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Show TEMPERATURES Provo 7( 31 IPortUnd . . IS 41 Salt Lake . 71 32 Boil SI St Ogdcn 71 12 Poctllo . l IS I.Ofan fS 30, Denver ... 2 tl fit. Georf. . SI IChiraRO ... 54 34 Vrill R7 54 Duluth . . 4 2 Phoenix 7 2 w York SI 47 Lot Angelei RR 52 Miami . tZ 9 Ban Fran. . 37 47 jN. Orleans 77 54 Clear and Warmer Sunday. Approximate high tena perature today 15. VOL. 25, NO. 50 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY- MAY 9, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS em mm New Military Air Transport Service Set Up Combines ATC. NATS In One Operation On a Global Scale WASHINGTON. May 8 (U.R) Defence Secretary James Forrestal tonight announced the creation of a new Military Air Transport Service which will go into operation June 1 on a global scale. The new service (MATS) combines In one operation planes and personnel of the air transport command and the naval air trans port service, both of which die as separate agencies next month. Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter commands the unified service. Its routes will stretch from San Francisco to Karachi, India, and from Washington to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. MATS planes will fly as far ' north as Thule in Greenland, above the Arctic Cir cle, and as far south as Rio De Janeiro.' Kuter said the new organization will be better able to meet the country's worldwide military air transportation needs than the separate sep-arate air force and navy services were. Military leaders greeted creation crea-tion of MATS as proof that armed arm-ed forces unification is a reality. MATS gets 215 four-engine Douglas DC-4 transport types 1 76 ,f rem the-air transport command com-mand a 39 from naval air transport. trans-port. Twenty of these planes are plush jobs for "special missions." In addition, the new service will acquire 59 Douglas DS-3 craft 55 from ATC and four from NATS which will be used on feeder routes and as utility planes. MATS personnel will total 12,-000 12,-000 9000 from ATC and 3000 from NATS. A MATS development unit will "shake down" planes like the Boeing C-97, cargo version of the B-29, and Douglas C-74, a cargo craft capable of carrying 15 jeeps. These planes then will be assigned to runs. The navy and air force will hang on to some transport planes for their own special military needs. But the planes will not fly regularly scheduled trips. Cornelius Vanderbllt Whitney, assistant secretary of war, pointed point-ed out. at a press conference a unique command feature of the new service. In it, navy officers may command air force officers and men and vice versa. The navy now flies six flights a week between Washington and Moffett Field. Cal., and the air force three flights a week from Washington to Fairf ield-Suisun, Cal. These will be consolidated into nine MATS flights. Either Moffett Field of Fairfield-Suisun will be eliminated as a terminal. First Photos Out of Stranded Jerusalem Testify to Grim Fight ,p-A& TV Arabs set up this machine-gun and mortar position on the roof of the railroad station at Jerusalem against the Ilaganh, after the British Brit-ish abandoned it. The station controls the main road to Bethlehem and southern Palestine. Photo, by Artine Kamrgsislan, NEA-Acme photographer, is one of first pictures from Jerusalem since breakdown of communications in Palestine.. Photos were sent by courier to Cairo for transhipment by air to New York. Boy, 9, Hit by Car, Dies From Hurts OGDEN. Utah, May 8 tH A nine-year-old Roy, Utah, boy Lawrence P. Dawson, died Sat urday afternoon in an Ogden hos pital or injuries suffered 20 hours earlier when a car hit him on the state highway north of Roy. Lawrence had just left a school bus and was crossing the highway high-way when struck by a car that pojice said was drievn by Guy E. Carr, 24-yea-old Ogden resident. resi-dent. The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbcrt J. Dawson of Roy. News Highlights In Central Utah Henry A. Gardner, Spanish Fork Civic Leader, Dies Suddenly . 2 Work Resumed at -Geneva Plate Mill; Parley Set Monday ... 2 Eureka Mayor Dies in Salt Lake Hospital 2 Smith to Address P. G. Seminary Rites 2 National Commander of Amvets Delivers Provo Address ... 3 AFL Building Trades Reject Contractors' Wage Offer ... 3 Pageant Features West Utah Stake Conference . P. 4, Sec. 2 Marion Robertson Chosen BYU Valedictorian g 3,000 Jump In Maneuvers Of Paratroopers JlMP CAMPBELL, Ky., May &.fU,R) The nation's biggest peacetime peace-time maneuvers since the end of World War-Two got a spectacular spectacu-lar sendoff today when nearly 3,000 paratroops billowed down in a mass jump to battle "guerrillas" "guer-rillas" and "fifth columnists." The guerrillas were besieging the medical center at Camp Campbell. The maneuvers, known as "operation "op-eration assembly," will shortly involve about 30,000 troops ' in joint operations of the third army and the ninth air force. The army had to reach into army posts in nearly every section of the country to get enough troops for its part of the sham warfare. The paratroopers "re-captured" the Camp Campbell airport, received re-ceived supplies by glider and dug in to await reinforcement by thousands of other troops from the fifth corps rushing to their assistance by train and truck. The air force, meanwhile, threw an "umbrella" of fighting planes over the area. When all the troops arrive, the army will drop its play fighting for more than a week and go into a period of intensive small unit training. Then the troops will reassemble re-assemble and being their war again May 24 to eliminate entirely entire-ly the "guerillas" and "fifth-columnists." "fifth-columnists." The jump had all the realism of war, including small arms fire (with blank ammunition) except for thousands of spectators, reporters, re-porters, radio broadcasters and cameramen surrounding the landing fied. It was made by the 505th regimental combat team of the famous 82nd airborne division, divi-sion, which wrote into its world war two history that it was "America's most decorated division." divi-sion." War-time troopers of the 82nd could wear the French Fourra-gere, Fourra-gere, the Belgian Fourragere and the Dutch order of Wilhelm in addition to their individual decorations. dec-orations. Few of those jumping today took part in any of the 82nd's four combat jumps in the war, although many had parachuted into the snow at Pine Camp, N. Y., the past wintei in "operation showdrOp." Draft Urged to Deter Gamble By Russia for U. S. Showdown By JOHN L. STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 8 (U.R) Russia may risk a showdown show-down with the United States at any moment, the house armed services committee said today in appealing for prompt passage of a draft law "to deter any such rash decision. Five members dissented, denouncing de-nouncing the draft bill as "a program for war." A-.-. J..I But the 28-man majority said UTGflOn CnefJUI Soviet moves in Europe in the 3 Stassen Moves Up n Schedule To Debate Dewey past six months have raised the "new and ominous possibility" that Russia may gamble on. a showdown now "on the assump- PORTLAND, Ore., May 8 (U.R);""" , u" ",u.y rviwun, vie, worsening of thp Soviet tinsi- . t 1 .1.1 1 a TT , -J T". rresiaenuai aspirant xiaruia -ition Stassen of Minnesota, will fly to Oregon three days ahead of schedule for a showdown campaign cam-paign fight against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Stassen's headquarters announced tonight. A few hours after a Dewey spokesman accused Stassen of "concocting" a debate challenge Therefore, the majority said, "It is now imperative for the United States to transform trans-form a reasonable measure of its armed strength from potential po-tential to actual." The committee's two-year,- 19-through-25 draft bill is expected to reach the house floor for a votp in ahnut 10 Hav Th sin. on the question of outlawing the ate armed services committee on Communist party, Stassen an nounced he will arrive in Portland Port-land May 14 instead of May 17, as originally planned. Stassen will make a last-ditch stand against Dewey for the Ore gon 12-man Republican presiden tial delegation to be decided at the state primary election May 21. Dewey flew from Klamath Falls to Bend, Ore., tonight at the conclusion con-clusion of the first week of his intensive speech-making tour of the state. Robert Elliott, Stassen's campaign cam-paign manager in Oregon, said Stassen had found "more time on his schedule" and will return to Oregon "to challenge Dewey at the earliest possible moment." Stassen's new schedule calls for an itinerary closely paralleling Dewey's junket. He will open with a speech in Portland, and follow up with speeches at Salem, Eugene, Eu-gene, Hod River, The Dalles, Pendleton and La Grande. Local polls published two weeks ago by the Independent Oregon Journal showed Stassen a substantial sub-stantial favorite in Oregon. Since then Dewey has stumped virtually virtual-ly every sizeable community in northcentral, central and southern south-ern Oregon. 50 Injured, Three Seriously In Bingham Railroad Crash BINGHAM. Utah. May 8 (U.R) Two trains collided today at the Utah Copper mine near Bingham, injuring about 50 men, three seriously. Most of the men were merely' shaken in the accident on the outer rim of the big Bingham copper pit. Assistant mines superintendent L. F. Pett of the Utah division of the Kennecott Copper company blamed the acident on a switch he said was turned in the wrong direction. The misdirected switch sent a two-car train carrying men to their copper pit jobs into the path of another electric train carrying waste from the diggings. Visibility of the crews was obscured ob-scured by a snowstorm. The ore cars smashed into the first passenger pas-senger coach for about 10 feet. ' Brakeman Gordon D. Burke, 24, lost a foot. Bulldozer operator L. R. Carrigan, 35, had his foot crushed. A third - man, Keith Manning, 28, was also listed as seriously injured but the extent of his hurts was not announced. All the men were frqpi Bingham. Monday will put the finishing touches on its own "blend" bill which combines the draft and a watered-down version of universal uni-versal military training. The five minority members of the house committee accused the army of deliberately holding up voluntary recruiting to make the draft and UMT seem necessary. "Every major power in history which has had peacetime conscription con-scription inevitably has been led into war and eventually to defeat said. "We do not believe that we are warranted in taking such a fatal course . . ." The two contrasting reports highlighted defense developments which included: 1. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R.. Mass.), put up to senate Republican Re-publican Policy Chief Robert A. Taft a proposal for a close, hard look at just how much America can afford to spend for defense and foreign aid. Lodge wants a deep-searching survey of raw materials ma-terials and industrial resources so congress can know how far the country can go before price con-tral, con-tral, rationing and priorities wyuld become necessary. Lodge said Taft had agreed to consider the idea in the joint congressional economic committee, which the Ohioan heads. 2. It will cost about $40,000,-000 $40,000,-000 to register, induct and send to camp the first-year selectees if congress okeys the draft. That estimate, es-timate, it was disclosed ,was given to congress secretly not long ago by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, wartime draft director. Hershey based his estimate on the assumption assump-tion that a net of 660,000 young men would be available for se-j lective service out of the total of! 8,371,000 In World War 11, selective, se-lective, service costs averaged! $49,306,850 a year. I 3. Several senators suggested! that the air force soft-pedal its rtough talk" about Russia and leave foreign policy to President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall. The sug-(Continued sug-(Continued on Page Two) Truce Halts Shooting War In Jerusalem BULLETIN: CAIRO, Egypt, Sunday, May 9. (U.R) The minister of national defense denied today to-day that any Egyptian "volunteers" "vol-unteers" had invaded Palestine. Pales-tine. It was reported from Am-mam. Am-mam. Transjordan. that King Abdullah had announced his armies would not invade Palestine Pal-estine unless simultaneous action were taken by Egyptian Egyp-tian forces. JERUSALEM, Paletine. May 8. (U.R) A British-Arab cease-fire ! agreement brought peace to Jeru salem today, ending at least temporarily tem-porarily a 160-day bloodbath in the Holy City. Fear of renewed fighting created cre-ated an atmosphere of tension in a city still threatened by shortages short-ages of water and fuel. But the tug-of-war for the shrine city of Moslems, Christians and Jews appeared for the time being to center around the conference table. Time was running short, and no permanent truce had been concluded in the Holy Land. As darkness fell over a city where the -loudest sound was the wail ing of a hot desert wind, less !h;tii 150 hours remained before the end of the British mandate and possible all-out war between Arabs and Jews. By 9 p.m. the Holy City's usually - deserted streets were crowded with both Jews and Arabs enjoying this interim of peace. From noon, (6 a.m. EDT) when the truce began, until twilight, not a shot was heard. After sundown, sun-down, however, a half a dozen rifles and pistols were discharged, discharg-ed, either accidentally or by force of habit. For five months troops and police had fired at any moving mov-ing shodow. No firing had been heard here since late last night, when Arabs attacked Jewish positions around the Mekor Haim quarter. Hag-anah Hag-anah sources said today that the Arabs had been driven off at dawn. The Jews, although not an active ac-tive party to the cease-fire pact, were living up to previous promises prom-ises that they would stop shooting shoot-ing if the Arabs did.. Appliance Prices Cut 5 Percent By General Motors DETROIT, May 9 (U.R) General Motors Corp. today announced a five per cent reduction in prices, effective Monday, on refrigerators, refrigera-tors, range3, washing machines, and other household appliances. The corporation said the price cut also would apply to small electric motors manufactured by Packard Electric division, Warren, War-ren, O.; the Delco Appliance division, divi-sion, Rochester, N. Y., and Delco Products division, Dayton, O. The electric ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, ironers, clothes dryers and wai r i . affected by the reduction ao duced by the Frigidaire division, Dayton, O. Chrysler, CIO Agree to One More Meeting Strike of 73,000 Men Set for Wednesday in Chrysler Plants DETROIT, May 8 (U.R) Federal labor conciliators announced an-nounced tonight that Chrysler Chrys-ler corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers had agreed to meet at 11 a. m. Monday in an effort to avert a strike Wednesday of 73,000 workers. Mediator Leo T. Kotin said Norman Nor-man Matthews, director of the union's Chrysler department, and company officials had agreed to meet with the U .S. conciliators Monday in a last-ditch attempt to head off the nation-wide walkout. walk-out. Kotin's disclosure came five days before the zero hour for the first major walkout in the auto industry since the prolonged 113-day 113-day General Motors corporation strike in 1945-46. The union, which broke off negotiations ne-gotiations with Chrysler last Thursday afternoon, has declined to reveal just when during the walkout day the enmiwny's production pro-duction workers will close 16 plants in Michigan, Indiana and California. But Matthews, who charged the smallest of the "Big Three" auto producers refused to give its employes em-ployes "one red cent" of the 30-cent 30-cent hourly wage boost they demand, de-mand, declared the walkout was "inevitable." The union also demanded "fringe" benefits for its Chrysler workers that brought the total third-round pay demand package to the equivalent of 35 cents. Chrysler and the UAW are negotiating ne-gotiating on economic issues only, on-ly, since thqir contract does not expire until7 April, 1949. The parlays, under way since Feb. 27, became deadlocked last month when Matthews scaled down his demands to 181 cents an hour and the company countered count-ered with its first wage offer of six-cents an hour. When the union spurned the Chrysler offer, the auto firm withdrew it and no further specific spe-cific overtures have been made by either party. The UAW and General Motors corporation are negotiating nego-tiating an entirely new contract. con-tract. The union demands from GM a 30-cent ware package, including a flat 15-cent 15-cent pay hike plus other benefits. ben-efits. Last week the union carried its drive for the third-round of wage increases since the end of the war to the Ford Motor Company, from which it asked a 30-cent pay-increase pay-increase plus benefits boosting the total package to the equivalent of 50 cents. Ford-UAW negotiations have not started. Unions Stand Pat On Strike Slated Tuesday Government Fails to Settle Wage Dispute In Saturday's Conference; Both Sides in Controversy Fail to Yield From Position By CHARLES II. HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 8 (U.R) The Kovernment failed today to settle the railroad wasre dispute and a union spokes man said that "as far as we are concerned the strike i on at 6 a.m. Tuesday." Barring developments tomorrow, the government il expected to seize the nation's railroads on Monday. High officials are confident that would prevent a walkout. Nearly four hours of White House negotiations between the chiefs of three strike-threat-1 ; Strike Threat Reflected In Price Raises 10 NYC Trains Held in Chicago CHICAGO. May 8 (U.R) Ten of the New York Central railroad's leading trains, including the 20th Century Limited, will not leave Chicago Monday because of the impending rail strike, railroad officials said today. Other trains cancelled from from Chicago include the Commodore Com-modore Vanderbilt; advance Commodore Vanderbilt; Pacemaker; Pace-maker; Lake Shore Limited; North Shore Limited; The Chi-cagoan; Chi-cagoan; New England States to Boston; Motor City Special to Detroit; and Koyal Palm and Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Night Express to Cincinnati. ening unions and representatives of the railroads brought another no-progress report. "They didn't offer us a thing," said Alvanley Johnston, president presi-dent of the Brtoherhood of Locomotive Lo-comotive Engineecs. William Faricy, president of the Association of American Rail-toads, Rail-toads, said the industry will not go beyond the wage increase and working rules rocommendations of President Truman's fact-find ing board "and that's final." But Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman, who is handling the rail strike crisis for Mr. Truman, said "We're going to try again tomorrow." "I have asked both sidei to think over the matter and discuss it with their people," he said. Steelman asked the operator to meet with him at 10 a.m. EDT tomorrow and the union repre sentatives were asked to stand by for a call after that. In the long afternoon session, the railroads stood pat on 'their refusal to grant any larger wage increase than the 15'2 cents an hour, plus some working rules changes, recommended last March by the presidential board. The unions, seeking a 30 per cent wage increase with a minimum mini-mum of 3 a day, turned down that recommendation a few days after it was made and called a nationwide strike for Tuesday. Today's joint negotiations broke up about 5:55 p.m., EDT. The management men came out first. Faricy said the railroads did not like some of the recommendations recommen-dations of the fact-finding board but were willing to put all of them into effect "completely the desirable and the undesirable." But beyond that, he said, the industry will not go. "When men and management disagree in a labor dispute which will affect the lives of every American citizen, is there any better way of settling the dispute than to have the president appoint ap-point an impartial board to make lecommendations on the issues'" he asked. A few minutes later the union chiefs came out of the White House. Johnston said the railroads' position "is no offer of settlement." settle-ment." "They didn't offer us a thing. As far as we are concerned, the strike is on at 6 a.m., Tuesday," he said. Steelman announced a few minutes later that "so far it has been impossible to bring the parties to an agreement-' and "we're going to try again tomorrow." to-morrow." A top Republican leader in congress shared the view of the administration that the rail strike will not take place. House Speaker Speak-er Joseph W. Martin, Jr., predicted pre-dicted to newsmen that the rail way workers will not waiK out But he would not reveal the reason for his belief. Administration officials feel that if the government takes over the railroads, the men will not strike because they could not hope to win against the full force of the federal government. Hawaii Statehood Delayed By Senate Committee's Action WASHINGTON, May 8 (U.R) The senate interior and insular affairs committee today virtually killed any hopes of Hawaii to be admitted to the union this year. The committee voted 7 to 5 to postpone action on a statehood bill until committee members visit the islands. Such a trip seemed out of the question before congress adjourns. The house has approved legislation to give statehood state-hood to Hawaii. The committee vote came on aj motion by Sen. Eugene D. Milli-' kin, R., Colo. Chairman Hugh Butler, R., Neb said the vote was not a decision de-cision on statehood for Hawaii. He thought a majority of committee com-mittee members may vote for statehood after visiting the islands is-lands sometime before the next session of congress. He said he hoped Hawaiians would not be "discouraged." Those voting for the delay were Millikin, Butler, and Sens. Henry C. Dworshak, R., Ida.; Zales N. Ecton, R., Mont.; George W. Ma-lone, Ma-lone, R., Nev.; Sheridan Downey, R., Cal.; and Ernest McFarland, D. , Ariz. Opposing the postponement: were Sens. Guy Cordon, R., Ore.; Arthur V. Watkins. R., Utah: Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M .,; Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyo- and James E. Murray, D., Mont. I CHICAGO, May 8 (U.R) Pricei of fruits, vegetables and other perishable foods were rising today to-day as growers and shipper! braced brac-ed themselves for Tuesday'! scheduled railroad strike. The railroads themselves have announced that no perishable material ma-terial will be accepted after Sunday Sun-day midnight. The growers and shippers, however, have realized that produce loaded today and tomorrow to-morrow probably would be stranded en route and left to spoil if the operating brotherhoods brother-hoods carry out their strike. Consequently, Con-sequently, shipments received today were small and prices at the major exchanges rose accordingly. accord-ingly. A strike May 11 would mean that all fresh vegetable! and perishable foods which usually move to markets on a day-today basis would be unavailable. un-available. Since there are no stockpiles. produce prices already are rising with the emergency and will continue con-tinue upward until the produce supply is exhausted. After that, each community will have only the vegetables which can be trucked into its markets from near-by farms. Large cities will practically do without fresh foods, since the small supply will be spread thinly over a fe,w stores. The rising prices will be felt even if the strike is called off at the eleventh hour. Railroad embargoes em-bargoes on perishable foods will begin Sunday and Monday, which means that the supplies received this week end will be the last for several days. Food stuff growers already are cancelling shipments intended for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, knowing that their goods would be left to spoil if , the trains are stopped. j. If the strike threat is settled hr the strike postponed by Monday it still will be three or four days before normal supplies begin rolling rol-ling and the quantities available drive prices downward. Luttuce averages $7 a crate, up $2; potatoes are up $1 per 100 pounds, and 50-pound bags Of onions sold today for $1.25. These are carlot prices, the lowest, and undoubtedly the three or four "middlemen" ha'ndling the shipments will boost their usual markup to balance the loss of revenue from small sales. Butter felt the embargoes immediately im-mediately and rose one and two cents a pound. No Hope Seen To End Meat Strike CHICAGO, May 8 (U.R) Swift and Co., one of the big four packers pack-ers against which the CIO united uni-ted packinghouse workers are on strike, told its employes today that there is no chance of reaching a settlement with the union. Swift made the statement in a letter "to Swift production and maintenance people," as federal mediator prepared for another attempt to end the 53-day nation-wide meat strike. A Washington announcement yesterday said that the media tors had summoned packers and union to a meeting here today. By midday, the principals said they had not heard directly from the mediators, although a government govern-ment source believed they were in town. |