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REPUBLIC BULLDOG 1 AM, A 56th Year, No. 304 16 Pages Monday, March 18, 1946 elepnone 3-J111. Sinele copies 5c daily, 10c Sunday. SI. 25 per mo.

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O. as kccond-class mattar under Art of Con cress March 3. 1S79. iniaae Oi Air Eleanor Roosevelt, Here For Lecture, WarLndUate TKTf rxjpposes uiikj nange HH B5 BAKBARA ROBINSON VnTO ill IV IRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, who arrived here yester- 1V1 day, a day early for her first formal lecture in the United States following her return as a United Nations conference delegate, believes the present United Nations Organi- zation shoul be made to serve the immediate necessities 11 IT fl fi IsUpened By PEG MAGIE DAWN had outlined the mountains in rose but the moon still was high yesterday; morning as tne first Arizona Airways plane took off from Sky Harbor on a loop that from now on will provide regularly-scheduled airline service to seven communities within the slate.

Five passengers boarded the 20-place Douglas at Phoenix, making the initial run as guests of the airline. They were Roy J. Heyne, city manager; Dan Garvey, secretary of state; Lewis Hans, general manager of the phoenix Chamber of Commerce; Ray J. Trees, Phoenix photographer; and an Arizona Republic reporter. Four crew members completed the group that took off at approximately 6:15 a.

m. The twin-engined DC-3 with its gay Thunderbird insignia was scheduled to leave at 5:45, hut delayed waiting for Miss Anna Sue Amman, desert, citrus queen. She! 1 1 VVn Hm-iin hV the army at an estimated WASHINGTON, Mar. 17 (AP) Any day this year congress may declare World War II at an end. That's about the best guess on an official termination.

The date never has been set be cause so many wartime laws and regulations expire whenever it arrives. President Truman has asked congress to go slow fixing the legal termination because ne says ne needs manv wartime powers to help taper things off to a peace time basis. But don't think people aren't worrying about it. A house judiciary subcommittee, busy trying to work out some solution. ha traced 448 separate laws and directives depending for continuance on the war end date.

"What we're doing now." Chair man Sam Hohbs. Democrat. Ala bama, told a reporter, "is analyzing each one of these laws to Inul out if we can get along without them. "We're about, two-thirds the way through all those laws. It's a real job.

I'll tell you. And one of these days, real soon now, we hope, we'll write a bill to abolish all of them with some few exceptions." Hobbs said he couldn't tell what date will be finally selected but it very likely will be the day the bill the subcommitte is working on actually is signed by the President. "Will that be this year?" Hobbs was askea. "Oh I certainly hope so," the chairman replied. "We've got to get back to normal as soon as we can." Wisconsin Unit Goes Republican PORTAGE.

Mar. 17 AP Wisconsin Progressives, after a stormy meeting in which they fought out. their political luture at a state-wine party coniere.ice, voted today to rejoin the Repub licans, from whom they cut loose in 1934 to form their own or ganization. The vote was 284 to rejoin the Republican party, 67 to retain the Progressive label and 51 to join the Democrats. The vote camp after Sen.

Robert M. LaFollette, one of the parly's founders 12 years ago, told the delegates that he was convinced that the Republican party of Wis consin offered us the nest opportunity of advancement of progressive principles." Hot Debate Waged Decision to abandon the Progres sive party label came after five hours of debate in which 42 delegates took the floor to discuss the party organization. "The democratic party has able, liberal men whom I have worked with," Senator La Follett said, "but the party now is stalled on dead It can not act with sufficient unity to meet its problems and many of these able liberal leaders are resigning in disgust." The Progressive party, whose membership has been limited almost exclusively to Wisconsin, reached the peak of its influence in 193B when Progressives captured most state offices and elect ed seven congressmen. 17 state senators and 48 assemblymen. Party Group Wanes The party had been on the -wane since 1938 when a Democratic-Republican coalition was formed to break the Progressive hold.

At that time, Phillip La Follette, a brother of Senator La Follette, was defeated in his campaign for re-election as governor. Since then the Republicans have tightened their hold on state offices and the legislature. Frequent clashes marked today's conferences, largely as a re sult of efforts by a minority group of delegates from lake shore communities who favored entering the ranks or the Democratic party. Many delegates who had previously expressed a desire to maintain a separate organization voted lor the Republican affiliation after Senator La Follette spoke. "--SMS.

4t 'S Htm 7. ension High In Tehran By HOMER JENRS LONDON, Mar. 17 (UP) Reliable sources said tonight that Russian experts were conducting secret negotiations with the Iranian government for oil concessions and press dispatches reported that a revolutionary outbreak in the Iranian capital might be imminent. It was reported that Iranian Army reinforcements were moved into the capital but it was not made clear whether Ahmad Ghavam Es-Sultaneh. pro-Russian premier, or anti-Russian army lenders were moving them.

The dispatches said that Ghavam vhs Inking extraordinary precautions to guard against a revolutionary coup. At the same time diplomatic sources here believed that Ghavam, while trying to give the appearance of opposing Russian demands, was secretly negotiating oil concessions with the Soviet Union. It was added lhat the Iranian government, was studying a oro- iposal made by Sir Reader Bullard, retiring British ambassador, to refer the question of Iranian oil resources to the United Nations. This plan, it was asserted, has been forwarded to Hussein Ala, Iranian ambassador in Washington, for his opinion on the advisability of submitting Ihe economic aspect of ihe Russian-Iranian dispute to the UNO. Iranian Holiday Near But events were moving swiftlv and dispatches indicated a belief that an outbreak by the left wing.

Todeh party, Azerbaijan separatists or even the army might be near. It was pointed out that the Iranian new year holiday, when all government departments will close for five days, starts Thursday and disnatches said this might be the zero hour. Dispatches said that before the reported moving of reinforcements the Tehran garrison comprised two infantry divisions, one cavalry division, one heavy and two light artillery regiments and a weak air force. Dispatches said that roads leading to Tehran were under watch dav and night, that signal posts had been established on high ground around the capital and that special radio receiving sets had been installed on war ministry buildings. Secret acents were reported active both in Tehran and Russian-occupied territory.

Two secret agents were reported shot nt Ma-rand, northwest of Tabriz in the rebel Azerbaijan zone occupied by the Russians. Reds Loot Houses It was also said that at Garm-sar. which the Russians said they would evacuate but did not. Russian troops killed one Iranian and wounded five who tried to stop looting of houses. Eleven Iranians were arrested, it was said, and leading citizens appealed to Tehran.

It was also said that bomhs believed to have been thrown bv Tudehists Saturday damaged homes of two right-wing leaders. Whatever the correct situation, including the reports of Russian-Iranian negotiations, diplomatic quarters expected a climax within a few days, certainly before the United Nations Security Council meets in New York one week from tomorrow. Diplomatic sources agreed that any Soviet troop movements in Iran were designed solely to force that country to give Moscow the privilege of exploiting oil and not to threaten Turkey. Russia's eoal. informants said, was believed to be what Ihe Russians might call an "aereed settlement" of the oil question, and.

at the same time, other Russian-Iranian problems in time to stave off anv further action by the UNO. Delayed Mail Due In Japan TOKYO. Mar. 17 (AP The Durham Victory, tentatively due to reach Yokohama Tuesday, is probably the most eagerly-awaited ship in the world. She is carrying mail, and 200,000 letter-starved GIs in Japan have expanded her load via the rumor route to the amazing total ol 2,000.000 separate missives.

Airmail service having practically collapsed in the past two months of rapid demobilization. letters have been taking more than a month to arrive from the United States and a backlog has been building up in the West coast The soldiers have heard that the Durham Victory is bringing the entire accumulation. The ship sailed from San Francis co Feb. 27. and soldiers have been waiting for her lor several days, but she is not a fast vessel.

An enlarged mail sorting staff stood by at the Seventh Base Post Office to day just in case. Army postal authorities say she is supposed to be carrying 331.000 pounds of packages and letters, including delayed airmail. Russians Withdraw From Danish Island ROENNE. Bornholm. Mar.

17 (AP) Truck and narrow-gauge railway trains loaded with departing Sov iet troops and equipment rolled into this port city today as the Russians began evacuating the strategic Danish island of Bornholm at the entrance to the Baltic sea. The methodical evacuation of the 24-mile-long island off Sweden's southern tip began a little more than 10 months after Russian forces seized it from the Germans and thus created Denmark's most deli-catwartime problem Hospital Proposal Gets Boost CONVERSION OF the Papago I'nrk prisoner ol war hospital to a temporary veterans hospital was one step nearer realization yester day after an inspection by Veterans Administration olticials from the San Francisco branch office. Lt. Col. G.

I. Crutchett, armv medical officer assigned to the Veterans Administration, and a construction service representative I I 1 i- 1. i of around $3.0.000. The Ivvo returned to San Fran cisco, where they will report to the deputy administrator. After inspecting tlie Papago hos.

pilal unit, where certain modifications were found necessary, Ihe men conferred with Mni. Gen. A. M. 'Put hill, state director of selective service and adjutant general of ihe Arizona National Guard.

General Tut hill is a member of a group working with Governor Osborn. which has already advised the Veterans Administration that enough local doctors would be willing to render part-time services. Doctors Favor Plan General Tut hill said last, night lhat. all doctors from the last war who had been approached concerning the idea had voiced complete approval of the plan. It was indicated that with such an arrangement it would be possible to start the hospital operat ing with less than Ihe normally required permanent staff, necessitating only a half-dozen or so full- time officers.

Construction modifications to the hospital mentioned were changes that, could be made comparatively quickly. General Tuthill said. The hospital presently is under a "freeze" order, received bv Verne Austin, commanding officer at Papago. on March from the Ninth Service Command, allowing 90 days reprieve before it is declared surplus by the war department. The "freeze" order is effective "pending receipt of formal request from the U.

S. Veterans Administration for transfer to it from the war department," according to a telegram received by Governor Osborn from U. S. Sen. Carl Hayden.

The order temporarily restrains removing of equipment and fixtures from the completely modern estab lishment, which includes quarters; lor nurses and doctors. Regional Manager Attends Accompanying the visitors on their visit to General Tuthill was iW. T. Hardavvav, manager of Aii- vin a ottice tor Ihe vcl- era ns anminiMi ai iuii, nut no.e; jurisdiction does not extend to vet-! erans hospital facilities in the! state. In addition to General Tuthill.

others working with the governor toward obtaining the Papago unit as a temporary hospital are Dr. G. F. state superintendent of public health, the Rev. Em-mett McLoughlin, superintendent of St.

Monica's Hospital, and representatives from local veterans organizations, including the American Legion. Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans. Tehran Radio Signal Mysteriously Cut Off LONDON. Mar. 17 (Apt- The Ankara radio said tonight the Tehran radio had been off the air since early afternoon.

The broadcast gave no particulars. 00 before any short-cuts are attempted toward great changes. "A great many groups," he said, "aim at great changes without intermediate The statement was made in reference to a resolution ureinsr the UNO be changed into a world federal government "capable of avert ing another war in Ihe atomic era, made Saturday by a group of sciennsis, statesmen, and labor rep resentatives meeting nt Rollins Col lege in Winter Park. Fla Mrs. Roosevelt said that she was not criticizing the resolution that in the end it may be the easiest way to achieve peace, but she maintained it was important, that we learn first how to work together and iry to improve the imple mentation later on.

The problem of displaced persons in wartorn areas will be one of the concerns of the human rights commission of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member, an appointment by the economic and social council of UNO. Solution Deemed Difficult Its solution presents the greatest complexities. Mrs. Roosevelt slated, of any endeavor with which she has ever been associated.

The commission, appointed for the expressed purpose of writing a charter for the 51 nations, will meet April 29 in New York City. Emphasizing that no present problem is more complicated than that of displaced persons. Mrs. Roo sevelt cited the Polish area where in three spheres of influence are operating: 1 he present government under Russian influence, the peasants' movement, and Ihe group that is still looking backward to the old times. Many Poles, she indicated, could not return to this national situation without fear of being "shot in the dark," as each had a possible enemy in one of the groups.

Something that she had to learn recently, she said, is that the ap proach of some nations to their problems is totally different from our solutions. "There they foment a revolution to bring about a change here we use the ballot." she pointed out. "There opposition is liquidated instead of lived wjth." One delegate asked Mrs. Roosevelt to realize that in his lifetime he had twice been a refugee from his own country. In trying to compare such a situation with this country, she was unable at the time to recall such an instance in the United States since Civil War times.

She laughingly recalled an Ameri- (Continued On. Page 2, Col. 1) Crack Divisions Occupy Mukden PEIPCSG. Mar. 17 (AP) Divisions from two Chinese gov ernment armies, some of them I.

S. trained and equipped, were reported today to be in slrife-torn Mukden, where an outbreak of bubonic plague added to the trials of Manchuria's greatest city. The army newspaper Ho Ping Pao said the new Sixth Army, one of China's most modern, rolled into Mukden Saturday proudly displaying its American gear, and was given a joyous welcome by citizens. A delayed dispatch from Mukden said the 25th Division of the battle-seasoned 52nd Army also was scheduled to enter the city Saturday as part of the government forces moving into Manchuria to take over in the wake of the departing Russians. Among the Sixth Army units was the crack 207th Regiment composed entirely of student volunteers, from privates on up to GenLo Vu-Nuen.

the commander. Outfitted and trained by the Americans the 20th moved up by train to Mukden from Chinh-sien. Oo 0 it escort. Second Lt. David Elggren, flew the afternoon trip.

From the passengers' the flight was an unqualified success. Arizona from the air is worlh traveling far to see, and it is difficult to imagine a trip that would give a more comprehensive panorama of mountains and desert. Tucson First Stop From Phoenix Ihe ship headed southeast to Tucson, flying mainly over flat desert land. Patches of cultivation made a pattern of green and tan. Perhaps as a reward for climbing out of bed at 4 a.

Phoenicians had the break of seeing an Arizona sunrise from the air. Sun peeped above the mountains at 6:35 o'clock, about 25 minutes before 1he plane reached Tucson. At the former Consolidated-Vul-tee field In Tucson, Phil J. Martin, city manager, joined the party. Mayor Henry O.

Jaastad was on hand to welcome the plane, but did not get aboard. After a nine-minute stop, the Douglas was in the air again, heading south to Nogales. By degrees the country became more rugged. In the early morning light, the mountains were bronze, with black shadow pockets. The whole scene had a prehistoric look.

There is a quality of unexpectedness about Arizona's landscape that is particularly effective from the air. One second you are looking at land as flat as a table top. Then, bang a lone peak juts out of the desert. Passengers rapidly learned to watch the windows on both sides of the plane. To be looking out over the desert on the left, and suddenly see mountains alongside the plane on the right, is startling the first time it happens.

Scenery Is Awesome One of the loveliest sights of the whole trip was a line of feathery green coltonwoods following a si ream bed in Ihe neutral tan mountains north of Ihe border. ai snntkAr. nxmi iki, Qiiuuiri finni. hit: mini queer. smooth look, as ir it were covered with tan velvet.

Nat Agnew, reporter from the Nogales International, became a passenger on the high border airport. William Beatus. airport lessee, was there, wailing to wish everyone a good trip. Skirting the U. border, the plane swung west to Bisbee.

and the least populated section of the run. Between cities, there was hardly a house visible, all around the horizon. The ground became red, and snow was visible on some of the mountain tops. From Phoenix to Nogales. the ship averaged a minimum altitude of 5,000 feet.

Between Nogales and Bisbee, 7,000 feet were necessary for safe clearance. F. T. Nelson, i I alderman, came aboard for his first airplane irip at Bishee. Seeing him off were Ray Snyder, another alderman.

(Continued On Page 6, Col. 1 couldn't make the first run, but wa or. hanrt tn GOLD HUNTERS: Up a picturesque mountain trail a member of the Phoenix Dons Club leads a large group of avid "sold seekers" on yesterday's "Lost Dutchman Trek" in the Superstitions. On a perfect spring day they found the gold of human fellowship. BELOW Even "the chief" looks on approvingly as this Indian squaw fashions pottery for the edification of trek guests.

(Republic Staffs Photos by Jerry McLain.) Dons' Trek Attended By 2,0 0 0 (Additional Picture, I'age 2) THKRK'M, BK A lot of sun-bi-rnTj pr-opl in Phoenix today. They include the hundreds who were gueMs yesterday of the Phoenix Dons Club in one of the most successful Superstition mountain "Lost Dutchman Gold Treks" in the history of the event. If any of the more than 2.000 men. women and children who thronged the huge mountain and desert picnic area actually found any gold, they were keeping it a deep, dark secret last night. But there were many who felt akin to the woman tourist who exclaimed during one of the hike up a steep hillside from the base camp: "This is gold mining country, all right just look at those rocks!" Costume Were Varied It seemed, though, that there couldn't have been many more rocks than there were people.

They began pouring into the base camp area at Ihe foot of a towering, heer rocky bluff soon after daylight yesterday, and it was near ynidnig'ht before the last were homeward bound. They came to see, and laugh, and sing and talk and eat and none could have been disappointed. They came in every type of costume, from abbreviated shorts and bras to sweeping Spanish dresses. They shed coats and wraps early, rolled up slacks above the knees and basked in warm sunshine because there was little shade except what could be found under the sparse palo verde. They will account for today's unbufn.

It was a camera fanatic's paradise. F.ntertainment. Food Provided There were colorfully dressed TVins and Donas, cowboys and cowgirls, old-time Westerners, Indians Jind squaws galore, archery and pistol marksmen, Spanish musicians and dancers in gay costume, Indian craftsmen, and pottery makers, even i small wild animal zoo mounted n.i a truck and a collection of scorpions, tarantulas and other "varmints" which vied for interest with branding irons and old-timers who "panned" gold. Scores of the guests quit the base camp in the early morning for a lengthy hike, conducted by The Dons, into the inner fastnesses of the Superstitions. Kach carried a boxed "miner's and similar lunches were served other guests at the camp during the noon hour.

The Dons thought of everything. There was running water at the turn of a tap. At mealtime there was hot tea or coffee with sugar. They were everywhere at all times to see that their guest.s enjoyed themselves. They posed for countless pictures; signed an even greater number of autographs.

They conducted the treks and spurred the entertainers at the base camp to greater heights. It was iheir party, and they made It a big one. Soviet Atom Progress Seen NEW YORK. Mar. 17 AP Dr.

Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard observatories, said on his arrival from Europe by plane today he believed the Russians "know ail we know about atomic energy" bui they "are still behind in technical know-how, and that's just a matter of time." "I feel confident." he said, "that the Russians are working actively in the development and production! nt atomic energy for non-military use. and presumably for military i uses also. "They have men fully competent! to do this work in nuclear physic-research, and there is no doubt! that the Russians, who valuej science higher than any other: country on this planet, areWorking' on something important." Dr. Shapley. president of the In-i ternational Astronomical Union's! American section, arrived fromj Copenhagen where he attended ai preliminary meeting of the union.

He said Russian delegates displayed! "a very friendly attitude," and an-! nounced plans for sending eight or; 10 astronomers to the United States! with a view to re-establishine their; o. war-rtetroyert observatories, hich were among the largest in 'he world. Crowd Leaves Just In Time HUNDREDS of persons who participated yesterday in The Dons Club Superstition "Lost Dutchman Gold Trek" never will know how narrow'y they escaped possible serious injury or death. About mid-morning they were gathered around the "Lost Dutchman" stone monument at parhe Junction, hearing of the lore of the Superstitions as they awaited the signal to move on to the trek site. Hundreds milled about the area.

Then the motorcade, departed. A few minutes later a small, two-place plane carrying a news-reel cameraman intent on photographing from the air the long line of cars winding across the desert to the mountain picnic site took off from the new Apache Junction flying field. Perhaps the pilot erred in taking off with the wind at his tail, instead of into the wind. The little ship barely cleared the main highway, then roared through a cactus patch which marks the highway junction. It sheared off the tops of a couple of ocotillo, and sent flying the thorny branches of a huge eholla cactus.

Then it narrowly missed The Dons' stone monument as the pilot brought it down for a quick landing. The fabric was torn on both wings, but otherwise the ship appeared little the worse for its forced landing. The cameraman, W. A. Cayton of the Robert Allen crew from Hollywood, climbed out of the ship white as a sheet.

But he had nerve. He piled into a second plane at the same port and made the flight over the Superstitions to get his pictures. Not so an army air forces lieutenant over whose head the careening ship skimmed. "Well," he exclaimed, "I WAS going on the trek into those Superstitions. But not now! This isn't my day!" And he turned about and headed home.

Brain Stroke Proves Fatal To Cattleman THOMAS J. CAVNESS, a mainstay in the development of Arizo na huge cattle industry, died yes' terday afternoon in Phoenix. I he 68-year-old pioneer was stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage on his Yavapai county ranch last Friday and was brought, to a Phoenix hospital. He never gained con sciousness. Death came at 4:30 p.

m. p. m. Mr. Cavness was owner of one of the state's oldest cattle ranches, located on Lime creek in the Bloody Basin district of lower Yavapai county.

He and two brothers established the ranch in 1900 and they punched cows under the "51" brand. Later Mr. Cavness acquired sole ownership of the ranch. His wife, Maude Utz Cavness, whom he married in 1907, survives, along with two children, Lloyd C. Cavness, secretary of the state livestock sanitary board, and Ruth Robison of Denver, Colo.

He also leaves his brother, Ed Cavness, who operates a ranch at Lateral 17 and Christy road; and three sisters. Ellen McDaniel, Mary Ellison, and Sudie Bone, all of Phoenix. Another brother and former ranching associate, Claiborne, fCleve) Cavness, preceded him in death. Mr. Cavness came to Arizona as a boy in 1888, migrating across the iplains with his parents, who drove 'a hprH nf rntllo hpfnr them frnm their Texas home.

After establishing his own ranch, Mr. Cavness was manager of the "3-V" Livestock Company from 1925 to 1932. In 1933, he became chairman of the state livestock sanitary board, a position which he held until 1939. German Unions Ask Cut In Work Week HA MBURG. Mar.

17 AP German trade union leaders have asked the British occupation zone administration to reduce the standard v-ork week of J8 hours to 36 be-cau4 of the slash in food rations. I i "till' QUEEN RECEIVES BOUQUET: Passengers on the first Arizona Airways flight watch as Miss Anna Sue Amman, citrus queen, receives a bouquet from Jack Evans, ground operations manager. At the extreme left, solemn after her first plane ride, is four-year-old Judy Shaw of Globe, youngest passenger aboard. Her daddy, H. M.

Shaw, has just told her it'll be a little while before he can get her one of the "toy liars" she saw from the air. a.