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Show TEMPERATURES MOSTLY CLOUDY beginning: to improve northwest portion tonight.. Slightly warmer Wednesday. Low temperatures Wednesday morning 30 to 4. Fresh northerly winds west of the Wasatch range. SUUoa Max MloSUtloa Max Ml Provo . . . Halt Lake 5 42 San Fran. 2 4.1 S 42 I.oi Angeles 49 48 41. Las Vccai l i I Ogden Bollt ( 32 Denver 61 4? Butte 41 21 Chicago 41 Ji Portland 7 o ew vora i 4 J Atlanta . 48 Seattle SIXTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 231 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS - House Cites Key Man In Passport Ring Josephson Cited For Contempt As Eisler Makes Innocent Plea West Congressman Aroused Over Cuts In Reclamation Budgets BY ROSEMARIE MULLANEY 117 western States to discuss the United Press Staff Correspondent 43 per cent interior cut recom- 1 mAnAr) trio hni i cr annrnnria. . - .. lir A cmvr"rnv a no ,nm ........v. .. "FfK' WASHINGTON, April 22! v tions committee (U P) Tho tnlav vt,l q ; western congressmen of both contempt citation against Le-Parties marshal their forces today on Josephson. alleged key fig-1 for an expected battle against ! proposed interior department Ui V 1 1 call ill tv,l 1IC L 1 IMICW OOC" i 11U(( IVU WlVil piuioiu port ring which supplies secret bud8et slashes which Interior Sec- one which would strangle recla Russian a cents with nhonv retarv J credentials. The vote was 357 t0 abandonment of big rcclama-lo rcclama-lo o ! tion project. wk. -11- xt... t--..I Chairman Richard Welch. R.. " " .. . I 1J Calif., of the house public lands committee called a meeting (for "It is disturbing to find mem bers of that committee so unmindful un-mindful of the resources of the west," Welch said. Krug viewed their program as e which would strangle recla- A. Krug said would lead'rnation rather than kill it outright. Km all onnrnnno finite Ha cam ft communist was being cited, another an-other link in the passport ring Gerhart Eisler pleaded innocent inno-cent in district court to indictments indict-ments charging him with congressional con-gressional contempt and making false statements in connection with passports he used. These charges resulted from an earlier contempt citation voted by the house against Eisler. Josephson was eited for contempt for refusing to testify tes-tify before the house Un-American activities committee. commit-tee. That also was the origin of the charges which brought Eisler into court. 2 p. m. EST) of congressmen from Quizmaster Shoots, Kills. House Burglar win aeiay big project constroc tion to the point where it will become excessively costlv. "If they don't provide 'more (U.R) The ; money, he said, it would be my; view fwo Planes Collide, ECillimg Nine Eight Leading Airlime Officials Company Liner Drops In Flames On Test Flight o 9 Greek-Turkish 70ther of Yeor MJ Dili DmI I miu did raaacu By U. S. Senate! BULLETIN WASHINGTON. April 22 senate today ap- that most of these projects Jed I resident s Irumansf should be stopped. It would be a!$ 100,000,000 Greek - Turkey . horrible loss for the country to , ... ftpr sPnati Prpi. tread water on big ones rlike dld 01,1 aIler aenaie reSl j Coulee and Central Valley for dent Arthur H. Vandenberg; even a year s time." L Qr ka I' ..,Mnk. I a a v u tnai v a1 vui it I CHICAGO. April 22 (U.R) ! "Jolly Joe" Kelly, who fearlessly faces the quiz kids each He said he thought it was significant that the commit tee rut out all but $125,000 of $5,000,000 sought for planning plan-ning new projects. was at stake. The vote put the presi-j dent's quarantine Commu-j nism program through half of j t ha 1 a rri ul n i it' a niwaefl It f i - . . V . ........ . V VB "That much wouldn't even pay week for liquidating the investigation on their radio program, was a lit-istaf" he said. "It certainly won t , rf rejection- of a hatful of tie shaken today after a brush peimit us to plan new piojects. , amendments to limit the bills i Eisler. balding former German rf 11 0f0 allctoW ir Ka on Qoont rt the Communist Internationale. I n,gm V"e" Y?e lwo "ouD-will "ouD-will be tried May 26 on 'the con-'"5 entered the darkened Kelly tempt indictment and June 16 on !home " the quizmaster, his wife the false statement charges. :and. their 23-year old son were The un-American activities : s!ttin in, the 'ron'.room ducus-rnmmiiiM ducus-rnmmiiiM rnH icv, sing the boy s wedding plans. on suonlied Eisler w.th fau- A sound of breaking glass passports. The house action aeainst .In- A-.hcn . . iTAtiui , u . i . . v r A an with two burglars, one of whom Private Ltilities Happy he shot and killed. j As for the power facility cuts The shooting occurred last in the proposed bill. Krug said he tnougnt private utility companies com-panies "will all be very happy to ste this bill." scope. The bill must be passed by the house. House action is expected ex-pected in a week or two. WASHINGTON. April 22 Mrs. Frederick G. Murray, of Cedar Rapids. Ia., has been chosen American Mother-of-the-Year by the Golden Rule Foundation. Mother of five children. Mrs. Murray Mur-ray is a noted author and lecturer lec-turer on child welfare and youth problems. Although Krug declined to comment on the political implications implica-tions of the proposed slash, Sen. A sound of brcakine alass in I Wayne Morse. R.. Ore., called for m P) Tim spnuto aftnr u ppId . . . ... I n i r 1 n i : t t tne rear of the house alerted tne ine .n xo ux . f hearings and debate, was 11 familv, and Kelly sent Joe. Jr., I budget cutters. Kiug said merely , . , . , II j T intn tho hoH mnm i that he exDected westerners iww iu wic un- ex G. (Continued on page two) would be "horribly disturbed." Child Drowned In Canal At Pleasant Grove for a .38 caliber revolver. Together the father and son1 crept along a hallway to the: BILLINGS, Mont.. April 2 'U.R) kitchen and flung open the door.1 Sen. E. V. Robertson, R.. Wyo.. Silhouetted against the open back told advised local interests that door and an open window were "the decision of the house ap-the ap-the young burglars. (Continued on page two) "Stay where you are." Kelly shouted, but the intruders turn- Snyder Renews Warning Against : Jirjilillll fJClDtlgc: Wl IIIC h a ; $400,000,000 Greek - Turkish ilnfftlUP TY IllfC Jews Blow Up Troop Train Killing Ten 29 Injured In New Act of Violence By Jewish Underground April Company Plane Coming In For A Landing 22' Is Hit By Another Plane; Disaster Removes Most Valuable Key Personnel Of Air Line JERUSALEM, tu.r:) At least iu persons were killed and 29 injured to day when a train carrying; COLUMBUS, Ga., April 22 (U.R) Eight Delta Airline of-British of-British troops and civilians! ficials were killed here today when a company plane on a from Cairo to Haifa was! survey flight collided in the air with another aircraft, and blown up by the Jewish un-j crashed and burned on the Muscogee County airport, derground in the citrus gard- Delta said the company plane coming in for a landing ens of Rehovot. was struck from above by a former army primary trainer Casualty figures were expected j converted to civilian use, a BT-13. to grow when rescue workers fin-1 The Delta plane, a C-37 which had been purchased from ished cutting through the flame-1 the armv and converted into a sur-i scarred train wreckage. jvev and pilot training craft by theifti The train wreck was the first 'airline, was broken in two. The HtlfltlA tlllAfC major blow by the underground; wrprkacrp was sratfrH nvrr thp in reprisal for British execution of underground members. It broke the tense air of expectancy. hanging over Palestine for several sev-eral days and plunged the country coun-try into, a new wave of violence. A curfew was clamped on Tel Aviv, 1 1 miles northwest of the wreckage was scattered over the end of the airport runways. I Jack Fussell, 40, pilot of the! BT-13. was also killed. He was the only person in the small plane, j Delta announced that its plane was piloted by George W. Cush- i Growing Bitter Declare Leaders WASHINGTON. April 22 UR) The government today studied aid bill. The ing, vice president in charge of (rjn J e- , . . i n liui i.-i aim a ii c I reports emulated that"' ver'al j with 2 000'000 miles to his credit, plans for reviving key' negotia-persons, negotia-persons, including two British other seven men aboard ij'n thf 16-day-old national policemen, had been kidnaped in!were measure, embodying! Washington, April 22 tu.R) telephone strike as union leaders ti Ai pu ; i: i m r i -'vu me siriKera arc ate confirmation or denial. jperties of Delta Airlines, Atlanta, !Sr?.ing , lttcr' Outside Haifa British sailors: . Larry T. Campbell, superinten-,""'1 ss Mid Secretary boarded the blockade runnina'dent of communications, Hape ed to flee. Kelly emptied the pistol through the doorway and turned back to call police. Of-PLEASANT Of-PLEASANT GROVE Drown- ficers found one of the men. Har-ing Har-ing claimed the life of a seven- old G. Fransen, a 25-year old ex-year-old Pleasant Grove child convict, lying outside a fence late Monday, when LaVar Steel surrounding Kellv's backyard. He Ahlstrom fell from a cement pier had been struck in the neck and, into an irrigation canal a half died after scaling the fence. T mile northeast of that citv. He1 A trail of blood in another di- London Sees Serious Threat In High Prices this nation's mnct imnnrfnnt fnr. ' Qi-ota, v rf ih Trnsmrv .Tr.Vr ShiD Sheaar RushuV carrvini! an- Vllie, Ua. ....... ..... .... ' ' ' " -" ' -".. , . ...r r A v 1 eign policy decision since the war. w. Snyder spoke out anew against proximaieiy ouu uncertified Jew- f- "a'"uua";. " ul '"H"1 ."seriously iciuKcca. w ijdvai iook r- par- KANSAS CITY. Mo.. April 22 (iP Alf M I onHnn r1d Rnnnli. was the son of Reno L. and Itha rection led police to believe the lian partv leaders today that to-Steele to-Steele Ahlstrom. Pleasant Grove, second burglar had been hit and da..-s high prices are more The body was recovered about wounded. j dangerous to free private enter- y.iii., a ..o. ,ur uumauM, ,, i ,c i nun u.u jiiu.uu ; prise than the Communist from where the accident occurred.. kitchen window and one nad ty has ever been " iiei a si-dun uy cuy uremen crawieu inrougn. KiiucKing iwu 1 .nJnn nntlinfrl a nu ponce icq dv uun waiKer anoiiumDieis 10 .me 11001. 11 was l,,eiprjce program for business, la t.ranr m n enn pnv marcnau t t Mrii nit o acc mar 9 Arian inc - . . . ....w... ... .......j, bor and government ana 101a a icuij i w idicr i i i r kjj Willi uitj o fire department resuscitator failed. The boy was standing on the pier near a bridge across the canal at the old city gravel pit with his cousin, OtheLlo Steele. 11. when he apparently became overbalanced and fell in. The cousin ran to the Ahlstrom residence, resi-dence, about two block away, and summoned aid. WASHINGTON. April 22 0m . V; tt . r,,' " The agriculture department said He suggested that congress use m . uciia. a in" v. v. i vi & i v ci .0111 ; 11- . iwo rears aeu. v s i muhciu 11 was requested by President Tru-1 cutting income taxes today. He man six weeks ago as a vehicle! said that tax cuts "could easilv for stopping Communism in the ; contribute to further price rises and to economic instability. Snyder was the first witness as the senate finance committee began be-gan hearings on the house-approved bill to give most taxpayers taxpay-ers a tax reduction of at least 20 per cent. Other congressional developments: develop-ments: Communists Chairman J. Par-nell Par-nell Thomas of the house tin- Near East. The senate met an hour earlier than usual in order to complete debate. It was to begin voting on a score of amendments at 4 p.m.. EST., and on the bill itself by nightfall. night-fall. Approval appeared certain, cer-tain, probably by a margin as wide as 3 to 1. the refugee ship in tow toward Haifa, where the British garrison garri-son was reinforced with Arab legionnaires le-gionnaires to guard against sabotage sabo-tage of the oil refineries. A last minute appeal for pas- Texas City Meets New Blast, Fire Threats Calmly was convinced his last peace proposal pro-posal was dead land that ho wa considering" askin Qnnf HtiPctAr, T3-tll Tll s 1 . n . wwvioiv,i 11 jjcil 1C1CUI1UI1C H IIU .-v... vv,...-;tne American Telephone & Tele- struction tupervisor for Delta, !l?rapn company's long distance Hapeville. ...... . 'department to resume negotia- J. V. Little, district traffic . tions here under government manager for Delta, Cartersville, sponsorship. Oa- 1 Such a request would mark John L. Schneider, superin- Schwellenbach's second attempt tendent of stations, Natchez, Miss. 'for a pattern-setting agreement Lindley W. Camp, Legal Staff, in those two kev units of the ! Atlanta. IBell system. An airlines spokesman who Meanwhile, an official of the witnessed the crash said it came striking National Federation of without warning. Visibility was 1 1 elephone Workers said the perfect, he said. "Snddenlv a small down from above and" struck the!31 Louisville were "to be ex- Sugar Rationing Offices to Close By End of May American activities committee re- sage w ithout change was planned ' newed his demand for iusticc de-! by Senate President Arthur H. nartment nrosecution of commu-! TEXAS CITY. April 22 (U.R tail tinn of ih nlta nJano " pected." corrective. Vandenberg. Republican foreign ! nist officials under acts reouir-jThis stricken city met a new ex- he said ! "That policy leader. He urged defeat ofjng registration of foreign agents Plosion threat with experienced! The airliner pioposea amcncimem 10 pro- and subversive oreanizations. He GOP national committeemen: hibit the shipment of military I charged that communists have "If tne rtepublican party wants equipment to either country, and enioved legal immunity in the picket violence and demonstra- ship came,uon yesieraay in Detroit, Seattle to preserve our country from de-; another to deny Turkey any aid! United States for 12 vcars even pression and totalitarianism ana whatsoever to prove that it is not just an agency of the ultra-rich, it now has its chance." He said that if it becomes necessary neces-sary the Republican-controlled congress "should not hesitate'' to tax away excess profits and "drastically lower'' tariff rates. i today that 14 branch offices and .its authority over tariff rates and, regional offices which ad- excess profits as a "power weap- CIO Favorable To AFL Invitation exploded into all WASHINGTON. April 22 (U.R) -CIO sources voiced belief though they are trying to destroy this government Coal mines Secretary of Interior In-terior J. A. Krug advised congressmen con-gressmen that the government will return soft coal mines to private pri-vate owners June 30 even if the miners and operators do not re-j that "the situation is under con-turn con-turn to collective bargaining I trol: there is no danger of an- Housinir Dillon S. Mver. fed-!olner major explosion. to-, oral public housing chief, asked sort of thing occurs in lardo latirl Win ft .trilrae ' V. n J, , "IIU lUll IIC calm today, evacuating its blast-j column of orange flame and broke ?!? ' " slrl?eFs are fr,?wln torn waterfront area with the: in half as it hit the ground. Fire- blti""d short tempered. precision of an army drill team men could not get near the rpT,LCI r$lZ? S'V as new fires flared in ammonium wreckage for over an hour. " 21." 8"h "J " 6 nitrate buried in the heart of the; Delta said th accident "rcmov- t , piets and Pllce- In disaster soctinn uma sa a in atciaei 1 . Louisville, three young women disaster section. ,ed some of the most valuable and.strikcrs were arrested on disor- rjre v.mei William uaaisn Key personnel 01 our company. 'riprlv rnnHiirt harooc Anrl in broadcast an hour after new1 Camp is a former adjutant gen- Seattle nirkt hinrkori h Hnnr. clouds of brown smoke rolled outjeral of the state of Georgia who; to the main office of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.. but of a ruined warehouse of the was on the Delta legal staff rexas Lity lerminal company Woman, 58, . . .. ... 1 A. T7TA . . L A ..; ; .. ;n v, tu-, t0 ;.,ri..cri i ; aa v that Liu President Philip, congress to reamrm r n s ngni the first grade of the Pleasant clo5ed b. thc cnrf Qf . ,and ,abor leaders t0 work to. Murray will accept the AFL in-; to sell war surplus permanent Grove Central school. i u " ntr i,,n -tKic .rQi H,n. : vitation to discusse merger of the! housing units to mutual associa- 1 IIL UllllLS 111 lit I III IVJ I HJfl l Ill-1 IV 1IOIL HIIJ V VJI . Surviving, besides his parents. ed wjth Qther f ratinning of.;gerous inflation." rival labor organizations. tions of tenants and veterans. 1C ct uiuiiiu aim a jisici, f:c fr:;Qi ' The 1 0..1R rrteiHoi.t ia ! -anrlifla1n Mi.rrav airl in P ttshni-ah last. Uts and holts A COn BroSSlOn-! There was no panic as the am- U j. AI monium nitrate cause of theinilri VV nPn original explosions which killed hundreds caught on fire close to: the dockfront where explosion! of the French freighter Grand! Hit By Car nette, 11. 'and Vaughan Lee Ahlstrom, Ahl-strom, 1, Pleasant Grove, and one f grandparent, C. D. Ahlstrom. 1 Provo. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Olpin mortuary. of the ra-i spoke at a luncheon. a two-day meeting of the Repub-. the bid from AFL President Wil- government stands to lose sib.-, (U.R) Neiehbors todav a I a V 1J (Win n 1(1 CI U (1(1(1 (KUI hti inn I Power Line Kills 'Cedar City Man economical operation tioning program. The aericulture department wasilican national committee which i Ham Green but recently given the job of admin- yesterday selected Philadelphia give it "ear istering sugar controls, formerly: for the party's 1948 convention Green proposed handled bv the OPA. isite. start of the talks Regional offices to be closed u canaiuatc iviurray sain in fitxsourgn last' " o lullsus,lu" "ICamD's nitrate carirn lait Werincs-1 winding up night that he had not yet received j al investigator figured that thejP ucn-doff t 1 SALT LAKE CITY' April 22 nest consideration." all its surplus nuts and bolts to of ' wedn7sd'" ed Thursday for the the Pa.lmer Nut & Bolt Co. of De- ?f. Pe fJ "ed. nesday are those at Boston and Denver. Branch offices to be closed include in-clude those at Helena. Mont., Boise, Ida., Cheyenne, Wyo.. Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, N. M.. Spokane, Wash., Reno, Nev.. and CEDAR CITY, Utah. April 22 j Phoenix. Ariz. CE An accidental contact madej This will leave A2 branch offic-bya offic-bya machinery hoist with a higli,cs and six regional offices to ad-tension ad-tension power line today had .minister sugar rationing. osneoH lYt dpath of T?mrp fl ?Crl- Hson. 5o-year-old southern Utah business and civic leader. Nelson was unloading a plow from a truck with a hoist. The boom of the device hit the power line while Nelson was holding a chain and he was electrocuted. . Nelson, a native of Cedar City. was the president of the Cedar Citv National Farm Loan asso- Big Four Suddenly Abandon Austrian Peace Treaty Talk troit. instead of selling them small lots. in ' Mrs. were dispersed by police withou' j violence. j Strikers in Minneapolis ' agreed to let skeleton super visory crews enter company offices after the Northwestern Northwest-ern Telephone Co. had closed iU main building in protest against mass picketing. In New Jersey, there was a nnip nf nntimicm Qtrilrir,rv loentmea ,ers tnere ofered to hareain on Dunn. 58, as; a state-wide basis the first CIO Auto Workers Modify Demands steel industry-has all but doomed i President Truman s campaign forj lower prices. He took issue with Mr. Truman's thesis that prices' still ran hp nif if laHrtr afilrs' MOSCOW, April 22 U.R The treaty had been abandoned foi ' only "moderate" pay boosts big four tonight suddenly aban-ilnls meeting or wnetner tne inin-doned inin-doned consideration of the - trian peace treaty and agreed to one of the four Americans in to-resume to-resume consideration of "open day's secret meeting said: questions" concerning Germany 'We still may salvage some-! tomorrow. thing. Don't go out on any limbs The decision to return to Ger- 'ei- i after the LiarK indicated mat tne min-; vAsni.uiui, April tun-had tun-had held isters would return to the Aus-lGen. A. A. Vandegrift told a sur the Salt Lake Citv woman who major breach of the NFTW's sol- filed to safety as the new alarm . struck bv automobilo , id-front demand for natiohwide i was sounded. Police broadcast! ... . " j Bargaining, it was hoped a set- nrrierc (nr ovaniatinn nf the entir whlle crossing an intersection i tlement in New Jersev mieht Meanwhile. Sen. Robert A. laft,jcitv south of the downtown main j near her home last night. provide a pattern for a country-- K.. u.. said mat tne i3-ceni nour-istreet- Residents complied swiftly. The identification was Pstah-!wlde agreement. ciation and headed the Union Field Irrigation company. Funeral Funer-al services will be conducted Thursday. DETROIT. April 21 (U.R) The CIO united Auto Workers union man questions came modified its over-all economic1 council of ministers demands against General Motors! their third secret meeting within trian question later corporation today but repeated 24 hours on the subject of Aus that the 15-cent increase accepted i tria. by the CIO United Rubber Work-! There was no immediate indi Marine General Opposes Merger In a matter of minutes, the danger area was isolated. Officials Of-ficials said no attempt would be made to fight the new fire and that if an explosion occurred oc-curred "no lives will be in danger." Disaster Deputy John H. Hill lished by residents of the neighborhood neigh-borhood who were taken to the County General hospital by police po-lice investigators. Officers had been unable to identify her from personal effects because hei han,dbag contained only a dollar bill and a sack of Bull Durham Buying Splurge Greets Merchant Price Cut Program ers was "unsatisfactory." cation whether the Austrian! Murder-Suicide Defense Hinted SANTA ANA, Cal., April 22 (U.R) Attorneys defending heiress Beulah Louise Overell, 17, and her 21-year-old fiance from murder mur-der charges growing out of the time-bomb deaths ol her parents) intimated loaay tnai tney may build their case on a "murder-suicide "murder-suicide theory. The attorneys said Walter E. Overell had had some financial difficulties and had been threat-1 ening to "get rid of his yacht. I blasted to the bottom of Newport j harbor, March 15 by a dynamite explosion. Beulah Louise and George (Bud) Gollum are due to be tried "May 26 for the deaths of her parents. Central Utah Project To Be Stymied By Reclamation Cut SALT LAKE CITY, April 22 (U.R) The Central Cen-tral Utah project will be virtually eliminated by the proposed cut in the Bureau of "Reclamation budget, Alonzo W. Watson, secretary of the Utah Water association, charged here today. In urging Utahns to wire Washington to reconsider re-consider the state's water needs, Watson said that the cut in investigation funds from $5,000,000 to $125,000 would "hamstring Utah's industrial future." fu-ture." Meanwhile, Utah State Engineer Ed W. Watson Wat-son charged that "Republicans will destroy reclamation recla-mation in the West." He said that the cut in the investigation budget for the Colorado river basin will affect Utah drastically. The ministers ended their secret meeting at 7 p. ni. (9 a. m. MST) and announced that their deputies had been instructed to prepare a schedule sched-ule for tomorrow morning of open questions on Germany. prised senate committee today I the rubble for six days that proposed unification of the armed services would reduce the marine corps to "military impotence" impo-tence" and strip it of "everything but name." cnii-l that hnturAon 7AO onrl BAA tons of ammonium nitrate were i tobao- 1 NEWBURYPORT. Mass., April stored in the waterfront area lastj Attendants said. Mrs. Dunn's 22 (U.R) A buying splurge by Wednesday when thc chain of; condition was critical. The driver j happy customers and cooperative death was touched off. He said of the car, Don S. Belka. 19, told .amounts from several whole-the, whole-the, fire which flared today ap- officers he saw Mrs. Dunn too! , . d N . ' . Darenrjy had been smouldering in late to avoid striking her. He ... . . . .. was cited for driving too fast. Vandegrift was the first high active officer in armed service to oppose provisions of President Truman's unification program. The marines' commanding general gen-eral urged congress to set forth in the legislation specifically what functions the marine corps is to perform. These functions now are specified in an executive order which will be issued when Philadelphia Chosen.Site For Republican Convention unification proved. legislation is ap- Onc source said it now is up to Premier Josef Stalin to decide whether there is to be an Austrian Aus-trian treaty at this time. He added that "a crack was left open" for! an affirmative decision. The report of some slim hope for an Austrian agreement ai.iong the big four followed closely a 90-minute meeting of the council of foreign ministers. They met kci-p11v fnr th sprond time with- in two days to trv to break the WASHINGTON, April 22 (U.R logjam in discussion of the Aus-j A jury of seven men and five trian treaty. women was selected today to The issue now was understood ; decide the fate of former Rep. to have boiled down to a Question Andrew J. May, D., Ky., and MAY JURY PICKED of German assets in Austria and which of them would be used as German reparations. That had been the key problem in the entire en-tire treaty negotiations here. three members of the multi-million dollar Garssons Munitions combine who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the government. chants today as they voluntarily slashed prices 10 per cent in an effort to pioneer f a nationwide price cut' in response to President Presi-dent Truman's plea. Norman J. Randall, a sponsor of the plan, said that 97 per cent KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 22 fered S135.000. but declined to,?' ZJl-l ui? enter -competitive bidding.' At- ",v"" lantic City, third convention seek-' outside their places of business ing city, withdrew its bid before! to indicate they were cooperat-the cooperat-the balloting. jing in the experiment. An analysis of the vote showed He said ordinarily Tues-that Tues-that the forces known to be sup- . . porting Gov, Thomas E. Dewey day 15 Jwburyport slowest of New York. Sen. Arthur H. Van- shopping day, but that business denberg of Michigan and Harold, had been exceptional since 9 a.m. Stassen, former Minnesota gov-1 In some instances, he added, con-ernor, con-ernor, for the 1948 presidential !sumers were going to stores not nomination went down the line' taking part in the plan and in-for in-for Philadelphia. quiring why they had not pledged During deliberations over the,SUnrort. The convention, featuring an site, Philadelphia added the lure I Randall said retailers from east coast television hook-up i of an east coast television net- Springfield and Worcester were blanketing 13 states, will open work to its heavily-weighted cash, shopping Newburyport stores for (U.R) Boosters of all but one of the major candidates for the GOP presidential nomination were satisfied sat-isfied today with the selection of Philadelphia for the party's 1948 presidential convention. The GOP national committeemen committee-men supporting Sen. Robert A. Taft, O., for the presidential nomination nom-ination wanted the convention held in Chicago. Philadelphia won over Chicago yesterday by a committee vote of 72 to 26 June 30 of next year, with Phila delphia paying $250,000 for the privilege of playing host. Chicago, Chi-cago, which drew the 1944 convention con-vention for only $83,000 had of- bait. It offered $200,000 for the convention, guaranteed an entertainment enter-tainment fund of $50,000 for delegates dele-gates and offered the Convention hall without rcntaL reaction. He added that whole salers from Boston and Lowell had notified local retailers that they would institute a cooperative coopera-tive 10 per cent discount. |