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Show TEMPERATURES MOSTLY CLEAR today, Sunday, t lowly rising lea yeratoree. High today Bear M Dock Hunters: - 4 Local shooting begins today at 6:19 am, ansa at 4:3$ 'a.m. Ok Monday, it begins at fslt am ends 4:11 .m. Frv ..... Salt Lake . Log-as . . . . SU Grf . Lai Vagaa . Phoenix . . Lea Anftles ftaa rra, , Pvrtlaaa ;.. Butt ..... YUowt0 Danger . , . St. Loots . Chicago . . . Washington Nw York Miami .... VOL. ,27, NO. 21 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENlTii Truman Step Into Goal, Steel Disputes T WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U.R) Federal labor experts said Saturday that President Truman "will intervene personally per-sonally to halt the paralyzing steel and coal strikes if they are not settled by the middle of next week. : Just what action Mr. Truman will take if the strikes continue was not disclosed. But White House sources speculated that the chif executive: ; May seek a Taft-Hartley court injunction to end the . """soft coal strike: and Brought Into Unification Row By Johnson ' WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (U.PJ The row over unification . of the armed forces flared up again Saturday with an exchange of charges and recriminations between be-tween defense secretary Louis Johnson and former secretary of the navy John L. Sullivan. Johnson, in an elaboration of his testimony before the house armed services committee, told the United .Press that Sullivan was slated to get the ax a full month before his resignation hit the headlines last April 28. Sullivan said in ? a letter to Johnson oh the same day that he was quitting because the defense secretary "arbitrarily" cancelled the , navy's . 63,000-ton supercar-tier. supercar-tier. -- v.' :. . v . Johnson told the committee, however, that Sullivan actually submitted - his resignation to President Truman "March 23 or 26," a month before the carrier was cancelled.. Against Unification - "Mr. Sullivan was not for unification uni-fication and would not support it," Johnson testified. He said he knew Sullivan's resignation would be accepted because there was "no . room" . in the defense establishment for anyone "oa the civilian aide" who- would not support unification. - V ; Sullivan .contradicted that statement He told reporters in Boston that neither Johnson "nor anyone else" asked him to resign "his cabinet post, Sullivan amplified his views tonight in a statement to the New Hampshire Sunday News, Manchester, N. H. Contacted in Boston Sullivan said: . "All the time I was secretary of the navy I- completely supported sup-ported unification. From outward appearances it would seem that more progress was made toward unification while I was secretary than has been made since I left Views Differ : "If, when Secretary Johnson said I did not support unlfica-. unlfica-. tlon. he meant I did not support abolition of marine aviation and the slow death of the marine corps and naval aviation through restrictions on their functions, the laying off of carriers, and the disproportionate chocking off of funds appropriated to tne navy by the congress, then Secretary Johnson was. correct "I was and I am opposed to this kind of unification because I know it Jeopardizes the secretary of the United States." Rep. Dewey Short, R., Mo., put Sullivan's April 26 letter of resignation resig-nation into the committee's record. rec-ord. Johnson Immediately asked . permission to submit a letter "of my own" for the record. ' The letter has not been made public. Committee clerks said they have not received it Committee Com-mittee chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga said he didn't know anything about it, but that anything the committee received "will be available Monday." First Deer Hunter Suffers Gunwound i PRICE. Utah. Oct 22 (U.R) A 18 -year -old Dragerton, Utah, youth today was believed to have been the first casualty of the deer hunting season. Sheriffs officers said Norman Baur suffered a flesh wound in , the thigh early today. The youth had killed his deer and was making mak-ing his way through the brush near Cotton, in spamsn rorx Canyon, to claim the animal . . " v.i. .in. ...Mntllvl, when his rifle was accidentally discharged. The youth was Dagerton hospital. removed to Inside the Herald Pages . 2-8 Central Utah News Sports 10, 11 Vital Statistics Deaths ....... News Briefs 1 t t i i m 1 1 i Editorial Pare f Me rry-Go-Round 5 W. ien Peatures. Church Activities School News Business and Finance Comics Classified Ready To May call steel industry officials to the White House and try to persuade them to grant the CIO steelworkers' insurance and pension pen-sion demands. Negotiations Broken Negotiations between the mine-workers' mine-workers' union and northern and westet-n coal operators broke off Friday. The operators made it clear that they believe only action by) the government can end the month-old soft coal strike.' , Federal Mediator Director Cyrus Cy-rus S. Ching. will continue his New York conferences with officials offi-cials of U. S. , Steel corporation, Monday in an effort to find some new basis for settlement of the 22-day-old steel strike. But officers of Philip Murray's CIO Steelworkers union said they would hold out for the 10-cent-an-hour ., pension and insurance benefits recommended, for them by a special presidential factfinding fact-finding board. ' Meanwhile, the strikes cut deeper into the nation's economy, forcing sharp curtailment in coal-burning coal-burning railroad operations and in most industrial production. Government Gov-ernment officials feared unemployment unem-ployment caused by the strikes might go as high as 2,000,000 during dur-ing the coming week. White House officials said Mr. Truman "definitely would take no action in either the steel or coal dispute before Tuesday. At the same time, however, they predict ed the president would not let the strikes run beyond Thursday without taking personal' action. ' The : president was off on a weekend cruise aboard his yacht, the Williamsburg. None of his top labor advisers was believed to be aboard the Williamsburg. - " j . Truman Staying Oat According to White House officials, offi-cials, Mr. Truman is staying out of the disputes until Ching gives up all hope of settling the strikes through collective barganlng and federal mediation. Ching concluded three days of meetings in New York last night with a statement that "the parties are no closer to a settlement" in the steel walkout. His scheduled meetings with U. S. Steel Monday were not expected to improve the picture. Usually-informed sources said Ching probably would make "one more try" to get John L.. Lewis and the toft coal industry , back into bargaining before he refers that dispute to Mr. Truman. Neither Nei-ther Lewis nor the operators is expected to react favorably to any suggestion that they resume new contract talks. 'Cat' Driver Killed Under Own Machine' By UNITED PRESS A construction worker -rr still unidentified late Saturday' night was killed near the Point of the Mountain prison farm .Saturday .Satur-day afternoon when he was crushed by a caterpillar tractor. Invesigatlng officers said one tractor had pushed a boulder onto the Union Pacific railroad tracks near the old route of highway high-way 91. The second. driVer took his tractor up the incline to push it away. While he was checking to see if the machine would clear the tracks, it began backing down the hill. The driver jumped back into the seat just before the tractor hit a ,dltch. The lurch threw him off the machine and under Its tracks. Witnesses said the caterpillar rolled more than 400 feet in the course of its rampage and came - uu,"c " ' "nipage ana came t tju TT - , 18 Companies Employing 5200 Sign Steel Pension Contracts International headauarters of the CIO United Steelworkers announced an-nounced Saturday that 18 more steel companies employing 5,200 .workers signed contracts cons' con-s' taining a non-contributory wel- Uare package during the past Iweek. . The union said the hew agreements agree-ments made a total of 40 com-1-8, Sec. t panies with 48.250 employes which have signed non-contri-.4, Sec. 2 butory contracts since the steel to strike began Oct. l. ., sec. z xhe iargegt company to sign t See 2 durin the P"t week was Cop-' Cop-' perweld Steel Co., Glass; ort, Pa., ..7, Sec. 2 w'th 1,100 workers. Other firms and the number See, 2 of their employes listed by the Desperado Shoots Way Out of Jail Two Companions O! Tcrtum Lie Dead In Phoenix Jail Break PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 22 (U.R) Tough Jack L. Tatum, 26, free after a blazing gun battle during which he broke out of Mariposa county jail, hid out Saturday night as scores of officers hunted him. They were warned he would not surrender without . a fight. Police officers searched down town Phoenix and the Arizona wilderness for Tatum, a notorious notori-ous desperado, while two com panions in the jail break lay dead and two others were back in the midtown, five story jail from which Tatum fled shortly after midnight. After Tatum escaped from the scene which resembled a battle ground, his trail was picked up in a downtown boarding house where he had hid for an hour. It was believed he got away in a Ford reported stolen a block away from the boarding house. He apparently suffered an injured in-jured knee in the escape. Systematic Cheek Bernn FBI agents, police and sheriffs deputies b e g a n a systematic check of the southeastern Phoe nix Industrial district after police received a report that a man was running across a street. Officers discovered a few drops of fresh blood in a warehouse. The district was guarded by a patrol as officers painstakingly continued the manhunt Tatum and four others attempt ed to break out of the jail at 1:10 a.m. (MST.) They slugged a fellow inmate, a jailer and a watchman and wounded a deputy sheriff before Tom Stowe, 40, a crippled night watchman en countered them. . He killed two of them with two shots from his .38 automatic while the other two fled back into the upper regions of the jail and Tatum got away. Dead were Charles McEwen, 22, awaiting trial for the murder of an Arizona ranchman, and Edward Ed-ward Corcoran,- 38," who police ; said was ringleader of the at tempted break. Corcoran, an itinerant printer, was charged with the murder of his wife. Mc Ewen once attempted a jail break In Oregon. Officers captured John Bridges, awaiting trial for rob bery, and Dihzel McDonald ac cused of forgery, inside the jail after Stowe shot McEwen and Corcoran.- Furious Gun Battle When the prisoners appeared on the first floor of the jail after escaping from their fifth-floor cell, a furious gun battle broke out in which Stowe killed McEwen Mc-Ewen and Corcoran. Bridges and McDonald retreat ed, but Tatum, a member of the notorious Tatum gang which once terrorized the southwest. apparently escaped through the scores of policemen, firemen, deputy sheriffs and highway patrolmen pa-trolmen who converged on the five-story county courthouse in which the jail is located. As searchlights played on the building and officers climbed to the top floor on a hook-and-lad-der, then worked down through the building, . dropping gas grenades ahead of them. Tatum slipped away. He headed for a rooming house in a tough part of Phoenix' downtown down-town area and holed up there for an hour, terrorizing a maid with his story of escape: When he left, the maid called police at 5:05 a.m. She -said Tatum had a bloody right knee, Injured in the escape. "When we find the car. we'll find Tatum." said Phoenix police Sgt John Slaughter, "Tatum is as touah. If not tougher, than Billy Ray Gilbert," said Sheriff Cal Boies, referring to another Arizona thug who was killed here last winter after he and a partner murdered three persons. Late today the FBI filed for mal charges of jallbreak against Tatum, thus making the sixth charge the hunted man will face. He is wanted on three Dyer act violations here, for parole viola- (Continued on Page Two) union included Townsend Co., New Brighton, Pa., 800; Lawson Mfg. C,s 300; Palley Mfg. Co., 200; Tracey Mfg. Co., 400 Hey 1 & Patterson Co., 200; Pittsburgh Gear Mfg. Co., 200; Kerotest Mfg. Co., 250; Hanloh-Gregory Co., 150; McDowell Mfg. Co., 100, and Tri-Lok Co., 100, all of Pittsburgh. Pitts-burgh. Pfauder Co., Rochester, N. Y 400; Eastern Stainless Steel Co.; Baltimore, Md 400; National Radiator, Ra-diator, Mlddletown, Pa., 100; Lee-Norse Co., Charleroi, Pal, 100; Reliance Steel Products Co., McKeesport Pa., 300; Union Electric Steel Castings Co., Carnegie, Car-negie, Pa., 50, and Stanley, Mining Min-ing Co., Eveleth, Minn., 50. Pew Lumber Yard, Warehouses Bum Down Dim $160,000 II ass. .AO PROVO'S SECOND LARGEST FIRE Spectators look on as firemen play streams of water on raging flames which destroyed the Anderson Lumber Co. store, ware Allen To Be Ambassador To Yugoslavia WASHINGTON,. Oct. 22 (U.R) The United States is sending one of . its toughest cold war diplomats diplo-mats to Yugoslavia to watch out for American interests in the struggle between the Kremlin and Marshal Tito. Informed quarters said that assistant as-sistant secretary of state George Allen, director of America's world propaganda campaign against communism, has been tapped as the next ambassador to Yugoslavia. Yugo-slavia. He will succeed Ambassador Ambassa-dor Cavendish W. Cannon, who is returning to the United States because be-cause of ill health. . 'Allen was on the diplomatic firing line when the cold war started. He was ambassador to Iran in 1946, when the Soviet Union launched a pressure campaign cam-paign against that country in an effort to force it into Moscow's orbit, and realize an old Russian dream of access to the Indian Ocean. Top Acheson Aide Prompt and vigorous American support in the United Nations and elsewhere for which Allen largely was responsible contributed contrib-uted greatly to the successful Iranian resistance. Largely in recognition of his work in Iran. Allen was made as sistant secretary of state for public pub-lic afafirs in 1948. . Under his administration, ad-ministration, American propa ganda activities, including tne radio Voice of America, have be come such an irritation to the Russians that about 200 Soviet radio stations have been devoted (Continued on Fage Two) Czechs Expel 11 Yugoslav Diplomats PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct 22 (U.R) Czechoslovakia expelled 11 Yugoslav diplomats Saturday, 48 hours after Yugoslavia defeated defeat-ed it for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, and announced an-nounced the start of an espionage trial involving a "foreign intelligence intelli-gence service." . There was no indication whether the trial of "terrorists and spies" was connected with the expulsion of the Yugoslavs or with the expulsion and arrest of American embassy personnel accused ac-cused of creating an elaborate espionage network and. plotting to spirit anti-Communists to safety. An official government announcement an-nouncement said the foreign ministry min-istry gave the Yugoslav diplomats diplo-mats 24 hours to leave the country coun-try and called it retaliation "for the unjustified expulsion of Czechoslovak embassy personnel" recently from Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav diplomats were not named. Service Station Attendant At Beaver Sl) By Assailant BRAVER, Utah, Oct 22 (U.R) A . young service station attendant here was fatally shot and bludgeoned early Saturday and officers ordered a two-state search for a tall blond man believed to.have been the assailant. Howard Manzione, 21, died in a Cedar City hospital several hours after he was found unconscious about 4 a. m. Saturday on the floor of his service station! He had been bludgeoned about the head and shot through the right arm and chest. Sheriff J. D. Puffer said an alarm was broadcast for a six-foot, blond, curly haired man about 30 years old. The suspected assailant was wearing an army overcoat, khaki pants and blue suede shoes. The sheriff said a 22-caliber shell was found near the victim. The station cash register had not been tampered with, and Manzione's wallet was still in his trousers' pocket, the officer said. However, robbery was believed believ-ed to have been the motive for the attack by the unknown un-known assailant. ' Ritter Named Federal Judge In Truman Recess Appointment WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 22 (Ui? Willis W. Ritter of Salt Lake City "happily" accepted his recess appointment as Utah's federal fed-eral district Judge Saturday. ' Ritter, practicing attorney and a member of the University of Utah , law school faculty, was named federal judge under a recess re-cess appointment yesterday by President Harry S. Truman. The appointment was . made after Sen.. Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash., chairman of the senate judiciary subcommittee had written writ-ten a letter to the President urging urg-ing the action and after the de- Ipartment of justice had notified sen. .iuei 1 u. iiiumai, u., uuu, that the federal bureau of investigation in-vestigation routine probe of the nominee had disclosed nothing to reflect on his character or ability. One of 23 Judge Ritter 's appointment was one of 23 to the federal bench or U. S. district attorneyships which the senate judiciary committee failed to report in time for action this session. Jutiae Ritter will succeed Judge Tillman D. Johnson, retired, and will serve without senate confirmation con-firmation until the next session convenes in January. The attorney general s office, in a letter to Sen. Thomas, pointed out that the FBI investigations of nominees are strictly confidential. French Premier . Resigns Again PARIS, Sunday. Oct 230J.FD Premier Rene Mayer resigned early today after an unsuccessful two-day effort to form a coalition government. - The 54-year-old radical socialist social-ist quit after all hope of reaching agreement on a cabinet with the dissension-torn socialists vanished. van-ished. President Vincent Auriol accepted the resignation. houses and .stock supplies early Saturday morning. Fire was rated the second largest in Provo's history, with the loss estimated at $160,000. but added that no evidence was found to impugn Ritter's integrity, integ-rity, ability, character, loyalty or judicial temperament. After the President had signed the recess appoinement; Sen. Thomas said, "I am gratified at the appointment. The senate judiciary sub-committee and the department of justice reports have made very clear Ritter's excellent ex-cellent qualifications and his fitness fit-ness in every way to handle this Important post." SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22 (U.R) Federal court attaches in Salt Lake City said Saturday that newly, appointed Judge Willis W. Ritter of Salt Lake City will be sworn in as the. U. S. district judge early next week. Ritter Will be the third federal district judge in the history of the state. Ritter said Saturday that he plans to start work in a "day or two." UN Vo t e Sen ds Bal ka n Church Trial To International Court FLUSHING, N. Y Oct. 220J.R) The United Nations general assembly, as-sembly, smothering opposition by the Soviet ' bloc, Saturday sent the east-west; "controversy over Balkan church trials to the international inter-national court of justice. . The assembly asked the Hague tribunal to give an advisory opinion' opin-ion' on whether Hungary, Bulgaria Bul-garia and Romania were justified, justi-fied, under their peace treaties, in refusing to submit western charges of human right violations to arbitration machinery created In the pacts. The west accused the Soviet satellites of Violating human! rights guarantees of the treaties FBI Arrests Five Russian Amtorg Men NEW YORK, Oct.. 22 CSVFive officials of the : Russian Amtorg trading agency put up a brief but lively scuffle when an FBI squad arrested them Friday at the Amtorg headquarters on Madison avenue, It was learned Saturday. Several of the Amtorg men tried to defend themselves with pieces of furniture and the con fusion was heightened by the fact that none of them spoke -English well and were suspicious of the arrest. . They were arretted on .warrants .war-rants charging that they had failed to register as foreign agents while getting Information for Russia instead of sticking to their job of aoting as busniess agents for Amtorg. In The Same Jail ' The Amtorg officials were locked up Saturday night in the same jail with 11 U. S. Com munist leaders convicted of revolutionary conspiracy. Bail Of $15,000 each had not yet been raised. The U S. Communist leaders were Jield withou ball. Edward Scheldt, special agent in charge ol the New York FBI office, declined to comment on reports of a scuffle during the Amtorg arrests. "We arrested them,' 'he said "Just say we arrested them."' Meanwhile, lawyers for the 11 communist leaders announced they would file a petition for bail in the circuit court of appeals next Wednesday. They said their arguments against federal judge Harold Medina's refusal to grant bail were scheduled for Nov. 1. All of the men were locked in cells in the three-story brick federal house of detention here. The indictment against the five Russians by a Washington federal fed-eral grand jury charged that Amtorg failed to file a registra Hon requested by the state de partment six weks ago. The government gov-ernment said that Amtorg served as an information clearing house for the Soviet government rather than a bona fide trading com pany. The defendants could be sen tenced to five years in prison and (Continued on Page Two) in the trials of Josef Cardinal Mlndszenty and other Catholic and protestant churchmen. Russia Rus-sia and the three Balkan countries coun-tries involved contended no rights had been violated, that the trials were strictly domestic problems. The vote to ask for an international interna-tional court opinion was 47 to 5 with 7 abstentions. Only the Soviet block voted against the proposal. Its former partner, Yugoslavia, abstained apparently as an outgrowth df Tito-Kremlin arguments over the recent trial and execution of Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian foreign minister. Blaze Is 2nd Largest In r A City's History Firomen ' Wage Heroic . Battle That Saves Two Nearby Buildings The second largest fire in Provo's history early Satur day destroyed the " Anderson Lumber company store, warehouses ware-houses and yard stocks at an estimated total loss of $160,000. Manager J. M, Fulkerson gave the 1160.000 flaure lata Saturdaypointing out . it was still subject to revision after earlier estimates had ranged up as high as $180,000. First reports, he said, were probably a little high, although an accurate figure would have to await more' detailed de-tailed study of the inventory and losses. Only one other fire in Provo'i history caused greater loss. This See Page 5 for additional fire coverage 1 . was the Knight Woolen .Mills blaze of 1918 which resulted in damages of better than $230,000 and destroyed an Industry cm ploying about 200 people. Covered By Insurance The lumber company loss wai "fully covered" by Insurance, ac cording to the management Fir Chief Lloyd B. Dickson said Saturday the -"cause of the blaze was unknown. Firemen expressed the opinion it started in the shop back of the store. This was where the blase had gained the most headway by the - time : firame . reached It- .Uv..v",..; Early estimates -placed loss to the store building on Second West and Fifth South at $35,000. The building, valued' at $40,000, was completely gutted. Walls were still standing but the roof collapsed col-lapsed and the Interior.; was a complete ruin. Four trucks valued at a total of $10,000 were destroyed destroy-ed in the blaze. The balance of tha $160,000 less was In general merchandise mer-chandise and building materials, Including most of the lumber stocks in the. yard. Alarm At 1:12 A.M. ' Firemen received the call a1 3:32 a jn. -Saturday, turned in by a nearby resident who awoke to see the blaze., When they arrived, the shop and much of the yard were beyond saving. 'Firemen tried to stop It near the rear oi the store and thus save the latter structure, but the roaring flames swept on to gut the building's Interior. In-terior. Meanwhile, other members- of the- department concentrated on . saving the nearby Olsen box "factory "fac-tory and warehouse less than 80 feet from the fire's outer-fringes outer-fringes and the Provo Hide and Fur company some distance farther far-ther away. Aided by tha cityi new ladder truck which enabled them to get above the blaze they were successful in saving both buildings. Every Man Utilised ' Every available man and piece of equipment was called to the blaze, and within an hour it was under control to the point that nearby buildings were no longer in danger and the walls of the store remained standing. Of the entire 22-man department all were on the Job but four who were deer hunting. All four pumpers, including the obsolete 1917-model, were brought into use. Chief Dickson said no trouble was encountered from the standpoint stand-point of water. In addition to city hydrants, firemen put two pumper intakes in the millrace, which runs next to the lumber yard lot. First Use It marked the first use of the department's new, modern ladder extension truck. Chief Dickson said the Olsen building could not have been saved if firemen had not been able to get up above tha blaze and fight down on It Mr. Fulkerson told firemen he left the lumber company at 6:30 p.m. Friday, and that he drove by again about 9:30 p.m. and nothing seemed wrong, ' Others testified they saw the place as late as midnight and detected no sign of. fire. r irsi reporis aaiuraay morning Indicated the Knight Woolen Mills loss was not as great as the lumber firm blaze. However. Clayton Jenkins, who was office manager .for the woolen mills at the time of the blaze, said $138,-000 $138,-000 insurance was paid on . In ventories and stocks alone. Ha estimated the total loss at double that ' ' . ' . The 1932 Knight block fire In downtown Provo caused damage of less than $SO,000, based on reconstruction re-construction prices of the depres sion era. |