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Show JINGLING THE NEWS SOUTHERN EXPOSURE? The VOLUNTEER state, Tennes-- ' see, - " ' Gives REECE to bead the G.O.P.: WiU Carroll find, before he's - through, He's ' VOLUNTEERED for HEAD- , ACHES too? . Stan Arnold. THE WEATHER UTAH Seme hlxh elendlness fe day, tonight and Friday; rising temperatures. , Temperatures: High 54 - Lew 1 SIXTIETH YEAR, -NO. 218 eOMPUCTS UNITED PRESS. TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICS PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, THURSDAY, . APRIL 4, 1946 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS N Cyin)n Emds The n S. L. Man Slain In Ax Killing; Suspect Mate Aged Pensioner Found Dead, Face Bashed in -With a Hand Axe SALT LAKE CITY, April 4 ue) John J. Ruempmg, 61 year-old pensioner, was slain in his shabby one room apartment in Salt Lake City's west side last night by an assailant who caved-in his .face with a hand axe. A roommate, Louis C. Wright, 55, whose clothes were spatted with blood, was held as a suspect. Ruemping'i body was found in a corner of the single room between be-tween a stove and a table. The blood-stained axe was at his side. There was no other sign of violence vi-olence in the room. Police theorized theor-ized the victim was struck without with-out warning. They were called to the dilapidated one-story house by a neighbor who lived in the rear of the building. He told investigators Wright had told him of finding his roommate room-mate and asked him to call authorities. Wright told the officers he had last seen Ruemping alive about noon yesterday. Then he related he had gone down town to drink beer. He said he discovered the slaying when he returned home about 11:30 last night. Dr. Clarence Clar-ence Openshaw, city physician said the man had-been dead since about 6 D.m. Questioned about the blood on his clothes and a couple of bruises stumbled against a wall as he entered the house through an tan lit and somewhat cluttered-up side porch. He said he had had a iew ioo many armies. He told L. B. Gifford. chief Investigator for the Salt Lake police department, that he new of no enemies the slain man might have had. He also al-so reported that both were living off pensions and, that as far as he knew, Ruemping Ruemp-ing had no other money. Forgiving Wife Relents Quickly After Knifing THE DALLES, Ore., April 4 (U.R) Francisco Carmona has a forgiving wife. The other night Carmona awakened to find his wife rifling his trouser pockets. He leaped out of. bed and slashed her throat with a knife. Mrs. Carmona was taken to a hospital. Carmona was taken to jail. Yesterday when Mrs. Carmona Car-mona was released from the hospital her first act was to call the police department. "Please turn him loose I love him so much. I'll never go through his pockets again," she said. Senate Accepts 60c Minimum Wage Bill WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) The senate today accepted a coalition-backed amendment to the minimum wage bill raising the legal minimum from 40 to 60 cents an hour. The vote was 76 to 6. Before the roll call Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., piloting the bill through the senate, urged acceptance of the 80 -cent wage figure as "the best possible compromise which could be secured. President Truman had asked for a 65-70-75 cent sliding scale of increases over a four-year period. Still before the senate was a farm parity amendment that would boost some farm prices. Sen. Allen'J. Ellender, D., La., a sponsor of the ou-cent compromise, com-promise, told his colleagues that "some of us have an understand- on his face, Wright said he hadlhig" tcT'oppose the farm parity Republicans Call County Convention Utah county Republicans will hold their county convention , Apr. 19, it was decided last night frby the county central committee at a meeting in the city and coun ty building. A development of the meeting was an announcement by A. V. Watkins, county Republican chairman, that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself at ti pniintv mnvtfntiAn The central committee also called for district mass meeting of Republicans for Friday, April 12th, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the county conven tion and also to elect district chairmen, secretaries and com vmittee members. The county convention is being held, according to Chairman Watkins. for the purpose of se lectine delegates to state and con eressional conventions to be held in Salt Lake City next June .1st , and also to elect a county chair- fman and other party officers. A letter has gone out, accord itig to Mr. Watkins, to each dis-tnck dis-tnck chairman requesting that he post notice of the meetings as required by law. The letter in dicates how many delegates are .to be elected for each district. . An announcement of interest to the largely attended county committee com-mittee meeting was made by Mr, Watkins that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself as county chairman. He urged the committeemen to be thinking about someone to take over the Chairmanship for the next two years. Senate Approves domination OF ; 'James Vardaman WASHINGTON. April 4 0J.RV Commodore James K. Vardaman, Jr., President Truman's naval aide, prepared today to take over liis new duties as a member of nomes nave aireaay oeen- com tne federal reserve board. TAe senate confirmed his ap pointment by a 66-to-9 vote late yesterday despite lengthy and vociferous opposition by Sen. Forest For-est C. Donnell, R, Mo. , Vardaman's term as a federal Reserve governor will be 14 years. amendment if its author. Sen, Richard B Russell, D., Ga., con tlhues to press for its inclusion. Russell replied that he would do just that The senate also faced possible fights on: 1. A proposal to broaden cov erage of the minimum wage law to cover an additional 3,500,000 workers, principally chain store employes. 2. A declared plan by Chair man Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., of the senate agriculture committee to push an amendment to prohibit pro-hibit "any interference" by federal fed-eral agencies with margin re quirements at cotton exchanges, Wallace Urges Social Security For All Classes WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace today recommended a social security program that would include all gainfully em ployed persons and especially small businessmen. He presented his views to the house ways and means commit tee at a hearing on legislation to broaden the coverage of old-age and survivors insurance benefits urging extension of tne program pro-gram to groups now excluded, Wallace said "Social security pro vides a means of acquiring, during dur-ing the periods when one can work, a self-respecting right to maintenance when one cannot work." "Universal coverage is the only democratic way," he said. "There is no more justification for the exclusion of some sections of our population from - the advantages of social security than there would be for their, exclusion from the advantages of public education. "To be of full utility, the pro gram must furnish protection against all major risks, including disability as well as old age and death." Schools Stay Closed For Lack of Heat School, Business Men A wait Reply to Wire Asking For Concession Residents of Provo, Spring-ville Spring-ville and Spanish Fork today anxiously awaited reply from yesterday's appeal to Washington Wash-ington for relief on the commercial com-mercial gas shortage, while schools remained closed and large buildings continued without heat As the Herald went to press, no reply had been received from the appeal to A. F. of L. President William Green, John L. Lewis and Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach that enough coal be allowed the Columbia Co-lumbia Steel plant to furnish needed commercial gas in three Utah county cities. Manager Boyce Rawlins of the Mountain States Fuel Supply company reported it became necessary to cut 10 more users last night, making a total of 133 of the company s largest custom ers out of heat Dwelling places became seriously affected as the list extended to additional apartment apart-ment houses. A United Press dispatch from Salt Lake City reported that officials of-ficials of the Utah public service commission admitted today the coal strike-forced gas emergency in southern Utah county was ex tremely critical, but said that "public sentiment is the only thing that can change the picture." The strike of Carbon and Em ery county coal miners has cut off coal supplies for the Columbia Colum-bia Steel company's Ixonton blast furnaces and coke ovens, which ordinarily supply gas to the Mountain Fuel Supply company for distribution in the Provo -Springville - Spanish Fork area. When the strike began Sunday midnight, Columbia Steel had a 15-day supply of coal on hand. It immediately curtailed operations in an attempt to spread the sup ply over the next 30 days. The PSC promptly issued an order permitting the gas company to cut off service to all industrial indus-trial users and many institutions and to everyone later, if necessary. neces-sary. Commission Engineer Wilford Robinson said that the only places plac-es now being served are homes, apartment houses, hospitals and the county infirmary. "If the supply of gas keeps dropping, the gas company will start cutting off the next lowest classification customers in other words, those using the most gas and receiving the lowest rates. Robinson added. "If it drops af ter then, they'll just work right up the lists until everyone is shut off." tie said that pressure in gas mains would be maintained as long as possible to prevent air from entering and raising the possibility of dangerous explos ions. "We can't force the steel company com-pany to keep supplying gas to the utility," Robinson said. "The steel company has an investment to protect and needs at least 50 per cent of the gas for the ovens. Should they run out of coal en tirely, the coke ovens will cool and crack and will have to be re built If this happens, Utah (Continued on Page Two) MACARTHUR ORDERS JAP'S DISMISSAL TOKYO. April 4. (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today order ed dismissal of Saiichi' Morishita. chief of the education section of Kochi prefecture, for assertedly publishing a secret document urg ing continued underground resis tance to occupation forces along educational lines. Pup-Tent Politico i vWTOVs t VYltSHIftE THEATRf -T j-OF OPERATIONS -r n x Will Rogers, Jr., campaigning for nomination to the U. S. senate, sets up full-time headquarters on a vacant lot in Los Angeles after he failed to find office space to rent 116th LDS Conference Opens Friday In S. L. Tabernacle By MURRAY M. MOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, April 4 (U.R) Eight-thousand national, re gional, stake and ward leaders of the Latter-day Saint church will assemble in the Salt Lake taber nacle tomorrow to open the 116th annual general Morman confer ence. ' "- "' "' - The keynote the three-day meeting was struck today when general, stake, ward and Driest- hood quorum welfare program leaders met to discuss means of increasing the flow of food and clothing to needy Mormons abroad. The leaders of the church's unique, self-supporting wel- 272 War Built Housing Units In Utah County Sold By FHA Two hundred and seventy-two war-built Utah county housing units, taken over by the FHA in foreclosures last fall, have all either been sold, or offers for sale are being considered, the Daily Herald learned - today via ".the United Press from Salt lake City. The special dispatch to the Her ald disclosed that deals for the sale of more than 100 of the pleted, and the balance bf the sale offers are now being studied by FHA officials in Salt Lake City or Washington, according to Iceland Ice-land W. Mays, Utah chief property proper-ty manager for FHA. Homes taken over by FHA In cluded: Thirteen duplex homes in the northeast University Gardens Gar-dens area for a total of 26 units, 69 homes in the eastern subdiv-ion subdiv-ion commonly known as the Gene Clark addition, 31 houses in the West Park subdivision below the viaduct 141 homes in the Brook-side Brook-side subdivision of Springville, and 18 homes in Orem. The FHA took them over because be-cause it had insured the mortgages mort-gages of each,, and took title when builders turned back the homes. The houses were all constructed by private contractors in anticipation anticipa-tion of continued operation of the Geneva Steel plant When the war's end curtailed Geneva operation, and sale ft a private owner was delayed, private lend-(Continued lend-(Continued on Page Two) Condemned Slayer Still at Large; Mate Captured WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) Ex-Marine Earl McFarland, 25-year-old condemned "snood slayer," slay-er," remained at large today as officials pressed an investigation into tne latest of a series of sensational sensa-tional escapes from the sieve-like Washington jail. The jailbreak led irate, con gressional leaders and the justice department to launch an immediate immed-iate investigation into the capital's capi-tal's prison practices. The house committee for the District of Columbia ordered act ing jail superintendent Claude O Botkins and police superintendent Harvey G. Callahap to appear at a closed session for questioning on tne repeated escapes from a jail tnat was once called escape-proof. Attorney General Tom C. Clark announced the justice department's inquiry shortly after the FBI was asked to help in the search for McFarland. Mc-Farland. Clark ordered FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover to lend every possible aid. As the entire east coast joined in the dogged search for McFar land, his get-away companion, Joseph B. Medley, also a con demned murderer, lounged-about defiantly in his death row cell from which the pair staged their escape yesterday. Medley, 44, suave and sophisticated sophisti-cated Nemesis of red - haired women, was dragged shivering and cold from an 18-foot length of drainage pipe on the bank of the Anacostia river, seven hours after the break. Bloodhounds led police to his hideaway. Police worked through the night running down a flood of reports on McFarland's whereabouts. Provo Democrats Meeting Tonight Provo city Democrats will meet tonight at the Maeser. Franklin. Timpanogos and Farrer schools, and the city and county building, to select officers and reorganize in the city's 31 voting districts. Meetings Begin at 8 p. m. Seven officers will be chosen for each district and three for each municipal ward, in addition to delegates for the county Democratic Demo-cratic convention April 27, and the state convention June 8. fare program spent the day inspecting the huge "bishop's warehouse" in Salt Lake City, which includes a six-story grain elevator and a warehouse ware-house filled with Mormon-srownjtnd Mormon-srownjtnd Mormon-processed food. Visiters to-the conference also visited the plain but spacious office of-fice of George Albert Smith, who succeeded to the church presidency presi-dency almost a year ago upon the death of Heber J. Grant. Today was Smith's 76th birthday and his followers were paying him their homage. The welfare program directors also Inspected a church-operated flour mill at Kaysville before returning re-turning to Salt Lake City for a meeting tonight of the welfare committee in the Temple Square assembly hall. Smith will preside at the twice-daily twice-daily general conference sessions tnat begin tomorrow morning in the accoustically-perfect taber nacle and continue until Sunday afternoon. In his talk to the welfare commute com-mute and to the general conference confer-ence sessions, Smith is expected to stress the need for all-out food production by church members this year so that Mormons in the war-ravaged .lands overseas will have sufficient food and clothing. The church has already shipped several carloads of "supplies to eastern ports for transfer abroad. The Mormon missionary system in Europe, sharply curtailed dur-(Contiuued dur-(Contiuued on Page Two) Roosevelt Stamp Collection Brings $210,819 At Sale NEW YORK, April 4 (U.R The stamp collection of the late Presi dent Roosevelt brought a total of $210,819 at auction, salesmen for the collection announced today. H. D. Harmer, auctioneers, said the first part of collection brought $134,500; the second part, sold earlier this week, brought $75,-319. $75,-319. Highest price item was a group of Chinese stamps presented to Mr. Roosevelt ' by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, and sold for $4,700. Bowles7They, charged the eco nomic stabilizer with "duress and coercion. The new regulations require margin payment or $10 bale when cotton is selling at or under 25 cents a pound, plus an additional addi-tional $10 a bale for each cent above that figure. Applied to cotton cot-ton currently selling for 28.63 cents on the New York exchange, it would require margin payments of $50. Bowles warned that if the order failed to stop increases in cotton cot-ton prices, the margins would be boosted again and if need be, ceiling prices would be imposed on raw cotton. He said the action was an aid to farmers as well as legitimate cotton cot-ton operators, mill owners and users us-ers of textile products. Strikes At A Glance BY UNITED PRESS Nearly 700,000 U. S. workers were idle today because of strikes and shutdowns. The major de velopments: Coal Steel and auto production produc-tion was curtailed as negotiations between the striking United Mine Workers (AFL) and soft coal operators op-erators verged on a breakdown. Electrical Congress considered consider-ed an investigation of the 80-day CIO electrical workers strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp. Farm Equipment Disagree ment over one minor pay issue was the only barrier to settlement of the 74-day CIO farm equip ment workers strike against In ternational Harvester Co. Transit 2,000,000 residents of Akron, O., and Detroit continued to rely on private- transportation transporta-tion as 5,500 transit workers in the two cities remained on strikej Railroads Two arbitration boards granted 1,220,000 of the nations railroad workers pay in creases of 16 cents an hour. Southerners Declare War Against OPA Order For Higher Margins On Cotton Futures Angers Bloc By JOHN L. STEELE WASHINGTON, April 4 C Southern congressmen, an gered by the government order or-der for higher margin payments pay-ments on cotton futures, today to-day declared open warfare on Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles and the OPA. Bowles directed the OPA and agriculture department Jo issue the order yesterday in a move designed to check speculative specu-lative price increases on raw cotton and prevent a boost in low-price clothing. It calls for higher and uniform margin requirements re-quirements for traders buying cotton on a future delivery basis. Cotton state senators charged that increased margin mar-gin requirements would ruin both small mills and small farmers. They said they would strike back with: 1. A fight to liquidate OPA, or at least curb its powers, when legislation extending its life reaches the chamber. 2. An attempt to write into pending minimum wage legislation legisla-tion a ban against "tampering" with present margin requirements. require-ments. Some cotton bloc members said they understood Secretary of Agriculture Ag-riculture Clinton P. Anderson signed the order reluctantly and only on specifitinstrw the Byrnes resolution. Consideration Of Iranian Problem Stayed to May 6 Russia Remains Absent From Meeting As Action is Taken; Resolution Proposed by, Byrnes Calls For Report To Council May 6 By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 4 The United Nations security secur-ity council ended the Iranian-Soviet crisis today by postponing post-poning consideration of the Iranian situation until May 6 the date by which Russia promised to have all her troops out of Iran. Col. W. R. Hudgson of Australia, who had denounced the council for failing to make a complete investigation and for holding secret meetings, was the only dissenter. He abstained from voting. Russia was still absent from the council table so the vote was 9 to 0. Council procedure does not call for a count of those against. After adoption of the reso-' reso-' Iution and hearing statements by council members and the Iranian delegate, the council adjourned until 3 pjn.. EST., next Tuesday when it will begin a study of its rules of procedure. The resolution, proposed by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, gives the council the right to reopen the Iranian case any time before May 6 if necessary and to put it at the top of the agenda. And Hudgson also served notice no-tice he was reserving the right to call for a complete investigation Of all the facts in the Iranian case before May 6 "if we believe the facts Justify both Soviet Russia and Iran are called upon to report to the council on May 6 whether Red army troops have left Iran as promised. After the vote, Iranian Ambassador Am-bassador Hussein Ala told the council the people of Iran "accept "ac-cept the Soviet letter of yesterday as a mark of faith that Russian troops will be withdrawn." Ala, whose country has been before the security council twice with complaints against Russia, during the council's brief lifetime, life-time, told the council members he hoped he'd never have to return. re-turn. "But if necessary I will re turn with the highest confidence in the council, he said. All of the members of the coun cil except Hodgson were re lieved and elated that the worst i crisis in UN's history was over. A week ago it had threatened the existence of the United Nations when Soviet Ambassador An- drei A. Gromyko walked out. Now the door is open for Gromyko to return to his seat which has been vacant for five sessions since last Wednesday. All of the council members except Hodgson contended that the eouncil had weathered weather-ed its crucial test well and fulfilled, its mandate to the peoples of the world. Speaking sharply and with flushed face, Hodgson took exactly exact-ly the opposite view. "This case was a challenge to the council and in Australia's opinion the council failed to meet it," he snapped, glancing at Byrnes on his right the man who led the fight against Russia and was the architect of the solution of the crisis. Hodgson led the fight in coun Pope Appeals ForWorldTo Avert Famine VATICAN CITY, April 4 (OB Pope Pius appealed today to the nations rich in resources to institute insti-tute food rationing to help ease the threat of world famine. The pope broadcast throughout the world over the Vatican City radio his views on the global food crisis. a email, even uisignmcam, rationing in the richest countries would do so much 'to help the situation,' sit-uation,' 'the pontiff said. He singled out Argentina and Brazil especially as among the countries which could help in the crisis. But he cast his appeal on a broad -enough plane jL material wealth to include the United States. "We are looking now toward the countries of Latin Am erica," the pope said. "Their hearts have always been open to calls for charity. Argentina and Brazil have seen their lands respond plentifully plenti-fully to their toil, and thus they are fully able to re-establish the equilibrium of the food situation. "We don't doubt that the peoples peo-ples who have shown so much ft inH Muriff will art with the same determiantion to save the peoples from starvation.' ' The pontiff said all possible transport must be made available for the shipment of food. One fourth of the world's population popu-lation is threatened with starva tion, the pope said. Wage Raises Approved For Railroad Men CHICAGO, April 4 Wage in creases totaling $584,000,000 annually an-nually Wednesday were granted 1,320,000 railway employes. The railway workers, members of 15 nonoperating and three operating op-erating railroad unions, were awarded wage boosts of 16c per hour by two arbitration boards. The findings of the two boards were filed Wednesday with the clerk of the United States district court in Chicago. The wage boosts are retroactive to Jan. 1, which will put a total let $146,0000 in - the pockets . of the 1.100,000 nonoperating work ers and ' 220,000 operating employes. em-ployes. The nonoperating unions had demanded a 30c per hour increase and the operating brotherhoods a boost of $2.50 per day. r a ' af 1- t cil last week against precipiUtelJ" -; ,,nMi .rtirtn Jhirn would driveltration boards, final and binding; council action which would drive the Soviet delegate from the ta ble. He insisted without success then that the council should not . (Continued en Page Two) General Accused of Trying to 'Railroad7 Nine Guards to Let Accused Of f icers Of f in Trial LONDON. April 4 (U.PJ Maj Gen. John T. Lewis, commander of the European western base sec tion, was accused in military court today of trying indirectly to "railroad" nine guards accused of brutality at the Lichfield depot ura Act JUitS Ai:vuaCTA vmtti. yiv The charge ' was made by de fense counsel at thj opening of the trial of staff Sgt James M. Jones of Muskogee Okla., form er guard at the US. 10th replacement replace-ment depot at Lichfield, Eng. Frank, A. Jonnson, cniei oi De fense counsel, i challenged, vhe luisHiMinn -of the court. He said a "biased and "prejudiced attitude of higher headquarters! deprived Jones of his rights, r " He said he would prove inai Lewis was the "real reviewing authorltv; Instead of Col. Claude M. Thiele, -commander - of - U S. troops in the United Kingdom who is the official appointing authority for the present court. Lewis was accused of trying to "railroad" the ' guards and clear the officers through his representative, repre-sentative, CoL Clarence Brand, and assisted by the European theater' the-ater' representative, CoL Riley McLean. ; Jones is the first of nine accused ac-cused guards and six officers to be tried, on charges of mistreating mistreat-ing prisoners at Lichfield in the winter of 1944-45. Johnson said Brand repeatedly visited London to secure stipulations stip-ulations from the prosecution and defense "Stipulations which might be considered confessions of guilt." He said "His purpose was to impair the prosecution of high officials." Morris C McGee, special de- Colonel Brand." Brand and Mc Lean, he. added, bargained with the accused guard, offering them shorter sentences if they would acree to certain stipulations. McGee charged that Thiele is "a puppetfr of General Lewis, whose command has usurped the power of the London command in regard to these trials. Some thing .smells.' Johnson' Quoted Kearney as saying to his commander. There is danger of an acquittal." He added, rrhe higherups had made ud their minds on the disposal of this case, thus stripping them selves of the right to review tne case." affect only the nation's 130 class one roads, it was expected the other carriers will fall in line. - The nonoperating award was signed by the neutral' and the union members of the arbitration board. The operating award was signed by the neutral and carrier- board members. - The nonoperating unions agreed to the award with reluctance," according to a statement issued by Felix H. Knight, Kansas City. Mo., nresident of tne Brotnernooa of Car 'Men; and E. E. Milliman, fense counsel, expanded on John son's charges. He claimed Thiele's staff judge advocate, Maj. D Kearney, was "an office boy fod Detroit, head of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, both members of the nonoperating arbitration board. Thev maintained the award ls made without consideration of the equities of the employes claim am MMvifantiai tarF TinninaT board is still hearing the wages and rules demands of two other rail unions, the brotherhoods ot-encrlneers ot-encrlneers and . trainmen, repre senting about '250,000 employes. ; HOOVER IN OSLO LONDON, April 4 (OB - Herbert Her-bert Hoover arrived by plane from Islo today, completing an-, other leg of his European food tour. . - "-v-" ' |