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Show - . -. ClNGLEIG THE NEWS 4T:'- EDWIN? Hf XOiSTI tails chance for confirmation gone, Ed Pauley's nami luut '' been Utah: ..Partly r etovdy v today an Wednesday, with light shawere in rest jwtian. . High , temperatnres today 65 to 65, lowering to SO in weit lialf Wednesday.-and CO -In cast half. Law temperatures Wed-nesday Wed-nesday morning near - 23,' except 4Z ia .Utah's Dixie.' . Temperatures: High. ......... ;:..;.i7 : Low , 4J . . ; WITHDRAWN; 'ANCHORS A WEIGH' Ed f. doesn't hum. i os WC AL1FO RNIA, HERE I VVi'l Stan Arnqjd I COMPLETE TELEGRAPH UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH .COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY MARCH 19, 1946 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OX SALT LAKE PRICE-FIVE: CENTS U Ay ' ' -Geneva Assured Solid Support of iWestern Disposal of Huge Plant To Private Firm on May 1 Held Reasonably Certain; Council j to Send Backman East fleneva will be disposed , corporation, according to a committee of .the Western States 1 council which met Monda in Butt, Mont, Most concerned are the many Geneva workers still in the county waiting for the plant to open up again, esti mated by some sources as running far into the hundreds, who are living on unemployment compensation and dwindling dwin-dling war-savings. This was the group hardest hit by the Maw Assures Vets Jobs To Be Provided Gov. Herbert B. Maw assured Utah., county veterans that employment em-ployment opportunities would exist in this area within 60 days. when representatives of Utah county Veterans of Foreign Wsrs, Legionnaires and Young Democrats Demo-crats met with the state executive in the capitol Monday. The Utah county delegation sought relief for veterans here who are unemployed and asked the sovernor to call a special 'session of the state legislature to clseuss the problem. Governor Maw' declared that a special- session was riot sasUdeiarteertain to bid. -The, cm- tag a state-wide committee oj ex-servicemen id study Utah's unemployment un-employment problem with respect to veterans, to report to the state .legislature during its next regular session. He promised the delegar tion that a Utah county man would be named on the committee. com-mittee. The group which waited on .the governor and which discussed veterans problems with him for two hours included: Arthur Cole man, commander-elect; Paul Her- shey, senior vice commander- elect; Paul Demos, legislative officer; of-ficer; and Ralph Johnson and Bill Jaussi of the Provo VFW; John W. Smith, commander of the Springville VFW; Ivan Lucas, commander; and Austin Cope, senior vice commander, of the Spanish Fork VFW; Reuben Christensen, commander of the!wesi- Spanish Fork American Legion;; and Alton Giles and LeRoy John-: son of the Utah County Young! Democratic club. Arrest of Two May Clear Up Burglary Wave An alert service station operat or and persistent investigation byMedjcaj xtovo police resuuea sunaay in! . the arrest of two men believed tol03 have committed several recent lo cal burglaries. Provo police revealed today demic of influenza killed mil-they mil-they have arrested William Rus- iions throughout the world, is an sen faui j ones. no. ana frame u.i n n n n n , m 1 ...SAW n W.. 1 glary of the Greenwood service station in American rone on March 14, the stripping of a truck in Provo early in March, and the theft of a trailer and con tents on March 13 from Calder's trailer camp. The men were arrested Sunday and police charged them yesterday yester-day with a felony in connection with the trailer theft. Appearing in city court, Jones waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over to the district court. Craig requested a preliminary, which was set for March 28. Both are in the Utah county jail in lieu of $r,000 cash or $2,000 property pro-perty bond. Efforts are underway by county officers to link the - two with the Spanish Fork - service station burglary March 7, and another service station theft at Thistle, all similar to the American Fork ; job. "1 The men, both of whom have served time in Idaho prisons, police po-lice said, were arrested early Sunday morning by local officers at. a downtown cafe, -after a tip from the attendant at the Mc-Coard Mc-Coard Service station. ' The attendant became suspic-.( suspic-.( Continued on Fage Two) States for Opening of Bids of Mav.l.bv the War Assets 30-day postponments granted on the date for submitting bids. The last, one, setting it back to May 1 was a particularly" hard blow to this group, many of whom werel- forced to leave the county as a result. The Western States council committee at Butte reported that "Henry Kaiser and at least one other bidder" will apply for the plant. ' Kaiser has publicly stated in a press conference that he will bid for the mill. U." S. Steel has "been cagey about public committ-! ments, but Senator Elbert D.' Thomas has been quoted as saying say-ing U. S. Steel has "indicated" to him it will bid on the mill. This, added to the fact that it is U. S. Steel who has twice asked for the 30-day bid postponements, lends credence to the belief that the company is certain to bid on, the plant Colorado Tuel and. Iron, Who has already submitted at least one unsatisfactory offer for Geneva is believed to be a third party's top executives recently mad a minute Inspection of tttt plants and authorities attach no other reason for the visit than to gather Information for a bid. The council authorized members mem-bers tar go to Washington May 1 when the War Assets Corp. will open bids of private firms seek- Raokman nt h Saif t av rhomJ ber of commerce will represent! A?pedl!reatlyt in the tlast Utah at the bid opening. P J' not a serious A proposal to urge expansion Hoover said u th supply- of western alunm production ing countries made a major effort was tabled. Headderi that 1his,w ...u i . . would help Utah's steel and 1- zinc industries by lessening the competition from lkiht metals. The council will hold its next meeting in Salt Lake City in June1 tn rii'srts! a nnifipH nmcrram nr ' attracxing eastern tourists to the Vaccine Provides 'Flu' Immunity. ; PRINCETON, N. J., March 19 (U.R) A new vaccine capable of I providing immunity from influenza influ-enza has been developed and npw can be bought in any drugstore, ,Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Research, disclosed to- The centrifuge-type vaccine, unknown in 1918 when an epi- ..a l war, Dr. "We had no means of protection protec-tion against a major flu outbreak when the war came," Dr. Stanley, a biochemist,, said. "An epidemic could have sabotaged our war ef-1 fort. So we accepted the flu prob-!was lem." University Dean Boasts Any Co-ed Is His for the Asking LQS ANGELES, March 19. (U.R) acts of cruelty, including a viol- Dean William G. Campbell, ent temper, nacainff. eriticizlna whose wife said he boasted that any co-ed of the University of Southern California campus was his for the asking, denied today J that ha fnnl- ariimntaoii nf Ystm ! Maw. ..vrwn ru T uiwb . ilia charms. Campbell, dean of education at Southern California, admitted that he wrote love letters to a woman colleague, Frances Bauld, but said he "gave her no kisses." He denied a love affair with Myrtie Gardner, who took- care of his children, but admitted "kissing "kiss-ing and hugging" another woman friend, Dorothy Grey Phillips. He said the ether charges in Mrs. Emma Kozak Campell's cross-complaint to his divorce suit were just as false.' Campbell started the divorce fight by accusing his wife of 87'vious to compasiona.' Iranian Oil Refinery Symbolizes Friction With Russia guv Avt-'fc-.Ci'iw .tw.;i: m Huge oil refinery of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company at Abadan on Russia and western powers in Iran. Britain, with monopoly of operate her navy.. USSR's insistent pressure for concessions in Iran consistently refused to give in. 500 Million Short of Food, Hoover Says PARIS, March 19 (U.PJ Former President Hoover said today that 500,000,000 persons throughout the world are short of food, and the period between now and the next harvest would be critical. "The problem is one of 120 days," Hoover said at a press conference con-ference shortly after he arrived bv Diane from the United States on his food mission for President Truman. Hoover was greeted at Orly airport air-port by Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey, Herve Alphand, economic econom-ic director of the French foreign office, and other officials. The world food problem today orobablv is more critical than after the first world war. Hoover rsaid at His press conference to the Hotel Paphael. attended bv about 60 1 American British-' and French reporters. ' the.; number qfj. people In volved about theame but we had ' more supplies to distribute after the last war'' he said. "This war lasted much longer and the degeneration of agricultnre in all countries has been much greater while western hemisphere supplies for export are much less." He said the shipping situation WW Vre supply the entire world this year. He disclosed that th United States had received requests for food assistance from Finland, Norway, The Netherlands, Bel- "".. A-. n," : Poland. Yuaroslavia. Austria. Hun gary, ureece, India and Italy. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 19 (U.R) Retiring director Herbert H. Lehman of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration admin-istration urged today that wartime war-time food rationing be re-established in the United States to permit per-mit a more equitable distribution of food throughout the world. J'There will be barely half enough food to go around next year." Lehman said. "Many mil-(Continued mil-(Continued on Fage Two) Churchill Guest Of Bernard Baruch NEW YORK, British March Prime 19 (U.PJ ! Former Minister Winston !hiirrhill h varatJnn ciin.i . . " ;T 7. , ' . -" a;an-,frln n TlnltoH Static noirins! its end, was the guest of Bernard " Baruch at a private ' dinner last night at Sherry's, exlusive Manhattan Man-hattan restaurant. Churchill's -remarks at the nartv were "off the record." Among those present E. Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post. him in public, heaping abuse on him, falsely accusing him of as sociating with other women and preparing meals out of cans. H f U.nl 1 imi Mrs. Campbell's 22-page cross- complaint for separate mainten-ace mainten-ace accused her husband of subscribing sub-scribing to free-love theories and boasting of his prowes as a lover. lov-er. She said he bragged he could love several woman at one time and believed that monogamy and marriage were solely for protection protec-tion of women. Campbell insisted on making love "at all hours of the day," she said. "It was very embarrassing on many occasions," she said. "Such 'a course of conduct was quite ob- ."U ,. iN.-. ? t ' Superfortress Flying From Hawaii Missing Over San Francisco HAMILTON FIELD, CaL, March 19 A B-29 Superfortress Sup-erfortress flying from Hawaii to the Fairfield-Suisun, Cal., air base with a crew of seven disappeared in stormy darkness dark-ness over the San Francisco area early today and was feared to have crashed near the Golden Gate. Flying through rain and a murky, low-lying cloud bank, the plane approached the San Francisco coastline at 1 a.m. and contacted the Hamilton Field air base, 25 miles Wallace Proposes Purge to Enforce Party Discipline WASHmdTONMarchflyJ Secretary ol Commerce j Hcoty Au Wallace invited the wratli .of conservatives today with, a pro- Iposal that Democrats be read out of the party on failure to support vital administration legislation. He said offenders might seek office as Independents or even as Democrats, but that party support should be denied them if they refused to support 'must" bills. Wallace discussed stricter party discipline before a luncheon of c,ub- He eSplajned ,hat oppose party discipline on minor items. But he argued that there are certain propositions wmcn any president must regard as essential. es-sential. Those who refused to go along, he said, should be denied future support of the party organization. or-ganization. Right now Wallace would measure" meas-ure" party regularity by the votes of members of congress on three, issues: 1. Control of atomic energy. . 2. Foreign relations, especially! as they relate to Great Britain j and the Soviet Union. 3: Full employment and production. produc-tion. Carrier Sails For A-Bomb Test NORFOLK. Va.. March 19 (U.R) The aircraft carrier Shangri-La steamed toward the Pacific today I j j -.i. with a cargo of expendables de sunea 10 Keep a rendezvous wiuiiooiiuno ... . , ! . . : Lilli iiDmic uuniu. The expendables are pilotlessU.PJ George H. Penson. com-drone com-drone planes of the Shangri-La 'a Inlander of the Twin. Falls, civil Ghost Hellcat" squadron of radio-controlled aircraft. They wilj brave the fury of the atomic cloud over Bikini atoll on May 15 to 'gather, with automatic recordings record-ings and sampling devices, data which science hopes will ful gaps in its knowledge of what happens hap-pens when an attomic bomb goes off, Since March 5, the Shangri-La's young men, commanded by Capt. E. A. Cruise, have been training intensively for the intricate part they will play in the first test of the atomic bomb against naval ships. They are part of army-navy army-navy task force No. 1 which will conduct "operation crossroads" at Bikini. The Shangri-La's pilots will be among the closest to the bomb blast. The drones will fly directly direct-ly into the radioactive pillar of furious turbulence and intense heat which will rise from the burst into the stratosphere. KALININ RESIGNS AS SOVIET CHIEF LONDON, March 1 (U.PJ The Moscow radio reported tonight that Mikhail Kalinin had resigned as chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the post corresponding most nearly to that of president of Russia, because of eye trousie. i win.i.ii.i.).iiii. mini n u iuim milium the Persian Gulf . symbolizes one of most delicate problems of southern oil fields, depended for many years for Iranian oil to the north created wartime crises among the Big Three, but I north of San Francisco and 40 miles west of the Fairfield-Suisun base. The pilot, apparently trying to come in for a landing,, told the Hamilton Field control tower that his planer. was low on gasoline, with .ojily . enough; left to keep aloft upttf 3 a.m. , c .The Hamilton FJeld . control towerwh)ed -the BttMerweral the - FairfieldSuisun : tower, an ;rmy spokeWaii ffa. .At that lime in? Bupenonress wai uc- lieved 15 miles or less from the ! Golden Gate, or slightly east of the Faralloiv islands off San Francisco. Fran-cisco. ' In Honolulu, where air-sea rescue' units had stayed in contact con-tact with the plant until it reached the western sea frontier area, it was reported unofficially that the plane had radioed that .it was circling over-San Francisco," seeking a chance to. land. CoL . Horace Ains'worth at the Fairfield-Suisun base said the base control tower last . heard from the plane at 10:55 p.m., more than two hours before Ham- ilton Field contacted the pilot At that time, CoL Alns-worth Alns-worth said, the plane war believed be-lieved over the Farallones, Indicating that the Superfortress Super-fortress may have circled several sev-eral hours over the San Francisco coastal area before it ran out of gasoline. A ins worth said the plane was having engine trouble, and reports re-ports from Honolulu, said the four-engined B-29. was flying on three motors when it approached the mainland. Two C-54s took off from Hamilton Ham-ilton Field to search both the coastline near San Francisco, and the area sun base. near the Tairfield - Sui - The army denied reports that the Superfortress was engaged on a mission in connection witn the Bikini atoll atomic bomb test.! IDAHO FLIER citctito tv inrtrc TWIN FALLS. Ida.. March 19 air patrol 'squadron, today remain ed in a critical condition suffer ing from injuries sustained when the plane he was piloting crashed in a field near the airport here Sunday afternoon. Harold Fillmore, a passenger in the plane, suffered two 'cracked ribs, bruises, ' lacerations and shock. Britain Agreed On Eve of Outbreak of War To Seek Understanding With Germany, Claim By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent NUERNBERG. March 19 (U.PJ - Birger Dahlerus, Swedish mystery mys-tery man" and go-between for Adolf Hitler, told the war crimes tribunal today that on the eve of the outbreak of the war Britain agreed in principle to seek an un derstanding with Germany. Dahlerus testified . that he car- died to London a peace proposal on behalf of Hitler and Reichmar-shal Reichmar-shal Herman Goering on August 27, 1939, which included an offer of the support of. the German army for the. British empire wherever-it-might be. attacked.", Dahlerus said that at this time Sir. Alexander. Cadoran. of the . British forela office "agreed that Scientist To Face Trial On Atom Secrets LONDON, March 19 (U.PJ Dr. Alan Nunn May pleaded innocent today to charges of giving atomic energy secrets to unknown persons per-sons and was held without bail for trial in Old Bailey criminal court at the session openingApril 13. May, youthful and balding British scientist who worked on atom bomb development in Canada, Can-ada, was arraigned for the second time in Bow street police court. He was accused specifically of violating Britain's official secrets act. Magistrate Harold McKen-na McKen-na denied Defense Attorney Gerald: Gardiner's" plea for' : bair. on grounds of public policy. ' Dfteetive Inspector vriinm naiKiinu hub . uic ortt- that Scotland --Yard "would object very strongly If this man were, bail."' granted -.h,. onH wh" '"'Stalin could take many forms: he is in possession of vital information," in-formation," Whitehead said. Russia was mentioned in court for the first time in connection with the case, but vaguely and by indirection. The chief witness was Sir Wallace Akers, director of Imperial Chemical Industries and wartime chief of "Tube Alloy Research" the code name for atomic energy in the department of scientific and industrial research. re-search. Gardiner, in cross-examining j Akers asked: "In February of last year Russia was a gallant ally, was it not?" Magistrate McKenna intervened inter-vened with the statement: "It is largely a matter of opinion on which a chemist is not necessarily an expert. I don't think it is a matter on which Sir Wallace can be asked." GM Strike Now Officially Ended DETROIT, March 19 (U.PJ The General Motors corporation strike came to an official end today af- ; ter 119 days of idleness for 175,-J 000 mu unitea auio w orKerg. "Walter P: Reuther, UAW vice nrscirlant in phariTA nf thf fifn- eral rdivision, announced re sn 90 per cent of the union's membership had ratified i the national UAW-GM contract. However, the strike will con tinue in 24 - of GM's 92 plants where the union and management have not reached agreements on local issues. These disputes involved in-volved . about 56.000 workers. Reuther told Harry W. Anderson, Ander-son, GM vice president, that local lo-cal unions "which" have. satisfactorily satisfac-torily settled their local, demands now stand ready to return - to work upon- call by their local managements." England was willing in principle to reach an agreement with Germany." Ger-many." In addition to the pledge of wehrmacht support for the British empire. Hitler made other propo sals, including German-British alliance, Dahlerus said. Britain.-, he said, "naturally turned down the wehrmacht offer, of-fer, but took a lot of trouble to deal in a fair and reasonable way? with the other Hitler proposals. Dahlerus told how Goering ar ranged a midnight conference for him with Hitler. He then flew by special plane to London August 27 and met with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, foreign secretary sec-retary Lord Halifax, Lord Wilson and Cadog&s.. Iranian Protest Piled WiiUKIO Security Red Army Troops in Iran After March 2 Protested by Iran; Direct Appeal to Stalin Not Without Precedent, Observers Report WASHINGTON, March 19 The Iranian embassy announced today that it has accused the Soviet Union of violating its 1942 treaty by retaining Red army troops ' in Iran after March 2. k The protest came as some diplomatic quarters ex pressed belief the Iranian crisis may. lead President Truman Tru-man to send Generalissimo Josef Stalin a direct appeaPfpr-Big appeaPfpr-Big Four unity. Iranian First Secretary Gholam Abbas Aram revealed that his country s complaint to, the United Nations security council coun-cil was filed with UNO Secretary-General Trygve Lie yesterday yester-day shortly after Lie's arrival here for a three-day-visit. UNO officials fevealed today that Lie will make an announcement announce-ment later today on the Iranian situation presumably making public the text of the Iranian complaint. The state repartment- denied that a White House communication communica-tion to Moscow was being considered con-sidered now, but it could not be expected to confirm such an appeal ap-peal before it was sent or even before, the .decision to do was made. . . Such a top-level appeal would not be without precedent. On several sev-eral occasions in the Pst . Mr. Truman and his predecessor, the late Frtnkltn vQ. Roosevelt, have gone -ove?rthe hd of the .Soviet foreign oince . wnen .nussian- American relations bogged down It -would, be a. logical last-minute move before the, United Nations security' council . meets in New York next Monday. A direct communication to 1. It could be a direct appeal to Stalin, in the interest of UNO, to remove Red army troops from Iran according to treaty obligations obliga-tions before the security council meets. 2. It could be a . request to Stalin to send one of his top men Foreign Commissar V. M. Mol- otov or Vice Commissar Andrei I. . Vishirisky to , the council meeting. Soviet Ambassador Andrei An-drei A. Gromyko appears scheduled sched-uled to represent Russia now. , 2. It could be a proposal -for another . Big Three meeting either of heads, of states or their foreign ministers to ackle con troversies which have - plunged Big Three relations to their low - est levels since before Russia en tered the war. Sueh an appeal would be timelyVCNearly two weeks have passed with only silence i from . Moscow on American protects about Soviet policies In Iran and Manchuria. It was two weeks ago Saturday that all Russian troops were supposed to leave Iran. Appointments For Stalin Revealed LONDON, March 19 (U.PJ Appointment Ap-pointment of Generalissimo Stalin Sta-lin as Russian prime minister and minister of armed forces was announced an-nounced late today by the Moscow Mos-cow radio. Viacheslav M. Molotov became deputy prime minister and was returned to his old pOst of foreign minister in the government. As a formality pursuant to the recent supreme Soviet election, Stalin resigned on behalf of himself him-self and the government Saturday. Satur-day. He submitted to them Hitler's peace, proposals. vThe British discussed the Hitler plans. and drafted. a counter-pro-posaL stating' their willingness in principle to reach an understanding, understand-ing, Dahlerus said. He brought this plan back to Germany- and a number of conferences with Goering Goer-ing ensued.'. f Goering told him, Dahlrus said, that - Hitler had finally accepted the British viewpoint; subject to a reply by Sir "Neville Henderson, the British ambassador to Germany. Ger-many. Goering informed him that the historic - meeting 4. between Henderson and Hitler- had- been "most unsatisfactory and ended fat great paxreL': . . Council King Reveals Vorit of Russ Fifth Column OTTAWA. March 19 (UJ! Prime Minister' MacKenxle- Kin was still hopeful today that diplomatic diplo-matic relations between his gov ernment and the Soviet- union could be salvaged, despite his -re- -port on a Russian "fifth column" operating in Canada. 'There are some people 'who ire. saying that we should 'sever relations with Russia," the" 71-year-dTd . premier said. . 21 hopo that-nb. view, of that kind. wiU-bo eprSBd banyoneihva responsible respon-sible position."- . 7 . ; ; tttngy solemn and grave-field, grave-field, gave a. fair- report -In L-.commons L-.commons last night on . Rus- . shm espionage which his . confronted 'his- government with "as serious situation as u has existed In Canada at any time." King revealed , that the espionage ring operating . during the war when Canada and Russia were fighting . a common enemy. : He told commons that the in-, vestigation of the spy ring,' which already- has resulted in the arrest of 15. Canadians, Including a com'-munist com'-munist member' of parliament had revealed that Soviet agents had sought information of "great and grave import to the United States and Great Britain." "Espionage has been carried oh for .three, or, four years in this country," he said. King, said he took such a grave view ' of .the.-situa tion after-learnt in the details .that he immediate-: lv- Visited - President Truman in . Washington and Prune Minister Atuee in ionaon to apprise mem of the facts. . He veh had considered -a-trip to.MosicQ to see Premier Josef Stalin, he aid, adding that .he did not believe the Soviet generalistir mo knew4 that his espionage agents were -operating in-Canada "I . am sure - the marshal would not condone such ac- llvitles," he said, explaining that 'circumstances" had . farced htm . to .abandon the idea of a. visit to the Russian capital. . King warned the. members of commons not to' be prejudicial -of Russia until all the facts were known, adding ' that "what has happened here may have been the action of .a few men which I am certain .would not .be counten-anced counten-anced by the Russian people." Store Blast Due To Carelessness SALT LAKE CITY, March: 10 (UJJ-Salt Lake. City authorities today attributed yesterday's spectacular spec-tacular explosion at th Montgomery Montgom-ery Ward & Co. store here .-to "negligence and carelessness." : Heating Inspector William L.Butler L.-Butler criticized company officials ;for ordering both nain .nd .pilot' burners in the store's furnace turned off -during the weekend. " He said that Janitor Sam Bleak. 59, painfully burned in thev blast, was careless ; in ', turning on the main burner, then going upstair? for a match while-the burner was on, and returning to sxrute.xne match. Butler said actual equip ctent was in perfect worxlr.j crder. ' TOWN THREATENED Br JAPANESE VOLCANO .TOKYO, March 19 UJ0 , $ 50-foot wall of fiery lava near ly mile wide poured down Mt. Sakura Jima , today, threatening; to destroy the ;town of Kagoshi- ma, the Tokyo mainichi reported. Hundreds, of frantievijkgers prepared to flee with thetr;ineag-; er householdgoods- Children al ready -Mrere being' 4veaated. T t |