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Show TEMPERATURES CLOUDY with occasional snow tad Frv . . . . .14 Salt Lakt .15 Ofm .....It lgn .....It St. CWII 41 , lu Vegu . It rhnix . ..4 Lm ABgelet II JUn .....! li!FortUa4 . .S4 ttlButte .....It - ZtlYcl'itoas . .It -11 llDBVr ...4t 14 ItlChlckf ..It II ItlDuluth . ..It 14 MINew York II It ttlMlaml It tl ItlN. OrlMM Tf it ibl freezing rain today, tonight and Friday. Slowly rising , tern peratnres with high both' daya to St, low tonight SO to U. SIXTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 164 .PROVO. iUTAH COUNTY, UTAH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Odom Nears U.S. On 5,300 Mile Honolulu-New Honolulu-New York Non-Stop Hop SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (UR) Capt. William P. Odom radioed today he had passed the three-quarter mark of the dangerous overwater leg of his- projected 5,300 mile non-stop solo flight from Honolulu to New York. The civil aeronautics administration at Eugene, Ore., airport intercepted a message from Odom 'at 2:20 p. m. (EST) that he was 500 miles from the U. S. mainland and approximately 1,900 miles from his starting point in Hono-' Hono-' : I lulu. Odom said he was "doing Freezing Rain New Hazard To Utah's Traffic (By United Press). - Old Man. Winter pulled a new trick on the snow-covered inter-mountain inter-mountain West today. He sent down a driving rain over much of northern Utah that froze as it hit pavements and turned- roads and streets into skating rinks. Traffic was slowed to a crawl, mixed with frequent slides. Police Po-lice reported many minor accidents acci-dents but no serious injuries. More Snow Due Forecasts for late today, tonight nd tomorrow called for occasional occasion-al snow and possibly rain over most of Utah and a few snow flurries in southern Idaho. Temperatures were generally above zero but below freezing. In Salt Lake City, for instance, the minimum temperature early today was 20. The maximum temperature tem-perature during the last 24 hours was 25 -making it 20 consecutive days since it has been above freezing. freez-ing. Only snow reported in Utah this morning was at Milford and Cedar City, where 23 inches of the white stuff now covers the ground the deepest snow depth In any major Utah city. Bus Trapped The continued cold and --anew made the work of clearing drifted drift-ed highways most difficult. U. S. Highway 40, main east-west route from Salt Lake Cty to Vernal, remained blocked around Strawberry Straw-berry reservoir. A bus was trap ped in the snow there last night but finally got out, 12 hours later. ' Wasatch County Sheriff Eugene Payne said that at least 100 trav elers were forced to remain in Heber, because of the. blocked highway. He doubted that the road could be opened today because be-cause the wind was drifting the now back as fast as plows threw It off the road. Arraignment Of Dancer Held Up NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U.R) -Dancer Vickie Evans, arraign ment on a fugitive warrant from California, where she is a prin cipal in the Robert Mitchum marijuana case, was adjourned today until Jan. 21. Shortly after, Miss Evans court appearance, a man who claimed he was Mitchum arrived at the court building and said he had made an overnight plane dash from Hollywood to be at her aide at the arraignment. Mitchum's studio ir Holly wood, however, said he had not left today. "I just wanted to talk with the kid," the man said. Reporters said he looked enough like the sleepy-eyed screen star to be his double. Earlier this week Miss Evans failed to appear as co-defendant in the Hollywood mariluana trial at which Mitchum and two others were found guilty on charges of conspiracy to possess marijuana me California court issued a bench warrant for her, and she was arrested in her hotel room here yesterday. HATCH NOMINATED FOR U. S. JUDGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) Former Democratic Sen. Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico was nomi nated today by President Truman Tru-man to be United States district Judge for his ttate. Hatch did not seek reelection last year and his senate teat was won by former secretary of -agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. Hatch was nominated to succeed suc-ceed Judge Colin Neblett who retired last year. News Highlights In Central Utah Chamber of Commerce Report Shows Growth of Local Area I Goal, Proclamation Issued In Opening Polio Drive 2 Provo Parking Violations and Arrests Rise In 1948 .2 New Schools Won't Be Ready This School Year, Sayt Head 12 Farmers To Get $1 Per Ton Payment On Sugar Beets ...12 okay" and was experiencing no difficulties. Fifteen minutes later Odom radioed a request for weather conditions at San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo., indicating he may change his present course to ward the Oregon coastline and turn south to California. "I am holding on San Fran cisco," Odom radioed in a message intercepted by theMedford, Ore., CAA control tower and the Mc-Chord Mc-Chord Field, Wash, radio center. The last Report received from the 'round-the-world pilot indicated indi-cated he was bucking strong headwinds of 20-SO mph. velocity and had altered his course so that he would pass over the mainland about 300 miles south of his orig inal route over Seattle, Wash. The CAA said Odom's new route would bring him over Eugene, Ore., Boise, Ida., Rock Springs, Wyo., and Omaha, Neb. Flying a 165-horaepower Beech craft Bonanza named the "Waikiki Beech," Odom was more than five hours behind schedule beeause of the headwinds. Overwater Escort Two planes of the air rescue service at McChord Field, Wash., took off at 12:30 p. m. (EST) to escort Odom on the last 500 miles of his overwater hop. The planes were sent as a precautionary measure in case Odom encounters (Continued on Page Twelve) Snow Maroons 9,000 Indians. In South Dakota By UNITED PRESS South Dakota rescue workers used every available snow plow today, trying to break through to almost 9,000 Indians who were reported running low on food and fuel at the Pine Ridge reservation. reser-vation. Skies were clearing over most of the nation today. But the country was just beginning to learn the full extent of the hard ship and damage caused by the 10 days of . bad weather that started with the big blizzard on Jan. 2. The weather was not quite "usual" yet in Southern California Califor-nia but at least the snow had stopped falling. Heavy rains fell today and forecasters said it would help dissipate the snow lying on the ground. Continue Mercy Flights The army promised it would continue mercy flights "as long as necessary" to furnish feed and fuel to prairie state ranchers caught by the big drifts and sheets of ice covering most of the area west of the Mississippi river. Superintendent Clyde Powers of the Pine Ridge reservation said the situation was critical. He pleaded with authorities to send relief before another storm brought "disaster" to his 9,000 charges. The main road into the reservation reser-vation had been opened but it could carry only light traffic and authorities said side roads would have to be cleared to send in enough provisions. Powers also appealed for doctors doc-tors to help fight a growing dysentery menace. About 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 units of penicillin were flown to the agency hospital at Pine Ridge yesterday. One doctor was scheduled to arrive today to help treat the 10 reported cases of dysentery. Provoan One Of Four Attend Inauguration By DOROTHY O. REA Few Provoans have experienced the thrill of receiving the gold and white inscribed invitation to an inaugural ball and dinner honoring hon-oring the president of the United States. Mrs. W. H. Callahan , of Provo is in possession of such an invitation and will leave tonight for Washington, D. C, to attend inaugural ceremonies for President Presi-dent Harry S. Truman. As one of four Democratic electors elec-tors for the state of Utah, Mrs. Callahan will attend the inaugural inaug-ural dinner given by electoral college in honor of Mr, Truman and will also attend the inaugural' inaug-ural' ball Jan. 20. The dinner will be held Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Jan. 18 at Mayflower hotel and will ' include elector! of the 48 states, cabinet members, supreme court members, senators. representatives and others. A reception in the National (Continued Fag Twelve) Foe of Controls ft k - ;. New chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which will act on President Truman's anti-Inflation anti-Inflation program, is Sen. Burnet Bur-net R. Maybank, South Carolina Caro-lina Democrat. Maybank, an avowed foe of price controls, says he doesn't believe controls, con-trols, even on a "standby" basis, will be needed this year. U. S. Manganese Deposits Ample, Says Senator V WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (U.R) Rep. Claire Engle, D., Cal., said today that "for the cost of one battleship" the United States could become independent of Russia and other countries for a supply of manganese. Engle is slated to head a house subcommittee on stockpiling of strategic materials. His opinion was backed up by Rep. William Lemke, R., N.D., who headed the subcommittee last session. Manganese, a hardening agent, it vital in the production qf steel. Russia has been supplying tbis country with between 25 and 35 per cent of its manganese. The Soviets reportedly are curtailing shipments of the strategic metal to the United States. Engle said that testimony before be-fore the subcommittee last year showed this- government could become self sufficient in manganese manga-nese production at a cost of about $250,000,000. ' - Lemke said mining experts told the subcommittee there is enough manganese in the Chambers Cham-bers field in South Dakota alone to supply normal U. S. requirements require-ments for 500 years. He said it is of a low grade but could be used. Subcommittee hearings disclosed dis-closed there are manganese deposits de-posits in Montana, North and South Dakota, California, U$ah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Georgia. Herald Jimp Mountain Club To Sponsor Free Shi School To give Provoans an opportun ity to learn the fundamentals of skiing and to increase ah appreciation appre-ciation for the sports and reduce its hazards the Daily Herald and the Timpanogos Mountain club will sponsor a free ski school be ginning Monday and continuing through the good skiing weather. The school will be under super vision oi expert skiers in the Timp Mountain club, with Reed Biddulph as general chairman. It will be open to anyone, and there will be no charge for instruction To make it available to anyone wishing to enroll, instruction is to be given on the slope just above the east terminal of Provo's Eighth North, a location which should be within, easy reach of Utah Electors To of Pres. Truman (i Vi MRS. W. H. CALLAHAN Survey Stows Licit of Order In Government Nation Paying For Disorganization In Executive Branch WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) The Hoover commission told congress today the nation is "paying heavily" because of disorganization in the executive branch of the government. gov-ernment. The commission made the statement in letters to senate president Kenneth McKellar, D Tenn., and house speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Tex. .The commission, headed by former president Herbert Hoover, has been working for 16 months on a vast governmental reorgani zation plan but its job is little more than half done. Its report originally , was scheduled for today, to-day, but congress gave it another oo aays to complete its recom mendations. Lack of Order . The letters to McKellar and Rayburn said the executive branch suffers from "a lack of order, a lack of clear lines of au tnoriiy ana responsibility, and a lack of effective organization." The commission said that after months of "painstaking research, it has found "that great improve ments can be made in the effectiveness effec-tiveness with which the government govern-ment can serve the people if its organization and administration is overhauled." The federal government in the past 20 years has become "the most gigantic business on earth," the commission said. In that time the commission said: v 1. Its civil employes have in creased from 570,000 to 2,100,000. 3. The number of bureaus, sec tions, services, and units has in creased four-fold to over 1,800. t. Annual Expenditures have increased in-creased from about $3,600,000,000 vr.f42,000,OOO,000. 's 4. The national debt per average family has increased from about $500 to about $7,500. The commission said that tome of its. forthcoming recommenda tions can be effected only by legislation. Others, it said, can be accompiisnea oy executive action. "But," it added, ?many of the most important can probably be accomplished only if the congress re-enacts and broadens the power to Initiate reorganization plans which it had previously granted to the president under an act which expired on March 31, 1948. The commission recommends that such authority should be giv en to the president and that the power of the president to prepare and transmit plans of reorganization reorganiza-tion to the congress should be with a minimum of limitations or exemptions. Once the limiting and exempting process is begun it will end the possibility of achieving really substantial results." re-sults." everyone and remove the rieces tity for lengthy trips to some other ski site. Open To Everyone While the school will be open to all ages, it is expected to do most good among children and young people who will be given an opportunity to learn skiing as it really should be done. A greater appreciation of the sport is expected ex-pected to result plus one of the chief aims of the school, a reduction reduc-tion in the hazards and accident rate which faces the inexperienced inexperienc-ed skier and those who have not learned the correct techniques. Skiing can be safe, as well as good sport, General Chairman Biddulph enphasized today, and it is the purpose -of the school to demon strate this. Exact schedules for the school will depend to some extent on the number of entries, but tentative plans call for t least two classes per week for each student during the five-day period of Monday through Friday. Hours will probably prob-ably be from 4 to 6 p. m. Classes, at least at the beginning, will be held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. - Expert Instructors Instructors will be members of the Timp Mountain club, all" experts- in skiing and in the techniques tech-niques of teaching it. They will include Mr. Biddulph, Junior Bounous, Frank Hirst, Vera Davis, Gordon Hawkins, Jessie Scho-field, Scho-field, Mel Fletcher and Irma Stir- man. The aim is to hold small classes, perhaps 10 or 15 skiers at a maximum, to give opportunity for individual attention and instruction. in-struction. Classes will be organized ac cording to ability and age, ranging from rank beginners to those who need more advanced teaching. The staff has picked an area which is ideal for beginners, with (Centimes Page Twelve) A Ac ihieson Plenty of Work for ll-i tj BstsflisM . -. . j The new Congress won't have much time to loaf, judging by the number of bills it must pass upon. On opening day a record 612 bills and resolutions was introduced In the House. Capitol officials had to work late at night to record them all. Here Clarence E. Young, of Appleton City, Mo., assistant bill clerk of the House, enters the last. New Congressional Rules May Put 70-GrpMP Air Force Over By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Jan. IS (U.R) Safety firtt rules made joyr the Democratic leadership when-" the new congress met probably will cost the administration control of the house on one vital issue, and perhaps two. . The odds are good that the house and perhaps the senate will vote for the 70-group air force which the airmen want tnd President" Pres-ident" Truman opposes. There is U.S. Denies Responsibility For Britain Planes WAsmisrrrrnTtf Jan is The state department today of ficially denied aLondon newspaper news-paper report that the five British planes shot down by Israeli forces last , week were on a reconnaissance reconnais-sance flight requested by this government. r The .denial was ; made shortly after British Ambassador ' Sir Oliver Frank conferred for 30 minutes at the White House with President Truman and presented his governments views on the Jewish-Arab crisis. But he left any announcement on the talk up to the White House. In taking note of the British newspaper report on the- five downed planes, the state depart ment endorsed a British foreign office statement which said that British authorities "undertook the air reconnaissance on their own responsibility." The state department said that "allegations from other, sources to the effect that these 1 flights (Continued oo Page Twelve) Agreement Ends Trucking Strike CHICAGO, Jan. 13 UJ A trucking strike that would have halted all food deliveries in Chicago was averted early to day when union representatives accepted a 25-eent hourly ' wage increase for 14,000 truck drivers. The truckers, represented ; by the AFL Teamsters , union and the Independent Chicago Truck Drivers union, had demanded a 30 -cent hourly increase and reduced re-duced their demands yesterday to 27 cents. The companies had offered 17 rk cents, originally but raised it to 20 cents yesterday afternoon. Federal conciliators held the negotiators in . session - from 10 a. m. yesterday until 4:30 this morning when the agreement was announced just three and . one-half one-half hours before - the , drivers were scheduledto strike. . The wage increase l retro active to Jan. 1 and the new contract, con-tract, which is subject to ratification rat-ification by the drivers, will run for two years. . ' .. Spokesmen for the trucking firms said the agreement will cost the industry $17,000,000 figuring that each driver workt an average aver-age 45-hour week: The contract guarantees the worker a 4Q-nour week but the average is closer to 45 hours, they said. " Call s Not Congress a good chance also that the house and perhaps the senate will vote this year for more general benefits bene-fits for veterans of World Wars I and II. Mr. Truman warned against ' that in his budget meg sage this week. How Rule Works The safety first rules which will work to boost both of those meas urea toward a favorable house vote were adopted the day con gress met. They deprived house rules committee conservatives of power to prevent indefinitely , a floor vote on any measure pend ing oh the house calendar. It was the purpose of house Democrats Demo-crats to confer on Speaker Sam Rayburn the powers which were taken away from the rules committee. com-mittee. But these powers ended in the laps of the chairman of the various committees of the house. It works this wav: If a measure for a 70-group air force, for instance has been reported favorably by the responsible respon-sible committee, it goes to the rules committee. This latter group is authorized to fix the day on which the house shall consider the bill. XUnder the old system the bill died unless , the rules committee fixed a day. There was an elab orate method of blasting such a bill out of the rules committee, but it took so much blasting powder pow-der that it rarely worked in practice. prac-tice. 21 -Days Delay Under the new rules, the rules committee may hold up a bill for 21 days. Thereafter the chairman of the committee which considered consid-ered it originally may as a matter mat-ter of the highest privilege ask for recognition. As the rule originally orig-inally was drafted, it would be up to the sneaker to decide whether wheth-er to recognize the chairman. But as the rule .finally was adopted, it provides that the speaker must grant recognition. Rayburn has no discretion in the matter at all. Once the chairman chair-man is recognized, the bill in question gets a vote on the floor of the house. TOBIN FAVORS CIO AFL MERGER BOSTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin said last night he. favored a merger mer-ger of the AFL and the CIO into one nation-wide labor organization organiza-tion which would "give labor uniform wage rates" and give management a better competitive position. CIO President Sees Defeat Of Sen; Taf t in 1950 Election NEW YORK, Jan .13; (U.R CIO President Philip Murray predicts that labor will defeat Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O in the 1950 elections. elec-tions. ..--4- ; '- :"-. 'i-'. -,' : Murray, who is ill in Washington, Washing-ton, outlined the CIOI political program for. the next two years last night in speech read for him at a dinner sponsored by the Labor-And-The-Nation magazine. Murray said "Labor's defeat" of Got. 'Thomas X. Dewey demon A Tl ger Gives Pledge At Hearing To Expose Subversives By JOHN L. STEELE WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) Dean Acheson promised today he would see to it that subversives are exposed and rvcjj v uui ui me siaic ucpai uncut WI1CI1 lie UCtUIllCB BCLlClar of state. He also pledged himself to follow retiring Secretary George C. Marshall's policy of firmness in U. S. relation with Russia. Acheson made the statem relations committee which is considering con-sidering his nomination to succeed suc-ceed Marshall. They were In reply re-ply to -questions by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich. The committee completed public pub-lic hearings after former secretary sec-retary of state Edward R. Stet-tlnius, Stet-tlnius, Jr., endorsed the Acheson nomination as a "wise" one. Committee Com-mittee Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., said his cpmmittee might send the nomination to the senate tomorrow and predicted pre-dicted the senate would confirm it "by a very large vote." Attitude On Russia Acheson said he was unable to spell out in detail his attitude toward to-ward Russia. But he recalled that he played an important role in devising de-vising the Marshall plan a bulwark bul-wark against the spread of com munism and that his previous service in the state department came when the Greek-Turkish "Quarantine Communism" program pro-gram was formulated. Acheson also told the commit tee he approved a S90.000.000 loan to Poland on April 24, 1946, when he was acting secretary of state. But he said he did not profit prof-it from his law. firm's connection with the Polish government; that he left the firm when he entered state department service, and thai me nrm severed its connection with the Polish government when the U. S. later charged that the 1946 Polish national elections were "rigged" for the Commun ists. Still Friends He said that he and the in dicted Alger Hiss also "became friends and remain friends." Acheson was asked a series of searching questions about his background, his connections with a Polish loan, his law firm's con nection with an official Polish supply mission and his relationship relation-ship with the Hiss brothers. Alger Hiss was indicted by a federal grand jury recently on perjury charges. The grand jury accused Hiss of lying when he said he did not turn state department depart-ment documents over to Whit-taker Whit-taker Chambers, admitted former Communist courier. Committee chairman Tom Con-r nally, D., Tex., asked Acheson what he had to say about charges that "while you were assistant secretary of state Alger Hiss was vour chief of staff . .1 "It is true it has been stated, but it is not true that it . is a fact,' Acheson replied calmly. "I have waited a long time to answer that... "As a preliminary matter, Id like to state my friendship is not (Continued on Page Twelve) Social Security Costs May Raise WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) The administration's new coverall cover-all social security program, if enacted, may cost individual tax payers as much as 156 a year, it was learned today. , The most any individual pays now is $30 a year. The cost per person under the new program probably would increase as time went on. Employers Em-ployers would match the contributions con-tributions of their workers. Under the plan outlined by President Truman on Monday, old age and survivors insurance would be extended and the scale of benefits raised. Disability in surance would be provided to protect against loss of earnings during sickness. And a comprehensive compre-hensive national health program would be set up. Final details of the program are being worked out now by the federal security agency. Recom mendations will be ready for congress in 10 days to two weeks, it was said.-" strated the soundness of bis organization's or-ganization's decision "to enter the political arena." - vv' The CIO chief did' not mention Taft by - name, ' but said Jack Kroll, director of the CIO political politi-cal action committee had , told him "that two years from now labor and the people of Ohio are going to win a- very important seat in the senate of the United States." Taft will run for re-election in 1950. - ' Jnliss Connors Returned As Black Dahlia Murder Suspect LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 (U.R)- Jeff Connors, 40, was ordered returned re-turned here today as a prime susDect in the "Blarlc Dahlia1 murder mystery. Police dit pioved his alibi that he was with, dancer Vickie Evans the night of the slaying. Connors, whose real name is Arthur H. Lane, Jr., was picked up yesterday at a girl friend's house in Gilroy, Cal., near San Francisco. He was expected to arrive here today in custody of j-os Angeies detectives. Connors' arrest disproved earlier police theories that Bell-hop Bell-hop Leslie Dillon, picked . up Monday as the "hottest suspect yet," was a "split personality" who committed the mutilation murder of Elizabeth (the Black Dahlia) Short in January 1947. Dillon, 27, knew intimate detail! of the slaying, but insisted under prolonged questioning that he learned them from a man named Jeff Connors. Until Connors' arrest, police thought he was merely Dillon's "alter ego," a figment of his imagination. im-agination. Dillon was released yesterday for lack of evidence.' Connors, who said he was a. writer dui sens cosmetics for a living, admitted- seeing Miss Short in a Los Angeles bar the uigui uciure ner muraer. dux ne said he was innocent, and gave an elaborate alibi for the murder night Two Killed In Cairo Bomb Blast CAIRO, Jan. 13 (U.R) A time bomb concealed in a brief case by a member of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood exploded in downtown Cairo today, killing two persons, injuring 22 others and damaging the court of appeals ap-peals building. The briefcase containing the bomb was left in the bureau of investigation in police headquarters headquart-ers in the Cairo governors tt on Bad El Khalk square, apparently as part of a plan to destroy crim- Brotherhood in police files. An alert office boy, suspicious of the weight of the briefcase averted a major tragedy by rushing rush-ing the briefcase into the street and causing the arrest of the man who left it. Police experts said the govern-orate govern-orate and the adjoining court of appeals building almost certainly would have been destroyed, with a much. higher casualty rate, had the bomb exploded inside, y Police Identified the terrorist as a youth named Annas, and ecu nujiiutcu' arcing m mem ber of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhodd which 'was charged with responsibility for the assassination; assas-sination; of the late Premier' Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha. Pa-sha. .. " 'Cheated' By Uncle Sam, Farmer Kills Postal Inspector OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. 13. (HRJAn elderly retired farmer said today that he killed a postal inspector because he believed the post office cheated him out . of two $20 money orders nine years agO. ; 'w-V . Federal authorities said ' that Joseph Donnelly,, 65, surrendered to a post office j employe immediately im-mediately after shooting Ernest M. Harkins, 51, in the back of the head as Harkins stooped to open his . mail box, in the main post office -here. ,-o:-- ;.. '; - "I had to take the law into my own hands," Donnelly told police. "The , mails lost two $20 money orders of mine; and when X asked for help, Harkins and three other post office men accused me " of' lying and - cheating . them'. They even put it down on my record. and I couldn't get a job with the government during the war.". |