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MOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 28 (U.R) --Utah's bitter rivals lor election as governor. Democrat Herbert B, Maw and Republican J. Bracken Lee, resumed regular campaigning today aftera radio debate last night that' centered primarily on conflicting claims about liquor law enforcement. Lee, speaking fAm Logan, rhoropH that Hnv.rnri. Kffeu, Two Strikes Idle 4,500 Utah Workers ' - ... SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 28 U.R Two Utah strikes idled more than 4500 men today, with wages the center of the dispute in both cases, I At the Kennecott Copper cor-1 poration r huge works in Bingham, Bing-ham, 311 striking members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men and Enginemen and about 4.000 other employes have been idle for four days. 'i... In Salt Lake City, members of the Independent International Association of Machinists entered the second day of 'their strike against the Lundin and May Foundry corporation, with 40 men off the Job. The machinists called the strike yesterday When negotiations over wage increases trrtke ffcrWft. Other foundry workers were re- o V. .111. tliv . im.. .. . yaMW lines. Federal Conciliator Donald G. Godman was attempting to settle both strikes, but he reported little progress in both of the stalemates. stale-mates. Plane Crash Is Reportpd Near Delta DELTA. Utah, Oct. 28 (U.P.) A Union Pacific railroad section nand reported today seeing a small plane crash near Jericho, Utah, during a1 violent snow storm, and that two bodies had been found in the wreckage." No other details of the crash were available., However, there were unconfirmed reports that a plane was missing on a flight from St. George .to Salt Lake City or Ogden. Two other light planes making a similar flight landed at Delta because of the snow storm, first of the winter, which was particularly particu-larly heavy throughout Sanpete county. Reports to highway patrolmen pa-trolmen told of drifts 14 inches deep on the highway near Soldier Summit, between Spririgville and Helper. The CAA flight control service said it had no flight plans "from craft that might have been in the vicinity of Jericho at the time of the reported crash. The two plants that landed at Delta belonged to an Ogdcn flying fly-ing service. SALT LAKE CITY, OcU-28 (U.R) Joe Bergin, Utah dirgiorof aeronautics; aero-nautics; wajaMsed this afternoon after-noon that a plane carrying two Salt Lake City men was missing in Central Utah. The, plane took off from St. George this morning, piloted by Herman J. Larkin, operator of - plumbing supply shops in Salt Lake City, St. George, and Las Vegas, Nev. It was believed his brother, Conrad Larkin, was with him. , Bergin said the Larkin plane refueled about 10:30 a.m. at Mil- ford and then took off for Salt Lake City. That would place it near Jericho about noon, when a section hand said he mw a light plane crash and kill two men. Bergin sent an investigator from his office and a highway patrolman pa-trolman to the scene. Mews H ighfights In Central Utah Political Fever Gains As ,- Voters Rush To " Register. . . . S Reduced Charges Filed Heber Against Deer Hunter. . Full Days Events Planned For ' MYM Homecoming Saturday.. I knew about "liquor law violations by state employes three years ago but failed to act to stamp them out. Maw, replying from Ogden, as serted that Lee's record of law enforcement i while mayor Of Price was even worse.X The- rival candidates spoke for 30 minutes on a program ar ranged after Maw challenged Lee to a formal debate on the subject of whether the present Demo cratic, state administration is cor-1 punt nlr.v.Mnt inH intfitint A Lee apparently read his 14 minute talk from a prepared script. Maw spoke from notes but his remarks were mostly svx temporsneous.VLee maintained a fairly even and cool delivery Maw became quite angry and several: times his delivery broke into a near - sputter. The major charges and an swers: Lee uovernor Maw Knew a year ago of the "payoff racket operated by Cyrus Lack and Robert Harries (both have been Indicted by the Salt Lake grand jury for conspiracy but have no been tried on this charge yet) but failed to act. Maw Onlv reoorta to him on Lack -and Harries came from "two drunken bootleggers" from Car bon county but Vmy investigs-tion investigs-tion into those stories resulted in Lack's business collapsing and the announcement of a iake rob bery." Lee "Liquor by the -drink has been common .... providing own ers of favored club 4 could pay the price -for protection . . Maw knew about this early, in 1845" from- sv legislature report "but did nothing." ' Maw The legislative report was concerned solely with the question of bulk sales of liquor "so veterans -could have the same privileges as civilians through use of a locker system." Lee Conviction of Harries, former law. enforcement chief in the liquor commission, on brib ery charges proves "there has been and still is corruption in the state government." aw This charge shows Lee's smear. tactics." The law en forcement division' that Lee uld abolish has made more an 4,000 arrests with 3,873 con- lctions in communities where local police could, have acted if "local authorities" had hot "ordered "or-dered them to keep their eyes closed. Lee The administration is extravagant ex-travagant through employment of two "investigators" by' the governor's gov-ernor's office at a clost of $390 a month "for political organization and investigation work." Maw The gubernatorial investigators in-vestigators are used ' to check complaints "of all sorts" sent to "my office from all ; over the state." . Lee "Every highwayjn the state- points to -the same Inefficiency Inef-ficiency and extravagance." Maw Lee "hasn't been around or is deliberately misrepresenting. misrepresent-ing. . .what my opponent -is saying say-ing is that the contractors" who .build the roads for the state "are doing a fraudulent job." Lee in. his rebuttal insisted Maw failed tq answer his charges and said that "smear tactics" aimed at "me and - my family have hit a hew low." Maw concluded by saying the state had acted to close l'"dives" in Lee's -city of Price while Lee was mayor and that" Democratic efficiency had been demonstrated, by reduction "of state taxes and debts. Work Losses By Strikes Revealed WASHINGTON, Oct.! 28 (U.R) Labor 'department, figures showed today that 2,400,000 man- days of work were lost last month because of Strikes. 1 This was the biggest monthly loss since last May. Even so, the figures shbWed the loss amounted to only three-tenths of one ptit cent of all the time worked Ic industry during September. Democrats Probing GOP Campaign Spending WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (U.R) Democrats are investigating campaign cam-paign spending of Republican senatorial candidates in four states where votes may decide which party controls the senate, it was learned today. A high-ranking Democratic source said the inquiries are being be-ing pressed in Illinois, Minnesota; Montana and West Virginia. He indicated that formal. 'charges uld be made to the senate onlv in event of . GOP victories in those pivotal states. Meanwhile, from Republican- Winter Or A Reasonable Facsimile h . -V' J - A,, t K H f .4 jSS5 nd must come to all good Ani temporarily. Miss Audra Smith of the Daily Herald staff illustrates If anymore Is needed, came this morning to the, Dally Herald office from one of Provo's small fry to Santa Claus. Any further douhts? Presidential Race Enters Final Lap For Truman, Dewey By United Press President Truman today hea ed for New York home tern tory of his Republican opponen - -predicting he will carry the important Empire state nex week. The president and Gov. Thoma E. .Dewey both " were speeding through Nf w England on the finnl lapi of the presidential campaign x- Mr. Truman said at Fall River Mass.. Jhjat JDQt :.only. would the Democrats win Massachaetts r.: the elections Tuesday, but also would carry New York state. He was welcomed by 80,000 persona at Fall River. ' Dewey got a mixed reception of cheers and booes at Pittsfield Mass. The booes apparently were voiced by school children who made up half the crowd. While Mr. Truman again criticized the 80th Republican Congress in one Massachusetts Massachus-etts city, Dewey defended its . record In the other. At New York City, a gigantic welcome awaited the president He is due to make a major campaign cam-paign address theretonight In Madison Square Garden Meanwhile, Dewey's presidential presiden-tial stock was getting a boost from the United Mine workers. John L, Lewis' lieutenants began be-gan lining up in favor of Dewey s candidacy. Four top officials j announced in support of the New York governor. gov-ernor. Lewis himself , has never directly endorsed Dew,ey, but he had said Mr. Truman shouldn t be in the White House. A (senate committee was giving Jts Attention to the1 senatorial raceAin West Virginia.', 10 Affected By Bus Fumes Carbon monoxide fumes in -a passenger bus running from Manti to Salt Lake City affected af-fected It prospective draftees drafte-es today all of whom be? came 111 In the Provo bus sta4 tlon, with six going to the hospital. An attending d tor said he felt none were In serious . condition. The. Utah Valley hospital reported this afternoon that all were la satisfactory condition. Names -were not Immetti- , ately available. Reports aid all in the bus were affected except the driver and one or two other passengers. The men did not notice' the effects ef-fects of the, fumes until they reached the Provo station,, where they, started fainting away. The Prove fire depart-ment depart-ment rushed its resuscltator - to the scene and administered first aid. controlled congressional committees commit-tees investigating various senate and house races, there were these developments: 1. A senate elections subcommittee subcom-mittee ordered Democratic, primary prim-ary ballots in 13 Texas counties locked up so it can investigate fraud charges brought by the, rivals riv-als for the senatorial nomination Lyndon B. .Johnson , and . Coke Stevenson. The subcommittee also al-so is looking into GOP reports of Democratic wrongdoing in New Mexico and Oklahoma. 2, The "house campaign ex pen - ocv ,VV things. Including summer and it $175,000 Business Building To Be Erected On Old Provo Foundry Block At Fifth West By DOROTHY O. REA Another Provo landmark has ppled before the advance of siness and industry. e old Provo Foundry build- lngsat Fifth West and Center are beirig fazed to make room tor a $175,0tK) modern business build ing, to be occupied by a lead ing department store. Architectural Architect-ural plans ne now being drawn for the giant structure expected Britain IV 3 For Sanctions Against Israe PARIS, Oct. 28 (U.R) Britai asked the United Nations secur ity council today to order a withdrawal with-drawal of Jewish troops in the Negev and to consider imposing economic sanctions against the infant state of Israel if the order is not obeyed. .China joined Britain in presenting present-ing the resolution -and four other members the United States, Canada, France and Belgium announced they would support it. Russia asked for a delay to con sider the proposal. Soviet delegate Jacob Maliik said it was premature to take such drastic steps now because quiet has been restored to the Negdv as a result of the UN's cease-fire order. j The Israeli government, whidh refused an earlier UN order to withdraw in theYNegev, offered meanwhile to negotiate the Negev situation with Egypt either directly direct-ly or through the good offices if the UN. I The joiflt British-Chinese ; resolution reso-lution called on the security council coun-cil to make an urgent study of possible economic, and diplomatic sanctions against either Arabs or Jews who violate the order of Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting UN mediator. i The British-Chinese proposal won the support of a majority of the security council. But a vote was delayed until 10:30 a. m. (2:30 a. m. MST) tomorrow at the re quest of Russia and the Ukraine. Bakery Strike omes to Close CHICAGO, Oct. 28 (U.P)-7Oper a tors of 18 large bakerievin Chicago, Chi-cago, Gary and Hammond, Ind. hoped to bring bread' and cakrt production back tonormal toda; with the end of afour-day strikt of 1,500 AFL' bakers. Settlement61 the wage dia-nute dia-nute was reached last night, when i1 . - the AFLfactory bakers unionjvo airport acceptecr n to 14 cents, nounv increases. t The union originally asked for hourly pay boosts of from 12 to M8 cents, plus fringe demands. ditures committee announced it is sending investigators into Call forn ia, Pennsylvania, . Rhode Island, Is-land, Kentucky and . Tennessee to studyj, "alleged campaign .Irregularities." .Ir-regularities." A subcommittee .opens .op-ens hearings, in Detroit todayfin-to todayfin-to Republican charges that "Mich lgan Democrats are trying - to "blackjack campaign contributions contribu-tions from federal employes there." - ' 1 " The Democratic Investigations are aimed chiefly at states' where the party is' hopeful of getting help, in its bids for senate control. Hits Provo came te Provo today, at least the point. And the final proof, the first letter of pie season to cover a major, part , of the block between Center street and First North and Fifth and Sixth West streets. The building to be I built by T. F. Pierpont, owner and president of Provo Foundry and Machine Co., will, be leased to the retail company. Further, announcement is dependent upon up-on approval of plans. x The removal ' of the old I iwuiiui j DiiwniiMfe jf f ) era of business In Provo and the beginning of a new In dustrial sweep. Wartime demands on the pioneer pio-neer foundry plant exceeded its capacities. As post-war industries began to operate, the' need became be-came great for bigger facilities nd the foundry was moved to it; present location at 400 . Sth s w buildings already contem plated on the new f oundry site at NirHh South tn addition to present buildings, incrude build - tangs for welding, plate enameling, pattern making and warehouse. Completion dl one of these units within 30 days, is imperative to Completion of the $350,000 pipe contract for th. Salt Lake aqueduct project The million dollirxfouridry plant had Its beginnings when Thomas F. Pierpont, a boy of twelve years, used to blow si lry the whistle at the Salt La Iron and Steel works, dreamed of having a foundry of his own and In 1889 came to Provo and went in business busi-ness with his father, Thomas -Pierpont, and his brothers John K. and James K. The first foundry was located at Second North and Second East. Thomas F. Pierpont bought out the interests of his father, and brothers in 1895 and moved his plant to Fifth West and Center Street. The Pierpont family lived at some of the most fabulous residences resid-ences in Provo while the nine children were being raised and educated. ThoMas F. Pierpont married Vilate Smoot and their children are . Mrs. Naomi PeAit, Mrs. RutbEccles, Mrs. Vilate De- Vine, Thomas G. Pierpont found ry viefr president, and Jack Pierpont, Pier-pont, all living, and Clifford, Pauline, Clarence and Margaret, deceased, The little foundry that was first operated by Mr. Pierpont and his father and brothers has grown into a plant employing 100 persons . and furnishing a large payroll for this area. The lew modern industry this week is producing complete coal cars for use in mines in Carbon county, water pipe, machine parts and drainage pipe for Pro As "the old foundry buildings disappear, they leave memories of Provo s past and open the way for another great industrial ad ditlon to CentralyUtah In Four States i Republican nominees involved are Sens. Joseph H. Ball. Minn.: C, Wayland Brooks, 111.;; Chap-man Chap-man Revercomb, W. Va and can didate Tom J. Davis in Montana. Davis is running against Democratic Demo-cratic Sen. James E. Murray. Democratic - campaigners claim they : bave a , better-than-even chance of carrying Minnesota, West Virginia and Montana,' and an outside chance' in Illinois. At present, ,the Democratic investigation in-vestigation is limited to a check On the expenditures of the four GOP candidates. Russ Tighten Blockade Of Berlin . . , . Indiccrta Ree)Ction Oi DisputeSettlement Outside United Nations By JOHN B. McDERMOTT lUnlted Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Oct. 28 (U.P.) The Russians tightened their blockade of western Berlin to- N day and indicated they will reject the western offer to settle the Berlin crisis outside the United Nations on the basis of the formula they vetoed in the security council. .Soviet troops and German police po-lice began checking virtually every motor vehicle attempting to enter western Berlin from either the Soviet zone or the eastern east-ern sector 'of the city. It was the most stringent measure yet instituted in-stituted in the 127-day blockade. Charles C. Bond, chief of the American military government's gov-ernment's Berlin police section, sec-tion, said the 8oviets had Increased In-creased ' and strengthened their check points surrounding surround-ing the- western sectors of Berlin during the afternoon. He could give no reason for the move. The first hint that Russia In tends to reject the latest western offer for settlement of the Berlin crisis came in the Off icta Soviet army newspaper Taegliche Rund schau. . . . The newspaper charged that the small-nation compromise pre sented to the security council was dictated by th United States and was "completely unacceptable" to Russia. The small-nation formula call ed for Russia to lift the Berlin blockade at the same time that the Big Four powers resumed nego tiations to establish the k Russian mark as the sole currency in Ber lin. Taegliche Rundschau said any settlement of the Berlin dispute would have to be based on the Moscow directive agreed to by Generalissimo Josef Stalin. This, the paper claimed, called for introduction in-troduction of the Soviet mark in all Berlin at the same time the blockade is lifted. Vishinsky Wants Foreign Troops Out of Greece - ' PARIS, Oct. 28 (U.R) Andrei Vishinsky of Russia asked the Unrted Nations today to order all foreign troops out pf Greece. Vishhjsky spoke in the UN political po-litical coromittee during consideration consider-ation of the Greek situation. Ho lambasted axeport by a UN commission com-mission on the Balkans as a "pile of garba Vishinsky told the committee at the end ' of a twohour speech which was interrupted by a luncheon recess that bewould introduce in-troduce a resolution asking: 1. Re-establishment of normal diplomatic relations between Greece and the northern neigh bors, Albania, Bulgaria and Yur-I rAalaiiia X 2. Withdrawal of all foreign troops and other foreign personnel person-nel from Greece. 3. Dissolution of the UN Balkans Bal-kans commission to protect the dignity of the general assembly." Two Killed In Heber Crash - HEBER, . Utah, Oct. 28 (U.R) Two motorists were killed Instantly In-stantly near here today In a head on crash of a passenger cat and a loaded truck and 'trailer . Dead are Darrell Albert Mortensen, about 42, of Salt 5 Lake City; and WlHUm H. King, of Riverside. Calif. King, driver of the truck, attempted to 'pass another truck n a curving downhill grade, Wasatch County Sheriff Sher-iff Eugene Payne said. King's heavy truck' completely smashed the ear driven by Mortensen. Payne ' said It took more than an hour to extricate the crushed body of King from under the. wheels of his vehicle. vehi-cle. V - ' Mortensen. employed by the Veterans Administration in Salt Lake City, was driving driv-ing a government automobile. rrfl Hnfa-sfl-rMj U. KHftL rlr"X r o dr Na . w - British. Americans Accused of Nullifying Agreement Reached In The Kremlin Parley Aug. 30 Aimed To Settle Berlin Crisis , j . , By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent N 1 MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (U.R) (By elephorje to London) Premier Josef Stalin today accused the United States and Great Britain of seeking a new war through a "policy of aggression." Replying to a questionnaire from the Russian official newspaper Pravda, the Communist leader said the British and Americans declared 'null and void" an agreement reached in the Kremlin conferences Auir. SO which would have - settled the , Berlin crisisi He charged that the western powers put on. a "display of ag gression" ih United Nations security secur-ity council debate on the Berlin question, and nce again at that time rejected, an -agreement with Russia which would have resulted in lifting of the Soviet blockade of Berlin . Today's reply to the Pravda questions was Stalin's first im portant statement of Russian policy since May 17. At that time, he endorsed" a program outlined by third party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace as a "good and fruitful basis", for discussion and settlement- of differences between the United States and the Soviet TT.I. Stalin often takes advantage of questionnaires submitted by press agencies and newspapers to make major policy pronouncements. The last such was on Oct. 2b, 1846, when he "replied to 31 questions submitted by Hugh Bafllie, presl dent of the United Press. Stalin's replies to Baillie dis closed that Russia then had 60 divisions in western Europe, she did not have the secret of the atomic bomb, she still was interested inter-ested in a loan from the United States and she did not believe the veto had been overworked in the United Nations. Stalin charged that-the-western powers fear "most of an to reacn any agreement with the Soviet Union. The thing is," he told Pravda "that those who inspire the ag gressive, policy in the . United States and Great Britain do not consider themselves interested in agreement and in cooperation with the U.S.S.R. What they want is not agree ment and cooperation, but talk about agreement and cooperation, so as to put the blame on. the U.S.S.R. by preventing agree- (Continued on Page Six) French Troops Seize 7 More Goal Mines PARIS. Oct. 28 (U.R) French troops and security guards struck ih the important Pas de Calais coal basin at dawn today and selz ed seven large coal mines without opposition,' further weakening 'the Communist-led strike of 3.500,000 miners. Truckloads of troops and guards from the Lille area carried out a big encircling movement and then ihit deep into the Lens-Bruay-Auchel triangle to take the pits. The area had not been, tcuched in Monday's all-out attack, by 30,000troops and guards agairfst the eastern half of the oal basin in r nortnern fields. "In the Pas de Calais basin security forces penetrated, deep into the Lens and Carvin group . . . only a smaij number of arrests ar-rests were made at Carvin." an intc or ministry communique said. "Practically everywhere strike pickets disappeared immediately imme-diately when, republican security companies or mobile guards appeared." State Department Spokesman Gives, Lie to Stalin's Charge WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, CE A state department spokesman today in effect, gave the lie to Soviet Premier Josef Stalin's charge that, the United States and Britain were to blame for failure of the Moscow negotiations on the Berlin crisis. Department press officer li-chael li-chael J. McDermott told a news conference, in reply to questions about Stalin's charges, that the department's white'paper on Berlin Ber-lin was a "complete, truthful record of what happened" during the four-power negotiations. -The state department's white paper was made public Sept 26 after the four-power efforts to ressioo Stalin Charge Blasts Hope Of Settlement PARIS. Oct. 28 (U.R) Premier Josef Stalin's charge that western leaders seek war blasted today what little hope remained la the United Nations for an early set tlement of the. Berlin crisis. UN delegates, considered the replies of the Russian ruler to . a Pravda questionnaire the harshest harsh-est language, he personally ever has used to denounce the western powers. His delegates here have been saying much the same thing day after day for nearly six weeks but the fact that today's charges-came charges-came from Stalin himself gave them added weight. The general view was that the.y meant there could be no hope! of any early peace in the cold war.' News of the Soviet premier's statements hit UN headquarters at the Palais De Chaillot during an "off" afternoon, when no major ma-jor issues were being considered and many of the top delegates were not attending. Officially, the delegates fol lowed the lead of Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, who threw up his hands when asked .to. discuss tha Stalin questionnaire t id replied firmly, "no-comment." ; But several who were willing to talk privately about it saw con (Continued on Page Two) Israel Defies UN; Refuses To Yield Gams : TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 28 (U. Israel defied the United Nations today with a flat refusal to give up Beersheba and other territory captured from -the Egyptians in recent fighting in southern Palestine. Pales-tine. . , A Prime Minister- David Bene Gurion told the council of state that his government would not comply with United Nations or dersto withdraw Israeli troops from territory occupied since Oct. 14. . "We will never retreat to the positions of Oct. 14 the date on which the last phase of the Negev fighting started," Ben Gurion said. Israeli authorities meanwhile invited Egypt to peace talks and reported that Egyptian troops in the Negev' area of southern Palestine were surrendering ' hi large numbers. . J An army spokesman said the Egyptians had given up Isdnd, 20 miles south of Tel Aviv and the anchor position of the high water mark of the Egyptian . push northward. t Egyptian troops and local Arab . inhabitants . were reported ' hoist ing white flags in several pockets in the Negev, where the fighting stopped by United Nations order. negotiate a settlement of the Ber lin dispute had failed. The department's account made it clear that, in this government's 11 , P.-l!.. a J ' s . opinion, oiaun nau renegcu vn agreements reached during the long negotiations in Moscow. - . That document traced the dispute dis-pute from its beginning to the end of the unsuccessful nego tiations. ' v -v . Meanwhile, government quar- ' ters viewed Stalin's warmonger inff chartre as "the aame . otd tune" - played over and over by Soviet officials , Sen. , Owen Brewster, RMe, said ' he believed Stalin's state (Continued on Page Two. .-.-rs'iS. f:. |