| Show NEWS BROADCASTS 7 :20 - arru WEATHER pm 8:30 pm Sports 11 pm Station RAIL 1 vL ky $y Intermountain Network I o SALT LAKE CITY UTAH TUESDAY MORNING JULY VOL 15o NO 78 Court Dooms BeBee to Firiiig Squad iv Iftv4 l - 4 IS fwf hi 'Av - — Override Leniency Recommendation Of Jury at Price TrtbsM W pf- Cl Pai is Session Bogs Down As Russ Balk Hlf 12-ma- ‘ PARIS June 30 (UP) — Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molo- self-style- tov refused flatly Monday night to join France and Great Britain in drafting an recovery plan on the basis of a new British proposal The result was that the Big Three conference on Secy of State George C Marshall’s plan for European rehabilitation was completely deadlocked and threatened with collapse — possiblyat the next meeting set for 4 pm TuesdayErnBoth British Foreign Secy est Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault W’ere prepared to go ahead with the Marshall plan with or without Russia But Russia’s refusal to cooperate would make complete the wide and 'dangerous political gulf be between east and west Bevin demanding an immediate showdown on Russia’s intentions introduced a new proposal at Monday’s meeting to get European countrie(f started on the Marshall plan The proposal would: 1 — Form a steering committee at once to draft a four-yea- r European reconstruction plan to be considered by European gov all-Euro- district marshal Oct 15 1945 They recommended a life sentence at hard labor after deliberating four hours and 4 3 minutes at the trial’s con- clusion Friday night In pronouncing BeBee’s death sentence Judge Keller said the defendant would "be executed by shooting within the outer walls of the state prison of Utah on Aug 21 at sunrise” Second Death Sentence HEARS DEATH SENTENCE Judge Keller's action marked Tt doesn’t matter to me” said Hiram BeBee when asked Monday hy the second time the death pro- Seventh District Judge F W Keller whether he preferred death by nouncement had been read to shooting or hanging The bearded d centenarian Is shown BeBee He was first tried in In Carbon county Jail after hearing the death sentence Seventh district court m Marti by Judge John A Hougard and ordered shot April 12 196 The case was appealed to Utah supreme court on technicalitiesand that bodv set aside the verdict reached t if anti and a new' trial was or-- 1 dered Defense atterrneys asked for a charge of venue This was 1 granted and the BeBee retrial was ernments set to begin June 23 irf Price be- - WASHINGTON June 39 (UP)- - Lewis' United Mine Workers (AFL) 2— the extent to which or to head EuropeSpecify fore Judge F W Keller The jury The government returned the soft for other definite action could help itself by its off a strike But he is known to production and by cooperation made no recommendation for coal mines to their private owners be ready to Intervene if necessary and leriercy at the first tnal specify the amount of aid Jucge Keller called BeBee to Monday and sat back uneasily to Lewis who reportedly has made Individual countries need I the bench Monday after hearing learn whether it action meant an- some progress toward a new con3 — Members of the 3 arguments by E LeRov Shields other national mine strike eight tract in secret talks with big seg- committee would consist steering of the ments of the northern and western attorney and Duane A das hence andTiot more than four 4 1 Yandsen district attorney to had coal say other countries nothing not Including - He told After flying oer the 2500 fed- aboutoperators his next move if any the defendant the court Spain ' A few small groups of operators bad Lstcned to the pleas of both erally operated bituminous mines 4 — Tlie committee counsels and had carefully weighed for more than 13 months the held informal caucuses on the sit- would seek the friendly aid of mil evidence presented an but He then Am? rican fl uation expected major 4 Column 2 See B5 hauled down ln Page 1 i of the mine owners failed the court would require the coal fields at 1203 pm E D T meeting BeBee a execution to materialize and their spokesmen just 12 hoursbefore the expiratiftn had no word as to when they It Doesn’t Matter of the war labor disputes act under planned to meet The big question before the bulk Judge Keller asked BeBee if he which they were seized on May 21 bad ary preference as to how the 1316 of the operators was whether to execution should be applied go along with U S Steel Corp and No Present Plans BeBee replied quietly: "It doesn't the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Ira Co in a general wage increase said Secretary of Labor Lewis B Schwellenbach's office said he had to have been offered Lewis by those no immediate for conferences TWO major producers custcKly of Garbon county sheriff w iththe mine plans ou ners WASHINGTON June 30 UP)— Bow lo Lewis and John L Dudier for execution of the J The house voted Monday to make S ConV and Steel artcrce Pittsburgh ’Hawaiian Islands a state’ and solidation which together produce the Immediately after the sentenc- - "A T F' a 49th star to the flag add for a new trial was 30000 000 tons of soft coal a year Irg a motion ajAXA 3 AX55JIJli It passed on a roll call vote Mr to to were Shields his hae agreed by basing repoited 196 to 133 and sent to the senate Lewus’ on a for demand basic meet the grounds the court appeal a bill by Delegate Joseph R Farbad misdirected the jury tn a ques51305 daily wage’ rate based on the rington (R Hawaii) to enable contion of law during the eight hours of work and travel people of Hawaii to form a course of the arising tnaJ and that ’’the time Cal June 30 UP) stitution and state government verdct is contrary to law and the — WESTWOOD Former Tolan H John and to be admitted to the union Rep evidence pertaining to the tral” whose smgjl Utah coal mines on an equal footing with the other has Twenty-thre- e granddaughter 14 as Keller set the Judge July been missing near Mt Lassen ra- operated by the government for 48 states date of action on this motion tional park since Sunday died in more than a year were returned Action imthe senate at this sesThe sentence was the second in a hospital here Monday night of to the operators Monday as the sion of congress appears unlikely recorded Utah judicial history a heart on by law which authorized government Chairman Hugh Butler (R Neb) where a judge overruled the jury the child'scondition brought seizure expired said he wants his committee to disappearance tn a murder trial John Markham 70 suffered a Tolan who The mines operated by the govwas convicted barbershop porter attack Sunday ’after his ernment were those producing WASHINGTON — The house frr the Nov 25 1939 slaying of heart Gale be- more than 50 tons per day which vote on the bill for admission Greta Mary grandchild G a Sait Smith Lake came lost from their summer vaca- had access to railroads Truck of Hawaii to statehood inJ retired postal employe tion home at Lee’s camp near the mines were not "taken over” by cluded: For the bill — Dawson southern edge of the national the government Other Case Recalled y (K Utah) Granger (D Utah) LL Cmdr C R Dubil U S N R Goff (R Ida) and Sanborn The jury recommended leriency park Bearch admimstratcuu-saiTwo of d days R Ida) parties government b- -t Judge Oscar W McConkie cast estimated to total 150by persons rethe mines have been aside the recommendation atid im- Monday night had uncovered no turned to the operators his office give the bill "careful study” and posed the death penalty The board definite trace of whereabouts probably will remain open for 10 that he does not intend to schedof pardors later commuted the of the little girl the The search was or 15 days to complete clearance ule hearings before congress redeath sentence to lfe imprison-m°r- L suspended overnight and will be work late in July Dubail expressed Cmdr resumed at dawn Tuesday aug-- i his cesses If the bill is approved by the at was Price tbe it tnal During mented by more volunteers 50 of thanks "for the 10039 cooperation senate signed by the president brought out in the evidence that whom were reported recruited at of operators union officials and" it will and law become BeBee had shot and killed the Susanulle company officials at the mines” marshal m front of a Mt Pleasant Must Draft Constitution beer parlor after the marshal bad However Farrington told the evicted the reciuse from the tavern U1 IU LOiNlaKENN house it will be 12 to 18 months and placed him in a truck The' after that before Hawaii can bemarshal had returned to the sidecome a state walk w hen he was felled by the The people of Hawaii first must L rst bullet from BeBee’s gun elect delegates to a convention to BeBee then stepped from the truck draft a state constitution The conand ahot the victim a second time stitution then must be ratified after fee fell to the ground Sheriff Dudier said Monday eveby the people of Hawaii and apTribune Washington Bureau get from the war department com- proved by the president must ning be would take BeBee (o the A third election then state penitentiary at Salt Lake WASHINGTON June 30 — The plete information about all the wab department Monday delayed posts to be abandoned by the held to select a governor and other City early Tuesday morning officials two senators and transfer of Fort Douglas to the army on which to base a gen- state Tritian Letd Hlr two bouse members in congress — With 30 charges of War Assets administration from eral policy results of the election are They have clearly come to the When murder in the first degree filed July 1 to July 26 with the distinct certified the state is admitted to tn the Seventh district court at understanding that if congress by conclusion that the government the union by presidential proclaPrice since 1921 only three death the later date has not passeddis-a should receive compensation for mation " the property it transfers do sentences have been pronounced bill laying down the plan of universities or nuinlit-palitie- s Praise Hawaiian L))ully including that of Hiram BeBee posal of the military reservation states but have not agreed on who was sentenced Monday to die the property will have to go to the debate spirited obDuring were on Aug 11 for the slaying of Lon W A A Asst War SeCy' Kenneth the scale of payment They disbecause of jections T Larsen Mt Pleasant city mar- C Royall explained that his 'de- cussed the war department’s ap- Hawaii's lorgelyvoiced Oriental popushall court records revealed Fri- partment Is without funds to care praisal of Fort Douglas but Sen lation about a third of Japanese for the property after July 26 Watkins elicited from a war de- extraction day These records said Ed K Han- and it cannot allow the property partment representative present Prince H Preston Jr D sen deputy court clerk stowed to stand idle without protection at the conference that the ap- GaRep ) termed them “descendants of an was made that m trying these first degree of any kindon hastily by of Japan" officer who spent only two days the'Anemperor that advice Sen praisal murder charges eight defendants ActingV immediate protest came from Watkins met Monday at the fort were found guilty with rerom- Arthur i Johnson and LoRoy Rep i "That appraisal” said Von other house members (Rwhocal) merdatiors for leniency resulting with Sens Wayne Morse ofpre-i- n praised j WhoLfa- sentences gon and HarryByrd of Virginia Watkins "is plumb crazy loyalty of Jananese-Amencan- s Other d poit ion a of the 30 of the subcommittee appointed dis-r-to ever placed values on the land the Hawaii in during the war r evidently assumed that the land 10 found guilty lay down a policy governing charges A house committee has held brief with-iall of lesser abandoned water t whereas the carries posal plead rg guilty tq military hearings on proposals to concharge six found innocent tno ’pnsti He learned that they have army tells lie the water supply Alaska statehood but it is grant of the fortyVill be adequate only sidered unlikely any action will be ordered dismissed and one yet completed f their plan aert to a mental hospital j cause they have been unabl to See Page 3 Column 2 taken at this session of congress self-style- six-poi- I j U S Gives Back Colleries Waits Next Lewis Move nse nt e Big-Thre- steering House Favors Statehood for Hawaiian Isles t f-e- d i ‘ w-a- s ( i I — Arm v Extends F ort Douglas Transfer Date to July 26 FP-IC- E ’ - -- de-n- nt nt TRICE FIVE CENTS 1947 Clause asiies 1 TRICE — Overriding recommendations for leniency handed n down by a jury last week Judge F W Keller Monday sentenced Hiram BeBee bearded recluse and convicted killer to death before the firing squad at sunrise Aug 11 in Utah state prison d The centenarian displaced no visible emotion when the sentence was pronounced Monday at 1F50 am tn Seventh court at Price The jury found BeBee guilty of the murder cf Lon T Larsen ML Pleasant 1947 1 ramamL r n i! Clear Tuesday and Wednesday Warmer Tuesday (Details on Page 14) Brands Realtor Lobby ‘Public Welfare Foe’ French Uncover Plot For Armed Revolt PARIS June 30 (P — France that her secret police had thwarted a sensational underground plot by a right-win- g organization calling itself the "Black Maquis” to overthrow the Fourth Republic in a civil war next month and establish a military dictatorship Existence of the Black Maquis was disclosed by Interior Minister Edouard Depreux who unfolded a tale of conspiracy and intrigue The minister described the organization as "very widespread” and said that noted resistance leaders and "possibly part of the French army” were implicated At Train Wreck Injures 42 Near Chicago June 30 (CTPS) — persons w'ere injured Monday night when the fast Baltimore And Ohio passenger train "The Columbian” ran into a spread switch at Alida La Porte county Ind 70 miles southeast of Chicago Eight of the train’s nine cars were derailed none overCHICAGO At least 42 least six persons have been arrested he - said including Gep of inspector-generGuillaudot the national gendarmerie Depreux declared at a news that the Black Maquis was made up of right-win- g resistance leaders monarchists and Vichy collaborators who had drawn up a "blue plan” of military action which called for a march on Paris by armored units The maquis was the term commonly applied fo the al ron-fern- ce French underground fighters against the nazis Political observers immediately recalled the "Cagoulard” (hooded ones) plot against Third Republic in 1936 and 1937 which also occurred when the government was plagued with social unrest Arrest High Militarist One of the final arrests of those implicated in the Black Maquis Depreux plot Jean-Georg- es said was Loustauneau-Laca- u Major n resistance leader who admittedly belonged to the well-know- "Ca-goulard- s” an anti-lefti- st organiza- tion The newspaper France Soir said Loustauneau-Laca- u was an aid to former Marshal Petain in 1934 when Petain was war minister The investigation of the Black Maquis began last year when po- lice informers in central France turned tipped off police to a clandestine There wereno dead reported in rightist organization in Brittany the first hour and a half after The secret "Police of the Realm” the wreck which occurred at went into action and their investi6 :25 p in gation resulted in the arrest six The Holy Family hospital La day ago of an obscure country Porte said 15 persons injured In editor of a weekly hewspaper the the wreck had been received there Count de Vulpian 4 4n La Pnrfe Hospital ‘Blue Plan Discovered The Falrview hospital La Porte A search of the count’s chateau said that four persons W’ere in at Lamballe in Brittany led to the the receiving room there and St discovery of numerous compromis Anthony’s hospital Michigan ing documents — including the City said they had received an "blue plan" and a list of persons undetermined number who were to form the dictatorial The town of Alida could not pro- military directorate — and an ”im vide much aid since it has only portant” arms cache 600 population and is without a Without mentioning names the police or fire department said that some of the minister InCorp Robert Scott of the under persons investigation had diana state police said the train unsuccessfully to worm was traveling approximately 75 attempted their way into Gen Charles miles an hour when it plunged deGaulle’s rightist organization through what railroad employes the French People’s rally No link told him was "either an open or was reported however between broken switch” to a siding along that group and the Black Maquis the eastbound rails The train split into sections The Diesel locomotive and the first coach behind it remained upright on the s i d n g rails as eight 1 80000 Strike WASHINGTON June 30 (JP) — Pres Harry S Truman Monday signed a modified rent control bill but called it "plainly inadequate” and sure to raise the rent for “millions of families’' Expressing his distaste In a message to congress j he said he signed a3 “the lesser of two evils” the other one being no rent control at all after midnight Monday night j his with for werds Along sharp conRrfss Mr- Trumlln demanded YXTFES an investigation of “the real estate Jobby” which he said is NOW fighting the administration's housing program with "a ruthless disregard of the public welfare” And he called anew for a “comJune 30 prehensive” federal program to WASHINGTON (CTPS) — The army Monday spur the construction of homes In the house Rep Charles A basis went on an for the afirst time since 1940 Halleck of Indiana the RepubliThe last of the wartime draftees can floor leader snapped back have been discharged except for with a statement saying: "Pres Truman's message Is a few specialists the army shameful said '"He has reached a new low in With the end of the draft law last March 31 the army ordered his efforts to appease the Wallace the release of 100000 draftees gang and hold their support for election in X948” still ln the army at that time The army said it would have Sinister Impllficatlons’ to depend entirely upon volunHalleck said “there are sinister teer enlistments in Mr — Truman’s As the result of a slump in implications enlistment since the draft holi- attack upon the honesty of the of congress" and added: day last Oct 15 the army said members "His unfair and reckless accusaits total strength is less than one million men and officers tion will be resented by every member of congress It too will Planned strength for the army cause g all Americans as of Tuesday was 1070000 One army source estimated to wonder w'hether Mr Truman joined the campaign of radithat there are approximately has 900000 men in the army on cals to smear congress to underof the people actual duty excluding prisoners mine tjie confidence in the congress as an independent and hospital patients The offibranch of the government cial strength has not been "I challenge Mr Truman to furfor security reasons he nish evidence that member ©f eaid congress are guilty of dishonesty or subservience to selfish Interests in connection with the passage of S L REACTION the rent control legislation” OUT ARMY VOLUNTEERS - er -- right-thinkin- dis--clos- ed Wliat Citizens Think of New Rent Aet Public sentiment ln Salt Lake City Monday afternoon regarding the newly signed rent control bill seemed to favor presidential disapA few proval of the measure inpersons allowed that "certain creases” were due landlords — while a number of persons polled predicted that landlords are likely to use “very little discretion in boosting rents” When asked his opinion the average Salt Laker appeared to be of the opinion that the 15Uc in'coaches including a diner were crease might aid some bqt that derailed the boost would contribute little 15 Injured In Diner toward solving the housing shortCAMDEN N J July age Fifteen of the injured were day) UP) — A strike of 80000 CIO Richard F Harding executive taken from the diner Steward one at workers vice began shipyard president Apartment House C M Allamong of Martinsburg minute past midnight Monday in Association of Utah represented W Va said the impact of the 22 Atlantic and Gulf Coast yards one of the first organizations to derailment was terrific All the The strikers join 40000 workers set forth an official’ policy rediners with tables and chairs were hurled forward as the car in 10 Maryland Massachusetts garding rents be no "There will pressure exNew Jersey and New York yards lurched to a stop of the execution to erted require Bethlehem Steel Mrs Gloria McIntosh Wash- operated by the leases" Mr authorized newly Co who work last D C was in women’s the Thursday quit ington “Since Harding stated adding: wash room in the third car from in a dispute over wages a is leases of execution strictly of Announcement walkout the the rear of the train at the time we one is think 1 affairyrit voluntary' of the crash She was thrown was made by an official of I Union of Marine most equitable to the tenant and against a wall and dazed When C and she emerged into the car she saw Shipbuilding Workers He de- landlord” rent Increases will onlv offpassengers and luggage strewn in clined Identification by name of- setThe In partially increases of 47Gi “The strike is on" the union the aisle conhe taxes and cosLs operating in a answer to ficial said tersely "Everything w'as a bedlam” she tinued Costs of linoleum are up said "All of the passengers were reporter’s question on whether a 41r9 up 29G- paint up knocked Into the aisle and the walkout would be averted pending 34 to carpeting 84 bn types rl depending a mediation session later Monday luggage fell on them One woman and wallpaper cleaner "The strike will affect at least wallpaper fainted but the rest of the pas35rr jelly soap for cleaning up 22 on 30 were no was of the east calm There the sengers shipyards now 109G- higher: dry slack coal and gulf coasts” the officials said 52 hvsteria” r9 more treated slack coal now 46ro higher and maintenance and labor costs in some instances have imped lOQCo or more he said Following are some opinions from average Salt Lakers: East Wayne E Pratt 1090-8t- h commercial artist: ”1 think rents LAKE SUCCESS June 30 bIP— mitted its Ideas along with those are high enough ritht now esUnited States officers on the of France ajnd Britain in a report pecially for our veterans who are the council attempting to live on a fixed InUnited Nations military staff com- to The tentative proposals for the come and go to school It seems mittee recommended tentatively over-al- l force were: as though we’II all have a harder United States — 1250 bombers time getting by" Monday that the security council should have a basic force of 3800 2250 fighters 300 miscellaneous Karl F Henricksen 2945 S 20 divisions of ground State clerk: “This should turn warplan'es 20 divisions of ground planes oops three battleships and sixifcroops (an American division us out all right- - provided it doesn't men at full 14000 carriers to keep world peace roughly out 'of hand Those landlords Soviet members of the ranking strength) three battleships six get who” weren’t allowed to Increase military group in the U N at the carriers 1 cruisers 84 destroyers rents during the war should be same June declined to make any 90 submarines so jiow’" conBritain (with China agreeing) able suggestions The ’Russians counS Nielsen 578 Sirs — Joseph 600 bombers 400 fighters 200 tended the security Somerby ave housewife: “Some cil must agree on general prin- miscellaneous Total 1200 planes really need the rent inciples for a world policy force be- eight to 12 divisions two battle- landlbrds crease but I'm afraid that for numfore getting down to actual ships four carriers six cruisers bers of men guns planes and war- 24 destroyeis 48 estort vessels 24 the most part landlords will take unfair advantage of tenants” 12 submarines ships minesweepers Andrei A Gromyko Soviet depMrs Donald T ’firth 2S34-6t- h France — 775 bombers 300 fightuty foreign minister told the ers 200 Reconnaissance planes Fast housewife: ’TJents are so council that the estimates were Total 1275 planes 16 divisions high now Ve £aiXnep but feel unofficial and thus had no signifi- (three armored three aiibWne 10 for those young veterans who are cance and that they were arrived motorized or mountain) tlwsee forced to rent work and go jjav at in a two-hosix the same time Everv nine to school at carriers meeting only this"1 battleships 18 to 21 destroyers 30 time there is an increase of some cruisers morning The U S delegation headed by escort vessels 30 minesweepers kind someone strikes for another Gen Joseph T McNarney sub 12 submarines and it is creating a vicious circle” i In Shipyards ues - - Proposes 3800 Planes For World Police Force U S tdo 11-nati- ur - -- Controls Until March i The bill signed Monday extend federal rent control until March 1 1948 It allows increases up to 15f9 where landlord and tenant agree to a lease running through Dec 31 1948 It scraps govern- ment control over building materials for commercial construction except for projects for amusement or recreational building' Special eMction safeguards set up under OP A are discarded and eviction cases go back under state laws In most cases this means landlords will be able to evict tenants in 30 days — instead of six months — notice Of the 15c clause” Mr Truman said "This is voluntary only so far as the landlord is concerned Many tenants however wull feel that there is no choice The tenant naturally will fear that' unless he enters into such a lease he will be subjected to even more exorbitant increases when rent control is ended "Whenever a vacancy occurs the landlord can refuse to rent except under a lease providing for the rent increase Many landlords will press for rent increases whether or not there is need for adjustmenL Severe hardship will thus be imposed on many' tenants” Price May Soar Of the rontrols-droppin- g provi- sions Mr Truman said: "The most serious loss in housing aids under this act is the virtual elimination of controls which have prevented the diversion of buildng materials from homes to nonessential and deferable construction "As the supply of building materials has increased the housing expediter has eased and simplified controls over materials and construction Those which were retained were necessary and lrrpor-Se- e Page 3 Column's Few Rate Hikes Seen By Hotels Pres Harry S Truman’s signing of the new federal rent control bill will bring no change m hotels of Salt Lake City except possibly in regard to rooms rented on a monthly basis officials of tw-leading Salt Lake hotels said Monday The officials said hotel’ prices for transient rooms were adjusted two months ago when all controls except those pertaining to rooms rented on a monthly basis were lifted One hotel manager pointed out that prices were not generally raised but "standardized” Some rooms of 'ttx same type formerly were rented for different charges in such cases the same charges were raised to ’ level he Mid No definite word was given as to whether rents would be increased on rooms rented on a monthly basis No serioua Consideration was given f he matter before the bill wa pasaed cfL- cials said |
