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Show 2 UNGLING THE NEWS PtJLL-EASE TWO LOCOMOTIVSshared the . -i strain Of pulling Harry Truman' ; -TRAIN; The revelation' NO surprise. He HAS more "pull" thanther w guys. Stan Arnold. THE WEATHER SIXTIETH YEAR, NO. 222 COMPLETE ITNITED PRESS TELEpBAPH NEWS SEBVICX PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1946 OTAITS ONLY DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKX UTAH: Partly cloudy today ant " f clear Thursday with iselatod? showers In moutains ef ' Berth bait today. ' v-V 'High 51 Low....V.X4 Precipitation ..... Jt.v PRICE FIVE CENTS Views Show Wreckage In Which Two Veterans Perished HIsftSnll Csl MlGiKI SMke J Mute portrayal of the tragedy which occurred at Birdseye when two Fairview ex-servicemen were killed in an autombile crash is shown in the above picture, taken by Paul Demos of the Sheriffs office at the scene Tuesday afternoon. Note the body (foreground) beside the demolished car. The other body, just out of the picture, was in front of the machine. $400 Pay Raise A Favored For All Officers, Men i "WASHINGTON, April 10 (UiO A house military affairs sub-t sub-t committee today recommended legislation to provide a straight $400 pay increase for all officers and enlisted men in the armed forces. The full committee late yes terday had recommended extension exten-sion of the draft for another nine months beyond its present May 15 expiration date, but had turned turn-ed down the pay increase on the grounds that it should be handled separately. I The $400 across-the-bord increase in-crease was originally proposed by Rep. Forest A. Harness, R.. Ind. It would give members of the armed forces the same pay boost as that proposed for civilian government gov-ernment employes in legislation approved by the house and now before the senate. The full committee is scheduled sched-uled to meet in closed session later today to approve formally the final draft of the selective service extension bill. It may take up the pay increase proposal at the same time. The administration was cheered by the draft extension recommendation. The final outcome still was far from certain. But the draft-extension drive was given a surprisingly sur-prisingly generous shot in the arm by the house military affairs committee and was reported due for equally sympathetic treatment by the senate military affairs group. The house committee voted 15 to 8 late yesterday to extend the selective service act for nine months, until Feb. 15, 1947. Although Al-though it imposed new limitations limita-tions on inductions, the committee commit-tee rejected various proposals to keep the act on the books but to suspend actual inductions for from four to six months. The senate committee hoped to agree on a bill tomorrow. Members Mem-bers were reported near agreement agree-ment .on a one-year extension carrying many of the house limitations. lim-itations. 'As approved by the house com mittee the bill would provide for the discharge of men who have served 18 months and limit service ser-vice of future draftees to that length of time. It also would con fine inductions to the 18 to 30 year brackets inclusive, prohibit the induction of fathers and es senuai iarm worxers, and set a "ceiling" on the number who jnay be drafted. Two Sanpete County Veterans Found Dead In Auto Wreckage Funeral services were being arranged today for two former Sanpete county servicemen whose bodies were found late Tuesday beside the wreckage of their car, which had plunged down an embankment em-bankment near a bridge on highway high-way 89 at Birdseye, apparently late Saturday or early Sunday. The dead are Golden A. Mow er, Z4, and Kusseii iMieison, zu, both of Fairview. The bodies and wreckage were discovered at 2 p. m. yesterday by Japanese Women Flock to Polls In 1st Election TOKYO, April 10 (U.R)-Jap- anese mothers with babies strapped strap-ped to their backs and millions of other women emancipated by American decree cast ballots today to-day in Japan's first national election - under its modified Democratic system. Early voting to choose 466 members of the new Diet was brisk and orderly. U. S. army poll-watching teams posted by Gen. Doug-las MacArthur to prevent illegal voting found little to do. An unexpected number of women crowded into the polls when the balloting began at 7 a. m. to cast votes for the first time in Japanese history. Several mothers carrying babies were among the 60 women to drop ballots into the boxes during the first hour in the first precinct of Toshima ward, Tokyo. Voting was done in schools and ward offices under cloudy skies. Government offices, schools and banks were closed and railroads suspended their rush hour re strictions against the general public pub-lic to enable the populace to vote early. .There were 40,000)000 eligible voters on the rolls. They had to choose the 466 victors from a list of 2,782 candidates that included two Buddhist Nuns and a Budd hist Priest who campaigned on a motorcycle. Eighty-two women sought office. Between 8,000 and 10,000 voters in Tokyo were unable to participate because some 3,000 families were isolated because of smallpox and typhus ty-phus cases. I Eight Die In k Boston Blaze "BOSTON, April 10 (U.R) Eight persons, including a heroic policeman, police-man, perished, six were injured and more than 75 fled to safety in night clothes early today when fires which may have been set broke out in swift succession in colour back bay apartment houses. The alrams for the fires were Bdunded within 45 minutes of each other, beginning at 5:15 a. roc -''Most serious blaze was in the eight - apartment Colonial Cham- V, ters on Belvidere street. This, tike those that followed, started 'lit' basement rubbish. Bodies of the seven dead were found in bedrooms on the third and fourth floors. Three children and one adult perished in one apartment &nd three adults in another. Dam- .age to the four-story building was set at $10,000. Thirty-five occu- jpahts escaped, but five were hurt. ,i patrolman Robert Mahar of the south end station sacrificed his life to, arouse the sleeping occupants occu-pants of the Colonial Chambers. Most ot the candidates were political unknowns. Almost all the better-known politicians have been blacklisted by MacArthur's occupation decrees. The new Diet will consider the proposed Japanese Jap-anese constitution outlawing war. LONDON, April 10 (U.R) The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia today condemned the (Continued on Page Two) three Fairview youths who were hitch-hiking through Dry canyon according to Sheriff Theron S, Hall, who with deputy sheriffs and highway patrolmen investi gated. The youths, according to rel atives who came to Provo and identified the bodies, had been missing since 5 p. m. Saturday. Efforts to locate them at the homes of friends and relatives had proved unsuccessful. The accident was not discov ered before Tuesday because the bridge obscured view of the wreckage, officers said. The youths who found the wreckage and bodies Therald and Lamont .Rigby and Ross Bhone of Fairview reported they had been riding north in a car driven oy r. u. MCK.een oi Birdseye, who let them out of th car near his home, a short dlst ance from the bridge. Upon seeing the wreckage as they walked along the emwank ment near the bridge, they hurried hur-ried to the McKeen home. Sheriff Hall was promptly notified. Car tracks revealed the auto in which the two ex - servicemen were riding left the highway on the wrong side of the road aa- proximately 350 feet from the bridge, and plunged down a 40 foot embankment into a rocky gulch. The car was demolished rOne body was found near the front of the car, the other near the right door. One of the vic tims wore a wristwatch which was stopped at 11:45. Mower was born in Fairview February 19, 1922. He recently was discharged from the army after 15 months in the European theater. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Cox Mower; his mother. Martha Terry Mower; an 18 month-old son, Golden Wayne and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Ted Sanderson, Ross Mower, Max Mower and Rayona Mower of Fairview, Merrill Mow er in the U. S. Army in Germany Mrs. Elmo (Zina) Castleberry of Provo, and Mrs. Jack (Emma) Farnsworth of Salt Lake City. Nielson was born in Fairview July 15, 1925, son of Wilford L. and Eva Hansen Nielson. He was recently discharged from the service after serving several months in the European theater. Surviving besides his parents are the following brothers and sisters, Gerald, Ralph, Robert, Kenneth and Geneva Nielson of Fairview, Juan Nielson, with the navy in the Pacific, and Mrs. Ya-lera Ya-lera Vance of Bell Garden, Calif. Funeral services for Mr. Mower Mow-er will be Friday at 1 p. m. in the Fairview LDS North ward chapel under direction of Bishop Golden Carlston. The body was being moved to Fairview today by the Albert Madsen mortuary. The body of the Nielson boy is at the Valley mortuary in Provo. Russia's Demand To Drop Iran Case Held By UN to Monday Five-day "Cooling-off" Period Taken by Security Council Before Tackling the New Soviet-Iranian Crisis; Site To Be Picked BULLETIN NEW YORK, April 10 oJ.R) Authoritative Polish sources re vealed today that Poland has evidence Indicating that German scientists hiding- In Spain are worklnr under the auspices of the Franco Spanish regime on atomic and rocket research.. This was learned shortly after Poland's Ambassador Oscar Lange filed a formal complaint against Franco Spain with the United Nations security council and asked for council action to counteract Spain's alleged threat to world peace. NEW YORK, April 10 The United Nations see curity council agreed at a secret meeting: today to post pone consideration of Russia's demand for elimination of the Iranian case from its agenda until next Monday afternoon. The five day "cooling off" period another attempt to eliminate the tension that has prevailed in the council for over two weeks was agreed upon at another closed meeting in UN Secretary General Trygve Lie's office. The meeting was called to make plans not only for facing fac-ing the new Soviet-Iranian 'crisis, but the forthcoming Spanish controversy and selection se-lection of a "permanent" interim in-terim site for the U.N. The official announcement made -no mention of the Iranian Dying Veteran Records His Impressions of Coming Death WILMINGTON, Mass., April 10 (U.R) The "last sensations of approaching ap-proaching death," jotted down in a notebook by a young air force veteran as he sat in a fume-filled automobile parked on a lonely lane, were disclosed today. vphe dead youth was Richard P. Gale, Jr., 21, . of Mound, Minn., son-in-law-of John Cowles, publisher pub-lisher of the Minneapolis Star- Journal and Tribune and other newspapers. He was clutching the loose-leaf notebook when his body was found, slumped over the wheel, late yesterday. "Terrific smell of gas fiunes," the chronicle began. "It's getting rather dark to write engine was called for "an informal exchange ex-change of views- regarding the question of selecting a temporary headquarters site." The announcement revealed no decision was taken on the site, and that it will be studied further by Lie and his staff. ' When the council adjourned adjourn-ed last night there was confusion con-fusion about when It next would meet In public to consider con-sider Russia's latest demand In the Iranian case and Iran's objection to the Russian, proposal. The council decided today to meet at 3 p.m., Monday for that purpose giving delegates a long period in which to plan their strategy. Most delegates were not resitant in predicting that the Russians were headed for another major defeat if they press for elimination of the Iranian case from the agenda before May 6, the date the Russians have promised to have all troops out of Iran Dispatches from Iran further confused the issue, however. Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala told the council last night that Iran insisted upon keeping the case on the agenda until May 6. He said- he was "instructed" to make such a statement. But today. Prince Mozaffar Firouz, official Iranian govern ment spokesman, disavowed Ala s statement, saying no new instructions instruc-tions had been sent to the ambas sador and that it is "no longer Iran's business" whether the case is kept on the agenda. Ala had no comment to make Immediately. Before the Tehran dispatches arrived, he said his last letter to the council represented his government's gov-ernment's "final and definite views." He cancelled his plans to return to Washington. In addition to the council's problem of finding a new site with larger office facilities and the Soviet-Iranian dispute, it will be confronted when it meets on Monday with Poland's charge that Franco Spain threatens world peace. A Polish statement on the latter is expected later today. Russian Spy Case Moved At Seattle PORTLAND, Ore., April 10 (U.R) The Nicolai Gregorovich Redin crisis, but said, the secretaneetiogi Russianpyjcaserwaa movedto eame loasv wncn ue ouviei na val lieutenant waived objections at a preliminary-hearing and his $10,000 bond was continued- for his appearance for trial at the Washington city on Monday. As expressed by his attorney, Irvin L. Goodman of Portland, the federal court procedure here was "a mere formality, and wording in the bond document was changed to require Redin s appearance, at Seattle. Robert Lawrence, special agent for the Federal Bureau of Inivestigation, identified Redin as the man he had arrested here March 26. The indictment was brought here from Seattle by Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney Allan Pomeroy. Goodman explained that he was authorised to represent Redin only at the Portland hearlnr. and no announce- ment was made as to an attorney attor-ney for the Seattle trial. Redin, 2tf, is this country's first postwar spy suspect. A federal grand jury in Seattle indicted him yesterday on five counts of espionage. es-pionage. The indictment charged that Redin: 1. Tried to obtain general specifications of the destroyer tender USS Yellowstone on Dec. 22. 2. Sought restricted information informa-tion about the Yellowstone's auxilairy machinery on or about Feb. 2. 3. Illegally obtained test reports re-ports on the Yellowstone's dock and sea trials on Feb. 11. The last two counts charged that Redin sought radar and fire control information and sought to transmit the data to the Soviet union. BRUTALITY TRIAL TO BE TRANSFERRED LONDON, April 10 (UJJ U. S. army headquarters in Europe today to-day ordered the trials of eight enlisted en-listed men and six officers in the Lichfield brutality case Vana" ferred from London to Bad Nau-heim, Nau-heim, Germany. .The change of venue in the courts martial involving the mis treatment of soldier-prisoners at the Lichfield reinforcement depot was announced at Frankfurt. Senate Denies Price Ceilings On Homes, Lots Administration Meets Defeat on Important Anti-Inflation Move WASHINGTON, April 10 ee The senate today denied Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt power to put price ceilings ceil-ings on existing homes and building lots. Voting 41 to 33, the senate adopted an amendment of fered by Sen. Chapman Rever- comb, R., W. Va., to strike provision pro-vision for the ceilings from the pending emergency veterans housing bill. It was a defeat for the administration, ad-ministration, which contends they are needed to stop Inflationary In-flationary spiraling of prices on homes and lots. Revercomb and other Republi cans contended Imposition of ceilings on existing homes and lots would "invade the traditional tradition-al right of an American citizen to either sell or retain the' home he owns." , . , Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R., Ia., contended that placing ceilings on old homes "will vio late one of the basic principle! or property ownership." : The measure is designed to prodnee 3t,7MO new lew-cost lew-cost homes for veterans, by the end ef 1947. Administration Administra-tion 1eader hope it will pass" vthe senate without major ' changes by nightfall. The house voted Housing Expediter Ex-pediter Wilson W. Wyatt power to put ceilings on new homes, but refused td authorize ceilings for existing homes and building lots. Revercomb's amendment was in line with the. house version. ' British Loan Wins Approval By Committee WASHINGTON. April 10 U.R The senate banking committee by a vote of 14 to 5 today approved the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to ureat Britain. It sent the loan agreement to the senate floor after rejecting a proposal oy sen. Kobert . A. Taft, B., O., for an; outright gift of $1,-250,000,000 $1,-250,000,000 to Britain instead of the loan. Senate Democratic Leader Al ben W. Barkey of Kentucky said he would seek senate considera tion of the loan agreement early next week. He predicted approval by a substantial margain. Montanan Opposes Silver Sale Bill WASHINGTON. April 10 (UJ0 Sen. James E. Murray, Mont, today asked the senate appropria tions committee to repect pro posal for the sale of government-owned government-owned silver at 71.11 cents an ounce. , He told the committee thai the proposal would result in "enormous "enor-mous loss" to taxpayers. He advocated ad-vocated passage of . legislation authorizing sales for" one year at $1.03 an ounce, and thereafter at $1.29 an ounce. Lewis Walks Out i ; On Conference In. The Capital Miners' Boss Leads His Committee Outof Conference Room, Explaining that Further Discussion With Mine Operators is Futile By UNITED PRESS Negotiations collapsed today in the 10-day-old t coal walkout which has made 400,000 bituminous miners idle, but a settlement plan was agreed upon between the union and company officials for ending the International-'HaT-vester company strike. United Mine Workers Chieftain John L. Lewis. and members of his .negotiating committee stalked out of the soft coal wage conference in- Washington shortly before nnoun cement that I noon with an further discussion was futile. The miners' walkout report edly the result of the operators' refusal to report a disagreement to the full wage conference of mines and operators followed hints by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach of possible pos-sible government intervention unless progress was reported within the next few days. Representatives for International Inter-national Harvester Co. and 30,000 CIO United Farm Equipment Workers reached agreement last night on a new contract providing for lt-eent hourly wage increase. The agreement Is to be submitted sub-mitted to the - union's harvester har-vester eenneil tonight. If ac-' ac-' eepted - the workers-are -ex-, pected to return to their jobs ' thlsr week-end. - - Return -of the Harvester em ployes would cut the number of strike-idled American workers to 623,000. Schwellenbach said the govern ment wuld give disputants in the coal strike "a few more days to reach an agreement. He said the government then would de cide what action to take. Seizure of the mines was not contemplat ed, he said. Other labor developments: 1. CIO and AFL unions set midnight Saturday as the deadline dead-line for a strike of sugar refineries refin-eries along the Atlantic seaboard, 2. Striking tugboat - workers withdrew their 'picket lines at most piers in the port of Phila delphia and some 7,000 harbor workers who had 'refused to cross the lines were expected to return to their jobs. 3. Ford Motor Co. was recall ing 35,000 production workers laid off because of the steel short age i. James C, Petrillo, president of the AFL American Federation of Musicians, opened contract ne gotiations with eight major motion mo-tion picture companies by presenting pre-senting 91 demands, including one that the present minimum salary sal-ary of. $5,200 a year be doubled. WASHINGTON April 10 (U.R) John L. Lewis led the United Mine-Workers (AFL) out of the soft coal wage conference today with an assertion that further negotiations ne-gotiations were futile. The collapse of the - negotiations, negotia-tions, which began on March 19, made it almost certain that more positive government action would be necessary to settle the 10-day-old strike of 400,000 bituminous bi-tuminous -miners. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach said yesterday that the government would do something if the negotiators did not make progress in a few days. But he said seizure of the mines had not yet been considered. A union spokesman said to-( to-( Continued en Page - Two) Miners Meet : To Arrange For Coal For Gas Final arrangements on how ta handle the release of coal to the Iron ton plant coke ovens to sup- ply Provo,' Springville and Span ish Fork schools and other pub lie and private consumers with. gas, was being discussed this afternoon at, a meeting of -the miners' local at the Columbia; coal mine, Carbon county. , , TheTneetlng wiseaBeaefi p. m. at wnicn me miners-, were expected te vote their' approval for a plan. tetal- low sufficient eoal tekeep the coke ovens 'operating :ferj the production ef gas fer theT, consumers served by ' the'-' Mountain Fuel Supply Ce. J In the meantime the coke ovens will remain at the reduc.prod uction level under which; toey; they have been operating' since the coal strike was called" 10 day gao. Until the extra coal -Is allowed, al-lowed, and actually arrives at-the I ronton coke ovens, nothing. Can be done to step up the production, of gas, it was explained today. C" Even after the production '-is , stepped up at the coke ovens,;the gas consumers . which have, been turned off, will have to be- turn--ed on in the same order in which they were turned off,, explained Boyce Rawlins, Provo manager of the Mountain Fueel Supply company. com-pany. The process of turning the ' consumers back on the gas lines will have to be done in a gradual grad-ual and orderly manner,: other-' wise, there is danger of the gas pressure, falling all at once to a dangerously low, . level, Mr. Rawlins -explained. , , - : There was not: attempt te . hold school in Prove today, , following a disappointing turnout Tuesday afterneea. , , The class rooms were. eensfd-y ered too cold for -the health, ef the students and teachers.-. It is hoped that the release ef the coal from the mines will-, allow the gas to be .turned back en at the schools within with-in a short time. sounds smooth. Faculties seem to be temporarily sharpened. Eyes still smart considerable ... " "What is the proof of 2 -equals 4? Does it involve dropping a root? . . . Seem to be getting sleepy. sle-epy. Muscles used in writing with r hand feel well-used and in need of rest . . . joints feel funny. fun-ny. Elbows esp. and wrists. Through chest now. No particular desire to get out. Chest filling up fast. Seems to be terrific pressure first . . . "going . . .go . . . go ." A medical examiner today returned re-turned a verdict of suicide in Gale's death. Social Security Broadening Urged WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.R) secretary of Labor Lewis B. schwellenbach today urged congress con-gress to broaden the social security secur-ity law to include some 20.000.0C0 unprotected persons and provide snarp increase in old age insurance insur-ance benefits. Schwennebach said the averaee retired worker with one depend ent now receives $38 monthly under un-der the social security program, despite the fact that "conservative estimates" show that living costs nave increased 33 per cent since Iclces Lambasts Enemy Newspaper Columnists By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 10 U.R) Former Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, the latest recruit to the ranks of newspaper columnists, hauled off today and socked a number of his colleagues with some hard words. He -also paid bis bitter respects to Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, editor and publisher of the Washington (D. C.) Times-Herald. The capital capi-tal is aittins back in some anti cipation of acts two and three of the show the Old Curmudgeon has ttArted. " .Ickes' article. "Good and Bad Washington newsmen," is in the current ecuuon oi we migduuc "Patfeant." In general. Ickes charges against the columnists of whom he disapprovea were eitner that -they do not know. what, they write about or . that they. lie, directly or indirectly, in their writings. Among the , bad ones, he listed- Arthur Krock of the New York Times. Marquis Childs, I. F. Stone of the newspaper PM,. Westbrook Pegler, Paul R. Mallon, Frank R. Kent, Frank C;Waldrop-of the Times-Herald, and ohn0Don-riell ohn0Don-riell of the New York Daily News. Good newsmen ' on Ickes list were: ' r. " -.- -y. Drew Pearson,' who writes "the Washington Merry Go Round; Lowell Mellett, Thomas L. Stokes, Raymond P. Prandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,: Ruth Finney of the Scrlpps-How'ard news papers. Cot Robert S, Allen of the Philadelphia record,- Elisa beth May Craig, who represents a group of New England papers, Winifred Mallon of the New York Times. Ben W. Gilbert of the Washington Post, Frank 1. Weller, Associated Press, Marsnan mcneu of the Scripp-Howard news-naners. news-naners. - Walter Lippmann and Ernest Lindlev. ' . . . ' - . Ickea accompanied his article with-a columnists' creed. He said columnists should remember mat they "are "not" infallible and that the troth is not servea oy Dogmatism.- They : should make some allowance for error and remem-tr remem-tr thrir own human frailty. - bccasibnally, Ickes wrote- of his colleagues, "they mignt even give- the. victim the benefit rt the doubt; they might at times assume that all men in public life are not necessarily . dishonest OT to- (Centlnaed en Page xwej Truman Med To Call Off Afoihlc Bomb Experiment 4. v WASHINGTON, April 10 GJJ0-- ' Harold H. Hamilton, national; commander of the military. order of the purple heart, asked President Presi-dent Truman- today to call -off this summer's atomic bomb tests in order to dissipate international suspician of U. S. motives. . .But, the president's reaction' to -his proposal, Hamilton: told reporters re-porters later, was "not so sympathetic.?, sympa-thetic.?, h :?W . Meanwhile, the army-navy task force that rill conduct the-tests went ahead .with elaborate plans .r. to set them started on or about July 1 at.Bikinl atoll hv the Mar- - snails, its commanocr "saia no further postponement was i ex-pected. ex-pected. .. - J 1- Hamilton said after- ' confer-; ence with Mr. Truman Jthat the tests will be "wanton waste" tot , money that could better be spent-"for spent-"for something that would pre-serve pre-serve mankind, such as cancer re-' search."--. ' Abandonment of the tests, Hamilton Ham-ilton asserted, "would go a. long! wayvtoward closer -relations 'between 'be-tween the nations of the -world. |