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Show r f ' Weather Forecast Temperatures cw Partly cloudy, today beeomlnf mostly cloudy Sat urday with a few' light showers. Winner today with high temperatures near 55, low Saturday morning near 35. Yesterday's max., 50; min., 34; mean, 43; norm., 41. Sunset tonight, 6:43; sunrise tomorrow, 6:27. Price Five Cents. s TAIM Iran Mesiis BEHIND Russian troop movement, in Iron lies oil J on. word Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday Evening, March 22, 1946 oil. The Britislrjiave iarge-icol- e oil concetiionl ln l ra n71uT attempts to get sintilar concessions hove not been sue cessful. Because the nation with the most oil holds an ace card In war and peace, tbd struggle for Iran is a struggle for oilm -- Solon1 j HI jMMM jrlj Spy Recruiter MONTREAL- (AP) Igor Gouzenko, former cipher clerk in the Russian embassy at Ottawa, testified today that Fred Rose, member of parliament, and Sam Carr, national organizer for the party, were "recruiting agents in a Soviet organization of agents in Canada. Gounzenko testified in the preliminary hearing of Rose, Who is accused of relaying secret scientific data to Soviet agents Rose, first Communist elected to the Canadian parliament, joined the Labor Progressive party after the Communist party was outlawed in wartime. Gouzenko said the Communist party in Canada was used as part of a Moscow-directspy network He said the Canadian-Sovifriendship organizations were used as a screen for the purpose of preparing for future events which could be the grounds for war " Russia, Gouzenko said, was policy in pursuing a two-fawhich the friendship organizations had nothing to do with creating friendly relations with Canada. He charged, moreover, that Russian security-poli- ce are operating in Canada and that some are in the Soviet embassy. First Appearance former Gouzenko, code clerk at the Soviet embassy in JOttawa, -- who --turned over to the Canadian government the principal documents on which the current spy inquiry is based, was making bis first public appearance siuce placing himself under police guard last fall. Having told authorities he feared-t- or Vhi ,Wc Gouzenko was spirited into police court by six stalwart Royal- Canadian mounted police plain clothes-me- n, who ranged themselves behind him throughout the two hours of his testimony at a morning session. Public Barred Gouzenko was the first wit ness against Fred Rose, Commu nist member of parliament accused as an intermediary in the espionage operation. Rose's wife sat in the spectators benches. It was a preliminary hearing to establish whether the government has a sufficient case for a trial. The public was barred except for reporters. 4 an j. ed et ce COLOSSUS OF "BUCK GOLD" This refinery ontheRiver Shaft Al Arab of the head of the Persian Gulf is said to be the world's largest. If belong to the Anglo-lrania- n Oi! Co. w 4 - tf . 5 Nos , V S, a? f3 - The northern city of Tabriz is in IN THE DANGER ZONE the area where strong Red movements were reported. - Russian failure ta quit Iran prompted VU. S. and British, protests. Ike Asks Only Year FoF Draft, -- fc:l SaysPatterson WASHINGTON - Gen. (AP) Dwight D, Eisenhowers, advo- -. 1 1 of an indefinite draft law cacy ' extension was modified today by Secretary of War Robert Patterson, who said Eisenhower now wants a one-yeextension. Patterson told the House miliTROUBLED TEHRAN This is the capital of Iran, where the tary committee, before which he JL'Big Three" met in 1943.-- A modern city with new buildings and Eisenhower testified yesterRed and wide streets, it was reported on the Army's patn. day, that he and the chief of staff now are agreed bn a one-ye- ar continuance of the law, which expires May 15. Patterson said heand Eisenhower were in full agreement that length of service under extension legislation should be limited to 18 months, that fathers should not be inducted, and that all fathers how in uniform should be released by late summer. He is willing, Patterson said, to accept a limitation that the induction be held to men between 18 and 25, both lncluiive. f . We: l i cvv ar ' & Utahn , Witness In Doolittle rCase, X e SUPPLY CORRIDOR aid During the war, U. S. went through Iran to Russia. The above photo shows a supply-lade- n train on the move through the mountains. lend-leas- Yanks Must Not Make Love To' Nippon Girls In Public American forces TOKYO (AP) soldiers strolling with arms around Japanese women, or making other public displays of affection, henceforth wiH bo subject to imprisonment for disorderly conduct, Lt .Gen. Robert L. Elchelberger announced today. The commander of the Eighth Army said no ban! onfraternizations" was contemplated, but that auch displays. - were in particularly poor taste and repugnant to both Japanese and Americans. Tha question of fraternisation never has been raised of v ficially in the occupation in' Japan, Elchelberger laid. However, public display of affection by men in uniform towards the women of any nation is in poor taste. Particularly is this so in Japan, among those who were so recently our enemies and where people have never been accustomed to such demonstrations. "Sight of our soldier walking along the streets with their-arm- s around Japanese girls Is equally repugnant to Americans as well si to most Listed As 'AWOU SHANGHAI (AP) Capt Chaae J. Nielsen, chief prosecution witness: at the Doolittle War Crimea trial, was notified today that he was listed as AWOL from Ellington Field, Galveston, Tex., 74 days. -An Ellington officer wrote Nielsena mother at Hyrum, Utah, asking ft she could help locate him. Nielsen explained that ho was ordered by the war department to fly here to testify and assumed Washington had notified his air base. Parties To Merge SEOUL The Na(AP)' tionalist party today announced it would merge with the Independence party to amalgamate right wing political factions and strengthen their position in any Korean 'government that might be formed. Called tirike A (AP) picketing at Struck. Westinghouse Electric Corporation plants was modified today in a move to pre- vent recurrence of disorder which led to state police being alerted for emergency duty. Judge Walter H. Smart limited the number of pickets to 18 at each gate, spaced at intervals, as the aftermath of a melee yesterday in which three supervisory employes seeking entrance to the East Pittsburgh plant were jostled by angry crowds. Closely bunched pickets paced leisurely about gates today while a small gathering watched. There was no disturbance. company wage proposal, said by a Westinghouse spokesman to amount to a 18V4 cents hourly pay boost Union leaders, however, said the hike amounted to about 9 7 cents an hour. Governor Martin said he ordered the state police into Pittsburgh upon request for aid from Sheriff Walter C. Monaghan of Allegheny County, An anti-mapicketing injunction against the striking union had been issued by common pleas Judge Walter P. Smart The orders and decrees of our courts must be respected, Governor Martin said, The 75,000 CIO electrical worker have been on strike since last Jan. 15. Numerous wage conferences have failed to settle the dispute. - By Associated Press Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania today ordered state, police into Pittsburgh to protect supervisory workers seeking to pass CIO picket lines around the strikebound Westinghouse Electric Corporation plant The mobilization of state troopers came after yesterdays brief flare up at the company's East Pittsburgh plant when milling jostling pickets halted at. least three supervisors from going to work. Sheriffs deputies broke up the fistswinging melee. As the state police moved In, the 16,000 striking production workers, among the 75,000 CIO electrical workers participating in a nationwide strike against the company, Were summoned by union leaders to a mass meeting on the steps of Pittsburghs City HalL They were to vote on a 1 OPA Admits Some Price Boosts Due (AP) Paul A. today there would be some price increases as the result of -approved wage boosts but pre-e that-thdicted newj-price policy would have little or no effect upon rents or on the of food prices. In-- a -- speech- prepared for luncheon of the Union for D tic Action,', Porter' declar- ed that as far aa the basic of our problem cerned, we can continue to hold the average of prices to a slight eco-nom- ics is-c- on Increase during the coming , year, and added: The new wage-pripolicy will add somewhat to the rate of creeping price increase. Lets not duck thia reality. Approved wage increases will lead to some price increases which would not have occurred under the original wage-pripolicy. In In majority of American industries, however, prospective earnings are so well above prewar le ela that - reasonable wage increases can be negotiated without raising prices. It is clear that the new wage-pripolicy will have no effect on the levels of rents. It should have little Effect on the average of food prices. And it will have little or no effect upon a variety of miscellaneous living costa. Porter declared that "we are six months nearer the time when all-ocivilian production will make most price controls unnecessary. ce ce ce ut (AP)U. S. army headquarters in London said today that charges of conspiracy to Inflict cruel, unusual and unauthorized punishment -- on guardhouse prisoners had been brought against CoL James A. Kilian of Highland Park, 111, former commander of the Tenth Reinforcement . Depot at Lichfield, and five other officers. Maj. Richard D. Kearney, staff judge advocate for the London area, said the charges, preferred for investigation tinder the 70th Article of War, also included separate counts of misfeasance and malfeasance in office. Kilian and others of the six charged today appeared as witnesses earlier this year at the T INTERVIEWS STALIN Eddy Gilmore,. Associated Press correspondent at Moscow receives replies from Stalin to vital questions. . NEW YORK (AP) Iran, which has protested to the United h Nations the presence of Russian troops on its territqry, formally aligned itself with the United States today in opposing a Soviet request that the meeting of the Security Council be delayed 16 days. Such .postponement --which would set back the opening meeting from next Monday to April 10 would Inevitably result In Increased harm to the interests of Iran, Hussein Ala, Aranian ambassador, said In letter to Trygve Lie, UNO secre t-- w tary general. - The Iranian letter came several houra after .President. Truman flatly declared that the - WASHINGTON A (AP) scheduled meeting of the power- former business associate of ful security council would not Commodore James Kr Vardaman be postponed and that the Unit- Jr., testified today that he had ed States delegation would press signed three affidavits containing untrue statements about Varda-ma- n. for action on the Iranian casa. But Andrei A. Gromyko RusPaul De Coeter, comptroller for sian ambassador, replying to the Vardaman Shoe Company, ofpresidents statement, said se- the curity council action now on the fered this testimony to the Senate Iranian dispute would merely banking subcommittee considernomination for a complicate it Russia had re- ing Vardamans Reterm quested postponement of the serve Board. on the Federal meeting on the grounds that it Reproduction Of the three affi needed more time to prepare its davit were submitted, along with aide of the case. by Frank O. Bittner Jr, Unanimous agreement Ty the others, St Louis shoe manufacturer who members of the aecurity council had testified that Vardaman deis needed to postpone the meet- frauded him in sale of stock in ing,. and oppoUan.to the de- the ahoe company just before it lay already baa been voiced by .was .reorganized in 1942. Earlier three St. Louis bank representatives of and 'Great Britain. Iran is ers testified that Vardaman was not a member of the security not suited to serve on the bank, counciL lng board. A fourth SLLouia HusseinAlar-letterr-releasbanker declared that the naval here last night by UNO officials, officer and former banker was said the Iranian government well qualified 7 77 hoped that consideration of its Claim. a Soviet Union 'ease gainst the will not be delayed. Decoster said he had written and signed the originals of the three affidavits in bis own handwriting, but declared he did so under "suggestion and pressure of Bittner, then his new boss in Port-Tie- up. the shoe company. 777. , The affidavits dealt with alPHILADELPHIA (AP) leged error in inventories Striking AFL tugboat worker, shoe concern prior to 1942. of the idle since March X3, threatened The witness said that Mr. today to tie up the port of Phil- Bittner was trying to stick Mr, adelphia completely by setting Vardaman and has suggested on lines wharf every up picket thia and pier along the waterfront. Decostand that in the affidavits signed. He testified William E, Collier, field representative for the Harbor yesterday be had not signed one reproduction' proWorkers Union, affiliated with photographic duced by Bittner. . Mine District 50 AFL-UnltWorkers, said the 160 unlicensed Lawyer Would Testify Chairman Radcliffe tug workers voted last night to meantime, disclosed he had repicket the' piers. ceived a telegram from Frank Williams, St. Louis lawyer, ask-in- g Fugitives to be called before the sub SOUTH WINDHAM,' Me., committee. - Williams has been (AP) Eight men who escaped identified at attorney tor Bittfrom the state reformatory were ner. Senator' Donnell sought throughout Maine tpday told by authorities who already had the committee that William and returned nine others to custody. Vardaman- - burned originals -- of affidavit after a settlement between Vardaman and Bittner. oil-ric- Falsehoods Confessed China,-Australi- a ed Strikers Plan -- ed (D-M- d) Captured (R-M- o) CRUELTY CHARGES v - , Iran Joins U. S. Fight on Delay 6 OFFICERS FACE LONDON w 10-y- Porter, OPA administrator, said , ICELAND DENIES ' court martial of ten enlisted men and two officers accused of mistreating Lichfield prisoners. Others charged were: of Maj.- - Richard E. Lobuono Pittsburgh, former provost marshal at the depot. Maj. Herbert W. Bluhm, former depot inspecting officer. Capt Joseph A. Robertson, former commanding officer of the 316th Reinforcement Company, which supplied personnel for operation of the depot guardhouse. ' V First Lt. Granville Cubage wf Oklahoma City, formerly a prls on officer at the depot Firat Lt Leonard W. Ennis of PeekskiU, N. Y, also a former prisoner officer at the depot f (AP) Prime Minister Stalin told the Associated I am convinced that neither the nations nor their armies are striving tor a new war, the Moscow radio said, t "Tbey want peace,- - Stalin said in the interview as broadcast from Moscow, and are striving for a guarantee " of peace. That means,' Stalin added, that the present feaf of war is caused not from that quarter. I think that the present fear of war is caused by the activities of certain political groups Who occupy themselves with propaganda tor a new war and who aro thereby sowing the seeds of discord and lack at confidence. Moscow said AP correspondent Eddy Gilmore asked Stalin what significance he attributed to the United Nations as an. of preserving International peace, and Stalin replied: , I attribute great cigniflcance te the United Nations Or- ganliation since it is a serious instrument for the preserve- tion of peace and international aecurity, 1 "The strength of this international organization consists in the fact that it is based on the principle of the equality oL-th- e rights of states and not on the principles of the domination of some states over others. If the United Nation organization succeeds in continuing to preserve the principle of equal rights, it will undoubtedly play a great, positive role in the cause of guaranteeing universal peace and security." Stalin' then, waa asked: What should the governments of the freedom loving countries now do tor the preservation of peace and order in the vhole WASHINGTON So- - -(AP) world? viet Ambassador Andrei A. Stalin replied: called at the WMte It is necessary that the pub- Gromyko Houae today, just 24 hours after lic and the ruling circles of the President Truman asserted that powers organize a wide iounter the -- United States would press the propator immediate action in tha Unitpropaganda against gandists of a new war and for ed Nations Security Council on the Insuring of peace so that not the Russo-Iranidispute, a tingle act of the propagandists Gromyko, who said yesterday., of a new war should remain hasty council action would without due rebuff on the part complicate the case, spent only five of the public and press, ao minutes with Mr. Truman. He incendiaries that the of war may later told reporters that a T thus b exposed in good time sian representative .wouisLLfe.vj, and may have no' chance of hand at the opening of tha coun-T-- eil misusing - freedoms of speech sessions Monday despite a against the Interests of peace. Soviet request tor e postponement Whit House Presa Secretary Pleases-StatemenCharles G. Ross described Grots mykos visit as a "courtesy call the same term applied to a conference which Gromyko had yesterday with-- Secretary of WASHINGTON. State Byrnes. (AP) Ross said the ambassadors Generalissimo Stalins state-men-ti ' on preservation of the trip to the executive mansion was arranged by Byrne him-ee- lf peace in an interview with AP but did not concern the Correspondent Eddy Gilmore at Iranian case. The Soviet diploMoscow were generally hailed mats name had not appeared with hope by members of Con- on the list of White House calgress today. lers htnded to reporters' earlier of was comment that In the Typical of Senator Morse who Byrnesday. Will Appeal in said that view of what Stalin While Gromyko wss talking . had to say to Gilmore about the with disrole of UNO in international closed at the state Byrnes department security, Russia now should not that he, would reprehave any objection to aubmlt-tinga- ll. sent the Byrnes, United States during the council's consider- -: are creating misunderstanding tion security of the Iranian case. among member, to the .United In answer to a question as to Nations Organization.. he person- - -what kind of council allywould play LONDON Prime (AP) a welcom- Minister - Stalin's answers to session after makingtent word to lng address, Byrnes questions submitted by Eddy reporters that he would alt at Gilmore, Associated Press cor- the council table only during the respondent in Moscow, were studied with intense interest discussion of the Iranian casa. here tonight and the first reaction Was of gratification. The foreign office and other official sourcetf declined Immediate comment, but the general opinion of those who watch the international scene closely was ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. that the generalissimo had eased (AP) UNRRA admitted Turthe prevailing tension somewhat key to its organization today, by expressing faith in the United but denied membership to Al1 Nations and in discounting talk bania. of possible war. Denial of Albanias request waP by a vote of 23 to 6 ' roll call tally demanded by Rus-al-a. Made The result on Turkeys acTransjordan ceptance came on a show. of Independent hands after little discussion. Tran-jordLONDON The attempt to obtain Alba(AP) became a sovereign innias admission was led by Yugoslavia, with support from Rusdependent state today. . British Foreign Secretary Er- sian Delegate Nikolai Feonov. nest Bevln and Ibrahim Pasha Assistant Secy, of State Will Hashim prime mlnister of the Clayton said the United States-w- as eastern Mediterranean state, opposed on the ground that treaty terminating the Albania has refused thus far to signed aftBritish mandate estaoluhed recognize the validity of past U, er the first world war. treaties. LONDON Press today ss ot YORK Tear tfo Eimd PITTSBURGH ban on mass NEW VoL 341. No. 69. 96th Fear Created State? roops DynWArll)l rr canada Labor-Progressi- SOLDIER ON GUARD An Indian rifleman patrols the valuable pipe lines across Iran. This photo was taken in 1941, when Great Britain occupied the country with Russia. -- ASKING U.--Si TO RECALL - TROOPS WASHINGTON (AP) United States end Iceland official here said today Iceland never had requested withdrawal of American troops from that country. Their comment Was made after newspapers had displayed prominently a Tes news agency dispatch from London saying the Iceland socialist youth organization had distributed a pamphlet demanding immediate evacuation of the American troops. In this connection, Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace also has advocated withdrawal of those forces to ease the international situation.-- . t Russ Envoy PaysIVisit To T ruman an yie- - t 16-d- ay Stalin By , (R-Ore- .), pending-issues-wh- ich a-r- -- t-t- UNRRA Lets Turkey Join State an It Says Here: Russians Battle Iran Grasshoppers MOSCOW (AP) A Soviet expedition organized by the ministry of agriculture and the Russian civil air fleet took off today to combat grasshoppers in 148,000 acres of northern Iran. The newspaper, Evening Moscow said in an interview with L L Sazonov, chief of a special section of the air fleet, that the Iranian government had requested Russia to fight the grasshoppers from the air. Sazonov was quoted aa saying the work would be finished bv June 1. The grasshopers were said to be destroying., enormous plots of planted fields, including cotton plantations in Southern Azerbaijan. , The chief of the special department of the Soviet civil air fleet selected a detachment of light planes known as AP tor the work. The planes were equipped with a special apparatus tor gassing the hoppers and were piloted by fliers expert in the work. -The interview said the Russians had been carrying on this battle against grasshopper in Iran for many years, but this years work was distinctive since tha fight was to begin before the insects . sprout wlnga. ; .7 I |