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Show TEMPERATURES Prove Salt Lk OgtUn . . Logaa . . . . BW Geort Vtfaa Phoenix Reno .... aa Fran. 14 .It Portland -. . 28 It .7 3 -IS 21 -1 27 25 11 42 27 78 T 8 as CLOUDY with occasional light snows this afternoon, increasing tonight sad Improving Saturday. Low tonight , high 17. Butte lYellowatono Denver . . . Chicago . . . Duluth . . . New York 'Miami N. Orleans 11 -7 20 -5 4 2 40 JI 34 28 -4 4 3 ,SIXTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 170 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949 3 PRICE FIVE CENTS Liq nor. Smuggled Into Prison, By UNITED PRESS A Utah district judge said today he was convinced that not only is liquor being smuggled into the state prison farm but that dope is being used at the main Utah penitentiary m Salt Lake City. Judge A. H. Ellett said he had thoroughly questioned several convicts, after one casually mentioned drinking at the prison farm prior to an escape last year. The jurist said he had talked to many lawbreakers and Legislators Visit Ogden Institutions OGDEN, Jan. 21 (U.R) Some 60 members of the Utah legislature and their wives visited Weber college today in the first stop of an all-day inspection tour of state institutions in Ogden. The lawmakers were guests of honor at an assembly of the 1700 Weber college students. President Henry Aldous Dixon told the visitors that Weber's faculty had been entrusted with a great responsibility re-sponsibility for realizing young . peoples' wishes for higher education. educa-tion. Dixon pointed out that at least 400 students a year would like like to attend college for two -more years but are unable to do o unless they can stay in Ogden. On Two-Year Program Weber college now has only a two-year program. Dixon said at least 80 per cent of the college's students were from Weber county. However, Dixion mentioned specifically a bill already presented to the legislature leg-islature calling for expansion of the school into a four-year university. uni-versity. Senate President Alonzo F. Hopkin agreed that educators face a great responsibility. He also reminded them that financial demands on the current legislature legisla-ture are the greatest in Utah history. his-tory. "The legislature is proud of the fine history of Weber college," Hopkin said, "and we are confident con-fident of its leaders and we are ure that any money we might appropriate would be put to beneficial bene-ficial use. However, wa cannot promise anything now." House Speaker Ed J. McPolin also, was introduced. From the college, the lawmakers lawmak-ers visited the school for the deaf and blind, the state industrial school and the state tuberculosis sanitorium. SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 21 (U.R) A Trailways bus driver today expressed doubt that members of the Utah legislature know the laws they make. The legislators climbed into a bus for a junket to Ogden. Before Be-fore they started, the driver turned turn-ed in his seat said: "In case you passengers are not familiar with the laws of Utah,' no smoking is allowed in a bus." Autc Workers To Ask $100 Pension MILWAUKEE. Jan. 21 (U.R) President Walter P. Reuther committed com-mitted his CIO United Auto Workers today to a campaign for $100-a-month pensions in the automobile industry. Reuther told 2,500 delegates to the UAW education conference last night that the union's demands de-mands for 1949 contracts will emphasize the so-called "fringe benefits" of Increased social security and medical and health programs. "We will fight with all the weapons of labor to enforce our demands," he said. In a statement that might keynote all of labor's demands from management this year, Reuther said: "With some leveling off of the price indexes we feel it .is opportune oppor-tune to direct our attention to social security." For the past three or four years, he said, the union has fought for higher wages "to keep our heads above water." With prices lowering somewhat, the UAW can now emphasize the security program. News Highlights In Central Utah 12-Year Temperature Mark Equalled Here Last Night t County Horticultural Group Picks '49 Officers 3 Hobble Creek Snow Depth Far Above Last Year. .J Wildlife Group To Raise Funds To Feed Starving Animals 4 Utah County Communities Give "Man of Year" Jaycee Awards. .7 Dope Charge that the stories told him by the prison inmates seemed to. him to be true. He did not elaborate about the dope charges. Lee Asks Probe Ellett's statement came after Gov. J. Bracken Lee asked his legislative advisor, F. Henry Henroid, to investigate testimony in Ellett's court that the liquor at the farm was being sold in case lots. Henroid said he would take a few days to make the inquiry and would report back to the gover nor early next week. Lee said that if Henroid found that such liquor sales had been made, he would fire prison officials responsible. The gubernatorial assistant also will check on accusations that convicts at the prison in Suear house and the penal" farm hear Point-of-the-Mountain were subjected sub-jected to cruel and inhuman treatment. Charges By Prisoner The charges were made in third district court yesterday by Grover Thompson, a life termer at the prison who was testifying at the escape trial of another inmate, Jack L. Bunce. Thompson said Bunce was drunk when he escaped from the farm and didn t know what he was doing. Asked to elaborate, the prisoner told District Judge A. H. Ellett that the low-grade liquor was smuggled in, sold for up to $10 a fifth, and hidden in chicken coops. The convict said that typical of what he termed inhuman treatment treat-ment was the feeding schedule that called for all three meals to be served within five hours. Prison warden John E. Harris called the testimony a pack of lies. He said such stories could be expected from convicts who were in disciplinary cells for correction. cor-rection. He added that if liquor had been available, he was certain cer-tain the prison staff would have known it. President Smith, LDS Church Head, In Coast Hospital LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (U.R) George Albert Smith, 79, president presi-dent of the LDS church, was treated today at California hospital hos-pital for a "minor stomach disorder." dis-order." Taken to the hospital last r.ight. Smith, spiritual leader of more than 1,000,000 Mormons, spenj a restful night and expects to be discharged in a day or two. He came here Sunday in connection, con-nection, with plans to build a temple here. Smith was stricken at Beverly Hills home of Preston Richards. Bishop ArthurHaycock said there was nothing alarming about Smith's condition. Tots Found Starved, xi V - f r4Xw ; n ft v - K Vermin-covered and half sUrved. Margaret, 1 (left), and Beatrice Grljalva, 8, were found In the kitchen of their home In Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Calif, when investigators called after neighbor! reported too little food had been entering the house since the mother died two months before. An 18-year-old sister, Vera, found dressed aa if ready to "attend a ball" was booked on a charge of neglect. Their father disappeared four years ago. Russell Up V 1 - -J1J t X. Louis J. Russell, above, a former for-mer baseball player, appears to be in the "on deck" circle for the job of Chief Investigator for the House Un-American Activities Activi-ties Committee. Russell, an FBI agent, has been assistant investigator inves-tigator to Robert Stripling, who recently resigned, and has prepared pre-pared many of the spy cases. New Storm On Way, Warns Weather Man By United Press The intermountain west, already al-ready buried by one of its heaviest winter-long snowfalls, was warned today that a new storm is coming. Intermittent snow was coming down already in southern Idaho as the storm front moved out of the weather making factory off the Pacific northwest coast. The new storm was expected to hit northern Utah late today and move south during the night until it covers most of the state tomorrow. Fresh winds are coming ahead of " the-stormf ront to plague dog-tired dog-tired road maintenance crews, who have been battling the elements ele-ments steadily since late November. Novem-ber. Bingham Road Closed Only one major road from Salt Lake City to the mining camps around Bingham was closed today but the fight to keep the others open was a touch and go proposition. With the storm came jiew dangers to livestock, thousands of which already were . starving because of snow covering their natural winter feed and the highways high-ways over which hay and concentrates con-centrates could be moved by truck. Tempteratures were way low again, but were expected to be up a bit tonight. The lowest recording record-ing in the area was 29 below at Malad, Idaho. Only above-zero minimums were 10 at Boise and 29 at St. George, Utah. In the. below zero class in Utah were Provo with -18, Ogden with -7, Salt Lake, -6; Logan, -5: Fairfield, Fair-field, -24; Delta. -13; Milford, -4; Bryce Canyon, -17, and Greenriver, -10. In Idaho, Idaho Falls had -15, Pocatello, -11, and Burley, -7. GOODMAN BECOMES ILL AT INAUGURAL BALL WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U,R) Band Leader Benny Goodman, who has been suffering from a bronchial ailment, was forced to leave the bandstand last night at the inaugural, ball when he be came suddenly ill. Sister Held 60 Railroads Reject Offer Of Mediation Brotherhood Demands An Extra Engineer On Diesel Locomotives CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (U.R) Sixty railroads today rejected a government proposal to arbitrate their dispute With the Brotherhood of Locomotive Locomo-tive Engineers, who demand that an extra engineer be employed em-ployed on big diesel locomotives. locomo-tives. The brotherhood previously had accepted the arbitration proposal. wnich was made by the national mediation board after its attempts to mediate the dispute failed last week. Union members already have voted their officers authority to call a strike against 14 of the 60 roads. The 14 are western roads on which diesels are used . ex tensively. No strike date has been set, however. Make-Work Scheme The railroads, in a letter to the mediation board today, said the union's demand for a second engineer en-gineer on diesel engines "is purely pure-ly a. make-work scheme designed to extend featherbedding and create unnecessary jobs. The union contends an extra engineer on multiple-unit diesels is necessary for safe operation. In their letter, the railroads said a fact-finding board in 1943 decided that no extra engineer was needed. need-ed. The dispute has been brewing since 1937. after diesels first began be-gan to make their appearance. The railroads said the Brother hood of Firemen and Enginemen also demands that an extra fireman fire-man be employed on diesel engines. en-gines. In their letter to the board the railroads said that engineers and firemen have "received three sub stantial wage increases in as many years as well as rules conces sions." Disregards Rights These concessions to the union, the railroads said, can be sup ported "only if efficiency and productivity are permitted to increase. in-crease. "To seek now to impair effi ciency and productivity by needless need-less and unwarranted restrictions On the use of modern improve ments and attempted imposition of make-work proposals is in dis regard of the rights of the ship ping and travelling public and of the entire American people who must pay transportation charges on the goods they consume," the railroads said. Snow Places Sheep Herds In Bad Straits By UNITED PRESS A sudden storm threatened to lay a fresh blanket of snow over the deep drifts on the Great Plains today but the weather bureau said it was "showing defi nite signs of weakening." Forecasters issue warnings that the storm, which is termed "important", "im-portant", would be heavy over southeastern and extreme eastern Nebraska and north central Kan sas. Blizzard conditions were fore cast for sections of Nebraska and Kansas today as the winds shifted to the north. However, in a later forecast, the Kansas City weather bureau said the blizzard might not develop as the storm was moderating. Another storm concentrated on northern Arizona after spreading 20 inches of new snow over west ern Utah and eastern Nevada. Flagstaff, Ariz., had three feet of snow on the ground. Snow Covers Ranges At 1 Salt Lake City, experts warned that Utah's 1,616,000 sheep were undergoing a "calamity" because be-cause their ranges had been covered by the deep snow. Director Marion Clawson of the federal bureau of land management manage-ment said it was "impossible to exaggerate the peril to flocks. Other experts warned that meat prices would climb if the snow resulted in starvation for many sheep. At. least 100,000 sheep and 20,- 000 cattle were endangered in eastern Nevada and some farm officials feared livestock losses would approach $1,000,000. The cold wave that brought sub-zero temperatures to most of the northern part of the nation this week hit the Atlantic coast line last night but had moderated to the point where the chill was scarcely noticeable. It still was cold in the northern border states, however, mainly due to radiation from the heavy blanket of snow. Dickinson, N.D.. reported 30 below zero and Mowbridge, SJD registered -28. Truman Prbwam Ship Crashes Captain John A. Glynn (above) was in command of the Coast Guard cotter Eastwind when it collided with the tanker Gulf-stream Gulf-stream off the coast of New Jersey. Search Planes Find Wreckage Of Airliner BULLETIN ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Jan. 21 (U.Ri Six persons were killed when an Alaska Airlines DC-3 airplane crashed crash-ed against a mountain slope near II omer, Alaska. a ground search party radioed to the Civil Aeronautics administration ad-ministration today. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 21 (U.R) The wreckage of an Alaska Airlines DC-3, missing since last night with five persons aboard, was sighted on the slope of a mountain 30 miles northeast of Homer, Alaska, the civil aeronautics aeronaut-ics administration reported today. fig? The CAA said the plane was onthe fourtn to serve since Mn Tru. a flight from Homer to Anchor age. The wreckage was sighted by search planes dispatched from Anchorage. A search pilot who sighted the wreckage said it was impossible to determine the "exact condition condi-tion of the plane or the fate of the occupants." He told the CAA he did not see any sign of life around the wreckage. The CAA did not identify the pilot. There were three crew members mem-bers and two passengers aboard the ill-fated aircraft, the CAA said. It was not learned immediately whether the plane had burned. Homer is-a small hamlet on the northwestern tip of the Kenai peninsula pproximately 150 miles from Anchorage. Judge Won't Be Witness In Communist Conspiracy Trial NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (U.R) Federal Fed-eral Judge Harold R. Medina refused re-fused today to let the defense make him a witness in the Com munist conspiracy trial over which he is presiding. Attorneys defending 11 U. S. Communist national board mem- Ders nad tnreatened to call as witnesses all the 'judges in this federal judicial district in their pre-trial challenge to the New York jury array as being a "Park Avenue penthouse panel" which systematically excludes laborers, negroes, women and minority political parties. Gives Decision Medina opened the fifth day of the trial by stating he had decided de-cided he could not be a witness in a case over which he presided. "I simply will not testify." "I've had nothing to do with the jury system and have not participated in it at all." The 11 top Communists are changed with conspiring to "teach and advocate" the violent destruction of the U. S. government. govern-ment. Medina had requested government govern-ment and defense attorneys to prepare overnight memoranda citing legal precedents on whether wheth-er he might testify at the trial in which he was a judge. U. S. Attorney F. X. McGohey submitted submit-ted a memorandum, and the de fense stated it concurred in the cases cited therein. Medina then asked: "Does the 'Jordan also was reported under defense intend to call me?" study. Defense Attorney Harry Sacherj The state department said Wal- ubmifcs IB tor Av Acheson Sworn In Successor To Marshall New Secretary To Be Charged With Pushing Truman's New Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U.R) Dean Achespn took the oath today as secretary of state, a role in which he wiH be charged with pushing President Truman's "bold new program" for fighting communism com-munism and human misery. He was sworn at 11:13 a. m. EST. in President Truman's office in the White House. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson while Mr. Truman looked on . Acheson succeeds Geri. George C. Marshall under whom he helped help-ed to map the anti-Communist Greek-Turkish aid and European recovery plans. The 68-year-old Marshall resigned, effective yesterday, yes-terday, for health reasons. Truman Present Members of Acheson's family. cabinet members, other government govern-ment officials and congressional leaders of both parties also watched the ceremony. Acheson stood in front of Mr. Truman's desk as he took the oath, Immediately afterward Mr. Truman stepped around the desk and shook hands with the new secretary. Just before the ceremony, Mr. Truman performed his first official offi-cial act of the new term signing the commission of his long-time friend former Sen. Carl C. Hatch of New Mexico to be federal judge of the district of New Mexico. After the swearing in ceremony a reporter asked Acheson when he would move Into his new post. He replied, "I'm going over right now." He said he would make no public statement in connection with his induction into office. 52nd Secretary Acheson is the 52nd secretary n f ctafo In Amflriran Viicfnrr anH man became president in April, 1945. Robert A. Lovett, acting secretary secre-tary of state until Acheson was sworn, also was on hand to see Acheson take the oath along with associate supreme court justice Felix Frankfurter. 1200 FIRESTONE WORKERS ON STRIKE BOMBAY, Jan. 21 (U.R) Twelve hundred workers of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company went on strike today to back up a demand de-mand for bonuses amounting to wages for four and a half months. The Firestone Rubber Workers union issued a statement saying the strike was intended to secure the bonus and "to give a stubborn fight to the Akron capitalists and their paid agents." then rose and said "We genuinely do not know at this time". Jury System Challenged The defense attorneys had indicated in-dicated it planned to call scores of witnesses to testify about the "illegal" jury system, which they ccntend uses the sociai register. Who's Who in New York, and the director of directors to 3elect names of prospective jurors. McGohey had suggested that if Medina were called to the witness wit-ness stand by the defense it might disqualify-him from presiding. pre-siding. Medina indicated he, too, wasn't sure about the point U. S. Grants Full Recognition To Venezuela and El Salvador WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U.R) iter J. Donnelly, U. S. ambassador f"? Jk wy granieo iuu aipiomauc recognition to newi military regimes in Venezuela and El Salvador. The state department made public an exchange of notes with Venezuela in which it recognized that country's revolutionary gov- ernment. Later it announced similar recognition of the govern - ment of 1 Salvador which seized power on Dec. 14. American recognition of the new state of Israel and of Trans- Seeks to Better Economic Lot of Other Countries By LYLE C. WILSON ) United Press Staff Correspondent ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U.R) President Truman today to-day asked congressmen to help him avert war by supporting his plans for improving the economic lot of other countries. , The president said at a breakfast meeting of Missouri congressmen and others in the capitol that he will need the cooperation of congress if his efforts to maintain world peace are to succeed. Some of his own congressional leaders were, however. Dewuaerea on mis iirst mil aayi of his administration by the pres ident s bold jiew program for raising the living standards of backward peoples abroad. Announced Plan Yesterday He announced the plan in his inauguration address yesterday and returned to it informally at today's Missouri breakfast. A member of the Missouri dele gation who attended the break fast said Mr. Truman told the gathering that the next war will be one of total destruction. He again expressed hope that the economic condition of the world can be improved. He said this would assure continued prosperity pros-perity in this country. In yesterday's address the president pres-ident denounced Soviet communism commun-ism as a threat to peace but did not refer to Russia by name. Today To-day he did, it was reported. He voiced the opinion, it was said, l that Russia is not a true Com munist state but rather a dictator dic-tator pure and simple. In a true Communist state, Mr. Truman was reported to have explained, ex-plained, the people are treated equally and share equally. But in Russia, he was quoted as adding, all authority is vested in a few men who decide what benefits the people are to get. Compares With Democracy Mr. Truman was said to have compared life in a democracy with that in a dictatorship by pointing out that in a democracy the people themselves are the final authority. Major party figures were questioning ques-tioning the program on and off the record. There were signs of a Republican attack in force. In contrast, there was general acclaim for Mr. Truman's challenge chal-lenge to Soviet Russia. Men known for thejr liking for the Communist party line were critical, criti-cal, but not a great many others were. As congress pondered the president's presi-dent's inaugural outline of foreign policy, Dean Achespn began his chores as secretary of state. It was obvious from Mr. Truman's Tru-man's forceful inaugural statement state-ment that Acheson would have less to do with making policy than in carrying it out in his new position. Mr. Truman already has said what the broad outlines of foreign policy shall be. McCloy Gives Views While the capital scrambled for more information on the controversial contro-versial "living standard" portions of Mr. Truman's address, world bank president John J. McCloy returned to Washington and said maybe it originated with him. The plan might have come, McCloy said, from some papers he sent to the White House recently. He said a program to aid backward back-ward peoples might be worked out through the world bank or the export-import bank. Any loans would be for a long term. Whether they would be tied to the Marshall plan program, Mc Cloy did not know. Congress will insist, however, on getting from Mr. Truman or Acheson considerably more detailed de-tailed information. As Acheson picked up the di rection of foreign affairs, there was a barrage of questions, doubts, and dissents from congress on that part of the foreign policy stated yesterday by Mr. Truman. Hesitate To Comment It would divert American and other private capital into the de (Continued on Page Two) to Venezuela, delivered a note of t. cognition to the Caracas gov ernmem voaay. The document said the United States had noted statements by the new regime that it would "strictly fulfill its international obligations," and would prepare elections. .5 Venezuela in a note dated Nov. ;25 notified this government that the new Military Junta had taken over in Venezuela because of the "grave circumstances threatening the social peace and economic life of the Republic." j d fix w TV TV7 n mm mm mmr mm War Chiang Steps Out; Li Takes Over In China NANKING, Jan. 21 (U.R) - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retired as president of China today to-day and turned the reins of government gov-ernment over to Vice President Li Tsung-Jen, an ardent advocate of peace with the Communists. In retiring Chiang left open a way to return to his leadership of Nationalist China if peace talks failed. He used a word meaning "temporary leave of absence" ab-sence" rather than announcing his outright resignation. Chiang then boarded his private pri-vate plane and left Nanking in dramatic flicrht into pxil w stopped first at Hangchow, 150 miles south of Nanking, to make a motor trip to his home town of Genghua, in Chekiang province. Soong Resigns Too Two hours after Chiang's departure de-parture the Communist radio rejected re-jected the Nationalist government's govern-ment's appeal for a cease-fire and said that any peace conference must be held before the end of hostilities. The Communist broadcast, although al-though made after Chiang left Nanking, obviously had been prepared pre-pared before it was known that Chiang was relinquishing his 21-year 21-year rule of Nationalist China. The resignation of T. V. Soong as governor of Kwantgung province prov-ince was announced' officially. Gen. Hsueh Yueh was named to succeed him. Soong. a brother-in- law of Chiang, was in Nanking today, and there were reports he might succeed Wellington Koo as Chiang said in a 300-word statement announcing his decision decis-ion to step down tha he was leaving Nanking in an effort toj (Continued on Page 8) . 1 Pepper Proposes T.-H. Law Repeal Vithout Hearings WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U.R) nairman Libert D. Thomas of V li ... Bciuiu; muur cummiuee pre oicted today that the committee v. ill-reject a plan of Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla.. to approve a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley law without hearings. The committee discussed, without with-out taking action, the procedure to be followed in drafting a new labor law. A decision was deferred defer-red until Monday because Pepper could not attend, today's session. Pepper has promised to offer motion to approve, without hearings, hear-ings, a bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley law and to restore the Wagner act. at least temporarily while congress studies Wagner act amendments. " Hearings Held Certain Thomas told reporters he believed be-lieved he could say "with certainty" cer-tainty" that hearings would start as soon as possible after 'Monday's 'Mon-day's meeting. He said he personally per-sonally hoped that the hearings could be completed within month and a half." He cautioned that his view should not be interpreted as "time table". ; Thomas appeared not to know of Pepper's proposal until told of it by newsmen. "I'm afraid, if put to a vote, that would be voted down," he said. Thomas said action without public hearings would be "ah invitation in-vitation to the Opposition" to prolong pro-long senate debate so more, time would be consumed in passing the bill than would be needed if hearings were held first. " . , ' COLOR VIDEO STILL MUST BE DEVELOPED s CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (U.R) Color Col-or television will not be available for widespread use for at least eight years, an electrical engineer said today. ' . Professor Arthur B. Bronwell of Northwestern university's technological institute said that two systems of color television have been developed, but are too expensive for public sale. |