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Show TEMPERATURES PrT ..... Rait Lk , Ofdcn ..... Logan St. Gcorf . I.at V(ai . Phoenix I.o. Antelti San Fran. . 47 2S 41 J? 41 3t It 2S 34 7 32 35 47 1 47 Portland . . 'Butt ... .. ,pctell . Denver ... Chicago . . Dulotn New York N. Orleans S. .- Antonio SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 200 CLOlJbY TUESDAY ' e ' with occasional light showers and cooler this afternoon. Low Tuesday tnornlnc, 30. Uif h Toe day afternoon, is. PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. MONDAY, MARCH 8. 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS Legislature Asked By Maw To Act; Drop Amend Welfare Stranded Utah Plane Sighted; Kestr ictions Utah Houses Convened in Joint Session SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 U.R) The first special session of the 27th legislature got under way shortly after noon without a hitch. Shortly after they organized thev convened in joint session in the house chamber to await the governor's message. Rep. Rendall N. Mabey, R., Salt Lake, was re-elected speak- -m ai V. 1 cv aixia F. Hopkin, D., Woodruff, was renamed re-named senate president. The session opened amid a flurry flur-ry of rumors comparable to the snow which was falling outside. ine rumors raigea irom discussion discus-sion of an investigation of the Utah state liquor control commls- ! - L .U . Ut Ua mwi iu nic icivii iuai wv. bert B. Maw held in reserve a message which would throw open the entire field of state appropriations appro-priations should the legislature not follow his welfare recommendations. recom-mendations. Secretary of State Heber Ben-nion Ben-nion Jr., opened the senate session ses-sion by reading the proclamation calling for "the" extra-curricular (Continued on Page Two.) r a i r . iv ::Yi l!MnJ uovernor asks ior rave inaiiKe, auucu Tn F.liminntA Rpstrirtiotis in Welfare Spending, Elimination of the Sales Tax By WILLIAM B. HATCH United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 8, (U.R Gov. Herbert B. Maw today asked a special session of the Utah legislature for five changes in the welfare act, and called for the gradual grad-ual elimination of the sales tax when it isn't needed for welfare purposes. ' ' . . . The governor threw into the laps oi tne legislators Tthe problem of changing the welfare law so that it is not I only worKaDie dui is equnaoic to all. rive Recommendations The governor's five specific recommendations on welfare were followed, in a message prepared for delivery to the special session, ses-sion, by recommendations for eight other pieces of legislation ranging from veterans' housing to authorizing Carbon Junior col lege to exchange some land with the city of Price. The governor's welfare recom mendations were: 1 Repeal of the individual budget limitations on welfare recipients and allow the welfare department to set budgets as they are needed by the people. 2 Repeal of the ceiling limitation limi-tation on the amount the welfare commission can spend during each six-month period. 3 Emergency welfare funds to be used by the welfare commission commis-sion with the approval of the board of examiners as the needs arise and without direct approval by the legislature. 4 Repeal of the provision call ing for liens on the. homes of those receiving welfare grants when the homes are valued - at more than $1200. ' f 3 Repeal of provisions of law which divert sales tax, revenues away from the welfare department. depart-ment. ' " . v in connection with " the" "fait litem, the governor proposed that "If . and when the income from sales tax exceeds the amount needed for public assistance and fqr the maintainance of adequate reserves for public assistance... the tax be reduced or eliminated, first on foods, then on drugs, and later on other necessities." Maw dwelt at length in his 12-page 12-page message on the requirements of the welfare department. He said that "an estimated $2,390,000 in additional revenues" will be needed by the welfare department depart-ment if maximum grants are to be maintained during the next year. Gf this amount, he said, some $530,000 will be heeded by A.pril 1 for emergency current expenses. "Maw said that" there were' 26,-000 26,-000 persons on welfare rolls at present in the state, and that many of them were suffering a lack of proper nourish ment and heat. He advocated raising the grants, or, failing that, removal of the individual budget system on welfare recipients. Limitation Criticised Maw said that, under present law a single person is limited to $48.15 a month if he is aettina welfare money. This, he said, is not sufficient to live on, and the person receiving the money is unable to augment it by either part-tim work or through re ceiving gifts. Two B-29 Bombers Unaccounted for In Yohota Flight Russ, Envoy Three Aboard Salt Laker, Wife, and Daughter Reported Alive West of Brigham BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, March 8, (U.R) Three Salt Lake fliers missing since yesterday yes-terday afternoon in a small two-place cabin plane en route from Burley, Ida., to Salt Lake City, were sighted about noon today at the old Locomotive Springs emergency landing strip 70 miles west of here. Box Elder county sheriff's officers of-ficers said the plane's occupants appeared to be alive and uninjured. unin-jured. Elwood D. Penrose, 36, was piloting the plane which had not been heard fromsince it took off from the Burley airport at 2 p. m. yesterday. His wife, Orpha, and their eight-year-old daughter, Marilyn, were aboard. Sheriff Warren W. Hyde of Box Elder county headed the rescue posse which left here soon after receiving the report of the plane's discovery. He estimated two hours' time would be necessary before the posse would arrive at the site. (Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City. Thompson Flying Service at the Municipal airport, said it was dispatching dis-patching a plane with rescue supplies sup-plies which would be dropped to the stranded plane.) It was not learned immediately whether the plane was damaged in what appeared to be emergency landing. Dewey, Stassen Race Watched In Hamsphire V HONOLULU, March 8 (U.R) The first of a flight of 10 B-29 superforts landed at Barbers Point air base at 10:50 a. m. (PST) today, but at least one of the big bombers still was unreported and another was believed to have turned back in an attempt to reach the mainland. The public information office at Barbers Point said one of the bombers, which left' Spokane, itusii., cany luuay un a uigiii iu ; vri.i t i;u i i . iirom lunuia. xauaii. Aim iiau iiui checked in with the, air control tower. Another of the four-engine Boeings turned back to Fairfield Suisun army air base near San Francisco, Cal., the army reported. (The big bomber which has not been in radio contact since 1:34 a. m. (PST) was carrying 20 persons, per-sons, Maj. Tom O'Mohundro, Spokane, Wash., air force base public information officer, announced. an-nounced. O'Mohundro said Mc-Chord Mc-Chord Field had a report the bomber had established contact with Honolulu but neither Barbers Bar-bers Point airfield nor Hamilton Field, Cal. confirmed it.) Two U! S. Women Shot to Death In Indo-China PARIS, Mar. 8 (U.R) Two American Amer-ican women were killed yesterday yester-day near Saigon, French Indo-China, Indo-China, the French Press agency reported today. The agency identified the women wom-en as Jeanne Skewes, director of the United States information service in Indo-China, and Lydia Ruth James, secretary to the American consulate in Saigon. Both were shot and killed about 7 p. m. while driving a jeep on the road from Saigon to the airport. air-port. They were a little more than a mile from the city when they were shot, the agency said. News Highlights In Central Utah Disputed County Gravel Pit To Be Opened Ai Am. Fork. .1 Drive Progresses Against Use Of 1947 License Plates . . 2 LDS Head trees Repentance In Closing Leadership Talk. . .3 Annual Public Meeting Tonight For Utah Valley Hospital . . S Award Cerrmoay Highlights .Lincoln TA Banquet 3 The governor bitterly criticized criti-cized the limitation of the budget, which, he pointed out. Is not a limitation of grant alone, but of the entire amount a person can get If "he Is so unfortunate that he must receive public assistance." assist-ance." He added "to my thinking' that is a sorry condition in a state where an income from the sales (Continued on Page Two) Finns Accept Proposal by Josef Stain Lt. Gen.' Gregorl M. Savonen-kov Savonen-kov (above) paid a seven -minute visit to Finland's president to disenss Marshal Stalin's proposal pro-posal that Finland enter Into a defense pact with the Soviet Union. The brief visit was regarded re-garded here as Kremlin-ordered to impress Finns that Stalin would not tolerate a delay in Finland's answer. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) The first of three preferential primaries which could make or break a couple of Republican presidential candidates takes place tomorrow in New Hampshire. Hamp-shire. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, opposes former Gov. Harold Har-old E. Stassen of Minnesota, for New Hampshire's eight delegates to the Republican national convention. con-vention. A split delegation is ex pected. But if Stassen breaks even or better he will have given Dewey's Dew-ey's candidacy a black eye in their first round. Dewey and Stassen will collide again-in Wisconsin's April 6 primary. pri-mary. Gen. Douglas MacArthur is a third entry there. On May 21. Dewey and Stassen will battle once more in the Oregon primary. ueweys stategy is to make these three primaries the show case of his pre-convention campaign. Four years ago it was his whopping whop-ping victory in New Hampshire followed by spectacular success in Wisconsin that sent the Dewey band wagon rolling to a first ballot bal-lot nomination at Chicago. If Dewey demonstrates clear superiority in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Oregon this year his chances will brighten and the prospects of other horiefuls will dim. Sen. Robert A. Taft will not contest those three states. He apparently ap-parently has decided to limit his primary activities to Ohio, his home state, and to Nebraska where his name was entered without his wishes being consulted. con-sulted. The Ohio primary takes place May 4. Stassen will oppose Taft's favbrite son candidacy on the senator's sen-ator's home grounds with one delegate-at-large candidate and (Continued on page two) Hearings to Start Soon on UMT Proposal WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) The senate armed services committee com-mittee today voted unanimously to start hearings immediately on universal military training after top military spokesmen said such training was "not only necessary, but mandatory. " Chairman Chan Gurney (R., S. D.), said the, committee voted after receiving estimates from Defense Secretary James Forres-tal Forres-tal that the total cost of UMT, coupled with reserve programs, would be $4,000,000,000 when the program is in full operation. Gurney said hearings would begin be-gin as soon as possible. Forrestal was accompanied by the secretaries and chiefs of staff of the army, navy and air force. He told the committee the proposed pro-posed program would cost $1,541,-000,000 $1,541,-000,000 for the fiscal year. That figure included money for both universal military training and an expanded reserve program. a The proposal calls for six months' compulsory training of all physically-qualified youths between the ages of 18 and 21 to be followed by enlistment either in the regular armed services or some part of the reserve. Vocational School Problem Turned Over to Legislature By Governor for Its Action Legislation of the utmost importance im-portance to the future of the Central Utah Vocational school was scheduled to be introduced by Governor Herbert B. Maw this afternoon to the special session ses-sion of the state legislature. It is a bill to authorize the city of Provo, Utah county and the Provo, Alpine, Nebo and Wa satch school districts tocontribute money for purchase of a permanent perma-nent vocational school site. Efforts to obtain a permanent site In the Provo area for the school were stymied last year after the foregoing agencies had contributed the necessary funds when Attorney General Grover Giles ruled they could not legal ly appropriate money for thu purpose. The agencies determined on a court test of the matter, but decided de-cided after Maw called the spec ial session that it would be much quicker to get trie matter cleared up by legislation than through a lengthy, drawn-out court battle. Accordingly, the governor was asked to introduce the matter, and agreed to do so. It was, the vigorous backing of the Utah county legislative delegation and is favored by state school authorities. authori-ties. Future of the Central Utah Vocational Vo-cational school is uncertain to long as it must remain in the Utah -county fair buildings considered con-sidered temporary quarters at best. The county commission has pledged, however, that it will in no way endanger tne scnooi as long as lt is unable to find other quarters. All agree, however, that a permanent per-manent site, on which a permanent perma-nent school may be gradually built, is of absolute necessity to assure the school's future. . . Truman Appoints Board to Probe Oak Ridge Dispute WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) President Truman named members mem-bers of the first board of inquiry set up under the Taft-Hartley law to investigate a labor dispute threatening the national safety, Saturday. They will look into a dispute at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant. The members appointed are John Lord O'Brian. Buffalo at torney; Dean C. Canby Balder-ston, Balder-ston, University of Pennsylvania Wharton school, and Stanley F. Teele, assistant dean of Harvard graduate school of business administration. ad-ministration. The board will hear both sides of the wage contract dispute between be-tween Union Carbide & Chemical Co. and the Atomic Trades Council Coun-cil (AFL). The, union represents employes in the laboratories of the atomic energy commission at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Hearings will begin next week. The board will make its report to Mr. Truman March 19. Both sides have agreed to maintain present conditions at least until then. The union is seeking a 15 cents an hour wage increase plus continuation continu-ation of many clauses of the contract con-tract ; it i held with Monsanto Chenical Co., former Oak Ridge operator. Mr. Truman will decide after he gets the board's report whether wheth-er he will ask Attorney General Tom C. Clark for an injunction to prevent a strike for 80 days while the parties try to work out an agreement. 1 Decision Made at Cabinet Meeting to Negotiate in Moscow HELSINKI, Mar. 8, (U.R) President Juho K. Paasikivi announced today the -govern ment has agreed to Marshal Josef Stalin's proposal to ne gotiate a Russo Finnish friendship and military pact. Paasikivi said he had recommended negotiations begin in Moscow. It was understood the majority of Finnish parties, who did not want to negotiate a military alliance, al-liance, proposed the Moscow site for fear Communist demonstrations demonstra-tions might be touched off during any conference here. The government's decision was made at a momentous cabinet meeting today. It was understood Agrarians and Social Democrats held out against negotiations to the end. Paasikivi then sent - a note to Moscow through the Russian ambassador am-bassador here. His announcement later today indicated he had confirmation Moscow had received the note. A government spokesman said Finland would appoint a joint government-parliament delegation delega-tion to handle negotiations. The first violence of the Russian Rus-sian treaty crisis occurred yesterday yes-terday when Communists broke up a meeting at which Ernesti Hentunen, leader of the small radical party with 3,000 members, spoke against the treaty. The Communists also tried to kick and beat Huntenen. Six persons per-sons were arrested during the disorders. Police at first said those arrested were Communists. Later a police spokesman corrected cor-rected this. He said those ar rested were Huntenen's bodyguards. body-guards. They were arrested by mistake, he said, and no Com munists were taken into custody Work Begins At Am. Gravel Pit The Utah county commission in a split decision today ordered digging to begin at its four-acre pit site northeast of American I Fork, in face of opposition from (residents of the area and Amer ican rork city oniciais mcm-selves. mcm-selves. Commissioners George A. Cheever and Reed J. Knudsen base their action on the contention conten-tion that the proposed site offers the only gravel suitable for roads in the northern part of the county. Commissioner Sylvan W. Clark has opposed the action from the first, and today said he did not agree with the contention of his fellow commissioners that other suitable gravel cannot be found in the north part of the county. The county recently bought the tract at a cost of $400 per acre. It is adjacent to the huge pits which furnished gravel for Geneva construction. con-struction. . These pits, now idle, are owned by the Utah Sand and Gravel company. Commissioner Cheever pointed out today that it was necessary last year to haul "chips," or fine crushed rock necessary for sealing seal-ing of oil surfaces, from the Keigley quarry clear to the north part of the county. The new pit at American Fork will allow the county tofmake this product there this- year, along with getting (Continued on page two) By Russian Senate Okehs Amendment to Salt Lake Man Burned to Death SALT LAKE CITY. March 8 (U.P-A 60-year-old Salt Lake City man Charley Lang today was listed as the victim of a flre-j he is believed to have set inadvertently inad-vertently with a cigaret. City firemen said the blaze occurred oc-curred last night in a shed at the rear of a downtown store. The charred body of the victim was discovered after firemen had extinguished ex-tinguished the blaze and were attempting to establish the csu e. Damage to the shed was estimated at 200. Girl Slays Her Parents In Row EMINENCE, Mo., Mar. 8 (U.R) A 17-year-old brunette was charged with first degree murderJ today after she confessed that she killed her mother during an argument argu-ment and then muTdered her father so that he would not learn of his wife's death. Betty Jane Kroeger, attractive and well-groomed, said she shot her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kroeger, 48, through the head with an Italian automatic pistol her brother brought back from the war. Then she went to the variety store operated by her father, Fred Kroeger, 50, and shot him as he lay on a cot 'where he had been sleeping each night since burglars broke in recently. The store is a half block from the Kroeger home, r ',. i.7 :- Miss Kroeger killed both parents par-ents with single shot through 4heir heads. , " ? The girl's sultry dark eyes flashed, as she told Capt. J. A. Tandy of the state highway patrol how she and her mother argued Tuesday because Mrs. Kroeger refused to let her go to East St. Louis for a visit. Marshal! Plan Solon Asks U. S. to Tell Russ One More Act oi Aggression Means War WASHINGTON, March 8, (U.R) The senate today unanimously unan-imously approved a Marshall plan amendment aimed at cutting off shipments of scare U. S. industrial goods to Russia. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. William F. Knowland, R Cal.. was accepted by senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg and approved after: 1. Sen. Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn., called on the United States to serve notice on Russia that one more Soviet aggression in Europe means war. 2. Secretary of State George C. Marshall made an 'unusual personal per-sonal appeal to House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., for speedy congressional action on the European Eu-ropean recovery program. 3.. Sen. J. William Fulbright. D., Ark., withdrew his amendment to urge a united states of western Europe. Knowland's amendment would embargo all U. S. exports to Russia Rus-sia and her satellites of goods whoe supply is. inadequate to fill the needs of the ERP. Knowland told reporters hiB measure would affect naa:,j?roducts now shipped to Russia arid which, he. said, are being used to build up the Soviet military machine. - One exception provides that exports ex-ports of scarce goods could be made Russia under authorization of "the secretary of commerce in order to obtain such commodities as chrome and manganese, needed here. The senate also unanimously approved a second Knowland amendment to require that 50 per cent of U. S. recovery goods sent Europe under ERP be transported transport-ed in American ships, to the extent ex-tent that U. S. flag vessels are available to haul the, cargo at market prices. Action on the Knowland amendments amend-ments came after McKellar announced an-nounced he had . reversed his opinion on the Marshall plan arid called on the United States to "take the lead 'in defending European Eu-ropean nations still outside the iron curtain. The 79-year-old former senate president. . said the communist coup in Czechoslovakia and Soviet Sov-iet pressure on Finland have prompted him to reverse his earlier earl-ier opposition to ERP. - '" He spoke out shortly alter Secretary of State Georre C. Marshall and his top advisers personally appealed to Horse Speaker Joseph W. Mtrtin Jr., for speedy congressional approval of the ERP. Vienna Incident Deliberately Provoked By the Russians, Says American Officer; Bayonet-Wielding Russians Seize Girl VIENNA, Mar. 8 (U.R) A young American soldier was knocked down by Russian guard today and shot in he back while he lay prostrate, the U. S. provost marshall announced. Eyewitnesses said an Austrian girl accompanying the soldier was removed forcibly from an international patrol by 40 bayonet-wielding Russians, who took her away. The American was identified as Pfc. Jack Grunden, 18, of Portland, Ore., attached1 to I police ' battalion in he probably but was ex- su military Vienna. Authorities said would, lose an aim pected to recover. " U. S. Provost Marshal Col. Bernard Ber-nard Hurless said the incident jlas "deliberately provoked by the Russians." - "Without doubt the Russians are clearly at fault in this one," Hurless said. Ernest Reed, reporter for the army newspaper Stars and Stripes, aid he arrived from the nearby Bristol hotel and found Grunden lying unattended un-attended on the ground. Elfriede Elias, an Austrian girl who had been walking with Grunden and who fled when he was shot, came back to tell an international - patrol represented by military police of all four oc cupying powers how the Russian Rus-sian knocked down Grunden with his rifle butt and then shot him, Reed said. While she was telling her story, 40 Russians armed with bayonets rushed to the scene and sur rounded the girl and the patrol. Reed said he and several other Americans tried to ttop the Rus sians, but they were (warded off by bayonet parrying. "We had to stand by and watch them take her away," Reed said. Hurless, confirming the inci dent, said as far as he knew Fraulein Elias was still in Soviet hands. Hurless said the American soldier, with two colleagues and three Austrian girls, was walking along the paved parkway in the middle of the Ringstrasse in front of the Russian Grand hotel in the international quarter shortly after midnight. A Russian soldier came out of a hotel entrance and accosted the group, Hurless said. According to one of the Austrian girls, the Russian said in a foreign language lan-guage that the. Americans should "get off the pavement and into the gutter where you belong." Hurless said the Russian pushed push-ed the soldier, the soldier pushed back. Thereupon the Russian called for help. An armed Russian guard stationed sta-tioned permanently aKthe hotel entrance rushed across thelstreet, knocked the American down with his bun butt, and then shot him in the back as he lay prone, Hurless said. McKellar urged that America armed forces be put in fighting condition at once, "with one distinct dis-tinct purpose in view: "That if Rus.Ua takes over another an-other nation or attempts to do so, our nation will take the lead in defending that nation and all of the other free nations of Europs." He said Russia sho'uld be put on notice that "if she undertakes to take over any more European territory we are at. the service of these nations and will help them maintain their individuality and their independence." Marshall, Undersecretary of State Robert M. Lovett and Lewis W. Douglas, ambassador to Britain Brit-ain urged speedy congressional action in a surprise visit to Martin Mar-tin and Chairman Charles A. Eaton, R., N. J., of the house foreign affairs committee. Governor Dies In Connecticut Four Powers Discuss Crisis Over Palestine NEW YORK, Mar. 8 (U.R) The United States, Russia, China and France launched one-week emergency emer-gency talks on the Palestine dif lemma today with a unanimous decision to bring Great Britain and the United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie into the de liberations. In a 77-minute first meeting, delegates of the four powers also appeared agreed that they must plunge into a full discussion of whether the present Palestine trouble threatens world peace, as well as a broad range of other questions growing out of the Holy Land situation. American, Russian, Chinese and French delegates convened for what was described as "an extremely informal" talk shortly after 11 a. m. at the Park avenue headquarters of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-myko. Gro-myko. A member of the American delegation, speaking for all . four powers, said after the meeting that the eonsulta- ' tions would be .resumed on an Informal basis late tomor- ' row. ' Meeting under the -.shadow of a British boycott,- the four big power representatives decided quickly to invite British representatives repre-sentatives to tomorrow's meeting. meet-ing. Since Great Britain already had served notice it would -not participate except to provide In-(Continued In-(Continued on page two) , HARTFORD, Conn., March 8 (U.R) Lt. Gov. James Coughlin shannon was sworn in as Con necticut's chief executive today, succeeding Gov. James L. ,Mc-Conaughy, ,Mc-Conaughy, 60, who died yesterday yester-day of influenza. v Shannon, a 51-year-old Republican Repub-lican labor attorney ofxBridge-port, ofxBridge-port, was administered thexoath of of lice at the capitol by Chief Justice William M. Malthie N McConaUghy, who began his first term as Republican governor in January, 1948, entered Hartford Hart-ford hospital Saturday with what his secretary described as a "slight touch of flu." He had planned plan-ned to leave Friday for a Florida vacation. 'He died unexpectedly, at. 2:45 p. m. Five Killed In Crash of Navy Airplane OLATHE, Kan., March 8 (U.R) Five men were killed and one man was injured seriously when a navy airplane crashed and burned, yesterday while taking off to return a group of maTine and naval' reservists to their homes following a week-end training trip. The dead: Lt. Jack Miller Rothweiler, 25, USMCR. co-pilot. Palmyra, Mo Lawrence Jackson Smith, USNR, HarrisonviUe, Mo. George Ewing McGee, USNR, Belton, Mo. Lt. George N. Freeland, USMCR, pilot, Sedalia, Mo. Elvin Carl Robinson, USNR, Lincoln, Mo. A sixth victim who remains in a critical condition at the base hospital was identified today as' Lt. (jg) I. J. Wyatt, 25, St. Louis, Mo. Four men died instantly in the wreckage of the airplane which caught fire as it hit the ground. KTwo men were taken from the wreck to the naval air base hospital hos-pital where one died later. 21 21. 25, 21. Reno Bright Lights Dimmed; Dry Spell Forces Brown-Out RENO, Nev., March 8 The biggest little city in the world became the dimmest little city in the world today. Reno's famed white way along gambling row was the biggest f victim of the worst drought in Nevada's history. The dry. spell forced a brownout upon the western west-ern part of the state. , s This was especially true of Douglas alley, a brilliantly lighted tbroughfare linking the two main rows of gambling clubs. There is probably more Neon tubing per square Inch along this alley than any place in the world. The signs call attention to 24-hour 24-hour - betting on ponies, roulette 0J.R) - ifrom a penny a spin upward, crap games, faro, poker, black-jack a million ways to get rich quick. Or go home broke. The signs were ordered dim med by Nevada's public service commission to save power. They even turned ' off Reno's famed archway sign over Virginia street which says welcome to "the biggest big-gest little city In the world.";. : The commission singled out the Neon displays of gambling row. Power company officials said the brilliant lights used enough power in one night alone to supply the resf of the city with electricity for 24 hours. DeYalera Comes To Visit U. S. NEW YORKMar. 8 (U.R) Former For-mer Premier Eambn De Valera of Erie ' arrived at LaGuardia airport air-port today for his first visit to-his to-his native America In 16 years. A delegation from the United Irish Country societies, who have arranged a one month coast-to-coast tour for De Valera, met him when his American Overseas Air- , ways plane landed at 4:58 a. m. EST.' . He will lunch privately with Mayor .William- O'Dwyer today and will hold a press conference in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. " - De Valera was defeated In the February elections after servinjj as prime minister since 1932. He was born 65 yeHrs ago in New York lh a building occupying the present site of the Chrysler build-' ing. i' ' " His cross-country tour will in elude an address at a Hibernian society dinner In San Francisco March 15, participation in St. ' Patrick's day ceremonies In Los Angeles on March 17, and an address ad-dress on March 20 before the fellowship club of Chicago, |
