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Show TEMPERATURES. Suuoa Mas MiaSUttoa . Has Mia Prove . . . . 3Z 4!8&b. Fran. 44 SI tonight and clear Thursday, temperttarei Thursday moraine near aero in lower valleys tm It below sero in hither valleyg and about 20 In Dixie. 7 ySalt Lk. tl 4 Li Angeles Sf 4 zj -if Las Vegas, si Z7 14 IliDenvir i . , SI 1 IT -SSICblcage . . 1 IT St IS New Vrk ST Jl XT lli'AUanta .. SI SI eie , ... Ycl'tton. . Portland . . Statu 1 1 i i n iii t ir iir r 1 mi i i ii 'II I in. t ! ' rv v - i .SIXTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. Two Utah Senate Bills Aim At Elimination Of Racial Discrimination Proposed Legislation Strikes At Social, Employment Discrimination; Maw Backs Emergency Power Of Governor Over Funds SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 15 (U.R) Two bills aimed at eliminating' discrimination because of race or color were prepared for introduction in the Utah state senate today. The bills were prepared by Sen. Sol Selvin, D.;, Tooele, who headed a special committee investigatinr discrimination discrimina-tion in Utah during the past year and a half. Along with the bills, one of which would eliminate discrimination dis-crimination in such places as hotels, restaurants, apartment Strike Vote May Be Taken By CIO In Provo Officials of the United Steel- workers of America, CIO, said today their three Provo locals "probably will take a strike ballot" bal-lot" in line with nation-wide CIO action. "That does not mean there's going to be a strike," officials emphasized, em-phasized, pointing out the notice involves the 30-day preibd required re-quired by law, and is preliminary to discussions for a new contract. The United Steelworkers, CIO, hold the bargaining agency at the Ironton plant of the Geneva Steel company, the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe plant and the Republic Creosote company. The latter two are organized under miscellaneous miscellane-ous steel, under the premise that they use steel plant products. The big Geneva Steel plant is organized under the AFL and is not involved in the nation-wide CIO strike ballots Zero Weather jead; Above in Provo Zero weather is ahead for Utah county and the state, the weather bureau reported today. The freezing temperatures, the bureau said, are following the general storm which covered the state for the past tew aays. uian county felt the sting of the first' real winter blizzard Tuesday afternoon when snow, driven by a stiff breeze, fell for about two hours. Most of the state reported new snow yesterday, with Salt Lake City recording approximately one inch of new fall. On the heels of the storm. temperatures dropped throughout the state Tuesday night. The weather bureau branch at the Provo airport reported this morning's morn-ing's minimuro at 4 degrees above, the season's low. Salt Lake's minimum was the same as Provo's, but at Ogden the mercury dipped to 4 degrees below zero, the weather bureau said. Unofficial reports listed the temperature, at Soldier Summit early this morning at 10 to 14 degrees de-grees below zero The low for the intermountain v states was recorded at West Yellowstone Yel-lowstone where thermometers registered 36 degrees below zero. Butte reported 34 below, and Boise 10 below. Automobile drivers were warn-i ed by the state highway patrol that all roads are open but ex-. ex-. treme caution is needed as the low temperatures have made most streets and highways icy. FBI Arrests 2 On ; War Buying Fraud WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoovei announced today the arrest of two men, one an employe of the .War Assets Administration, who v sought to defraud the govern-, govern-, mcnt through the purchases of textiles from the WAA. Those arrested were George A. Gormley, -50, an ex-convict, and Louis V. Dionne, 38, a WAA employe wh& formerly lived at Tall Rivpr. Mass. 4wvc& aoiu ma i uic A ux a ill vestigation of the case had resulted re-sulted in recovery of woolen textiles tex-tiles which originally cost the government $144,000. The textiles were seized in a New York City warehouse after . DCiug uottu ii um a trucking terminal, Hoover said. l Gormley and Dionne met here p; last .November, Hoover said. iney conceived a pian Dy wmcn V Gormley would receive more high-grade woolen goods than he had paid for at a WAA site sale jl - ct Alexandria, Va. "s- The plan called, Hoover, said for Dionne to "raise" the yardage : iigures on the shipping order when it crossed his desk at WAA in routine fashion, v They are charged specifically fith presenting a forged docu- tnent to the WAA. 162 houses, and oer public gathering places, and the other would elim inate discrimination in employment, employ-ment, Selvln issued the report of his special committee. The. report charged that discrimination dis-crimination is N rampant in Utah although most persons will not admit to a desire for discriminating discrimi-nating against anyone. The Selvin report says that par- i tlcular discrimination is to be found against the Negro race in! Utah. Meanwhile. Gov. Herbert B.' Maw, in his daily press conference confer-ence defended the emergency powers the governor has over the funds. These powers, given to the governor in 1933, allow -him to order expenditure cuts at his discretion dis-cretion when and if revenue drops. . The governor pointed out that at no time had ' e used these powers but that they were a necessary part of the gubernatorial guberna-torial program. Already the first signs of a rift between the Republican and Democratic parties has appeared with the Republicans coming out victorious. The incident, yesterday yester-day afternoon in the House, was trivial in nature, but Indicated the way the wind will probably blow the rest of the legislative session. The incident' concerned, a' move on the part of Mrs. C. t.. Jack. House JDemocr at from Salt-iWwf City, to place Gov. Herbert B. Maw's message in the . House Journal. Immediately Rep. Clifton Clif-ton G. M. Kerr, R., Tremonton, jumped to his feet with a demurrer. demur-rer. Kerr declared that such a move would be a waste of money, and called for a vote on the matter. The Republicans, of , XVl .. u., ready begun to work. Eighteen bills and four joint resolutions were introduced. The measures range from a bill revamping the firemen s pension act to those calling for non-partisan election of officers and a complete change in xne memoes oi balloting and counting votes in Utah elections. The most important resolution reso-lution called for the placing of a constitutional convention conven-tion question on the next reneral election ballot. The bills introduced include: One appropriating $861,500 to the Centennial convention with the provision that $500,000 be made a revolving fund to be returned when the Centennial is over; a measure changing the methods of filling vacancies in boards of county commissioners to eliminate elim-inate future squabbles like the Salt Lake county quarrel over Roscoe Boden; the ballot changing chang-ing measure; setting salaries of supreme court justices at S7500 a year; fixing district judges' terms at six years with a salary of $6000; repealing the governor's govern-or's emergency powers over reve- ( Continued on Page Two) Seismograph Notes Severe Earthquake PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 15 (U.R) An earthquake of "destructive; magnitude, about 00. miles, double damages be paid for viola-away viola-away but with no direction indi- tions. cated was recorded at 10:30:15 Capehart said the lawsuits a. m. PST today on the California! threatened the existence of Institute of Technology seismo- thousands of business and in-graph. in-graph. I dustrial firms. School Board Orders Study Of Gas Fuel Problem Here Plagued by two serious closedowns close-downs within a year because of commercial gas heating troubles, the Provo school district board of education Tuesday night authorized authoriz-ed Superintendent J. C. Moffitt to engage a heating expert firm which will make recommendations recommenda-tions on how to avoid similar trouble in the future. Dr. Moffitt said today the recommendations rec-ommendations will hinge definitely defin-itely on the outcome of the current cur-rent fight to bring natural gas into the area, and that if a stable gas supply can be insured, the school system still favors this method of heating. All of Provo's public schools but one are gas-heated. gas-heated. Because the supply is artificial gas from the Ironton coke ovens, however, which in turn are dependent on coal, the schools have been forced to close down twice within a year, once PROVO, Homeless Vet's Family 'Jailed'- ' f f f J Evicted from their home in St. Louis, Mo., John McCarthy and his family spent the night in jail cell. Here the 26-year-old unemployed veteran explains his difficulties to Patrolman Edward Cook. Four- year-old Louis sits beside his Gloria, l',. Police sheltered the could be made. Britain Objects To Soviet Acquiring Spitzbergen Base By HOMER JENKS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 15 (UJ) The British foreign office today rejected re-jected a Soviet denunciation of a 1920' treaty giving Norway sovereignty over Spitzbergen and indicated Britain would not recognize any agreement for construction con-struction of Soviet military bases on the Arctic island. A foreign office spokesman said Britain could not accept a Soviet contention that the 1920 treaty was invalid because it was signed by former enemy states. Moscow advanced that, position last night in reporting a secret understand- '...'.., '.4 "" : ""ft"- Suits Tnrebten Bankruptcy WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Congress was warned today that thousands of firms faced bankruptcy bank-ruptcy unless prompt steps are taken to outlaw union claims to more than $4,000,000,000 in portal-to-portal pay. The warning was sounded by Sen. Homer Capehart, R., Ind. He was the first witness as a senate judiciary committee com-mittee opened hearings on legislation to throw the portal suits out of court. Asserting that not a firm in a hundred had money to meet the claims, Capehart said: "We are facing a national problem which, if not solved promptly, may have disastrous consequences on production pro-duction and commerce." The three-man subcommittee began hearings as the senate labor committee, headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O.. assembled to decide how it will proceed with a long list of other bills aimed at labor unions. Segments of the committee appeared to be pulling in tnree directions on tne pro-: cedure to be followed. Capehart told the judiciary: unit that back pay claims filed against industrial firms Would "far exceed" $5,000,000,000. Those suits have been filed, mostly by CIO affiliates, to claim back overtime over-time pay for the time spent by employes walking to and prepar- j ing for their jobs while on em-! em-! ployers' properties. As a result tf a supreme court i rfAfisinn last .Tun a flnnrl rtf suits was filed under the wage- hour law, which requires that last spring and the second time in the coal strike of last fall. The five-city committee working work-ing to bring natural gas to central cen-tral and southern Utah county is scheduled to hold its first meeting meet-ing on the question tomorrow forenoon in Salt Lake City with the state public service commis sion. Representatives of Orenv tend. Dr. Moffitt said the Power Engineering En-gineering company, heating experts ex-perts from Salt Lake City, will be engaged to study the school's heating problem. - The board is concerned with the possibility of another gas fuel: interruption following March 31 of this year,end of the period for which coal miners were ordered back to work by John L. Lewis when the . latter ended . the . latest coal strike. . sion. Representatives oi urenv vnairman xiaroio iinutson, Provo, Springville, Spanish ForklMinn., of the house ways and! UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY,"' JANUARY 15,: 1947 nIT!nniT;:": 1 X father while Mrs. McCarthy holds family until other arrangements ing with Norway on joint Soviet-Norwegian Soviet-Norwegian defense of the archipelago. archi-pelago. The spokesman said Britain had not been approached by either Norway or Russia on the question of re-negotiating the Spitzbergen treaty, signed at Paris in 1920 and adhered to later by Russia. Russia is bound by international treaty which forbids the use of the Spitzbergen Islands for "war like purposes," the foreign office spokesman said Criticizing a Moscow statement that the treaty had 'been negoti ated wunout Knowledge oi tne SojjeJLVttmmCTte that the Soviets subsequently adhered ad-hered to it and "hente Russia is bound by the treaty." "The treaty governing these islands specifically provides that they shall not be used, for military purposes," he said. An Oslo dispateh said the first newspaper comment on the Russian announcement of an understanding with Norway Nor-way on joint defense of Spitsbergen raised doubt that the arrangement went as far as Moscow said. OSLO, Jan. 15 (U.P.) The Nor wegian parliament sought from foreign Minister Halvard Lange today an explanation of a two- year-old secret understanding in which, the Russians say, Norway agreed to joint Soviet-Norwegian defense of the bleak Spitzbergen archipelago. Lange has promised a full account of the Spitzbergen talks for the storting (parliament) which opened a new session yesterday. yes-terday. Alaborite, he is under pressure from the conservatives. A broadcast by Moscow radio, reported that early in 1945 "an understanding was reached about the necessity of joint defense of the Spitzbergen Islands." It said the question was discussed again between Lange and Foreign Minister V. M. Mplotov in New York last November. , The broadcast said Spitzbergen was of exceptional importance to Russia for her security in the far north, Spitzbergen lies about 400 miles north of upper Norway and about 500 miles from the north pole. GOP, Truman Agree Halfway On Taxes WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) President Truman was assured of a .500 batting average today on his tax recommendations to the new congress. Despite the president's opposi-j tion, Republican tax leaders stood; iirm on cutting individual in- r" Truman in ir,tiw hjK i.-i taxes on furs, jewelry, liquoi and other luxury items. tt;c s i i s effert since 194T If 'they were to!" Mediation and conciliation oni :r.,, ti ou i j u macninery. cost the mvprhm.n shn., ti 500,000,000 a year in tax revenue.and toiJSr The president told congress this , Se"f ,0 W,nM money is needed to help retire thellabor relations act. public debt. T- 1 Chairman Harold Knutson, R.,; ahead for quick action on an excise ex-cise extension bill but he emphasized em-phasized that his program to reduce re-duce income taxes "hasn't been changed a bit." j WOMAN CONVICTED DETROIT, Jan. 4 (U.R) Blonde, Prussian-born Mrs. Joan Mc- Bride and her mild-mannered husband were found guilty today of helping a former bodyguard of Hermann Goering escape from a California prisoner-of-war camp. SufiremejfourtiJ. 0 A,sks Febraary 4t Studies lewis irv m tc il . ? Contempt Case Jleao Jline iroir Oeoate : Supreme Court Judges Ask Questions During Heated Arguments By RUTH GMEINER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) A spokesman for the United Mine Workers voiced belief today the supreme court would reverse the contempt con-tempt convictions of both the union and its chief, John L. Lewis He said he believed the UMW's joral arguments yesterday against ("government by injunction would i swing a favorable vote." Lewis jand the union were fined a total of $3,510,000 in a lower court for failing to obey its order to pre- 'vent the 17-day coal strike last November. The supreme court took the jUMw appeal under advisement; yesterday alter hearing four hours of ' heated argument in which Attorney General Tom C. Clark held that the fines were legal le-gal and justified. The high court's decision was not expected for at least three weeks. The hearfars were climaxed climax-ed when. Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a remark apparently appar-ently aimed at a fellow Justice, Jus-tice, called for a halt to at- -tempts to "psychoanalyse" congress. Jackson's statement came after Justice Felix Frankfurter had posed a series of questions to Assistant As-sistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett about the intent of congress, con-gress, when it passed the-Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction law. The issue was .whether it applied to the government as well as private pri-vate employers. The union lawyers Joseph A. Padway of the AFL and Welly K. Hopkins of the UMW contended contend-ed lhat the. act outlawed the . -order, invert inougn u was issued at government's govern-ment's request, 'They said It was an attempt to 'revive "govern ment by injunction." ' ' While Sonnett was defending the government action, Jackson interrupted to ask: "What is the duty to obey an injunction if the court lacks the authority to issue it?" Sonnett replied that he was trying try-ing to get to the point. "Well, you'd better get on and stop psychoanalyzing congressmen," congress-men," Jackson said. Sonnett's reply to Jackson's question was that Lewis should have obeyed the temporary strike restraining order, at least until the court decided its authority on a question which had never been raised in the courts .the right of Lewis to terminate his contract with the government. FORT MYERS, Fla., Jan. 15 (U.R) John L. Lewis was in seclusion near, here today while attorneys argued his United Mine" Workers case before the supreme court. He arrived at a remote camp on Pine Island several days ago. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Government sources predicted today to-day that a part of the soft coal industry will ask John L. Lewis to negotiate a new contract before the March 31 strike deadline set by his United Mine Workers. One official said he looked for overtures to Lewis next month from northern and middle western west-ern operators.' Southern and far western produces, pro-duces, however, served notice they were unwilling to negotiate for the present. ... s Slated On Labor Bills WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) The senate labor committe decided decid-ed today to begin hearings Jan 23 on legislation to reduce industrial strife. :.-sV' :- Chairman Robert A. Taft, R., O.. announced the hearings -would cwer all bills dealing with Organization and responsi bl V"f,JK 2. Labor x-urts and compulsory arDiirauon. Outlawing the closed shop i r r, J, J., JlGGl Vulw Postpone Parley PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15 KE Negotiations between the -CIO United Steel Workers and U. S. Steel Corp., scheduled . to begin tomorrow, have been postponed "by mutual agreement" until next week, it was announced today. to-day. ...... . J, i Neither . the union, nor the company gave any reason for the delay. Nor was it announced which had requested it. Hearing On Atomic ProMems Two Governors Vie for Power In Georgia ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 15 (U.R) Two governors, Ellis Gibbs Arn-all Arn-all and Herman Eugene Talm-adge, Talm-adge, vied for executive powers in adjoining offices at the state capitol today, issuing conflicting orders and appointing different men to state offices. The strange battle for executive ex-ecutive power, 'which had been touched off in violence in the early hours of today, started ' when the state legislature leg-islature elected Talmadge. as governor. The election took place at 2 a. m., at the tail end of a 16-hour joint session of the state house and senate. Talmadge was elected on the basis that he had the greatest number of write-in votes ior governor in the general election last November. Arnall contended that the legislature had no right to elect a governor and planned to hold office until Lt. Gov.-Elect M. E. Thompson is sworn in and qualified to succeed to the office. Youne Talmadee's father, the late Eugene Talmadge, had been elected governor in the general election but he died last month. Immediately after Talmadge was elected at 2 a.m., he rushed downstairs to the executive office where Arnall was sitting. ' The door to Arnall's. office was locked. Talmadge's men broke down the door. ' fl'dO'hot wish anv violence or disorder Talmadge told ArnaUlatomie .jwpntrpjU and l jon general. whetf "neTfoTTn. "But I am going to set up an office of governor where-1 please." r, , : Arnall . replied' he' would .not surrender his office to a "pretenders "pretend-ers "i: : . This office belongs to the people, peo-ple, and the people elect the governor gov-ernor of Georgia, not the legislature," legisla-ture," Arnall said. "Theit you fail to comply with the mandate of the assembly," Talmadge said, looking. Arnall squarely in the eyes. Arnall and Talmadge spoke calmly in their exchange but their friends . standing around were tense. . A fist fight broke out and Johnny Nahara, 300-pound bodyguard of the late Eugene Talmadge, gave a terrific beating to T. M. Buchanan, aide and chauffeur to Arnall. Cooler heads finally prevailed and the fighters were separated. Develoi -ent in the fight for power broke rapidly today. At 9:25 a.m., Talmadge established an office for himself in Arnall's main reception room. S. Marvin Griffin was appointed appoint-ed and sworn in by Talmadge to be state adjutant general. Arnall- countered by appointing appoint-ing Col. R. W. Collins, commander command-er of the state (Home) guard, to be his adjutant general. Truman to Meet With the Leaders WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Fresident Truman will hold his first bipartisan conference with leaders of the Republican-controlled congress tomorrow morning, morn-ing, the White House said today. Mr. Truman Will meet at 10 a.m. with four Republican leaders lead-ers of the House and Senate and the Democratic leader from each house. Mrl Truman will hold these conferences, periodically with the congressional , "Big Six, ReD " Sam Rayburn; D.. Tex., House minority leader, said. The conferees will include House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., R., Mass., Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., House Republican leader Charles Halleck, R., Ind.. Senate Repub lican leader Wallace White, K., Me., Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., Senate minority leader, and Rayburn. Small Nations Ask Voices In German Peace LONDON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Au stralia submitted to the Big Four deputies today a demand that the small allied 'nations be permitted to participate "fully and freely' iii; the: preliminary discussions of the German peace treaty. ' , - - . 1 The foreign ministers 'council of deputies discussed, the Australian Au-stralian demand for little nation participation - in the treaty consideration con-sideration v at the second - session of its London meeting to lay the Delegation Demands Thorough Discussion Of Baruch Plan To Ban Atomic Weapons ; And Provide For International Inspections By ROBERT MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent ' LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Jan. 15 (U.R) The United States proposed today that the United Nations security council set a Feb. 4 deadline for debating atomic problems., Warren Austin, just sworn in as permanent American delegate to the UN, made his first appearance before tha security council to plea for the deadline. The proposal reaffirmed the American insistence that the council give at least preliminary study to control of atomic weapons before it tackles' the broader problem of general i dasarmament. v Russia wants the council to take first, wait. up general disarmament The U. S. says that can The United States sought a . paragraph-by-paragraph discussion dis-cussion of Bernard Baruch's program to outlaw atomic weapons and provide international inter-national inspection to guard against illegal atomic activities. activi-ties. The discussion, although preliminary, would disclose the Russian position on many details. Soviet delegates generally gen-erally have remained silent during atomic debate. An American spokesman said, the United States favored atomic debate sooner than Feb. 4. He added, however, that three countries coun-tries which joined the 11 -nation security council Jan. 1 needed until un-til Feb. 4 to study the proposals. Normal J. O. Makin of Aus-trailia, Aus-trailia, meanwhile, prepared : a three-point resolution to, compromise com-promise the American-Soviet dif ferences.-It would have debate on iaisarmamem continue at tne .same time, it also would seek to speed th$ UN, military staff committee's work on detailing plans ' for an interna tibnar police force. ' :5;'Austiif;' In.felftltigr' at the council' coun-cil' meeting, temporarily replaced Herschel Johnson, who has been representing the United States. Johnson will remain as Austin's deputy and will sit for the United States when Austin is not available. avail-able. Canol Oil Project Now Up For Sale WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) Secretary of State James F. Byrnes revealed today that the biggest part of the controversial Canol oil refinery-pipeline project pro-ject in Canada is for sale because it has "no known" economical postwar use. Mostbut not all of the $134, 000,000 wartime project will be I offered for sale as surplus prop erty unaer an agreement signed with Canada last Friday, Byrnes informed congress. Major facilities that will be put up for bid March to are the 600-mile pipeline from Norman wells to White Horse, Yukon Territory, and the oil refinery at White Horse. Byrnes said permission will be granted to the purchasers to dis mantle, the facilities. The project, started in April, 1942, by the, U. S. army as a means of getting military fuel supplies to Alaska when the Japanese threatened that territory, was abandoned three years later after congress charged that it represented repre-sented a waste of manpower and money. Byrnes informed congress that I under the agreement with Canada . . . , i this government may jell all or any part of the facilities to Canadian or other buyers ; for either export or use in Canada The pact also provides, that the United States, which financed the ill-starred venture, may remove any or all of the facilities ' not sold. The Canadian government may purchase from this country any facilities which it desires to obtain. " ' groundwork for the Moscow, conference- in March. ? " T The deputies of the Trench, Russian, British and American foreign ministers were getting down to business after the formal opening of the conferences.... 'i American and British deputies said they favored consideration of the principle of the Australian proposal "to certain extent?' Feo-dor Feo-dor Gusev, the Soviet deputy, opposed op-posed it as "contrary to the deputies' depu-ties' terms of reference," informants inform-ants reported. Treaty T PRICE FIVE CENTS London Transport Workers Reject Bid to End Strike 1 LONDON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Strik ing London transport worker today rejected official overtures toward a settlement of the walk out of some 65,000 men which paralyzed the London docks and menaced the city's entire economic eco-nomic structure. The decision of the strike lead ers meant that the tieup already pressing nard on the supply linea to London dining tables probably would spread even further. The strikers' committeemen decided to meet again today. But whatever hopes there were for a settlement were dimmed by the vote to keep the men out hr defiance de-fiance of the powerful Transport and, General Workers union. The position remains vir- tUallT, the m Mld Jlrthnu FeaklnTsecreUry of . tha TGWU, who took part In to- ' day's conferences. - We have -adjourned until tomorrow, when a further meeting will ' take: place with the' strikers ' committee" Thames River barge men, truckers in the midlands, hotel and restaurant workers and other labor groups threatened to walk out. A stampede from their jobs by more than 100,000 workers-appeared- possible unless troops were withdrawn from handling strike-bound food in London markets mar-kets and a quick settlement reached. In simplest terms, the growing mass of strikers were carrying out a rank and file revolt against their union leaders, who are the. labor government's strongest organized or-ganized backing, and against the government's labor negotiating machinery. v . On the docksides revolutionary communist (Trotskyite) party members distributed yellow pamphlets pam-phlets urging "no compromise." - Protest by U. S. LONDON, Jan. 15 OLE)-i-Russia has refused to join the United States in protesting to . Poland against the conduct of the forthcoming forth-coming .Polish . election, Radio Moscow disclosed that Foreigu Minister V. M.-Molotov on Jan. had rejected a proposal by U. S. Ambassador W. Bedell Smith that Russia join, with the , United States in insisting that Poland carry out the Yalta ; and t Potsdam Pots-dam pledges for free elections. - -Smith based 1 his request on -charges that the Polish govern . ment was representing the opposition oppo-sition Peasant Party head - by Stanislaw Mikola jczyk. Molotov," however, rejected Smith's state- ment asserting that "the. Soviet government cannot; agree to the accuse. tion leveled against the Polish provisional government. Churchill Wins- ; Award of Damage? In Libel Action-, LONDON, Jan. 15 OJi!) Winston Win-ston Churchill was awarded "sub stantial" damages in " the king's bench division today In his libel - action against e Louis ' Adamhv author of "Dinner at the White House," and the publishers, Har-. per brothers. , -f. , r " - t The amount was not announced., Representatives of the publish-. ers and the author: apologized to Churchill for any injury he might have" suffered through' ' the of- fending passage, - and ' conceded.. that it was entirely without fOun-, dation.- j iC?;.v'i j v. ; Churchill, . wboV-was i not in" court, -objected to footnote-which footnote-which Insinuated, his counsel saldV that his conduct of an important war operation was influenced by his private interests. Russia Rejects iv . |