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Show TEMPERATURES Partly Cloudy Prv ..... SI IS Portland ,. II 37 Salt Lak , Si 3SHuU ... . 4 25 Ogata . .... J SSjPocatello .41 31 Let an i . . ... 4t St Denver , ... 44 St St. Georg . 44 43 Chicago . ,. 7f 14 I.af Vetat . 4 34 Dulnth . . . SS 34 Phoenix .. SI 4lNw York 44 44 1 .01 Angeles 42 41 Miami 77 J t flaa Fran. . 57 4JN. Orleans 14 If and continued warm today and Tuesday. High today and tomor ' row 85. Low tonight near 15, J: SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. .'220 i PROVO. UTAH 'COUNTY. UTAH, MONDAY. APRIL , 5,- 1948 PRICE RYE CENTS Flame D) RyssSami Fig 15 if in Spiritual Of Course Says LDS McKay Tells Conference World Federation iot Uriiougn to maintain reace; i;eiiei in God, Observance of Golden Rule Advocated By WILLIAM B. HATCH United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, April lion-metnber LDS church today federation was "among, the keeping world peace," but added that the world is not spiritually capable of carrying such a program through now. David 0. McKay, second counselor of the first presidency presi-dency of the Latter-day Saints church, told some 8500 church members at the 118th annual conference that they College Student Shot, Killed In Initiation Stunt BOZEMAN, Mont., April 5 (U.R) James Irving Peterson of Great Falls, a student at Montana State college here, was shot and killed during a college initiation ceremony cere-mony this morning, P. C. Gaines, vice president of the college, re -ported. Peterson was one of 12 students stu-dents being initiated into Lcs Bouffons, an honorary fraternity, Gaines said. The intiating group wanted to enter the heating plant at the college and blow the . college col-lege whistle as part of the initiation. ini-tiation. Gaines said they were stopped by John W. Martin, engineer in1 -charge of the heating plant. An altercation developed and Peterson was shot In the chest, Gaines said. Ue died a few moments later. Sheriif Charles Rice of Gallatin Gal-latin county, said "the night watchman" fired the shot which killed the youth, a veteran of 36 successful missions over Europe as a member of the air corps during World War 11. Sheriff Rice said an inquest would be held but that it had not been scheduled yet. The sheriff saidwo one had been taken into custody nor would there be any arrests until after the inquest. Gaines said Les Bouffons, which he said meant literally "clowns" or "jesters," was an honorary fraternity fra-ternity on the campus which holds itself responsible for college col-lege traditions. It operates with college sanction, sanc-tion, he said, but chooses its own membership. Peterson had been selected with 11 others to become be-come a member. D.t-,., OR f,-..ot .1 tVL??"l r"""?.1" J?ce ana neeaom iuc wucgc ui nicviiBiiKJcii ciigi- neering 111 the fall of 1940, Gaines said. He was a student until April, 1943, when he was called into the armed services. He returned re-turned to the college in the fall of 1943, as a member of the army specialized training program pro-gram and transferred to the army air forces in November, 1943. After his discharge from service, ser-vice, Peterson attended the college col-lege of education at Great Falls in 1946 and 1947. Last fall he returned re-turned to the mechanical engineering engi-neering school here. Peterson's survivors include liis widow and one child here and his parents in Great Falls. Rockefeller Widow Dies In New York NEW YORK, April 5 "(U.R) Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 73, whose marriage to the son of the oil billionaire in .1901 united two of the world's great fortunes, died jnt a heart attack today in her. duplex apartment on Park avenue. av-enue. The daughter of probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. senate, Mrs. Rockefeller was one of the outstanding individual patrons of living artists in the United States a fact npt widely known because all her life the former Abby Greene Aldrich of Providence, R. I., was as self-effacing self-effacing as her husband,; News Highlights In Central Utah Rolling Mill Layoffs Mount At Geneva . . . . .1 Merrill N. Warwick Seeks GOP County Commission Post . . . A. O.- Thorn FilesVor GOP .2 State Representative . . .;. . . Realtors Set Program F.or Regional Confab In Provo. . Provo Pedestrian Seriously , , Hurt In Spanish Fork Crash 'Change Needed, Leader 5 (U.R) A leader of the mil said a strongly-armed world best recommendations for as individuals must prepare the must prepare world for course." "spiritual change in "We have two choices." McKay said. "The choice between be-tween a dictatorship of atheistic athe-istic Communism, or the doctrine of God and Christ." "If we are to overcome the slanderous charges made by the Communists against our democracy," de-mocracy," McKay continued, "we must live them down. We must show the world that our way of life is the right way of life; ihat our way of life is the righteous right-eous and Christ-like way of living." liv-ing." McKay , told . the tabernacle crowd and a- west-wide radio audience that there are a great many problems "in our own communities' com-munities' which must be overcome over-come before "we can bare our beliefs to the world." Among these "evils existing in our own state" he listed drunken, ness, unchastity and a turning away from God. : " p We "must rid ourselves of these evils," he said, "before e can say to the world 'this is bur way of life ancLJt is better, than any which opposes it.' " McKay said that . in order to attain worldwide world-wide lasting peace, a general acceptance ac-ceptance of the Mosaic principle of belief in God and th. Christian Chris-tian priniple of "love thy neighbor neigh-bor as thyself must prevail. "There are some .national and international leaders and some nations which have gotten away from these principles," . McKay said, "but there are ten times as many who still believe in them firmly. "There are some dishonest men in world affairs, but there are many more men who are honest and have a belief in God and the principles of Christ." He pointed out that only if Ve! as anuiviuuais oeneve in tne individuals !--, . . . and cnristian behavior can we expect oumational leaders to be lieve and follow those principles." McKay was followed to the speakers' rostrum by Joseph Merrill, Mer-rill, a member of the council of twelve apostles, who warned the (Continued on Page Two) Youth Remains Semi-Conscious After Accident Two young men injured in the fatal car crash Saturday afternoon after-noon on the lower Geneva joad were in "fairly good" condition today at the Utah Valley hospi- Itai but a third was still in a con- dition. Kenneth H. Rogers, 23, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, was transferred Sunday Sun-day afternoon from Provo to the American Fork hospital. Today, attendants of that institution said he was slightly improved, but still only semi-conscious. He has severe head injuries. John Milton Lee, 20, American Fork, and Paul, 26, Sandy, were recovering at the Utah Valley hospital. The crash claimed the life of Harold B. Greening, 19, American Fork. U. S. Carrier Force to Visit Norway On 'Good-Will' Tour WASHINGTON, April 5. U.R The navy said today carrier task force will visit Norway from April 29 to May 2 for "the promotion promo-tion of good, will and the furtherance further-ance of friendly relations." The 27,000-ton aircraft carrier Valley Forge will head the task force. The 6.000-ton anti-aircraft 3 cruiser Fresno and four destroyers destroy-ers will accompany it to Bergen, Norway. "-. The Valley Forge, now on a I round-the-world cruise with the 5 j destroyers W. C. Lawe and Lloyd j Thomas, will visit southern Eng Yanks Block Russ Rail Control Center J T i ; 1 American officer (back to camera) In command of American MP's who blockaded Russian rail headquarters In Berlin, la shown with U. 8. Interpreter . (extreme left) preventing Russian Rus-sian officer (center) and Russian driver (right) from entering building. Photo by Acme-NEA photographer Al Cocking. Planes Crash as Russ Fighter Dives on Transport; British Threaten Use of RAF Escorts By ROBERT HAEGER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, April 5 tU.fi) A Russian fighter plane dived on aicort British transports unless the ernor, answered for the Amcri-British Amcri-British transport as it prepared ! Soviets guarantee free passage jeans. to land here today and both planes crashed, killing all 14 persons per-sons aboard the British aircraft and the Russian pilot. After brief investigation, the British blamed the Russian pilot 30 Killed As 10,000 Join In Cairo Riots CAIRO, April 5 (U.R) At least 30 persons were killed, more than 200 were seriously wounded, and hundreds more were injured today to-day in rioting at Alexendria which armed Egyptfan troops I- - i, 4 ,11 ncic Kliuug iv much, Fhthtina and looting continued into the evening, but was siding to some degree after troops, a eld 500 yards outside tne fired into several groups. (British sector of the city, in the Premier Mahmoud Nokrashy Russian-occupied zone of Ger-Pasha Ger-Pasha flew to Alexandria to takejimany- Dersonal charSe of the efforts to The explosion scattered debris put down the bloodshed and de - struction. He directed armv forces charged with restoring order to shoot on sight anyone who disobey dis-obey d orders or behaved1 in a suspicious manner. Thousands of persons demon-trated demon-trated and rioted in support of a complete walkout of the. police force in Egypt's second city. A nationwide strike . of police was called to back up demands for higher pay. Alexandria was the heaviest sufferer in a countrywide country-wide rash of manifestations. Russia Reduces Austria Demands LONDON, April 5 (U n Rus.ia reduced her demands of Austria, today at the meeting of deputies of the big four foreign ministers. N. P. Koktomov, the Soviet deputy, offered, significant concessions con-cessions in Soviet claims against oil and Danube shipping right?. He also hinted that he might revise re-vise further a cash demand which only last week was cut down to $150,000,000. land ports prior to the Norway visit. The three ships will be joined by the Fresno and the destroyers Johnson and W. R. Rush and proceed to Norway. The Valley Forge will visit Portsmouth, England, around April IS and her escorting destroyers des-troyers will visit Southampton. Adm. Richard . L. Conally, commander-in-chief 6f -the Eastern. Atlantic and Mediterranean lines, will fly his flag on the Fresno for the Norway visit. V Si! J.: for the air collision, and inform- ed Russiifa authorities that Royal Air Force fighter planes will e- along the international air corridor cor-ridor to Berlin. A British official spokesman spokes-man quoted Royal Air Force witnesses as saying that the -Russian Yak fighter dived on the British Viking twin-engined transport as It was making, a left turn for a landing at Gatow airfield, the British airbase here t lit Ta The fighter dived from behind,"". fL"" and above, he said, and came up from beneath jj tK ently, the spokesman said, Russian pilot swerved up sharply, and the wings of t00! tne Planes met Tho British rraft. rarrvini? in passengers, including a British United Press staff correspondent,! 4. British officials reported and a crew of four, lost a wingj barge traffic was being resumed and burst into flames immediate-ion the inland waterways, from I.. , a , 3 . b. : : fand parts of bodies over a wide radius The Russian plane crashed just inside the British sector, and the pilot was killed, although al-though the plane did not burn. . The British spokesman said the transport plane, operated by British Brit-ish European Airways, was in contact with the Gatow tower when the crash occurred. The two planes were at an altitude of 500j to 1,000 feet at the time, and the weather was clear. It was 2:10 p. m. local time (8:10 a. m. EST). "There is no evidence the Russian Rus-sian plane was out of control," the British spokesman said. "It Was Just bad piloting. The Rus- sian had not right to be flying in the area, because he had not noti fied the fourrpower air safety center of his intentions." The spokesman said v British (Continued on Page Two) Man, Wife Drown In Idaho Crash OROFINO, Ida., April 5.(U.R) A man end his wife, both employees em-ployees of the state hospital here, were drowned in less than two feet of .water last night when their car left the road and plunged plung-ed into a small creek. The victims, James L. Buckley, 41, and his wife. Ruth, 31. apparently ap-parently were knocked unconscious uncon-scious in the accident and then drowned in the shallow stream, Coroner George B. Blake reported. re-ported. 5 Blake said Buckley evidently was distracted by planes taking off and landing at a nearby airport air-port and lost control of the car when it hit a chuckhole near the entrance of the hospital. Buckley was a truck driver and his wife a cook at Iht Institution. Russians In Berlin Ask For Peace Parley Russians Give Ground Slowly in 'Nerve War' : Started Wednesday BERLIN, April 5 (U.R)The Russians called today for a peace conierence to ena tne "battle of Berlin," and the British and A m e r i c a n s promptly accepted the offer. iKremained for the Soviet Union to name the place and and timV for a meeting to iron put the last difficulties caused by Russia s sudden clamp-down last Wednesday midnight on rail traffic traf-fic of the western powers through the Soviet-occupied zone to and from the German capital. Russia gave ground slowly and apparently grudgingly in the "nerve war" its action last week touched off. Informing the three western powers that Soviet authorities au-thorities were ready to discuss "clarification" " of the transport orders, Lt. Gen. Mikhail Dratvin, Soviet deputy commander, said: "I cannot see any possibility possibil-ity of changing existing regulations regu-lations affecting traffic or freight and personnel through the Soviet tone of occupation in Germany." Americans and British stood firm on the expressed position that Soviet entry to their, military mili-tary trains could not be permitted, permit-ted, but both agreed to a meeting, and asked that the Russians sug gest a time and place for it: Maj. Gen. N, C. D. Brownjohn, British deputy governor, replied for. hi-nation and Brig. Gen.; Charles K. Galley, U. S. chief of utaff, and Mai. uen. ueorge P. Hays, deputy u. S. military gov- In other developments: 1. Marshal Vassily D. Soklovsky, Russian commander in Germany, accepted an invitation to dine with "the British commander, Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, tomorrow tomor-row night to honor Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of the imperial general staff. 2. The Americans withdrew a military police cordon around the "led guards from the building. 3. American and British food trains moved through the Soviet zone without difficulty. American l authorities ceased air shipments trom trankfurt. 1 : A , 1 . f . u derstanding" with the Russians as to documents the barges must carry. Sokolovsky's acceptance of the invitation to dine with Robertson 1 marks the first time he has met with any of the western commanders com-manders since he walked out of the March 20th meeting of the allied control council. It is understood un-derstood neither. Gen. Lucius D. Clay nor France's Gen. Pierre Kocnig will attend despite earlier reports they might. More Violence Flares in Italy Election Fracas . ROME, April 5 (U.R) election violence flared . in New both northern and southern Italy today to-day but Romans were reassured against a possible Communist coup after viewing 20.000 security secur-ity troops parading through the heart of Rome. More than 500,000 Romans turned. out to view the parade yesterday. Included were British and American tanks, armored cars and artillery, but the emphasis was on automatic weapons. One detachment included 2,000 federal police all armed with tommyguns. "If it comes to force in Italy, that force is in the hands of the government, said Premier Alcide De Gasperi. , , An attempt to hold a Communist Commun-ist rally in Gorizia, on the Italian-Yugoslav border, ended in a near riot Leftists, on the 'other hand, attacked ax meeting of the Fascist Italian social party in Naples and three were injured seriously. ...' -Feeling agafnst 'Communists ran high in Gorizia, thp city the Yugoslavs want to take in trade for giving the free city of (Trieste to Italy. Gorizia also is packed with Italian refugees from Yugoslav Yugo-slav rale. . i Miners Defy Order, Remain Survey of Mines Shows Miners Fail to Show Up for Work on Monday Day Shift; Western Miners Expected to Return Later PITTSBURGH, April 5 (U.R) THe nation's 400,000 soft coal miners today defied a federal court injunction to end their three-week strike and return to work. A survey of mines in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Alabama atnd other coal-prodiicing states showed that the miners failed to show up for work on the Monday Mon-day shift. Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; one of the world's Argi enrina Set To Reject All Joint Action BOGOTA, Colombia, April 5 (U.R) Argentina announced in the Inter-American conference today that she would reject "all collective collec-tive action because that is the basic element of the super-state." Argentine Delegate Pascual La-rosa La-rosa made the statement, which appeared to imperil United States hopes of a strong anti-Communist resolution, in the conference, as he denounced all those who have called Argentina "a fascist state." He spoke before the first com mittee of the conference, pounding pound-ing the table and shouting. It was the first .overt declaration in . the conference of the rivalry between the United States and Argentina, and was reminiscent of their split over Nazism in 1942. Argentina and the. United States "appeared headed for the same kind of controversy over communism at this conference. Strike KeepsN Geneva Plant Virtually Idle Workers officially tc rmlnated at the Geneva Steel, plant totaled 1060 late today, but several hun dred more in the plate and struc- (nrol mill, ar thU iv..! whose records have not yet reat ed the official termination stag . Better than 1000 people are employed em-ployed in the two rollingmill units, and both of the latter have been idle since Saturday. How many will be laid off during the coal strike is not definitely known, but is is expected to include in-clude most of the total plate and structural mill force Conditions in oher parts of the plant remained unchanged today, to-day, with two out of the .plant's total of nine open hearths still operating, ony of its three b'asi furnaces anda fourth of its coke ovens, all at greatly: reducrd rates. ' Remaining open hearths will go cown soon for repairs. The Ionton plant's lone blast furnace is still operating at about one-third capacity, plus just enough Ironton coke ovens for minimum plant uses. All Ironton workers are being kept busy for the present - at repair and maintenance main-tenance work. BODY OF MISSING RANCHER FOUND MELROSE, Mont., April 5 (U.R) The body of Ralph Clugy, 40, missing Melrose rancher, was found in a slough -west of. here yesterday, ' ' Raymond Schwartz, Beaverhead county coroner, said today. ; Schwartz said the body was found by Walter Clugy, brother of tne man wno nan neen missing since Feb. 28. He is believed to have drowned, when- he was thrown from a horse into the slough, Schwartz said. War Crimes Charges Dropped Against 12 Krupp Directors NUERNBERG, April 5. (U.P A United States war crimes court today dropped the charges of conspiracy to wage aggressive war against 12 directors of the Krupp Works, makers of German arms for 133 years. - After they had been on trial for nearly four months, the wrt suddenly sud-denly announced the partial clearing of .Alfred Krupp, head of the family dynasty since 1943, and his 11 fellow defendants. '.. The only charges left against them were those of abuse of slave labor in Krupp factorleg and largest producers, said that miners failed to show up at any of its mines. The superintendent of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Consolidation's big Montour Mon-tour No. 10 mine, said that "there is no indication that men have given thought to coming back." The Peabody Coal Co. said that none of the 3,800 miners showed up for work at their six mines in the Springville-Taylorville, 111., district. . ' , Mine operators in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico said no back-to-work movement was ap parent but that they "looked for" the miners to go back to work '"later this week." Mines in Indiana and; Ohio reported re-ported mines "closed down, tight." United Mine Workers' organizers organiz-ers in District 3. 4 and 5 in west ern Pennsylvania said they dldn' know of "any instance men had returned to work. Ex-San Francisco Mayor Rossi Dies SAN FRANCISCOApril 5 (UR -Former Mayor Angrlo RoiM died today at Franklin hospital. He was 70 years 6ld. t Rossi was mayor of San Francisco Fran-cisco for 12 years and was defeated de-feated in a bif for a fourth t?rm in 1944 by former Mayor Roger Lapham. He had een in ill health for several years and suffered from a serious heart condition aggravated aggra-vated by a. gall bladder disorder. Ross was born in Volcano. Calif on Jan. 22, 1878. His earli-to about 87 per cent. During the est Ambition, he often said, was' first quarter of 1948 it had aver-to aver-to become a florist and he even-1 aged 93 per cent of capacity, he "wny came 10 neaa one 01 mo usuaestlul llousl snops in Clty- AA 4.-1 I A. t . . - But Rossi's true bent was politics poli-tics and he became one of the west's most colorful and best known political figures during his 12-year span as mayor. The balding, be-mustached Rossi was known for his perfectly perfect-ly tailored clothes and the white carnation he always wore in his lapel. Russ Financier's Conviction Upheld By Supreme Court WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.R) The supreme court today upheld the conviction of Serge Rubinstein. Rubin-stein. Russian-born- New York financier, fi-nancier, for draft-dodging. He is a citizen of Portugal. The court refused to review an appeal by Rubinstein from his two and one-half year prison sentence and $40,000 fine. He was convicted of filing false statements state-ments with a New York draft board saying he was essential to the operation of two companies engaged in war work. Rubinstein contended 'the statements, state-ments, were mere expressions of opinion 'and did not represent a wilful , misrepresentation of the facts. TIDELANDS LEGISLATION CONSIDERATION DELAYED WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.R) The senate judiciary committee today deferred until next Monday further- consideration of legislation legisla-tion to give ownership of the oil- rich tidelands to state governments. govern-ments. spoliation of industrfal planu in the European nations overrun by the Nazis. Justice H. C. Anderson of Jackson, Jack-son, Tenn., the presiding justice, made the wholly unexpected announcement an-nouncement regarding ' the changes early this afternoon. The charges were that the Krupp directors criminally helper" wage aggressive war, and conspired con-spired to commit crimes against peace - and humanity by aggres- Islve war measures. "There Is insufficient evidence to sustain conviction on these counts," Anderson announced. Court idi e Lewis Accepts Service Of Court Order Lewis Gives little Indication of What Next Move Will b By CHARLES HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 5 I I Pl Tl T T , vu.iv jumi u. lewis toaay accepted serviee of a federal court order directing him to call off the22-day soft coal strike. But Lewis crave no indica tion whether he intends to recognize the order. He maintains main-tains that he did nothing to induce in-duce the walkout. ' Virtually all of the 400,000 miners were remaining away from work despite the court or der which was issued Saturday Wght. "O. K. boys, he accepted it at 1:22," two U. S. marshals told reporters as they emerged from the elevator in the United Mine Workers office building. The marshals, H. B. Mc-Canley Mc-Canley and Michael Cola santo, told reporters that Lewis had smiled .and said - "thank yon, gentlemen,' when they handed him a 1 copy of the order. Reporters earlier had accosted Lewis as he walked to his office but he had no comment on anything. any-thing. . Assistant Secretary of Comcrce David K. Bruce said, meanwhile, that: steel production this week, will drop to 75 per cent of capacity, capa-city, or less, unless coal miners go back to work. He said output last week fell added. Bruce testified before the house interstate commerce committee on new demands for steel by the petroleum industry. He called these' demands "startling." Government officials believed be-lieved Lewis would attack validity or the restraining ' order which was Issued : against him and all officers .and employes of the United' Mine; Workers. An immediate notion, to vacate the order may brpg the United Mine Workers president face to Alan Goldsborougb, who is no stranger to Lewis. He and his union paid $710,000 in fines for contempt of court last year for defying- Uoldsborough s . order to, call off a strike late in 1946. The justice department waa prepared to defend the validity of the temporary injunction In an effort to hasten, the end of the crippling coal walkout. It was alco ready to press new contempt proceedings against Lewis if the order is Ignored altogether. Utah's Vast Goal Fields Remain Idle ' 7 PRICE,, Utah,' April 5 UJ! Utah's vast 'coal fields were still idle today and the field's thou- J sands of miners stood by ap parently waiting tne cue by which to determine their next move. A 1 J, !. i.V'l 111 . a Accoraing vo naiionai reports. United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis has dumped the problem of work or continued strike into the laps of the miners mi-ners themselves. But in the Carbon Car-bon and Emery county coal fields of Utah the local memberships of the UMW appeared to have been cut adrift. ' Newsmen attempting to learn the local status of the coal walkout walk-out met only blank Stares and an occasional declaration that the operators should -adhere to the contract. . Union officials were mum. Members averred they had heard nothing concerning Lewis' letter let-ter to the effect that the members mem-bers themselves were to determine deter-mine whether they return to work this week or continue the walk- 4ouL |