Show Temperatures The Weather TAH—Clear today and Thursday except fer cloudy areas local light shower over mountains of northern Utah Afternoon temper-stare- s H to 18 Low tonight 28 1 to 38 gfEcuon £ni i Fresh northerly winds MmrteaDOlis The United Press The Associated Prei Year— No 91 Seventy-eight- h OGDEN CITY UTAH WEDNESDAY Railroad Executives Are Ogden Guests Big German Plants Will Be Operated v JaW BBS Baf WASHINGTON April 13 The Three (UP)— Big powers today agreed to keep in Ger many as an aid to European recovery all or part of the equipment of 159 plants which had been scheduled for removal as war reparations The factories include 32 steel plants 88 metal working plants 82 chemical plants and seven metal industry plants The amount of equipment previously 1 scheduled to be removed ranged (from a Single piece of equipment to the entire equipment of an affected factory At US Snggertioa The state department in announcing the agreement said that the action is designed to "bring the reparations dismantling pro gram into harmony with the Eu ropean recovery program"" Tie agreement was reached among the United States Britain and France The revision of the dereparations plant list partment said "was made at the suggestion of the U S government" The state deDartment an nouncement said that only five of ne A sieei produce crude steel Their pianis retention in western state the Germany department said will boost the area's crude steelmaking capacity by 169000 tons a year Boosts Capacity The boost will raise western Germany's theoretical capacity to tons a year However this will not be the actual production since actual production is limited ' to 11100000 tonsT The statement said that in addition to the 159 plants covered by the three-powagreement France previously had decided to retain equipment in 40 other plants in the French zone of Germany Britain and France had first protested the plan to cut their reoara- tions on the grounds that they were entitled to the reparations and that leaving the steel plants in uermany might De dangerous to peace us non-ferro- r the-stat- e 00 er Peace Reigns on Campus NEW YORK April 13 (AP)— Peace now reigns over the campus of the College of the City of New VosK where student strikers staged m iwu nays ago Easter and Passover vacations starting tonight will bring a five-dafreedom from picketing 'Fifty pickets from ranks of night school students joined last night in the demonstration against two faculty members the strikers accuse of racial bias Absenteeism at classes last night ranged from 10 to 33 per cent college authorities said Students at CCNY branches off the campus have not joined ne st r kc t College spokesmen said about 1 500 of the 7230 day students re mained away from classes vester day but strike leaders claimed 65 per cent were absent There are 5833 night school students The strike — sponsored by the student council— is directed against Prof William E --Knickerbocker head of the romance languages department whom the demonstrators accuse of and Wjl nam C Davis an economics instructor accused of white-Negr- o segiegation in a dormitory The "charges already have gone through official investigation and tne c c N x president Dr Harry N Wright has not yielded to the strikers' demands for immediate open trials and removal i i y i anti-semitis- m of th Dismissal Move Denied by Judge ' April IS (UP)— Mountain States Telephone and Telecompany won-th- e first round graph in its battle with the Idaho public utilities commission today when the Hale's motion to dismiss its Injunction proceedings was denied However iii denying the motion to dismiss District Judge C E frtnstead made it plain that the company won't get all it wants! in the way of rate increases He told the company "this injunction-suit will be tried strictly on the record submitted to the public utilities commission no new evidence such as wage increases Jitoe the commission hearing of last September will be allowed to influence the case" The company had sought rate Increases designed to produce $655-ooin its petition to the public utilities commission but since that time the company claims that new east factors necessitated even mare (t v'lflH damage The firstreport of fatalities came from Tacoma Wash where one child was killed and two others injured by falling bricks at Lowell school A cafe employe at Seattle was injured by a falling doorway — I I Olympia Wash 60 miles youth reported several were fell fire escapes were rinned loose mmm 1M IB injured there and water mains broken jfk The first shock came at ueven lwl"dows anrt waus cracked fifty-fiv- e m a ' and CPST) heavy W aBsssff Every Seattle policeman was or aBsBaVL jolting movements continued for dered to report for duty Fire veabout 45 seconds The University hicles and ambulances roared of labaatia&k— aSafattfl Washington seismograph 4£h aW'JUt Seattle streets oratory reported minor temblors through In Bremerton Wash the Nawere continuing 40 minutes later A E Stoddard (right) president of the Union Pacific railroad and Ambrose T Seitz U P tional Bank of Commerce building executive vice The Seattle Times estimated was cracked and the area was president are shown here as they arrived in Ogden aboard their special business car to attend a dinner off damage in "millions of dollars" fleeting tonight for civic and business leaden The university recorded the roped Other cities where the 'quake was 'quake as between six and seven felt included Yakima Spokane in the scale of intensity compar- Wenatchee Ellensburg Aberdeen able in violence to the Feb 14 and Olympia 1946 'quake which also caused wide At Olympia a piece of masonry fell from the state insurance builddamage in the northwest The heaviest damage apparent- ing ly occurred in the First reports indicated there was area on Puget sound no severe damage in Portland but shocks were felt from Port- concrete buildings Heavy the land Ore north to the Canadian plant of the Oregon including Journal wet border and east across the Cas- cracked Dishes rattled in cupcades The 'quake tapered off in boards and tall steel light standVancouver B C hnd was lighter ards along Portland's Harbor drive Famous Union Pacific passenger" trains which for in eastern Washington eastern looked as if they were being Columbia and central Ore- whipped by a gale months have given Ogden the go-b-y again will stop in Og- British gon The state capitol at Salem was den to receive and discharge passengers President Arthur In Seattle cornices of buildings shaken it I Mb Bal I isBBBBBBaE HB bi '' SPSPi of Seattle BbBbBbBbBbI 11 : aHH U P President Outlines Road's Plans for Ogden Law Said Too Weak to Unify Armed Forced Seattle-Tacoma-Olym- E Stoddard of the Union Pacific said today in ah interview In the same interview he exploded rumors about the transfer of Union Pacific commissary facilities from Ogden by announcing the railroad's intention of enlarging the commissary here including the Union Pacific laundry —— xne commissary expansion pro--—- — WASHINGTON Am-i- l 13 (AP— The air force joined the army to day in pumieiy blasting the exist ing national defense setup as in adequate and expensive Secretary of Air Symington apsession of pearing at a closed-doo- r the senate armed services committee Thursday declared the present uniiii'aiuin law - nas not WOTKea satisfactorily" Chairman Tydings made the testimony public today "We have tried out this organization and there is unanimous agreement that it is inadequate" Symington said He added that former Secretary of Defense Forrestal "has constantly been a referee of three brawls as he tried to operate his job" Needs Greater Power Like Secretary of the Army Royall who said much the same thing in an open session of the committee yesterday Symington said the civilian defense chief never will be able to ride herd on the quarreling army navy and air force unless he is given much greater power Sueh authority he said 'could save millions annually" That could be accomplished Symington added by operating the defense department "from a fresh start as against trying to haul together! three independent units" each With its own training procurement and the like When such a merger of functions was adopted in the San Francisco defense region he said it ended a "triplication in warehousand ao ing in transportation d) re forth" Reduce Bank Just as Royall did Symington dropping the civilian heads of the army navy and air force from their present ranks to the position of undersecretaries Both officials went considerably Mil beyond the measure intended to tighten up the unification of the three services which is now before the senate committee Secretary of Defense Johnson just back from a meeting of the joint chiefs with Eisenhower at Key West Fla made it clear at a news conference that any disagree ments among the military high command must not be aired publicly Johnson said the navy's proposed 6500-tosupercarrier the United states "was mentioned" at the Key West meeting but he flatly bluntly and repeatedly refused to say more than that on the subject gram will cost approximately $700 000 President Stoddard said Streamliner City of Los Angeles will resume its service to Ogden on April 15 (that's the day after tomorrow) Stodti time will be required to complete arrangements to restore Los AH geles limited service to this community' but the railroad president tnougnt tnat uus would be arranged in about six weeks Expansion Outlined Stoddard said the expansion of the commissary facilities in Ogden was sun unoer stuoy as to de tails out tne planning nad pro gressed to a point ne could esti mate tnat new construction would amount to about $600000 and re habilitation of existing facilities require expenditure of an additional S 100000 making S700000 in all President Stoddard said that the Union Pacific is mindful of the historic position Ogden has occupied on the railroad and he commented on the ideal situation of the com munity as a transportation center with fast rail service to all points Ogden is certain he said to an important role as resourcesplay of the entire territory are unlocked and utilized in increasing amounts Among the resources the Union Pacific finds of acute interest are the deposits of phosphate rock from which increasing shipments are made as the demand for fertilizers expands Mr Stoddard said Other Plans Cited Stoddard described the expensive installation of automatic cab signalling facilities in operation from North Platte to Cheyenne which will be extended to Green River this year and then in Ogden lie said nis company was engaged in an extensive repair program and that it still has many cars both freight and passenger on or der Dieselization will continue but tne company will continue to use steam power where its use is ap propriate ne said President Stoddard said he is greatly impressed by the outlook for increased development in the entire region served by his rail road Stoddard who was elected president and director on February 24 and took office on March 1 came to ugaen to speak at a dinner meet o'clock ing to be held at tomgni in tne Hen Lomond six-thir- ty More 'Walkouts' imrDispute fcjA Noted at Ward's The giant ship is the current cenitf CHICAGO April 13 (AP) — A clash of personalities within Montgomery Ward and Co today left the firm with a skeletonized top management Sewell Avery was there as chairman Willard Sahloff was there as a vice president a position to h: h he was appointed last June But the president was gone and so vi was the lateaflhC A'bert Steffaypresidents tee vice presidents to walk out He did so yesterday making the third ram News Va vice president to resign since last fitMBday Ward's blowup is without New Soviet edent in a company which preclaat sold more than a billion dolLONDON April 13 (UP) — P rear lars worth of merchandise end had A Zakharov has been named So of $88000000 Ward s is viet minister of eeolocv to rnlar earnings second the largest trntrntl tnrhBn L L Malyshev radio Moscow said firm in dising country being today No reason for the shift Watt exceeded enly the by Sears given and company ter the old and bitter disnute between the air force and navy over the bombing roles each would nave in a war The air force has Questioner) the plan to build a carrier with a i nm foot flight deck that could handle long ranee navy bombers It would take $189000000 and four years to UUllU Johnson refused to sav whether he would approve disannrove or for the postpone v-the v v rOf keel-layi- i - ng - Envy u ii -2 SECTIONS FINAL EDITION Enormous Project Should Follow Lines of IV A Congress Told Would Encompass All Resources 1 BaT 1 22 PAGES- AP SEATTLE April 13 AP)- -A jolting earthquake rocked a wide area of the Pacific northwest today killing at least three persons injuring many and causing heavy property n BOISE eidiUonai revenue aaBVFdfl BF 1949 Three Dead in Earthquake Si Jolting Pacific Northwest W jsja IfItSsI it afl fli half-measu- CCJY afl ' KftowgpjM APRIL 13 73 1 1 5tg s??Sr::si £ President C alls for Huge Columbia River Program f Powers Alter Plan to Move 159 Factories EVENING j SB PoegrMUo Butt Minorities Play Into Foes' Hands Barkley Asserts BIRMINGHAM Ala Apnl (AP)— Vice President Alben 13 w Barkley warned Alabama Democrats last night that any permanent party split would have tragic results He did nbt mention name the states' rights movementbywhich carried Alabama and! three other southern states last November Nor did he speak directly of the civil rights proposals which led to the party split But he did assert that "minority parties" however sincere their members "are unwittingly playing into the hands of those who would destroy us" He also declared the "equal rights" clause in the party platform must "mean equal rights to enjoy the fruits of our nation" "Otherwise it is but a sham and a pretense" he said "and will be used against us!" Barkley spokeSat a Jefferson-Jackso- n day dinner held to raise funds for the national Democratic treasury Barkley was introduced by Sen- Md OB laga Two-A- J iCo'amn TOOA i $15-a-pla- te Air Force's Job Congress Told A-Bo- mb WASHINGTON April 13 (AP) — in a navy vs air force battle over money Rep Cannon shouted to the house de today that air force bombers — not navy planes--woulliver the atom bomb to Moscow if war comes (D-M- o) d What the United States must do Cannon said is equip other nations for ground force fighting while building air power capable of dealing a knockout blow to any aggressor within three weeks Cannon is chairman of the appropriations committee He was defending its proposed appropriation for the navy against an attack by Rep Vinson Vinson sought to add S300oooooo for the navy to a record peacetime ir 916000000000 force bill drawn up by Cannons committee Vinson asserted that the budget bureau and Cannon's Committee had cut "the very vitals out of the particularly the naval air navy" arm In reply Cannon swung into a discussion ef possible strategy in a war with Russia If Russia attacks he said d planes must be in a position to deliver the atom bomb within three weeks to every military center in that nation Otherwise he declared Russia would occupy the whole European continent in 60 days Cannon said the signing of the Atlantic treaty assures that bases will be available from which the atom bomb can be delivered on Moscow and Russian industry (D-G- a) army-navy-a- land-base- Uncle Sam Tells Veterans They're Expected to Pay WASHINGTON April 13 (AP)— The veterans administration served notice today that it expects meet terans to pay up on their G loans in full or in past Debts to the government resulting from defaulted loans will he waived only in ''meritorious le agency said Since tue G I loan acted In 1044 VA has paid against guaranteed loans totaling about $10000000 on behalf of 11200 veterans Claims j currently are being paid at the rate of 480 to 500 a month 1 t half of the debts resulted from business loans F W Kelsey assistant VA ad rninistrator for finance said today the agency is setting up a procedure to determine what f anv- thing a veteran owes the goveui-meon a defaulted G I loan A committee is being created in each VA - regional officea with au- Sr a tl to aeciae i oruy wnetner all or part of the amount paid in settlement of a veteran's defaulted loan i to be waived collected in full or adjusted An over-a-ll committee will be set up in VA headquarters here It will nave original jurisdiction in esses involving over $3500 and will pass upon appeals from decisions of the regional committees More (D-G- a) fewin $50-0000- l a- AS April 13 the market "so the price stays Tne administration put in a(AP)fof bid high" and it doesn't make sense for housewife sunnort of to him— The American DCfloAa today its new farm progfam promising don't have to write their laws so cneaper iooa that this kind of system is perBut on Capitol Hill Representa petuated" live Pace a top farm 3 It's difficult to find leader declared the program gives a market becoming in the services or armed no assurances that food prices will in Europe for foodstuffs bought come down Instead he said it under the present price support mean might merely bigger profits tor tne middlemen who hattpp have $50000000 sell the things people by the end of thisspent process and he told year" eat the consumer group "in maintainLook at wheat Pace suggested: ing a price (for eggs) of 35 cents A big drop in the price paid the a dozen to the farmer If we don't farmers hasn't lessened the price get rid of these frozen or dried me nousewne pays lor Dread years we will take a A battle shaped up between egS)in backers of: (1) the present Drin- "Under the new program we ciple whereby the government would let the price of eggs to contakes over surpluses so farmers sumers go down and use the can get fair prices in the market to pay the farmer to go on places and (2) the new proposal producing and keep that price of that would let many foods sell as 35 cents a dozen tow as the markets offer with the "That's all there is to the recomgovernment paying the difference mendations we have made to conbetween what the fanners sell for gress and whit the government considThe new program if adopted ers a fair price would support storable crops such The support by government loans SB wheat corn cotton tobacco on surplus production is effective rice and peanuts through the presthis year Any new program wSH ent loan program This works on not take over until I860 the principle of holding surpluses Secretary of Agriculture Bran- - out of the market and keeoissf nan made the play for housewife level deemed fair to new farm policv backing of tne But perishable crops — such as proposal in a spsath before the economic action conference of the eggs and potatoes — would be alLeague Of the Unit- lowed to sell in the market at what ed States He said price they will bring Then the 1 He expects the government teasers wooM be paid by the govwill be buying pork within 60 days ernment the difference between to hold nrices up and he does what the crops sold for and the not know where it can be stored price the government determines 2 About $9000000 a week is to tie a fair to the pro- being spent: to take potatoes out ducera 00 U N Assembly Delays Action On Israel's Bid NEW YORK April IS CAP)— The United Nations' assembly voted today to sidetrack Israel's bid for U N: membership into its sanation political committee The upset vote was 31 to IB for sending the issue to the committee for further debate at Lake Success instead of taking quick action In a plenary meeting of the assembly here Seven nations abstained The assembly's action followed a move led by the Arab countries to reverse last week's recommendation of the assembly's steering committee This body had proposed final action without further preliminaries Delay Several Weeks 14-nat- Todav's decision is exDectori of federal action would be a gram "more lespoustee to needs of the people' Specifically Mr Truman for legislation which congress would weld togs the virtually all federal activities in the Columbia valley under a central authority fuiSj he s bring the resources of the 'into a iflfmftdL ly developing Tnis would mean a of the work now being done in the Columbia valley by the Of reclamation the Bonnevill er administration of the department and the assay Tffia cwidation will not only for a balanced est worksconstructing power transmi -- to delay a final vote on the Israeli application possible for Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan Pakistan foreign minister toldlta general assembly he felt the Israeli application should be sent to a committee for full diseus- ataQ before any final action ne called on the fore to reject a of Us steering commit tee for a decisive vote m plenary meeting without further prelim-snarie- s His declaration won applauae from the Arab countries which poae action now on Israel Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen supported Zafrullah Khan s proposal to send the application to the assembly's tton political committee Over LAKI srrrKss Anrii is (Am 66-nati- on The United Nations' assembly over Kussian protests will debate tne prosecution Of churchmen by t w o of non-membe- rs for flood control navigation power generation and transmission fish protection and other purposes" M' Truman said is plain common sense that the planning and operation of the system of river structures is a job for a single agency" Mr Truman add ed He said it would be po to build most of the "It from ox i st Cm fcdcr3 accno ip hesitation or delay m the Outside of he for the CVA he he i n i? de- - tion ofjCederal activities in the Riisp saaiis to Pasple the U N Hun- Josef Cardinal Mlndsienty in Hun gary and tne is Protestant cnurcft men sentenced in Bulgaria Relief Aid Held Political Case h fee tiMCVAbe m an °f teglin level then asicv -in to of the Pacific tional policies for that region flawing tele - chargea with political activity it was disclosed by the United States ' er has authority to waive or compromise all or part of the in- Kolsey said in a statement that ing "meritorious cases" include those in which the veteran la found without fault where rocovoty would be inequitable and Wattle enforced oayment would result in undue hardship on the eeMSSStefl his family BAGHDAD April 13 TAP) — A reliable Baghdad source pijL $£ day Russian airplanes have been fiymg across Iranian and Iraqi frontiers during the past week The source who did not perm it iaaVSBfication said the Russian planes approached Iraq from the least living rrom toe Iranian of Bench and Saqqiz toll him n she" understood he" held for investigation E5 that she had engaged in fie Oregon and last anmiflioruoUars m property Two Min Objectives Tne presUsnt told cungresa today "that he had "two main objectives m developing American natural resources There should be unified treatment of the related resources within each natural area of the coun-try-genera- lly the watershed of a ee Russ Planes Fly Over Iran Iraq -- tamed m the region itself calling for CVA consultation with state and teal governments and civic rthwest PRAGUE Ciexfroslsvakla Aaril 13 AP Miss Vlasta Vraz head Washington of the American relief for Czech- - year mad tour Of Vi — ' h seda ulr leTs said "the et gary and Bulgaria The decision was reached late yesterday on a 30 to 7 vote with its basic accountability to the the Soviet Union and its satellites An unusual in opposition of nations— 20— declined to 6JBhe region than the presei The Scandinavian nations the charges of violations of rights should be handled first un der the peace treaties with Hungary net to and Bulgaria The cases at kvma are those at policy In setting Vraz' listed as Berwyn Ill a bof Chieaeo Miss Vraz was planning to leave 'or the United States in the mid dle of May for a holiday friends recently she wa tain she would return to VA May Waive cslovakia Her office here is The G I bill provides that where the VA has to make good eat view of the on its of a veteran's deThe chief United faulted loan the amount constitutes a debt owed by the veteran officer in Prague to the government The VA how-ev- 3w Hiss Vraz in gua-ant- tions WOUld government closer to the Closer to the grass roots ' The president said his 58-na- nt WASHINGTON d?t!!? ber -- Brannan Seeks Housewife Backing of Farm Program April 13 (UP—President Truman to- to establish huge Columbia river ad-ministration patterned after the 'spectacularly successful'' Tennessee valley authority Mr Truman in a lengthy message to the house end senate gave no cost figures for toe enormous project but he called for "unified treatment" of the related resources of the Columbia river valley encompassing public power irrigation reclamation and flood control WASHINGTON th r ::! the greatest possible decentralisa tion of federal powers and the greatest possible local participation in incur exercise without le ing the necessary accountablli ty of federal ofDctaH to the Mis activity Four Dead Many Tanker Collides With Freighter Storm in Injured MARCUS Hook Pa April 13 MANCHESTER Ga April IS (AP) — A tanker ant a freighter CAP) — Four persons were killed collided if heavy fog in Delaware and 32 injure i last nisht when bay early today Fire burned windstorms exploded fiercely aboard the shins for five powerful n across Georgia Prop- hours before being brought under control There were no casualties erty damage was high Mancnester ebulon and Grifoi°tnS fin in Georgia were other wewth? 1 chain-fashio- west-centr- Wtoli al hit by tomadic winds A pint-size- d tornado cut through a rural area in Walker county in extreme northwest Georgia The Bethany community near McDonough in central Georgia was struck by winds a few hours 7607 ton freighter T"K rti ' Ctin '' twii va the oil tanker took place about two ah- ftre aaaSaSB |