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Show Kaiser Says : He Welcomes Fbntdnd Probe 5 WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 QJ.RJ--; Henry J. Kaiser ? has1 invited a . congressional investigation of his : efforts to have the Reconstruction Finance' dorp., -write Off $34,510,-;-: 000 of the debt he owes the. gov ernment for .-the , Fontana, Cal., steel plant. The 'West coast industrialist did .. Oj in a telegram . to . chairman George H. i Bendery R., O., of a h o u s e, executive expenditures committee investigating war con tracts, i. .5. ;-..: , v .Notine that Ren. Robert Rich. It, Pa., had threatened to ask such an Inquiry,. Kaiser said in a state . xnent acepmpanying his. telegram: ?; "I challenge Representative Rich of PennsylvanlSy the heart of the "eastern steel industry, to ask for. an Investigation ' of the Fontana seel situation at once. Nothing else could please me more. ..i '. . . If there is anything questionable ques-tionable about the adjustment the Kaiser company is asking for Fontana, the investigation should not be held after the RFC may have made this adjustment, as Representative Rich threatened, The investigation should be held before the RFC has made any set-, set-, tlement with the Kaiser company Representative Bender's commit tee is in session now. I am in Washington. I can see no reason why the investigation should not open immediately." Kaiser had asked RFC Monday to write off $34,510,000 of his debt to the government. In return, he promised he would raise $80,0001-000 $80,0001-000 by private financing and 'double Fontana's steel-making capacity. He said this would have A material effect on relieving the steel shortage. ; 'V Pneumonia Leads Killing Diseases SALT' LAKE CITY: Sept. 13 KU.R) Pneumonia . was man's -greatest killer among the communicable com-municable diseases in Utah last Vear. Dr. A. A. Jenkins, state epidemiologist, said here today sHe said that 182 of the 445 cases reported last year in the state resulted in death. Second greatest killer was epidemic influenza in-fluenza which claimed 26 lives. Australian Syndicate Goes On Gold Hunt In Sunken Ship By GEORGE McCADDEN United Press Staff Correspondent , SYDNEY. Australia U.R) A Sydney syndicate will eek -the fabulous gold of the Yankee clip per General Grant. - The destruction of the ship in a cave-like deft of the Auckland Islands 81 years ago left stories to rival Robinson Crusoe or the heroes he-roes of Joseph Conrad. The syndicate Is sparked by J. E, Johnstone, famed marine sal vage diver who recovered $7,612,- 000 from the steamer Niagara off the New Zealand coast in 1941 Another $840,000 in gold will be sought in the hulk of the Niagara in October before the expedition heads for the lonely Aucklands, about 280 miles" south of New Zealand. The value of the gold that went down with the American-built, 1,200-ton General Grant may be as high as $10,000,000. Four times previously the gold has eluded searchers, the last time in 1904, when an American deep-sea diver named Captain Sorenson employed employ-ed the latest equipment then available. Only' a handful of the 82 peo ple aboard the General Grant survived its destruction after liv ing like Robinson Croes for nearly near-ly two years on a small island. Expedition Fails One survivor, a sailor named William Singufly, was the guide of an early "salvage expedition which failed when the New Zealand Zea-land government refused permission permis-sion for a search before the turn of the century. The General Grant was designed design-ed for the run from Australia to England via Cape Horn. She was on her maiden voyage out of San Francisco under the command of a Captain Loughlin. She left Melbourne Mel-bourne on May 4, 1866.' with a cargo of gold, wool and hides. About 30 of her passengers were gold miners from the Victoria Vic-toria workings in Australia, then in their heyday, eri route to spend their diggings in the flesh pots of Europe. Each was ' supposed to have lined his waistcoat with gold. The manifest showed 2,576 ounces of gold, but the cargo included in-cluded several tons of spelter or zinc, believed to have contained gold in an effort to escape an export ex-port tax. On the night of May 13, 1866, the captain sighted, but apparently apparent-ly did not recognize, Disappointment Disappoint-ment Island in the Auckland group, which would have told him he was south of his course. In inky blackness, the windjam- jmer crashed head-on into tower ing cliffs. The ship drifted into a huge cave in the cliff face. Small Boats Escape Two small ship's boats just barely escaped from the cave. The water in the cave, what with the ship's sinking and rise of tide, washed over main decks. A few passengers jumped overboard, swam through the cavern mouth, and were picked up by the small boats outside. A long boat and a small skiff were frantically cut loose from the ship. The skiff got through with five aboard. The long boat, with some 40 aboard, was swamped at the entrance en-trance and only three of its passengers pas-sengers were picked up. The captain cap-tain refused to leave his ship, was trapped in the great maw in the 'cliff and drowned as the tide rose SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 13 to the cavern roof. (U.R) The best approach to a per-j The 15 survivors were 10 crew-son crew-son jvho believes he's ill from! men and five passengers, includ- the wreck, led the survivors after some harrowing exploits to a bay on Disappointment Island. ' - ' There they- lived mainly on seals cauahti on neighboring En derbv Island and wild goats ana birds' eggs.. They used a . hut abandoned by whalers. " On Jan, 2, 1867, six months after the sinking. Brown and three seamen set out for New Zealand In the small pinnace without charts or Instruments. They vanished. Twice, ten and eleven months after the tragedy," ships passed heart-breakingly close . without seeing, distress signals. The brig Amherst finally rescued res-cued the -survivors and took them to New Zealand. Road Blockades Planned to Check On Defective Cars -SALTLAKE CITY, Sept. 13 (U.R) Motorists who don't have a drivers license or .have mechan ical defects In their cars had better bet-ter beware of the Utah State-road blockades, P. L. Dow, state high way patrol superintendent, said here today. 4 Dow said ' that the three block ades throughout the state have resulted in 803 arrests since July, most of the offenses being for lack of a drivers license. CAR OWNER BIG IIEARTED BLUFFTON, Ind. U.R) Carl Fuller was only being neighborly when he and his horse pulled a limousine from a foot of mud. The owner fo the car offered him a tip a dime. ' Europe Lags In Food Production, McCloy Reports LONDON." Sent. 13 U.tt ; President John J. McCloy of the International Bank reported .today .to-day that Europe has made rapid strides in getting her factories and railroads running again, but is , lagging far .behind prewar levels in. growing ioqd. v ,v McCloy in his annual report to the bank governor! drew a picture pic-ture of European economy show ir substantial if uneven industrial indus-trial progress. He' warned however how-ever that the continent is suffering suf-fering from economic instability and noor living standards. Total industrial production has surpassed prewar levels . in some countries, he said, while, in others oth-ers it is considerably below 1939 levels. .1 ' McClov . renorted that the t International Bank recorded an operating loss of $938,647 in Its second fiscal year compared com-pared with $125,138 the first year.- " m Favorable signs in the lone range European economic outlook out-look as seen by McCloy included: ( 1 ) Railroad reconstruction lias been so rapid and use of equip ment so intensive tnat in many countries more passengers and freight are being carried than in 1938.. - (2) European cotton textile production probably ' will reach 1,400,000 tons this year compared with a prewar average of 1, 600,000 tons. (3) Consumption of natural and synthetic raw rubber rose from 140,000 long tons in 1945 to 285,000 in 1946 and probably will reach 310,000 tons this year. (4) European shipyards at the start of 1947 had 3,165,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, almost , 50 per cent above the mid-1939 figure. (5) "Vast areas of arable land have been cleared of mines and war wreckage and restored to the plow." ? Agricultural production as- :. a whole is far below the pre-war years, however. . , McCloy attributed reconstruc tion progress to efforts of the! European countries and the stimulating stim-ulating effect of foreign grants and credits. ii i If we could broadcast a radio message to the nearest star, it would take more than four years for the sound " to- be received there. Hey ' Fellas .Have Ton; Seen All The;New Model Airplanes Supplies & ' Jet Cars I ; ::;;v . At f l Gessfbrd's, 47 North Univ. ; Hawaii Expects Statehood By 1949 SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13 (U.R) A prediction that 'Hawaii would gain statehood by 1949 was made here today by George H. McLane, executive secretary of the Hawaii Statehood commission. commis-sion. - McLane is on a tour of the United States to thank those "who have so strongly supported" Hawaii's move for statehood. lie said that before a state can be brought irto the union the people must want statehood and must have an economically sound basis for that statehood.. Both these qualifications, he said, Hawaii has; r, Emotional Angle Vital In Illness emotional instead of physical ail fhents is to make him think he's overestimating his sickness, in the opinion of Dr. O. Spurgeon English, Temple university psychiatrist. English spoke before the annual an-nual convention of the Utah State medical association being held at the University of Utah. A seminar was held yesterday afternoon on shock therapy. Presiding Pre-siding over, the seminar was Dr. G. Gill Richards of Salt Lake City. ing Mrs. Maryt Ann Jewell, the stewardess. Chief Officer Bartholomew Bar-tholomew Brown, three days after BUNKER HEADS PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13 (U.R) S. Bertel Bunker. of Ogdcn, today was the new president of the Utah Association of Public Accountants. His election came at the group's meeting here Thursday. The principal speaker was Dr. Dil-worth Dil-worth Walker, dean of the school of business at the University oi Vitamin A. which reduced nizht blindness in aviators, can be ob-IUtah. who proposed an on-the tained from the fins of a variety i job training program for student bfshark. 'accountants. in i . . Eisenhower Non-Co mmitta I k ft . ?! & Xi ' i'ti. 4? X i y i r f c -v & ' ?Oen. Dwigtt D. Eisenhower, shown here outside the Lowe Memorial Library at Columbia' University in New York where he refused to re- move himself as a candidate for a "draft Eisenhower'' movement He ; aatd he had made up his mind to "seal my mouth on politics" and would not comment. , NEW STORE HOURS: 10 a. m. 6 p. m. Now! 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