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Show TEMPERATURES CLEAR today, becoming partly eloady tonight sod ; -Thursday.' Sen what warmer, with high today,. 75; Thursday, 89. Low tonight . t II 47iPortUa .. 73 J 73 4 S Butte It 14 47iYeUowsteae l tt 87 54 (Denver .... 43 72 4SiChieag ... 47 43 tl 54DllUtll ... Ct 13 T 5:Nw York. S8 47 Miami (t 73 4 4J N. Orleaaa 44 73 Prove ..... Salt Lake . Of den St. George ., Logan ..... Las Vegas . Lot Angela! Saa fraa. . Pkoentx . . SIXTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 238 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Acheson Clash On To Arm West BULLETIN WASHINGTON. April 87 U.R Secretary of State Dean Acheson replied with an "absolute no" today to a senator's In-dairy In-dairy if American troops would be used to strengthen European armies in peacetime under the Atlantic -pact He flatly rejected a suggestion by Sen. Bourke E. Hicken-looper, Hicken-looper, R., I., that "substantial" Anflrican troops might be used to strengthenjhe armies of western European nations. "The answer Is a clear and absolute no," the secretary told the senate foreign relations committee. By JOHN L. STEELE. " WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.R) "Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., clashed today over whether ratification of the North Atlantic At-lantic treaty should commit this country to arm western Europe. Acheson said it should. He cited the anti-aggression pact's "mutual assistance" provision, Article No. 3. He said a senator might in good conscience vote for the treaty U.S., Russian Envoys Discuss Blockade Lifting BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.R) The state department said today that 17. S. Ambassador Ambas-sador at Large Philip C. Jessup has" "informally" presented pre-sented to .Soviet United Nations Na-tions Delegate Jacob A. Malik the views" of the western i powers concerning moves to end the Berlin blockade. BY DONALD J. GONZALES LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April 27 (U.R) United States and Rus mu u.piu.u an lu mp. io ..u - blockade. U. S. ambassador -ai-iarge ur. Philip C. Jessup went into a meeting with Soviet United Nations Na-tions Delegate Jacob A. Malik at 12:30 p. m. EDT. Jessup planned to hand Malik, a note detailing the western powers pow-ers stand on the lifting of the blockade, an authoritative source said. Jessup arrived at Malik's office at 68th street and Park Ave., in a long, black limousine and pushed push-ed his way through a crowd of about 200 persons." Statement Later He said a statement about the meeting, which could bring a major break in the east-west cold war. would be made later at the U. S. headquarters at Lake Success. Suc-cess. The state department, after clearing the talks with President Truman, announced that "the way appears clear for lifting of the blockade and a meeting of the council of foreign ministers." Although the ending of the blockade would give the world its first major relief from the east-west east-west cold war, Secretary of State Dean Acheson was expected to ask the senate foreign relations committee in Washington today to drive for approval of the North Atlantic security pact, regardless of the Russian peace leeiers." Moscow jumped the gun yesterday yes-terday with a public announce ment that Russia was willing to call off the Berlin blockade if the west would end the counter blockade and agree to a meeting of the council of foreign minister on Germany. The state department said officially of-ficially that if it was as simple as that, the west would accept. Big 4 Foreign Ministers May Meet By July 1 r t a : l At B L U il u u il, npin i j.r. -i uruisn oniciai quarters ia day that the Big Four foreign ministers might meet before July 1 to discuss Germany if Russia doesn't hedge its offer to lift the Berlin blockade with unaccept-table unaccept-table conditions. Russia disclosed yesterday that it. has offered to lift the blockade if the United States, Britain and France 'agree to re-convening the council of foreign ministers, which last met in December 1947. The British government, it was learned, definitely favors another meeting of the. foreign ministers (Continued on Page Two) News Highlights In Central Utah Committee Begins Probe Of A. F. Training School City-State Plan Studied To Remove Center "Islands" Orem Quarterly Fire Loskm Held to $315 for 7 Fires Springville Okehs Water Bonds, Rejects Safety Fence 2 Civic Heads Hear Lake 1 Pollution Survey Results ....J Provo Child Hit By Car, Seriously Hurt 1 Vandenberg Commitment Europe land against a specific arms ship ment program if he thought this country could not afford it or it was not necessary. But the whole purpose of the treaty, Acheson told the senate foreign relations committee, is to build up the will of free European Euro-pean nations to resist aggression. He made it clear that the potential poten-tial aggressor is Russia and that the administration wants both the pact and the arms program despite Soviet overtures looking toward removal of the Berlin blockade. Vandenberg Disagrees Vandenberg, Republican foreign policy, leader, disagreed as to the scope and nature of the "mutual assistance" commitment The administration wants to spend $1,130,000,000 in the pact's first year to help western Europe build up its military defenses. Acheson said President Truman wiU renJ the propoged program tn rnri-r-M ' Vandenberg said he thought a senator could accept a pact obli gation to meet a crisis when it develops without saying that "we must prepare in advance." Acheson argued that "There is nothing In the treaty (Article 3) which requires each member of the senate, when it comes to vote on the military ' assistance p"lan to examine' his judgment less freely than- if there was no treaty." CsnV Be Repudiated Senators "cannot repudiate" the principle of mutual assistance once they have endorsed the pact Litself, Acheson insisted. Acheson said Russia has cheated world insecurity through "a war of nerves, and in some cases thinly veiled use of force itself." "The sense of insecurity prev alent in western Europe," he told the senate foreign relations committee, "h a s come about through the conduct of the Soviet Union. As the committee opened public pub-lic hearings on the North Atlantic At-lantic pact, Acheson said bluntly that Russia's conduct in eastern Europe had "cynically violated" the United Nations charter. His appeal for senate ratification ratifica-tion of the North Atlantic treaty was made even as the United States and Russia , planned . a secret meeting today which might lead to an end of the Berlin blockade block-ade and easing of the tension in western Europe. But Acheson's words made it unmistakably clear the adminis tration wants the North Atlantic pact and the arms-for-Europe program despite any Soviet con cilitory moves. Rights Extinguished Acheson said the rights of self determination by the peoples of eastern Europe have been ex- (Contlnued on Page Two) Espionage Trial Starts I jAliafeiy .MMil LJ Judith Coplon, 27-y ear-old former Justice Department employe accused of handing confidential government papers to a Russian agent arrives at district court In Washington, D. C, for her trial on charges of espionage. Left to right: Archibald Palmer, attorney; attor-ney; M. L. Rosenstein, attorney, and Judith Coplon. New Ambassador ': "SkV tsvid K. E. Bruce, above, of Virginia, chief of the ECA mission mis-sion to France, has been appointed ap-pointed by President Truman to succeed Jefferson Caffery as U. S. ambassador to France. Caffery is returning to this country to await a new assignment assign-ment at a later date. i Fliers Begin Vacation With Their Wives HOLLYWOOD. April 27 (U.R) Bill Barris and Dick Riedel began be-gan a week's vacation with their wives at a swank Hollywood hotel ho-tel today in a shower of oraise and rewards for their new worldLLacius Clay as American military endurance flight record. fchief in Germany. Johnson wants "All we. want to do is take it easy," they said. rtOur plans don't go any farther than that right now. Riedel, 34, said he and his wife would take their 10-year-old son Dick Jr., to Hot Springs, Ark., next week. Publicity from the flight brought the boy, an arthrit us victim, an offer of "free treatment treat-ment there. Barris, 35, also hopes to get enough money to get his year-old son Steven an eye oper ation. . - . i An oil company already has given the pilots $5,000 and they nope to get more from endorse ments. A popular subscription drive and a $1,500 gift from the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce wiped out a $4,500 debt they in curred on three previous unsuc cessful record attempts. Barns and Riedel lossedwiore than 75,000 miles sinec they took off from' Fulerton March 15, making a round trip to Miami, Fla., "to break the monotony." On April 14 they passed the de cade-old mark of 726 hours set by Wes Carroll and Clyle Sch- liepper of Long Beach, CaL, and while they were at it they stayed in the air 11 days and. 18 hours more. "The last week was the tough est part of all," Riedel said. "But when we flew over the field and saw the terrific crowd, there to greet us, our spirits picked up enormously." Jordan Narrows Unit Of Deer Creek Project To Be Dedicated Friday The huge Deer Creek (Provo River) project moved a step nearer completion today as officials of-ficials announced the Jordan Narrows siphon and pumping plant has been placed in operation op-eration and will be dedicated at public ceremonies Friday at 2 p m. under auspices of the Provo Pro-vo Water Users' association. The total Jordan Narrows unit cost about $950,000. The ceremonies will . be conducted con-ducted at the west end of the main siphon on the west side of v ; &'i A 7 1 Calder Slated To Hold Down Top Army Post Successor Also To Be Named For General Lucius Clay Soon WASHINGTON. April 27 (U.R) Curtis E. Calder, chairman chair-man of the Electric Bond & Share Co., will become army secretary within 60 days to succeed Kenneth C. Royall, it was learned today. Meanwhile, Assistant Army Secretary Gordon Gray will be elevated to undersecretary anal will be acting secretary until Calder takes office. Royall, resigned, leaves his post today. Calder was Defense Secre tary Louis Johnson's choice for the army job. Johnson conferred with President Presi-dent Truman today. They, are still considering7 a replacement for John L. Sullivan who resign ed as navy secretary yesterday with an angry, blast at Johnson for scrapping the navy's super aircraft carrier, project. Daniels Is Out It was learned that the navy post will , not go to Johnathan Daniels, North Carolina publisher, publish-er, who had been mentioned speculatively spec-ulatively as a possible successor to Sullivan. Daniels' father, the late Josephus Daniels, was secretary secre-tary of navy in World War I Johnson and the president have another job problem on their hands a successor to Lt. Gen. to- get Clay back to this countr in the next 30 days because of the general's health. He expects to recommend a successor; in a few days. The Sullivan resignation and the quarrel over Johnson's scut tling of the big aircraft carrier produced congressional repercus sions. Chairman Crfrl Vinson said his house armed services committee will investigate the carrier decis ion "at the. proper time." The Georgia Democrat, who approves ap-proves Johnson's order, beat down a move by committee members to set up a special subcommittee to look into the carrier issue. Probe Promised Vinson said Jie will "raise the question thoroughly" when the committee takes up a bill to tighten tight-en unification of the armed forces by giving the defense secretary more power. Vinson said the committee will open up the question to see "under what authorty the secretary secre-tary of defense can step in and take an action of this kind." "If necessary we will fix by statute exactly what authority he has," Vinson added. The carrier decision caused some high navy officers to join Sullivan Sulli-van in voicing fear anonymously anonymous-ly that most naval and marine aviation may soon be turned over to the air force. the Jordan Narrows near Camp Williams. J. W. Gillman association president, will be the principal speaker. Links Canal The structure is a complex irrigation ir-rigation works that links the Provo and Magna reaches of the 23-mile-long Pro v o reservoir canal which is being enlarged under the Provo river project. The enlargement now is virtually virtual-ly completed, according to E. O. Larson, regional director for the bureau of reclamation. The siphon replaces a worn out steel siphon which conveys water across the Jordan river and the Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks at the Point of the- Mountain. The pumping plant enables the Utah Lake Distributing company to irrigate lands long dormant since costs of pumping from Utah lake became prohibitive. Carries Deer Creek Water Under the new arrangement, the Utah Lake Distributing com pany now carries not only tne company's Utah lake water picked pick-ed up from the Jordan river, but approximately 63 second-feet of storage water from Deer Creek reservoir. N. The canal diverts Deer Creek storage water from the Provo river, near the mouth ofProvo canyon for irrigation of about 40,000 aces of rich farm land be tween Provo and Magna. L. R. Dunkley, project engineer, engi-neer, Provo; and David Aj Af- leck. Salt Lake City water com missioner, are expected7 to participate par-ticipate in the dedication cere- monies Friday. Water In Canal , Water was placed, in the Provo Reservoir canal Sunday, after contractors completed concrete lining sections of which they were working. The canal, which takes water from the mouth of Provo canyon across north Utah county (Continued on Pag Two) Cominniyiinnsft Jygginn)ayft; Dowjoig Ooi Shainiglnai , , 1 b Reds Cut Shanghai C K I N A Nationalist forces in Shanghai (1) are imperiled by the reported Communist capture of Kashing (2). cutting off escape by rail to Hangcnow (3) in the south. Red troops quickly swept through undefended Nanking (4), apparently bypassed Soochow (5), and took Kunshan (() cutting the, Shanghai-Nanking rail link. Meanwhile, Mean-while, U. 8. naval forces standing by in the Whangpoo River (7) to evacuate American refugees were moved to the outer reaches of the Yangtse eight miles north of Shanghai, to avoid the possibility pos-sibility of being trapped la the narrow Whancpoo. Oleo Tax Repealer Approved Bv Senate finance Committee WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.R) The senate finance committee today to-day approved a house-passed bill to repeal all. federal taxes on oleomargarine. oleo-margarine. 0 It defeated, '7 to 6, an attempt to include in the bill a provision repealing wartime excise tax In- Bids Opened On Reservoir F6r Orem City Ten bids, ranging from a low of $40,398 to a high of $74,372, were opened today -for construction of a 2,000,000 gallon reservoir as part of Orem's $211,000 waterworks water-works expansion . and improvement improve-ment project. No awards were rtade today. City officials announced they must study the bids with their engineers before making a de cision. Bids submitted included: For steel construction, Pittsburgh Des Moines company, Santa Clara,: Cal., three bids, ranging from! $48,420 to $57,1604 Chicago Bridge and Iron company, Salt Lake City, $53,425; Lang company, Salt Lake City, $62,805; Provo Foundry and Machine company, $51,750; Keys Tank and Supply company, Cas per, Wyo.. $40,398. Concrete construction Young and Smith Construction company. Salt Lake City. $74,372; Ralph Childs, Springville, $664295; M. J.' Prichett, American Fork, $72,995; Tolboe and Wootton company, $68,527. The new reservoir will be lo cated in the extreme northeast corner of the city, just below the Salt Lake City aqueduct. It will be the principal feature of the ,$211,000 program, recently voted as a bond issue, whereby Orem intends to improve and enlarge en-large its water system to care for a city of 25,000 people if that amount of water should ever be needed in the future. Steel Demand Leveling Off PITTSBURGH, April 27 (U.R) The steel industry's record- breaking7 profits rose to -new post-war levels in the first quarter quar-ter of 1949 but producers warned today of continued gradual lev-eling-off in demand for steel. U. S. Steel Corp. and Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. reported that profits for the first quarter almost doubled profits of the first three months last year. U.S. Steel's earnings were the largest in 20 years. , Nonetheless, officials of both corporations insisted the War-born War-born , seller market "is at an end." Gradual Leveling Off Irving S. Olds, chairman of U S. Steel, said the leveling-off of demand has been gradual - "and I don't see any reason why a further fur-ther falling off in business won't also be gradual." Adm. Ben Mor-eelL Mor-eelL president of Jones tt Laughlin, Laugh-lin, said 7 the company's first (Continued on Pag Two) Escape Line 0 many creases on products nd services. The committee approved three clarifying amendments on the oleo issue. They did not change the main part f the bill. Two Republicans joined five Democrats in. defeating the pro posal by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., to reduce excise taxes to 1942 levels. This would have affected things like cosmetics, furs, telephone bills and transportation trans-portation tickets. Amendment' Killed Later ,the13-man committee split 7-6 along party lines to knock down an amendment by Sen. Hugh Butler, R., Ieb., to exempt county fairs and agricultural" agricul-tural" exhibits from federal excise taxes on admissions. Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga,, who led the opposition to Johnson's excise tax riders, said the committee also rejected I by voice vote a proposed substitute by 26 dairy state senators that would have repealed federal margarine taxes but outlawed interstate shipment of colored oleo. The house bill repeals all li cense fees and federal taxes en oleomargarine . outright. However, How-ever, it requires restaurants to post notice when they serve col ored margarine as a substitute for butter and serve it in triangular tri-angular sections. Other congressional develop-. ments: 7 Farm Program The administration's adminis-tration's proposed direct subsidy farm program got a big pat on the back from James G. Patton, president presi-dent of the National Farm union. He told a house agriculture subcommittee sub-committee that he prefers Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan's plan over the present price support laws and the one scheduled to become effective next Jan. 1. Both Democratic arid Republican Republi-can leaders of the house agricultural agricul-tural committee came out n favor fa-vor of legislation to permit Bran-nan Bran-nan to support hog prices this year through direct subsidy payments pay-ments to farmers. Although Vinson said no to any Immediate house investigation investiga-tion of the carrier quarrel, top-ranking top-ranking senate Republicans called call-ed for an inquiry. Czech Enxpy Quits; Asks For Political Asylum In America WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.R) Brig. Gen. Josef Schejbal military mili-tary and air attache at the Czech embassy . here, has quit his job and asked political asylum in the United States, itwas learned today; to-day; Schejbal was the second official of-ficial in recent days' to sever connections with the Communist government ; of Czechoslovakia and seek refuge in this country. Hugo Skala, a high official of the Czechoslovak ministry of finance, resigned as No. man on a Czech economic mission which arrived here a couple of weeks ago. ? Schejbal wrote to the state department last Thursday ex- Key Outpost of Soochow Overrun; Advance Raiders 25 Miles From Shanghai By ARTHUR M. GOUL SHANGHAI, April 27 (U.R) The Communist juggernaut jugger-naut moved toward Shanghai today after a two-day paust, overrunning the key outpost of Soochow, .50 miles to thf west and sending advance raiders within 25 miles of this restive and fearful metropolis. Regrouped and refreshed, the Communist armies edged forward to positions from which they could launch a.twof pronged drive on Shanghai or isolate it by slfcing across to tne sea southwest ox tne city. Nationalist forces giving up Soochow fell back along the Shanghai railway reaching Tsen-yi, Tsen-yi, 15 miles east of Soochow. These and 'other Nationalist units were reported trying to set up a 30-mile defense line about 20 miles from housing ibout 20 miles from Woosung, downriver from Shanghai where the Whangpoo joins the Yangtze. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Kai-Shek, for decades the leader of the sorely beset Nationalist regime, re-gime, sounded a rallying cry to his followers. He asked them to fight tthe Communists with the same tenacity they displayed against the Japanese. The Communists, Com-munists, he said, were trying to convert all China into a military base and source of manpower for world domination. Cut Off , Shanghai The renewed Communist drive brought massive armies into do- .ui 7a . j i i . siuan iryuna m . orona area through Soochow and Kwanateh. i some 65 miles northwest of Hangchow A sudden thrust to Hangchow, great rail and port city, would cut off Shanghai. The " Nationalists admitted , htat the . Communists had captured Soochow, on the east shore of Lake Tal. It controls the main road and rail lines east to Shanghai, and was the last strategic, stra-tegic, outpost at which a stand might have been made beyond the environs of Shanghai itself. Military authorities announced that Soochow was "evacuated." But other reports described it i as. a Communist capture. Chitang, 25 miles northeast of Soochow, also fell to the Communists. Com-munists. From there . and ' Soochow Soo-chow they were in position to' push straight down on Shanghai, Shang-hai, although no concrete signs had appeared hat they were doing do-ing so at once. On the other hand, there were indications' that a major battle was shaping up west and southwest south-west of Shanghai, with the Communists Com-munists bidding for an easy spring to Hangchow. That would enable them to sit and wait for Shanghai to fall of its own weight. A consensus of the best sources here held that wiUrin one to three weeks the defense would collapse "like a rotten pumpkin" or a peace which would be a surrender would be negotiated. t Late afternoon reports said the big town of Kwangteh, southwest south-west ofJLake TaL apparently fell into Communist hands, while Changcheng, 25 miles east of Kwangteh, still was a no man's land. If. the reports stood up, Kwangteh represented the deep est penetration made by4 the Communists to the south, and placed them some 65 miles north west of Hangchow. STOMACH CANCER MOST DEADLY Cancer of the stomach is one of the most deadly i forms of the malady because of the difficulty in discovering early symptoms, specialists . said yesterday at the second annual cancer symposium in Salt Lake City. The meeting, is sponsored by the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Utah State De partment of Health. plaining what he had done and alrin0 xvlum Diplomatic sources who reveal-"'! ed Skala s action said he waited to make his move of renunciation until his family escaped from Czechoslovakia. They said his family reached the western rone I of Germany on Good Friday,! ahiiit tVi a tlm Slralaf airrivtvl These latest detections from Soviet satellite nations . swelled the growing colony of anti-Communist eastern Europeans in this country. "Iron curtain" nations represented repre-sented here by former -officials now fugitive from their Communist Com-munist regimes Include Poland, Hungary, .. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, and Rumania. Exodus From Shanghai In Full Swing ' By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW SHANGHAI, April 27 (U.I)-.Th general exodus from Shanghai was picking up momentum -today. The corridors of the United states consulate .building were piled high with packing eases and baggage of Americans getting out of Shanghai. Consular officials were staying. Much steamer traffic was hoist ing anchor and moving down stream. A Chinese naval unit left the city loaded to capacity with men and equipment. It consisted of a former Japanese destroyer, four former U. S. mine-sweepers, and several smaller craft. The Black Swan, last British naval vessel in the harbor, de parted downstream at high speed late toaay. Low-flying Nationalist planet buzzed the ctjty for thi first ' time as the sunny, humid day drew to a close and the uncertainties un-certainties of another dusk an proached. . t The government, information office issued an urgent bulletin to all foreign correspondents and their dependts. It said: ; "In view of the fast changing developments, this qffiee is in no position to predict how the government and local offices will function in cases of crisis. f "It is earnestly surged that alL foreign correspondents and their dependents apply for exit visas now, or in any event not later than April 29.w Three Are Staying - -Arthur M. Goul. United Press manager for China, Blake Gear hart, his assistant, and J arc staying. The first UP corje- (Continued on Page Ten) 15 Escape' Death In Tunnel Caving CHICAGO. Am 11 27 (U.R) About 15 men escaped death or serious injury today when a section of a, huge storm sewer tunnel being constructed 40 feet underground, caved in. William Devine, paymaster for the S. A. Healy Contracting Co., said that the eave-ln occurred about the time of a change ! of shifts. He said seven men were given first aid treatment slight leg injuries. lor SIAMESE TWINS DIE '. OWENSBORO, Ky., April J7 (L'.F The second member of Siamese twin girls born to a 23-year-old mother died last night eight hours after a separation ksperaUon in a vain attempt to save her. - . The twins were born yesterday yester-day at 11:30 a. m. to Mrs. Mel-vin Mel-vin Glover, Jr., by caesarean p" eration, .. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE St. LoulM . ,'13 . Detroit ...... 10 Drew ' and Mom; Robinson. Newhouier and Chicago 001 020 0 . Cleveland . . 300 004 4 Pieretti. Gettel (1). Grove (S and Tipton: Gromek, Garcia (3), Wight (7) and Hn. ... . i Home rum Vernon, CU. (1) 1 en. 'f ' Philadelphia . 004 300 0 - . Boston . . 300 123 S t Sheib, Harris (9). Hauamann (7) and Astroh; Kinder, Johnson 4 and Tata betts. ' " Home run Stephens. Boa. M) J on; Wright. Pha. (3) 3 on; Stephens, Bos. 09) 1 on. sew York at'Washington-rnight , national league , p..kiv . Ann MIL . . Mlnner. Barney 3. VanCuyk (81 and CampaneH: Kennedy.- Behrman (6). Webb ) and Livingston. Home rum Mize, NY (1)1 on; Snider, Sni-der, Bkn. (6) i on. . - y " a" '." -; . ' Cincinnati .. 300 00 cntcaso ..... wo ai. " - V,nd,rmi, Llvtiy 4. Krautt W and Mueller; Leonard, Xush ( and Scheffing. " i , Boston at Philadelphianight Pittsburgh at It Louia-fliht ; - |