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Show ' TEMPERATURES 4 CLEAR Prove . .... s Salt Lak , . I? 1 'Otdoa .... S3 Logan ..... S4 St it. Gor( lit (S Ul VU HI T3 Phoenix ' m T Lea Angelas 14 5 lan Fran. IB IS IPortlaai ,. S S S 40 11 4 1 85 it SI 14 Tt 0 It II Butte . . . . . fiuOEty with after Ytllowitene tare 17. Low Sunday morning fV Denver St. Louis . Chicago ... Now York Wainlngton Miami .... : VOL. 27, NO. 14 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Labor Day Activities Center On Payson, American Fork Deaths Mount In Labor Day Holiday Spree Pleasant Weather Lures Millions Out To Enjoy the Holiday CHICAGO, Sept. 3 flJ.R) Millions of Americans were taking their last summer holi day today in the Labor Day weekend, but many found ac cidental death instead of pleasure. The weather was generally pleasant from coast to coast and auto, bus, rail and air travel was reported heavy. - Holiday deaths rose to 85 during dur-ing the first 24 hours since 6 p. m. last night, seventy-six persons were; lulled in traffic accidents. Four persons drowned, twr died in air crashes and three from other causes. Michigan counted 10 fatalities, the highest among the states. An estimated 33,000,000 cars were expected on the nation's highways during the three-day weekend, creating one of the biggest big-gest road jams in history. The National Safety Council predicted 280 persons would die in traffic traf-fic accidents. Summer temperatures prevailed prevail-ed over most of the country. The southeast section and the midwest and great plains states were spotted spot-ted by local showers. ' President Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley were among the holiday travelers. The president will fly to Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and , Oes Moines for speeches on Monday. He planned plan-ned to visit his home at Independence, Inde-pendence, Mo v before returning to th capital Tuesday. The vice president had another "date" with Mrs. Carleton S. Had-ley Had-ley of St. Louis Sunday. He spent; Saturday at his home at Padu-cah, Padu-cah, Ky. . In New York City, authorities expected one out of four people to leave town for beaches, resorts, re-sorts, picnics and holiday trips. Thy, estimated 2,000,000 would Join in the exodus. and expected 700.000, cars would be in use for their jaunts. At Chicago,' the nation's rail hub, railroad travel was reported report-ed 10 per cent under last Labor Day's volume. But traffic also was lower. Airlines said hey carried ''extremely large" numbers of passengers last, night and that I volume icu on xoaay. f. $ ;'; , : -- Four U . S. Warships Visiting In Spain EL FERROL, Spain, Sept. 3 (U.R) Four ' American warships, under un-der commander of Adm. Richard L. Conolly, steamed into El Fer- rol harbor early Saturday on the first U. S. naval visit to Spain in more than 10 years. 1 -" The guns of Conolly's flagship, the cruiser Columbus, boomed a 21-gun salute as it steamed into the harbor. The ship was greeted by a 21-gun courtesy salvo from the batteries of Ft. San Juan. The Columbus, the cruiser Juneau Ju-neau and the destroyers Stribling and Bordelon passed in review before a Spanish squadron commanded! com-manded! by Rear Adm. Salvador Moreno as they entered the harbor. 3 Civic Organizations Pledge Supp ort In Swim The Provo 20-30 club Saturday Satur-day joined the list of civic organizations organ-izations throwing their support behind the community swimming pool drive. The club agreed to solicit residents res-idents of a sizable , section of the city in the follow-up phase of the house-to-house campaign for swimming pool pledges, members of the project committee announced. an-nounced. Previously the Provo Junior News Highlights In Central Utah Clyde E. Weeks To Run For Provo Mayor Interest Grows on Provo Political Front Institutes Prepare Teachers For School Openinr Contracts Let on Sprtnrville Water Project . . . . . Classes Start Wednesday In North Utah County Schools. . New Street Numberlnr Flan Goes Into Effect Interest Grows In Spanish Fork Ram Sale Survey Show Publie Feeling On Waste Removal Parades,. Races, Varied Sports Planned To Entertain Thousands At Mammoth Steel Day, Golden Onion Days Events The eyes of Central Utah, and from many other areas of the state, will turn to Payson and American Fork tomorrow to-morrow where two of Utah's biggest- Labor Day celebrations celebra-tions are scheduled. : j American Fork's Steel Day is an annual one-day salute to labor and industry of the state. Labor Day is traditionally the final and biggest day of Payson's annual Homecoming and Golden Onion Days celebration. Payson's celebration, which began Friday, will also have many activities taking place today. Elsewhere in Central Utah, no formal Labor Day celebrations cele-brations are planned. Labor unions, to whom the day is particularly significant, will participate in statewide celebrations. cele-brations. AFL unions plan to take part in a statewide AFL outing today at Lagoon. Local CIO unions will be represented represent-ed tomorrow at the Labor Day activities in Park City, official offici-al CIO celebration in the state for the day. AMERICAN FORK American Fork today, is ready for. the thousands thous-ands expected to attend the fifth annual steel Day celebration Monday, Sept. 5. Planned to salute labor and industry, the day's festivities will run from daylight to midnight encompassing encompass-ing a score of entertainment features fea-tures and cultural and educational educa-tional exhibits. The entertainment is designed to' appeal to all age groups. Pa rades, races, baseball, horse-shoe pitching, rodeo, vaudeville, fire works, dancing, flower art and handwork , exhibits and conces sions all are among the , highlights high-lights of the celebration. American Fork is no novice at staging celebrations. The slogan has always been "Utah's greatest one-day celebration." For many years this city sponsored the famed Poultry Day, and has an nually played host to thousands of holiday visitors. Supplants Poultry Day The Steel Day celebration In late war years supplanted Poul try Day. With the industrializa tion of the county tnrougn tne famed Geneva plant, far-thinking community, leaders grasped the opportunity of giving American Fork the distinction of sponsoring the first salute to this state's newest new-est Industry. Since its inception . Steel Day has grown until' today many thousands look forward to this anuual event. Lovely Edith Moss, attended by Shirley Fowler and Maxine Binch will reign as queen of Steel Day. The trio will grace a specially de signed float in the mammoth parade. pa-rade. Salutes under the direction of the Veterans of Foreign4 Wars will usher the celebration in at dawn. At sunrise the Boy Scouts will di rect flag raising exercises at tne city hall. Concession time has been set for 9 a. m. . Two Parades There will be two parades, one at 10 a. m. and the other at 6 p. m. Better than 50 floats, several bands of the county, including those from Provo, Lehi, Pleasant Grove, American Fork and one from Salt Lake county, will parf ticipate. Riding clubs of this area also will be Included in tne nnef The morning parade will start at Third West and proceed east along Main street to Second East. The evening parade will traverse the same route beginning at Second Sec-ond East and ending at Third West. In this way spectators will not be looking into the sun as the parade passes in review. During the parade hours traf-(Continned traf-(Continned on Pare Two) Pool Canvass Chamber of Commerce and the Provo Exchange club had accepted accept-ed blocs of names to contact in the drive for $85,000 to build the spacious, modern pool planned for early construction. E. D. Firmage announced earlier earl-ier in the week that the fund campaign is now at the one-fourth mark, with cash and pledges totaling to-taling $22,000 now in. The drive will be spurred in the weeks ahead with the hope that sufficient funds can be assured as-sured to launch construction , at an early date, Mr. Firmage indicated. in-dicated. Provo residents are being asked to sign pledges authorizing a monthly addition to their utility ill over a 15-month period. ayment of $15 in this man- ner will entitle a family to a one-year membership to the pool; $25 will, be good for a two-year membership, and for $50 a five-year five-year membership will be given. The committee also invites outright out-right contributions, many of which have beenreceived. Persons not contacted at their homes may send theiKoledges or contributions to the offices of the Department of Utilities or The Daily Herald. Support of the 35-member 2030 club in the solicitation campaign was pieagea Dy tne ciud s Doara of directors headed by Melburn Ford, president; Kenneth Brere-ton, Brere-ton, vice president; and Kyle Gleave, secretary. PAYSON-iThis city prepared for a day of relative quiet today after celebrating its annual Homecoming and Golden Onion days since Friday and looked forward to the biggest' and best portion of the annual event tomorrow, to-morrow, the climaxing activities of Labor Day. Although minus the parades and races of the other days, to day win be far from a day of in activity. At noon, the trap shoot sponsored by the Jaycees at the old sugar factory is to set under way, It ishoped that Governor J. BrackenLee, himself a trap shoot enthusiast of more than ordinary ability, will be present for the event. At any rate, celebrants will see their governor at the big puoiic meeting tonight in . the Nebo stake tabernacle, where he will be the featured speaker. The Homecoming program this evening begins at 7:30 p.m. Reunions Slated At noon today, the reunion of the Fairbanks -family, one of Payson's oldest, begins in the city park and the public is invited At 2:30 p.m., the D. H. Christen- sen reunion of his old students gets underway. One of Payson's pioneer educators, he started teaching In 1898. He now lives in Salt Lake City and is a member of the board of regents of the University of Utah. The Flower show, begins at 2:30 p.m. today in the junior high school, and continues Monday. Monday, Labor Day, a repeat performance of the parade is scheduled for 10 a.m. More bands and floats are promised for an even more successful parade than was staged at. noon Saturday. An estimated 50 floats will take part Monday. Beginning at 2 p.m Monday, the famous Labor day . (Continued- on Pare Two) Sen. Watkins To Check CU Project Report Hearings on the Central Utah project likely will begin in Congress Con-gress next spring, provided preliminary pre-liminary study by various departments depart-ments are completed by that time Sen. A. V. Watkins (R-Utah) said in Provo Saturday. Senator Watkins said the huge reclamation project was one of the ' principal reasons for his trip to Utah at this time. "I understand that the final re port of the investigations and genera plan for the project is almost completed," the senator said. "I want to see the ' report before it goes to Washington, to see if any changes are advisable in the interest of speeding the program." Tremendous Project The gigantic project, if finally approved as planned, would cost nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars, Senator Watkins said. It is designed to provide water to irrigate 250,000 new acres and furnish a supplementary water supply to 350,000 additional acres. besides providing a number of badly-needed power plants. When the report is approved by reclamation bureau officials in Utah, it will go to Washington for approval of Michael Strauss, reclamation commissioner and Julius A. Krug. secretary of the interior. Later, copies will be sent to governors of states in terested in the Upper Colorado, including Utah, Wyoming. Colorado, Colo-rado, Arizona, and New Mexico. They will have 90 days to study the project and give their reaction. re-action. Copies of the report also will go to the Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Bureau of Fish and Wildlife, Wild-life, army engineers, and the U.S. Power commission, the senator said. "After all of this procedure, if everything is favorable, then we will be in a position . to begin hearings on the bill for the project," pro-ject," Senator Watkins stated. "We must work hard now to assure as-sure the bill's coming before the 82nd Congress." Legislative Clinics Before his return to Washing ton, the senator plans to attend (Conti nned on Page Two) De Bona Sets New Maifr In Bendix Race Hollywood Man Beats - Paul Mantz; Odom Wins Closed Course Race CLEVELAND, Sept. 3 (U.R) Joe C. De Bona, movie star Jimmy Stewart's racing protege, pro-tege, smashed all records in the 2,010-mile California to Cleveland Bendix trophy race Saturday and walked off with $10,000 prize after streaking here at 470 miles per;hour. Victory was sweet for the Hol lywood real estate man and transcontinental trans-continental speed record holder, because he handily whipped two planes entered in the National air faces opener by Paul Mantz, the man he never has been able to beat personally. Bill Odom, the round-the-world; and long-distance solo flier, tried; closed course racing for the first time and ran away from the field to win the $7,500 Ohio trophy. Set New Reeord He set a new record of 388.393 l ,,. ......... . .. ,, modified F-51 Mustang fighter plane sponsored by Jacqueline Cochran. The modification cost $100,000 while Odom's first prize money was $3,150. Mantz, the movie stunt man and racing pilot, decided against personally per-sonally flying one of his two bright red F-51 Mustangs this year, leaving their fate to Herman R. "Fish" Salmon, Van Nuys, Calif., test pilot and . Stanley H. Reaver. Glendale, Calif- Mantz chief test pilot. Reaver trailed De Bona's slate-gray slate-gray F-51 only by minutes and just behind him was Salmon in tne number 46 Mustang witn which Mantz set the previous rec ord of 460.423 mph in 1947. De Bona's time was 4 hours 18 inutes 17.45 seconds compared with MaW 'record ofT."26.57rD Bona took off with 5 competitors competi-tors at Rosamond Drylake, Calif., at 10:30 a. m. EDT. ' Jet Division Mark Maj. Vernon Ford, air force material command pilot from Middletown, Pa., meanwhile, broke the previous Bendix jet division record by driving here in an F-84 Thunderjet fighter at; an average speed of 529.614 mph and elapsed time from Muroc air force base of 3 hours 45 minutes 51.3 seconds. t th tirmt tim in air r.pp: history that the Bendix had been completed in less than four hours. Toppled was the 1946 jet record of 494.779 mph set by Col. Leon W. Gray in an air force F-80 Shooting Shoot-ing Star. Second best to Ford was Capt. J. E.. Newman, Mason City Nebr., also a materiel command pilot, whose F-84 turndered over the transcontinental course in 3 hours 48 minutes and averaged 524.62 miles per hour. Third was Lt. Col. L. E. Moon, Wamiah, Ida., who clocked 524.551 mph, almost a tie with Newman. Last was Capt. Harry M. Lester, Gambler, O., who was an alternate for Capt. Franklin M. Rizer, Syra cuse, N. Y., forced down at Peoria, 111., by engine trouble. He made an emergency landing but escaped escap-ed injury. The navy put on an unprecedented unprece-dented jet race for the estimated 35,000 opening day fans when four twin-engine Banshees whistled off the deck of the carrier U.S.S Midway in the Atlantic off New York and tore over an approxi- j mately 500 "mile distance to the! finish line here. The race was won by a nose by Lt. B. S. Baird, Loomis, Calif .,! who flashed over the finish line 47 minutes 12.9 seconds aftere he left the carrier for an average speed of 548.978 miles - per hour, the top speed registered for any race today. Behind Baird were Lt. Cmdr. W. B. Biggers, Birmingham, Mich., 544.805 mph; Lt. P. S. Sedeker, Schenectady, N. Y., 536.776 mph, and Lt. E. A. Buxton, Providence, ' R. I., 509.601. I Boy Trapped For Six Hours In Caved-ln Well, Rescued BRISTOL, Ind., Sept. 3 !U.R) A construction crew that built a 20-foot metal tube Saturday rescued a city boy trapped for six hours in a caved-in well on a farm where he was spending his vacation. Seventeen-year-old Eugene Sanders of " Chicago, was caught 22 feet underground by the collapse of the well. Gus Peterson, 51, owner of . the farm, summoned help -from a passing motorist and dug Sanders' head free. Peterson shoveled frantically frantic-ally to keep- Sander's' head in the open. Firemen from Elkhart, Ind., arrived and fit ted a mask over the .boy's face with an airline attached. n irsi Sliyimig Montana W , , , i . . , , ; J .. V k L -r ti i ROBESON'S MAD! Paul Robeson (above), well-known Negro singer, as he appeared in i a new i ofk presa conierence New York press conference broke out at a rally at which he was to have sung. He said the riot was "an attack against progressive peace forces in the land." More Aid For Europe Faces Tough Sledding By JOHN L. STEELE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U.R) Some Republican senators asserted as-serted Saturday night , that . the United States already has done all it can " to ease Europe's tra'de" and monetary headaches. Sen, Robert A Taft, R, O. and other GOP spokesmen made it clear by their remarks that iur-ther iur-ther American assistance through tariff concessions or additional ad-ditional direct aid will have the roughest kind of going in congress. Taft warned particularly against any discussion tot a "thinly veiled" veil-ed" Anglo-American currency union under which the dollar ultimately would be jointly con- ironea ana usea. oucn a siep, (Certain to require congressional consent, would determine the dol lar's value and be a costly experiment, ex-periment, he said. These, views were expressed as British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, were enroute here for talks beginning Wednesday with American and Canadian officials in the British economic crisis Taft said that Britain's $900,-000,000 $900,-000,000 share of new Marshall plan spending represents the outside out-side limit of U. S. assistance. His view was endorsed by other Republicans, Re-publicans, some of whom added that this country already has gone too far. Touchy Issue "Nine hundred million is the most we can do. We should say take that amount and so what you can with it," Taft told a reporter. re-porter. Taft said there is little this country can do in any case to cneck the drain of dollars from Britain. And he said Britain's 'domestic and world trade Dro- j grams, will have only a minor effect here As for the touchy issue of currency devaluation recommended recom-mended in some U. S. quarters as one way of treating Britain's dollar sickness Taft said any de cisions about that should be ex clusively British.. He said it should be neither proposed nor opposed by U. S. officials. However, How-ever, he believes it could provide little more than temporary 'shock' (Continued on Page Two) The wall crumbled and buried bur-ied him again, but the mask permitted him to breathe. Later, his head was again cleared. Police at the scene used a two-way radio to ask help from an Elkhart, Ind., bridge and iron works. A" crew there built a pire 42 inches in diameter dia-meter and 20 feet long- in two hoursxBut upon arriving here, they found that the diameter was too big. The tube was split lengthwise, length-wise, a 10-inch section removed, re-moved, and then welded together.- That operation took another two hours. A crane operator lowered the tube into the well, over the boy, (Continued on Page Two) - in nsoner L Police Fear Rioting At Robeson Event 300 State Troopers Move Irjto Area Near Place Of The Concert PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Sept. 3 (U.R) More than 300 state troopers, police and sheriff's deputies mapped plans Satur day night to prevent noting tomorrow between leftist sup porters of Negro singer Paul Robeson and hundreds of war veterans. Officials said that,. in addition, nearly 3,000 other police and firemen fire-men in the area have been alerted alert-ed to stand by for possible duty. The troopers moved in orj orders or-ders from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as Robeson planned to hold a concert con-cert at a golf course near here. The veterans, at the same time, were scheduled to stage, a demonstration demon-stration against Robeson and his supporters. Dewey ordered "all available" state police to the scene. Hlrhways Crowded Meanwhile, tourist homes in this area were crowded and highway high-way traffic was the heaviest in years for a Labor Day weekend as curiosity seekers and followers of both groups involved began arriving. Authorities said that approximately approxi-mately 2,500 volunteer firemen in a radius of 12 to 15 miles could be called to duty by a fire alarm signal if necessary, fij.- As tension mounted here on the eve of Robeson's appearance, it was disclosed in Mexico City that the Negro baritone would go there next week to attend the leftist continental peace congress. Injunction Refused In New York, a federal judge refused to issue an injunction to prevent the veterans from massing mass-ing in a "miles-long" parade along a highway leading to the golf course where Robeson will sing. The veterans have planned a southward march 'along the same highway on which Robeson supporters sup-porters will be driving north to get to the concert. f Police announced a helicopter would hover over the golf course Sunday to relay reports of any violence. A force of 30 county sheriff's deputies and 50 special deputies of the county park will aid the state troopers, the first (Continued on Page Two) OfficerKills Best Friend After Party REDFIELD, S. D.. Sept. 3 IP A 24-year-old policeman, who believed his wife had been raped during an all - night drinking party, shot and killed his best friend, a one-legged war veteran Saturday. Officer Maynard Schultz, who fled from the party with his friend's wife, killed Ray Sieben, 30, who lost his leg in World War II combat, and wounded Sieoen s Iwife inlvfront of the 'police sta tion, where all three met after a wild auto chase through the streets. Another policeman shot Shultz in the shoulder and captured him. Chief of police Myron Adams arrested ar-rested Schultz and took him to a hospital. The chief said Schultz had been drinking. Schultz' wife was found unconscious un-conscious in the apartment the Siebens occupied Friday . The Schultz family helped them move. Officers said she passed out from the effects of alcohol. She was taken to a hospital for an examination ex-amination on whether she had been . assaulted. Doctors refused to reval the re-, suits of Mrs. Schultz examination. examina-tion. ! j State's attorney Stanton Clark; issued a warrant charging Schultz ! with murder. Schultz was guarded guard-ed at the hospital. His wound was not serious. Mrs., Sieben said the two couples drank "an awful lot of whisky" at the party. Early Saturday, she said she and Schultz set out to "walk off our liquor," but she turned back to tell ner husband why she; was leaving. Heard Her Scream Schultz said that he heard Mrs. Sieben scream from the apartment, apart-ment, "why did you do it?" he raced back, he said, and found his wife, her clothing in disarray, (Continued on Pago Two) Confessed Killer To Be Questioned About Ogden, Boulder Campus Killings By DEAN TIIUESON OGDEN, UtaTi, Sept. 3 (U.R) A former Wyoming convict con-vict and Indiana mental hospital inmate told police Saturday he killed a Montana woman last month and dumped her body into the Missouri fiver at Great Falls. Ray Dempsey Gardner, 27, Pueblo, Colo., told Weber county sheriff Mac Wade: that he shot and killed Sue Horn. 30, Dillon, Mont., "on or about Aug. 9" ina fight over money. Miss Horn has not been seen since Aug. 9, when she answered Gardner's advertisement for a ranch cook. Wade said the Missour river was being dragged today for the body. Ogden Murder Suspect . At the same time, Wade said that Gardner was- the "number one suspect" in the July 20 strangulation slaying here of pretty, 17-year-old Shirley Gret-zinger Gret-zinger and also would be questioned ques-tioned about the "mugging murder" mur-der" this year on the University of Colorado campus. Wade, said Gardner had served jail or prison terms four times, including a Wyoming prison sentence sen-tence ending a year ago. for sex "offenses. Miss Gretzinger had been sexually molested before she was strangled and tissue paper crammed down her throat. Wade said paper of a similar type was found in Gardner's car. The sheriff said he also had ask ed police at Elko, Nev., to check a complete "and apparently legitimate" legiti-mate" set of credentials issued to. Oscar Jtobinson and found in Gardner's pocket. Gardner ad mitted living in Elko "recently." Miss Gretzinger's nude body was found in an Ogden field after she had been lured from home to answer an ad for a baby sitter. The sheriff said "Gardner's reaction reac-tion on the lie detector when questioned about the Gretzinger case was exactly the same as that when asked about the Horn killing." The sheriff said Gardner, when asked how he'd kill a man, described de-scribed a method' "exactly the same" as used last June when Roy G. Spore, formerly of Boise, Ida., was killed on the University of Colorado campus at Boulder. Colorado authorities said Gard ner's descripton was similar to that of Spore's killer, as provided by Doris Ann Weaver, 18, Twin Falls, Ida., who - was with him when he was killed In a fight on the banks of a campus stream. Advertised For Cook A signed copy of Gardner's con fession to the slaying of Miss Horn said that in placing the advertise ment in Butte for a ranch cook. Garpner told of owning the "Heart ranch" near Dillon, Mont. Atu ally, he admitted, he owned no ranch the advertisement was a lure. When Miss Horn answered, Gardner said he told her he would drive to the ranch. Instead, he took another road "on an errand and drove toward- Anaconda. "About a mile or two from the Gregson hot springs," the confes sion related, "I tried to shake her down for some money to take this car, which I had stolen, to Cali fornia. "5he refused and we had an argument over her reputation when I accused her of being a prostitute. She slapped my face, jumped from the car and said she was going to phone the police. Gardner said he picked up a gun probably Miss Horn's own small caliber rifle that Gardner later pawned in Ogden and shot her "four or five times twice in the head, twice in the back, and once in the temple as she fell." The 27-year-old former convict said he knew Miss Horn was dead when she slumped over. "I didn't intend to hurt her," he insisted, "I just wanted to get sotne money to get to California." He told Sheriff Wade that he loaded the woman's body on the floor of the car and started driving driv-ing north. He stopped at a service station, he didn't remember Just where, for gas, and arrived in (Continued on Pace Two) Jilted Texas University Man Kills Sweetheart In Dallas DALLAS, Tex.fc Sept. 3 (U.R) Keith Peterson, handsome university univer-sity student, maintained Satur day he hadn't intended to kill the former sweetheart who jilted him but "after I fired the first shot there was no stopping." Peterson, handsojne, blonde, 21, and the son of 4 Dallas power company executive, was charged with murder wiih malice, carrying carry-ing the possibility of a death sentence. sen-tence. The charge grew out, of the slaying late Friday of Miss Caroline Car-oline Schofield, 20, in a downtown office building where she worked as a secretary to a geologist. Six times he pulled the trigger omm r ' Thomas Asks For Probe Of Free Flights WASHINGTON, Sept S (U.R) Sen. Elmer Thomas agreed Saturday Satur-day in effect, to end the use 'of military planes by cong ressionai junketing committees, but asked for an acounting of such travel by President Truman and other gov ernment officials. 1 ft The Oklahoma Democrat point . edly asked Defense Secretary Louis Johnson for an accounting of his own air travel at govern ment expense since he took hit post.- , j. "I - .It . was Johnson who wrote -to Thomas-requesting that in the interest of economy congressional committees going oh tripa abroad use commercial aircraft instead of .military planes. Johnson said it would be cheaper. "If savings can be mad through denial to congressional committees of the use of military planes," Thomas replied, - :"a further saving can be made by requiring private airplane service -for members of the cxtcutlvt branch of the) government." Members of the .senate appropriations appro-priations committee have planned a trip around the world this falL Johnson wrote Thomas that the trip by military plane would cost about $25,000 while by Commercial Commer-cial plane only $7,000. ! Asks Detailed Report !, Thomas told Johnson in reply that a statement detailing the us of government planes by both congressional and executive of- ficials would be useful In the interest of economy. He asked Johnson to report to the committee commit-tee by Sept 20: a 1. A description of each airplane air-plane trip made at government expense by Johnson himself sine he took office. He asked for th number of miles flown, the pur (Continued en Page Tw) Taft Heads j For Ohio To 'Mend Fences' WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U.R) ir-Sen. ir-Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., headed head-ed for his home state Saturday night to open the political fence-mending fence-mending season even before the adjournment of congress. , 1 The No. 1 target of organized labor in the congressional cam- : paign next year, Taft will stick as closely as possible to the county-by-county canvass of Ohio which he planned when it looked look-ed as if congress would quit in July or August. ; Before his departure, he told reporters that his schedule "was not set up primarily as a politi cal trip." He explained that h will not be addressing party rallies but meetings sponsored by service . clubs, civic . groups, farm organizations and other private groups. ..' Labor unions are conspicuously absent among those sponsors. Taft said labor was represented on some of the "local committees" but that "threats of reprisals" by unions .would minimize such support. sup-port. '' of his revolver, stopping midway in that series of shots to reload the weapon. Saturday he told reporters: re-porters: , "I didn't intend to kill her. I1 only wanted to frighten her. "But after I fired the first shot,' there was no stopping. j "When you pull the trigger,; you just keep pulling it" A psychiatrist examined th ' Southern Methodist university, journalism student Saturday aft-, ernoon but Sheriff Bill Decker did not announce the findings. District Attorney Will Wilson' said "We will oppose any effort-, to have him released now, C in the future, on bond." . |