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Show TEMPERATURES Prove . . . . Salt I-Jikt . Ofdtn .... Logan .... St. Georf I .as Vega' Phoenix 42 4t 48 39 St 1 3 Ixa Angeles Baa rraa.. 1 1 5 Portland .. ZSjBwtt 24 Pocatcllo . IS Denver . . . 39 Chicago . . . ZIDuluth . . . 42jNew York 44 Miami 45 N. Orleans 48 34 41 28 29 27 31 82 7 3 IS 29 00 57 29 28 73 44 SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 196 " - ... . ' ' CLOUDY TODAY with ! intermittent -light .mow flurries, becoming partly cloudy early Wednesday morning. Little change in temperature. Low near 18 and high Wednesday afternoon after-noon about 40. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. TUESDAY, ; MARCH 2, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 Senator Asks Early Olieh Of UMTBlll Marshall Plan Not Enough to Stop Communism Knowland WASHINGTON. March 2 (U.R) Sen. William F. Know-land, Know-land, R., Cal., today urged congress to enact universal "military training at once and build the air force to fighting strength because the Marshall plan does not go "far enough" in stopping Communism. Knowland also introduced an amendment to the European re covery program. IW would impose a virtual embargo on snipmems 10 Russia of U. S. industrial goods which he said were useful in building up the Soviet's "war potential" The amendment would shut off U. S. shinments of scarce goods to countries not participating in the Marshall plan, If sucn goods were needed for the ERP program. This move came after the commerce department denied It is permitting; U. S exports to Russia useful for military purposes. Knowland said during the second sec-ond day of debate on the ERP program that "I feel we cannot rest on that alone." "We must put the defense of the country in first class condition. con-dition. That means an air force in being, not in blueprints, and 1 believe that universal military training is another necessary step," he said. Other ERP developments: li Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., "begged" senators to speed a vote on the program by presenting their amendments at once. But Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb., indicated in-dicated Republican "revisionists" would hold off until a strategy session tonight. 2. Wherry attacked as "contrary to -American traditions" the proposed pro-posed 5-month commitment on European recovery. Vandenberg replied that if rhe-61 "-month authorization au-thorization - feature is removed, ERP would be a "total failure in advance." 3. Sen. Brien McMahon, D., Conn., introduced an amendment which he said would keep the U. "S. from "financing its own destruction." de-struction." It is aimed at preventing prevent-ing export from ERP countries to Russia of materials useful in the Soviet atomic program. It would require countries receiving U. S. aid to refrain from exporting such -materials. Open House qt the Gehas -.'".-J p" yf k This cattle track's brakes failed and It crashed into a two-story building in St Joseph, Mo., ripping the front off the house, exposing ex-posing two rooms of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Geha. Fortunately, the Gehas and their two children were at a movie when the accident happened. Condon Under Fire for Alleged Association With Russ Spies WASHINGTON, March 2 (U.R) bureau of standards, of consort- The house unAmerican activities committee " today ordered the commerce department to turn over all records on its loyalty investigation of Dr. Edward U. Condon. A three-member subcommittee last night accused the prominent government physicist, head of the Watkins Draws Legislation To Extend Forest Group Protests Cannery Site On Y Campus Forty-seven residents of northeast north-east Provo today protested the location of a ;food and milk processing pro-cessing plant on the upper BYU campus. In a petition to the city commission, com-mission, the signers listed six reasons why they felt the, establishment estab-lishment should not be built. Many of the signers were husband hus-band and wife. Called a "laboratory" by those defending it, and a "cannery" by those opposing it. the proposed plant has been the subject of considerable controversy involving involv-ing residents of the adjacent area. Plans are virtually completed for its construction, however, and breaking of ground is expected to start soon. It is being built bv the LDS church and the BYU and is expected to cost nearlv $75,000. Provo LDS wards are sharing in its cost, and member!" being asked by their' ward bishops to contribute toward it. City officials contend it will be modernized to the extent that it will have none of the objectionable objec-tionable features usually associated asso-ciated with food processing plants. Its opponents contend otherwise, other-wise, and set forth their reason (Continued on Page Two) A long-time project of the Provo Pro-vo chamber of commerce enlargement en-largement of Uinta and Wasatch forest boundaries to include better bet-ter than 200,000 acres of land bordering Provo canyon and Heber valley today was in the hnyeg legator Robert Stripling fol United States senatorial hopper, Dlaced there by Senator- -A. " V.' Watkins. A wire from Senator Watkins Wat-kins to the Daily Herald told of the action, but also raised a warning note that the project proj-ect is in dispute and opposed by the secretary of interior. Backers of the project in Provo were generally alarmed that it has become necessary to resort to legislative action, rather than the quicker and easier method of presidential p r o c 1 a m a tion by which they had hoped to attain their ends. A. meeting was slated for this evening by the group to discuss it and determine if anything any-thing could be done to aid it. Senator Watkins' wire said he was introducing the bill, and that legislation was necessary to "resolve "re-solve the deadlock between the secretary of agriculture, who signed reauest for a presidential proclamation to extend the boundary, and the secretary of interior, who opposes the extension." ex-tension." The chamber of commerce has lone sought to have the land included in-cluded in the national forest, and thus be subject to federal regulation, regula-tion, as a means of achieving flood control, protection against overgrazing, safeguarding of water wa-ter suoolies and development of recreation areas. The project has the backing of the forestry -service. Ivan Sack, supervisor of the Uinta forest, said the area is badly in need of greater fire protection, and that this would be a means of getlng it. . - ing "either knowingly or unknowingly" un-knowingly" with alleged Soviet spies. - Condon has had important roles in atomic and other top scientifice developments. Acting Secretary of Commerce William C. Foster said that Condon Con-don had been cleared by the" department's de-partment's loyalty board. The subcommittee had urged that Condon be fired by the department, depart-ment, which has jurisdiction over the bureau of standards. The order for the department to produce its loyalty records was issued by Chairman J. Parnell Thomas, R. N. J., from Walter Reed army hospital here. The action ac-tion was anounced by committee lowing a bedside.jOCUerejacftwith Thomas. Stripling said a subpena will be issued soon ordering the department de-partment to turn over to the committee com-mittee all information on its loyalty 'investigation of the scientist. sci-entist. He said the committee will meet at "an early date" to consider con-sider the files. Stripling quoted Thomas as saying be was unable to understand "how the com-merce com-merce department loyalty board could have cleared Dr. Condon in view of the evidence." Two Killed When Plane Hits House News Highlights In Central Utah Orem Property Owners Favor Highway, Curb Improvements 1 Watkins Introduces Bill to Extend Forest Boundaries . . 1 47 Residents Protest Food Plant Slated for Y' Campus 1 Red Cross Drive Opens With "Kick-Off" Breakfast . 2 Rheumatic Fever Foundation Chooses 1948 Officers 2 urem Council Announces I City Appointments 2 LIVERMORE, Cal., March (IM!) Two persons were killed today when their airplane crashed crash-ed and burned near- here and a baby sleeping in a. home nearby escaped decapitation when chunks of the engine smashed into the house. The' occupants of the plane were identified tentatively as Tom Giovanniti, Modesto, pilot, and Nels Nelson, 41, Vallejo. The plane a civilian model of an army basic trainer, crashed about 100 yards from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Leeds shortly after taking off from Livermore Sky ranch. Part of the engine sailed through a window of the Leeds' home and clipped twt legs off the crib or two-year-old Stephen Leeds. The baby was uninjured. Leeds reported the flaming wreckage caused "extensive damage" dam-age" to his home. . Atomic energy commissioners meanwhile told another committee commit-tee that Condon never has been cleared for access to restricted atomic information. But they emphasized em-phasized that the question never nad arisen. The joint congressional, atomic energy committee was given that information by Commissioners Robert F. Bacher and W. W. Waymack at a hearing orginally called to discuss labor problems at the Oak Ridge Tenn., installation. installa-tion. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R., Ia., chairman of the joint committee com-mittee said that the Condon question came up at the meeting because of newspaper accounts of the house committee'! report. "We asked whether Condon was cleared for restricted atomic data and we found that he is not," Hickenlooper told reporters after the closed meeting. "I don't know that there has been any occasion to use Dr. Con don under the commission (pro gram). Stripling said Thomas emphasized empha-sized that "the committee had no 2ievidence that Dr. Condon is dis loyal but it has ample evidence that he has been at least indiscreet indis-creet in a position in which indiscretion in-discretion could have serious consequences." "There certainly must be an explanation of his association with the people we know he associated as-sociated with," he quoted Thomas "He may have been only a dupe." Soviet Pact Proposal Cains Majority In Finland Parliament Social Democratic and Agrarian Parties Expect to Support Soviet Request Along With Communist; Formal Action Awaited HELSINKI, March 2 (U.R) The Social Democratic and Agrarian parties indicated today that their parliamentary delegations favored negotiating with Russia a twin decision de-cision which with the already declared Communist stand apparently ap-parently gave the Soviet proposal a majority in parliament. President Juho K. Passikivi this afternoon summoned Vice Speaker of the Diet Urho Kekkonen to the palace and urged him to induce political parties to speed up their de cisions. The chairman of the Social So-cial Democratic and Agrarian groups made It clear at a press conference that they expected to support the Soviet Sov-iet request for negotiating a pact. The expressions by the chairman chair-man did not, however, represent formal party action, which must be taken as soon as possible. Each party has 48 seats in the 200-seat narliament, while the Communist-dominated Democratic union has 50 seats. Enni Peltonen, Social Democratic Demo-cratic chairman, and Juho Koi-visto, Koi-visto, Agrarian chairman, said they thought it would be extremely ex-tremely difficult to refuse the Russian proposal, and they were unable to find any reason to say no to it. Hertta Kuusinen, chairman of the Communist group, told the press that her party already had acted and gone on record officially in favor of the proposal. The foreign affairs committee of the cabinet earlier advocated accepting the overture by Premier Josef Stalin. The public moves toward the the decision Finland must make came amidst a hurried round of conference among the top authorities au-thorities of government and politics. pol-itics. Premier Mauno Pekkala and his cabinet visited President Juho K. Paaslkivi, and some ministers stayed behind after the formal session broke up for private conversation. con-versation. A little later Pekkala went back to the presidential palace. After the second visit of the premier, observers speculated that, government discussion of the Soviet proposal had been completed, and the re-action re-action of parliamentary groups was being awaited. Early this afternoon Foreign Minister Carl Enckell and Urho Kekkonen, vice chairman of parliament, par-liament, went to the palace and were with Kaasikivi for about half an hour. Heavy Blanket Of Snow Hits Midwest By UNITED PRESS A heavy blanket of snow fell today from the Rocky mountains to the Great Lakes. It caused flood damage in Nebraska Ne-braska and tied up highway trans-xrtation trans-xrtation in a belt across Nebraska, Nebras-ka, Iowa, Northern Illinois, southeastern south-eastern Wisconsin and lower Michigan. Des Moines, la., reported the heaviest snow fall, eight inches. Chicago had five inches and it still was falling. The heavy snow sent the Platte and Elkhorn rivers in eastern Nebraska over their -banks, inundating thousands of acres of farmland. Anti-Lynching Bill Approved By Committee GOP-sponsored Bill Wins Apprpvaf With Vote of 18 to 8 .WASHINGTON, MARCH 2 (U.R) The house judiciary committe today approved a GOP-sponsored anti-lypching bill. The action came as a southern Democrat pleaded with the Republicans to abandon aban-don the bill and make friends with the south. The committee vote was 18 to 8. ' The anti-lynching measure is one of several civil rights bills which President Truman recently urged upon congress, thereby kicking up an intra-party revolt among southern Democrats. The committee action came at a time when leaders of the revolt were heatedly renouncing talk of a civil rights compromise. They asserted that only Mr. Truman's defeat as the Democratic presidential presi-dential nominee could restore peace to the party. Committee approval of the an .-lynching .-lynching bill was expected to raise southern tempers still higher. high-er. As the committee vote was beinr taken. Rep. L. Mendel 1 Rivers, D., S. C. pleaded in the house for Republicans "not to burn down the house to get rid of the rats." H Steel Company ead Defends Price Boosts Fairless, President of U. S. Steel States Increases Justified by Higher Costs; Taf t Sees Excuse for Wage Increases By SANDOR S. KLEIN ' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 2 (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.; O said today the "inevitable effect" of the recent steel price increase is to stiffen labor's demands for third-round wage increases. '.. r, v - Taft made the statement in questioning Benjamin r airless, air-less, president of U. S. Steel Corp. Fairless and other steel executives were called to tstify before Taft's joint congressional congres-sional economic committee on the recent $5 a ton boost in the price of semi-finished steel! products. 'mAvrimAllf Fairless read the committee ai JJ J d 1 1 1 1 Iwl 1 1 Action Aids Grain Demand He said Mr. Truman is a bird" politically. 'dead The Platte river surged over its banks near Fremont yesterday tying "up train service, from the west coast Into Chicago for as much as 12 hours. At onetime the tracks of the Union Pacific V road were reported under morek than a foot of water. Trains were! rerouted into Omaha and the railroad rail-road said service nearly was I - i to normal today Many highways were flood in the eastern section of Nebraska and others were blocked by snow. The Cedar river was rising at by Rep. Clifford P. Case of New Jersey would provide a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine and 0 years in prison for anyone convicted con-victed pf organizing, inciting or Darticipating in a lynch mob. Iwo Republicans joined six Democrats in voting against the bill. ix Democrats voted for the measure. meas-ure. Case said he hoped the hse rule committee would act some time next week to clear the bill for a vote by the bouse membership." prepared statement in which he said the price increase was justified justi-fied by higher costs. He also called cal-led on labor "in the public interest" inter-est" to drop its demands for third-round wage boosts. Taft said Fairless' arrument that higher costs justified the price Increase would apply equally to labor's demand for more pay. "That argument goes for all sides." he said. "That way, we will never stop the spiral of inflation- K tv : InHov in Wuhlnirinn nrt Taft asked Fairless if he did not n K, CI I I OllllVUIKVtllVUti rv aaww w immediately on whether any are acceptable. CHICAGO, March 2 fU The government returned tentatively to the grain market today, bolstering bol-stering the price of wheat with an announcement that it would buy small amounts of flour for shipment to Europe and the Orient. Bids on the flour were to be agree that the steel price increase The Republican bill, introduced! had encouraged all labor unions to demand bigger pay doosis man they would have asked otherwise. Fairless said that he does not think any such increased demands ! . ' -. lk-i til-. . - iur - rutrs vuiniunwe must grant the legislation a right-of-way before -the house can act on It Case said he did not expect any difficulty in getting get-ting such clearance. Democrats voting against e bill were Reps. Sam Hobbs, Ala., Estes Kefsuver, Tenn., Joseph R. Bryson, S. C. Fadjo Cravens, Waterloo, la. about - . per-nns i nM ' M J ' ACCIDENT AT HOME PROVES FATAL SHOSHONE. Ida.. March 2 (U.R) Mrs. Maude Burdett, Lincoln county coroner, said today that Mrs. Cleo Mulliner Peak. 27, was fatally injured in a home accident acci-dent Sunday. Mrs. Burdett said that Mrs. Peak fell and struck her chin on moved from their homes to high er ground yesterday. The Big Sioux river near Sioux Fail., S. D., spilled over a large area of a stove breakine her neck. Sur vivors include ner husband andNo serious damage to farm Ir the midwest, flood waters were receding. In Indiana, the Wabash reached reach-ed a crest of 16.9 feet at Lafayette jesterday and beun to drop without with-out causing serious flood damjjte. The crest there was only a few ;nrhe. above flood level. At . u, Ind., however, the Wabash as two feet above flood stage. Tie White river was six feet above flood level at Martinsville, Ind, d They were joined by Republi cans Reps. John W. Gwynne, la., and Fr k Fellows, Me. All six Democrats voting for the measure ar from the north Thev farm land, but in other sect. fkurere Rens. Emanuel Oeller N Y two small children. 'was reported, however. Francis E. Walter. Pa.. William T Byrne N. Y.. Thomas J. Lane, U. S. Underscores Opposition to forcing Partition by labor would be justified by in dustrial earnings. y The economic committee summoned sum-moned Fairless and other steel industry in-dustry leaders to tell about that price increase, which President Truman also has ordered investi-eated investi-eated by government agencies. The congressional committee will decfde-trrtei hearing the'lndustry leaders whether to Undertake an investigation of its own. "There should be neither wage increases nor price increases." Fairless said. "But I feel that business bus-iness should be conducted on a sound economic basis and at a profit." He explained that what he meant was that U. S. Steel was losing- money on its semi-- semi-- finished steel although showing show-ing a substantial profit on many of its other products. The g o v e r n m e n t'a announcement an-nouncement yesterday shot wheat prices upward in the biggest single day's recovery since commodity prices broke a month ago when the government gov-ernment stepped out of the market. Wheat shot up within a fraction frac-tion of a cent of the 10-cent limit for a day's trading. It carried with it prices on corn and oats Hog prices, cotton and stocks on the New' York exchange Joined the upward trend. Actually, the amount of flour the government intends to buy is quite small. A Commodity Credit corporation official said the government gov-ernment would buy two cargoes of flour, 19,000,000 pounds of whole wheat flour for delivery on the east coast, and 15,000,000 pounds of white flour for delivery deliv-ery at a west coast port. He added, also, that the government gov-ernment would buy the flour only "if the price is right." The announcement's effect on the grain market was extraordinary extraordi-nary in view of the small amount involved. An important trader said the sharp increase in prices caused Police Solve Balance of Dixon Burrlaries, Find Strong Bex Provo July 4 Directors Elected by Public Ballot ... PERON RESTING AFTER OPERATION BUENOS AIRES, March 2 (U.PJ President Juan D. Peron is resting rest-ing well cfter undergoing an emergency appendectomy yesterday, yester-day, it was announced today. Orem Property Owners Favor Highway, Curb Improvements OREM Orem property own-as the road was laid. Curb and Taft asked whether the $150,-000,000 $150,-000,000 which U. S. Steel made after af-ter taxes in 1947 was not a record. "Oh, no." Fairless replied. In 1916, he said the corporation made $271,000,000. in 1917 it made $224.- m MBrtin Si til n"H!o0-000 and in 1929 the profit was, by the announcement resulted iJfe.i a ' i $197,000,000. i from the relatively small num- . ... V'",M. v-" .... ! her of traders in the market. rait men. wanted to Knowi . whether the steel price irfcrease might not have been offset by decreases de-creases in prices of other steel oroducts. He said the "moral effect ef-fect on the country" had been that -;teel had increased prices at a time when it was making record profits. , TOKYO, March 2 (U.R) MaJ. Fairies retorted that the steel 'Gen. Claire L. Cherinault is pre- io,, 'nareri to return to Washington to LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. March jrfprs0od " Itestify on China before the house Chennault Ready For Testimony ers along U. S. highway 91 voted approval of -a proposal to widen the highway, construct curb, sidewalks and . driveways at ft meeting with Utah state road commission and Orem city officials offi-cials Monday night. One-hundred-fifty owners attended the session. Mayor J. W. Gillman of Orem explained to the property owners own-ers that extra paving of 12-f ef. on each side of the highway alorg a five-mile stretch would be laid free by the state, if the property owners would agree to pay fcr curbing. The curb as now planned would be 24 inches wide and 6 inches high, and would be installed by the state at $3.25 per lineal foot Slayer Wins Commutation, But Marriage Plans Are Out NASHVILLE, Tenn (U.R) A dark-haired, attractive Sunday school teacher from Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, 20-year-old Miss Jeane Lucas, was told today that her 19-year-old sweetheart will not die in Tennessee's electric chair Thursday at dawn. But she also was told, in effect, that she wouldn't be able to marry him. Gov. Jim McCord shortly before be-fore noon commuted tq99 years in prison the death sentence of Daniel Budzynski, convicted slayer slay-er of Pittsburgh, in announcing the commutation, McCord told reporters re-porters that he had not received any application from Miss Lucas March 2: or her attorney Hugh Helm, for permission for her to marry the youth. , The governor then added that "the state of Tennessee would not be interested in having a marriage mar-riage of this sort take place." Miss Lucas had come to Nashville from Pittsburgh yesterday, saying that MI still love Danny, and even though he is executed I want to be fats wife. The commutation was issued after Helm and a delegation of Methodist church women had conferred con-ferred separately with, the gov-(Continued gov-(Continued on Page Two) sidewalks would cost $4.65 per lineal foot. A driveway would cost $550 per lineal foot, explained explain-ed Paul H. Innes, state engineer for district 6. L. V. Beckman, city engineer, engi-neer, stated that if the property prop-erty owners also wanted te put in sidewalks that the e'ty would create a special Improvement Im-provement district for them Orem city now has only .one mile of curb and gutter and tbe drainage problem is great because the ground is so level, the mayor said. Citizens speaking in favor of the measure included B. M. Jolly, A. H. Christenson, and James G. Stratton , . A motion by Sam Cordner that I the city appoint a committee of iflve to carry a petition to the 250 land owners along the five-mile five-mile strip and have them sign yes and no, was passed. The committee com-mittee will be appointed by mayor ma-yor Gillman at the next Monday meeting. Mayor Gillman stated that bonds may be issued to cover the improvement district as an alternative alter-native way of paying for the improvements. im-provements. The one 'vote for each property owner was tabulated as follows-: From Eighth North to Eighth South, 40 yes and four no; from Eighth South to Twelfth South, 14 yes and three no; from Twelfth South to Seventeenth South, 12 yes and three no: from Eighth North to Twelfth North, 17 yes and threer no;- .from Twelfth ' North to ''Twentieth North (the farm, area) all no. 2 (U.R) The United States today underscored before the United Nations security council its op- was that in view of its "sod" fi- nnnnlnl nl.L.u T T O C?.t 1 1 position to imposing the partmon!been aWto declatp n extra d;v. Sen. Joseph C. O Mahoney, D.. foreign affairs committee put Wyo.. interrupted to ask how it (Gen. Douglas MacArthur appar ently nas not yei aeciaea, u w reported today. of Palestine by force J 'can Delegate Warren Austin told the council it will be bound to take peace-keeping action ac-tion in the Holy Land if it finds iiiat a threat to peace exists there. The American delegate, delivering deliver-ing what the American delegation delega-tion termed an elucidation of this country's stand on the partition issue, spoke solely on the legal distinction between enforcing Palestine partition and squelching squelch-ing a threat "to peace in Palestine. idend last December. "Out of our earnings, of course," Fai"lcss said. PRESS EXECUTIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA CAPETOWN, March 2 t.! American press executives touring tour-ing South Africa left today for east London, a port in Cape Colony. A scheduled visit to Port Elizabeth was cancelled. 160 Passengers Reported Drowned On Chinese Ship r SHANGHAI, March 2 (U.R) Press reports said today that 160 passengers on a Chinese ship bound for Amoy were drowned recently when pirates created a panic that caused the vessel to capsize. The pirates, disguised as passengers, pas-sengers, attacked ship's guards and gunfire started. Some 280 passengers rushed to the other side of the vesrel' and it turned over. Czechs Ban 2 Issues Of U. S. Information Service Bulletin PRAGUE, March 2 (U.R) The United States embassy announced today It received an official court notice banning two issues of tve U. S. information service bul'etin in Czechoslovakia. An embassy spokesman said the National Presa court notified the embassy in a letter that the bulletin bul-letin issues of Feb. 27-28 had been outlawed and instructions had been issued to the post office to prevent their delivery by mall. The bulletin, which contains U. S. government statements, press conferences and newspaper editorial comment, has a selected circulation of about 1500 copies in Czechoslovakia. The spokesman said the Feb. 27 issue "contained press comment of American newspapers on tSe Czech government crisis and a speech by Rep. Karl Stefen (R., Neb. in congress. The Feb. 28 issue contained the text of the Anglo-American-French declaration on the Czech crisis. Several mail copies were returned re-turned to the embassy marked "refused by addressee," while many other subscribers wrote re questing their names be removed from the maling list, the spokes; man said. Dispatches from Shangal quot ed Chennault as saying he has not yet received an official invitation to testify but that "I expect to accept." Chennault, former commander of the "Flying Tigers," said the main thing that might interefere would be personal business affairs. af-fairs. He is head of a commercial airline in China. Both men' were invited to appear ap-pear in person before a congressional congres-sional committee In Washington or to submit memoranda if they could not make it Asked what MacArthur intended in-tended to dor one of his aides replied that he had not given "any indication." Other sources close to MacArthur said it was not believed his position had changed from the, time the suggestion sug-gestion first was made. Resignation of Benes Denied PRAGUE,' March' 2 (OR) The ministry of information officially Ldenied today a report abroad that' President Eduard Benes resigned Jsst week. 7 A The report was published by the London Evening News, which said:': "Our Prague correspondent telephones that Benes resigned last week, but the Communists have not allowed it to be made, public for fear of violent reaction." reac-tion." ., ,. -,,.;',.;..--. ,.;;.:.."' ; ; f ; MARTHA RAYE ROBBED- j ' MIAMI BEACH, Fla Ma rch 2 (U.R) Martha Raye, night club entertainer and movie star, told police -today that a diamond ring' valued at $0,500 had h stole from her hotel room her. k |