Show Temperatures period ending at seven The Weathwr OTor 24-ho- ur a m today): UTAH — Partly cloudy today and Saturday with a few scattered afternoon and early evening thunder-showe- rs today and in southeast portion Saturday Little temperature change with high today 85 to 95 and near 105 in Dixie Low Saturday morning 50 to 60 Minimum relative humidity 20 Fresh south- ern I aaaa mlmh a m x m bbm khb m i i mw :aBM- ma afternoon wind —J Seventy-sevent- h — Year— No Th united Press The Associated Press 359 OGDEN CITY UTAH They Welcome New Brood India Pleads For Halting Of Bloodshed ay warm-hearte- New Slogan Atop man iudM uaiiy — LONDON lug For (AP) many years tjhe front page masthead of the Lpndon Daily Mail has born the slogan: "For King and Empire" This morning it read: "For King and Commonwealth" It was one small measure of the simplicity and quiet with which Britain marked the transition to 15 Marshall Insists Matter Is Up to 10 Nations Not Foreign Ministers Cry of 'Unilateral Action' Refuted PETROPOLIS Brazil Aug 15 (AP) — President Eurico Gaspar Dutra welcoming representatives of 20 nations to WASHINGTON Aug 15 (UP)— The United States rejected a Russian demand that the "big four" foreign ministers rather than 11 nations conduct the preliminary discussions on the Japanese peace treaty Pan-Americ- inter-Americ- to-d- ay The United States indicated that the 10 other nations interested in the Far East would go ahead with plans for a meeting on the Japanese peace treaty without Soviet Russia if she did not decide to join them con- an ture Before Mr and Mrs Elmo Wehnert (left) Blodgett Ore greet their new brood of three infants at LaGuardia field New York after the babies were flown from Copenhagen Denmark Mrs Wehnert takes Ursula Geromin from arms of American Overseas AirParser Gustav Beck holds Erhard lines Stewardess Ruth Vickery Gehrmann 16 months while Olga Holm American embassy employe who accompanied the children carries Rosita Annis 14 months Orphaned by the war the three Danish children were recently adopted by the Oregon farm couple Undersea Nine Tragedy Takes Lives of 118 British Workers ld Cumberland county at the northwest corner of England f -- I Sine Blast Kills Three 100 Reach Surface in Safety Rescue parties entered the pit immediately after the explosion at seven p m local time but they have not yet contacted the miners believed trapped and killed The William mine at one time extended seven miles under Solway Firth near the entrance to the Irish sea but its deepest workings were sealed off three years ago after 10 men were killed in an ex- i plosion WEST FRANKFORT 111 Aug One man who had been working 15 (AP) —Three men were killed underground some distance from and two others slightly injured last the explosion was brought to the surface unhurt but he said he had night in a mine explosion which brought hundreds of people to the seen nothing of the other miners shaft fearing it was a third major disaster in southern Illinois with- Worst Since March 1943 in five months If the toll of the explosion is as For more than two hours a high as feared it would be Bricrowd of about 2000 milled around tain's worst disaster since 178 perthe property in the belief that sons were killed and 60 injured many of the night crew of about when a bomb exploded in a sub100 men had been killed or trapped way shelter in London in March Not until about eleven o'clock 1943 Well over two hours after the when many of the workers came to the surface unaware of the blast was the worst of the shock and two-hosuspense disspelled The dead members of a drilling crew are Charles H Clark Walter Clements Jr and George L Filkins all Of West Frankfort Local Gas Explosion Harold L Walker state superintendent of mines and minerals said the blast "probably was a local gas explosion The accident occurred in the New Orient mine of the Chicago Wilmington and Franklin Coal company It is the largest mine in the world employing more than 1100 men who produce about 10000 tons a day In two recent southern Illinois disasters 111 men were killed in an explosion at a Centralia mine March 25 and on July 24 an explosion in a mine across town here from the New Orient killed 27 men ur one-sha- ft It 's Really Hot In Devil's Den Bulletins the plenary session opened the delegates agreed at a preparatory meeting to support mediation efforts in the Paraguayan civil war Delegates unanimously elected Raul Fernandes Brazil's foreign minister as president of this conference called to form a treaty of mutual defense Conference action to support mediation efforts of Brazil and Argentina to end the civil war in Paraguay had been urged here by Justo Prieto former foreign minister of d "observer" Paraguay for the rebels Delegate to Old League Fernandes is a scholarly diplomat who was a delegate to the 1919 peace conference and to the League of Nations The preparatory commission for the conference which is to write a treaty of mutual defense met with all the 20 nations participating represented Chile's foreign minister German Vergaro Donoso told newsmen he would oppose the Argentine proposal to include discussion of economic questions Cuba however announced she would press for a treaty clause "economic aggression" against Mexico and several other countries are known to favor consideration of hemisphere economic problems at this meeting Argentina has announced she would propose a special economic conference at some time before the Bogota conference set for next January Defense Is Prime Topic Opposing this Vargara Donoso said: "We have but one objective: the drafting of an inter - American treaty of mutual defense Economic questions are not on the agenda The Chilean delegation for one has no economic specialists present and thus cannot now discuss such probself-style- WHITEHAVEN England Aug 15 (AP)— A tremendous explosion in a coal mine under the Irish sea near here tonight was believed to have killed 118 miners in what appeared to be Britain's worst mining disaster in years WfBicm mine in The blast occurred in the 135-year-o- solidarity in the an face of any prospective aggressor of the future he told the delegates would present the world with a "typical model" for such a struc- 9 of aaaaa HARTFORD Conn Aug 15 (UP) Residents of Satan's Kingdom and Lord's Corner argued today over who suffered the most from the heat ( The weather bureau reported the following maximum temperatures Satan's Kingdom 98 yesterday independence for India brightest Lord's Corner 96 Devil's Den 97 jewel of British possessions for two Devil's Hopyard 94 Furnace Holcenturies 93 97 Promised low Land King Georg£ VI was in Scotland for a quiet summer holiday with his family as his empire and his title of emperor of India slipped away' He sent a message of conSUCCESS N Y Aug gratulation to the men who rule 15 LAKE Netherlands an(UP)— the new dominions of Pakistan and nounced inThe the United Nations India security council today that she Itpie Daily Mail observed editori"never" would accept UN arbiof new dothat the creation ally of the dispute between tration minions "has given the lie to those the Dutch and Indonesians on the other side of the Atlantic and elsewhere who praiclaimed us LAKE SUCCESS N Yf Aug oppressors 15 (UP) — Members of the UN The Daily Herald organ of the atomic energy commission formlabor party hailed the transfer of condemned Russia's atomic Indian rule to Indians as "an event ally control proposals as inadequate which future generations will unand shelved them indefitoday as one of flit questionably regard most significant in modern history" nitely over the protests of Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko The majority left the door open for a later and mere compreRuss Mine Uranium hensive discussion of the Russian NEW YORK! Aug 15 (UP)— The proposals but said that as they Engineering and Mining Journal now stand they "do not provide said today that the Soviet Union an adequate basis for the dehas been exploiting uranium development of specific far an effective system proposals posits in the Russian zone of Gerof intermany 24 hours a day seven days national control of atomic enweek since Sept 1948 ergy groping explosion rescue workers smoke through the darknessof and miners the had found no trace known to be at work in the pit Harry Allen the man ofwho was the exworking near the scene to surface the and brought plosion uninjured was badly shocked One of the missing men was Allen's son M inter-Americ- an lems" Nicaragua was not represented at the conference Her government established by a coup d'etat last May has not yet been recognized The United States said the meet--- f ing would be held "in the near fu ture" and still hoped Kussia wouia in cockpit of a plane at Suburb and join near Va receives flight instructions from Washington The United States brushed off Hybla Valley Mrs Pearle Robinson The publisher said he has joined Russian claims that the decision na-to the Congressional Flying club of which Mrs Robinson is chief inhold the discussions by all 11 structor tions represented "unilateral" ac- a tion by the United States and violation of the Cairo Yalta and Senator Arthur Capper (R-Ka- n) Congress on Pan PUEBLO Colo Aug 15 (UP)— The 80th congress received a blistering attack today at the opening convenof the annual three-da- y tion of the 38th district of the United Steelworkers of America here with officials of the C I O organization likening its membership to the communist party Delegates were in attendance from Colorado California Oregon and Washington Arizona Utah Montana The meeting is to continue through Sunday The most bitter attack was that of David J McDonald secretary-treasurunit of the PAC-CIof the USWA who declared that tht reactionary congress is unthinkingly with the communist party "The congress is reactionary McDonald said "and as I see it communists are reactionary He asserted that "communism is hostile to the fundamental American belief in freedom of the in"comdividual" He added thatwhat we reinstate munism seeks to once destroyed — namely the divine right of kings" "Communism is not progressive Communism looks back centuries" er O "rrnt hand-and-glo- ve By The Associated Press Your 1939 dollar is worth only about 50 cents today in buying the ordinary necessities of life but it buys a lot 'more in some parts of the United States than in others An Associated Press survey of retail prices in 13 leading cities in all sections of the nation revealed TAMPICO Mex Aug 15 (AP) A major tropical hurricane with winds well over 100 miles an hour struck the coast near this oil city at dawn today ravaging Tampico itself with 90 to 95 mile winds For two days the storm had moved along the Mexican coast like a cat playing with Tampico mouse a with toying Streets were deserted at eight-thirt- y a m today as winds uprooted homes shattered windows and destroyed signs and foliage Damage to oil wells was expected Waves 15 feet high rolled into and Tampico beaches Small lakes was rivers were rising Visibility low Movable objects swirled down deserted streets Several hours after the storm struck the wind decreased slightly to 86 miles an hour Communications Broken The captain of the port said the actual center of the storm struck the coast near Soto La Marina No reports on damage could be obtained immediately for communications normally poor were virtually disrupted Soto La Marina is a sparsely settled fishing and ranching area located on a large ranch once owned by American interests The hurricane is expected to continue throughout the day in undiminished force if it follows usual patterns Winds blow from one direction for as long as 12 hours then a lull sometimes lasting an hour occurs as the center passes The wind returns in full force from exactly the opposite direction blowing another 10 or 12 hours Earlier indications that the storm might veer northeast and strike the Texas coast proved groundless Cost $2000000 strikingly irregular increases Some products have soared out of all relation with others compared with prewar days Some cities where living costs has the highest present price 95 were lowest in 1939 pay the most cents a pound and the highest rate now of increase over 1939 of 70 cents The survey showed: and over June 1946 of 52 cents You can eat for less by and In 1939 the packing city along large in Minneapolis than in most with Denver and San Francisco cities the lowest price 25 cents You pay more for meat in the paid packing capital of Chicago than Bread and Butter elsewhere Bread — Between 1939 and the present bread prices advanced Housing Dollar from two to nine cents a loaf PresYcur i°usin8 dollar buys more ent prices range from 11 cents in Francisco Louis Denver 12 cents in Minneapolis and least m Denver and St and San Francisco to 17 compared with Boston the other cities cents in Dallas Your clothing dollar goes about Butter — Prices today are from 26 as tar one place as another but to 54 cents a pound higher than 4hlul in either 1939 in 1939 Atlanta currently pays the or 1946 lowest price 70 cents and San Your meat bill has gone Francisco and Philadelphia the much up percentagewise than highest— 86 cents k °T milk bills- Butter your and Eggs Price jumps were erratic across the nation Today's quotaon your wfLf a£ mlch hiher 52 cents a dozen highwere comP-ati- vetions StSSEVwX did er than 1939 in Boston and San thl1108- items' half or more of Francisco and only 19 cents higher mcrease has come in the in Kansas City last year No 2 can— Retail Tomatoes varied y)ur housing dollar prices widely around the today Phfces u?h a most country in both 1939 and Em VrnLVL 3?' Jn Columbus and Today's quotations find Dallas and did" in' JuneT°i9l6bUyS m°re than " Atlanta low at 14 cents and Philadelphia high at 27 Item By Hem Men's Clothing' ' Men's suits— The average man is more for paying from $10 toin$20 1939 but in a suit than he did cities he pays no more than mviuXn?theTJro?a0t'SipaCy' many 1946 and in others did he surveytound in the 13 cities item from $5intoJune more $10 Shirts—The common man s shirts jan - BEVERLY HILLS Calif Aug Mexican (UP) — A syndicate of disclosed and American interests plans today to build a 15 multi-mil-lion-doll- ar resort at San Felipe John P Mills Baja California said the representative syndicate resort would be patterned after the French Riviera playgrounds Grading on a site for the $2000000 hotel on the Gulf of California coast He added has begun Mills said should be that a gambling casino ready by December 1 The resort will be accessible by boat airplane and highway Mills said WASHINGTON Aug 15 (AP) — one-thir- ar 435-00361-00- 80-9- 79 52-5- 59 hnSt Shiai3? (Continued on Page fColflfiyff fM Two-- Aj 12-1- Eccles Warns SALT LAKE CITY Aug 15 meeting peace treaty (Special) — Marriner S Eccles of preliminary nt Wahinfftnn or San FranCiSCO Ogden told a regional conference Soviet Foreign Minister V M of world affairs at the University Molotov on July 22 rejected the deof Utah Thursday night that a sick American plan as "a unilateral world the poses two alternatives for that asked Molotov cision" United States — and neither is first negotiations be held oy the the United a happy one foreign ministers of the To provide the financial aid that States Russia China and Britain innations 11 nations all require to get on their feet than rather by to a staggering task and amounts terested in the Pacific to the mounting The state department in reply contributes further said he inflation othinformed Russia that the nine But to neglect to provide help er nations invited to the prelim- would be to stand by for the drift in had agreed inary conference and probably communism into principle with the United States' chaos proposal Eccles as chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve Signed by Marshall made no recommendation The note to Russia signed by- system to as this nation's course what MarC of State George Secretary should be (A state department insisted that the Unit"In reference to the Cairo dec- spokesman must continue its policy ed States Yallaration the decisions of the financial of help par providing ta conference or the Potsdam dec- ticularly western to Europe no laration of Japan they contain Eccles continuously provisions which give the council called attention to the fact that of foreign ministers any authority United States expenditures to inin connection with a Japanese sure peace were "puny" in compeace settlement" to the amount it was willing The note also sharply challenged parison to spend to win the war If we the Soviet allegation that the should have an atom war that American proposal was a unilat- would be the end he said eral action on the part of this govCredits vs War Cost ernment Since the war he said the credits advanced to nations amount to 164 billion dollars so in two years the financial help amounts to what would have been spent in two months if the war had continued The amount required for our military establishment can be reduced if and when stable conditions are — produced in Europe he said POCATELLO Aug 15 AP) We are a healthy giant and the A man who has played a promrest of the world is sick he said inent role in the historv of Idaho but he pointed out that the bilmorndied Nicolas this Ifft George lions for our military estabvoted ing of a heart attack at his home lishment plus the billions required in Pocatello At the time of his for abroad amounts death he was one of the oldest to arehabilitation financial burden It's grave working editors in the United small he said when compared to as States In addition to his life is but it war mighty a newspaper man Mr Ifft had in expenditures comparison to our peacetime exspent 25 years as a consul in the perience United States foreign service in Eccles said the Soviet spokesmen numerous Canadian and European make out that our financial aid r Posts is "good business" for the abroad He was born in Butler Pa on United States because it stimulates January 27 1865 and as a boy at- the export business Eccles said tended the Witherspoon academy this is not true that the foreign He attended Franklin Marshall aid program contributes to our incollege at Lancaster Pa was in- flationary perils and delays the itiated into the Chi Phi fraternity satisfying of our domestic demands and at the time of his death was He said that if the United States the oldest living member of the wanted to stimulate business it Zeta chapter and one of two or could do so by extending credits three surviving members of his within our own country to assist class our own citizens to buy more of Following graduation from col- our own goods lege he went abroad and studied England Not 'Wasting at the University of Leipzig and the University of Paris On his The federal reserve chairman return to the U S he entered the said England was not "frittering newspaper profession and soon be- away" its borrowed money on noncame city editor of the Pittsburgh essential goods England he relatCommercial Gazette He was one ed wears a tighter belt today than of the first reporters at the Johns- in the war retaining all war controls including rationing and high town flood He came to Pocatello in 1892 aft- taxes "England" he said "has not er marrying Etta Phipps He is permitted any individual or corsurvived by a son George Nicolas poration to get rich out of the war Ifft II who is now managing edi- as we have" Our refusal to maintor of the Pocatello Tribune and tain war controls has penalized a daughter Mrs Francis J Kir-ch- Britain he said because our prices have risen so rapidly England is of Denver In 1905 he was appointed by getting far less goods for the borPresident Theodore Roosevelt to rowed money than she expected At the same session Francis H the United States consular service He served 25 years as consul at Russell director of public affairs Chatham Ont Annaberg Ger- for the state department in WashPoland Warsaw Nuernberg ington said "we can't afford to let many Germany and posts in Norway western Europe walk the last mile France and Belgium Elsie Jensen representing the Other survivors besides his widow his son and his daughter are American Association for United four grandsons and one grand- Nations said U N represents the hopes for peace It is a daughter He is a life member of people's the Pocatello lodge of Elks and point of negotiations she said The war is not over she added until the A F and A M Mr Ifft was generally in good the treaties of peace are made and health but suffered a fall three filed with U N Meanwhile some pertaining to peace and sedays ago His death was sudden actions are and unexpected curity taking place outside U N but she argued that the best way to speed the day when U N is a dynamic operation in behalf of peace is to use U N to make it come increasingly alive Dr A L Beeley director of the Institute of World Affairs of the DENVER Aug 15 (AP)— The University of Utah presided at the Denver regional office of the war two sessions on Thursday The conassets administration said today it ference on world affairs continued has sold surplus materials out of today the naval supply depot at Clearfield Utah which cost $10720000 Wheelchair Driver The cash recovery on the goods DEVILS LAKE N D Aug 15 was 38 per cent which Regional — D C Giles 78 had a new (UP) Director John A Skeen described as much higher than the national driver's license today after passing a driver's test The license permits MMage to drive his battery-powerhim of Clearfield surplus Disposals wheelchair He has been Denelectric the have been handled by ver office for the last three months legless since 1943 11-nati- on Utah gained in population but Idaho has lost since 1940 the census bureau reported today With a gain of 9160000 for the entire nation America now has a 141228693 on the population of estimates basis of latest The figure includes troops overseas the bureau said $ The figure compares with apChina proximately 430000000 for193000-000 414000000 for India and for Russia according to latest figures announced by the state department Westward Movement The census bureau estimates as of July 1 1946 noted that a "great westward movement" has increased the civilian population of Pacific d coast states by more than since 1940 The growth of California Oregon and Washington was estimated peat 3281000 during the riod or fairly close to the combined increase of 3712000 for all the rest of the country The westward trek gave California the greatest numerical gain — 2485000 Michigan was next with 797000 Ohio third with 594000 0 followed by Washington with 0 Texas 419000 Oregon and Florida 358000 Some States Lose "Large relative losses" were reported for North Dakota whose population declined 163 per cent South Dakota down 149 per cent Montana down 147 per cent Idaho down 104 per cent and Oklahoma down 52 per cent The bureau's estimate of population exclusive of armed forces overseas as of July 1 1946 and changes from census figures in 1940 include: Montana —478477 decrease Idaho — 472314 decrease six-ye- U S Imperiled By Sick World On July 11 the United States asked Russia to join an Wyoming— 262895 increase Colorado — 1137581 increase 14285 Utah — 636821 increase 86511 Nevada— 135414 increase 25167 Washington — 2254098 increase tions of the country between 1939 517907 and the present In money the Oregon — 1452618 increase range of increase was from 36 to 362934 63 cents a pound Pork chops —Chicago led the na- Idaho Refutes Figures tion paying the highest present BOISE Aug 15 (AP)— Citing price 85 cents a pound and report- figures showing a growth in Idaing the greatest increase 66 cents ho's since the population 1939 over and the greatest jump Idaho state chamber of 1940 commerce 48 cents since June 1946 asked Rep John Sanborn Round steak — Wide variations today (R -- Idaho) to seek supporting data both in present prices and in in- from the U S bureau of census creases in the last eight years were on its showing a 104 dereported by various cities Chicago crease report in the state's - New Resort to Potsdam agreements Invitation July 11 Wind Population of Hits Tampico Utah 636821 Texas Escapes Gain of 86511 100-Mi- le Your Dollar's Worth About 50 Steel Union Puis Cents Now or Did You Know? ? J US ference urged today that they give the world an example for universal unity over-whelm- ly yes-trd- Senator at 82 Learning to Fly FINAL EDITION Mediation for Paraquay Is Plan of Parley a historic Pakistan "Whatever differences we have must be resolved by peaceful and democratic (methods" Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet 'We are a free people declared today Let us act then as free men and women " Great thi1 ongs of the dominions' joyously celebrated 400000000 their new independence Communal warfare which has left scores dead this week in the Punjab lessened in some cerjters Lord Mountbatten transferred British authority at midnight to the larger dominion of India whose residents are 227000000 Hindu He changed title from viceroy to governor general M A Jinnah the monocled Moslem league leader whose adamant stand largely caused division of the country became governor general of Pakistan £nd its 70000000 mostly Moslems: at Karachi Thousands Visit Gandhi Mohandas K Gandhi the frail litUe lawyer who became known as the "architect of India's freedom" by hjs lengthy mild campraying paigning beganat fasting his Belliaghatta and spinning in East Calcutta "peace mission" Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Moslems made what they called a "holly pilgrimage" to Gandhi's resideree Occasionally he veranda presented himself on his and received deafening cheers and slogans such as "The Hindu and Moslem is One" Gandhi had de- sired a un ted independent InThe 3000 00 Hindus and 1000-00- 0 Moslems of Calcutta ended warfare suddenly thiiir year-lon- g under the emotional upsurge of independence They joined freely together in celebrations with exuberance unbelievable before But a senior police officer said: "If anything goes wrong God help us' Lahore Is Sre Spot The sorest spot appeared to be Lahore capital of partitioned Punjab where communal violence continued The unofficial toll in three to days of riotng there mounted 268 dead anjd more than 200 inblazed in jured At least 36 fires Lahore and mobs were reported looting British Governor Sir Evan Jenkins handed the Punjab government yesterday to the congress and Moslem league parties on a temporary "basis of national division" into East and West Punjab provinces as determined by a boundary cjommiskion Crowds in this Indian capital were hilarious They gave Mount-batte- n d a reception In contrast to the holiday mood in Delhi a correspondent for The Statesman wiote that he saw dogs and vultures eating bodies of recent victims of communal riotine while traveling from Lahore to Amristar H said one side of the railway tracks was littered with dead 26 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS Duira's Plea Freedom Riots Leave Scores Dead in Nation m NEA Service AP Service 1947 15 Ready to Proceed With Talks on Japanese Peace Regardless oi Russ Action Set Example To World Is NEW DELHI Aug 15 (AP) The Dominion of India as its first offic ial act appealed toHindu-Moslenight for cessation of violence in both this country atnd the Dominion of x amine AUGUST FRIDAY cvcNHNG MaxMmJ MaxMinl 88 60! Omaha 83 65 Ogden 87 80 64) Phoenix Albuquerque lot Boise 93 59 Pocatello 88 78 80 40 Portland Butte 84 87 77 51 Reno 87 47 Cheyenne 86 60 78 82 Rock Spgs Chicago ox m Salt Lake Denver 88 60 Detroit 94 68 San Antonio 93 Gd Junction 86 57 San Tlieeri 78 fU s vegias 70 35 San Fran ti ivi Los Angelea 81 88 St George 100 72 84 72 Minneapolis 81 58 St Louis New Orleans 88 78 Seattle 81 58 New York 83 78 Washington 96 72 Ok la City 92 74 W Yellowst 78 30 53 population since 1940 He estimated the present population at "not less than 550000 and maybe as much as 560000" The census bureau estimated Idaho's population at 472314 a decrease of 52559 from the official 1940 report of 524873 Murphy noted that the bureau's estimate "threatens tb substantialretail ly damage our wholesale and newspaper interests because of the widespread use of such figures to determine sales and merchandise and national advertising quotas" Murphy said the chamber's figures of a population increase were based on an analysis of birth records school enrollment utility connections employment registers and other data wis-Chairma- Idaho Publisher Is Heart Victim of Two Aids Named Clearfield Sales For Red Cross Of Surplus High WASHINGTON Aug 15 (AP)— President Truman today filled two government vacanies on the board of governors of the American National Red Cross He named Archibald L M Wiggins undersecretary of the treasury to replace Joseph general J O'Connell Jr formerto one vacounsel of the treasury : cancy To the other he named Charles E Saltzman assistant secretary of state to replace Maj Gen John H Hilldring whom Saltzman replaces in the state department Sept 1 ed n |