Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - October 20, 1945, Ogden, Utah The Weather Partly cloudy south tion cloudy and threatening with few light showers along mountains this afternoon and early tonight partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Sunday high this afternoon 60 to 65 north portion 65 to 70 south portion Sunday 55 to 60 north tion 65 south portion low Sunday morning 30 to 40 except near 20 in the mountains Temperatures For 24-hour period ending at a m today Ogden 40 Albuquerque 45 64 70 Omaha Phoenix Atlanta 56 Bismarck 40 Or Hock Springs 751 Salt Lake San Fran St Louis Seattle Boise 42 Butte 33 Chicago 38 Denver 41 Grand June 40 Las Vegas 55 Minneapolis New Orleans 63 Sheridan New York 59 801 Washington Okla City 49 42 63 59 90 43 66 40 51 33 68 35 75 37 60 43 67 51 65 41 65 38 54 42 67 53 81 33 45 Seventy-sixth 74 The United The Associated Pica OGDEN CITY UTAH SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 20 1945 NEA AP Service EIGHT PAGES FINAL EDITION Here's Ticklish Situation Bewhiskered Elmer Zeke Estep Arkansas hillbilly buys a war bond and gets set to kiss Susana Campodinico 19 Ohio university sophomore of Wyoming Ohio in Kappa Alpha Theta kiss and sell drive Later an alumna adviser at the Columbus university halted the kissing as too undignified AP wirephoto Late President Accused Of Breaking Jew Pledge WASHINGTON Oct 20 late President Roosevelt is being accused here of running out on a pre- election pledge to American Jews for establishment of a Jewish national homeland -in Palestine The charge is made by cans Political significance of the controversy depends on the extent to which Jews may be convinced that under pressure from Great Britain Mr Roosevelt did at least ge his approach to the question after the 1944 Truman is trying to keep the political fences mended by constant pressure on the British government to permit immediate Jewish immigration into Palestine Not Much Accomplished So far Mr Truman has not much It was sary for his administration this week to make public a letter Continued on Page Two Column Six Deer hunters in southern Utah they were hunted and not ie deer Half a dozen sports camped along the highway near Beaver and Cedar City were held up by bandits and one hunter Fortunately the bandits were halted when they ran into a road block close to Las Vegas Nevada and placed under arrest Several hundred dollars taken from their victims were This story of a lurid trail of bery discloses that southern Utah has more deer hunters than the hotels accommodate and that nearly all of them are from out of the state and have money to burn A man and his wife forced to sleep in their car were from Lusk Wyoming but the others were from California and no doubt when awakened were dreaming of the sport they were about to enjoy It is a source of tion that the robbers proved to be strangers to Utah having started wild career in Amarillo Tex The bandits were young fellows and 24 It would be interesting to trace their antecedents Boys of that age should have an army record or did they escape When a man has a hobby to claim his attention he can retire from active service and be not dis- mayed That is the experience of David B Wilson 643 Twelfth street sioned mail carrier who with his love for flowers has made a hobby of dahlias He has a riot of colors in his large garden and some of the blooms have a diameter of 12 inches and are beautiful to look upon His creations have been named by him One a gorgeous lavender is dedicated to his wife An orange yellow is called Jan Wolthuis He has grown 125 ties of dahlias half of which are of creation Many of the plants stand eight Bet high and seem to wave a greeting to passers-by on Twelfth street He tells me that during the first days of the summer blooming of the dahlias he is up at dawn to see what planting has brought forth and all during the season he takes exquisite joy in noting the de- Continued on rage Column Tour Its At Tokyo Black Markets By Ralph Teatsorth United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO Act 20 UP Gen Douglas MacArthur clamped down on black market profiteers today with an order forbidding American servicemen and civilians alike to send abroad any funds except legitimate pay allowances A black market has sprung up in Tokyo on American food candy blankets and other scarce items obtained from American soldiers When similar markets operated -in Europe American soldiers for a time sent back to the United States more money than they earned MacArthur's order provided that an American wishing to exchange Jap yen for United States money orders other securities or any source of American currency must submit a certificate signed by a responsible personnel officer Meantime an official Jap report to the allies re- that the Jap national ways still are capable of carrying more passengers and freight than they were in 1938 despite damage The report said the now have a capacity of 000 passengers and tons of freight annually compared with passengers and 000 tons of freight in 1938 the last previous year for which figures were available The chief engineer for supreme headquarters reported that all main Jap railway lines have been ing fully since Sept 3 Mystery Cleared Up r newspaper Mainichi sought today to clear up the mystery of what the Jap army and navy in- tended to do with their large hoards of gold silver platinum and precious stones all now in the hands of the allies Mainichi said the Jap army and Continued On Page Two Column Seven Rebels Tighten Venezuela Grip After Uprising General Election Pledged By Seven-Man Junta CARACAS Venezuela Oct 20 AP A revolutionary junta tightened its grip on Venezuela today after unseating President Isaias Medina Angarita in a bloody uprising which cost 50 lives and left 100 wounded The seven-man junta which promptly promised a general tion by direct secret vote an- it would follow a democratic policy The junta came into power after young army ranging from the rank of major down rebelled against the Andinos a western military clique which had national politics for a tury Further Indicated Bogota dispatches said the An- dinos still claimed control of the western states of Tachira Merida and Trujillo Whether these states possessed sufficient armed strength to threaten a called conjectural Persons with a knowledge of Venezuelan politics predicted the Andinos will never voluntarily back Medina and Gen Eleazar Lopez Contrares former president who had announced his candidacy for the presidency were re- ported under arrest and scheduled to face a swift trial advices quoting cas radio said the trial would be on charges of graft and fraud They added that the former leaders would be given an opportunity to explain the source of their fortunes publicly State of Seige A state of seige existed in cas which had been isolated from the rest of Venezuela Newspapers were censored radio stations closed transport paralyzed and electric current shut off from held Maracy 30 miles east of the capital were reported en route to restore order Thousands of armed civilians had begun to loot Caracas home shortly after the Medina government fell Members of the Junta which con- trolled the capital were said to be Dr Romula Betancourt member of the Democratic Action party Maj Carlos Delgado and Capt Cardona son and nephew respectively of the late Delgado who spent many years in prison during the dictatorship of the late Juan Vincente Gomez greatest of the Andinos Luis tran Prieto Dr Gonzalo Barrios Dr Raul Leoni and Dr Edmundo Fernandez The revolution began shortly after two p m Thursday when young officers seized the Miraflores palace and the military academy Several high officers and cabinet officials who had been lured to the palace were seized as hostages Shortly before noon yesterday seven army planes from the cay air base dropped bombs on San Carlos barracks and flew over lice headquarters The police rendered depriving Medina of his last local support Medina surrendered along with several members of Two Youths Killed In Police Battle CHICAGO Oct 20 policemen who exchanged shots with five youths in a running gun fight along northwest side streets last night engaged in a ute pistol duel with two of the youths after their car crashed into a pole killed them and wounded two of their companions The fifth was captured The brief gun battle in which the policemen mated they fired about 20 shots a wild chase by the of- after the youths who were m a stolen car Young War Widow Pins Hopes On New Drug to Save Her Baby ered over her baby daughter as a touched nation rallied to her hope that a new wonder drug would spare the child from death In a tiny Ball Memorial pital room Mrs Jean Harvey watched endlessly over old Gayle Eleanor stirring ly in a coma induced by fatal tubercular meningitis The petite brunette mother a former WAC is brave Sorrow isn't new to her It was only six months ago that she opened a war department telegram revealing that her husband Sgt Thomas D vey died on a parachute mission last March in Germany As she kept vigil beside little Gayle's bed Mrs Harvey reiterated her faith in the test tube cine streptomycin which alone stands between life and death for the infant Mrs Harvey expressed her tude to those who told her baby's story to the world and to others who found a supply of the still to be completely proven An additional supply was being rushed here by plane from Walter Reed Washington on President Truman's personal order Medical experimenting with only a short time also watched closely its effect in the Muncie baby's fight for life In Chicago the American Medical association said the drug had been used at the Mayo clinic and had exerted a limited suppressive fect on some types of tuberculosis The A M A said a preliminary report on the results was made Sept 5 but that among the types of tuberculosis treated tubercular with which little Gayle Harvey was not mentioned officially Heretofore available largely to the army and navy streptomycin is so new that even the child's cian Dr G S Young wasn't tain it would help But he tried it for the first time yesterday as a last hope Carrier Roosevelt to Be Commissioned GREAT SHIP GREAT NAME Work Is completed on carrier Franklin D Roosevelt as she lies in at New York navy yard This is a general view looking from the stern of ship which will be commissioned on Navy day October 27 AP wirephoto Mexico Mourns Gen Calles Ex-President 68 MEXICO CITY Oct 20 AP Funeral services will be held at three p m today for Elias Calles 68 former president of Mexico who died of a stomach ailment yesterday after an illness of several years Mexico today mourned his passing President of Mexico from Dec 1 1924 to Nov 30 1928 Calles was a dominating figure in Mexican politics for many years By order of macho who will preside services Calles will receive full honors as a former president A salute will be fired in front of the Calles home as the body is removed to be taken to the Panteon civil cemetery and a similar salute will be fired at the grave Members of the cabinet lators and other high-ranking government officials will attend and flags on all public buildings will fly at half staff during the day Suspects Held it Cedar City CEDAR CITY Utah Oct 20 AP Two men arrested Friday in an Apex Nev road blockade ing a series of southern Utah ups were in the Iron county jail today after waiving extradition to Utah Meanwhile Sheriff S C Lamb and his deputies were attempting to identify the contents of the cap- tured in cash four pistols four rifles ten wrist watches miscellaneous jewelry typewriters and adding property of the up victims The suspects are Ben Frank ver 22 and Herbert -N Lowrence 24 both of Amarillo Tex Victims of the early morning series of holdups were tourists and deer hunters who were sleeping in automobiles at the side of U S highway 91 as the heavy influx of deer hunters southern Utah hostelries The two bandits approached each of three automobiles by ing themselves as police officers and demanding credentials When the victims produced their wallets or purses the bandits said This is a stick-up and robbed the victims Kenneth Waggoner 33 of Los Angeles was shot in the right fore- arm and Paul J Gudmundson San Diego was struck on the head when they resisted the bandits Deputy Sheriff Ted Cupit said Oliver was driving the car As the machine stopped Oliver leaped out apparently intending to flee He told officers he changed his mind he saw their array of weapons including guns Lowrence was asleep in the car Discharge Heads for Senate Vote Oct 20 move to convert a appropriations withdrawal into an navy discharge measure headed into the senate today after repulse on a technicality in the house If successful it would Conciliator Sees Improvement in Strike Situation discharge of several hundred and men with 18 months of ice who have dependents or a de- sire to resume interrupted ing It might also provoke a veto The already is loaded with a requirement for prompt return to the states of U employment service offices President Truman wants these to stay under federal control at July D Miss the discharge amendment in a surprise move at the end of a long day of house debate yesterday It had plenty of oral backing but was ruled out of order by Rep Lanham D who was pre- siding Lanham sided with Rep O'Neal D who contended the amendment was not in keeping with the of the legislation Rankin told reporters he was confident the amendment would be written into the in the ate That would make its ation in order upon return of the measure to the house for ment of differences Parents Warned On Driving SALT LAKE CITY Oct 20 AP Noting an alarming increase in the number of juvenile traffic lations since the lifting oi line rationing Juvenile Judge lon W Clark today warned that the issuing of criminal complaints against parents and the ing of fines for juvenile ers is being considered Thus far this year Judge Clark's court has processed cases of traffic violations as compared with 738 for the corresponding period of last year Operation of auto- mobiles without licenses is the most frequent violation Judge Clark said Sewage System o Said Old-Fashioned SALT LAKE CITY Oct 20 AP Salt Lake City's sewage and bage disposal methods were termed of a horse and buggy type by Chief City Sanitarian W V Hickey We need a sewage disposal plant and we need vast ments in our garbage disposal methods such as a community in- Hickey told the ents school at East high school Unsanitary conditions he said could prove just -as devastating as the atomic bomb by bringing on a plague Jets High Masonic Degree WASHINGTON Oct 20 AP President Truman has crowned 36 years in the Masonic order by be- coming the first chief executive to receive the degree highest The degree was con- ferred at the same time last night on Gen H H Arnold chief of the army air forces Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and Lieut Gens Ben Lear and James little Gen Douglas MacArthur's degree voted on the same list will be awarded later Asked to Lead Communities SALT LAKE CITY Oct 20 AP Those women who are prepared for home making duties are also capable of offering more service to the 200 women dents of 11 universities arid col- leges in Utah and Idaho were told yesterday at opening sessions of the two-state home con- ference Mrs John T Wahlquist dent of Utah Minute Women em- the constantly rising need for leadership from wives of the nation Delegates to the the turned their attentions not only to the problems of cooking ing and sweeping but to fascinating subjects of and interior decorating which they all agree are modern musts for contemporary artisan U-Boat Crewmen Must Die for Survivors Oct 20 German U-boat crewmen were con- today of killing survivors of the Greek ship Peleus when their sub torpedoed it and three were sentenced to death Death sentences were given Capt Heinz Eck commander of the boat 852 which sank the Peleus in the south Atlantic in March 1944 and his Lieut August Hoffman and Naval Surgeon ter Weiss Capt Hans Richard Lenz was sentenced a life imprisonment and Seaman Schwender a sick bay at- tendant to 51 years The military court took only 40 minutes to agree that the men were guilty on the murder charge The court adjourned to deliberate the verdict after defense and tion had summed up Judge Advocate Melford son argued the de- fense that they shot helpless as they struggled in the water merely under orders from a higher command was invalid Their duty to obey was limited to observance of orders which are Stevenson charged The defendants admitted that they attacked survivors in the water They contended that they were ordered to obliterate all trace of the torpedoed ship in order to facilitate the escape of the U-boat Bulletin PANAMA Panama Oct 20 radio an- indicated that ing still continued today in where revolutionists led by a group of officers claimed to be in possession of the capital city Caracas ment begun Thursday the chira radio 400 miles away in western Venezuela said Gen Davis Lopez Henriquez had command of government forces and was beginning a march on Caracas The station denied re- ports that President Angarita was a captive of the Negro Janitor Is Held in Fatal Stabbing Henry Branch Efferson 29 2839 Reeves janitor at the Porters and Waiters club and a recently dis- charged veteran is being held for questioning in the Wall avenue knifing a week ago of Pfc D C Shumake Hill field soldier who died Wednesday Disclosure of arrest was made by Henry G Allred and John G detective ants assigned to the case Proceedings were turned over to city detective bureau Thursday by military authorities after they had learned that a Negro civilian was responsible for the death Evidence connecting Efferson with the knifing are statements from witnesses one of whom saw a civilian stab the soldier in the abdomen and a blood stained knife reportedly found in the room Names Withheld Names of witnesses were held by police officers One witness in a signed ment said she saw Efferson and the soldier engaged in a hot ment near the Twenty seventh street USO on Wall She reportedly heard Efferson whom she said was a knife tell the soldier You do that to me A Negro soldier stationed at HiU field also in a signed statement said he and a were passing the scene when the two were arguing He said he en- to find out what the about but could get no answer from either party told officers he saw Efferson stab the soldier in the stomach The soldier reportedly said I didn't do anything He stabbed me for The witness said Efferson then ran across the street and into a private home Detective Allred another witness has admitted but not in writing that Efferson her home about that time stayed for about 20 minutes and then left Fight Occurred Saturday The altercation which led to Pfc death occurred at about eight-thirty p.m Saturday way between the USO club on Wai and the Twenty-seventh tion detectives learned I can't understand why no ment was taken from the before his Detective said The victim died Wednesday at Kearns station hospital where he was taken for treatment Loca detectives knew nothing about the case until military au finally decided to turn i over to them on Thursday Pfc Shumake 36 slated for dis- charge at Hill field Monday was taken to emergency first aid station on that night and to Kearns hospital Sunday His father Frank S Shumake lives in Bogalusa La where the body was scheduled to be taken today Planes Will Bring 5200 From Okinawa to U S TOKYO Oct 20 UP More than officers and men of the Fifth Seventh and Thirteenth air forces will be flown home soon in a mass flight of 650 Liberator bombers from Okinawa the pines and Japan to Mather field near Sacramento Calif The flights will take three days Upon arrival at Mather field the men will be sent to separation centers and the bombers flown to storage depots Hip Hip Hooray ior Hatfield She's on the Hip By Claire Cox CHICAGO Oct 20 Max Factor's theory that a pretty m a sweater will always be battle of the Bulge went into the second round today with Fashion Expert Ruth Hatfield contending that no Hollywood cosmetician could squelch her prediction that hips not sweater line would steal the fashion show Miss Hatfield styles director of Chicago Fashion Industries an organization of clothing said Hollywood Cosmetician Max Factor was rounding a gerous curve when he deviated from faces to figures in his com- ments on feminine beauty In reply to a statement by Miss Hatfield that a new accent on hips was ending sweater glamor tor said that sweater girls were here to stay He said he'd bet that men definitely liked those features made thes weater worth talking Astonished at the comment caused by her prediction Miss field herself a curvaceous net Clothes not curves are my quarrel appealing What I do know and no can talk me out of it is that the coming style emphasis will be on a rounded feminine silhouette with special accent on During the war the a short flaring overskirt around the hipline for the benefit of the men was popular Now longer peplums tunics in fashion parlance are the thing Even padded hiplines are in the offing Explaining that fashions always go in cycles Miss Hatfield said the logical reaction to the wartime pencil slim silhouette is one with rounded and exuberant use of fabric Good design implies a center of she said A1 dress must have some focal point of dramatics There shouldn't dozen ent trimmings and bulges ing for attention A silhouette that's bulky all over would a look massive That's why you can't em- everything at once 67 Strikes Settled During Week Ending October 17 By The Associated Press Conciliation Director Earl Warren today reported nite improvement in the strike situation and prospects of still further improvement His statement in Washington was coupled tc a report by the tion service that it had settled 67 strikes involving workers during the week ended Oct 17 This brought the number of strikes settled since Oct 1 to 188 The stoppages involved workers The situation shows definite im- said Warren 185 Strikes As of Oct 17 there were 185 strikes throughout the country in- about employes This was 19 fewer than the week previous and a reduction of in the number of workers on strike the conciliation service said The three-day work stoppage of utility workers appeared headed for settlement as union leaders urged the strikers to accept a new wage offer and go back to their jobs of servicing gas and electricity to some consumers in Michigan com- A settlement agreement was by the union leaders last night as effects of the walkout were being felt in at least three large cities and as Goy Harry F Kelly threatened state intervention in manning the facilities of the Consumers Power company Their acceptance was subject to ratification by the 22 state locals of the utility workers union and an early decision was ex- Union leaders agreed to a settlement after lengthy ences with state and federal and representatives of the struck company New Disputes Elsewhere across the labor front there were new and threatening disputes while some controversies were settled With the expected re- turn Monday of most of the 000 soft coal miners after a month of idleness the national total of idle is expected to be around 000 the lowest in several weeks Terms accepted by the Michigan utility union leaders were for 13 cents an hour wage increase the amount previously recommended by a special mediation panel and rejected by 17 of the 22 locals As supervisory and employes manned facilities a normal flow of gas and electricity was furnished but heating service in downtown buildings in Jackson Battle Creek and Saginaw were affected by curtailment of service from central heating plants As longshoremen officials in New York reported a general back to work movement after an strike of stevedores trouble was reported at the port of Houston the entire central gulf coast of Texas Shipping was tied up after quit their jobs and men joined in a sympathy strike Glass Worker Strike Looms A glass workers in 10 cities definitely can be ex- by Lewis Cracken secretary treasurer of the Federation of Glass Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of erica said in Columbus Ohio The threatened strike he said follows breakdown of contract negotiations between glass company owners and the wage committee Also set for Monday is the line for the Western Electric com- pany in Kearny to meet wage demands by the independent union which conducted a nationwide demonstration stoppage in tele- phone service on Oct 5 A man for the technical employes council said it had voted to take collective action against the Kearny plant focal point of the recent stoppage unless demands were met by Monday He said the union engineers and technicians at the plant as members wants a 35 per cent wage increase and im- proved working conditions At least four stoppages ended In- the three of United Steelworkers at the Crane company plant in cago Elevator Operators Strike Union elevator operators went on strike and set up a picket line at the Palmer House in Chicago leaving guests with crippled services Charles Aaron hotel lawyer said the strike was called by the elevator starters un- ion and that miscellaneous em- ployes in other unions had refused to cross the picket lines The strike stemming from a wage dispute was called at seven before most guests had ened Hotel executives including two assistant managers soon manned four elevators and got them in op- The strike came at a time when Chicago hotels reported they booked to the highest capacity inj their history
