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Show 4 - i PARTLY CLOUDY Above Compromise Point Saaday. A few mm Mite Hovel Mm .j.. - shawms TEMPERATURES t 31 "Nrtlul S&K Laka 44 mmtf .... Oira ... !( La Crf Vriu . SU Utah Lake is above compromise point for the first in 28 years. It is now higher than it 'has beeri since 1924-l-ait has already flooded several liundred acres of several with prospects that it will flood farmland good ., PROVO. VOL 29, NQM4 UTAH MARCH SUNDAY. UTAH. COUNTY. st i 44 11 Tl 12 tt 41 Lm AlCilH St aaa Fraa. 47 44 4S 1952 30, PRICE prta--ctpa- BMsUba. M . 47 14 is m 44 St rctn Dic ... . ... Chku 44 11 mmarrk . II It ST ,N 1h tltt1 JT lMJMt M FiyE ".'.CENTS nd " more. . gloomy lake much worse. will above compromise indica- J lake was 18 higher.! Meanwhile, lakeside ftovo are hard at work building up three to four miles of Odds Lengthen Against The private, dikes which protect vast areas of farmland. comSteel Strike; Hike of above the a built foot about were dikes originally above six with inches1, but the Jake already $5 Per Ton Predicted promise point the compromise level, these dikes will prove worthless un- By ROBERT F. LOFTUS less rai?ed. Accordingly, farmers protected by three main dikes are cooperating to build them up to an estimated 34 WASHINGTON (UP) The gov feet above compromise, where itjs,believed they will with ernment was reported ready Sat " . stand the peak of the lake this year. urday to permit a steel price, rise IF which apparently would forestall No Protection an industry-wid- e strike threatened But for the thousands of acres of good farm and pas- - for- - April 8. tureland north and south of the dikes there is no protection. Top officials from, Defense Mo- and one source estimated that, "several hundred acres" of bilizer Charles E. Wilson down good land have already beeri flooded! If the lake goes; to two refused to say what step, were feet above compromise, as has been predicted, tfe loss of being taken; but sources here said Wilson had convinced President good farmlarid will run into thousands of acres. According to records oft Frank Wentz, Pravo riVer wa Truman that there was no way ter commissioner, the lake "is higher now than it has been out except to grant the steel in at any time since 1934, last year of three successive seasons dustry price increases sufficient to in the early lyzos wnen it surpassea ine compromise, point. offset the pay raises recommended It has never been above compromise sincethen until! March by the Wage Stabilization Board 10 of this year when it passed that point. Philip Murray's 650.000 CIO seen in is the fact thai for situation of the Inevitability United Steelworkers. tioqV snrir.ir runoffs are estimated to brine more! water sources predicted the price Some I drainedTbff Jordan can be into the lake than through the hike would be about $5 a ton, but outlet, even with the pumps going full blast which Salt Lake it was understood the increases j ; valley "interests may not permit. would be spread in small install 14 Inches Lower f. ments over 18 to 24monthr and would vary from company to com Last year at this time, the lake was 14 inches lower than it now is. At its peak on May 31 last year, it reached Pny. .The wage board has recommend only four inches below compromise, which is 10 inches ed wage boosts and "fringe" ben . below what it Is right now. totaling 28 cents an hour for Provo's airport, threatened by a rising lake .several efits the But the raises steelworkers. years ago, is believed to be in no serious danger. ) A gov would be paid in three installments ftUNWASHED BUT UNHURT It wasn't his, ernment project resulting from the flood danger years ago morning to use the apartment bouse laundry, but Ben 18 over next the and the jamin F. Kennedy, of Detroit. Mich., dropped in months, above anyway, car and alL Unhurt, and unwashed, he was compromise settlement put a dike around it which is Zy feet plan now in the works able to walk away from the wreck. Kennedy said he was trying to avoid a collision, and lost control level. West Provo farmers have another worry on their would spread the price increases of his car. hands, however, besides the lake spilling over their dikes. over a slightly longer period.. If they build their dikes up, and then it Provo river breaks Meanwhile, Secretary of Labor its' banks farther to the east, the overflow will be trapped Maurice J. Tobln predicted. In a which would inundate vast areas television appearance (NBC) that in a perfect catch-basi- n there will be no steel strike. Tobin behind mkea?r the lands of their Accordingly, farmers are doing flood control work on said the WSB was. entitled to "con'Winner-Take-A! ; - Hurls Invective. Ridicule At Republicans; Predicts Victory for Democrats BULLETIN ( WASHINGTON (CP) President Tranaa' Right he will ot fee a caadidat for annared a ad re-elct- ira . . accept rescmimatiea. Satarday shall at j Tnmii made the sarprtse aaawcesaeas la a Jeffert-Jarday diaarr tptttk. Be departed freaa ais prepared text toward Jb4 emd ml kis . speech to say: "I stall m(W i candidate far I shall accept renamtaatiaa. I da atot feel It Is aay daty to serve aaatfeer fear years ta the White Haas a ad retardlear ml wba tt swmtae la, we'll have a Demacrat tor aaotter fear years. ' Tfe speech which,, at rted mmt as a kJckaff mt tta-t-aS campalr. praved to b a farewell far Mr. Trwnaaaf Tber waa camplet flaalitr to bis aaBaameat. Urn did a4 fcedre ar leave the pea evea to a draft. Mr. Tramaa. learlag the anaary, was askd If his tfeclstoa waa aabject to aay chaare at aU. j Na whatsoever,", he replied j firmly. i f WASHINGTON (UP) President Truman accused the Republicans, Saturday ntpht of trying to win the 1952 election with a "whit Is black and black is white" campaign based on "phony propaganda." He denounced it as a device of "desperation" by a party out of i power for 70 years. He predicted itiwill fail because "the voters ar going to see through the disguls that our Republican friends are putting on.". s He predicted a Democratic victory la the 19S2 presidential election "whoever the Democratic nominee for president may be this . t year." He did say.be has been In politics for more than 30 year and . "nothing else could have given me greater saUsf action." Gives Flgbtiag Speech Launching the Democratic Battle of Wisconsin party's 1952 campaign with a fight ing political speech before the an nual SlOO--a plate Jefferson-Jackso- n dinner, Mr. Truman lasbed out at iFrovo river, with some county as-- 1 gratulations' for its recommendall the Republican opposition ' with, sistance, at points both above and tions and he expects a "peaceful invective and rfdlcuie. below the Lower Geneva Road. Y speech reminiscent of Provo City Is engaged in strength settlement" of the dispute. OMAHA. Neb. (UP) Seu. Estest Nebraska's delegates to the na - jlow the will of the people If Sen. theIt was a'era hell" one h dTiv- ening dangerous, river points rast 'Ht said' the teerworkeiTlstflCefauTer'chanpTiged Senv" Robertftiowal- - cotryeUons ate elected in Kerr will Join in the recommends ered "give in the 1948 campaign. and west of U. S. 91; mainly pay raise was about 15 months ago S. Kerr Saturday to make Ne-- balloting held apart from the tion the Tennesstan said. Wis. (V P) "The real Republican campaign MILWAUKEE. through the help of the 1457th Com and since then there has been braska's Democratic presidentlal'presidential "popularity oll." and Is Harold on to the be E. Cites told Milwaukee Coart Stassen Decisiea fought bat Engineers, Utah j National to not bound supportany can primary next Tuesday a winner are Guard, who are spending their "considerable inflation. take all" proposition. didate. 1929 Nebraska issues." Mr. Truman said. Thea voter Saturday to support his a Kefauver cited Republicans are going to wage regular drill periods and some time The odds against a steel strike On the Republican side, support- But Kefauver, touring east-ceticket be supreme court decision which held campaign of phony propaganda. paid by the city in this work. lengthened Friday when Wilson ers f Sen. Robert A. Taft cause Sen. Robert A Taft are l(h. we to wHat are Wentz Commissioner said Satur his aides D. Gen. and stabilisation and going try Eisenhower They 30 top Dwight (UP) toSLSSrt the wimVer TOKYO, Sunday, March might call the 'White is Black' Is ."weak 'itandard bearer." Tu?sdar to day that Provo River has not start Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Put woound up feverish campaigns for delegates His statement United Nations negotiators brought immedi and. 'Black is White strategy . . . raft, addressing, another MO- ed to rise, yet and probably will nam and race controller tius write-i- n Gov man and who wins the presi- ate former the votes, port response from the Kerr camp! to Panmunjom today deter not do - so for some time. Last Arnall y huddle Harold Stassen of Minnesota dential preference poll. held an v HU.1HI11 WBtot audience, charged that twi an election. Democratic Committee to win Itwouldirt mined to force the Communists to year's spring runoff ' began about with Mr. Truman and White House scheduled a flight here for a last "I'm willing and ' happy to sug National stassen and his other opponents man who Jamei jQuigley, supports 7. Continued cold- weather officials minute personal apperance Sunday. gest to the nominees that' they, fol-- j the Oklahoma oil man. laid that appeal to anybody but a very for the Republican .presidential drop the name of Russia from their April could postpone the runoff and Wilson put the steel crisis . be nomination ' have dodged discus- -' "no Tennessee politician can either desperate politician. list of "neutral" truce inspectors. be avert serious danger alongmay the fore the. President ne president preaicura mat B ions of the administratioa'a at the regular Darter or sell my vote if I am The allies say Soviet Russia is nver. A sudden, prolonged warm cabinet meeting, after which Put con to as a elected the policy. delegate into' back the hills. speU. reaching about as neutral as North Korea fail again, just as it has in the foreign and Arnall spent nearly four Stassen. Taft. Gov. Earl War vention." could bring a disastrous: flood of nam fiv last with Charles in campagns. hours conference ren of California and Grant R tipresidential "I am atnazed at a man who itself and thus have rejected the water down within a, few days. of "All the a "stand-in- " ad Mr. Truman's a a wear halo to Republican claims tricks, candidat ' for ter, and robe legal Murphy, truce supervision Measurements taken from rec ited proposals in cannot the make Gen. Arnall and Putnam to and elec viser. for propaganda Wilson, barter Douglas MacArthur. all spoke proposes discussions that Russia be included ords kept by Commissioner Wentz then met Democratic the , that with Presi the la Milwaukee tions." forget people briefly of in 1922. LAKE tonight as. the camthat SALT CITY first reveal of (UP) either he said. candidate." year Sen.jerty In an armistice Inspection team. that Kerr himself was unavailable for party has beeft working for their paign for votes In next Tuesday's three-yeflood cycle, the dent. S. Kerr Saturday night Robert big not to are make free only on rhey the comment. He was returning from welfare, he said. Communist negotiators, All refused, to comment on the rciuracu i.u Republican primary hit lta peak. lake reached 3.3 feet above com ' their own but theyare Salt Lake City to resume ' Fires at. his N Stassen characterized Taft as other hand, say their position is promise on May 30. The latter part White House parley. But authori- - Kefauver's challenge to a "win- responsible decision, Republicans are for them. They , braska campaign. "weak" and said of Warren, "be'a Nebrascontest in ner take all" c'lear. The Reds have been ada of March of the same year it was tative sources said they had work "or to not to his take. Both the Kerr and Kefauver "We give take our case to the ta fine fellow" but in 1948 "h did feet above. The following year. ed out the. preliminary steps to-- ka's presidential primary next "I mine am confident that I will win camps predicted "overwhelming Americacaif mant in their insistence that Russia two in 1952 with full not even carry his own state." 1923, its peak was 2.6 feet above ward a peaceful settlement of the Tuesday. nof. give victory. but that does But of Tuesday, each in their confidence supporters be incIudedTand yesterday re- and it was 1.7. feet above on March steel dispute,'- calling for price in- - 1 The former Minnesota governor "Judgment . . Itfmfw-mt t .w Oklahoma viff !. were careful to soften the possible and in the ultimate Judgment of repeated his pledge to five j Gea. fused even, to discuss the prob- 30. In 1924 it hit its ' peak of 1.1 crease, to compensate for the recousIy io vote effects denounced KefauveiSn'r'recTme of defeat In Tuesday's bal history, D. Eisenhower half of any feet above compromise the latter ommended pay raises. Dwight would have no, voluntarily for me, I would not he and said lem. pan P , loting. As he fired at the delegates be wins In the Wisconsin part of March and then started to That impression was strength part of it. ; Debate' on prisoner exchange decline. my opponent to deliver A Kerr spokesman said the Okla two Democrats one Republicans whom It never again surpassed ened by word from New York that "The senator Uvefauver) must 'permit .of mnv niros horn a oil man will win the state's could wind up with the nomina- - balloting. .h.m n m iik - He said Elsenhower's name was also resumed in the adjoining tent compromise since then until this steei management, and union rep think the delegates are robots contest" by an "over tion sat with some 6.000 others left off to;0f,mcrch,ndise. 'popularity ballot because of a resentatives would resume collec be controlled, or slaves to be bar where results have been blacked year. "I would not outrage their per whelming majority." But be said in the National, Armory and 'change IntheWisconsin election laws, point is the level set tive bargaining there Monday, Under tered. neither. 'are out 'by a news ban for the past Compromise They to sonal dignity by trying claim Kerr's bid to succeed President listened. and a said that by the courts in 1896 after an 1- 1, powerful "very ' are the Nebraska law delegates like they, were prizes in a Truman is' "not necessarily de five days. were Sen. Richard BJdrive" has been made here la be-year court battle between Utah - them They not to become chatteles the propan I Nebraska. would nor insult their game pendent bingo An allied negotiator believes that and Salt Lake County .'interests. Russell of Georgia who is a can - half of Taft. ? Lake- - as a intelligence by trying to force any didate for the nomination no mat ."Under these circumstances." be Russia alone holds the key to the The latter use Utah Toers Kefaaver Stat. rae one vote to who for favored deadlocked debate on how to police storage reservoir, and it is to their ter what Mr. Truman decides to said. "I decided that the fair, right not rec someone I Kefauver supporters said he do, myself could advantage to have the lake go as an armistice in Korea. and Gov. Adlal Stevenson ot and wise thing to do was give the ommend. would "sweep the state" and keep Illinois. possible. Utah County in voters of Wisconsin who wished to Coi. Don O. Darrow, chief high as on "I knew the senator was under the Tenneccee band wagon roll the other hand, face United Nations staff officer iq terests,harm from has been mentioned support Gen. Eisenhower: a a op-- a Stevenson I one But a little but said when mental strain that leader the ing." flooding quite the truce supervision debate, said great 'as Mr. Truman's per- portunlty to do so." didn't expect a total collapse such "while this is an hits excessive levels, and the LONDON (UP) A freak spring important elec frequently that" "the Kremlin only, knows" lake 30 for the nomination In a radio address. Taft charged choice sonal March TOKYO, (UP) Sunday. a Nebraskaas appears to have struck him," tion. isn't court battle resulted. Technically, blizzard with winds up to 70 miles pivotal should the chief executive bow that the administration at Yalta controlled vcliy the talks have stalled ton Utah County can employ Radar , meth an hour lashed southern England Kerr said. state." nominatiorrof Russia as a neutral ods possible to prevent; 'an 1944 and 1948 out. Stevenson says that he does- was duped into accepting-Stalin'won the Stassen the lake Saturday, paralyzed channel ship guns that some officials think Defends Policy promises, and said that the Korean injector. here. This year the n't want It may be served by Russian tech from going, above compromise. The ping and blocked highways-witLater, addressing the Utah Jef primaries Re- war was unnecessary." Mr. lie implied that it was Up to hitch Truman described the a nicians caused reversal on names will GOP ballot the is the sharp the only in however, drifts of snow. plan, Day dinner, Kerr be Stassen and Mrs. F. sia either to ask ;withdrawal fact3 "I notice that the other candiin the Korea "air war this week publicans , as., "wandering In a dates Mery Kenny. that in years like this one, a Snowfalls snuffed, out vigorously defended what he called a .stand-ita' Wisconsin say nothing f .of her name or to givevthe Chi- - tremendous n camels like fordesert on Gen. short and the allies the candidate were, runoff political brings weather throughout most of westspring of the administrathe this he said. ."Do they ap"rightness rworean ana negouat-permissisubject," He rsorin said oasis. for to one9 two loss ratio. a tion's vne an, more water into the lake than the ern Europe also bringing"warn-ing- s end of a looking Douglas MacArthur. '' foreign policy." of this to do so. prove policy at to in were of voted out office Eisenhowere forceannounced The that and outlet, can take air workers, Jordan they hoping pumps floods of and avalanches. He also challenged the RepubliThe Communists refused again out. '' "had brought Yalta or ana- - they afraid that If vote 1932 off because another miracle" as were allied nine pull lost "They planes cans to show wherein the Ameri such as the one the Hardest hit by the storm was attack K they might find ycc.erd?y to discuss theanomina-t;o- n. general com the country to the brink of .ruin." they the southeast coast of England. compared to the Communists four can economy has fallen to the piled themselves Russia would be one of in trying to rid the aV- at their on Minnesota, blamed He it stayed three "petrified destroyed, probably destroy sorry state the GOP asserts. The blizzard howled down the ed ot communism unimsirauoo ..r six nations supervising the truce. of wnrM hundreds desks i.ni.tin.. per telephoning and nine damaged. There was -The Republicans nave grown sons Id Omaha and other cjues. said the administration "did English Channel and stopped all no report The UN has accepted Czechoslo- Tft of the f number allied 'on Caattaaed Pag Tw) fat in this prosperity which they not want to win". the Korean war ship traffic. Huge vahia and Poland for the Reds could not create. However, now waves forced British fishing fleets planes damaged, and therefore fired MacArthur. and Sweden and named Norway! In the entire war the allies have that it is a reality they want to " to stick to port. "No other candidate for presiSwitzerlandxry its own choices. in Tests Slated French A channel ferryboat, the "St. destroyed 398 planesN while losing be put in charge of it. TUNIS, Tunisia (UP) April dent la this election win evea dis623 own. of their Haue-clocqof faith of -"The lack Resident General Jean de Republi cuss this Issue In any straightforCharges Repeated Germin," tossed about laDover Two American 6 Sabrejets can leaders in our government, its was named Tunisian for- harbor with a load of shaken, seaward manner," he charged. The Chinese Peiping radio for eign minister Saturday in a new sick passengers from France. were lost in aerial combat while institutions, our prosperity and our Stassen's aides said he would MIG-15s. : . the second time in two days cabinet led by But Com future is equalled only by their Premier Thirty-foa helicopter Monday to fly to waves prevented- - the dowmngfour use charged the UN with violating Salah Baccouche. from docking last night and muni st ground fire knocked down Marshfietd and Waussa. Merrill. ship the agreement- to" hold private Strong forces of French troops she was still riding out the gale three slower 4 Thunder-jetand he was prevented from Wis., points sessions on prisoner exchange. some of the , four other alert- - against in the harbor late- this after- possibly week becaus of a the last patrolled visiting city, of slower planes "lost to undeter Peiping also gave its "version knots of nationalists blizzard. noon. . deThe said The WASHINGTON defense, (UP) Up department ? a. new UN proposal for breaking s mined causes." fense department announced Sat- that the test, named "Desert Bock the prisoner deadlock. It - was HIGHWAY 95 CLOSED urday that about 7,000 officers and IV." will be a sequel to those held BY described as "the same thing with BI G WASH OUT enlisted men will participate in in Nevada . a different name." ' last November when BOISE (UP) Idaho - Oregon In Nevada an test atomic explosion Red broadcast According was an army battalion combat, team - Nevada highway next month. ( the UN wants certain of the prisMe a washout near closed reby All are divisions of participated. these oners it holds to, be designated " in exercise Desert Rock IV . . . is a key Derm oft. Ore., the state highway ceiving atomic-trainin- g Gen. Longhorn In Texas, the announce- part of the military training pro- department reported her. BANGOR. Me. (UP) These,. Peiping. said, would ndt D. Eisenhower's ment said. Army participants will gram." the announcement said, i a of of WASHINGTON alof presiden section ant Dwight Political chief the to (UP) be entitled government progressive enlightened repatriation "The tactical employment of Satwere . 4.500 and include individual tial total supporters character fully in keeping with the jubilant though "technically certified as science expert T. A. Bisson gave MacArthur's headquarters. nine and at weapons has been incorpor atomic observers up from lining new told constituBisson internal of liberal the the urday Senate the throughout North Koreans or Chinese." spirit Senate investigators Saturday a 11 Re of '16 in all phases of army trainMaine's ated United was tion of States. he that possibly. subcommittee . that the It security prisoners Japan." appeared " The' marine corps will furnish ing. Including simulated atomic The Jetter praised Bisson's "vi- publican national convention delewould lose their identity as letter of ringing' commendation be never a Communist. Infantry warfare in Yield exercises," it "prisoners of ' war if they be- received for his work in Gen. But he said he failed io inform sion and judgment" In planning gates. Sen. Robert A. Taft won two provisional composite battalions Zl about 1000 .men each. added. came f anti - Communists. This Doaglas Mac Arthur's headquar his superiors in bis three civilian decentralized political power in five. Informedxrources have said that convention Fri- One will be from Camp Pendlewould permit the UN to claim ters, but said he had not told the Jobs in Japan that he spoke on Japan and establishing control-fre- e The GOP state; Eisenhower-committed mcludaVla the spring atomic tests nine ton. elected other from associations with the same "platform in 1944 with the and Camp Cal., that all actual prisoners were re- -; Army of his past day private enterprise. field will Inita-tivbe that and claimed , le e prin-.cipC. Communists. N. Frederick while LeJeune. firing of atomic weapto Browder and "The and Earl turned delegates Jts al, patience holding The letter to Bisson, now a Uni Air force representation, totaling ons perfected as a result of exof voluntary repatriation. with which you performed two uncommitted delegates "lean Field or that he had written last spring and y "Of the captured personnel of versity of California lecturer, was for '"China Today," the magazine your manifold duties toward the general." All 16 dele- about 500. will Include two nights perimental Vshots . J . this side who- - come from South signed by Brig. , Gen. Courtney of an organization cited by the have won the deep . respectt and gates have- a full vote at the Chi- units from the special weapons fall. The explosloon wilL be the first center, Kirtland Air Base, Albu Korea," Peiping said, "only those Whitney, now MacArthur's' princi- attorney general as a Communist admiration of all your colleagues cago convention. .. in this headquarters,'; as well as front. rN fhaods os? In Milwaukee. Taft said the re querque, N. M., and 'some individ atomic ' detonation witnessed by pal spokesman. publicly acknowledged as Prospertry ioes was when elements' would be It written May 8, 1947, press and other ."uncleared some people ond so th wotsrs Whitney's letter to Bisson said my own gratitude and apprecia- sults of the Maine Republican con ual observers. sine tha Bikini The navy will have only Individ 30 others. repatriated. The rest . would be Bisson left bis post after 43 months he helped prepare and pass tion." the letter read. "We will vention were "about what we i 1946. tests of as special assistant to Whitney, through the Japanese diet "laws all miss you." , ual observers at the teot. 4? , Illegally detained. ' ' ' , Mr. kj at De-cra- f holier-than-th- Kefaiiver Asks Kerr to Mink ' Nebraska Russia Molds Key to Stalled ou Stassen Hits -- Taft; Soys He's 'Weak7 - not-goin- Truce, Talks g n- VSUrsen-Eisenhow- er .&?JZZd tR-O- .) tlc dr - -: -- re-turn- ed all-da- (R-O- .) -- - - , Senator Kerr Returns Kefauver Challenge bout Delegates " ar 1 . - eS l - . " - Freak Blizzard Allies Suffer Lashes; Britain Plane Losses anti-aircra- I ft . s h 12-fo- ot -- 1 Dy ICgfe Set Stage "thousand This wasthe picture revealed by a summary For Hike In of the present sityatiorrSaturday with every that tion it Friday night the get andsome qualified observers Steel six inches Price inches have hazarded the guess it may go farmers north, south and west of ; - Tflgfct awar-t- a . , I t 'J . I ferson-Jackso- .spring on n . . pro-Sovi- - et I New Cabinet For Tunisia cross-chann- 5 el - to Stage Atomic 700 MenTests In Nevada ue F-8- - pro-Fren- Ed-Di- ch ot ne - s F-8- Ike Lines -- . Explosion -- to-jth- "anti-Communis- MacArthur Aide Admits Failure fo Tell Army Of Past Associations With the Communists e t." Majority of Maine Dejegates f -- U5EE353JHEH - - . - j . . ! Van-derb- ilt day-to-da- . - : 'pro-Commu- A-bo- " . - j |