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Show TEMPERATURES PARTLY CLOUDY today and Saturday. Somewhat .colder today. High both days, bout 25. Low tonight near sere Prva ... 11 SlPortUa 3 St' IT U'BoUt . . . . . is T V Rait Lk St 1 Ra ST -1 13 IIIDmnr St 11 St. Grf Ui Vegas 41 ZSIChlcst 44 SS St ST 44 S iBUmarck . -I -II Washington ST SS INaw York 41 34 Miami .... It 11 Ui Anttltl 41 14 aa Fna. . 41 33 SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 159 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS' Secies' Stand EMed Up By Ed$y Money' Policy Of Treasury Head Snyder Frowned Upon WASHINGTON, Jan! IS U.R) A senate-House economic eco-nomic sub-committee . today threw its support behind federal fed-eral reserve board member Marriner S. Eccles in his fight against the "easy - money j policies of secretary of the i treasury John Snyder.' t The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D., 111., said Eccles was right In arguing that the reserve board should be ible to raise interest rates on government govern-ment bonds to curb credit and check inflation. . It , , recommended in a' formal report that congress pass a resolution reso-lution giving the federal reserve board "primary power and responsibility" re-sponsibility" for regulating fed- ral credit tv-iHH. and reaulrinff Congress Unit i. the treasury to bring its mone tary , actions into line wim ira-cral ira-cral reserve policies. ' . . This was a victory for Eccles, who was demoted by President Truman from his Job as former federal reserve chairman after a backstage row .with .Snyder over fiscal policies. . Time-Honored Feud s Eccles and Snyder brought tr ?ir differences into the open di . ni ; ; subcommittee hearings las year, and later renewed their argument at a ciosea-ooor bud committee session. The subcommittee,- which has been studying federal money and financial policies, also 'came out for a government surplus in good times but red ink spending in times of depression. Douglas, backed up by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R., Vt, ranking rank-ing . committee. Republican, -told reporters the committee "rejects the idea of the annually balanced budget" He said the general idea it that when times are good the budget should be balanced, but "in periods of depression it is proper for the government to spend more than it takes in." The subcommittee also came out for repeal of the silver purchase pur-chase act which requires the treasury to buy newly-mined do-wmmi do-wmmi nr at bove market W ; 9 ( w - prices, -i Douglas saia uiq iuvh uuian; policy is unreasonable, and added: . (Continued on Fag Two) , Provo Host To State Dairy Convention JI Several hundred dairymen converged con-verged upon Provo today In preparation for the 13th annual ccnventlon of Utah Dairy Feder ation set for tonight and Saturday in the Joseph Smith building. It is the first time In the history of the federation that Provo has been host to the state conclave. - Slated to address tonight's session ses-sion for, state breed association members ; are: J. G. Plowman, president of . the Utah Holsteln-Friesian Holsteln-Friesian Assn.; Irvin R. Slater, representing American , Jersey Cattle club, Boise, Ida.; Ray L. West. American Guernsey Cattle club, Portland, Ore. and Merrill Nr Warnick, member of tne national na-tional board of directors, Hoi-atein-Friesian Assn. of America This session will be held in room - 275 at 8 p.m. Highlight of Saturday's pro-gram pro-gram will be the annual membership mem-bership meeting slated for 2 p. m with departmental meetings slat ed in the forenoon, following registration reg-istration ' which begins at 9 a. m. ? Annual reports and election of Officers will supplement programs outlined to include speakers listed list-ed above and C R. Schoby, president presi-dent American Dairy Assn., Chicago; Chi-cago; Carl Frischkneckt, director extension service USAC, named a Saturday : afternoon speakers, and George ,S. Eccles, president of First Security Banking Corp., Ogden, who will address the annual an-nual banquet slated for Saturday at 8 p. m. as the concluding feature fea-ture of the convention. Mr. Eccles Ec-cles will speak on "Phases of Our Agricultural Economy." Inside the Herald Pages Central Utah News 2-4 Xews Briefs ............2 Deaths Statistics 3 l 4 Women's Features 10-11 Shorts . Editorial 16 12 it 12 IS Radio Programs ............ ferry-Go-Round Comics Classified 14-15 I ll,L.,..UilHIIIIUUIII f 1 - r l NATIONALIST blockade of Shanghai; is unlawful Hans J. Isbrandtsen, 58, New 1 York, president of the shipping company com-pany which sent the freighter Flying Arrow into a fusilade of gunboat shells in an attempt to run the blockade with a cargo from Hong Kong. The company took the same stand on war in Palestine and Indonesia. Personnel To Be Classified By UNITED PRESS Utah state prison personnel are to be classified, indoctrinated and trained by a federal penal officer. The board of corrections at Its regular meeting yesterday au thorized employment of a training train-ing specialist who is to work for about a month with members of the. staff of Warden Alvin O. Severson. , t ' - ' r - ' , Severson told board members that , he believes he has "some good timber in the ranks." He added that he thought an expert in penology could help give every officer a fair .chance to show what, he can do and place him in that Job for which he is best fitted. .Board Chairman John F. Dugan and other members agreed that by bringing in someone not acquainted with , the men, they could not be accused of favoring one against the other, Coupons Eliminated '.The "warden reported to the board that he has established a new, commissary system which does away with coupons' as "money" and which has helped to separate prisoners from offi cers. , ? He said the early training program pro-gram would aid bis permanent program in this respect. The new commissary system. Severson explained, also discourages discour-ages gambling and has stopped such practices as nayins for hair cuts and laundry with the cou pons. , He said that those nrisoners who in the past had, gambled their coupons or money away had been refused, such service. Prisoners who make purchases from the commissary under the new sys- (Contipued on Page Two) 'Meet the Press' To Air Formosa Problem Tonight . The hottest topic of the day the China and Formosa problem will be aired on the "Meet the Press" program pro-gram sponsored by The Daily Herald on Station KOVO tonight to-night at 7:30. Sen. William F. Knowland, R., Cal., who has recently visited the Far East and has been highly critical of President Pres-ident Truman's "hands off" policy in the China conflict, will be interviewed by some of the country's top journalists, journal-ists, James Reston, New York Times; Paul Ward, Baltimore, Sun; George Durno, International Interna-tional News Service, and Lawrence Spivak, editor of the American Mercury magazine. Lee Asks Board to Dismiss Director Of Utah Crippled Children's Hospital SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 13 (V.P.t -Gov. J. Bracken Lee has asici (the board of trustees of the Utah i Crippled Children's hosnltal in dispense with the service of Dr. xwDen i. wagner, meaical director, di-rector, luee maoe tne request last niht at a meeting with the board at the State Capitol. He said there was nothing personal in the request, but said he could not agree to his being retained as a medical director di-rector without a hospital to direct di-rect : ' . Chairman of the board, Dr. Earl L. Skldmore and a majority of the members of the board rallied to Wagner's support and said that his services are being properly used directing construction of the Soviet 'Steal' Of Chinese Area Exposed Imperialistic Trends Of Soviet Russia Now Shown Up by Acheson BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 13CU.R) The U. S. military chiefs were asked , today to give their ' views on Formosa to congress, con-gress, and a Republican senator sen-ator proposed a "resolution of censure" of the administration's administra-tion's China policy. WASHINGTON, Jan. . 13 (U.R) The state department hoped today that it has put Russia on the spot in Asia with its charges that Moscow is trying to steal 2,000,000 square miles of Chinese territory. ter-ritory. Secretary of State Dean Ache-son Ache-son has said the Soviet Union is in process of taking, over four areas of North China Manchuria, Outer Mongolia,. Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. These regions constitute con-stitute almost half of China's 4,-314.097 4,-314.097 square miles. The incorporation of these areas Into the Soviet Union would rob China of rich industrial and agricultural lands and make its economic rehabilitation totally dependent upon Russia. Acheson made it clear that the United States considers the four areas to be integral' parts of China. - His words could put the Chinese Communists in a poltical-y poltical-y embarrassing position. Leader In Moscow Mao Tse-Tung, 'their , leader, now is in Moscow for negotiations in -which he is expected to agree to Increased Russian concessions in northern China. If he does, he will be in the position of ceding to. Russia huge areas which the United States Insists are part of China. ! Diplomatic - observers aaid this would make it increasingly dif ficult for i Mao to convince the Chinese people that the United States is. the rtaperialisUCJia-tion rtaperialisUCJia-tion that Moscow says it is. Acheson made the statement in a speech before the National Press club yesterday. He was slated to return to Capitol Hill to-day to-day for another discussion of China policy at jk senate foreign relations committee meeting. The sesion may bring a showdown show-down : on' Republican demands that the joint chiefs of staffs testify testi-fy on their reported differences with President Truman and the state department over strategic value of Formosa, the Nationalist-held island off the China coast U. Sv Canada In Dispute Over Airlines WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) The United States has agreed to halt expansion of U. S. airline flights to Canada pending settlement settle-ment of a v court fight over Canadian landing rights in this country, it was announced today. The ' agreement was reached during a prolonged Canadian-American Canadian-American negotiations at Ottawa and was announced simultaneously simultaneous-ly in Washington and Ottawa., The dispute'arose when Colonial Colo-nial Airlines, an American line operating between New York and Montreal, sought a court injunction injunc-tion to prevent trans-Canada Airlines Air-lines from flying the same route. The legal fight has been carried to the U. S. supreme court which has promised an early decision. FATHER. SON KILLED IN MONTANA CRASH HELENA, Jan. 13 (U.R) A Big Fork, Mont, man and his son, about four years old, were killed In a three-car collision nine miles east of Helena today. Russell Barta, 29, and his son new Crippled Children's hospital. Lee restated his opposition to having the state operate a crippled crip-pled children's hospital, and said that other hospitals can perform the same functions. He added that the state is in need of a crippled children's hospital, but not, to the extent that a financially hard-pressed hard-pressed state should appropriate money for it. . , , ' , j, Lee agreed to retaining Wagner Wag-ner on a part time basis if the state health department would employ- him for the rest of the time. Dr. John W. Spies, - state health commissioner, said that a proposition of this nature had already al-ready been presented to the board of health and , rejected. 61 C Hope Abandoned Of Saving 52 Men Trapped Inside Of Sub Rammed By Tank Ship LONDt)N, Jan. 13 (U.R) A naval 'Jfrogman" swam into the smashed British submarine Truculent on the bottom of the Thames estuary, late today and found the entire craft flooded. . His discovery dashed the last flickering hopes for the 52 missing men believed trapped, in the submarine when it sank nearly 24 hours earlier. This brought the death toll to 61 of the 76 men who were aboard the 1,090-ton patrol submarine when the Swedish tanker Divina rammed and sank it last night about 17 miles northwest of Margate. Fifteen men either on the deck or the bridge of the submarine at the time of the crash were washed away and rescued. Three bodies were recovered soon afterward, and six more today. "Frogmen" Called Out ' The Royal navy called out its "frogmen" after deep sea Ogden Man Heads Tax Commission By UNITED PRE'SS Patrick Healy, Jr., of Ogden Ltoday was named permanent cnairman ox me uian lax commission. com-mission. Healy was appointed to the commission a week ago by Gov. J. Bracken Lee and sworn in as a maanber earlier this week. As chairman, he succeeds Commissioner Com-missioner Roscoe E. Hammond, who has headed - the four-man group since, last September on a temporary basis. Healy. like . Hammond., , a Jle publican, succeeds H. C Shoemaker, Shoe-maker, now a member of the department de-partment of public welfare. The other two members of the tax commission- both Democrats are J. Wilton Ward of Willard and Elisha Warner of Payson. Patient Kills Wife, Daughter On Trial' Visit COLUMBUS. O.. Jan. 13 (U.R) Darrell L. Welch, 28, beat and stabbed his wife and daughter to death while on a, "trial visit" home from a mental hospital where he was confined as a mental incompetent, authorities said today. Welch, described in hospital records as extremely jealous of his wife, stabbed himself in the abdomen after wiping out his family yesterday. He was report ed in fair condition at a hospital here. Sheriffs Deputy Paul F, Stor- mont said Welch signed a statement state-ment admitting that he battered his wife, Roselyn, 26, with a roll ing pin, then stabbed her and their one-year-old daughter, Marcy Cecelia, with a six-inch knife. ; - ! Stormont ) said Welch told him the killings climaxed some six months pf arguments i during which Velch had accused his wife of infidelity. i Stock Market Reaains Calm NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U.R) Calm returned to the stock market mar-ket before the lunch hour today. Trading quieted. Prices steadied stead-ied and some came back to net gains. Before orderly trading resumed, re-sumed, however, another wave of selling struck at the opening. This had been anticipated and it was absorbed without too much difficulty. diffi-culty. Early prices showed some de-dlines de-dlines ranging to more than 2 oints. For a time the tape fell ehind on sell orders. Then buy orders came in with a volume that caused take lateness on the upside. ; This lasted only a minute min-ute or two. And finally calm settled over the list SMELTER UNION GETS 'FINAL' OFFER CARLSBAD. N. M.. Jan. 13 (U.R) The CIO Mine, Mill and Smelt er Workers union today studied a "final" offer from Carlsbad's "big three" potash producers to end a strike which began Nov. 19. ' Walter White, U. S. conciliator, proposed that the offer be put before be-fore the strikers on a.jecret ballot, bal-lot, employes of , each company voting separately. N A rew.flvtteini SubnrBariiFie divers who found the wrecked submarine 55 to 60 feet below the surface failed to get any response to their taps against the hull with signal hammers. Clad in a rubber suit and equipped with special oxygen apparatus, ap-paratus, "Frogman" James Hodges Hod-ges swam through the open conning con-ning tower into the engine room and found the entire submarine flooded. "It would have been impossible for anything but fish to live in the hulk of that submarine," Hodges said on emerging from the icy waters. ' The submarine apparently flooded within minutes of the collision. col-lision. The ' Divina had torn a hole-in the hull forward of the gun turret, 1 and the vessel evidently evi-dently sank before the conning tower could be closed. The British frigate Zest recovered recov-ered six bodies found today at Barrow Deep, more than six miles from the crash scene. Lt C. P. Bowers, commander of the Truculent, was among the 15 survivors rescued last night. There was no Immediate breakdown break-down as to how many of the 58 crewmen and 18 dockyard workers work-ers were dead or missing and how many had survived. The dock workers had gone along for a trial cruise after refitting the submarine. Naval divers, struggled in the icy waters against swift current and 16-foot tides, fought ther way to the hull of the 1,090-ton Truculent Truc-ulent shortly after noon and began be-gan tapping on its sides with hammers. They got no response. It was believed that crewmen in the forward compartment were drowned. That compartment was stove in by the prow of the tanker. ' Naval experts refused to abandon aban-don hope for the mising. They said relays of divers would tap the sides of the vessel until every inch of the exposed hull had been covered. The divers were working desperately des-perately against the fall of darkness, dark-ness, when it was feared Tescue efforts might have to be sus- rnHH until mnrnintf ! r jBR0KEN HOME CAUSES FLIGHT YONKEK5, N. Jan. 13 UJ.ru Authorities said today that home life broken by divorce caused .12-year-old Josephine Leech to run away and hide for a week while an FBI led search for her spread throughout the nation. na-tion. Since last Friday, the FBI, police po-lice and hundreds of volunteers combed Westchester county in fear that the bobbysoxer had been kidnaped. While all the while she had been in a parsonage basement base-ment only seven miles from her home. 1 Los Angeles Police Hit By Grand Jury For Crime Wave LOS ANGELES. Jan. 13 (U.R) A grand jury report claimed to - day that Los Angeles is suffering; agencies, ne answered mat me an "appalling and fearsome" .city's record of unsolved crimes crime wave but Mayor Fletcher Bowron said the picture painted: by the Jury was "rather mild." States of similar size. The survey, submitted by Fore- , On the whole, the mayor said.; man Harry Lawson and 18 fellow! the report was "rather mild" and j jurors as the 1949 panel was dis-;"all for the good." , charged, cited an "alarming in-' "Everybody can stand some: crease" In unsolved murders and criticism," he said. other major crimes. The jurors did not single out, This shows "ineffectiveness In any particular law enforcement! law enforcement agencies and the courts that should not be' tolerated," the Jury said. " Bowron said this was nractic- ally a re-statement of the Jury's I' III I ' culm r ml Vti r - - 8 .f o- : FLOOD SITUATION along, the Wabash river in the midwest still was serious although many families fami-lies which had fled their homes returned as the other rivers receded. At Cincennes. Ind.. where the crest' of the Wabash was expected to come within inches of the 29-foot river wall, soldiers from Fort Knox and Indiana National Guard troops stood by to build mud boxes atop the barrier If nee-essary. nee-essary. In photo, two Army Ducks plow through water at Vlncennes la rescue operations. Ohio, Wabash Rivers Flood Farm Areas CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (U.R The rain-swollen Ohio and Wabash rivers today pushed higher in southern Illinois and Indiana, driving bottomland dwellers to higher ground and threatening to send the Mississippi river on a rampage. i The danger zone on the Wabash shifted southward from the Terre Haute-Vincennes. Ind.. area - to the river's lower reaches near its junction with the Ohio. Mount Vernon, Ind., ; in the notch where the two rivers meet was alerted to received up to 100 refugee families today. U. S. army troops and "ducks" stood ready to evacuate families in rural areas today, "and the national guard unit was on an alert ordered by Gov. Henry Schrlcker. The town itself was "high and dry," but thousands of acres of surrounding farmland in the Wa bash and Ohio bottoms were (Continued on Page . Two) Flood Blamed For Blast Killing Five VINCENNES, Ind., an. 13 (U.R) Sewer gas compressed by, backwaters back-waters from the flooding Wabash river may have caused a housing project explosion that killed two mothers and their three children, officials said today. Indiana State Fire Marshal Alex Hoagland came here to direct di-rect personally an investigation to determine the cause of the blast . The explosion wrecked a .two-family .two-family .unit in the project just two blocks from where 1,000 soldiers sol-diers were fighting to hold a levee against raging flood waters lapping 18 Inches from, the top. The unti's concrete block walls tumbled like ; dominoes as the blast rocked the entire town. Witnesses said the building was knocked "flat as a table top." A refrigerator was blown across a street and crushed a parked car. A mattress was thrown a city block. I interim report made in the fall. j In defense of law enforcement is lower, percentage-wise, than' that of any city in the United' agency as responsible for releas- ing criminals who are "writing a .record of crime that includes murders, mysterious disappear- lances and loathsome sex crimes." DsaA Disaster ; w flff. ' ' , w ' " - ..,-1 Fair Employment Practices Bill Argued; Action Held Up WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 U. The house rules committee today generated a lot of heat but pro duced no action on President Truman's fair employment prac tices bill. ' After two hours of wrangling, which got nowhere, the commit tee put off at least until Monday a decision as to whether to' send the measure to the house floor for debate. The.' bill would prohibit discrimination dis-crimination against anyone in private employment because of racecolor, or religion. Other congressional develop ments: Liquor Wets accused drys of starting a fight against liquor ads in hope of reviving prohibition. prohibi-tion. The senate interstate commerce com-merce committee is studying a bill to ban interstate wine, beer. and- liquor advertising. Emile J Soucy of the New Hampshire Wholesale Beverage association, said the ad fight was started by "professional prohibitionists and reformers." . Point Four--Foreign1 recovery administrator Paul G. Hoffman told the house foreign affairs committee that President Tru man's "point four" program" for developing backward regions oz-f oz-f ers "great hope" for making Europe and its dependent nations self-sufficient "Liar" Sen. John J. Sparkman, D- Ala., told Horace Russell, gen eral counsel of the U. S. Savings and Loan Leacue. that some of his statements against middle income in-come housing legislation were "unfair and not correct." Russell, testifying before Sparkman's Three Drown As Car Skids Into Pond KELSO. Wash., Jan. 13 (OR) A young mother and her two small children drowned in a roadside pond today when their car skidded skid-ded from the Pacific highway in a snow storm. The Washington state patrol said the accident occurred two miles -north of Kalama, Wash., when 'the car carrying the family of Corp. Walter Warner, 25, from Pennsylvania on a transfer to Fort Worden, near Seattle, went out of control on icy pavement. Warner was driving. He said the machine spun into the water and submerged. He managed to climb - to the top of the vehicle and was rescued by a passing truck driver, who spotted the skid marks of the car on the highway. State patrolmen said Mrs. Warner and two small children, whose names were not learned immediately, were dead when the car was towed from the pond, Warner was hospitalized at Woodland, Wash., suffering from chill and exposure. Four inches of snow - covered j the road when the Warner car skidded at about 7 a. m. officers said. m - :-, w , , j banking subcommittee, reported: -I don't like to be called a liar before a senate committee or any where else.",, , ; ; Iron Curtain" Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,-RV Wis., aaid he will lead pro-navy senators In a grievance griev-ance session against "th . iron curtain that has been damped around the pentagon." .-' Mother Goes Ponicky . Babies Drown In Bath Tub By MURRAY M. MOLER ? : MURRAY, Utah, Jan. 13 (U.R) Two little sisters drowned In the bath i tub where their panic-stricken panic-stricken mother put them when a small fire damaged their home, coroner W. , Douglas Allen said today. ' - " ' - i Mrs. Kathryn Wrathal told Allen Al-len that the fire broke out In the rug directly under the crib where ' her daughter, Diane, 10 months, and Linda Ann, 3, were asleep. Police chief Lloyd Deland said the fire apparently was caused by a mislaid cigaret. In her excitement Mrs. Wrathel grabbed the children and placed them in the tub which had been filled with water to soak the family fam-ily wa?h. ' i : Driven From Bedroom Then she dashed to the kitchen and filled a pot with water. Deland said that had she taken her daughters to the kitchen with her, they would have been saved. The fire itself burned Just the crib and the rug and charred the surface of the floor. Total dam age was slight, firemen said. Flames and smoke drove her back from the bedroom, however, and the water spilled over her thin dress as she ran to a shed off the kitchen and tried to battle her way through composition walls into the bathroom. i When that failed, she jumped out the shed window, carrying the entire glass with her and tearing off her bedroom slippers.' Running barefoot through six inches of snow and with her dress freezing to her body, Mrs. Wrathal . ran to a neighbor's . home and screamed: "The house is on fire. My babies are trapped." As the neighbor. C. K. Wise man, called firemen, Mrs. Wrathal returned to the burning house. - Using a claw . hammer, . sne broke a foot-square hole in the composition wall but fainted before be-fore she could get through to the girls. h. Fireman from this sa Laxe City suburb arrived in a few mln-, utes, extinguished the ' flames which had burned the rug and floor, then pulled the two, girls. from the tub. . . . Fall To Revive Ambulance crews tried unsue -cessfully for two hours to revive , them. ' ' r : Their father. Sterling Wrathal, (Continued on Page Two) Murray |