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Show Sunday, April 20, 1947 First Government In 17 Years Predicted ' (Continued from Pate One) was getting set for an assault in -congress on the GOP tax reduc tion bill passed recently by the souse. Lucas said be would offer on 'Mondav a mihatlrute' for- the Re- . publican measure cutting the per sonal income levies ot most tax ' navers bv 20 oer cent. Enactment of this "political tax bill," Lucas said, "would be a 'major victory for the greedy and a decisive defeat lor the needy." The house measure has yet to be considered by the senate. -Lucas said his substitute proposal, recognizing the "priority low income in-come taxpayers must have in a ' tax bill," would: 1. Increase the personal exemption exemp-tion for dependents from $500 to $600. This would remove 3,200,000 persons from the tax rolls. - 2. Make universal the income splitting for tax purposes now . permitted between husband and wife in nine stales. 3. Reduce the surtax two per rentage Doints in all brackets. Mr. Truman said part of the increased government revenues came from "the extraordinary high ley els of economic activity that have been achieved." But he added that, to his regret, part also was due to the sharp increase in prices since the removal re-moval of controls. This has inflated the entire economic structure," Mr. Truman said, "and it currently is resulting in very sharply-increased cor rtnrate nrofits." Mr. Truman said that it "now is ctimatcd that exnenditures will amount to about $41,250,000,000 for the present fiscal year. This i 1250.000.000 less than was timated last January. Rrints are exDected to reach a? snn nnn.ooo. an increase of $2,300,000,000 over the January estimate. Tt, xhiaf onvrnmpnt econ miH Mr. Truman said, have! v.iw', , been in the war and navy departments depart-ments and in public works expenditures. ex-penditures. COMMUNISTS ASKED TO RELEASE AMERICANS i bert Soule, U. S. military attache, sent a message toaay to an nau, ; Chinese Communist commander ; in Manchuria, requesting the im-i im-i rHiatP release of Mai. Robert BiKtrs and Capt. John Collins, American officers captured by the Communists March 1. Every Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning PubUsbad by the Herald Corpora tion. SO South first Wast Street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second class matter at the poe toffies in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county. $1.00 the month. $6.00 for six months, in advance. $12.00 the year in advance; by mail anywhere In the United States or its possessions, posses-sions, $1.00 the month: $8.00 for six months; $12.00 the year la advance. HAVE YOU TRIED STARTUP'S RICH ICE CREAM IT IS BETTER Take Home a Quart , Today STARTUP'S Across from Provo High STARTUP at fc.i-noS Surplus DATE RENDEZVOUS Startup's Make Richer Ice Cream -63c Qt llamas A tfiSAIB 'IT SUNDAY HERALD Vet Jumps Off Golden Gate (Continued on page two) from a skiff while fishing near Jacksonville, Fla. Only one other' person has eve survived a lean from the Gate bridge. She was Cornelia Van Ireland, who . recovered from critical injuries incurred when she attempted suicide Sept. 3, 1941: Cushing was dressed for the occasion when he stepped off the railing of the bridge at 4 a.m. today. He wore a crash helmet, three pairs of slacks over sponge rubber knee pads and a woman's girdle over a spinal pad of sponge rubber. Around his waist he wore a 30-foot coil of rope. He also carried a flashlight, a Mae West life preserver and an inflatable in-flatable one-man life raft. Shortly before 4 a.m. he drove out onto the bridge in his bright painted van. With him were his wife, Marjbrie, 27-year-old aer-ialist, aer-ialist, his partner, John (Ace) Southerland, '30, and the Cush-ings' Cush-ings' two children, Frank, Jr., 2, and Marjorie, 4, who were asleep in the van. The stunt man wasted no time. He took a took down, kissed his wife good by and jumped off backwards, feet first. Six seconds later he hit the water. "I saw about a million stars when I hit the water," he later told the United Press. "1 blacked out for a few seconds and when I came to I was on the surface. The force of hitting the water had ripped off my. crash helmet and one pair of slacks." He said he inflated his raft and climbed aboard to wait for rescue. res-cue. "The tide was just reaching low when I went in," he said. "I drifted out almost to the ocean and then the tide changed and I started drifting back in. About two hours later' the guy in the boat' came along." Cushing said he had no trouble with wind currents during his 238-foot plunge. "It's easy to keep your feet down when you know how," he explained. "This was nothing. I set a world's record for a delayed de-layed parachute jump at Redondo Beach, Cal., in 1935. That time I dropped 13,000 feet in a free fall before I pulled the coard." Cushing's specialty in his thrill show is a high-diving act in which he leaps 125 feet into a five-foot tank of water. Twelfth Naval District head quarters said Cushing was decorated dec-orated April 11 for "exceptional heroism in saving the life of a shipmate in a burning magazine" after a Kamikaze attack on ine destroyer USS Zellars off Okinawa. Ok-inawa. Factions Split Greek Guerillas ATHENS, Greece, April 19 (U.R) Communist sources said today that disagreement had broken out within their party and had be-cbme be-cbme so serious that it imperilled the guerrillas more than did the Greek army's 60,000-man offensive. offen-sive. The basis of the agreement, these sources said, was a burgeoning bur-geoning of patriotism is some Communists, including "Gen. Markos" Vafiades, leader of the guerrillas. This group, calling themselves the "Nationalist Communists," Com-munists," refuse to consider a "Greater South Slavia" plan, under un-der which parts of Greece would be handed over to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. TWO MILLION IMMUNIZED AGAINST SMALLPOX IN N. Y. NEW YORK (U.g) Two million New Yorkers have been immunized immuniz-ed against smallpox since the vaccination vac-cination campaign began last week. The health department said 500,000 were vaccinated yesterday alone. or ENDUP . . Provo tMl" FOE Wheeler Named Special Counsel In Oil Inquiry BY LEE NICHOLS United Press Staff Correspondent .WASHINGTON, April 19 U. Former Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana today accepted a position po-sition as special counsel .to a senate committee investigating naval oil purchases in the Middle East. - Wheeler told reporters that he has examined committee evidence evi-dence regarding charges that the navy is paying excess prices for Mideast oil, and is determined to "stick with the investigation" until un-til its completion.. He declined to discuss specific phases of the inquiry launched by the senate war investigating committee, but said that a vast amount of information regarding government oil transactions is being accumulated. , Wheeler, who first rose to national na-tional prominence in the Teapot Dome oil investigation following World War I, has been acting as a temporary consultant to the com mittee. His action today placed him in charge of all phases of the petroleum industry. Meanwhile, the committee studied stu-died reports that the navy rejected, reject-ed, a cut-rate offer of Arabian oil in 1941 on grounds of interior quality, while at the same time it was purchasing oil of similar quality from the same area. Chairman Owen Brewster, k Me., told reporters the information informa-tion he received on his recent visit to Cairo, Egypt, contained "nothing to contradict" charges that the Navy is paying excess nrices for mideast oil. He said production costs of Arabian oil are "even less than 1 had figured." ' Oilman James A. Moffett has charged that the Arabian-Ameri can Oil company reaped close to $50,000,000 In extra profits through the Navy's failure to accept ac-cept his cut-rate offer in 1941. This, the Navy strongly denied. Moffett claimed to have made the offer in behalf of the Stand ard Oil company of California and the Texas Oil company, joint owners of the Arabian-American Oil company. The committee believes missing Navy documents will show that the late secretary of the Navy Frank Knox turned down Mof-fett's Mof-fett's offer on grounds the qual ity of the oil was- too low for Navy needs at the time. Later, according to Navy state ments, the quality improved and it contracted to buy oil from the Arabian-American company in 1944. Documents available to the committee showed the Navy had been buying oil from the same general oil "pool" in the middle east for as long as a year before Moffett's offer was rejected. Committee sources said they believed the evidence would show the quality of oil from the two sources was about the same. U.S. Has Lost Momentum Ip Atomic Energy (Continued from Page One) tion and opinion among nations." Warren R. Austin, U. S. delegate dele-gate to the United Nations, told the editors earlier that the UN is the world's one hope for peace. And Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, told them that democracy has entered the era of its greastest trust and "it is up to us to make it work." ! Lilienthal said the atomic energy en-ergy committee has "initiated steps" to regain ground lost since jV-J Day. I "Nothing less than a major ef-i ef-i fort is called for, a program un-der un-der a full head of steam, carried forward jointly by American 'science, industry, the forces and the ovmment" ik.i- a tYiT ZZ i j .l u ammonium nitrate which hurled Lilienthal said the press has re-,pece8 of the sh, four mile8 sponsibility for conveying to thej American people and interpret-! ing for them the facts on which; k i . C a.! T to base major decisions about atomic energy mat win "nave a ... ...... deep and all-important effect . . on the very preservation of civilized civil-ized life." i He said the U. S. proposal to the United Nations for international interna-tional atomic control must become be-come widely understood. "The physical facts that make the safeguards in that proposal a protection to the American peo pie must be understood, ne said. I members, with their husbands,' "There are scientific and tech-;are invited. Members also have nical facts that make anything' the privilege of bringing guests if less than those controls and safe-lthev wish tn Hn 'guards no protection to us ax an. I These too must also be widely known. IS 9 o w Airi IPAY! Around the World LONDON. April 19 (U. The American Liberty ship Robert H. Harrison reported by radio to day that she was out of danger after losing her propeuor yester day 300 miles west of Eire. Two British tugs were going to her aid. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France,! (U.PJ Three men were killed when a French army observation: plane crashed near here yester day. LONDON,luR The 32.700 ton British battleship War-spite War-spite was towed from Portsmouth Ports-mouth today by two tugboats which will pull her 600 miles to the River Clyde, where she will be scrapped. TOKYO (U.R) The home minis try estimated today that about 1,600 persons would run for the 466 seats in the Japanese house of representatives, in the April 25th election. TOKYO (U.R) Emperor Hiro- hiWs estate, reduced about 90 per cent by the war property tax, now is worth only about $8,000,- 000 at the current rate of ex change, The Tokyo . Times reported re-ported today. NUERNBERG (U.R) Friedrich Flick and five former assistants in a giant European steel and iron Stricken Town In Texas Pauses For Community Funeral (Continued lrom page one) vealed that 380 bodies had been recovered so far. 264 in Texas City gymnauium. 27 being embalmed in McGar's garage. 54 either at local funeral homes or buried. 10 at Houston mortuaries. 25 in Galveston mortuaries. The services were held at 6 p.m. in the high school stadium of this boom town which never had a cemetery until death and destruction hit it in a series of thunderous blasts last Wednesday. A college a cappella choir and a quartet from the Pan-American Refinery sang some, of the old hymns. It wasn't a long service. There wasn't much time, for bodies still remained in the tangled tan-gled waterfront ruins and in the water of the wharf section where the French freighter Grand Camp exploded .to set off the chain of death. Through the day, grotesquely clad workers in gas masks and heavy gloves probed through the wreckage of the Monsanto Chem ical Company styrene plant and along the waterfront area. Then the trucks began to roll, one after another, to the central morgue and embalmers returned to work. So rapidly did the trucks appear that observers soon lost count. The first ones unloaded about a dozen bodies each. Other workers rowed slowly slow-ly through the oily water of the wharf area. Every once in a while they stopped, fasten-ed fasten-ed a line to a body and then f rowed it ashore. Already the funerals were go- ing on, while at Galveston, across the bay, a coast guard board of inquiry pushed its investigation of the disaster, to determine whether there was any criminal negligence on the part of licensed marine personnel involved. .The board learned in the first phase of its inquiry that the Grand Camp was carrying 16 cas es of small arms ammunition. But it Ja rvkinfAH 4K W .m.ii ...!., i.i . "U F"' . V VVSI Midi II JSa l armedjMIIi,i jjj ,, ,u - Lil-iil". 1. IZ. oi wie imuai explosion oi, ... . .'tM?'tmA A IV1 US II. jet.MOn IO f . sponsor session The music section of the Provo Women's council will be hostesses at an open session Thursday at 8 p. m. in the Women's clubhouse. The Women's council chorus will be the feature of the evening with members of the writers and art ista aertinn a Ian nnrtirlnntln All VETERAN KILLED BY COLLAPSING BUILDING GLASGOW, Mont., April 19 1 (U.R) Funeral services will be! held at Circle for Joe Skorno-i goski, 30, Circle World War Hi veteran killed late yesterday; when he was pinned under a: collapsed barracks building at the; Glasgow airbase. i 2-Yr. Field Guaranteed to SHADE TREES Norway Maple Silver Maple Chinese Elm Drive Out and Select Your Evergreens in the Field WILDWOOD HOLLOW FARM NURSERY LAKEVIEW PHONE 011R1 CALIE HALES combine pleaded innocent before an American military tribunal today to-day to charges of helping put Adolf Hitler in power and profiteering prof-iteering from his victories. The six defendants are the first of lerjteveral groups of German Indus-Tflalists Indus-Tflalists to face trial. CENHAGEN(UJ5) King Christian remained near death to- day after gradually losing ground; for several days. A bulletin this morning said "his majesty slept rather well. His condition is changed." The 76-year-old king BUUVltu sjt iaa nMva jw aTAVaAv s naan e ire r nw n.siKTsir 1 and complications developed. LONDON loR) Quadruplets Quadrup-lets two boys and two girls ware born today to Mrs.. Marion Lowe, 28, at Hope hospital in the Lancashire Lanca-shire town ef Salford. The babies were put in special oxygen tents. WASHINGTON (UJUThe army has ruled, effective May 1, that parcels may be sent overseas army post offices as frequently as desired. Effective the same date, it no longer will be necessary to present a written request from the addressed. WASHINGTON (U.R) The army announced today that 57 new national na-tional guard units have been recognized, rec-ognized, bringing the total to 1,650. Wallace Charges Americans Denied Full Information (Continued from Page One) the former vice president spoke to officials and labor leaders. "Americans are denied the fifth freedom access to full informa tion. While the American press is the finest in the world and does not tell deliberate lies, it engages in selective use of the truth. That is the latest word in propaganda. "Americans are not nearly as hysterical about Russia as would appear from American newspap ers. "When I , return to the United States L presume a blanket of silence will descend des-cend on me again. I broke through that silken curtain by coming to Europe. It was worth the trip. I fear the people of every country of the world are being denied access to the complete truth. When war or peace hangs on that access it is vitally im portant. He declared it was easy "to give a fatal opportunity to the press to beat the war drums "That's why I'm concerned when patriotic United States ad mirals proclaim our vessels will go anywhere they damn please, and also when our warships go on goodwill tours to foreign waters." He said the Hearst press drove the United States into the Spanish Span-ish war by a remember-the-Maine campaign "and later investigation in-vestigation showed that Spain was not responsible for the sinking. sink-ing. On these goodwill tours, if anything happened to our ships who would know who was responsible?" re-sponsible?" During the luncheon, Wallace referred to an invitation he had given Harold Stassen at a Stockholm Stock-holm hotel suggesting a talk, I which the Republican presidential aspirant allegedly had ignored, "Maybe he feared he would get tainted," Wallace said, " Woman Sentenced By Juvenile Court Theodosia Dornell Mcintosh, , ! A. A. i rrovo, cnaraea wun comnoui- ,ing to the delinquency of two minor children bv aooearin be fore them in an intoxicated condition, condi-tion, was found guilty Friday Jn the Third district juvenile court and sentenced to five months in the Utah county jail by Judge Dean Terry. i First Class Upholstering and Frame Repairing John Liebhardt Telephone 1114R 491 East 4 No., Provo, Utah Grown Roses Bloom This Year FLOWERING TREES Pauls Scarlet Howthorne English Hawthorne Golden Chain Tree I IRsdicl 0 Annie C. Jensen Called By Death Mrs. Annie C. Jensen, 78, tiied suddenly Thursday at her home in Fountain Green, Utah. She is the mother of Mrs. George E. Collard, of Provo. Mrs. Jensen was born in Fountain Foun-tain Green, January . 28, 1867, a daughter of Andrew J. and Annie Jensen Aagard. She married Neils Martinez Jensen, February 2, 1882. Survivors include her husband, two riaushters: Mrs. Rosalia Jen :8en Collard, pf Provo,. and Mrs. un-.idena j. Crowther, Fountain Green; three sisters. Mrs. Ellen Yergenson, Burlington, Wyom ing; Mrs. Rena Olson, Lovell, Wyoming, Wy-oming, Mrs. Hannah Mikkelson, Fountain Green; a brother, John E. Aagard, Fountain Green. Funeral services will be held in Fountain Green LDS chapel, Monday at 3 p.m., under the direction di-rection of Bishop Scott Cook. Interment In-terment will take place in Fountain Foun-tain Green cemetery. American Fork Man Dies In Las Vegas AMERICAN FORK Christian Maryus Miller, 89, died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Vivian Dimick, Las Vegas, Nev., of causes incident to age, accord-: ing to word received here Friday. He was born May S, 1857, in Nexor, Bomholm, Denmark, a son of Peter Peterson and Petrea Kjoller Miller. He came to the United States with his parents when he was 16 years of age. He married Martha Ellen Staker, Mt. Pleasant, 65 years ago. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, and served as bishop for 12 years in Lawrence, Emery county. In 1912 he moved to Idaho, where he operated a farm,! and moved dsck to American: Fork in 1940. j Surviving are five sons and, daughters, Mrs. Vivian Dimick,! Las Vegas, Nev.; Mrs. Christie! Dimick and James T. Miller, American Fork; Maryus Miller, St. Anthony, Ida., and Vernon Miller, Price; 17 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be con-; ducted Monday at 11 a.m. in the American Fork First LDS ward' chapel by Leonard Howes, bishop. Friends may call at the Anderson Mortuary prior to services. Burial will be in Lawrence City cemetery. cem-etery. Vaughn Max Taylor .Vaughn Max Taylor, three-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Taylor, 79 East Ninth South, died early Saturday morning at the Utah Valley hospital following follow-ing a short illness. He was born Jan. 5, 1947, son of Van W. and Betty Forbush Taylor. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Francis Kay Dye and Janice Marie Dye, both of Provo; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Taylor, Hinkley, and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Forbush, For-bush, Orem. Graveside services and burial will be Sunday at Monroe city cemetery under direction of Berg mortuary of Provo. - Iowa Unions Plan Work Stoppage To Protest Measure DES MOINES. Ia. April 19 (U.Pj More than 200,'OQO Iowa labor union members threatened today to stage a spontaneous one-day state-wide work stoppage Monday Mon-day to protest an anti-closed shop bill pending in the Iowa legislature. ' Officials of the AFL and CIO predicted the stoppage Would cripple business and industry in many cities and towns. They said, however, that all essential services serv-ices would be maintained. The walkout was planned to begin simultaneously with the start of debate in the house of representatives on a bill which would ban the closed shop in Iowa. The bill has been approved by the senate. A. T. Stephens, director of the CIO Packinghouse Workers, said the stoppage would be "one of the largest rank and file .demonstrations .demon-strations in the history of the union." I "Men, women and children are coming to Des Moines by car, chartered bus and trains to watch the legislature try to slaughter usi" Stephens said. Orvel Champ, Iowa CIO director, di-rector, and A. 'A. Couch, presi dent of the Iowa Federation of Labor, said they had not called a strike and had advised- local unions to "Use your own good judgment." They predicted the walkout would "approach 100 per cent effectiveness." "This shows that it's not just a small minority group fighting anti-labor legislation," Champ said. WE NEED four steady women, 18 to 40, hours 8 to 4:30. Free transportation from Spring-vllle, Spring-vllle, Spanish Fork and Payson. Good wages. Come ready to work. Troy Laundry Laun-dry Company, 375 West Center, Provo, Utah. 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Tackeft, Provo, chairman of a citizens' committee named to secure the natural gas extension, said the county will be well represented rep-resented at the hearing, and that the committee's work of the past several months should have an important bearing on the commission's commis-sion's action. Large Healthy Bedding Plants Petunias (Select strains of Singles, Sing-les, Ruffled & Doubled) Snapdragons Lobielie Marigolds (Dwarfed & giant gi-ant types) Asters (with Resistant) Zinnias (all types) Salvia Sweet Alysum (Dwarfed) Ageratum Pansys Perennials of all types Also evergreen Shrubs & trees Orem Floral & NURSERY H mile North ef Seers Theater Phone f-100 R-l 1 |