OCR Text |
Show 0 Sunday,' January 22.' 1950 SUNDAY HERALD Atomic Expert Head Civil Defense Set-Up WASHINGTON, Jan, 21" (U.R-The (U.R-The " government moved to quicken its civil defense organ-I organ-I ization Saturday with the ap- pointment or an atomic expert as chief of the new off ice of civilian mobilization. j The man charged with planning Rains Raise Flood Danger In Northwest ;; PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21 U.R Steady rains Saturday melted the Pacific northwest's heavy pin-point floods. ' ; '. Hiffhwava. overland with snow feeder streams raised threats pf snowpack and the run-off into from the area's worst blizzard in half century,; became quagmires of slush and ice. . The death toll from a aeries of storms that began with the big blizzard on Jan. 13 rose to 40. Trnnrtv damitc throu shout Ore- Washington. Idaho and northern California was estimat ed in the millions. , Hish water, fallen trees and snow slides turned the region's roads into dead end streets. Telephone and power circuits were being repaired after repeated re-peated interruptions. Telephone service in 18 communities of northwest Oregon alone was cut off or partially disrupted Army engineers said the Cow lltx river would flood in , southwestern south-western Washington today, covering cover-ing lowland farms south of Che- halis with two feet oi water. Wter ran curb deep in down town Portland streets. As the thaw cained momentum, creeks' and rivers on the west slope of the Cascade mountains began to rise in the region, desig nated by the Red cross as a -Ois- : aster area." The first serious flooding was reported near Tillamook, Ore., where the Kllchis river washed 18 ; inches deep over U. S. highway 101. , Jury Finds Hiss Guilty (Continued From Page One)' . tations, Hiss could not be charged with espionage. But ne was charged with perjury because he : denied: ' -1. That he ever gave state de partment documents to Chambers ' in 1937 and 1938. - - , 2. ' That he ever saw Chambers after January, 1937. Found AtaliMi H1m A jury decided today it was Hiss who way lying. , At his Maryland farm. Cham bers said today "it was the only possible verdict they could have reached', Newsmen talked to him 'not far from where he once nulled out microfilms of secret documents from 'the now eele brated pumpkin. i I "I hope the American people realize what they owe - to . this jury, to Mr. Murphy (the gov ernment prosecutor) and to tne splendid work of , the FBI," he said. - Chambers said his work now is finished. "I have ' told the FBI all know," he said. , j It had been one year five months and 17; days since Cham bers first went before the house un-American activities committee to accuse Hiss. Hiss was then $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie foundation for world peace, having left government service in 1946 after serving as secretary general of the , San Francisco conference where the United - Nations charter: :. w a drawn. ' .Hiss denied the charges. He said lie knew Chambers as George " Crosley, a free-lance magazine .writer who turned!. out to be a deadbeat. He said he broke off with "Crosley"' in 1936, - The first trial lasted 27 days and it ended m a hung jury but the government refused to let Hiss off. : h i ; Jury Listens ' The jury this time listened to Chambers' oft-told story of be trayaL examined the stolen docu ments and an old Woodstock type writer on which Mrs. Hiss alleg edly copied state secrets for her husband to turn over to the spy ring. It heard six-foot, four-inch Tromas F Murphy, the prose cutor, in a scathing renunciation oi hiss as a traitor. It retired at 3:10 p.m. Thursday spent the night at a hotel and this morning asked Judge Goddard to explain again the meaning of "reasonable doubt." v . AF2:46 p.m., with the courtroom court-room tense and silent, the jury filed back. They had reached a verdict. The court clerk asked Mrs. Ads Condell, foreman of the juryc . ' "How find your. : . " . "We find the defendant guilty , on .the first count and guilty on the second count," Mrs. Condell, a widow, replied. Hiss faced five years imprisonment imprison-ment and $2,000 fine on each count. .-" -. . . The courtroom was emp 15 minutes after the verdict. -The jurors left the building shortly after 3 p.m escorted by federal guards. A reporter broke through the blockade and asked jurors if there had been doubt about Hiss' guilt A woman in a feathered hat giggled and said:, "No speak English.? FOR YOUR VALENTINE Give YOUR PORTRAIT LARSON STUDIO ' ' 28 North First last r Appointed To for and directing the nation's civilian defenses in the event of atomic war is Paul J. Larsen, former head of the- a -bomb engineering en-gineering laboratory at Sandia, N. M. ' - ' ; '.'vvv--, Presidential assistant John It. Steelman said Larsen will take over the new job March 1. , The appointment followed closely on a defense department call for 150,000 volunteer aircraft spotters to man lookout posts in the Atlantic - and . northwest coastal areas. '' . The recruiting drive was de cided upon at a two-day confer ence of . defense officials and representatives of 25 Atlantic and northwestern . . states. The , con ferees, called together by De fens Secretary Louis Johnson, decided that the aircraft spotters will- be trained by the air force and then placed on a standby basis. - . -' - i . In the event of war, the spot ters will serve on a "round-the- clock basis- to supplement the military radar warning networks. Larsen s new acencvis one ox eight planning groups Vlthin the national security resources board, of which Steelman Is acting chairman. Larsen will direct planning for civil defense, health, housing and community services, strategic dis persal of Industrial and govern ment facilities, and censorship. The atomic energy commission has announced plans for creation of radilogical defense schools' to train specialists in coping with an atomic oomo auacx on tne United States the armed services already ' have a number of such training centers In operation.. Woman Convicted In Murder Trial BRADY,' Tex- Jan. 21 UR) Mrs. Sandra - Peterson waited Saturday in a jail cell she could never calLhome" as her defense counsel decided whether to ap peal a verdict which would place her behind bars for life. A jury of farmers and ranchers Friday night found the : 18-year- old Massachusetts girl guilty of murder with malice aforethought in the .roadside slaying and rob bery of a Brady realtor. They sentenced her to life im prisonment ' after' deliberating more than five hours. ' She. was found guilty of killing Lewis Patterson, a businessman who had given her. and a hitchhiking hitch-hiking companion, J 5-year-old The verdict came despite Lor- etta Fee's admission, on the wit ness stand that sheand not, Mrs Peterson, held the gun ; which killed Patterson. . .r; e ' it her two court-appointed, at torneys decide to appeal the case, the move will have. to. b made by lawyer .Ross -Hoffman. The other defense attorney,' Bill Al corn, takes over as district aitor ney here Feb, 1. ; -r v r USE WKONtl WAY TO GET. RENEWAL , OETROIT, Jan. 21 (U.fi)--Two motorist! seeking renewal . of their revoked drivers , permits were assured today that , they went about It the wrong way. Harry L. Harte, 20, and Ed ward Massey, 33, both without licenses, were arrested yesterday when, they drove, their automo biles to the appeal office. . Coalition Leaders Blaming Dissident Republican Group WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 (U.R) Leaders of the anti-administration coalition of Republicans and Southern '.Democrats blamed dis sident -GOP - members - Saturday for ; their failure to seize control of the house. . They noted that 64 Republicans joined with Democrats to throw back,' 236 to 183, the coalition's attempt - to - Testore life-an-death powers over house legislation . to the conservative house rules committee. com-mittee. . The , vote was a major administration victory. Rep. E. E. Cox, D., Ga., and other coalition leaders attributed the GOP defections to the fact that. President Truman's fair employment em-ployment f practices ? bilk would have . been Jeopardized by the rules change. Administration leaders said, however,, that the vote showed Mr. Truman's whole program had the support of the people as they; predicted his legislative proposals' would have smoother sailing from now on. - E Elsewhere in congress: Taxes -President Truman was reported ready to ask congress to cut excise taxes by about $750,-000,000 $750,-000,000 but to make up this loss- ana more by increasing corporation corpora-tion taxes by $1,000,000,000. Basins Point Sens. Russell B. Long, D., La , and Paul H. Doug GENEVA STEEL COMPANY E3HIS 8 -i PAINTERS (JOURNEYMEN) Starting rote $1.4514 per hour, 40 hour week Standard rate $1.63 Vi per hour, 40 hour week Painters must be abla to mix and match own paint and must have had experience in both brush and spray, painting.) . APPLY: PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT v INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BUILDING GENEVA- STEEL COMPANY 'GENEVA, UTAH . v V- , ' , f , I y " I v f - , ' t t . ' TOUCH TYPING IN 90 MINUTES-PbiUp Gross of Brooklyn, , N. Y, shows the keyboard of his "Tuch-Rite', typewriting system . with which he claims be can teach anybody how to type in 90 minutes. "Grots, who has been studying typing since 1925, bases : his system on the simultaneous hearing, sight and touch theory. - a : : ' t : 'Big Mo' Awaits High'.Tide, .. Naval Inquiry Board Findings NORFOLK,' Va.,' Jan. 21 '(UJ&'U-I The navy today acratched its only battleship from next month's Caribbean war i. games by y the margin of six inches of water..;: Hieh naval officers indicated Friday night that that piddling" rise m Hampton Roaos wouia have refloated the mighty USS Missouri from the muck that has held it since Tuesday. , r MeanwhUe. "Bia Mo" settled a little deeper and waited fop high tide and a naval . inquiry Doaro. The high tide, which isn't" due until Feb. 2. is the next nope xor refloating the bristling craft on which the v Japanese Hoffielally surrendered in 1945. 'a - The board, appointed Friday by" Adm. W.H.P. Blandy, - : com minder in chief of., the U. S. At lantie. Fleet, is exDected to find out Just how ''Big Mo" slipped into the stubborn grip oz tne mua in the first place. . " h- Twenty-one ships v and Z,ww . . - . a a a men. tried to yanx ine raissoun into motion yesterday .:Xhe attle- ship first went hard aground, in 28 - feet nf water. A . stiffs breeze blew in 18 more inches - yester dav. Six more would have done it, the officers hinted. Snceess Predicted ' Rear Adm. Homer N. Wallin, commander of the Norfolk navy shipyard at Portsmouth and one of the chief salvage directors, came up with the first encourag ing word on "operation- refloat.' "My opinion is.'.' he said,. "that the next effort to move the Mis souri will be successful' . The reason why the ; Missouri went aground in its firsf cruise under Capt. William P, Brown of Jacksonville, Fla.; also -got a new slant. Observers, and some naval officials, had speculated . that the ship went too far to the left of the main channel of Chesapeake Bay while ' testing a new elee tronlcs "device ., which : identifies ships passing over it by . their rounds. . But experts said last night -that they thought mud and sand-were sucked - into the ship's Intake, kllllfig the engine and , causing the Missouri to wallow aimlessly into the mudbank r f, las, both foes of the basing point pricing bin, said they would con tinue to fight the measure, even after, it is rewritten by a senate' house conference committee. The senate aent the-measure back to the joint group' yesterday with orders to make t some .clarifying changes. " - v..: "r; - -' ''': Farm Secretary of Agriculture Charles. F. Brannan. told a house appropriations subcommittee that farmers took a $2,000,000,000 pay cut during the past two-years and are likely to, take a-worse one this year. This, he said, is a "distressing "dis-tressing picture., -r fi - -Foreign Policy "Reps. John Davis, R., Conn..' and John M. Vorys, R O., both' members of the house, foreign affairs: committee, com-mittee, warned Secretary of State Dean Acheson not to follow up his new. Spanish policy, with any attempt to recognize the Chinese communists. Tirei-Rep. Walter B. Huber, D C introduced a bill to repeal wartime excise taxes on tires and tubes. The . measure, he ' said. would save motorists about $75,-000,000 $75,-000,000 a year, v .-;?its : Coins Sen. Warren G. Magnu-sbn, Magnu-sbn, D., Wash., introduted two measures to authorize a three-cent piece and a seven-cent piece.' He said the coins are needed because "the old fashioned nickel doesnt work as well as it used io." ' Navy pride has suffered a heavy blow from . the beaching of the Mighty Mo. and the admirals' feelings aren't being salved by the ribald remarks coming from some of their air force brothers-in arms. . Officially, the air force is only watching the situation with re serve, a' bystander. Unofficially, the fly boys are reported to have offered to pull the standard bat- tlewagon off the mudbank with B-3'i or lift it Out with jet fighters. , - . . One 'anonymous group of air force veterans recommended that the Mighty Mo be painted orange and left in the mud as a practice target for the B-38's. Asked what usually happens to ship captains who ground r their vessels,, a navy spokesman said there is "no general pattern.". ' He said fleet Adm. Chester W Nimitz admitted having repri mand on his record for grounding a sftM.r But mmiu went on to boss the navy and retire as one of its four five-star admirals. As to -the, air. force comedians and their suggestions for , freeing the Missouri, one anonymous and mfA A A4J4m M wfoMi tern-. V wr'-. A :;-iivA Pii . i PA -.yr fri- X'r.tV --Ui . N r i I I J f. J , . I 4 f. I hJ - H - M . SfeeJ -.V -l X i . iJ-r-i I , I ' I V ; ' ' DimC-iroducDinig ro GireaC- O-oad-ivlaGfl-eir c105" Engine ADVANCE -DESIGN TRUCKS Perf ORMANCE Legislation To Help Colleges Gains Favor " -"r . - - WASHINGTON, Jan;.21 W.R) Several' senators have sponsored a.bffl to prevent the veterans ad ministration, from cutting grants to colleges under the G. I. bill of rights. " - Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R., N. introduced 'the measure yesterday yes-terday with a speech in which he accused VA of an "assumption of power" that threatens Ameri can colleges and universities. He said veterans administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr- has issued a regulation that "requires" reduc tions for land-grant colleges and has "reserved the "right? to reduce re-duce t grants to other' schools. These reductions, he said, would violate congressional intent. ' "Conscientious and sincere educators edu-cators the country over are vastly perturbed lest this decision throw the door wide open to much greater federal interference in their educational policies," Tobey said." - Unless congress acts, a funda mental educational principle will have . been seriously threatened by arbitrary administrative : ac tlon.". ", - '-,i . - Other senators sponsoring the iit, uui wcrt uu uuraun,,n wre. Wayne Morse, R," Ore; and Andrew An-drew F. Schoeppel, R., Kans. Pistol-Packing Waitress Demands Penny Sales Tax RICHMOND. . Cel., Jan. 21 (U.R) A pistol-packing waitress hit two customers with one shot Sat' urday when they refused to pay one penny in sales tax. - Police said Edward Baxter, 25, and Robert Taylor, 27, refused to pay a penny tax. The waitress, Florence Tims. 36. said the men started throwing salt shakers and bottles of sauce. "They got so out of hand the only thing I could think of was to pull out the gun, she said,,' "I didn't mean to shoot them." . Neither was hurt seriously. Baxter was ' hospitalized with a skull wound, and Taylor was treated for a slight wound" when the bullet grazed his head. The waitress was not held. annoyed navy source commented: "Maybe we ought to put sails on her and let the air force braggarts brag-garts blow her loose." Saves p; A DERS YIOAD P. E 175 NORTH New Version of Kinij Fa roulc's Romance Told In Interview; Girl Never Was Really Engaged By WALTER COLLINS - United Press Staff Correspondent (World Copyright, 195$. By Unlt-. Unlt-. ed Frees) CAIRO, -Egypt, Jan. 21 (U.PJ-4 Narriman Sadek, 16 - year -old Egyptian ; girl whose engagement allegedly was broken by King Farouk, never was formally engaged en-gaged to Egyptian economist Saki Haskem. never loved him and didn't even know what love and marriage was all about. 1 "iff Her lather contemplated . an engagement between Narriman and Hash'em but called it off when Truman Requests Congress To 'Rectify' Korean Aid Failure WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (U.RV-President (U.RV-President Truman urged Congress Con-gress Saturday to "rectify" Immediately Im-mediately the house's action in turning down his request for $60,-000,000 $60,-000,000 In economic ' aid - for Korea. ; 'V' , The "President, in urging that the aid be provided the Korean republic, released . a . statement from Secretary of . State Dean Acheson which said: ' , e '. , "' - i "In our-judgment It would be disastrous for the foreign policy of the United 1 States for ' us ' to consider this action by the house of representatives as its last word on the matter." , ) ;J. Vt ;:t In a brief statement, .the President Presi-dent said, "I entirely concur In the, secretary's views as to the seriousness of this action -and the necessity for its speedy rectification. rectifica-tion. , . : . - .- . ,;,;-vv: v "I shall take up this' matter," the President .added, "with , congressional con-gressional leaders and urge upon them the need for immediate action in order that - important foreign policy Interests . of this country may be -.properly safe guarded." t , House Rejects Bill ' The house,- by a : vote of '193 to 191, rejected Thursday the ad ministration's . request for $60, 000,000 in economic aid for the little republic. . . v " Acheson, in a. letter to the president, said the action was re-ceived re-ceived by the state "department with "concern and dismay.,' The secretary said the . action, "if not quickly repaired, will have, the most far-reaching effects ef-fects upon our foreign policy, not only in Korea but in many other areas In the world." h's Hie most powerful truck engine In Chevrolet historyl And it's here now to give you a new high in en-the-ob performance for your 1950 .hauling. : . - ' v',r " This great load-Master Valve-In-Head Engine with 105 horsepower enables you to speed up heavy-duty schedules complete more deliveries In less Hme.; And for light- and medium-duty Yov TImo on tho Hlth Saves Tow ADERS . ASHTON COMPANY FIRST WEST PROVO, UTAH PHONE 155 she' told himr I don't want to marry him. I have no feeling for him.'! : " King Exonerated . That was the version of the recent re-cent story of the alleged romance Of ' King Farouk . as told to the United Press in an exclusive interview in-terview by the girl's father, Hussein Hus-sein Fahmy Sadek , Bey. . He is former secretary general in the Egyptian ministry of communications, communica-tions, t - , i -;''-;. The father ' said King Farouk had "absolutely nothing", to, do with his decision to abandon plans to engage his daughter to Hashem He said It was the . govern ment's considered judgment that if ,the limited assistance is continued con-tinued ' to Korea, ' the Republic will have a good chance of sur vival as a free nation." The Korean republic Is in the south of the ' Korean ' territory. Russia dominates north Korea. - If t READY KITTY - All decked out in bat and scarf for the Bos ton Cat Show is "Rusty," a 5-year-old tortoise-shell cat belonging be-longing to Mrs. Carl Witham of Gloucester, Mass. "Rusty" who, Incidentally,. Is a tomcat has a wardrobe of 15 fancy hats and , , ' scarves to match, 'S hauling, Chevrolet's famed Thrift-Master Engine also delivers more power with Improved performance! " , Coma In and look over these new Chevrolet Trucks in the light of your own hauling needs; See a the important Improvements for 1950. See how Chevrolet offers fust the model you want , with more power and greater value than over! 7ma on rho Gofaway . Saves L OPUL ARITY E ADERS and that his daughter never had seen Farouk until after the plan for her to become Hashem's fiancee fi-ancee was broken. , - , As to the girl's future wheth er she, still may become engaged to raroux and maybe become queen of Egypt Sadek said: She Is ' free and always was ' free to marry another man. I want my daughter to be happy. ' If destiny decides that Narriman shall eventually be married to our King, tnat will be the 'acme of her ' happiness and it will be an honor for us all."'',. . .. For several weeks this correspondent corre-spondent tried many times to ' talk with Sadek to set his version of the recent reports about hia : daughter. Sadek finally consented consent-ed to an interview. .. Consents To Interview ' " "I had hoped to keep silent about this most personal and intimate inti-mate family matter," Sadek said, speaking in perfect English. "But-in "But-in 'view of: the way certain foreign for-eign papers and news , agencies commented about my daughter and myself, I feel compelled to make a full and complete state ment to the United Press. "It is terrible to have to bare one's soul like this to the world. But in view of all that has been written and said I must reiterate . that the cancellation of the shortlived short-lived agreement between me and Zakl Hashem regarding my daughter had absolutely nothing . to do with King Farouk." The stories about which Sadek made his statement had said his. daughter Narriman was engaged ' to Hashem at the time Farouk met her. ' 1 When Farouk . met - Narriman. the stories went, he allegedly ' ordered the engagement broken so that he might , make her his bride. " ' ". Hashem left Egypt earlier this month - to return to the United States where he resigned a post with the United Nations. , Completely Wrong . Sadek said Saturday that those dispatches were hot only factually wrong but showed little knowl edge of Egyptian customs in such matters. . "My daughter never was off I- " daily1 engaged to ' Hashem. - The ' agreement whereby my daughter was to have become engaged to him was cancelled by me because Narriman did not, care for him.-. This cancellation had absolutely nothing to do with Farouk, who my daughter had never seen until after the engagement was broken. , "Neither my daughter nor any members of my family had aver heard of Zaki Hashem until early Vow Monoy all fho Way Price Le ADERS ' t |