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Show Fired Prison Executives Still Function i ' SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 6 U.R) lltah state prison Warden Ma-ion Ma-ion W. Hill today branded as "untrue" a report that two prison executives remained in authority past their resignation date. But the much-invesugatea utan, state prison faced still another i .investigation onjhe heels of that I report. Gov. J. Bracken Lee said i It left him "dumbfounded." - Salt Lake City police said that former Deputy Warden Ray De-vine De-vine acted as an authority at the prison past his resignation date. They referred to a phone call De vine made' to report information! about the theft of $2,200 In valu-! ables from a car near the prison.. Police said the call was made yes terday. Studying Report .Lee said he was also studying) a report that R. A. Divine, prison farm superintendent, had assumed assum-ed authority at the prison farm as late as last Thursday. R. A. De-vine De-vine resigned and Robert Devine was fired about ten days ago after i four prisoners on a trusty "good" behavior party broke for freedom ! from the Utah state fairgrounds. y Authorities indicated the car prowl near the prison which the former deputy warden reported yesterday was believed linked to the prison escape of trusty Jack Martin. Martin was employed in the quarters of Devine, police I said. Hill explained that both former prison off icials- had been permitted permit-ted to remain at their homes on prison property for 30 days past their termination of employment so they could find housing elsewhere. else-where. He said "it has been the Usual practice." ; The prison already has-been investigated in-vestigated this year for the escape of 22 prisoners, qs a firetrap and as an alleged .bogus check factory. Utility Strike Shuts Off the Gas MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct 6 ' (U.R) CIO Gas Workers .. union officials agreed today ' . to end a 25-hour strike which ' had deprived Milwaukee of its gas supplies and upset . meal times througout the eity. , Union officials agreed to end the strike "immediately" t on the basis-of a tentative '" contract agreement providing ' wage increases and pensions. They said they would broad- cast an order to 700 union . members who went on strike at 7 a. Wednesday, . to return to work. ' . T MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6 (U.R) A utility strike shut off gas supplies today and Milwaukee housewives learned that without the fuel they were in a worse fix, domestically speaking, than their great-grandmothers in pioneer days. "At least they had fireplaces ' i : ? : - b k - ' - h-- ; ra.r tj, j h :fJmJi r Finance Gangs With Illegal Slot Machines CHICAGO, Oct. (U.R) An organized or-ganized gang plot to grab control of local politics across the country coun-try is being financed with money from illegal slot machines, the director of the American Municipal Munici-pal association said today. Carl H. Chatters, executive' sec retary of the association, said he asked U. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath for federal help to fight racketeers on a national scale. Chatters issued a statement charging that gangsters make millions of dollars a vear with Il legal slot machines. ! With this money racketeers buy large holdings in legitimate business, hel said. Their holdings give them "ttemendous leverage" in local politics, he said. Chatters request for federal help was made on behalf of New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Port-land, Ore., chiefly, he said. McGrath ha? not answered the request, but he intends to see federal fed-eral officials in Washington about it next week. Chatters said. "The potential income (from illegal il-legal slot machines) is fabulous," he said. In Weiser, Ida., a town of 5000 population, 60 municipally owned slot machines earn $160,-000 $160,-000 a year. III-' IS 1 : . -: hi m ii ,Wim YOU MIGHT CALL IT A "WHIM SUIT" -Model Shirley Model can flit from boudoir to beach without switching a stitch, thanks to her new one-piece sleep-and-swim outfit Having frolicked In the surf, all Shirley needs to do is dry off and she's ready for bed again. At Miami Beach. Fla Shirley shows off the amphibious night wear to good advantage, and vice versa BULL WAS TOUGHER CLOVIS, N.M. (U.R) A bull and a pickup truck collided here recently. re-cently. The bull walked back to his pen. The truck had to be hauled in for repairs. TO HELP BABES BREATHE EASIER A tiny, premature baby is placed into a "plethysmograph" by a nurse at University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich., as Dr. Bruce Graham watches. The instrument similar to a miniature iron lung is being used by University of Michigan researchers to determine why premature infants breathe irregularly. In the plethysmograph, with an atmosphere containing 75 to 80 per cent oxygen, most babies breathe regularly. DAILY HERALD 5 Thursday, October 6, 1949 Unions Combine Against Packers ' CHICAGO, Oct. 0 (U.R) Two big unions, representing 90 per cent of the nation's packinghouse workers, ended an historic rivalry rival-ry today and warned the meat industry they plan "Joint action" i in contract talks. The CIO United Packinghouse Workers and the AFL Amalgamated Amalga-mated Meat Cutters aod Butcher workmen charged "bijfc business" with i a planned campaign to destroy de-stroy labor unions. . In a joint statement, Earl W. Jimerson, the AFL union chief. Hand Ralph Helstein, head of the , CIO union, said they will act "in complete , accord in current contract talks, I It was the first time that the two unions have . combined against the "big four" packers, the giants of the meat industry. But Swift and Co., one of the biggest firms, said the ; unions' charges were 'regrettable" and that "distorted and unrealistic statements of this kind pnly confuse con-fuse the situation." Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH - With Little Worry Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of insecure false teeth dropping slipping or wabbling. FASTEETH-holds FASTEETH-holds plates firmer and more conv Inrlihlv TVii. ...4 k.. tummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture (den-ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug store. adv. or wood ranges in those days," a young housewife said. "What should we do build a fire in the gas range?" Some women who had electric stoves threw their kitchens open to let neighbors cook meals. Others Oth-ers tried to use their living room fireplaces to heat canned goods. Meanwhile, Mayor Frank Zeid-ler, Zeid-ler, Federal Conciliator Clement Murphy and Federal District Judge Robert Tehan were attempting at-tempting to end the "surprise" strike called yesterday by the CIO Gas Workers union against the Milwaukee Gas Light .com-- pany. HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS TO RUN FOR SENATE LOS ANGELES. Oct. (U.R) Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, 48. former actress and wife of Actor Melvyn Douglas, announced today her 1950 candi dacy for the U. S. senate seat n6w held by Sheridan Downey, California Democrat. The attractive Mrs. Douglas, who had devoted her life to the theater before she was elected to congress in 1944 from the 14th California district, said she had decided to become a Democratic senatorial candidate "in response! to a growing insistence from peo ple in all parts of California." KUw . X.:.'-.. ...... . LaborFoes To Be Fought In Election ST. PAUL, Oct. 6 (U.R) Top AFL pfficials said today that the union will wage "the greatest political po-litical campaign in history" this year to defeat eight Republican senators and elect "friendly" congress. ... The eight Republicans marked for defeat by the AFL were: Robert A. Taft of Ohio; Forrest Donnell of Missouri, Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado, Homer E. Capehart of Indiana, Bourke D. Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, Milton D. Young of North Dakota and Chan Gurney .of South Dakota. Joseph D. Keenan, director of the AFL Political league, said that white all the elections would be close, he believed Taft, Millikin, Capehart, Donnell, and Hickenlooper Hicken-looper would be defeated in their campaigns for reelection. Keenan spoke just before the AFL's 68th .annual convention voted unanimously to start immediately im-mediately to collect $2 from each of the union's 7,241,000 members for a 1950 political war chest. j Keenan listed eight senators' who would get "concentrated" j AFL help next year. They were: i Republicans Wayne Morse, Ore., ! George D. Aiken, Vt.,.and Charles' W. Tobey, N. H.: and Democrats Francis Myers, Perm.; Brien Mc- Mahon, Conn.; Elbert Thomas,; Utah; Lister Hill, Ala., and Claude Pepper, Fla. TAVERN SHOOTING BEING PROBED HORSESHOE BEND, Oct. 6 (U.R) Boise county sheriff Sylvester F. Farrell today investigated the shooting of Harold R. Magnuson, 23, of Meridian in a tavern here. Magnuson, Farrell said, was wounded in the shoulder. State police officer Jack Tucker of Boise, who made a preliminary in quiry for the sheriff, reported that Mrs. Sylvia Jones, an employe of the tavern, admitted firing the shot when Magnuson refused to leave the place. 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