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Show 7 T 7 TEMPERATURES CLEAR NIGHTS ( MyraJngs Partly cloudy .with eulonsl,; thunderstorms after ' noons And evenings today and Thnndsy. Little change lit- tens peratares with highs both days! near to. Low tonight 5t. Mini- nnn relative 'humidity 15. per f eent. Light southerly winds. Wove . ; 8 Alt Lak.. OgdCB ... ; TLoi a . . .'JH. Georgs . PrtUa . . . Butts .'. . . Yallowstoas Davr , . . St. Louis IChlesf . . . jUi AaiiM Miami . . . f S7 IN. OrUans to ' -.... ! 5 S if V; SDCTYFOURJH YEAR, AEL Studies -iRet-iiesi" For if - , n . ; .... tv HLee To Resign Whether Motion Will iReach Hoor Is Still Matter For, Conjecture - r rt . tx 1 fT ttltfS --Some heated words today were expected before . the Utah "' AFL convention ends here on a proposed resolution k which would call for the resig- t nation-of Utah Gov. J. Brack- . en Iee if he doesn't call a r special session flhe legislature. ' The measure has not yet reached the floorand whether it will is . V euesswork. ' ,v . . tt ( The propoSed resolution would I ; 1" the Utah Republican governor ' f t to call Ihe Beehive state lawmak- erS DCK lO p nuuu( icjw- tion so Utah may participate in any federal housing, education aid and welfare bills. It would ask him to resign If he didn't call the special session. . , I . Resolutions adopted by the convention urge the use of cement ". Instead of asphalt on Utah hlgh-' hlgh-' Ways, plugged for repeal of fed-t fed-t eral cabaret taxes, lauded Sen. " Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah And f other Democratic congressmen Vlrom .Utah and went on record t again against the Taft-Hartley ? labor act , S The convention ends tomorrow. ': - , 'Elections ! The convention- yesterday rey elected Fullmer J Latter of Salt - Lake City as president of the Utah SUte Federation of Labor. ? J. R. Wilson was reelected to is 12th- term as secretary-treasurer. ! At the Tuesday session, Provo candidates for the contested nosts I were: . j . ! "i- Fourth vice president: T. 1 R. Brown and Don. McCutdy, who are opposing xeach other' for the '.office...,- 1 C. R. Van Winkle ahd Roy Lar-sen, Lar-sen, incumbents; from Provp were elected by acclamation Monday to an uncontested vice president post.v . ' ;t-; r r TwdGfdshes TakeToll Of 12 Lives By UNITED PRESS Twelve persons were killed last night In two of the year's worst traffic accidents. Six hymn-singing worshippers were killed en route to a rural revival meeting in a truck collision col-lision near- Fulton, Miss., and six -others were killed at Ogalala Neb., when a train hit their car a grade crossing. The national safety, council said the two accidents were among the year's worst, In addition to the dead, at least 19 persons were injured In the Fulton crash. The truck carrying the revival meeting worshippers collided with another! heavily loaded with lumber. 1 Chanired His MinH Police said the rtev. Wl H. Cox, Sr., driver of the truck carrying the revivalists, signaled for a left turn and)' apparently cut (back to the right - , s flatbed truck " was struck broadside by the other vehicle, driven by R. H. Booth, Newbuerg, Ind. Both drivers were injured. At Ogallala, a seventh person was injUfed in addition to the six dead. All the victims Were rela tives. " . Police said the driver, Ascen-cion Ascen-cion Jimenez, a Mexican laborer, stopped his v car to wait for a freight train. to passthe' grade crossing, then drove onto the track in. the path of a Union Pacific Pa-cific passenger train. . The dead included Jimenez, his wife,- two daughters, . and two small nephews. The sole survivor was v Anna Jimenez, 15-year-old daughter, who wtfs in critical condition. con-dition. ) . ' - MONTANA TRIES FOR AIR ENGINEERING CENTER WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U.PJ Sen. James E. Murray, D.Mont., v today urged that a proposed $1,- OQO.000,000 air engineering development devel-opment center be constructed near Fort Peck, Mont. The senate recently ..approved a bill authorizing a start on con struction of the prop'osed super- sonio wind-tunnel research cen ' r. ter. Murrav "Wrote Air Secretarv I W. Stuart Symington requesting that he consider- the Fort Peck area as a possible site.. ews Highlights In :e. Power Plant Worker. Still Reported As "Fair" , t . ... - ' -"X. Waterworks Bids ' Opened In Orem ...X Rent Arbitration Board x' Chairman Chosen . . . . , S fU Alnmnl Plan Nation - t'ldt Fond Drive . . .... , 5 ' ; ,- - . .-Xambert .-Xambert Defends Sterilisation o Of Feebleminded . . . S c titral Utah NO. 53 Army Chief 4 Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins, (above) was nominated byt President Truman as army chief ; of staff,, succeeding Gen. Omar N. Bradley, who becdhies-chairman becdhies-chairman of. the joint chiefs of staff : uhder the new armed forces unification law. Hawaii Ports Declared Open By Governor '. HONOLULU, Aug.' 17 (U.R) Gov. Ingram Stainback today proclaimed all Hawaiian ports open and called upon steamship companies to, resume normal shipping for the first time since the CIO Longshoremen ' Walked out 108 days ago, The governor issued the procla mation as a formality under the terms of the .strike seizure law that put the island docks under government operation for the duration of the strike. The proclamation said that the board of "harbor commissioners has commenced operation .of stevedoring facilities "to the end that the ports of he. territory will be open and kept open to domestic domes-tic and foreign commerce." The proclamation came as the longshoremen ,ind stevedore management representatives re-l sumed negotiations to end their dispute. But longshore -boss Harry Bridges demanded that all strikers strik-ers , be permitted to return to work without, discrimination and that longshoremen now engaged in government stevedoring oper ations be excluded from possible benefits in the event of a settlement. settle-ment. . Company spokesmen promised an answer to the demands by 11 a. m. today. Attorney General - Walter Ack- erman also was expected to file lar Contempt complaint against unages today on charges he violated vio-lated the territory's anti-picket-ing ban. Bridges paraded before a ship for 35 minutes Monday. ' Tm not here to negotiate a wage increase which benefits those finks and scabs," Bridges said. ' A spokesman for the employ ers charged Bridges with attempting attempt-ing "to set up a blacklist of strike breakers," . ." The agreement on negotiations was signed by management and union leaders in the office of Gov. Ingram Stainback during a two-hour two-hour bargaining session yesterday. yester-day. . It called for the intervention of CyrusChing, director of the U. S. federal conciliation service. unless an agreement is reached three days of negotiations. ing would be invited to Ha- ( Con tinned on Pare Two) 'Honor System' Works Out On Parking Lot LAMBERTVILLE, N. J., Aug. 17 U.fi) -Jack Bell said today that no one had tried to cheat him yet at his "honor systenr' parking lot. Bell has a cigar box at the entrance to his parking lot In which customers toss 25 cents each. ' "I go by a few times a day and pick up: the change. I'm doing- all right," he said. "After all, it's a convenience for the parkers to just toss two-bits in the box. Who'd cheat and ruin it?" ' - , V Scientist Sees Amazing World In 4,500-Foot Descent Into Pacific; Fish Never Seen Before ABOARD VELERO IV OFF. SANtA CRUZ ISLAND, CaL, Aug. 17 U.f) Undersea Explorer UUs Barton repaired his Bentho scope today fpr another record dive, this time to chaft unknown canyons under the Pacific ocean. Barton said he would dive again in a few weeks sifter he installs a new power cable to replace one that cut off his lights 4;500 feet below the Surface yes-terdayi yes-terdayi . , His descent broke the 3.028- foot deep sea record he and Dr. William Beebe set in the Bathy- spnere oil Bermuda in 1934. Barton had i hoped to reach 6,000 feet. But he was "not dis- PROVO. UTAH. COUNTY, UTAH, et Gut Decontrol Budq Of Rent Control Area CLEVELAND, Aug. 17 housing expediter, said today he had decided to decontrol a third of the areas under rent control because of a cut in the housing expediter's budget. . . Woods told the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans that because his budget had been further furth-er cut by the conference committee of both houses it left him with the alternative of either firing one third of his employes or decontrolling a third of the areas under federal rent control. , "Discouraging News' "I have decided oik the latter alternative," he said, i Woods said that last night he received "somevery discouraging news. Our budget - for the 1950 fiscal year which had been slashed slash-ed by the senate from $26,000,000 to $21,000,000' had been further cut by the conference of both houses to $17,500,000 : , "This in spite of the fact that ;very metropolitan office had re ported an increase in workloads of ' from 30 to 50 per cent, and processing of landlord petitions and tenant applications is running run-ning weeks behind. . "This severe blow to effective rent control and realistic prosecution prose-cution of veterans housing violations viola-tions leaves me with only two choices: , "Either I must fire one third of my employes and attempt to maintain only token rent control throughout the country,- or decontrol de-control a third of the areas under federal rent control and handle the rest of the country efficiently." efficient-ly." Veterans Program Woods said he had decided on the latter alternative. But, he said, "let me emphasize pne point to those who think that this drastic cut in . funds will force me to abandon the cleanup work of the veterans housing program, I want to say notrone marr will be taken off that program until it Is completely complete-ly cleaned up." Woods said all the areas he would decontrol will be of populations popu-lations less than 100,000. He told the DAV delegates earlier that builders ought to take another look at their profits. 'They'll scream and say they don't take big profits, but . they do,", he said. "High labor costs are not as important a factor in the cost of housing as the builders' build-ers' profits." Woods said he Was convinced "there is a definite need for a guarantee: or warranty for the buyer xf a home against such things as defective workmanship, the substition of inferior materials ma-terials or the omission of something some-thing in construction1."- He added that "until a family with an income of $40, $50 or $60 a week can buy a house without with-out 'strain, we have not solved the housing problem. Beginning. Of . Hospital Work Still Delayed . Actual start of construction on the Utah Valley hospital expan-siom expan-siom was still beinr held nn day,- pending receipt of the formal go-ahead signal from U. S. bureau oi puduc health headquarters in Denver. , . Hospital officials expressed the belief the okeh will be only a formality, for-mality, after arrangements were made' to guarantee the extra $100,000 needed to do the lob above current funds on hand. Although $100,000 short of the necessary amount, it had been planned to start construction and borrow the rest as needed, unless it could be raised by public subscription sub-scription before then. The federal government, however, which it putting up one-third of the money as a grant under its national hos pital aid program refused to allow construction to proceed until some means of guaranteeing the $100,000 was worked out. l. Accordingly, Provo's three local (Continued on Page Two) appointed because there will be other opportunities. "I don't ixold any great brief for this type of dive helping academic science," he said. "But it will be useful to let the Ben -thoscope down slowly into narrow nar-row ocean canyons. I would like to go down with ah expert on the subject" In his two hour and 19 minute dive, Barton found a strange un dersea world, . populated with phosphorescent shrimps. . scmid and eels. The animals swam past the thick quartz windows of the Benthoscope, flashing their own lights. Barton, 48-year-old ' Boston to Force of Third U.f) Tighe Woods, national LA Firm Low On Duchesne Tunnel Bids Grafe Callahan construction company bf Los Angeles was low bidder today on three proposals concerning the Duchesne tunnel last major uncompleted unit of the Deer Creek project with bids ranging from .$1,505,200 for part of the job to $4,379,961.45 to complete com-plete the entire tunnel. Awarding of the bids, if they are awarded, must come from reclamation officials in Denver and Washington. To allow for progress on part of the work if contractors did hot wish to tackle the whole thing, bids were received on various schedules. Low Bids Low bid from the Grafe-Calla- han company on schedule three to bore 10,000 feet in from the Duchesne side was $1,580,784. Low bid on schedule four to renovate the 2.7 miles already completed from the Provo river side, plus the boring of an additional addi-tional 9000 feet from the end also from Grafe-Callahan, was $1,505,200. Low bid On schedule five a proposal to complete the remaining unfinished 3.3 miles of the 6-mile tunnel, plus renovation renova-tion of . the 2.7 miles already bored, bor-ed, plus concrete lining of the entire . sjfr jnii&--wa. 44119,96.1, also from Grafe-Callahan. Seven construction companies submitted bids on the project, a six mile long tunnel. Will Push Award "We expect to push the award ing of these bids as much as possible," pos-sible," Mr. Dunkley said, "and we hope that we can begin on actual construction by earlyfall. if the head reclamation office in Washington Wash-ington is able to make a contract award." v Mr. Dunkley will send the bids received at the Provo office to the chief engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver with his recommendations', and 'the chief engineer will in iurn forward for-ward the bids to Washington for final awarding., - we are-going lo stuay eacn oi the bids earef lilly," he said, "be fore we make any decision. Last year, a bid call was made on the same project, and7 the only bid submitted, which was from (Continued 'on Page Two) Dunfdrd To Head Planners For Civic Center, Swimming Pool JUDGE DUNFORD scienusv squirmea inrougn me i . s a ' 11. . I 13-inch hatch of , the five-foot steel baU shortly before noon v X.j 4 , , . iL. B. Tacjcett, Miss Jessie Scho-i. Scho-i. rJl1 ?A lnlh field- e?rill Christophers0nr R. table at 100 feet Nmhutt Lash- U Tyj Roland Jensen Robert d to the slender cable-the div- crosbie, Bob Moorefield, Wayne tag baUs only supporWwerelciose, I. Dale Despain, and Earl telephone and power lines.- x . Conder v .id' caW?-? Dunford said the commit- pound sphere. Theyi weredesign- ed to withstand the 27,000,000 1 pounds of pressure he expected to find at 6,000 f eet, . "I suffered from the cold, and the glowing organisms rocking (Continued oa Page Two) j WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Leaders Hope To Stave Off Bi-Partisan Group Equally Confident' Oi Making It Close WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U.R) House administration leaders were confident today they had the votes to beat down bi-partisan attempts, to trim heavily the. $1,450,000,-000 $1,450,000,-000 program to arm friendly nations. But as debate began on the big arms aia pian, leaders of the hi partisan group, were equally con- nqent they could make the con test close. Reps. James P. Rich ards. D., S. C, arM John M. Vorys; R:, O., led the attack in the house. No vote is scheduled for today. The amending stage will be reached tommorow.V Thomas Testifies Norman Thomas, many-times Socialist party presidential candidate, can-didate, testified before a senate committee that "the end of the armament race is our one hope of peace within the next generation." He said there is no immediate danger of war, and so the arms plan should be killed. Other congressional develop ments: monopoly John v. sickle, a Wabash, Ind., college professor o economics, 101a uie senate DanK- . J 1 1 11 . A 9 X mg committee investigating monopoly mon-opoly that "organized . labor has become so strong as to threaten our democratic way of life." Flve Per Centers The senate investigation of "five per cent" sellers of influence laid the groundwork today for possible prosecution of John Mar agon on perjury and tax evasion charges. The investigators also heard testi mony that Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the president s military aide, once threatened to get, a federal official fired because he refused to fix a complaint against a firm which had hired Maragon s services. - Appropriations Ch firman appropriations committee said he still was hopeful the -tieup of federal money would be solved. Meanwhile, many federal agencies are without funds. Reorgnization Administration leaders predicted that at least two of President Truman's reorganization reorgani-zation proposals will be approved by the senate late today. MINERS REJECT SETTLEMENT OFFER WALLACE, Ida., Aug. IT. (U.P.) Three mining union locals have rejected an offer by Coeur d' Alene district operators to settle a contract con-tract dispute, it was reported here today. A vote was taken last night among members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (CIO). Union and operator represents tiVes were scheduled to meet again today to continue negotia tions. They Have been meeting two and a half months without agreement. William Stanley Dunfprd, Fourth district court judge, has been named chairman of the plan ning committee for the new Provo community center and swimming pool to be constructed, it was announced an-nounced today. . Mr. Dunford was elected chairman chair-man at a meeting of the committee, commit-tee, enlarged recently to 14 mem- The swimming pool committee' com-mittee' today received a check for $70.75 from "the softball fans of Provo." The money represented proceeds of the Provo city .softball tournament tourna-ment completed Tuesday night at Harmon park. The check was turned over to the committee by Marion J. Olsen, tourney director, "to help fill one of Provo's greatest great-est needs, a place to swim." bers after the six Provo veterans organizations joined in ' sponsor ship of the community-wide pro ject. Theo Anderson, superintendent of the municipal power plant, was x Long.Rsngevpisn other members are E. D. Firm- . wimminffiwi )ri. .h.ir- !marif Commissioner J. Earl Lewis, "V.A 'll'r U1" "r " 2 " rr,.""T- ' T - - v ""ST " .A t , V . - wmmumijr pooi,. nnance campaign ior wnicn Arms Aid Cut (Continued en Page Two) 17. : 1949 . O . .;. Mdictmeinit ;off Marsigoini;;' For Per juary' Demaiidedli . , - -; ' : -! : '?)' Subpoenaed Harry G. ' Hoffman . (above), Milwaukee, Wis., advertising man, has been subpoenaed by the senate subcommittee investigating investi-gating Washington "five per-" centers." Hoffman, according to an . informed committee source, placed the orders for freezers which Albert J. Gross told the committee he shipped to Maj. Gen. Vaughan, , the president's military aide, and others he was not permitted to name. Russians Build Network Of RocketBpmbs . . . HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 17 (U.R) A German rocket expert said today that the- Russians are building a network of V-2 rocket bomb bases pointed at western Europe. The expert, who asked that his name be withheld, has just reached reach-ed western Germany after three years of alleged forced service with the Russians, including a recent visit to the "Soviet central institute . for Vrbomb development develop-ment in Moscow. ! American intelligence sources in Frankfurt said they had re ceived reports of secret Russian activities in eastern Germany, especially along the Baltic coast but had no specific information on the installation of . rocket launching sites. ' - j Expert- Reveals Plan The expert said- he formerly worked as a V-2 expert for the German army in the Bleicherode works in Thuringia and was taken to Russia with other German technicians in 1946. He said he escaped when he was sent to eastern Germany last month for a brief vacation. ' v - His vacation orders told him to report io Peenemuende, the form er German V-weapon experiment station which, ' he said, the Rusz sians are preparing to rebuild. "I had opportunities to look into certain files which reported on strategic planning of V-2 bomb bases in eastern. Germany, he said. 1 " "They stated that a number Of Russian commissions are already working on the necessary prepa rations to bring V-2 bomb bases into action on a few minutes notice. , "Plans for both stationary and mobile bases for one and three batteries have been placed ' all over eastern Europe. Each of them is supplied with all necessary eal eolations . lor firing orders, ballistic ballis-tic statements, etc., for a desig nated . territory inwestern Eu rope." He said five single battery. bases had been conipleted and six three- battery bases were under con struction; .; : .. . " urn Ik v ' I ,,n,mm ecret Cohen Recordings May Help Solve Gangland Slaying LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 0JJ!) Authorities cooperated today in a new investigation of Los Angeles An-geles rackets ' and corruption as chief of police William iA. . Wor-ton Wor-ton sought to learn how secret recordings of mobster Mickey Cohen's nyersations ! were published pub-lished prematurely. Chief district .attorney's investigator investi-gator HLeo Stanley said wire recordings obtained by police by microphones planted in Cohen's fortified Brentwood home-in 1947 and : 1948 .may help to solve the gangland slaying of Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel predecessor, of Cohen " - Explosive disclosure of the Co hen recordings, involving talks to gambling payoffs, prize fight Milwaukee Insurance Man Admits Paying Hanger-On To 'Represent' N. J. Firm - By WARREN DUFFEE v WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U.R) Sen. Joseph Oc,' Carthy, Wis., demanded today that John Maragon, Key figure in the senate's, "fie per center" investigation an friend of Maj. Gen. Harry H; Vaughan, be indicted for perjury. ' ; . ' , ( McCarthy's demand came after Milton Polland, Milwaukee Milwau-kee insurance man, admittetl paying Maragon, White House j hanger-on, for representing a Newj Jersey molasses f inh; whose molasses allocation had been suspended by - the agriculture agricul-ture department. Polland testified before the sea-ate sea-ate investigating committee after Margon's sworn testimony at an earlier session that he never re ceived any nney-r-except from two other (firmSr-for doing business busi-ness with' the government' was read into the record. Indictment Asked McCarthy immediately said the committee should aslc "that the department of justice return an indictment for perjury against Mr. Maragon." This development came as the committee resumed its hearings on activities of Washington "influence "in-fluence peddlers" by taking up a case Jin which Maragon- and Vaughan, President Truman's military aide allegedly interceded rwith the agriculture department in 1946 on behalf of Allied Molasses Mo-lasses Co., of Perth Amboy, Ni J. The firm's allocation had been suspended, because it had overdrawn over-drawn its quota under "the war food regulations, the evidence showed. The committee received in evidence evi-dence a $500 check from Polland to Maragon dated Nov. 22, 1946. It also has records showing that Polland paid , Maragon another $500 on Oct. 23. But Polland's . memory about H-h Mnni nivnwnt wu jsol nasi tlve. The Milwaukee . insurance man said he- met Maragon with Vaughan at a "social gathering" in Milwaukt in 1946. Maragon Impressed Maragon so impressed him, he said, that he thought the dapper Greek-American could help - the New Jersy syrup firm get mo lasses. Harold Ross, the company's president, is his nephew, Polland explained, and he wanted to help him. ,' Under questioning by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R., Me., Polland said the "social gathering" gather-ing" was fciveri by "one of the breweries" In Milwaukee. He said Vaughan was there in uniform and in his official capacity as tn president's military aide. ,.'. Before Duttincr Polland on the stand, the committee had Francis D. Flanagan, a staff investigator. read from Maragoh s sworn test! mony before the committee in a secret session July 28, -. On July 28Maragon swore, he had never received any money for negotiating government busi ness for anyone except the Albert verly Co., Chicago perfume oil manufacturers, and a firm identi fied as the Ingersoll Co. v He gave the same answer twice. Truman Urged To Approve Water Project WASHINGTON,' Aug. 17 U,R) President Truman today to-day was urged to approve legislation authorizing $70,---' 000,000 for completion of the - Weber river basin water and irrigation project in the Og-den, Og-den, Utah area. " -,t ' The plea Was made by Rep. Walter K. -Granger, D., Utah and Sen. fclbert D. Thomas D., (. Utah.'Granger .said the president "listened very attentively at-tentively but did not commit himself." The authorization . has passed the house and .-! senate. fixes was expected to touch off an all-out investigation of big-time big-time Los Angeles crime and possible pos-sible interlocking r elatlonship with business, labor and law enforcement en-forcement heads. : , A county grand Jury,! which re cently indicted retired police chief C, B. Horrall and four other police officers- after investigating alleged police protected . vice, was expected to' probe into the Cohen case when jurors reconvene recon-vene Sept. 13. ; Mayor Fletcher Bowron planned plan-ned to cut short, a f business trip to Washington, D. C, and hurry home v to press various investl-; gations. Authorities at Municipal county and state levels were be ing co-ordinated for the prop. PRICEFTVE CENTS - v Housing For Chicago, es Los Angel WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 U.R-i Construction of, 21,000 low-rent housing units in Chicago-and 10, 000 in Los Angeles vwas . author Ized by the government today part of its new public housing program. ; "-, . . ' These, added to yesterday's authorizations of 3,000 for Nor- .5 folk, Va, and 600 for Galveston Tex"., raised to 34,600 the number approved so far. This was almost 4.3 per cent of 'the 810,000 units to be built under .the six-year program. The housing authority of Angeles announced that It begin construction of 5,000 ol units in each, of the next years. China Concedes Loss of Foochow To Communists WING KONa Aui. IT (UPui The Chinese Nationalist ' government govern-ment today conceded the loss of Foochow, on of its last two bif portson Chine's east coast 7 A Central News Asrencv dls patch from Formosa said government gov-ernment spokesman announced that the Nationalist defenders had ' been ordered to withdraw to an undisclosed destination. The falj of Foochow, midway between Shanghai and . Hong Kong, leaves Amoy, 320 miles northeast of Canton and 50 miles southwest Of Foochow, the only t major east coast port remaining" In Nationalist hands. ,The Nationalist governmerrt announced an-nounced that it Was moving up reinforcements' in ap-attempt to stem the Communist push toward -. Cantoh from a point near the ' border of Kwangtung and Kiangsi provinces. ' x" ' 4i COmmunisti army - spearheads were reported to have . reached Tayu endare believed to have swung southeast in the direction - of Tingnan, 90 ' miles south of Kanchow, 215 miles northeast of Canton. : ; Beran Protests Loss of Freedom PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia,' Aug. 17 (U.R) .Archbishop Josef Beran Catholic primate of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslo-vakia, has accused the government govern-ment of interning him in V his Prague palace, it was learned today.' to-day.' '- He comDlained in a bitter let ter of protest to . the Communist government that it had deprived him ofVall personal freedom and ' all rights as archbishop." He said the government, pre vented him from having visitors, Seized his mall, took oyer his of fice and broke up his last mass in St Vitus cathedral yun 19. "I have been lnternea in in palace," he wrote. "I am not permitted per-mitted Visitors and It Is said tha the archbishop forbade such vis- , its." - . '- Tbwnsiend Plan Action WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U.fD Spokesmen for group of nous members saia toaay wiey wu M . flArl Alt til famous old Townsend plan, which cans xor pensions ior" -At a meeting yesterday 14 members backina the olan map- wouia ithe, tw. 4:V- ' A. - Sought WVA m UtlTfc w - - - .1.1 i. .-A ML.. a. n .. n mJt : ,.f , run pui w xwmouj. . Ren. John A Blatnik, D., Minn, j said 125 house members airead' have signed. He said names of 'all nom-slgnenrwer split up amor the 14, and each was admorj to get ae many signatures jos- sible. . : The 'measure calls J?6rif three' per 1 cent levy on thetross na-tionk na-tionk Income.' 'Whatever sum was collected would be split up among) the old folks. I ri i ill . ' 1 1: |