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Show TEMPERATURES CUUM Uu MlaSUttoa PARTLY CLOUDY Sunday. A few sprinkles extreme north portion. Warmer, with low temperatures Sunday moraine 30-40. Max Mia SI 3'8aa Fran. SS 47 It SS Les Angeles 7 4 54 HiLm Vegas $9 S3 t 4 Denver .... II 31 49 34 Cklrago ... 37 1 51 New York 4 J t lAUant . . 71 47 ilt Lake .. 0(4 .... BolM Btatt . FrtUad . . SeatU . . . VOL. 24, NO. 47 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, .UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Two Killed 28 Hurt In Succumbs Facsimile Foursome - s v' r VrecIc 5 i.--ry v f ' 1 Train .... r 6 Illinois Central's City of Miami Hits Faulty Real Switch "CHAMPAIGN, 111 ., April 9 (U.R) The City of Miami,, streamlined all-coach Illinois Central train carrying 220 passengers from Chicago to t Miami, struck a faulty switch and plunged from the tracks near here today in the nation's na-tion's eighth major railroad accident ac-cident in 16 days. , State police said two persons v were killed. Railroad officials! 1 said 28 persons were injured, of whom 12 required only first aid. -The dead were identified as Charles Red us, 70, Centralia. Hi., . the conductor, and C. N, Woods, Champaign, a baggageman. , Wnrlrnwn fntmri WonrfQ hnHv i pinned under the debris of the baggage car. They worked for two hours before they could free it. The engine and the baggage car of the crack train were overturned. The six passenger passeng-er cars were derailed but re-mained re-mained upright, criss-crossed on the tracks. At least 100 yards of track were forn up by the derailed train. Earl Taylor, an employe in the chief. Mr. Ross, who had been a f re-dispatcher's re-dispatcher's office here said sev-jquent visitor to Utah, was ad-eral ad-eral of the cars were '"pretty jmitted to the hospital three badly" damaged. weeks ago. He last visited Provo ...The train's engineer, R. P. Mc- in September. 1946 when leading Mullen, and fireman Tom Wood-! officials of U. S. Steel corpora-hall, corpora-hall, both of Chicago, were trap;- tion inspected the Geneva Steel ped in the engine cab for a short 1 plant and other Utah properties. 1 n. a TttAit 4rnm tho ' IU11C. ITCiC V 1 Will Lilt overturned locomotive and taken! l to a hospital. Road officials said; - their injuries apparently were not j serious. ! The Illinois Central was mak-! inz up a special train at Cham - rai en to take the uninjured pas - aengers to their destinations lat er, today, h .All ambulances in the city andJ . . . .. V 1 i the medical staff of a local clinic were rushed to the scene of the accident, which occurred at the entrance to the Illinois Centrat yards, 3'i miles north of Champaign, Cham-paign, which is 126 miles south of Chicago. S. F. Lynch, general manager man-ager of the railroad, said at Chicago that the hige diesel engine plumred from the tracks when it struck a faulty switch. Lynch said the train had slow ed down for the yard limits dIJU for that reason doubted there would be serious casualties. ; fornia. In 1932. he was appointed .every aepanmem in ine govern- -" He said he did not know wheth- vice president and general man- ent to get the truth out of them, areas, mostly war-boom regions ertoeSwitch had not been thrown ger of sales, in which capacity with reference to the budget." ; where housing conditions have properly, or whether there was a he served until his election to the t Jt before Mr. Truman s eased. There arc about 6d0 lent-mprhanirai lent-mprhanirai defect which forced presidency Sent. 1. 1939. statement was issued. Republican al areas in all. the train from the tracks w- He said the railroad's main line to the south probably would be blocked for the remainder of the day. Railroad officials hurried to the scene to investigate the accident. George M. Crowson assistant to , the president of the railroad, said the officials would attempt to T" wnj: ,tn,e s?v,tcf1 wa? ""'bia Coal mine and the Columbia ana wnv diock sienais aria omen safety measures had not operated '.. n,Hi""" vcu!Mr- Truman opposed ai to safeguard the train Wrecked Army Plane Sighted In Colorado 4WALSENBURG, Colo.. April 19 (OR) Four army airmen were believed to have been killed day when their twin-engined plane crashed in a remote moun .i tainous area 25 miles northeast oi ncre auring a sionn. j Ground crews were pushing towards the crash scene, sighted late this afternoon by air rescue squadrons, over roads made virtually vir-tually impassable by heavy rains. The C-45 crashed apparently appar-ently only a short time after the pilot had requested instrument in-strument instructions because of rain and . low-hanging clouds. Wreckage of the craft was sighted as a score of planes flew low over the rugged terrain in the concentrated search. It was unreported since contacting thc control tower at nearby Trinidad at 12:30 a.m. today. Based at Muroc Field in California, the plane was en route irom is.iriiana i Field, near Albuquerque, N. M., to Lowry Field, Denver. Lowry Field officers became alarmed when the plane failed to report there after the scheduled sched-uled 2:15 a.m. (MST) arrival tune, and a search was launched soon after sun-up by 10 planes based at Lowry Field, and a like number from Peterson Field, at Colorado Spring ' Lt. Richard Sykes, flying a C-47 Lowry-based plane, and Lt. l Col. Ralph B. Baird, Jr., Colorado I National Guard squadron com- ? Inlander, both sighted thc wreck-I wreck-I age at about the same time in J the remote Rattlesnake. Butte i j area, and notified ground-search- VMing crews of its whereabouts. 11 Sykes said the plane was "pretty V m badly demolished." WILLIAM A. ROSS William- A. Ross, Columbia Steel DpACIfloni HlOC I CdlUCIIIy VIC) ' William A. Ross, president .of l Columbia Steel company, west coast subsidiary of U. S. Steel i corporation -which formerly op-jerated op-jerated the coke ovens and blast I furnace at Ironton, died of a heart ; attack at 4:10 a. rn. Saturday at St. Luke s hospital in San Fran- , Cisco. I A native San Franciscan, Mr. Ross spent his entire business busi-ness life in the steel industry. He was born Dec. 8. 1878, and 1 started his business career as an 1 office boy in' 1895 for the old Washburn-Moen Manufacturing company, which shortly was c- quired by'the American Steel indf liri i T 1AI1 .1 Wire company. In 1911. the West" ! coast holdings of American Steel land Wire company became the 1 Pacific Coast department of United States Steel Products company, subsidiary of the U. S. Steel corporation. At this consolidation. con-solidation. Mr. Ross was appointed appoint-ed assistant treasurer. He held various executive positions with this company until 1930. When the old Columbia Steel : i i tt corporation "as acquired uy u. a. aieei. iwr. moss was appoinieo. vice president and treasurer ,f the i cii .,, uwv vuiuiliuia ijicci tuuivaiii , company, j with properties in Utah aad Call-j rties in Utah aad Cali - i - - - Mr. Ross was a member of the American Iroa and Steel Institute, the Pacific Union club, the Bohemian club, and the Family club of San Francisco. , , i In a letter to Republican of- ratings when rent control tunc- wv,H- He had come to Utah many : iciala and leaders throughout the tions are transferred from OPA erat,o by a I concerned at corn-times corn-times in the interest of Columbia country Reece l idiculed the j to Housing Expediter Frank 'Tu"!!y level to achieve lower Steel, which onerated the Colum- j: . r ... , buildine costs. ,. -j-,i City, in addition to the Ironton piani. inese properties were; taken over by Geneva Steel company. subsidiary S. Steel. Oct 1, 1946. Mr. Ross is survived by his; widow, Kathryn Ross, and a sis-, ter, Mrs. John Van Der Graft, of' Hollyburn, British Columbia. The! Ross Home is at 2911 Lake street,1 San Francisco. j Utah subsidiary of U.,..m,.,,leui uii j J funeral services will be Tues- day at 10:30 a' m' from the Rossl to-lhome. Interment will be private! j at Cypress Lawn cemetery. Merchants Heed Lower Price Plea NEWBURYPORT. Mass., April, 19 (U.R) Ninety per cent of the 'downtown merchants in this town of 15.000 responded to -President Truman's plea for lower prices today by announcing a 10 per cent reduction effective Monday. 1). S. Has Lost Momentum In Atomic Energy Since Hiroshima-Lilienthal WASHINGTON. Aoril 18 (UP) chairman David E. Lilienthal of the U S. Atomic Energy commission com-mission said tonight it is a "painful "pain-ful fact" thafysince Hiroshima this country has lost momentum in the" development of atomic energy. en-ergy. ' From the level of V-J Day."; Lilienthal said, "we have actually gone down hill, measured in such vital factors as scientific personnel, person-nel, depreciation of plants, intensity? in-tensity? of effort and in other important im-portant ways." He warned that other nations, including Russia, inevitably will learn in time "what we know today" to-day" about atomic energy. In his first public appearance since he was confirmed by the senate after a long, bitter fight, Lilienthal addressed the final Truman Sees First Surplus In 17 Years Renews Past Warnings That This Is Not The Time For Tax Cuts WASHINGTON, April 19 (U.R) President Truman predicted pre-dicted tonight that the government gov-ernment will wind up the current cur-rent fiscal year with a $1,-250,000,000 $1,-250,000,000 surplus, the first in 17 years. But he quickly renewed past; warnings that this is no time to ,cut taxes, despite the expected! isurplusr Instead, the public debt! jmust be reduced as much as pos sible now, while times are good, he said. ' The president's last previous ! official estimate on government operations for the present fiscal year, which ends on June 30, v;as made in January. At that time.i he forecast a deficit of $2,300,000,-1 000. He attributed the improvement! to two factors unexpected econ-; amies by the administration and' higher revenues than expected. "It is natural for taxpayers tol ZTV?' "Lr Mr.:; a a Mtimii omui a- a t iu vu lu now would promote inflation so that the benefit of any reduction would be largely dissipated. The president's statement drewsifvine anti-inflation campaign a quick retort from Chairman was. sel n mouon uy nousing r.x-Harold r.x-Harold Knutson, R., Minn., of the peditcr Frank R. Creedon. He ap-house ap-house ways and means committee. ' Pealed to the construction indus-"I'm indus-"I'm not aware of any econo-ltrv and the building trades to mies effected by this . dministra-! iin in reducing prices and costs tion that helDed build ud a 'sur- so thc public can get the houses plus during this fiscal year. Knutson said. "The surplus is due entirely ; "price themselves out of thc cent rise in the month between to increased tax 1 eipts in market." Ireb. 15 and March 15. But BLS revenue thanks ' to wartime tax' Creedon s appeal bore out pre-; f !gures shwed that food prices rates. dictions by a sVurce close to thclsin9ce J?ave .roPPed. , "Regardless of the president's White House that housing would 2 Manv Washington coal deal-feelines. deal-feelines. congress will Dass taxihn thp npvt laropt i reduction legislation and if he wants to veto it, he will have to answer for it to the people next year. Chairman Johu.Taber, R., N.Y., m . m . . . - . , of the house. appropriations com mittee refused to give the presi dent credit for any surplus, which i Taber said "probably will be as! much .as $1,000,000,000." 1 He said Mr. Truman wanted to! spend $5,000,000,000 more in the, last half of the fiscal year than he1 did in the first. "But we immediately began to work on that situation." Taber isaid- !'We have screened all ap- I nronriations verv rarfmillv and : , ' ' : - . . " . savings nave been ertected wnicir . " " ... .... ... i a. : i : ii are eoina 10 uaiance ine DuaEei..iu--i wuum uu usutu m i we nve nao to iignt wun.iwu to mite wetus. mey aaiu ;.aiioiiai nairinan v,arroii neecci ine decontrol order win mean issued one of his own suggesting the disposal of some 800 OPA I that th chipf PVPClltlVP i! nlan- nmnlm oc ttv wucnuc nf Ofrrnmi ining to veto GOP tax reduction As another economy move, it wasicon""i protest aay. this year in order to reap the learned that OPA officials would1 Producers council, Inc.. political benefit of a tax cut -on ask rent control employes to take national organization of manu-i manu-i the eve of the 1948 election. ' a one-grade reduction in job : torturers of building materials I SD-erh two weeks atro in which " t ---- - , opposed any tax re- rilltinri nn. wP(t.e aid ;..,k..;,c - i .k- r tne aaareyi was Vina u lain pwavivwi i inMt . Meanwhile, Scott Lucas, D., 111.. (Continued on Page Two) Vet Jumps Off Bridge to Get a Br BORUFF SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent sain KAi;i5t,u, April lit (U.R) Frank H (Chief) Cushing. 42 - year - old navy hero who jumped from the 238-foot Golden Gate bridge to publicize his thrill show, rested his "aching back" in his hntl rnnm tnHav nnH fffM-H to do it agajn or ariyone who thinks the leap was a phony. Informed that "certain parties'" were airing it around town that his publicity leap merely consisted con-sisted of a cold swim in the morning, the veteran stunt man session of the 25th convention of the American society of newspaper newspap-er editors. Approximately 300 top editorial editor-ial executives from all parts of the country heard him warn that "a major effort is called for" to get the nation's atomic effort back where it belongs Lilienthal spoke after the iety had elected N. R. Howard.' editor of the Cleveland News, as president. It also adopted a resolution reso-lution urging the United States, in tne absence or action by the:u x.- j D ' fc,:j Nations to negotiate free prcs guarantees vwith individual tloJ?' L. ine A&Wi. pledged ltsell ' to i pursue with full vigor its efforts to promote peace through attainment attain-ment of a free flow of informa-(Continued informa-(Continued on Page Two) Mary Flurshutz . right, deputy clerk-of Alameda County, Calif, was worried about her eyesight when two sets of identical twins appealed, seeking marriage licenses. The facsimile foursome is, left to right, Frank Britschgi and fiancee. Margaret Schenk; Adelaide Schenk and her fiance, Arnold Bntschgi. Schenk sisters live in Los Angeles, the Britschgi brothers in Oakland. Government Opens Drive For Lower Housing Construction Prices To Fight Inflation bv EULALIE McTJOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, April 19 u.r- i The government tonight opened j a drive to cut housing prices, j The newest phase of its inten- " it needs. Otherw ise, he warned, they will;P"ices led the way with a four per stration's campaign for lower prices. This source also said the I administration will appeal to construction industry leaders at Rent Control To Be Lifted f , , Ifl jrfllfi? B 11 "l,VJ WASHINGTON. Amil 19 (U.R) 1 The OPA planned today to lift rent control soon from areas in oi clatoc OPA sources said the decontrol! from i . , . , - m making 'th transfer u .vnMrrf1 roon. Congress has ordered OPA t reach ' a rock-bottom basis im- i.i.. 1 . ,.i .... ..i k., t.. -jo tk rimiJ',0,i!:, ujr vunc -v . i i h.t aunuiiMti a uvu I plans to liquidate the agency I within the next few weeks Golden Gate Gl Loan I snorted inrliir-iantlv: "If any- I body wants to put up some dough i ll do it again, easy now." he said. "It's He said the fact that emergency i ahead with new housing constiuc-hospital constiuc-hospital physicians were unable tiotj and has caused others to to find any "signs of injury or 'scale down their operations be-submersion" be-submersion" had an obvious ex- cause of the uncertainty that has planation. 'arisen over their ability' to sell "The rubber padding and ' lne houses once ' they are com- eauinmenl I wnrp nrpvpntcd anv lpleted." injury," he declared. "After all: this sort of thing is my business." ne auutfu uiai any signs oi sua- " j.vuov. .. itwiai mersion he might have shown ! there." were erased during the "couple! He said the supply of building of hours" he spent wrapped in j materials now is much better, blankets and warming up at ; with a number of items now coast guard headquarters before , equally demand. Furthermore, he going to the hospital for the ' said, home builders are protected once-over. against a drain of needed sup- -Cushing, a former chief elec- pHes by the order limiting non-trician's non-trician's mate in the navy who ! residential construction: only last wee"k was decorated1 with the navy and marine corps medal at 12th Naval District ; headquarters here, was fished ; from the cold, choppy waters of ! the Golden Gate at dawn by a fishing boat. At coast guard headquarters h explained the act. He said he had : so-ib.een unab,e l gea G h loan tc!'warti 'the crossroads, UN diplo-' luiaiiui mn mi in unuo onv. uiougnt a little publicity wouia helD. The lean from the cate help. The leap from the gate span, he said, was just a practice "Brodie" for a later jump from Hc sai ne formerly a na-,partner of Ray Woods, another i professional stunt man. who was critical lv ininrH in n Imti from a the Bay bridge in 1939. Woods, wha was crippled in his leap, was killed April 10, 1942 in a fall (Continued on Pag Two) 7 5 1 a series of private meetings to begin soon. President Truman last week warned industry in general that it must cut prices or labor will be justified in asking for wage increases. There were these other devel opments In the price and housing situation: 1 The bureau of labor statis tics reported that retail prices of Cost-of-living items jumped to an all-time high on March 15. Food by 50 cents to $1 a ton. They ex plained that the cut was a seasonal sea-sonal one to . encourage , spring buying. V ' 3 More Washington -departs rhent stores fell in line with a pledge to, support Mr. Truman's campaign for lower prices. One chain food store (Safeway) said in newspaper advertisements that it aimed to reduce food prices where it could do so. The White House said yesterday that -the president had received encouiag- ing response from all . over the country to his camnaiun j 4 The OPA planned . to lift j rent controls from areas in 23 states soon perhaps in two or three weeks. The order will affect about 50 rental areas, mostly war- boom regions where housing conditions con-ditions have cased. The National Home & Property Owners Foundation Foun-dation charged that "powerful radical groups under the leadership leader-ship of Henry Wallace and Fio-rello Fio-rello LaGuardia are organizing to perpetuate rent control." It proclaimed April 28 as 'rent Credon, in his appeal for low er housing prices, said the one .million home goal year is in jeopardy. set for this He said .that ; while 270,000 housing units were completed during the first nuar- ; . . , 2 W iY"'u"? "'"i"' ' i 84.000 during the same period last year, there has been a drop from 86,000 to 59,000 in the number of houses started. "The unsatisfactory situation on housing starts," he said, "probably "prob-ably results from today's price levels. There has developed a reluctance re-luctance on the part of some people peo-ple who need and want homes to buy .or build at present prices That, in turn, has discouraged many home builders from going Creedon said there is no need for such a state of affairs in -7' Palestine Crisis To Test the LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April' 19 (U.R) The Palestine crisis is pushing the United Nations i . when lhe UN general assem bly convenes for an emergency session eight days from now, the future of the still wobbly world organization as a vital factor in!8tep toward resolving the testing world affairs will be at stake "Palestine may not break the UN." an American official re- marked, "but you can be sure that failure will hurt and success will mean the UN can handle almost al-most anything." Stricken Town In Texas Pauses For Community Funeral By ROBERT E. BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 19 (U.R) Rehabilitation workers Und those whose grim task it was to hunt out the bodies of Texas City's dead paused tonight with survivors of the holocaust to bow in simple memorial services. Meanwhile, Dr. B. I. Burns, medical director of John Sealy hospital at Galveston, said that i gas gangrene infection was under I control. He said no new -patients had been placed on the infection suspect list since midnight Thursday. Thurs-day. Four persons had undergone Surgery to halt spread of the infection. in-fection. The search for dead continued to be centered around the Mon- santo plant ruins. Positive identification identi-fication of many of the victims .there- waa .considered impossible although technicians of the Texas depai'tment.-of public safety and civilian laboratory experts were at work with an array of scientific scien-tific gadgets', including a. portable jc-ray unit. Dr. Paul Harris, director of the recovery and cleanup crews, said it might be another week before . i u ' i i i . : . . . i a it ",e Liews tu"'u "t i. I huma" wreckage had been re cov- ered from the mass of rubble and .... : .... r. t nuj nuc, ussisictm iu vu. a flat "no comment However Homer Garrison director of the",,, optimism was ill-concealed! state department of public safety, Te roortpd till remain- sum luiinji'i iiiai a ciute iiicv.ii if (Continued on Page Two) : j . : . . t . i . . l . Hope Disappears For Agreement On Austrian Treaty MOSCOW, April 19 (U.Uopecd00lerke for a Big Four agreement on an Austrian peace treaty at this session of the foreign ministers council virtually disappeared tonight to-night when Soviet Foreign Minister Min-ister Molotov announced that Russia " supported Yugoslavia's territorial and reparations claims. British Foreign Minister Ern est Bevin, revealing more secret minutes .of the Potsdam conference, confer-ence, charged that Russia's' support sup-port of Yugoslavia was a violation viola-tion o.f Premier Josef Stalin's renunciation re-nunciation of any Austrian reparations rep-arations there. The U. S.. Britain and France opposed Yugoslavia's claims and the issue was sent back to the ministers' deputies for further study and a report Monday. Then the ministers, closing their 'sixth week of negotiations, agreed to hold two meetings Sunday the first Sunday sessions here amid indications that the Moscow Mos-cow conference may break up during the coming week. (A Radio Moscow broadcast heard in London said that Stalin today received Vice Premier Edward Ed-ward Kardelj of Yugoslavia, who had been called to Moscow to present pre-sent Yugoslavia's view on the Austrian treaty.) Bevih quoted from secret minutes min-utes of the Potsdam conference to support his contention that the Big Three not only renounced reparations from -Austria for themselves at Potsdam but also for all other countries and specifically speci-fically for Yugoslavia. A British spokesman agreed. "It certainly looks like the cross- to-iroads." he commented. The two. major questions raised ipy ine impending atari ui me UN's search for a Palestine solu tion are these: 1. Will the "world parliament" be able to agree on even a first ano lar-reacning issues invoiveo in the future status of the Holy Land? 2. Will the nations and the people peo-ple concerned chiefly the Brit-ish, Brit-ish, the Jews, the Arabs and the Americans accept - and put Into U. S. Steel, CIO On Verge Of ' Wage Accord Tentative Steel Wage Settlement Believed Based On lV2 Cent Flat Wage Increase, Plus Indirect Economic Concessions By J. ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent - PITTSURGH, April 19 (U.R) U. S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steelworkers were on the versre of a 1947 wasre settlement tonight. Barring last-minute disagreement on "fringe" provisions, provis-ions, the terms were expected to be announced Monday, following fol-lowing a meeting of the union's general wage policy committee. com-mittee. Negotiators of the union and "Big Steel" were sum moned to an unscheduled conference confer-ence today to "iron out' details of the new contract. .Developments in the negotia-; viio m vUKajfc a oiiai UfJlUi II 1 1 ! the New York stock market. U. ' S. Steel jumped two points. The' gains extended to automobile issues is-sues and rails. j General CIO Counsel Lee A.! Pressman was reported drafting i the formal language of those por- tions of the contract upon which agreement already has been; reached. The tentative steel settlement settle-ment was believed based on the lPi centswan hour flat wage Increase granted by electric and rubber firms, plus indirect economic concessions. con-cessions. CIO President Philip Murray and U. S. Steel Vice-President John A. Stephens met in secret conference yesterday. This con- ference resulted in the cancella- tion of a union executive board meeting this morning and a hurried hur-ried call for, a full negotiating session. A U. S.-Steel-USW agreement would cover 175,000 workers. But In the past, 1'Big Steel's" commitments commit-ments have set the pattern for the 850,000 workers of the indus try. Further, a steel agreement will' tend to hasten settlement of wage ! issues in other mass production j industries dominated by the CIO. Both company and union! spokesmen answered all questions! concerning the negotiations with i r In was the extent of the "fringe" increases to be piled on top of In confirming receipt of the the flat wage increase, or adjust- (NFTW's statement, the White ment of the flat increase in lieu "01156 said there had been no of these concessions. , change in its position. Westinghouse Electric Corp.! Beirne told Mr. Truman that yesterday granted the CIO Unit-(the labor department has been ed Electric Workers an 11 2 tentiriding "tne company's arbitra-an arbitra-an hour increase plus six holidays)110" horse ln ts, thus far rut-a rut-a year the equivalent of an ad- less efforts to end the walkout, ditional SVi certts. General Mot- Subsequently, he told reporters ors Corp. made the same offer to i that he had called on the 35 UAW President Walter P. Reuth er rejected it as "unsatisfactory," but said he wanted to study how it was. "packaged." The steel industry is strongly opposed to the six holidays feature of the electrical elec-trical agreements. Industry sources pointed out that assembly as-sembly of electrical equipment equip-ment Is not a continuous process pro-cess steel making is. What form the union's ifringe demands have taken was undisclosed. undis-closed. However, figuring in any wage settlement will be the job reclassification agreement reached reach-ed btween the union and U. S. Steel, last January, which resulted result-ed in the equivalent of a ll-s cent an hour increase to a large per-centageof per-centageof the corporation's employes. em-ployes. King's Condition Stays Unchanged COPENHAGEN, Denmark April 19 (U.R) A palace bulletin tonight reported that the condi tion of King Christian, near death I since he was stricken by a heart BY EDWARD V. ROBERTS attack Eastern Sunday, remained United Press Staff Correspondent unchanged. OSLO, Norway, April 19. (U.R) The royal physician's bulletin, Henry Wallace charged tonight said the 76-year-old monarch doz- that Winston Churchill's conser-ed conser-ed most of the day but his appe- vative leader in Britain, "dare tite was improved.- jnot confess publicly the private The report said the king s tern-j perature was near 102 degrees, pulse 88 and respiration 48. United Nations force Whatever recommendation the. UN makes? A negative answer to either! question, it was believed in the UN, would be disastrous to the UN's future. None of the tests vet enccmn-!is tered by the assembly, the secur ity or the UN's smaller agencies has packed the dynamite and consequences con-sequences of- the Holy Land prob lem. Officials who will play ma-' jor pans in ine assembly s debate on Palestine at the forthcoming special session, and later at the 1947 assembly meeting' in September, Sep-tember, have not concealed their anxiety. Phone Strikers Put Case In Truman7s Lap WASHINGTON, April 19 U.f -Striking telephone workers put their case in President Truman's lap tonight and called on the gov- ernment "to put pressure on the company for wage increases. The union did not directly appeal ap-peal for White House intervention interven-tion to end the 13-day walkout which has curtailed telephone service from coast to coast. 1 But President Joseph Beirne of the National Federation of Tele- ;Phpne Workers told reporters: creases in other industries, I be- In view of the recent wage ln-lieve ln-lieve it is time for the government govern-ment to put pressure on the company." com-pany." In a nine-page statement of the union's case, Beirne told Mr. Truman that the labor department depart-ment in its efforts to end the strike has been following the company line. His statement, delivered to the White House, apparently set the stage for presidential intervention if new behind-the-scenes efforts of the labor department fail to settle the strike. The White House has stead- Justly insisted that settlement of julc wamuui, hi which ine union csti.mates.. 335.000 .workers are Participating, is strictly in labor department hands. siriKing ninv anuiates to intensify" in-tensify" their local negotiations. He speculated- that recent wage increases in other industries might influence the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to make a wage offer. To Mr. Truman he repeated the union's insistence that the wage issue is paramount. He said that the union must have some initial wage offer from the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and its affiliated Bell System .companies before it can accept arbitration. Beirne said 2,500,000 workers have received second-round wage increases of $3 to $14 a week since the latter part of J946. He listed as examples the agreements this week by General Motors Corp. and Westinghouse to give the United Electrical Workers (CIO) a $6 weekly wage boost. Wallace Charges Americans Denied Full Information conviction of his group that war is inevitable." Wallace spoke before a group of 1,000 government officials and labor leaders after af-ter lunching at a mountain-top mountain-top villa with representatives of all parties in the Norwegian Norwe-gian parliament. "It is a source of sorrow that (Britain's great fighting leaqer cannot use his genius. in fighting ifor peace,' Wallace said. "Peace an active and positive cause demanding all resources of every human who does not want his sons slaughtered. It is a fighting cause. "Sooner or later all Nordic races will reach maturity end conclude that war is a characteristic character-istic of childish minds," Wallace said later before 2,000 students who gathered . to hear him after (Continued en page two) t J |