The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

The Weather Temperatures (Temperature for the 14-hour period ndin at seven Saturday:) KaxMln1 Max Min Ogden 30 15Phoenix 41 OGDEN AND VICINITY Clear and Monday morning in- Bane 31 08Pocatello 19 14 BUttS 42-16 Portland 38 30 uness Monday after-warmer Morula aft- Provo 48 10 Cheyenne SI 07 Chicago 41 33 Reno 32 -1 Sunday near 26 low ninr 5 hi-lnvi Rirk Denver 61 33 Gd Junction 36 20 Rock Springs 33 17 Salt Lake 43 20 San Antonio 72 87 San Fran 50 28 afternoon 25 9 Clear north and nartlv Las Vega 63 32 Monday UTA1 Los Angeles 45 43 Miami 79 70 elondy with occasional snow flnr- ith nortion Sundi Hmdn St George 49 34 St Louis 31 34 xnmmev clear bat inrrfaninr -innri Seattle 38 28 Sheridan 52 -11 "I' vjkBiaa i i Minneapolis 33 31 New Orleans 66 S3 New York 33 18 Okie City 62 47 Omaha 46 21 i northwest portion late Monday Wa ashington 37 25 Yellst 05 -4 West fast NRA Seventy-eighth Tear No 32 The United Press The Associated Press PRICE 10 CENTS 36 3 SECTIONS OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 13 1949 AP Service Succumbs Storms Plague Plains West Hungary Demands Recall Of American Minister Unusual Move Drives Relations Road and Rail Crews in Utah Idaho Gradually Winning Out Over Drifts By The Associated Press The Arctic hurled a fresh blast of icy wind and snow at the northern plains states Saturday stalling efforts to dig out of the area from 43 days of winter blows The new storm enveloped Mon With Eastern Europe to New Low WASHINGTON Feb 12 (UP) Communist Hungary demand for the recall of Minister Selden Chapin in an aftermath of the Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty case tonight drove American relations with eastern Europe to anew postwar low The state department rejected the demand but ordered Chapin home for "consultations" It refused to budge in condemning Hungary's treatment of the Catholic primate and reserved all rights to act as it sees fit in future The situation was practically without peacetime precedent and impinged on all relations with the Soviet-dom- Canada II Hold Talks On Defenses Radar Plan Too Costly Says Prime Minister WASHINGTON Feb 12 (UP) Canadian Minister Louis St Laurent met President Truman officially for the first time today to talk about the defense of North America St Laurent made the point that some of the big plans such as ringing the continent with a radar warning system are a bit too costly It might mean he said at a press conference that spending for radar would go so high nobody could stand the cost of anything else (On Capitol hill a house armed services subcommittee okayed and sent to the full committee a plan to build such a radar screen in cooperation with Canada at a cost of $161000000) St Laurent had luncheon at Blair house with Mr Truman and top officials including Secretary of State Dean Acheson and members of foreign affairs committees of both houses of congress Meets Cabinet Officials Fate Doubtful For Some of Truman Ideas tana and most of Wyoming before daybreak then slammed deeply into northern Colorado It reached also into North and South Dakota and Nebraska The blizzard dropped new snow ranging from three to eight inches on Montana most of Wyoming and northern Colorado-It prompted renewed relief activities in the southwest part of North Dakota The army included the state in the official snow disaster area after an appeal by Gov Fred AandahL Jim Scowcroft Jim Scowcroft Executive Dies Suddenly inated sateihu-s A possible move was the request that Hungary's minister Andrew Sik get out of Washington By Jack BeU WASHINGTON Feb 12 The Democratic congress begins its seventh week Monday amid in There appeared scant likelihood Europe Need: More Arms Not Soldiers James (Jim) Scowcroft vice president and general manager of dications that it may pigeonhole Chapin would ever go back to Budapest or that anyone of ministerial rank would be sent in his stead anytime soon part of President Truman's legislative program Price declines appeared about The only worse step which could Operations Halted Virtually all snow removal operations had to be halted in South Dakota where winds up to 45 miles an hour in the western sector were accompanied by blowing snow The George Ash by president of Union Pacific railroad left Ogden for Salt Lake City aboard his special ear Saturday afternoon after having viewed snow removal operations along the railroad's line in Wyoming- to cut the ground from under Mr Truman's request for standby the John bcowcroft bons to grocery and dry goods wholesalers died unexpectedly Saturday noon of a heart ailment in a local hospital He was 57 He was associated In various capacities with the firm continuously since 1315 when he returned to his native city of Ogden from Japan where he served a five-year mission for the church Mr Scowcroft was for many years a have been taken short of war would be a complete diplomatic break with Hungary price-wage controls and add to Diplomats could not recall a similar case where another country had demanded in peacetime that a United States ambassador or minister be recalled from its capital Obvious Move member of the Ogden chamber of WASHINGTON Feb 12 (AP) Official Washington is about convinced that what western European nations need now is more arms and coordinated military training rather than more soldiers This trend in thinking became evident today in the light of discussions in authoritative quarters As a result there is no apparent disposition here to press the countries of western Europe to build up a large number of divisions this year Rather they will be encouraged to provide their present forces with the best equipment and training possible under the circumstances And if an aggressor should strike in an' effort to roll westward to the The obvious retaliatory move would be to demand that Hungary recall its minister here Andrew Sik winds were expected to abate Sunday with temperatures dropping to IS below zero Most roads east of the Missouri river remained open but those in the Black Hills were blocked Residents of western and northern central Kansas were told to expect blizzard conditions Sunday with three to six inches of snow Freezing rain sleet and snow already had moved into parts of Kansas and Missouri The cold sub-zero at midday in the blizzard belt reached in commerce and a past director of the Utah Manufacturers' association Labored in Japan His mission labors in Japan covered the years 1910 to 1915 where he served under Senator Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) who at that time was mission president Mr Scowcroft because a fluent speaker of the Japanese language He was born in Ogden Jan 17 1892 a son of Heber and Ellen Pin-gree Scowcroft He was educated Asked what this country intends Checking over the candy-laden parachutes just prior to taking off from Hill air force base for an "Operation Little Vittles" tun over Ogden are left to right Captain Robert Spencer and Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to do about Sik Secretary of State Atlantic it would be assumed that his front line forces would be fully milder form into the northwest and northern California ending a flood equipped and virtually self suffi cient for the first phases of such a threat to 2000 persons trapped by deep 3nows in a canyon of the Sierras campaign Heavy Aerial Blow Dean Acheson replied: I can say I just don't know" In Budapest Hungary continued its anti-American offensive with a charge by Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk that President Truman had made "brutal attempts" to interfere with Hungarian internal affairs The president on Thursday denounced as "infamous" the conviction and sentence of Mindszenty for alleged treason The White House declined comment on Rajk's statement Acheson however said he stands on his statement earlier in the week that the Minds zently trial was "wanton persecution" Diplomatic observers expected New snow ranging up to a foot Candy Bombarding Thrills Crowds Along Main Stem By Bert Strand Thousands of Ogden youngsters and almost as many adults were given a thrill Saturday at First Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen reenacted his Berlin "Little Vittles" operation inr depth and drfted by a brisk wind clicked virtually all main Thus it is' reasoned that even a heavy aerial blow at his supply centers far behind the fighting lines St Laurent meets cabinet officials and congressmen at a Canadian embassy reception this evening and luenhes with Acheson tomorrow before leaving for Ottawa tomorrow evening He is here at Mr Truman's invitation St Laurent indicated to reporters he would urge the need for immediate joint action on planned development of the St Lawrence waterway and hydroelectric power project He said the time has come when Canada "has got to have the power He said Canada hopes the United States will accord her equal rights in strategic American air bases in Newfoundland 99-Year Lease ea Bases The United States Obtained a 99-year lease on these bases in the wartime destroyers-for-bases deal with Great Britain Newfoundland becomes a Canadian province March 31 and St Laurent said he hoped this country would agree then to administer the bases under terms of the American-Canadian joint defense agreement of 1947 He declined to tell reporters how many Canadian installations are manned by Americans under terms of this agreement He called for continued closest cooperation between the and Canada and said: "We feel that working together we have the most comfortable place on the clone for over the city similar troubles with Bulgaria where the communist regime charged 15 Protestant churchmen in Ogden City schools and graduated from the former Weber academy On Aug 18 1915 he was married to Lucille Ballantyne in the Salt Lake temple He was a member of the Hy-land ward Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Robert Hinckley Jr Chicago and Mrs Paul Cawley Denver a son Lieut Brent Scowcroft air corps Grenier field Manchester New Hampshire five grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Brothers and Sisters Heber John and Harold Scowcroft and Mrs Eccles all of Ogden: Richard Scowcroft Palo Alto Calif Mrs Ida James Mrs Emmerson Willey Salt Lake -City Mrs Voyle James and Mrs Burrston of Los Angeles His son Brent Scowcroft a F-51 pilot has been confined in Murphy general hospital at Waltham Mass for several weeks for treatment of a broken back suffered in an air accident at Grenier field He notified relatives by phone Saturday that he will -fly to Ogden arriving Sunday His two daughters Mrs Robert Hinckley Jr and Mrs Paul Cawley are also expected to arrive Sunday Funeral arrangements are In charge of the mortuary Thirty-fourth and Washington arguments against the imposition of $4000000000 in new taxes which he urges His proposal for governmental authority to build steel plants under heavy Republican attack also seems likely to be undermined if any further drop occurs in business indices For other reasons Democratic lawmakers also were putting in the doubtful category Mr Truman's requests for universal military training and for congressional approval of the proposed St Lawrence seaway Mr Truman however still insists that standby price control power and $4000000000 in new taxes are just as necessary now as when he first asked for them Insists on New Taxes Asked at his Thursday news conference if new taxes would be advisable if a recession developed he said they would be because government expenditures would not be affected and because he is trying to avoid having a deficit But the house ways and means committee has set the administration's tax bill aside for consideration at the "proper time" There were indications the committee might not take up the tax bill before May Moving In its customary slow pace congress has acted finally on only two important bills in six weeks Both houses passed a presidential pay increase measure not in the Truman message They also passed amid Republican jibes an extension of the eightieth congress' voluntary program for parcelling out scarce materials such as steel Tighter Debate Control Working under rules that give them tighter control of debate house administration leaders have pushed through a bill extending the reciprocal trade agreements Hyam without the restrictions ed on by the eightieth congress and a measure giving the president authority to reshuffle government bureaus They await senate action The senate has passed a bill extending export controls It is scheduled for house action next week The house also will get the first of a series of appropriation bills a measure bearing funds for a stand-by steam plant for TV A denied by the eightieth congress Senate finance committee hearings begin Thursday on the reciprocal trade program and Chairman George (D-Ga) has promised speedy action Senate hearings had carried on "anti-state" work with help of a attache Chapin Accused Small Likelihood For Major Boost In Prices of Food Hungary had accused Chapin of Swooping low over Ogden downtown business buildings in his C-47 Lieut Halvorsen sent thousands of brightly parachuted candy packages to the street below Most of them were timed perfectly and landed in the outstretched arms of screaming boys and girls as they flocked onto Washington Lieut Halvorsen wearing his customary friendly grin as he watched the crowds below gave the famous air forces "high sign" to bis co-pilot Capt Robert Spencer as he watched the parachutes float down "That was right on the nose" re working with Mindszenty who was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on an allegation of WASHINGTON Feb 12 (UP) treason Chapin and the government denied the charge as a complete lie highways in Utpn again South of a sharp cold front nne in Kansas the 'ov er plains enjoyed mild wathe- Ortside of the northern area fr-m the Rockies ea to the Great Lakes most of the country had fair skies Exceptions were rain clouds in portions of the Ohio valley some snowing in Utah and scattered rainy conditions in the midnight- The latest great plains cold front dipped the mercury below zero in most of North and South Dakota and parts of Montana and Wyoming Road crews in Idaho and Utah were gradually winning battles with routes which had been re-drifted over However many roads were still closed Rail Crews Busy Railroad crews are clearing the Union Pacific's Salt Lake City to Los Angeles main line The blocked route was expected to be open by mid-night This line was blocked more than 24 hours when one train bogged down in drifts near Milford and a diesel engine sent to assist it was derailed in drifts A westbound train was freed earlier Saturday and continued to Los Angeles Workmen expected to get the diesel back on the track and the route cleared late Saturday night It was derailed east of the free human beings" Budapest dispatches reported that Even if consumer buying spurts upward again there is little chance of major boosts in food prices this Hungary also demanded recall of St Laurent said his country was not giving serious consideration to ioininff th orffnnizntiori nf Ameri would be of little immediate avail Such a speedy march might best be prevented on the ground Now and for some time to come the role of the United States in the Atlantic defense program is likely to be chiefly that of military adviser and furnisher of weapons Because estimates of the total cost to the United States in dollars and equipment must be ready for submission to congress soon American military authorities here and in the London sessions of the western European defensive organization are striving to come up with some reasonable concrete figures Unofficial guesses range between $1000000000 and $2000000000 Figures Not Firm But say those working with the problem these figures aren't yet firm if for no other reason than that the military officials of the western European alliance themselves still must fit together a vast amount of information While broad and highly tentative planning from the outset has considered the possibility that more than five European nations might eventually be involved the planning must be more precise if Norway and other nations enter the defense organization Some military leaders here are recommending that standardization of arms be approached with caution They contend that because of the urgency of the situation it is better to distribute whatever equipment now exists than to stress immediate standardization the assistant military attache there It threatened to expell Lt spring the agriculture department can states at this time but felt that conclusion of the projected North Atlantic defense pact was "considered much more urgent" now than extension of a nurelv western hemisphere pact said today Consumer buying has leveled off and prices are in a downward trend the department said Furthermore it said the forces which reversed a similar down trend last year causing consumer buying to resume its upward climb in the spring are not likely to be as strong this spring The department review of the "supply and demand" outlook was prepared last week prior to the big price drop in the commodities Yugoslavia Hints Col Peter Koposak if he is not recalled The state department said it had not received this demand officially The demand for Chapin's recall came after the state department had ordered John Florian first secretary of the Hungarian embassy here to leave the country Presumably it was retaliation for that move The state department said its orders to Chapin would reach him shortly It appeared likely that Chapin would not go back to Hungary after his talks here and it may be some little time before the United States appoints a new minister Chapin is a naval academy (Continued wo Page Two-AJ (Column toon futures markets last Tuesday halted westbound tram Willingness to Parley on Austria First train over the line will be the east-bound Pony Express-Pacific which left Los Angeles Thursday and has been held up at Milford LONDON Feb 12 (UP) Yueo- Three haylift planes new from Fallon to Ely Nev but were held slavia hinted today that she is willing to make a deal with the west on the Austrian peace treaty She sent a letter to the American British French and Soviet up there by bad weather The storm which blanketed Utah Friday night (Contmueo on Pace Two- aj (Column Threw delegates to the Austrian peace IVUUUilWCU fyMf our i B-36 Is Ready to Destroy Enemy Asserts Symington plied the captain as the big plane banked away from the last of three runs over the city Polio Drive Reminder The "Little Vittles" drop was made as a reminder of the Ogden polio campaign now closing Following the downtown demonstration the former Garland resident landed at Ogden municipal airport where he was greeted by Mayor Harman Peery and a police escort He was taken to the Ogden high school where he spoke Mayor Peery summed up the operation with these words: "Why that was the biggest thing ever to hit Ogden I'll bet that was more exciting than the presidential inauguration! I was as thrilled as the children That plane and those parachutes made a thrilling sight" He clutched a candy sack and a parachute which he said was handed him by a small boy who ran into the street to get it and then returned to hand it too him "I guess everyone has caught the spirit of the airlift" he laughed "Sometimes it is an unselfish world at that" Tells of "Little Ylnles Speaking at the Ogden high auditorium Lieut Halvorsen recounted his origination of the "Little Vittles" run and its operation at present He urged all to make hearty contributions to the polio drive "because I have seen what polio is at German hospitals" Dumping out the 5000 candy packages was MSgt Hugh Chaney whom Lieut Halvorsen knew in Germany Assisting Chaney was MSgt Kermit Dunning plane crew chief Others along On the flight were Lei and Halvorsen of Salt Lake City uncle to the "Little Vittles" pilot Gary Spencer and Bert Strand Ogden Standard-Examiner newswriter and high school chum of Lieut Halvorsen Lieut Halvorsen took the C-47 on to Salt Lake City after his appearance at the high school where he also rained down candy-laden parachutes The C-47 was loaned to Lieut Halversen by Hill air force base 'We Can Triumph in 1950 Is Lincoln Day Cry treaty talks here expressing readiness to "cooperate to the best of her ability'- "She is especially willing to assist them in framing a basis for agreement on the question most closely affecting the basic interests of Yugoslavia and basically on the question of the Austro-Yugoslav frontier namely of the future of the Slovene people of Carinthia" Senator Declares Junking T-H Law May Cause Slump WASHINGTON Feb 12 (AP) Senator Byrd (D-Va) said today that junking the Taft-Hartley law for the Truman labor bill would be "little short of tragedy" and could "lead to another depression" Byrd predicted that congress will keep most of the Taft-Hartley law and especially the 80-day injunction provision to block "national emergency" strikes Foes of the law on the other hand are claiming it is doomed Senator McClellan (D-Ark) jin a separate interview agreed with Byrd that the injunction section of the T-H measure should be kept The administration measure would repeal the Taft-Hartley iaw and substitute 'a modified Wagner act with no provision for court orders against critical strikes Byrd and McClellan expressed their views as two Reublican senators Morse of Oregon and Ives of New York announced that they probably will offer a new labor bill which also would scrap the T-H act's 80-day injunction feature The Morse-Ives bill would substitute a cooling off procedure patterned after that set up in the railway labor act The big debate Over labor 'legislation will resume in the senate labor committee Monday when the group starts its second round of public hearings Meanwhile Rep Stephen Pace (D-Ga) said his house agriculture subcommittee will try to find out whether the commodity market break was due to "the manipulation of gamblers and speculators" "If it was speculation" he said "then we will draft legislation to prevent it in the future He said his investigators will keep in touch with the senate agriculture committee and the agriculture department which are also looking into the commodity market break The department said that if consumer buying should turn upward again meat and some dairy prices would "increase moderately in the spring" However it added "the major advance would be made by prices of non-agricultural products" "Record crops in 1948 favorable prospects for crop output in 1949 and an improving world food situation generally are likely to prevent any important gains in prices of farm products and food this spring" the report said The department said the factors which reversed the down trend in prices last spring were the third round of wage increases and the reduction in income taxes both of which expanded consumer income and enactment of the enlarged national defense and European aid program Without mentioning Russia by name he added: "Other people already possess large numbers of schnorkel (long-range) submarines Through the capture of German technicians and manufacturing facilities they have both the know-how and the plants to make more of them And we know other people are concentrating on this deadly submarine in elections of 1950 and the presi NORWALK Conn Feb 12 (UP) Air Secretary Stuart Symington said tonight that the B-36 bomber is ready now to strike so powerfully and so far with atomic bombs that it can do in one day what would have taken whole armies years to accomplish He called the giant six-engined B-36 the most perfect vehicle the air force has yet found for deliver By The Associated Press IBM the atomic weapon In a speech at the Lincoln day Republican orators sounded the battlecry: We can win in 1950" in Lincoln day gatherings Saturday from coast to coast The 140th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth furnished party leaders an opportunity to counsel cheerfulness in adversity learning from defeat and determination to drive ahead to victory Not all of the Lincoln's birthday celebrations were Republican President Truman stood at attention at the impressive Lincoln memorial in Washington as two of hit aides laid a wreath at the base of the great emancipator's statue Vice President Alben Bark-ley addressed an audience at Springfield 111 where Lincoln is buried He observed that Lincoln's name "now universally respected and admired will no doubt be used to conjure up memories and reaction wholly foreign to his methods or his character And In a speech at Norwalk Conn Secretary of Air Symington cited a speech by Lincoln upholding adequate national defense as an inevitable part of the discipline of the nation dential contest coming up in iroz House Republican Leader Joseph Martin Jr of Massachusetts gibed at the Truman administration as a "spend-thrift government which closed its mind and heart to the real practical needs of the people" Republican National Chairman Hugh Scott Jr declared there can be no real cure for the nation's ills "until the Truman administration this abscessed tooth in the bodv politic is yanked out" Senator wherry of Nebraska the Republican floor leader called on the to expose what he called "the shameful results" of foreign policy which he asserted had handed over Asia to communism Martin spoke at Lock Haven Pa Scott at Bridgeport Conn and Wherry at Chicago New York's Governor Thomas Dewey unsuccessful candidate for the presidency last year spoke at New York City Dewey confined himself principally to state issues He agreed with people who complain that government costs too much adding dryly: "All services cost too much because we have to pay for them in 50-cent Democratic doUanP uie leuer saw The letter made no mention of Yugoslavia's previous claim to $150000000 reparations from Austria Western diplomatic quarters speculated that Yugoslavia might be willing to drop her claim to reparations if her claim to Austrian Carinthia is satisfied At the same time however these quarters pointed out that the Yugoslav letter referred pointedly to the future of people of Carinthia They said this might indicate that Yugoslavia might be willing to settle its territorial dispute with Austria by an exchange of populations Big four Austrian treaty talks last May broke down over Yugoslavia's double demand for reparations and Austrian Carinthia and Russia's adamant support of the demand The west as adamantly opposed them The Yugoslav letter was sent by Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Ales Bebler who came here to present Yugoslavia's case to the big four deputies Babler conferred for one hour with Samuel Reber the American deputy The Americans called it a courtesy visit But diplomatic quarters read some significance into the fact that Bebler called first upon the American deputy their naval building program" The B-36 which he called the "mistress of air space" can Symington said: 1 Fly at altitudes here mm the jet fighters the has developed cannot touch it 2 Carry any type of bomb made including up to 21-tonners as far as 2900 miles 3 Pack 16 cannon for self protection "Most important of all" he said is (the fact) that we now have a real intercontinental bomber a bomber that can take off from bases on this continent cross the oceans or the polar wastes or the vast deserts penetrate enemy defenses without friendly fighter escort destroy the strategic target and then return non-stop to this continent" The development of the B-36 plus the Berlin air lift represents the American answer to the basic problem of war keeping up communications Symington said The air lift he added was "the first peacetime use of air power as an instrument of our national policy" banquet of the Norfolk Conn Catholic club he said this is only the beginning I New and swifter B-36's are on the way to make that intercontinental bomber the fastest as well as the highest flying and longest range aircraft ever built he said "A B-36 with an A-bomb" Symington said "can take off from this continent and destroy distant objectives which might require ground armies years to take and then only at the expense of heavy casualties "the B-36 could do the job within 16 hours after take-off from this continent and then return non-stop to its home all this at a risk of 16 American lives!" He revealed that the bomber which is the successor to both the out-dated B-17 of World war II fame and its big brother the B-29 Superfort was planned in 1941 as an ocean-spanning weapon against Germany in case the nazis overran the continent Mass Housing Plan DETROIT Fee 12 Walter Ogdenite Wins Auto Mrs Gerald A Creasey of 274T Monroe was informed Saturday night by telephone that she is the winner of tr new 1949 automobile for correctly answering a question on the "Whispering Woman" radio program of NBC Mrs Creasey was absent when her home was reached by 'phone but her 11-year-old son confirmed the report The program is sponsored in behalf of the American Heart association She reportedly failed in an effort to win the $25-000 jackpot Reuther proposed today that America's surplus aircraft plants be converted to the mass production of 20000000 pre-fabricated houses The CIO United Auto Workers Dresident said his dnnhlp- "On behalf of the Weber county polio workers we wish to thank all citizens of Ogden and Weber county in their response to the polio drive" said Howard Weber campaign director To show their appreciation Mrs Milton White secured the services of Lieut Gail Halvorsen of Garland to fly over barreled program would keep plants tooled and manned for an instant shift to plane building in case of war The plan has been submitted to President Truman Most of the Republicans' speeches (Continued on Pas Two-A) (Column Twee toward the.