Show ' The Weather 20-3- 0 s 84th Yar No 44 OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING Max Max Mln Minj 28!Ui Angeles 69 41 14 32 39 lt-- 2 Minneapolla York 2S 16 Portland 41 22 Salt Lak 55 32San Fran Boise Butte Chicago Las Verai 5 Cents ' 41 Ojden vBUUntt 25 1955 FEBRUARY 29 New 24 Pages 4 48 35 CO 32 33 2i' 45 2 Sections E)nfi§ to tj fNkv Temperatures mwitt w$Mn UTAH—Snow over the entire state colder low 515 high OGDEN — Occasional light sow colder low 15 high 28 i 'A Jury Finds Abortion Suspect Not Guilty I Can't Understand Verdict D A Says tion income and excise tax rates for one more year The vote was The bill now goes to the Senate where the tax cut A Second District Court jury called down to the police station M Garside investigating officer faces an uncertain future yesterday found Berdina Jackie several times and told of the in the case He called it "some V J 'TV WASHINGTON (AP) — The House today passed a Democratic bill to cut income taxes $20 a person starting next Jan 1 The measure also continues present corpora242-17- 5 i I j Nance not guilty of abortion The verdict was returned by the jury alter a little more than two hours of deliberation The case was! placed in the jury's hands shortly after 3 pm following two days! of testimony-takinf by the e coun-jthdefense trict attorney and sei Mrs Nance was charged with an illegal abortion on a woman who appeared as the state s mam witness last Nov 12 on a kitchen table in the Wilcox Hotel 2470 Kiesel Avi: District Attorney Koiand Anderson said today he could not understand the jury "returning such a verdict in the face of such overwhelming evidence of guilt" "n eight-memb- ill A flimsy bamboo raft carries the waving Princess Margaret down the Rio Grande liver in tropical Jamaica on the way to a beach party With the royal visitor is Lady Hugh Foot wife of the island's governor The princess is nearing the end of her tour of the British possessions in the Caribbean and will return to England next week ill Bill Is Signed "Right to work" legislation the most controversial issue approved so far by the 1955 session of the Utah Legislature was signed into law late yesterday ' Gov J Bracken Lee signed the measure and in a statement id so because "I besaid a lieve free man should have the right to join a union or refuse to join union as he himself sees fit" The bill would outlaw labor contracts which required either membership or in a union or association as a condition of employment Measure is Different Lee said the Utah law differed from "right to work" measures enacted in other states The Utah law he said affects "anv labor union labor organization or 'any other type of association' and is not confined to labor unions alone It is essential that this be understood in order to gain a proper picture of the he-d- non-membersh- ip bill" - The governor said representatives of labor had urged him to veto the bill He said they argued that "because labor unions have brought better working conditions they should be permitted to establish union shops and require payment of dues "This same line of reasoning" Lee said "could well apply to the desires of the other organizations such as churches veterans groups farm bureaus etc all of which have bettered conditions in their areas and throughout the world Although these groups and others have done much for mankind no citi- - QIC iUUCU W UCiUIig 11 111C1U or to pay dues for their support" Wants Isles Evacuated NEW DELHI India (UP) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today that Nationalist China should evacuate Quemoy and tMatsu Islands just off the Red China coast as the indispensable first step toward any Formosan settlement erty and sewer improvements The governor said he was vetoing the bill because "the city made no effort to comply with the previous legislation and ignored a principle of good faith" The Legislature at its special session in December 1953 authorized the levy but specified that before it could be continued past 1954 it would have to be ratified by the voters The city did not submit the issue to the voters last fall but instead asked the Legislature to revise the law Lee handed down his first veto yesterday on a bill which would prohibit price advertising of pre 4-m- Bill to Open Meetings OK'd SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Legislative action was completed today on th bill which requires meetings of governmental agencies in Utah to be generally open to the public The "freedom of information" bill was passed by the Senate 15 to 0 after being amended yesterday ' by the House The Senate passed the bill originally Feb 14 by a vote of 17 to 0 The House deleted one paragraph because some representatives contended it was "an editorial or sermon" and was not needed in the bill f Sen Ellas L: Day (RSalt Lake) who moved that the Senate accept the House change said he agreed that the paragraph was not necessary The bill specifies that state city county school district and state educational institutions must not deny the public access to their administrative bodies However an exception is made to permit executive sessions when necessary Gov J Bracken Lee gave immediate assurance that he would sign the bill which he had requested in his message to the Legislature The measure was sponsored by Utah members of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalism Bert Acosta's Exploits Recalled i tri-motor- ed nA 4U wit-'don- e so-call- Chuckles rippled through the room when another guest recalled the quote of old line pilot Marion West when the latter hea rd of Acosta's exploits for the Spanish Loyalists "God help the rebels If Bert Acosta had a glider and a pint of whisky and I had the f aste'st pursuit ship made today I'd use it to get away from him" Actress Elizabeth Taylor will have her second child by Caesarian section this Sunday which is also her birthday The actress wife of English actor Michael Wilding delivered her first child two years ago In Bangkok Thailand where he's attending a conference U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles celebrated his 67th birthday today Members of the American delegation gave him a silver cigaret case ld President Eisenhower planned to leave today for a weekend at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains The President's weekly Cabinet meeting was called off because several members are out of town 13-1- 0 35-minu- te Joe Must Leader Forced To Sell Paper SAUK CITY Wis (UP)— Joe Must Go" leader LeRoy Gore today blamed a "tough wedge of 4 hatred" for his decision to sell his weekly newspaper Gore said his loss of the Star was a direct consequence of his attempt to recall Sen Joseph R McCarthy last year He said he was faced "with a choice between my family and my Sauk-Prair- ie paper" He will sell the Star Monday to Elmer Anderson a veteran Crosby Minn weekly newspaper publisher for $50000 Gore a onetime McCarthy supporter gained national prominence about a year ago when he formed a state-wid- e "Joe Must Go" Club to force McCarthy to run again for his Senate seat But the club was unable to collect enough signatures to force a recall and troubles came thick and fast for it afterwards The organization was convicted and fined $4200 on 21 counts of violating state laws prohibiting corporations from engaging in politics Gore and other club officers were charged with similar violations Gore estimated it may cost as much as $20000 to defend him and other club officials Expects Storm Coming to Utah SALT LAKE CITY (UP) — The weatherman stoutly maintained today that a storm is coming to Utah Although the predicted snows are considerably behind schedule the weather bureau said today they will strike the state from the south late tonight By tomorrow the storm is expected to cover most of Utah to be followed by falling Churn Joke Neb (UP)— FelRotarians here thought it was a big job when they presented an old churn to R T Fosnot The smiles faded when an antique dealer later bought the churn for $50 SCHUYLER low hand-operate- d j j j — uL y Names in the News (Fliers of aviation's old barnstorming and modern jet eras meeting in Beverly Hills Calif yesterday joined in p a y i n g homage to the late Bert Acosta who once flew Adm Richard Byrd across the Atlantic and who also helped set a world flight endurance mark Acosta a race-ca- r driver as well as a top pilot died at the Denver sanatorium of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society last September at 59 He is buried at Burbank Calif Several old friends are helping promote a memorial to the aviation pioneer Donations may enable an entire wing of the: Denver institution to be set aside for the treatment of tuberculosis and cancer The wing would be dedicated to Acosta's memory The guest list at the tribute luncheon read like a who's who' in aviation Vance Breese aeronautical engineer and test pilot whose contributions to aviation are legendary recalled: ''Once Acosta was asked to fly low over an airport in a new plane so pictures could be taken He chased everyone off the field by whipping across it with the wheels virtually on the ground" u t But the for who the defendant this morning to sympathy make it a special order of busi had testified in tears on the ness stand that she was the ness Monday at 3i pm Ten measures were approved mother of two minor children by the House yesterday 13 by and was buying a home In his closing argument Anthe Senate derson had asked the jury to Other legislative news on retrain from "" Page 7 A possibility of probation After passing the Judge Lewis Jones interrupted liquor locker club bill raising at this point to say that he would unemployment compens a t i o n not turn her loose if she was benefits to $33 a week and found guilty according to Anadopting a$2130000 emergency derson school building program in the the Senate hustled Admit Illegal Act morning In the closing argument of dethrough a number of less weighty fense counsel attorney L G Bingbills in the afternoon Prime among these was a lengthy meas- ham stressed the point that the ure to make a number of minor state's case rested on the testichanges in Utah highway laws to mony of two women who adbring them into conformity with mitted they had committed an the uniform code of the National illegal act Under state statutes a person Safety Council Most vigorous debate of the aft- who assists in an abortion or ernoon came on an amendment to who receives an abortion is giiil-tof a felony punishable by a the child labor law A bill finally one to five year prison sentence would allow boys to passed whiph work on their parents' farms at Bingham claimed that the testithe age of 10 and operate power mony of a police detective indicated that this fact had been machinery at 14 The appropriations committee Used by police to "Coerce the two women into testifying the way meantime turned down yesterday a claim for damages filed they were told" by a property owner who con- "3 Desperate Women" tended his sheep camp was deIn an impassioned stroyed by a fire set by careless plea Bingham described the dedeer hunters fendant and the state's two feCarl Richins who operates a male witnesses as "three desranch in Summit County' origin- perate women" ally asked damages of nearly "The district attorney has told $8000 but had scaled it down to you that these two women have less than half that no reason not to tell the truth but that the defendant has" he told the jury "I want y o u to consider these things" Go1 He went on to say that the woman on whom Ahe abortion was allegedly performed had been eyeglasses scription Senate voted year sentence possible for her act He said the other woman was under pressure from the state because her boy friend was a federal parolee whose pa-role could be placed in jeopardy "Then we have the testimony Sgt Bennett who testified in preliminary hearing that these articles (syringe hypo- dermic needles and other ar-tides) were found in the de-fendant's but now handbag changes his story and says they were found at various places around her home" Who to Believe? "Who are you going to believe?" he concluded "This woman who gets on the stand and says she has done nothing wrong or these two women who get up ha 1adnltted the who could llIefal ?eIy teay have bteKen vresmred 6 "Y Mrs Nance fa testified that she met the alleged victim through the woman who was the state's witness She said corroborating U I iL- one-to-fiv- e j 1 t i Wilcox Hotel to go out with her on a date but that the first had become ill and laid down for about two hours then went home She claimed that a syringe al1 legedly used in the illegal operation belonged to her mother and she had never used it She said a pair of rubber duced as a state used to dye hair previously she had intro- exhibit were She had said taken a beau- ty course The defendant who was in tears during most of her testimony said the hypodermic needle was used to giye her son shots of penicillin Described Ordeal The state's main witness had previously described in detail how she had undergone a more than two-hoordeal at the Wilcox on the evening of Nov 12 that resulted in the actual abortion the following day Her testimony was corroborated by a woman who was supposed to have held her hand during the operation One of the highlights of the trial came when a juror attempted to answer a hypothetical question put by attorney Bingham during his closing argument District attorney Anderson objected twice during Bingham's argument but was overruled by the judge The district attorney today lauded the work of Detective A ur Test Delayed LAS VEGAS By WALTER gloves Third Atomic iraa iians Defense Pact LOGAN United Press Staff One more nation was added today to the Western defense line against Communist aggression Iraq signed a defense treaty with Turkey a member of NATO shortly before midnight stretching the defense line into the Arab Middle East world for the first time Turkey has signed a similar pact with Pakistan and Iraq is expected to soon Other Middle East nations were reported ready to follow drawing a tighter defense line between the Soviet and the rich oil deposits of the south Separated by Iran Iraq and Turkey are separated from Pakistan by Iran a country more than twice the size of Texas so the ring below Russia is not yet complete It was clear the West hoped for a pact with Iran but Iranian officials in London gave no encouragement to speculation Iran would join such a pact immediately Signing of the agreement cracked the traditional neutral solidarity of the Arab world and jolted many members of the Arab League The League has long frowned on such pacts but there were signs that other member nations notably Lebanon might soon follow Egypt threatened to withdraw from the League in a major blow to its solidarity There also were reports Egypt would recognize Red China to spite the United States which is blamed for instigating the pact i Iraqi-Turk- o i 1 sheet-covere- d Controversial Lee Vetoes Bill to Continue S L Tax for Special Work to Right COMBINED AP and UP SALT LAKE CITY — Gov J Bracken Lee vetoed today a bill passed by the Legislature which would permit Salt Lake City to By EARLE L JESTER a special continue propSALT LAKE CITY (AP) '— tax to finance water j j dis-io- g Royal Raft Rides the Rio Grande 4-M- all-mal- e er i (UP) — Overcast skies and generally unfavorable weather today caused further postponement of the third shot in the 1955 nuclear tests series The Atomic Energy Commission said daily weather briefings would continue over the weekend although the outlook was not promising A dual capability test — one in which a medium or small size device can be substituted for the "big" shot — probably will be scheduled next week it was learned much-postpone- Nev d Topekd Warms Gas Is on Again TOPEKA Kan (AP)— There was a decided temperature change in Topeka today — both indoors and outside Gas was restored to this state capital and seven nearby communities after a pipeline break Wednesday left the majority of homes in the area without heat The natural gas began flowing into home furnaces yesterday afternoon To avoid and hazard workmen had to turn off some 32000 meters then go back and turn them all on before pressure could be restored Temperatures dipped as low as 11 degrees yesterday and many chilly citizens flocked to the heated municipal auditorium to keep warm Now with the heat back on the weather also moderated The forecast called for warmer temperatures tonight Cat Causes $4000 Fire US Has 14 Million More OVIEDO Spain (INS) — A cat misjudged a jump and the resulting damage at a farm near Oviedo was estimated at nearly The cat tumbled into $4000 the farmhouse fireplace raced into the barn with its hair on fire and dived into the haymow The barn burned to the ground WASHINGTON (INS) —With a net gain of one person every 12 seconds the United States has population grown by more than 14 million since the last head count of 150552000 on Jan 1 1950 The Census Bureau showed a total population today cf 104353256 - i House Democrats in the cial vote nailed the tax cut the package tax bill by a roll of 210-20- 5 The margin of excellent police work" "But I just can't see how the jury could disregard the testi- mony of the woman on whom the abortion was performed an eye witness to the act and the other corroborating evidence" he said A similar trial in Salt Lake City last summer resulting in the conviction of Fern Clark on an abortion charge has been pealed to the State Supreme Court — cru- - into call i five Congressmen Vote Selves votes defeated a Republican motion to kill the income tax cut The politically hot issue was decided in the last few seconds of the roll call after the first unofficial count showed the two WASHINGTON (UP) — House sides members today unanimously apThen about eight members proved a compromise bill to give arose to switch their votes and themselves and senators a $7500 the Democrats forged ahead on a year pay raise a $1250 e the switches expense allowance and six round Even as the House debated trips home each year Sen Knowland of California preThe bill was passed by voice dicted the $20 plan would never vote without objection get final congressional approval Only Senate approval remained The GOP floor leader said he did j to send the congressional pay not believe it eould get a majority raise to President Eisenhower for vote in the Senate signature In the House battle Rep Dan- Although they did not say so ) iel A Reed senior GOP the apparent strategy of the member of the Ways Democrats was to make it diffj- and Means Committee shouted cult for Republicans who vote a pay raise to turn there was "absolutely no defense" themselves around and vote against a tax for the tax cut in the face of a big cut The $20 per person tax cut was tentatively approved by the federal deficit Mr Eisenhower had denounced House a short time later the cut as the height of "fiscal actThe Senate also was ready to $7500 Raise neck-and-nec- k Nationalists tax-fre- Give Reds Another Isle j TAIPEH Formosa (AP)— Na- tionalist China today abandoned tiny Nanchishan to the Chinese Reds giving the Communists another bloodless victory in their civil war The Defense Ministry said the evacuation was carried out without U S assistance and with no interference by the Reds The ministry refused to divulge the number of troops involved but the garrison of regulars and guerrillas totaled perhaps 5000 The operation began at 7 pm Wednesday and ended at noon today Nationalist warplanes flew a protective umbrella over the convoy to Keelung Harbor Nanchishan 140 miles north of Formosa and 23 miles off the Red mainland was the northern anchor of Chiang chain of offshore island outposts Without a Fight Its loss followed by less than three weeks the evacuation of the Tachen Islands 200 miles north of Formosa The Tachens were surrendered without a fight after the Reds stormed and captured Yikiangshan eight miles to the Kai-shek- 's j i (R-NY- j tax-writin- g j ! irresponsibility" The income tax cut would cost 0 the government up to a year Extending the corporation and excise taxes 0 would save the treasury $2300-00000- $2800-00000- Whatever the outcome in the Senate the House debate is sure to leave political scars Republicans had denounced the Democratic plan as "blackjacking" and an attempt to "b u y votes" Just before the vote Speaker Sam Rayburn took the floor and uttered an angry vow Not Buying Votes I am in no shoddy deal" north he said "I am not trying to The evacuation of Nanchishan blackjack anybody And I'm not rolled the civil war front southto trying buy any votes ward to the Matsu Complex 100 who have made those "And you miles northwest of Formosa and will live to regret statements about 20 miles off the mainland it" Besides the Matsus the Nationalists hold only Quemoy Island outside the U Formosa Defense Zone which includes Formosa and the nearby Pescadores The Matsus are opposite a Red port Foochow just as Quemoy is off Amoy another Red port The annual Progress Edition U S Refused to Aid of The Ogden Standard-Examine- r will be published this SunThe Nationalists decided to e abandon mile Nanday chishan because of U S refusal It will consist of four colorful to aid in its defense sections of news and pictures The Communists were expected depicting the progress made in to move into the island quickly Northern Utah If you want to mail a copy — just as they did the Tachens after those islands were evacuated with anywhere in the world — come in to the business office and U S Seventh Fleet assistance In the view of Washington of- order it or send in your order ficials Nanchishan had strategic with 25 cents Don't delay The supply is value to the Nationalists as a radar post from which to watch limited f Red air and sea movements along the coast It has considerable psychological value to the Reds as a place Jo be exploited as evi- 8 dence of Communist invincibility in the Far East WASHINGTON (AP)— Russia is reported to have turned over to Red China perhaps eight small Expect Hopper Plague WASHINGTON (UP) — Grass- coastal type submarines American officials who reporthoppers may plague farmers in drought-strickesections of the ed this today said the Russians West this year the Agriculture are also training Chinese Communist crews to operate the craft Department said today (D-Te- x) Progress Edition Due on Sunday Order Extras Now three-squar- Red China Gets Russian Subs n Plane Crew Made Three Passes Before Dropping Atomic Bomb the get Lt got Revises Other Measures The pay bill hammered out in a Senate-Hous- e conference yesterday is a revision of other measures previously approved by the two chambers The measure which also carries pay raises for the Vice President Speaker of the House and for federal judges would hike the pay of House and Senate members to £22500 a vear Thev now receive $15000 a year including a $2500 taxable expense account The increase thus would represent a boost of 50 per cent The bill also would provide e each member with $1250 of to each expense money year cover the cost of miscellaneous office expenses' Each member also would get expenses for five additional round trips each year between their homes and Washington They now get 20 cents a mile for one such trip a year For the five extra trips they would get travel expenses of about seven cents a mile plus the usual per day allowance for meals Under the bill the vice president's and speaker's salaries would be raised from $40000 to $45000 Salaries of Supreme Court justices would go from $25000 to $35000 and other judges would get a $7000 hike on their present pay1 tax-fre- Driver Saved $1 But Lost $500 Toll Gate Prizes Tex CHRISTI CORPUS — a officials and City (AP) the at toll crowd waited large gate to give the one-million- th Padre Island in prizes some $500 Causeway The vehicle was sighted comy ing at a brisk speed But the driver wheeled his car around and scuttled back toward Corpus Christi It was obvious the delegation of greeters said the driver had just seen the one dollar toll charge posted over the gate Mrs Phil Marker Corpus Christi came along then and collected the prizes driver across sud-denl- Idaho Snow Radioactive MOSCOW Idaho (AP)— Harmsnow" the result less "radio-activof the current atomic tests in Nevada fell on -- parts of northern Idaho this week said two University of Idaho chemists Dr J V Jordan and W R Schell of the university's agricultural chemise LAS VEGAS Nev (AP)— The crew of the B36 that delivered first bomb in the 1955 nuclear test series was mighty glad to rid of it after circling their target for an hour and a half "We all gave a sigh of relief when that gizmo went off" said Col Eugene W Cox of St Louis commander of the plane that the much-delaye- d series under way last Friday try department It wasn't until the third payoff run over the target that the bomb foot bullseye clearly in view for went out of the hatch Each time at least 90 seconds before retwo special equipment operators leasing the bomb At 11:30 am had to arm the device 30 seconds before scheduled detonation Twice they had to throw it on safety The pilot Maj Fain H Pool of Lawton Okla who is a veteran of Korean bombings said procedures are about the same as on regular bomb runs "but you have to be a little more careful with a nuclear device" Combination Bombsight Capt Paul Eichenberg of Zanes-vill- e Ohio the bombardier said yesterday that a combination radarscope and visual bombsight was used instead of the Norden bombsight formerly used by atomic bombers Fain and Eichenberg were un- - they couldn't see it Fifteen minutes later they still couldn't spot it and at nopn "we just barely saw it on the paydirt run" said Eichenberg Col Cox and Pool went in without goggles The flash lit up their plane flying somewhere above 15000 feet but they were not blinded The others of the crew put on dark goggles but took them off five seconds after ' the detonation The crew heard the blast but felt no heat The Atomic Energy Commission confirmed the accuracy of the drop— within 200 feet of the bullseye and well within the outer target which is 800 n feet in diameter Total was mission on the time elapsed six hours INDEX Dr William Brady Comics Community Pages Dr Crane Editorial Page Peter Edson Beulah France Gallup Poll Maj Thomas Nial Obituaries Drew Pearson Radio-TPrograms Sports Theater Page 2 and 50 Years Ago Vital Statistics Al Warden Women's Tage V 8A 6B 7B 10A 11 A 8A 6A 6A "8A 6A 6A 8B 6A 7B 4B 5B 10A 6A 8B 4B 8A |