| Show - i - - - - ' - 1- r NEWS BROADCASTS nan and 9 :30 pm $ tattoo KA LI 1Intelrroon taln Network 7:3C 1 N-'- A's '' i I 1) Q-- fir ' r)1-"- l' ) i NA t tii:e At V ' rev:-'-- e le) er I ' ''' ' c ' 47 ' ti - r1 !(1 : i i Aty - I ri 1 kiH- '11:Q:11 I : IL'- i1 )' WEATHER Cloudy Sundays partly cloudy Monday little temperature change ii (Details on Page 1142) 1 A I i a i a ''T t e1 - ot --- I 00 i - rot ----N -- -- rt : ' - 11 7 ' -- - s 7 a-777- - 16 7-7) L -- 41) PI ::-- is 11 7 L0 -- -- ry By O c-ve- HOW- 7 L t) $47963000 New Isdostries The forward glance reveals prcntected new industries and expansions which barring national or world economic deterioration certainly keep the trend curve on th rtairg Ede during 1943 In evaluating the achievements of the past year and the prospect for the next a distinction should be drawn between monetary etatisucs and facts which reflect solid progress For the dollar totals are mteleading exaggerations to the extent tnat they represent inflationary additions-- But even after the inflation increment is squeezed out the past year Will one of the and state's beat from a business - init-- standpoint One of the most accurate measuring rods of genuine economic And is employment pringneas when this is applied 1947 shows a healthy increase of eight per cent over 1945 which by every atandard was a boom year This pereentag is based on total mployment including estimated anschool' ncultural government 8rui railroads as well as that covered by unemployment insurance Greater This PInal 11 Since government 11 ' 4telII!1 $170728000 (Alto VI 1939 es-- t -- 1 lf 148886 iti 1947 (sat) 1946 1939 - Miner el Products Fuel Thrift Jan 17 (Un') —Pm Harry S Truman Saturordered the government back day on wartime basis in its usa of $180000000 WASHINGTON scarce fuel oil gasoline and natural gas Hil action folowed an administration plea earlier PI the week for a 15 reduction in fuel consumption by all Americans The president ordered every government d e p a r t m e n t and agency to cut down "immediately-- on the use of those fuels He issued a set of rules comparable to the fuel conservation measures invoked by the government on a nationwide basis during the war For example he ordered that office buildgovernment-owne- d ings and residential quarters including the 'White House shall not be heated above 63 degrees during the daytime and 60 degrees at night The order was lanued in the face of a growing fuel oil shortage' Snow Blankets obit 636731 Population $80221937 !I 00 1939 1947 (est) 550310 ! elf4' firIr 1939 ipf A I A - - $572166000 1947 (est) : $173191000 W 1939 Manu octurers' Income t 1939 1947 (ust) PIL as - Income 1111 ' m 1939 1947 litn CeliriMMINIeg LIkb ewe 111111111ffiattlig 0111111111111161 ULIMME11111 6111EMIS OMNI 6 101111111 MI limn Mai 4111101MIEWUND a Centennial 1939 $6000 1946 celebration curtailed convention actiulties 1939 Temple Block Visitors 1947 IMI 100321 8 Sets Passage Timetable The G 0 P high command will meet on the tax bill probably Monday Martin said the Republican bill will pass the house and 13 to the senate by Jan 29 John W Snyder secretary of the treasury formally opened the election year tax battle Friday as told the house ways and means committee the Knutson bill wouldput the federal treasury $2100i00000 in the red in the fiscal year ending June 30 1949 Actually he said it would reduce revenues by $6305000000 instead of the $5600000000 claimed by Knutson Rep Aime J Forand (D R I) a committee member told reportJ ers Snyder "badly scared" the Saturday causing deaths directly from freezing in acaftered states and putting a new severs strain on $197172000 406132 already overtaxed gas and fuel oil suppltes At least 10I deaths were attrib1947 1939 1947 (est) 1939 i uted to the weather 11 of them from exposure to cold Five were caused by accidents on icy or in relation to major markets have led economists to agree that Utah pavements The economic expansion of the intermountain west is typified by the Thousands of workers were left development of Utah since 1839 as shown in these pictorial statis- - I possesses the basic essentials for continued growth with the west's Idle in the south and some schools tics recognition is increasing rapid industrial expansion Nation-wid- e The state's diversified resources plus its strategic location closed in 'anima when industrial trial and business groWth and in- use of natural gas was ordered THE COMING RUSSIAN TFRROR flationary dirtortions the increase halted or curtailed to conserve in industrial pay roll is approxi- fuel for home use N mately 23 over 1948 10 over 54 Below Is Coldest the highest 'war year of 1943 and 175'" aver the prewar year of The arctic blasts sent the mer2940 skidding to the nation's miniIndwitrial power consumption cur) mum of 54 degrees below zero at e another good barometer of busi- Gordon Wis tying the ness arid inducrial is low recorded in that state in 1922 activity c By STANISLAW MIKOLAJCZYK CHICAGO Jan 17 UP—Henry JERUSALEM Jan 17 CPI- -The country's second coldest spot running 18("-- ahead of last year inA Wallace Saturday demanded of Poland and president of the which ties in closely with the was Moose Lake Minn which Jews and Arabs clashed Saturdayminister (Former prime 15crease in industrial and business had 47 below Polish Peasant party) night in a newin battle over ahills "substantial and immediate" pay Judean the mile The triangle boosts and $1 minimum hourly employment itouth felt the twin lashes CONgIDINE BOB where area Edited blood soaked of cold and snow The worst blip near the by for workers to be paid out wage Atartling Contrasts zand since 1892 dumped nearly 12 45 persons were slain earlier in 1IlkoStanislaw "super-profit- s installment In note: of the following (Editor's by big business" of inches of snow on Memphis Tenn a Jewish raid on an Arab ambush Going back to the tag-en- d He called for the wage increases reveals how Stalin complained that the Polish underground lajczyk the depression before the defense and sent the mercury desolate from the Police reports and a moment later admitted he had arrested as a means of ending "runaway skidding to did not want to program started to get under five degrees Nashville Tenn had country between Bethlehem and a Polish officer fight men in the Chelm inflation" which he said was all for mobilizing way the contrasts are even more seven inches of snow The snow Hebron said the Jewish fighters area to assist the Russians) caused by '"Wall Street profiteer-Th- e ' by extended as far south as Alex-Gu- s had surrounded and opened fire on startling Statistics compiled P Badman executive secre- - andria La and Meridian Miss INSTALLMENT 15 ithree Arab villages The firing was third party candidate for 'Lary of the Salt Lake City them- Icontinuing confer- - stooges who had been so carefully president after a bitter denuncihis across Stalin looked Three to Freeze Death Delber of commerce &how a rise in were as listed The villages ence table at me on the night of assembled to extend the influence ation of Republican-Democrati- c A woman was frozen to death raban 15 miles southwest of Jeruthe states total employment from the Warsaw of the Kremlin Into Poland There- "bipartisan programs leading to 1488E6 in 1939 to 249000 in 1947 at Fort Ripley Minn when she salem Belt Nattif 10 miles far- Aug 3 1914 while was and war" received army underground as depression Manufacturing pay rolls skyrock- left a friend's wedding ther south and Sakarlyc near for Its life and asked mefighting I why I after Stalin referred to them applauded indorsement oudly eted from $20521000 in 1939 to party without her coat anniversary in 26 below Jabs British troops and police ap- wished to seo him "the Polish government" though from a progressives convention 170000000 in 1947: ernp:oyes in- - zero temperatures a parently were not on the scene following course I was the prime minisof A hehad few earlier given days creased from 16000 to 26500 and IThoop Approval An aged man froze to and only sketchy accounts of the an order to the Red army to stop ter Of the actual Polish govern value of products soared from quarrel death in a field near his home in fighting were available so all ment and the Delegates whooped approval aof the edges of Warsaw while the recognized by S16700000o to $450000000 Timber City Pa In Chicago an A broacast by Hag-atrithe on former Democratic vice presithe Rusof world the countries enticed the Polish home except by same army wholeDuring the period aged TrifLTI became ill on a street Jewish militia did not mention Moscow radio to come out of hid- sia as he was introduced as "the dent sale trade volume increased from collapsed and froze to death those villages but listed one Jew next of are ''You was president of the United Germans and e0eak1ng something fight the Page S Column $ fore passers-b- y found him and one Arab killed in fighting ing been done since I left States" and as he called for "a has that exterminated near Artout less than five miles for Moscow as you know" crusade" by farmers workers inSt &lin hada London SimultAneously north of Deibaran I said dependent businessmen and trade ON VERGE OF CRISIS "agreement" with Only a few hours before Pal- signed ofan is not a man who often union leaders to win "peace securiStalin Communist-traine- d Poles estine's fiercest communal fight group direct answers He can ty and abundance" under a third the Com- makes had died down in the same region Who called themselves considerable patience party banner with listen of the Liberation At least 35 young Jewish men and mittee To end high prices Wallace also his mind has long since though Moscow in to be here "I'm glad women were killed in the Arab on been made - up but then he moves urged immediate "effective" price Stalinthe the anniversarycif ambush which climaxed the battle Se Page 6- Column 3 controls and repeal of Sikorski :igreement of 1941" I y the labor law and police said a of of him pact said there had been 40 began reminding of "the drive toward war" Hagana stopping had aid he which and NEW DELHI Jan 17 (N1"1)--friendship Gandhi followed his usual Jews in the ambushed party The broken with characteristic callousAbout 500 delegates to the AleThe three physicians constantly routine so far as mental workday's was inference was that five Jews were ness cond annual conventiar of the served Russia's whenever it concerned atteriding Mohandaa K Gandhi papers letters missing There had been uncon- purposes Citizens of America Progressive a bulletin Saturday night say- memorana reading and dictating articles firmed reports during the day that and sang "The Battle a paraded to be at here also nice is "It Section A ing that continuation of his fast for hia weekly newspaper the Arabs had taken some time when the Soviet armies are of the Hymn Republic" during liras "riot advisable" However in order to conserve 1 6 National floor demonstrations before and on Polish Germans the The frail Indian hia strength he remained on his prisoners defeating -1 2 3 4 5 7 8 after the speech had soil" I continued Jews ambushed The leader was in the fifth day of a cot which was carried from place stumbled rd like to Foreign an Arab trap along discuss 9 10 into Polish-SoviRegional They chanted "Wallace in '48" relations the which he undertook to bring to place fast 12 near 11 a camel track four Jabs State and when one delegate called to finish collaboration the the about religious harmony in India Azad said Gandhi related to him miles off the Bethlehem-Hebro- n 14 15 18 19 for Negro singer Paul Robeson and I'd Local The medical staff headed by Dr several conditions for ending his road Germany against fight 16 17 "for vice president" they roared Machinegun fire from ceveral like to discuss the question of the Editorials C Roy said Gandhi was "def- fast including: mowed down them Four directions "we want Robeson" B Section of Poland future administration 1 That irately weaker" Saturday night vacate Arabs were killed in the fight ""It is not advisable that the fast Mosques occupied by them above all because the fight Local "But 1 2 3 4 5 20 Main Attraction Three miles to the south Jewish within Warsaw has started I want 2 That the Moslems of Delhi continue" the physicians said 6 7 8 9 10 r Sports had of raided the village Robeson sat next to Wallace on to appeal to you to bring immedithe bulletin ended with earnest be assured of their safety in this fighters 8 Radio Log Arabs six the Surit killing men our in to Gandhi's ate their platform in the crowded conconditions for city piti11 help pleas that Mines Finances strewn ballroom of the fetti 3 That Moslems who have miending the fast be met 12 fully unequal battles with the Obituaries Knickerbocker hotel the convenMauLana Azad Moslem congress grated from Delhi be made welGermans" Section C Rail Crash Hurts 4 tion hall He was named last leader and education minister in come to return Stalin looked back at me and 17 Conn Indian 4 That Moslems be assured of FAIRFIELD Jan the cabinet told a large April by a congressional committee Society answered: 2 as one of a group of persons (111—Four persons were hurt none "But you are not taking into Washington Notes public gathering here Saturday safe travel on trains 4 Club Calendar afternoon he had 'visited Gandhi a 5 That there be no social boy- veriously Saturday night when a consideration the agreement which "inyaribly fonnd supporting the 6 Communist few minutes previously and that cott of Moslems train collided with a has been reached between the So- Idaho party and its front freight 7 later Dr Roy had informed him 6 That Moslems in Delhi re- passenger train 'in a snowstorm viet Union and the Lublin Kathleen Norris organizations" 9 "was on the verge of a ceive freedom to choose the locali- on the New Haven railroad's main Wallace however was the mainl q Provo Garii eructs--10 Azad declared "I shudder ties in which to live instead of be- tracks here The four—three men Clad in a dark suit attraction was was to the last time I It Logan to think what may happen in the ing forced into certain 15 with his gray hair neatly combed U of U Talk and a woman—were taken toa hear him use the word "commitLest 5 houra" 18 See Page 3 Column 3 tee" in connection with the Polish Drama Music Bridgeport hoepitat S a anow-cover- ed Wallace Urges Stalin Réjected Pole Offers Pay Hike to Yet Cried 'They're Afraid' Prick Bubble New Violence 1 Flares in Judean Hills 1 all-tim- able-bodi- ed a be-S- ee cold-blooded- ly Physlicians Advise Gandhi End His 'Past for Amity' roll-bac- - ks Taft-Hartle- - ON THE INSIDE is-ru- ed et a non-Mosle- - Knutson bill IMMILIIIMM011100 SINISIMELIMUSia MIMS antlitit Figur $980000 ' a $ 1396000 - $20521000 trodl Conventions' 111 I 1-- ti - Jan 17 tiPi— among top Re-Saturday to cut back the party's tax slashing bill to a little over $4000000000 a G 0 P leader said Saturday instead of the $5600000000 proposed by Chairman Harold Knutson (R Minn) of the house ways and means committee Speaker Joseph W Martin Jr (R Mass) told reporteds meanwhile he does not know yet what final form the G 0 P tax bill will take but predicted flatly that "whatever is sent to the White House will be passed over a veto" One of Martin's lieutenants disclosed the move to trim down the 1947 1037 387 $70000000 tw South Fuel Crisis Feared Fat Stock Show DO a Manuf acturing Pay Rolls Exhibitors at li Tells Congress Extension i to 11 S Economy Vital WASHrNGTON 1939 t April 1954 A move developed ALA (sit) CI $450000000 $167000000 $3433039 1947 - ' Intermountain Fat Stock Show Sales $43621595 - - : GOP Weighs Slash in Its Tax Bill 10111Lor Bank Assets Whole sole Ti 11 11 IL 71 : "a 4 - WASHINGTON Jan 17 ( )—Housing Expediter Tighe to extend rent control through Woods E asked congress Saturday March 1950 ' He also asked for increased government prosecution powers and a rent freeze for tenants who signed up last year for "voluntary" 15 increases The present rent control extension law expires Feb 23 at yearmidnight Woods said the twonecesand one month extension is HAPPY MEDIUM? sary because the housing situation "will not be alleviated" during that per joined by Secy of Commerce W Averell Harriman who said that unless rent control qAl y : ' 1939 I JoA 249000 - h ' iV Employment i ' 1947 (lest) - — $2310001000 -- I Till $421515000 tvfval 1946 $7030000 employment averaged substantially less during the past year thszi in 1948 the increase in industry and business kas been greater than 8 By ASSOCIATED PRESS covered by insurA bitter cold wave :the worst in ance roes by 112 the averages th some areas benumbed 1042-3Vigil 120000 and in years being in 1947 But to be appreciated ful- midwestern and southern sectii)ns ly the 11047 flgure must be projected against a noriger background than one pmeding year- - It repreover 1945 aents a lump at 217 11-over 1944 when war emplaymett was2 still running high and is only per cent under 143 wines war employment was over the at a peak The increase '61940 is a whoprewar year pprg 4 8 ce In terms of dollar volume urhich includes both real indus- L A i ! Coal - v-ttc- - ' tA ge res4- I 1939 au- B-u- lt - ' : t s - - ' Retail Trade 11) - 1947 in record-breakin- g more elrolfice-ntlSECOND RUN trritY from the kicg-ranpoint of view it discloses a substantial Timrian-Bidsbroaderanr of the hazy upon the area's economy must LT H IS GROWITIG I $135678000 r total tncome and business h T Agriculture and Livestock N MALMQUIST The backward glance discloses a - CENTS E IL"-TsPme- 4 Utah and the intermountain west have embarked upon a Zew year and a new century in excellent economic health Looking forward into the present year or looking backward the past two or three years the picture is impressively bright TWENTY-FIV- FvLtedrter en or2t- leok I - Industry Employment Growth Pace Economic Gains for '47 ' PRICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 18 1948 VOL 156 NO 96 ' - Republicans A top house Republican who asked that his name not be used said Saturday Knutson's bill will be moderated by the G 0 P high command so that when it cornea to a vote in the house its major provisions will Wok about like this: Expected Modifications 1 A $100 Increase in personal from MCI to $600- exemptions This will remove about 7000000 low income persons from the tax rolls completely 2 General application of the community property principle under which husbands and wives split the family income equally for tax reporting purposes subjecting the income to lower tax rates A dozen states now have this principle by local law and many Democrats as well as Republicans call this a "disall states crimination" and want treated alike under- - income tax laws 3 Additional percentage cuts in the ranging from about 20 lowest bracket to 31) in the higher brackets- - Reductions would be retroactive to Jan 1 1948 v6as is continued labor "will have a good case" for further wage in- crease demands 'Every Indication' Harriman said there is "every indication rents will rise sharply unless effective controls are Untied" He said that would create a new inflation threat and bring one step nearer an economic de- pression in this country on which Russia is banking "to make &c- lvances" for Communism Woods and Harriman testified before a senate banking suboornfuture mittee vvhich is considering control proposals Under persistent questioning by subcommittee chairman Harry P Cain (R Wash) Woods testified that only four of 23 requests by local boards for rent increases under the present law have been con-public- ans approved - - Satisfactory Evidence He said most of those rejected were not backed up by satisfactory evidence that housing conditions in the area had improved When Cain accused him of failing to give the local boards clear instructione and causing "wasted Kork" on their recommendations promised to draw up stand-l- e ards for the local advisory boards to follow in recommending general rent increases or removal of con- troie He said he would submit them ttw the senators for approval Woods told Cain that thus far he has tried to put out as few regulations as possible because he did not want to "dictate" to the local boards The new housing expediter said the present law should be con- tinued until March 31 1950 with the 15 increase clause stricken Those tenants who agreed to a 15 increase in return for leases running through next December should have their rents frozen at the higher level he said - - Sue Landlords He also proposed that congress give him power to sue landlordsfor rent violations to report "wil- to the to - 0j:es:litre dale 1 unlawful evic- pfualrtmvioelnattiona7d' violations including tions The present law gives Woods no enforcement powers It allows ten-na- y ants to sue for damages and to report complaints to the justice partment - Another witness Ewan Clague commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics testified that: rents have gone up 5 in the past five months compared with only 1 from 1940 to 1947 The reason he said is mainly the 15 increase clause In the present rent control extension law Ile reported that the greatest rise was in Chicago where the average : rent went up 94 Move to Cut ERP to $44 First Year Gains Headway Jan 17 VO— Truman for the first 15 months of the program to cut direct appropria- operation Sen Robert A Taft (R Ohio) tions for the first full year's opera- who has urged an even deeper cut WASHINGTON A move tion of the Marshall plan to $4000000000 apparently w a gaining headway in ceingress Saturday Meanwhile Secy of State George a statement deC Marsha that the European assistclaring ance plan which bears his name "does not provide fdr nor contern plate the acquisition of inmilitary return bases for United States for economic assistance to the countries" European ' The state department said Marshall issued the statement because of "misquotations" of testimony by Defense Secy James Forrestal foreign Thursday before the senate relations committee Officials said that such "misquotations" had led to reports published in Europe that Marshall was considering asking that America be granted bases in return for aid (American embassies in Europe in dispatches to the state department attributed the "misquotations"' to Reuters British ‘news agency) The $4000000000 first year appropriation under discussion oncapitol hill compares with $8800- S 000000 asked by Pres Harry told a reporter he thinks Mr Truman "left the way open" for such action by estimating in his annual budget that actual payments out of the treasury for the recovery program would reach $4000000 1 000 in the year beginning July But with the administration's side of the case already presented in detail the foreign relations committee will turn next week to witnesses whcf may be more critical of some phases of the proposed program Bernard M Baruch adviser to presidents will testify Monday Senators who have talked recently with Baruch said he has not been enthusiastic about some of the details of the program He will be followed to the stand Tuesday by John Foster Dulles who has served as an adviser to secretaries of state at various international conferences Dulles is a close associate of Gov Thomas - a Dewey of New York as well as chairman Arthur H Vandencomberg (R Mich) of e the-senat- mittee Vandenberg told a reporter that upwards of 75 witnesses are on tbe committee's list for testimony --'' T I I t a t i i |
