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Show - r - TEMPERATURES StaUoa Hu utaiuura Uu Mia SHOWERS Frava . . . Salt Lake rfdcn . . . Hols 38 Ran Fran. S S3 t 41 Lot Angeles II SS 1 3l.aa Vega 91 it ? 48 Denver ... 4 34 I 23 Chicago ... 43 32 SI S New York St 44 f 4 t, Atlanta ... 75 55 late this afternoon and tonight. fenowers over state Friday. Locally Local-ly strong- southerly winds west Butte . . rortland Seattle . portion, low Friday morning S to 45. SIXTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 228 Q PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS 3 New Eicpbsbims Rdk Tenm ' Waterf iramifc Truman Veto Of f Strike Control Measure Hinted House Set For Passage Of Bill Putting Restrictions On Labor Unions; Lewis Requests More Mine Safety Legislation WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.R) The house today drove toward passage of its drastic strike-control bill in the face of a warning that President Truman will veto it. The warning was given by Rep. Emanuel Celler, D., N. Y., on the house floor two hours after he conferred with Mr. Truman. He said the bill "will earn a veto, and justifiably justifi-ably so" despite the expectation that the senate will tone it down. But Republican house leaders predicted the measure on ... B a lfinal passae ,ater today would lrV fllmf O Ainc iwin more than the two-thirds TT 11 ,J margin necessary to override Endorsement In Britain presidential veto. Celler made his statement after the house rejected a new attempt to include in the bill a rigid ban against any form of union shop. The bill would outlaw the closed shop (but not the union shop), in- By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Foreign Henry A. Wallace completed jdustry-wide bargaining second-his second-his British camnaicn aUinst;31'? 'boycotts and jurisdictional resident 1 ruman s foreign pol- Tragic Blast Of Texas Chemical Plant Creates Spectacular Holocaust icy today, winning the support of the British Labor government's govern-ment's newspaper, The Daily Herald, which said that the Wallace Wal-lace crusade had done "good" in Britain. The endorsement of Wallace came in the form of an unusual editorial, signed personally by the Herald's editor. Percy-Cutlip. Since the Herald is the govern ment's own organ it was taken t lnilliiii VI.. 11 -.jf-.U congressional develop- to indicate that Ws41ee'pe4eh-4Vonntr of President -Truman's es nave made considerable im pact in government quarters. The Herald criticized Wallace Wal-lace for his failure to point out a number of Russian faults but sharply attacked what it called "American right wing quarters" for their indignation against the Wallace Wal-lace speeches. In Paris Wallace was attacked strikes. Other ments: Mine Safety President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (AFL) appealed to Senators Sen-ators for improved safety in coal mines. He also renewed his charge that Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug was responsible for the Centralia, 111., disaster which killed 111 miners,, roreign roiiey - senate op- 1 V - ' . 1 'JSEA Ttlephoto) $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid program picked up another recruit re-cruit when Sen. Albert W. Hawkes announced he would vote against the bill. The senate is Monsanto Chemical plant burns hours after initial explosion which took the lives of hundreds. Texas City can be seen on the right. Speedy Statehood For Alaska Urged By House Members Yugoslavia Wants Carinthia, Bill Introduced $150,000,0001,1 ReparationT"OTan Blanket I BY R. H. SHACKFORD l United Press Staff Correspondent Cfhaj-tiilss4 ir rra rr trta maa Tuesday. WASHINGTON, 'Aoril 17 0J.R) ' MOSCOW, April 17 (U.R)Yugo- Texas Disaster Sen. W. Lee O- Several house members of both 8lavia formally demanded the Daniel, D Tex., asked for asen- rtle. todflv vmrr,0ndot, AmHan province of Carinthia nl'Sr JS!spcedy statehood for Alaska. !and 3150,000,000 for reparations; i"g session. Vice Premier Eduard ft ly that, if Russia supports thejKflACt In KAnfc Yuffoslav rinmanrii "Ihoro will K rVWl Will J no Austrian treaty." The demands were placed before be-fore the council at a special morn- that it might have been caused They appeared, before a housplfrom Austria in a hearing before by senate minority leader Alben by sabotage. He said a senate in-DUblic lands suhcommitt whirhlthe bi tour foreign ministers. i'flrr' Zy-!rLrZ S"c.nu"yahuldbemadelnthelight:,, conHurtir., hrinM o n,.i American officials said private-' Uvia's case - wu' w wic nuuuii; t,dsi- nl "tfl ttioh tpm nn nn nWng.i " f " : : ; ,.ci . ... l j . oiuvene arininia snouia DCI h"vh iuerj were reported Kardelj and Foreign Minister Stan joe Simic presented Yugo- Barkley said his tour had in-tional affairs" iposals to admit Alaska to the creased his support for President! Atomic Chairman Rr,rU- n i union. H'"F"i-u H fkPn nnnr B Ta nt Ik. ate atomic committee disclosed (Continued on Face Two) Italian Foreign Minister Attacked By Rome Hoodlums Truman's Turkey and Greece. In Washington the Truman program drew new fire from Sen. Albert W. Hawkes, R., N.J., who charged that it opened u); me poasiDiuiy in jnuu woriu war. In Washington the senate pushed along toward a vote on the $400,000,000 program of grant-in-aid to Greece and Tur-, key. Agreement was reached thnt; C final t'nta nn tho rnnti-nifOrcii! ' B illlUl WV- VII HIV. LUIIIlVVVISlQl : plan will be taken Tuesday at j ROME, April 17 (U.R) Angry 4 p.m. Approval by a wide mar-youths struck Count c , gf gin was certain although oppon-ith ta .- a1j cnts continued to fire away at 1 55?,!?' e"".,h. l!1? the bill and a number of amend-1! h ! M.d,W,th ments have been offered. ff,sU odiiy du"n demonstra- Fresh ammunitioti for backers t,.on. y several thousand unem-of unem-of the measure was provided bvlpJojed- three senators who returned from An automobile carrying Sforza a visit to the Middle East in j was Pulling away from the Palaz-which Palaz-which they spent a day each in'zo Chigi. the foreign office build-Turkey build-Turkey and Greece. The senat-in8- for the short drive to parlia-ors, parlia-ors, Owen Brewster, R., Me... 'ment when the demonstrators Homer Ferguson. R., Mich., andjsurged past. Carl Hatch, D., N.M., said their j The crowd surrounded the car study had convinced them- of i and forced it to halt. Sforza steD-l the necessity of Mr. Truman's ped out to the accompaniment of program. Brewster said, however. angry shouting. Several youths ne naa noi imany maac up nis;nit him with their fisu three or mina on wnexner aia 10 i urney j four times. Apparently unhurt. Telephone Strike Develops Into The congressman said Alaska: should be granted statehood out; of justice to its resident.-, ' on grounds of national defense. :id if m as a spur to further settlement: If fir fT liHrVPC and development of the northern; " Ml Vl IW territory'. Rep. Mike Mansfield. D., Mont., WASHINGTON. April 17 (U.R) WASHINGTON, Aril-tf'flJ.R) Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, D.. Calif., today introduced a bill to outlaw any blanket nationwide increase in rents. The bill also would continue rent controls until June 30, 1948. It was introduced as house Re 2-Day Death Toll Figured At 500 to 800 430 Bodies Counted, With More Buried In Debris Of Shattered Texas City Dock Area; Injured Estimated To Exceed 3000 By ROBERT E. BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent TEXAS CITY, April 17 (U.R) Three new explosions rocked the devastated waterfront of this stricken Texas gtilf coast industrial town today. No definite casualty figures could be set. Authoritative Author-itative estimates placed the death toll anywhere from 500 to 800. Red Cross national headquarters said Roy Wingate, its assistant director of disaster in the midwest, placed the dead at 700 to 800. Dr. J. C. Quinn, Red Cross coordinator in Texas City, said he believed the final dead toll "will not exceed 500." But 430 bodies had been counted. At least 364 had been embalmed. Authorities believed 100 to 250 bodies still lay in the debris of the shattered dock area. Coast guard and Red Cross estimates placed the injured at 3,000 or more. At least eight major oil tank fires still raged more than 24 hours after the first blast anrl IVnntv Mvni--T w Hill told a press fonference ati : 1 10 a.m. EST that "we are not out a j of the wood, yet - M0V6 WOWS l"0r no more major blasts were ex pected. Neutrality (n Palestine Probe By ROBERT MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 17 (U.R) Great Britain will uu xiiu reponea mat per cent of up a scat on the proposed Pala-homes Pala-homes In Texas City had been "The Lord is on our side as far as the wind is concerned," Hill said, explaining that a north wind was sweeping smoke and noxious fumes out into Galveston bay, and restricting re-stricting possible spread of the fires. liberated from German and Austrian Aus-trian domination and reunited with the people's republic of Slovenia within the framework of the Yugoslav federation," Kar-delj Kar-delj said in presenting the territorial terri-torial demands. He said 120,000 Yugoslavs to oe incunea 10 oppose a general gen-eral rent increase at this time. But they faced a fight in selling such a policy to all party members. Rep. Howard M. Buffett, R., Neb., said that regardless of the leadership's lead-ership's decision, he would con tinue his campaign for a general 10 per cent hike in rent ceilings. A high-ranking GOP source saia nepuDiican leaders were sequences, might create more eco previous! nomic hardships than it would aemancts ior repaia-:cure sin ik( it !. i Thr natinnwiWa tiankn. wouia oe transferred back to real degree cut off from th- rest 'developed into a "war of nerves"! Yugoslavia with such a territorial concerned that such action, in ad-of ad-of the United Stat. i i, in i,p!today with each side Diamine th' .-Mrfcm idition to its possible political con- military and social advantage of i -'her for the collapse of peace: cimi(, r ' . H ,v 0 crease the gap to the greatest pos-' walkou. tions. siDie extern. Government efforts to find a The Yugoslavs sat alongside Mansfield noted that states had settlement formula continued to Austrian Foreign Minister Karl i,KS?Ill?JLl!irSn nf . e" . . . - . JGruber. who will be heard by the " ..r -"" y. " ' r.esiacm josepn a. jeii ne or ministers tomorrow MuinuuHirc 10 me union. iiins-me striking National Federation iiciu uuscinu mai ins own siaic, . V. rpartinn in (ha V,,nn.l i. CT T OtTIC A :. ,ns ... Montana, served a territory apprenticeship ap-prenticeship of only 2.j eai3. while Alaska has been a federal ward fpr 80. American officials said Soviet reaction to the Yugoslav demands Death Toll May Never Be Known was necessary. Army Commutes Death Sentence Of Idaho Soldier i WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.R) J The death sentence of army Pri-i vate Leo W. Christensen, 21, i Idaho Falls, Ida., has been com-i muted to three years imprison-! ment and dishonorable discharge) from the army, Sen. Glen H. ; Taylor, D., Ida., announced today.; Taylor said he considers even me reduced sentence an injustice." injus-tice." He called for either Chris-tensen's Chris-tensen's exoneration or a new trial. The Idaho youth was convicted by army court-martial in Tokvo of murder and rape last year. He was accused of running wild on a motorcycle while drunk on saki. running down a Japanese child and killing it and later raping a Japanese woman. Taylor said the sentence was commuted by the army judge-advocate judge-advocate general's review board. "While I am happy that the threat of death has been removed from Private Christensen," he said, "I still feel he is a victim of injusice He never had a fair trial.. i he removed his battered black felt hat and was recognized by other demonstrators. v A path was cleared for Sforxa and he stalked off toward parliament, parlia-ment, white with anger. fn their rush through the city, the demonstrators halted buses and automobiles and forced passengers pas-sengers to get out. Council Receives Its Own Advice i WASHINGTON, April 17 (U R j President Truman's council of economic advisers has been advising ad-vising him that industry must cut, prices. Today the president 'did some, cutting. He cut $33,000 from the councils fiscal 1048 budget. The council's budget was re duced from $433,000 to $400,000 after it decided on a "somewhat less costly scale of operations." on Austria was the key to the Wingate, spokesman for the Red Austrian treaty. If Russia sup-j Cross, said today that the exact ports either the territoriel or toll in the Texas City disaster reparations oemanas. mere will (may never be known. be no treaty, they said. The An urhlk A.iirin.lnjJ 1 XT' . . . . , , vlM " v,t VI Iftllkaicu IJJC Mint' ror one mine, ne saia. rnanv i i, ...k;u i-j J; . I i ,.u- . .1 LnVZ m " , ""Tl " ' High Flyer destroyed. .there were these developments: .. ..on.r nujtra-. Twn smallor china oW . 1WO smaller ShiDS and several! 1. Ampriran rilato Wirrn barges destroyed. Austin decided to disregard The huge $19,000,000 Monsanto Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko'a aarded as an enemv bui . a lih 'kinfiu. n i,n.,u ;W1 : npny piani ournea latest attack on President Tru- ' ... I""". - wicjr an3 biasfea to a "hollow shell " man's ftrMlr-Tiirkih -i4 big three agreed at Potsdam that tory workers, registered for work no reparations would be exacted; by name only, Wingate said, and from Austria, which was not re- it is doubtful whether their own Daily Herald Observes Its 25th Anniversary Today The Daily Herald is 25 years old today. The first issue of The Herald as a daily came off the presses on April 17, back in 1922 when Provo's population was barely over 10,000. The late E. C. Rogers, publisher of the tri-weekly Herald, later acquired the rival Prtrvo Post, a weekly, after' he had launched the daily. The Herald had been started as a weekly back in 1885. Although the venture was received by some misgivings mis-givings at first. Rogers had a convictidh and faith in the future of Provo as a coming industrial center. The Columbia Steel had established its Ironton plant near Provo the year before. The circulation of the struggling daily at the time of its launching was less than 2000. Today, 25 years later, the Herald's, circulation is rapidly approaching the 9000-mark. An ambitious improvement and modernization program is already under un-der way, involving the installation of a modern 16-page tubular press, with enlarged composing room, stereotyping, stereo-typing, business office and news room facilities. NEW YORK. Aoril 17 (U.R) ! A statement by Henry Mayri, general counsel for 1 the National Federation of Telephone Workers, that the j 1 telephone strike would be i ! called off If a $6 pay increase in-crease were made brourht a ' broad recovery on the stock ' market late today. Mayer's statement, made j : at Atlanta before a union , meeting, said the telephone worfcrr wo!c accept $6 a : ' week or less as an increase t J return to work, and then ar- ; j I bitrate the remainder of their ; I j differences. Previously the j I i union had been holding out ! ! I for a $12 weekly raise. .! m i i . . . hilitv fnr ih. rfriii, ..:I"JU.,VU "u lwo oner; injured damaged, and that half the ' " commi,slon 01 town's population had fled from ",c w,,llca " tne otner the holocaust. big powers and the Arab states Damage was estimated at $125.- do likewise, official sources said 000,000 or more as ships, a vast today. chemical plant, oil refineries, oil! This would Imvh Tritin h tanks and other industrial plants ! ' tt k. were destroyed. caretaker of troubled Palestine . T, ... . . ,A unucr u league 01 ivauoni man-Gen. man-Gen. Johnathan Wainwrieht.rioo .v.- .. j.i; j.. loaded with nitrates caught fire' ' s , , , . . . . . at the dock and exploded, worse i . Amcr.,c?n officials, hinted that than "the devastation of war." !they ."V"1 also campaign for a fiov BMfnPH to L , .... completely "neutral" UN commis-innt. commis-innt. i-i, rd Just5r said. ' Vision when the general assembly K 'if "Tn? hfd Pretdedjsets up the Paleftin fact-finTni mixing an omeit"nl egg"bcater body at its forthcoming special mixing an omelet. session. But Americans here said Two of today's blasts latest in the state department had not yet the long series occurred aboard decided definitely, that it wants the freighter High Flyer, loaded! the fact-finding to be done with- wim inousanas oi tons of ni-.out U. S. participation. iraies ana suipnur, and the sec- It was not certain whether Russia would agree to the ond blast disintegrated the ship.! throwing chunks nf metal fnr! miles, and killing and injuringts-fl,sh pIan- Hk tha many who had escaped earlier States. N as deeply explosions. enmeshed as Britain in the The third was of less inten- Pa,estine sity, occurring as another of the! The UN's five Arab states wera many oil tanks which have been likelv to protest heartily at any destroyed blew up. ,etioA to leave them off the com- As thousands of rescue workers mittee. The Arabs have opposed toiled into the second day of the 'calling a special assembly meet-tragedy, meet-tragedy, the major damage in-!n. presumably because they eluded: 'feared the very thing now pro- The freighters Grand Camn ' P0360" by the British an Arab- little iaci-iinaing commission. era ted nation. 1 were. One Nephi Man Killed, Three Injured In House Collapse NEPHI, Utah. April 17 (U.R) i likely that an . inquest will be Fifty or more oil storage tanks burned out. Two oil damaged. refineries heavily pro gram when the security council meets tomorrow. Instead. Austin will press for a vote on the American plan to keep a tempor- Most of the docks, warehouses, iary UN border patrol in the on am ik ..MnB.i e i . . ' . . . ... the shoulders" of the Bell .svstem i" .L" ifV" rl " ' JUC collapsing Moroni, sanpete county, and lived ui I iicm nprn vpsiprnav rvprinB But in New York. President! Isaat 01n 71 wn lriiioH in. Walter S. Gifford of the Ameri-lstantly when the house which he can Telephone & Telegraph Co parent company of the Bell empire told AT&T stockholders stockhold-ers that "management can see no justification" for the strike was helping to straighten out on its foundation collapsed, pisning him and three others underneath it. there until about five years ago. He was a farmer, and an active member of the LDS church. and qffice buildings along the water front destroyed, buildings wrecked as far as two miles away, nouses shaken and windows broken brok-en over an area of 140 square miles. Five parked Balkans until the security coun cil decides whether it wants a permanent patrol there. 2. American, British. Russian and French representatives appeared ap-peared to anticipate little proc- hundred automobileslress in the near future in their in the area reduced to, attempts to pick a governor for twisted wreckage. A tank of chlorine gas (Continued ou Page Two) TEXAS BLAST BULLETINS ria.l in . . r 1 . vujwiu curc5sea surDnse mat u : . , ChJii.K. u u 3 , Olsen Neff suffered a brck- atxtS n, 'huYld uc."sderen ankle, and Burkley Neff, nrnfi P y h,1' arbitration Ueven, suffered minor injuries, proposal as an outright rejection. Mr. Blackett was taken to the c iu .ne company approvea Salt Lake Veterans GALVESTON. Tex. April 17 (U.R) Dan Romine, Red Cross public relations chairman, said today police were searching blocked highways for a bus-load of children which left Texas City yesterday and disappeared. the free territory of Trieste, the blew i trouble area which the security council has agreed to supervise under terms of the Italian peace treaty. Now that Russia has proposed pro-posed a candidate British and Americans are claiming that the nominee George Brantihg of tht Swedish parliament is "too inexperienced" inex-perienced" for the job. Texas Governor Lists Casualties WACUTMirmv a :t 1 t n i e i : j-i . . . , u "iwumuiun, nuui 11 j.r.t neaiaeiii i ruman loaav as-1 the plan in ceneral although it',.1 tT. " " . ... ""JKi-J; sured Mayor J. C. Trahan of 'Texas City. Tex., that everv irovern. suggested some modifications. i Veriou MrV riZhtrr ment a?ncy would cooperate fully in helping the stricken city! ., Federal conciliators declined to! f Mr nu.n -. k recover irom yesterday's disaster. , . .. sav what nlan if nnv k uAin IL i Auaiin, iex., April 17 tu.y ' SymTnd to S the parties ba?k P"n hSushin hn mnwl TlXtASt C,TY Tex" 17 WFlremen this afternoon , Gov. Beauford Jester today 1s- into negotiation Schwellenbach J w.? pir .,ie' were bringing under control the last bUxes of a 24-hour chain of 1 sued a summary of Texas City still pinned fi?? I f ?lona which ravaged this Texas gulf coast Indus- . casualties supplied, by the Red tration plea, urging both sides to huThVnd .nd eTJw 'M ea: . TS.S wricnnwe ?? reconsider and accept. injured: for embly 'and 'fTrTLKtl- "" a, Baare asl nignij modeling. It had been blOcket. tp which hln at 9 am v.fit9 .Hi. .l.l j-j ! Th onvemnr' H.tillM mm. and skidded onto a preoared v r,.i.i... . . n T. ... . . . - - ww .u uvu.av.9 w m , group was at- movinr in on the last hlitci. ! Embalmed dead. 384: nositiva . .,. . dead, 400; estimated dead, an ad- WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.R) American Red Cross head- ditional 200 to 250. quarters, correcting its estimates, today placed the number of Hospitalized injured, 350 to known dead in the Texas City disaster at 400 "with possibly 250 to 400, with many in serious condi- 375 additional dead." Ition? etimatrd total InlnrH 1 '3,000. J (ABC), Beirne made it clear that as far as the union was concerned, concern-ed, the next move was up to the company. At the same time, he accused the Bell system of trying to break the strike by threatening his NFTW members with the loss of their jobs. foundation. The tempting to , place the house squarely on its foundation when it collapsed. Mr. Neff was outside out-side the building when it fell. Udell R. Jensen, city attorney, who investigated, said it is un- The number of injured was estimated at more than 3,000. i |