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Show T WW 14 van I liters Start New Strike Fcrir and Warmer j srlth erne high cloudiness hli afternoon and Wednesday. HI h laday near 70. Low tonight near It. High tomorrow afternoon near 75. Protest - J'gWDS fO In) (SO mm uy;u; vv M To Fines v. la i .i X 1 SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. c i 6 inrD m Reds Will Not Be Represented In New Government Tremier de Gasperi's Christian Democrat Party Polling Nearly Half Counted Vote; Might Not Accept Defeat Peacefully United Press Staff Correspondent By J. EDWARD MURRAY ROME. Aoril 20 (U.R) Premier Alcide De Gasperi said flatly today that Communists, ections, will not be included in "I exclude the possibility ifi the next Italian government," the jubilant Le uaspen fold the United Press. His words were reinforced by the huge vote being rnllpd un bv his own Christian polling nearly half the counted Running Poor Second The Communists were Jittle more than 30 per cent of the counted vote. Other anti-Communist anti-Communist parties swelled De Gasperi's margin, and guaranteed guar-anteed Communist exclusion from the coalition government he is expected to form about May 20. There still was some question whether the Leftists ,would accept defeat peacefully. Partisans were reported gathering in the Milan area, and government fighter planes and ground forces were seeking to break them up. De Gasperi appeared firmly in control, however, and ie had 330,000 troops and police "rea.dy to meet any situation," situ-ation," his military leaders said. The senate vote was three-fourths counted, and the chamber of deputies vote was following the trends indi-j cated in the uppei'rouse ballbtinjgv- ' The official senate count from 31,709 of Italy's 41,648 precincts gave these figures for tne major parties: Christian Democrat .8,171,569 or 47.4 per cent Right-Wing Socialists 1,142,484 or 6.6 per cent National Bloc 1,095,032 or 6.3 per cent Republicans 578,530 or 3.30 per cent Monarchists 302,467 or 2.3 per cent Italian Social Movement 184,569 or 1.1 per cent Independents .169,275 or 1.0 per cent Total Anti Communist ....... .11,613,925 Communist Front . .5,382,076 or 31.1 per cent These figures resulted from tabulation of 17,286,139 Sale of Arms To Friendly Nations Asked WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R) The state department will ask congress today for power to sell arms to friendly nations and with hold them from potential ene-jnies. ene-jnies. I ; The move was regarded in con-j gressional circles as a possible j forerunner to American military lend-lease for non - Communist western Europe. State and navy department spokesmen were scheduled to ask the senate foreign relations committee com-mittee to speed action on a proposed pro-posed new munitions control act. The measure was presented to congress by President Truman a year ago, but since then' has been gathering dust on a committee shelf. The renewed appeal comes amid increasing indications that the administration soon will ask congress to reestablish military mili-tary lend-lease in fulfilling Mr. Truman's recent pledge of support for the five-power western Eu rope defense pact signed last month, at Brussels. Truman Signs Bill For Road Funds WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R President Truman today signed a bill appropriating $967,442,951 for the operation of "independent federal agencies during fiscal 1949. News Highlights In Central Utah Boy, t, Drowns in Hobble Creek Local GOP Sets Nominating '. Convention For June 5 . . . . rovo City Dads Sign Vouchers To Okeh Utility Raise 3 . Commission Promises University Garden Drain This Spring ..3 150 Expected at SprinrvlIIe Kiwanis Club Art Banquet ..3 231 y n i st$? beaten two-to-one in national the new Italian government. of Communist participation ". A . . Democrat party, which was vote. K v running a poor second, with votes, or 76.1 per cent of the to- tal senate vote. A residue of votes beyond the totals given above was scattered among minor parties, all of hem anti-Communist. Official figure in the deputies p. m. (12:50 P. M. EST) gave for 14,635 precincts: Christian Democrats Demo-crats 4. 821,325; Communist front 2,988,123; Independent Socialists 1 751,004: national bloc 330,463; I Monarchists 240,107; Italian coal ition movement, 198,108; Republicans Repub-licans 182.630. About 25,000,000 persons were believed to have voted in thej deputies election. Restrictions are harder for voters for the senate the age limit is 25 years instead of 21,. for example and several million fewer voted for senators. While De Gasperi and other anti-Communist leaders rejoiced in their victory, the Communists took heart from the fact that they appeared to have retained about the percentage they scored in the 1946 elections. The Communist party as such got 18.9 per cent of the vote in 1946. Sfnce then, they have absorbed ab-sorbed about 65 per cent of the then united Socialist party, and some other small groups, to form the Communist front. The Socialists Social-ists got 20.7 per cent of the 1946 vote. It was impossible, on this basis, to make any exact comparison com-parison with 1946 in percent-(Contlnned percent-(Contlnned on Pare Two) Wool Growers Price Supports WASHINGTON, April 20. (U.R) A spokesman for U. S. wool raisers rais-ers said today congress must boost price supporters for wool and provid adequate, tariff protection or the declining Industry will disappear. J. M. Jones, Salt Lake City, secretary of the National Wool Growers Assn., told the senate agriculture committee that lower price supports for wool provided in its tentative draft of long-range flexible price support legislation would be "ruinous" to sheep rais- 2 crs." Congress must decide, Jones said, .whether the domestic shesp industry is essential and worth preserving or whether it is "uneconomical "un-economical and should be liquidated." liqui-dated." He said the wool growers held the former position and were PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. TUESDAY, APRIL - b a4cn Congress Set For Fight On Air Program Draft Plan Meets Approval in Spite Of Thomas Opposition WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R) The military program seemed headed today for a long, drawn-out fight in con gress. . gen. Robert A. Taft, RM 0.x said the controversy over the program, particularly the air power phase, may keep congress in session beyond the present June 19 adjournment target date. Taft said he favors the "general "gen-eral principle" of the 70-g?oup air force, as approved by the house. But he said he wants to know more about its "'relationship to the rest of the military pro gram. Meanwhile, Socialist Norman Thomas spoke out against reviving reviv-ing the draft. He testified before the house armed services committee. com-mittee. But his opposition apparently appar-ently fell on deaf ears for the committee seemed ready to give overwhelming approval to a 19-through-25 draft plan. Thomas said .the draft Is "unAmerlcan" and will not ' lead -to peace but war. He also "yrtdlcted items many "rlght-; "rlght-; thinking1 Americans will fol low a civil disobedience pro- m." With both the senate and house in session, there were these other congressional developments: Politics Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., said there is an inclination among Republican senators to slow down in okaying any more nominations by President Truman. Tru-man. This would include the im minent denomination of members of the atomic energy commission Political strategy apparently is behind the slow-down idea. The Republicans expect a GOP presi dent to be elected this 'fall. The idea is to leave nominations open so that a Republican president, if eletfed, could name his own Arms Control The senate foreign fore-ign relations committee sidetracked sidetrack-ed a state department request for new arms control powers. The department wants controls that would nermit this countrv to sell munitions to friendly nations butp keep them from potential enemies. ene-mies. Chairman Arthur H. Van-J denberg explained his committee wants the state and navy departments depart-ments to determine whether a simple extension of existing tem porary controls wouldn t do the job just as well. , Soil The senate was asked restore $75,000,000 which the house cut out of President Truman's Tru-man's request for agriculture sail conservation. Undersecretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd made the request to a senate appropriations appropria-tions subcommittee. He argued that the need of conservation "is growing rather than diminishing." diminish-ing." The house had voted $225,-000,000,000 $225,-000,000,000 for soil conservation. BILL PASSED OVER TRUMAN'S VETO WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R) Congress today enacted over President Truman's veto a bill excluding full-time newspaper and' magazine venders from social so-cial security coverage. . Urge Increased for U. S. Wool supported by action of the army and navy munitions board in de chTring wool a critical and stra tegic commodity subject to stock piling. , Jones said, however, that the state department holds the other view. . This was a reference . to the tariff reduction on wool whicb becomes effective next July 1. Jones said the bill being considered con-sidered by the committee would Idrop woll supports to 34.1 cents a grease pound, or 8.2 cents a pound under present supports which expire Dec. 31. He recommended recom-mended instead adoption of a flexible "incentive plan" "to check the decline in production. He said the incentive iplan, If used this year, would have boosted supports about six -cents a pound higher for wool. , Royal Fiance? London rumors say the engagement engage-ment of Princess Margaret Rose, youngest, daughter of King- Georre and Queen Elisabeth, Elisa-beth, to Prince Georre of Denmark, Den-mark, above, will be announced after her. 18th birthday on Aug. 21. Prince George, a nephew of Denmark's King Frederick IX, is 27, and assigned to the Danish Dan-ish embassy In London. Small Child Drowns In Hobble Creek SPRINGV1LLE Despite repeated public warnings and a plan to patrol the banks, tte flood -swollen waters of Hobble Creek- Maimed ibelr MttlmTM'tJi ;3rear Jo- jj ' - to.' V . . I two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Manner. The child fell into the creek's raging waters., running run-ning within a foot of overflowing over-flowing the banks, at Second West and First His' body was recovered about two blocks farther down the creek. The tragedy occurred about noon. Resoscitator efforts by the Sprlngvglle fire department for an hour and a half proved -futile, and the child was pronounced pro-nounced dead by Dr. Clair Judd. The ereek, which runs through the city, has claimed the lives of several children, nearly half a dosen In the past five or six years. President Of Costa Rica Quits SAN JOSE, C. R. April 20 (U.R) President Teodoro Picado resign-' ed today and announced that the unconditional surrender of his military forces to those of Gen. Jose Figueres, leader or an uprising up-rising against the government, would be effected within 24 hours. Picado prepared to leave the country as soon as possible. He turned over his power to a pro visional government headed by Santos Leon Herrera, 74, third vice president. Herrera will, serve as president until May 8, by which time the new government was expected to be set up and functioning. Father Benjamin Nunez, representative rep-resentative of Figueres in negotiations nego-tiations to end civil war, outlined the new government's program in in an official document. It promised that social guaran tees would be respected, labor laws would be expanded to in clude the right to strike, social security would be bulwarked, and adequate food would be provided for workers. YriterXonvicted On Contempt Count WiCUTVITnV Anril M (P Pi I Attorneys for' John Howard Law-son, Law-son, Hollywood Writer , convicted of contempt of congress, were at work ; today on . a motion for a new trial A federal court jury late yesterday yes-terday found Lawson guilty of "wilfully" refusing to tell the house un- American activities committee whether he was or ever had been a member of the Communist party. Immediately after the eight women wo-men and four men jurors returned re-turned their verdict, attorneys for the 53-year-old author of "The Jolson Story" and other films, announced an-nounced - they would file a .new trial motion. ' ;v HI J 20, 1948 US, Troops Offered For Palestine Duty Other Countries Must loin in Providing Troops, Says Austin LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April 20 (U.R) The United States told the United Na tions today it would provide American troops to impose a trusteeship government on Palestine provided selected other countries of the UN also contribute some forces. American,' delegate Warren Austin announced in the political and security committee of the general assembly that the United States was ready to send troops to the Holy Land "but it is not pre pared to act alone in this matter.' Austin disclosed that, so , far. American attempts to bring other countries Into an agreement for policing Palestine Pales-tine have "produced no tangible tang-ible results." The American spokesman em phasized that unless future nego tiations bring commitments of troops and supplies from other UN countries, the United States will not feel bound to send any fighting forces Into Palestine to back up a trusteeship Or any oth er government the UN sets up for Palestine. Austin warned the' people. -of Palestine, now. engaged Jo. fiecce fighting, that the final settlement can come only through Arab- Jewish agreement.' He said "it may be necessary for the UN security council to send a "limited number" of police to Palestine in the near future to back up its order for a truce between be-tween Arabs and Jews. Austin did not elaborate on this suggestion, sugges-tion, however. He laid before the assembly committee, a ''"suggested" American Ameri-can draft for a trusteeship over Palestine. It would make the UN the ruler of the Holy Land through a governor general and would provider that selected UN delegates send troops there to keep order if necessary. Framework of this plan already had been made public pub-lic by the American delegation delega-tion and, up to the time of Austin's speech today, had won no support from any UN country. For the charged the first Arabs time, Austin with primary blame for torpedoing the UN par- (Continued on Page Two) Pierpont Protests Tie - Up Of Traffic by Local Railroads Provo chamber of commerce' was scheduled this afternoon to consider a letter from Thomas F. Pierpont, Provo businessman; con cerning the latters stand on the need for reopening Ninth South street and construction of - an overpass at Sixth South and University Uni-versity avenue. Referring to traffic conditions at Sixth South and University, Mr. Pierpont charged: "They (referring (re-ferring to the railroad) are using University avenue for a switch yard, the tracks are almost impassable, im-passable, the red lights are flashing flash-ing when no train is coming. They are running ' through trains through and blocking the road for as high as 30 minutes at a time, and at times there are 50 or 75 cars and trucks waiting to cross the tracks. They refuse to break the train in two when their franchise says they must." Mr. Pierpont further declared: "Nothing will change this situation situa-tion but an aggressive fight from day to day to force the railroad to build these overpasses." f The writer of the letter, wnose Provo Foundry and Machine company com-pany is located on Ninth South just west of -where the road was closed several years ago, declared industry in that area will be hindered and will not develop as it otherwise would until the present pres-ent limited access facilities are Improved. ; ' Ninth South was closed during the war through the Denver and Rio Grande railroad yards at about Fifth East. It became the subject of a bitter legal battle between be-tween Provo city and the Denver and Rio Grande : Railroad company. com-pany. The city, fighting to reopen the street,' lost the first round In the federal court in Salt- Lak PRICE HVE v CENTS Younaest Prexy John E. Brown, Jr.. Is the youngest university president in the nation, after his elevation eleva-tion to the presidency of John Brown university, Siloam Springs, Ark. Brown is only 28. Arab Legion Units Moving On Jerusalem JERUSALEM, April 20 (U.FO Big units of the Arab legion were moving today into the Alemain camp o nthe outskirts of Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, where they were reported to bo .taking over from with- drawing 3rUh- ojyejh"..4 Thirty-trucks of the Arab. Je gtdn, ffgetbtr with at least seven armored cats with two-pounders entered Jerusalem from the Nab-lus Nab-lus road and swung down King George avenue to the camp. They shuttled past British troops going in the opposite direction. The camp is the biggest in the Jerusalem area. It commands the Jewish Mekor Haim area, from which the Haganah militia each night- trades fire with Arabs in the neighboring Katamon section. sec-tion. The Arab legion units clattered through the streets in sizable numbers lent weight to persistent reports that King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan had decided to throw his army, of which these units were representative, into the Palestine conflict. Arab sources reported that Jewish planes bombed Samaria Sa-maria Jive miles northwest of Nablus, headquarters of FawxL El Kawkji, the Arab commander. British.military authorities were unable to confirm the report. They said they had not heard of 'any disturbances at Samaria. City, but won a reversal when It carried the battle to the Tenth federal circuit of appeals. It further cemented Hs court case when the, United States supreme court refused to consider a petition peti-tion from the" railroad to review the case. . The railroad then petitioned the state public service commission to step into the picture, and the latter commission ruled that the street must remain closed. The matter was not carried past that point and; the street, remains closed, thus leaving Sixth South the only point of entry into the region from Provo city. Travelers contend, the Sixth South entry is blocked so much of the time at University by passing pass-ing and standing trains that it s entirely inadequate for situation. 'KT. VW .rr?z Dewey Plans to Go to Oregon To Campaign for Delegates ALBANY,: N. Y.. April 20 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey eaid to day be would go to Oregon May 1 to begin a vigorous campaign for the state's 12 delegates to the Republican national convention. With defeats by Harold E. Sta&r sen ? in Wisconsin and Nebraska behind him, , Dewey indicated he would wage an all-out campaien to aweep Oregon in the May 21 primaries. Dewey said he would leave here by plane April 30. His first speech In Oregon will be at the annual convention of the Oregon junior chamber of commerce at Portland - May 1. - . - .- ' Dewey said the Itinerary of big Judge Would Have Given Lewis a Jail Term if He Had Followed Own Feelings; , t Followed Government's Recommendations By SANDOR 8. KLEIN AND GRANT DILLMAN United Press Staff Correspondents ' .' WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R) John "L. Lewis wm fined $20,000 today and his United Mine Workers union $1,400,000 for contempt of court. , . Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough imposed the fines in exactly the amounts the government had recommended. Goldsborough said that if he had used his own judgment judg-ment Lewis would have been given a jail sentence,, but added that he was following the government's recomi mendatipns. The judge informed Lewis and the union 'at? torneys that the fines were imposed im-posed for criminal contempt charges. He said the penalty on their civil contempt conviction would be considered Friday. Goldsborough yesterday found Lewis and the union guilty of both criminal and civil contempt. The convictions resulted from their failure to obey an April 3 court order directing them to end "'forthwith" the coal strike that began March 15. Lewis and the union immedia tely gave notice that they would appeal the fines. The government had recom mended that Lewis be fined $20,000 and the UMW $1,400,000 double the penalty imposed in 1946 for conviction of a similar offense. Assistant U. S. Attorney General Gen-eral H. Graham M orison told the court that the twice-as-big pen alty was necessary because the 1946 fine failed to deter Lewis "from a repetition of substantially substan-tially the same offense." Nowhere in his recomenda-tlon recomenda-tlon did Morison refer to the possibility of a jail sentence for Lewis, . although Goldsborough Golds-borough had hinted yesterday that he was considering imposing im-posing such a penalty on the miners' chief. In recommending the punish ment for disobeying the April 3 court order to call off the recent strike, Morison said that "respect for this order must be enforced by punishment sufficient to dis punj slina - ep tho defendants- and meet the standards of orderly judicial process." - Even before Goldsborough im posed the punishment, thousands of Lewis' miners struck again in protest against the conviction. The new strike, which started yesterday after Lewis and the union were convicted, was spreading rapidly today. In-West Virginia, an estimated 71,000 miners were out. About 24,000 were out in western. Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, 23,000 in Illinois, 22,000 in Alabama. -ff.OOO in Indiana and 4,000 in Utah. Welly K. Hopkins, chief coun sel for the UMW protested the government's ' recommendations and again insisted that neither Lewis nor the union had violated any laws. He called the penalties "strong, cruel, -punitice." Hopkins argued that the penalty proposed by the government was "spawned in an admixture of political chagrin, political inference and political intrigue. Goldsborough gave Lewis a chance to make a statement be fore the sentence, but Hopkins said none was necessary. Goldsborough then said It was unusual to , ask the prosecution for penalty recommendations, but added that "we have to accommodate accom-modate ourselves to circumstances circum-stances and this is a very unusual situation." "The welfare and the health, the safety and orderly way of life of 140,000,000 people are involved as well as our national prestige in foreign countries," the judge said. ".. Now if the court was to use its individual judgment, it would impose a prison sentence upon the individual defendant (Lewis) but the court is only one man, one individual. So the court feels it should adopt the recommendation recom-mendation made by the government govern-ment unless it is of such a character char-acter that it would shock the conscience of the court. . 'Now the court could give what the court thinks are good reasons why the court is not shocked. But the court feels it would serve no useful purpose to go over that again." Goldsborough then anounced he (Continued on Page Two) trip 'has not been completed but he indicated he would make several sev-eral speeches over a period of a week or 10 days. - It also was disclosed that the governor will visit one or two other .western states on the trip. There was speculation that Dewey would Visit Washington at least. ., It was , consdered unlikely he would include California in hi itinerary since Gov. Earl Warren also is a candidate for the GOP nomination. Dewey has made it a practice not to visit states prior to the primaries where . favorite sons arc entered. . Ovei-135,000 Miners Out On Protest Strike PITTSBURGH. April 20 (EE)- More than 135.000 miners struck again today in protest against the conviction of John L.: Lewis on contempt of court charges. .' The new walkouts brought the' total of soft coal miners idle to approximately 325,000 of the 400,-000 400,-000 men employed in the bituminous bitu-minous industry. Although the miners were angry over the treatment of their union president, some UMW district dis-trict leaders urged their men to return to work. Industry spokesmen spokes-men said he believed the protest strikes would be short because Lewis escaped a jail sentence. Back-to-work recommendations, were made by George J. Titler, president of UMW district ,29, at Beckley, W. Va, and Hugh White, president of UMW district dis-trict 12 at Springfield, 111. District presidents in Pennsyl-; vania wunneia The state-by such ordersy state strike pic ture: West Virginia, 71,000 on strike; Kentucky, 52,000; Pennsylvania, 31.000: Illinois. 23,000; Alabama. 22,000; Ohio, 13,000; Indiana, ,-000; ,-000; Utah 4,000; Tennessee, 7,Q0Qj Virginia, 8,000. , ; V IndustriaLPictare In Still Gloom settled heavier over idle Central Utah industries today.! word spread of renewed . sympathy sym-pathy . coal strikes, but actual working conditions at Geneva, Iron ton ind the Pacific States Cast Irbn plpt Plant remained unchanged. Official terminations at Geneva still stand at 1159, with a program of watchful and hopeful waiting in effect as one blast furnace, two open neartns ana a . minimum number of . coke ovens Still plod along at bare operation rates. The big rolling mills are silent, except for increased activity by .the Walsh Construction company in the plate mill, installing foundations founda-tions and other work for the new hot strip , mill. Many . .Geneva workers aro taking their paid vacations during the strike, and hence are idle but ar4 not terminated. term-inated. A large number of those still -working are only employed four days per week. v At the Ironton plant of the Geneva Steel company, no actual layoffs have yet been made. Here, also, men are taking their , paid vacations, at the rate of 10 or. 15 per week. Most Ironton workers, however, have only been working work-ing four days per week for some .1 - Hit.. T . 1.1. M. . a. A J still on at "low wind," and just enough coke ovens are operating to save the rest from deterioration. deteriora-tion. . - : , All production departments of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company remain shut down cold, with 350 men idle. Strikers Go Back to Work SALT LAKE CITY, April 20 (U.R) Employes of Western . Electric Elec-tric Co. at northern Utah offices of the Mountain State! Telephone and Telegraph Co. were back-at work today as union , and company com-pany officials slated .discussions on the dispute which brought a half-day walkout yesterday. T The employes of Western Elec trie, members of the Association of Communication Worker (CIO), install ..heavy dial and telephone equipment. They walked walk-ed from their job yesterday;, in protest against what they termed a radical change of policy in the matter of granting transferred, employes time to' handle personal affairs. . . ! ' . A. M. Belnap, Utah stwardS for the union, said the workers rt- turned to their jobs pending disr cussions of the disputed policy.. KUIIN SENTENCED v MUNICH, ' April 20 (UJO Frit Kuhn. former fuehrer Of theGer- man-American bund in the United Unit-ed State, was sentenced in absentia ab-sentia to 10 years at hard labor by denazification court today Central Unchanged |