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le Weather Temperatures S4 Wur peeled ending 11 looayi 1 33 17 Ok Is City 51 XH AlimouerouB 54 anita -m 75 Mostly clear today- tonight and Wednesday Little thanee in temperature High temperatures today generally 30-40 Lew Wednesday morning 10-20 except near SO in Dixie if I BoiM- XI PhotnK 78 JB ruffiana 06 pf Chicago 2i Reno S4 Svar So 04 Bock Springs as 07 Gd Junction 40 22 Salt Lake 38 1 Las Vegas ft SgjSan Antonio 72 1 Logan ga 11 sn gran SS 33 Lot AngrlM f)2 SO St Georga SS 31 OfJSSSi tS 7t St Louts 17 Jfcmoaro in aunneapoiia 2 Srsitio felUt tt Seventy-seventh Year No 143 The United Press The Associated Press OGDEN CTY UTAH TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 13 1948 AP Service NEA Service 14 PAGES FINAL EDITION Loss Recouped Gen Graham Finishing Touch to Last Chapter Price Brakes Said Key to Admits Gain Gets Ready To Shave Budget 1 ifi From Market Wage Future Terms Earlier Story 'Error' No Inside Data Five Die Four Labor Awaits Assurances Says Of ficial Goal Is $5 Billion Lopped Off Truman Figure Money Saving May Center on Aid Proposals WASHINGTON Jan 13 (AP) Republicans set out to- Hurt as Plane WASHINGTON Jan 13 Crashes in Rain (UP Brig Gen Wallace WASHINGTON Jan 13 (AP) Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach said today he Graham the White House WASHINGTON Jan 13 believes that if congress acts Five persons were killed and four others Injured today when an to hold down prices labor unions will tone down de day to chop some $5000000000 out of President Truman's $39669000000 budget for the yemx starting July 1 The foreign aid program appeared likely to be the main target of the money-saving drive A $5000000000 slash was the tentative goal set ttfe Chairman Taber (R-N Y) pending a meeting of the senate-house budget committee to go over details of the unprecedented peacetime spending estimate Mr Truman sent to Eastern Airline DC-3 nassencer mands for wage increases plane groping through heavy rain and the pre-dawn darkness crashed The cabinet officer was before the senate banking committee to urge enactment of the administrations wage-price control legisla in a wooded area five miles southeast of here as it approached Washington for a lending Vn big plane was carrying nine doctor admitted today that he made a net profit of $616525 on commodity speculations I Heretofore Graham had insisted to newsmen that "frankly I lost nay ocks" in commodity dealings But today Graham told the gen ate appropriations subcommittee investigating speculation that his broker's agent had invested his money in commodities in an effort to help him overcome $1101286 loss in securities This Graham added reduced his et loss to $484781 He said he accepted "full responsibility" for the commodity trans congress yesterday persons in all six oasseneers and tion "The price increases of the last two years have brought home more clearly than ever before the fu Brig Gen Wallace! EL Graham "A surgeon but not a financier" JU Jl We 1 I While Taber declined to three crew all men on a scheduled flight from Houston Texas to Boston tility oi wage increases that are The Injured all described In "satisfactory" condition at Casual ty hospital in Washington were: iucian A Moebus 47 a nn All Hands Safe After Fleeing neaucea ooa Exports Seen By Anderson WASHINGTON Jan 13 (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Anderson captain maxwell tieid Montgomery Ala Morris Maple HI 24 Princeton Eugene Stone 40 Pensacola Fla Peter Phelios 22 the plane's Ofrdeh police were ready today to mark "Case Closed" on the just what items most likely would be singled out for cuts he noted that the president's estimate of actual foreign aid outlays during the year and his requests for funds to finance other projects not ye authorized by law run well over $5000000000 Training Net Eaeetai For example he said the president wants half a billion dollars to finance universal military training legislation which congress iHli not enacted and which some of its top leaders expect it to pot aside for at least another year Taber pointed out that while the Marshall plan for European recov eaten up by price rises" Schwellenbach said "In spite of the intention of organized labor to press for substantial wage increases it is my belief that labor will cooperate in this effort if given some real assurance that price rises will be checked "But I have little hope that organized labor will be able to refrain from asking sizable wage increases if such assurances are not given" Earlier the American Veterans committee recommended restoration of limited rationing and price control but opposed President Truman's request for standby power to control wages Tart Sees Black Market Sounding a key note of Republican opposition to meat rationing Kiion or tne murder October 4 of Lee Kay Walker Here Captain seated- and Detective John Pincoek study pictures and files in the case after reading the confession signed in Tacoma Wash by Jake Bird Negro transient Blazing Vessel NEW YORK Jan 13 (AP) All 46 survivors who abandoned the army's flame-swept funeral trans actions When Graham's commodity dealings first were disclosed he said Be had turned over his money to bis broker and did not know any of tt had ben invested in grain or other commodities 4 Technical Error said today total food exports proposed under the Marshall plan would actually be smaller than in other recent years Bird's Confession Reveals port Joseph Connolly were safe Graham also admitted today that aboiard two after a dramatic aiewara oi Astoria li Eastern Airlines identified the dead as: Brandt Biltmore hotel Atlanta Warner Clinton A Moorehead Clinton Sanborn Jr Atlanta pilot Saltanig Atlanta plane captain Wheels Set for r-fdtng Eastern Airline officials at the crash believed the pilot his visibility impaired bv the rain nH rescue from lifeboats in As the European recovery program progressed he said there would be a decreasing shipment of scarce foods and an increasing emphasis on the more abundant foods He added: "From the standpoint of our consumers the effect of our proposed exports should be less noticeable which they had tossed for 11 hours in raging North Atlantic seas ery contemplates a 8O0 SSat onrt ms statement to the press last month that he had disposed of all his commodity holdings Oct 7 after Mr Truman's blast against com- toodity gamblers was incorrect I He contended his error wu a Details of Walker Slaying By Louis A Gladwell appropriation for the first 15 Sen Taft (Ohio) predicted today it would revive black markets anri months the budget says only S4 Rescue of the the Connelly's 45 crewmen and its lone passenger was completed last night after an all-day air and sea search for lead to even higher prices The Ohioan told a reporter that while he is not completely barrine than the effects of the exports in darkness had lost altitude too soon in approaching Washinirton Na rationing or price controls he does the survivors who abandoned their blazing ship in a northeast gale not believe that meat rationing would work "You have to set up just as big art tional airport for an instrument landing Ogden police today officially closed the case of the murder of Lee Kay Walker 62 of 585 Twenty-ninth with a signed confession from Jake Bird 56-year-old Negro transient obtained last week by an Ogden police detective in the Washington state penitentiary it was announced today Jar Acting Police Chief Clifford KeetJ! Bird is awaiting execution at the-- Supporting this belief organization to ration one item as to fact that the olane's whi technical one as he had not considered cotton and cottonseed oil which he held after Oct 7 to be commodities He thought the term referred to wheat and other grains Before Graham began his testimony he shook hands with senators ajji newareel cameramen ground away and photographers snapped pictures He prefaced his testimony by saying that shortly after his "return from the war" he was offered the post of physician to the president He said it was a Jgreat mmor" and in addition he was ration everytning Tart said "Besides meat is the one thing 000000000 of that sum will spent during toe 12 months starting July The New Yorker termed even thst "too much" "'pi And Taber added nhe president's proposals for huge outlaja for education social welfara and seem way out of line if cnnpwi does authorize these programs Determined esi Tax Gat Whatever the decision on his $5 000000000 goal Taber said he "wouldn't be satisfied with anything less" than a cut of $4 500 000- down for a landing The plane was uie sou in eage or the Washington radio range some aw mues east of New York Planes Aid in Rescue The half-frozen men were picked up by the army transport Gen Callan and the Black Diamond line's Union Victory which sped to the scene after intercepting the stricken Connolly's calls for help earlier in the day Long-range air force planes from Kindlev field recent years Anderson gave this analysis of food aspects of the Marshall program in testimony prepared for the senate foreign relations committee which has the European recovery program before tt He told the committee the United States cannot hope to see real recovery in western Europe unless there is some increase in the food available for workers ind their families SMl Below Requests The secretary said this country has trimmed Luropean food re quests for the four fear Marshall most susceptible to black market operations I am afraid that we would have a repetition of the time Washington prison Jan 16 for the une oi the surviving nngr walked away from the wnen cattle were killed widely on the farms instead of at the slaughtering houses with the hides and Rocket Sleds Hit 1000-Mile Speed MUROC AIR BASE Calif Jan 13 (UP) The air forces announced today that rocket-powered sleds have streaked along a set of railroad tracks faster than a bullet murder Oct 30 of Mrs Bertha Kludt in Tacoma Wash Patrick Steele Pierce Wash prosecuting attorney revealed In a 176-page transcript that the burly Negro admitted other murders reaching from New York to Los Angeles and extending back to 1923 Keeter said in substance that 55Stf Members of the Oxon Hill Md fire department' who wereJ fst -arriv at the scene found him standing under the still-intact tail of the plane Although bleeding profusely from the head the passenger according to firemen said: "Im all right but there are some people in terrible shape in otner by-products being lost "Certainly the people who got beef through the black markets would have to pay even higher prices for it than they are now and a great many people would get practically none at alL" 1 landers DtfierS plan period below amounts requested because of the prospective in Bermuda aided in the rescue The two ships reported all hands safely aboard with "minor burns" and injuries among survivors The Callan still standing by the Connolly messaged that the distressed vessel was ablaze "from stem to stern with constant eruptions from 40 to 50 feet" Selvage Doubtful An army sea-goine tug left New Birds signed confession which stven racuiues for hospital work and medical teaching Bet am erned He said that after arriving here be bought stocks first through a broker in Kansas City and later here 3P? tocks dropped in price and I became concerned about my investment I discussed the situation with the Washington broker Bnsker) through whom I had bought some of the stocks" Describing Brisker as having been "very kind to me" and of the greatest help" Graham said he police will hold as evidence their case is cleared said he met a Republican leaders are determined to ram through an income tax reduction bill this year that may trim more than 5 000 000 000 the $44477000000 in revenues estimated by Mr Truman for the next fiscal year Although the new budget exceeds by nearly $2000000000 the anticipated government outlay for the current fiscal year Mr Truman told congress it was tailored to "rigid standards of operating economy and is necessary to cope with "the realities oi our existing international and domestic requirements JSTbSsSp dark-skinned person "who could Although a handful of GOP lawmakers led by Sen Flanders (Vt) have said they believe meat rationing may be necessary by spring Taft views reflect the attitude of Republicans eenerallv nave oeen an Mexican or some thing" by a railroad bridge in One Pinned Under Nees Rescuers said another was pinned beneath the nose of the plane "We had a hell of a time getting him out alive" they said The plane had made its last nn inaaequacy oi supplies in tnis and other exporting countries Meanwhile pressure built up among house Republicans to write out definite orders for whoever is to run the European recovery program and to specify equally definite limitations on his powefe Representatives Vorys (R-Ohio) and Chiperfield (R-Ill) were among the members on the foreign affairs committee talking along that line as house hearings on the Marshall plan rolled into their second day Lewis Doug ugden on the niKht of Oct A nnri York harbor yesterday morning to attempt salvage operations but the Callan's master radioed that the tug would "not be able to come beating the airplane to the honor of cracking the sonic watt The air force said it used jet bomb launching sleds for the experiment They were clamped to tracks 2000 feet long over which they skated at speeds over 1000 miles an hour In the first high speed run on September 20 1946 the unmanned sleds flashed the distance of the track in less than two seconds When it hit the end of the rails the sled hurtled out aerrxss th toward President Truman's appeal for stand-by power to restore ra mat tne two of them made their way uptown to find something to within one-half mile of the flamini? eai aia noi want the senators to think any of his statements were in Sought Unlocked Doers at Winston-Salem and was due at Washington at four am ET had left Winstop-Salem about three am and was flying The two according to th rnn fession made their way into the residential streets looking for nn locked doors with intention of aesert until it came to rest A top speed of 1012 miles an tioning and wage-price controls on a limited basis The party skepticism and outright opposition came into sharp focus yesterday when Secretary of Agriculture Anderson plugged for meat rationing and wholesale price ceilings on meat He testified before the senate banking committee which is considering various bills to re-establish these wartime controls Anderson renewed his prediction of a serious meat shortage and said "we will want both nrice control las ambassador to Britain and a former Arizona congressman was called as the witness From the senate side of the cap-itol came fresh indications that derelict Couse of the first which originated in the Connolly's engine-room had not been determined the Callan said The 442-foot Connolly left here last Thursday en route to Antwerp with 6445 empty caskets to return additional bodies of American war dead from Europe She had arrived here last October with 6248 war dead first such shipment since the end of the war nour was recorded on the first riav Meat Price Seen As Crucial Issue criticism oi me broker TOn the contrary if I had followed his advice about stocks I might not have suffered the losses which I did He advised definitely and repeatedly against buying the stocks I bought but I acted contrary to big advice" Denies Inside Information Denying be had any "inside" information on government rnmmnH aince men the jet-propelled sleds nave nit even greater speeds The mp was reacned on March 7 1947 ourgiary Bird said they entered the Walker house heard Mr Walker snoring then switched on the lights and ransacked the place in search for money The two the confession continued switched on the light in Walker's room where he was sleeping alone and although WniWr UUUUIUCUI It made its last radio report a routine at four thirty-five am to Eastern Airlines here The had not reported any trouble The nearest farm house was a mile from the scene Police received the first report from a KmeJ 8t am All available hospital ambulances plus fire fighting equipment from nearby Andrews field Md an army air base were rushed to the scene when a sled hit 1019 miles an hour The sleds weighing 1500 bounds were powered by five viant r-kts lawmakers are not completely satisfied with the administration's estimate of $6800000000 as the precise sum needed to operate the plan for the first 15 months Figure Not Sacred Chairman Vandenberg Mich) observed late yesterday that there is nnthinp "sarrntanM" ahniii purchasing Graham told the purchasing Graham try committee: and rationing on meat and we will want them before this spring is using solid fuels Each rocket develops 10000 pounds of thrust for 18 seconds The sleds exceeded the sneeH nf didnt awaken Bird struck him several times with an ax and stabbed him with a knife Keeter placed the likely time of the crime at about two-thirty a Oct 4 1947 Convict Killed in Fall From Wall RALEIGH Jan 13 (UP) suuuu oo mues per nour at sea level considerably during the tests One of the air forces' ton BOISE Jan 13 The price of meat since it "seems the most easily talked about" may determine the next election Wilbur Wright-president of the American National Livestock association declared today to discussing what he called a propaganda campaign directed toward meat rationing and price controls "There has been a lot of talk about meat rationing There has been a lot of talk about the high price of meat There has been a lot of talk" the Deeth Nev stockman here for the 51st annual convention the figure adding that it will not ruin the program if the committee makes some changes in it uver- The secretary gave his blessing toa forthcoming bill by Flanders which would authorize the agricultural department to make plans for meat rationing But Anderson said he would prefer to give the administration the power to say when or whether such a program should go into effect projects is to develop a plane which can break through the "sonic bar- Peirillo Labeled 'Economic Pirate' He expressed strong doubt however that Bird had an accomplice Bird made it plain in his con- (Continued on Pag Two) (Column Four Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) a committee member added to a reporter that while he is not "unsympathetic with the objectives" he believes there has been "tod aiuiusi suiiu air wnicn builds up before the leading edge of a plane's wings at the speed of sound One convict fell from the wall of North Carolina's central prison today and died of a broken neck and Nobody with whom I worked in the government and no other government official or employe ever gave me any information about commodities and if they had I doubt that I would have understood it very well I am a surgeon but I am not a financier or economist and never pretended to be one" Graham's original public story was that after Mr Truman's blast at commodity "gamblers" he asked broker if he had any commodities and immediately ordered them t11 5count waa challenged by Harold Stassen aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination who said Graham did not get out of the market until after Stassen inquired whether any White House personnel wax noaoino i another was caught 50 yards away WASHINGTON Jan 13 Given Choice of Gandhi or Strife Justin Miller president of th National Association of Broadcasters told the house labor committee today that James Petrillo is an "economic pirate" who has be much educated guessing about the financial details Differing with his Republican colleagues on the house committee Representative Jartnan (D-Ala) said he is against loading the bill to authorize the Marshall plan with "too many details and directives" Vorys outlined his ideas directly to Secretary of State Marshall while the cabinet member was tes As Frail Patriot Fasts Talks of Death in an aoortive prison break Warden Hugh Wilson said Elmer Turner 38 was killed as he tried to scale the red brick wall of the prison Turner was serving three sentences including life imprisonment for murder kidnaping and highway robbery Wilson said Hosea Parker 32-year-old Negro had successfully come "the American public's symbol for bad union leadership" Miller testified that Petrillo through iron-clad control of ih ui me assocaiion said J1" of lt there seems to be little thought as to the results of rationing or controls as to the objectives sought or as to the relatively recent past experience with controls "My personal view is that most of the talk has been made because it was thought good politics a way of trying to impress the masses that something was trying to be done" tht Dartmouth-educated cattleman said of any commodity are not the cause of inflation but the result" Wright said addin that Gandhi's public announcement of his plan some disciples said they feared that should he die India's tifying yesterday American Federation of Musicians is seeking to destroy the record Marshall stuck bv his nuns for a non-Moslems would blame the single administrator working close Moslems and avenge him with a nt-i-Monandas Gandhi today started a life-endangering fast for communal peace in Delhi and India The Indian patriot and prophet of non-violence frail and 78 rejected last-minute appeals from Hindu Sikh and Moslem delegations that he give the people 15 days to restore peace before be ly witn tne state department But terrible slaughter cumuea me wait in a Cold rain but was caught when he ran into a prison employe on the other side Parker is serving a total of 46 years on eight charges of arson breaking and entering and larceny The warden said Turner and there is strong sentiment in the Gandhi lecturing the Sikhs in nouse ior running tne program through a board of directors Cold Wave Nears East Midwest the garden became so agitated his granddaughter had to help guide the wooden spoon in his shaking hand to his lips as he took the last making industry by "uninventing the phonograph" He said this is "hurting the real professional musicians" The NAB president testified in a Hollywood-like setting before floodlights and clicking newsreel cameras He is the first of several witnesses scheduled to tell the industry side of "the case against Petrillo" arising from th Invasion Suggested even though food prices are inflated they are not as inflated as the cost of government" He said food prices have doubled r-arner were working near the wall in the prison yard and attempted their break when guards relaxed Representative Morrow (R-NH) wanted to know what the eastern uieir waicntuiness in me pasi iu years whereas By United European countries and the United cost ot government is "four greater ginning nis fast He received them in the garden of a millionaire friend's home here "You must prefer Gandhi or lawlessness You can have both delegation members said he told them in Hindustani They added he asserted life had no value nor attraction without peace and love States would do if Russia decided "to take western Europe by force" 'Virus X' Spreads Declaring that the livestock industry has been under "fairly con- speaking cautiously Marshall mouthfuls of his breakfast Interpreters said he told the Sikhs that their group though a small minority was powerful and should not use force against helpless Moslems Two bearded members of the group wept as he spoke Health of Mind Bool Two ministers of the Tnrllan leader's ban on record-making and his edict against the use of union musicians for television broadcasts As the hearings began Commit Householders checked their oil tanks and coal bins throughout most of the northern and eastern United States today as temperatures dropped and promised to go still lower While most California ns enjoyed record winter heat wave mH westerners were told thev wnnM Brief Prayer Service tee Chairman Hartley (R-N J) recalled that a subcommittee inves Promptly at eleven a ClranAf said this would present "a terribly critical situation" He said a complete review of foreign policy would be required in this country but he did not forecast the outcome For Europe he regarded the chances of a Russian invasion as becoming "more remote" as the Marshall plan brings about economic recovery dominion Maulana Abul Kalnm tigated Petrillo in Los Angeles last year He said the group reported that Petrillo and his union "pvpr To San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO Jan 13 (UP) A wave of epidemic nausea which was known in Los Angeles under the name of "virus was becoming widespread in the San Francisco bay area today The disease was associated in some cases with a mild type pointed to tne remnants of his breakfast of goat's milk and vegetables from which he had hoon Azad for education and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur for public health -were among his visitors Mohandas Gandhi eating sparingly and said "take it away It is time" cise monopolistic control over all commercial phases of musical production including recordine-a- ra He told the latter that health of aiiacis oy various groups" Wright said that some of the propaganda has been "malicious but he added the propaganda has been "more generally I believe to defend a government agency to Justify controls of various types to whip up support for sincere and honest theories or to advance political prestige" i Woman Guard Doomed PRAGUE Czechoslovakia Jan 13 APi Sofie Nietzsche Sudent-en -German woman who was a guard at the notorious nazi nun esjj tration camp at Oswiecim As mind and soul was ss much her in He timed the start of the ft dio movies and television mwA terest as physical health He de have used their Creat nnwort went indoors to follow his normal routine of reading mail dictating messages to his followers and closely studying current events in newspapers In undertaking his fast rnnrihi exactly with his watch He then rinsed his mouth with water and held a brief praver serving for hi zLIiil? and witn 016 common cold The nausea however was i I i1 I a a at get even colder weather as a frigid iantiTcoa toward At" By m2orrow morning Mid temperatures be generally lower in a broad wedge extending from the midwest to the Atlantic south through the Carohnas and north through New England Thermometer readings in north-em Minnesota and interior Wisconsin were scheduled to dip as low as 10 to 25 degrees under zero I assembled friends and others read said it "will end when and if I am block technological development of frequency modulation (FM) radio and of television" Hartley said his subcommittee has recommended that the Taft-Hartley law and other federal statutes be amended "so that the monopolistic practices of labor unions Which are Injurious to the minii clared to the former that he was wasting his time visiting Gandhi and ought to be back in his office teaching people among other things to keep the peace Of each he demanded: "What kind of department are you presiding over? Gandhi's announcement referred In more than one place to the possibility of his death Indonesian Regime BATAVIA Java Jan 13 (AP) Hubert us Van Monk acting governor general of the Netherlands East Indies installed seven non-Republican Indonesians today as members of an interim government forerunner of a United States of Indonesia An eishth an jy ui unioen tilled virus It last attacked this area three years ago in epidemic proportions San Francisco Health Director Dr Geiger advised those who succumbed to the disease to go to bed keep warm drink liquids and call a doctor satisfied that there is a reunion of the hearts of all communities brought about without anv outside ing selections from the Mohammedan Koran the Christian Bible and the Hindu vedas or religious tenets He asked the people including the Hindu Sikh and Moslem delegations to leave him then and he I schwitz) was sentenced to ath by a Czechoslovak court today for pressure but from awakened sense of duty" Noting the mention of death in crimes against humanity She convicted of torturing women interest hs fnrhliiion pointee will be installed later.

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