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Show VOL 23,NO. 39 1 4 i 1( ' ij ,n' ' "J" ''" i Oriih Railroad By March 1 Federal Judge Announces Suspension Of k Service Order Will Be Issued by March 1 .Unless Plan Of Operation Is Presented Abandonment and suspension of service on the Salt . Lake and Utah railroad by March 1 appeared virtually cer- tain today. . , . . . Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson made a statement to this effect Saturday, declaring that unless some source I presents.a plan guaranteeing operation of . the line without t a deficit, he would issue a suspension of service order ef- foptivA Mnrrh 1. He added that if the order were issued, ; Ho. 2 Furnace At r fronton May Be Sold, Dismantled ' - The No. 2 blast furnace at Ironton, built during the first part ot the war and discontinued after nine months operation, has been put up for sale and will probably be dismantled, unless a buyer can be found who will take the plant as it stands. . This information was revealed ; In ProvoSaturday by w. J. hic-,-key, tax analyst of the R. F. C. rfrom Washington, D. C. who con- .i.1ot Catlirrlav with -frtlinfv A - lessor Lawrence Atwood on assessment as-sessment matters connected with Geneva and the No. 2 Ironton i slant. i A definite request that the 1946 itax assessments on both Geneva and the No. ' 2 Ironton plant be (lowered -from their 1945 figures was made by Mr. Hickey and his .associates, ne was gecumjiauicu bv John A. Donaldson. R.F. C. examiner of Salt Lake City, and Calvin W. Rawlings, attorney representing the government on the two plants. Mr, Atwood stated he would give their requests mature consideration con-sideration and! study in light of 5 the information they- r presented, before making the '. 1946 assess ments. The Geneva plant in 1943 was assessed at about 104 mil lion dollars, thecounty's largest single assessment. The No. 2 Ironton furnace was assessed at nearly $300,000. The R. F. C. officials based their request for lowered .assessments .assess-ments on the fact that Geneva was now only at stand-by whereas where-as it was in full production until un-til V-J day of 1945, and that the No. 2 Ironton plant is how regarded re-garded only as surplus. The No. 2 Ironton furnace was dismantled at Joliet. 111., and shipped to Ironton because the navy needed a source of pig Iron early in the war, Mr. Hickey said. He stated that Geneva furnaces furn-aces were in production soon after the Iroqton furnace was started up, and that it was more economical econ-omical to produce pig iron in -them than at the No. 2 Ironton plant The latter furnace was run under un-der supervision of Columbia Steel officials, but remained the property prop-erty of the government. - Operational difficulties with the No. 2 Ironton furnace were experienced ex-perienced almost from the first. Trouble was encountered from "slipping" difficulties in the blast furnace, which resulted when the "charge" or furnace contents would "slip" or fall and cause explosions out the top valves. Blowing engines at the plant were obsolete, being the old steam cylinder type instead of modern turbines. Much of the No. 2 plant was new material, however, how-ever, particularly the pig-making machine, which was similar to the one installed at Geneva, and the sintering plant, which congeals fine, dust ore into chunks suitable suit-able for charging into the furnace Salt Lake Man Killed Near Soldier Summit SOLDIER SUMMIT, Utah, Feb 23 U.R John W. Noorda. Salt 'Lake City, was killed near here today when his automobile catapulted cata-pulted from the highway. He was Utah's 39th traffic victim this year. ' Charles McPhie, Wasatch county coun-ty sheriff, investigated the Occident Occi-dent and said Mr. Noorda evi dently was blinded by the sun as he traveled up over the ridge toward to-ward Roosevelt on highway 40. His car swerved to the left tide Of the road and into the borrow pit and Noorda, evidently trying , to regain tne jugnway, turned the wheel enough to turn the vehicle over completely. " : Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Allred, 1201 East Twenty-First South, Salt "City, and their daughter, were passengers in the car with a tailor tail-or identified as Illis Gardner, ; Neola. . All suffered minor cuts -and bruises and after being treated treat-ed at Roosevelt hospital were released re-leased to their homes, except for the little girl who was being kept for observation when it wa repealed re-pealed she had suffered two broken ribs and possible internal COMPUTE TJXEGRAFH Certain line line woma oe soia ouingni or liquidated and sold for salvage depending upon the decision oi Interstate commerce commission which recently completed a hearing hear-ing on the matter. r "It is my opinion that continued con-tinued operation of the road would be unfair to creditors as well as to the present users of the road and especially the passengers." Judge , Johnson said. "Unless shippers or employers or some philanthropist supplies money to operate the road, I intend in-tend within the week to issue, an order suspending operations on the first day of March and In structing the receiver to maintain the property with caretakers at the least -possible expense pend ing a decision of the Public serv Ice commission on the question of abandonment. Until March 1 Judge Johnson said he would authorize the receiver re-ceiver to continue operations with available funds. The Judge noted that the poor physical condition of the road and the fact that it was operating at .a deficit made its- continued operation unfair both to passengers and creditors of- the -corporation and that further fur-ther operation for any period of time would prove disasterous. Saturday'! hearing was held at the request of S. J. Quinney, receiver re-ceiver under Judge'Johnsonrwho asked the court's instruction since his accounts have revealed to him that current operation was at the expense of the corporation's assets and funds. On the witness stand Mr. Quin ney pointed out that at a previous hearing he had been instructed to confine the road's expenses to the amount of money received (Continued on Page Two) Boy, 15, Suffers Critical Wounds In Gun Accident Harold Glen Johnson, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Johnson, 155 East Second South street, was in fair condition con-dition at the Utah Valley hospital Saturday night, after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach with a .22 caliber rifle. The accident acci-dent occurred between 2 and 3 p. m, Saturday, and the boy was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent an operation. Physicians reported the bullet had gone clear through the boy, penetrating a bowel and causing an internal hemorrhage. - Young Johnson told his parents the gun went off accidentally in his own hands while pointed at his stomach. He was with a friend, Allan Carling, near the airport when it happened. The injured youth walked some distance dis-tance after the shooting, and then waited while his friend went the remainder of the distance to a telephone to summon aid. EISENHOWER TO OBSERVE BOMB TESTS LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 23 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's Elsenhow-er's recommendations for the size of America's peacetime army will be based on his own observations of atomic bomb tests in May, he said today. The army chief of staff is here on a tour of Southern California military posts and will insnect ri. AtacArtnur today. Steady Growth of Red A rmy Contrasted With Rapid Disintegration of U. S. Arrnecl fyjrcesv , By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 U.R Generalissimo Josef V. Stalin's boast that the Red army now- is at the height of its power was contrasted here tonight with the distintegration of the United States armed forces. Stalin broadcast an order of the day from Moscow commemorating commemor-ating the 28th anniversary of the Red army. He demanded rapid and continuous progress in advancement ad-vancement of the art of war. The Red army, he said, must guard the borders of the Soviet Union while war wounds are repaired. But his most significant state ment to some persons seemed to be this: "The Red . army is greeting . Its UNITED PRESS ' NEWS - SXBVICB Republiccins lnS.LMeet Peculiarly West cm ; ' Problems Treated In -12-Page S. L. Platform By MURRAY M. MOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 23 ue Western 'Republican leaders tonight adopted a 32 plank platform theyhope will brins a GOP victory in this fairs congressional elections. The platform primarily stressed a desire Tor less government - direction and more i A , private enterprise. The 50 GOP state chairmen, na tlonal committeemen and former convention- delegates, who have met here for the last two days, also' recommended that a permanent perm-anent western Republican headquarters head-quarters be established in Salt Lake City. The 12 planks dealt with problems that Resolutions Committee Chairman Lowell C Paget of Oregon - called "peculiarly western. A separate sep-arate list of eight resolutions endorsed the national stand taken by Republican congressmen con-gressmen and Insisted that "human rights must come first In dealing with national nation-al problems. The conference, in its general statements, asked that citizens be entitled - to court review of gov eminent directives sent out by bureaus, agencies and commls sions. It defended labor's right to organize but said in labor disputes dis-putes the "public interest - shall be regarded as supreme." Dispute On Reciprocity "We declare that the controlling control-ling leadership in the Democratic party by word and act has es poused a cause and a course, radi cal and un-American,? the resolutions reso-lutions added, "and . we : say the American people aje.'janUtled to a clear voice Between tne poim cat phoosophTwnjnrai tion and bur tried and true Amer icanism. Only dispute in 'adoption of the platform came when-Committeeman Dan Whetstone of Montana demanded a plank be inserted condemning reciprocal ' trade agreements. He was voted down after Author Clarence' Budding-ton Budding-ton Kelland, Arizona committeeman, committee-man, explained such a stand might "seriously affect the fortunes fort-unes of Republican candidates in other sections of the country.' Whetstone, Reilly Atkinson of Idaho and Don Johnson of Montana Mon-tana led a successful fight tor broadening a plank on housing to include opposition to government subsidies and a demand that gov ernment export of lumber and other building materials halt until un-til America's housing shortage is ended. The conference platform also: Urged the federal government to return much of its 386,600,533 acres of publicly owned lands over ov-er to individuals, particularly vet-( vet-( (Continued on Page Two) Pepper Opposed To Edwin Pauley CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (U.R) Sen. Claude Pepper (D., Fla.) said today to-day that the -senate should reject re-ject the nomination of Edwin W. Pauley for undersecretary of the navy. "If Mr. Pauley does not withdraw with-draw or the president does not recall his name," Pepper said, "Then, in my opinion, it , will be the painful duty of the senate to reject the nomination. Pepper said Pauley U "an able and honorable man,' but that his oil interests bar him from holding hold-ing a position concerned with the nation's oil reserves. Pepper disclosed his views on the Pauley case at a news conference. con-ference. Pepper said Pauley surely could not approach the question open-minded open-minded as to whether the tidewater tide-water oil lands should be federally feder-ally or state owned "because he already has decleared. . . .' They already has declared . . . They 28th anniversary at the height of us strengtn." . There is no reason to doubt Stalin's statement. But it is in startling contrast with the condition condi-tion of the United States armed force?. High officers have been warning for months that the demobilization de-mobilization speed-up, failure to adopt some form of peace time training, and delay in extending the selective service act combine to jeopardize our armed might The United States packed the world's greatest war time punch one year ago. Shortly after Germany Ger-many quit in May the disintegration disintegra-tion began. It was speeded up fantastically after Japan was licked. Officers high and low discuss. dis-cuss. this situation privately and some of them speak out in public. JPBOVO. ' i UTAH COUNTY Highest Award r 1! P' v v. (NEA Ttlephoto) Mrs. Caroline Krotiak sobs as she kisses Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously awarded award-ed her son at Chicago. Pvt. Krotiak died when he threw himself over exploding Jap grenade to save comrades of 37th Division on Luzon. Canada Files Report Of Red Spy Ring OTTAWA, Feb. 23 (U.R) The long awaited government report on the investigation of a ring of Russian espionage agents was issued is-sued today, but only stressed the "serious nature" of the information informa-tion the spies had gathered and indicated- that ramifications are still growing. The report- was released by Louis St., Laurent, justice mm- . " a A . m . t j later:, after conferencesthl (rv, alter comer ntonoTsfer'w: c TflacKenzie Kin. It said the "seridua nature" ! of" the espionage had been con firmed by "additional evidence." , It was an interim report. A complete one was promised later. It stated that 11 men end two woirien were in custody for questioning ques-tioning and additional persons may. be' arrested. The report was an indirect . answer to Russian claims that the Information gathered by the ring had been "obsolete. There was speculation that MacKenzie King might answer an-swer the Soviet char res further fur-ther with a statement over . the week-end. The . report also stressed the necessity for conducting the investigation in-vestigation In secret. More Evidence Due "A great deal of evidence is still to be placed before the commissioners com-missioners and the reasons for proceeding in camera become more apparent every day," the report said. It added that the inquiry was "proceeding as rapidly as possible, possi-ble, especially considering the difficult circumstances under which the work is being done." It said the royal commission had hoped to make a partial report as -soon as possible but that it now appeared this cannot come "less than two or three weeks from now." The report, six paragraphs long, was made in the form of -a letter from E. K. Williams, Gerald Fau-teuxand Fau-teuxand D. W. Mundell, counsel to the royal commission to St. Laurent. 4 OPA To Hold Price Line AfjainsMnflation WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (U.R OPA Chief Paul Porter promised tonight to hold the present price line ."until the tide of production has eliminated the threat of inflation." in-flation." In his first public appearance since ' he succeeded Chester Bowles, now economic stabilizer, Porter lashed at critics of price Here is what some of the top Harass has had to say within the past few months: General of the army George C Marshall In a"New York speech: "It Is certain that the military mili-tary establishment cannot . hope to ensure the . safety of. the United States very much longer at the present rate of demobilisation unless a perro-snanent perro-snanent peace time program is established at an early, : date. "In a widespread emotional crisis of the American people, demobilization has become, in effect, ef-fect, disintegration, not only of the armed forces but apparently (Continued oa Pago Two) ""iblocki "that smashed 'us-ifttoJsaid be would make it'?120,:with UTAH; . SUNDAY : FEBRUARY - 24 1946 JStrKieTlireafe FaceTransifls; U;S. UHIities Injunction Halts Crippling of Entire City of Houston, Tex.- By UNITED PRESS Strike threats faced trans it, utilities, and telephone industries today, and a shut down of municipal services at Houston, Tex., was narrowly averted as a labor leader at tacked government efforts to brine; peace on the production xront. At Houston, a district court awarded the city a temporary re straining order forbidding the picketing of city property, fore stalling an AFL building trades council threat to shut down wat er, gas, sewage and alarm ays terns.' The threat of a general munici pal strike, first set for last night and then for 8 ajn. today, .was made in support of a four-day walkout by 500 city workers. At a tempestuous meeting this morning, morn-ing, the city councU gave those already on strike until Monday to return to their vital jobs. Meanwhile, Texas state guardsmen were on hand to Intervene If the major strike materialised. As uncollected garbage piled up, Houston Mayor Otis Massey said that, if necessary, he and volunteers volun-teers would man the garbage trucks personally Monday. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the transport workers union (CIO) said a strike of New York City's 32,000 transit workers would be called at midnight Tuesday Tues-day unless the city begins negotiations nego-tiations with the union on a new contract. At Washington, AFL President William Green . denounced ' the house-s anctioned anti-strike measure as a "monstrous bUlL' which would- -cvtv':h ' - W . V Ma?k "rti" senate laaor committee -tr the bill "Violence committed; or instigated by - the employer t il nowhere mentioned or punished. A Detroit, negotiations in. the strike of the CIO United auto workers against General Motors Corp. were adjourned adjourn-ed until Monday as the union charged the company with deliberately delaying settlement settle-ment of the dispute. . Strikes and resultant shutdowns shut-downs kept 1,004,000 U. S. workers work-ers idle. The major developments: 1. Federal conciliators were asked by Conciliation Director Edgar L. Warren to meet with striking Detroit dairy workers and company representatives in Warren's office at Washington Monday unless the dispute was near settlement by then. The (Continued on Page Two) Pittsburg Plant Strikers to Meet PITTSBURG, Cal., Feb. 23 U.fi) Striking CIO steel workers at the Columbia Steel Co. plant, scheduled a mass meeting at 2 p. m. today to consider a proposal made by management officials. Officials of Local 1440 refused to discuss details of the proposal until it was presented to the membership, but there were indications indi-cations that union members were considering a return to their job. Approximately 2,600 steel 'Workers walked out Thursday night in a dispute over reassignment reassign-ment . of a charger in the open hearth department. control who "want to - pawn America's future for pot of paper' profits." ' He told the American Institute of banking . in an address that pressures against the present price line are terrific "We are face to face with, t critical dangers that Inflation . will destroy all we have and blast us Into a future of limit- ed markets, constricted earn-" earn-" inrs and needless poverty," , , Porter said. ."We can control Inflation. The record of the last two and a half years shows that, very clearly. From here on out it's going to be a tough job. But doing that job won't be nearly, as. rough on any of us as what we .will go through is we don't do it., -. Porter reviewed OPA wartime operations and answered charges that price control Interferes with production. . , "During the .war, with price control, production more than doubled, he said. "During World War I, with practically no price control, production rose only-25 per.; cent. Tonight, just five months after V-J Day, both employment em-ployment and production stand at record peacetime peaks. "The record of the stumbling In - Iiidlla amd Egypt Casualties in Bombay Riots Set at 263 Killed, 500 Injured; Cairo Students Ask British Get Troops Ojut Within Two Weeks By UNITED PRESS British authorities hurried new police and military reinforcements to Bombay Saturday as civilians rioted there for a third day, disrupting rail traffic at scattered points in the restless sub-contment of India, while in Cairo nationalist-minded students told the British to get. their troops out of Egypt's principal cities within two weeks or face new violence. Looting, burning crowds were out early again . in Yamashita Dies On Gallows For War Atrocities By WILLIAM C WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, Feb. 23 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita, ' once the Tiger of Malaya, died on a flood-' lit gallows before dawn . today with a prayer for Emperor Hiro-hito Hiro-hito on his lips. Stripped of his uniform and rank, the stocky general who. bullied . his ; way into Singapore was hanged in disgrace by his conquerors for atrocities his armies committed while losing the Philippines to the Americans in the final months of the war. Yamashita walked up the 13 steps to the gallows hidden by a canvas-walled stockade .at "J a. m. Only a -handful of official U. 8. army witnesses -watched ,bim swing at the I A ' . : A- . . . - - . a J moment before he ' died, 'Yamkshiti ?aid bleftihgs for his Cmptrpr and expressed hope that Japan will have peace. '"t wfll pray for the emperor's long life and his prosperity forever,'-the general muttered. His round face was stoical. ' Ytniashita . died in American khaki trousers and shirt. He wore a green fatigue cap. Lieut. Col. Seiichi Ohta, former commander of. the Kempei-Tai (military police) in the Philippines,, Philip-pines,, and Taguma Higashiji.-a civilian Interpreter convicted of atrocities, , were hanged a few minutes after Yamashita. Lieut Charles Rexroad of Cor-vallis, Cor-vallis, - Ore., the army's official hangman, pulled the trapdoor be neath Yamashita' feet, fit was understood that Rexroad received a S2Q0 bonus for the execution. He is eligible for discharge with 129 points, 'but had remained in the Philippines to hang- .Yamashita. .Yama-shita. , The execution was carried out In intense secrecy at Los Banos camp; near Manila. . Newspapermen Newspaper-men : and , photographers were forbidden to approach the - ,40-square-foot ? enclosure containing the . gallows, and the execution hour was not announced in ad- fvance., A wire fence 25 feet high surrounded sur-rounded the gallows, and' it was covered" with , a camouflage netting. net-ting. A heavy guard patrolled the area. " . . YamaahlCa was brought to the;Loa Banos detention een- i ter - last . night. A Japanese .' Continued on Page. Two) depression after- World ,War I show, pretty, clearly that during abnormal reconversion conditions, price, control actually aids production," pro-duction," Porter promised that .. OPA would remain a going concern, to safeguard against inflation. - fOPA' is not in receivership. ha said, "I have not assumed the , (Continued on Page Two) Vay Sought to Keep Occupation Army Overseas Yithout Extending Draft By DEAN W. DITTMER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Peb. 23 U.R) Members:' of the house military and , n a v a 1 -affairs committee searched tonight for a way to keep , an occupation - army over seas without extending tne irait beyond its scheduled May IS expiration.! ex-piration.! v - The trobiem was Drougnt to the front by Chairman Carl Vinson, Vin-son, - D GaV of -the house, naval ef fairs committee, who said he would Introduce a bill Monday to double. the pay of .occupation troops.--- .-. . ' - The base pay of privates over seas la now S60 a month. Vinson UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH Of SALT LAKE Hostility Bombay, attacking a bank, a post- office and a municipal building despite the plea of leaders of the All-India congress party for peace and an appeal by' Mohandas K. Ghandi for an end to the "thoughtless orgy of violence." Sympathy Strike-British Strike-British authorities set the casualties in the Bombay riots at 263 dead and 500 Injured, a total of 763. Indian estimates . ran higher. The Bombay demonstrations demonstra-tions began in sympathy for the strike of Indian crewmen of the Royal Indian Navy seeking better pay and speedy demobilization, but continued today despite the unconditional surrender of the strikers at Bombay,-where they had siezed warships and a barracks. bar-racks. A British communique said ' ' thai on the "whole the situation situa-tion at Bombay was Improving Improv-ing Saturday, and the surrender, sur-render, of the .strikers; who apparently had become . a symbol of Indians resentment , against British '.authority cased the situation, But there were demonstrations at frtheriMiaa-wtitlesrstfld the Indian assembly at New Delhi voted 74-40 " to censure the government" tot mishandling the dispute with" the Indian naval strikers. Leaders of the congress party, which has a large Hindu representation, and the Moslem league alleged that the outbreak came- from racial discrimination and India's failure to have a truly national' administration. Calcutta street car service was halted by a one-day sympathy strike of workers. A crowd set a train afire at a rail station in Dadar, Bombay suburb, and another an-other maltreated railway officials at Matunga on the same line. Calcutta dispatches said that demonstrators halted service on the East Indian railway near there by standing on the tracks. Bombay streets were littered litter-ed with garbage, rocks and . shattered glass, and few shops were open. A military patrol ' injured six rioters trying to set a Salvation Army building , fire. The British communique announcing an-nouncing the surrender of naval strikers said there was every indication in-dication that they were behaving in orderly fashion. Rear Adm. A. ' R. Rattray, commander of Royal Indian Navy forces at Bombay; assured the strikers that there would be no victimization. victimiza-tion. Negotiations ; for the surrender sur-render were handled by Vallabhai Pa tel, congress leader in Bombay, Demands of the Cairo students for a quick evacuation of British troops in Egypt came as authoritative authori-tative London quarters said that Britain protested to Premier Ismail . Sidky Pasha's - new government gov-ernment over last Thursday's anti-British; violence. These sources said Britain intimated that failure to prevent a recurrence recur-rence might delay negotiations on Anglo-Egyptian treaty revision. Egyptian nationalists protest that the treaty; signed in 1938, Infringes In-fringes upon Egyptian sovereignty. sovereign-ty. Meeting at Tuad' university, an estimated 10,000 Egyptian students stu-dents called a truce in rioting. A spokesman for the national com- jmittee.of students and workers (Continued on rage. Two) similar increases in other grades. He also would provide 30niay annual an-nual leaves for all overseas troops and free transportation abroad for their? families. i lie said his bill Is designed to make voluntary enlistment for army occupation duty . ;. attractive that the draft can ' be abandoned. this spring. ; r The senate military. affairs com-mlttee com-mlttee meanwhile prepared to reconsider re-consider legislation by Sen. Chap man W. Revercomb, R W." Va., to release Immediately .all drafted fathers. The committee la expected expect-ed to vote on the measure Tuesday, Tues-day, and despite war- department ..(Continued on Page Two) PRICE FIVE CENTS' Argentina I!& In Nine Years Democratic Candidate; . Stands Good Chanc H Election Is Fair ' . BUENOS AIRES. Fek ZZ iE Argentina's long-awaited long-awaited presidential election comes off tomorrow and a na- tionwide' poll "of 'newspaper correspondents forecast today, that Democratic Candidate Dr. Jose Tomborini could win all but three of the country's -14 provinces and the capital federal district," Which would give him a large majority of the electoral elec-toral college vote. . " The forecast was based -upon a fair election. - rirsf election Reports, from the -Interior in- , dicated that the political parties opposing Nationaiist-Laborite Candidate' CoL : Juan D, Peron, were much more confident since army and navy 'electoral., com manders" took over control of local police forces. The majority ' of these commanders, were, ef -fectively observing , impartiality. It was tald. Military leaders have . staked Ihe prestlge. of the- mxmr in giving the country ; a fair tleeUoftr--- - . . The newspaper; poll indicated. tht OftIV in th northern ni-ntftn- ces of. Saltan Jujuy and TucumaH was there an Indicated preference, i for perom The -three have dbeenv-Peron dbeenv-Peron strongholds; from the ut-" set but they have only.' 36 "of. the -37S 1 electoral college votes.- Peron would have to win them and both the Buenos Aires federal district and province ". which have 156 electoral votes,' to .get the 189 votes 'needed, for election. " ;i As the countrv tense! v awa!t its flrit presidential -elections in nine years, both sides predicted victory. A ' 24-hour period of political inactivity prior to the opening of the polls at 8 a. m.' tomorrow waa being observed. It is required, by electoral laws.. Tamborinl and Peron rested after delivering their final appeals ap-peals to the voters over the radio last night. Peron had a sore throat which compelled him to broadcast from his bed. ; ' y Red Army to Stay In Manchuria Says! Soviet Commandeif ! MUDKEN, Feb. 20 ttJJB Maj. Gen. Andrei Kovtoun-Stanke-vitch, commander of Soviet forces' In the, Mukden area, hinted today that' the Red army will remain In Manchuria as long as American 4 marihes.and soldiers are stationed In China. . , ; - A . i The Soviet general greeted , usone British and eight American Ameri-can correspondents when Wis were released today after 34 hours Internment by the Russians in Mukden's best hotel, the Yanv atO. ' -' ; i."-- r :r We were, given freedom, of the . city on Tuesday nd found it battered, . disease-ridden . and . poverty-stricken. . Asked , when' - the' Red army planned to evacuate the territory; . the general said, n I'm ordered by the Soviet' high- command to withdraw III do; it, but not be--fbre."' ; v ., So far. he said, there had been '' no word from, hlr superior regarding re-garding evacuation. Pressed further, fur-ther, and reminded of, the 'Soviet agreement to withdraw all troops by Eeb. 1, he snapped back; V Let. me , ask yous Uwhen - are Americana ;". going . .some uonx , China?" J ' , Kovtoun - Stankevltch' parried the Question as to who 'controls , Mukden. :' ; '.''ir -'a- . . : . "Chinese authorities look after Chinese matters and we aftef-. Soviet affairs, he said, and added; rrelauons-between the Chinese and us is excellent! , :- . : ,:c The 'Russians have taken over , the main square Central . Plaza. . They ' placed ? us under virtual, "hotel arrest? ; when we . arrived. in the city Sunday, - 7LJj than 15 per cent of JXik. den's former business It functioning. function-ing. Largest city- In Manchuria and once among the greatest industrial in-dustrial centers lit the Orient, its economy today is held together by; the -thin thread or gutter bazaars. All but a few of the. shops along the-main street are closed ' ' , ' ? . -' |