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Show Monday, January 31, Survey Shows Fury Wrought By Worst Winter In History (OnUmied from Page One) for relief: $1,945,000 by the ''statu, $800,000 by President Truman and congress, plus a virtual blank check given the army for disaster work. States hit: Nevada, Arizona,' Utah, Colorado; Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Montana and California. Cali-fornia. States of emergency declared de-clared in six states Nebraska and High Court Rules In Bankrupt Case WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 U.R- The supreme court today ruled that U. S. tax claims have priority over claims of unpaid employes to the assets of a bankrupt Los Angeles company. The unanimous ruling reversed a ruling of the Ninth circuit court of appeals in California, which had ruled for the unpaid workers of the Kessco Engineering Corp. me collector 01 internal rev enue seized the firm for unpaid taxes in 1946. Its assets were sold at auction leaving in the hands of the collector's trustee $31,206. Claims against the firm included in-cluded $40,922 in federal taxes, $3,424 In wage claims and $15,135 in, taxes due to the California department of employment. The court's ruling once more affirmed the doctrine that federal Claims nave priority over an otner claims on a bankrupt estate. Justice Harold H. Burton delivered de-livered the opinion. News Executive (Continued from Pace One) identified by another army officer. of-ficer. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31 iV.K! Miles W. Vaughn, the United Press manager for Asia who -drowned yesterday while hunting, hunt-ing, in ' Tokyo bay, was well known in Utah because of many visits to relatives. His widow is the former Inez Sharman of Salt Lake City. She was the daughter of Sam H. Sharman, a pioneer Utah automobile auto-mobile dealer and sportsman: Sharman retired nine years ago and since has lived in Los, Angeles, An-geles, except for frequent trips to Utah to Inspect his business properties. Vaughn's last visit to Salt Lake City was early in 1945 when he stopped briefly on his way from New York, where he had been night news manager for United Press, to the Orient to takeover his last Asiatic assignment. Weber College (Continued from Page One) Carters of Weber college keep the en law in effect. Should be lien law be repealed, Clegg said, the state would lose about $2,500,000 in taxes which would be sorely needed for such, activities as Weber .college and ether state institutions. Glbfton Backs Bill Freshman Sen. Marl D. Gibson. D., Price, made his first major speech from the floor in support of the bill. He said he believed Ogden had grown to the point where the city needed and could support a college. With the apparent demand de-mand for higher education, Gibson Gib-son said it was up to the legislature legisla-ture to provide the opportunity. Gibson said he realized that all of the state institutions needed buildings. But he added that the University of Utah "was too big now," and perhaps Weber college could relieve some of the burden. Every Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) Sat-urday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning Published by The Herald Corporation, Corpora-tion, B0 South First West Street. Provo, Utah. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in Provo. Utah, under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah couhtv S1.00 the month. $6 .00 for six months in advance, $1200 the year In advance. By mail anywhere in the United States or Its possessions. posses-sions. $100 the month. 00 for six months, Sia.00 the year in advance. CoMflew Snadle, Boll sad Bash- Ml KM. All pans loteroauoaaJ- M t tri (tic-checked lot aeectsioa, reliability and sapcrior performance by laieraauoaal eagiaeerfc. ANDERSON'S 241 WEST CENTER PHONE 343 DRAPERY SLIPCOVERS UPHOLSTERING DARGAIII DATS On ordtra placed during- Jan. or Fab IIG REDUCTIONS ON LABOR CHARGES ACT II07 AITD CAVE Gat TuA Particulars at DTE 1949 DAILY HERALD Utah, and parts of Nevada, Ari zona. Wyoming and soutn uaxoia As the great storms swept across the plains! snow bank piled on snow bank. Humans froze to death. Hundreds of cattle and sheep died in their tracks and were buried in the snow. Some died alongside ice-filled troughs. Entire cities were aonwbouna. Hard-packed drift as high as 40 feet blocked rescue workers in Nebraska. Today the air force and army pushed an all-out effort with "operation "op-eration haylift" in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska, and "operation "op-eration bulldozer" in Nebraska and South Dakota. The weather had warmed a bit Sunday but another an-other cold wave and storm! was moving in from Canada. More than 100 private, national suard and air force planes, in cluding 28 C-82 "Hying boxcars," swept back and forth across the ranges dropping feed to cattle and sheep marooned without food. Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, commanding com-manding a fifth army disaster force, sent scores of men, tractors and bulldozers into snowbound distress areas. It was the biggest bulldozer operation since he directed di-rected the building of the famed Ledo road in China during the war. The deepest snowfall reported during the month was 134 inches at Steamboat Springs in the t-oio rado mountains. All of it .still is on the eround. Sub-zero tempera turest extended across the west. with the lowest reading -57 at Carlin, Nev. Nebraska and northern Arizona rcDorted that the storm which hit Jan. 2-5 was the worst on record. Colorado said it had. the worst series of January storms in its history. San Diego, Cal., had .Its coldest .Ian. 25 in 99 years. Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska said his state "is suffering the greatest disaster in her history." No Television Allowed In Cars SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31l'R -A move was started here to day to block the installation of television receivers in automobiles. automo-biles. H. P. Leatham, director, Utah drivers license division. Was spearheading the campaign. He said anything that distracts drivers driv-ers tends to create a hazard. "Even radio," he said, "takes a driver's mind from the road and has been related to accident causes." Leatham said he would arrange, a meeting with the house committee com-mittee on traffic safety to outline out-line the need for keeping television tele-vision sets out of cars. Legislature Visit (Continued from Page One) Tuesday afternoon and give their support to the effort to get build ing funds for the school, accord ing to Burton H. Adams, com mission chairman. The vocational school superin tendent said building sketches would be shown to the legislators. He added that there are no archi tectural drawings of the proposed buildings, since money has not been made available for that pur pose. Mr. Sorenson said any future building will be done at the school's new site between 13th and 14th North on the Provo canyon road. The Vocational school has title to ll'i acres of ground in this area- and will begin its building program as soon as funds are made available, Mr. Sorenson said. The present buildings occupied by the school belong to the county and are needed for county fair celebrations. Since the school has been using the structures, county fair activities have been eliminated. elimin-ated. Stalin 'Offer' (Continued from Page One) plan is to deal through the United Unit-ed Nations and our own .state department and bv roller), ac tion among other democratic mates as is provided by the UN charter. The administration Is believed coldest to the no-war proposal in Stalin's weekend propaganda move. The Soviet Union's no-war agreement record is an uncommonly uncom-monly bad one. The Russians on April 7, 1934, renewed a no-war pact with Finland to continue until 1945. On Nov. 30, 1939, Soviet Sov-iet troops invaded Finland. Moscow Mos-cow had no-'war agreements with tr.ree little Baltic states, Lithuania, Lithua-nia, Latvia and Esthonia. They were overrun and swallowed by communism Ions sinr ' In August 1939, Moscow gave Hitler the go ahead . for World War II by making a deal with Germany. It provided that the "ermini ana Russians would instantly in-stantly whack up Poland between them H a war came. War began in a matter of days. The Soviet Union Un-ion seized eastern Poland although al-though the Poles and" the Russians Rus-sians were joined at the time in Navy Sky Giant pm' UMJ m IJ, aja)t.jisKMlMlls,wrW S . . : ,1 ;y . TV- Having completed fllgM .raqoiraMnts, tb wo lauutuauc un i mm MUMiwuss IB007i will Dai piaoea BB commission by the Navy at tfae Alamed (Calif.) Naval Air Stottoo. This transport, weighing 83-tons. aeta 180 persons, sould fly ooo-atop from San Francisco to London and reportedly can operate commercially commer-cially at lower cost per pasrngrr mils than any aiipia,na aver built. Orem Group Picks New Directors OREM T. J. Weaver was reelected re-elected as president of the Mount A' Lake association at a recent meeting of the board of directors. direct-ors. The reelection of Mr. Weaver Weav-er followed the annual meeting of the cooperative association at which a complete new board of directors was named following the resignation of the old board. Action bringing about the resignation res-ignation of the former board was tne introduction of an amendment amend-ment to the association's by-laws which called for the reduction in the number of board members and which was approved by the membership represented at the meet. 1 . Those elected to ths new board include Mr. Weaver "and J. L. Mower for three-yearterms; Chester Graff and J, B. Stratton, two-year terms; Lawrence. Patm- cr, Robert R. Benson and Elliott! Sable for one-year term's. Principal speakers at the meeting were E. R. Rehling, president of the Utah Cooperative Cooper-ative association, and C. E. Huff, general manager of the National Farmers Union Service corporation. corpora-tion. Further business of Jthe evening even-ing included action on an amend ment to the by-laws which auto-' niatically remove from office directors di-rectors who fail to attend meetings. meet-ings. Sam Kiefer, the Peter Spray-nozzle Spray-nozzle of radio, entertained the group following the business meeting. Exchange Club To Hear Dr. Ballif Members of the Provo Exchange Ex-change club will hear Dr. ArW S. Ballif, member of the BYU facultv. at their regular lunch eon meeting Tuesday noon in Keeleys. , Dr. Ballif, aetive in the Utah county organization of civic unity uni-ty and eradication of racial prejudice, prej-udice, will show a film on the subject of freedom and democracy. democ-racy. Chairman of the day will be Horace Breinholt. Berry Growers To Meet Wednesday OREM 'Annual membership meeting of the Utah Berry Grow ers association is slated for Wed nesday at 7:30 p. m. The meeting will be held in the Orem city hall upstairs meeting room. A good attendance is urged by those In charge to assist in the election of board members to direct activities activi-ties of the organization for the coming year. Tobin Asks (Continued from Page One) gency section, Tobin did not refer to injunctions. The bill .would provide that employers and' employes em-ployes should continue to resume work for 30 days under the former for-mer conditions of employment If the president declared an emergency emer-gency and appointed a factfinding fact-finding board. a defensive alliance and a no-war no-war pact. Standing Pat When World War II ended, the late President Eduard Bene of Czechoslovakia sought to make his country the peace-bridge between be-tween the east and west communism com-munism and democracy.. He signed sign-ed up to work with the Russians and his country last year was seized for communism. Mr. Truman and Acheson are standing pat on their tough-but-patient policy toward the Soviet Union. They are proceeding with the Marshall plan, the North Atlantic military pact and the president's "Fair Deal" program for the World outlined in his inaugural in-augural speech. Radiators Repaired AaU Glaaa Install eel Specialised Work AHLANDER'S Salt Lake Stock Exchange Closing quotations from the direct wire of Ken-Lo Corporation, Cor-poration, 265 W. 1st N. Bid Asked Big Hill 05 .07 Bullion 04 Vt .05 Vi Cardiff .30 .34 Chief Con 1.20 1.50 Clayton Silver . . .33 " .35 Colb. Rexall 25 .30 Combined Metals .27 Vi .29 Cres. Eagle Oil . .21 .24 East Standard . . .05 V .06 East Utah 45 .48 Eureka Bullion . .08 .10 Eureka Lilly Con. .18 ,20 Great Western .. .06 t ,10 Horn Silver 16 ! .18 Indian jQueen ... .01 V ' .02 Madison Mines . .35 .36 Miller Hill . .06 .09 Mt. Stages Dev. . . .15i .16 New Parkv 1.55 160 North Lillys . ; . . .23 .27 No. Standard v. .04 .05 Ohio Copper ..V .21 .22 Park City Con. . .42 .43 Royston Coal. .. .64 .07 Vi Silver King Coal. 3.7.tKv 4.00 Silver Shield ... .03 W .034 Tar Baby .03 .04 '4 Tintic Lead . .. .15 .18 Tintic Standard . .75 .80 West Toledo 05 .06 SALES FOR DAT Operating Clayton Silver, 300 at 33c. Commonwealth Lead, 6000 at 534 c. East Standard, 6000 at 8V4c; 1000 at 5sic. , Little May, 3500 at 2 3ic". North Standard. 1000 at 4c. Ohio Copper, 800 at 21 c. Park City Cons., 200 at 42c. Silver Standard, 7500 at 2c. Tintic Standard, 500 at 75c; 300 at 75c. Western Alloys, 2000 at 2c. Defendant Given Floater By Court Ida James, 40, Seattle, changed her previous plea to guilty in Provo city court Saturday on pettlarceny charge and was given .suspended 15 day jail sentence if she would leave Provo Pro-vo that afternoon. Douglas J. Pavne pleaded guilty guil-ty to a charge of driving without with-out a driver's licsrise and was fined $2.50 by theProvo citv court. Mabelle Regar, 38; 344 N. 1st W., pleaded guilty to a charge of not stopping at a -stop sign and was fined $15 in Provo cit court Saturday. Forfeitures in city court Saturday Sat-urday were: Edward Marshall, improper parking, $5; Doyle Harris. Har-ris. 19, Pleasant Grove, speeding, $15; Ivan Hope, 21, Wymount, failure to yield the right of way, $15. On the market for home-recorder owners is a producer's kit containing three scripts of short piays for party recording. 10 devices de-vices for making sound effects, and a sound-effects handbook. LOANS Anycns Can Understand ' 2fru a month repays $200 loan $141 monthly repays 5t I1M5 manthry repays SIN $3.1 snonthly repays $3M ornci aotma a. as, ts I s a, tatty au as. te 1 sx. aa. Saturday Aavolntaaeata aaay he a tor after hour. Faaas S7a KKN HOUSTON. Mana Nurses of Two Districts Open Confab Public health nurses of the Fourth and Fifth health districts opened a two-day staff conference confer-ence in the city and county building this morning. The second session of the meeting was in progress this afternoon, and featured an address ad-dress by Mrs. Dorothy Lowman of the state department of public health nursings, who discussed the "National Office of Public Health Nurses Time Study Plan." The confab will be continued Tuesday, with Mrs. Alice Peterson, Peter-son, medical sociAl work supervisor super-visor for the state department of health, and Dr. L. W. Oakes of Provo, scheduled to deliver the principal addresses. Rites Slated For Soldier Killed In . Philippine Islands Graveside funeral services for Harry William Fricke Jr., who was killed at Manila, Luzon Island, in March of 1045, will be held in Provo Thursday, at 2 p. m. The young man was born in Joliet, 111. April 23, 1920, a son of Harry W. and Martha Slockerman Fricke. He came to Provo .with his parents at the time construction began on the Geneva Steel plant and enlisted in the army at the Provo recruiting center in 1942. He is survived by his parents, his mother being a resident of Provo. He was a member of the Assembly Assem-bly of God church. Rev. Heath of Salt Lake City will officiate at servic.es, with military honors to be conducted by American Legion Post 13. Friends may call at Claudin mortuary Wednesday evening and Thursday prior to services. Arizonan Dies From Exposure WILLIAMS, Ariz., Jan. 31 (U.R) Bertram E. Wilson, a 29-year-old Lazy S-B ranch hand, was listed today as he state's first victim of the heaviest snowfall in northern Arizona history. His wife and sister-in-law found his frozen body a short distance from the ranch yesterday. yester-day. A coroner's jury ruled Wilson died from exhaustion and ex posure while trying to return to the ranch through snowdrifts eight feet deep in places. Hi broken skiwas found .near his body. Moose Lodge Calls Special Meeting: Plans for a new building site will be discussed at a special meeting tonight for all members of the Provo Moose lodge. The meeting begins at 8 p. m., in the Labor temple. Governor Blaine Norton will be in charge, and the meeting is to be attended by W. S. Edmunds, Ed-munds, Salt Lake City, regional director of the lodge. Maeser PTA Plans Discussion Panel "Freedom From Fear," will be the topic of a discussion panel scheduled for 7 p. m., tonight by the Maeser PTA study group at the Maeser school. The- panel will be composed of Superintendent J. C. Moffitt ciauoe fioDDins, Mrs. Sinerrnan Christenson, Nancy Fetschecand j Catherine Bowie. Everyone is in- j vnea. ine meeting lsscneauied to last an hour. There are nocoal mines In Nebraska, butfhe state is rich in aiiica, chalky sand, and graveL 4 Mortgage Loans MONTHLY LOANS v INSTALLMENTS AS LOW AS $5.28 PER MONTH No Appraisal Fee No Service Charges Up to 1 of the Loan Paid toward closing costs. Insurance Protection for You, not the Lender. 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Paramount films topped the producers "hate" list with three of the 10 "worst movies of the year. They were "The Emperor Waltz," "Beyond Glory," and '"Sorry, wrong number." Jeannette MacDonald was named the "worst reincarnation" for her comeback in "Three Dar ing Daughters" and Joan Fontaine won the "worst deception" award for her role as a 16-year-old girl in "Letter From An Unknown Woman." Other stars on the Lampoon's blacklist were Eleanor Parker, Lisbeth Scott, Deanna Durbin, Barbara Stanwyck, Ida Luplino, Gregory Peck, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson. Two children found a $2,500 "pebble" in a South African river which led to the discovery of the billion-dollar Kimberly diamond fields. See the Features... You'll Scarcely Believe the Prlcol MAC? J 3-Blade Agitator Quiet Transmission Safety Release High van type is rapid and gentle, has no lower bearing to collect dirt or grease. Extra of Up To $25.00 Trade-in Allowance On Your Old Washer Chinese Communists Inject New Conditions For Peace , NANKING, Jan. 31 (U.R) A government spokesman announced announc-ed today that the Nationalists have rejected a Communist de raand for the detention of Quo-mintang Quo-mintang "war criminals" named by the Communists in a list headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The Communists broadcast word Saturday that the National- Ists would have to arrest the Parents Day Set For Wednesday SPRING VILLE Parent's day at the Springville schools has been set for, Wednesday, according to Mrs. Jay Madsen, PTA president. That day, parents of the students in the junior and senior high schools will attend the classes in which their children are enrolled. The events of the day will be under the supervision of the PTA organization and will include the following program. Officials of the days' activities will conduct a general assembly at 9 a. m. with special talks given by Paul K. Walker and Lynn Hanks, principals. princi-pals. From 9:30 a. m. until noon parents will attend the classes which will be cut to half-hour periods. A noon lunch will be served and at 1 p. m. another assembly as-sembly will be held in which de partment heads will occupy five minutes each presenting displays of each days work and alms in the classrooms. Private consultations with teachers will be carried on from 2:30 p. m. until 4 p. m. to con elude the "school day" activities. Hodges to Retire From the Service NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (U.R) Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, hero of the Battle of the Bulge, will mark his retirement from 43 years of active army service today with traditional army ceremonies, a Broadway parade, and a farewell reception at city hall. Hodges, 62, is retiring under statutory age limits. He flunked out of West Point and joined the army as a private in 1906. During World War II he commanded the 1st army in its sweep across France where ' he turned back a desperate Nazi offensive thrust in "the Bulge." Re-Organized LDS Church Sets Meet Seventy Russel S. Ralston, missionary mis-sionary of the Re-Ofganized Church of Jesus Christfof Latter Day Saints, will begin a series of meetings hereMonday at 7:30 p. m., in the ReOrganized church building, 22BW. 4th S. Seventy Ralston will speak on the subject, "Christ Plans For the Future.' fUl r "Derates" Teh Wrlnter Swtnae est Ucks In f Pestttofl Preiser Ad- tesiniewt fer elf '182! SL $AA95 At Shawn, with tump, Regularly $11 5.50 tpriet y y Sensational" is hardly the word . . . it's amazing, this price slash on a big, fine CORONADO! Takes eight full pounds at a load, swishes them gently, washes them quickly and thoroughly gets out all the dirt, leaves clothes tleanar. It's lifetime lubricated for dependability. Approved by Under writers Laboratories. (45-7130 heavy geaTsjealcd Full length bars in oil a quality feature oroved by two decades wringer at a toucn. Jyj timet safer thaa Under X writers require. 225 W. CENTER "war criminals' at one ef the conditions which, must be fulfil led before peace talks could begin. be-gin. They said , many Kuomin-tang Kuomin-tang leaders had tried to escape, and noted that Chiang had fled Nanking. Accept Eight Points The government is willing to accept as a basis for peace negotiations nego-tiations the eight-point set ef conditions broadcast Jan. IS by Mao Tze-Tung, the No. 2 Chinese Communist, the official spokesman spokes-man reported. But the spokesman insisted that the Nationalist government head ed by Acting President Li Tsung- Jen did not expect to agree to any Communist terms before the op ening of peace talks. Such an attitude would forestall fore-stall any actual negotiations if the Communists stood fast on their insistence last week that the Nationalists would have) to meet in advance a number 1 of conditions including the arrest of the "war criminals." One of the Communist demands de-mands was for the extradition end retrial of Japanese Gen. Yasutsuge Okamura, who was acquitted of war crimes charges. Today the government spokesman said that was a judicial issue, and should not be allowed to prejudice preju-dice peace negotiations. Plan Trip To Canton Other sources reported that the cabinet soon would go to Canton for a token meeting, and then would come back to pursue peace aims. The Nationalist peace campaign cam-paign was in full swing. 11 Tsung-Jen and his supporters wanted to avoid any prejudice against their peace efforts by a formal transfer of the seat of government gov-ernment to Canton. Informants said the idea of a token trip to Canton by the cabinet cab-inet was calculated to impress on the Communists the sincerity of the peace efforts and at the same time signify the Nationalist determination de-termination to carry on the fight f the negotiations failed. TIME OF PRAYER MEETING CHANGED Pastor LeRoy L. Albers of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, announced today that weekly prayer meeting has been changed from Wednesday to Tuesday, beginning tomorrow. It will start at 8 p. m., as usual. RELIEF AT LAST For Your C0UG: Craoaaulaioa relieves promptly bacaoae it goes right to the seat of the troubLs to belp looaen Sad expel germ lad phlegm and aid nature to soothe and beal raw, tender, in flamed broochial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creoowlsioa with the understanding you amst like tbe way k quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CRE0MULSI0N forCottghs.CheitColdi.lronchitit (Adv. 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