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Show TEMPERATURES atattoa Uti niastattoa ' Mia In Provo . . , Salt Lake . Ogden .... 3else . .... Portland . . Seattle ..-. Saa Fran. . T SO Lm Anc!t H St 1 St Las Vef t! 4 11 47. Phoenix 1 SS 48 Denver . . . AS 54 3 SSiCblcag . . . 1 2 S2 8 55 New York 5 52 I ST Atlanta ... 2 It CLOUDINESS south. Mostly cloudy north portion por-tion with showers north and west , central portions becoming partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Few; shower, lightly over northern : mountains Tuesday. Cooler to" night with low temperatures 44-54. SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 6 PRQVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JUNE 9 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Indications' Point To - Truman Veto of Tax Bill Armour Takes Post in State 11 Injured in 8 Veeliend Auto Crashes Officers Still Probing Mystery Crash In Provo Riverbottom Area Injury and destruction rode Utah county highways Saturday Satur-day night and Sunday, piling up a total of eight accidents and 11 known injured. Six of the eight' accidents occurred Sunday night with in the space of a couple of hours. All available state highway patrolmen and deputy sheriffs were called into action to render preliminary aid and make investigations. One crash still held an air of mystery today, as officers sought the occupants of a car which crashed into a tree in the Provo river bottoms Sunday night. No one was in the car when police arrived. Nearby residents said they heard screaming from the approximate scene of the wreck, which occurred about 2 miles from Provo on a county road along the east Provo river- bottoms, bot-toms, three-fourth of a mile down from the Provo canyon highway. The car, impounded by the state highway patrol, was registered to C. T. Tippetts, 262 South Main, Salt Lake City. Raymond Strong, 7, Salt Lake City, suffered a broken left arm Sunday afternoon when he was struck by a car while he was crossing the intersection of Sixth East and Fourth South in Springville. Driver of the car was Mrs. Lucille S. Peterson. Two of Sunday night's crashes resulted in citations being issued for drunken driving. State Highway High-way Patrolman Owen Beardall issued the tickets on both of them following his investigations. The more serious of the two involved in-volved a headon crash in Provo canyon just above Wicks when Emell Givins, 24, Wallsburg.j Traveling up uie canyuii, uiuvc his machine headon into a parked park-ed car, according to Patrolman Beardall. Givins was ticketed for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He suffered face lacerations, and Miss Faun Beck, 18, Spanish Fork, a passenger, pas-senger, suffered a deep cut over her right ear. Crede Ford, 25, Wallsburg, another passenger, was uninjured, as was a fourth occupant occu-pant of the car whose name was 'not immediately available The other citation for drunken driving issued by Patrolman Beardall was to Clarence Geleson, 373 South Fifth East, Spanish Fork, in connection with a crash in Spanish Fork canyon about -one half mile north of Thistle The officer said Geleson, driving up the canyon, side-continued side-continued on Page Two) 3 Idaho Youths Killed in Truck BURLEY, June 9 (U.R) Three young men we-e killed instantly about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when' the truck they were driving struck a soft shoulder on the Burley-Oak-ley highway and overturned. Dead are Hal C. Mitton, 19, and his brother Ralph Mitton, 26, both of Oakley, and Merlin Arthur Watson, about 25. Watson is a resident Qf Washington state. Coroner . Vern B. McCulloch said no inquest would be held in the accident. Two other youths in the truck escaped injuries. The three youths were pinned in the cab of the demolished truck. The trio was going from Bur-ley Bur-ley to Oakley to get a load of seed potatoes when the mishap occurred. President Will Not Act on Tax Reduction Bill Until After He Returns From Canada; Three Courses of Action Are Open to Him WASHINGTON, June 9 (U.R Rep. Harold Knutson, R., Minn., told the house today that "indications" are! President Truman will t veto the income tax reduction bill. Knutson, chairman of the house ways and means committee com-mittee and author of the original tax reduction bill, did not specify what tne "indications" were. . At the same time, the white house said that Mr. Truman Tru-man definitely will not act on the tax bill until after he returns from Canada on Friday. He has until next Monday mid night to decide what to do about the measure that would grant 10 to 30 per cent reductions, effective July 1. ) Mr. Truman has a choice of signing the bill. Vetoing it, or let ting it become law without his signature. If he vetoes it, the bill apparently would die for this year. While the house may have enough votes to override a veto, the senate doesn't. It takes a two-thirds two-thirds majority of both houses to override. Other congressional develop ments: Appropriations The house ap propriations committee whacked off 28 per cent of the funds re quested for half a dozen govern ment agencies. Among the agen cies affected was the office of house expediter whose budget re quest for fiscal year 1948 was slashed in half to $3,539,080. This would have the effect of putting that agency out of business June 30, and leaving it with just enough to liquidate in one year. The rec ommendation action came at a time when senate-house conferees confer-ees agreed that the office of housing hous-ing expediter would administer rent control from July 1 to next Dec. 31. This would be impossible under the appropriation committee commit-tee plan. Congress will have to work ways to reconcile the situ ation. Depression Former secretary of commerce Jesse H. Jones told congress he can see "no possi bility of a depression in the near future." He made the statement in a letter to the house banking committee. Vote Fraud The senate judiciary judi-ciary committee put off for another an-other week action on a resolution involving a full senate investigation investiga-tion of alleged Kansas City vote frauds. Sugar An agriculture department depart-ment official testified housewives house-wives may get less sugar if sugar rationing is lifted "prematurely." James H. Marshall, chief of the department's sugar branch, made the statement before the house banking committee. Labor The labor control bill was delivered to the white house. This means that President Truman Tru-man will have until midnight June 20 to act on the measure which would ban the closed shop, limit the union shop, permit the federal government to obtain injunctions in-junctions against strikes involving involv-ing the nations health and safety, and outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The bill (Continued on page two) Briggs Plant Workers Start Walking Out BY ROY FORREST United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, June 9 (U.R Workers Work-ers began walking out of one plant of the Briggs Manufactur ing company today, 48 hours be fore a strike deadline set for Wednesday, the company re ported. The walkout came as Briggs and the Ford Motor company sought to avert general stoppages which would idle 150,000 work ers across the country and furth er hamper output of cars and trucks. A Briggs spokesman said work ers began leaving their jobs in the trim department of the firm's Conner plant. They were joined by a part of the body shop force, he said. The spokesman said it could not be determined immediately whether refusal of those employes to work would force closing of the entire plan. The unit employs more than 2,250. The CIO United Auto Workers union, representing the strikers, had no immediate comment. How ever, the company spokesman said a union delegation calling at the firms offices today disclaimed any knowledge of the stoppage. Officials of Briggs, wonds largest independent auto body producer, earlier had asked the UAW's executive board, meeting in Chicago, to intervene in the deadlocked contract dispute and help avert a strike. (At Chicago, R. J. Thomas, a UAW vice-president, declined comment on the appeal.) In a day of fast-moving de-( de-( Continued on Page Two) Truman, King To Discuss World Hunger OTTAYv A, June 9 (U.R) World hunger and the price of gold will be the main topics of discussion between President Truman and Prime Minister Mackenzie King here this week. Important joint decisions were expected on both but they may not be announced immediately. Regardless of whether immedi ate disclosure is made, official circles believed that the prime minister will communicate to the. president his country's readiness: to continue food relief measures beyond the end of UNRRA, on the i principle that food is the most effective currency in the diplo-jBy LYLE C. WILSON Department Veteran Diplomat To Succeed Braden; Gets Wider Responsibilities WASHINGTON, June 9 (U.R) Norman Armour, veteran American diplomat, was nom inated by President Truman today to be assistant secre tary of state succeeding Spruille Braden, who resign ed last week. Armour, former ambassador to Spain, returned to the United States from Madrid in December, 1945, and has been in retirement since. He has been in the foreign service since 1915. Braden, in resigning last week, said he was going to return to private business. His resignation is effective June 30. Diplomatic sources said Armour would be given wider responsibilities responsi-bilities in the state department than those held by Braden, who was assistant secretary of state for American republic affairs. In his new post, these sources said, Armour will be in charge of. the department's Far Eastern, Near East and African, and European divisions divi-sions as well as the American Ameri-can republics division. Armour, who is 59, retired from" the foreign service on Dec. 31, 1945. Since he left Madrid, the United States has not had an ambassador am-bassador in Spain. - Armour entered the diplomatic service in 1912 as an embassy attache in Vienna. Until 1932, he served at various foreign posts, including Paris, Petrograd, Brussels, Brus-sels, the Hague, Montevideo, and Tokyo. He was appointed American minister to Haiti on July 25, 1932, and went to Canada in a similar capacity on May 29, 1935. From 1938 to mid-1939, Armour served as U. S. ambassador to Chile and to Argentina. Since his retirement he has been living at his home in Gladstone, Glad-stone, N. J. M 5 si s s I pp i F I d Hop Out Five Levees Towns Isolated as Floods Cut Off Traffic Moslems Accept British Program NEW : ELHI, June 9 (U.R) The Moslem league council tonight accepted with-only eight dissenting dissent-ing votes the British plan for a partitioned India. Mohammed All Jinnah, president presi-dent of the league, had agreed to the plan presented last week by Viscount Mountbatten, viceroy of India. When Jinnah appeared before the council' today, he was greeted with shouts of "Emperor of Pakistan." Pakis-tan." He reprimanded the council, saying he did not want to be emperor c " the projected Moslem state, but was only "a soldier of Pakistan." Truman Foreign Policy, Tax, Labor Bill Win Endorsement In Washington By-Election iw J. My ) ""M'fi AM'i' -y" Rising South River has stopped all highway traffic into Hartford, Iowa as flood waters undermined bridge leading into town. Thousands of persons in central and southeastern Iowa have been forced to leave their homes as rivers through the area continued to rise with more rain expected. Idahoan Scores Foreign Policy In the Senate WASHINGTON. June (U.R) Sen. Henry C. Dworsnak, R., Ida., today accused the administration of following an inconsistent tor' eign policy. He proposed that con gress keep the door open for a special session this fall on for eign relations. Dworshak said there was a pos sibility of ''decisive developments vitally affecting world peace" His Statement coincided 'ItStfru disclosure that, top congressional leaders are considering the pos sibility of bavins a special session this fall because of the trend of relations with Russia. "It is becoming more apparent daily that the United States must adopt a consistent foreign policy to preserve national unity," Dworshak said. "Our security is not safeguarded nor world comity promoted by double talk and va dilation." He charged that the adminis tration program to resist the spread of communism by aid to Greece and Turkey was inconsis tent with ratification of the Italian and Balkan treaties. Woman Pilot Crash Lands; All Three Safe . PANGUITCH, Utah, June 9 (U.R) Unable to locate a landing field when her light plane ran out of fuel, Mrs. Christine Perkins of Cortez, Colo., crash-landed on the highway near here yesterday. Although the plane suffered considerable damage, Mrs. Perkins Perk-ins and her two sons, who accompanied ac-companied her, escaped with only minor bruises and scratches. Garfield County Sheriff Stewart Stew-art Woodward said that Mrs. Perkins was taking her two sons for a ride when she apparently became lost. When the plane ran out of fuel, he said, Mrs. Perkins landed it on the highway where strong ground winds upset the jjjlane, damaging it extensively. matic world They anticipate that, in return, King will get an understanding from the president of an early upward valuation in the price of gold. A rise in the gold price, it is pointed out here, would brighten the horizon of the Canadian gold mining industry, which has been clouded considerably since it recently re-cently lo,st the 10 per cent premium pre-mium previously paid on United States funds. It would assist materially ma-terially the difficult dollar position posi-tion of Canada, by increasing the volume and value alike of the nation's gold exports. And it would also help the dollar position posi-tion of the United Kingdom, which in recent months has become be-come a substantial holder of gold, obtained mainly from South Africa. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 9 (U.R) The only substantirl area and population actually polled on the big issues facing the nation is recorded today in favor of President Presi-dent Truman's foreign policy and the Republican tax and labor bills. Mr. Truman might take that into consideration when . he decides de-cides this week whether to sign or veto the GOP tax and labor legislation. The poll took place in the state of Washington's third congressional district by a by-election by-election to fill a Republican seat vacated by death of the incum- Dent. If the returns mean anything any-thing at all, they mean that a majority of third district voters want their Income Woman Employe of War Department Found Murdered on Tokyo Street TOKYO, June 9 (U.R) Agents of the army's criminal investigation investiga-tion department began a widespread wide-spread search today for a clue to the fatal shooting of BrocKa Lvova, 33-year-old employe of the U. S. war department. Japanese police found Miss Lvova's body shortly after midnight mid-night lying on a lonely street in Nakano ward, about seven miles from the center of Tokyo. An official announcement said it appeared that Miss Lvova "had been murdered on the spot." No firearms were found in the vicinity vi-cinity of the body. Japanese police, however, said that her head had been bashed in with a pistol butt Another unconfirmed un-confirmed version was that she had been found dead in an automobile auto-mobile and had been shot twice in the head. Employes at allied headquarters' economic and scientific section said Miss Lvova bandied coding and classification of industrial plants earmarked for reparations and that she had worked there since December. An unofficial report said she had also served as an interpreter for the Russian staff at the war crimes trial. Miss Lvova was said to have come to Japan from the United States last July. Acquaintances described her as "very plain." taxes cut and want organized labor to be governed by the terms of the Hartley -Taft bill now before the president. They want Mr. Truman to sign both bills. Republican Russell V. Mack won the Washington state congressional con-gressional by-election. He defeated defeat-ed Charles R. Savage, Democratic candidate whose nomination last month brought from left wingers a triumphant w ioop of exultation. The left wing claimed Savage as a "Wallace Democrat." Wallace entered the state to make a couple of speeches for Savage during the by-election campaign. The left wing's claim on Savage was based in part on his voting record here as a member of the 79th congress. He was one of the left wingers defeated in the 1946 general elections. The particular claim that he was a Wallace man was reported in dispatches based on his primary campaign coolness to Mr. Truman's foreign policy. Mack, a Republican, supported administration foreign policy and stood by his party on taxes and labor leeislatio 1. The contest was a close one. The election took place Saturday. With a scattering of precincts still to report there had been more than 63,000 votes cast and Mack's majority was less than 2,000. But outstanding votes could not change the -.result and Savage conceded .that he was licked. State Democratic Chairman Earl Coe said the Republican vic tory ' proved President Truman "stronger than e'ver" because Mack heartily endorsed the president's presi-dent's foreign policy in his campaign. Savage v. as termed "a fine liberal" by former vice-president (Continued on rag two) Dworshak, who voted against the treaties, said the effect would be to weaken the resistance of those countries coun-tries against communism because be-cause of the resulting withdrawal with-drawal of American troops from Italy. "It is difficult to comprehend the Truman doctrine when it enunciates wholly-conflicting pol icies," he said. "Obviously we cannot strengthen some and vitiate vi-tiate other countries in Europe at the same time and hope to be successful." Dworshak recalled that congress con-gress adjourned during the war years under procedure allowing congressional leaders to call it back into session. He said that plan must be continued. "If our country is to maintain its bipartisan foreign policy," he said, "the legislative branch (Continued on Page Two) Three Injured In Crossing Crash POTSDAM, N. Y., June 9 (U.R) Three persons were injured seriously seri-ously today when a milk train collided with a passenger train at Eben on the New York Central line near here. The injured were identified as David C. Blake, engineer of the milk train, Homer Munson, fireman, fire-man, both of Watertown, N Y., and an" unidentified woman passenger pas-senger of the north bound sleeper. sleep-er. They were taken to Potsdam hospital. Reports -said also that nearly 50 others were shaken. Count Karolyi Sides With New Hungarian Government By DR. EDWARD J. BYNG Written for the United Press While latest United Press dis patches from Budapest report a Sunday of relative normalcy, Count Michael Karolyi. who overthrew Hapsburg rule in Hun gary after World War I, in an interview with U. P. Correspond ent George Pipal, sided with Hungary's new cabinet today. Karolyi affirmed that there had been a plan among reactionary, pro-German elements inside the nearian. small landowners party to overthrow the country's Coalition regime of small landholders, land-holders, Socialists and Communists. Meanwhile, latest events in Sofia ' rounded out the picture of Balkan politics. During a personal per-sonal meeting with the Amer- Britain Asks Russia For Explanation LONDON June 9 (U.R) Great Britain is asking Russia for an explanation of political developments develop-ments in Hungary, a government spokesman revealed today. Minister of State Hector McNeil Mc-Neil told the house of commons that Sip Maurice Peterson, British Brit-ish ambassador to Moscow, had been instructed to ask the Soviet government to explain the Hun garian developments. McNeil said that Peterson had been instructed to discuss the whole question with the Soviet government "with a view to obtaining ob-taining elucidation of what has occurred and clarification of Soviet policy toward that country." McNeil said he had instructed the British representative on the allied control council in Budapest to press a demand for copies of documents which led to the resignation resig-nation of Premier Ferenc Nagy and the formation of the new Hungarian government. lean and British diplomatic rep-j resentatives, the Bulgarian premier, pre-mier, Georgi Dimitrov, declared today that the arrest of Nicola Petkov, leader of the Bulgarian opposition, "was a purely internal Bulgarian question." A clear picture of the undercurrents under-currents and significance of the highly complex east-European situation can be gained only by viewing major events in the va rious Balkan capitals merely as different' aspects of a single co ordinated "policy. That policy Is influenced by a growing fear in the Balkans that America may be planning a financial and eco nomic boycott of all countries inside the Russian orbit. Undei impact of this fear Balkan countries coun-tries now are more inclined than in the past to pursue the project of a Balkan bloc. A Balkan bloc on federation has been the subject of discussions dis-cussions In eastern Europe ever since the end of the first World War. However, the idea always foundered on the rocks of virulent national, jealousy, which separated the countries in the Danubian basin and the Balkans. Since the end of Ihe last war the situation has changed in this connection. This is chiefly due to the increasingly leftist tora- plexion of post-war governments (Continued on Page Two) Bus Employes Order Strike OAKLAND, Cal.. June 9 (U.R) A strike of 3,000 Key system employes, em-ployes, which would affect 500,000 streetcar and bus riders in the bay area, was ordered for midnight mid-night tomorrow at an AFL union mass meeting early today. The walkout, scheduled for 12:01 a. my Wednesday, would virtually, paralyze transportation in Oakland and halt passage of all commuter trains and buses across the bay bridge, which car ry more than 35,000 passengers daily. Stock Issues Show Decline NEW YORK, June 9 (U.R) Stocks drifted irregularly lower in a light volume of trading today as Wall street read reports from Canada in advance of President Truman's meeting with Prime Minister Mackenzie King and waited final disposition of the tax bill. A statement by Jesse Jones, former head of the RFC, that he foresaw no depression in the near future attracted little Wall street attention. The street was much more interested in a report from Ottawa that the president and prime minister plan a discussion of the possibility of raising the U. S. price of gold. Action by U. S. Rubber and Goodyear in reducing tice prices unsettled that group of stocks, where Goodyear lost a point to a 1947. low. t The actual stock market was a spotty affair, with changes generally gen-erally small but with some leaders lead-ers showing wide movements-American movements-American Telephone, for instance, lost 2 points. Pacific Telephone, a subsidiary, off ' 93,i Friday on a dividend cut, moved up almost 4 points. Gold shares showed very little reaction to the possibility of a rise in the U. S. price. 22 Drowned, Damage Runs Into Millions Rains Finally Let Up. Giving Promise Of Averting Disaster By UNITED PRESS The Mississippi river, on its worst rampage in recent years, set new flood marks today to-day as high water battered levees protecting Illinois and Missouri river towns. Five levees had been smash ed by the raging waters and residents of scores of towns rallied to strengthen embankments pro- tecting their homes. Rains which hit the midwest over the week end let up today and the weather bureau predicted fair weather for 24 hours. Au- thorities had forecast a major flood disaster unless the rains let up. At least 22 persons were drown ed in Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and Oregon and five others were killed by tornadoes in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Ohio, bringing the to tal death toll from natural dis asters over the week end to 27. An estimated 10,000 persons were homeless and thousands of acres of . rich farmland were laid waste. Property damage was counted in the millions of dolars. At least 15 persons were believed believ-ed to have drowned in Ottumwa, la., where 6-000 people were forc ed from their homes when the Des Moines river went on a ram page. The bodies of six adults have been recovered and officials agreed the final death toll would be 15. They based their estimates oh' eyewitnesses reports that at least nine other persons were drowned. Their bodies haye not been recov- red and authorities said they might have been carried down the river into the Mississippi. One person was drowned ilk Oregon when a flash flood sent an eight-foot wall of water rac ing through a canyon, wrecking four itinerant workers' camps. Five persons were killed in Ohio and Pennsylvania, by a tornado near Sharon Pa. Four were killed by the tornado tor-nado and the fifth victim died of a heart attack brought on by the excitement. All nowor facilities were knock ed out by the flood at Ottumwa, but partial service was restored today and residents lined up for anti-typhoid shots as authorities sought to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic Those who evacuated tne cuy began returning to shattered homes today as the flood waters receded. Rpinw ottumwa. the muddy flood waters covered the business districts of Keosaqua, Bonaparte and Farmington, la. Alexandria, Mo., (pop. 600) where the Des . Moines and the Fox rivers flow (Continued on page two) Vherry Predicts Restoration of Reclamation Cuts Communist Fringe In Italy Stirs Up Riots BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, June 9 (U.R) Italian authorities au-thorities announced today that more than a score of persons were injured in political brawls touched touch-ed off by an aggressive communist commu-nist challenge to the new government govern-ment from which Premier Alcide De Gasperi excluded the communists. com-munists. Rightists and lefts formed their lines for a showdown on whether Italy's first government without communist representation since fascism ' could, function. The leftist parties formed a solid bloc against the government in a test of strength to be climaxed climax-ed by a vote of confidence which will determine the fate of De Gasperi's cabinet The communist party, in a declaration, called on both the left and right wing faction fac-tion of the socialists to stand ' with them against the government. gov-ernment. The vote of confidence, when it comes, will be one of the most important political decisions since the liberation. It will follow a statement by the Christian demo cratic De Gasperi on his financial and economic program. Street fights broke-out at widely wide-ly scattered points in Italy yesterday yes-terday when the lines were drawn for the test of strength. The most serious clash occurred at Cremona, in the Po valley. Hundreds of communists clogged the streets in a bid to block a meeting of the provincial congress con-gress of the common man party. It was postponed indefinitely. Local police were overcome by the rioters, and the mayor had to call in army units with armored cars to restore order. WASHINGTON. June 9 (U.R Chairman Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb., predicted today that his" senate appropriations subcommittee subcommit-tee would restore a substantial part of the house cut in the interior in-terior department's request for funds for fiscal 1948. The department asked for $295,420,420. The house chopped it down to $161,415,513. Most of. the reduction was at the expense of western reclamation projects, . . and senators, from the . affected area are making an all-out. fight '- for restoration of a sizeable chunk " of the cut. "I am satisfied that we will -: reinstate funds for reclamation " projects that are justified,"1;;; Wherry said. "However, the subcommittee hasn't yet arrived at any figures:'", that we can even indicate. : -j, . Wherry's prediction on the sub- - . committee action' was supported by the statement of Sen. Joseph.' t -C. 0;Mahoney, D., Wyov;,that.;hef , was optimistic about the chances ; ol a good part of the reclamation Iproject funds being restored. Tne suDCommmee was expect ed to complete its work on the -interior appropriation bill this ; week. , - ' rt wt |