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Show TEMPERATURES Prove . . . , v M Salt Lakt . St Logan , .... 14 Millard . tt St.- Gceri .71 Las Vegas S Phoenix 10 Lot Angeles 72 - Baa Fraau . It SZ'Portlane .. S!Bntte . . . .. jYellowstona 4 iDenrer ... 1st. Louis . CLOUDY cooler today and Thursday with si '-vers- and thunder stoma, II today, about 80 and 7f Thursday. Low tonight, near S0 3 Chicago SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO PRICE HVE CENTS- 33 , , . PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBERz8, 1949 , O Churchill Asks Early Election In New Crisis Slashing Attack On . Labor Government by Conservative Leader LONDON. Sept.x28 U.P.)- Winston Churchill' in a slash ing attack on the Labor gov ernment asked today for an .early general election in this "serious and strange" hour of Britain's history. TThe wartime prime minister and leader of the conservative pposition spoke in commons on the second day of an extraord inary session to debate devaluation. devalua-tion. Churchill was cheered wildly m he rose to speak. Mrs Churchill' Church-ill' was sitting in the speaker's . gallery, only one seat away from Prime Minister Clement Attlee. "We are most of us agreed that it is nign time tor nnotner parliament," par-liament," he said. "All our dif ficulties will have a better chance of being solved in a new house of commons." Crisis Held Serious . Asserting that Britain has .reached a point "in our post-war story and fortune which is both serious and strange,"' he - asked .for a new election and added: ' "This election overlays all our domestic affairs, and will . be 'ought ' out with more fundamental funda-mental divergence over a part of our society than has been known our lifetime. "Over all there looms the atom - bomb, which the Russians have got before the British though happily hap-pily not before the Americans," "If you take three factors7 together, to-gether, the financial crisis, the party conflict and the atom bomb, it would be generally agreed that the hour is grave." General elections are scheduled for next summer, the end of the normal, five-year term since the Laborites won a landslide victory just after the end of the war in Europe, - :. i. Observing that the government was asking for a vote of confidence confid-ence at the end of the three-day debate on devaluation, Churchill - continued: . "This Is ft considerable demand, this vote-of confidence, and it forces us to look upon the past record of the Socialist party. "The government were heirs not only to the grievous but triumphant tri-umphant hour, but also of the customs and traditions of the British state. How have they done? Lists Complaints "The electors will have to pronounce pro-nounce upon it at no distant date." He then called a roll of co: plaints against the governme me socialists nave used up every national asset or reserve (Continued on Pare IS) Jury Still Out In Tokyo Rose Treason Case SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 (U.R) The jury that heard the government's govern-ment's treason case against Mrj. Iva Togurl D'Aquino as the wartime war-time Tokyo Rose was closeted for the third day today under or-! or-! ders to try to reach a verdict. The six men and six women on the jury resumed their del-ibera-- tions at 9 a.m. (PST). The jurors filed into the courtroom court-room of Federal Judge Michael Roche last night and reported they could not agree on the guilt or innocence' of the 33-year-old American-born defendant. - Roche ordered them to return to their deliberations this morn-r ing and reconsider the evidence in a "leisurely" manner so the expense and time of a second trial could be avoided if at" all possible. possi-ble. , The jury's appearance in the courtroom was its fourth during the 19 Hours and 22 minutes they had deliberated since receiving the case Monday. On the three previous occasions, they had asked for transcripts of testimony. Mrs. D'Aguino, a U. C. L. A. ' graduate who went to Tokyo .just before the war broke out, was accused ac-cused of eight overt acts of treason trea-son in broadcasting over the wartime war-time radio Tokyo. If she is found guilty, she will face a penalty of from five years and $10,000 fine to death. The government never has demanded the death penalty. Inside the Herald Central Utah News ... ; Sports Women's Features 2-1 g 10 1 j Vital Statistics News Briefs . . Editorials . m 12 ....IZ .12 14-15 .12 Werry-Go-Round Comics .... Classified Ads . . . Radio Programs . 83 . PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, pr"0 Mi w&.m- DEFENSE OFFICIALS VIEW NAVY DEMONSTRATION Top United States defense officials enjoy a hearty laugh as they pose for photographs on th e flight deck of the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt off the eastern coast. The officials watch ed a daylong show designed to prove that the fleet air arm can fight an atomic war. Left to right: Vice Adm. Felix B. Stump, commander of navy air arm; Gen. Omar N. Bradley, .chairman of joint chiefs of staff; Secy, of Navy Francis P. Matthews; Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, air force chief of staff; Secy, of Defense Louis A. Jornson; Secy, of Army Gordon Gray; Secy, of Air Force Stuart W. Symington; Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, chief of naval operations, op-erations, and Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief of staff. Congress Croup Seeks to Boost U. S. A-Bomb Lead Over Russians WASHINGTON Sept. 28 (U.R) The senate - house atomic energy committee today to-day put in motion a search for means of increasing this -nation's superiority over Russia Rus-sia In atomic weapons. It met with top officials of 1 the atomic energy commission commis-sion in a closed meeting. A few hours before the meeting started, one committee member, mem-ber, Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., demanded that the present commission be re-, placed if A-bomb production is going . at less than " "full speed ahead." . ' Chairman Brien McMahon, . p., Conn., would disclose little lit-tle of what went "on at the committee meeting. But he said the drive for increasing superiority in the atomic field would encompass: New U.P.&L. Steam Plant To Be Running By April Of 1950 Utah power and Light com pany's new 17,100,000 coal steam plant ribw under construction at Olmsted should be in operation byApril of 1950, officials said tp- ay. . V The announcement was made at a newspaperman's tour of the new plant and other Olmsted facilities fa-cilities of the company. The tour, to acquaint the press of this region re-gion with the power company's new construction program, included in-cluded visits to Olmsted at the mouth of Prdvo canyon and the huge new plant being constructed at Jordan in Salt Lake county. The new plant at Olmsted when finished will have the largest ca pacity of any unit in the Utah Oklahoma Drys Defeat Repeal By Heavy Vote OKLAHOMA CITY, O k 1 a., Sept. 28 (U.R) Victorious dry leaders joyfully sang "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow" today and then started a drive against Oklahoma bootleggers and dealers in 3.2 beer. The, decisive defeat of repeal in yesterday's special election was described by spokesmen for the United Dry Association as proof that Oklahoma citizens want the state even drier than it now is. Oklahomans rejected abolition of the "bone dry" laws by a vote of 310,889 to 262,625 with all but counted Prec,nc"! ,M - . i mm . It was the sixth atehood in 1907 tha time since i ftJ? 1907 thV thC S,ne" had junked a repeal amendment Held As Mandate The call of dry leaders for stricter enforcement of prohibition prohibi-tion may incite early action by state legislators. State Senate President Pro Tern Bill Logan said the election outcome stands as a mandate to the lawmakers to make pronionion more en forceable." The Rev. Roy S. Holloman, executive secretary ot the drys". said a previously announced plan to seek a ban n 3.2 beer if the repeal amendment failed would now go into effect as a matter of course. The jubilant drys sang a hymn land offered prayers of thanks at their state headquarters after is suing victory statements last night. Holloman said they were "Grateful to Cfod" for the victory which "was earned by the prayers and work of a multitude of. Christian people throughout the state." Wets bitterly termed the election elec-tion a "tragedy."' 1. Increased facilities for bomb production. 2. Increased production of atomic raw materials. 3. Increased scientific personnel. per-sonnel. Commission Chairman Da-1 Da-1 vid E. Lilienthal, who cut short a Massachusetts vacation, vaca-tion, attended the meeting. He had no comment. . McMahon, on the question of possible increased supplies' of uranium from which atomic explosives are produced pro-duced told newsmen there is some hope of considerable new sources from explorations explora-tions underway in Idaho. But he added that not enough domestic ore to make the United States independent of foreign supplies has thus i 'ar ""been "ascertained or dlScov- ered. Power and Light system. However How-ever it will be surpassed by the Jordan plant when the latter is completed. The Olmsted addition will have a capacity of 43,000 kilowatts. It will be a part of the present coal steam plant built at Olmsted in 1936 at a cost of $1,220,500 with a capacity of 18,750 kilowatts. The old hydro-electric plant of the j Utah Power and Light com pany at Olmsted has a capacity of 12,500 kilowatts. One of the oldest old-est generating plants in the West, it was" constructed in 1904 by the Telluride Power company and taken over' several years later by the Utah Power and Light com pany. Officials said today that the new plant will consume 515 tons of coal a day at full load. The existing coal steam plant at Olm sted consumes 250 tons per day at full load. Thirty eight" men are required to operate the present coal steam plant and 19 additional men . will be required when the new unit goes into operation next April. A construction force, aver aging 200 men has been employed on the new plant. Today's press tour included rep resentatives of all wire services, all state dailys and weekly news papers of the Central Utah area. Young Bandit Loots Homes LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28 (U.R) A young bandit looted three bungalows in the exclusive Town Aftvuac nuici aiiu iuuiv foou at gunpoint from two guests, police r, ru-i- a ta McDermoU: Nev" Taid he" wVs talking with Private Detective T. M. Rogers last night when the desperado burst into his apart- nient. Committee To Lift Veil Of Secrecy About 'Scientist X' WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U.R) The. spy-hunting house un-American un-American activities committee is about to lift the veil of secrecy se-crecy around the case of "Scientist X." Committee sources said a report re-port will be 'issued within the next day or two revealing his identity. The document will recommend that he be prosecuted prose-cuted for perjury, they said. A year ago today, the committee com-mittee formally accused the scientist of slipping wartime atomic secrets to a Communist party organizer. It said the incident in-cident took place while "X As for production, he had this to say: "We have been increasing production for the past several sev-eral years. It is progressively getting better. We hope to have the rate of progression not only maintained but increased." in-creased." Concerning scientists, McMahon Mc-Mahon said: "I have in mind some very fine physicists who are now teaching but who, I hope, can be added to the project." He did not name them, but it appeared likely an attempt might be underway to bring back to active atomic work men like Dr. J. Robert Op-penheimer Op-penheimer who headed the wartime Los Alamos, N. M., bomb plant. He is now head 'of the institute for advanced studies in Princeton, N. J. Russia Agrees To Delay Debate On Greek Civil War BULLETIN LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y Sept. 28 (U.R) The United Na-1 Na-1 1 o n s steering committee voted, 11 to 2, with Russia and Poland opposing, to include in-clude China's complaint against the Soviet Union on the agenda of the general assembly. as-sembly. LAKE SUCCESS,; N. Y., Sept. 28 (U.R) Russia agreed with the west today that th United Na tions should postpone its debate on Greece's war against Commu nist guerrillas while private ef forts are made to solve the troublesome Balkan question. Observers interpreted agree ment on this proposal bv Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vish insky as qualified acceptance by Russia of Secretary of State Dean Acheson's appeal, made at the opening of the general assembly last week, to cooperate with the west in settling international problems, particularly in Greece. Vishinsky said Russia would agree to a resolution offered by Australia, with the backing of the United States and Britain, calling upon the general assembly's assem-bly's political committee to appoint ap-point assembly president Carlos P. Romulo, secretary-general Try- gve Lie and Lester B. Pearson of Canada and Selim Sarper of Turkey, Tur-key, chairman and vice chairman of the committee, to attempt to reach a peaceful settlement of the Greek crisis by Oct. 17. Qualifies Acceptance But. Vishinsky qualified his ac ceptance of Acheson's appeal by supporting a Polish resolution asking the political committee to appeal to the Greek government to "suspend all executions and (Continued on Page 15) was employed in 1943 at the radiation ra-diation laboratory of the University Uni-versity of California in Berkeley. Berke-ley. The scientist was one of the research workers employed at the laboratory to develop the atomic bomb, the committee said. But it charged that he was in contact with Steve Nelson, now a Communist party organizer organ-izer in western Pennsylvania The committee said that "X" visited Nelson's home in Oakland, Oak-land, Cal., in March. 1943. There, it said, he gave the Communist Com-munist organizer a "formula of importance in the development of the atom bomb. aou Offeir Mad Congress Puts Speedy Often On Arms Bill Bill Ready for Truman Signatiire Following House, Senate Approval WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U.R) Congress completed action ac-tion today on a $1,341,010,000 military aid bill to speed rearmament re-armament of "free nations" against the threat of Russian aggression. t Today the house, which lasiJL Anrntf flit n.nrlln. f Ar fk. v. a tdt Y nations in half, reversed Itself and on a 223 to 109 vote approved almost all the money the administration admini-stration asked. Then the senate passed and sent the conference version of the bill to the White House for President Truman's signature. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U.R) Breaking a month-long month-long stalemate, senate and house conferees today agreed on $4,852,380,000 in.new Mar-i shall plan spending. The recovery plans were carried in a $5,809,990,000 cover-all foreign aid appropria tion which included money for non-m i 1 i t a r y expenditures in Greece and Turkey and for athe army's relief and recovery functions func-tions in the occupied areas of Germany and the Far East. ine compromise measure now goes back to the house, and senate sen-ate "for final approval, probably tomorrow. Marshall plan funds have been tied up in the conference com mittee since Aug. 9, and caught in the cross-fire of an inter- chamber battle over new spend ing power, for the joint congres Monai watendog" committee on foreign aid and over plant dismantling dis-mantling policy in western Germany. Ger-many. The logjam was broken by a compromise giving the "watchdog committee," whose existence was opposed by the house, a $110,000 appropriation instead of the $344,000 the senate approved. The plant dismantling issue was re solved by permitting Recovery Chief Paul G. Hoffman to spend $25,000 of his funds, if he chose, for a re-survey of the effect of (Continued on Page 15) Two American Boys Released By Russians HELMSTEDT, Germany, Sept. 28 (U.R) Tw: American college boys, prisoners of the Russians since July 30, sped across the Russian-British zone border . to freedom today. An automobile carrying Warren War-ren Oelsner, 20, of Oyster Bay, N. Y., and. Peter Sellers, 19, of Philadelphia, from Madgeburg to Hamburg was held up for four minutes at the Russian barrier while papers were examined. It then sped 6ff toward Hamburg, Ham-burg, 1 where Edward Oelsner, father of orte of the boys, waited their arrival. The .automobile belonged to Brig. Gen. Walter Hess, Jr., chief of the U. S. Liaison mission to the Soviet military mission at Potsdam who figured prominently prominent-ly in the top-level negotiations for release of the boys. . 1 The youths disappeared while bicycling toward Berlin from Hamburg. They had been warn ed by American consular authori ties that they could not cross the Russian zone : without special Soviet documents. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 000 000 New York . 101 003 Coleman and Rotir; Byrne. Sanford. Page and Berra. t Home runs: Brown NY. (3) none on; Delsing. NY. (6) one on. Cleveland ... 003 1 Chicago . . 000 0. Lemon and Hegan; Bruner and Tipton. NATIONAL. LEAGUE New York . 000 OOO Philadelphia 010 000 Jonei ana westrum; Meyer and Lopata. Home run: Ennta Fha. (2) none neen. St. Louis rain. at Pittsburgh postponed. Brooklyn at Boston,fostponed. rain. (Will be played as part of double-header double-header tomorrow). Tension Mounting In Utatn's Str ike-Bound Coal Counties HELPER, Utah, Sept. 28 (U.R) Supt. Joseph W. Dudler of the Utah state highway patrol reported today to-day there was "tension" in th coal strike-bound area 'of Carbon and Emery counties. Dudler added, in a conversation with Gov. J. Bracken Brack-en Lee, that he hoped the "tension" would ease. The highway patrol chief conferred with both miners and operators within, the last 24 hours. The UMW yesterday dispatched 55 carloads of pickets for' reinforcement duty aftr unofficial spokesmen spokes-men reported the union suspected six trucks loaded -with coal might try and run the picket line in Salina canyon. Dudler was investigating a report of Emery county Sheriff Bryant Nelson to Gov. J. Bracken Lee that several daysago a few incidents had occurred. He met Nelson yesterday and toured the lines later. I A mass meeting of 1,000 miners was heldl last night at Helper. A request was made for volunteers for picket line duty at the meeting. f1 Amateur Dock Workers Upset CIO Strategy At The Dalles THE DALLES, Ore:, Sept. 28 (U.R) Townspeople wearing cowboy cow-boy hats and western boots moved into The Dalles dock at 6 a. m. today and began unloading $800,- 000 worth of Hawaiian pineapple declared "hot" by striking CIO longshoremen. Two crews of amateur dock workers, recruited in secrecy in this .Columbia river community 200 miles from the sea, apparently Non-Striking Miners Carry Guns To Work BY UNITED PRESS Non - striking miners carried guns to work in the Pennsylvania coal fields today amid growing reports ol violence in the nation wide coal strike, most expiosi of the nation s major labor jdls putes. First gunfire of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania disturbances wajr reported near Lewiston. Pa.,ywhere' coal trucks operated i by police - were fired upon. Nonwa injured in the shooting, which was preced ed by a stoning of the truck con- vov. - The threat of a nationwide rail strike added to the nation's labor woes. Observers, however, were hopeful that threatened strikes in the steel and automobile automo-bile industries could be headed off. In the motor companies dis pute with the CIO Auto Workers over pensions, developments to day may show whether a strike, scheduled to begin within a little more than 48 hours, may be avoided. Detroit reported hope that negotiators might avert a walkout walk-out in the CIO United Automo bile Workers pension plan diffif culties .with the Ford Motor Co. Men Might Strike At Washington, President D. B. Robertson of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen warned that his men might strike against the nation's railroads to enforce their demand for employment of another fireman on Diesel locomotive loco-motive crews. FlareUps between striking members of John L. Lewis' mine workers and non-striking miners Worried peace officers in at least four states. Pennsylvania police feared bloodshed because non - union workers were reporting to their jobs at little western Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania strip mines with guns in defiance of roving bands of UMW pickets 'who tried, to get them to stop mining coal. Some - Carry Guns Gun permits were issued ! to some non-striking miners in One Pennsylvania county: West Virginia, Ohio and Utah (Continued on Page 15) ' Too Embarrassed 80-Year Old Florida Couple On BATON ROUGELa., Sept 28 (U.R) An 82-year-old Florida Flor-ida fishermarKand his faithful faith-ful 80-year-old wife took a mucn needed rest here today afteirwalking most of the 400 grilles from Dallas, Tex., because, be-cause, they were too embarrassed em-barrassed to ask for rides. Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter Hunt-er are on their way home to Apalachicola, Fla., after an unsuccessful trip to the Dallas veterans' hospital seeking an e By P. S. Sfefl - upset CIO strategy by appearing on the job before pickets had been assembled. , Matt Meehan, representative-of the International Longshoremen's Si Warehousemen's .Union, had threatened to draw as many as 1,500 unionists from Portland, LongvieW and Vancouver to mass-picket mass-picket the barge "Honolulu' if an unloading attempt was made. But when the farmers and cowhands cow-hands drove onto the dock in the pre-dawn darkness, there wasn't a picket in sight. " Ignore Garibaldi Pickets A second barge of pineapple black-listed by Honolulu strikers Virtually was unloaded at ! Gari baldi. Ore., a small coastal port on Tillamook Bay. A non-union crew went aboard the barge and took pineapple ashore despite pickets dispatched to. Garibaldi from Astoria and Newport. W. E. Mackety, secretary of the Portland Longshoremen's Union, said AFL teamsters were trucking the pineapple away from the Garibaldi pier. Both loads of pineapple were consigned to central California canneries. v Fred A. MauseiV mayor of The Dalles, issued a public notice reading: t 1 'Because of fear expressed by people over possible violence con nected with the barge unloading the city has nothing to do with -judging the merits of the. controversy. There will be no violence per mitted on the waterfront or anywhere any-where else. There are adequate facilities to prevent violence and they will.be used if necessary." A sauad of special deputies headed by M. E. Cloe, officer of The Dalles police department, stood guard at the entrance to The Dalles port this morning when the unloading crews went through the gaes. Allies Call Off Berlin Talks i With Russians BERLIN, Sept J 28 (U.R) The western allies today called off all discussions with the Russians on the Berlin problem. -The American, British and French commandants told a press conference they had decided to end their talks with the Russians because the Soviets had refused to fulfill the agreement which ended this city's- Tbloody two-month two-month railway stride earlier this year. It in effect meant a breakdown in east-west relations in Berlin. The western commandants said suspension of the Berlin talks did not necessarily mean that economic eco-nomic and financial . talks at a higher level on a Germany-wide basis also would end. adominal operation for the aged man. Thp elderly couple ran out ' of money at Dallas and started start-ed hitch-hiking home a month ago. But they weren't "forward "for-ward enough" to be successful success-ful hitch-hikers, sb they walked nearly all the way to Baton Rouge. . "We've never asked for .anything in our lives Hunter said, "and we couldn't be starting it this late. So we Offer Hinges On Employes' Contributions Company Willing to Pay Full 10 Cent , Urged in the Report BULLETIN j : NEW YORK, Sept. (U: Benjamin F. Fair less, president of U. S. Steel Corp., ,-ald ,-ald today his firm had offered of-fered the CIO' United Steel Workers, a 10-cent package' , pension plan recommended . by the presidential fact-finding board, but Insisted that the- workers must maka a. contribution. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 (U.R) CIO and U. S. Steel Corp. negotiators opened bargaining! bar-gaining! on a new level today with a company-offer to meet ' the "money" .recommenda tions of the steel board's pension-insurance formula, V , Reports of a 'major" develop ment came from industry sources as the conferees' gathered. Hopes for a compromise settlement be fore the Saturday deadline fora strike of. 500,000 basic steel workers work-ers zoomed. . 1 After a two hour morning ses sion, the conference recessed for lunch. The negotiators refused any comment other than that the , meeting would be resumed ' at 2 p. m. Mediators Ready U. S. Steel offered to pay the - six cents per hour per man to-, ward pensions and four cents for insurance, recommended by President Pres-ident . 'Truman's fact-finders; ' but insisted that employes also contribute. con-tribute. (Federal mediation chief Cyrus S. Ching was expected to announce an-nounce from Washington at 4 p. m., EST, that government labor mediators are ready, if need be, to step into steel contract negotiations nego-tiations in an effort to get a settlement set-tlement before the strike dead- line. Informed sources said, how- -ever, that Ching would not personally per-sonally reenter the negotiations nor would he call any new bargaining bar-gaining conferences in Washington Washing-ton h current union-Industry, talks fail.) Speculation arose that a small wage increase to onset me employes em-ployes contributions was the key to settlement of the dispute. This was regarded as "Within tha ' (Continued on Page IS) Agreement On Ford Contract Believed Near DETROIT, Sept. 28 (U.R) Agreement on a precedenUsetting Ford Motor company contract appeared imminent today as dog-tired dog-tired negotiators worked around-the-clock to beat .a midnight strike deadline. I The marathon talks were re ported to center ,on a company offer of 8si cents an hour for. pensions under a two and one half-year contract, longest in. automotive history. Fear of a threatened strike at midnight dimmed I as top CIO United Auto Workers and com pany officials battled against time to reach agreement oh Assembly Line - to the "'Grave" Pensions for 115,000 Ford work- crs across the nation. We're trying to beat the dead line," UAW President Walter Reuther said after almost continuous con-tinuous talks, since 3 p.m. yesterday. yes-terday. He appeared tired and a red stubble covered his chin. But his smile denoted progress. With reports of headway from tall sides, the auto workers red- haired leader refused comment about whether he would .call out Ford production workers- in 49 plants across the nation tomorrow if settlement is not reached.. . 400 - Mile Hike just took rides when people stopped and offered them." ' The couple said they had. only $0 left : when they left Dallas, and they spent that" for food on the, way. Theyt had 30 cents when they ar-' rived here. They carried no luggage and had only the clothes they, wore. Hunter was clad in a worn blue shirt and blue trousers, and his wife wore a plain brown cotton dress. |