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Show 1 r f THE WEATHER UTAII Scattered afternoon showers Sunday. West portion mostly clear, warmer west portion por-tion over state. High 63 Low 42 Precipitation 04 r SO THEY SAY Unemployment and the fear of unemployment are deadly threats to American social institutions and the American way of life. Sen. Robert F. Wagner of ' Ncrw York. cSoyisiY .VOL. 23, NO. 20 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS GIs Get Hitler's Beer Hall ' , ".. V lK . I" GVlrinllnnieiriit Beer mugs mat once were usea by tne wazis to toast Hitler, now hold coffee for doughnut-dunking purposes, . as pictured above. Munich beer hall that was the site of Der Fuehrer's 1923 putsch has been taken over by the Red Cross as a canteen for enlisted men and officers. Delay In Geneva Disposal I May Prove Costly to Utah One of the most costly and serious conditions which will arise unless the Geneva problem is solved immediately, will be the loss of confidence and interest of various man- ufacturers in establishing plants here, Clayton Jenkins,' secretary of the chamber of tt i iail"i'-rexs nave signmea tneir intentions oi establishing plants here, but with the closing of Geneva, and the kicking around it has Utah Teachers Conclude Annual State Sessions SALT LAKE CITY, Oct Utah educators today 13 (U.R)! wound: up the 48th annual convention of the Utah education association Saturday afternoon, after addresses ad-dresses in the third general session ses-sion by lecturers from the University Uni-versity of Minnesota and the University Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles. An-geles. James E. Haslam of Salt Lake City was announced as successor to Dr. J. C. Moffitt of Provo as president of the asociation, withi Dr. Moffitt automatically becom ing second vice president. First vice president is Marva Banks Lindsay of Murray. Other officers include: Lewis H. Hunsaker of Ogden, member of the teachers' retirement board: J. Easton Par-ratt. Par-ratt. Salt Lake City, L. B. Bennett, Alpine and Paul E. Beecher, Granite, trustees. 4 Speakers at the concluding general gen-eral session were Dr. Pora V. Smith of the Minnesota university, univer-sity, who reviewed the language arts and their place in the American Ameri-can way of life; and Dr. Yu Shan Han, of the University of California, Califor-nia, who discussed progress in Chinese education. Ralph Bradford, general manager man-ager of the United States chamber cham-ber of commerce, addressing the second general session, urged greater understanding and cooperation co-operation between business and education. He pointed out that there has been "too great a disposition dis-position on the part of business men to look upon educators as impractical theorists.rand on the educators to regard business men as penny-pinching skinflints." Terming education essential to expansion of a dynamic economy. Bradford said the chamber of commerce now is launching a program pro-gram for greater cooperation be- tween business men and educa-l tors. Youth, Missing In Mountains, Comes Out Safe MILFORD, Utah, Oct. 13 (U.PJ Cold, hungry and near exhaustion, Dean Baker. 18, of Salt Lake City, stumbled into a beacon fire in the Indian Peak country near Ihere early today and brought to an end the search which had been carried out by scores of volunteer search ers since his disappearance Thursday Thurs-day morning. Baker left a family picnic party to hunt rabbits with a 22 calibre rifle. He became confused when a heavy rainstorm cut visibility to a few yards. Residents of the district organized organ-ized a search on horseback and left nearly 50 beacon fires burning burn-ing in the area. Arrival of the boy at one of the lookout points was revealed later today by Les Clay, Beaver county deputy sheriff. sher-iff. Baker was in good condition except for exposure. commerce, said today ii.. . .. been getting from politicians. i they are going to wash their hands of the area, Mr. Jenkins said. The continuous and prolonged i i delays will force manufacturers i who fabricate and manufacture their special products from steel. to locate elsewhere and Utah will lose its golden opportunity to ho wect rnb,'nc . , . Mr. Jenkins pointed out that: the chamber of commerce foresaw! the possibility of a shut down of j "Ann. .a CI.a1 1 i ?fne.Vf f? "I?"? "twos-ears ago and the organization began to .work early with the government govern-ment to prevent uch a shutdown. Serious Results Feared "At that time it was urged that necessary steps be taken while the war was in progress to trans-1 ier l.ncPia"1 lo nvaie ownersnipj bv ujn wiien uie war was over Geneva could go right on operating oper-ating and continue to work after peace was declared ,'' Mr. Jenkins Jenk-ins explained. If the plant is now closed down : he said, the unemployment which will follow and the disturbance: ! to business in this area will be 3. "Places any barriers, techm-i techm-i tremendous, but even more seri-jcal. legal or economic, against the ' ous conditions may follow. free exchange of information be- ' "Privately-owned steel com- tween the peoples of the world.'- uanies cannot wait forever for 4- "Censors information in time the government to make up its ot peace." mind about when and on what 5- Interferes with the freedom iterms it wall sell or lease the o th.? ..prefs- ,, Geneva plant. Continued delavsi 'We shouldn't be spending ! may force the interested private! our m?"f y in countries which i companies to go ahead with other! won us k"ow. wha the plans such as constructing new are doing with it,' Brown steel-making facilities for the .told4"porJ manufacture of tin plate, sheet,' If they don t want to give us steel tubes and other steel pro-if,;ee cc.ess tt0 their news the?; i ducts not in Provo. but in some shouldn t get any of our money other part of the western terri- L Tnere were indications that ton-." Mr. Jenkins stated. iBrcwn s amendment had much I Tf .Ks .1, support in the house. h hr,mo o V.. ",Z. ZV"r.. nent competitor of the plant, no matter who runs it and' that would make it extremely;irNr;T? a t..A ir. tv um.iuii . ucmd iu "JC,aiei amendment before the measure successfully m future years. It goes to the house, would be difficult for the com- There also was support for the pany that acquired the nlant to;rrODOsai from the house nostwar meet the competition in the area, Mr- Jenkms stated, adding "Further delay and procrastina- tion now will bring about a com- Committee Chairman William petitive condition which willjM. Colmer, D., Miss., said he prove to be a tremendous handi-! favored the Brown amendment cap to the future operation of the; and thought it would be accepted Geneva plant." 'by the house. Why Not a Union for Mothers? Listen to Mrs. Siebert! CLEVELAND. Oct 13 (U.R) Pert, attractive Mrs. Howard How-ard Sieber$ ss what this -country needs is a good labor union for mothers. Mrs. Siebert, herself the mother of four children, said today she felt so strongly on the subject that he was willing will-ing to go to - Washington to obtain a charter from the American Federation of Labor. La-bor. "No man would take on the full time job of a mother without hiring two or three persons to help him," she said. Mrs. Siebert was not just beefing about the washing, scrubbing, care of children, preparation of meals and a thousand other chores that are Favir Argentine Strong Man Held In Custody As Election Set-Up Fails Federal Electoral Court Resigns; Efforts To Turn Government Over to the Supreme Court Bogs Down; Avalos Gains Control By HUGH JENCKS BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 13 u' War Minister Gen. Eudardo Avalos and Navy Minister Hector Verengo Lima took over all cabinet posts except two tonight and with President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell formed in effect, a triumvirate trium-virate to rule Argentine. Avalos announced that he would take over the ministries minis-tries of interior and finance while Vernengo would become minister of foreign affairs and education in addition to his Republicans Seek Restrictions On U S. Relief Funds 1T A CUTVr-TAV t ( 1 D .nouse nepuDiicans xonisni or- m - a lgani2ed a move to bar relief funds i to any nation that does not recog nize freedom of the press. Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Mass., announced a GOP steering committee meeting fat nnvf wxolr oriH nrrHrtAi4 that the proposal would be supported unanimously by the. 139 Repub- Hcan house members, Proposes Amendment Martin told reporters that the be-!stct?rine committee will consider an amendment to legislation ap- 'propriatine an additional $550.- 000.000 to the united nations re lief and rehabilitation adminis- tration. The amendment would Ul UlllUH CAUCMUUUIC VI I tllCl ?unds for nations unwilling to participate in world-wide press freedom. He said the amendment was prepared by Rep. Clarence Brown, R., O., and is In line with a declaration of policy issued a year ago by the American Society of Newspaper News-paper Editors. Brown's amendment would bar United States UNRRA contributions contrib-utions to a nation which: 1. "Discriminates against any media of information." 2. "Infringes upon freedom of information or expression." . ..i Pecteo tne nous appropriations; enconomic policy committee which returned recently from a tour of Europe the mothers' lot. She was concerned about the less fortunate for-tunate women who can't afford af-ford to pay the 75 cents an hour demanded by day workers work-ers for assistance. She says the way things are now, mothers have to spend so much time on the physical household chores that they don't have time to rear their children as they would like. A mothers' union, the energetic ener-getic young mother said, would build a stronger nation, would gain medical and religious reli-gious suport and would be a strong political factor working work-ing for the betterment of America. f 20 navy post. The ministries of pub- lie works and agriculture will be filled next week, Avalos said. There was no indication whether the new Avalos government gov-ernment was merely a transition tran-sition one to handle present administrative necessities or whether the successors to Col. Jnan D. Peron. deposed and arrested strong man of Argentina, Ar-gentina, would continue in power until the elections six months hence. Avalns aln snnnimMfl liflinff! of all press restrictions. Police J had seized the regular 9 p. m.j edition of La CrUica. ' i HiSiaousnmeni or a inumviraie composedI himself, a navy vice admiral and the figurehead president presi-dent indicated Avalos had failed to carry out his expressed intention inten-tion to form a government with prominent civilians. All of Argentina's three main political parties and industrial, commercial and financial leaders had made it clear they would not participate in any government Avalos might attempt to set up. The federal electoral court set i up by Peron in anticipation of his own attempt to become elected! presiaeni oi Argemina, resigneu , in central and western Java, ar-today. ar-today. resting both Dutch officials and Peron, w'ho was taken into cus- japanese troops and preparing tody by federal police at 4:30 for a "holv war." a. m. today,, had given the court full powers, beyond appeal, over all matters connected with elections elec-tions and reorganization of political poli-tical parties which he desired to bring about. It had failed in its efforts ef-forts to reorganize the three traditional parties, the Radical. Radi-cal. Socialist and Conservative. Conserva-tive. It attempted to set up 15-man or reorganization committees, but party leaders rejected their appointments as committeemen. This latest change in Argen tina's political set-up came as ef forts of a forces to section Of the armed oust President Gen. (Continued on Page Nine) San Francisco Awaits Fleet witstJAUtiv, uermany, uct. SAK .rism n. 15HP);13 (U.R) The men of the 526th This still-crowded city today i armored mrantry oattanon storm-took storm-took enough time from planning d he barbershops today on the a rousing two-day welcome for eve of their departure for home. Adm. William F. Halsey's Third1 fleet to think about providing beds lor tne tnousanos of sailors j xnai ne oian i miena to nave nis.sn goon if they so desire, who will hit-the town when the i men walking down the gangplanks After the cabinet meeting. the victorious Pacific armada steams: with long hair. He assembled the?premier met with former Premier! through the Golden Gate Mon-j800 men and 15 officers of the j prince Fumimaro Konoye, newly-day. newly-day. ; battalion this morning and said. appointed special assistant to the-As the-As plans .went forward for a the length of all hair had to bejLord Privy Seal, to discuss Mac-riotous Mac-riotous tooting of every horn and : held below two inches. ; Arthur's ordered constitutional re-! whistle irf San Francisco's harbor ! In the afternoon, Irwin called i forms. when six warships arrive some time around noon Monday, the; navy announced that 5,000 beds throughout the city have been obtained, in addition to 10,000 beds previously pledged by hotels. ho-tels. The hotels are to reserve 6,000 rooms for the homecoming navy men. Lt. Cmdr. H. D. Juxley, 12th VHaoSvirtknivMixfetlvtfLCnw manynrskSi7 neToZ bring when veterans returned for discharge, those coming home on extended leave and crewmen .are added together. Husing is being provided only for crewmen, he said. They will be granted liberty alternately on a 24-hour basis, with either one-third or one-half of them coming ashore at a time. Approximately 7,500 navy dischargees dis-chargees will be put aboard trains bound for separation centers cen-ters within 48 hours. Another 2,500 whose homes are in the 12th naval district will be processed pro-cessed for immediate discharge at Camp Shoemaker, CaL Pressure Man -ic f f A w '7 ' Sir Walter Citrine, above. British Brit-ish president of the World Trade Union Congress, is expected to ask all democratic nations to sever relations with Argentina when w. T meets in aris. Java Natives Declare War On the Dutch BATAVIA, Oct. 13 (U.R) :) A proclamation calling for all-out guerrilla warfare in' the Batavia area was issued today by the . . ,.T . People's army'' and clashes between be-tween native forces and Dutch land Japanese troops threatened to flare into full warfare through- out all Java. Japanese military police posted machineguns and tanks in Batavia Ba-tavia and set up barricades and X.1 r- iv: 1 I A, V: V':': roadblocks after sporadic butiirtiK k t, savaffp attacks hv iht nativoi TKo t inci, from Dutch rule were reported to taking over control of cities (The Dutch news agency Aneta reported that Indonesian military headquarters had declared war on the Dutch, effective tonight, and had ordered the native population popu-lation to resist with every weapon at their command.) Angkatan Muda, Indonesian j youth leader, was reported in Ba- tavia to be gaining central pow er and resorting to terrorism. In the big port of Soerabaja in eastern Java, all Dutch personnel were reported to have been ar rested by the Indoensians. Th Japanese garrison at Serang injdern0cratizing Japans economic Western Java, was attacked by an armed mob on Thursday and -forced to withdraw after inflirt 'in? casualties The Jananese Inst ; two killed and two wounded. Homecoming GIs Get Haircut Order Their commanding officer, Lt.;nnid office, although it was oos : Col. C. B. Irwin, made it plain another "hair cut" inspection and passed before the lines of! j soldiers, personally examining the men s hair. Eight men were or dered disciplined because hair was too long. their Britain Calls Troops Back to Unload Ships - By GEORGE CHANDLER A S Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 13 U.R) Britain called troops back from the con- tinent today to help unload food supplies from ships tied up 17 days by an unauthorized . strike of approximately 54,000 ' dock workers. The first reinforcements from the continent were expected to arrive ar-rive Monday and join some 4,000 soldiers who began unloading meat, butter, eggs, bacon and other perishable foods from ships in London, Liverpool, Hull, Grimsby, Manchester and Mld-dleborough Mld-dleborough today. ' There was no indication : how Mac Moves In On Japanese Silk Stocks Exports of Silk May Be Speeded Up; Break For American Women TOKYO, Oct. 13 Gen. Douglas MacArthur today moved in on Japanese silk stocks while the cabinet approved ap-proved universal suffrage and gave Japanese women the op portunity to swing next Jan-! uary's general elections after centuries of unquestioning bond age to their men. Silk for Stockings In what may result in a flood of silk for the legs of American women, wo-men, MacArthur ordered the Jap- . 0"V"ianB in nnnrt r, future ;. h ,to ascertain how much may be1 exported to pay for the importa- tion of food and other supplies for Japanese civilians facing a disastrous winter. The cabinet acted on election elec-tion reforms only 48 hours after MacArthur ordered universal uni-versal sufrare and other basic constitutional reforms. The cabinet also lowered the general gen-eral voting age from 25 to 20, and the minimum age for office of-fice holders from 30 to 20. Macrjyhur ordexed,the. government govern-ment to dissolve three organizations organiza-tions controling the silk industry fin1 4-1 " tyrfclrA tmirlnnt itf4AiB kikI, k..,- a..a production of silk. It appeared he was acting to provide the Jap- :nee W,U1 a ea"s. or ?iaui'n Allied nations have announced they were not prepared to feed or Disolved were the Japan Silk I Controlling Co., the Japan Raw Silk Manufacturing Co., and the) mutually prosperous Silk Reeling Co. It was estimated that existing exist-ing stocks of low quality silks were worth some $18,500,000 and production next year would total between 13,000,000 and 18,500,000 pounds. Electoral Change The electoral changes were made by the cabinet in its second extraordinary meeting in as many days to discuss MacArthur's five-point five-point "democratization" oraer of Thursday. It had directed Premier Pre-mier Baron Kijuro Shidehara to write a bill of rights into the Japanese Jap-anese constitution providing universal uni-versal suffrage it did not ask for i a lowering of the voting age per- Imittintf unirmi7atinn nf lahnr institutions, liberalizing education, educa-tion, and substituting justice for the tools of inquisition. Under the lowered voting age. It was estimated that Japan's Ja-pan's electorate would be tripled, with some 21,680,000 women eligible against a potential po-tential 21,200,00 males. 6,-230.00 6,-230.00 of whom are overseas and will be unable to vote in January. Only 15.000,000 men cast ballots at the general elections of 1942. Japanese women still may not sible they will be permitted to do It was understood the premier contends revision was unneces sary while Konoye was prepared to recommend the necessary ! changes. It was reported that Dr. (Continued on Page Nine) manv men were beine withdrawn from Europe, but -British news - papers called for as many as necessary to "save the ration" for British civilians, now receiving less than normal supplies of food. The strike began when a small number of dockmen walked out in a wage dispute and spread throughout England as unofficial strike leaders made demands for a guaranteed $5 a day wage and a 40 hour week. Resentment against the strikers was spreading. At several JLondon docks civilians had chalked signs saying "Dockers Baby Starvers." Women in one food line asked for permission to help unload the ships.' - - Pay Strikes Tie Up Street Railways, Film Productions Striking AFL Unions in Hollywood Begin ' Picketing Two More Studios; Commuters , Stranded by Massachusetts Tram Strike By BICKNELL EUBANK S United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 13 i.KThe government was reported tonight leaning toward a pay boost up to 20 per cent as an antidote for the labor strife that has thrown a monkey- j wrench into reconversion American workers idle. It was only a hint, but Washington observers believed the administration would be ready to announce its support of the pay boosts sometime after the national Labor-Management conference which opens I " ! v. d. I uc mill conic j Nov. 5. The hint came from Secretary of Commerce Henrv A. Wall.acf ho. aid. .thc . g0!rn: j mem; snouia "e,P D,V to 20, Per cen o 30-per-cent pay Increase demand. Being Considered That the government was giving giv-ing considerable thought to this! manner of halting the hundreds of strikes which have flamed like a prairie fire since V-J Day failed to halt new walkouts, however. In Massachusetts. more than 460,000 commuters living liv-ing in the vicinity of Boston were stranded when employes of the Eastern Massachusetts street railway struck. The workers were asking for a 40 per cent wave Increase for mechanics and 30 cents an hour more for drivers and motormen. Across the continent in Hollv- ; n.nnH striking AFI. unions, in f bitter jurisdictional tight, an swered the government's appoint ment oi a conciliator and began, nirkotinir two more movie studi- os. This brought to four the num - ber of studios under fire from the, ouciea kjci. t is simoiy a com-AFL com-AFL Painters union Warner, nliance with the law. He branded Bros., UniversEl, Columbia and the GM action in refusing to al-RKO-Pathe I lw tne balloting on its property Production at Warner Brothers; "y" e"f"e has been disrupted for a week while the movies were stilled onj Universal lots three days ago. The latest labor developments included: j 1. A back-to-work movement; amone AFL longshoremen as I New York's harbor was threaten-! ed with curtailment by the na-! tional maritime union (ClOl asi the 13-day dock workers strike continued to paralvze shipping; and interfere with troop deploy-, areuments before us.M rnent. Whatever the company does. Approximated a thirtieth of the Reuther added that the UAW is estimated 35.000 strikers report-j prepared to begin presentation of ed to the oiers for work todav.jits complete and detailed wage However, the NMU said action to; brief Oct. 19. prevent unloading of shios would! be taken until stevedores throughout through-out the port area were unanimous in deciding to go back to thir jobs. The longshoremen's strike came when an insurgent group of the rank-and-file became dissatisfied dissat-isfied with the administration of their president. Joseph L: Ryan, and his contract negotiations. 2. The CIO denounced critics; of its demand for a 30 per cent pay rate boost to offset loss of weekly wartime take-home pay. The weekly CIO news said corporations were "deluging newspaper readers and radio listeners with propaganda to persuade them that CIO's wage demands de-mands are unreasonable and Inflationary." iue son vuai lauur uuyuic, !lt. i j. Ann . 2 111 a wiui Himos( 4uu,uuu iiuijcis iuic in eastern ueias, conunueaaeaa - locked , nnnnn'n .WM in 1,000,000 tons of coal more than (Continued on Page Nine) Throughout the day delegates; various strike committees went! : of various strike committees went :to dock gates and tried to per-' suade men still working to walk; out. Union officials meanwhile urged the men to return to work and predicted the situation would reach a climax by the middle of next week when, they said, the strike would collapse completely or become effective in every Eng- lish port, Strikers families were beginning begin-ning to feel the effects of the walkout. The wildcat strikers were not drawing strike pay and were not eligible for public relief. Their families were being given1 assistance xrom puouc xunos. and made more than 453,000 GM Delaying Negotiations Says CIO Union DETROIT, Oct. 13 0I.R) The United Auto Workers (CIO) tonight to-night charged General Motors with stalling and delaying negotiations nego-tiations on the union's demand for a 30 per cent wage increase. The union said these tactics had blocked any progress toward agreement in meetings, held so far. At the same time. Walter Reu-ther. Reu-ther. UAW-CIO vice president, said the company's refusal to permit per-mit strike votes to be held on the plant premises was "an attempt to keep from the public the" truth as to how many of its employes are willing to strike, if necessary" for their demands. Reuther said that neither the workers nor the union want a strike if thev can avoid one. He ; said the strike vote to be con- tion of the spirit of the Smith-Connally Smith-Connally act." In a letter to GM President C. E. Wilson, the UAW executive renewed the request that the corporation, cor-poration, submit a written counter-proposal to the union's "52 for 40" demand 52 hours pay for 40 hours' work. He asked that the proposal be readv by next Tuesday .so that negotiations can h- rf.cUmed "with the economic Strikers Vote To End Walkout DETROIT. Oct. 13 MHK II J... 1 1 MA APT millwrights which had threatened threaten-ed to tie up reconversion in most ; major Detroit plants, including 'those of General Motors and j Chrysler, was ended tonight, he : federal conciliation service reported. re-ported. Union members voted at a mass 'meeting to accept a conciliation proposal of a 12 i cents an hour wage increase retroactive to Oct. 1. Most workers will report back i Monday on their regular shifts. Cs-kvw a tar t TV K1a 4a Mtunti 4 a. morrow, the conciliation service i e t j i TVl Mi11wriffht- work for a dzen conveyor companies which . inslall havv mfiln. foi . ing the key part of any large assembly line. Hospitals Asking WJ KA.' PoIahco M UlbCa UCICUSC CHICAGO. Oct. 13 (OR) The arjtar and navy today were asked, by the American hospital associa- . tion to demobilize unessential nurses in the armed forces to civilian hospitals where there is an "acute shortage." The association wrote- similar letters to the two services, saying it had found "that 65 per cent of the civilian hospitals felt an acute shortage of nursing personnef Each hospital questioned indicated indi-cated it would employ an average of 15 additional graduate nurses if they were ByailaMe, the' letters saia, |