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Dewey Ascribes Defeat To GOP Voters' Overconf idence ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 6 U.R- - Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said Saturday Sat-urday that between 2,000.000 and 3,000,000 Republicans failed to vote in the presidential election and this was a major factor in h'.s defeat. Looking rested and chipper, the Big-4 Meet Hinted In Berlin Crisis LONDON, Nov. 6 (U.f "Neutral" "Neu-tral" members of the United Nations Na-tions security council believe that a meeting of the big foui chiefs of state may be necessary to settle set-tle the Berlin crisis, it was authoritatively au-thoritatively reported Saturday. The six small nations still hoped a solution could be reached through UN channels, but there was a growing belief that only a meeting of President Truman, Premier Josef Stalin, Prime Minister Min-ister Clement Attlee and Premier Henri .Queuille could finally break the deadlock. Such a meeting could also deal with other critical problems, such as atomic energy and the future of defeated Germany. One UN attempt to find a compromise com-promise solution has already been blocked by a Soviet veto, and it was generally believed here that a second failure might prove fatal to the world organization No new action in Berlin has been formally scheduled by the UN, but private and possibly crucial cru-cial conferences have been scheduled sched-uled next week by various interested inter-ested parties. Bingham Man Killed; Mate Hurt In Crash LAKETOWN, Utah, Nov. 6 (U.R) One man was killed and another anoth-er Injured Friday when their ar went out of control and rolled over, ov-er, six miles cast of here. Dead is Alvin E. Hall, 41, a clerk at the Kennecott Copper Corp., kell-kriown in Utah athletics. ath-letics. The injured man is Charles Ray, 39. Both are residents resi-dents of Bingham. Ray . was threated at the Summit Sum-mit County hospital for several cracked ribs, shock and other injuries., in-juries., News Highlights In Central Utah Diagram Shows . Provo Tax Dollar Split .3 Spanish Fork Xmas Shopping Season Opens Nov. 27 .... 3 Development Plan Approved For .Provo's North Park Area ...4 October Accidents Increase In' Provo .......... 4 Jailer Fo.'ls Escape Of Two Juveniles . . Man Acquitted Of Provo Pott -9 , Robbery Charge ...... Death Crash Driver . Get Jail Sentence ..........6 twice-defeated White House as pirant appeared pleased that a vacation was at hand. At his pres conference he talked sometimes solemnly, sometimes jokingly. He and his family leave for a two-weeks stay in Arizona Sunday. Sun-day. Dressed in a blue, pin-striped business suit, he gave his ideas of what happened in Tuesday's election. elec-tion. "It appears that between 2.000,-000 2.000,-000 and 3,000,000 Republican stayed home from overconfi- dence," he said. "That was one of the major factors in the results. He declined to name the other factors of his analysis. He said he intended to continue actively shaping policy as titular head of the Republican party and had "definite ideas ' about what should be done. "I've given a great deal of thought to the problems of the narty over the next four years,'' he said. I is definite ideas, he added, will remain in abeyance until he has talked them over with other party leaders after his return from Arizona. The 46-year-old governor leaves LaGuardia field, New York City, by plane at 8 a. m (EST) tomorrow with Mrs. Dewey and their two sons, Thomas, Jr., 16 and John, 13. Also jn the party will be Mr. and Mrs. Roger W, Straus, Mr and Mrs. Carl T. Hogan and their 12-year-old son, Jack. Both families are old friends of the Deweys. Their destination is Tucson. Dewey reiterated emphatically his statement of Wednesday that he would not make another bid for the presidency. Without elaboration, he added. "That doesn't mean, however, that I don't intend to be useful to my country." RUSS MARSHALL ORDERS BIGGER ARMED FORCES LONDON, Nov. 6, (U.R) Mar shal Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet minister of armed forces, today ordered "further strengthening" of Russian military might "for the defense of the Soviet mother land," Radio Moscow reported. "Safeguarding our state inter ests demands. .. .constant mili tary preparedness," Bulganin said in an order of the day. Provo Fire Department Gets $26,000 Aerial Ladder Truck For the first time since Provo acquired three-story buildings, the city fire department is now equipped to successfully fight any fire in town. This may sound confusing to anyone but a fireman, but the explanation lies in the fact that the Provo fire department until now has never had proper ladder lad-der equipment to reach many of the city's tallest buildings. Saturday, after a two-year lapse between order and delivery, the long-awaited $26,000 aerial ladder truck arrived and was assembled as-sembled for immediate use if necessary. The shining, snub-posed giant is equipped with a 75-foot aerial ladder which can be used full length or in sections, 25 feet apiece. This 'new addition to the fire fighting department is the Eight Shot To Death; 3 Hurt By Mad Ciller Negro Gunman Keeps Neighborhood In A Reign Of Terror CHESTER, Pa., Nov. 6 (U.R) -A crazed man, armed with) a rifle spiting dum-dum bullets, bul-lets, killed eight persons and J wounded three others today! from behind a second-floor! barricade- in a Chester ten derloin district. . The mad killer terrorized the. neighborhood for more than an hour 1 efore he turned t! . rifle on himsc'f as police infiltrated a tcr-gas fog to reach his ..om. The negro sunman, Melvin Col lins, 38, Exmore, Va., was found dead on the floor with a bullet through his nee'-. All the dead were negroes, ex cept one white man killed as he tride to scramble from nis automobile auto-mobile parked jtside th room ing house. And all but Mrs, Louise Moore, 40, died almost instantly. She succumbed in Chester hos pital from a bullet wound of the head nine hours after the shooting. shoot-ing. A deaf-mute, the third man cut down by the demented negro's rifle, was shocked into uttering the first words he had spoken in years. As he staggered up to a police car, Samuel Lytle gasped, I've been shot." Then he fell dead. The list of victims of the one-man one-man massacre included a city detective, Ellery Prnsley, 56, who was shot through the chest as he ordered Collins to put down his gun. Purnsley was shot as he wa3 on his way to work at the police station two blocks away. In the panic which spread through the heavily-populated tenement district, it was difficult to determine exactly what happened. hap-pened. Hysterical residents called po lice headquarters and the Chester Times newspaper asking if a race riot was in progress. However, police quashed the rumors by assuring callers there was no trouble of the kind. Witnesses said Collins pointed nis rifle at Uurnsley and cut' him down before the detective had time to fire more than one shot. The detective, a member of the Chester police force for more than 30 years, was killed instantly. Then Collins shot his way up to his tiny tenement room which he rented a week ago when he first arrived in this city of 60,000. For the next hour the drab neighborhood was a battlefield, with innocent bystanders the vic tims of the frenzied sniper, who crouched on a cot and fired wild ly at anyone within range. The entire Chester police force was called to the scene. They could not fire for fear of hitting officers or residents of the crowded crowd-ed district of row-houses. Finally state police, armed with sub-machine guns and shotguns, reinforced the grim local officers. They hurled 20 tear gas shells at the tiny box-like room from which Collins was raining death on the neighborhood. A group of policemen decided to make a dash across the langer area, relying on the tear gas to hold up the wild shots. They broke into the building and were (Continued on Page lwo) Southern Democrats May Hold Balance of Power In Congress WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U.R) Southern Democrats, whose rebellion re-bellion wasn't strong enough to stop President Truman's election, still will hold a sufficient congressional con-gressional "balance of power" to whip him on important parts of his legislative program if they care to. A combination of Dixie Democrats Demo-crats and northern Republicans would be big enough to. put the skids under any bill. The fate of some of the president's more controversial con-troversial campaign promises, latest model and is the only one of its kind in the state, Fire Chief Lloyd Dickson pointed out. The ladders are operated by a hydraulic action controlled from a special mechanism near the front of the engine. The fire chief stated that a five man crew can handle the vehicle and that several sev-eral of the fire fighters will be trained in operating the ladder-raising ladder-raising mechanism. The new "sky hook" has a special hose attachment which will be used in fighting roof fires, on high buildings. "Instead of ' having firemen haul heavy hoses up the ladder for such fires, the ladder hose can be used," us-ed," Chief Dickson explained. The large truck will be assigned assign-ed to' the downtown, school, industrial in-dustrial and institutional areas. It will be used in residential areas if necessary, the chief concluded. T Federal Soviet Bloc Stalls Indictment Vote On Satellite Nations By JAMES E. ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. 6 (U.R) The Soviet bloc Saturday night stalled a vote on a United Nations resolution to indict Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, Bulgaria and Albania for aiding Greek Communist guerrillas and endangering peace in the Balkans. The 58-nation political committee adjourned until Monday Mon-day after nearly six hours of procedural wrangling and listening lis-tening to Communist charges that the United States had girdled the world with military bases directed at the Soviet Union. Poland tried to push through a proposal to set up a sub-committee to study all charges and counted-charges in the Greek dispute. It was defeated 23 to 6. Andrei Vishinsky of Russia then proposed adjournment until Monday. This, too, was defeated, 21 to 6. Once again, only the Soviet So-viet bloc voted for the proposal. Then the way seemed clear for the majority, proposal to indict the three Soviet satellites. But Yugoslavia came up with a proposal pro-posal for UN intervention in the sentencing to death of 10 Greeks by the Greek government. That started a long procedural debate. Finally, the committee decided de-cided by a vote of 43 to 6 that it did not have the right to ask a stay of execution. But then it voted 41 to. 0, to have the committee com-mittee chairman confer with Greek delegate Panayotis Pipi- hnelis about the execution. Exhausted, the delegates gave up their attempts to reach a vote on the majority resolution and at 8:50 p. m. (2:50 p. m. EST) adjourned ad-journed until Monday. It would have ordered the UN special committee on the Balkans to continue its work for at least another year, endorsed the committee's com-mittee's finding that Greece's three northern neighbors knowingly know-ingly helped Greek guerrillas "on a large scale" and held that such aid "endangers peace in the Balkans." Two weeks of harsh debate on the resolution was climaxed today by nenewed Soviet bloc charges that the United States is building a vast system of land, sea and air bases in a bid for world domination domin-ation and a personal attack on John Foster Dulles. Both Vishinsky and Julius Katz-Suchy Katz-Suchy of Poland were provoked by Dullus assestion yesterday that Vishinsky was guilty of "a vicious vici-ous falsehood" in accusing America Amer-ica of seeking "world mastery." Vishinsky said American policy in Greece was only a small part of the American plan to ring the Soviet Union with military bases. "What is the purpose of all these bases?" Vishinsky demanded. demand-ed. T have three pages listing bases. I am tired of listing them (Continued on Pace Two) such as repeal of the Taft-Hart- ley law, hinges on the attitude of the southern Democrats. The Dixie, bloc, badly defeated at the polls in their states' rights drive to oust the president, reportedly re-portedly wants to return to the regular Democratic fold if the price isn't too high. But observers believe the southerners will consider civil rights and outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law without substitute substi-tute labor controls as too high 3 price. Mr. Truman asked the voters for ' a Democratic congress. They gave it to him. But that is no guarantee he will have smooth sailing next year when he tries to make good on his campaign pledges. For example, farm belt senators sena-tors may oppose price controls. Even on a standby basis, for fear they would lower farm prices. Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla.. has said -he would oppose any legislation which might hurt farm prices. Mr. Truman will discuss his legislative program, with vice president-elect Alben W. Barkley. National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath and other top advisers during his two week working" vacation at Key West, Fla. Barkley and McGrath will share heavily in the burden of "selling" the president's program to congress. McGrath Is senator from Rhode Island. c Mr. Truman already has taken steps toward repeal of the labor law. It was learned that he has instructed' Secretary of Labor (Continued on Page Two) Lays Di Speeding Molotov Blames Republicans For Aggressive Policy MOSCOW. Nov. 6 (U.R) Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov suggested Saturday that the Republican party is to blame for the "aggressive "aggres-sive policy" of the United States which caused some persons to believe be-lieve he was opening the door 10 j cold -war peace talks with Presi dent Truman. He told a revolution-anniversary crowd at the Bolshoi theater that Mr. Truman was reelected because the majority in America opposes the Republicans' "open program of aggression." Molotov spoke for about 00 minutes. His prediction that "the peoples of the world will reject the warmongers" drew especially heavy applause. He did not. indicate in-dicate any change in Russian foreign policy. For the most part, Molotov followed fol-lowed the line of recent Russian attacks on the U. S. before the United Nations and Soviet Premier Pre-mier Josef Stalin's recent charge that America is planning a new war. However, his brief comment on I the presidential election hinted that Russia might be planning to relax attacks on the American government and focus on the defeated de-feated Republicans. Foreign observers here considered con-sidered the speech moderate. It made no new charges against the west and hinted that "two-world" hostility could be eased. Molotov's audience in the historic his-toric Moscow theater included high-ranking political, industrial and military leaders and foreign delegations including a group of Germans headed by Communis Leader Otto Grotewohl. The foreign minister shared the platform with other leading members mem-bers of the powerful Politbureau Stalin, who is believed to be ab-(Contlnued ab-(Contlnued on Page Two) Tito-U. S. Pact Charged By Italian Weekly ROME, Nov. 6 (U.R) The rightist, right-ist, sometimes sensational week ly magazine L'Europeo said Saturday Sat-urday that Marshal Tito and the United States had reached a secret se-cret military agreement to join Yugoslavia's estimated 36 army divisions with- the west in event of war with Russia. 'Reliable sources said the newspaper news-paper got its unconfirmed information infor-mation from refugees who arrived arriv-ed from Istria 10 days ago. The sources said the refugees called on Premier Alcide De Gasperi and the foreign offer. (In Washington, a state department depart-ment spokesman described the report re-port as "fantastic and irresponsible" irresponsi-ble" and said there was "absolutely "abso-lutely no pact of that kind or anything like it.") L'Europeo's unsigned article said the alleged agreement was reached late in September by U. S. and Yugoslav emissaries who met on Brioni island, six miles west of Pola at the head of the Adriatic sea. "It is not certain whether the American delegation came under state or war department orders," the magazine said. "They landed at Campo Formido airport near Gorizia and went by automobile through Trieste. "Subsequently, for unknown reasons, they established' themselves them-selves at Venice. From there they went to sea to Brioni." It said the alleged secret convention con-vention was "based on the premise prem-ise of Interference by Britain" and contained six understandings by Yugoslavia and two by the U. S. own Marshall To Back All-Out Aid For China Reverses Prior Stand To Save China From Advancing Communists SHANGHAI, Nov. 6 (U.R) An official source said Satur day that Secretary of State George C. Marshall, reversing his former stand, has decided to support all-out and quick American aid to China to save it from advancing Commun ist armies. Marshall was saickto have made known his change' of mind to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Shih-Chieh during recent conversations con-versations in Paris, where both are attending United Nations meetings. Well-informed sources said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek may make an important policy announcement Monday. Encouraged Encour-aged by Marshall's reported support, sup-port, Chiang was expected in informed in-formed circles to align China squarely with the western bloc. Chiang, meantime, was presiding presid-ing over secret military talks in Nanking with his north, northwest and central China commanders, seeking desperately to map a defense, de-fense, against Communist armies threatening his Nationalist capital capi-tal from north and south. The important government control con-trol yuan (council) added to his troubles by demanding that he give up much of his dictatorial power. The control yuan backed up its demand for drastic political and military reforms with a threat to resign unless Chiang accepts the proposals. The main functions of the control yuan are impeachment and supervision of high public officialsjy- The yuan was understood to have drawn up a memorandum for submission to Chiang demanding that he: 1 Surrender many of his personal per-sonal powers. 2 Cease exercising powers which constitutionally belong to his ministers and army commanders. com-manders. 3 Soak the rich and eliminate all privilege and influence of the so-called "favored families." Chiang already has indicated his inclination to relax his personal per-sonal control over China's affairs by granting Gen. Fu Tso-Yi full power over military operations in north China. A president of the republic however, Chiang remains supreme commander of all land, air and sea forces. It was in that capacity that he called Gen. Fu, Gen. Chang Chih-Chung, commander in northwest China, and Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi, commander in central China, into conference in Nanking. Nan-king. 2 Boys Suspected In Death Of Third CHICAGO, Nov. (U.R) Two boys, aged 13 and 15, were hel-1 today as suspects in the strangling of 13-year-old William Gervais, whose body was found yesterday in a disused conduit. The two boys were picked up for questioning after othei chil dren told of seeing them with William about 7 p. m. Thursday. That is approximately the tim that doctors believe he was Killed. Detectives said they had reason to believe the boy's murder had a sex motive. Marshall May Agree to Stay At Post Until Next Summer PARIS, Nov. 6, (U.R) Official American sources said Saturday that Secretary of State George C Marshall may decide to delay his retirement until the end of next summer so he can complete negotiations ne-gotiations for a North Atlantic defense treaty. They thought President Truman Tru-man would persuade Marshall to do so despite the secretary's oft-expressed oft-expressed desire to quit at the end of this year. However, American officials attending the United Nations meetings, as well as those in in Washington, already were speculating on an ultimate successor suc-cessor to Marshall. Heading the guess-list here were Lewis Douglas, American ambassador in London;W. Aver-ell Aver-ell Harriman, roving ambassa 'Hard Policy $ Forr estal Gets Ready To Leave His Cabinet Post Truman Off Todaj On 'Working Vacation In Key West, Fla.; Allotments For 16 Department, Agencies Already Approved ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U.R) President Truman laid down a "hard boiled" spending policy Saturday for the fiscal year 1950 which budget director James E.'Webb said would hold federal expenditures "to the lowest possible level." ; This announcement came after a day of conferences between Mr. Truman and various cabinet members during; which Defense Secretary James Forrestal disclosed he does not intend to stay in the gov ernment. Webb reported after his talk with the president, who leaves Sunday on a "working vacation" in Key West, Fla., that he directed all agencies on July 22 to "plan to continue operations at. or below be-low their (fiscal) 1949 level." The 1949 budget calls for spending $42,200,000,000 in fiscal year ending June 30. Speculation had put the 1950 budget at about $45,000,000,0000. But in his July instructions Webb had said that only where "exceptional circumstances" make it impossible to keep 1950 spending spend-ing down to or below 1949 ex penditures will higher budget estimates be considered Webb said after a two-hour conference con-ference with Mr. Truman that the president directed him to follow a "hardboiled, tight budget policy" that will come as close as possible to avoiding any deficit in the 12 months beginning July 1, 1949. The president approved allot ments for 16 departments and agencies, not including the. armed services. Webb would not disclose their totals. But he said that in the case of some fo the agencies the allotments were below those provided in this year's budget. Webb said these allotments "set the pace" for others that will fol low as fast as possible. He would not speculate on the overall size of, the 1950 budget, nor on the anticipated deficit at thCend of the current fiscal year. Mr. Truman in August estimated this deficit at $1,500,000,000. "We are forced to make the budget as tight as posible this year to keep it as nearly in balance bal-ance as possible," Webb told newsmen. "Whether or not there is a deficit will depend on revenues. reve-nues. '"The president's policy will be to hold down expenditures to the lowest possible level that will meet the needs of the country." Mr. Truman previously had said he hopes to hold defense spending to about $14,500,000,000. In his July letter, Webb said the tight budget policy was based on the assumption that production and employment will continue high and that prices and wages will continue at levels of July and August, 1948. Webb would not name the agencies whose budgets were approved. ap-proved. He said the sum of their allotments would run about 18 per cent of the budget, but would-set the pace for the budget generally. "We have adopted a hardboiled, tight, budget policy," he said. Webb said the president's "tight" policy wili extend to foreign fore-ign aid and military expenditures. "It will be a realistic policy," he added. "Whatever the president presi-dent feels is necessary to do the Job, he will recommend." In a hint that the budget may be lower than the $45,000,000,000 which has figured in speculation, Webb said some of-today's allotments allot-ments were "somewhat lower" . (Continued on Page Two) dor for the economic cooperation cooper-ation administration, and former assistant secretary of state Dean Acheson. Meantime, preparations for negotiations ne-gotiations of the North Atlantic treaty were being stepped up Representatives of the five western union ? powers Britain, France, Belgium .Holland and Luxembourg will meet next Thursday in London to discuss the position they will take in later talks with the United States and Canada. . Their desire for a clause binding bind-ing all members to pitch In if any. member country is attacked must be reconciled with ! the clause in the U. S. constitution which forbids the United States from committing itself in advance to participation in war. n on v ooooeo m m mm m i r Lucas Favored As New Senate Floor Leader WASHINGTON. Nov. 6 (U.R) Sen. Scott W. Lucas. D.. 111.. seemed Saturday night to have a clear field to take over as major ity leader of the senate when Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky steps into the vice presidency. In the three days since election returns showed that the Demo-crats Demo-crats had clinched control of the senate, no other likely competitor has appeared. Lucas himself has said nothing except that he is available if his colleagues want him. He has been a member of the senate for 10 years and Democratic whip and assistant leader for the past two years. It was understood that Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., had rejected suggestions from some of his southern colleagues that he seek the job of floor leadership. Although he is a fairly consistent consist-ent administration supporter, Russell supported the Taft-Hartley law last year and . led the southern fight against President Truman's civil rights program. He was the choice of southern delegates to the Democratic National Na-tional convention for the presidential presi-dential nomination. Sen. Joseph C.O'Mahoney, D Wyo., who also was regarded as a possible candidate for the floor leader job, indicated that he was not interested. He told a reporter that chairmanships of the joint congressional, economic committee commit-tee and the senate committee on interior and insular affairs would keep him busy. One southern Democratic leader, lead-er, who asked not to be identified by name, said he regarded Lucas as the logical candidate. He believed be-lieved that Lucas' views qualified quali-fied him to serve as President (Continued on Page Two) Counter-Blockade flits Red Zone Hard, Says Clay BERLIN. Nov. 6. (UJ?) Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American mili tary governor said today that the economy of the Soviet zono of Germany is at a complete "standstill," partly because of the western "counter-blockade of Berlin. In. a review of almost every phase of the German problem. Clay told a press conference that the Soviet zone economy hit bottom bot-tom during the summer and "has shown no improvements for months." The Soviet zone Is "suffering" 30 from lack of steel, coal and spare u parts, Clay reported. "I do not know how much of the deterioration of the Soviet -zone economy is due to the counter-blockade," he said. "But I do v know their economy is at a stand- ' still.- Shortly after the Russians' clamped their land, sea and rail blockade on four-power Berlin, the western powers imposed stringent restrictions on the flow of goods from their zones into the Soviet occupation area. Clay reported that the stock of supplies in the western sectors of Berlin is higher now than It was when the blockade begin -and that Berlin currently has supplies for 39 days.- Clay said the western airlift would have "no difficulty" In supply Berlin through the. winter. win-ter. Tonnage totals in November, "In the worst possible flying weather convinced me if I ever needed proof, that we will have no trouble meeting the minimum . requirements we have setV he added. , . |