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Neither Godman nor Dan Edwards, Utah labor commissioner, commis-sioner, would say If anythlnf had been accomplished In the latest session. The unUn has promised not io reorder Its strike before 6 a: m. Monday. Twice this week, the union has ordered the more than 3000 members mem-bers of Its seven locals to strike but both times the orders were cancelled shortly before pickets took up their positions. Originally the strike " was set for Thursday. Then it was set for thU -rrtor nirtgr Nowt - it . may. be called again for Monday if the two parties fall to settle their differences. The latest postponement was announced at 10 p. m. Friday night after the corporation had rejected the union's "final" offer on the controversial communism question. The union suggested that a new contract be signed, replacing one that expired July 1, without local or International officials signing anti-communism affidavits as demanded de-manded by the company. The union said that it would promise to have the affidavits signed later if the United States supreme su-preme court rules that this pro vision of the Taft-Hartley labor law is constitutional. D. D. Moffat, vice president and general manager of the company, said such a conditional agreement agree-ment might only serve to delay the strike until a more critical time. He said Americanism of local union leaders was unquestioned unques-tioned but the company wanted to be sure that any international officers it dealt with were not communists. Upon the rejection, the union pointed out that such conditional agreements had been sit ned by coal operators and major steel producers. It added that "certainly, Kennecott Ken-necott Is no more patriotic that U. S. Steel." Sheriffs deputies made plans to be at the Bingham mines, the Magna and Arthur mills, the Ely, Nev., properties, and the Kennecott Kenne-cott workings around Hurley and Santa Rita, N. M., at down today to prevent violence. Then Donald Godman, Salt Lake City representative of the federal mediation and conciliation service, and Dan Edwards, Utah labor commissioner and former labor union official, stepped jij " They requested another . postponement post-ponement of at least 48 hours. The union granted it, after Godman and Edwards said they believed there still might be found a basis for peaceful settlement. More con ference were ordered for today. Kennecott Copper is the world's largest producer of copper. It mines an average of 46,000,000 pounds of copper every month In (Continued on Page Two) Partly Cloudy Sunday. Not much change temperature. High today 90. in News Highlights In Central Utah Orem City Approves $43,000 Sewer and waterworks loan. 7 Carpenter Union Hosts to Conference of Building Men. 7 Provoi Hotel Project to be Settled at MonJay Meeting.. 7 Spanish Fork to offer Old Pavilion for Salt 4 ES. HlJiiuSl mmj! Iriyl lfflL llTTEIIiyESI Gas, Electricity Use Cut Below Witt-Time Levels In West Berlin Food Supply in Russian Zone is Getting Worse Also, Soviet Administrators Admit; Currency Situation Gets More. Confusing BERLIN, Aug. 7 U.R The American, British and French commanders ' tonight ordered another 50 per cent reduction in gas and electricity rations for 2,400,000 per sons sealed in the western sectors of Berlin by the Soviet blockade. lhis sent the rations below their lowest wartime level. It meant that electric power used, for household cooking would have to be cut in half and that household gas would be shut off from 9 p. m. to 5 a. m. dail Germans in Berlin were not the only ones suffering, however, Soviet puppet administrators admitted ad-mitted tonight that the food sup- ply in the Russian zone was steadily worsening. Food riots, which flared earlier this week, had apparently been curbed, but only after Soviet of ficials diverted several food trains to major trouble spot: One German official In th Soviet sector told a Berlin newspaper that It would be five to six weeks before food ration cards could be honored In full. . . Meanwhile, in an effort to ease the confusing money situation in this city of two currencies, the western -powers .prepared vto' flyf in 23,000,000 westmatki to back up yesterday's promise that each western Berlin firm would be advanced 100 westmarks per em ploye In order to meet payrolls already two weeks overdue. This move was necessitated after Soviet authorities block ed the currency accounts of all rwestern ' Berlin firms who kept their money in Soviet banks. Normally, these firms paid salaries sal-aries 73 per cent in Soviet money and 25 per cent In western. Meanwhile, the Russians re leased a few western Berlin accounts, ac-counts, but only those, of com panies whose products are sold in the Soviet sector of Berlin or the Soviet zone of Germany. The Russians also released 5,- 000,000 eastmarks to city author ities to meet municipal expenses, making a total of 15,000,000 east- marks In city funds unblocked so far. In a third move, they released a total of 12,000,000 eastmarks to pay social insurance benefits. At the four-power air safety center tonight, the Russians handed British and American officials of-ficials written protests of 160 alleged violations of air safety regulations by planes hopping over the blockade during July. A Russian-license newspaper (Continued on Page Two) One Escaped Patient Found; Two Missing Robert Jones. 35. Price, one of . & 4 1 A - l 1 I uie in ice pa lieu i wno escaped from trie Utah State hospital Thursday night, has been apprehended appre-hended and returned to the hospital, hos-pital, it was reported Saturday night. According to hospital officials he was picked up in Price Friday Dy carbon county law enforcement enforce-ment officers. Hospital authorities author-ities said they had no further details de-tails on his capture. No trace of the other two men who escaped with Jones Thursday Thurs-day night, Don Whitehead. 39. TSalt Lake City, and Frank Mell, 31, has been found, it was reported. re-ported. Bridegroom - to - EDMORE, Mich., Aug. 7 (L'JJ) The postman saved Larry-Flaughner, Larry-Flaughner, 24, from resorting resort-ing to a locksmith and or hacksaw Saturday night to remove a ball and chain from his leg in time for his marriage mar-riage Sunday. Fellow students at Tulsa Aeronautical school locked a 24-pound ball and chain to his leg when Flaughner boarded a plane to Edmore, where he will marry 19-year-old Lucille Hemminger tomorrow. to-morrow. The students mailed the key to his fiancee. They said t ! i tf . PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY. AUGUST 8, 1948 White Russians Kidnap Teacher To Be Questioned NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (UJR The Soviet consul general in New York and the head of a White Russian organization tonight accused ac-cused one -another of kidnaping a Russian school teacher. Consul -General Jacob Lomakin called reporters to his consulate announced that he and his subordinate had rescued Mrs. Oksank Stepanovna Kosenkina from "white Russian bandits" who he faid had kidnaped her a week ago yesterday. Just 'before she "was topsail for Russia. Mrs. Kosenkina was with him and through a translator supplied by the - consulate, she onf irmed his accusations. But the Countess Alexandra Tolstoi, daughter ofxthe world- famous Russian novelist Count Leo Tolstoi and head of the Tolstoi foundation, saidxLomak- In and his aids had "kidnaped" Mrs. Kosenkina from the founda tion's farm at Valley Cottage;, N. Y near Conger. N. Y.. the teacher was so "terrorized" she didn't dare refuse to go alon with them, the countess said. In Washington, Rep. Carl E. Mundt, R., S. 'D., acting chairman chair-man of the house un-American activities committee, said Mrs. Kodenkina had been about ready to place herself in the hands of U. S. authorities and was "going to talk about the whole Soviet system of world controls." His committee, he said, was planning to question her. He was asking the state department de-partment and the FBI If the law permitted the Soviet consul-general to hold her, he said, because "to have what amounts to a branch of the NKVD (Russian se cret police) pick up a person In a private American home and put them in virtual seclusion in what amounts to house arrest-seems arrest-seems to .us unprecedented. We feel that kind of goings on cannot be tolerated." New York State police, the Federal .Bureau of Investigation, and the county police all were notified by one faction or the other, and the first two agencies were Investigating. The local police threw up their hands, say- in It was too much for them. The blsarre development came In the midst of a hunt for "a missing witness" by congressmen Investigating a Communist spy ring said to . have reached Into the federal fed-eral government during the war. Lomakin said "the White Russian Rus-sian bandits" had kidnaped not only Mrs. Kosenkina but also another an-other Russian school teacher, Mikhail Samarln, Mrs. Samarin, and their three children. The Sa-marins, Sa-marins, he said, were held on a farm of the Tolstoi foundation in New Jersey. be Locked in Ball and Chain they wanted to be sure he didn't get cold feet at the last minute. . Miss Hemminger carried a hacksaw when she met him in Grand Rapids," Mich.. 40 miles from here,-today Just in case the key had not arrived. ar-rived. .- - , ' ..v. J. She said "I wanted Larry to saw that chain off, but he said he'd wait until we , got back home and saw if the key had arrived. - "Sure enough, there was an airmail letter waiting at my home and we took the chain off." Earl Brovder Questioned In SpyR Prose ing 'Mystery Witness' Is Identified as KoraL Recanting Communist NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U.R) Earl Browder, deposed head of the American Communist party, was questioned today by a house sub-committee in- vestigating a Communist spy ring said to have penetrated the federal government dur ing the war. But he was not the "mystery witness," whom the probers had promised would "crack the spy ring wide open." The "mystery witness," it was disclosed official ly, is Alexander Koral, a recant ing Communist, who will tell his full story in a public hearing in Washington on Monday. The Justice department dis closed that Koral had testified be fore a federal grand Jury in New York which recently indicted 12 top U. S. Communists in charg es of seeking violent overthrow of the government. In Washington, Rep. Karl E. Mundt, R., S. D., acting chairman of the full house un-American activities committee, said the subcommittee sub-committee had come here specif ically to question Koral. "He was supposed to lead to an other witness not yet mentioned," Mundt said, adding that he didn't know if the subcommittee had questioned the second man.""" Koral was questioned see-retly see-retly by the sub-committee in the federal building last night. Rep. Richard M. Nixon. Nix-on. R., Cat. ft, member, said: "He Is as Important a witness as any we yet have questioned." question-ed." r Mundt had said earlier in Washington that Koral was believed be-lieved to be "in a position to give the committee valuable and direct information concerning a con tact man for the Communist spy ring who met with key people. e have reason to believe this contact man operated within the ring and that he was one of the people who made contact within the ring. I cannot say whether this contact man is operating now. In Washington, Rep. John E. Rankin, IX, Miss., another committee com-mittee member, said he would seek subpenas for Henry A. Wallace, Wal-lace, third party presidential can didate, and M J. Gen. Leslie Groves, wartime head of the Manhattan Man-hattan atom bomb project. "The American people have a right to know what has been going go-ing in, and what is going on now relative to the secret of the atomic atom-ic bomb and the material with which it is Aiade," Rankin said. Committed members have al leged that atomic materials were sent to Russia in 1943 and again in 1949. Wallace was secretary of commerce com-merce in 1945. Other committee sources said he fully corroborated the story of Miss Elizabeth Bentley. "queen of the spy ring, who named Na than Gregory Silvermaster as the (Continued on Page Two) Marine Air Corps Starts Maneuvers EL TORO, Cal., Aug. 7 (U.R -For the most extensive peace time air maneuvers in marine corps history more than 3000 leatherneck reserves from states west of the Mississippi river today to-day began winging into the El Toro marine air station. The marines chose the sixth anniversary of the American landing at Guadalcanal to inaugurate inaug-urate their two week maneuver, second since the war's end. . Flaughner said "they say love laughs at locksmiths, but we were going to get one if the key hadn't been here." Miss Hemminger said "Larry. took it all as a Joke," but he admitted that "I got a little mad several times coming here." , They said they had been sweethearts for two years and five months. Their families fam-ilies both live in Edmore. , Flaughner admitted he was anxious about .the key. He said "I didn't want to get married in chains." No More Public Hearings' i 'i' A , M, ji - t '' - Chairman Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) of the Senate Investigating Investiga-ting Committee which has held public hearings Into the effectiveness ef-fectiveness of the Federal Loyalty Program, announces that the committee will halt public hearings now. In halting publie hear -lags Fergasen 'blasted" the admlnlstrattoyfor "refusing; - to tu rn ' over Information on William Remington, who has been ac cused or being a communist Soviet spy. Michigan Senator Launches Bitter Attach On Truman WASHINGTON, Aig. 7 (U.R) Sen. Homer Ferguson, R Mich.? today raised the threat of congressional impeachment impeach-ment action against President Truman. He declared in a senate speech that: "Congress is rapidly being pushed into the intolerable position of having either to legislate through a blind spot or compel the president to answer for his conduct in an impeachment proceeding. Ferguson denounced Mr. week to turn over to LUltKlCi- sional investigators of alleged es pionage the loyalty files on fed eral employes involved. Speaking as chairman of the senate Investigating committee, com-mittee, Ferguson said congress con-gress must have a showdown with Mr. Truman because "presidential arrogance Is becoming be-coming Intolerable.". The president on Thursday called the espionage inquiry being be-ing conducted by Ferguson's group and the house un-American activities committee a "red herring." her-ring." He said the investigation was aimed at making the people forget that congress refused to pass his anti-inflation and other proposals Mr. Truman flatly refused to give the committees any confidential confi-dential loyalty information about any federal employe. Ferguson charged that the president and his executive agen cies are attempting in this man ner to hide their mistakes. ' He had asserted earlier that since congress .appropriated $11,000,000 to carry out the administration's employe loyalty program, it has a right to find out how it is working. work-ing. Ferguson's committee has been particularly interested in the government loyalty program, while the house group has been taking testimony from former Communists who v alleged widespread wide-spread espionage activities In federal fed-eral circles on behalf of Russia. In a 32-page address, Ferguson asserted that relations between the president and congress are being be-ing strained to the limit by $ policy of secrecy first invoked by the late President Roosevelt. "Some day we shall have to meet the issue head-on because be-cause the trend of presidential presiden-tial arrogance is becoming Intolerable." he said. "Unless we keep the president within bounds in his 'attempt to put an iron curtain between congress con-gress and the public business unless we succeed in that endeavor, en-deavor, constitutional and representative repre-sentative government will be transfered before our very eyei into centralized, executive fic-tatorship." fic-tatorship." It was perhaps the most bitter (Continued en Page Two) PRICE FIVE CENTS , - O ' 1 and furnishing secret jiau to, a Truman for refusing this Marie Regime Wins Victory PARIS, Aug. 7 (U.R) Premier Andre Marie's new government won a victory in the national assembly as-sembly today when the finance commission approved the first part of a bill which will give the government broad emergence powers to deal with the French economic situation. The first article of the bill was 'approved by a vote of 28 to 15. Thirteen of those who voted against the measure were Communists, Com-munists, one. was an extreme rightist, and one was a member of the centrist popular Republican Repub-lican movement. finance Minister Paul Reynaud will become" virtual "economic dictator" of France when the bill is finally approved by ' the whole assembly. Several amendments amend-ments were added today which limit his power to slash civil service roles. . New British Royal Dynasty Set to Come Into Existence LONDON, Aug. 7 (U.R) A new British royal dynasty will come into existence with the ' birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby around Oct. 15. The House of Mountbat-ten Mountbat-ten will succeed the House of Windsor. However, because of the affection affec-tion with which the name of Windsor is held by the' British people, a royal decree may' perpetuate per-petuate both the names of Windsor Wind-sor and Mountbatten in the new dynasty, although custom rules otherwise. When i Queen Victoria, of the House of Hanover, married Albert Al-bert prince consort, the family became Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, since Albert was a prince of that line. '. , '; During the first .world war the then king of Britain. George V, renounced the name Saxe-Coburg GOP Ignores.- Price Control Ration Special Session Ends After 13 Days of Wrangling; Motion to Adjourn Carried By Count of 39 to 29 on Party Line Vote t WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U.R) The Republican-control led congress adjourned its 13-day special session tonight in an angry political wrangle that followed a GOP threat of impeachment against President Truman. i The threat was raised by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R.; Mich., as the senate plodded toward adjournment. Both houses approved mild Republican anti-inflation and housing legislation. ;The special session' ignored Mr. Truman's request for price-wage control powers and rationing authority and Republicans Re-publicans accused the president of seeking "police state? power. Instead, they wrote, their own anti-inflation pre' scription. This included revival of wartime; curbs on installment in-stallment buying and bigger bank reserves. 1 -i Intolerable Position ' t Ferguson charged in a floor speech that the president's refusal to give congress access to certain records left it in the "intolerable position" of either legislating in the dark or compelling Mr. Truman to answer for his conduct. This, .. he said, could be done in impeachment proceedings. - His statement set off an angry wrangle. When he fin t ished, several Democratic senators tried vainly to get the floor to reply. Acting Democratic Leader Millard Tydings of Maryland objected strenuously to the way GOP Leader Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska was parceling out speaking A. t A V L - lime to nepuDucans oniy. Exasperated, Wherry finally threw up his arms and snapped: "Lmove we adjourn the senate." ,: Tydings demanded a roll call. The motion carried 39 to 29 on a party line vote. s ' The house adjourned at 8:31 p. m. EDT. The senate, delayed by speeches including Ferguson's, adjourned at 9:39 p. m., EDT. 1 i Ferguson charged in a senate speech that "congress is rapidly being pushed into the intolerable position of having hav-ing either to legislate through a blind spot or compel the: president, to answer for his conduct in impeachment pro? ceedings.T ';..-? ., . Ferguson's speech was rroatriT.l rfahate minrf iiflf - jTheMiehiffn Reoublican super 'investigating' committee which tried in vain this rweek to obtain loyalty files on government employes in con nection with its Investigation or alleged- Soviet wartime spy ring in the government. Mr. Truman refused to give up the records. He accused the Re publicans of resorting to a "red herring" inquiry to divert atten tion from his legislative program. Ferguson said the "presidential arrogance is becoming intoler able." He said congress sooner or later must have a showdown with the president on the issue of "his attempt to put an iron curtain between be-tween congress and the public business." In late afternoon the house approved ap-proved slight senate changes in the limited GOP anti-inflation bill, thus disposing of the last barrier to final adjournment. But the inevitable last-minute speeches speech-es dragged on. The house gave the anti-infla tion measure 33? to 11 vote of approval. The senate passed it shortly after 4 pjn. The bill now goes to the White House, and Mr. Truman Is expected ex-pected to sign it even though he considers it inadequate. Congress also appropriated $10,000,000 to get the new Republican Re-publican housing' program underway un-derway and shifted $2,400,000 within the federal housing administration ad-ministration to facilitate the program. pro-gram. Another $5,000,000 was earmarked ear-marked for the veterans administration admin-istration to buy new automobiles for disabled veterans. The house voted its members $171,000 to pay their transportation costs to the extra session. The senate likewise voted to pay the travel expenses of its members. The Republicans, angry at Mr. Truman for calling the special session, Ignored most of the things he asked for and accused him of political motives. mot-ives. Democrats countered with (Continued on Page Two) because it was German in favor of Windsor. The name changing would bo all in the family anyway, since Queen Victoria is the great great grandmother of both Elizabeth and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. And Philip's family name also was changed at thn time of world war I from the German Battenberg to the English Eng-lish Mountbatten. Rules of royal precedence lay down , that the children of the princesses of the British - royal house must take their rank from their father, not from their mother. moth-er. Philip has been granted the title of royal highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, but he has no special spe-cial precedence. His " children could not have the title of prince or princess unless Philip were (Continued ea Page Two) Plea the most bitter in a day of con Vv nrlit.iil rarrim .. is chairman - of the senate's,. Tobin Named Secretary Of Labor WASHINGTON, Aug. T. (U.R) President Truman nominated Maurice J. Tobin of Boston to be Secretary of Labor Saturday night. Tobin is former mayor of Boston and former governor of Massachusetts. Tobin, whose nomination was rushed to the senate, as it headed toward adjournment, was named to succeed the late Lewis B. Schwellenbach who died June 10, Tobin's appointment ended almost al-most two months of speculation over who would be the new secretary. sec-retary. Those mentioned In the 60 ,; days since Schwellenbach v died Included John J. Shel- : ley, president of the Callfor ' nla Federation of Labor, and former Sen. James M. Mead . of New York. The senate presumably will not have time to act on the nomination nom-ination before adjourning its extra session. t But by sending the nomination to Capitol Hill now, Mr. Truman made sure that Tobin will re ceive the full $15,000-a-year salary in his new job. Under the law, no'pay may be given to anyone appointed to a cabinet post left vacant while congress still is In session until he- is confirmed by the senate. The only exception is when the vacancy occurs in the last 30 days of the session. The law would have applied in this case if the nomination had not been sent to the capltol be fore adjournment. Tobin's appointment was announced an-nounced by Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross. The announcement said: ' "The president has Jusl " sent to the senate the nomln- v atlon of -Maurice J. Tobin of Boston to be ' secretary of labor." Ross said the new cabinet appointee ap-pointee now is practicing law in Boston. John W, Gibson had been act Ing secretary of labor 'since Schwellenbach's death. Before that, Gibson had been assistant secretary of labor representing the CIO. . - Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., C blocked senate confirmation of Tobin's appointment. ' Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley asked that senate rules and a Reoublican special session policy of not confirming appointments appoint-ments be waived. But -Taft said the president could give Tobin a recess appointment ap-pointment v on Monday, after congress quits. His objection was enough to block Barkley's move, 0' |