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Show PARTLY CLOUDY - 'Sunday. Little chance 111 temper attire. Low Sunday morninff 60-70. Minimum relative humidity 10 per cent. Fresh to strong southerly winds. TEMPERATURES ttttoa i l Mm WaSUtlon Max Mia Pro 88 12 San rran. 68 58 8 74 Lo Angeles 88 65 tl 10 Portland . . 84 58 Salt Lake ttacn j. . . St. . Omattm tl 78!Seattla ... 3 S 108 7 7, Denver ... 84 81 109 .- Chicago ... 78 65 8!NW York 18 59 -VtU. f'hoenix .7-FJ. .7-FJ. Junction 83 72N. Orlcana 80 75 VOL. 25, NO. 10 PROVO. UTAH . COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS ClOCalls Strike in Ford Plants Meeting Sunday Last Chance To Patch Up Union-Company Feud DETROIT, Aug. 2 (U.R) The CIO United Auto Work ers union's 22-man executive board tonight unanimously approved a nation-wide strike of 108,000 Ford Motor Company Com-pany production workers for early next week. Date of the walkout was left up to UAW Vice President Richard T. Leonard, the uniqns.v Ford de partment director, wno said it would be called either Monday or Tuesday if an llth-hour Sun day meeting with the company produces no results. "It's up to the company now," Leonard; said. "We are going ahead at full steam with preparations prepa-rations for a strike." , The board's decision came after a heated five and one-half one-half hour special meeting. The anion's policy-making group met after Leonard and John S. Bugas, Ford vice president . in charge of industrial relations, rela-tions, split sharply on a pension pen-sion plan proposed by the company. The "first team" negotiators is sued conflicting statements after failing in a one-hour meeting to reach any agreement on the dis pute. Leonard said her had scheduled' a conference of his negotiators tomorrow morning before the last ditch session with company offi cials at 10:30 a. m. I Leonard charged that the new I Ford proposal was a "distinct de-' parture" from the original offer Which the UAW had accepted. He said Ford negotiators t a ua iiiv uiuuij ua j uiaii cajitvi then were -unable to sell the Jford policy committee on those agreements. ' Bugas, making the company's com-pany's first formal statement on the plan, said, "It- is as progressive a step' in the direction di-rection of employe security as has been taken , by a large (Continued on fage Two). Truman Takes It Easy at Maryland Mountain Retreat WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) President Truman hiked, swam and rested today at Shangri-La, wartime" mountain hideaway of the late President Roosevelt near Thurmont, Md., 65 miles northwest north-west of Washington. He found mornings and evenings even-ings so chilly on the 1800-foot Catoctin mountain tops that he sent home for his top coat and sweater. Fires blazed on several hearths in his rustic lodge. The White House, meanwhile, added substance to reports Mr. Truman will visit Brazil, possibly in early September. He reportedly reported-ly will travel by ship. ,4 Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said he would make an announcement announce-ment "later" on what he termed the "projected" trip, to Rio De Janeiro. t But Ross "dismissed as speculative specula-tive published reports that the President's arrival in Rio had been set for Sept. 4 a date that! would enable him to address closing sessions of the inter-Ameriican inter-Ameriican defense conference. 3Ir. Truman, greatly in need of rest after a rigorous 10 days during which he flew to Missouri to bury his mother, planned to remain at the mountain top camp through Monday morning. Shangri-la was set aside for President Roosevelt's secret use' durine the war. when doctors said , i i i- weekend relaxation. He once took Winston Churchill there. , Mr. Truman has been to Shangri-la only a few times, the last On July 4, 1946. News Highlights In Central Utah Payson Pushes Plans for Five-Day Celebration 6 i Anderson to Seek Fifth j Term as Provo Mayor 3 , Duchesne Tunnel Completion Seen in 2 to 3 Years - 3 Icelandic Descendants Hold Annual Reunion 4 Springville Crash Injures , Three; Driver ited . Orem Sunday Closing Case Transferred to Provo Court Wilson's Release on $5,000 Bail Delayed Until Monday .2 'Teacher Workshop to Precede School Opening Sept. 8 Z Handy Little Thing .- r - ' , i v ,. . . ' ; -. i, 1 ' I Tf 4 .AK K r rT. . Next time you're wrestling with a tire Iron, think of Set. Milton II. Clarkson, of Toledo. Ohio, pictured above on the job with army's task force furnace in the Arizona desert near Yuma. That king-sized wrench he wields in the 110 to 150-degrees heat is for "minor" repairs on his M26 Pershing tank. More Rigid Flying Rules Urged By Air Safety Board WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) President Truman's air safety board went one step far - ther today in its attempt to re-! jduce air accidents by more rigid for aircraft landing in bad weath-: weath-: flying rules. ier be set up for all U. S. air- in a report to Air. truman vne Thcommerai airliners f?$ ? eratures On the Climb By UNITED PRESS A new heat wave struck the western plnins today and a large portion of the country got ready for its third major weather change in less than a week. Temperatures which had climbed to new 1947 highs Wednesday, then skidded to record lows early yesterday, were moving back above normal nor-mal today. But the weather bureau said the new heat wave would be less intense and less widespread than the earlier one. The mountain states sweltered swelt-ered under 100 degree temperatures tem-peratures after a brief respite. res-pite. The midwest prepared for temperatures ranging between be-tween 90 and 100 decrees during the week-end. Easterners East-erners hoped the new heat wave would break up over Illinois a s predicted b y weather experts. President Of Uruguay Dies MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 2 (U.R) President Tomas Berreta, 10, Ultu cat i7.uo yj. 111 . luuaj . President Berreta had a long Temp tlJ Lur,l ,in n?n that Italy revise "certain provi-! Republican National Chairma. eral politician, culminating in his ,, . ,. . . . . r i election to the nresidenev last'slons of the treaty which arejcarrolle Reece said the 80th con November. Before taking office March 1 he visited the United States as a guest of the government. He was warmly received at Miami. orK and i'nuacieipnia, and dur- inn ni imir-ripv tiav in wuch. dent Truman and Serretarv nf State Marshall at official func- iions. American UN Delegate Says Russia Obstructs All Negotiations for World Atomic Control By ROBERT MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent laki. SUCCESS. N. Y., Aug. 2 KU-r ine united states delegate on the United Nations atomic energy commission charged tonight to-night that the Russians were obstructing ob-structing all phases of negotiations negotia-tions for world atomic cor.trol and acting as if they "do not (recognize the new and dreadful nature of the atomic weapon. Warning that an atomic war may mean the end of humanity, hu-manity, American delegate Frederick II. Osborn ;Ud atomic negotiations have reached an "almost complete deadlock" between Ru&sia and the majority. He blamed "the complete inac- cessibility of tile Kremlin' for! their routes at least 1,000 feet above the ground. The present ; minimum altitude is 500 feet, 2. That standard reouirements ports. FxiUU atu.v have at least three miles visibility-! and can fly at least 500 feet below the lowest clouds. The board said its recommendations recom-mendations could be put into effect "in the very near future." fu-ture." It said that airline operators, op-erators, pilots and government govern-ment officials already are in accord with most of the suggestions. sug-gestions. t t rinfiio nun;mn i f.. h in: "'".;: ::Z ;C r. Z .Z :niri h tmp Of the atomic energy commission n wr g,1 hi disclosed that the commission flying Practices which he feels, additions to the na- have caused ' a number of acci- g . multi-billion-dollar atomic dents in the past. ;plant He sa,d the commissSion The air safety board was set would spend half a billion dol-up dol-up by the president after three lars this vear. Amona its maior .major air crashes brought death to 14b passengers ana crewmen, cruitment of scientists and en-One en-One of the crashes occurred 'gineers for the project, and the when a low-flying Pennsylvania I improvement of peacetime atomic j Central airliner plowed, into a Virginia mountainside during a' ! rainstorm. Landis said the 1,000-! 'foot minimum would tend to pre-; I vent such accidents in the future. Marshall Urges Italy to Revise Treaty Provisions WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Secretary of State George C. 'Marshall told the Italian government govern-ment today that its ratification j of the peace treaty had wiped lout "the last Fascist-created bar- rier ' between that nation and the rest of the world. i r j to Count Sforza ;" JIT".- T-7" I ..." 'controlled 80th congress i objectionable to the United Mates. iviarsnaii qia not speciiy mem. , Cout Sforza, replying, assured; Marshall that the Italian people ! . i . i r i . J New!wouja learn wun proiouna satis- iaction mat tne unueo. oiaies desires treaty revision, either agreements. The exchange was made public by the state denartment. "infinite delays" in the 14-months-old effort to establish global machinery for outlawing atomic bombs and turning nuclear! energy into beneficial channels. "The channels of communication communica-tion with the Kremlin seem to be hopelessly slow and even in some cases obstructive," Osborn said! He claimed that the Soviet position po-sition in the atomic commission was irustrating - a targe group oi;on ine soviet atomic stand was intensely serious" men of the 'issued in the form of a statement United States and nine other na tions who have hammered out tremendous chunks of an atomic control plan without the help orj assent of Russia. Osborn saw one ray of hope in the fact that recent progress by the majority m laying down ac tual powers and scope of world atomic control agencies had im-' Uo S. Four-Lane Super Highway System Planned New Super Deluxe Highway 37,681 Miles Long to Criss-Cross the Nation; Project Most Important Since Federal Aid Began By HELEN NONBERG United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) The federal works agency ag-ency tonight announced a program to criss-cross the nation na-tion with a super-deluxe fourlane express highway system 37,681 miles long. Officials of the FWA's public roads administration estimated es-timated it will take 15 to 25 years to complete the super highway system. The cost will be shared by the states and the federal government on a 50-50 basis. The federal aid highway act of 1944 provided that a World Delays Atomic Bomb Protection WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 (U.R) Prof. Albert Eistein declared in the Washington Post tonight that the world two years after Hiroshima Hiro-shima has not even made a start toward protecting civilization from the disaster of atomic war. The noted physicist whose findings find-ings 22 years ago put science on the track of atomic power told the Post that no nation will renounce re-nounce the atomic bomb "as long as it is forced to prepare for a possible future war." That being the case, "security "secur-ity admits only a total solution," solu-tion," I.e. World Government, he said, and not even the United Nations is an effective step In that direction. Einstein placed upon the United States, as possessor of the bomb, ths reennneihititv fnr initlatinir world control. The United States. h M must, "uft in rnirh a man. )1Pr, lt" liUcmiuiiy of solving the problem on a supranational basis are manifest beyond doubt." "Unfortunately," he added, "one cannot state at the present time that this has been achieved, even approximately." Einstein participated with other scientists, atomic authorities, and political leaders in a special 12-page 12-page supplement published in the Sunday Post in advance of Wee nesaay a second anniversary 01 3 J 1 the atomic bombing of Hiroshima l Chairman David E. Lilienthal ; problems, he added, is the re- security. STORE EXECUTIVE DIES LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (U.R) Charles E. Johnson, 81, retired Chicago department store executive, execu-tive, died today at the home of his son, Roger, a Los Angeles newspaperman. GOP, Demo Leaders Disagree On Merits of 80th Congress WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Leaders of the Republican and Democratic National committees differed angrily tonight on the merits and accomplishments of !ine nm session ox ine nepuDiican :gress would go down in history as the first in a decade and a half to keep its promises to the I American people. He said it had . i l.l . aune mucn wwaras insuring a i prosperous ana peaceiui nauon land would have done more had . Dorn opposition ana resistance :of President Truman. 1 Gael Sullivan, executive direc pressed the Russians with "the fairness and protection" to be of fered all nations under the Amer ican atomic control plan "A careful review of their (Russian delegates') statements in the past three weeks gives few indications that they are at least trying to understand what is going on," Osborn said. Osborn's extraordinary attack prepared for publication in to-r morrow's Washington Post and released generally to the press. Osborn likened Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei An-drei Gromyko and his aides here to errand .boys who must "go back to the Krem- (Continued en Pag Two) .40,000-mile national highway sys tern be designated by state and federal highway officials' to con nect major cities by the most di rect routes possible. This act set aside $1,500,000,000 in federal funds, to be matched by an equal contribution from the states, for a $3,000,000,000 post-war highway program. Much of this money will be used on the projected new express highway network. The public roads administration is now working on a total cost survey. No estimate of overall The proposed four - lane transcontinental super high way system will traverse the state of Utah a distance of 701 miles, according to an accompanying accom-panying article. Cities in Utah on the new highway system, according to this article are Salt Lake City, Ogden and Tremonton. cost has as yet been made because be-cause of currently inflated pric es. But it was obvious that the state and federal governments will pay many billions of dollors for the super highways. .PEA officials termed the . project, "the mot-t. important in highway designation since the federal air system was established in 1925." The agency ag-ency said the highway will offer these advantages to motorists: 1. Easy access from any section sec-tion of the country to any other by a direct route. 2. The best type of highway construction. 3. f A minimum of interference from cross-traffic and traffic lights. The highways will be surfaced with either concrete or a high-grade high-grade asphalt mixture. Four-lane divided highways will be constructed con-structed wherever traffic volume is 800 motor vehicles in peak hours. The lanes will be 12 feet wide. The right of way will be 250 feet wide. Where the traffic ex ceeds 3,000 vehicles in peak hours, all cross traffic will be eliminated. In many large cities the expressways will be either depressed or elevated to make possible city travel at (Continued on Page Two) tor of the Democratic committee, accused the Republican congress of starting its work with an "unreal" "un-real" approach. He said it ended up with a long list of failures tn social legislation and "favoritism" to big business. He said the Re publicans' post-congress claims amounted to "a long sequence of double-talk, smears on all gov ernment workers, and even cheap, personal attacks on the president. Reece said he was confident the Republicans would win the presidency in 1948 in addition ad-dition to retaining control of congress. Sullivan made no predictions. But he did say the Republicans were "looking "look-ing through rose-colored glasses" and "the rest of the country will not be so shortsighted." short-sighted." Reece said that, at the outset, the Republicans made six specific promises to the people on what they would do if elected. This is how he listed the results, to gether with Sullivan's comments: 1. Curtailment in the cost of government "The Republican congress ... cut several billions of dollars from the outrageous $37,500,000,000 budget proposed by Mr. Truman." Reeco said. "It could have cut much more deeply had Mr. Truman kept his promise to 'cooperate' with congress Sullivan said the Republican's claim that $3,000,000,000 was trimmed from the budget was "a wild claim." He added that "no mention" is being made of the Republicans' original plan to slash $6,000,000,000 from the budget. . .2. Income taxes Reece said the Republicans twice' passed a bill designed to keep their promise of lower taxes. He said tnat ait. Truman's veto of both bills "thus (Continued on Fage Two) Dutch,' Indonesians Ignore UN' Demand To Halt Hostilities Hughes Party For Elliott Cost 55,003 Johnny Meyers Went To White House Twice In Elliott's Company By JOHN STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Chubby, balding Johnny John-ny Meyer, press agent for Howard Hughes told senate investigators today he spent $5,083 entertaining Elliott Roosevelt and his actress wife, Faye Emerson, before and after Elliott was instrumental in winning a $50,000,000 war contract con-tract for Hughes. Meyer also revealed that he visited the White House twice with Elliott while acting as Hughes' front man in war contract con-tract procurement. After the Senators heard details of lavish parties for Elliott, his wife and others in swank nightclubs and hotels here in Hollywood and in New York, they called the second son of the late president presi-dent to testify on Monday. It also was announced that Meyer would be subpenated to return to the stand the first four days of next week in connection with his six wartime draft deferments, de-ferments, 'which one senator said were "unreasonable." Meyer said he was deferred because he had four dependents. The, fabulous Hughes press agent . spent a prespiring morning morn-ing testifying before a senate defense de-fense investigating subcommittee, which is looking into Hughes' eventual $40,000,000 worth of wartime plane contracts. " As the session ended, Hughes attorney Tom Slack shouted angrily to the packed committee room that the senators were not "ascertaining the truth" about the war contract activities of the west coast millionaire. "This is no place to ascertain the truth," Slack roared, ignoring ignor-ing the gavel of Chairman Homer Ferguson, R., Mich. "The rules do not purport to arrive at justice." Later he issued a statement charging the senators with hand- j picking witnesses in an attempt to publicly defame Hughes character for political purposes . The subcommittee still is trying try-ing to pin a subpena on Hughes to bring him here forthwith for questioning. Hughes is hiding out for the weekend on the west coast and so far has eluded a deputy U. S. Marshall who is attempting to hand him the summons. sum-mons. But Hughes announced he would appear next Wednesday the day he originally was asked to testify. The senators had demanded de-manded that he come at once after he blasted Sen. Owen Brewster, R., Me., with a charge that the investigation was "blackmail" "black-mail" to force Hughes to merge his Transworld Airlines with Pan American Airways Brewster is chairman of the full investigating committee. com-mittee. Hughes asked and Brewster said he would welcome wel-come a justice department probe to determine if Brewster Brew-ster is connected with Pan American. Meyer sweating under the kleig lights and at times flustered by the hammering questions, unfolded un-folded the story of frequent and costly entertainment for Elliott in (Continued on Page Two) 'U. S. Air Power Dissipated, Open to Attack7 - Hap Arnold WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Gen. H. H. Arnold said tonight that this country has dissipated its air power to the point where it is wide open to another and "in finitely worse" Pearl Harbor attack at-tack from bases "on the other side of the world," . Writing in the American Le gion magazine, the former chief of the army air forces said "We seem again to be dozing off or, worse still, deliberately refusing to heed the lessons of the grimmest grim-mest war the world has yet seen." This country "is now world target No. 1," Arnold said. But its air forces have been so seriously seri-ously crippled by postwar economies econ-omies and neglect that they could offer but "token resistance" to any lightning attack. Arnold said "U. S. air power Big Party Man Johnny Meyers, press agent for Howard Hughes, who told the senate investigators S a t u i d a y about lavish expenditures to entertain en-tertain Elliott Roosevelt and his actress wife, Faye Emerson. Russia Delays United Nations Fighting Force WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Gen, Joseph T. McNarney said tonight to-night that Russia is delaying establishment of a United Nations fighting force. McNarney, U. S. representative to the UN military staff committee, commit-tee, and Dean Rusk, director of the state department office of special political affairs, appeared on the radio program "Our Foreign Fore-ign Policy" (NBC). McNarney said the UN group produced a report last April "after a year of fruitless discussion." discus-sion." "Our report consisted of 41 articles," he said. "All of us agreed to 25 of the articles making up the report. We disagreed on 16. And of those 16, Russia disagreed dis-agreed with everyone else in 11 instances." McNarney said Russia's insistence insis-tence that each country contribute the same number of men and an equal amount of materiel would result in an organization "based on the strength of the weakest member." Asked when he expected to see an international force set up, McNarney Mc-Narney said: "I do not say lightly that I wish someone could give me the answer to this question, since the future of the world may depend upon its early establishment." Large-Scale Push By Reds Hinted PEIPING. Aug. 2 (U.R) Communists Com-munists delayed the arrival of special American envoys in north China today by once more severing the northern section of the Peiping-Hankow railway as speculation arose that the Communists Com-munists were beginning a new offensive. However, Lieut. Gen Albert Wedemeyer had already arrived in Peiping and was making courtesy calls on Gen. Li Tsung-Jen, Tsung-Jen, city officials and leading educators in what is considered the cultural center of China. Troop movements were reported report-ed in Manchuria, and neutrial observers ob-servers said that a large-scale push by the Reds was a logical possibility "within a month or two." has withered to less than its 1939 prewar output." He called for immediate formulation formu-lation of a program for developing develop-ing the latest military equipment, a thorough industrial mobilization mobiliza-tion plan, legislation permitting emergency translation of such a plan into action, and a top policy pol-icy government board with au-j thority to put the nation on an! up-to-date war footing. a :,! force officials were, thinking over ov-er the implications of their own Tokyo-Washington B-29 flight celebrating AAF Day. Seven Superfortresses made the 7,000-mile flight with one stop, at Anchorage. They couid have-carried four tons of bombs (Continued on Page Two) New Fighting Reported By Both Sides Dutch Cabinet Meets To Consider American Offer of Mediation BATAVIA. Java, Aug. 2 (U.R) Both Dutch and Indonesian Indo-nesian communiques reported new fighting today in the undeclared un-declared Indonesian war as both sides apparently ignored the United Nations demand that they halt hostilities at once. (In Amsterdam, the Dutch cabinet cab-inet met in special session to discuss dis-cuss the United Nations order and the American offer of its good offices.) The Republican radio at Jag-jakarta Jag-jakarta went off the air for nearly near-ly seven hours during the day but returned to announce that devastating scorched earth tactics were being "applied effectively" on the approaches to Jogakarta, the Indonesian capital. This indicated that Dutch armored arm-ored columns from the west still were driving for the city across the coastal plains. The Indonesians Indones-ians said the Dutch were being met with severe sniping, but neither communique gave details of the 'situation in the Jogjakarta area. The Republican radio explained that interruption -in broadcasting was due to "transmission difficulties." diffi-culties." At 8 a.m., the station announced an-nounced that it would not issue is-sue the usual communique. Three hours later, when the communique was expected, there was only silence. Again, at the usual broadcasting times at noon and one p.m., there was silence. At 3 p.m. the station reopened with a communique announcing Dutch troops had started a new drive west of Semarang, on the north coast of Java directly north of .Inciakarta. The rnmmuniouc said Dutch mechanized units seized Weleri, 23 miles west of Semarang, with only sniper resistance. re-sistance. The Dutch were supportejjby artillery fire from warships off the coast and from tanks moving in from Semarang. the communique communi-que said. But, front dispatches just received in Batavia said the Weleri action occurred six days ago, on July 28. The Republican communique said the Dutch drove south eight (Continued on Page Two) White Man "Losing Face7 In the Orient BY R. II. SIIACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R) Far eastern experts predicted today to-day that Dutch "police action" with planes and tanks in Indonesia Indo-nesia plus the United States' late and feeble intervention may destroy de-stroy what little prestige the white man still has in the orient. They were certain that at least the western democracies will "lose face" by their handling or lack of handling of the situation, situ-ation, irrespective of the merits of the case. They feared that it would give tremendous impetus to communist elements throughout through-out Asia and the far Pacific, and especially to those native groups in various areas which are demanding complete Independence Inde-pendence overnight Great Britain has gone far in two years in India, Burma and Malaya to take the first steps in granting long-standing demands de-mands of colonial people. These experts fear that much of the good accomplished by those moves will be lost. The state department's last minute min-ute intervention after India and Australia carried the Indonesian case to the United Nations was interpreted widely here in diplomatic diplo-matic quarters as an effort to protect the Netherlands from of -. ficial condemnation. The state department itself seemed uncertain just what it was aoing. ii aeniea inai it wai trying to mediate and insisted it was only offering its "good, offices" of-fices" to the Dutch. The depart-, ment refused to define what it means by "good oiiices." |