OCR Text |
Show TEMPERATURES HIGH CLOUDINESS with sunshine today, becoming partly cloudy Friday. Net much chance In temperature with low tonight near 44. High today and tomorrow IS. Pror . ... Salt Lakt . Of4e' . . .. Logan .... M Sl'PortUn . . . It V 4 It Butt I 4 41 Pocatcllo . . ST i J 40! Denver 11 4S 7K91 Cblcac ... 57 JS 9U uorg lal.VtfU .IT lDilluth 55 34. Pkaanlx ... 1 sXiWvork . 43 3 Iah ABftlei 4 44 Miami It 41 lu Tiu. It II, New Orleans 7 J 54 r PRICE FIVE CENTS SIXTYtSECOND YEAR, NO. 228 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948 Search Flight a Near-Tragedy Until M Lewis VWdieft Dereiriredl InlQJdiy " i I 1 , - - ' t ' ' ".ss I, i ' v-,--sr 'X . " -"S - if J i i " 1 "Ik- ' : t AX': v v -A i t 7 HV i ,0" ". ' " l 1 Lieutenant Edward Kahoun (center) is helped from snowcat bj rescuers, A. R. Cook (left) and R. II. Bradford, who found him on slopes of Mt Hood. Ore. Kahoun's licht L-5 plane was forced down by air currents while he was searching; for a missinr Na tional Guard A-26 bomber believed In that area. Security Council Prepares To Issue Palestine Truce Order LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April j wWch already had won strong 15 (U.R The United Nations ae-J.PJoKy backing In private meet-curity meet-curity council prepared to order lr8S a truce in Palestine today despite refusals of both Arabs an8 Jews to lay down arms except on their own tefms. The council scheduled an afternoon af-ternoon meeting to vote on a sternly-worded cease-fire order Vqrga Admits Brutal Nevada Sex Slaying ELKO, Nev., April 15' (U.R) Nineteen-year-old Laszlo Varga today admitted the sex slaying of the 22-year-old wife of the Presbyterian Pres-byterian pastor of Wells, Nev., District Attorney A. L. Pucci-nelli Pucci-nelli reported. A short, stocky Hungarian refugee, a former inmate of insane in-sane asylums in New York and Michigan, toW Puccinelll that he took part inthe brutal slaying of Mrs. Billie Rahe Morning on March 22. But he insisted he had been aided in the killing by "Joseph Basda" a man he said "looks exactly like me and has Identical fingerprints with mine." Puccinelll discounted the Basda portion of Varna's confession as a figment of the youth's wild imagination. Varga had mentioned Basda before as having accompanied accompani-ed him to the small desert railroad town near the L'tah-Nevada L'tah-Nevada borded but heretofore hereto-fore had insisted "I murder nobody." The district attorney did not Immediately disclose whether Varga had described the raping and subsequent mutilation of the minister's wife before she was beaten to death with a rolling pin from her own kitchen. Medical examiners reported that they found teevth marks on her bodv. Varga s confession t ime unexpectedly unex-pectedly during this morning's session of his preliminary hearing hear-ing of the murder Charge facing him. All during yesterday's testimony, testi-mony, Varga shouted "I murder nobody I know nothing you can't make me shut up." He shouted again and again that "tomorrow I make statement" state-ment" but his words were dismissed dis-missed as further evidence of the youth's violent and wild behavior. AERIAL OBJECT SEEN OVER ISLAND KETCHIKAN. Alaska, April 15 (U.R) Ground observers said a bright orange flame traveling at a high rate of speed in a southwesterly south-westerly direction was seen over Gravina island and heading out to sea shirtly after midnight 'last night. News Highlights In Central Utah Provo Utility Workers Get 115 Monthly Wage Increase.. County Pledges Half Of Lake Pollution Study Costs New Regulations Passed For Boat Harbor Area . . . , Provo Teachers Have Highest Certified Percentage Safety Conditions Criticized In Four Nebo Schools .3 The truce plan was aimed at quieting the Holy Land on the eve of an emergency general gen-eral asembly session summoned sum-moned to untangle the Palestine Pal-estine problem and. If possible, pos-sible, to avert a civil war in the heart of the middle east. , . , The United States, author of the truce plan, staked most of its pro gram for a Palestine trusteeship on success of the move. Reports from Palestine, how ever, raised doubts that either Arabs or Jews would, at this late stage, end their violence and lay down arms. UN officials fresh from Palestine reported that actual events had gone so far ahead of the confused UN negotiations over Palestine thai Holy Land partition was in a sense already in effect. The truce plan ordered both sides to stop all fighting, proposed a complete embargo on all arms shipments to Palestine and called a halt in the UN plan to partition parti-tion Palestine into sovereign Arab and Jewish states. Philippines President Dies Suddenly MANILA. April 16 U.E President Presi-dent Manuel Roxas died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage, it was announced today. Roxas fainted yesterday just after delivering a speech in which he pledged Philippine support to the United States in case of another an-other war. He spoke in a broiling sun at Clark field, north of Manila, and collapsed just as he was scheduled sched-uled to review United States troops stationed at the field. Roxas was carried into the residence of Maj. Gen. Eugene Eubank, commanding general of the ' 13th U. S. air force, when he fainted, and had been reported in satisfactory condition thereafter. there-after. He had been moved later to Santo Tomas university hospital hos-pital in Manila for treatment. It was said he had been suffering suf-fering from high blood pressure. In his speech, Roxas had, said that Clark field was an outpost of liberty for the world, and he had emphasized that the United States and the Philippines - did not desire war, but sought mutual security. II A WAD HEARING OPENS . WASHINGTON, April 15 (U.R A senate subcommittee today opens hearings that may decide whether there will be a 49th state this year. Undersecretary of Interior Oscar Chapman was expected to urge immediate statehood for Hawaii, as lead-off witness before be-fore the senate subcommittee on territories. Daring Daylight Robber Gets Away With $14,015 In Denver DENVER, April 15 (U.R), A nervous bandit escaped with $1,4,-015 $1,4,-015 after scuffling with a business busi-ness man and wresting the money sack from his hands in front of a bank in downtown Denver today. Police said the daylight robber rob-ber poked a gun into the ribi of SiHyman Saliman if Denver as the 30 Persons Killed In Constellation Crash in Ireland 19 Americans Amone Victims of Crash; u..am... Lockheed Utticial is SHANNON AIRPORT, Eire, April 15 (U.R) Thirty passengers and crew members, including 19 Americans, were killed earlytoday when the Pan-American Constellation Constella-tion "Empress of the Skies" crashed and burned while landing land-ing at the mist-shrouded Shannon airport. One Anierican, Marc Worst, manager of the Lockheed aircraft service at Shannon airport, was the only survivor of the disaster. He escaped by climbing through a hole in the fuselage and suffered only a burned hand and shock. .Worst said the giant four-en-gined plane landed 50 yards short of the runway and hit a hay loft. It began to burn as it skidded along the ground and was a flam ing inferno by the time it came to a stop, ne saia. "When the plane crashed, I plunged through a hole and it blew up," he said. "The weather was bad, with a low ceiling, and there waa a ground mist. The pilot made one pass at the field and had to go around again because another plane was taking off. "When he made the second pass it seemed he just flew directly into the ground. There seemed to be nothing wrong with the plane. It began burning as it slid along the ground.' The American dead included 10 crew members and nine passengers. passeng-ers. Other passengers were five Italians, two Indians, an 18-year-old British girl, an Indian woman wo-man from .Pakistan, French man and a stateless Jew. . Airport officials said the crash occurred at 2:34 a. m. (9:34 p. m. Wednesday) and that all 30 bodies had been recovered by noon. The plane was a round-the- world flight which left San Francisco Fran-cisco last Saturday and was due in New York toaay. The flight changed planes at Calcutta, India, In-dia, and carried passengers .from Karachi, Pakistan, and Damascus, Damas-cus, Syria. The plane also stopped at London, Lon-don, where Worst boarded it for his return home. Mrs. Worst, a trained nurse, was waiting at the airport and saw the giant airliner air-liner come down in flames. Although she thought her husband hus-band was killed in the crash, she immediately offered her services to airport officials and a car sped her to the burning wreckage. On the way her car passed another carrying her husband hus-band to the airport. She continued con-tinued working with the rescue res-cue erew, unaware that her husband was safe until hours after the crash. The bodies of the dead were taken to a shed at ihe airport, where an inquest will be held. Another witness to the crash was Desmond McKeon, Dublin, another Lockheed employe. "We were driving to the airport air-port and saw the plane hit the ground," he said. "There was a loud explosion as the gasoline tank blew up. As we crossed the field we saw Worst stagger from the wreckr age. Among those killed were three members of an American family, George Henderson, his wife anjd son, whose only address given was the American legation, Damascus. Dam-ascus. Trieste Fighting Between Commies, Police Breaks Out TRIESTE, April 15, (UJT) Fighting between communists and police broke out in the streets of Trieste tonight. The communists tried to disrupt dis-rupt a demonstration parade by 50,000 Italians in Trieste. Small bombs went off when police tried to cordon off the San Giacoma area and confine the communists to it during a two-hour two-hour anti-communist ' demonstration. demonstra-tion. restaurant owner left the Central Bank St Trust Co. Saliman, police reported, "put up a fight" and the money sack rolled into the street. The bandit who Saliman said appeared "very ' nervous and jittery" grabbed the money and ran through the early morning shoppers shop-pers and workers. ... i..u, unly (jrash survivor Wallace Presents Nine Planks For Party Platform NEW YORK, April 15 (U.R) Henry A. Wallace, third party candidate for president, today an-1 nounced nine planks he would urge for the platform his party will adopt at its national convention conven-tion in Philadelphia July 24 and 23. Asserting that civil liberties constituted "the number one problem in the United States in 1948," Wallace named that as the foremost matter for the platform. His, recommendations were in a book, "Toward World Peace," published today. Charging that the Republican and Democratic parties had "joined "join-ed in a bipartisan coalition which supports kings, dictators and reactionaries re-actionaries abroad and puts up a sham fight between its equally reactionary wings inside the Unitod States," -Wallace -said: "Today the new party pledges itself to fight for the following thingst "1. Freedom of expression with out fear of losing a job or suffer ing business reprisals, regardless of race and political opinions. "2. Peace and understanding with Russia. "3. Elimination of the expensive, expens-ive, totalitarian, militaristic, Wall Street control of civil government which reduces production of civilian ci-vilian goods. "4. Lower prices. "5. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. "8. Control of monopoly to eliminate the practices of high prices, low wages, scarcity production, pro-duction, the accumulation of excessive ex-cessive reserves, and the use of unfair methods of competition. "7. $100 a month old-age insurance, in-surance, SI an hour minimum wage, and protection of health with a practical form of socialized medicine for the benefit of all the people. "8. Higher educational standards stand-ards based on federal aid to public pub-lic schools. "9. Government planning through the president's council of economic advisers to eliminate the Violence of the business cycle cy-cle and unemployment." Wallace said he was convinced "that this program of peace, se curity and abundance is the only; one which hold nut hnn in a I troubled world in the most confused con-fused year in history." Jerusalem Oil Dumps Catch Fire JERUSALEM, April 15 (U.R) Oil -dumps of the Jerusalem Electric corporation caught on fire today endangering the city's power for light and other uses. Great tongues of flame leap.d 300 feet in the sky over the dumps, which erupted in fire without an explosion. Black smoke billowed high in the air. The British financed power company is in the city's German colony near the main railroad station. Without fuel it probably would have to shut down soon, perhaps in a matter of hours, leaving Jerusalem without lights. Authorities said the fire almost al-most certainly was set deliberately. deliber-ately. They regarded it as the latest outburst in the preliminaries prelimin-aries to the battle of Jerusalem, which was expected to break In full fury as soon as the British are out. British army units, the police and fire brigades fought the flames as thousands of Arab-residents of the. area looked on. STASSEN CONFIDENT HIRAM, O., April 15 0J.R) Harold E. Stassen, "much- encouraged" en-couraged" by his recent victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries said today "We now know we will get more than 300 delegates on the first ballot" at the Republican convention. , American Gets Orders To Leave Moscow Letter Signed by His Charges Espionage MOSCOW, April 15 (U.R) The Soviet foreign affairs press department today ordered ord-ered Robert Magidoff, Moscow Mos-cow correspondent of the National Na-tional Broadcasting Company, to leave Russia within two or thre'e days. Magidoff was charged in a letter purportedly signed by his American-bora secretary and printed in the newspaper Izvestia with espionage against Russia A letter signed by the secretary, secre-tary, who was identified as Cecelia Ce-celia Nelson, a native of Michigan, Michi-gan, appeared in the newspaper this morning. The order for Magi doffs expulsion expul-sion followed quickly. (Radio Moscow in a broadcast heard in London said that Miss Nelson gave documents to Soviet authorities supporting her charges charg-es of espionage by Magidoff.) The acting chief of the press department, V. Vasilenko, told Magidoff in a 13-minute conference confer-ence to which the correspondent was summoned after Izvestia published the letter that he considered con-sidered it "Impossible" for Magidoff Mag-idoff to continue his work as a correspondent here. Therefore, Vasilenko said, it would be necessary for him to leave Russia. He said Magidoff could decide the exact time of his, departure and his route for himself, him-self, but must be out of the country coun-try within two or three days. Vasilenko added that pass-. pass-. ports, and visas for Magidoff, a Russian-born American citizen, cit-izen, and his wife would be Issued by the regular authorities authori-ties whenever he applied for them. In the Izvestia letter purportedly purported-ly signed by Miss Nelson, she identified herself as a native of Michigan and said she had graduated grad-uated from a teachers' college in that state. "In recent years,w the letter said, "I have lived in the Soviet Union and the close acquaintance I've had with the Russian people and with Soviet reality convinced me that only in the Soviet Union can people really live freely, and that it is only here that man looks without alarm into his future." In August, 1944. the letter said, Miss Nelson left the U. S. embassy, embas-sy, where she worked in the press department, and went to work as secretary for Magidoff Her charge of espionage was based on letters received by M8 iuoii on sieuonery or xne mc-Grawhill mc-Grawhill Publishing Co. of New York, which publishes a number of scientific magazines and books. Magidoff has served as correspondent correspon-dent in Moscow for McGraw-Hill, and also as correspondent for the British Exchange Telegraph agency. ag-ency. Communists Held By Italian Police In Arms Seizure ROME, April 15 (U.R) Several hundred Carabinieri made a sweeping search of five Communist-dominated towns ln Bari province pro-vince today and rounded up "large quantities" of arms and ammunition. The drive against Communists in southeast Italy was carried out by Carabinieri in armored car3 Just three days beore the start of the crucial election test be tween .the Communists and anti Communists. Ten Communists were arrested for illegal possession of arms. Police Po-lice announced. They did not detail de-tail what arms and munitions were found. The Communist leadership meanwhile charged that enemies ene-mies of Russia sought to aeise Italy and make It a base for atomic warfare against the Soviets. Three days .before the crucial election, Palmird Togliatti, the Moscow-trained Communist chieftain, chief-tain, raised the question of atomic warfare against Russia, and said a "relapse into civil war" might confront Italy. The Communist lectioneering followed a clash in Rome between Italy's revived Fascist remnants and the Jews, and a fight in Mantua Man-tua between police and Communists. Commu-nists. The Interior ministry announced announc-ed that the general strike had been called off by the Communist-controlled Communist-controlled labor chamber. House Votes 70 -Group Air Force In Spite Of Truman Objection President Expresses His Opposition To 70-Group Air Force Urged by Symington, Air Secretary and Air Force Officials BULLETIN WASHINGTON. April 15 (U.R) The house voted $3,198,100,000 for air power today and ordered an immediate imme-diate start toward a 70-group air force over President Truman's objections. The measure was approved by a roll call vote of 339 to S. WASHINGTON, ApriJ 15 (U.R) The house today brushed aside objections by President Truman and voted unanimously to start building a 70-group air force immedi ately. " With little debate, members voted 115 to 0 for an amendment to boost a pending appropriation for plane purchases pur-chases by $822,000,000. That is enough to buy the first planes of a more powerful air force to be built over a sev Anderson to Quit Cabinet On May 10 ALBUQUERQUE,' N. M., April 15 (U.R) Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson said here today he would quit the cabinet May 10. Anderson arrived here early today to lay the groundwork for his campaign Ln seeking the Democratic nomination as senator from New Mexico. He said: "I will leave the . cabinet on May 10.". He said alto that he had ad vised President Truman "about when Twaa going,-but will submit, sub-mit, resignation and the definite date when be returns to Wash ington. v ... Anderson said he expected to return to Washington between be-tween April 26 and 28. But he added that he may be kept here "as late as early in May." He added that "the president knows I am planning to leave." Anderson said he would leave Washington May 10, the date of his resignation, and would talk in Chicago the following day before be-fore the economic club. The other oth-er speaker on the program, he said, will be Emil Schramm, president of the New York stock exchange. The secretary said he had "no idea" who Mr. Truman will name to succeed him in the cabinet. I hm.!a CAm1 Ta 191011116 JldFTS I 0 Repair Damage Of $2,000,000 Blaze LARAMIE, Wyo., April 15 (U.R) A "little Marshall plan" was in full operation here today as residents attempted to repair the $2,000,000 fire damage which completely destroyed about two blocks of the city's business district. dis-trict. Cause of the wind-driven fire has not been determined. The blaze broke out about 2 a. m. yesterday yes-terday and roared through 15 buildings pushed by a 45-mile-an-hour wind before it could be brought under control. About 40 persons were routed from their homes, but no casualties were re ported. The fire was discovered in one of Laramie's land marks, the W. H. Holliday store, by two patrol men. But before they could sum mon aid the back of the four story structure collapsed spread ing the flames to nearby build ings. - A serious lack of water hamp ered fire companies from four Wyoming cities and one .olorado town which rushed to the stricken city's aid. Fire Chief Blake Fan ning estimated the damage at $2,000,000, $500,000 of which was to the Holliday building. 6,000 Cincinnati Residents Prepare to Evacuate Homes By UNITED PRESS More than 6,000 residents of Cincinnati prepared to evacuate their homes be'ore a threatening rise of the Ohio river today, add ing their . numbers to thousands already stricken by floods in portions por-tions of eight states. Cities' and rural areas along the Ohio were the hardest hit of the flood areas. The sun, was shining at most points in the Ohio valley today, but the river, fed by, spring rains of the past few days, continued Its slow rise. eral-year period. The vote still is subject to a roll call on approval of the whole appropriation. It came a few hours after President Truman fir ed a final blast against an imme diate start on a 70-group air force At his news conference today Mr. Truman strongly supported the program submitted to con gress by Defense Secretary James Forrestal. Forrestal proposes bringing the 55-group air force up to full strength. Regardless of the president's presi-dent's views however, the house was expected to vote the money asked by Taber, who is chairman of the appropriations ap-propriations committee. Taber plans to offer an amend ment adding $822,000,000 to $2,376,000,000 appropriation bill already pending La4h housa f or the air force and for naval avia tion. Democratic Leader Sam Ray- burn, who usually carries the ad ministration burden in the house reiterated to a reporter his sup port of the 70-group program. At his news conference, Mr. Truman said the program submitted submit-ted by Forrestal is what he wants congress to pass. I Forrestal proposed bring ing the present 55-group air force up to full strength. I Air Secretary Stuart Syming ton and high air force officers want to start building a 70-group air force. This proposal has ,found strong support in congress. Brushing aside the misgiving of Forrestal and other top defense officials, many house members, are demanding that $922,000,000 be added to $2,376,000,000 pro vided for the air force and for naval aviation in a bill awaitine a house vote today. Mr. Truman told his news conference that he could not account for the differences between the air force recommendations recom-mendations of Forrestal and those of Symington and the air generals. He was asked whether he would "spank" Symington for making recommendations in disagreement dis-agreement with those of Forrestal, For-restal, his superior. The president presi-dent told newsmen he would answer an-swer that question some other day. Mr. Truman was asked about a suspicion that unification of the armed services might not be working well. He said he thought unification would work eventual ly but like many other new things in the government, people had to become accustomed to it and get used to working with it. Meanwhile, the American Legion Le-gion told congress that if it okays a bigger air force and the draft, but buries universal military training, it will only invite "peri odic security crises." CHALLENGES RIGHT TO ASK HIS POLITICS WASHINGTON, April 15 (U.R) Counsel for John Howard Law-son, Law-son, accused Hollywood writer, set out today to fling a new challenge chal-lenge at the right of the house unAmerican activities committee to ask if he was a Communist. Flood waters spilled over sections sec-tions of West-Virginia, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Kentucky,' Indiana, Florida, North Dakota and Min nesota, causing millions of dollars dol-lars damage. , ' National guardsmen were rushed rush-ed into some towns along the Ohio, on Its worst rampage in three years, to help evacuate inhabitants. in-habitants. The: river was four to six feet above flood stage from Pittsburgh to . Cairo, HL It was still rising at the . rate of two inches an hour at most point j - Half of U. S. Coal Miners Remain Idle Court Hears Finajr Arguments In Case On Contempt Charge WASHNGTON, April 45 (U.R) Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today deferred until Monday his verdict m the contempt case against John L. Lewis after the gov ernment argued he was guilty, of criminal and civil contempt "beyond a reasonable doubt." t . In its final arguments, the gov- anmAt .alii t ., - ...4-1 " clear" that both Lewis and his United Mine Workers union had committed contempt by not obeying obey-ing an April 3 court order to send the miners back to work "forthwith." The defense contended that the government had failed "complete ly to establish a case of civil or criminal contempt. 1 Lewis ordered his miners to re turn to work last Monday nint days after the court ordered him; to do so but about half of them are still out. The miners who are still idle apparently have been waiting to learn the outcome of the contempt con-tempt case. Goldsborough'a decision de-cision to delay a verdict until Monday seemed to make it unlikely un-likely that there would be full-scale full-scale mining this week. Lewis called off the strike after winning a settlement on the pension pen-sion dispute which set off the soft coal strike March 15. The government contends that this order came too late to save Lewis and the UMW from contempt. Lewis fate la now up to Goldsborough the same -judge who 17 months ago fined the - miners' chief--and the UMW $3,910,000 for contempt con-tempt for refusing to obey a previous court order to calL, off a November. 1946 strike. The government's final argument arg-ument in the current case was presented by assistant U. S. At torney General H. Graham Mori-son.' Mori-son.' Ho arrucd that letter sent by Lewis to the miners on March 12 was a signal for them to go on strike. The letter said the union contract with the operators was "dishonored" by failure to settle the pension dispute. Morison then pointed to Lewis April 12 settlement announce ment notifying the miners that the contract "now is honored." This, Morison said, "forever destroyed de-stroyed the fiction" which Lewis had tried to create "that he had not ordered a strike or made a strike inevitable by his March il, letter." , When Morison .finished, Golds- borough said the court should. hear defense argument but that be had "no power to force them (the United Mine Workers" to make a statement and no desire to do so." Union lawyers yesterday waiv ed their right to argument. Welly K. Hopkins. UMW ; chief counsel, said the defense de-fense believes that t h "abundantly clear record" failed to prove the government govern-ment contempt charges. Hopkins said he thought a fur ther response was unnecessary. Goldsborough then recessed the court until Monday at 10 a. m. when he will hand down his decision. de-cision. Miners Await Outcome Of Lfewis Verdict PRICE, Utah, April 15 (U.R) A spokesman for the United Mine Workers in Price said today that the union miners of Carbon and Emery counties are not going back to work until they hear the decision Monday, on the case, of John L. Lewis. Today is the third day since Lewis gave the back-to-work signal to the miners, but apparently appar-ently only one non-union mint is operating in the Price area.'v However, the UMW miners have standing call for a meeting meet-ing of the Carbon county executive execu-tive union council after the decN sion on Lewis is reached. They will not decide their course of action ac-tion until then. DIVORCE RATE IS GOING DOWN e WASHINGTON, April 15 (U.tt The nation's divorce rate is going down. .", . ,t-.." ' The federal - security agency said preliminary statistics - show-that show-that ' the divorce rate last ' year was about 3.1 per 1,000 popula tion as compared j wiin in 1948. That is a drop of 27.9 per cent , . |