| Show 'jkt-r WORLD NEWS I Associated Press United Press VOL 152 NO 133 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING nt McY ay Court-Marti- sion was H Dudley Swim Twin Falls Ida vice commander of the American Legion Mr Swim speaJcmg as an individual and di recting his remarks to people al art List of Resolutions The resolutions or statement of policy indorsed the statement of principles promulgated by the GOP members of congress and recommended some addtions The position of the conference on western problems briefly summarized was Public lands- - Recommended that federal lands suitable for farming be opened to homesteading - th pnontv to veterans of World War II: that such portions cf other lands not essential for rich proper federal purposes as oil reserves rec’amation projects etc be transpired to state ownthe purpose of ership the highest land use by private citizens Mining and oil: Urged removal of warLme controls to encourage development and continuance for tax purposes of adequate depletion allowances Redefinition of Parity Farm and livestock: Demanded redefm-tioof parity formula to express labor costs and family -: favored exclusion of livestock and meat imports from countries harbormg foot and mouth disease cr Rinderpest Reclamation: Favored compre-her- s ve reclamation program without establishment of — vaLev authorities ” These authorities the resoluton said delegate powers so rweepirg vague and so lacking in limitations that they would become and subject the people and their property to totalitarian and control by three men from whose decisions there would pro-not- rg n la-bo- so-call- ed ? ts ro erpeal Monetary: Favored currency with gold and silver base and ti— red repeal of prohibitions on free circuiaton of gold and lifting f rc-- rg price on silver Western industriesFavored prompt (Lsposal of government-- 4 See Fage 3 Column 2 - ON THE INSIDE Army Fight Looms On Bill Adding Volunteer Benefits Rebukes 4 for Search Delay WASHINGTON Feb 25 (UP)— The navy ruled Saturday that nobody shall receive more than nominal punishment for the disaster in which the Cruiser Indianapolis and 880 U S lives lost two weeks before Japan decided to give up Terminating a long investigation of the tragedy which intrial the navy held Capt Charles B McVay cluded a court-martiIII guilty of failure to direct his 10000-to- n ship on a zig-za- g waters in course dangerous Because jf McVay’s excellent previous record however the navy senremitted his tence At the same time it announced that four other officers had been reprimanded for delay in searching for survivors of the warship The Indianapolig was sunk in the Philippines sea by a Japanese submarine last July 30 while it was sailing unescorted from Guam toward Leyte Hundreds Drowned Hundreds who got off the stricken- - ship were subsequently drowned because there was no rescue attempt until four days after the sinking The McVay was tried last December by a navy here which found him g It acguilty of failure to quitted him of a charge of inefficiency in failmg promptly to issue and insure execution of orders to abandon ship He was not tried for loss of the ship The court recommended to the navy that he be moved back 100 numbers in his temporary grade of captain and 100 numbers in Capt Charles B McVay IU Mins his permanent grade of commandremittal in er probe of Indianapolis sinking Restored to Duty In setting aside the court’s recommended sentence the navy announced that Secy of Navy James Forrestal had released McVay from arrest and restored him to duty However Vice Adm Louis E Denfeld chief of naval personnel told reporters at a press conference that McVay probably would never be given command of anBy LYLE C WILSON other warship WASHINGTON Feb 23 (UP) The navy also disclosed that — Generalissimo Joseph V Stalin’s Adm Chester W Nimitz chief of naval operations admitted that boast that the red army now is at he — as wartime commander of na- the height of its power was conval forces iq the Pacific — “must trasted here Saturday night with hear my share of responsibility the disintegration of the United States armed forces for the loss of the Indianapolis” Stalin broadcast an order of the His admission was made in a letter to E Connelly of Burlin- day from Moscow commemorating anniversary of the red game Cal who lost a son in the the 28th The red army he said army disaster must guard the borders of the ‘Navy Responsible’ soviet union while war wounds “We hold the navy responsible are repaired But his most significant statefor the loss of our son” Connelly ment to some persons seemed to wrote Nimitz Nimitz told reporters however be this: “The red army is greeting Its that he was responsible only for administrative details “not opera- 28th anniversary at the height of tions” in the area where the In- its strength” dianapolis was sunk Startling Contrast The navy’s disciplinary action There is no reason here to doubt four held the officers against But it is in for not initiating’ a Stalin’s statement e startling contrast with the condiprompt search for survivors tion of the United States armed Tage Tuo Column 1 forces High officers have been warning for months that the demobilization speedup failure to adopt some form of peacetime training and delay in extending the selective service act combine to jeopardize our armed might The United States packed the world's greatest wartime punch one jear ago Shortly after Germany quit in May the disintegration began It was speeded up would put 300 more men out on fantastically after Japan was strike and bring the total to 1000 licked Officers high and low disMaxwell made hi3 announcement cuss this situation and privately at a union meeting after the city some of them spe&k out in public council at a meeting Saturday Here is what somA of the top brass made no promise of wage increases hats had to stay within the past and refused to grant recognition few months: to the unions Speech by Marshall Mayor Otis Massey said city officials are confident that HousGen f the Army George C ton’s water and sewer plants will Marshall in a New York speech: continue to operate despite the “It is certain that the military threatened withdrawal of union establishment cannot to enworkers and that the Texas state sure the safety of hope the United defense guard was “standing by States very much longer at the in case it is needed” present rate of demobilization unUncollected garbage Is clutter- less a permanent peacetime proing Houston’s sidewalks and al- gram is established at an early leys City Health Director Austin date Hill said Saturday the sanitary "In a widespread emotional situation was becoming acute crisis of the American people deThe strike began last Wednes- mobilization has become in effect day Friday Maxwell speakmg for disintegration not only of the the Houston Building Trades armed forces but apparently of all council said the city’s water gas conception of world responsibility and sewage plants would "be closed and what it demands of us Defdown at 5 p m Friday Before a inite measures must be taken immeeting of the city council how- mediately to determine at least ever Friday afternoon he with- the basic principles of our postwar drew this threat “unconditionally” bee Fage 6 Column 3 e 'k V V ' vv 'Vy''v ? al : court-marti- lv '& HITS FOREIGN INTRIGUE IN U S II Dudley Swim American Legion vice commander recom mends curbs on foreign propaganda in the United States at western conference of Republican leaders held In Salt Lake Strike Nears at 18 A S & R Plants as Negotiations Fail all faiths called for more forthright and honest Approach to issues and the placing of some limitations on foreign propagandists operating m this country fa the interests of foreign governments He declared that American organizations are restricted WASHINGTON Feb 23 (UP) — Government efforts to aert and limited as to propaganda acseem to a lead mining strike Monday collapsed Saturday and a civilian tivities but that the doors be wide open to foreign practitioners of that highly developed production administration official immediately predicted reduced " ?T f & 3 t TRICE TWELVE CENTS Capital Hunts Way to Kill Draft May 15 al Navy Restores Officer to Duty The conference voted also to request the rational committee chairman to set up a western headquarters in Salt Lake City for tne 3943 congressional election campaign The GOP leaders representing 31 western states and Alaska sought to mould party policy on issues particularly important to the west but in their statement of policy did deal with 4 few general subjects rich as labor relations central-ratio- n of control in Washand housing bureaus ington Asks Honest Approach Guest speaker at the final ses- super-governmen- FEBRUARY 24 1946 Sentence Remitted 12-poi- nt a I Olid I omJoay Lifting of restrictions on the raining industry removal of the celling price on silver and redefinition of the parity formula for agricultural products were recommended by the western states Republican conference in a program adopted at the closing session of a two-da- y conference in the Newhouse hotel Saturday w-tf- 4 WEATHER Partly Cloudy Mining Farming Issues Accented As Meeting Ends pol-tic- y? Details on Page D8 Policy Plan I ’yZr Ilf Britisli RosE in Troop A GOP Adopts 12-Poi- - f5s9 rj N T Time Foreign Service t allocations of the metal to manufacturers “The strike i3 going ahead as scheduled at 7 a m Monday in the 18 plants of the American Smelting & Refining Co” Reid Robinson president of the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO) said following a negotiating session with government and company representatives John W Gibson first assistant secretary of labor Federal Conciliator Ronald Haughton and Ralph D Hetzel Jr director of Green Senate Trio Claslf On 'Violence’ WASHINGTON Feb 23 (UP) — F L Pres William Green and a trio of Republican senators two of whom took his side engaged in violent argument Saturday on the subject of violence The occasion was a senate labor committee hearing on the drastic e bill authored by Rep Francis Case (R) South Dakota and passed by the house Green said it was a “monstrous bill” and that the A F L would “fight it and oppose it uncompromisingly with all our collective 8 and political strength” The Case bill would set up a labor mediation board require cooling off periods in labor disputes while e the board worked violence union and ban picket-linboycotts and jurisdictional strikes Lose Bargain Rights Violators would lose their collective bargaining rights under the national labor relations act Green denounced the proposal to deprive violators of their collective bargaining rights as a bid to revive the black list of former days “this time with full government support" “Violence committed or instigated by the employer” Green said “is no where mentioned or punished” Sen Wayne C Morse (R) Oregon sided with Green at this point and engaged in a sharp debate with Sen Joseph Ball (R) Minnesota coauthor of the pending bill to revamp the Wagner act Should Be Indicted Y Morse declared that the employer should be indicted for murder in the case of the Toledo Peoria & Western railroad guards who shot and killed two pickets some time ago "This is a good example” Morse said “of how far some employers will go to incite violence” “Don’t you think it is fair to deny a worker reinstatement privileges if he engages in violence?” Ball asked Green interjected the remark that "'they have to live don’t they?” and Ball snapped “Then they shouldn’t go around beating up their bosses” Morse and ben George D Aiken (R) Vermont agreed with Green that existing state laws are sufficient to punish picket line violence A anti-stnk- 30-d- ay ch 1 the CPA office of labor require- ments participated in the negotiating The labor department earlier requested federal conciliators in Detroit to bring union and company representatives in the Michigan dairy strike to Washington unless they made “substantial progress” toward settlement by Monday Manufacturers of paint electric cables and industrial storage batteries were expected to feel the most severe pinch resulting from the strikeby lead ore workers Hetzel said that closing of American Smelting and Refining plants and mines in addition to those of other companies already struck in Utah would reduce the nation’s supply of primary lead by 50 He said that the civilian production administration already was allocating lead and that “it is obvious from the facts” that there will be more stringent regulations on its use Robinson said that newspapers’ lead supply for linotype machines eventually may be affected The labor department officials said that there had been no con- cession by either union or manbee Page Two Column 4 DEAD LINE TODAY al court-marti- al zig-za- court-marti- al Stalin’s Army Boast Stirs U S Contrast con-Se- Strike Threatens to Halt Houston Water Supply HOUSTON Feb 23 UP) — D W Maxwell secretary of the Houston Building and Trades council announced Saturday that Houston’s water supply and most of its major utilities will be cut off at 5 p m Sunday by striking unions all A F L affiliates City officials however said that despite withdrawal of workers and picketing of the plants vital water and sewage plants would be kept In operation Early Saturday the city was order to granted a restraining keep strikers of the employes union and the hoisting engineers union from picketing the city’s water plants sewage and gas plants and garbage truck lots The unions recognized the injunction and withdrew pickets where notified A third union however the electrical workers union was not named in the injunction and A J Bannon business manager of the union said its members would “take over the picket lines SunThis he said day morning” city-coun- ty Htr k j- ' &- 1‘i' S'iS- WASHINGTON Feb 23 UP) — for ways to permit a halt to the draft on May 15 began Saturday on Capitol hill The draft act expires then and although Pres Truman has asked for its continuance many legislators would like to avoid that The search for some substitute was touched off by a proposal of Chairman Carl Vinson (D) Georgia of the house naval committee He told newsmen he 'will Introduce next week a bill to create a special occupation army of 0 volunteers They would be obtained by added inducements including double pay free transportation overseas for their famiy lies and yearly furloughs Sees Army Opposition Several members of the house military committee which will consider the legislation said immediately that they doubted that Vinson’s measure would be adopted They said the army would fight the plan vigorously The war department has contended the draft act is necessary to maintain occupational forces and to meet the nation's other national defense commitments The president said in his state of the union message to congress that “our national safety and the security of the world will require substantial armed forces particularly in overseas service” He noted that the war and navy departments estimate that a year from year a total strength of 2000000 will be needed for the armed forces In case the campaign for volunteers does not produce that number he added it will be necessary to extend the elective service act The legislators said however that sentiment for abolition of the draft is running high and they think something will have to be done to end it soon if not on A hunt 600-00- 30-da- May 15 They agreed that some of Vinson’s recommendations might be incorporated into a committee bill dealing with the subject “We already have passed legislation offering some added inducements for service” Rep Thomason (D) Texas told a reporter “This has speeded up volBut perhaps we will unteering have to enlarge these Inducements We don’t want to have to continue selective service any longer than necessary” Expects Volunteers Harkness (R) Indiana Rep commented that "I think the draft will be halted on May 15 and it's been my idea all along that if we just offer the men enough they will volunteer in sufficient numbers to give us an adequate force” Rep Kilday (D) Texas said “It will be practically impossible to keep drafted men overseas much longer and we will have to do something to avoid this” He added that ‘‘maybe Mr Vinson has some of the answers” Vinson told neswmen that if his plan is adopted soon “there will be no need to continue the draft” He added that the people are against keeping it He said if necessary it might be continued for a month or two while his program got under way -- BULLETINS LONDON Sunday Feb 24 Moscow radio said early Sunday that remnants of UP) — The Japanese troops In Manohuria had been earrjing out large-scal- e “bandit” attacks on soviet forces since mid - November “with the help and leadership of reactionary elements in China itself” The broadcast was the first apparent Russian reaction to growing agitation in China for the evacuation of Russian forces from Manchuria BOISE Ida Feb ks UP) — The body of Clarence E Requa civil aeronautics administration inspector stationed here was recovered Saturday night from the wreckage of his plane In which he crashed Thursday afternoon Rescue crews waded knee deep in mud to reach the crash scene 27 miles southeast of Boise Jv sj r j Mobs Disrupt Trains Fire Public Buildings BOMBAY Feb 23 (UP) — British authorities rushed more police and military reinforcements here Saturday while Indian civilians rioted for the third day disrupting train service and firing buildings in Bombay and other cities despite the unconditional surrender of mutinees of the Royal Indian navy Official sources here late Saturday said that known casualties in the Bombay riots totaled 763 of which 263 were dead and 500 were injured An earlier communique said the casualties were 814 67 dead and 777 injured It said the dead included two constables an Indian navy officer and an R A F civilian employe the injured were 37 policemen 90 constables a royal navy enlisted man 17 Indian navy personnel 30 army personnel two RAF men and six RAF civilian employes Other dead and injured were civilians Although a communique said the situation on the whole was improving railway service here near Calcutta and at points along the BUENOS AIRES Feb 23 UD— Bengal-Assaline was disrupted More than 3000000 voters are by strikes or demonstrations of civilians sympathizing with naval expected to ballot Sunday to de- mutineers Calcutta dispatches cide between Col Juan D Peron said street car service was halted a and Jose P Tamborini in presi- by a y sympathy strike of dential election which also will de- workers termine Argentina’s future relaIndians Refuse Duty tions with other nations authorities acknowlBritish Two persons were wounded In edged in a communique that 1200 a gun battle in downtown Buenos Indian air force personnel still refused duty but were Additional news on Argen- - quiet” At Karachi 1000 “perfectly air force tina page 8A personnel were on strike peaceand said they would return Aires early Saturday morning in fully to duty Sunday the first violence since the state London Evening News said of siege was lifted for 48 hours Sir(The John Colville Bombay govorbeginning Friday midnight in by telephone from der that the election might be ernor reported Bombay that the situation was legal “now in hand Things have been Polls 8 a m to 6 p m serious but there is no cause for undue alarm”) The polls will open Sunday at Mohandas K Ghandi joined the 8 a m and close at 6 p m but Indian leaders warning the official result may not be chorus ofviolence In a statement against known for a month unless there is he appealed to the people to halt a landslide their “thoughtless orgy of vioAlso are stake are 158 seats in lence” senthe chamber of deputies two not it be said that India ate seats 14 governorships and of “Let the congress (party) spoke to posts provincial legislative Both Peron laborite party can- the world of winning swaraj (home rule) through didate and “strong man” of the action belied her word in acand tion at and Argentine military regime cana critical period in her Tamborini democratic union didate made final appeals Friday life” he said Ghandi Makes Appeal night ending bitterly fought campaigns In the first presidential Despite his appeal and the exelection since 1937 hortations of congress party volPeron’s Platform unteers who toured Bombay in trucks calling for a Peron 50 who created the nu- return to peace and quiet naval cleus of his present labor party while in the government has based sympathizers or hooligans were his campaign on the issues of so- rioting m and around the city A mob set a local tram afire at cial justice — taking credit for suburban Dadar station halting the salaries many decrees raising of working men — and Argentine service there At Matunga on the same a crowd roughed up sovereignty He declared he would railwaylineofficials A wing of the run the nation democratically but textile milles was set would not “take orders” from Firemen escorted by Spruille Braden U S assistant afire here and soldiers police amstate of and former extinguished secretary bassador to Argentina who Peron the blaze British authorities put curfew charges is “the hidden power” be- hours at 7:30 p m to 6:30 a m hind the political opposition Tamborini 60 accused Peron of and warned that anyone caught road barricades would be being a fascist demagogue who erecting was deceiving the workers and shot at sight Indian sources dewhose financial backing rests with scribed the situation north of totalitarian-minde- d persons Tam- Bombay as more grave than it borini a retired physician is sup- was Friday Reinforcements were there ported by a coalition of radicals sent Calcutta dispatches said demsocialists communists and proworkmostly gressive Democrats who formed onstrators ers halted trains atrailway the Llllooah the democratic union and Belur suburban stations of the East Indian railway by standing on the tracks Similar demonstrations were staged at Barrackpore on the Bengal-Assarailway Authorities rushed food and water to passengers marooned on a train stalled by a strike of employes at WASHINGTON Feb 23 (UP) the Seladah railway station — Gen Joseph W (Vinegar Joe) Fire Public Buildings Stilwell who led American forces - Holligans tried to set fire to the in Asia during most of the war Salvation Army building in the has been named to command the center of Bombay Military pafired upon them and woundreactivated Sixth army with head- trols ed six A crowd of about 100 set quarters at Presidio in San Fran- - a branch of the Imperial bank on cisco the war department an- fire in the Moslem quarter of town and attacked a municipal nounced Saturday The Sixth army played an active building in thp same quarter A part in the Pacific war from New huge boulder thrown from a buildGuinea in 1943 to the occupation of ing roof narrowly missed a truck-loa- d of British troops Japan under the command of Lt Gen Walter Krueger It will be Streets were littered with refuse which was rotting The municipal reactuated March 1 The war department described garbage collectors stayed away the new step as part of its move from their jobs Street cars and to streamline the ground forces buses gave only skeleton service Along with reactivation of the Stones boulders and gla&s blocked Sixth army Seventh corps head- many roads Few shops were of Mon- open quarters at the Presidio The postoffice at Chowpatty terey Cal and the western defense command in San Francisco beach was broken open its conwill be inactivated and their staffs tents strewed in the streets' and merged to form the new Sixth set afire The British communique dearmy headquarters This the department said will scribing the naval surrender isreduce the number of headquarters sued here and at New Delhi gave m the Pacific coast area by put- no hint as to what lay in store for ting all ground forces installations the surrendering naval mutineers under one command who seized royal Indian navy vesStilwell famous for his acid sels in Bombay harbor and barritongue commanded U S army caded themselves in castle barforces in the racks Thursday theater during the Pacific war It said Read Adm A R Ratalso serving as chief of staff to tray commander of royal Indian k Generalissimo Chiang See Fage 6 Column 3 J 5 Three Million Vote Today In Argentina m -- one-da- non-viole- nt loud-speak- er Koh-i-no- Stilwell Heads Sixth Army China-Burma-Ind- ia Kai-she- or m A ' 4 4b A |
