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Show Stradaybecember 2ll947V SUNDAY HERALD BritishWelcome Truman's Message on MbrsHdll Plan . LODON., Dec., 20 U.RA.,,for-1 eign - office - spokesman hailed President vTruiiumV message, to congress on ' the Marshall -plan to day as. a Tremendous event In history" ,4 - 1 -r All London newspapers, except the Communist ; Daily . Worker, welcomed ;-. the message. - Butt the ' Daily Express, which Lord Beav- eroroojc -coniroiSrl i onuuu would be better advised to save itself through its own. efforts. At the same time, the Express ,I0 IKON WORKERS VOTE TO STRIKE NEWARK. J Jec 20, (UJS Three thousand iron workers voted today f to strike-Monday,-tying up more than $50,000,000 worth of new construction in the state. . - v ' The strike vote followed ?k ire-jection ire-jection of a union proposal today for a two-year contract, instead of the usual one-year one, calling for a 5a cent an hour wage hike. B I RTH DAY tT '7 PARTY Teachers Back Up Principal In 'No Slacks'RuIe "9- i l viecc Album DICK TRACY m4 IS other f. Ml Comic tW . Mother Goos Chuactcf cre- mi Sparkle oa ktt biniKUr! EXLUSIVE 4f -J' . . i, ! welcomed -the Marshall plan' as Ms p e c t a e u 1 a r intervention of American wealth and generosity into. the. realm of foreign policy." The ; president indicated the scope for the whole plan It one which envisages ; recovery ' rather than' . relief," the foreign - off ice's spokesman; said. "That has: been our hone throushout. It is diffi cult to speak of it with too much enthusiasm." sJ He said conditions for participating-as set forth by Mr. Truman Tru-man "appear to be those agreed upon at the Paris conference is necessary for success of the pro gram." The spokesman said Mr. Tru man advanced "several interesting new ideas" and referred to the proposed stockpiling of European raw materials as a "welcome de velopment." He disclosed that Foreign secretary sec-retary Ernest Bevin told Secre tary of State Georfie C. Marshall last Wednesday that Britain would not go along with the United States In cutting off reparations shipments front its zone of Germany Ger-many to Russia, i The spokesman could not say definitely-that the new British-American British-American zonal fusion agreement which gives the U. S. the major voice. In economic affairs would not affect this British policy in the future. -, Commenting on the president's message, the mgmy respeciea Times said: Mr. Truman's presidency will be remembered for the program of aid to Europe presented to congress con-gress yesterday. At Harvard in June, the United States secretary of state sketched the outlines of a great and wise idea. "Now only seven months after, the president commits to congress in -all its details a grand design to breathe life into the old world by the help of the new . . . the beginning and end -of Mr. Mar shall's idea Is that the countries of Europe, hurt and impoverished by the war, snouid neip inem-selves inem-selves and each other." Beaverbrook's Express said there were three reasons why Britain should stay out of the plan. It -listed these reasons as: (1) Britain can win through unaided and balance its imports with exports ex-ports next year: (2) "The British are .at their best when brought bard up against reality, and (3) The plan is presented to congress as an anti -Common 1st device if Britain participates in it she will inevitably be regarded as a subordinate member in the anti Russian association." CAMDEN, N. Y.,' Dec 20 U.8 Teachers at Camden '' "Central school ' today f. backed.. Principal Donald' H. Barker, in his "no slacks", riile which has precipitated pre-cipitated oner of the most heated controversies in the ' history of this village of 2,000. Forty-three teachers, the' entire en-tire teaching staff at the school, signedi.a ?: petition -t'. approving Barker's action in sending female students home when they report for class wearing slacks. "The teachers asked for "continued "con-tinued enforcement of the rule until it is amended or rescinded by the board of education." Two students, one an eighth grade honor student and 'the other-a high school sophomore, were sent borne recently ..for wearing slacks. ' Thomas Delahunt, father of one of the, pupils, has filed a complaint com-plaint with the education board. He charges the rule . is illegal because schools do not have the right to prescribe what clothing shall be worn by pupils provided pro-vided what they do wear is "clean and decent" Provo, Utah Where Radios And Records Are A Specialty Not a Sideline" Truman Sends Greetings To Armed Forces WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 0J.F3 President Truman has sent Christmas Christ-mas greetings to the, men and women of the United States armed arm-ed forces everywhere. "In peace as In war, your fellow fel-low Americans are proud of you and deeply grateful" for your faithful service," the president said. "May your Christmas be a happy hap-py one, wherever - you are stationed, sta-tioned, and may the spirit of this season remain with you through out the coming year." Administration Sabotaged GOP, Solon Charges INDIANAPOLIS. IncL. Dec. 20 (UJJ) Sen. Homer E. Capehart, R., ind., tonight accused the Truman administration of trying to sabotage sabo-tage for political purposes the efforts of Republicans to deal with inflation at the special ses sion of congress. In an address broadcast over station wire and the National Broadcasting company, Capehart said the Democrats in congress were "prepared to sabotage any and all anti-inflationary measures which did not give President Truman Tru-man the dictatorial powers he held at the close of the war." . "They were making it plain they wanted price controls and rationing or nothing, Capehart said. Dcncer Reported To Have Received ? 12-Yecr: Sentence , HAVANA, Cuba, Dec, .20 . (U JO Patricia (Satira) SchmldV 22 year-old American -dancer who shot and killed her .married lover aboard his yacht In Havana har bor .last -April was reported tonight, to-night, to' have . been sentenced by: a three-man tribunal to 12 years in prison and fined $5',000.. There was ? no official confir mation of the reported sentence but a formal announcement was expected Monday. , The reported sentence, which was said to .recognize Patricia as the .direct author of a pre meditated homicide, also includ ed payment by her of all court costs, it was said... ... Actually, If her sentence is 12 years, the sultry night club danc er would - serve eight . years and 10 months counting time off for good behavior at the rate of two months - for each year after the first and the time she already has spent in the national, women's wom-en's prison at Guanabacoa. . Miss Schmidt went on trial Oct. 7 for slaying John Lester Mee, Chicago playboy and for- mer naval PT boat commander.! The only other person abroad the Lyacht when he was shot April 8 was Charles Jackson. River rorest, in., engineer, who was released from custody yesterday. Yorhmeh Repair Munitions Ship High Prices (Continued from Page One) public health, education and housing. hous-ing. . The emergency- session stuck fairly close to the purposes for which it was called Interim for eign aid and inflation legislation For stop-gap foreign aid $597,- 000,000 was authorized and $540,- 000,000 appropriated. This com pared with President Truman s request for both an authorization and appropriation of $597,000,000 to tide over Austria. France and Italy until April. Congress cut China in for $18,000,000 of the Allen's Photo -Supply .30 NORTH UNIV. AVE. PROVO PHONE 2487 - - m' Camera . Consultants 48-HOUR REPAIR SERVICE Complete One-day .Finish Service We also take care of getting color film processed. lower total, althoueh President Truman had not asked anything fto work aboard Die craft. for that country at this time. Congress appropriated 9340,000000 for civilian relief " In the military occupation, ones of Germany, Japan and Korea. The president had asked $490,000,000. However it was on the anti-in flation front that the Republican- controlled congress gave PresI dent Truman the worst licking. It approved a mild program which fell far short of Mr. Truman's 10-point plan. Taft and other Republican leaders flatly refused t.o give President Truman at this time the powers he had asked to restore consumer rationing and price and wage controls. Taft said if the inflation sit uation should become bad enough congress next session would consider giving the president lim ited rationing powers on specific items. But he ruled price controls out altogether. BRUTAL CONDITIONS ALLEGED AT CAMP AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 20 (U.R) Charges that brutal conditions exist at the army disciplinary barracks bar-racks at Camp Gordon near here brought a request today for an official investigation by the department de-partment of the army. The charges were made by the Miami, Fla., Herald, which said that prisoners at the barracks are sent to solitary confinement for such "whimsical reasons" as twitching while standing at attention. Bound for China VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 20 (U.R) Workmen speeded repair work on the Panamanian freight er S. S. Colima at the North Bur rard dry Jock today and the ves sel was expected to be ready to load arms and ammunition for Chinese . nationionalist forces Monday. Machinists, electricians and shipwrights walked through Van couver labor council picket lines estaoushed outside the Burrard dock and went aboard the Colima to repair its engines and effect otner minor renairs. The Colima was scheduled to load $1,200,000 worth of surplus noyai Canadian air force ma terials for use against Chinese Communists Wednesday. However, loading operations were halted when the vessel was moved from a local loading dock to the Burrard installation. It was moved out -of dry dock vesterdav to make room for another ship requiring repair work when the Boilermakers' union refused to workxon the Colima. It was then shunted to a yard pier where re pair work was now underway. ine Douermakers still refused Grain Shipped To Bremen, Germany PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 (U.R) Enough grain to bake 13,000,000 one-pound loaves of bread was neaded for Bremen, Germany, to day in a gift shipment from west em farmers, church groups and charitable organiaztions. The grain, collected as part of ine irienosmp Train, was loaded yesterday aboard the freighter American Veteran for delivery to cvangeiica tuuswerk through the German central commission in Bremen. The shipment included 175,000 Dusneis garnered by the Christian rural overseas program and the cnurca world service, 400 tons collected from other sources, and 30,000 CARE food packages donated do-nated by Philadelphians. The freighter will pick up additional cargo in New York before sailing ior Germany. 75,000 Gallons.-; t Of Gasoline Cut Loose; No Fire ; NORWAUC, ConnvDec. 20 (UJ9 This city of 5,000 people, .could have been - the scene . of a- holocaust today but fortunately, wasn't. J .y-- An automobile ran off the ' highway and cut ia fuel .'line . on the. docks which sent 75,-000 75,-000 gallons of gasoline surging surg-ing into the street State po- -lice said the flood was five to six feci high a places.' - Fire apparatus was lined up and a coast guard cutter stood by in case anything should ignite the highly Inflammable In-flammable liquid. Workmen with masks dived into the gasoline in sub-zero temper-- temper-- ature, but could not find the shut-off valve. After hours of work au-' thorities finally reported "everything under control." They said salvage crews had-pumped had-pumped over eight tankloads of gasoline from a ditch and removed the last possibility, of fire. The area was kept under constant patrol all day. The fuel line ran from a dock to huge storage tanks. The break drained one of .the tanks.! Nine Killed in Swiss Munitions Dump Explosion BLAUSSE. Switzerland. Dee. 20 U.R) An ammunition depot blew up aeep inside a mountain In the Benese Alps shortly before last midnight creating a man-mad? volcano that spewed boulders, bombs, hand grenades and hot sheik throughout Kanderthal val ley, wrecking scores of houses; and a railroad station. A police sergeant in charse of a small detachment in the disaster area reported that nine personr had been killed, four to five wer? missing and an undetermined number injured. Swiss military authorities or dered the entire area closed for 60 hours as small explosions continued con-tinued to rumble from the shattered shat-tered mountainside and a ligh snowfall covered unexploded missiles mis-siles scattered throughout the val ley. Several hundred soldiers were rushed into the area and some 300 firemen were working on the scene. Arnold Steiger, manager of the Hotel Kurhaus which is about one and a half miles from the ammunition dump, said he first heard the explosion at 11:35 p. m. last night and even at that distance dis-tance "it nearly knocked me off my feet." "I saw a blinding, flash, windows win-dows in the hotel rattled and the whole building just seemed to bend," he said. "Panicky people came from everywhere. The skies were criss-crossed with red hot shells that looked like tracers,! Some shells exploded in the air and some on the ground. Some just buried themselves in the ground without exploding," Stie-ger Stie-ger said. The depot was In the side of a 300-foot precipice known as the "Fluhwand" and was a gallery gal-lery hewn from the rock. Military authorities were concerned con-cerned as this was the second major ammunition explosion since the summer when a big depot in Valais Canton blew up. Neither has .yet been explained. Prison Farm Hunger Strike Finally Ends r SANDY - POINT, Tex Dec 20 (U.R Warden David H. Coers said today that the- hunger strike by youthful inmates of the Darring on state .prison farm apparently had ended as Inmates filed Into the. dining room for their noon meal.- the i first time they had eaten the prison' food in four days.- ' k The noon menu was fried pork chops, and brown gravy, red beansl turnip- greens, tomatoes and corn bread. "I feel sure this breaks the holdout," Coers said -as the first group of hungry inmates entered the owning room. About; 250 of the prisoners at the Darrington farm had eaten only raw turnips, greens, skinned armadillos,, coons and possums found on the farm property since the strike began. About 30 trus ties .and 35 kitchen and dining room help was not affected by the strike of their fellows. . The convicts informed Coers at mid-morning they were ready to drop their protest and eat a hot meal.-The strikers previously had asserted they would not eat until Gov. Beauford Jester and the state prison board" assured them of more meat in-the diet and better food. - The prison, administration' last night cut off delivery of Christ mas packages to the inmates,! pending an' end of the protest, The contents of the Meat Industry, Stalin 'Honored GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec 20 0XR) The Crackpot club, local lo-cal fun organization.' today named the 'American "meat in dustry ; and -Joseph . Stalin., as Those .who did -the least for America" in 1947. Club vice president Floyd Mayo (all members .are vice- presidents) said it was the first time .in the nine-year history of the Crackpots that duplicate awards were made. . - John L. Lewis, "whose chin and the honors in . 1943-44-45, Mayor said. . .... . . The club honored the meat in dustry for its "one or two pork chops for a buck" 'and Stalin for the possibility that he may un loose "a euided . missle at Tru man's .old. homestead instead of just doing it verbally." Inscribed crockery Dots Were awarded too: Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers' for "taking it like a lot of brass hats,' plus a. cluster for "blaming it on a dame. Humphrey Bogart, movie actor, for "the wOrst performance of the year" in the Communist-Hollywood hearings. Jane Russell, for proving "that a .women doesn't; have to -knot how to act to get along In Holly. wood if she' has . other. . assets.' . . t . . . i went to Senf. Owen Brewster an Homer. ! Ferguson for "bringinl vaudeville back to life" in'tbj Hughes war contracts hearing. . Th eluh alsn tmcsed: a nodi musicians boss: James Caesar Pe trillo, "just for the - hell of itJ HE'S ALIVE, BUT DON'T - wonn Ma. JL,ewis, -wnose cnin ana i - miners frequently are out," -took! ask tub wks o GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, De 20 (UJ!) Eugene Zenteiner, 24 alive today, but doctors can't fit ure but why. : . " - Zenteiner consumed bottles cough syrup, sleeping pills, p. vjuwi ,yim- wwwwi wu . meals" medicine. -' ' 1- His condition? Baffled phys clans say it's good. v , helped the prisoners through the; first three days or tneir struce. Prisoners in the state penal system receive one-half pound of meat daily. Originally it was one pound. Then it was reduced to three-fourths of a pound, and, on Nov. 13, to one-half pound in order to. stretch the biennial appropriation drawn for a. much packages smaller prison population. APPLES Sunday Special . , Delicious 125 Bushel or Two bushel for $25 ,. ; Others 75c Bushel or V Two Bushel for $1.35 ' 355 South 3rd East " 1 The mineral resources of the United States comprise the cor nerstone of American manufac turing. Texas, California. Louisiana and Oklahoma are the four leading lead-ing oil producins states f the U. 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