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Show m TEMtZRATUBES CLOUDY Sunday with iVreve .I... 4t 31 PertUn .. 14 St Butt IS IS Boi . .... 31 Denver ..' If If Chlcsfe . Jl IS Bismarck . 11 t ' Washington S It Miami 17 NW Twk I ! salt Laks . SS I otesa , si s Los 4 . -. . SS St. Grf . tl 31 Ul Vegas ST SS Pktnix 14 44 Los AagtlM 47 Baa rraav . SI SS nUa, rSA today, about it. VOL 27, NO. 34 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY; JANUARY 22, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS o)5o) U.S. Deeds ton In New Bsrlin Dispute Threat of New Soviet Blockade of the City Averted By U.S. Move V BERLIN, Jan.' 21 (U.R) The United States, backed down Saturday in a major Berlin dispute with Russia to prevent a new ; Soviet block ade of the city. Maj.' Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Tay-lor, Berlin's American com mandant, ordered western police out of a disputed U. S. zone railway rail-way headquarters building, seizure seiz-ure of which precipitated the quarrel. i It was the first time the United States has backed down in a major Berlin dispute with Russia since the Soviets imposed their 11-month blockade of. the city in tne spring ot i48. (It had been rumored in Berlin mat : Taylor's backdown was prompted by pressure from his superiors. But U. S. high com missioner John McCloy, who ar rived at Mitchel Field in New York tonight, said "I doubt it" when asked whether Washington had prompted the action. , ' (McCloy said he was not fully informed on the matter, having left Germany Friday. But he aid be believed the U. S. backdown back-down would "ease the situation".) Taylor's order was scarcely Issued -when Soviet propaganda organs began trumpeting the Soviet, "victory." , "Taylor sounds retreat," the So-, So-, viet-licensed news agency ADN said as five Russian-directed .railway .rail-way police marched Into the building and slammed ; shut the Iron gates on American property control official. ' v, "The 600 office rooms are not (worth the threat of a : new blockade," Taylor said. German police, with American approval, had seized the building housing the railway headquarters to ob tain the 800 empty rooms for use f the city. Occupation of the building led to what Taylor called a Soviet ' (Continued en Page Two) Churchill Swings Into Now Campaign fcy 1 B. 8HACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent 5,. LONDON, Jan. 21 (U.R) Win tton Churchill opened the most closely watched British election Campaign in history Saturday night and predicted Britain will have to continue to live on "for eign charity" If the Socialists Win the Feb. 23 general elections, i The 75-year-old wartime prime , minister warned in the kickoff Conservative party campaign broadcast to the nation that the Socialist policies of the Labor government have proved to be "the weakest : defense against communism. Asaalla Labor Churchill assailed labor for omitting from its official platform any mention : of the billions of dollars in aid "so generously supplied" sup-plied" to Britain by the United States since the war. ' He declared that a conservative government would relieve the people of the rigid controls maintained by the labor government govern-ment and lead them ; back to solvency without aid from abroad. . ' Churchill declared - also ' that "victory for his party on Feb. 23 'would not endanger Britain's "welfare state", services ; for which he claimed credit and Would not mead ' unemployment " The speech was regarded as a preview of the conservative plat form,' which will not be publish' ed formally until next week. Churchill spoke from the study of his country home at Chart well . (Continued on Page Two) - Jnside The Herald Central Utah New t- Sports . . ; . . 10-11 News Briefs ................. 3 SUtistles 3 Business Page 9 Editorial Pace ........ , See. 2 Merry-Go-Round ,...!, Sec. 2 V'':,; . ' . - j .Women's Features .... lt2. See. 2 Church Activities .... 4-5, See. 2 School News ........... 4, See. 2 Comics Clasalfled , See, t Bomb Explosion Rocks On the Campus of Rice HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 21 (U.R)A mijrhty bomb explosion rocked the Rice Institute campus early Saturday, endangering the lives of students asleep on the second floor of the men's dormitory where it was set off. v -;,; --. .v.,, ,y.T ' There were no injuries, however a fact, that explosive experts attributed to the home-made, TNT - powered bomb's being placed, hurriedly and probably: by chance, where it did a minimum of harm, ; . - George Strouhal, 19-year-old engineering student from Alvin, Tex., was apparently the only person awake on the second floor, north wing of East hall, where the blast occurred, ' . " "I . heard somebody come up the stairs, . walking fast, and then go down again," Strouhal said.' "But I was sleepy, and didn't think much about it. Anyway, the fellows come and go at all hours." ' 2 Strouhal said the explosion came not long after he heard the ground floor door slam, . apparently as the bomb planter left the dormitory. ; : ' The blast shattered windows and ' sent A A MIDWEST FLOODS GROW Life-Jacketed flood worker' looks across the Saline River .bridge near Shawnee town, I1L, where eight feet of water covers the highway. Evacuees shown on opposite op-posite bank are waiting to be removed to higher ground. Shaw-neetbwn, Shaw-neetbwn, one of many Midwestern cities periled by. growing floods, is dry but surrounded by water. - - '--, Communism, Cepif clism Can Live Sida By Side Says Sfolin MOSCOW. Jan. 21 (U.P Pre mier Josef. Stalin, flanked by the top man of Russia and China, heard the Lenin memorial speaker speak-er declare at the Bolshoi theater tonight that capitalism and communism com-munism can live peacefully, side by side. " . . f . - - '--'y ' The occasion was the 26th anni versary of the death of Nikolai Republicans Ask Probe Of Denfeld Case WASHINGTON. Jan. "51 (U.R- Republican members of the. senate sen-ate armed services committee Saturday formally demanded a "full and complete" explanation of the dismissal of Adm. Louis E. Denfeld as chief of naval operations. op-erations. .;.:..;;. ;.-.:." -: The demand was made in a letter let-ter to committee chairman Millard Mil-lard E. Tydings, D., Md. - The letter, signed by five of the six GOP members, asked that Sec- (Contifluea on Pace Two) Country Justice of the Peace Claps Weeldy Editor In Jail GRAND LEDGE, Mich., Jan. 21 Ci A bitter feud with ... a small-town justice of the peace sent weekly newspaper 'i editor Frank C. Winert to iail Satur day under a 10-day contempt of court sentence. " It failed, however, to disturb him. . j , While 98 aroused citizens of this south-central Michigan community com-munity petitioned Gov. G. Men-nen Men-nen Williams to remove Justice of the peace Charles Young, a habeas corpus writ to free Wein-ert Wein-ert was on its way. , 1 don't mind being here." the 40-year-old publisher . of the I Grand Ledge Reminder said from his Cell in nearby Charlotte. 1 ft 1 r - . '4 : y 4 &V4r Lenin- The principal speaker was Peter N. Pospelov, editor of the communist party .newspaper Pravda and director of the party's institute of Marx-Engels-Lenin. K Pospelov praised the growing prosperity of the Soviet Union; he predicted the inevitable doom of capitalism: he derided Amerl ca s ' China and atomic policies; he caUed British field marshal Montgomery a "bloody cannibal. 'Note of Optimism : But he ended on a note of optimism, op-timism, on the possibility of the peaceful co-existence of the two systems capitalism and comma nism: - '-f.'J- . A---tr'-:-:-- - Lenin, he said, postulated the possibility and the Soviet people today are not . departing from Lenin. - . The , Soviet foreign policy ' is based on the co-existence, of the two systems, : Pospelov said. . This theme waa stressed by deputy premier and politburo member G. M. Malenkov in his speech on Stalin's birthday Dec. 21: -It has been ' stressed again and again in recent Soviet utter ancesu :-- - -:. '' The annual service at the -Bol (Continued on Page Two) "There are some nice people In the Eaton county Jail," r Young, for the second time, cited Weinert "for printing scur rilous editorials about me in his paper and using Insulting lan guage In my court. ; Court In Store .. . The 73-year-old justice holds trials in his antique shop. Welnert and Grand Ledge po lice chief Frank Carter, 25, were given 10-day sentences and $50 finea Jan. 13, but neither was put behind bars' because Young found $25 was the top legal fine he could Impose.: a- - ? r Saturday, Weinert was brought (Con tinned oa Page Two). Dormitory Institute broken glass flying onto several students asleep in their rooms. Four doors were torn from their hinges, and the blast ripped a two-foot hole, in the tile and plaster dormitory dor-mitory wallV . .; ' r Dr. William V. 'Houston, Rice president, inclined to the belief that it was a "student prank," but he promised "stern discipline" if the culprit is caught. ' . School authorities . questioned a student expelled from the school, in south Houston, yesterday. Dr. Hugh S. Cameron, dean of students, and the youthful suspect were closeted for a considerable time, but the ex-student ex-student stoutly denied any knowledge of the bomb's origin. The bomb detonated in a thunderous roar that brought virtually everyone on the campus and" citizens, from blocks around out of their beds at 3 a.m. - - Dynamite , experts said the bomb was devised by. packing the TNT into a one-foot one-foot section of iron pipe and .stuffing bits of brick and paper wads on top of it. A fuse and a detonating cap, they believed, finished off its creation. v Homeless In Flood Area ; Totals 10,000 CHICAGO. Jan. 21 (U.R) Flood waters of the St. Francis river surged over houses in a . section of Arkansas Saturday, increasing to 10,000 tne number of persons homeless m the state and neigh boring. Tennesspo.. .-h i, Rescue xpf '? stranded families along the St. Francis, in north- east Arkansas, virtually waa com pleted, the national guard said. No deaths in' flooded homes were reported, but a farmer drowned and companion was missing when their ; boat : overturned Niear Ma nila, Ark. ; ;;V-' A flood threat rose In storm battered Pacific northwest atates nin nH hirhr tmoor tnr melted the huce mow nacks ofilocal unionofficers L met and the worst blizzard there in 50 years. - 1 Across the border in Canada, British Columbia was virtually isolated. Snowslides . and fli trapped between 20 and 30 including 1500 passengers trains. The Fraser river in the same area flooded 500 acres. One passenger train was reported par tially buried by an avalanche. - Extra food-was brought to some of the isolated -trains by dog sled. No suffering was reported among the - passengers on the stalled trains. A rash of fires, many of them in homes combatting bitter cold, broke out across' the nation and the: death toll for -two days was at least 45. However, the country's weather generally turned warmer today. Clouds filtered down -along the Canadian' border from coast to coast, dropping light snow in New England and rains in Washington Wash-ington and'Oregon. The Mississippi, swouen wiui the flood crept of the Ohio river, punched through levees in Dyer and Lauderdale counties in Tennessee. Ten-nessee. The big river'a- feeder streams in Arkansas and Tennes see were flooding. 1 : . Captain Felix Stacey in cnarge Of the Arkansas national guard rescue work along the St. Francis river said that evacuation of fam ilies - was near completion, n. (Continued on Pace SU) , ' U AW Union Meets; Monday to Plan Chrysler Strike DETROIT, Jan. 21 ' (U.R) The CIO United Auto Workers nave called local union representatives to a special Monday meeting to make plans for a strike of 89,000 Chrysler corporation ; worisr next Wednesday morning. ' The UAW, while iU negotiators wrangled over pensions and in surance, summoned lxo aeiegaiw from 17 locals to complete walkout walk-out preparations. ' Industry observers viewed the tratirv session as "routine. Union sources said the chief stumbling block to a settlement Wll chvsler'a refusal to make a fixed cents-per-hour contribution contribu-tion into a pension fund. vThe corporation insists that its guar antee to pay . IS suiiicieni., BULLETIN LA' PAZ,' Bolivia Jan. 21 , . (U.R) The war . department confirmed Saturday night that 82 persons were killed Friday when a military '''transport plane crashed near the village of YacopartUo in Cechabamba province. Lewis Fights Rebellion In Union Ranks Major Test of Lewis Ability to Control Comes Monday Morning By J. ROBERT SHUBERT , PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21 (U.R) I John L. Lewis' forces in the United Mine Workers battled in last ditch efforts Satur day to quell a rank-and-file rebellion against the UMWs three-day week. A major test of the UMW president's control over his 478,- 000' members will come when-the mine whistles blow for work Monday. Lewis has ordered all miners to report and end the wildcat walkouts which hit six states this week. ' Lewis'- lieutenants seemed to be gaining in their fight to persuade the 90,000 rebel strikers that. the UMW's three-day week is better than a full-scale showdown walkout. walk-out. But the outcome , still was "anybody's guess." . Rebels Hold Out Rebel forces were holding out in some areas, particularly northern north-ern West Virginia. Scattered violence viol-ence was reported as angry mine pickets patrolled' the fields. A power shovel was dynamited and a picket wounded in Pennsyl-vaia Pennsyl-vaia and miners were stoned in Colorado. At Fairmont, W. Va., UMW district" dis-trict" president ..Cecil Urbaniak summarily cancelled a "peace" meeting of 500 local union officers. of-ficers. He said-he had. no plans for' further meetings. . . ! There was speculation that he had abandoned efforts to enforce Lewis' back-to-work order on 18,000 , "no contract; no . work" strikers In the ditrict. S ' In UMW district 4, where virtually vir-tually all of the 20,000 miners refused to work this week, Lewis' Adherents reported, progress. At I Umontown, V., more than ZOO ted to Call meetings of their imorrow. They, acreed to resumption of production, i il Shortage Grows , Industryand retail coal mer chants f acedV with severe coal shortages watched the mine situation sit-uation anxiouslyMnland Steel al ready has been forced to take one (Continued on Page Six) Jury Begins Deliberations In Tucker Case CHICAGO. Jan. 21 (U.R) A fed eral court jury began deliberations delibera-tions Saturday in the trial of Preston. Tucker and seven asso ciates, charged with a $28,000,000 fraud in promotion of a rear-en gine automobile that never got into mass production. ; District Judge Walter J. Labuy gave the case to the Jury of seven men and five women at iu:33 a.m, CST, after warning them against "conjecture and suspicion." sus-picion." - . . ;.'- The jurors, who had listened to testimony! covering 7,400 typewritten pages since the trial began last Oct. 17, retired to decide de-cide whether ' the defendants tried to swindle stockholders or honestly sought to produce a revolutionary new automobile. Intention Vital In his final instructions, Labuy told the iury that its main task was to determine if there had, been a "scheme to get money through false and , fraudulent acts." He told the jurors they must determine if the intention (Continued on Page Two) 60 MILLION . ' LAUGHS PER MONTH Making folks laugh Is good - paying tmslne-a according ac-cording to latest publishers' reports. Over o,0W,eo comic books are aaid to be li a ma 'ftksst United States. , M But they arent the only il paying publications. The Dally Herald Want- Ade aren't written to get laughs but as countless users can tell you. they aurely wet suits. Send your, ad to" the classified department -The DaUy Herald. M S. 1st W, Prove, Uteh. i V FOUND GUILTY by a Jury, Alger Al-ger Hiss, above, faces possible sentence of 10 years in prison and a $4000 fine for perjury. i - i , Hiss Takes Hfc Verdict Like a Manr NEW YORK. Jan. 21 (U.R) Alger Hiss, took his verdict like a man. The one time "boy wonder" won-der" of the state department, heard without flinching the jury's decision that ne was guuty ox lying, when he denied - he gave government secrets to a Com munist courier in 1938. .. Both Hiss and his wife. Prig- cilia, maintained the . same stoic calm they had displayed through out"' two trials and months of wsiUn . for legal decision as to whether he or former communist Courier Whittaker Chambers had lied to a' federal grand jury, - Tense Courtroom : It was tense in the oak-paneled courtroom on the 13th floor of the U. S. courthouse when the jury of eight - housewives and four men filed In with a verdict after nine hours, and 18 minutes of actual deliberation. All eyes shifted from the jury to the Hisses and back to the jury again. . The. courtroom scene was" in sharp contrast to that of the first trial last July. During their wait for the jury to decide it could reach no verdict, the Hisses had strolled through - the . corridors, talking and laughing. There were many spectators. - :: Saturday, the couple spent most of their time In defense chambers, with only a few of their friends. There were few spectators. Hiss, wearing a grey suit and grey necktie, sat behind his at torneys to hear the verdict There were deep black circles under his eyes. Next to him was Mrs. Hiss, In a grey suit and hat She wore no makeup. Both look ed tired and pale. J Neither Movea. :' (fiT1 Neither Hiss nor his wife moved when the verdict was an nounced. ' Their expressions did not change. . The jury was polled and dis missed. As the 12 men and women left. Hiss reached over with his right hand and squeezed his wife's left hand. Then he patted her hand several times and fold ed his arms again. The Judge smilingly told re porters they had done a good job covering the trial. Hiss and his wife went immediately to the de fense chambers. As the door to the chmbers closed, Hiss could be seen taking his wife in his arms. , Fliers Missing In China Alive, Well, Says Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 U.R) The state department received official word Saturday that two U. S. naval fliers .missing in Communist China since Oct. 19, 1948 are alive and well. The filers " are Marine Sgt. Elmer C. Bender of Chicago and Cincinnati and Navy Chief - Petty Officer William C Smith of Long Beach, Cal. Their plane failed to return from a practice flight in the; Tsingtao area In Shantung province. . . , , Department spokesman Michael J, McDermott said the British consulate at Tsingtao sent the following message obtained Jan. 17 from local Chinese communist authorities: "Smith , and Bender are well. Receivina ' ample food and - are comfortable. They are living In the eastern section of Shantung province." - The message did not indicate whether the fliers are being held (Continued en Page Twe) K cMBsW Jury Decides He Betrayed U. S. To Communist Spies By JACK V. FOX 'United Press Staff Correspondent - ; " - M NEW YORK, t Jan. 21 (U.R) Alger Hiss- was found guilty of perjury today, by a federal jury which decided he once betrayed his country to a communist spy rink when he held a post of trust in the state department. .A jury of eight women and four men reached a verdict 23 hours and 38 minutes after it went out in this second trial of the , 45-year-old "career man" who ; had risen through the. government to a post as advisor to President Roosevelt at Yalta. r They found him guilty on both perjury counts that he had lied when he denied he served a com munity network in the new deal 1830's by handing over to spy courier Whittaker Chambers docu ments from the state department: that he lied when he said he had not seen Chambers after January, Janu-ary, 1937. Possible 18 Years The conviction meant that Hiss faces a possible maximum sentence sen-tence of 10 years in prison and a $4,000 fine. Judge Henry W. Goddard set the date for sentencing as next Wednesday at 10:30 aon. He ruled that Hiss could go free . in his present $5,000 bail until that time. Hiss attorney, Claude B Cross, announced, that the conviction "certainly will be appealed." Hiss took the verdict ' without so much as the twitch of a muscle in his face.- He sat with his arms folded., Beside him, his prim wife, Priscilla; . stared into' space. She held her -hands crossed limply in her lap. " Finally, when the jury had been! aismissea with instructions not to discuss the case, Hiss ' reached over and clasped her hand. She did not look at him. They rose and walked slowly ; from the courtroom where they had spent 40 days of ordeal. With his wife at his side, Hiss walked erectly to v an elevator, shouldering through the crowd and waved off reporters with "no comment, no comment.". . : i,. 5 As the elevator descended from the 13th floor of the courthouse, Hiss turned to his wife and said softly: "Keep your chin uo." Thus ended in dishonor for Hiss a brilliant career. The Verdict had also answered - one of the most intriguing questions , of court history: Who waa lying Cham bers or Hiss? i ne -y ear-old Chambers, a $30,000-a-year senior - editor of Time magazine, sacrificed that job to accuse Hiss. He called him the ' "concealed enemy" a n d charged they had worked together togeth-er in a communist apparatus in Washington. Because of the statute" of Jiml- - (Continued on Page Eight) U. S. Ignores VishinskyV Xiar' Blast WASHINGTON, Jan: 21 (UP)--The istate department ignored Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky's "liar? blast at Secretary Secre-tary of State Dean Acheson Saturday Sat-urday but congressional leaders rallied to Acheson's defense. The state department said it had no comment for the time being ' on , Vishinswy's statement that Acheson was guilty of a "monstrous and awkward" lie when .he said last week that Russia was in the process of taking tak-ing r over four areas i of north China. But . chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., told a news conference he was "amazed" at Vishinsky's "distemperate and angry" outburst. The Only Possible Verdict Quotes Whittaker Chambers ; 'k WESTMINSTER, Md., Jan. 21 ' (U.R) Whittaker Chambers said Saturday the jury returned "the only possible pos-sible verdict" in finding Alger Hiss guilty." t 'I don't see how they could have returned any other verdict Chambers said; at his farm near here. " I "I hope the American people realize what they owe to this jury, to Mr. Murphy (government prosecutor), and to the splendid work of the FBI," he said. r " The former Time Magazine editor who has admitted being a one-time courier for the Communist party, said his work now is finished. Thave told the FBI all t know," he said. . Chambers said he did not know what point might have caused the jury to deliberate so long. He said he felt the jurors knew they , "were pondering an issue of great gravity." , ' ,V' . ! "It was the only possible verdict they could have reached, however," Chambers said. - - - v ' ' ' . V Conviction Of Hiss Lauded By Senators WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (lift Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R., . S.D., ; telegraphed congratulations to . Prosecutor Thomas F. Murphy. Saturday on his "magnificent vic-! tory" in the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss, former state depart ment : official.' -x-f-' y-V-?v . "Congratulations on a magnificent magnifi-cent victory and long ; difficult job which was exceedingly well-. done and most successfully completed," com-pleted," Mundt said. Mundt added in a ' statement that he had believed Hiss -guilty ever since the defendant was confronted by his accuser, Whit-' taker Chambers, before the house un-American activittes -committee in 1948. f - -; - j Mundt was a member ef the committee at that time. Attorney.. General J. Howard McGrath and' FBI "Director J, Edgar Hoover declined comment on the conviction. Legal sources here, noting that Hiss' attorney plans an appeal, said that If the case reaches the U. S. supreme court, Justices furter, probably will , disquaUfy themselves from sitting with the tribunal. They - testified for Hisa as character witnesses in the first trial which ended in failure of the jury to reach an agreement Cooks Red Herring Rep. Harold H. Velde, IL, HI, a member of the un-American activities committee,, said that Hiss' conviction "cooks President Truman's 'red herring' and I hope he enjoys eating it. . ;-. . : "Red herring" was the expression expres-sion used by Mr. Truman to describe de-scribe the committee's investigation investiga-tion involving Hiss and others during the GOP-controlled 80th congress. Sen. Styles Bridges, N.H, said: . ! , "This man has taken advantage advan-tage of every safeguard of the American judicial system and he has been found guilty. He is convicted con-victed as a liar. He lied when he said he was not in the service of the Soviet espionage system. We know that he worked for the Communists in 1938. The question is how much longer was - he . a Communist stooge. "Was he stiU rendering such service when he stood at Roosevelt's Roose-velt's elbow at Yalta? "He has many friends in high places. Only- last January Dean Acheson, secretary of state, listed Hiss as his good friend. He has many other friends in the state department. What are we going to do about them?" PROMOTION BILL , URGED FOR NAVY WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., has introduced a bill 'to promote retired regular navy officers who were called into ' active service during the war. ; - |