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Show , ' . . - . ' - '- .- . ; - . ' . V" - - " : SI ' ' - ' a' - . . V,i- ,"t TEMPERATURES Prove 43 n;PortUnd .. 4J It Lake , 41 STIButt ..... 35-1 Ofcn .... 4 2S 'Cheyenne . 41 17 Logan 45 1 Denver ... St 21 St. George . SI J9!Chlco ... 4 39 ' V(M ..CO 31Biimarrk ...49 -7 'Jr Pheentx ... 75 43(Wahlnrton 42 XT Lo Angeles 1 42 ,New York 34 24 4m Fran. . S3 42 Miami . . . , SO It Sunday. Continued mild daytlaN temperature. " PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY. JANUARY 1. 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS rtPlW V7 11 SS,' PARTLY CLOUDY tif A' NOW AND SLIDES HIT BRITISH COLUMBIA with roads choked by heavy snows that brought , tremendous slides on mountain roads, trains a nd busses in British Columbia suffered lengthy delays, in many cases with travelers trapped by the huge drifts. Above Trans-Canada busses on the Hope-Princeton highway are stalled huge snows. Death Toll Light As Nation Greets New Year; Rain To Dampen Midwest, West Celebrations CHICAGO, Dec. 31 (U.R ' A grey day ushered out the. old year In most of the nation ' and quiet celebrations and a . low holiday accident toll her aided the new year. Rains ielt over most of the ' country, but temperatures were generally mud. Accidental deaths . between'. 6 p. m. Friday and noon Saturday Sat-urday totaled 23; lncluding-151 traffic deaths, five ire fatalities fatali-ties and five deaths from miscellaneous mis-cellaneous causes. - Most entertainment spots throughout the country re- f ported fewer New Year's ev party reservations . than - last ' year Television was expected to keep many additional cele- -. ' brants at home this year. The National Safety court-' ' cil predicted that 330 persons . would be killed on the highways high-ways during the three day , holiday. During the Christ- -. -mas holiday traffic accidents" killed 420 persons and the accidental ac-cidental deaths totaled 611. -Sk'a Identity Of 'Philanthropist'; , Donates $23,000 JACKSON, Tenn.. Dec. 31 U.f!3 . Postmaster Roy Gilbert posted an alert at all substations Saturday Satur-day in an effort, to discover the Identity of a "mysterious philanthropist" philan-thropist" who has mailed parcel w post packages containing more than $23,000 in cash. Recipients in Georgia and Ken-' Ken-' tucky received the money bundles postmarked Jackson, Tenn.; without with-out the return address. j The three packages represent ed a sum total of $23,010. Firsts the Rev. L. C. Kellyiof the Clear Mountain Preachers' school at Pineville, Ky., announced an-nounced receipt of $7,860. There wm no clue to the aenripr Th IX bills were stacked in separate " piles of $10, $20, $50 and $100. Just the money, no note, no letter let-ter of explanation, no return address. ad-dress. During the Christmas holidays similar bundles were delivered to K the home mission board ' at At lanta, total $8,200 in bills, and to W. C. Boone, general secretary of the Baptist state board of missions at Louisville, Ky., total $6,950. Dr. W. F. Jones president of i the Union university, a large fSBaptist school in west Tennessee here, said that "such generosity deserves commendation." niHe h Herald A Ceirl Utah News 2.4 Snorts .... Brief . " ' " 4 S'atMics , 4 P-lhs C&fVvrUX Pare , rry-Go-Round .......... V omen's Features ... 1-3, Sec. C'farch Activities ..... 4, See. Comics S, See, Clarified 67, See. Moist air from the Gulf of . Mexico spread the rains from . Texas through Michigan. The drizzle drifted eastward. Showers also fell In Florida. New Mexico and California. A blizzard pushed rain out of the Pacific northwest. A cold wave slipped into Montana Mon-tana and aimed for the area swept by; the main belt of rain. . In contrast, the day was fair and mild in the east, but a cloud front was advancing. Prices for New Year's eve . entertainment were generally about the same as last year. However, many night clubs cut out their usual cover and -minimum charges. At New York City, the mild weather' was expected to bring a large crowd to Times Square for the x traditional New Year's eve" festivities. Nearly 1,000 policemen were assigned to the area. Automobile' travel into and 1950 Makes Debut Utahns Welcome New Year At Parties; Holiday Monday : It's 1950! The bent, old man that was 1949 made his exit in favor: of the bright young upstart, Master 1950, last midnight amid the din of blowing horns and the hail of serpentine and confetti. . Thousands of Central Utahns hailed the turn of the year at gay holiday parties. ' Dances were held in.tye various vari-ous cities, and numerous people Chiang Hurls Accusation Against Russ TAIPEH. Formosa. Dec. 31 U.B Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accused . Russia Saturday of . the greatest crime in human history an! mvunrm hm umiill fisht "n Inner jas the Soviet aggressor occupies one inch of our territory." He appealed to Chinese on the mainland to harass the communists commu-nists ' wherever possible and reported re-ported that guerrilla activities behind the enemy lines are being eXDandeH ranMlv hfSHK "th .war is not ended until the last shot is fired" Chiang warned the world that ; end of resistance against the com munists "will inevitably lead to collapse of the whole democratic) front" and said he would continue his fight from the strong sea fortress fort-ress of Formosa till the democ- 1 racies triumph. Chiang's New Year message was 7, in a .spirit of humility in which ne assumed 11 oiame ior cnina s 1 past failures. Premier Yen Hsl- Shan alists also admitted the nation - mistakes in New Year's message and said the communists would "ruthlessly sacrifice us all Union Pacific depot here yester-for yester-for uncontrolled world aggres- day. by six Salt Lake county depu-ion." depu-ion." ties. , . . Chiang accused Russia of over- The heavily chained murderers running China through its "fifth columnists" communist leader Mao Tze-Tung and Chu Teh, head of the communist armed forces which swept down from Manchuria Man-churia during the past. year to occupy all the mainland. out of New York . City was lighter than last year. Night clubs and hotels did not expect ex-pect the overflow crowds of the first few post war celebrations. cele-brations. The city's highest . priced night club charged $25 per person plus drinks and tax. Statistics kept by the -United Press showed that the six big holidays this year claimed 2,798 lives in all types of accidents. In 1948, 2,253 persons died in accidents acci-dents during the same holidays. holi-days. The National Safety council coun-cil predicted that the total traffic deaths this year will be 31,500, a saving of 500 lives compared with last year. Cities improved their records in 1949 by 12 per cent, but rural and small town auto accidents offset the Increase, giving the national average a two per cent better record than last year. saw the new year in at private parties in the homes. But per haps the biggest New Years watch party of all was that staged In the Joseph Smith building and Social hall ballroom at Provo The Daily Herald will not be published Monday dne to the New Years holiday. Publication Pub-lication will be resumed Tuesday, with the regular deadlines for news copy. : where hundreds of couples enjoyed en-joyed a dance and dinner sponsored spon-sored by the MIA of the four LDS stakesof the city. The three-day New Years holiday holi-day weekend started out quietly in Central Utah, with only a few minor accidents reported and police po-lice listing few disturbances of any kind. -f ' 5 Although today is New Yeers day, the official holiday observance observ-ance will be held Monday, when stores, banks, and government offices of-fices will be closed. The Provo post office windows will be closed throughout the day, although outgoing mail will be dispatcned on schedule. Only special delivery mail and perishable perish-able articles will be delivered. Six Await Execution In Utah State Prison's 'Death Row' By UNITED PRES8 Six doomed men are in the Utah state prison's death row today to-day with the addition of a pair of youthful killers ' convicted in Parowan. 1 Melvin L. Sullivan. 19. and Vern A. Braasch. 24. both of Kan- I sag City, Mo., were met at the i were pale and trembling as they were - hurried Into automobiles for the drive to the prison.. , "If you know anyone who has ideas like the one we had, tell them to talk to us first," Sullivan told reporters. 5 Of Butte Family Die In Massacre Daughter Kills Mother, 3 Brothers and Sisters. Then Turns Gun on Self BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 31 (UP)- Five members of a single family were shot to death in a New Year's eve massacre at the family home of a Butte miner late Saturday. Sat-urday. Coroner Rudy E. Sayatovic said four members of the family were shot and mortally wounded by a rifth, Lorraine Knapp, 21, who then turned the gun on herself. her-self. Sayatovic said the dead were Mrs. Hazel Knapp, two of her sons, Fay, 12, and Ernest, 3, and two daughters, Winifred, 7, and Lorraine. The coroner said Fay and Er nest were killed outright and the mother and two daughters died later at St. James hospital here. Deputy County Attorney J. Frank Sullivan said a murder charge would have been lodged against Lorraine had she lived. Discovered By Sons The carnage at the Knapp home was discovered by two other sons, George, 16, and Jack, 18. who had left home at noon to go to the home of Tony. Turk, a neighbor, to work on an automobile. Undersheriff William Dee said George and Jack returned to get an automobile . seat from their home. Jack . went inside the un-painted, un-painted, five-room home to get a broom to sweep snow from the car seat. . "He found his mother and Ernest Er-nest in a combination living-dining room, Winifred and Fay in a 7 rort of ' a Ytorage'room adjoining the living room And Lorraine on a couch in a bedroom on the other side of the living room," Dee said. Dee said Lorraine was lying on a couch with a .22 caliber rifle resting under her hand on. her stomach. "She had powder burns on her forehead and a bruise where the gun apparently kicked as she fired," Sayatovic said. Returned Home Recently Dee said the brothers Jack and George told him their sister Lor-(Continued Lor-(Continued on Page Four) 'Old Age' Tax Goes Up On Payroll Checks WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 (U.R Uncle Sam will .start taking a bigger bite out of some 35,000,000 paychecks from now on. The one per cent payroll deduction de-duction for social security automatically auto-matically Jumps to one and one- half per cent with the start of the new year. , The Increase, considered long overdue by many, experts, is intended in-tended to strengthen the financial base of the program. The higher rate also will affect employers who must match their employes' contributions to the social security f und. The total increase is expected to swell the reserve for old age and survivors' insurance' by $1,200,000,000 a year. No New Benefits . The tax boost " will not .bring any new security benefits. Those are expected to come through the house-aproved social security expansion ex-pansion bill which has a high priority .on the Senate's legislative legisla-tive calendar for 1950. , The House approved the bill by a whacking 333 to 14 vote last October. That vote reflected a general congressional feeling, shared by leaders of both parties, par-ties, that the present social security se-curity system is inadequate. Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the Senate Finance committee which will consider (Continued on Page Two) "You can tell everyone our footsteps didn't lead very far," Braasch ruefully commented. Asked if they were going to ask for an appeal they said: "You bet we are, just as soon as we can. The two are sentenced to be shot to death for the killing of service station attendant Howard W. Manzione, in Beaver. Date of execution is Feb. 21, unless a stay of execution is granted. The four other condemned men awaiting supreme court action on their appeals are Eliseo Mares, Ray Dempsey Gardner. Joe Tru- jillo and Fred Matteri. Women Call Off ; 'Love Strike' As Hubbies Give In MONTE FLAVIO, Italy, Dec. 3KU.R) The 300 lonely husbands of Monte Flavio bowed Saturday to the power of a woman. They gave in with hardly a struggle to their wives' demand that 22 - year - old Vanda Boscalgi, the women's favorite midwife, again be allowed to deliver babies at cut rate prices and on the instalment in-stalment plan. The women Immediately called off their mass oath of chastity they had sworn to observe until Vanda was back in business. The town council held an emergency meeting under the watchful eyes of the mayor of a nearby town and decided Vanda could stay on at least two more months. Under Italian Ital-ian law she is a civil servant and her legal status must be decided in Rome. The visiting mayor already "had taken a look at the frustrated frus-trated husbands and appealed directly to Rome to end the village's cold war. Union Heads Put Welfare On 'Must' List WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (U.R) Leaders of the nation's two major unions placed welfare legislation ahead of Taft-Hartley repeal on their 1950 congressional must" list, Saturday. A. F. of L. President William Green and CIO head Philip Murray Mur-ray agreed, too, that next year would be a big one. politically for anion members. They called on their memberships to get out the! VVIC III lUIVI fc Vi congress. Green said labor faces the "political fight of its life" in 1950. . . Green contended that Taft- Hartley repeal is the "primary legislative objective" of his union. Eut he said, repeal appeared im- uessible until a new congress is elected next fall, i Until then, he said, labor's big fight will be for improved welfare legislation. ; "I appeal to every member of the American Federation of Labor and to all the friends of labor to do their part by making certain to register and to vote in 1950," Green, said. "We are confident that we can elect labor's friends and defeat labor's enemies with a full vote." Repeal Possible Then, he said, "it will be pos sible to repeal the shameful Taft Hartley act and to make definite progress toward the realization of liberal social security laws, de cent housing programs, the enjoyment enjoy-ment of civil rights by all and a richer and fuller life for the American people." Murray's recommendations to congress were enactment of all remaining portions of President Truman's "fair deal" program to make life better for the bulk of (Continued en Pare Two) Accused Mercy Killer Brings New Life Into World; Nurse Who Revealed Case Identified MANCHESTER. N. H.. Dec. 31 (U.R) Dr. Herman N. Sander delivered de-livered a new 4 life a few hours after he was freed on ball in the mercy killing of a pain-wracked cancer patient, it was revealed Saturday. Freed on $25,000 bail Friday, the 41 -year-old surgeon Immediately Imme-diately resumed his practice of medicine and brought a baby into the world at Elliott hospital here Friday night, His patients stuck with him. , As the doctor resumed his regular regu-lar rounds and office hours, he received hundreds of messages of sympathy and offers of help in the fight against-charges that he put Mrs. Abbie C Borroto of Manchester to death by injecting inject-ing 40 cubic centimeters of -air into her veins. Act Of Mercy Sander, according to state officials, of-ficials, has admitted that he did that as an "act of mercy" since the woman could only" live a few hours longer. She died 10 minutes after the injection. . Tv, pharwi asainat Dr. Sander broUght no apparent change irt his nnrmnl life once he was rreea from Hillsborough county jail. Sander went to the Elliott hospital hos-pital Friday night and delivered a five pound, 12-ounce daughter to ! Mrs. Louise Crocker, 28, of Manchester. And Saturady morning morn-ing he picked up his . regular rounds again. I Four patients were at his office Congress Set For Session On Tuesday Excise Taxes, Rent Control, Civil Rights, Spending, Big Issues WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (U.R) An assortment of poli tically hot issues dealing with civil jrights, taxes, rent control con-trol and the federal budget emerged today as the chief battle areas for the 1950 ses sion of congress opening Tuesday. Democratic leaders returning to direct the administration pro - gram found the Republican minority prepared to build the1 budset disnute into thir rhlf! issue for the 1950 campaign year. Truman Message Administration spokesmen are giving no priority to the Issues but are making clear that they expect legislation dealing with civil rights, social security, foreign for-eign aid, rent control and housing hous-ing to dominate the program for the year. They also are acknow-leding acknow-leding an almost irrepressible movement for cuts in -excise taxes. President Truman will submit his overall program Wednesday when he appears before a joint session of house and senate to read his annual message on the state of the union. Some recom mendations will ' be spelled out in greater detail in .his economic message Friday and his budget message the following Monday. : According to one source ' mse to the White House, the message Wednesday will be largely, a re- statement of Mr.-.Truman's Fair Deal 'program.' . This informant said it , will Include some pro posals such as national health insurance on which Democratic leaders expect no action this year. . With the president's budget Ex pected to total nearly $43,000. 000,000 for fiscal 1951, senate Republican Re-publican Leader Kenneth' S. Wherry of Nebraska told a re porter that he regarded federal spending as "the number one is sue in the country today." "I mean not only domestic spending but our spending abroad," he said. "It Is our com mitments abroad that have had such an Impact on our economy today." Foreign Aid Cut Wherry's statement underscored under-scored the fact that the argument over the budget will be tied to a potent drive to trim the ize of foreign aid program when the congressional economy bloc tries to reduce or eliminate the federal deficit. The deficit has been esti mated at more than $5,000,000,000 for the current fiscal year and more red ink is Indicated for the next fiscal year. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois indi . (Continued on Page Two) waiting for him and at the hospital hos-pital another woman sought out Sander for advice on the care and feeding of her nine-day-old son. The doctor ordered his secretary secre-tary not to cancel any appointments appoint-ments and promised to keep his medical practice as long as it is possible for him to do so. : While the doctor went about his rounds and waited for grand jury action on his case next week, it was revealed that Miss Josephine Jose-phine Connor, record nurse at the (Continued, on Pare Two) Patient Puts Psychiatrist In Hospital; Takes Bankroll NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 31 ILE A state mental hospital Inmate was sought Saturday after he allegedly masqueraded masquer-aded as the institution's psychiatrist psy-chiatrist and had the real psychiatrist confined to a hospital here. Dr. Edwin , C. McGowan was under treatment for alcoholism al-coholism at Hotel Dieu hospital hos-pital while police hunted Oscar Hoffman, 32, who allegedly al-legedly took McGowan's car and $320 and disappeared. It all started, McGowan said, with a Christmas day drink at the hospital in Jackson, Jack-son, La. McGowan admitted he formerly was an alcoholic Steel Companies Prepare Action Against Lewis WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (U.R) The : nation's hlg steel companies were reported preparing new unfair labor practice prac-tice charges against John L. Lewis Saturday as the threat of a new soft coal strike arose. .; Informed sources said steel producers who operate thr so-called "capitve" coal mines will ask the national labor-relations labor-relations board next week to order Lewis' - bituminous miners to work a full five-day week. " ' They said the steel men, Jed by United States Steel corporation. are drafting formal complaints charging that the present three- day work week ordered by Lewis i a form of "coercion" by the United Mine workers president to obtain a new wage contract, . New Strike Feared 'The Impending steel move was disclosed as coal Industry officials offi-cials reported "mounting indications" indica-tions" of a new soft coal strike next Tuesday. The operators said "friendly" miners have told them that Lewis has ordered his miners to quit the pits after the New Year holiday. Lewis was unavailable and other oth-er union officials refused to comment com-ment on the strike reports. Industry sources said, major coal producers in Illinois and central Pennsylvania will " join the steel companies in charging Lewis and the UMW with mass violation of the Taft-Hartley, act. Nearly one-third of the bituminous bitum-inous industry previously had accused Lewis of illegal tactics in his try for a new contract to replace re-place the one which expired last June 30. With the addition of the steel companies and the Illinois and central Pennsylvania operators, the UMW chieftain will be under legal fire from mine owners rep resenting well over nan tne in dustry s production. Charges Filed The Southern Coal Producers association started the round of Taft-Hartley complaints against Lwis Wednesday. On Friday, western and northern commercial mine owners added their charges. The producers asked the board (Continued en Page Two) U. S. Accused Of Plotting to Help Formosa Defense HONG KONG, Sunday, Jan. 1 (U.R) The communist new China news agency accused the United States today of plotting to help the nationalist government hold Formosa for an eventual counterattack counter-attack against the mainland. An earlier communist broadcast said one of the main tasks of the red armies in 1950 will be to prevent- the "aggressive forces of American imperialism'1 from gaining any foothold on the nationalists' na-tionalists' island refuge. 1 The news agency said Kuomin-tane Kuomin-tane (national party) and Amer ican secret service organlzatiomrK have "hatched counter- revolutionary revolu-tionary schemes" and were prepared pre-pared to send secret agents into the "peoples democratic camp and engage in various disruptive activities." ac-tivities." The broadcast called Sino-Sovlt friendship "one of the most precious prec-ious assets of the Chinese people who will . . . intensify their ef forts in learning from the Soviet) Union." The agency reported the greatest great-est difficulties facing .the Peking regime in 1950 were in the field of economics. During 1949. It said, "the Chi nese people overcame the diffi cuities caused by enemy destruc tiOn and blockade and serious floods and drought." but admitted the costs of waging war had made it difficult to balance the, budget and had brought inflation and rising prices. but said he had been on the wagon for two years. Hoffman reportedly is an ex-air force veteran whose psychological troubles began when he was shot down on his 29th combat mission. The pair wund up in Baton Bat-on Rouge, La., and then came here to finish the celebration. McGowan said he apparently passed out and woke up in the hospital here. Attendants said he was admitted as an alcoholic when a man who posed as "Dr. McGowan" Mc-Gowan" brought the "patient" "pati-ent" in for treatments and then disappeared. So did McGowan's Mc-Gowan's car and money. Truman to : Ask Changes In Tax Rates WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 ufi A source close to the White Hous said Saturday thai '. President Truman will send a special message mes-sage to congress . next month requesting re-questing lower taxes for low and middle income groups and high-, er taxes for big business. This informant ' said Mr. Truman's Tru-man's special tax message would be delivered to congress "in two or three weeks." , ,.t There- was no. corroboration' of the president's reported tax plant from any other source. . One "insider" "in-sider" who presumably was well acquainted' with Mr. Truman's plans was frankly akepticaL . - , The source said the president would spell out in detail a tax program to fit hit "fair . deal" legislative proposals. It is known that the president is dissatisfied with the present tax structure.' .-".-. ' Dismissed at Meeting The United JPresa source.' who arked that he not be named, sail Mr. Truman would recommend (1) lower tax rates for , low and middle Income groups; (2) high er taxes on corporation earnings. and (3) reduction of some of the wartime excise taxes still On the books. ' The excise taxes are on such items as fur coats, jewelry, cosmetics, cos-metics, and leather goods, all of which were regarded as "luxury" . commodities during the war. . ' The source said the , recommended recom-mended changes in taxes were discussed at yesterday's cabinet meeting and now a?$ being put S into shape by the treasury's tax Q. experts. Statistical details tT Mr. Try a MAet ap nvAffva n fia .rfm lUglll 0 It A lliVAt Hill TV known. 1 . f The president will A congress ncxi neaneiju t .1 . ,,T 1 1 , a liver his. annual state union message. '""X " Informed sources ' said, hd ever, the president will make. specific tax recommendations in that message. They said he merely would suggest that torn readjustments are needed in tax structure.' T Cedar City Votersavor Power Deal CEDAR CITY Voters tt Cedar City Friday approved ' a proposal to purchase the' city electrical distribution system a' cooperate with the Southv Utah Power Federation in a calling for purchase of assets- Southern Utah Power Co. Returns from the special elej tion showed a total vote of 8)1 for the proposal and 795 again?! The proposal won a majorii vote in every one of the citvl five districts. .The closest vol was in district 3 with a majoritl of only four votes in favor. The election climaxed several weeks of intensive campaigning by proponents and opponents with Gronway R. Parry, former (Continued en Page Four) " Provoan Involved In Fatal Crash LAS VEGAS. Nev., Dec. 31 (U.R) William Doutre, 58, Logan, died Saturday at Clark General hospital hos-pital of injuries suffered when he was struck by a passing automobile. automo-bile. Officers said driver of the car which struck Doutre was Claude C. Hinckley, 22, Provo, Utah. The mishap occurred on highway 91, thirty-one miles northeast of Lai Vegas. Both cars were bound for Las Vegas for the New Years holiday weekend. Hinckley was freed, pending a full investigation of the accident and a coroner's Inquest.'. Hinck ley was alone in his car, and escaped es-caped with slight bruises. A" V v.. . 1 r |