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Show i i M rL TEMPERATURES J A i Sf .4 ff V l ' PARTLY CLOUDY Sunday with snow ibwen la nearby mountains. Caeler with afternoon temperature, 46. Low Snnday morning, IZ, Light west erly wind Sunday, . Daily! Herald VAF Slain Dy Sex Fiend At Hamilton Truman Aslcs Annual Makes Full Amount Its Appearance For ECA Bill The Herald presents today Wife of Congress is Asked to 'Strike a Blow for Peace'; Pass Measure a 43-year-o- ld UTAH PROVO, ;VOL.!2Z, NO. 44 Veteran Raped, Slain At California Base FIELD AIR 25 (U.R) March: ,Calif. BASE, WAF, A pretty wife of a. disabled veteran of World War I, was raped and slain before dawn Saturday behind her barracks by an assailant who used comHAMILTON . ld. mando tactics to garrot her with j, her own dog-ta- g chain.; The body of Sgt Fairy E. Decker, mother of a York, Pa., son, was found virtually nude, on a plot of grass six -- old feet behind the barracks where she was on duty during the night its Central Utah Progress nearly Edition, containing 100 cage. The edition is designed to boost Central Utah and its many attractions scenic, recreational, cultural, industrial, agricultural and civic. Extra copies may be obtained at The Herald office, 50 S. 1st W. The office will be open today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Orders cannot be taken telephone. by V The extra copies sell for 15 cents 'apiece. Copies ordered today will be mailed by The Herald any; place at-in the United States in an tractive gift wrapper. Persons sending the paper overseas may buy wrapped copies' and mail them themselves. The advance sale has been heavy, with Central Utahns showing a keen interest in sending the edition to friends and relatives elsewhere in the state andj nation, Reporter , KEY j charge-of-quarte- rs. WEST, iFla., March , (U.R) I , air-for- ce m He said failure to enact the administration - backed omnibus measure "in its full amount would do irreparable damage." s I Predict End Of Chrysler Strike Today "" JO ' 7 i 60-d- ','' I ay -- dollars-and-cen- the--1P5- 1 . one-packa- ge , i '. cents-per-ho- ur 0 I , j . i Committee Frowns On Politics Texas Fears i Postal Service ? Drought Will Ruin Crops non-econo- i . Truman Acquires Healthful Tan - MUST STAND TRIAL Capt. W. D. Brown, skipper of the battleship Missouri, will be d, along with two other officers, for the grounding of the "Big Mo" in Hampton Roads last Jan. 17. Cmdr. John R. Millett, operations officer, Lieut.-Cmdcourt-martiale- and r. Frank were found. As the civilian operated plane sought to land on a heavily six miles traveled highway south of here .the plane exploded in low hanging clouds. Pieces Scattered "Large, chunks of plane were scattered in all directions," John J. Little, 25, a witness to the crash, said, "It exploded just as it broke through the clouds." "It broke Into a million pieces," Melvln Rowley; 17, reported. Little, Rowley and Rowley's brother, Irvln, who Were preparing to shut down haying operations in a nearby field, said they heard the plane's engines cut off and on a couple of times before it nosed through the clouds. First Lt. Pat McOuinn, of the nearby Williams air force base public Information office, , was one of the first to reach the scene. He counted six bodies and a search was underway for a seventh. In Los Angeles, a spokesman for North American released the following list of victims: Robert W. Foy, 35, Van Nuys, Cal., public relations representative. During the war he served as a major with the Eighth air force and shot down 22 German -planes. '.i John S. Steppe, 34, Los Angeles, engineer. Edward Anthony O'Brien, 33, Redondo Beach, Cal., engineer. Miles Allen Towner, 312, South Gate, Calif., pilot of the plane. Dominic Kuchan, 35, Ingle-woocrew chief, James Schaffer, 37, Manhattan Beach, technical representative. Charles Kehmeier, Patuxent Naval Air station, Patuxent River, Md. All were North American employees. Touring Air Bases' In Los Angeles, North American Co. representatives said a group from their company had been touring air force bases in n. the southwest on a sales The last digits of the 5126N wrecked plane jibed with those on the North American's 5. A blood-stainpiece: of the instrument paneling was found two miles from the main section of the wreckage. The converted aDDarentlv tried to make an emergency landing on the high way when an engine ana pari oi a wing ieu on. ine piane almost ploughed Into a moving truck and the plane parts just missed several cars. The tail assembly and part of a wing blocked the highway and other pieces of wreckage were area scattered over a mile-wiin an adjacent field. More than 100 vehicles were backed up north and south of the scene, six miles soutn oi Mesa, shortly after the crash. . i nd C. Norris, Jr., navigator, also face trial; The three will be tried in three separate courts-martiat Norfolk, Va., beginning March 27. al Murray Plans Labor Union Confederation PITTSBURGH. March 25 (V.r.u-T- he Pittsburgh Press said in a copyrighted story Saturday that CIO president Philip Murray will soon reveal plans to bring all unions into a gigantic amalgamation lor both political and economic action. The first aim would be to elect a congress pledged to repeal the law; "The announcement will come next week, after Mr. Murray lays his plan before a meeting of the vice presidents, of the CIO, whom he has summoned to Washington," the Press said. The plan contemplates inviting the United Mine workers, the American Federation of Labor indeand all pendent unions to join the confederation. Comment Refused Asked to confirm the report, Murray said "I would not care to make a comment just now." The CIO president discussed the plan with the executive board of the CIO United Steel workers this week. "Though Mr. Murray's plan envisions, organic eventually, unity, he told USW officials that the need for united action is so great, that he does not care particularly, whether the nation's unions joined forces organically or not," the Press said. non-Commu- Tafi-Hartl- ey non-commu- 1 - d, cam-naie- B-2- ed B-- two-engi- ne za de j Index, Herald Progress Edition Section C Society and women's page features; church pages; school news.! Section D Pictures and features on new spring fashions for the Easter parade; pages on latest furni- ture fashions. ; . j Section E Travel section, with pages devoted to cities of Utah county, scenic, and recreational attrac. tions and to the new 1950 automobiles. Section F Industrial section, featuring Central Utah as a growing hub in the West's industrial picture. Section G Civic and agriculture, with pages de-- 1 voted to cities, civic clubs, and agriculture. . RUSS RADIO BLASTS LOAN TO SPAIN LONDON, March 25 U.R Radio Moscow Saturday night described a $20,000,000 loan to Spain by i j the National City Bank of JJew York as an indication j"how American monopoly capital is financing the fascist regime of Franco Spain." The loan was announced yesterday in New York. The broadcast, which quoted a brief, Tass Agency dispatch from New-Yoradded that "previously Franco Spain already obtained a $25,000,000 loan from the Chase National Bank." ! n - - ' .V V-- X V Vandenberg Comes Up With Hew Plan To Bolster Peace j. WASHINGTON, March 25 (U.R) Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R Mich., proposed Saturday that a nonpartisan commission be created to appraise the responsibilities of the United States "as the world's spearhead in the Quest of j dependable peace." his suggestion was In a letter congratulating Foreign' Recovery Chief Paul G. Hoffman on the economic cooperation administration's second anniversary next Vice President Albeni week. It represented still another ("VEEP" BACKS SAFETY DRIVE jBarkley congratulates screen and radio actor s.Robert Young on his proposal' from a congress searchThe pair go ing restlessly for a new peace radio campaign xor saie driving among ,VHCUIVI Ail formula, 11II(IWII. It was the ailing Republican foreign policy spokesman's first major statement on world affairs in months. Recommenda Plan Vandenberg recommended that the proposed commission be modeled after jthe "Harrlman com mission," which was created at his insistence two years ago to WASHINGTON. March 25 (U.R) Mass., will not be here Monday break ground for congressional Democrats suggested either. Senate approval of the Marshall plan. Tydingi said he ha to leave "I was one of those who In- Saturday that secret FBI data sisted that ECA had to be pre- shown them may wash out Sen. town Tuesday night. It was 'unceded by the studies of the 'Har- Joseph R.' McCarthy's main "com derstood that Tydlngs will ac company Defense Secretary Louis rlman commission' mobilizing munism case" against the State Johnson to the April I meeting the best brains available for con department. sultation to determine what role iThe Democrats, who refused to of the Atlantic pact defense comis 'wisest and safest' for Ameri- be; quoted directly, said, the data mittee in The Netherlands.. That be ca, for herl own in contained nothing to prove Mc apparently meant there will the senate facing the threats of postwar Carthy's charge that a man con a delay in completing crisis,:' he vrote. "The ECA was nected with the State department lnvei tlgatlon of McCarthy's is Russia's boss spy in the United charges. the result, Hoover and Attorney; General "As we approach the statu to: y states. Howard McGrath are expected J. injThe end of ECA in 1952. I think it Wisconsin Republican to take a stand on that question would be well for another such sists that this is the when they testify before Monday on case commission is which he preequally unpartisan subcommittee. President Truand equally Impeccable in char- pared to stake his entire indict- the man, who has the last ; word on acter to resume independent ad- ment of the State department disclosure of the files, still 'has visory studies of our new respon- security setup.FBI director J. Edgar Hoover not sent word from his Key West, sibilities as the world's largest creditor nation and the world's gave a "complete analysis" of the (Continued on . Pag e TweJ spearhead in the quest of de- alleged spy's FBI loyalty file to one Republican and three Demopendable peace." The Harrlman commission was cratic members of a senate judiheaded by A. Averell Harrlman, ciary subcommittee yesterday at ) now ECA ambassador in a (secret meeting in the Justice Europe. Its membership included department. prominent representatives of bus j "Whitewash Charge" isess, farm and labor organiza- The Democrats subsequently tions. L told reporters that if that was Dollar Shortage Problem McCarthy's chief case, they saw WASHINGTON. March 23 (U.R) V a n d enberg's reference to "niButcause for worry." McCarthy was not expected Gen. Dwlght D., Eisenhower American responsibilities as the to jbe as easily satisfied, and at will tell congress next week about world's largest creditor was clear- least one powerful Democrat his concern over the nation's! deaimed to at ly framing policy with him. Sen. Walter fenses, an army spokesman said agrtedd cope with problems growing out ' of efforts of the European nations F. George, D., Ga., Iswarned thata Saturday. r, inviting to get dollars when Marshall plan the administration said The Eisenn "whitewash" unless it re- howci", spokesman of Colombia help ends. Some members of con leases the full charge president files to senloyalty are gress already will appear before the grumbling about ate! investigators. university, the impact of imported foreign senate military appropriations is don't think it "f goods and allegedly discrimina- for Mr. Hoover to tell satisfactory subcommittee about "the mlddlle in is what tory trade practices on domestic the files without members (of the of next week." ;, Industries, Eisenhower said in a speech subcommittee) them," examining The Michigan senator was said. "I don't think you'll Thursday night that the nation; lavish in his praise of ECA, which George ever satisfy the public unless the may have disarmed too much he credited with keeping the necessary information can be obThis disturbed congressmen land Iron curtain" from moving . to tained from the files." subcommitprompted the senate ' the rim of the Atlantic ocean. Subcommittee Chairman Mil- tee to ask him to explain his But he also was critical of eco- lard E. Tydings, D., Md., rejected views. The committee wants to nomic trends in. Europe. a request by Sen. Bourke B. hear his testimony before it votes "Western has not Hicjkenloopcr, R., Ia., to postpone on the defense department's re Europe moved ahead adequately with the thej McGrath-Hoov.testimony quested budget of $13.9U,127:,300 economic integration which is es Wednesday. the year starting July 1. Hickenlooper said for sential to its permanent recov heiwill be out of town Monday ' The wartime supreme allied ery, including western Germany,? and that he understands another commander in Europe and former" he said. "There must be sharp Republican subcommittee mem- army chief of staff was the major improvements in these trends." t ber, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., architect of the military budget which the committee is considering. He spent nearly three months at the Pentagon last year helping to draft it. Consequently, Congress wants to know whether the general has changed his mind about how much should be spent for dcfense.t of Brno when the second pilot the (plot to flee by air to the west Some congressmen thought that and radio operator poked a gun But no one could be sure of de- Eisenhower's speech may have at my head,. I thought it was a tails or, who was behind it. been misconstrued. The general The 27 who want to stay are said in New York that he would joke. I did not think they were serious. bei$g questioned by air forces make no comment on It pending "Then they told me, 'if you go intelligence officers Newsmen his appearance before the com' r... , against our; wishes we will blow were allowed to talk only to those mittee. your brains Out.' They ordered whfli want to go home. An air Chairman George H. Mahon D, me to fly a course of 240 degrees, force spokesman said some de Tex., of the house military jap- which is in this region. I don't cision wlu be made on Monday on propriations subcommittee. Was know why we landed at Erding. how-tget them back. puzzled by the general's speech,' The 85th person was Miss He said Eisenhower "had more to They simply insisted on coming Katerine Kosraak. 41, of (23 E. do with the military budget than here." -Klesnil landed his plane at gun 93r(j St.), New York, assistant any other person "He told us that he Was for It point. He, a flight engineer and attache of the American embassy one outspoken communist pas- at Prague, who was on the Brati- and that he had: no special sugsenger told their stories, indicat- slava plane. She was cleared gestions," Mahon said. "He ofing that seven of the, crew and quidkly by the! U. S. consulate at fered no suggestions fop Increas 20 of the passengers had hatched j (Continued on Par Two) ing j teen-ager- TV j Bl's Report May Wash Out i cCarthy s Communism Case Against State Department I , j self-intere- Lee Asks Bateman For Report Of State Convention Expense By United Press complete report of expenses incurred by the state at a recent education conference in New Jersey was requested Saturday by Utah Gov. J. Bracken Lee. The governor asked Dr. E. Allen Bateman. state superintend ent of public instruction for the list of expenses. Bateman was one of the Utah officials who attended the annual American Association of School Administration conferences in Atlantic Cty three weeks A ago. Lec said that it had been reported to him that more than 100 Utah school officials from all over the state had attended the conference. He said that if all those people were j given travel expense it must have cost the state more than $20,000. Lee added. that "all the speakers at the conference could have been brought to Utah for a third, of that amount." The request for the expense report was made during a board of examiners meeting at which another request by Bateman for travel expenses to Washington, D.C., was being considered. The board approved the trip request strenuous over the governor's objection. n Secretary of State Heber Lee with that Jr., agreed the Atlantic City trip should be investigated. He said that if a delegation of that size were fin- (Continued on Page Two) Ben-nio- . make-or-bre- ak - EisenhowerTo Tell Congress About Views . I i . 27 Czechs Ask Asylum j er i German Zone After Forcing Pilots to Shift Their Course v ERDING, Germany, March 25 Twenty passengers and seven crew men of the three Czech airlines' wandering DC-3- 's asked for asylum in the United States zone of Germany Saturday, but 57 other outraged Czechs demanded to be sent home. The planes took off from Bratislava, Ostrava and Brno, three widely separated points, ostensibly bound for Prague, but landed here one after the other Friday before the amazed eyes of the soldiers at this air base. One of the pilots, Josef Klesnil, a reluctant guest of the U. S. air forces, said: "We were about 15 minutes out (U.R) . st, . . mid-30's- ;," fin) B-2- s j Of Crash Ion MESA, Ariz., March 25 (U.R) A converted light bomber, carrying North American Aviation Co. representative? on a sales tour, exploded and crashed Saturday in a rainstorm while attempting an emergency landing, and seven persons atxjard apparently were killed. The CAA office in Phoenix said there were seven persons aboard the converted 5 whih took off from El Paso, Tex., early Saturday for Los Angeles. No survivors j : .... ' 1950 Civilian Operated Plane Seeks to Land On Heavily Traveled Arizona Highway ! early-effort- 26, B - - I" v MARCH SUNDAY, v r Mr. Truman made" his recommendation in a Utter to Chairman John Kee, D.,l W.Va., of the as , house foreign affairs committee FBI agents joined military Inwhich reported the bill to the telligence officers and the Marih house earlier this week. county coroner's office in an inThe omnibus bill called for vestigation of rape and murder authorization of $3,375,000,000 to on this plcturesquei, government be spent for continued economic reservation on the rim of San aid to Europe and Korea, help Francisco bays Held As Suspects for Arab refugees from Palestine and funds for the technical asSgt. Lyle H.non-co-Buswell. an who had sistance part of the chief execupolice tive's "Point Four? program. been detached from duty pending Debate on the bid which began transfer to an occupation unit in Friday in the house was, marked Japan, reported discovering the to reduce drasticbody. He was promptly1 held lor DETROIt, March 25 (U.R) The by investigation along with "three or end of the Chrysler strike sec- ally the figure asked by the i lour other soldiers. ond longest and expensive in president. Mr. Truman, however, acted to Investigators, keeping most Of postwar automobile history was an "iron in sight Saturday. their information behind head off proposed .cuts by incurtain" censorship- - dropped by With the block forming Kee that the program big stumbling the FBI, were said to be question- of funded pensions Cut of the outlined in the omnibus measure ing Buswell as to why he drove way, negotiators scheduled ses- is "the minimum consistent with his automobile into a parking lot sions Sunday that may begin to the. Interest of the! United States 15 feet from the scene nearly a spell the end of the walk- and our effort, to 'achieve a mile from hit own ' quarters--arouout. peaceful world." j i 5 a.m. of whether pen"The "Failure to enact It In Its full principle Coroner Frank J. Keaton said sions should be funded or not has amount would 'do Mrs. Decker, a curvesome brun- been settled," a United Auto harm- ,- h continued. .Irreparable ''We cannot ette, may have been Jumped from Workers' spokesman said. "We're live isolated in relative wealth behind by an assailant familiar down to ts bar- and abundance. We cannot ignore with commando technique. the urgent problems of other gaining now." ' Husband War Veteran Of $100 Pensions or threats to their inbacked up She is the wife of Paul Decker, with something besides the com- peoples ! j dependence." 58, who suffered a head injury pany's promise to pay touched off authorizations Present ECA fin the first world war.! He oper- the walkout Jan. 25. expire at the end of: this fiscal ated a small Junk business on a it Chrysler gave ground Friday,' year, June 30. Trje money refarm next door to the farm of her agreeing to put $30,000,000 aside quested iby the president in the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert E. to assure continuous of new bill would be for Ensmiager, Jacobus, Pa., near pensions to its 89,000 payment workers. 1 fiscal year. York. Mrs. Decker's son, Horace, UAW president Walther P The chief executive told Kee has worked on his grandparents' Reuther said the wasn't that .passage of the farm since finishing high school. large enough. His"kitty" for tag price Her Jeft eye was blackened and an order sending; the men back foreign j assistance act would her neck bruised with finger into the shops was an additional "strengthen all nations threatened with intimidation, subversion, marks and the deep welt! of the $16,020,000. or direct aggression." dog tag chain which the rapist Translated into twisted tightly. He said, too, mat the foreign which he has been demanding, The body was found lying face Reuther said the Chrysler offer assistance program lis not a thing I" amounts to five cents, Just half of charity or waste,) but "the keyUp. Mrs? Decker's olive drab issue of what ' he called "the industry stone of our protection against shirt had been yanked down over pattern." the terrible weapons of this i Boosts Included her" shoulders tp Just above her atomic age." The rejected proposal included elbows another commando tache wrote, "Our armed forces," tic used as a quick means to pin boosts in sickness and accident "can afford us a nieasure of deinan to $28 a' week, down the arm movements of a benefits but real security can come victim. The shirt was the only crease of $3, and liberalized free fense, from building the kind to-of only insurance. item of clothing the body still had life meni can live world where i! In a Reuther tone; on. conciliatory in peace." gether in the termed offer "a the step ' She Jay on a" pile of her own right direction." In his counter.. (Continued on age Two) proposal, he asked for the millions more in pensions . and a $4.50 hike in sickness and accident benefits. Besides haggling over the size of the pension fund, which most In observers believed would wind Up a compromise, negotiators still faced contract !" WASHINGTON, March 25 (U.R) problems. But those were expected to The citizens committee for the fade AMARILLO. Tex.. 'March 25 either in agreement Hoover report sharply criticized or a quickly, (U.R) reThe flat, aridt panhandle of workers plan whereby Saturday the senate post office turned to assembly lines while Texas is suffering its worst committee for inaction on a bill problems were thrashed drought in at least a decade, and to eliminate politics from the ap- smaller out. the 1950 wheat orop is Imperiled. of pointment postmasters. sides appeared eager for Both Many farmers are writing off Chairman Robt. L. Johns of the ' their crops as 50 per cent or Hoover report group urged the settlement. more lossesno matter what hapcommittee to reconsider promptpens. A few have plowed wheat ly its action of last Tuesday in under already, and if rain doesn't a postponing indefinitely post come in good quantity within two office reform measure, to three weeks, the acreage abanThe bill would provide for the doned will be staggering. of about 22,000 appointment Damage thus far is heavy. Twin postmasters of all classes by the killers, closely related, are the Postmaster General under Civil culprits drought' and greenbug Service rules. Appointment by J KEY WEST, Fla., March 25 (U.R) infestations. the president and confirmation Weather and the. mail from It ii five monthhs now since a by the senate would be ended. Senators would lose their longtime Washington permitting, President general soaker came to the panprerogatives in selection of Truman scheduled nothing more handle. Above all else rain is postmasters, choice patronage strenuous for Saturday than needed quickly and heavily. Dick Miller, at Hereford, Tex., watching his staff play volleyball plums. Johnson sajd the Hoover com- on the beach. says the wheat outlook for the This was the 14th day of Mr. panhandle is at least the worst mission on reorganization of government in the executive depart- Truman's current southern holi- since 1943, the last year of failure. ments considered this reform to day and his appearance showed Bill; Miller, editor of the Spearbe "of very great importance." the restful effects of two weeks man in thp "wheat basHe reminded the committee that away from "the big white Jail," ket ofReporter the nation,"! goes further. Mr. Truman had appointed Don- as he sometimes refers to the "It's the worst since dust bowl aldson from the career service. White House. says Miller. days of the J. E. McDonald, state commissioner of agriculture, agreed that the outlook is at least the worst in a decade. "It's getting late for rain," said McDonald. "Damage will be very Section A Cover pagf ; symposium by Central severe unless we get rain at orite. Utah leaders on prospects for future growth in area. Damage increases rapidly as the weather turns warmer' and the Section B World-wid- e and local news and feagrain begins to head." tures ; sports pages. - 01 President Truman asked congress Saturday to "strike a blow for peace" by passing the $3,375,000,000 omnimus foreign assistance 25 UTAH, B e v ein) ' By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House COUNTY. In U. S. , i -j 1 |