would be $4,400,000,000, although the new credit would be $3,750,000,000. The lend-lease settlement is not subject to congressional approval. The president urged prompt ac tion on the loan, which was initialled in-itialled by representatives of the two nations Dec. 6 and approved by the British parliament a few days later. The loan carries with it British agreement to remove restrictions upon trade as well as the ending of the sterling area system. This means that the aims and rules of the Bretton Woods agreements will be made effective sooner than believed possible, the president said. The financial agreement, he continued, precludes the possibility possi-bility of economic controversy between the two countries. Action Started On Hit-Run Charge, Another Filed Leonard Dean Johnson. , j Springville, was at liberty today on bond, scheduled to appear for his preliminary hearing in the city court Feb. 21 on a charge of hit-and-run driving. He requested his preliminary when brought into court Tuesday afternoon, and bond was set at $500 cash or $1,000 property. Johnson is charged with being the driver of the car which struck and killed Chris M. Miller. 58, Springville, shortly after midnight mid-night last Friday, and with fail- Miller was killed while enroute home on his bicycle from the midnight shift at the Columbia Steel plant. M rri - . . . . . , tne acciueni occurrea near ine; fish hatchery. Meanwhile, the driver of the car in Utah county's second hit-and-run fatality within a week will also be prosecuted under a hit-and-run complaint, juvenile authorities revealed today. Dean Thurgood, 16-year-old P r o v o youth, will be arraigned in the j"venile court Probably the first of next week, court attaches said Juvenile Judge Dean Terry is on court business in Carbon county for the rest of the week. Young Thurgood is charged with being the driver of the car which struck and fatally injured Irene Larsen, 12, of Springville, Sunday evening. He is in the juvenile ward of the Utah county jail. Kidnap Hoax Called 'Family Affair' by Weymouth Mother WEYMOUTH. Mass., Jan. 30 (U.R) Mrs. Betty Reader, 25, mother of three children, returned return-ed home with her husband today, to-day, convinced that a kidnap hoax wasn't funny. The attractive mother of three children was found in a Oninrv i Mass., cafe last night, frightened i by tne wide publicity and six-state-police search set off when she telephoned a neighbor's home Monday night to tell her husband she was being kidnaped. "For God s sake call the police," Mrs. Reader had screamed into the telephone, then hung up. She got plenty of police. They questioned her for several hours after locating her last night and she left police headquarters very subdued. Police did not reveal where she spent the night after inventing invent-ing the kidnaping story for her husband. "It was just a family affair," said Police Chief Edward F. Butler, But-ler, who added that no charges wnnlH h tiaA 1 . would be filed Capt. William F. Mclntyre of the Quincy police, who led the questioning of Mrs. Reader, said she was "a little discouraged" with domestic -routine. . -r . .. Her .husband works nights Abandoned Baby "John DoV is still unclaimed un-claimed and unnamed after being abandoned in a downtown Seattle, Wash., hotel washroom as police have made no progress in search for child's parents. His big eyes and happy smile peering from pages of local papers are stealing hearts of Seattleites. Montana OPA Curbs Prices On Housing HELENA, Mont., Jan. 30 (U.R) The district office of price administration admin-istration today had taken steps to enable veterans and civilians to buy homes - at prices they can pay" by issuing three pricing orders tightening controls on building ' materials, equipment and services. The new orders cover plumbing, plumb-ing, re-roofing and insulation materials ma-terials on" an installed basis and were the first to be issued in Montana. L. M. A. Wass, district director, said exact dollars-and-c e n t s prices for installed materials and announced and would be posted in supply centers such as lumber I yards. Wass explained that one effect '"'w-:i.':-:w:;v::':.;:.-- of the orders would be to curbimf 's, wu" n1"1- , , inflationary tendencies, enable! UNRRA ordered Morgan s dis-contractors dis-contractors to sell in large mar-!missal after he remarked at a kets for vears-to come, matte it 'Jan. 2 press conference that .he possible for building and supply I hardware dealers to market large quantities with protection against losses caused by high prices. Woman Faces Forgery Count POCATELLO, Idaho, Jan. 30 ! Morgan refused to resign and (U.R) Pocatello police officers to- asked to appeal in person to Leh-.. Leh-.. . man. He flew to the United States day were continuing an mvestiga-: to make the appeaL tion into a $6,000 forgery charge i filed against Mrs. Sara Bradley,! Pocatello, a former employe of the Idaho department of public assistance. Chief of detectives Jarvis Bou-bidoux Bou-bidoux said he and his officers were 'conducting the investigation at request of the department's headquarters at Boise. A complaint was filed in the court of Justice of Peace C. W. Hyde against Mrs. Bradley by Jean T. Frazier. district public assistance representative, charg ing ner with tne xorgery ox ai $100.97 check. ' I Request by Hess Himself Refused NUERNBERG, Jan. 30 U.R) W The war crimes- tribunal today rejected a request by Rudolf Hess for permission to act as his own defense counsel. The court appointed Dr. Otto Stahmer of Kiel, who also repre- fnts Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, to defend Hess. The for- mer Nazi deputy fuehrer had ask-j ed to be allowed to "defend him-1 self after his attdrney was forced' to withdraw because of a broken! ankle. Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, British member of the tribunal, ruled that since Hess previously was represented by counsel, it was "not in, the interest of the de- fendant" to try to take up bis own defense now, as he asked last week. The Hess ruling was handed down after French Prosecutor Charles Du Bost had resumed his case against the Nazis. He charge ed that slave laborers from concentration con-centration camps were forced to live ; and work; In .underground V-l and V-2 factories in order to guard' the secrecy of the flying bombs.'! ,- - Du Bost presented letter in which Reichsmarshal ' Hermann Goering - asked - Gestapo Chief Degnan Kidnap Boy Suspects CHCAGO, Jan. 30 (U.R) Two youths who admitted . making telephone calls to the home from which six-year-old Suzanne Deg nan was kidnapped and slain were "virtually eliminated" today as suspects in Chicago s most brutal bru-tal crime. State's Attorney William J. Tuohy said Vincent (Rocky) Cos-tello, Cos-tello, 18, and Theodore Campbell, 18, had been able to give a satisfactory satis-factory account of their activities last Jan. 7, the night of the killing. Tuohy said that Campbell had been released, and Costello would be turned over to the state parole board as a possible parole violator. viola-tor. Costello formerly had 'been an inmate of the state reformatory reform-atory on a charge of armed robbery. rob-bery. Tuohy asserted that the story Campbell told police yesterday, accusing Costello and a third man -,of the slaying, had been a hoax perpetrated by the pair in the hope of selling their story to newspapers. Campbell had said he was in on the kidnap plans, laid a week in advance, but had not gone along the night of the crime. The boys were cleared of suspicion, su-spicion, Tuohy said, after word was received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that their handwriting did not resemble that on a $20,000 ransom note let at the Degnan home, and that their finger prints did not match those found on the note. Meanwhile, postal authorities attempted to trace a package containing con-taining a human ear, which was mailed to the Degnan home early yesterday. The ear, which authorities said had been expertly severed, was intercepted by a policeman who has been opening all mail delivered de-livered to James E. Degnan, 36, an office of price administration executive, since the killing. Police termed it the work of a moronic prankster. British General Cleared of Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism Charges WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U.R) British Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan has been cleared of anti-Semitism anti-Semitism and will carry on as United Nations relief and rehabilitation re-habilitation chief in central Germany. UNRRA Director-General Herbert Her-bert H. Lehman announced last night that he had re-instated Morgan after "long and search- believed there was a "well-organ ized, positive plan" among the Jews to get out of Europe. His remarks drew a storm of protest from Zionist organizations. Some accused Morgan of attempt ing to influence the findings of I the Anglo-American committee of inquiry on Palestine which was about to open its hearings. COL. ROOSEVELT MAY KEYNOTE IN SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 30 (U.R) Col. James Roosevelt, son of the late president, may keynote the Salt Lake county Democratic convention, which will be held at a yet-to-be-determined date. J. Henry McGean, county chairman, chair-man, announced he had asked Roosevelt to speak at the meeting No reply has been received, he said. The general committee of the county organization will meet here tonight to set the convention dates. to Defend by Tribunal Heinrich Himmler to "keep at my disposal for aircraft and armaments arma-ments as many prisoners as possible. pos-sible. Experience shows that these prisoners can ' be used." After - Du . Bost had presented about an hour's testimony he was advised by the court that the judges believed the concentration camps case had been presented in sufficient detail. v . : ' Not Guilty Poster Boy Sedates FDR By ROBERT RICHARDS HYDE PARK, ,N. Y Jan. 30 (U.R) A small boy stood in the snow today and placed a wreath on the grave of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ' - - His name was .Donald Anderson, Ander-son, and he's famous from coast to coast as the five-year-old "poster, "pos-ter, box-" of the national Infantile paralysis foundation's campaign." , But today he journeyed on a personal mission, v Sandyhaired Donald,v with 'the big found eyes, carried his wreath as birthday present. He akipped along the path leading past the library, through the rose garden, tothe. grave- - - - Support for Anti-Strike Bill Sought in Congress; To Replace Fact-Finding Break In Steel Vage Dispute Looms; Government Hopeful Additional Developments Obscure; Hopes Stay High for Settlement; Fairless in N. Y. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 ce Government quarters waited with cautious but rising optimism today for a sudden sud-den break in the steel wage deadlock and ah end to the nationwide strike of 750,000 CIO steelworkers. ' Hopes remained high despite lack of encouragement from either the White House or the steel industry. Neither indicated when a break might come, or whether the industry indus-try had received a more satisfactory offer of price relief if Utah Copper Faces CIO Complaint For Law Violation SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 30 (U.R) Spokesmen for three struck Utah Copper Mining and Milling firms today described a labor law violation complaint filed against them by' a CIO union as "strike window dressing." The striking international union of mine, mill and smelter workers, work-ers, in a complaint filed with the NLRB in Chicago, accused the companies of refusing to bargain in good faith with the union since May, 194S. Vice President Ralph H. Ras- mussen of the union asserted that the companies refused to offer any wage increases or meet any other issues involved In the strike. He 'also accused the firms of attempting to. smash the union. In reply. President D. D. Mbf- fatf.tftoh.Ccp.fpany said he was not aware that "main ..M hA urn. nn, qwaa fhat main-I tenance by the management of an honest deference of opinion furnishes fur-nishes grounds for a charge of unfair labor dealing." General Manager F. S. Mulock of the U. S. Smelting, Refining and Mining company denied his organization had refused to bargain bar-gain with the union. He said the ; labor complaint was an attempt by the union to obtain unemployment unemploy-ment compensation for its striking strik-ing members. General Manager W. J. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, of the American Smelting and Refining company also denied that he had refused bargaining overtures, adding that apparently "to disagree with the CIO is to refuse to bargain." Bilbo's Filibuster Starts Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U.R) Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., today delayed his entry into the southern filibuster against fair employment legislation and Sen. Olin D. Johnston, D., S.C. took over temporarily. " Bilbo's colleagues said he would follow, Johnston. The Mississippi-an Mississippi-an promised yesterday that he would speak for 30 days on "The Filibuster the History and Glory of it." When the senate convened to day, Bilbo's desk was piled high with books and papers arranged I hard by a tall elass of water. But Bilbo was late, and Johnston took the floor. Johnston said the bill to set up a fair employment practice commission com-mission is "a bill to take away human rights of all the people of the United States." "If. you want to do something to help all the people in the south white and colored," he shouted, "then equalize the freight rates!" . "Now," he said, "there's discrimination!" dis-crimination!" FT. DOUGLAS COLONEL GETS BRONZE STAR FT. DOUGLAS, Utah. Jan 30 (U.R-Col Chester K. Handing, deputy engineer for the Ninth service command, today received the bronze star medal for "meritorious "meri-torious service performed while on duty overseas last year." . "He was like me," Donald said. -He had infantile paralysis." . Bringing Gift ' Donald- spoke quietly, with no dramatics in his voice. He was just a boy -bringing a gift to a friend. He carried the wreath cautiously, afraid that he might damage the evergreen leaves. .- v Once or twice, he looked down and said, "gee. It's pretty." pret-ty." It was snowing pretty hard and wind poshed at the tree tops. It wasn't a. good day te travel, but Donald didn't .mind.. He had come to honor friend. - ' -- - President Truman's proposal for a wage increase of 182 cents an hour. Both government and labor sources, however, believed that price relief was the subject of the two-day exchange here between Benjamin H. Fairless, president of U. S. Steel Corp., and reconver- jsion. director- John W. Snyder. Fairless left for New York last night, presumably to report to his steel associates. Meanwhile, the effect of the nine-day strike was reaching out to many smaller industries across the country. Dwindling Supply From Pittsburgh, center of the great steel industry, came reports that the dwindling supply of steel materials was forcing many of the nation's small plants to curtail operations. Some which had been operating on a 44-hour week basis were cutting down to 40 and even 32 hours. Others planned to close for the duration of ' the walkout. Thousands of workers in re lated Industrie already were idle , The striking United Steelworkers Steelwork-ers (CIO) accepted the 18 '.fe cent hourly wage increase proposed by the president, but rejected by the industry. . It appeared that the issue was no longer the amount of -wage increases,-but the ques tion of satisfactory price relief for the industry. Statements from U. S. Steel spokesmen were bearish. In New York, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board, told a press conference yesterday that the 18 li cents formula would require re-quire a price increase of 6.25 a ton instead of the $4 boost recently recent-ly proposed by the government. He also asserted that he knew of no new company proposal settling the strike. Fairless denied a Pittsburgh newspaper story, attributed to labor la-bor circles, that U. S. Steel had agreed to raise wages 18 'i cents and that the. government would raise steel prices $4 now with a further price review in three months. Northwest Assn. School Teachers Meet at Boise BOISE, Ida., Jan. 30 (U.PJ Officers, Offi-cers, executive committee and commission members of the Northwest association of secondary second-ary and higher schools opened a three-day meeting here today. The association, representing Alaska. Idaho, Oregon, California, Califor-nia, Utah, Montana, Washington. Hawaii and Nevada, is headed by Paul Gaiser, superintendent of schools at Vancouver, Wash., who will preside at the sessions. Discussion during the three days will center on revisions of standards, stand-ards, approval of schools wishing to become affiliated with the association, as-sociation, evaluation' of the reports re-ports of schools and establishment of new policies. Other officers are Donald A. Emerson, Salem, Oregon state department de-partment of education, first vice president; Dr. Fred L. Stetson, University of Oregon, Eugene, second vice president; James Burges, the Dalle, Oregon superintendent sup-erintendent of schools, treasurer, anl Leland H. Creer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, executive execu-tive secretary. at Graveside Other Visitors . . Other people were up . early to pay their respects at the grave. Ma j. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, superintendent super-intendent at West Point and former for-mer commander of the famous 101st Airborne division, had, al-readv al-readv Dlaced a wreath on the grave on , behalf "of- President Truman. ." " Donald was surprised. "Do yon 'think they Anew; we were coming?" he asked. If was "plain that . Donald Anderson, the boy .who had J " licked Infantile, paralysis.' had " not come te Hyde - Park to v. (Continued on. Iige Two) it accepts Southern Democrats And House GOP May Line Up WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 ajjeu-House Republicans and southern Democrats were lining: lin-ing: up today in support o a sweeping anti-strike bill introduced in-troduced by Rep. Francis Case, R., S. D. ; The bill would make labor unions and employers equally liable li-able under the law for violations of their contracts. It would also provide a 30-day no-strike cooling cool-ing off period in major disputes and outlaw violence by union pickets. Case asked the rules committee to allow his bill to be offered on the house floor as a substitute for the labor committee's weakened version of President Truman'-fact-finding bill. Rules committee members . believed his request would be granted, a move that would precipitate a bitter floor battle. Meanwhile. Chairman Ira Mo-sher Mo-sher of the National Association of Manufacturers presented , to the senate labor committee an eight-point program to stabilize labor relations and "prevent future fu-ture strike epidemics." The committee com-mittee is considering fact-finding legislation. Mosher said the fact-finding procedure should be reserved for special disputes if it is to remain, effective.' Its primary job, he said, should be to focus public opinion in disputes and not to make specific wage recommendations recommen-dations . , He said wages should be decid ed through collective bargaining. Mosher alio endorsed the princl nla of union resDonsibilitv and where the parties cannot agree. The house labor committee's fact-finding bill would authorize Mr. Truman to set up fact-finding panels in serious labor disputes. It would not, however, grant his request that the boards have su-bpena su-bpena powers or that labor be forbidden to strike for a 30-day period. House Committee Wants Study on Blue' Discharges WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U.R) forjine nouse military aiiairs com mittee, today urged tne army -to review all "blue" discharges issued is-sued since the start of the war and suggested new standards for all types of discharges. .'. Blue discharges are handed out when the army feels a soldier is not entitled to an honorable discharge, dis-charge, but that his conduct still does not warrant a court martial and a dishonorable discharge. . The committee said an inquiry! had convinced it that blue dis-f charges were "offensive, illogical and unfair.'! It said they ''have ' the effect of dishonorable dis charges," and that in many cases . the veterans' administration has refused such veterans benefits under the G. I. bill of rights. .r The -veterans' -administration, the committee said, - should be stopped from passing "moral verdicts"' ver-dicts"' on soldiers, U. S. Steel Ponders Provo9 8 $64 Question, NEW YORK, Jan. '30 (U.Pa Steel quarters here were' talking today of the possibU-l; lty that the giant United States Steel corporation may-: enter into the bidding for the . Geneva Steet plant at Prove, - Utah, against Henry J. Kaiser and others. j Last August, Mblg steel" told- the Defense Plant cor- -poration that its directors had voted, not to bid for the Ge- ; neva plant, which was run by U. 8. Steel daring, the-war. The plant is. owned ,by the . federal government. - j However, steel chairman , Irving S. Olds at a press eon-ference eon-ference yesterday following board meeting dropped a hint:.' that corporation directors.! - may reconsider their deel- ' -Ion. of last year. When asked ; if -any such action-Is plan-. ; ; ned, Olds reported "that's the 64 question." . - Kaiser Is seeking to bay the 1 Geneva plant to make ft a i nnlt In a proposed billion-' . dollar steel organisation ; . which he says also woold In-elude In-elude Republic Steel corporation, corpora-tion, Colorado Fuel & Iron',4 corporation, Wlckwlre-Spen cer Steel company. Kalser'sV own Fontana, Cat, steel mill,"' -and. two other small com-" panles which have not been, identified by the. west coast . industrialist.- . f' |