Show The Weather UTAH: a OGDEN CITY The United Press The Associated Press 235 Studying Site for Armory UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING Lewis Maneuver State Witnesses Recount Details 'Deceitful Dodge' Of Murder Owners Call lew 1 de- Communist Party un-Ameri- Civil Engineers J O Taylor (left) and Stanley Burton from the public works office of the Twelfth naval district San Francisco today were surveying the site of the naval armory at Twentieth and Jackson They are accompanied by H A Waterfall engineer in charge Three civil engineers from the office of public works design department Twelfth naval district San Francisco were in Ogden today working on the newly acquired gtte of the naval armory to be constructed at a cost of $100000 Their results will be taken back to San Francisco where building and landscape features will be plotted in conform-ill- y with the land features The site is 330 by 330 feet situated at Twentieth and Jackson on state deaf and blind school property which is being leased The group headed by H A Waterfall will remain in Ogden three days to accomplish its work The other two members of the party are Stanley Burton and J O Taylor The three engineers expressed pleasure at the features of the site its location dimensions and condition They remarked it was "possibly the best site they had surveyed for the erection of such an Roosevelt's Files Wanted in Probe Of Oil Contracts WASHINGTON l Mpf-fet- six-da- I I one-wee- stay-awa- j VY Utah Production bearing Normal (R-M- e) (R-Mic- N on-the-s- h) installation" Meanwhile Lieut Wayne J division executive officer reported there are now more than 150 officers and men in Ogden's 0 division of the naval reserve "We expect to have our division complement filled by the time the armory is completed" Lieut said He said the property will be landscaped so as to provide a building in which "the navy and Ogden may have just pride" The building will contain 15000 square feet of usable floor space Eld-red- ge 12-5- Eld-red- ge Arrest Follows Probe Of Black Market Deal Japan April 9 (AP) — The army announced today that Pvt Henry M Johnson of Philadelphia would be tried before a board on general charges of black market operations estimated at 157000 yen ($3140) Johnson was arrested at the home of two Japanese girls by Master Sergeant Sadao Honda of Oahu Hawaii and Corporal StanJohnley Fivas Salt Lake City in the son worked through the girls sale of army goods it was charged KOBE court-marit- al Outstanding development during the morning session occurred following the dismissal of the jury from the courtroom when the court agreed to take testimony as to the admissability of the alleged confession said to have been signed by Barney shortly after he was apprehended Barney was on the stand at press time David W Murray special I Naval Armory Site Praised By Public Works Officials April 0 UP)— The senate war investigating committee has asked President Truman for permission to examine all the late President Roosevelt's personal papers that might relate to its Arabian oil investigation jit was learned today Authoritative sources said the committee asked that an investigator be allowed to go through papers now in the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park N Y for possible clues in its oil probe This was a broadening of the committee's earlier request for photostatic copies of three specific documents Those were believed to include Oilman James 's reported offer to sell Arabian oil to the government at a bargain pricer in 1941 Navy Contract Questioned The committee ik investigating why the navy contracted for the same oil at nearly triple the price in 1944 President Truman has informed the committee he will be glad to get them the requested photostats But there has been no reply yet to the request to thumb through all the Roosevelt files Moffett told the committee hat failure to accept his offer in 1941 cost the government $68000000 in extra profits to two oil companies — the Texas Oil company and Oil company of CaliforStandard PRICE Utah April 9 (AP)— nia— ince the Utah's coal production moved up signed in 1944 navy contract was to near normal figures today as The navy denied this saying it union miners returned to work in bought only $59000000 worth of virtually all mines oil from the two and The return to work followed is- therefore couldn't companies have suance of an appeal late yesterday theconcerns $68000000 extraallowed profit by Houston Martin of Rock Springs Await Brewster's Return of 22 District of Wyo president tne unixea ivnne worker!? of Amer The hearings are expected to reica (A P L) to resume production sume when Chairman Owen Brewin all federally certified mines ster returns from a trip! to Martin's statement specifically Egypt Before coming home he exempted the four Utah mines or- an 1 Senators Homer Ferguson dered shut last week by the federal A Hatch (D-Carl and government pending new inspec- M) may go to Saudi Arabia for tions an look into the oil Exact figures on the number of question men back at work today were not Former Senator Burton K available because of ' the difficulty Wheeler who part in the Teaof making the telephone contacts pot Dome oiltook has investigation as a result of the telephone strike been hired to aid the committee Martin and other union officials inquiry He told the United Press here and the Utah Coal Operators' there still be "considerable reassociation in Salt Lake City search"will to do before the facts are agreed however that workers had enough in hand to develop l returned to almost every mine well the story complete 'with estimates at individual properties ranging 'from 60 to 100 per cent Yesterday only two big mines and Dr McKay 111 four or five smaller ones had LAKE CITY April 9 (AP) crews at work cutting the num- DrSALT M McKay Utah state William ber of miners at work from a nor- health commissioner was mal of 4000 to about 1100 On Mon- seriously ill today He isreported under day most of the mines had been treatment in a Salt Lake Citv y meworked following the ur iuetsay is a brother morial holiday but action at union uospicai of David O McKay second coun meetings Monday night prompted selor mtne Latter-D- a v Saints yesterday's curtailment (Mormon) church first presidency six-da- old Contempt Charge Faces Leader of -- KA y on 19-year-- Bulletin The confession reportedly sign-ie- d by Sheldon Barney in the case of the death of Dee Lane was admitted as evidence this afternoon by Judge John A Hendricks The announcement of the confession's admissability was made after the jury was recalled to the courtroom and reading of the confession was begun at this afternoon's session of the trial agent of the FBI gave testimony immediately before Their testimonies may not be revealed by reason of the jury's absence Fingerprint Expert Called Called to the stand prior to the jury's dismissal Edward S Deiss specialist in fingerprint identification at trie FBI laboratories in Washington D C testified as to receiving the package containing the two hands amputated from the body of Lane after it had been exhumed He related how the fingers were cut off and a portion of skirt left from the left fore finger was photographed through glass and then a check made in the finger print files In the comparison made between the photograph and finger prints on the UI S civil service commission identification card belonging to One Dee Lane Deiss said they were identical Dr Glenn W Garner director of the Ogden city health laboratories also testified as to the doubt in identification revealed through all stages of the investigation and examination He also related procedure in obtaining and mailing the hands to Washington Detective D T Burke of the Ogden city police force also told of sending the package to the FBI offices in Washington Throughout the lengthy and somewhat gruesome recitation the d defendant maintained hiis typical stolidity Dressed in houndstooth gray slacks and a brown sport shirt he listened impassively to the testimony folding and unfolding his arms and occasionally resting his chin in his hand black-haire- (Continued on Page Two-(Column one) A) Friends Rivals Workers and Nation's Leaders Mourn Ford Bp DETROIT April 9 (UP)— Henrythree uniformed plant protection si men Ford's friends paid their final auF C Green wald 72 a FordL emlent respects today as the trail state ploye who had known the beloved tomotive genius' body lay in More than 500 of them — many industrialist more than a half cenin coverals — waited quietly in the tury was fourth His eyes were Green- dry but his words faltered as he damp and cold outside the field village recreation hall in su- said: "There was no better man" Lines outside the chapel grew burban Dearborn until the doors m An estimated 700 persons a at steadily to them eight opened the casket in the first Until ten p m the body will lie passed by in view of the thousands who in half-hoMessages came to the Ford famother times caught only fleeting from all parts of the world ily of the glimpses from mass political leaders competitors industry of production giant Humble folk— about 100 em- laborers and old friends — expressing condolence and tribute to the ployes of Ford's beloved Greenfield — were industrialist Village museum showplace Funeral services will be held at the first to say good-by- e the p m tomorrow at St They gazed briefly upon calm natural face that was known Paul's Episcopal cathedral in downto millions Bowed their heads town Detroit and the entire auto and moved on Many shed tears industry will halt operations then for a moment of silence in tribute Some moved their lips silently All mirrored admiration for the to tiie pioneer of mass production Burial services will be private' little inventor of the "tin lizzie who more than anyone else helped The body will be lowered near Greenfield Village in a small famput the world on wheels The body of Ford who died of ily plot in which his only child cerebral hemorrhage Monday Edsel and his parents William and Ford are buried night at the age of 83 was dressed Mary A spokesman for the Ford famin a gray suit with a striped black and white tie ily said the filing of the industrialTwo lily plants were placed at ist's will for probate would not be each end of the casket and a spray considered for at least a week He of lilies over the foot of the bier said the amount of the Ford forThere were ferns in the back- tune was "anybody's guess" but the value of the giant industrial ground Bells tolled in the village chapel empire has been estimated at i as the procession started led by 000000000 or more ur world-renown- ed two-thir- ty The committee also voted unanimously to recommend that the jus- tice department investigate the possibility of prosecuting Dennis on more serious charge of "conspiracy to commit contempt" The committee voted that sucji ah investigation be considered also against Gerhart Elsler and Leon Josephson both of whom have re fused to testify before the committee about their- activities t Imprisonment and Fine Conspiracy to commit contempt is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment and $10000 fine Contempt alone is a misdemeanor and carries a lesser punishment Eisler a former German refugee has been described as a top secret communist agent in the U S Josephson was alleged to be involved in a communist passport ring Nixon said their contempts were "group contempts following the same pattern!" Dennis instead of appearing before the committee today as sent an attorney Daniel Lapidus New York attorney appeared before the committee to represent Dennis Lapidus presented a formal statement written by the communist official Says Constitution Flouted Dennis contended in the statement that "the committee is not a lawful congressional committee" and herefore could not subpena witnesses Dennis in his formal statement cited four reasons to support his claim that the existence of the committee "is in direct violation of the constitution" They were: 1 The house has not clearly defined the scope of the committee's authority 2 The commitee has "usurped police authority" without any basis in law 3 The committee has "interfered in elections the activities of trade unions" and "nullified civil liberties" 4 Representative John E Rana committee memkin ber "is not duly and lawfully seated as a member of the house of representatives" He based this contention on the grounds that Negroes in Mississippi are prevented from voting - ? sub-pena- ed (D-Mis- 561 SO 22 PAGES— 2 SECTIONS Study of Confession cross-examinati- no-stri- kt 1911 Probe With little of state's witnesses by Defense Attorney R K riack-e- tt the second day in the trial of Sheldon J Barney Eugene Dennis former sailor of Monroe got under way this morning in Second district court before Judge John A Hendricks with the state calling additional witnesses in an attempt to tighten its web of facts relative to Barney's alleged guilt in the knife slaying of Dee N Lane WASHINGTON April 9 (UP) — activities 50 of South Carolina whose The house Dencommittee cited Eugene found Feb today was burned body comthe nis of general secretary 28 1946 in an Ogden motel munist party in the United States cabin for contempt of congress a "deliberate and premeditated" new strike by his Golds-borough- 39 Omaha Mir Max 45 88 45 56 63 so 48 57 82 57 53 53 54 64 FINAL EDITION Long Lines Agreement Said Imminent Terms Seen Model for Truce v WASHINGTON April 9 (AP) — Owners of the seized soft coal mines accused John L Lewis today of engineering L Service AP Service NBA 1947 APRIL 9 In Contempt Jury Excused From Courtroom During Union Chief Slated To Face Judge on Fine Issue Thursday The justice department kept secret its own view pending another appearance by Lewis tomorrow before the judge who plastered him and the U M C with fines totaling $3510000 for violating a order last December The order holds good until the government returns the pits to private ownership The National Coal association declared the latest move by Lewis is a "deceitful dodge" intended to break up a back to work movement which brought bituminous production up to 40 per cent of the normal yesterday Lewis advised his union locals by telegram during the day that he approves "resumption of production at each mine as fast as it is certified by federal mine inspectors as being in conformity with che federal mine safety code" Matter of Months John D Battle executive secretary of the coal association asserted in a statement: "He is in reality telling his miners not to return to work until the federal inspectors have had time to revisit all the mines and recertify them — a matter of weeks or months" Capt N H Collisson the coal mines administrator turned down last Saturday a demand by Lewis that the government close the mines until federal inspectors certheir safety tify Collisson advised Lewis that except for 518 mines which the government had shut down as hazardous he would permit the pits to reopen if the operating manager certified them as safe and the local union safety committee made no claim of "imminent danger" Lewis goes back before Judge T Alan Xjoldsborough tomorrow to ask for the return of all but $710-00- 0 of the fines assessed in connection with the 17 day walkout which began last November Justice Department Watching 's The supreme court upheld finding that Lewis and the union committed contempt by ignoring an order to call off the walkout But the tribunal directed the return of $2800000 to the union if the U M W and its chief would comply after losing their appeal Lewis' own $10000 fine was left intacjt John F Sonnett the assistant attorney general who handled the case for the government said the justice department is "closely following the current situation in the soft coal fields" But he told newsmen the department will wait until the court session to disclose whether it considers the current stoppage another breach of Goldsborough's injunction Lewis originally was due to appear before Goldsborough last after he orThursday However y dered his mourning period in memory of the 111 victims of the Centralia 111 explosion the government asked the court —with k union concurrence —for a delay y move by the minThe ers came as a continuation of the IUU Jl lillllVl ACU I 32 61 73 Phoenix 30 55 84 Pocatello 25 44 Portland Or 41 34 37 53 Prpvo 25 471 Reno St 30 49 Rock Springs 30 39 48 39 Salt Lake 46 65 San Antonio 68 51 49 80 San Fran Las Vegas 35 27 3H St Louis Minneapolis 42 New Orleans 66 82 Seattle 27 — 56) Sheridan New York — 54 67 Washington Okla City 30-4- United Mine Workers in fiance of federal courts our today: Albuquerque Atlanta Bismarck Boise Butte Chicago Denver Grand June at lower levels and snow higher becoming partly cloud v Thursday with showers in mountains high temperature today 45 to 55 and ex0 low Thursday morning cept 45 in Utah's Dixie Year1 — No an Ogden Mostly cloudy today rain Seventy --seventh Temperatures period ending at seven For s) Charges Soviet Loot Into Billions U S The April 9 (UP) — RusUnited States may claim that sia already has seized Japanese property worth possibly amount0 and insist that this be counted as reparations payments it was learned today Supreme allied headquarters it was learned has submitted figures to the far east commission in Washington designed to show that Japan already has paid the equivalent of billions of dollars in reparations An official informant said Japan's total public and private external assets at the end of the war was Almost all about $40000000000 of this he said was in Manchuria Korea Formosa China the Kuriles South Sea islands and the was in areas wealth this of Much over which Russia gained control after the Japanese surrender valThere was no estimate of the ue of Japanese property and assets now under United States control TOKYO $20000-00000- so-call- ed Special Cabinet Session Studies i - i f v 19-comp- three-day-ol- 'i 40-min- planned" Charles Ross presidential secretary gave this report to newsmen after the special midweek session of the cabinet and Mr Truman's top economic advisers r?dded to the lineup around the cabinet table were Edwin G Nourse chairman of the president's economic advisory council Marrin-e- r S Eccles chairman of the federal reserve system and James E Webb budget director The participants referred all questions to Ross He said there-waa "general discussion" of the price and economic situation and that President Truman "did a lot of listening" 'Serious' Says Nourse Ross declined to detail Nourse's report on the inflationary outlook Yesterday Nourse told reporters he viewed it as "serious" Ross said Nourse gave the cabe memoraninet a four or dum on economic matters Then each cabinet officer gave his views But Ross said the official fam ily made no attempt to arrive at a "consensus" Ross said prices and current wage negotiations in the basic steel But he industry were discussed indicated this was only incidental to the broader economic outlook and did not foreshadow any government move to urge lower steel prices Prices currently are at their highest point since the been participating negotiations between A T & T and the American Union of Telephone Workers-lo- ng lines employes — ever since the strike started in the belief that an agreement there would provide the formula for ending the walkout of all N F T W affiliates A long distance agreement last year averted a scheduled countrywide strike shortly before the deadline Willing for Arbitration The parties have reached sub stantial agreement on all but five hasip mnnev demands and have agreed tentatively to submit them to arbitration The hitch has been that the union lacked funds to pay its share of ee coast-to-coa- st "FVnm Hanitol Hill came one chal lenge to the view that the govern ment should taKe any steps Repdecried resentative Mason the "mistaken notion that a mythical paternalistic Uncle Sam has magical powers to brine about higher wages and lower prices The housewife has the remedy in her own hands Mason said in (R-Il- l) 20-n- a statement "The onlv wav to reduce tirices of scarce food items is not to buy them: buv suDstitutes lor them" Appeals to business already have been aenverea Dy secretary ot Treasury Snyder and Secretary of Commerce Harriman Mr Truman himself thrice — and more ureentlv each time — has ex horted business to examine its price sxruexure ior possiDie reauctions Three weeks a en Nmirso san-it appeared that prices except for food and farm products were about to reach a ceiling and make an orderly adjustment downward" Index Still Rising Instead however the bureau of labor statistics wholesale pnmmnd ity index has risen on two successive weeks to new highs since September 1920 and the labor relations picture darkened with Monday's telephone strike Nourse noted that Ford Motor company and International Harvester in announcing price cuts after Mr Truman's first anrvenl in Jan "did so with the proviso that uary a mr uiicjr jivji ue penalized py excessive wage increases Several nther mmnaniae inolnd ing Plymouth division of Chrysler no urine am uut i To Stop Raids long-await- Two-- AJ Three) ly Strike Curb Action Is Pushed Vote on Lilienthal Scheduled N ed guerrilla-c- 1 April 9 (AP)— Republican strategists rnn ferred on a general new bill to curb such nation-wid- e strikes as the p telephone today and Representative Hartly (R-said "As far as I'm concerned" itJ)will not be toned down ? Chairman of the house labor committee Harley acknowledged there is some opposition among G O P leaders and even in his own committee to proposals for outlawing the closed shop and industry-wid- e collective bargaining Republican members of the labor committee drafted the bill and submitted it today to G O P leaders and members of the party's policymaking steering committee German-Polis- h J- 'Buy Substitutes uonumied on Page (Column ! frontier to put agricultural lands inside Germany but Russia opposed any changes French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault proposed that the whole be studied further but he question rliH not rommit France as beine in favor or opposed to present Ger man boundaries Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Ernest arbitra- speeches of Prime Minister Stalin expenses of a three-ma- n show that the gention board suggested by the com- at Potsdamdidto not consider as final eralissimo n ar a pany It proposed Polish administrative the present bitrator instead — Neisse and at Oder set the border looked labor The department into its coffers to see if it has any rivers by the Big Three Potsdam emergency funds with which to pay conferenceBoth maintained that Stalin or underwrite the union's share that the border set at Potsdethe agreed the Int of expenses past and would be was dam partment has financed arbitration settled provisional at the peace conferbut unions finally for financially weak does not favor such action as a ence fixed policy Asks Special Commission Conciliation Chief ifiagar - war Marshall proposed that the coun that ren told a senate cil of foreign ministers name a distance in the both parties long to rec boundary commission negotiations were "anxious to reach special uerman-Polis- h a ommend permanent was a settlement" and he nopeiui frontier one would be forthcoming The commission would be com- Strike in Third Day posed of the United States Britam Russia and France plus PoMeanwhile the and some other allied states land strike of 300000 telephone workers Marshall W suggested that the comT N F affiliated wtih the also mission study measures to ascontinued in its third day with sernatural and industrial sure the that to vice across the nation reduced 20 per cent of normal for the Bell resources in question "shall fairly economic needs of Eusystem's 26000000 telephone sub- - serve" the rope scritocrs "It will be accepted I think Settlement of the long distance Marshall told the conference "that walkout of the involving phase East Prussia should besouthern members of the American Polish territory German UpUnion of Telephone Workers could comeSilesia and its industrial comset a pattern for adjusting dis- per become Polish but should W T plex N F other putes between should be provisions to as there sub& T's affiliates and the A T sure its and other re that conciliators hoped sources should coalavailable sidiaries federal to help be The conciilators called represen- sustain the of economy Europe T & the T and A of the tatives "The division of the remainina long distance workers into session territory largely agricultural land to details m a complete at eleven requires consideration or tne needs of the impending settlement of the Polish and German peoples commitW T The N F policy tee meanwhile delayed a sched- ana oi Europe as a wnoie uled meeting from eleven a m to that three p m in the expectationsettlethe proposed long distancesubmisment would be ready for sion at the later hour Approval Expected Government and union sources hinted that they expected N F T W approval of the long distance ATHENS April 9 (AP) -r-- The company Greek government announced toagreement provided the states that it is ready to grant sub- day the launching of a stantially the same settlementcom-in "general offensive" designed to behalf of all of its subsidiary crush guerrilla forces in western v Macedonia and Thessaly panies John J Moran president of the The announcement said operawere commenced at dawn aftlong distance union and chairman tions nt tVio K F T W nolicv commit er government aircraft had dropped tee is expected to recommend ap- thousands of leaflets over the ontrolled area warning the proval on that condition He said that long distance work- civilian population that the offeners will not return to work until sive was about to start all N F T W affiliates are asBoth the Second and Third army sured a satisfactory settlement were participating in corps Informed sources said that the A the drive reported T & T and long distance unions Strong forces were reported were virtually agreed on a gdvern- - standing by ready to prevent the (Continued on Page Two-A-J from escaping by sea guerrillas (Column Six) eastern coast of Thes-Scithe along The leaflets addressed to civilians warned them to keep away from roads and streets in the field of operations Those failing to heed the warnings run the risk of being "killed without discrimination as to age or sex" the leaflets The labor committee meets to- - added morrow to start okehing the bill Unofficial reports have said that the government was ready to throw section by section Two senators declared that Pres- most of its 130000 regular army ident Truman's $400000000 pro- troons as well as the national gen Turkey darmerie of 3000 men into the gram of aid for Greece andStates on fight to crush the guerrillas who will embark the United a tremendous outlay of similar aid have reduced the nation to a state in all parts of the world bordering chaos within the last The senate came to a final vote year on confirmation of David E Lilienthal with his backers claiming gains in strength since their 52 to Strike at Car Plant 38 victory in a preliminary test DETROIT April 9 (UP) — All last week the agreement unanimous production at Hudson Motor comBy senate set three p m (M S T) pany company was halted today by the for its decision on the nomination and 14000 workers idled of Lilienthal for chairman of the second wildcat walkout of C I O Auto Workers in two weeks atomic energy commission sub-commit- days of 1920 T MOSCOW April 9 (AP)— Britain and the United States proposed to the council of foreign ministers tonight a revision in the present - boom-and-bu- st W— ToSu port Stand On Border one-ma- five-pag- 4- V Stalin Is Quoted ute tie-u- around it A film of high octane gasoline leaked into the bay from a defective pipeline at a refinery and the danger of fire or explosion the fuel from 100000 gallons of All snips was considered grave were warned away from the area which leads to the Mare Island naval base r Price Situation WASHINGTON RICHMOND Calif April 9 (UP) A part of San Francisco bay was so highly volatile today that boats manned by police firemen and the coast guard maintained a patrol r a i WASHINGTON April 9 (UP)— Government typists went to work this afternoon on a proposed contract which telephone strike before it is might end the nation-wid- e much older The tentative agreement would affect specifically only No Action Reported the strike of 20000 long distance employes of the American After Listening to Telephone & Telegraph company T But if the unions and A T & T subsidiaries including Inflation of Report Bell system agreed to accept it as a model the with their employes there appeared every WASHINGTON April 9 for contracts d strike would be over reason to suppose the — (AP)— President Truman ex Annrnval first would have to be plored the economic problems forthcoming from ofthethe National policy committee of rising prices during an Federation of Telephone Workers cabinet which is conducting the strike ine hour and meet later today will rnmmittee session today but the White The long distance contract may be ILS House announced afterward ready for its examination then ) have conciliators finvernment "no action was taken or is in TOP Fuel Menaces Ships On Pacific Coast Approval Required From Policy Committee Due to Meet Later Today Issue of Funds For Arbitration Board Is Stumbling Block I |