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Show TEMPERATURES PARTLY CLOUDY today with scattered light Prove alt Lk . 4B ,.... IvOf . . k . . St SU Qtf . 11 Las Vaiai .. Phaaalx . . Los Aactltl 14 tan rraa. . si St Portland . . 3Butta 15 Pat!llo . 3a (Denver , . . it jcnlest ... S iDvlutn . . SSiNaw York SS MUml .... 41 IN. Orleans era. High temperature Sunday 43. 11 II .VOL. 25, NO. 46 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY. APRIL 11, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS Deadlock Broken In 27 -Day Strike By Coal Miners Appointment of Bridges as Third Trustee Of Miners Welfare Fund is Expected to Bring; Enii to Coal Strike In Short Time By CHARLES II. IIERROLD ' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 10 meeting: called by House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., John L. Lewis and the soft coal operators today reached in 13 minutes an agreement expected to end the crippling coal strike early next week. Face-to-face in Martin's Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, ouickly agreed to the appointment of Sen. Styles Bridges, Steel Plant Crews Await End of Strike While no commitments could be made pending more definite developments, officials of Central Cen-tral Utah's paralyzed industrial plants Saturday indicated every effort would be made to resume production as fast as returning coal supplies will allow. Oficials and workers alike expressed ex-pressed Jubilation Saturday as word spread that John L. Lewis and the operators expected to reach an agreement on the pension pen-sion dispute "within 48 hours." The coal strike has slowed down the Geneva and Ironton plants to a bare production crawl, shut the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe plant down cold, and reacted against business generally as workers tightened their purse strings in anticipation of an uncertain un-certain period Nvithout the paycheck. pay-check. Just how long it would take industry in-dustry to get back on its feet locally after the end of - the coal strike was largely an unanswered question Saturday. A sobering thought was the knowledge that it took Geneva six weeks' to two months to get back to normal production after the bad cobI strike of late 1946. Workers were hopeful, however, that it can be done in less time following the current stoppage. Official Geneva terminations still stood Saturday at about 1150. It was known the company was delaying as long ns possible before making any more big layoff cuts. Resumption of the pipe plant, depends .entirely on Geneva, as It was the stop-pace stop-pace of pic Iron from Geneva which shut the pipe plant down. Workers at the' Ironton blast furnace, coke ovens and byproducts by-products plant were hopeful of evading any layoff if production can be resumed soon. The Ironton plant has slowed to maintenance status, but all workers have been keDt busy on repair work. Utah county businessmen have admitted the effects of the strike are having a definite effect on business, with workers afraid to spend anything more than for food and other bare necessities until the outcome Is known. Clothing manufacturers in particular par-ticular have reported they have been especially hard hit. Provo utility officials said they are in no immediate danger of running out of coal for the city municipal power plant, and with the end of the strike in sight, there appeared to be little danger of this happening. UNION S1IOP FAVORED BY PAPER WORKERS SEATTLE, April 10. (U.R) One of the largest union shop elections elec-tions ever held in the United States under the Taft-Hartley law was completed today by National Na-tional Labor Relations board field examiners. A total of 13,531 ballots were cast in 34 plants at 19 west coast cities by members of the Pulp and Paper Workers union (AFL). They voted 12,972 to 556 in favor of the union shop. News Highlights In Central Utah Nebo District Awards Contract For New Springville School.. 1 Steel Plant Crews Await , End of Coal Strike 1 Mayor Issues Proclamation Opening Cleanup Drive. 2 Cancer Fund Drive Opens In Provo v Monday S Spanish Fork Council Inspects ' Airport Improvement Plans . . 4 Lee to Address North Sanpete Welfare Event Wednesday 4 Republicans Reelect Officers, ! Speaker Assail Administration 6 Early Construction of -New State Hospital Building Urged ...... 6 Realtor Atr Problems at Regional Confab Here 7 (U.R)--At a sudden, dramatic high-ceilinged capitol office, representing the operators, R., N. H.. as the third "impar tial" trustee of the mine workers welfare fund. It was the long deadlock over payment of miners' pensions from this fund that caused the 27-day strike of 400,000 soft coal miners. The first "impartial" trustee quit because he could not reconcile the pension diferences of Lewis and Van Horn. Lewis, as chairman, called a meeting of the three trustees for 10 a. m. EST tomorrow. He said it is reasonable to assume that an agreement on the pension controversy con-troversy will be reached within 48 hours and that the miners will then go back to work. That would leave pretty much up in the air the government's program of court action against Lewis in an effort to end the walkout. The mine workers' chief is due to face his old foe, Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, in federal court Monday. Pending are a government motion seeking a Taft-Hartley Injunction to halt the strike for 80 days, a motion by Lewis to quash the existing exist-ing temporary restraining order or-der directing him to call off the strike, and a government motion to try Lewis for eon-tempt. eon-tempt. Attorney General Tom C. Clark, asked whether the Lewis-Van- Horn agreement afected-the government's plans, said: "The case has been set by the court for hearing on Monday. We shall be there ready to proceed." National Democratic chairman J. Howard McGrath said in a statement that Mr. Truman's "forthright enforcement"' of the law had forced Lewis "to the point where he needed a satisfactory satis-factory explanation with Judge Goldsborough on Monday." McGrath said Lewis had been "able to get the cooperation of some members of the legislative branch of the government, thereby there-by setting a dangerous precedent that makes more difficult the ! execution of the laws of the con gress by the executive branch. But Martin, a key Republican in congress and mentioned as a possible compromise choice for the GOP presidential nomination, neatly took the play from the administration by getting Lewis and Van Horn together.. There was no advance word of the meeting. When it was over, newsmen were called to the speaker's office (Continued on Page Two) Crash Kills Sanpete Boy Near Manti MANTI, ,Utah, April 10 (U.p.) An 18-year-old Sanpete county high school student, John Crow- ther, was killed late last night when his car overturned on the main highway one mile north of Manti. Crowther and five other youths were on their way to Ephraim to attend a dance when the car that officers said was speeding went out of control and turned over. Two companions, Harvey Lund and Ronajd Otteson, both of Fountain Green, were injured slightly. Three other occupants of the car Mona Anderson and Ida Olsen of Moroni and Vay Anna Price of Wales escaped without injury. Crowther was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Esmond Crowther of Fountain Green and was a senior student at Moroni high school. Army Medics Study Aid fo A-Bomb Survivors WASHINGTON, April 10. (U.R) The army medical corps reported tonight it has a growing store of knowledge that could save many lives if an atomic bomb should fall on an American city. "If an atom bomb should fall on an American city, the population would be faced with the greatest emergency in its history," the army said. But it added that it is not true that the entire population popula-tion would be wiped out. Something can be done to help the survivors. This knowledge has already been Plot Uncovered To Start Mutiny In Greek Navy ATHENS, Greece. April 10 CU.R) The navy ministry announced an-nounced today that 16 persons per-sons have been arrested in connection with an alleged Communist plot for a mutiny In the navy, including plans to blow up ships. Authorities still are seeking seek-ing 24 . others who will be tried in absentia oh the same charges, the ministry said. Charges against all 140 will be turned over to courts martial. The 140 Include officers, petty officers, sailors and some civilians who allegedly planned to sabotage navy ships and steal confidential documents concerning opera tions, the announcement said. Munitions Ship Blown Up In Italy ROME, April 10 (U.R) Police announced today that a mysterious mysteri-ous time bomb sank an alleged communist munitions ship at Bari, In southern Italy. In northern Italy, meanwhile, police reported the first outright act of communist intimidation in the campaign before the April 10 elections. Police said a time bomb attacked attack-ed to the prow of the gunrunner Lino just below the waterllne sank her within two minutes at 11 a. m. (Barl time.) There were 8,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition still aboard. Police believed the entire shipment ship-ment of $4,240,000 worth of munition! mu-nition! came from Yugoslavia and was Intended for communists in the Pugli region around Bari and Sicily. The bomb was attached during the night despite two police po-lice guards aboard, police said. . Premier Alclde De Gasperi, speaking to 30,000 in Pisa, condemned communis t t;rror and urged the people not to be afraid of threats. He plead-. led ' the .government to" maintain main-tain order until a new government gov-ernment is formed.. . "Italy has arrived at the cro?s- roads of history," De Gasper i said. "It is a. question of either beirg conquered by Bolshevism or maintaining the liberty for which we struggled and suffered so much." Customs police impounded the ship at Molfetta after an un scheduled and unexplaned stop a week ago today. Her pap rs, which police branded as forgeries, said she came from Tr-'este and was bound for Beirut. Only one case aboard was marked for Bei rut, police said. Petain Asks New Trial PARIS. April 10 (U.R) Marshall Philippe Petain, who headed the collaborationist vichy government govern-ment during the last war, has asked his lawyers to reopen his trial, the United Press learned today. Petain, now nearly 92, was sen tenced to life imprisonment for treason in August, 1945. He Is serving out his time on the lonely little island called He D'Yeu off the French toast. Bogota No Place For Honeymoon, Couple Discover WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Rene Con-Ian, Con-Ian, address unknown, figured figur-ed on spending their honeymoon honey-moon in a quiet place. They arrived in Bogota, Colombia, last night right in the midst of a revolution. The Conlans took refuge during the night in the U. S. embassy. During the night there was a fire in the building. build-ing. There also was some shooting outside. Today, according to a pooled pool-ed dispatch to the state department, de-partment, they were evacuated evacuat-ed safely to other quarters. given to 700 doctors and scientists. sci-entists. More than 50 medical Schools are studying the problems of atomic injury. Many of them have set up courses ,to teach their findings find-ings to doctors. The army said mass hysteria hys-teria would probably cause unnecessary loss of many lives if an atom bomb were dropped on a U.S. city tomorrow. to-morrow. ine public must be taught what to do In such an emergency, emer-gency, the scientists said. Such knowledge could save many lives. Shells Drop On Jerusalem In Arab Attack City Shelled for First Time in History; 3 Persons Reported Killed JERUSALEM, Palestine, April 10 (U.R) Jerusalem, governmental and cultural heart of Palestine, was shelled j tonight for the first time inj its history, as Arab forces fought in the streets of the holy city's western suburbs. Several shells fell only a half-mile half-mile from the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ was buried. Shells fell In the western area of the city as women pushing baby ba-by carriages went for Jewish sab- I bath strolls and bearded males made their way into synagogues I carrying their prayer books in little red, black and lilac-colored bags. At least three persons were killed. Ambulances sped to and from the blasted areas carrying fall loads of wounded. wound-ed. Several Jewish homes and an institute for the blind, a home for the aged and an orphanage were being evacuated hastily. The institutions, in-stitutions, all located within several sev-eral blocks of each other, are in the western extremities of the city. A reservoir which supplies much of Jerusalem's water is nearby. The shelling slackened soon after af-ter sunset. Arab gun positions were believed to be located at Ale Karem, just outside the city's south-western limits. Hundreds of battle-clad Hag-anah Hag-anah soldiers and Irgun shock troops drove toward Arab positions. posi-tions. Thousands of Sabbath strollers assembled near hospitals and first aid stations to find out about rel atives. ,."". i ."'."'.' The- attack came as Arab forces closed in on Jerusa-.. Jerusa-.. lem,.already plnebed by. -a blockade which has sqeesed Jewish food and water supplies sup-plies to a trickle. The Arabs struck sharp blows at New Montlfiori, Glvat Shaul arid Beth Hakerem, all western suburbs of Jerusalem. The latter settlement . is on the railroad which links the Holy City with the coastal supply cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv. Using at least one big gun and six mortars, the Arabs lobbed shells into the three suburbs. When I reach New Montlfiori. where rav mother lives, shells still were falling in tree-lined streets and back gardens. Orthodox Jews with side curls and long scarves walked calmly toWrH vr.au.g. Thcv did not aooear to be moved bv the shell - ing. ARMY TO TEST FIGHTING UNITS WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.P.) The air force announced tonight the western powers turned down that it will test all its units to;his demand for'simultaneous ad- see if they are ready for combat operations. Air force officers said the tests are part of "routine training Major emphasis will be placed on the ability of a unit to perf ormj "its tactical mission over a per- iod of sustained operations." Nebo Awards $198,985 Bid Y For Construction of New Springville Elementary School By FRANK G. KING SPANISH FORK Ralph E. Child, Springville contractor, was awarded the, general contract for construction of a new elementary school building in Springville, at a meeting of the Nebo school dis trict board of education this week. Mr. Child's low bttkwas $198,985 Also awarded it Wednes-lay's Wednes-lay's meeting were subcontracts subcon-tracts to P. L. Larsen, Provo, for heating and plumbing, on a $46,297 bid, and to L. C. Gnymon, also of Provo, on a $13374 bid for electrical work. ' The prihciple difference between high explosive and atom bombs is the enormous amount of radiant energy produced by atomic blasts. The explosion itself causes fractures, contusions," lacera-tions lacera-tions and burns. The army said these-Injuries are qualitatively- the same whether caused by an atom bomb or a conventional TNT bomb. In the event of an atom bombing, each physician would have to become a public pub-lic health officer, the army said. .. i: : m vuomiBMinist In Bloody Bogota Revolt Spanish Students L'i TV kV r .i. Mr A' Li t t 4 '" Arm in arm students parade through the streets of Barcelona, Spain, chanting "Truman, No" and "Peron. Yes" after the announcement that congress had barred Spain from taking any part In Sac-retary Sac-retary Marshall's ERP program. At same time President Peron's Argentina government had okayed okay-ed a trade agreement between Spain and Argent 'na. Russia Uses 23rd UN Veto Against Italy LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April 10 (U.R) Russia used its 23rd United Nations veto today to kill Italy's membership application. The security council then decided de-cided to report to the general assembly that ii had been unable to agree on the admission of 10 qther previously -sejLecled ...states Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Trans-Jordan, Eire, Portugal, Austrlar Albania and Outer Mongolia. . The only nation to be recommended recom-mended for UN admission in mornnig and afternoon council sessions was -the newly-independent Asiatic state of Burma. Soviet delegate . Andrei Gromyko vetoed the Italian application despite the danger dang-er of it costing Communists votes In the Italian election a week from tomorrow. Immediately after Russia's ve- to, the United States revealed It I would move to give such states . a non-voting voice in u general Bssemwy uirougn new formula being worked out lbV tiic American delegation The vote on the Italian application appli-cation was 9 to 2, with the Uk raine joining Russia in the mi nority. Gromyko refused to approve j the Italian application because mission of the four other former jaxis satellites Bulgaria, Ro mania, Hungary ana riniana. The western powers had hoped that Russia might reverse this rtand, which was first adopted last fall, in order not to nurt tne I (Continued on Page Two) Work on the new building is slated to start immediately, and completion is planned for August 15. Claude S. Ash worth, of Provo, is the architect. The building will consist of one story, with brick construction, modern in every de tail, and as fireproof as is pos sible. It will contain eight class rooms, dining hall, -recreation room, kitchen, and other facili ties. , The proposed location for the building is property recently pur chased by the school board west of the Brookside subdivision. In addition to Mr. Childs offer, bids were submitted for the gen eral construction contract , by Groneman & Co., Provo, $204,240; Paulsen Construction Co., Salt Lake, $229,970: Max Andrews Construction Co., Provo, $238,194; Vaughn Olsen, Springville, $243,- 008.44; Tblboe and Harlin, Provo, $252,780; and Jensen Brothers, Salt Lake City, $274,212. A total of eight bids was submitted for the plumbing and heating contract, with A. II. Mortensen, of Springville ' offering the second lowest bid M49.995. , Seven bids were received for the electrical contract, with the next lowest offer in this group being turned in by Shane Electric of Provo, whose figure was $14,-462J20. o Plot Protest ERP's By-Pass r-2 . .... ..'-v"-. Russia Seeks to End British, U. i Control Of Berlin Wire BERLIN, April 10 (U.R) Rus sia moved today to terminate U. S. and British control over vital communications ' cables linking Berlin with the western occupation zones, representatives of the western allies announced tonlsht. r Russia refused to renew Rus- Wallace Sees No Threat To U. S. Security CHICAGO, April 10 (U.R) Henry Hen-ry A. Wallace said tonight that there Is no threat to Arrerican security in the international picture, pic-ture, but that a mass hysteria is being "manufactured by the big business-military alliance" because be-cause it is profitable. "There is no threat to American security, there is only a threat tothe super-profits of A me r can mnnnnnlirs" Wallari tnlrl an an-1 dience of some 20,000 persons at made Proposals for the fu-the fu-the Chicago stadium. ture maintenance of the cables." "Behind that curtain of hys- A similar U. S. announcement teria," Wallace said, "the ai - said the RUsjans had proposed craft Industry and the air g-n-i,. . D erals. have begun a new campaign thal the German Reichpost corn-to corn-to get additional billions for the municatlons company maintain neoDle. If the amount conercss gives them is too low, we can expect a new wave of stories designed de-signed to increase fear in the land." The stadium rally, sponsored by the as yet unnamed "new party" presidency, was part of the organization's organ-ization's two day meeting here to set a site and date for the third party's first national convention. con-vention. Wallace accused the aircraft Industry of lobbying for ntw war contracts, because It had "shown that it is utterly Incapable In-capable of profitable peacetime peace-time production.' If we truely need the billions of dollars worth of planes thes; industrialists and the generals are demanding then these planes must be built without profit to any individual. I siy that indut - tries denendintr on war and nre - paration for war must not remain in private hands. ' Wallace also attacked newspapers newspap-ers and radio commentators for what he called their-failure to report re-port the "why" of the nsws m their stories of "what" was hap - penlng. 14 SS Officers Sentenced to Death for Nazi Mass Murders NUERNBERG, Germany, April 10. (U.R) Fourteen officers of the dread Nazi security organizations were sentenced to death today for the wartime mass murder of more than 1,000,000 "racially undesirable" undesir-able" people of occupied Europe. i wo otner were semencea to life imprisonment, three to 20-year 20-year terms and two to 10-year terms. Two years of , the fixed prison terms were remitted to allow for time ' served by the guilty men while awaiting trial. One sergeant whose only crime - was membership in Hitler's SS (elite guard) was freed en the ground that the time he had already served was sufficient punishment. All of the defendants had been members of the SS, and most Suspected IV iv i ,v ty. slan-zone entry permits for troops who- have been supervis ing maintenance of the lines used by western commanders in Berlin to communicate with the headquarters of their zones. Col. Robertf A. Willard, chief of the" U. S. command 'in ' Berlin said the Soviet move "does not mean that we will be cut off from the outside, but it means that we will have no direct control over the land . lines." U. S. offilcals expressed concern over the effect of the crder on service over all-Imnortant- "cable 41," which carries most of the telephone and teletype,, circuits between be-tween Berlin and the V. S. zone. British oficials said Russia had notified them that their maintenance main-tenance supervisors would be bared from the Soviet zone and added that "the Soviets have not lne "nes unat-r nussun supervi sion. The Soviet authorities promised that "cable 41"' would be kept in operation. At present, Reichpost service men tend the cable under the supervision of the 20-odd U. S. soldiers who man Soviet-zone "booster stations" along the cable route. Existing entry permits for the bootser station personnel expire ex-pire next Thursday. The main booster stations on the 275-mile Cable line linking Berlin and the west are operated at Leipzig, Weimar and two other key points. No one was certain tonight-just tonight-just what efect the new Russian action would have. It might be merely an administrative change, but on the other hand it would give Soviet officials complete control over U. S. communica uo"s ana l"? lcac,le at wliI- tions and the ability to cut the Willard said he did not think the Russians would sever the cable. "If that line is golnf to carry American traffic, then I do not want to depend on the Germans : or the Rusians for its main- tenance," Willard added were members of the Gestapo and the SO (security service) as well. They were members of the "ein-satz "ein-satz commando" organizations which followed the German army into occupied areas to liquidate "undesirables." v Those sentenced to hang were: Maj. Gen. Otto Ohlendorf commander of a group blamed for the death of more than 80,00: persons; Brig. Gen. Erich Nau-mann, Nau-mann, one of Ohlendorf's top aides; " deputy group commanders command-ers Cpl. Paul BlobeL CoL Walter Blume, Col. Martin. Sandberger and Col. Wifly Seibert; CoL Eu-gen Eu-gen Seimle, . special assistant to Ohlendorf, and deputy assistants toLt. CoL Ernst Biberstein, Lt. Col. Werner Braune and Lt. Col. Walter Haensch; special group (Continued en Page Two) , New Coalition 4 Cabinet May Restore Peace 4Q0 Dead in Entire Country; Government Troops Restore Order By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.R) -The president of Colum bia today proposed a coalition cabinet to restore peace to that strife-ridden country and his government charged that the bloody revolt in Bogota was "a premeditated plot by Communists" to sabotage the inter-American conference. Rioting which killed at least 34 persons and injured more than 200 others ended. But snipers were active in many buildings throughout Bogota and government govern-ment forces opened up with rifles, automatic weapons and machine ?uns trying to wipe them out. f! The ; opposition newspaper. El Liberal, the only newspa- -per published today In the Columbia capital, placed the' toll mt 1A A jM 1 D 1 - A V v UTWI 111 Dw vul BSia 400 for the entire country. A pooled dispatch to the state department from American cor-respondents cor-respondents in Bogota said Pres ident Mariano Ospina Perez, conservative, con-servative, proposed a coalition cabinet of six liberals party men, six conservatives and one non-political non-political military man. Ospina suggested the coalition after, . a night-long conference with liberal opposition party lead-era lead-era at the presidential palace. Liberal leaders left the palace at 9 a.m. EST.n indicating they were satisfied this . setup would solve the crisis precipitated . yesterday yes-terday when an unidentified assassin as-sassin shot and killed liberal party par-ty leader Jorge E. Gaitan. Columbia Vice President Eduarde 5nlos said in New York he had received word the new cabinet was sworn In at 3:30 p.m. and immediately held Its first meeting. (He said the new cabinet consisted con-sisted of six liberals, six conservatives conser-vatives and a nonpolitical military mili-tary man in a lineup the same as that contained In the dispatch from Bogota. The charge that the 16-hour revolt -was a "premeditated plot by communists" was made by Rafael Azula Barrera, secretary general of the presidency. "The government is firmly con-tated con-tated plot by the communists," he aid. Azula Barrera said Cuban, Costa Cos-ta Rlcan, Honduran and Puerto Riran communists took part in lttacks yesterday on the conserv-vinced conserv-vinced that thi? was a premedi-(Contlnued premedi-(Contlnued on Page Two) Yugoslavs Protest 'Violations' By American Planes LONDON,, April .,10 1 (U.R-Tht official Yugoslav 'y news 'agency Tanjug said in a broadcast from Belgrade tonight that Yugoslavia has protested. officially to the United States against the repeated repeat-ed "violation of Yugoslav , air space" by American planes last month. In a later broadcast, Tanjug re ported Yugoslavia had rejected an AngloAmerican protest on Trieste rrontier incidents. "The Yugoslav government has rejected this protest and called attention to the fast these incidents inci-dents were caused by control organs or-gans of the Allied military administration ad-ministration in Trieste," Tanjug -.aid. ( Tanjug listed at least seven dif-"erent dif-"erent occasions from March 7 through March 18 in which It :laimed American planes flew jver the frontier from Italy into Yugoslav territory. . Most of the planes were de- cribed as transports, others nerely as "planes." The agency said in several lrt- tances American ' planes flew 'deep into Yugoslav- territory" at joth high and low altitudes. j. It did not explain what reason he Yugoslav government ascribed ascrib-ed for the American flights. The dispatch began: "Violation ?f Yugoslav air space on the part of American planes has been recurring re-curring lately." : It then detailed each of the violation naming . vilagea, times and. altitudes. The dispatch concluded, con-cluded, "the Yugoslav govern ment has lodged a protest with the United States against these violations.' |