| Show ir4t wiLsw m'ilflkM "‘illu'1lllf-i1lt- NEWS BROADCASTS WEATHER 7:30 am 1 pm 8:30 pm Sports 11 pm Station KALL Interroountain Network Piil VOL 155 NO 25 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FRIDAY MORNING May Linked To Draft Army Deals V Will Ask Universal Military Training Despite Optimism i x Military Transfers WASHINGTON ‘ x For Deferments ' t I Witnesses Cite Bids President 63 Foresees Era of Peace J vV WASHINGTON May 8 UP) — The government sprang a courtroom surprise Thursday with testimonj' that ’Andrew J May tried to get wartime draft deferments and military service favors for an acrobat and some 40 other friends and relatives of munition- ’ Firm I f V V 1 i 1 X i? " 3 ! a "V ! Clarence 'J Ilauck Jr army officer with the house military committee when May headed 3t as chairman was the witness He said that May “balled me out for my apparent lack of sympathy” en May s deferment request T revent a "hardship” in breaking vp the acrobat's troupe of three Hauck's testimony topped the day's deelopments at the tral of May and three others on war bribe charges Murray and Henry Gars-so- n heads of a $78000000 empire and Joseph F Freeman Washington agent for the Garsson brothers are charged with paying the former Kentucky Iiouse member more than $50000 lot official favors Trace $1000 Checks Before Hauck took the stand the prosecution traced two $1000 checks to the May despite his earLer threat to take the stand and tell “the whole story” about Democratic contributions to the 2944 presidential campaign if prosecutors brought up the matter Hauck said May interceded to help arrange a transfer for Freemans son Army Sgt Albert Freeman from the Pacific fighting zone tack to the United States On another occasion Hauck said May asked him to intervene in proceedings pendng in Europe agamst Murray Garsson’s son Capt Joseph Garsson In all the witness recalled Murray Garsson and Freeman spoke to him about 15 to 20 times in behalf of the army sen ice of 40 or 43 individuals with former Rep May attending most of the meetings Produces Record On Hauck defense counsel asked him about a record he kept in his military Laison offee on capitol hill containuig a record of all the calls various congressmen made to him about deferment requests and army promotions Daniel J Anderson and Warren CoL i’ court-marti- cross-examini- al ng com-mutt- ee Magee counsel for May produced a copy of Hauck's record in court but Justice Henry A Schweinhaut adjourned the trial for the day v- ithout the document being offered - ev idence The acrobat In the case was Identified as “Lee” Hauck said he told May Freeman and Murray Garsson that the army could not defer an acrobat simply because it would break up a team He said May was “not pleased with my attitude" “Let rre say he balled me out for mv apparent lack of sympathy” Hauck sad Gen Dwight D Eisenhower's name figured in Hauck’s testimony 3n connection with the request for an army investigation of the action against Murray - court-marti- al Garsson’s son t--t x i’ WASHINGTON May 8 UP) — the Republican leadership military training before con- With in the saddle the senate wrote back gress adjournsjn midsummer a new toughening amendment into its labor bill Thursday 48 to 40 Cites War Successes has three It was the 63rd birthday of the The amendment would It outlaw: Health chieir execu- and welfare funds financed by emsmiling tive and the second anniversary ployers and controlled by unions of V-day It was the latter anniversary that the presidentashad he at the forefront of his mind greeted newsmen with a short impromptu speech Since V-day he said a great many things have happened and the outlook from his viewpoint is much improved He is still optimistic that we will get a peace that will be lasting and that the United Nations will be able to carry out the proBy WES GALLAGHER visions of its charter He said BERLIN May 8 UP) — Current he was just as sure of that as he in the Soviet press was that he was standing there The president went on to re- radio and stage were widely inmark that both day and J terpreted here Thursday as eviday came ahead of the anticipated dence that an organized campaign schedule that a great many problems had to be met that most of has been launched in Moscow them had been gotten over suc- against the press of the western cessfully and that he expects the nations others to be met successfully for The campaign marked Thursthe United States day by a Soviet broadcast accusing the American press of deliberately Still Has Mission an interview between It was in reply to a question distorting Prime Minister Stalin and Former that he declared he is going to Gov Harold Stassen of Minnesota try to get universal training started during the foreign ministhrough congress at this session ters’ conference in Moscow and has although the Republicans’ legis- become increasingly apparent in lative schedule now makes no pro- this capital where vision for it Mr Truman some Soviet aims meet head on with months ago named a civilian com- those of the western nations mission headed by Dr Arkl T The development of the camCompton president of the Massa- paign has been similar to the one chusetts Institute of Technology launched by the Russians about to study the question The Amer- Jan 1 against British and Ameriican Legion urged Thursday that can economic policies in the westSee Rage Z Column 5 ern zones of Germany This first campaign wras carried on until the foreign ministers’ conference and has since slackened off It apparently was aimed at paving the way for Soviet charges which Foreign Minister Molotov echoed throughout the 6’i argumentative weeks of the Moscow meeting Then the chief targets of Soviet propaganda guns vwere the “capitalists” of America and Britain WASHINGTON May 8 P— Thursday the Soviet press has Scion J Buck national archivist focused on the western press parsaid Thursday that Pres Franklin ticularly that of the United States and England D Roosevelt took steps almost Scarcely a day goes by without two years before his death to have the Moscow voices of the newshis papers screened to avoid “pos- papers Pravda and Izvestia roarsible repercussions on individuals ing against the journalists or newspapers of the west The Soviet and their reputations” radio broadcasts these throughout Buck’s statement was included the world and Soviet or communist-coIn the transcript of a closed ses- ntrolled organs outside the See Page 3 Column 3 sion of the senate war investigating committee It showed Buck told the senators that on July 16 '1943 Mr Roosecommittee of velt ' designed associates to screen his papers and issued a memorandum “to the effect that he wanted to have WASHINGTON- - May 8 (UP) — certain people in case anything Rep John C Kunkel (R Pa) happened to him — he expected of who is 48 years eld and eligible course to live and attend to this himself — to assume the responsi- took 830 of his lady constituents bility of reviewing his papers and to luncheon Thursday at the determining which ones should be Statler hotel withheld from general consultaAnd while he blushed his action" knowledgment they expressed Test of Screening their appreciation in applause and Buck added that this screening song to the accompaniment of of papers was primarily “from “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” the standpoint of their possible played on the repercussions on individuals and they presented him their reputations" “We all love you Congressman A memorandum submitted by Kunkel” their chairman Miss Buck regarding proposed rules for Betty Wood of Harrisburg Pa the Roosevelt library at Hyde said on behalf of the other women Park N Y showed that Samuel guests “We are going to keep 1 Rosenman a White House adsaying thiA over and over again” viser for both Presidents RoosePresent Gift velt and Harry S Truman was a member of the screening commitThen Miss Wood an employe of tee the Pennsylvania Republican state Buck also discolsed that official committee stepped to the rear of transcripts of Mr Roosevelt’s the speaker’s platform pulled the news conferences were among tablecloth cover from the gift “limited-acces- s and started the papers’’ because “there are many things which Sweetheart record been the said 830 have The ladies joined in their by president informally to the press which have songful pleading with an enbeen otf the record and I am thusiasm which should have car? just questioning the wisdom of ried their singing to the floor below where 27 more members of making such things available” their group were seated at overOil Data Sought flow tables in a regular dining Buck’s appearance on Capitol room Hill was in connection with efforts “I want to express my appreof senators on the committee to ciation” Kunkel said as the last comb through the files of Mr "I’m In love with you” died away Roosevelt for possible data on “I really am overwhelmed I still multimillion dollar Arabian oil have beside my chair in my apartdeals They received a firm but ment the radio you gave me several years ago and it’s still going polite “no" It came from Basil O’Connor strong” former law partner of the late Claim Lost Items president and one of the three executors of his estate Then the luncheon of the DauEven if Pres Truman requested phin county (Pa) Council of Rethat the special war investigating publican Women broke up with committee be allowed to search an the announcements that the ladies estimated 40 to 45 tons of Roose- who lost the pair of black gloves velt documents O’Connor said the and the black cigaretjighter could answer would be negative Mr have them by calling at the speakTruman said he would not do this er’s table carutoL Paslev said one of the two checks was made out by Albert Freeman son of one of the three defendants on trial with May and the other by A K-- Feldman whom Paisley identified to the jury as a California war contractor Report for Duty Senator Bridges DENVER May 8 UP) — Postmaster James O Stevie Thursday suggested that Sen Styles Bridges FL N H) run the Denver post cffce for a week Bridges has accused postmasters of attempting to discredit congress by saying reduced funds may force curtailment of service Stevie said that unless Denver funds were Increased mail deliveries to residential districts might be cut to one a day “In one week Sen Bridges would dscover it was no ‘brazen propaganda’ attempt” Stevie said ns E I C Moscow Opens Assault on Press of West fP FACES FLOOD OF ACCUSATIONS Andrew J May (right) talks with attorney Daniel J Andersen as testimony turns to draft and military transfer “deals” ex-sol- Toll Operators End Strike But Respect Picket Line NEW YORK May 8 (P1— The strike of 20000 telephone workers throughout the country officially ends at 6 am (local time) Friday but resumption of full service faces delay wherever picket lines are maintained by 250000 other telephone union members still on strike The executive board of the American Union of Telephone Workers which represents the operators Thursday an agreement night reached m Washington early Thursday between negotiators for the union and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co But John J Moran president of the union said the A U T W was pledged to honor picket lines set up by other striking unions af filiated with the National Federation of Telephone Workers even though the board ordered the long lines strike ended officially at 6 am Friday Key Agreement Moran said the back to work movement “may not result in a substantial return as long as other disputes exist in the industry” However the long lines strike has been a key part of the nationwide walkout and it w’as believed SL-S- F that its settlement might set the pattern for a speedy end to other phases of the telephone tieup Moran said the A U T W membership must ratify the board's action “but that can come at any ROSEVILLE Cal May 8 UP)— time later as the executive board A collision of a Greyhound bus and is empowered to call off the an automobile on U S highway 40 strike” near here Thursday killed two per4 Gain sons and injured 17 four of them Weekly seriously Meanwhile Frank P Lawrence The impact crushed the forward vice president in charge of the end of the bus which was bound lines division of AT&T said from Salt Lake City to San Fran- long in a statement that “with the cisco termination of the strike we will Highway Patrol Capt George W endeavor to restore our service to Peterkin said the dead were ten- normal as soon as possible” tatively identified as: He did not comment on the II L Wilfsen of Colfax Cal Page 2 Column 4 driver of the ear Mrs M F Limas 4019 Longfellow st Hyattsville Mo The (our seriously hurt and hospitalized included Luella Woods 27 Pyramid Lake Nev broken leg and back injuries Ten of the more seriously Injured were taken to Highland hospital in Auburn Cal and the other DENVER May 8 OFi— “Some seven were put aboard a special toward settling the progress” bus and sent on to San Francisco in the mountain strike telephone Taken to the hospital but later states area was made Thursday released were: Florence Vernon night Conciliator Stephen D Tahoe Alphonse Zoldak San Franannounced Halligan cisco James W Laherty SacraA night negotiating session mento Charles Woods Pyramid for striking workers in Colorado Lake Nev: Mrs Maude Anderson Wyoming Idaho Utah Arizona Auburn Cal Dorothy Cairns Oak- New Mexico and El Paso Tex land Stephen Kovaco San Franrecessed at 11:10 (MST) cisco Joyce Bearden Reno and The talks will be pm resumed at Miller Nunnelly Vallejo Cal 10 am Friday Put aboard a special bus were Representatives of the MounJohn Ykena San Francisco George tain and TeleStates and Charlotte Parsons both of graph Co Telephone Mountain and the Reno Russell E Pratt Oakland States Federation of Telephone Nick E Lyons Richmond CaL Leo workers met with Halligan Hunt Orange Cal and Thomas the day throughout M Okel Reno long-distan- ce long-distan- ce ratified 2 Die 17 Hurt In Bus Car Crash $2-$- ef-S- ee PROGRESS SEEN IN DENVER MST&T TALKS Writes to Eisenhower Hauck said he told May it would have to be taken up with hewer then allied commander in Europe He said May wrote Eisenhower Hauck On conceded that at the time of the request for a permanent transfer back home from the Pacific for Freeman's son that the young man's mother had just died and he was in poor physical condition Bat Willam A Paisley chief prosecutor called May’s son Robert to the stand to show that the former Democratic congressman from Kentucky cashed the two checks m October 1944 at the ‘PATHETICALLY cross-examinati- XX SHORT’ Help Must Stop Somewhere Bradley Tells Crippled Vets WASHINGTON May 8 UP) — Gen Omar Bradley told a group of blinded and crippled veterans Thursday that the government has to “stop somewhere” in giving automobiles to handicapped men Edw’ard J Beamon Orange N J armless and deafened survivor of the fighting in Germany commented: “If Gen Bradley rode on street cars he could understand the situation more fullyj’ Beamon held papers with metal hooks during the exchange It took place at a house veterans’ subcommittee hearing on bills to give automobiles to blinded veterans and those who lost an arm Previously congress voted to provide cars to those disabled vet ce erans of the last war suffering permanent leg injuries which seriously restrict their travel Proposed biUs which Bradley said would raise the cost of the program more than $39000000 also would make cars available to eligible disabled veterans of previous wars and to veterans disabled in peacetime Bradley veterans’ administrator said: “We are not involved in a question of what the veteran does or does not deserve If we sought to justify this grant on the basis of our debt to disabled veterans we could add a garage a house and furniture — and still fall pathetically far short of payment For there is no adequate reward that can repay a man for the loss of an arm a leg or his health” “You have to stop somewhere” V-- E Austin Note of Indorsement Breaks Bill Opposition Senate Votes to Restrict Union Dues Welfare that lasting E ng lor L2P) — fit-looki- f PRICE FIVE CENTS House Test Tote Points T o Greek Aid roval pro-isio- s-makers V-- four-pow- er Archivist Tells Of Checking FDR’s Papers what Sen Robert A Taft (R O) described as attempts by union representatives to “shake down” or extort money from employers and the involuntary check-of- f by which unions prevail on companies to deduct union dues from all workers’ pay envelopes regardless of the wishes of individual workers Proponents Turn Tables Led by Sen Taft proponents of the amendment turned the tables on Sens Irving M Ives (R N Y) and Wayne Morse (R Ore) who radio-phonogra- i radio-phonogra- ph ph WASHINGTON May 8 (UP)— A move to kill Pres Harry S aid program was beaten Truman’s $400000000 Greek-Turkis- h down by the house Thursday on a test vote that presaged over bill When it reaches a whelming passage of the ' final vote The opposition cracked wide open after Warren R Austin American delegate on the United Nations security council jumped back into the fight with a telegram indorsing the president’s program as one which would help the U N rather than anti-communi- st by-pa- ss The senate vote on the amendment to prohibit union control of health and welfare funds and the involuntary checkoff of union dues included : For the amendment — Watkins ( R Utah) and Dworshak (R Ida) against — Thomas (D Utah) and Taylor (D Ida) i Wednesday played a big part In killing a proposal to curb industry-wid- e collective bargaining Both Ives and Morse assailed the ban on health and funds administered solely by unions Taft defended it saying that such funds could become “rackets” Fourteen Republicans — seven of them freshmen senators — joined 26 Democrats in voting against the amendment For it were 33 G O P senators and 15 southern Democrats Taft told the senate the amendment stems from the efforts of John L Lewis last year to levy a 10c a ton tax on soft coal producers to set up a welfare fund which Lewis wanted the United Mine Workers to4 administer alone Subsequently Changed Subsequently when the government took over the mines this was changed to a 5c levy and the fund was placed under joint federal-M W administration While the fund is in the clear on this count so far as the ban is concerned Taft indicated that it may not meet terms of the amendment which specify that money collected shall be used for the “sole and exclusive benefit” of the workers Violators of any of the provisions of the amendment could be fined $10000 and sentenced to a year in jail Iv’es called this an “excessive” penalty and termed the amendment as a whole an “extremely piece of legislation” He added that welfare funds “have had See Page 2 Column 3 Taft-support- ed U 830 Lady Constituents Dine As Congressman Pays Bill j (Details oo Page 18) MAY 9 1947 GOP BACK IN SADDLE peace will be attained wras expressed by Pres Harry S Truman Thursday — but he noted that it still is by no means accomplished and declared he will press for passage of 'universal l V' optimism May 8 Showers Cooler The owners claimed their lost while Miss Wood belongings kissed the congressman for cameramen Kunkel and the hotel refused to say what the luncheon cost him Kunkel a Harvard and Yale educated banker - farmer - lawyer had held such luncheons before but never on such a scale - It started back in 1938 when he expressed his thanks to the women who first helped elect him to congress with an invi ation to lunch with him some time in the capital The following year 75 women took him up The next year 160 showed up and the next 250 This year’s 830 was top HUNDRED FLEE HOTEL FIRE IN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI May 8 (iF— An estimated one hundred men fled to safety Thursday night after several were exhorted to avoid panic as flames damaged the Columbia hotel in downtown Cincinnati As flames rushed to the roof of the men’s hotel many guests dashed for fire escapes and stairHerbert Dawson desk ways clerk reported he yelled at the guests “to keep your heads and the men quieted down and descended In orderly fashion” Firemen carried William Neice down an extension ladder from the fifth floor Acting Fire Chief Chris Williams said the fire cause of which was not determined started at the base of an elevator shaft and raced up it to burn a hole in the roof but that the flames did not reach any of the hotel s 22t) rooms Warren R Austin Says Greek aid would bolster U N Note speeds measure before house House Weighs 55 Slash In Army Fund WASHINGTON Mav 8 OP!— A budget cut for the war ' department W’as reported in the works Thursday A house appropriations committee member reported that a subcommittee has decided to lop about $300000000 from the department’s request for $5717791500 for the year starting July 1 The reduction would affect mostly the army’s civilian employes and operations Meanwhile Pres Truman asked congress for ah additional to run the post office department until June 30 and controversy over cuts already made i raged on Walter S Hillanan Republican national committeeman for West Virginia and chairman of the na-a tional petroleuifi council urged senate appropriations subcommittee to restore $245000 which the house denied tb the interior department’s oil and gas division Wants Fund Restored He said the money is needed to continue a program of cooperation between the government and the oil industry The house action he added could “well represent the difference between victory and defeat” in a future war Hallanan a prominent figure at Republican national conventions and a former vice chairman of the national committee said "frivolous and extravagant spending of public money must be stopped” but added “it wrould not seem good in dealing policy to quibble with such a vital national prob$10-9240- lem” Rep Karl Stefan (R Neb) chairman of a subcommittee w’hich cut in 'the 1948 ordered a 23 budget for the state commerce and justice departments accused cabinet officers of trying’ to embarrass the appropriations committee by protesting its budget fictions Rep John Taber (R N Y) chairman of the full committee agreed with Stefan Cabinet Officers ’Stefan and Taber talking to reporters struck at the cabinet officers after Secv of State Marshall and Secy of Commerce Harriman had criticized the action of the appropriations group In separate statements Wednesday “It makes no difference whether the cuts are 5c or a million bucks the screams are just as loud” said Stefan "It is only another example of the show these department heads are putting up to embarrass the appropriations committee in trying to carry out Pres Truman’s (budget) requests Stefan also issued a statement declaring that the state department’s foreign information diviradsion "is a nest of icals w’ho are more interested in distributing to the world their extremist propaganda than they are in presenting an honest picture of America and its foreign policy” The committee denied funds for its operations V alien-mind- ed Austin's indorsement touched off a noisy demonstration that grew progressively louder as one after another of the restrictive amendments offered by opponents went down to defeat Reaches Climax It reached a booming climax when Rep George H Bender (R O) offered a motion to strike out the enacting clause and thus kill off the entire legislation - This motion was rejected by a standing vote of 127 to 37 The house then moved on to debate and act on a hatful of restrictive amendments but the fight was over After a few minutes of further debate the house Republican leader Charles A Halleck of Indiana called off the oratory until Friday Jubilant supporters of the bill predicted easy passage for the president’s program which already has been approved by the senate They hoped for a final vote Friday but prolonged debate on the remaining amendments might delay the showdow’n until early next week Opposition rails Before Bender made his move the opposition bloc tried unsuccessfully to ram through a series of amendments w’hich would have barred aid to Turkey for at least a year pending a U N investigation of the purported communist threat to that country and specifically banned the transfer of U S atomic weapons or materials to either Greece or Turkey Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas (D Cal) offered both amendments A similar one on the Turkish phase was sponsored by Rep Jacob K Kavits (R N Y) All of them were howded down by a voice vote in which the "ayes” were all but drowned out There had never been the slightest intimation that Pres Truman contemplated sending atomic weapons among the military supplies destined for Greece and Turkey and Mrs Douglas emphasized that she trusted his discretion but wanted to back it up by specific legislation DelRers Death Blow Chairman Charles A Eaton (R N J) of the house foreign affairs committee delivered the death blow to the' opposition bloc He interrupted the oratory to announce the arrival of Austin’s message indorsing the program “In my opinion the United States’ program for aid to Greece and Turkey does not bypas? the United Nations” Austin wired He recalled that the United States had taken the initiative in explaining the program to the U N security council through his statements on March 28 and April 10 and he reiterated his and Pres Truman’s contention that the world organization at present has neither the financial nor the military to help the imperiled Mediterranean states "The proposed American program will assist in restoring stability and security in Greece and maintaining them in Turkey” he said “When stable conditions are restored in Greece it should be possible to provide such further financial and economic assistance as might then be required through the economic and social council of the U N and related specialized agencies” Two Slayers Die In Electric Chair BOSTON May 9 (Friday) men d’d in the electric (Pi-T- wo chair at state prison early Friday for in the murder of an erstwhile pal a dice game holdup that netted them only $80 Philip R Bellino 30 of Boston and Edward F (Dutchy) Gertson 34 of Everett paid the penalty for the “ride” slaying of Robert (Tex) Williams 18 former Haverhill marine Williams’ body was found In the Lynn marshes m August 1945 a few days after he and the executed men had raided a dice game in Newton K H Gertson was the first to die He was pronounced dead at 12:09 30 am Bellino died eight minutes later They were preceded Into the death chamber by Rev Joseph A Robinson Catholic chaplain at the prison ft |
