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Show TEMPERATURES luuoa Uu Mlastatloa Mas Mis Provo ...... II 'Portland . it 1 Salt Lake .. 7 42 Settl ... SI 4 D(dca ..... M 41 Yellowstone 5 3 Logan . .... 4S 3S BoUe . .... 54 J I St. George i 74 42 Denver -. . . 79 J Ui Vegas . 742 iOmaha ... SO S2 Phoenix .. IS 32 Chicago ... IS S! Lo Angeles 73 57 PWachlngton. 83 35 Sao. Fraa. .35 49 New York 12 57 FROST PREDICTED ta the Provo. area tonight with a possible low of 29. Partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon, clearinr and colder tonight with frost and freetlnr temperatures. Clear Thursday BIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 103' PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Bond Games 044 d dj rp cp d di 2,1 76 Spanish Fork Man Held In Eureka Deaths Deputy Sheriff Says Motorist Gave Himself Up, Admits Crash R. A. Jackson, chief deputy sheriff of Juab county, said in ProVo today that Jack C. Hutchings, 23, Spanish Fork, gave himself up to Jackson early this morning- and as-sertedly as-sertedly admitted being the driver of the car which struck and killed two Eureka residents early yesterday. Hutchings is being held for investigation, the deputy said. Deputy Jackson said Hutchings, accompanied by tne latter's father, fa-ther, came to him in Nephl at 12:15 a. m. today. He said Hutch-..ings'was Hutch-..ings'was now in custody of Juab county Sheriff John M. Bowden. ; Jackson said Hutchings implicated impli-cated another person who allegedly alleg-edly was in the car with him at the time of the fatal crash, i The deputy sheriff said Hutch ings assertedly claimed he did notlHora, the newspapers splashed see the Eureka couple until it Was too late to avoid them, and declared he stopped his car and later started off to notify officers. offi-cers. Deputy Jackson dec la red Hutchings said he then "lost his nerve and failed to notify officers. of-ficers. Hutchings allegedly told the officer he drove the car on to Goshen where it stalled, then got some deer hunters to tow it to Santaquin, later returning with another car to tow the first one to Spanish Fork Denutv Jackson and Stat Highway 'Patrolman Eldon Sherwood Sher-wood were continuing an investi gation of the case today. Philippi lines Ask UN to Stop Dutch Indies War LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oct. 22 (U.R The Philippines republic repub-lic attacked both the colonial powers and Russia for their stand on Indonesia today and called on the United Nations security council today to enlist the Big Five military staff committee-in the attempt to halt civil warfare in the Dutch Indies. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, chief ofthe Philippines UN delegation, told the council that the military staff group might be able to work out a military truce between Dutch and Indonesian forces and thereby pave the way for a long-range long-range settlement of Indonesian trouble. :t Romulo accused the security Council's on-the-spot -commit ee of consuls of favoring the Dutch in their initial reports on the failure of the 10-weeks-old ceasefire cease-fire order which the council sent to both sides. . He also hit at Russia with a thinly-veiled charge that Soviet spokesmen were using the Indonesian Indo-nesian case for "political or other reasons" and "for purposes of propaganda." Romulo led off in the council's Indonesian fight a few hours before be-fore the 57-nation political committee' com-mittee' of the UN general assembly assem-bly opened the long-awaited fight between Russian and the , United States over war monger- Jng. f Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei An-drei Y. Vishlnsky stood by 'with his opening blast in the debate of the Soviet campaign to indictthe United States on charges of spreading war-inciting talk. He wants criminal punishment of persons and publications guilty of such propaganda. He Was slated to speak at 3 p. m., EST. News Highlights In Central Utah Provo Voters Approve City Power Bond Issue 1 Collard, Anderson, Oss, Payne Election Finalists . , . 1 Driver In Eureka Death ; Crash Gives Self Up 1.1 Republicans Complete Plans' For. Baldwin Dinner 3 Lost Deer Hifnter Shows Up . To End Eearch by Posses ... 3 pleasant Grove Crash II arts Three; Driver Arrested ., 3 Anderson Gone 8 Vi Years, . Disappearance v Now Reported CINCINNATI, Oct. 22 (U.R) Mrs. Henry , C. Thomas, Bellevue, Ky., asked police to search today. for her son and" daughter-in-law. "I didn't want to report it earlier because I didn't want to embarrass them," she explained. ex-plained. She had not seen her son, Richard. C. Thomas, 31, and his wife, Lorraine, 25, since they disappeared in April, 1939 eight and a half years ago. Argentina Might . Follow Brazil In Break Yith Russia BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 22 U.R The first hint that Argentina might follow the example of Brazil and Chile in breaking off relations with Russia appeared today to-day in Buenos Aires newspapers. Except for the Communist La the Rio De Janeiro and Santiago developments in huge type reserved re-served for "the most important events. The attention of the nation was focused on the presidential train traveling north toward the Bolivian Bo-livian frontier, where President John D. Peron and President En rique" Hertzog of Bolivia- will meet tomorrow. Foreign Minister Juan A, Bramuflia was accompanying Peron. Therefore it was unlikely un-likely that any action would fce taken by Argentina before nthe president and foreign minister return. Chile and Argentina worked, and still were wqrking, in close concert on the Communist problem. prob-lem. Reports circulated insistently last week that Argentina might join in an ABC bloc Argentina, Brazil, Chile in breaking with Russia. There never was any official confirmation. But diplomats who expressed the belief that Argentina Argen-tina might break with Moscow pointed out that Santiago's decision de-cision yesterday came without any previous preparation of public opinion. As in the case of the expulsion of two Yugoslav diplomats from Chile, Argentina was informed at once of the break with Russia and Czechoslovakia by a direct telephone tele-phone call from the government house in Santiago to the Casa Rosada or executive mansion in Buenos Aires. Presumably the information was. flashed immediately to the presidential train. It was due this morning at Tucuman, but was running behind schedule. The fate of two Yugoslav diplo mats, Andres Kunja and Dalibor Jakasa, had been unknown for several days. A spokesman for the Yugoslav legation said Jakafca left for Belgrade yesterday, aboard the Italian steamer Sestriere, and Kunja still was in Buenos Aires. Strike Spreads In British Coal Mines EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 22 (U.R) A coal board official an nounced today that wildcat strike of Scottish miners had spread to 28 more pits, raising the total of idle mines to 67 and the strikers to 21,345. They said the strike was caus ing the loss of 32,447 tens of coal a day. The strike started today. Miners said they wanted quicker negotiation of their demand for raises. Maine forest Fire W ipes Out 200 Homes, Two Hotels, School KENNEBUNKPORT, Me., Oct. 22 (U.R) A forest fire raging at the whim of a changing wind ate into the streets of this town of 2,000 today, destroyed 200 homes, two hotels and a grade school. One man was dead. Three were missing. The advance of the fire through Kennebunkport was. checked temporarily. Gov. Horace A. Hildreth flew to take command of. the fire units from three state fighting the flames that already have caused damage estimated unofficially at $500,000. Complete Data On 75 Communists In Hollywood Claimed Strikes at California Aviation Plants Linked Up With West Coast Communists; Screen Writers Guild Under Scrutiny By SANDOR S. KLEIN and JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondents WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U.R) Chairman J. Parnell Thomas said today the house un-American activities committee com-mittee has "complete data on at least 79" Communists in Hollywood. The New Jersey Republican made this disclosure as the committee began its third day of hearings into movie-land movie-land Reds. "This committee," he said, "has very complete records on Communists in Hollywood. . It has complete data on at least 79 of them and will place the material in the record either some time this week or next. Thomas' disclosure interrupted testimony by James McGuinness, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive who testified that Hollywood Communists supported California Califor-nia aviation strikers before the war although the late President Roosevelt "had condemned the strike." The strike, at the North American Amer-ican Aviation Corp., was broken when U. S. troops took over the plant. 0 McGuinness, Irish - born veteran screen writer, said I miovte jirltef John Howard Lawson and others sent encouraging en-couraging telegrams to strikers strik-ers at the plant. - McGuinness said he was a member of 'the executive committee com-mittee of the motion picture alliance al-liance for preservation of American Amer-ican ideals. He said the organization was "designed to combat within our own industry the menace of Communism and to a degree, fascism." But, McGuinnefs added, he had seen no evidence of fascism in the film capital. He first ran into Communism, he said, when film writers Law-son, Law-son, Donald Ogden Stewart and others tried to take over the Screen Writers Guild in 1935. . The support given the North American strikers, McGuinness said, was mobilized by the League of American Writers. Signers of telegrams encouraging encourag-ing the strikers included, he; said, Lawson and Stewart. ; Questioned about Communism ! in his own studio, McGuinness said: "I don't think it's the whitest place in Hollywood. We have our share of Communists. As the hearing began, Thomas announced that actor Robert Taylor would not testify until later today an announcement that promoted a - stir of disappointment disap-pointment among women specta tors. McGuinness described the organization or-ganization in Hollywood of the American Peace Mobilization, a national organization which has been called a Communist front Among the members, he said. was Director Herbert Biberman. He said the League, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin peace pact, when England and France were at war with Germany, denounced de-nounced all American efforts to aid the allies. McGuinness said he agreed with actor Adolph Menjou that no Hollywood producer, knowingly knowing-ly had let Communist propaganda get ihto' films. ' "But they have not been infallable," he said. RENT BOOST APPROVED WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U.R Rent Director Frank Creedon today to-day approved a 10 per cent boost in rents in the Klamath Falls, Ore., area. More than 100 separated forest fires were burning throughout New England's drought-parched timbers with property damage estimated at $2,000,000. One fire on an eight-mile front was creeping creep-ing out of control toward Bar Harbor, Me. The governor ordered out the national guard to police the devastated devas-tated area. Police reported vandals van-dals were looting homes evacuated evacu-ated by farmers and townsfolk. Fire Chief John F.- Eldrldge.l who collapsed after 24 hours of fire-fighting, said the fate of the town 'depended upon the wind ! direction. l to B (ronton Plant Builder Back On Utah Visit L. F. Rains, pioneer Utah iron and steel man. who fathered the Ironton plant back in 1921, came back to Utah this week. He was quoted in the press as saying that the biggest thing that has happened hap-pened in Utah in many years was khe acquisition of the Geneva plant by the U. S. Steel corporation. corpora-tion. ' Mr. Rains was" 'the irsf general manager of the Utah properties of the Columbia Steel company, builders of the Ironton plant. Since 1931 he has been president of the A. M. Byers Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., manufacturers of wrought iron pipe, alloy and electric furnace fur-nace steels. Mr. Rains was the first to visualize the possibility of a steel industry in Utah and really do something about it. After overcoming over-coming many difficulties, including includ-ing widespread skepticism about using Utah coal for steel making, he promoted establishment of the Ironton plant and proved that coal mined in this state could "carry the burden" of a steel industry. For 25 years the Ironton plant has been a successful producer of pig iron, and it was this operation that made Geneva possible, he explained. ex-plained. The Ironton plant, built by Columbia Co-lumbia Steel Corp. and financed by California and Utah capital, was acquired by United States Steel Corp. in 1930. When it was built, Columbia - already had a small plant at Pittsburg. Cal. Now both the Ironton and Geneva plants are owned by Geneva Steel Co., a subsidiary of United ! States Steel. bpeaking of the nation as a whole, Mr. Rains said he antici pates a continuation of present good business conditions for at least another year, and ' probably two. "I see nothing in the offing," he added, "to upset the present economic situation." He explained that the steel industry as a whole is way behind the demand for its products, and tnat the pressure being exerted by various manu facturing industries for steel ' is terrific. Mr. Rains lived in Utah from 1910 to 1927. In the latter year he went to San Francisco, re maining until 1931 when moved to Pittsburgh, Pa. he Four Killed In Harbor Crash ARGENTIA, Nfld., Oct. 22 (U.R) Operations were begun today to recover the bodies of four men killed when a navy landplane crashed and burned last night in foggy little Polentia harbor. Four members of the PB4Ys crew were rescued. 'The big four-engined plane was coming in for a night instrument instru-ment landing in a heavy fog and a high wind witnesses said, when it struck a narrow neck of land separating the naval base from the mainland and bounced into the sea, bursting into flames. Rescue of the four survivors, including in-cluding the pilot, co-pilot, navigator navi-gator and a mechanic, was termed "miraculous"v by witnesses who said the plane's gasoline tanks exploded - as it ' hit the water, spreading flaming high octane fuel over the harbor . The bomber sank in a matter of seconds to the floor of the 25 foot deep - harbor The accident occurred oc-curred at 6:30 p. m. EST. : It was not known if the four dead were all naval personnel or included civilians fettle f or M Ossf Payne In Race For Commissioner How Provo Voted For, Mayor George E. Collard 2206 Mark Anderson 1486 M. Howard Graham. .. .1210 For Commissioner EarfT. Oss 1406 Eldon W. Payne . . 7e$ Joseph H. Swapp 641 Vivian W. Harrison 566 Ralph M. Eggertsen 470 Hyrum E. Johnson ..... .421 John P. McGuire 391 Delbert L. Oswald 162 For Auditor Iva J. Benson 3384 Marie K. Murphy 1213 Six qualifying finalists in .the race for three Provo city offices today were outlining their "home stretch" campaign plans in preparation prepa-ration for the final ballot on Nov. 4. Winners of Tuesday's primary election, they are: For mayor, George E. Collard and Mark Anderson, incumbent; for commissioner, Earl T. Oss and Eldon W. Payne, and for auditor, For complete results of voting vot-ing by districts, see boxed tabulation on page 2. , ' i in, i. . , , Iva J. Benson, incumbent, and Marie Klein Murphy. Collard, who came within about 100 votes of becoming mayor two years ago, emerged with the lion's share of the votes in Tuesday's primary. He garnered 2206 against 1486 for Anderson. Anderson won his way to the finals by polling 276 votes more than M. Howard Graham, the third mayoralty candidate. Ins the race for four-year commissioner. com-missioner. Payne emerged a decided de-cided "dark horse" to acquire a total of 783 votes and make the final ballot along with Oss, who led the commissioners race with 1406. Man - on - the - street talk which definitely favored Oss before be-fore the primary appeared to be sustained by Tuesday's results. Payne's victory was a decided surprise to many, but a large personal per-sonal following combined with an effective and sustained house-to-( Continued on Page Two) Strike-Bound Plant Raided KENTON. O., Oct. 22 (U.R) Between 20 and 30 men forced their way into the North Electric Co. plant here early today overpowering over-powering a watchman and causing caus-ing extensive damage to machinery, mach-inery, police reported. Company officials and police said a two months old strike at two other Ohio plants of the company might have caused the incident. Gates of the plant were immediately closed to workers. The raid took place at about 2:30 a. m.. Police Chief C. W. Sheldon said. The company, manufacturing telephone switchboard equipment, equip-ment, operates plants at Gallon, Mt. Gilead and Kenton. Two hundred workers were barred from the Kenton plant. Police, company officials and others were reported in a closed meeting. Gallon police and the Crawford county sheriff's office, meanwhile were alerted for action in case of an outbreak of violence there. On Sept. 25-26 some 400 windows of the plant were broken by stone- throwing pickets and a comoany vice president was knocked down during an argument with union officials. Texas -Bill' Looking For $12 Million In Parcel Post CHICAGO, Oct. 22 (U.R) "Texas Bill" Lacy kept an eye peeled" for the parcel post man today. The package he was expecting ex-pecting from Mexico City may contain 12 million dollars. Lacy said the money had been waiting for him since 1927, but he just found out about it Monday. Mon-day. " .- , The former Texas cow hand said he inherited the money from Raymond G. Clark, an , old time Klondike gold prospector whom he grubstaked years ago. Lacy, now an employe of Chicago candy factory, saidhe ayoir Finalists in Provo's Election I Iff n-iir-rrTinnm-nnm mihimiuiiw iihiiihhiihwiimiiilu P T " - --- ""j & 1 - - , h ; r- I & ' 3 " "', J - I ' i 1 , .jf i b V i - f - a M ' - 1 s . i -r". X f n -"t - ! V ' .... I &v ; MARK ANDERSON . ' ? GEORGE E. COLLARD ' t - ? -' LMJLi.j ELDON W. PAYNE Rdmadier Goyernment Votes To Resign In Surprise Move PARIS, Oct. 22 (U.R) The government gov-ernment of Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier, pressed by Communist Com-munist threats of continuing strikes and ' weakened by Gen. Charles De Gaulle's victory in Sunday's municipal elections, decided de-cided unanimously tonight to resign. re-sign. After a cabinet meeting late this: afternoon, the ministers announced an-nounced that they ( were placing their portfolios at' the disposal 10 Injured In Train Wreck ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 22 (U.R) A, passenger train and a freight train, both travelling slowly, col lided head-on near here today, over turning- both locomotives and derailing several cars. At least 10 persons were .injured, .in-jured, but only one, J. A. Ritchie, the freight conductor, was hurt seriously. - A Soo line passenger train, arriving ar-riving here from Chicago, hit a 13-car Northern Pacific, freight which was using a stretch of Soo line rail. A Soo line spokesman .said six freight cars were derail ed and badly damaged. Sever?! passenger, cars which were being used for , baggage also were derailed. de-railed. The Sob official said the freight train regularly uses a three-mile stretch of Soo track on its way northward toward Du-luth. Du-luth. He Said so far as he knew all of the Soo crewmen were "on their feet" and were not hurt seriously. " met Clark 22 years ago .i Texas. The prospector was. penniless and Lacy gave him a $1,200 stake.- i "I never saw- him again,"- Lacy said.-"Then one day; while I was mixing candy batter, I happened to think about him. I knew he once lived in 'Mexico City and wrote to him. Monday I got " a letter from a fellow named Rios. He said that there was a package there that Clark left for me, and he enclosed this will." The ' document, dated ' June 15, 1927, and written in large, shaky script, was filed in probate court (Continued vn Page Two) In tSie :ARL T. OSS of Ramadier as head of the coalition coali-tion government. The surprise decision followed a meeting of the full council of ministers under President Vin cent Auriol this morning at which it ..was decided to call a special session of the French parliament Oct. 28. At the end of the afternoon meeting, Pierre Bourdan, of the Information ministry, told newsmen the entire cabinet cabi-net had handed its collective resignation to Ramadier. Government sources indicated the move was designed to enable Ramadier to reorganize his cabinet. cabi-net. It was believed the Popular Republicans MRP), chief victims vic-tims of the Sunday elections, probably would not- be included in the new government, but would support Ramadier in the assembly. Ramadier already had summoned sum-moned an 'emergency session of the assembly for next Tuesday to ask. for a vote of confidence. The council of ministers which includes neither members of De Gaulle's rally of the French people nor the Communist. France's strongest political groups met for three hours under president of the republic, Vincent Auriol. ' ... They decided , to go to parlia ment where the government holds a tenuous majority with a weak coalition to ask whether the deputies are "in accord with measures" taken by Ramadier's government on 'politics, wages, prices and foreign imports. Call Issued For Iron, Steel Scrap WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 U.R Secretary . of Interior J. A. Krug today asked the domestic mining industry to round up all' available avail-able iron and steel scrap , to re lieve the shortage-" confronting steel mills. ' , '..i? He said more scrap is essential if the steel industry is to maintain; main-tain; production rates required by demands in ; this country and abroad. - . ' ' IDAnO POLIO CASES REACH 182 BOISE, Ida., Oct. 22 (UJ9 A 23-year-old Boise woman, stricken strick-en while returning , to ner home from SDOkane, was hospitalized with polio today to bring the to tal : infantile paralysis cases zor the year to 182. , . 1 Finals Power Plant cxpcmsiuiiuei 'Green LighT Proposal Approved By Narrow Margin In Heavy Balloting Here Provo citizens Tuesday decided de-cided in favor of expanding the municipal power system with a revenue bond issue of $1,250,000 voting 2544 in against, on the unofficial count, an affirmative majority major-ity of 53.9 percent of the total votes cast. These totals represent the action ac-tion of all registered voters who cast their ballots on the question, and is the count which determined determin-ed the issue. The special taxpayers' tax-payers' ballot, which only the taxpayers voted in addition to their registered voter ballot, car- i i i a. - , n , T . tmAr. nea ay a count ui 10 1 Ku an affirmative majority of 52.8 per cent of the total 3687 ballots cast. City officials said the results of the taxpayers' special ballot will be used to give the "sentiment "senti-ment of the taxpayers on the question" requested by the attorneys at-torneys who drew the special bond ordinance. J. Hamilton Calder, chairman f of the city utilities board which administers the municipal system, said today the affirmative vote Was the green Ught for the board to -proceed toward completion of the proposed expansion. - - Contracts for better than $700,-000 $700,-000 of the total expansion pro-, gram were let several months ago, some of them as long as a year ago, with a cancellation clause in case the bond issue failed. - "Our purpose in this, Mr. Calder Cal-der said, was to save money by getting early contracts on equipment equip-ment that was constantly rising in cost. We estimate we have saved five to 10 per cent on this equipment equip-ment by ordering it when we did, and by getting it without an' escalator clause. In other words, despite the fact that costs on this material have riseti substantially substan-tially since we ordered it, we get it at the original contract price." With most of the equipment already ordered, only major remaining re-maining unit of the program still to be, let is the enlargement of the present power plant building. The plant is to be more than doubled dou-bled in size, expanding to the south, making room for the new 7500 KW generator contemplated, contemplat-ed, and leaving room for the addition ad-dition of still another generator if th latter is iustified at some future date. The expansion program is scheduled for completion in time to put the new unit into operation opera-tion to handle the peak load of 1948, which is expected in December De-cember of that year. An analysis of the voting on the bond question shows that in eight of Provo's 31 districts, the power bond failed to carry both on the registered voters' count and on the special taxpayers' ballot. In five others, it lost, by narrow margins, on the special taxpayers' ballot only. The power bond vote, most keenly fought of the entire election elec-tion and which easily took the spotlight, in the campaign was undecided until the final district s (Continued on Page Two) Boy Held In Fatal Stabbing PINED ALE, Wyo., Oct 22 U.R Sublette County Attorney. G. B. Hockett said today he planned to file murder charges : against a seventh-grade pupil in connection with the stabbing of a husky ex- high school athlete at a football game. ; Deputy Sheriff J. F. Schmitz said 14-year-pld George Smith Was being held outside the county because of high feeling against him. . The Pinedale school will be closed for a week, officials said. The youth, Schmitz. said, plung ed ? a three-inch blade into the chest of Richard Doyle, on the sidelines of a football game here, yesterday. Doyle, a three-letter man at the local high school last year, was handling the markers at a game between Big Piney and Pinedale high. . The stabbing followed an argument argu-ment between the two youths, in which Doyle rebuffed Smith for "unruly, remarks," the sheriff saiL The younger boy walked off the field smiling, and returned as Doyle m o ve d t h sidelines marker. |