OCR Text |
Show ' - JINGLING THE NEWS ; - LOCAL BOX MAKES GOOD The Soviet,' si little COST. 'Refills the job Gromykolost; They're not , EXTRAVAGANT, that's clear. They're renttt sua already . HERE. -' Stan Arnold THE WEATHER UTAH Clear today sad Tuesday; Tues-day; little cooler tonight, but rising daytime temperatures: Temperatures '"- Ilixh Low 4 Precipitation 12 SIXTIETH YEAR, NO; 225 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. MONDAY, APRIL 15. 194S UTAH'S ONLY DAILY ' SOUTH Of SALT LAKS PRICE FTVE CENTS Gas: Company Cuts Off Water;Heaters; Miners To Attend Provo Meet Coal Strike Continues In Deadlock By UNITED PRESS The coal mine strike entered enter-ed its third week in a deadlock dead-lock today, but elsewhere a sugar refinery walkout was settled and a transit strike at Birmingham, Ala., ended. "At Butte, Mont., a labor dispute between the Anaconda Ana-conda Copper Mining Co., and the Mine, Mill and Smeltermen. Union (CIO), resulted in widespread wide-spread vandalism and damage to homes. The looting -and damage was done by gangs of youngsters, but authorities said the disorders resulted from a strike of 3,500 Butte copper miners. v , Strikes and shutdowns In t '. labor disputes kept 6304)00 i workers idle across the country. coun-try. In other developments: i .wuam v - ployei were scheduled to return to their jobs at 11 plants with settlement of their prolonged strike. The employes voted dining din-ing the weekend to accept an 18' cent hourly wage increase. r - Mm minMt. In Triahn vaim An A temporary offer by mine opera tors of a 75-cent per day raise. The offer was made to avert a strike. The offer covered miners at 27 mines in the rich Coeur D'Alehes district. -- The government still sought al1 ZonnuiA w gc uic uuiicu ouue Workers, (AFL), and . the coal mine operators tack to-the - con ference table. Negotiations have been suspended since last week when UMW President John L. Lewis withdrew the union delegation dele-gation over demands for a levy on each ton of coal mined to be placed in a union hospitalization and welfare fund. . - Labor department officials hoped negotiations could be resumed early this week, but it appeared unlikely that the disputants would get together until the week's end. Lewis and the operators were no nearer to agreement than they were when the 400,000 soft coal miners walked out April 1. Two east coast sugar refining firms agreed to wage settlements to end a brief strike of about 4,-500 4,-500 cmDloves at six plants. The settlements provided wage- in creases of 15 cents an hour, and averted a serious disruption of suear production. The strike formally began at midnight Sat urdav. but had little effect on production because the refineries were not scheduled to operate Sunday. The Birmingham Transit strike was called off when the AFL Street Electric Railway and Mo- , torcoach employes voted to submit sub-mit their wage demands-to arbitration. ar-bitration. The walkout had tied up public transportation since . midnight Wednesday. No New Road Construction Conference Slated In Provo To Discuss Gas Emergency Here With 1,700 homes in Utah county without hot water and 1,200 without heat, city and county officials today were pinning their last hopes for relief on a conference sche duled for tomorrow in Provo with Carbon county miners and AFL officials. Called for 1:30 p. m. in the Provo city commission chambers. high ranking AFL district officials and a delegation from Carbon county miners, particularly those from Columbia Steel's mine, will meet with city and county offi cers and others interested in an attempt to solve the local situation. Sunday afternoon the gas shortage reached even fur ther into Provo, Sprlngville and Spanish Fork homes when it became necessary to cut off the 1,700 hot water heaters served by the gas company. The job was expected ex-pected to be completed today. Other communities in Utah county north of Pleasant Grove, and elsewhere in the state were not affected by the present coal strike because hey are served with natural gas. The natural gas mains terminate at Pleasant Grove. .The gas company uses the limited coke oven gas supply at Ironton to serve its consumers in Provo, Springville and Span ish Fork. Officials emphasized that something some-thing must be done and done quick to prevent the disaster of cutting off gas supplies completely, complete-ly, a .move which would mean cleaning all gas company fines and at least a 30-aay delay before service could be resumed Colum bia Steel was "still running 21 coke Ovens today, but faced the necessity of . going to 18 unless more coal is assured. If this hap pens, it is believed it will take the entire output of the 18 to keep the rest of the ovens hot enough to avoid deterioration. Meanwhile, Geneva Steel officials revealed they have , eurtailed coke oven prodne-"tlo'n prodne-"tlo'n from 63 to 45 ovens in order to stretch out their coal supply, and that the plant can still run "about 30 more days" on the coal it has left Manager Boyce Rawlins of the Mountain Fuel Supply company emphasized that people still re ceiving gas for cooking purposes must conserve as much as pos sible to help prevent further cuts. Unlimited use of gas to heat hot water on the stove, or to warm rooms with the oven, may create a situation even more critical. He urged - conservation as much as possible and pleaded with cooking cook-ing stove owners to preserve the remaining -supply by using only what is absolutely necessary S. Agdiriieics Am Tp Eond Blicfe MuGfeft Ion iVkaft ; i . . . ' Believe It Or Not The Driver Walked Away From This !'"'.;. . -. '." -. .At i yS' f,v- x "v fci it 1 i V i, - " , . mmmmn w (i ' i niiinHiiumjiiiiia3 This twisted pile of junk was an eight-wheel, stake body truck this morning before a speeding Denver and Rio Grande passenger train reduced it to its present state and wrecked the old Geneva station. The driver, Lynn Nuttall, 21, Lakeview, miraculously escaped with only shock and three cuts on his head. Deputy Sheriff George Loveless views the wreckage. Photo courtesy of Paul Demos, who took the picture for the sheriffs office. Iran Withdraws Her Complaint Against Russia Before UN Iranian Case To Be Kept On the Agenda Until May 6 It Is Believed In Spite Of Iran's Last-Minute Decision To Withdraw BULLETIN NEW YORK. April. 15. OUR Iran formally withdrew Its com plaint to the United Nations security, council against Soviet Russia today and Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko immediately announced an-nounced that his government could not accept the American plan to reopen the case on May 6. TEHRAN, April 15 ; Iran announced officially today to-day that she has requested her representative in the United Nations to withdraw her complaint against Russia imme diately. ' - The announcement was made; by the government spokesman, Prince Mozaffar Firouz who revealed that Rus sia has given Iran fresh assurances that the withdrawal of the Red army will be completed by. May6, J'Iran," said .Firouz, "has complete confidence Livestock To Be Routed To Vet Comes Out OfCrossing Bv Utah County -i There will be no new road con struction by Utah county "during 1948, only maintenance and surfacing sur-facing of existing roads, members mem-bers of the Utah county commission commis-sion said today. , ' Simultaneously, the commission anonunced the county has been allocated its 1946 share from-the state license and gas tax: fund. 525.504.56. The amount,, allocated on the basis of population, county valuation and road area, is about ISO less than for 1945. X "able road funds Will allow only r for proper maintenance of exist ing county roads, with no new roads planned. Meanwhile, the state , road department de-partment has called for bids on L537 miles of road and a new Abridge northwest of Lehi, con- nectinc Lehi with the Bedwood road from Salt Lake county, The bridge will replace the existing one across the Jordan river. The road will be of bituminous mix. It la being none oy ine siate roaa : rfpoartment. not the county, as a " : i State - seconoary nignway. UTTSSIAN "DEMAND OPPOSED NEW YORK, April 15 (UJl -U. S Delegate Edward R. Stettlnius, i Jr- today vigorously opposed the - Russian demand that the security council drop the Iranian case be- lore ay 15 Krug to Meet WaterusersAt Utdh Parley SALT LAKE CITY. AorU (U.R) J. P. Krug. secretary of interior, was expected to meet with Utah water users when they convene here - early in June to discuss problems concerned with the' proposed central Utah water and power project. William R. Wallace, president of the Utah Water Users' association, associ-ation, said upon his return from a --meeting with reclamation of ficials in Washington, D. C, that Krug likely would attend the Utah meeting. One of the principal matters to be discussed will be a unified plan for allocating Colorado river waters equitably among Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Wallace said the department of interior indicated a willingness to meet with, officials of the four states in an effort to work out this problem satisfactorily. Crash Alive The luck which carried Lynn Nuttall, 21, Lake View, through 27 months of naval action in the Pacific was still with him this morning, when he survived a ter rific passenger, train-truck crash with only scalp lacerations. He was resting at his home to day, suffering from nothing worse than shock and three cuts on his head, after the potash-loaded truck he was driving was trans formed into a pile of junk at .7 am. this morning by a speeding Denver and Rio Grande passenger train. The accident occurred at the Geneva crossinr, at the south limits of the Geneva steel plant. The train, which apparently struck the truck broadside, carried it 138 ftet and boosted it off in front of the old Geneva station shed, smashing the front of the shed. Lynn, who was alone in the truck, crawled out of the wreck unaided. He remained in the cab until it finally came to rest partway part-way into the station front. According Ac-cording to Deputy Sheriff George Loveless, who investigated, the back of the train was about 1,000 yards from the point of impact when the engineer was finally able to bring it to a stop. Nuttall, who was traveling north, in the same direction as the train, said he just did not see it (Continued on Page Eirht) Wound 0oyf Homes Wrecked BUTTE, Mont., April 15 (U.R) I tract offering wage increases of All available oolice were alerted S1 8 dav- today to prevent further vandalism vandal-ism and rioting by gangs of teen-aged teen-aged hoodlums. which has result-; ed in serious injury of two youths and thousands of dollars worth of damage to homes. The disturbances were connected, connect-ed, authorities believed, to the six-day strike of the CIO Mine, Mill and Smeltermen's union against the Anaconda Copper Mining company. The 3,500 union members walked off their jobs last Tuesday after rejecting a con- Chiang Kai-Shek Intervenes In Political Crisis Retailers Deny Black Market SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 (U.R) If there is a meat black market in Utah, it isn't among the retail grocers, Edward L. Vetter, Utah Retail Grocers association declared today. , Coy J. Hayward, Bountiful, president of the association de clared that black marketing in the middle west is much more apparent than it is in the west. He has just returned from a sur vey of midwestern states. Diamondback Rattlesnake Kills Cobra Woman in Show LONG BEACH, Calif., April 15 OI.PJ The seven-foot diamond-back diamond-back rattlesnake that killed Elsie the cobra woman - was a -newcomer to her act and unacustom-ed unacustom-ed to handling, authorities said today. Elsie, whose real name was Mrs. Elsie Marks, was bitten yesterday yes-terday and died in a hospital a few hours later. The reptile turned turn-ed during the act and sank his fangs into Mrs. Marks, causing near-panic among several hundred hun-dred spectators. The snake was scooped up quickly by attendants and an ambulance am-bulance took Mrs. Marks to a hospital. . Mrs. Marks, 58, a huge woman weighing "295 pounds, was given serum but failed to. rally and be fore more serum could be obtain ed she djed. . As Elsie the cobra woman, Mrs. Marks was known throughoutthe world for 'her appearances - at circus sideshows and - carnivals. About eight years ago she and her husband, Alex Marks, set up a reptile-show here and gave up traveling.-! ' " The reptile palace was one of numerous carnival attractions" on the Long Beach pike . waterfront amusement area. CHUNGKING, April 15 (U.R) Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek intervened directly today in the Nationalist-Communist Nationalist-Communist political crisis as 30,-000 30,-000 Communist troops were reported re-ported beseiging a small National ist garrison at Changchun, capital of Manchuria. Chiang's surprise intervention interven-tion was an effort to speed up the reorganization of the government to include Com munist and other elements j and thus ease political ten- I sion. ! Federal labor conciliator report Williams, pleaded for an end to the" rioting and warned that It already has "endangered a peaceful settlement" set-tlement" of the strike. His appeal came after a 16- year-old boy, identified as-James GuidonL was taken to the hospi tal, critically injured from a shot in the back which he received while walking down the street last night. - On Saturday night, Raymond Butala, 14, was wounded in the eye by fragments of -glass and lead caused by a bullet' which crashed through a window of the automobile in which he was rid ing with his parents. Physicians feared he would suffer partial blindness in one eye. In the two nights, 14 homes were damaged in widespread depredations by gangs of boys and girls, some of whom rode through the streets on trucks. The damage ranged from broken windows to actual Invasions In-vasions In ; which furniture was splintered with axes. Witnesses said a crowd of more than 3,000 persons' gathered last night in the Silver. Bow district, two miles east of Butte, to watch (Continued on Page. Eight) Girl, 6 Shot Gun Accident fhtnckvA niiortora cat1 tViat if f lio t move succeeded it might go fariT-. A'alL M toward relaxing conflict in Man- I J IVCUlll lll churia which is rapidly assuming the aspects of full-fledged civil war. Chiang invited the steering committee of the political con-j TRIDELL, Utah, April 15 U.R) tuiiauve cunierence, including Communist leader, Gen. Chou En-Lai. to tea for a frank dis cussion of the political headaches. In reply to Communist charges that the-government is trying to sabotage and delay the reorgani zation, Chiang called, upon all parties to complete the reorgani zation by April 20. He asked that all parties submit nominations for the -new state council and the national v assembly within three days. Chou pointed but that there were many questions stilt un settled, but Chiang' named a special committee to thrash out the r difficulties with the Communists. Com-munists. Members oft the com mittee are Shao Li-Tze, General cniang v;nun, and interior Minister Min-ister Chang Ll-Shang. They will meet with Chou tomorrow morning.; morn-ing.; The committee will meet with other party members later in the day and on Wednesday. , It was the first intervention by Chiang in the reorganization and if successful was expected to ease enormously Gen. :George C. Mari cnau j lasjts wnen be arrives later uus week. Truman Urges United Nations Must Succeed WASHINGTON, April 15 UE President Truman said today ; the united Nations wui and must suc ceed because-"complete devasta Udtf Is the only alternative , to International cooperation in this atomic age. v Addressing the -Pan American Union-governing board., .in. .the 16th annual observance of Pan American day. the-president said the world faces "a great' and dangerous adventure"- in which all must do their part to eliminate fear of war and establish "a rule of justice and world cooperation.' His speech was broadcast . over all major networks in this country, and short-waved abroad. Mr. Truman warned Ahat the United Nations decision to use force when necessary to prevent aggression would not in itself eliminate the underlying causes of world war II "the material distress dis-tress and spiritual starvation born of poverty and despair." 11 Prisoners" Escape Jail SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 15 (U.R) A widespread search was in process today for eight of 11 prisoners who 'escaped from the Tijuana, Mex., jail by digging under a wall during the . noon meal hour yesterday. V Three of the escapees were picked up by San Diego police several hours later but the other eight were unreported hours after they fled the Mexican jail, the sheriff's Office said. The prisoners were believed , to have been led by. Jack Hidalgo, wanted in Los Angeles on a murder mur-der charge. Authorities said Hi dalgo was dangerous hd might be armed. None of the prisoners was known to have .guns, at the time of their escaped which" was undetected for nearly an hour. in the. word and: pledge of the Soviet government." He said that the instructions to Ambassador. Hussein Ala were dispatched immediately after the renewed " assurances from Russia yesterdays - The r action was taken by Premier v Ahmed Ghavam as his'" government faced a - spreading growth i0f influence influ-ence of the left-wing, pro-l pro-l KUtian iTudeh TaTty-Which' .suddenly emerged In industrial indus-trial Isfahan. "With : further .regard to the telegram sent to Ala yesterday. Firouz said, "today he has been given further instructions. signed between the Persian and Soviet governments concerning evacuation of all Soviet troops from 'Persian territory by May 6 the conditions and circumstances Which dictated giving of the complaint com-plaint to the security council no longer arise. NEW YORK. April 15 (U.R) Iran's decision to withdraw its formal charges against" Russia failed today to alter the determination determin-ation of most United Nations se curity council members to keep toe. Iranian case on the agenda until' May 6 the new date Rus sia has , promised to get out of Iran. Iran's last-minute decision to support the Soviet . demand for immediate dropping of the Iran ian case promised another bitter debate when the' council meets at 3 p. m., EST, and another big uiree split. JUestrof the council mem-'hers, mem-'hers, especially' the Americans Amer-icans and British, already had 'made up their 'minds that the ' Soviet demand' for. dropping the Iranian ease before Russian Rus-sian troops -are out of Iran should be 'rejected even 'Jf Iran switched Its position at " the last minute and sided with Six-year-old Edna Goodrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Goodrich was killed accidentally last night by three bullets fired from a .22 caliber rule py ner io year-old brother, Reed. The victim, and a two-year-old brother, Ward, reportedly were in a building In bacK oz tneir home .when the elder brother fired five shots into the walL Three of the bullets struck the child in the head. The accident occurred while the parents were attending church; Japs Ordered to Make Cultured Pearls Available TOKYO, April .15 (U. Su preme headquarters-today order ed the Japanese, government -to make -' available cultured pearls for purchase by occupation troops. "Some, 3,500 stranas pz cultured pears, matched sets and great quantities of rings, pins, ear rings and other articles will be put "on the market each week at prices .'ranging from s to aioo. TOJO RETORTED SPLENDID HEALTH f TOKYO. April 15 (UJJ) Gen. Hideki Tojo, awaiting trial as Japan's number one war criminal. is in "splendid health,". KiyosnJ Goko, former president of Mitsu bishi Industries who was released from Sugamo prison".1 Saturday, said today. ' Slaughterers Agriculture. OPA And Justice Department In Triple-Threat Assault : WASHINGTON, April 15U C) Three government agencies agen-cies acted today to end the nation's black market in meat. The agriculture department and the office of price administration admin-istration . made public an awaited order channeling livestock live-stock to established, legitimate slaughterers, . who recently have found themselves unable to buy animals for slaughter. The justice department opened an investigation of reports that many packers have been making false, subsidy claims. The agriculture-OPA program will provide a channeling system designed to give each legitimate slaughterer an opportunity to kill the same proportion of the avail- able supply of cattle, calves, and hogs as he slaughtered in 1944. The amount of livestock which slaughterers may kill will be ad justed as rapidly as the supply changes, the agencies said. Price Administrator . Paul- ' Porter said "The answer to equitable distribution ofjneat -applleslsndt the abindon-T: ment of price control as sng gested by some. "We are not going-to ask the American people to pay -tribute to a legalized black market," he :said. v . . . Secretary of Agriculture Cin- ton P. Anderson said the new program was "in reality a share the-livestock program." He point ed out that many packers have had difficulty getting normal-supplies normal-supplies of livestock at ceiling price's. The program i is designed to correct these difficulties," he said This Is not the first time that OPA has had quotas ever the slaughter of livestock. ' Such controls, in effect durin the war, were suspended last September. Since that time, many slaughterers have been' killing much 'more than their normal proportion of the available supply sup-ply of livestock, while others have been unable to obtain even half their customary . proportion of total slaughter. The new controls will be effec-(Continued effec-(Continued on Page Eighty House Passes H Measure For ; Holiday This morning Tehran dispatches reveaieo-that the Soviet ambassa dor in Iran again had "categorical ly, reiterated" , the promise for complete and unconditional evac uation by May 6. The Iranian gov ernment spokesman added that Since the Persian government has complete confidence , in' the word and pledge of the Soviet govern ment," . Iranian .Ambassador Hus sein Ala was being instructed to withdraw its charges against Rus sia immediately. ' JEWISH PASSOVER CELEBRATED VTN JAPAN. u TOKYO. T April 15 (UJ9 The Jewish passover was celebrated tonight for, the .first time In the history of Japan. . U n iyersi tyiJre Wife JnMercyrS COLUMBIA, Mo April 15'OUD Authorities were convinced today to-day that Dr. Adolph Zeoh, University Uni-versity of Missouri professor German, Ger-man, killed himself , after "lie detector test because ' he had poisoned his wife with arsenie as she lay; 'in a hospital bed. s i Zech, a - quiet,'- mild-mannered and scholarly man, sat ' at the desk : in his study ' yesterday afternoon, wrote a. suicide note to the country prosecutor denying that he killed his wife, then fired a J22 caliber rifle bullet into his right temple.' ' J-?.-a A coroner's iury three days earlier had found ' that'.Zech's wife,--Marie,-.died of arsenic -adr ministered bya party -erjpartiei unknown." On Saturday Zech was subjected to,. questioning for 10 hours and underwent a lie detec tor test Authorities said the re suits were ; ."definitely j unfavorable." unfavor-able." ' ;5 a? a& .. - ? "AS jfar a: I'm concernedthe suicide solves- the murder,", said Prosecutor George S. Spencer. Thi-"eloses the case,? I J Authorities believed?: Ze c h mixed arsenic in bottled soft drinks which he brought to his wife's bedside. Jtt admitted keep ing a sack 'of arsenate of lead in his basement tor spraying rose bushes. -1 . After; the coroners Jury re turned its verdict: Zech had urged (Continued -en Page E!ght)- By DEAN W. DITTMER : United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 15 (OR) The house today passed and sent to the senate legislation to provide ' for a, .five-month draft holiday after 'May 15 and prohibit induction in-duction of teen-agers. The bill was approved 280 .to 108 after an unsuccessful effort by Rep. Dewey Short, Mo, to kill the bill by sending it back to the-house the-house , military affairs committee," Voting for the bill ?were 174 Democrats; and 116 Republicans. Opposed were 41 Democrats , and . 65 Republicans and 2 minor party members. Short's proposal was rejected 135 to 74. . , - In approving the . bin -r le -keep the selective service act t alive until Feb. 15, 1347, but;. I stopping Inductions from May ? 15 te Oct. 15, the election-". . conscious house sidestepped sv record vote on a straight drafts .extension. v ' Administration leaders r hoped' that the senate would re-write the bill to give, the army its-requested straight year's extension of the act. ' . v ! . - House leaders predicted the-membership, the-membership, actually aware of , the coming elections, would try U' dodge a recorded roll call vote on the extension bill. Most members mem-bers felt "themselves uncomfort ably: squeezed ' between: the : unpopularity un-popularity of the. draft and President Presi-dent Truman's, assertion that iti extension was vital to the nation's security. ; ; - ; . The cry; of "politics? resounded throughout debate -and was 'especially- loud .when the- house voted . the draft "holiday'.' and ; boosted the minimum age for inductions in-ductions from 18 rZ0.:ry:C. : , |