| Show K EWS BROADCASTS 7:30 am 1 pm 8:30 pm WEATHER 11 Sports pm Station KALL Intermountain Network VOL 155 NO 19 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY MORNING FBI Testifies In Bribery Trial of May Navy Requests $55 Million For Warships government X V" 4 2 “A ex-Re- Frank M Miller a Federal Bureau of Investigation identification expert demonstrated the pictures He said they show that typewriters ©f Garsson munitions firms were used to prepare bills for lumber supposedly submitted by the Cumberland Lumber Co of Kentucky in which May was interested May wartime chairman of the house military committee Henry and Murray Garsson and Joseph F Freeman Garsson agent m are being tried Washington jointly The government alleges there was a conspiracy to buy It charges that May’s Influence May received more than 550000 from Garsson firms to finance the lumber company but failed to deliver any lumber ‘Promote War Effort’ Mav has denied he profited from his deals with the Garssons and says his only Interest was in promoting the war effort Miller's testimony attacked documents supposedly showing legitimate transactions between Cum- -' berland and two Garsson firms the Ene Basm and Batavia Metal Products companies Miller said he examined bills to Erie and Batavia from Cumberland and samples from Erie and Batavia typewriters and found the t3Tirg on all had been done on the same machines One of the typewriters a machine was entered into evidence as were the photographs Miller said defects in typed letters were alike both on the Cumberland invoices and the Ene and Eataua typewriter specimens FBI Stands Firm Defense tried to shake Miller's findings on the point that the Cumberland invoices were dated two j'ears before the FBI specimens were obtained Miller replied that although typewriters usually acquire more defects with long use he was sure the typing in this case was the same The day's proceedings concluding a second week of the trial also produced these highlights: 1 Harold A Weeman Batavia Co purchasing agent said he wrote the army less than two weeks after his company had ordered lumber from Cumberland that “it is quite doubtful that he will be able to do business with them (Cumberland)” Weeman said he couldn’t explain why he wrote this in a letter to the Chicago office of the army’s chemical warfare service to which Batavia was required by contract to report all orders for war materials Reports on Lumber This witness testified that even after he had written the “doubtful” letter to the army he was given additional lumber orders from Batavia to Cumberland to report 2 Albert Fowler of Cambridge Wis former Batavia Co materials “expediter" testified thpt he tried to obtain delivery of lumber from Cumberland by letter telegram and telephone but could get no replies He said he put an unfilled order to Cumberland "back into the fles” on orders of Batavia’s general manager 3 Eille May Hagans of Lexington Ky former stenographer for the house military committee said Murray Garsson and Freeman often visited May for closed-doo- r confabs in 1942 and 1943 4 Milton E Hartley of Washington sad his corporation-organizin- g firm helped get the Cumberland Co organized as a Dela ware corporation RAMADIER CHALLENGE ¥ J" x K tx imVi i "1 ' Assumes duJ Lester Perry ties May 12 in San Francisco Perry Elected It was learned at the Navy PARIS May 2 (UP) —Socialist ened to resign Friday if communists refused to back his wagefreezing program and immed-atel- y was offered a compromise by Co run un st Leader Jacques Ducles Ducles proposed to replace outright wage increases which Ramadier rnssts would plunge France into the disaster of inflation with a system of bonuses to workers who produce more than their normal quota A vote in the chamber of deputies on a motion of confidence was scheduled for 10 a m Sunday (5 a m EDT ) Ratnadiers challenge to the comm mists his third in four months was made before a packed Musters 60-2Vote More Than Ample To Override Veto f — ji ftf WASHINGTON May 2 LP)— Mustering enough votes to override a presidential veto the senate Friday slapped a provision into ‘X The vote on the senate labor bill amendment prohibiting union coercion of labor Included: For the amendment — Watkins ( R Utah) and Dworshak (R Ida) Against the amendment — Thomas (D Utah) and Taylor (D Jy’’’ K s H x 35 1 41 ? wX- - V anti-sub-man- t r high-spee- long-rangi- ice-fill- ed n 5 Aleman Offers 'Fair Profit’ For Investors Welcomes The Mexican chief executive who spoke in Spanish then reFair-Mind- MIGUEL MAKES ’EM SWEAT ed marked that “American capital that really means to share in the life of Mexico that is willing to NEW YORK May 2 CP) — U S observe its laws and be satisfied and Mexican secret agents had a with a fair profit without selfish bad 20 minutes Friday —they lost greed or the illusion of becoming a president’s son somewhere a law unto itself shall be welcome among Manhattan’s millionst to Mexico and will derive all the Miguel Aleman Jr 14 son of the advantages that American citizens visiting president of Mexico was who are cooperating with us in the riding in a car in the rear of a economic development of my counmotorcade en route to a luncheon try are actually enjoying" at the Hotel Commodore but In a crowded day before the when the motorcade reached the dinner New York gave Aleman one a was short hotel it few welcomes with of its young Aleman’s all the trimmings offering the A frantic search by officers revisitor a Broadway parade smiling line of vealed that part of the citizenship and a Columhonorary cars had been cut off inadvertbia honorary degree university Waldorfand shunted to the ently was the first visit of a MexIt -Astoria was Aleman Young to the metropolis located there and rushed to the ican president frowned on the weather the Only — — In time for lunch Commodore activities day’s and a lot of secret service men clouds hid Manhattan’s skyscraper heaved a sigh of relief towers and light rain fell most of the day but police estimated 1500-00- 0 persons thronged streets of the financial district to see the Mexican president Rode In Truman Car d in Aleman rode Pres Harry S Truman’s own car for the parade with Grover Whalen the city’s official greeter his side and cheering chamber ' The crisis at William O’Dwyer met the Mayor developed wjen the communists Mexican president at Pennsylvania announced support of a wage station and extended workers at the official early Friday strike of 32000 ’ hall after at city greetings Nationalized Renault automobile the parade through lower Manplants to whom the government hattan has refused increases There he conferred honorary The communist move which violated the coalition government’s citizenship on Aleman and hailed g “enlightened leadwage and program the president’s which under the mayor ership” demand Ramadier’s precipitated Mexico “will gain even greater Friday for a full vote of confidence said and the threat that he would sub- stature among the nations of the mit the resignation of his entire world as a bulwark of progressive democracy” government if it were refused Observers speculated that Pres Replying Aleman said “Let us Vincent Aunol would then ask remember that our countries are Ramadier to form a new govern- united by the similarity of their inment and that the socialist pre- stitutions and their common love mier might try to freeze the com- of freedom rather than by their munists out of office by excluding geographical proximity and parallel them from his new cabinet histones” cara-includ- mg ed Low-hangi- flag-drap- price-fixin- HOT SPELL HAS ITS ADVANTAGES ng bare-heade- ed Summer has its compensations opines Michael Hatfield son of Mr and Mrs Joseph U Hatfield 730 E South Temple who enjoys a double helping of ice cream during Friday’s 91 degTee temperature § L Mercury Touches 91 For Heat Wave Record IIOLLSTEIN Summer’s impromptu appearance Friday sent the mercury skyrocketing to record highs over most of the intermountain region with Salt Lake City sweltering in the 91 degree temperature of the' warmest May £in the history of the Salt Lake weather By MILTON bureau Cloudless skys and a lethargic mass of hot air moving over the interraountain region toward-- northwest low pressure center brought the premature heat wave according to G K Greening meteorologist in charge Salt Lake weather stations And as Salt Lakers in a weather shelter area saw spring bypassed residents of Utah's Dixie sweltered in a temperature and elswhere in Utah in temperatures above 80 degrees Warm la Three States t a 100-degr- weather Btatlons re- Ogden Corded a high pf 86 and Provo 82 at 4 pm Friday In Nevada a 92 degree temperature was recorded at Winnemucca and 91 degrees at Humboldt and Battle Mountain Boise Gooding and Burley Ida recorded 91 degree temperatures “Cooler" temperatures were recorded in Big Pmey Wyo with a high of 76 for Friday Previous high for May 2 in Salt Lake City was that of 1940 when an 81 degree temperature was recorded The 91 of Friday also marked the first time the temperature has hit 90 before May 16 Mr Greening said Cooler Today The 91 for Salt Lake City was 15 degrees higher than Thursday’s maximum temperature The weatherman predicts slightly cooler temperatures for Saturday with little precipitation over the week end The amendment sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans was adopted by a roll call vote of 60 to 28 This gave supporters one vote more than the required to override veto — provided the lineup remains the same on any veto test It was the first step in a move led by Sens Robert A Taft (R O ) and Joseph H Ball (R Minn) to write into the bi)l several union restrictions disapproved by the senate labor committee Cite Veto Danger Sen Carl A Hatch (D N M) and Olin D Johnston (D S C) said that adding the amendments to the bill would increase the likelihood of a veto by Pres Harry S Truman But Taft said the provision “the basic theory of the entire bill: to create an equality between employer and employe — to correct abuses where one party has an advantage over the other” Forty-fiv- e Republcans joined 15 southern Democrats in support of the amendment Against it was 5 Democrats and three Republicans — Sens Aiken (Vt) Morse (Ore) and Langer (ND) The amendment was sponsored by Sens Ball Byrd (Dt Va) George (D Ga) and Smith (R N J) Unfair Labor Practice It would make it an unfair labor practice for a union or its agents to “restrain or coerce" workers in exercising their right to choose a union and to bargain collectively through representatives they select If a union violated this prohibition the National Labor Relations board could issue a “cease and desist” order If the order were ignored the board could ask tho courts to enforce it by a restraining edict Ball said the provision would safeguard thv rights of workers “There is no question” he said ‘hut that individual employes have been kicked around by unions and their leaders more than by employers” Types of Coercion Morse fighting the amendment said “coercion" of employes could involve four types: physical violence threats of violence name calling or the closed shop He argued that the first three now are prohibited by local laws while the senate bill would prohibit the closed shop “I don’t want the National Labor Relations board made police officer to censor employer or union propaganda” he said He contended employers would place “stooges’ ’in unions to get them to bring oeercion charges against union leaders “to slow up union organizational activities” amendWith the ment out of the way the senate turned to the next in the series urged by Taft and Ball but recessed until Monday without reaching e a vote It would restrict industry-widbargaining by forbidding national unions to dictate contract terms to their locals two-thir- T anti-submari- ne f WASHINGTON May 3 (Saturday) UP) — Hopes for an early end of the national telephone strike rose again Friday with announcement at Chicago that a $4 general wage increase had been accepted as the basis for settlement of the Illinois Bell Telephone system tieup affecting 15000 workers The agreement revealed by federal and state labor conIda) ciliators must be ratified by the union rank and file If accepted —y"1" bill forbidding it would be the first money its general labor agreement reached between the union coercion of workers company and a National Federa- - - f o 15000 Must Ratify Decision Long Lines Accord Fails f' r i ike Okehe To End Phone trike in Illinois X r de- partment however that they dewould have all vices developed during World War II plus some new ones and that the navy plans to operate them as Election of J Lester Perry a group in developing tactics CoPittsburgh Pa as president ofsubdeThey apparently would be lumbia Steel Co Pacific coast d with to cope sidiary cf United States Steel signed submarines such as Corp was announced Friday Mr the Germans had developed toward asas been who has Perry serving war of close the the to sistant Benjamin F Fairless Other Conversions president of U S Steel Corp of Delaware will succeed William A also calls for the The program Ross who died April 19 in San conversion of : Francisco Two submarines as underwater Mr Perry who has been with carriers troop U S Steel Corp since it was One submarine as a cargo' carformed was scheduled to retire rier May 1 but has agreed to serve as One submarine as what a navy president of Columbia until a official called an “Arctic picket Mr to Ross successor permanent would be capable of prowlis elected He will arrive in San boat” It waters on through ing Francisco May 12 to take over his missions new duties One speedy attack transport as a troop and cargo carrier for Started as Clerk f Arctic waters equipped with Starting as a&cost clerk for the Co Wor Steel Wire at American One LSD (landing ship dock) Chester Mass in 1899 (two years Arctic operations for before U S Steel Corp was formed) Mr Perry advanced to the presidency of the Camegie-Illlnoi- s Steel Corp U S Steel’s largest producing subsidiary He retired from that position last July 31 to become assistant to Mr Fairless In assuming the presidency of Columbia Mr Perry achieves of having served as U S president of three major Steel subsidiaries He was elected NEW YORK’ May 2 UP— Pres president of Tennessee Coal Iron Miguel Aleman of Mexico declared & Railroad Co Birmingham Ala welcomed In 1936 and became president of Friday night his country to ob“willing American capital in 1938 Carnegie-Illinoi- s serve its laws and be satisfied with Breadth of Experience a fair profit” Addressing a dinner by the Pan Mr Perry’s Commenting upon American society honoring him election Mr Fairless said: “He will bring to our west coast Aleman recalled approvingly the following words spoken by former operations a breadth of experience in the steel industry which is sec- Pres Franklin D Roosevelt at ond to none His career was Monterrey Mexico in 1943 “We know that the days of the marked by outstanding achievement Under his leadership exploitation of the resources and broke all existing rec- the people of one country for the ords in the production of steel for benefit of any group in another war and peacetime reconversion" country are definitely over" Leftists Offer Compromise In French Labor Crisis Premier Paul Ramadier threat- 4 1 ‘Sub’ Devices Columbia Steel Chief PRICE FIVE CENTS Senate Adopts Labor Bill Coercion Ban tt anti-submari- ne iiitiiillinfrinmiirHirr MAY 3 1917 8 WASHINGTON May 2 P— The navy asked congress Friday for 555580000 to convert 15 ships for new types of warfare with emphasis on submarine and Arctic operations The money would be spent over three years Of the total $5030000 would be used in the fiscal year starting this July 1 The navy’s request Frjday was for authorization for the program and not for the actual appropriations The program calls for the conversion of nine destroyers of the newest type into special vessels to be used in develnew oping measures to counter a envitype of underseas warfare sioned by the navy Details of the operations they would be designed to counter and of their proposed new equipment are secret May 2 UP) — introduced photographs magnified greatly of typed words and figures Friday to support its charges in war fraud the Garsson-Ma- y fake trial that papers were used to hide alleged bribes to p Andrew J May (D Ky) The f Aims at Conversion Of 15 ‘Subs’ for Arctic Operations Expert Links Photos To Principals in War Fraud Hearing WASHINGTON Partly Cloudy (Details on Page 20) MS ee Palestine Wins U N Okeli To State Plea FLUSHING N Y May 2 (UP) The United Nations opened the way Friday night for Jewish representatives to state their side of the Palestine problem during the cur rent special session of the general assembly The assembly’s steering committee voted in favor of an American resolution which in effect would permit Jewish agency spokesmen to politispeak before the cal and security committee The U S solution was accepted In preference to a Polish resolution which would have let the Jewish representatives address a full session of the general assembly Three Nations Abstain The U S resolution was adopted by a vote of 11 votes to none with three abstentions Russia supported the Polish proposal which was voted down by 8 to 3 with three nations abstain on The high Friday came on the heels of temperatures which had been slightly below normal durbut preing the month of April was concipitation during April sidered normal by the weatherman High during April was 72 on April 14 and low the 30 degrees of April 4 LOS ANGELES May 2 UP— Maytime became sultry summertime Friday with temperatures Ing ranging up to 103 degrees in the Technically the American resohottest weather of the year lution refers to the political and security committee the requests of the Jewish agency and other organizations to be allowed to state their views The political com mittee therefore must make an other decision on which agencies it will hear if any However all parties agreed FriTribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON May 2—Under day night that the Jewish represhould be allowed to a bill introduced by Sen Arthur V sentatives have their say so the action of milWatkins approximately forty the political committee was a forelion dollars will be made available gone conclusion after July 1 for the continued payU S Statement ment of premiums for the producU S Delegate Warren R Austin tion of ore exploration for copper lead and zinc ores in high cost proposed that the Jewish agency which has official status under the properties No appropriation is anticipated Palestine mandate should be al but the Reconstruction Finance lowed to state the Jewish case Corp estimates that it will have However the resolution as adopted on hand unexpended about forty left the way open for other Jewish million dollars remaining of ap- agencies and for the Arab higher to have propriations made by the last con- committee of Palestine gress The bill would be operative their requests for a hearing conto July 1 1950 If funds last that sidered The Arab committee has not yet asked to be heard but the long To qualify for premiums mine British amended the U S resoluoperators must have received tion so that forthcoming requests premiums during the year ended also can be considered Russia Poland and Czechoslonext June 30 If premiums are vakia all of which favored the paid for production they will equal the average premiums plus aver- full assembly hearing for the Jews age market prices for copper lead were the three nations which abor zinc received by such operators stained in the vote on the U S for June 1947 resolution Watkins Offers Ore Fund Bill e -- ds ma-on- ty em-irac- es GUNFIRE CUTS 2 ILLINOIS PHONE CABLES CHICAGO May 2 P) — Two American Telephone & Telegraph Co cables of large size were severed by gunfire Friday 75 miles near Watseka 111 south of Chicago throwing about 1000 circuits out of service a company spokesman reported The AT&T spokesman said “It’s quite evident that it’s sabotage but whether this is connected with the telephone strike is something we don't know at the moment” Besides telephone and commercial telegraph circuits the overhead cables contained some Associated Press leased wire and other news circuits Transmission of A P news over circuits between Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville was delayed almost an hour by the mishap FIGHT TOGETHER Split Blocks AFL-CI- O — i Merger Now WASHINGTON May 2 (P — tion of Telephone Workers’ union Bat except for this development the outlook for a truce in the overall phone strike appeared little Here in Washington improved negotiations lasting nntil early Saturday morning had apparently failed to bring the company and union nearer an accord The night conference hat followed an offer by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co ’a long lines division of raises of 52 and 54 a week depending on geographical location and other factors Conciliators Report Progress Peter J Manno and William N Margolis Labor department conciliators recessed the negotiations until 2 pm Saturday with the following joint statement: “We held conferences with the union separately with the company separately and joint conferences Everything is progressing aatisfactorily and we are looking for cheerful developments tomorrow — Saturday” Representatives of A T Sc T and the American Union of Telephone Workers — the long lines group representing 20000 workers — told reporters there had been no change in the situation since the early evening when the company’s first wage offer in the important long lines dispute was announced The union is still demanding 56 a week for its members regardless of what city they work in Vision Early Truce George S Dring tpokesmia for the A T & T long lines department told reporters the evening was spent discussing the wage offer and "they haven’t accepted it so far” Manno and Margolis who have made frequent optfmtatlc statements In the past were asked by a reporter “Is it possible ta end the long lines strike by early next week?” The reply was “yes” Settlement of one segment of the strike was announced last night Negotiations Continue Even after the union had rejected the company’s 54 wage offer here negotiations continued with the atmosphere apparently relaxed a bit as a result of the cash proposal Meanwhile from San Francisco came word thaat the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co which covers five states in its operations had offered wage increases ranging from $2 to $4 a week But union negotiations turned the offer down as “despicable and inadequate” Word of the Chicago settlement brought no immediate comment from either union or company spokesmen here Henry Mayer attorney for the American Union of Telephone W’orkers said the telephone company’s offer which the long lines union rejected included an increase in the starting rate for longdistance operators and a maximum increase in the top wrage rate as Merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations was set back indefinitely Friday as the two big labor groups disagreed on how it should be achieved But they agreed to fight tog gether against the bills in congress “It is the unanimous opinion of the representatives of the CIO and A F L that organic unity should be established within the American labor movement” the committees of the A F L and CIO said in a joint statement concluding two days of conferences Each turned down the other’s specific plan for bringing it about however The CIO plan called for a gradual approach toward a unified organization prefaced by such steps as a joint drive against pending labor legislation a “no raiding’’ pact to eliminate jurisdictional disputes and acceptance of the principle of industrial organization An industrial union contains many types of workers It contrasts vith the craft union which generally speaking is limited to one type Historically the A F L has been based on craft unions The A F L proposed that all CIO unions be brought into the federation at once “as they are now organized and with their full follows: Boston 52 and 54 Buffalo N Y membership” This would have meant bringing 54 and 54 Chicago 52 and 54 CinSee Tage 2 Column S cinnati S3 and 53 Cleveland 53 and 54: Detroit 52 and 54 Kansas City 53 and S3 Louisville 52 and 53 Memphis 52 and 53 New York 54 and $4 Minneapolis 52 and S3 Philadelphia S3 and $3 Pittsburgh 53 and 53 St Louis 53 and 53 Mayer said the increases offered TOKYO May 3 (JP) — The Japanese given permission by for plant workers generally folGen Douglas MacArthur to raise their rising sun flag once lowed a similar pattern but was on a state basis and covered the more observed the inauguration of their new constitution entire country Friday by affectionately mobbing Emperor Hirohito Keep Trail Hot Appearing for less than three minutes the embarrassed emperor stole the show at formal ceremonies inaugurating the In Friday night’s long lines neconstitution which relegates him to a position as a “symbol gotiations federal conciliators Mar-gol- is and Manno shuffled back and of state” forth between the company spokesAs he left the stand in imperial plaza in a chilling rain men and the union representatives and entered his official car thousands of Japanese broke to find some method of endtrying loose from restraining police ropes and encircled his car ing the dispute Negotiations Involving Westerrf shouting “banzai” Electric and Southwestern Bell The emperor neither spoke to the estimated 5000 in the Telephone Cos two important afplaza nor issued an imperial rescript such as Japanese emfiliates of the AT&T were in recess until tomorrow morning perors have always done in the past on momentous occasions The longines division is a segHe simply walked from the offical stand got in his ment of the striking National sedan which drove through the almost solid wall of people of Telephone Workers to the gate of the near-b- y place Government conciliators beleve All the while a Japanese brass band apparently followthat an agreement in this phase a formal program played the famed American march of the dispute could provide a pating tern for bringing the “Stars and Stripes Forever” walkout now in its 26th day to a Before the emperor’s appearance the patient Japanese end speedy stood in the rain for an hour and listened to speakers solemnly Terms of the government's compronouncing the beginning of a "new era” for Japan with the promise wage formula were not constitution See Tage 2 Columa 2 anti-coerci- union-curbin- on HIROHITO STEALS THE SHOW AT CHARTER INAUGURATION Fed-erat- on cross-count- no-w- ar £ A ry |
