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I 3 Soturdoy Iv.nlng SALT UKt TELEGRAM Ottobr 1, 1949 U. de Striker Total May Reach 2 Million By I'nited Pros Almost 1,000.000 Amfrlcin workers were on strike Saturday as ateelworkers Joined John L. Lewis' miners in labor fight for fourth-roun- benefits; The number of idle was expected to rise swiftlypossibly to as much as 2.000.000 if the work stoppages in the two basic industries lasted Ions enough to cause shortages of fuel and materials in system, would be bound by the referees' decisions but Mid the unions would not be bound by them. He said the railroad had lost 112.000.000 worth ofbusiness during the strike and that the 5000 strikers, plus 20.000 other em- ployes idled by the walkout, had lost a total of $6,000,000 in wages. Onlv about $3,000,000 was involved In the grievanceswhich caused the strike.

factories. The total of 980.000 strikers Included 614.000 steclworkers who quit their mills and furnaces at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and 380.000 United 'Mine Workers. About 87.000 other workers were on strike or idled by strikes In disputes 'stretching from the Atlantic to thePacific. Bark to Pits Well over a million workers wouldhave beenidled had not Lewis decided Friday to send 0 Pennsylvania hardcoal diggers and western soft coal miners back to work Monday.

Violence in the coal fields tapered off following the order that sent some miners back to work. The order came after mine owners warned tlfat the industry was suffering lossof markets due to frequent shutdowns. Negotiations In thecoal dispute wi seeessed untilthe middle of, next week. Union and company officials apparently were watching rievelnpmenH in th t.1 before reaching a settlement of their own squabble. Meanwhile, there were indira-- 1 tions that some ofthe 87.000 work-- 1 ers idled in miscellaneous disputes across thenation soon would be going back to work.

Settlement Near At San Francisco, a 'spokesman for the CIO Warehousemen's union saidsettlement was near in a strike of 6000'workers that began June 16. The strike had idled 6000 other employes. Guy A. Thompson, trustee for the Missouri-Pacifi- railroad, asked 5000 engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors to return to workwhile threereferees judge the 282 grievances which caused them to atrike two weeks ago. Thompson said that the rail- road, idled throughout ita U.S.

Gels Dala In Spy Probe WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 1Pi Thehouse activities 'committee reported Saturday it has turned over to the Justice department its records in the case of accused of slio- ping wartime atomic secrets to; Russian spies. Chairman Woods (D Ga said a request for "appropriate action" by the department went along with the papers. The committee, in a report Friday, identified Dr. Joseph Weinberg as "Scientist and recommended that the department prosecute the University of Minnesota physicist on perjury charges.

Weinberg, who was a wartime employe of the radiation laboratory at the University of California, quickly denied the committee's accusations. Ha said It was a case of "mistaken Identity." The FBI, meantime, was reported checking on Weinberg- A Justice department officialsaid the investigation had been under way for a "long period of time," He added thatthe department will study the FBI reports, when they are completed. The committee has accused Weinberg of lying under oath when he denied: (1) Membership In the Communist party; (2) associating with suspected Communist spies while employed at the Cali- Welnberg Insistshe la Innocent. He said he never took part "in any way in disclosure of any secret or classified Information on formula to any unauthorised person." I i 5 TV 4 'J The Fires No Longer Glow at Geneva Thischeerfultrademark of booming Industrial I activity has given way toforeboding quiet at I iieneva Steel's Orem plant aa fl workers I followed a nation-wid- order to strike.The fire shown here casting Its light upon a blast furnara keeper has beensnuffed out, stilling aa Industry. World News Today Tito Charges Russia Massing on Border rue II I rran CMatfO JUj Km Srrrin.

tr. kT mmt INS He Marshal Tito charged that Russia is putting. "aggressive" pressure en Yugoslavia, including Soviet troops on its borders, andhas violated the United Nations charter. A note handed theRussian charge d'affaires In Belgrade declared that Russian troop movements in the" Comlnform countries adjoining Yugoslavia "have" 'contributed to the creation of a war psychosis which is inflicting a serious blow to international cooperation and peace." It was the first time that Tito has implied that Russia might resort to military action against Yugoslavia. clear reference to the danger to peace coincided with statements in the Belgrade press which- asserted that military maneuvers Just concluded in south Belgrade were the largest held in theVcountry since the war.

It added: Employing some of the strongest language yet used in the dispute with Russia, Tito declared that Soviet Premier Stalin's promises in respect to the independence of small countries were "empty words." Describing Soviet politics for Yugoslavia as "hostile." said the "arbitrary and unilateral" breaking of the friendship treaty "renders impossible any agreed solution to the situation." Yank Ship Periled in China One. ofthreeAmerican ships held at the mouth of the Yangtze river by a Chinese Nationalist destroyer made a new appeal for United States assistance. Capt Henry Scurr oftheIsbrandtsen line's Flying Independent aid the Chinese warship hadrefusedhis request to move to safer water in thefaceof worsening weather. Scurr radioed theline's Shanghai agents that he fearedforthe Hying Independent' safety in her present position. The ship was I forced to anchor in the Yangtze entrance buoy area, which shipping men consider unsafe In rough weather at low tide.

New" CzechrTraItorrTriaI looms A foreignministry official In Prague hinted that a new "Laazlo Rajk trial" may be the offing 4w fcsechoejovakla. Dr. Anton J. Leihm, deputy press chief of the foreign ministry, declared In an article in the Prague press that "the same type of traitors" aa those convicted in the Rajk trial in Budapest might be caught here. (Rajk, Hungary's former foreign ministerand No.

Communist, was sentenced to death with two others a week ago on charges that he plotted to overthrow the Hungarian 'government with American help and substitute it for a regime subservient to Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.) Leihm's article appeared Just as reliable sources reported the arrest on fraud charges of seven Communist officialsof a government agency in Prague. Reds, Chinese Form for New Battle Nationalists and Communists both massed troops for the coming battle for Canton. Theofficial military news agency said the Communist 12th army had moved into Canton's Kwangtung province from Kiangsi to the east. The Reds, said this source, took up positions at Namyung, 1SS miles northeast ofthe government capital. Private reports placed the total strength of Red regulars In northern Kwangtung at 30,000.

Nationalist troop trains rolled into Kukong with reinforcements. This rail center is 123 mlleanorth of Canton. Fighting in the general area has been reported for aev- Steelvorlcers Launch Nation-wide-Walkou- t- already had bean slosart by pro-- I ducers who saw the walkout as inevitable. Maintenance workers remained in the plants with food supplies and bedding. Picket captainsset up kitchens.

Federal mediators William Mar-gol- is and Peter Seitz returned to Washington after long, futile conferences with Murray and S. Steel Vice President John 'A. Stephens. They admited the outlook was hopeless andsaid they had no immediate plans for further conferences. Negotlatea Extensions It was' Mr.

Truman who set up the board to help find a solution to the industry-unio- differences. He also negotiated three extensions of the strike deadline. In ordering the nation-wid- strike, Murray told theunion members that companies had refused his "fair offerofsettle- ment" "Our cause is just and right-eoua- he said. "We will continue this strike until a mutually satisfactory agreement is arrived at He said hehad "no alternative" but to callthe strike affecting approximately 514,000 union members. The breakdown included about 407,000 basic ateel employes.

12.000 iron ore miners, and 83,000 employes of steel companies which did not participate in the hearings before the board. 4yeetlaaied' fpoisi Fags One together on the 'vital pension-insuranc- issue. The company agreed to pay the "package" program but demanded worker contributions. The union stubbornly held out for the recommonded "non contributory" program. Shortly after the midnight deadline, the.

CIO United rs dramatically called off a strike of 14.83ft members against-th- American Can Co. plants in 23 el ties.Theunion said the big fabricating firm had agreed to company-pai- pension-insuranc- plan in last minute negotiations in Cincinnati, O. First to Accept. Although the firm, was not directlyinvolved in the basic steel dispute, it was the- first major company- in the industry to accept the recommendations of a presidential board. Two smaller steel firms previously gave in to the union demands on pension-insuranc- and were not atruck.

They were the Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel 4000, and Standard Steel Works, Lewis town, with 1100 workers. The USW said Firth-Sterlin- Steel Co. (1425 workers), Steel (12.000) and Kaiaer Inc. (3237) would not be struck because their contracts have not expired. The union has no contracts with Weirton Steel or the American Rolling Mills which haa plants at Middletown.

and Butler. Pa. They haveIndependent unions. Prestrlke Closing Even beforethe strike began, however, the nation's steel mills Plane Crashes Con timed From Page On caught fire Just as the plane was preparing to land. Capt.

William E. Blair of Houston, the pilot, orderedthe other eight men aboard to Jump butherode the plane to his death to prevent it from falling into a thicklypopulated area. The parachute of one of the men who Jumped was not hooked properly and he perished In a 6000-fo- An air forcelieutenant died In thecrashandexplosion ofhis jet fighter plane near Cape May Court House, N. J. Crash In England In England, a Jet Flying Triangle, a new craft with secret equipment being developed forthe armed forces, crashed Friday night killing its test pilot.

The pilot of theMartin air liner at Milwaukee managed to keep the left wing up untilthe plane's rollhad sloweddown after the landing. When the wing touched the ground, the plane swerved off the runway but came to stop without injury to those! aboard. InSao Paulo, Brazil, a Catallna flying boatcrushed at themouth Iguape river, killing two passengers and a crew member. Seventeen persons were injured. The plane was owned by Brazilian Taba Airways.

Sheriff Ready To Reopen Utah Mines Telegram Leased Wire PRICE, Oct. 1 Sheriff Bryant A. Nelson moved Saturday to open the Carbon-Emer- county truck mines for operations Monday "whether the pickets are there or not." He said Friday night, at a meeting in which mine operators met with Joseph Dudler, superintendent of the state highway patrol, and Otto Wlesley ofthe state industrial commission, demanding that the state take an active part in the area "to preserve order," that he will have a force of depu- ws at every mine Manaay morning to guarantee protection to all to proceed peacefully with their work. Saturday, pickets surrounded the nonunion mines in Huntington canyon and other Emery county points "aa numerous as before," according to observers throughout the area. Union spokesmen, approached on the "back to work" order for Monday, said it was yet "too early to talk.

We have had no work orders yet." Sheriff Nelson said "truckers are Invited to come and carry on theirbusiness Monday, with the roada near the mines guaranteed to be open. Every truck mine in the area will be open for business Monday." This decision was reached, he said, at the Friday night meeting after the departure or state om-cial- who merely took down statements ofthe operators withwhom they met, and thenleft tha meet- ing. The session continued from 3 to 7 p.m. Following: the meeting; a union spokesman, who preferred to remain unnamed, saidhe would try to meetwith all wagon" mine operators Saturday on the situation, and meanwhile, "picketing will continue." He further declared Pres. Houston Martinand inter- nationalboard member Malcolm Condie had been summoned to Carbon county to confer with union leadersand to attend the proposed Saturdaymeeting with mine operators.

Truman Launches Community Chest Campaign WASHINGTON. Oct. 1 The 1949 community chest campaign got under way Saturday, sparked by President Truman's plea for every citizen to "give generously" to put the 0 fund over the top. Mr. Truman said in a nationwide broadcast Friday night that thered feather drive la a "typically American a a i a peace campaign and "deserves the generous support of all of us." "In our form of government," he said, "we Americana have long since passed beyond the confining barriersof state lineainto the federation that la the United States of America, serving allthe people and being served by them.

"It ia this same cooperative spirit which has created and maintains your community chest Let OS givegenerously through thia federationof many 1 xationa, meeting many community needs, so that everybody benefits." INTERMOUNTAIN WEATHER DATA iiiiht showers, mostly In the and In north portion. Cooler northeast portion Saturday after noon, scattered local frosts Saturday night. Warmer Sunday. Mammary Cloudy ik.e and a few light showers occurred over northern Utah, southeastern and western Wyoming Friday and Friday night. Elsewhere over the Intermountaln region the weather wai fatr.

Under the Influence of a flow of cool air from the northwest, maximum temperatures Frl- ftatt Lake and VtHnlty Partly rloudy Saturday night, with a few light showers against near-b- mountains. Fair and a little warmer Sunday. Low Saturday flight, 4S; high Sunday, 74. (Uh Partly cloudy north por- tlon with a few showers over snd against the mountains Saturday night. Mostly clear south half Saturday night.

Clear over entire state Sunday. Low Saturday night, 94 to 44, with local frost hi the higher mountain valleys. High Sunday afternoon, 70 to SO, and 86 In Dixie. AMtfcwMtera Idaho Fair Saturday night, partly cloudy Sunday. SMtkaastera Idahe Partly cloudy Saturday night and Sunday, cooler Saturday night Nevada Fslr Saturday night and Sunday, Uttle Changs In temperature.

Wyemtng Partly eloudy Saturday night and Sunday, arattercd day rangedthrough the 60s and low 70s. while the mlnlmuma Saturday morning were moitly In the middle 40s and high 3os. TrvclpUatU Frldsy. accumulative total, 16.83; normal. 14.50; departure, plus 2.33.

Sunset Saturday, sunrlae Sunday, 6:35. Maximum, 67; minimum, 47; mean, Friday; normal, 57. Fnlkmirtt art tht hitch and tew Ifitw pfraturea and prvclpltatton amount! ra rorrtfd daring tng 24 hour prlot ndlnf Siiiurftajr al a aa reportedby aauotvwlda waUur tntioiu: III Kit Low prfle. Albuquerque 78 AS Atlanta 72 50 ft'marrk 76 S3 .05 Boiat S3 40 Hurt 5.1 41 .07 Cheyenne 60 41 7.1 42 rvnvrr flft 45 ,14 rlxott 71 42 im tuth. Mtnn.

42 .12 nrnd JuncUoa AS 46 Vttu 89 57 Lacaa AS 41 .1 Loa An) SO 64 ldiamj 86 79 Minnmpotl 7.1 57 Trace Nw OMmbs 7.1 AO New Tor 67 6.1 Of are 4 AO Trare Oklahoma CU 73 4 Omaha 73 53 .03 Phonfx 6 ft PoratMlo Al 40 Port laud AS 45 Pmva SR Reno ..78 S7 Rork Bprlnr 50 39 .02 Halt I aa 67 SO Tree Pan Antonio 62 52 Ban Dieco 70 61 Trie Ban Franclaeo 7 14. Gera A4 PL Louia 69 44 Seattle 60 50 .20 Sheridan 71 50 .34 WaahlnKtn. C. 69 46 Wrt Tellowatona 43 3S .32 Train Robber Shot in Tulsa Home TULSA, Oct. 1 (UP) Two-gu- Willis Newton, one of four cowboy brothers who aided in a 12.050,011 train mail robbery at Rondout, in 1924, waa in criticalcondition Saturday after being shot by a hidden sniper.

The mysterious assailantfired two shots through a bathroom windowFridaynight at Newton's home in a middle-clan- neighborhood here. One bullethit Newton under the right shoulder, pierced his lung and emerged near his left collarbone. Detective Sgt. L. N.

Hedgpath identified Newton aa a member of the family which conspired with several other criminals, including a postal inspector, to pull the 1924 robbery of the Milwaukee Road's fast mail train. No. 57, near Chicago. Hedgpath'Said hedoubted that the shooting had anything to do with the old robbery, although $75,000 worth of loot in cashand bonda was never recovered. He said it was more likely that Newton, was shot as result of a gambling feud here.

Newton operated two night clubs, the Shangri-L- a andthe Stable, both of which were closed after recent gambling raids. Strike Threatens Aufo Production DETROIT, Oct. 1 (UP) The nation-wid- steel strike Saturday threatened upset automakers' plans for an record production year. A spot check showed that major auto companies have steel supplies that will feed assembly lines for 25 to 50 days. Auto companies were more worried about their supplier firms' steel supplies than their own stockpiles.

All car producers have been stockpiling steel since the first threat of a steel shutdown. To Devalue Peso BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 1 is about to devalue the peso, progovernment newspapers indicated. Rocket Plane Hits Speed of Sound NEW YORK. Oct.

1 (UP) Aviation Week said Saturday that a new navy research plane, the DouglasSkyrocket, has reachedthe speed of sound In level flight in atest In mid-Jul- at Muroc, Cal. Therocket plane, with Gene May, veteranDouglas test pilot, at the controls, flew approximately 710 miles per hour at an altitude of 26.000 feetNlhe magazine aaid. The SkyrockeMaa an actual altitude time of "okly 12 minutea, of which less thanone minuteis available on full rocket power," the magazine said. Utah Steelvorkers Fear long Strike Determination to stick It out was mingled with apprehension of strike of long duration in the comments of steclworkers aa they walked offthe Job early Saturday at th Geneva Steel Co. plant Harry Hulce, 8prtngvlUe, father of three children, aaid he hoped they "settle this ona little sooner than th.

on. I was in at Gary; in 1948. I waa off the Job nearly three months then." "If it's going to happen, It's going to asserted James C. Magnusson, Lehi, father of two children. "There's no us worrying.

It'll be settled soon." John R. Edwards, Provo, said: "Why should a worry? We've everything to gain and nothing to lose. "I'm not worried and I have. nine childrenfour of whomwork at Geneva." Whenasked If hefeared a long strike, Jerry Hanks. Salem, father ofthree children, only shook his head and said: "I'm afraid I do." Complete surprise that th strike actually came about waa expressed by W.D.

Porter, Orem, father of four children. "I Just don't know how it will come out," said. Glynn Carter, Provo, vice chairman of steelworker local 2701, de- claredthe unionis prepared for a long atrike. "Everything is going fine," he said. "We have a fine group of union men.

Th company officials were aa fair aa they could be about arranging finaldetails of the shutdown andthe stand-b- arrangements. "I think we'll win in a short time but we're prepared for a long one." Boy Kills Officer, Attacks Girl, 13 BLANCHESTER, Oct. 1 (UP) A school inmate, Martin Snell, confessed 3aturday that he attempted to rape a voung girl in tht shadow of church steps Fridaynight and coldly shot and killed a policeman who came to her aid. Prosecutor George L. Schilling said.

Schilling said first degree murder charges would be filed against Snell forthe killing ofPatrolman Burdetta Lee, 45. Snell admitted that he committed attempted criminal assault on the girl after forcing her to accompany him to the Methodist church from a street carnival a ehort distance away. School Reopenings, Work Spurt Cuts Jobless Lists WASHINGTON, Oct WP The reopening of schools and a spurt In production were credited Saturday with cutting down unemployment In September for the second month in a row. While much of the 838.000 de- clineestimated by th. census bureau waa traced to youngsters who gave up the Job hunt to resume school work, the bureau found "some evidence" that adult unemployment shrank too.

On the other hand, "The return to school of numerous summer workers" lso caused a 636.000 drop.in employment from the IMS peak reached In August Total, for September were placed at 69,41 1.000 civilan employed and J.3S1.000 unemployed. With 1,459.000 armed foross personnel added to civilian workers, th number of Jobs was 60.870,000. Along that line, the agriculture department reported that farm prices went up aa average of al- most 2 from st to th first upturn since March. You're Never Too Old CHIWELAH, Oct 1 (UP) Teachers at Jenkins high school were faced with a new but aged problem Friday when- John Metcalf, 90. enrolled In a history class.

Principal Gordon Rldgeway was attempting to persuade Metcalf to use the school library's history books, rather thanattend class. Young Coast Heiress Take Own Life VI3ALIA. Oct 1 (UP) A young bride, heiress to a $3,388,000 estate, committed suicide In the bedroom of her Visalla home, police revealed Saturday. The victim, Mrs. Nancy Ferguson, 25, was found Friday with a bullet wound in her chest Police Chief Frank Bentzen aaid Mrs.

Ferguson committed suicide, but refused. to disclose further Information. He aaid the family had requested that detail, not be Art. and Scic. In power for lujhcu I.Y.I is Ik.

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STATE MAYTAG GAS BA.VOE 50 Biggest Bargains la Tow. SI i. i i Open ttaiij at mjn. Ut 8 p.m. I am STSTS A- fJ Buckled Wheel Blamed In Plane Crash-landi- ng MILWAUKEE, Oct 1 (UP) A buckled wheel was blamed Saturday for the crash-landin- of a Northwest Airline plan at Mitchellfield near here.

None ofthe S6 passengers- crew waa hurt but the plane's left propeller was shearedoff when the airliner akiddedoff th runway Friday night GLAMOR GIRLS "Of course I'll marry you, dear boy. Who is this speaking?" NEIGHBORS KICK IN TO KEEP THEIR 'CLIPPING' BARBER DETROIT, Oct 1 tfPV The 551 folk, in Danville, Vt, want TonyRoy back in bisbarber shop. They say he's a fast man with the clippers. iThe only thing preventing Tony's return to Danville is theDetroit police departmentThey agree that Roy's a fast clipper when it comes to writingback cheeks. Right Bow Roy isn't in Detroit He's behind bars at Vermont state prison on anothercheck charge.

Bat he's due forrelease Tuesday. That's when hishome town customers fearthe town's only barber, will be nabbed by clamorous Detroiters who cashed his checks when he was herelast April. To prevent this, townspeople want to make up a pool, take over theirbarber'sdebts and get him out of jail. Constable Reginald E. Smith.

Danville'slaw officer, put the proposition in a letter to Detective Leonard Daschke of Detroit'sbad check squad. "Roy was good and fast," Smith wrote. "Local customers eventually have decided their ownly salvation Is to procure Roy's release fromprison and arrange a long term parole to my custody." Daschke said he'd turn th matter over to Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien. Victim Cleansed MINNEAPOLIS.

Oct 1 (UP) A Florida couple Saturday admitted-, swindling a St. Paul widow of promising to 'cleanse' the anoney of "evil T. Johnson, 34, and his 26. of West Pslm Beach, Fl, pleaded guilty Friday to a four-cou- indictment charging them with fraud and using the aoaila to defraud..