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Show ft TEMPERATURES - alt Lake v Of . , T Log aa . . . . . St. Grg , , Lai Vcgai . , Pkacnlx Lw Anf Baa fraiw . Portlaai till Batu .... 41 IS YvUowttont It ( Danw .... I XC Chleac , St IS DttlttUI ... 11 INw Tork ' 44 4 1 4Mtaml .... II S 4tN. Orltaai - IT - t PARTLY CLOUDY wit afternoon Uwrnftni M. Low fcmfehi if. SIXTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 220 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949 price twt Gbtti Churchill Says Atom Bomb Saves Europe From Conquest by Russia Voice) Of America Beams Declaration To ' Iron Curtain Nations BOSTON, April 1 (U.R) Winston ' Churchill's, declaration declara-tion that Rusteia was prevent ed from overrunning Europe only by fear of the atomic bomb was broadcast to the iron curtain countries today by the state department's Voice of America. "I must not conceal from you . the truth as I see it," the war- ' time British prime minister said last night in a speech at Boston Bos-ton Garden. "It is certain that Europe would have been com-munized, com-munized, like Czechoslovakia, and London under bombardment bombard-ment some time ago, but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands of the . United .. States. ' Officials of the U. S. govern- merit's short wave radio service in New York said Churchill's remarks re-marks would make up the bulk of today's broadcasts to Russia and her satellites. They said a particularly "deep impression" could be expected on their iron curtain listeners by Churchill's statement that the Russian leaders "fear the friendship of the west more than Its hostility." i The 74-year - old Churchill rested in his hotel room today, planning to attend only two private pri-vate functions, a noon reception and an evening banquet. Tonight To-night he will accept an "honorary "honor-ary lectureship" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tech-nology. , i , Capacity Crowd A capacity crowd of 13,900 cheered Churchill's a d d r ess which was broadcast to a worldwide world-wide radio audience and to tele vision spectators as far west as St. Louis. He spoke at the first of a . series of M.I.T. mid-century mid-century convocations. s Churchill said he did not believe be-lieve that "violent or precipitate action" 'should be taken now , against the menace of Soviet eommualsm. He added his belief that , "war is not inevitable." Avoiding a picket line of 100 leftists inarching with placards accusing him of warmongering, Churchill entered the vast sports arena to be greeted by a stand lng ovation from the crowd. Bernard M. Baruch, host to Churchill during his visit to this (Continued on Page Six) Churchill In Boston to Give Speech ) in. m I Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, lights his morning cisrar as he leaves Boston's South Station. Churchill Is In Boston to address the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's mid-century mid-century convocation, which will be broadcast to the world over what was described as the most elaborate radio-video hookup in history. He was greeted by a vast throng of Bostonians. Russia Brands Atlantic Pact 'Aggressive7; Plans No Attack Soviet Charge Rejected By Spokesman - WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.R) A state department spokesman today sharply rejected Soviet charges that the purpose of the North Atlantic Pact is aggression! against Russia. The spokesman called the charges Russian propaganda designed de-signed to create confusion. The Russian accusations were made in a Soviet memorandum to the United States and six other treaty nations. They were lodged as foreign ministers of 12 countries coun-tries prepared to meet here tomorrow to-morrow to go over the treaty draft before signing it on Monday. Mon-day. No Surprise Here ,r- The Soviet charges neither surprised nor upset U. S. officials. They came as Secretary of State Dean Acheson continued a series of conferences with foreign ministers min-isters of other treaty nations. The state department spokesman spokes-man said the defense nature of the Atlantic Pact has been clearly expressed. He said that Russia can easily keep the treaty's col lective defense machinery from going into effect. That machinery, he said, can not be set in motion unless one of the pact nations is attacked. So all Russia needs to do, he continued, is to refrain from aggression ag-gression of its own. No U. N. Violation The state department spokesman spokes-man said the pact fits squarely within the framework of the United Nations. He denied Soviet charges that the the treaty would violate other treaties between Russia and France and Britain He pointed out that one article o' the Atlantic Pact specifically states that it is not in conflict "with any other treaties to which signatory nations are a party. MOSCOW, April 1 U.RRus-sia U.RRus-sia blasted the Atlantic treaty to day as "aggressive" and assured the world that the Soviet Union neither threatens nor intends to attack any nation. The Kremlin announced that it sent a note yesterday to the United States, Britain, France Belgium, Holland, Luxenbourg and Canada protesting that the treaty is clearly aimed at the Soviet Sov-iet Union and the people's democracies de-mocracies of eastern Europe. The note charged that the treaty violates the ' United Nations Na-tions charter, the Potsdam and Yalta agreements and the Anglo-Russian- and Franco - Russian friendship and non-aggression treaties. "The North Atlantic pact is designed de-signed to daunt the states which do not agree to obey the dictate of the Anglo-American grouping of powers that lay claim to world domination," the note said. "One cannot but see the groundlessness of the anti-Soviet motives of the North Atlantic pact because it is known to all that the Soviet Union does not intend to attack anyone and in no way threatens the United States, Britain, France or the other parties to the treaty. Credits Aim Charged "Among the participants of the North Atlantic treaty are also countries whose governments ex pect to benefit at the expense of richer parties to this treaty and make various plans with regard to obtaining new credits and oth-et oth-et material advantages." The Soviet note charged that the Atlantic powers were carry ing out extensive military meas ures which "can in no way be justified by the interests of self defense." It said these measures included increasing the armed forces, stock-piling atom bombs, build ing a network of air and naval bases, preserving the war-timeJ combined Anglo-American staff in Washington and establishing a western unio-i military staff at Fontainebleau, France. "Of the great powers," the Soviet note said, "only the Soviet Union is excluded among the par ties to this treaty, which can be explained only by the fact that this treaty is directed against the Soviet Union. "The fact that the North At lantic treaty is directed against i News Highlights In Central Utah Petitions Okeh Hobble Creek Safety Fence . . March Buildlnr Permits Set f High Mark This Year 3 Judge Upholds Orem I Sunday Beef Ban Law 3 Two Companies Formed To Film Movies In Wasatch County.. 4 Deadline Extended On Prov Bike Licenses 4 the U.S.S.R., as well as against countries with a people s demo cracy is definitely pointed out al so by official representatives of me unuea states, Britain ana France." The note flatly rejected west ern arguments that the Atlantic treaty is comparable to the ser ies of friendship and mutual as si stance pacts concluded by Rus sia and eastern European coun tries. All these treaties, the note said, (Continued on Page Six) Number Of Unemployed Ssn atonal nlllo 54,700,000 Road Program Revealed By Commission By UNITED PRESS Approval of a $4,700,000 primary prim-ary and secondary road program for 1950 today was announced by the Utah road commission. "Of the $4,000,000, plus $3,000,-j 000 has been granted in federal matching funds for improvement or construction of some 172 miles of state and federal highways in Utah. U. S. 91, between Ogden and Salt Lake City, was not included in the list of projects. The commission's com-mission's chief engineer, Roy W. McLeese, explained that it was the opinion of, the commission that procurement of right of way and designs would not be finished finish-ed soon enough to allow contracts con-tracts to be let for summer work on the highway. The primary system of roads will have 12 construction projects pro-jects at a cost of $2,790,000, with 21 projects planned for the secondary sec-ondary system, commissioners reported. re-ported. Weber Project Costly D. H. Whittenburg, commission chairman, said the commission had considered the allocation of funds only for those sections of primary roads most' critically in need of improvement. He added that the $1,950,000 secondary road program was made up entirely of projects approved ap-proved by county commissioners. Most costly portion of the 1950 program, according to McLeese, will be reconstruction and widening widen-ing of U. S. 89, from Uintah at the" mouth of Weber canyon to Ogden.- Takes Drop Number Of Employed 318,000 Higher Than During March, 1948 WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.R) The number of unemployed unem-ployed dropped in March and the number of employed rose sharply, the commerce de partment announced today. The number of unemployed dropped 54,000 in March to 3,167,000. At the same time the number of employed increased 479,000 over February and was 318,000 higher than March a year ago. The total employed in March was 57,647,000. However, the number of unem ployed still was 727,000 higher than a year ago. Change Affect Total The differences arise from the: changes in the labor force which includes all those persons willing and able to work. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer told White House reporters report-ers after a cabinet meeting that he was encouraged that the un employment trend was stopped. But, he cautioned, that the drop was not enough in March to be overly significant. The increase in ' employment was almost entirely due to seasonal sea-sonal conditions which affected farm labor employment. Earlier it had been expected that employment would show another an-other drop, to follow the trends of the first two months of the year. However, non-agricultural activity remained at about the previous levels, while agricultural employment rose -slightly more than seasonal. In March, the total civilian la bor force was 60,814,000, compared compar-ed with 60,388,000 in February and 59,769,000 in March, 1948. Of the 57,647,000 persons em-oloved em-oloved in March. 7,393,000 were agricultural workers and 50,254,- 000 non-agricultural workers. tDSiriticiry' Conference Opens Today SALT LAKE CITY, April l.ttJ.R) The 43rd annual conference of the LDS Primary association nrusnorl hfrp todav. The conclave is a preliminary to the 119th annual general conference, con-ference, scheduled to begin at 10 a. m. Sunday. Featur of the association's opening-day program will be a omiind breaking ceremony for the 70-bed Primary Children's lnvsnital. Church President George Albert Smith has been invited to turn the first spade full of earth. Other honored guests who were to Darticipate in today's ground breaking included: Harold B. Lee, of the council oi th tuslv and Primary associa tion adviser; LeGrand Richards, presiding bishop; Joseph L. Wirthlin, first counselor in the presiding bishopric; Mrs. Adele Cannon Howells, Primary association asso-ciation nresident: and Mrs. Fran ces G. Bennett of the hospital committee. Marshal am) Fu ends Dies In Crash J ' J S , , I E - ;V - -"- ' I : ::::..;. .. -: .:;:::..-, 1 Springville Opens Doors Of Art Exhibit; Steed Is Speaker SPRINGVILLE Doors formally form-ally opened today on the annual Springville Art exhibit an event that, now has national status in the art world. The exhibit will run during April. The official opening followed a special afternoon program in the high school gymnasium, at which the principal speaker was A. Merlin Steed, donor of the famous fam-ous $100,000 Steed collection in the Springvi.'j gallery. A majority of the large number num-ber of paintings deceived from all over the nation for the 1949 show are expected to be hung by this ; evening. Because the display is so large this year, all paintings in the Springville high school's regular collection, except the new Steed collection, have been stored for the month. The Memorial col lection contributed by the Steeds will be seen in the large east gallery gal-lery on the second floor of the Art building. Art patrons and critics visiUns the gallery this year will no doubt spend considerable time comparing compar-ing pictures contained in the recent re-cent Steed -contribution with those of the national show, and it will be a revelation to many to note how well these fine gift paintings compare with the very best found anywhere. Central Utahns who have not seen the Steed collection are urged to visit the gaiiery mis month. Dr. WUlard H. Dow. president of the Dow Chemical Co., was killed In a plane crash near London, Ontario. Canada. Two other occupants were also killed kill-ed and a fourth member of the party was critically injured. Subcommittee To Study MVA Legal Phases WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.W A special eight-man senate subcommittee sub-committee headed by Sen. Sheridan Sheri-dan Downey, D., Cal., was ap pointed today to study all phases of. legislation to. set-up a Missouri valley Authority. The subcommittee was named by chairman Dennis Chavez, D.. N. M., of the senate public works committee. He said the MVA proposal pro-posal is "highly controversial and important and should be handled by a special subcommittee. Legislation to set up the MVA, modeled broadly after the TVA operations in the southwest, hah been introduced by Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont., and others Named on the subcommittee with Downey were Chavez and Sens. Robert S. Kerr, D., Okla., John L. McClellan, D-, Ark.; Spessard L. Holland, D.. Fla James P. Kem, R., Mo.; Edward P. Martin, R., Pa.; and George W Malone, R., Nev. , Cpplon Trial Set April 14 NEW YORK. April 1 (U.R) Judge Simon F. Rifkind postponed today until April 14 the trial ofj Judith Coplon, justice department employe, and Valentine A. Gubit-chev, Gubit-chev, Russian engineer, on an in dictment charging them witn conspiracy con-spiracy and espionage. The adjournment was granted Miss Coplon's attorney despite the demands of Gubitchev that the trial start today. The attorney, explaining that Miss Coplon is in mourning for her father who died after her arrest, ar-rest, asked even a longer postponement post-ponement because of the approaching ap-proaching Jewish religious holidays. holi-days. Teacher, Janitor Hurt In Blast PORTALES. N. M.. Aoril 1 (U.R) A teacher and a janitor were Injured today when an explosion wrecked a building of the Central Cen-tral grade school here. A search was being made of the wreckage to learn if anyone was in the building other than the two who were found immediately. The explosion of undetermined origin demolished the four-room KfiilHintf urhirh houses the Drl- mary grades at the school. It oc curred only 30 minuies Deiore the scheduled arrival of students. . Mrs. N. T. Watson, first grade teacher, and James Singleton, janitor were wjurea. ai unman hospital, attendants . said they possibly had broken backs: Arizona Town Up For Sale BUMBLEBEE, Ariz., April 1 (U.R) For sale: the town of Bumble bee. Don and Mabel Robinson, who bought this town of 60 persons a year ago, put it up for sale today for an undisclosed price. Included in the 14 buildings are a liquor store, grocery, cafe, trailer camp, post office and water system. A highway patrol station and school are not included. Bumblebee is the shopping and social center for an area of large cattle ranches and mines north of Phoenix. Another nearbv town. Cleator. still is on the auction block. Own er James P. Cleator said a $20,000 down payment would take the town of 20 houses, a grocery, service station, saloon, water works and six gold mines. Flaine Realty company of Phoe nix is handling both towns. English Aviatrix To Resume Flight Round the Vorld SEATTLE, April 1 (U.R) Eng lish Aviatrix Prudence Richard Morrow-Tait was ready today to resume her round-the-world flight in a second-hand army BT-13 trainer. The red-haired adventuress, who has been stranded for three months because of the lack of funds, said she had raised $600 to buy the trainer Mrs. Morrow-Tait crashed in Alaska several weeks ago. She since has worked at various jobs in Seattle and Alaska to raise necessary funds to either repair her damaged plane or buy another. an-other. ; Jack Ellis, 25, of Seattle, will go along with Mrs. Morrow-Tait as her navigatoKThe pair plan to take off Tuesday or Wednesday next week. They will pick their way across the continent, and - the north . Atlantic to England, . she said. Strides Idle 66,500 Men Over Nation 36,000 Taxi Drivers Quit In New York; Radio Operators Out By UNITED PRESS Strikes and layoffs resulting result-ing from labor disputes idled 6(M00 workers across the nation na-tion today. In addition, three other walkouts involving 51,000 workers were threatened. The nation's coal fields shut down for the day while nearly 500,000 miners iook a holiday to celebrate cele-brate the 51st annlvpriarv nf h eight-hour day in the coal indus try. Taxi Drivers Out The biggest strike was in New York City, where nearly 36,000 taxi cab drivers and maintenance men left their jobs in support of a demand for union recognition. The strikers are members of John L. Lewis' new Taxi Drivers' union. In another New York strike, 7,000 CIO brewery workers struck the city's 14 major breweries when the union's contract expired. The union is demanding job security secur-ity and added safety measures in a new contract. CIO radio operators for Pan American World Airways struck in a disupte over a union demand that a radio operator be added to the ere wof San Francisco- Honolulu strato-cruisers. Seventy-six Seventy-six operators, members of the Transport Workers' union, struck in. N e w. Yor k. . The company said that tne walkout forced canceila tion of some flights. Nearly 22,200 workers were idled in the Detroit auto and rub ber industries as the result of strikes and layoffs caused by labor disputes. However, 14,000 workers were ordered to report to work Monday. Colorado members of the AFL Ironworkers union walked out in Denver today, idling large-scale construction projects throughout the state. Spokesmen for the union's No. 24, with headquarters in Denver, said the strike was in protest of what they termed "stalling" by contractors. " The walkout affected all build-ins build-ins jobs in the state Involving steel construction. Among the -projects hit by the strike were the government's big Thompson water wa-ter diversion jobs at Estes park, the Estes park power plant and penstock work, and in the Denver area the veterans hospital, Arap-hoe Arap-hoe plant of the Public Service Co., the Denver valley highway, and the new Denver Post building. Attorney General To Leave Cabinet WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.R) Attorney General Tom C. Clark has informed the White House that he- intends to leave the cabinet by July 1, administration administra-tion officials said today. These sources said that like all top government officials, Clark- nhmitterf his resignation shortly before President Truman began his new term in January. Mr. Truman has taken no action on it. Speculation about his successor as attorney general has centered around Clark Clifford, the president's presi-dent's special counsel. Taft, Robertson Clash In Heated Argument Forcing Intervention By Barkley : WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.R) A verbal brawl ''in -the senate today further delayed action on the $5,580,000,000 Marshall plan renewal bill. Sens. Robert A. Taft, R., O., and A. Willie Robertson, D., Va., got so angry at one another that Vice President Alben W. Barkley had to remind them that senators can't say personal things about senators. The clash occurred as the senate leadership Dlannad a, Jli.L r a a a. ii ijt, I 5 - TL last passed before the present phase of European recovery spending expires at midnight tomorrow. The house has not yet acted on the measure.. Taft Wants Cut Taft wants to cut by a flat 10 per cent the sum asked by the ad-' ministration for the next 15 months. He has practically critic ized the large share requested for Great Britain Todav h chided the British for proposing to lend Russia $36,000,-000 $36,000,-000 with which to buy British goods. He said Britain would do better to build up her trade with this country. He charged that the Soviet loan would undercut the Marshall plan. Robertson defended the admin istration spending figure as necessary nec-essary to win friends for America in event of another war. He said that Taft last year tried to "hamstring" the reciprocal recipro-cal trade agreements act. Taft shouted. "It isn't true. Do I under stand the senator favors admitting goods that would destroy Amer ican industry." The angry Robertson,, Robert-son,, also shouting, said "Don't you put words in my mouth. , Barkley Intervene . That was when Barkley Inter vened. .Other, congressional develop ments: Hospitals Members or a house appropriations subcora mitt'ee reported the group has voted to restore $237,000,000 in contract authority for the veterans veter-ans hospital construction pro gram. Labor Law Democrats and Republicans accused each other of filibustering in the - house rules committee over repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. Rep. Howard How-ard W. Smith, D., Va., who opposes op-poses the administration bill to kill the Taft-Hartley law, said he had been accused in newspaper news-paper stories of filibustering against the measure. Later, when Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D., 111., attempted to shorten Republican Re-publican criticism of the repealer, repeal-er, Rep. Clarence J. Brown, R., O., and Smith said if any filibustering fili-bustering is being done, proponents pro-ponents of the measure are doing do-ing it. Air Power Gen. Hoyt' S. Vandenberg, air force chief of staff, said the United States must make ready for a sneak attack in the atomic age. He testified in favor of a house-approved measure to authorize air force expansion to 70 groups. Veto The senate executive expenditures committee voted to give either house power to veto all governmen t reorganization plans. The administration and the Hoover commission, which has just completed a reorganization reorganiza-tion study, want the president to have power to streamline and reshuffle all executive agencies. An administration measure approved ap-proved by the . house would make such reshuffling ' automatically auto-matically effective unless both house and senate disapproved. The senate committee voted, however, to let either house by itself kill any. reorganization proposal by a simple majority vote . Senator Glen Taylor Faces Prospect of 180 Days In Jail BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 1 (U.R) Sen. Glen Taylor, D Ida., today faced the possibility of spending 180 days at hard labor m the storied Birmingham Jail. The dapper senator and 1948 j Progressive party vice-presiden tial candidate drew tne jau sentence sen-tence and a $50 fine last night ; when a circuit court Jury, in an appe 1 trial, found him guilty of disorderly conduct here last May. The charges grew out of a scrap between Taylor and Birmingham Birm-ingham polic'e who barred him from entering a door marked for Negroes at a Negro Youth con-' ference where he was to speak.' , Taylor said he was . "very, pleased" with the verdict as he posted $200 appeal bond and left last night by plane to return to his senate duties, in . Washington. : He announced an immediate appeal and said he would talcs the case all the way to the U. S. supreme court, if necessary, in an effort - to - hava . Birmingham's (Continued on Page Two) ? I t I " ' j A " ' ' SENATOR GLEN TAYLOR Hoover Group Reports On Electric Power WASHINGTON. ADril 1 flLBV The Hoover commission reported report-ed today that the nation's in stalled electrical gen crating capacity in June. 1947. was about 52,000,000 kilowatts. That included the output Jrom power plants owned by private enterprise, municipalities and the federal tovernment Reporting to congress on electric power and irrication enterprises" of the executive branch of government, the commission com-mission was unable to arrive at any majority recommendations. While the comission made no recomendations, its "task force" on water resources nroieeti charged that: 1. There is a lack of uniformity uniform-ity in the emphasis placed on the nation's flood control activities ac-tivities by the corps of engineers and the bureau of reclamation. 2. Demands for power are increasing in-creasing at a rapid rate and, because be-cause deliveries ... of electric equipment require from two te three years, power shortages are occurring in some sections. V t. At present there is considerable consid-erable competition between the corps of engineers 'and reclamation reclama-tion bureau project jurisdiction in the Columbia and Missouri rivers basins and in California. 4. A definite federal power policy is needed, in which! the federal govrenment will cooperate cooper-ate with Us citizens in the . de velopment of hydrolectric pow er, irrication. and water-suonlv projects instead of comoetins for markets. Texan Wants Showdown On Oleo Repeal ; WASHINGTON, April 1 (UJ-Rep. (UJ-Rep. W. R. Poage, D.. Tex, nlani ned a showdown fight today for his bill to repeal federal oleomargarine oleomar-garine taxes 'and permit the interstate in-terstate sale of pre-colored oleo. He said he intends to ask 'the house to substitute his measure for a pending bill, which would repeal the tax but bar the interstate inter-state transportation of yellow margarine. This legislation,, backed back-ed by the dairy interests, is sponsored spon-sored by Rep. Walter K. Granger. D.. Utah. , i The house began consideration of ' the Granger bill yesterday. There was no indication when it will come up for a final vote, i Under the Granger MIL yellow oleo could be sold only in those 12 states -which have margarine plants within their borders and have no laws against such saies. Identification Sought I - - i Poage and other members' of tne oleo bloc contend that chop pers in other states should be permitted, to buy yellow oleo If they desire;- , ? Under Poage's substitute, how ever, restaurants would be com pelled to Identify oleo as such when they serve it to patrons in place of butter.-" , , ' . Rep. Sam Hobbs, D, Ala., another an-other member ; of the oleo bloc. said he plans to introduce an amendment to the Granger bill which would forbid dairy farmers to use any artificial coloring In their butter. . i WATER RIGHTS f - ORDERED CANCELLED . ' 5 , , ' COULEE DAM, Wash, April 1 am Water rights to a 181-acre tract New Quincy, .Wash., were cancelled by the bureau of reclamation recla-mation because the owner paid 2 ft times the appraised value, of the land. i Bureau ' spokesmen today said the action was the first of its kind. Officials explained that Ken- neth Mattson, Payette, Ida, bid $3300 on the land a year' ago when it was sold under a court order to settle an estate, Govern ment appraisals valued the acre age at $1,427. |