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Entermountain Network ' t 1' 0 I WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with few showers t 4 1 1 t t near mountains (Details on Page 12) ' t 0 ' - VOL 155 NO 71 4 t PRICE FIVE CENTS SALT LAKE CITY UTAIL TUESDAY 31ORNING JUNE 24 1947 4 :1 tit I 1 4 Court Upholds U S Title to Oil Tidelands I N Irls7 El IS t0 - i --- 1 t 't - I - et Jury System Legal I 1 6 ' 1 04°'''''' t I ' i N ' ''‘''''''N4- I -' '1k1 47 1 V" ' j Combined A P and V P Wires WASIILNGTON June 23—The supreme court decided Monday I ' i 7444 that the oil-ric- h I - : g k ' - - ' 1' i - :' - - - remanding 'k i 1 41 A 1 il Steel Output Fills Demand Columbia Official Says 11 411 1 Steel production now at its high-e- s: peacetime level and only about below wartime peaks is meet- tt ling current demand Including that k ef th e automotive industry accord- -Ing t J Lester Perry San Fran1 cisca new president of Columbia - Steel Corp He made this staternent i 2473nday after his first inspection tour of the Geneva Steel plant Both Columbia and Geneva Steel are 1: S Steel rabsidiaries Expressing surprise that steel output should be considered subriorrnal the visiting executive ex' plained that annual production row is between S7000000 and SS- C01000 tons of ingots record for a peacetime year and only slightly below the pinnacle of approximately F2003C00 tons reached during i: - the war Also 04 1 I : an Tour Mr Perry recently succeeded the late W A Ross as president of Cciluimbia Ile was accompanied on the tour of Geneva by O L Pringle in San Francism tgice president - charge of operations4- Walther Mathes:us Geneva president and A C Moore local sales representa- - L A Blast Toll Reaches Four 211INGTON Cal June 23 LIN—Recovery of two bodies from the smoldering hulk of the S Markey Monday brought to four the toll of known dead in Idos Ans-tie- s harbor's $10000000 ex-Ioni- an and fire Coroner Ben Brown said the bodies were burned 'beyond reeoTwo other bodies were grtion from the water—near the Sunday Itarkay Ten persons believed to have been aboard the ship at the time of the explosion early Sunday are still rnisEng Engineer Jack Sims of the Markey identified the two Trien as Harold C Link 19 oiler Ito: Ts--la Ore and William Nelson Walters third &slatInt engineer 34 clitir-nrilOre cef le tive Purpose of his visit was to "get acquainted" be sail "It is Impossible to tell whether steel production go up from present levels but one thing is aasured we will have a big year" Mr Perry commented Ire observed that Geneva is In "fine condition expertly operated and one of the finest plants in the nation and predicted "no decline" In eithel steel demand or output Producing for West Steel produced at the Utah Installation will be kept in the west— that is in Utah and adjacent states and the west coast he said adding that only in event of an "emergency" would any of the output be shipped to eastern markets "The west bat learned that It not only can produce steel but it also can use it" be declared The Columbia president was noncommittal about possibility of fabricating plants being operated in Utah He did point out however that it "is only natural for kindred industries to contemplate such a move because of the obconditions viously advantageous here Queried as to whether he would predict when that contemplation would become an actuality he said: It is Impossible to tell" Discussing demands of the automobile Industry one of "big steel's" best customers Mr Perry said figures for May indicate that demand for steel by car makers has "just about reached its peak" 'Tord isn't quite up to the expected level because of troubles with other materials but I think the otter companies are" he added Congressional overriding of Pres Harry S Truman's veto of the labor bill he described as "a very good thing for the country" lie opined that the bill would bring a 'better balance between labor and management and more protection for the working man" Mr Perry and Mr Pringle will leave Salt Lake City Tuesday morning Their first stop will be in Chicago where they expect to remain "a day or so v-i- ll CENTENNUL FEATURE 'Marshall Talk to Highlight Governor Mune': in S L - Secy of State George C MiranLI will be chief speaker at a state danner honoring governors in attendance at the governors' conference in Salt Lake City July 13-Gov Herbert Maw Monday The dinner will be held the evening of July 14 at a 16 'i : : 'I '2 a plare yet to Official be arranged oessiorug will begin ed the morning of July 14 with an opening addreas by Gov Millard F Caltwell of Florida conference chairman and a welcome address by Gov kfacr Other speakers will be Go-rThomas J Herbert of Ohio Beauford H Jester of Texas and Ernest W Gbson of Vermont Gov Wi::iam Lee KnOUS of Colorado and Jaznes IL Duff of Pennsylvanta w1 speak at a luncheon isesaaOft- - Arkansas' Gov Ben Laney 1 s Is-- '''' — preside 1 A round table discussion of tax and fiscal policies will be held the afternoon of July 14 under direction of Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York Guest participants will include Sens Harry F 13yrd Virginia Albert W Hakes New Jersey and Edward W Martin PennW Kean sylvania: Reps Martin New Jersey: Wilbur D Mills Arkansas and Daniel A ileed New York Education will be the subject of a round table discussion the morning of July 15 West Virginia's Gov Clarence W Meadows will preside On Wednesday Gov Earl Warren of California will preside over a discussion of administration of state governments and the conference will close with an executive session in the afternoon I CaL) announced that new legislation for cesame purpose now will be Reassures Producers Meanwhile Warren W Gardner assistant secretary of The interior told producers now leasing these lands from California to "go ahead with their work" in view of possible oil shortages next winter and "not get too worried" about the decision Gardner told newsmen that Secy of the Interior J A Krug like Harold L Ickes before him has given assurance that the oil men will not be held accountable by the federal government for oll they have taken from these lands under leases from the states Pres Trumaii hdowever was said by Attorney General Tom C Clark to be planning to ask congress to decide upon a policy This could call for the federal government's leasing the lands to private producers or keeping the oil as a reserve for the navy—or as congress sought to do turning over the lands to the states The decision upholds a suit by the federal government against the state of California but its language is so general as to apply to coastal areas all around the See Page 3 Column 2 Leaders House Unit On Arms Plan ' WASHLNGTON June 23 (A')— F Bill Provisions Under the bill the U S could: Transfer arms and munitions to other nations of the western L hemisphere 2 Train their soldiers sailors and airmen in U S methods 3 Maintain and repair planes tanks guns and ships of the new world nations Rep Mike Mansfield (D Mont) asked Marshall to produce a "se- cret letter" written partment in March of State Dean Acheson Mansfield said this letter opposed the standardization program Marshall replied that it would not be in the "public interest in relations with Latin America" to make it public He suggested instead that the letter be read to the committee in closed session Letter 'Leaked Out' Mansfield agreed bill- said he understood that portions of the letter had "leaked" out of the state In explaining the Acheson letter Marshall said he directed Acheson to write it alter learning that preliminary army estimates of the cost of the program ran into "large figures"--larger than congress might approve" I 4 ' t 4 - 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''' i ---- -- - l ''' - --''' - - ''' 4 t- I --- t - s : SENATE LABOR FIGIIT WINNERS HAIL VICTORY (Left to right) Sens Irving M Ives (R N Y) Robert A Taft (R O) and Joseph IL Ball (R handshake Monday after Minn) join in three-wa- y 1 the senate voted into law over Truman's veto labor bill They led the fight the In senate to put the legislation on the statutes Taft-Hartl- ey -- Paris Parley Senate klyroup Votes Grant py::: :pig 3:::Cf $35 Billion f(lorIN:avy With the $3462000000 grant June Slatéd Friday must still senate senate appropriations mittee approval the committee - - :::- : PARIS June 23 and Great Britain agreed Monday to Russia's proposal that the Big Three conference on Secy of State (UP)--Fran- G e or ge Marshall's C ce history-makin- g plan for European recovery be held here Friday Clayton May Attend Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and his aids at once started for the conmaking arrangements ference which Was expected to bring a showdown on the question whether Russia is to cooperate with the western powers or Europe is to be split into two rival blocs for months if not IT S Undersecy of State William L Clayton who is there with British for conferences that leaders might join Bidault British Foreign Secy Erngst Basin and Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov in the conference at least in the role of an observer and informant Profoundly Satisfied' Bidault interrupted a critical national assembly debate on finance to announce that Molotov had accepted the Anglo-Frenc- h proposal for a conference and that France and Britain in turn had accepted Molotov's suggestion that It be held here Friday Hearty applause from the anchamber greeted the nouncement "Both the government and the French people are profoundly sat-Se- e Page 5 Column 5 FIRST WATER POURS OVER GREAT DIVIDE ESTES PARK Colo June 23 stream of mountain water which fell on the Pacific divide slope of the continental splashed from 'a 38-i- n pipe into the churning Big Thompson river Monday afternoon and flowed eastward signalizing the first major transmountain diversion for irrigation The water tumbled through the long 10-- ft high Adams tunnel drilled tinder the mountains from scenic Grand lake to a point near this resort the mouth of communitya From two-mithe bore long pipe carried it into the river Lee Colorado's governor Knous termed it "an epic day" In the state's history Participating in the ceremonies were high reclamation bureau officials headed by Commissioner Michael Straus Mrs Alva B Adams widow of the late Colorado senator for whom the tunnel was named 'was an honored (111--- -A 13-mi- le le guest- - 'i 23 WASHINGTON comThe Monday voted $3462000- 000 in new money for the navy in the year starting July' 1: Sen Leverett Saltonstall (FL Mass) said it will give the nation "a fighting powerful fleet" of some 850 craft Asks Navy Thrift The sum is ' $176500000 more But than the house approved Sa 11011stdi chairman of a subcommittee which considered the funds said that $161000000 in old unused appropriations for other purposes were cancelled well-balanc- ed receive which notice that it a tight keep — tures both those carried 4P served expects the navy to watch on expendiof new funds and over from previous years—not to exceed $4105000- 000 Saltonstall told reporters that the committee's action permits operation of the same number of ships requested by Pres Harry S Truman in his budget recommendations Also he said it substantially fulfills Mr Truman's requests for men and planes The president had asked $3- - 6630000C° The house had approved only $3285500000 The senate committee's bill I Saltonstall explained would give the navy a strength of 395000 enlisted men and 43000 officers: an active fleet of 293 combat ships and 5793 aircraft not counting- reserve training planes 40000 More Men This is 40000 more men and WASHINGTON June 23 (UP) —The government reimposed war- 1000 more officers 24 more comships and 252Inore aircraft time controls on exports of petro- bat allowed by the house bill than letun pratlucts Monday night In a The senate bill Saltonstall conmove apparently aimed at quieting tinued would permit operation of congressional criticism of Ameri- 4 battleships 11 large aircraft can oil shipments to Russia carriers 9 small carriers 12 heavy The controls will not halt all cruisers 20 light cruisers 135 deshipments of oil to the Soviet stroyers 24 destroyer escorts and Union but will make them subject 78 submarines to the discretion of the commerce It woull also keep in service 149 amphibious craft 55 mine department They will become effective June vessels 54 patrol ships 275 auxili30 Just 24 hours before the emer- ary ships and 24 floating drydocks gency law authorizing such exportregulation is slated to expire Congress has been asked to extend the law and Monday night's move was seen as a maneuver to force the lawmakers' hands Series of Meets The move was announced after a WASHINGTON Tuesday June series of conferences ampng offi- 24 labor began Its cials of the commerce state and in- first under the !sweeping proday terior departments labor It will require shippers to obtain visions of the licenses for exports of all motor law Monday with a series of profuels including ordinary and avia- test strikes by an estimated 23000 tion gasoline kerosene gas oil and members of the United Mine Workdistillate fuel residual fuel oil and ers (AFL) blending agents made from petroIn The walkouts began leum BirmingShipments to Canada will not be ham Ala within an hour after the controThed controversial measure became law Commerce departMent officials and by early Tuesday morning declined to say to what extent the some 10000 miners were on strike revived controls would choke ship- in Alabama: 9000 in Pennsylvania ments to Russia which totaled 3000 In West Virginia and eastern 168306 barrels in the first four Ohio and 1000 In Virginia Twenty-tw- o mines were Idle In months of this year But they Alabama be would out it that including some of the bigpossipointed ble through the licensing of shin- gest in the stIte 11 were closed in I I the Pennsylvania four in Virginia and pers to control IIndirectly at least four in West Virginia and amount any country receives eastern Ohio '13—one Could Be Although the miners have a 10- this Friday Theoretically the government day vacation coming up become undoes not control the destination of and they traditionally shipments handled by private firms easy under such circumstances But commerce department officials their spokesmen said the walkouts strongly indicated that this could resulted primarily from anger over y bill be done the West Virginia spokesmen exThe announcement rewritten several times at state department pressed fear that the walkout in mention of world that area would set off a chain request avoided ' reaction that might eventually af- politics ' U S Restores Export Taft-Hartle- 4 - i 1 t t I '4 i 1 I i i i I y t i i t - i I 1 (UP)--Organiz- ed Taft-Hartl- ey - - - Taft-Hartle- 'V t - I t I 1 i ? - 1 i i f I - - ' - - - 1 IT t - f : tf THOMAS SKIPS TRIP TO VOTE f te -‘ 1 : '" i i - Taft-Hartle- s To Protest New Labor Law - ' r the 23000 Miners Stage Walkouts ‘ - - Ey ASSOCIATED PRESS y labor bill be WASHINGTON June 23—The came the law of the land Monday The senate overrode Pres Truman's veto and his all-o- ut op ' position 68 to 25 maThis was six votes more than the required two-thirbill's even had the than expected Supporters jority—more And the chamber spurned a final appeal which the president sent by Democratic leader Alben W Barkley( Ky) two hours before pereroslildceanitl insisted that "this dangerous legislation" will The hurt "our national unity' and so "render a distinct disservice not SIDDIARY only to this nation but to the world" Sen Robert A Taft (R- - 0) tense senate just before It voted however that the G OP t:21 congress would "be held delinquent" if it failed to pass the bill He shouted that "tmions ' today are big business" andsri 1 "should have the same reponsias corporations" Sharpest Setback WASHINGTON June 23 01 — The outcome was Mr Truman's y Final passage of the sharpest setback at the hands of bill Monday made it the law that the Republican - controlled congress elected last November unions: It was a tremendous victory for for sued be by employers May mentioned as a posTaft breach of contract and for dam- sible Gwidely 0 P presidential candidate ages in jurisdictional strikes and next year Taft sponsored the bill Fred A Hartley secondary boycotts Are required by law to bargain wiolth NR Jp) collectively with employers The senate showdown found 2 0 May not compel employers to Democrats going along with 4S hire only union members but still Republicans to override For up may enter into agreement providing that all employes join the union "IVASIILNIGTON— Sen Watunder certain conditions kins (R Utah) voted to overnot foremen May bargain for labor bill veto Sen ride the and supervisors (D Utah) did not vote Must publish financial state- Thomas but was announced aa against ments notoverriding (Complete vote on to May require employers en- page 24 deduct union dues from pay velopes unless the workers agree Lose their rights under the Wag- holding the president and his veto ne act if any officer is a com- were 22 Democrats and three Res publicans—Sens William Langer munist or active sympathizer (N D) George W Malone (Nev) not contribumake certain May tions and expenditures for political and Wayne Morse (Ore) The full strength of the senate purposes Are forbidden to engage in cer- was on hand for the historic ballot with the exceptions of Sen tain practices held "unfair" It alsois the law now that the Wagner (n N Y) ill in New York: Sen Elbert Thomas (D government: May get injunctions against Utah) who is in Geneva and unions to stall off for 80 days a SenI Bilbo (13 Miss) who has strike which would affect the na- not taken the oath- - Even if all of them had been here and voted tional health or safety Set up a new conciliation serv- to uphold the veto it would have made no difference ice outside the labor department Enlarge the National Labor Re‘Vagner Favors Veto lations board from three to five members and overhaul the way it Wagner father of the labor reworks lations act bearing his name sent senate-hous- e a message from his sickbed which Establish a committee to 'study labor the clerk read just before the roll-ca- ll lie called upon his colleagues management relations to uphold the veto and concluded: "The president would not lie at this critical moment in history" This apparently was a reference to the arguments of Taft and Hartley They had said that some of the president's statements were GENEVA June 23 (INS)— "not so" and "false: No sooner had the vote been Sen ERert D Thomas (D Utah) stated Monday that he taken and the bill passed than had abandoned plans for an WiMarn Green president of the emergency flight to the United American Federation of Labor States because he had been in- promised "an immediate camformed by telephone from Washpaign" for its repeal Just as quickly Gerhard P Van ington his vote would not have been decisive in sustaining the Arkel general counsel of the nay veto of the tional labor relations board rebill He expressed Sen Thomas had arranged for signed "grave a take-of- f by plane but now doubts concerning both the workwill stay for a continuation of ability and the fairness" of the proceedings of the international act The law creates a new post of general counsel with broader labor offlice conference duties and $12000 salary compared with the present $9975 but Van Arkel said he does not want Taft-Hartle- - F - -- lit 1 i - : - it '"3 1 - - - I bility - - - t Provisions '' 0 1 a i ' 4 - tt 1 s t '- i - t 'A t i - 1 1 - l'-':- - Curb sruggested War Oii Oil Secy of State George C Marshall and Secy of War Robert Patterson told congress Monday that the western hemisphere nations will get munitions "elsewhere" if the U S will not supply them: Both cabinet officers appeared before the house foreign affairs committee In support of Pres harry S Truman's proposal to standardize the arms of Latin America and Canada with those of the United States The witnesses emphasized that Mr Truman's program is consistent with the United Nations department Y ' 11 - -- t ds i - ' ed 5-- - I - k i - - ey sb-call- 4 - '" ' t Spurns Truman Plea Enacts Historic Law - t - t is - 1 1 i I4 - t ' "4-- t - t 1 II" 1 1 e I ' - - I ' t I -t-- t II - srfz - ? 6-4- conc:lattaivwnedad-bthbr- ie e i It f --7 ely I 6 tip g aa 11 AEI - i - k-- 1 II - :q betv:reen lands 1 low tide mark and the three-mil- e limit belong to the federal government not the states I ' 2 decision reopened a The controversy that has boiled with fi tittitt political overtones for years In another important decision the court upheld constitutionality of the Lea cedb os of practice 1(:-4:::' muansy a device 1141 music James C Petrillo czar Leaves Door Open 3 The decision against Petrillo dealt only with his broad consti' tutional challenge of the Lea act but left the door open to a further court test of the law's contitu- the case district 0o 1 court It was in this court that a the government first filedomit to make the defiant boss of the 4 Arnenican Federation of Musicians unioil (AFL) obey the law The tideland oil decision ran i l counter to the views of congress - 1 as reflected In a bill passed last session which would have yielded DISCUSS PROMISING FUTURE title to the states are any federal Discussing a promising future for the western steel Harry S Truman vetoed It left and Pres J Lester Perry president of the Columbia Steel CorpIndustry let the court decide Walther Mathesius Geneva president after a tour of the Utah plant to Rep Willis W Tiradley (It p -- - v ve Petrillo N Y 1 i (L9 I t Finds Act to Restrict - i 1 Passes I 111RWMPIE0 feet most of that state's 110000 miners In other states industry spokesmen believed that the strikes were certain to spread when second shifts report for work Tuesday The Alabama- - instItute said there was a possibility that 75 of the UMW's 20000 members there would be out by tomorrow The Pennsylvania strikes were centered in the southwest bituminous fields around Pittsburgh and like the Alabama walkouts most of them came in captive mines serving the steel industry The most vociferous protest from outside the coal mines came from the San Francisco C 10 council It asked CIO Pres Philip Murray nation-wid- e to call a work stoppage to protest the new law but Murray said in Washington that he knew "nothing of it" U M W Pres John L Lewis had on the coal walk"no comment" ' — 24-ho- ur outs Nine hundred men in the UMW's 17 near Beckley W Va have been on strike since- the senate tried to get an agreement to vote on the bill last Friday Both union and company officials there See Page g Column 6 — - ' - - district - - - - : i - it Ushers in Test Period Monday's ballot compared with I - Taft-Hartl- I I ey labor-manageme- - 1 - 2- r i nt non-unioni- :" I votes of 68 to 24 on May 13 when the senate originally passed its labor bill and 54 to 17 on June 6 when the senate passed the final compromise version worked out with the house That chamber had voted to override thd veto on Friday as soon as it was delivered by 331 to 83 nearly 4 to 1 act of 1947 So the took its place in the law books beside the Wagner act of 1935 and a new era of relations in America was born- Its first phases seem bound to be marked by disputes and litigation—as were those of the Wagner act–as unions and employers test out the new act's terms The supreme court in the end will have to decide what many of them mean as it did with the Wagner act and even still is doing a decade afterwards Provisions which the courts are likely to be asked to clarify particularly are those dealing with union security damage liability of unions for jurisdictional strikes and breach of contract and "unfair" practices by unions ' The new law bans the closed shop under which may not be hired but permits the See rage 2 Column 4 - 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