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Show f . ,tf?.:- INCREASING cloadiness taorih portion tonltht. Snow flurries In the monnUins south portion Cloudy Friday with snow .-possible, late Friday la the west portion. Colder tontcht 1s-the 1s-the sooth portion. Low tempera-tares tempera-tares Friday morning li 25 6UshlIy warmer Friday.. r"' - AfcW Wli Station ' Mam MlnSUtloa Has Mia Prove .... St 11 Salt Lk. s IS (tRdca .... 1 11 BolU 4t 31 Rutta . . ." 14 oil San Fran. IS 44 ui Aiiin Ji J Las v etas ntwtr . SI 3 Chieac . SS 4 New York . 43 Portland',. 44 SS Seattle .... J 31 Atlanta .... i is; PRICE FIVE --CENTS'- SIXTY-FlRST-YEAaNO: 124 PROVO, UTAH - COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY." NOVEMBER . 21, .1946 r Mountain Storm IJeaesSUtanns 12 Injured Four Deaths Attributable to Traffic in Salt Lake, Millard Counties; Six Inches Of Snow Covers Some Parts of the State Bt UNITED PRESS v"i' A drivinc storm; accompanied by snow, high winds and freezing temperatures hit Utah Wednesday and left in its wake five persons dead and 12 injured. Dead-were: Jerome Bennett, 63, Salt Lake City. Kenneth Webb, 5, Deseret. Melvin Lowery Allen, 62, Salt Lake City. Leland Tuft 19, Salt Lake City. Thomas Rhodes, 18, Salt Lake C it v Bennett was killed when an automobile driven, by two unidentified women caught a wire bumper he was holding while re moving an overhead wire in bail Lake City. Bennett was thrown to the curb and suffered a brain hermorrhage. Five-year-old Kenneth Webb was killed instantly while returning re-turning home from a primary party in Deseret. Investigating Marooned but safe on UUh f, W lake's Bird island during ves- IUSCU "l hh'V"-"!' Missing Hunters Fiitd Shelter From Storm On Island Soviet Troop Inventory Plan Stalled Fork geese hunters reached the beach west of Provo about one o'clock this mofning ending a search -of Utah county officers and nearly 100 American Fork townspeople who feared they were lost on the' gale-swept wa ters. - The men, David Cahn, Leo Varney, Vera Bolley and Charles Carson, left before daylight yesterday yes-terday in their outboard motor boat, soine directly to Bird is land. Attempting to return about mid-forenoon, the beginning of the storm forced them to return to the Island, where they built a rock shelter and a fire and rwere reasonably comfortable during dur-ing the blizzard that followed. t - Tho- hunters "started back ' . Jiau ' uaitcu auu wo mmm. surface, churned by a 50-mile gale during the day, per- : tnltted boat travel. Engine trouble developed on the way and the boat limped most of ' the eight miles to shore at trolling speed. ' Meanwhile, nearly 100 Amer lean Fork citizens had organized to build fires and post cars With liehts on all around tne iaxe After families of the men became alarmed in the late afternoon and notified officers, search efforts ' got underway under direction of American Fork Marshal T. J. Turner and Deputies Rosco Kay, Walter Durrant, Bob Elliott and Art Winters of the Utah county sheriffs office, Fear for the men's safety was considerably lessened, however, when a boat party of searchers went to Bird Island about 10 p. m and found the evidences of the men's stay during the day Because embers of the fire were still warm, the searchers con cluded the men had stayed there safely until the storm ended be fore putlng back for shore. of the automobiles. A heart attack was said to be the cause of death of Allen. Al-len. He succumbed while shoyeling snow at his home in Salt Lake City. Tuft and Rhodes lost their lives . A. in an automooue-icrucK acciaem in Salt Lake City. Three other persons were injured in the accident acci-dent Investigating officers said the convertible in which Tuft was ridinawent through a red. light and smashed into a Garrett Freishtlines semi-trailer truck. The truck driver Lane Abraham of Salt Lake City, was uninjured. Meanwhile. Utah, was covered Thursday with six inches of snow. As an aftermath of the Britain Balks At Plan To Reveal Details Oi Troop Dispositions LAKE SUCCESS N. Y., Nov. 21 (U.R) Great Britain refused today to . support a Soviet proposal that the pow ers disclose details of their troop dispositions abroad, unless the proposals were con sidered as part of the general question of disarmament. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Ern-est Bevin balked at the Soviet proposal just when it appeared near adoption by the United Nations Na-tions political and security committee. com-mittee. France had announced her support, and the United States and China also backed back-ed the Russian resolution although they wanted it broadened to include troops at home as well as abroad. "The two subjects" of troops abroad and disarmament "are really one subject and in my view ought to be taken together," Bevin Bev-in said. If the disclosure of troop dis positions were taken separately, Britain "can't accept it," he said. "It is true that this question of troops in certain parts of the world represents one phase of this problem and probably agitates minds," he said. "But I do remind this body that Hitler had no troops in any territory outside Germany, but that didn t stop Hitler from building an army in Germany." Bevin spoke after Soviet Foreign For-eign Minister V. M. Molotov told the committee that the troop in-ventary in-ventary "would have great political polit-ical significance." Lewis For ! ' hMm War Chest Of $12,000,000 For CIO Urged Miners Answer Lewis' Strike Order r V . Ambassador Alexandre Parodl of France took the stand that the Soviet propos al should he adopted as is and age wires were snapped and bus schedules were delayed Oeden took the brunt of the storm in Utah where six .inches of snow was on streets. Several hundred cars had to be guided over the two-lane Riverdale viaduct via-duct by highway patrolmen. In Salt Lake City, a power line snanned in the neighborhood of the Bambergr Electric and Utah- Idaho Central Railway station. No serious damage was done. (Continued on Page Two) bate on disarmament. Am One-Third Hike Predicted In Suqar Rations WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.R) Reliable government sources said today the basic sugar ration for consumers will be boosted by one third early next spring, probably in April. At the same time, they said, industrial in-dustrial users such as soft drink and food manufacturers will get a comparable increase by having their allocations hiked from 60 to 70 per cent of their 1940-41 base period. These sources said an anti- cipated Improvement in Cuban Cu-ban sugar shipments will make the Increase possible. But they said there is no prospect sugar rationing can be abandoned completely Before Be-fore the spring of 1948. On the new basis, consumers would set a basic ration of 20 ' pounds of sugar a year instead of the present 15 pounds. In addi tion, each ration book holder now is entitled to 10 pounds of canning sugar this year. This presumably will continue. Industrial sugar users now get 48 pounds a year person. Their Increase would bring them to about 56 pounds. Both increases! : combined would increase total sugar supplies per person to 86 pounds a year Instead of the - present . 73 pounds. fcOMMONS DEFEATS ; POWER PROPOSAL I LONDON, Nov. 21 (U.R Com- - mons defeated by a vote of 333 :to 188 tonight an opposition amendment condemning the gov- ernment proposal to nationalize Britain's electrict power plants and inland transport. U. S. Optimistic About Big Four Accord On Trieste NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (U.R) - American officials were opti mistic today about a complete early big four agreement on Trieste despite Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav M. Molotov s insistence upon special economic privileges for Yugoslavia in the proposed free territory. The United States, Great Britain Brit-ain and France will not agree to such privileges such as a custom union because the Paris peace conference voted -by a two-thirds vote specifically to prohibit them. The western powers expect Molotov to yield on this point inasmuch as he has yielded on virtually all of the major Issue the powers of the go-ernor go-ernor of Trieste if be can ret a reasonable compromise on the withdrawal of Anglo-American Anglo-American troops from the Trieste area. Already the Americans and British in the big four have turned turn-ed most of their attention to the German problem, so certain are they that after more than 14 months of seemingly endless de bate they are near the end of peace treaty drafting for the former Hitler satellite powers. Parmdi also suggested that the powers ask the security council or the UN military staff commit tee to fix number of occupation troops each should contribute to police former enemy countries. As an alternative, he said, the numbers could be agreed upon by the powers themselves. "It would be a very important step toward the restoration of in ternational harmony," Parodi said. Chinese Ambassador V. K. Wellington Wel-lington Koo said China supported the Soviet proposal and also the American suggestion that details of troops at home be dfsclosed. The U. S. delegation In a policy meeting expressed confidence that the Big- Five would reach an unanimous agreement to the troop inventory in-ventory question. Whether this would be on .the basis only of the Soviet proposal, or with the addition of an American amendment to disclose dis-close the size of armed forces at home as well, was not indicated. Fight For New Wage Increases Planned By Nation's Labor Unions ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 21 (U.R) President Wal ter R. Reuther of the United Auto Workers today urged the CIO convention to provide pro-vide a "war chest of $12,000,- 000" to fight for new wage increases, but he failed to re- jceive support from President Phillip Murray wno said ' mere is no threat of strikes in the offing." Both spoke just before unanimous unani-mous adoption of a resolution calling for substantial wage increases in-creases to offset a 25 percent loss In take home pay since April, 1945. "I say to the employers of this nation let's fix up this national economy of ours," Murray said. "Come on, be decent; -lefs sit around, the bargaining table and arrive at mutually satisfactory wage agreements without resort to strike. "We are going to present to em ployers a formal request for wage Increases. In so doing we are not jeopardizing our national economy. We v believe' that American business is now extracting enough prof itarf romthirtJeople to mak Substantial .wage .increases without with-out inflationary price increases." Murray hinted that the CIO de mands may amount to more than $2,000,000,000 in wage Increases. "The employer interests are making too much money for their own good for the 'good of this country," he said. "What we are asking is bread, butter, education, cultural opportunities, music in the home, pictures on the wall a better standard of living." Murray attacked Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the board of General Motors Corp., for a recent re-cent speech before the National Petroleum association. He said he read a news report which quoted Sloan as saying "collective bargaining bar-gaining must follow its full course li SHnyftdbwin) ChiefCited it- . ( .x Group of United Mine Worker members walk off jobs at the Chi- easo, Wilmington and Franklin's New Orient mine near West Frankfort, HI., as part of the mass exodus from mines throughout the country last night. More than 1300 men normally are employed em-ployed at the pit, reported to be the largest shaft mine in the world. uww For Failure To Prevent Walkout Contempt Proceedings Expected to Require Personal Appearance of Lewis in Court; j Legal Papers Ready, Declares Spokesman By RAYMOND LAHR i United Press Staff Correspondent v WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.R) The government work-; ed feverishly today on legal action to punish John L. Lewis for failure to prevent the walkout of 400,000 soft coal miners. min-ers. . , A justice department spokesman said at 12:20 p.m. MST. today: "The drafting of necessary papers has been completed. Something will be done at the court this afternoon.". ; Federal lawyers planned to present to Judge T. Alan Goldsborough a formal request! v . . that the United Mine Workersi Virmnf hll VtnrrAe Coal Stride at a Glance WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.R) Coal strike at a glance: ' The Issue The government refused to negotiate a new wage agreement with John Lv Lewis' United Mine Workers on grounds that his demands were so fundamental that they should be served on the mine owners. The Cause Lewis served notice on the government that the contract would expire last midnight .and disputed the government's argument that he had no right to serve it. Principal Union Pemin&atT6 getlthe- present 54-hotir pay of $75.25 weekly foe a" new 40o'ur.week,,heoj lent to raising basic hourly wage 'Tafes from 1.18-1-5 to $1.77; to increase the tonnage assessment for a union welfare wel-fare fund from the present five cents to-10. Men Involved 400,000 by the union's estimate, 350,000 by the government's, in soft coal -mines. (Anthracite miners min-ers were not involved.) ' - - . Miners' present earnings $75.25, for a scheduled work week of 54 hours, including 35 straight-time hours and 19 overtime hours; government figures, disputed by the union, show average earnings of $6237 weekly for an average work week of only 42.4 hours. i Last Coal Strike April 1 - May 11, May 26-29, 1946. Cost of Last Strike Estimated by Civilian Prodution Administrator J. D. Small at $2,000,000,000, exclusive of wages lost. OIL BURNING TRAINS TO KEEP OPERATING OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 21 (U.R) There will be no curtailment of through passenger train service on the Overland Route between Chicago and the Pacific coast, nor between St. Louis and Cheyenne, Wyo., because of the coal strike. Union Pacific headquarters an nounced today. Wreckage Of Missing C-47 Not Located PARIS, Nov. 21 (U.R) U. S. army air force officials today withdrew an announcement they made a little earlier that a rescue plane had located the American transport which crash landed in the Alps two days ago. An hour an porting that a C-47 was circling the transport 45 miles west of Turin, USAAF officials said with out immediate explanation that they must wait further confirma tion before they, could be positive posi-tive the downed plane had been found. The same officers who said the search plane had adioed the discovery dis-covery reported later that the signals from the rescue ship were somewhat garbled, and he was awaiting further advices. The lost transport with 11 persons per-sons aboard, including one general gen-eral and the wives of three gen-rals, gen-rals, went - down in the snow-swept snow-swept Alps southeast of Grenoble day before yesterday. ; . , r Commercial Gas Curtailment without any outside influence) s gj II' and irrespective of the economic. LJraereCir XJeneVO I O 3lOW UD consequences on the conflicting- J VWMW TU V-WIVTT W S parties. Mnmv ..rt i, uraers 10 sun cuiung coramer- constituted a threat of economic !L were received early this Supply company from Geneva Steel company's Ironton plant, as the pinch of the nation-wide coal strike settled almost immediately upon a good portion of Utah county. Just how much gas had to be cut immediately was not known at press time. . It was hoped it would only be a few large users in "class five," relegated to the least priority by -the public service serv-ice commission. Although three Utah county high schools, Provo. Springville and Spanish Fork, war." Murray accused newspapers of failing to give both sides of the CIO's wage fight by not printing and commenting editorially "on the profit structure in America." The newspapers have a responsibility to tell both sides of any story hot I haven't read any carping criticism crit-icism directed at any of the heads of big industry In our land," he said. "The CIO says to the Republican Repub-lican party, the reactionary Democrats in the south and the big Wall Street industrialists gang that we didn't fight the war to go back to a depression," Reu- !ther shouted. "If industry goes, on another l sit-down strike in the next wage cycle as it did in the last, we are not going to surrender and we will fight," he said, urging adoption adop-tion of the principal CIO wage resolution. He said that the "war chest" should be created and made available to. every CIO union which is forced to engage in "any of these basic fights" for more wages. ' STEPS TAKEN TO CURB INFLATION ROME, Nov. 21 (U.R) New currency cur-rency regulations were intro duced today in an effort to halt a spiraling black' market in American dollars being conducted on a million-dollar scale by American army personnel. Mysterious Colorado River Runner Missing LAS VEGAS, Nev Nov. 21 (UJ) The cavernous canyons of the J , I 1 , .3 .1 . . v,oiurauir river neiu uie secrcv today of the disappearance of a mystery man who tried to shoot the rapids in a rubber rait. Forest rangers .believed the daring attempt to negotiate the swirling whirlpools and boiling currents had been made by ' a Hungarian engineer tentatively identified as Charles Roemer. The man, who refused to give any name, told rangers he wanted to shoot the river in a rubber boat and on Oct. 19 was conducted conduct-ed to Lee's Ferry, nearly 300 miles from here, on the Arizona-Utah Arizona-Utah border. A rubber boat passed Bright1 Angel, 73 miles downstream, five daya later. Witnesses said the occupant oc-cupant had. only one paddle and could not have' steered to shore it he haci wanted to. The national park service ordered or-dered ranger stations to keep a lookout for some trace, of the raft a few days later, and planes scoured the canyons from the air without success. The only place Roemer could have come ashore under circum- f PITTSBURG, Calif., Nov. 21 ; (U.R) The Columbia Steel com- i pany here will curtail produc- I I tion within two months due to j j the national coal strike and j j eventually will shut down if j i the tieup is prolonged, com- pany. officials said today. The ! company employs about 2400 1 workers. ! Officials said the plant will i be affected by. a shortage of 1 ! pig iron from the Geneva, J i Utah plant, which is depend- I j ent upon coal. I plus Brigham Young university are in class five, it was known that efforts were being made late today to obtain priority to keep the schools heated. Whether this could be accomplished, however, was uncertain. Usets of commercial gas. in Salt Lake City and elsewhere In the state are unaffected because their suoDly comes from natural fields. The coal crisis will hit first .and hardest in Utah county, however, unless some relief is -obtained, because gas . users In Provo, Springville and Spanish Fork ire MmMMrl hv th Trnntrin fnlr atrmf. hi. t.u ... T.mn aenenaem on coai sunniy. Bar, rangers said. They 5ZS, 'went Into effect immediately, following for a limited blast furnace opera tion. The plant's open hearths can be maintained on oil in lieu of gas. but the diminishing supply of pig iron as blast furnaces are reduced will consequently lower open hearth production. It was learned there will be no immediate reduc tion in slab arid plate mill operations, opera-tions, as these mills will continue as long as slab and bloom stocks on hand fit oresent orders. . Coal dealers have issued a plea for cooperation between consum ers and dealers. In order to get more coaL ac cording, to rules of the dealers' state organization, consumers must certify In writing that they have less than 10 days supply on hand. They may then have a 19 day supply of coal, or one load. Individual consumers may re ceive up to a ton. Hospitals, apart ment nouses, food processing plants, offices, buildings, laun dries and commercial institutions will only receive a 10 day supply Donald Hacking. chairman of the PSC, said today that the: com mission will do its utmost to stretch reserve - coal and its by products as far as possible to maintain Uninterrupted service to residences,, schools, hospitals.' in firms ries and, other places -of- hu man- habitation. . , ed a man to determine whether he was seen there. Roemer's identity was established estab-lished by an address copied by Rranger Arthur Green from a package he was carrying. Dozens of attempts to shoot the river have been made in the last hundred years, most of them ending end-ing death, last July Mrs. George White shot the river on 'a rubber raft but was badly bruised when she reached Lake Mead, behind Boulder dam. the strike deadline in the "two batteries of coke ' ovens now In operation, and it was learned that "by the first of next week the plant will begin to reel tne. ex fects of curtailment operations. Geneva will not suffer an im mediate, complete shutdown, ,'it was learned. One battery ox coke ovens must be maintained to keep all . four batteries from being ruined by complete 'cooling off, and this in turn will furnish coke (AFL) president be held in con tempt for defying 'the' jurist's In junction against the walkout. The court then will debate whether contempt procedure against Lewis shall be civil or criminal. Probabilities favored civil pro cedure in which a judge has unlimited un-limited power to impose sentences sent-ences and fine for contempt. The proceedings might require personal appearance of Lewis In court. The soft coal mine shutdown on the even of winter was nearly 100 per cent complete. And it -was aggravated by mass sympatny jwaikotits- 4n the hard coar -fields, where about 10,000 anthracite miners not .directly involved in the dispute auit work. The union district president in northern Pennsylvania, where the walkouts, occurred, atributed them to eroneous information that Lewis had been jailed While Assistant Attorney Gen eral John F. Sonnett, who win present the government's case in court, nrepared his briefs, the two major figures in the no-quarter battle were calm. Sonnett's staff, it was learned, was working on a variety of legal papers to meet any contingencies that might arise. The next move may be crim inal proceedings against Lewis under the Smith-Connauy Act, which carries maximum penalties of a year in prison and S5.000 tine. It was war between the govern ment and Lewis, and Lewis knew it. He was willing to risk jail rather than surrender. He Was risking also the possible destruc tion of his place in the labor movement. But he was betting that he could come out more powerful pow-erful than ever. i It was war. and President Tru man knew it. He called the sig nals for a showdown through the courts. Now vacationing in south ernmost Florida, confident in the conviction that he had acted in the best Interests of the country, the President stood by while his off icials here carried out his de cisions.. The countrywide shutdown . of bituminous mines choked off the flow of a vital fuel to Industries and homes. The Issue Is-sue was so drawn between Lewis and the ' government that the nation could expect to pay a heavy price before one side retreated. Government agencies were ready with plans to curtail railroad rail-road freight service and to request re-quest electricity brownouts . by cities to conserve fuel. Latest estimate es-timate was that the nation had a 37-day soft coal supply. But it was unevenly distributed and the strike was expected to affect (Continued on Page Two) Breaking Out In Anthracite Mines E BY J. ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21 W.R) John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers quit work in the nation's na-tion's soft coal fields today In defiance' pf the government and sympathy strikes swept Pennsylvania's Penn-sylvania's big. anthracite fields . Virtually every one . of the 2,250 government-operated mines scattered over 26 states was closed as the UMW's 400,000 bituminous workers backed up Lewis' declaration' declar-ation' that their agreement to mine coal .for the government was ended. The sympathy movement In the hard coal fields gained moment-um moment-um and .threatened to close most of Pennsylvania's 333 anthracite colliers. If the 76,000 anthracite miners joined the work stoppage, a daily production of 206,000' tons principal source of heating fuel for the east coast, would be cut off. More, than 10,000 had quit work by mid-morning. There was no strike eatL Lewis' refusal to comply with, , a federal court order to retract re-tract his statement of Nov. . 15 that the government- union contract was void as -of midnight was enough for the miners. The soft coal shutdown was the second within nine months , and came as the nation 'faced winter with subnormal stockpiles. ' The work stoppages were spontaneous. spon-taneous. There were no pickets at the mines and only necessary maintenance men entered UMW-organized UMW-organized pits. Production was limited to a small number of strip operations and non-union Mines. The miners left the mines with mixed emotions., but they all left. Some said frankly that they hadn't recovered from tho 59-day strike last spring. . , Others were defiant and angry as they filed out past the sighs' warning them, the mines were fedefal property and their ton-tract ton-tract was still in effect. If they put John in jalL there won't be a ton of coal mined until he's out," one miner declared. . Another miner thought of his family as he hung up his lamp t the Montour No. 10 mine of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coat company. i My boy asked for a bike this Christmas, but I guess I won't be able to get it for him now," he sighed. Carbon Coiinty Coal Miners PqcILUevis In Walking Out v PRICE, .Utah, Nov. (UJ!) Coal tminers in Carbon county joined tie national walkout today one hundred per cent despite the feeling of many that the strike is useless. v , Approximately 1520 miners were out at the state's four prin cipal mines at Sunnyside, Castle gate Hiawatha and' KennUworth. . : Several 'miners expressed the opinion ! that .they; didn't want to strike but they had to go along or "we'll never work again." Miners also expressed fears for their Own welfare .and that of their families in case of a prolong ed "strike; They pointed out' that most of their cash reserves, in- cludirig bonds; were used up in the 59-day strike last springs At .that time the union fed the striking miners and their families through cooperative stores. In an unprecedented move, the populace of Price expressed their dissatisfaction with the strike by announcing that many of them were installing oil burners to replace re-place the former coal burning heaters and stoves Which may soon be idle for lack of coaL - At the: Sunnyside mine, a few straggling miners showed up for, worx xoaay nut went nonw- n the. bulk of the .morning shift failed to report. t . The box score of miners striking strik-ing at the state's four principal bituminous coal districts showed: Castlegate- 350; -Hiawatha ,500; Sunnyside 245; and KennUworth Gas Fires Keep Firemen On Move Gas fires gave Provo firemen a busy hour today, with two alarms-turned in ' because 'of blazes started by gasoline fumes. At 11:15 a. m. a blaze "started in the-Verl Powelson service sta tion on Fifth North, and . Fifth West causing about $23 damage to the buUding and a car. owned, by Roy Johnson.1 New York.The fire ' started . when Mr.- Powelson was thawing out . a . frozen gas line, and the 'fumes banked up against a stove, causing an open fire. - ' . The second 'alarm was" turned fri at 12:13 from the trailer camp at 1183. North Fifth West Where a fire started froin the "over-heating of a gasoline stove,, caused an estimated $33 damage- to a trailer belonging Jo Roy Parker, j Mrs., James Willstead is the.oc-. cupant. ot the .traUer. -f I ". Il i 5: |