Show 1 NEWS BROADCASTS b 7:30 am and 9:30 pm Station KAM Intermountain Network t e I A A amommiiii7 5' f ( i — - 4' ' ' v 1 t ' 4 4 i :' : ti: s L WASHLNGTON Feb 26 (A')— I' Swift action by congress to l provide $275000000 more mil- ' itary aid to Greece and Turkey was urged by Secy of State George C Marshall Thursday He said "totalitarian groups" r are waiting to take over if U S t 491 ' i t i 1) t I t Few showers north portion Friday otherwise partly cloudy (Details on Page 23) 1 1 7 I -- PRICE FIVE CENTS ' 1 The $400000000 approved by congress last- May for help to Greece and Turkey has nearly all been spent Without new funds the United States must stop aiding these two countries June 30 Marshall made the administration's new request in letters to House Speaker Joseph Martin Jr and Senate Pres Arthur H - - -: : ' 4 1 s - f ' '' ' ----- :!- k4 -vi- ' ''' It I' : !' 7 -- it- i t: ' - ' ' ' -t z:- ''' 7i ' e' i - I "' el ''' - WASHINGTON '11' '' " r ' - '' ve i I '''45Av 7 e'i ' elz 4 -- r ' 44: ' ' ' -' - - 'I' : A : ' '1 ''1 i :: : ' " ' ' 1- i ' — '2 ' t " 4 4 f: 1' '1 v 0 ii 1 oit- -- - '' i t ' :' Feb 26 - l k v - - Lc7 : s ' :: ' ' '" ' - Ir i S''''' ': s ': 4:'' I - - "L''' ? 4' ile 4 ': I k 1 1” ' 0 !- --!!Ct-t-to- ot! 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' It '' r 1111 it ''' - '4°' ---- - r ' - - -- 500 mettS UP)- -- army lieutenant and two captains testified Thursday that despite crippling war wounds they haven't been able to get disability retirements They told their stories to a house armed services subcommittee which is looking into army and navy retirement procedures The inquiry was touched off by reports that high ranking officers got disability retirement pay even though able to earn a good living in postwar civilian life Their Storks zs 4 Moscow Z Benes Might Resign ": RUSSIA Reports Say 7)'' Ito A - - 7- - - - - Seo' 4 4" Block litutGARtA' Z w fl ' 4 ' - vos s GRE Edf:E - - v MAiTA r IP ' 4717:- - I v TURKEY - o :f (21:1 Mediterranean Sea “dr Wk' - :11 o 0 oTRust CRETE Where Will Reds Strike Next? pro-Commu- World diplomats are pondering the next move in communism's campaign to dominate European countries Finland France Italy and Austria were advanced Thursday as possibly next on Red sweep Communist-dominate- d nations are shaded on map westward ed Sheffield had been ordered to join the British cruiser Nigeria in the over which Falkland islands Britain i s disputing with Argentina The foreign office spokesman said however that the ship which is based on Bermuda sailed for Belize "We envisage the possibility of an incident by irresponsible elements operating from Guatemtdan the spokesman said territory" He emphasized that the British government believed any such action would be taken independent of the Guatemalan government Claims on Guatemala Much excitement has been caused in Guatemala by recent press attacks renewing the counclaims to timber-ric- h British try's Honduras which was settled by shipwrecked British buccanneers in 1638 and was ceded formally by Guatemala to Great Britain in 1858 Guatamelans claim the treaty has been voided by British noncompliance Various statements by Guatemalan ministers regarding : the colony during the past year also have helped create an atmosphere in which "unwise actions" may be expected the foreign office spokesman said British Honduras an 8000- square-mil- e strip of land bounded by Mexico the Bay of Honduras The stories as related by the young officers Thursday: :1st Lt Thomas L Frazier of Adrian Ga— He flew 15 combat missions In the Pacific with a broken neck which had been diagnosed as a muscle strain After he made repeated complaints medical officers corrected the earlier diagnosis and grounded him Frazier said he was injured when he crashed in flames In the China sea During subsequent flights he related he flew strapped to his seat with a board strapped to his back until one arm became paraHe said he has been a palyzed tient at Walter Reed hospital here He wore a since last October neck brace as he testified He said he was wearing it when discharged from the army last April Capt Carlos Ogden of San Jose Cal a winner of the congressional I medal of honor— Wants Decision He has been trying: for more than a year to get the army to decide finally on his case for disNEW YORK Feb 26 UPI—Dability retirement He said he was espite newsprint shortage more wounded three limes in action in retail stores in 1947 made use of Europe and when discharged last the newspaper advertising meApril his right hand was still in a dium than in any previous year cast the linage for every month Ogden said he was not allowed and in 1947 established a new record to stay at Letterman General hospital in San Francisco long enough the bureau of advertising Aznerto be completed ican Newspaper Publishers Assn for treatment Capt - Thaddeus S Moore of reported Thursday The report was based on an analysis of 52 Highland Park Mich— After being wounded in artillery cities by Media Records Inc 1944 in in France fire July of each of The gain average Moore said there followed more month over a like in period than three years of treatment in was about 14 million lines 1946 In and assignment last hospitals newspapers gained month to duty in Japan Moore December said he still can not use his right 155 million lines over December 1946 the announcement said hand PAPERS NOTE RECORD AD VOLUME - s old-tim- and Guatemala was a site of ancient Mayan civilization The country is rich in timber sugar cane bananas and cocoanuts Guatemala long has sought possession principally because of the port facilities afforded at Belize GUATEMALA GuateCITY mala Feb 26 (UP)—A foreign ministry statement Thursday rejected British admiralty assertions that "irresponsible elements" were threatening British interests in British Honduras Lie Warns UN :late Hangs on Holy Land LAKE SUCCESS Feb 26 ()Pr— Trygve Lie said gravely Thursday that chaos will envelope Palestine unless the United Nations acts quickly The United Nations secretary-genertold his weekly news conference that a U N failure to carry out the Holy Land partition plan would reduce the prestige of the U N He emphasized that the U N would be responsible only after the British leave Palestine The British meanwhile repeated their determination to end the Palestine mandate May 15 and take all British soldiers out of Palestine by Aug 1 'Looks Like Corpse' A Colombian delegate told a reporter during the day that "Palestine partition looks like a corpse to me" Colombia which abstained on the 1947 U N assembly vote for petition has raised the possibility of a special assembly session to reconsider the partition decision Andrei A Gromyko Soviet deputy foreign minister refused to say whether he would make a statement on the issue of a U N Palestine police force to the security council Friday at 3 pm (EST) Some delegates said they believed he is ready to speak however Declaration Expected Late Thursday no speakers had been listed for Friday but it- was expected that Lebanon would make a declaration against partition In other U N developments al - Thursday: 1 Gromyko accused the United States in the security council of trying to enslave the Indonesian The council adjourned republic case until the without acting Saturday morning on a Canadian resolution to approve the work of the council's good offices committee This committee brought about a truce in Indonesia' 2 The little assembly voted 31 to 2 to advise the U N Korean commission to go ahead with elections wherever possible in Korea Dutch-Indonesi- Germany's future) Meanwhile it was learned here that American officials are highly uncertain over exactly what has PRAGUE Czechoslovakia Feb happened at Prague in the last 26 ()0—Information from a source two days They are particularly in dark as to the alleged role of of proved reliability said Thurs- the Pres Eduard Benes He has been friend of western deday night Pres Eduard Benes was a long-tim- e considering resigning from the mocracy as well as an advocate of friendly relations with Russia helm of this Communist-rule- d reCancellation of Broadcast which be helped found in public 1918 Some significance was attached The information from by diplomatic officials here to the a reliable source whoalthough is fact that Benes was supposed to was not confirmed have made a broadcast to the The source said if Benes re- world Wednesday afternoon The signed he would be succeeded as talk was canceled about the same chief of state by Zdenek Fier lin- time that Communist Premier Kleleader of the ment Gottwald announced that ger Benes had approved the formation Social Democratic party of a cabinet excluding all elements Decision Today of opposition to absolute ComThe president was expected to munist domination If Benes actually did what Gottmake his definite decision known at 11 sem Friday when he is to wald reported it would support the Communists' argument that their receive the new Communist-loade- d cabinet which he approved seizure of power has been entirely legal But if it should appear that Wednesday after what was re- Bene-forced to accept ported to have been a stormy ses- the newhad been or that Gottwald regime sion with Communist Premier Klehad distorted his position the ment Gottwald Communist case would be greatly e Benes an revolutionary in the days of the Hapsburg mon- weakened Officials are convinced the archy and a respected leader of whole affair was Moscow directed the reupblic from the earliest days of its inception was pictured Proving it' is another matter Perils Plea for Loan as Thursday night being in council with only his oldest friends One result appeared certain to and advisers flow Thursday's- announceHe had not yet spoken to his ment from Czechoslovakia may lose in the broadcast promised for the immediate future at least people Wednesday Of late years he has all hope of obtaining its requested been almost a recluse and Thurs- $350000000 loan from the U S day night he appeared almost cut Export-Impo- rt bank The Czechs off from the people have been after this money for reThe informant said however he construction for many months had approved Gottwald's new govIndications were that Thursernment only after Gottwald day's denunciation had one other threatened to take over the power purpose In the great if the president withheld his conbattle between Russia propaganda sent and the west this statement is supposed to dramaAvoids Bloodshed tize the rise of a new tryanny A close friend of Benes said he Czechoslovakia In that way it is had given his approval in order supposed to lower Russian prestige in the countries of western Euto avoid bloodshed Gottwald in making the an- rope There the Mg issue is econouncement of Benes approval nomics under the European Recovthe ery program Wednesday acknowledged The statement did not mention president had gone against his Russia by name nor for that matown desires ter the Communists But in relavas ousted from Fierlinger tion to the situation to which it leadership of the Social Demo- was applied there could be no miscratic party last November when he insisted upon continuing an taking its meaning alliance with the Communists 'Liberty in Jeopardy' He returned to leaderskip of the said It the American party Tuesday and gave Gottwald French and that British governments over the support he needed to put had watched events in Czechoslohis new government vakia "which in jeopardy the During World War 1 Benes was very existence place of the principles of Czechoof the general secretary to which all democratic naslovak council in Paris which be- liberty are attached" tions came the basis of the first Czecho"They note" the declaration slovak government He was one continued "that by means of a of the closest collaborators of crisis artificially and deliberately Thomas q Masaryk the repub- instigated the use of certain methlic's first President He has been ods already tested in other places fihas permitted the suspension of foreign minister premier and the free exercise of parliamentary nally president Revolutionary "action commit- institutions and the establishment tees" began reorganizing every- of a disguised dictatorship of a thing in Czechoslovakia8 Thursday3 single party under the cloak of a See Page Column government of national union" anti-Commun- ist Britain Speeding Warship To Hold Honduras Claim Army Refuses Disability Wounded Say 26 yoGos4p ie-Ail ‘1 anti-lync- Feb ' -- -- ? long-press- WASHINGTON tertinstrad 'vZ 7 i" - ‘ 'x - - ‘ - - 2" Awe ARDINIA TUNISS A STATUTE ' 7:1 it N14' -- - : - : ALGERIA - V ROMANIA tit ITALY —f -- NGARY s- - 4 1 fAtu r b61)7177 AUS - II1 ::' - ? ' 14C:7' '?rS90SLOV 4e4 S fr--- — or 9 tr POLANDZ r ‘ Acting as a unit the "solid south" could withhold well over 100 electoral votes from Mr Truman—far more than enough to swing a close election to another candidate Hoffman speaking in the house proposed a "deal" between RepubLONDON Feb 26 (UP)—The licans and "rebel" southern Demo- British cruiser Sheffield is steamcrats ing full speed for Belize British He suggested that both sides Honduras to stand by for possible "get together in some kind of conin a renewal of ference agree on someone agree- disordersGuatamaran claims to the able to both and elect crown colony a foreign office loffman By "someone agreeable" said Thursday (Picture told reporters later he meant spokesman of British cruig'er Sheffield on a presidential candidate opposed page 8) to "legislation which interferes Sheffield was payThe 9100-to- n h with state rights as do a courtesy visit to Cartegena ing anti-poll tax and proposals" Colombia when ordered to sail Those favoring such laws the Wednesday Adm William Tenant See Page 4 Column 3 commander of the British West Indies squadron had to fly back from Bogota where he had gone to call on Pres Mariano °spina Perez in order to sail with her Based on Bermuda It was believed at first that the An 00-e- - a S1COL - -- bs 'GERMANY - ' 17--- ii- k- !FRANCE i' IN-w- - t ntrolled 1 FINLAND 'actin - ''''-- ' REL - r Qs5 1- - - - I 5 CORSiCAtjfq - 1- ex - Hunt-- - '''''''' -- 1 ca - 0 - 440 4 I oib 1 fcli - t 11arn LA— SPAIN x 7 f-- : : 4 - DE - z - Lonck7" - - - ENGLAND P 4 71 i :! - North- 1 '' - '"F17----- iiA SCOTLAND 4'0 II-- - I - e 47' an Lamarre Tells U &Jurors Of 'Kickback' to ilkyers Below Peak no e-- - -- - ! - "-- - -: Marshall noted Turkey is "under constant pressure" to grant milito tary bases in the Dardanelles "a foreign power" apd to cede some of its territory to the same power He did not name the power but obviously meant Russia "The northern neighbors of Greece (Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania) have furnished moral and material support to Greek Communist guerillas who are attempting duped Svengali running to overthrow the legal Greek govS50 a week and then lying about it to a for business tracting a dictatorernment and establish senate committee ship of a foreign inspired minoThe youthful-lookin- g rity" he said S: platinum U Most for Greece haired Lamarre was the government's key witness against Marshall did not specify how who is being tried on Meyers But would get much each country three of subornation of charges most of the new funds would go perjury—inducing Lamarre to lie to Greece to help government WASHINGTON Feb 26 (UP) to the senate war investigating fitrces launch a grand spring - ofcommittee —The senate Thursday apfensive against the guerillas Defendant Glares The United States has promised proved by voice vote a Civil Service retireto send more mountain artillery With the defendant machine guns and perhaps help ment bill The measure now goes glaring coldly at him from the the White House the Greeks increase the size of to The other side of the courtroom bill is described by Chairtheir army and militia to around man William went through a four-hou- r N (R D) Lamarrerettal Langer 200000 men' of their tangled comsenate civil service of the This would give the Greek govfinancial the as a Carta" for relationships mittee over "Magna 1 10 to advantage ernment a war years when Meyersduring was numemployes the estimated 20000 men the federal two man in the air force proIt would increase civil service ber guerilla leader Niarkos has at his pensions curement service by from 5 to 25 command cold reserve was expected It also would grant benefits to to His Meanwhile it was learned Pres be to test Friday howto and children put widows under Truman intends to reshuffle the 18 and make several other ever when the the defense opens a administrative setup in Athens to that may go changes in the re t i r e xi e n t into some eliminate friction between Amnonfinancial relations system and bassador Lincoln MacVeagh between the defendant and his Aid Administrator Dwight Cris accuser d The Mey ers be MacVeagh it was said will to swore senate committee the sent to Portugal as American that he formed Aviation Electric minister leaving Griswold in as a favor to Lamarre He only at least July when charge until said he had been carrying on a another American ambassador five-yeromance with Lamarre's will be appointed MacVeagh is wife Mildred a pretty brunette States United currently in the WASHINGTON Feb 26 (UP)— who used to be his secretary at recuperating from an operation The grocery-shel- f price cuts which Wright Field O Chairman Vandenberg (R housewives found in re'Kiss and Tell' Suit Mich) said the senate foreign a were 41- below January's peak Reserve the board lations committee will decide at Federal Mrs Lamarre another prospecfit the prices reported Thursday tive government witness has filed Saturday meeting how tointo Greek-Turkis- h But its board the proposal Januarys prices a the "kissansaid were more than twice as d-tell"slander suit against stateprogram for that general as the prewar average ment Secy Marshall also urged con- - high At the same time the labor deUnder direct examination by the gress Thursday to rush a $370- partment reported that average 000000 Chinese aid program wholesale prices declined three-tenth- s prosecution Lamarre stuck to the of one per cent last week business angles of Aviation ElecChina Testimony because of a drop in food tric Thursday He said much of chiefly He testified on China at a closed It was the second week in the $150000 "kickback" which prices resenate of the session foreign a row that wholesale prices have Meyers is alleged to have taken lations committee down from the company came out of his The cabinet member was re- gene The retail price cuts followed the salary and that of his brother-in-lacommittee to told the have ported commodity market drop which in T E Readnower another that China needs "breathirsz turn had caused the general level "dummy" official all wholesale prices to fall off space" to try to put its economic of He testified that in 1941 and and the 1942 he returned house in order He said Com- 4'70 between $43000 of his of latter on were bent part bringmunists there February 1941 he was to In Meyers salary The board the reported that ing about a collapse a listed for of $10000 book of salary hides prices print cloth and out of which he said the Sen Homer Capehart (R Ind) some other geners4 industrial materials told the house group Thursday also went down the price let him keep less than $3000 In the Marshall plan amounts to of semifinished steel Bur on was of worst- 1942 he the books for "state socialism" and added: "If ed fabrics went up atand same time and got $4000 $19000 means which that is the only by we can defeat the spread of Communism and state socialism our cause is lost" Capehart said this country ahould help Europe on a "private an inenterprise basis" through Reconternational division of the Vt'ASHLNGTON Feb 26 '(UP)—The senate Thursday atruction Finance Corp The state department reported approved the administration's request for power to limit meanwhile that European counwhisky makers to 2500000 bushels of grain a month until tries have substantially increased next Oct 31 But the measure faces a cool reception in the their output of food coal and house to are committed steel They help themselves as part of the proThe senate approved an amendment to ration the 2500- recovery program posed European 000 bushels among distillers in proportion to their whisky called the Marshall plan The banking committee had recomproduction in 1947 France was said to be stepping mended that the agriculture department be allowed to fix up her production of bread grain Poits own rationing formula sharply Britain Germany and conland were reported making The amendment was sponsored by Sens John S Cooper siderable gains in coal producing (R Ky) and Alben W Barkley (D Ky) It was adopted by In connection with the Marshall a roll call vote of 54 to 16 program Chairman Charles A Eaton (R N J) of the house forCooper argued that the agriculture department's formula eign affairs committee put himon the basis of plant capacity as well as past for rationing self on record Thursday in favor was unfair He said it enabled one distiller— production of $5300000000 as the first year's Publicker Industries Inc Philadelphia—to get an unduly cost This is the figure recommended large share of grain Sen Francis J Myers (D Pa) said the amendment was aimed at making Publicker a whipping by the senate foreign relations committee Eaton also indorsed boy the senate group's plan to have Agriculture department officials have estimated that the program run by an independamt cabinet-ran- k the bill would save 30000000 bushels of grain by Oct 31 administrator house-approv- Ationtic °cease 7 P - WASHINGTON Feb 26 Cal—Czechoslovakia's new Communist-cogovernment was jointly and bitterly denounced United States France and Great Britain They the Thursday by called it a "disguised dictatorship" Their condemnation was issued in the form of an extraorIt presented the three western dinary public declaration powers as forming a solid front against what the Communists COUP COMPLETE have done to the Czechs (A Moscow radio broadcast heard Thursday night in London said Russia had sent notes to the big western powers urging the' Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Poland be given a voice in plamaing el 7 7 NORWAY 0 - I 1 lk e ' ' ' anti-Trum- - a) o ICELAND U S Diplomats Ponder Role Of Benes Fate of Loan Barents Sea 1- 3 14 --- '" ' - ' Ocean Aectoc (— Southern Democrats 7aunched a move Thursday to bar Pres Harry S Truman's name from state ballots in the traditionally solid south And the Republican party was urged by Rep Clare E Hoffman(R Mich) to put up a presidential ' candidate -- acceptable" to southerners so as to destroy the Democrats supremacy below the Mason-Dixo- n line These developments came as blxie Democrats up in arms civil rights against Pres Truman's program blocked at- - least until next week one of the president's proposals—a bill to make lynch1 ! fix4 ti ' ' ' ! ' '' 44' '' ' ing a federal offense 1aimotevostv '''' :' ': :! -- ' 0' 4 ' " 1' Flares in Virginia : ' " tr--- : 4 ! I ' :' ' ' 40'''::r' ' fb 'R'' ' ''' ' '' i ' -' P' ' The 4 " drive was ' a t : 1 :":: ' '' 7 P' trr7—: in Virginia where Gov z touched off 4 l' ' i oi ': ' ' M Tuck (D) asked the ::' 7 '1t'i'1 :' 't' 'ir!:- 4 7 i 0 ' ' 1 William i' ' ':l:'f for a law which would legislature 'V It i ' keep the names of presidential V I1 candidates off the ballot next Not'sA:::dhiseat t z211 : ii 4 vember Thus the state's 11 4lectoral Proposes Alternate Aid Plan votes could be cast for Mr TruSen Homer Capehart (R Ind) proposed an alternate foreign aid man if he is the Democratic canprogram in testimony Thursday before the house foreign affairs didate for president or for somecommittee He suggested a world Reconstruction Finance Corp one else—whichever Virginia's Democratic 'leaders decided Democratic National Chairman J Howard McGrath in Washington declined comment on Tuck's proposal The Virginia governor also asked a law which would bar third candidates—this would inparty clude Henry A Wallace—from the Dominion ballot H Lamarre pictured OldTuck WASHLNGTON Feb 26 (UP)--Bleri- ot openly raised the possiMaj Gen Bennett E Meyers to a federal jury Thursday as a bility that "other southern states" smooth-talkin- g a war con- might follow the course he him into who - Br:atia C3e©h 3 d (Eppp tiiig 1i6tft B torshile elDisgutsed ' ( 1 - es'''''- - : Acts to Keep Name Off State Ballots Seeks Help of GOP :i: '1" '' nations st ' ::- 1 C 4 4 - Speaking for Pres Harry S Truman Marshall proposed legislation which would maintain the 1 flow of American guns and munitions through June 30 1949 "It is in my judgment" he said t as "definitely in our a nation and consistent with the principles of the United Nations charter to helpthese free people retain their freedom" I 'Nearly All Spent' I '' 1' t' ''-- ! South Clamps '48 Brakes On President ''''' 1 ':: Need 8275 self-intere- 1 '''''' Marshall Estimates Greece Turkey these WEATHER ( SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FRIDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 27 1948 U S Warned To I olster Middle East to r1 a! 111 J24 VOL 156 NO 136 assistance stops 0 I an - - - - - Navy Assigns Flotilla to Call On Saudi-Arabi- a in Mardi h conflict the warships WASHINGTON Feb 26 (UP)— The navy announced Thursday will pass through the Mediterraacross the Atlantic to Triniaircraft nean night that the 27000-to- n dad and then proceed through the carrier Valley Forge and two es- Panama canal to their home port corting destroyers will visit Saudi-Arab- at San Diego Cal next month on a combinaThe ships have been taking part tion "good will" and training In western Pacific fleet maneuvers under Vice Adm O C cruise The three warships are now at Badger Their arrival in near eastern Tsingtao China They will leave there Sunday on their way to the waters will augment a powerful American fleet now in that area middle east Saudia-Arabia- n command of Vice Adm Forin at will under put They ports on the Persian gulf and rest P Sherman former deputy the Suez canal and are scheduled chief of naval operations and one to return to the United States of the navy's top wartime com- Arab-Jewis- ia about mid-Ma- y The Valley Forge will be accompanied by the destroyers W G Lawe and Lloyd Thomas The three vessels together carry a normal complement of 2500 officers and men The navy said the flotilla will stop at Singapore and Ceylon en 1' £ 4040 - - "Aft:k ' - Vrdli44- manders The U S Mediterranean fleet includes the 45000-to- n carrier Midthe cruisers Providence way Portsmouth and Little Rock and a number of destroyers In addition a contingent of U marines was dispatched to the Mediterranean recently for what was described officially as "trainroute to Saudi-ArabAfter leaving the srea of the ing with the fleet" ia - - - |