Show the Weather TempercttiDM OGDEN AND VICINITY— Con- siderable cktadtaess Sunday and Sunday night with showers In the evening Psrtly cloudy Monday with showers over mountains Slightly cooler Sunday afternoon and night and cooler Monday High Monday near 76 low Monday morn-M- ir 4t Goaty winds Sunday IT AH— Considerable cloudiness Sunday with showers north portion Sunday afternoon and evening and portion Sunday -- t The United Associated OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING 24 1949 APRIL Witness Bares Labor Flays Chinese Wood Bill Pole Spy Nest Obnoxious 11 WASHINGTON April 23 (AP)— The house Soys Substitute Worse Than iVH Act Itself un-Ameri- can activities committee produced tonight documentary evidence and testimony under oath that the Polish embassy here has been a nest for spies 40 riff ft lOIcUOVAUOSI on long-rang- one-fift- one-thir- - inter-agenc- This blast at th bill sponsored Vf Rep Wood wth ReIt Indicates that the Poles were publican came from after everything from humdrum George Mtbacking A P L searetary-treasurany economic figures to military super-secre-ts in a radio speech His story told of a RusAs he delivered it house memsian spy master puiLna th measure of howm? bers were straggling back j to the I?e5eifno were they Easter vacacapital from a Collected Documents tion to plunge into a scrap next °urin the war Modelski was week over the controversial labor T undersecretary of war for the Longovernment exiled Labor in unions polish had asked their don He said he collected docmembers to Ion the uments dealing with spyingthewhile congressmen turn the heat their! visits was military attache at the home in an during to line up f attempt Washington embassy from May votes for the administration bifl August introduced by Chairman Lesinski MW he cooperated the house labor comaIon'he with American military intelli- - mittee Thatof measure would repeal and stiii is cooperating y the 1947 ge££e and ireenact The general related the he old walked Wagner act with aiminis-trout with the documents when on he approved changes broke officially with the Transparent Disguise government in sWarsaw He turned them ovf to the comMeany called the Wood bill "a mittee last February so photo- transparent disguise for graphs and translations could be at its worst" and said that made He identified the some of its provisions go even becopies and testified March yond the act in their 31 and April 1 at a closed door ses- Vicious and malicious n sion of a ' subcommittee against organized labor" attacks Chairman Wood was the While actual on debate labor one man bills won't get under way until S°rne of Modelski's paper were - Tuesday house Republicans have sent: in rndc JBiim called a closed-doo- r session Mon- Too SecreP' rw -noon to map out strategy be destroyed after it was readT wne top secret document was a G O P will Hne up rather solidly set of detailed instructions behind the Wood bill If they do Modelski m March 1946 he given said enoueh southern nomowatc I?£?r?Jl came to this country He join them to throw the adminisrr they dealt with "what fields union s u aside and pass the are to be covered and which way Wood measure late in the week the spy network must be set As a practical matter the Wood up" W Types of Information bill would repeal the y and then reenact most of it It listed 89 kinds of information actNeither measure has been conto get- - 28 sidered by the senate alth uWaisupposed the armed forces and dealing a few senate labor committee has apwith war industries Modelski said the chief of Polish proved the administration' repeal b'ill and the senate espionage in the United States was will take it up after the house setCol Gustaw man who was his deputy militarya tles its scrap attache in name only This aide Fills Entir Program he said controlled in The labor fight fills the! entire Mexico and Canada spy rings program for next week The general testified that he be- house It will be followed probaply by lieves Dr I boosting the minimum wage atomic scientist ran a network ain bill interstate irsciuftrv siv 4i :n to get atomic secrets to tr¥ing 73 cents an hour HP MDOrt save 7WnU By the time that's out iof the connected at times with various way house committees expect to American colleges and universities ' er Taft-Hartle- at -- ed Taft-Hart-leyi- photo-graph- ic Unran W ey one-ma- (D-G- a) — frS2E5 jl— Taft-Hartle- 1 MOdelSkl tPStlflArl inThfsdc it1?"V nore - fJi:!i- — — mmmtfW that ha ZldT A held next week XT - Zli w f a t e t O" schools : ): :!t' lXOS snmeasures T The senate which didn't get an smwr lrecess nas Dassea a long- tt FiS-i- waine lime P? Db"? Civil r:gh'-- 1 matte But after a while he said he began to get back complaints from vnai ne was merely send was jin tho now nanf-o ing What tj ottTrVmH" r v — V OT iicvi wj r- Jl mits in housin LjVore ":vr kV: tiv aw eiSunrJ" kio' the hpus bank- 'ngcommiwee next week aid l aHon t?Ps theSonate's aiuuft Tin r" n? Ruth halkarl : ewasaa rssi where there opposition to 1 'H-- : b!l (R-Wa- UU1M uu OUS - 1 - du-re- au 'No More Birthdays Says Shirfejjr Figures She s Getting Too Old (UP)-Shir- w ' -- L WIUVll kiiiii tfc J JWWSl lUUIlWCU — UN roe atomic project ai naniora Wash during the war and the Bonneville project Grand Coulee is the largest sin-power plant in the world but only half of its 18 generators have been installed The reclamation bureau is at work on a reclamation project using water from this dam that will irrigate about 1000000 acres 1 The two dams supply the bulk of the public power in the northwest and sell this power through the Bonneville power administraH The reaction of many farm people in the northwest has been one of lets look it over" before "7 the CVA plan Ar - : PRICE 10 CENTS 000000 Communists Reported SSO-mi- ie a m mal Sj? jj lyfS of troops into Yangtze river but from the capital said tte first units marched through the 'aaallllBBal or anKing s set ancient city hours ahead of schedule 1 Construction of the world's largest aircraft carrier whose keel Is shewn above uay oy an oraer irom Defense Secretary Louis NEW YORK abruptly halted 23 lOOOO WASHINGTON' 23 (UP) — Defense Secretary Johnson's halt order on construction of a toper aircraft carrier kills permanently the navy's plan to build the 65000-- t on "atom bomb" vessel a defense department spokesman said late Saturday It was a defeat for navy planer ners and a victory for those advocates who want strategic bombing kept exclusively in the hands of the air force Only last Monday the navy said the keel of the big flat top to have been christened the USS United States had been laid at Newport News Va Navy spokesmen at the time scoffed at rumors that the project would be called off The warship would have cost about $220000000 to build and equip with planes It was designed by the navy to fly heavy bombers capable of carrying atomic bombs The first hint that something had come unstuck in the navy's plans was dropped by President Truman at a White House news conference Thursday Mr Truman said cryptically that he did not know officially that the keel actually had been laid despite formal navy announcements and photographs of the event A defense department spokesman added another puzzling twist today He said new commitments for supplies and parts for the carrier had been stopped 10 days ago — five days before the navy arranged the Keel laying publicity jonnson s wrse stop order was addressed to Navy Secretary John lb Sullivan It made it plain that he is backing the air force spokesmen who feared the navy was trying to usurp their role of strategic bombing "With further reference to the proposed aircraft carrier the US S United States" he told Sullivan "I have now received the views of the chiefs of staff and after careful consideration and discussion of the matter with the president I have reached the conclusion thai appropriate orders should be issued of the discontinuing construction vessel" air-pow- couples H RIVERSIDE (UP) — A Jacobson Metropolitan Life Insurance company statistician reported today Jacobson said the number was about less than the d figure for 1947all-ti- and less than the high of 626000 in 1946 "The rata of marital dissolu-- ti ns in 1948 was still the fifth highest in our history exceeding the rate for every year prior to 1944" Jacobson said The rate listed for 1948 was 28 per 1000 population For 1946 it was 44 per 1000 and in 1944 it was 29 per 1000 "In general" Jacobson said "the frequency of marital dissolutions increases as one moves from east to west and from north to south" one-seven- Wreck Seriously Hurls Ogdeuile BRIG HAM CITY April 23— Mrs Arnold L Murphy 32 2621 Adams was seriously injured today at three-te- n p m when the automobile she was driving plunged from U S highway 9 six miles north of here: Mrs Murphy's condition at Si Benedict's hospital late Saturday was reported as serious She reportedly suffered head and internal injuries Sheriff Warren W Hyde of Box Elder county said Mrs Murphy was apparently traveling north at a high rate of speed and lost control of her machine The car plunged through a ditch skidded on its side rolled through a fence and ended up in an alfalfa field The car was almost demol Sheriff Hyde said investigation was continuing He was assisted in the investigation bv Trooner AHrich Wood of the str- h:Aav patrol 1 - - Officials Worry About Strikes WASHINGTON April 23 ' UP — Government officials said today that nationwide steel and coal strikes may break out this summer They voiced "serious concern" about strike possibilities as the United Mine Workers and United Steel workers (C L O) called wage policy committees into strategy sessions Philip Murray C I O and president reportedly has told eBnjamin Fairless president of the U S Steel Corp that he will no longer play "second fiddle to John L Lewis" on the issue of pensions and insurance Fairless granted such a program to U M W employes of his company's coal mines Murray wants one for his steelworkers Other sources said they are convinced that Murray is ready to call his 1000000-membunion out of the mills this year to force the industry to grant demands for $150 a month pensions medical care and health insurance Murray will meet with his noliev committee in Pittsburgh May 5 Negotiations on wages and welfare matters can begin June 16 ussier the present agreement and the union is free to strike after July 17 By that date Lewis' miners may be idle unless they get a new wa ge contract before July 5 Membe rs steel-worke- rs 3-- policy an coaasnlt-to- e are on their way to Washingtheir strategy meeting be- ton for ginning Monday The miners are to ask expected that the coal operators double their 20 cents a ton contribution to the U M W welfare and retirement fund and that the work day be re- duced from eight to six hours with no reduction in pay The present contract will June 30 But the miners expire begin their annual vacation est June 25 Unless a new agreement is signed they will not return to their jobs on July 5 under their 10-d- ay no-wo- rk policy Miss Rich currently appearing in the New York production of "As the Girls Go" at the Winter Garden theatre said she met John Owen for the first time about five years ago during an inspection of cattle on his ranch Saw Him Two Weeks Age She said she had not seen him until two weeks ago when he came to Washington to testify before congress on rent control and had visited New York "I had dinner with him and we went to shows several times but that was all" Miss Rich said Mrs Gamier was Owen's confidential secretary- She told officers who held her on suspicion of murder that Owen the president of the National Apartment Owners' association ems estranged from his wife who repeatedly had refused to give him a divorce so he could marry his secretary Mrs Owen she told Virion had no objection to his marrying the actress Two year's ago Miss Rich made her last picture Long known as asm eg Hollywood's most beautiful women ate is approaching the 60 s She recently bought a ranch near Owen's Jurmt rancho a 130 acre estate and had frequently been seen in company with Owen investigators said Known Her for Years Mrs Gamier said Owen had known the actress for years but had recently revived the acquaintance on his trip to New York ami Washington Mrs Gamier told of coming to the Owen ranch vesterdav and noticing a new cocktail set which she believed was a present from to actress The supposed gift touched off e bitter two-hoargument at the climax of which Mrs Gamier ad0 mitted grabbing a caliber revolver and firing it at Owen's back Virion said She bad at first denied her affection for Owen "I've taken care of him for years when he was sick and drunk and ur 32-2- CHMKt K QUUd I'O-SI- king describes in the ing dispatch the fall of a plan t take over at Sunday without hours between the flights Chinese officials and the arrival oi me Bv n China AstH Anarchy reigned 111 ttttS city ef almost 2 ooo ooo today No authority existed t Nanking CUP) — There for wayfarers in the At dawn tl rA:'i of the charged with the v ltt :tl of i doned the city At sever m E S T Saturday) the cor ists were and take over Civic Yangtze om t o w cc To welcome lead-- o t" strongest' tihdiUttd"I1IofOUld? In the 2 intervening hours cropped uj todaV°when°a chaos reigned Utilities failed and signed by mora than loo there was neither electricity nrofeasora appaared It water fteaytai condemned the nnnminlno look Late in the afternoon civic ers and called for peace f to maVi-feef- o teL Phone Circuits Cut AI telenhnn pimilta out naming and Shanghai ally ooen but were iammeH with traffic and Constantly breaking doocnow so miles northwest of r tary observers here as the fective defense line against the ad vancing red armlM nrn iKmlnnl by nationalist troops this morning The editor nf the Whnm r K News informed The United Pre by telephone thai the bulk of tte c vernment force Ipft Hnnno H niaht and the nilloH out this morning He mid only the local milita was left to keep order in the city of oouwuu on tne isanking-Shangha- i railway 1 bt rear-mar- rl MaWal tteown slowed formed their police to their properties during wh ised to be a wild night of ire the first looted were the fices and the res President Li Tsung-Jewhere the housekeeper helped the looters carry off their apftlli so she could A--- "'g n Many looters ami riaSSSftrfJjgp reported shot later in the day mr emergency police guards and the slowed down Plllttel ioting outbreaks were expectedted£HH The cit s American population of 259 and other foreign nationals were telseved safe Other com- pounds w- -e a shamMeSk To the people of Nanking the Choa said 'The city government is winding up its affairs and OUt DUlling but businet i onms on this morning as usual All the rrunists thin they bad for the gov- local newspapers published today We plan t keep publishing as long as we can At eleven a m the citv was quiet There will be no batHere is a chronological account tle here- ' u velopments today: Earlier today the Shanghai garMidnight to four a m Saturday: rison headauartera riVnieH that Nanking's and rearguard Soochow had been evacuated and units of tr police 45th army covering the insisted the city would be "de- nationalist retreat began a general J fended to the last man" H The soldiers were from defeat but haggard Occupied maintaining discipline and Nationalist troops In Shanghai the campus of the Americanoccupied The sound of across the -owned Saint John's iiiilsm river died down firing for fte except as slty precautionary measure snarp crack of a rtfJe - to Vivian she and Owen drava SIAMESE TWINS BORN from Los Angeles Friday afternoon HAMBURG Germany April 23 to supervise redecorating in the BRAVE CONVICTS PARDONED lHr — Siamese twin sisters were ranch house I generally spent SANTIAGO Chile April 23 born in Dortmund last at the ranch" Virion Unnjej' mmjiemjs as (UP) — One hundred convicts and are still alive although their quoted her mying have been pardoned because of mother died in their delivery hos a maid told offt- their heroic rescue work last pital officials said today Between cers she was upstairs when she when the Traiguen prison e nave two needs heard a shot She ran downstairs tens hearts giris destroyed by an earthouake it jssjaa three hands but only was announced today two legs - vation the man" In Coal and Steel 200-m- Calif gray-haire- one-thir- of Lewis' all-o- April 23 d widow confessed today that aba was driven to fatally shoot her millionaire employer John E Owen 68 by her fear that he planned to 0t her and wed Movie Actress Irene Rich the sheriffs office revealed Owen nationally known real estate man was slain by a single bullet In bis back in his $900000 ranch house last night Mrs Agnes Gamier manager of his vast properties admitted she fired the shot after an argument over his threats to leave her and marry the aging star Deputy Sheriff M L Vi v ion said District Attorney William O Mackey scoffed at the jealous rage motive and claimed the shooting took place during an argument over Owen's drinking last night Commenting on the report Him Rich in New York said: 'That's so silly I hardly knew th Miles From Shanghai Communist guerrillas within only 10 reported operating miles of Shanghai cutting across the communications of disorganzed nationalist armies which were 1st full retreat along an irregular 450- mue tront stretching One rH rnlumn rvnni-- A important rice growing center 70 railea northwest of Shanghai early this morning and was reported xo link up with liming soumwara communist forces driving OS n irom ine t leaders iKea or neutral nu the city could fall "within davs At least 500 communist lindlff ground leaders are known to be ready to emerge in Shanghai if anarchy similar to that which shattered Nankin? hreakc nut The Shanghai garrison author ities and municipal police c evjeau leaders are "under Carrier Order 416000 Marriages Widow Admits Went on Rocks' Defeat for During Last Year Slaying of (UP)— April Approximately Navy Planners ended their marriages through Rich Employer divorce or annulment in the April United States last year Paul er Aline Mosbv rswiMed on the cake in brown and ley pmx trosting HOLLYWOODrApril 23 He stoooed to ffivo hor ai 1: Temple gave her twenty 1 r while the news rami fUnu t oinnaay party today and the jockeys sang R22i!9Lfnd decided it's prob-l- y 10 XOU oinnaay the last one Then the star who still had on the powder blue dress false eve- Hollywood will make a fuss over lasnes and long hair "fall gki She figures she's wears in a movie dove into the too old getting presents that some of her pals 'When a eets to he 21 gig ho Lon McCallister gave starts to - forget 1 dooxs Mary Lou Hurford who birthdavsbeen Shirley's stand she she captured the world s heart at said Shirley Temple atodoTer As usual Shirley now a millionslipped her a pair of airess and a tmwnim hoantv nolo PePfier shakers - : And brated her birthday with mostly portly Director Buth to wipe h: eyes thn- grangers aurina luncn nour on a face tie of perfume in her hand movie set "From the fifth birthday to the Two grey horses some Jockeys card read "Ybu are and a cast and crew helned her 21st" asthesweet now von — just gobble tin B hia rmA anrt arklta ihea T brrthday cake at a horse farm Butler was directing Shirley's where her latest movie "Always movies nn hor fifth lvth wl Together" is on location enth i too birthdays -Director David Rntler ntnnruwi And she looks just the same" shooting while a cook from the he added Warner studio commissary put the Shirley dashed to her dressing three-lavo- r ralro nn ho tnKlo n KiK room to ODen a hi whit Kov had a horse's cooling sheet as a Agar gave her laoie cioin "i won t tell what it i? - 10 said all dimnles and smiles "It s a so her husband John "Rut not eras" an extra one to grow on Her mother- thought the present 'i don t want to grow any more" said Shirley firmly Shirlev sain" sh wouMo't An Willi Am hM hr UanA Ght special celebrating tonight ley cut the first piece right through to dinner with mv in jusxshego said the "Happy Birthday Shirley" By rs i - other major bills "tio s program inciUd- w" presiaeni "e-l- th aid to hou IMlll thtom1KWlth elvinS - wnicn nearmgs wm be - 81 01 : v IMatBtA ftinmiccirvn PAmnwpH rif four people from—the states princiIdaho Oregon pally involved Montana — and one Washington and be other- person There also would 7 man advisory council recommended by the governors of the sour siaies iao uu- juvci i Wyoming in which part of the projects will be located Sane Objective Horan said the objective of the mc fill! Vinn nrnmmlir is th development of northwestern re- sources dui me meuiuu in ac it would be ciifterent complishing im that 14 vairl i hie main differ under his plan the people of the region would nave more xo say about the program Twelve mainr (fame already have been built in the Columbia area by ana ine recuanuuon the army ' OaiU ey Alef-Bolkowa- ik Polanrl as Anarcny imps atretca of tne along an stems Communist leaden ted act seven Nankingas today as the hour of tte fat entrance their Reds Awaited the j (D-Mic- h) Tait-Hartl- 34 5 The communist radio said 1000- red soldiers already were across the shattered YangUe river defense line driving southward ana tens or every ho munists said they held every port to-la- Taft-Hartl- SECTIONS PAGES-fO-UR SI 000 I 10-d- ay i fSUI BaMsa4 (D-G- a) "There would have been a trial tion of the people of the northwest ' ' " ' uu IIU IWU Cava being an 2JS8S agent a "fas Another CVA proposal also be cist" onprrss was imroaucea oy -' 'Ji said are included in an official army-reclamati- i Pk" aaeaflaH Taft-Hartle- dminister n SHANGHAI Sunday April 34 (UP)— Vast communist armies were driving into south Chins against little or no resistance today and Shanghai the country's larg- est city WSS in imminent peril A report from the abandoned nationalist capital of Nats-kin- g said a communist force of between 300000 and 500000 men began moving into the capital at five a m (four p m Saturday e s t) to take over the city from the red underground leaders who seised control after government officials and troops evacuated yesterday " committee report MShtrUn 43 wilf "v?uJ so Across Yangtze Driving South' sup-jMs- WASHINGTON April 28 (AP)— An estimate of $2300000000 total cost was tacked by officials tonight to the recommendations for a new Columbia river development program announced this week The coordinated program was set forth by the bureau of reclamation and the army engineers for development of the vast area in seven northwestern states— Washington Oregon Montana Idaho Utah Wyoming and Nevada President Truman has proposed that a Columbia valley9 authority be created to coordinate and the great undertaking More than 60 irrigation power navigation and flood control projects are included in the new program Some already are under construction Others have been authorized for construction by congress or previously were recommended by the bureau of reclamation or the army Bureau and" army officials said it depends upon congress how soon the program can be completed but they estimated all the projects be under construction with- aught in 10 years Mere Than 108 Other More than 100 other projects e were included in a pro-developed by the Bm bureau and the army But these would be constructed over a period of perhaps 50 years If a valley authority is created by congress it would take over the whole development The bureau of reclamation and army engineers have proposed that they divide the work and carry on in cooperation with other agencies The reclamation bureau would have primary responsibility for and related power projects It is estimated more than 5000000 acres of land can be supplied with irrigation water from new projects h Experts say less than Of the area's power possibilities d have been exploited Almost of the nations potential hydroelectric power could come from the area The army would have responsi-bilii- v of developing flood control navigation and power projects Those Already Authorized The army - reclamation bureau mai wiey carry ror plan suggested n mi nlrearlv author irrd cooperating with the Columy committee bia Thia committee has advisorv nowers only President Truman nrooosed creation of a valley authoutv consisting of a board of three directors such as the Ten- gmwee valley authority The CVA would have to seek the m LVknm ?j Reds in Nanking 1 documents and the testimony were d WASHINGTON Apjil 23 by General Izyador Rudolf Modelski a former embassy The A F L served no(AP)— official whose appointment backfired on Poland's communist tice on congress today that it roirime -i Buuul s ' a coalition substiconsiders si testimony points to at least Ifl two espionage networks operating tute for the administration la out of the embassy one supposedly bor bill as obnoxious— or specializing in atomic secrets the more so — than y the other branching into Canada and act which Mexico the unions want Modelski s papers and what he repealed Twenty-seve- n Estimated at $2300000000 S oillh"r st ai rem imminent K911U11U Former Embassy Official Says Data Of All Types Sought by 2 Networks 1 £ Vnrk Tear— No 102 Seventy-eight- h 17' r ti SB Saga)' Booi About the Average American Witt Counter Russian Propaganda j By Norman Walker WASHINGTON April 23 (AP) The government today fired a word picture of the American working man to counter Rus sia s propaganda the U S worker is a slave victim of imperialism ami Wall afreet The book entitled "The Gifts of Freedom ' is designed to tell the worker in foreign countries "how hia American counterpart lives precisely and without fact-fille- d The booklet says candidly there buTte iffiRl''nWS'HMi At our halt our direction" It says we have the of free enterprise and free Plus retard for individual along with the economic capacity to conquer our shortcomings And even more than our p easure 'We want to those free institutions of free It's a product of the labor de- which are imbedded in the partment s bureau of labor statis- marrow of any democratic tics and is based on factual am mag structure — that indeed ! P ftajSailJ at the invitation of the Of suite department it will be booklet m mtb'ications anc Si with gi—wfrg white Ewan Clague labor ?t :if k and d reporters in a typical of the book of labor contract counter- - union meetings strike storv higher wages public statement of libraries: It may be prosaic to the industrial American but that' chine hi ry: plant safety devices and tnis is — picture of homeandroomS toilet facilities St it 142-pa- ge weU-filie- d - |