The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

The Weather UTAH Partly cloudy today to-night and Friday with scattered anew flarriea southeast portion today Continued cold with low tonight 16 to 20 except near 28 in Dixie High Friday 28 to 38 Temperatures Tor the 34-hour period ntfbag even a in today:) Max Mm Max 1 OKden 33 22 Omaha Albuquerque 43 Phwnix S3 Boise 43 19 Pocateue S3 Butte 22 -20 Portland 51 Cheyenne 13 5 Provo 33 Chicago 38 34 Reno 48 Denver 28 12 Rock Springs 33 Gd Junctioa 34 18 Salt Lake 31 Lea Vegas 54 38 San Antonio Logan 33 18 San Fran 58 Loa Angeles 64 47 St George 46 Miami 85 60 St Louis Minneapolis 27 8 Seattle 51 New York 38 31 Sheridan 30 Okla City 39 39 Washington 54 15 33 17 10 ia xamxner 27 3 The United Press Seventy-seventh Tear No 194 OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 4 1948 The Associated Press 'Pay in Blood' 'Forced to Sign' Wheal Rises 'Purge' of Science Angers Atom Chief ggggVVIIHPVgegBKBfe' gaagBjBgM Czechs' New Envoy Sails For America Munk En Route When Slavik's Note Submitted 0 Council In Dilemma On Palestine Recess Permits Discussion of Grim Situation Limit Then Trims Gains Flurry Caused By Anderson's Strikes Back Mr tIbbbbSsB i i Condon Begs to Protect Top Men From 'Irresponsible Attacks' Decision on Loyalty File Awaited WASHINGTON March 4 Dr Edward Condon asked the congressional committee on atomic energy today Export Report CHICAGO March 4 WASHINGTON March 4 (AP) Czechoslovakia's new communist government al ready has an envoy on the way to replace the ambassa to save government scientists from being "constantly harassed and harried by irresponsible attacks on their character" Condon who heads the national bureau of standards asked the atomic committee to intervene in charges by the house un-American activities committee that his loyalty is LAKE SUCCESS March 4 (AP) The security council is stuck on what to do about Palestine and delegates took a 24-hour recess today to do some private talking about the problem The official reason for the one-day adjournment was the illness of Camille Chamoun special Lebanon representative in the council The dor who quit rather than serve a "police state" Diplomatic officials said today Mihai Former Romanian king says abdication la not binding BUHL mmm I aaj aSBBBBsV ijaBBBBBsHsMlMlaHsBBBBH questionable Irvin Munk was named minister counsellor to Washington after last week's Red coup in Prague May wheat futures rose the permissible 10-cent limit on the board of trade today after indications that the government would buy flour equal to 9300000 bushels of wheat A the close wheat was 2 to 64 cents higher corn higher to lower and oats Vt to 1 higher Soybeans were unchanged to seven cents higher and lard 20 to 28 points higher Mills rushed the wheat market the opening and prices were boosted in all pits Later trading however became quieter and the day's peak prices generally were out The quick advance followed an announcement by Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson revealing the government's plans for "The whole scientific life of the Mihai Asserts Due in New York Monday he unofficial reason is that United Nations delegates want more time Lt Gen Albert Wedemeyer says dollars alone not enough US Must Back Up China Aid General Warns to try and work something out thus was en route when Ambassador Jaraj Slavik quit his post yesterday to "fight for Czechoslovak democracy" Before the council adjourned 'Mighty P' Is Consigned to Watery Grave yesterday it became apparent that Hr Edw Condon Defends US scientists against 'smears' Munk is slated to become charge He Abdicated Under Duress atfaires In that capacity he will at least a portion of the American resolution on Palestine partition is nation is involved" Condon said in letters to Sen Bourke Hicken-loo per (R-Ia) and other members of the atomic energy committee Condon said "threats of purges spy ring exposures publicity attacks and sudden dismissals without hearings" have made it increasingly hard to recruit top scientists to government service He asked the committee to investigate the "whole question of proper relations between working scien head the embassy staff which did headed for defeat Canada and not immediately follow the ambas China joined Belgium and Syria in opposing a section calling upon the sador into voluntary exile Slavik Is Welcome WASHINGTON March 4 (AP council to accept the partition Lt Gen Albert Wedemeyer to scheme as laid down by the 1947 The state department meanwhile UN assembly PEARL HARBOR March 4 (AP) The battleship Pennsylvania survivor of the Pearl Harbor debacle and two atomic blasts was scuttled near Kwajalein Feb 10 the navy is prepared to assure Slavik that export shipments of grain and flour Anderson did not say when the government will begin buying but the April allocations for foreign nations included 18329000 bushels of wheat and flour equal to 12188-OOd bushelf Removes Major Point US Will Seek To Avert Meat Packing Tieup CHICAGO March 4 The he is welcome to remain in the United States But whether he can look for official support in his announced attempt to rally Czech Should this opposition crystallize tists and their government" day proposed military aid for China "We are going to pay in blood" if proper steps are not taken by America to stop the spread of communism Wedemeyer told the "It seems to me that this should sufficiently to bring passage of a Belgian counter proposal which be done at once'' Condon said patriots against the new govern would eliminate acceptance of ment of Prime Minister Klement Asks Complete Hearing partition the American plan would LONDON March 4 Former King Mihai of Romania said today his abdication was forced upon him and he does not consider himself bound by it Mihai sails tomorrow for the United States He had lunch today with the British royal family at Buckingham palace and then issued a statement saying: "At the present moment it is no longer necessary to insist on the circumstances and causes of certain political events "The motives of the profound political changes imposed on the small states of eastern Europe are already too well known Act Imposed by Force Gottwald is something else again be tripped of its major point An "Because of the very special do Undersecretary Robert A Lovett said the United States is holding house foreign affairs committee "I don't think dollars alone will stop the spread of communism other part of the American resolu conciliation service today began efforts to head off a na sition which atomic energy has in matters of scientific research I tion provides for a big five com turtner talks with Britain and France which joined this Country mittee to consult on the Palestine tionwide meat packing strike set for March 16 anywhere" the one-time chief of therefore respectfully suggest that problem in a three-power condemnation of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai- your committee give this matter Conciliator Thomas Cleland the latest communist seizure of Shek continued The administra complete hearing and careful power in eastern Europe study tion has proposed $570000000 aid summoned the CIO United Packinghouse Workers and Swift and Many traders apparently had been waiting for some sign of when the government would resume buying for export Federal agencies have been inactive in the grain markets since the sharp break last month The rise in grain prices aroused frequent selling for profit Houses with southwestern connections who early bought later turned to selling In the cash market corn was about unchanged while oats rose fane cent No 3 yellow corn sold for $237 sbushei and No 1 white announced today "Damage received at Okinawa was mainly responsible for the Pennsylvania's a orthineas and not damage inflicted during the atomic bomb tests" at Bikini in July 1946 the navy said Two other warships termed victims of "progressive deterioration" also were scuttled last month They were the destroyer Trippe sunk Feb 3 and the attack transport Banner sunk Feb 16 Menace to Shipping The navy said the Pennsylvania could not have remained afloat much longer in Kwajalein lagoon She was towed there after the Bikini atom tests She was considered a possible menace to shipping if she sank in the lagoon as did the Prinz Eugen Both were guinea pigs of the Bikini tests The "Mighty as the navy calls Russia took no part in yesterday's debate Soviet Delegate Andrei A Gromyko made the delay possible by canceling a Friday meeting of an atomic energy committee which The un-American activities com But if the established pattern is followed there will be no break to China without military help Not Participation mittee already is planning further inquiry into Condon's associations company to a meeting in his office Similar meetings are planned with Armour and company on Wednesday Wilson and company on Thursday and with the Cuda- In publishing its charges against "As far as Romania is concerned I want to avail myself of the first He said that economic aid abroad should be backed up with conflicted Gromyko's action raised the pos formal diplomatic relations with Prague In the absence of such a break Slavik and other Czech exiles could expect no more backing the physicist a subcommittee re possibility personally to r-nnfirm leased part of a letter from FBI military support But Wedemeyer the facts as they happened "On the morning of Dec 30 1fl47 made plain he is talking about hy Packing company next Friday The union set its strike date yes man similar refugees from Poland Hungary and other Soviet satellite Director Edgar Hoover to Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman military aid and not ill tar oar Mr Petru Groza and Gheorghiu- sibility that he wanted the extra time either to get further instructions from the Kremlin or to initiate some new moves among council delegates The United States represented as being ready to vote oats for 31 Mm ticipation states The letter said Condon had been wej memoers of the Romanian cabinet presented to me the text He said military aid means competent officers to advise Other Exiles Here terday against these firms plus John Morrell and Sons Hy -Grade Food Products and other companies Ralph Helstein union president in contact with a man described by another man a "self-confessed" and puzzled by the postponement of the act of abdication urging me to sign it at once Both of them came to the royal palace after it in the use of weapons where a country has been given economic Soviet spy as an espionage agent In announcing his resignation Slavik declared that the great majority of the Czech people remain true to ideals and that he "will act said the strike was called to en her recovered from the Pearl Har The letter added that there was aid no evidence in this association of "I don't believe military partici naa oeen surrounded by armed detachments informing m4 that thev bor attack to strike at the Japanese 13 times with 11000000 pounds of in their behalf and in their name" would hold me responsible for the force demands for a 29-cent hourly wage boost Swift and company said it had offered a nine-cent hourly raise East to Feel Effects He did not say whether he has steel more than was fired by any other battleship in history Diooosned which will follow as a specnic actions in mind consequence of the instructions al Off Okinawa 59 hours before the war ended an aerial torpedo ripoed Wheat was strong at Kansas City nd Minneapolis Minneapolis oats and Kansas City corn followed the upswing Winnipeg rye was irregular while oats and rye were steady Anderson also said the government plans to export 9000000 bushels of raw wheat this week ate tail Decline Slows Meanwhile a survey by United Press showed that retail prices of most basic foods have stopped dropping and that the grain market has recovered as much as 50 per cent of the loss it took in the big price break which began a month ago Hog prices were steady with yesterday's lower prices at the open-teg of trading at Chicago today At St Louis they sold 50 cents to $1 Already In recent voluntary exile in the United States are Hungary's former premier Ferenc Nagv Ex- ready issued by them in case I shall not sign within the time limit "This act was imposed -to me Industry sources said the strike Patrol Ambushed JERUSALEM March 4 Arabs ambushed a Haganah patrol near Ramallah today and police said 17 Jewish militiamen were killed Arab sources said the patrol was trying to penetrate through the hills to lay mines on the highway when it encountered Arab defenders A two-hour gunfight resulted There was no estimate of Arab casualties Arabs said the Jewish patrol the Pennsylvania's stern and killed 20 men disloyal activity by Condon The house committee has served a subpoena on the commerce department ordering production of the full text of the letter and everything else in its loyalty file on Condon by tomorrow The department's loyalty board cleared Condon last month A question has arisen as to whether the department may or should turn over its files to the committee Harriman will decide soon whether to turn over the Dy force by a government installed She was commissioned March 16 would ut the nation's meat supply about in half with the east feeling the shortage more than other nungarian Minister Aladar Sze gedy-Maszak Poland's recent vice and maintained in power by a for 1915 She had a displacement of pation is necessary at this time he added at the committee hearing on the China aid measure Wedemeyer said communism "is out to destroy everything we hold dear "I believe we should give military aid to all countries and all peoples whose policies and economic structures are compatible with our own and who are striving against totalitarian doctrines" 'Honest Differences' He acknowledged that he and Secretary of State Marshall have "honest differences" about military premier Stanislaw Mikolaiczvk eign country a government utterly and Agrarian party leaders from unrepresentative of the will of the sections A shortage of fresh meat cuts would hit the average household within a few days after any 33000 tons and was 608 feet la length with a beam of 106 feet three inches She carried 12 four-teen-inch guns 16 five-inchers and Yugoslavia and Bulgaria nomanian people Pledgee Violated work stoppage Cudahy has a plant at North Salt Lake City Utah James Stanton regional rep came from Kalandiya settlement many smaller weapons Manned by 16 Sailors "This government had vinlntoH subpoenaed documents There were which adjoins the airport where General Merrick international pledges binding them the advance party of the United to respect the political freedom nf strong indications he may refuse 'End of Public Smears resentative for the union said yesterday that the Cudahy plant at North Salt Lake employs approx per hundred pounds lower and at Indianapolis major buyers were Nations commission charged with carrying out Holy Land partition hklning 25 cents lower In his letter to the atomic com the Romanian people had falsified the elections and annihilated the Democratic political leaders who enjoyed the confidence of the coun 54 Dies Aboard landed yesterday British heavy guns roared out in the Holy land during the night try imately 200 workers Workers at the American Packing Provision Co Ogden and Archie McFarland Son Salt Lake City are affiliated with American Federation of Labor unions which have not announced a strike The removal of the monarchv under Britain's new policy of firing impartially on Jewish or Arab ag Train From Reno aid to China Wedemeyer said $200000000 "would have helped China immeasurably" two years ago But today" he added "I don't think I would recommend $500-000000 in aid to China unless there were military aid to protect that $500000000 "This vast movement has been so successful in Czechoslovakia and probably in Finland is sweep This is how the Pennsylvania ended her days: Sixteen sailors manned her en the last run (In her glory days the Pennsylvania carried 130 officers and 2300 enlisted men) She rode ignominously at the end of a tow hawser her once powerful engines silent At the designated spot the crew opened the seacocks removed the condenser plates scrambled to the deck and boarded a tug Her stern dropped beneath the waves but for two and a half hours the Pennsylvania resisted her fate gressors constitutes a new act of violence in the policy of the enslavement of Romania In these conditions I Two and six-inch guns were fired SALT LAKE CITY March 4 at Arabs attacking a Jewish do not consider myself bound in -Brig Gen Marlowe quarry The Arabs fled No casual mittee Condon said: "I would hope that an investigation by your committee would result in restoring conditions in which men of intelligence will be willing to work for their government and will not be constantly harassed and harried by irresponsible attacks on their character "In fairness and justice we must put an end to public smears on scientists in and out of government and we must also do it in order not to throttle the scientific research which is so important to the material side of our civilization' Condon said it is not the charge any way by this act imposed upon me ties were reported Merrick 54 soldier of fortune and assistant chief of staff to air force Gen Arnold in the last war "With unshaken faith in our fu three-inch mortar shells scat ture animated by the same devo tered an Arab patrol which had blown up a culvert on the road tion and will to work I will con while navy planes circled overhead ing aown irom the north If we in American intend to put a stop to it we can't do it by purely economic aid" The committee asked the general's views because of his Ion Gov Dewey Raps Truman 'Waste' Of Public Funds between Jerusalem and Mount Scopus One Arab was believed men she slipped to her grave tinue to serve the Romanian people with which my destiny is inexorably bound" died of a heart attack today aboard a train en route here from his home in Reno Few military men could boast of the varied and distinguished soldiering career that Merrick began killed Wallace Spurned By Auto Workers CHICAGO March 4 (UP) The executive board of the I United Auto Workers turned its thumbs down today on Henry A Wallace and said it would form its own third party after the November elections The board holding it quarterly meeting here this week said Wallace's third party movement is "a communistic party maneuver designed to advance the foreign policy interest of the Soviet Union" It urged all groups "honestly committed to winning economic security and abundance" to join in forming 'a genuine progressive party'' after this year's election The board adopted a resolution fully supporting -the position of the national CIO in reiectine and Butte Is Coldest on me Mexican border as a experience in China During the war he commanded the China theatre for a time and was chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek against him that concerns him He said he can make a living just as well outside of the government Virginia Drops Ballot Ban cavalry officer under Gen John Pershing wnat concerns me he added "is the national weakness and dis Until he retired in 1945 he served in the military forces of a dozen With 20 Below Finding Still Secret Democrats Woo Mac Arthur integration of our scientific posi nations in Europe South America and Asia as well as the United President Truman sent Wede tion if this whole Question of meyer to China last summer to ALBANY March 4 (AP) Gov Thomas Dewey of New York said today the "quarreling" Truman administration threatens the nation with "ruinous inflation" by "profligate waste" of public funds He added that the government's "conduct of both our domestic and foreign affairs has been so weak states proper relations between working scientists and their government is By the Associated Press -most frequently as a possible GOP To Bid on Air Base nominee In that connection Rebelling Dixie Democrats today survey conditions His findings never have been made public The general said he is under orders from the Dresident not to HicsMice At the time of his death he was campaign committee was organized in New York yesterday "to boom his report not tuny clarified" Condon said that he like other government scientists has been investigated and -einvestigated by various government agencies and as far as he knows uniformly cleared MacArthur to the end that the peo Marshall has held that ple demand he be nominated for and incompetent that it has failed in both fields" engaged in business in Reno and served as secretary of Frontiers Unlimited a Nevada business promotional organization He was believed to be en route to Salt Lake By the Associated Press Clearing skies sent the mercury skidding below zero in the inter-mountain area today Butte Mont with 20 below was the coldest spot reporting to the Salt Lake weather bureau Big Piney Wyo had seven below but temperatures for the most part remained above the zero mark Bryce Canyon in southern Utah had four above and Idaho Falls reported nine above Salt Lake City had 16 and Ogden 22 It was 15 at Pocatello and received a setback in their drive to keep President Truman's name off southern ballots But from the north came fresh support for a change in party standard bearers Virginia legislators yesterday threw out a bill to bar Mr Tru tion of the information might be 'actually harmful" to the and China president Warren Wright of Chicago act Dewey fired the blast a tele gram thanking Wisconsin friends repudiating the 1948 presidential candidacy of Henry A Wallace" It denounced the Wallace group as "a political maneuver contrary to the best interests of labor and the nation" and as "an obstacle in the way of the establishment of a ing leader of the group said no for supporting his candidacy for the Republican presidential pledged delegates will be sought Emulating Dictatorships He said he fears that "we are on the point" of emulating Germany Italy and Japan in their purges of Instead he added the committee will rely on a nationwide poll three man name from the ballot But "We are together in a good they kept another weapon to use ew csjesful and genuine progressive weeks before the GOP convention cause the governor told the 27 parry in the United M-iemisis and general intimidation and stifling of the spirit of free to convince party leaders that Mac AFL Starts Own Taft-Hartley Poll to Did on a surplus air base near here As assistant chief of staff of the army air forces he was in charge of engineering and supply for the air transport command He then served briefly as commanding officer at air bases in St Joseph Mo Cuba Jamaica Reno Manchester Sacramento and Dutch Guiana In World war I he was an air officer in Europe Following that Republicans who filed petitions against him At the same time three New England Democrats including Bos Arthur is the people's choice inquiry yesterday for the Wisconsin pres In Virginia Gov William Department officials conferred idential primary April 6 as a full ton's long-time mayor James Tuck approved a complete substitute for his "anti-Truman" election Curley urged Gen Douglas Mac- slate of Dewey-pledged delegates to the national conven Continued or Page Two-At (Column tare)) Arthur as their party presidential tion WASHINGTON March 4 (AP) American Federation of Labor law bill The revised measure would per candidate war ne joined the famed Kosciuskio Curley who last Thanksgiving Profligate Waste" "Our national government is torn wants to know whether its more Escadrille Polish air force and as mit the president's name to appear on the state's ballot but would was granted a presidential pardon a lieutenant colonel fmirht fnr than 7000000 members are for or after serving five months of a six Another German Says He's Sure by bitterness and quarreling" he require presidential electors to vote as the Virginia party convention against the Taft-Hartley labor act to 18 months mail fraud sentence The resolution which was introduced by A President Walter Reuther was adopted by 16 members of 1e board Eight board members not attend the meeting he board said that its own third party would be "a popular movement built from the grass roots upward th Prty after the IMg election was made the official political objective of the union in another resolution passed yesterday The party will "welcome into it ranks industrial and white collar workers working farmers said "Its profligate waste of the declared the nation is demanding moneys it has wrung from our mat Mr Truman stay out of the To find out it started a nationwide poll today Ballots went out to all AFL local unions with this people by taxes threatens to bring us to ruinous inflation" 19 at Boise Snow continued falling in southeastern Utah and the weatherman saw little chance of a letup in the storm before tomorrow Otherwise skies were clear in western Montana southern Idaho and Nevada with clearing conditions expected in extreme northern Utah by tonight Temperatures also were below normal over the central part of the country from the Appalachians to the Rockies They dipped to below zero near the Canadian border from the Rockies to the Great Lakes and were near zero in parts of New England The extensive blanket of snow remained unbroken from the northern and central Rockies eastward across the Great Lakes to New England Another snow avalanche ground down across US 550 between Ouray and Silverton Colo to race He joined two former governors Joseph Ely of Massachusetts and Dewey contended that "our task explanation: as Republicans is to restore integrity competence and purpose to Francis Murphy of New Hamp-p Kecently Sen Robert A Taft Poland against Russia in 1921 and 1922 He was shot down and wounded He then flew a year with the newly-created Yugoslavian air force Later he organized and commanded the air force of the Republic of Colombia He flew for China for three years and next served as special engineer for the Mexican and Brazilian governments Lend-Leese Activity At the outset of World war II as assistant chief-of-staff to General the national government" orders That would be for someone other than Mr Truman if he is his party's nominee and if southern Democratic leaders remain up in arms over his civil rights program Another spark was added to the revolt by Florida Democrats They postponed their Jefferson-Jackson day dinners until after the party's convention in July "No appeal for funds for the national Democratic party will be ana otner supporters of this legislation have been making snewhuc Only in this way he said "can trying to make the public believe tknt MA we build a stable industry and agriculture maintain high stand snire in proposing the supreme allied commander of Japan as the Democratic nominee Ely supported the late Alfred Smith in his break with President Franklin Roosevelt and backed James A Farley against Roosevelt ards for labor develop a consistent and strong foreign policy and anu Dusiness men professional and every independent and every Croup honestly committed to winning economic security and abundance without surrendering fundamental freedom" wmi me xau-nartiey act is opposed only by labor leaders and that the rank-and-file of labor union members are really in favor of it win a lasting peace Dewey supporters will contest at the 1940 Democratic convention made at this time" they announced Arnoiq ne nad the task of directing establishment of British lnriioa Hitler Is Alive NUERNBERG Germany March 4 (AP) army intelligence officers have turned up another German who claims to have seen Hitler and Eva Braun escape from Germany as the war ended This one is a former German air force pilot named Arthur Frederick Angelotte-Mackensen The intelligence officers said today he told them he saw Hitler and Eva escape by plane from Berlin to Denmark and as far as southern France in late April 1945 Mackensen was arrested at Molfratshausen near Munich on a tip from a German girl officers in Fsankfurt said they were awaiting an official report but added that similar stories had been told before and had not been proved the Wisconsin primary against The Ku KIux Klan in another slates pledged to Harold Stas- block the highway in a fifth place phase of the Dixie rebellion car sen former governor of Minnesota air bases and negotiating with the Danish government for bases in Greenland i lie snow covered the Brooklyn ried its burning torch to Wriahts- and General Douglas MacArthur slide area from 12 to 20 feet deen We think the public ought to know the truth "That is why we are conducting this nation-wide poll "This is an entirely secret ballot We want you to express your honest opinion with perfect freedom All you have to do is to place a check in the box beside either of ville Ga where only one Negro approached the polls in a countv Hit duties took htm in Afi-Va Shea assistant highway de India China and the middle east' Coadjutor Bishop WASHINGTON March 4 XI1 appointed the Most Rev Thomas A Connolly now auxiliary bishop of San Fran-geeo to be coadjustor bishop with th right of succession to Bishop Gerald Shaugnessy SM of Seattle Murphy was a Republican governor but later was Democratic national committeeman from New Hampshire Curley was asked whether he plans to start a move at the Philadelphia convention to substitute MacArthur for Truman "I don't think it will be necessary" he replied to a reporter "The country is doing it now" partment superintendent of mainte primary election Grand Dragon Dr Samuel Green and subsequently with the 10th air force in Burma He next was as nance in the section reported The slide area is nearly a mile and a East Indies Regime BAT A VIA Java March 4 (AP) told the hooded gathering that if signed as air attache in Mos the civil rights program is enacted quarter long Snow conditions on the southwest Colorado road "are A new interim government for all the Netherlands East Indies will be cow followed by a command-liaison post in the North African ine two questions below and mail TCliPping to department AFLu Washington federal bayonets will be used again to enforce equality If that happens the worst in six years" Shea re ported to department headauartera MacArthur has been mentioned I he said "blood will flow" appointed and installed Monday it was announced tday in Denver.