Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - January 24, 1946, Ogden, Utah The Weather Cloudy this afternoon and tonight with rain or snow north portion this afternoon and over state tonight Friday mostly cloudy with showers and snow flurries not much change in temperature high today 35 to 45 low Friday morning 25 to 35 except near 35 in Dixie Seventy-sixth 170 United The Associated Press OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 24 1946 NEA AP Service 16 PAGES Temperatures For the past 24 hours ending at ft m today Ogden 23 18 41 Albuquerque 28 37 68 Atlanta 25 27 33 Bismarck Or 43 54 Boise 32 21 39 Butte 23 Reno 44 65 Chicago 29 Springs 15 27 Denver 17 Lake 31 41 Grand June 20 Antonio 37 63 Las Vegas 34 Fran 44 65 Los Angeles 61 Louis 28 41 Minneapolis 5 Seattle 40 49 New Orleans 40 13 33 New York 23 18 32 Okla City 32 15 FINAL EDITION MO Approves Resolution On Atom Control Byrnes Appeals for Withdrawal of Occupation Armies LONDON Jan 24 The united nations assembly voted unanimously today to establish an atomic energy commission after hearing an appeal by Secretary of State James F Byrnes for quick withdrawal of o c c u p a tion armies from all countries ex- cept Germany and Japan Byrnes left Bovingdon airdrome for the United States at ty p m a m E S T He had planned throughout his trip here to return to Wash ington as soon as the atomic en ergy resolution was approved Forty-seven of the 51 united na tions voted to adopt the resolu tion framed in Moscow by the Big Three foreign ministers Jean Paul Boncour a French delegate proposed that the atomic commission meet in the United States Indirect Appeal Urging passage of the resolution Byrnes issued an indirect appeal to Britain France and Russia to call home their occupation troops presence in Iran Greece Indonesia and the Levant has caused angry disputes among the united nations There was only nominal tion to the atomic energy tion by the Philippine delegation which abstained from voting The resolution created a com- mission to study and recommend possible international control of atomic energy Membership of the commission will consist of the 11 security council members plus Canada and will take instructions from the security council Byrnes appealed for all-out for international control of atomic denounced eral political action and appealed for immediate action to convert the Continued on Pale Two Column Six The World Today By DeWitt Mackenzie MADRID Jan 24 Francisco Franco chief of the Spanish state has granted me an interview taken one most unusual I've encountered in a long experience with heads of governments and diplomats Highlights of his statements are He is anxious for good relations with the U S He never sub- scribed to the policies or to the political views of Hitler and solini and he condemns their Spain is developing along her own lines uninfluenced by either Germany or Italy and he Franco is heading for lute democratic rule by the ple I Hotly Debated Issue As for the tion of a return of the Spanish monarchy he It wiU be approached when this is suitable to the interests of the nation When this time comes it will have to be the Spaniards themselves who pronounce themselves in its vor The generalissimo rarely gives interviews and in gating my request for one asked that I sub- mit my questions m advance This I did and arrived at his fine old royal ace at El Prado near had little hope that I should gel more than formal replies to my written queries However when we had disposed of the formal queries and an- swers I said to If it is permissable I should like to ask another question The people or U S have fought a great war against nazism and fascism sands of our boys have died for this cause Rightly or wrongly the American public feels that Spain was in effect an many and Italy and it finds it hard to forgive that Did you subscribe to or support nazi and fascist Spain Not Influenced The generalissimo shook his he declared I did not Spain wasn't influenced by Germany and Italy but has been developing along its own lines W condemned all the persecution which were carried out by those countries There was racial trouble in Spain The Jews weren't perse here nor was any other re ligiori There is religious free dom for -all in Spain do not subscribe to the po views of Hitler and Musso lini Spain went through a bad civil war and after such a con the country must proceed carefully It can't jump to an other regime haphazardly Does this mean that you are headed for absolute democracy that is rule by the answered El Caudillo But we must proceed slowly step f step until the people are prop prepared U.S Will Test Atom Bomb E S May Operate On 97 Warships Next May CAREER AT The gallant heavy cruiser Salt Lake City which helped the U S slash back at the Japanese immediately after Pearl Harbor is one of the vessels chosen as a target for atom bomb tests it was disclosed today The cruiser fought in numerous sea battles against superior odds the battle of the in the Bering sea believed to have been the engagement in modern naval history Doomed Cruiser Salt Lake Has Proud Battle Career U.S Offers Ships To Pay British Ferrying Charges WASHINGTON Jan 24 U S has offered Britain the use of 11 Liberty ships as a substitute for the arrangement under which American troops are ferried home aboard thai Queen Mary at a charge of each the offer lissi not yet been accepted Presumably the British are weighing the need for troop riers for their own Tommies colonials against that of reaching a settlement which would ment their dollar credit in this country Since the end of lend-lease 2 the Queen Mary has Drought home American roops The Queen Elizabeth be- fore being withdrawn from the U S run carried another the present charge is reduced or the can offer of the Liberty ships is total charge to this country would be as of now While lend-lease still was in fect the British bore the cost of transporting GI's aboard the two Queens as part of reverse lease Technically a of 25 pounds or roughly was assessed against this government for each man This however was wiped out at the time of the final lease settlement and did not in- volve any cash changing hands When lend-lease ended the same charge was retained But ment officials said today this too is subject to revision when the job of bringing the troops home has been completed In addition this government bears the greater part of the cost of food eaten by the bound troops However the Queens must make the homeward voyage traveling light because there are few ing passengers and little cargo Calls for Unity In Reclamation WASHINGTON Jan 24 AP Chairman Leland Olds of the fed eral power commission says there could be greater cooperation be- tween the reclamation bureau anc army engineers in development of the nation's great river basins His opinion was made public this week when testimony on the dent offices appropriation was released Representative shak asked him abou a speech made in Boise las summer favoring valley ties He added that improvement could be made in the joint ing out of plans and in ing operations of the projects Editor's United Press Correspondent Murray Moler recently returned to duty in Salt Lake City after covering the close of the war in the north Pacific and the occupation of Japan He saw the cruiser Salt Lake City on her last wartime assignment and also examined the damage our first atomic bomb did at Hiroshima and asaki By Murray M Moler United Press Staff SALT LAKE CITY Jan Our first atomic bomb was tent enough to sink the city oJ Hiroshima So no doubt newer models will sink the of if the Salt Lake still time crew aboard she'd go down fighting That's for sure That ship and that crew were among the proudest in our mighty Pacific fleet When we sink the Salt Lake we'll be doing thing that the Japs tried to do a lot of times between 1941 and 1945 never did The log of the Salt Lake from tier commissioning on January 23 1929 until her decommissioning preparatory to the May atomic bomb experiments around the Marshalls is one of which the ship the city for which she was be justly proud Battle of There was the battle of up in the Bering straits while the Jap wa still entrenched on the American soil of Attu and Kiska The Salt Lake had the lead in a task force that was prowling for a Jap force known to be lurking there in the fog north df the tians Our task force found the the surface that followed was one of the few times in the war when our ships traded fire round for round with Jap men-of-war The Jap force had more and than we did Bu they didn't have our gunners The battle lasted for nearly six hours We'd fire The Japs fire We'd get a hit So would they The fight would break off for a while Then she'd start all over again The engagement ended with th Japs running back to the Kuriles our ships limping back to Dutch Harbor The Salt Lake was hit and hit hard but fight ing We didn't lose a ship The Japs lost at least two cruisers Jap Commander Amazed When I met the of that task force last in the northern Honshu naval basi of Ominato I pointed to the Sal her sister ing at anchor in the Jap water and told him they were the ship involved in the fight He was though he'd been tangling with our big gest battle wagons He jus couldn't figure out how the eight inch guns of the Salt Lake ane her sisters and their accompany ing destroyers could do so muc damage From the Bering sea the Salt Lake went down south to gain new glory in the battles of the on Page Twol Continued on Column Four Vast Experiment to Decide Future Of Naval Vessel Use WASHINGTON Jan 24 navy raised the i curtain today on its plans for testing the atomic bomb against a great armada of ighting ships an ment expected to ze sea warfare A guinea pig fleet of 97 els ranging from carriers and to submarines and will be the atomic et in the vast operation to start n May The laboratory selected is the of Bikini atoll one of iie northernmost of the Marshall slands which were wrested from apan by amphibious assault two ears ago Vice Admiral W H P Blandy lead of the navy's division on ial weapons ticked off for the enate atomic energy committee hese details of the epochal ex- known by the codeword Operation n Target Fleet 1 In the target fleet will be wo aircraft carriers four ships two cruisers 16 destroyers ive submarines and 19 transports from U S fleets a German heavy cruiser a Jap battleship and light cruiser 2 The undertaking is not a combined or international tion but rather a scientific ment by the United States alone The question of permitting foreign observers has not yet been decided 3 The unmanned target ships will be anchored and placed in a manner calculated to give varying from probable de- struction to negligible damage in each type 4 The first test early in May calls for detonating an atomic bomb at an altitude of several target set for July 1 will be an atomic burst at the surface in the target area 5 A deep water test in the open sea is planned later but difficulties preclude its com- ing off this year 6 Task force fleet of Geneva Plant President Admits No Details Given Provo Mill Held Exceptional Case WASHINGTON Jan 24 Truman ad- mitted today that the ment was considering federal operation of the big Geneva Utah steel plant At his press conference the explained that Geneva s the only government-owned steel mill that is not integrated into some other He gave no details about the possible federal operation of Ge- neva He merely said that it was under consideration The Geneva plant was operated or the government during the war by a subsidiary of the U S Steel company It is now on the ket for disposal by the War sets corporation with bids to be received April 1 in Washington Not Affected by Strike New Air Chief Truman Blames Strikes On Lust for Power Continued On Page Twol Column One Idaho May Get VA Hospital WASHINGTON Jan 24 AP General Omar Bradley veterans administrator said a veterans pital may be established in ern Idaho a few years Bradley testifying before the house appropriations committee explained the method of locating new hospitals and It looks like in- a year or two we might justify another smal hospital in eastern Idaho As it shows now the Fort Harrison area up in Montana by 1950 will have an overage too many and Salt Lake will have an underage too few Representative Dworshak Idaho told Bradley he was dis- appointed that Idaho veterans were being sent to three out-of-state hospitals He said he wondered why the Salt Lake City hospital was being enlarged The 50 beds planned for Salt Lake Bradley explained will be merely a conversion of space now used by the regional offices The Salt Lake hospital area he said takes in about five counties in southeastern Idaho three big Wyoming counties and nearly three counties in Nevada I Dworshak remarked why it is necessary to force ho veterans to travel 250 or 300 miles to go to a general medical and surgical facility when they might go to one in their own Geneva is not affected by the current steel strike Its workers operating on schedule are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor Asked again whether he planned anything beyond fact-finding the president said No A reporter wanted to know about the government's ownership of about worth of steel plants and what plans there were for operation of these units Mr Truman explained that most of the government units were in- into other plants He said there was one exception at Provo Utah and that the government was considering federal operation of this plant Told that the steel strike had affected steel producers with the result that their plants were shut down although they had no dispute with their ers the president said these ers should return to their Everybody that can ought to go to work he said Mr Truman ed that this was necessary to sure the success of the sion program A reporter wanted to know whether the president thought the General Motors corporation strike would be ended if a steel ment was reached Mr Truman said he could not say but that it was logical to con- clude that this might happen Meat Plant Seizure In the case of the meat plant seizure scheduled for Saturday Mr Truman said he felt sure the workers involved would obey the law and return to work under their old wage Asked if he thought the same situation would apply in event of Continued On Page Two Column Fourl WASHINGTON Jan 24 UP President Truman announced day that General Carl A Spaatz soon will succeed General H H Arnold as commander of the army air forces Spaatz like Arnold was one he army's pioneer airmen In the recent war Spaatz commanded the U S strategic bombing forces in Europe and later in the Pacific In response to news conference the president said Ar nold had planned to retire upon completion of a tour of South America Arnold originally was scheduled to return some time between Feb ruary 1 and February 10 He be came ill during the trip however and is en route home Spaatz was nominated by th chief executive this week for pro motion to the permanent rank o major general As commander p the air forces he presumably wil have the top five-star rank of general of the army Nylon Sale Brings Line-Up All Day Long at S F Store a San Francisco department store said today they don't want to hear the word nylon ever again A clamoring phalanx of women some six abreast all day yesterday around the main floor of the store to the stocking counter where 15 girls feverishly sold pairs of nylon stockings one pair to a tomer Behind the salesgirls were two cash register experts When the tills became gorged with money they threw their receipts into off at periodic intervals A force of 22 men guided the serpentine and kept cheaters from breaking into the line of march The area between the ladies un- and the stocking counter was considered tight and extra reinforcements were deployed to forestall would-be gate crashers all of whom announced were on their lunch hour and couldn t wait It is deplorable that women make so much fuss over nylons said General Manager Joseph velli sc The hospital at Boise he said serves only a small number of counties Teen-Age Lovers Die In Suicide Pact LONG BEACH Calif Jan 24 UP Two high school sweethearts over parental ob- to their marriage carried out a carefully planned suicide pact it was disclosed today and died clasped in each others arms The bodies of the ers Aubrey Wayne Matthews 17 and bobby-soxer Shirley Johnson 15 were found late yesterday iii Matthews mothers car in the ily garage In the boy's pocket was a vial of poison crystals Letters in her purse indicated the lovelorn pair had planned the act for some time met after school ate went to a show and then sat down to die in their last em- brace Victory Queen Wins Year's Film Contract HOLLYWOOD Jan 24 A year's movie contract is the re ward of Hunter 22 a Her mosa Beach Calif clerical er for being named queen of the Pacific coast Hawaii Radar Belay Cited WASHINGTON Jan 24 AP Major General Walter C Short charged today that the war ment up radar in Hawaii in 1941 while it completed installations in New York City Seattle and San Francisco Short's charge was bolstered when he read to the Pearl Harbor investigating committee a tele- gram he said he had received from Waterloo Iowa signed by Major George D Leask of the army signal Leask said that when he was to San Francisco on December 10 1941 he found three radar towers ing on an open pier there It was not until several weeks later that he received instructions from Washington to ship to lulu immediately The general also told the com- that General Douglas Arthur in the Philippines had much more secret information about Jap intentions late in 1941 than he himself had in Hawaii CCC Extends Deadline For Wool Purchasing WASHINGTON Jan 24 UP The Commodity Credit corporation extended to Nov 1 the time during which the government will buy wool under the 1945 purchase gram Previous terminal date was July 1 CCC said the action was marily to assure growers of a ket for the 1946 clip at prices in line with those in recent years anc to encourage orderly marketing ol the 1946 production During 194 the average farm price of wool was about 42.4 cents a pound Termination of the program on July 1 would have occurred at the peak of the wool marketing son It appeared likely that the government was preparing to re- vise its price support program on 1947 production Gets U P Post NEW YORK Jan 24 William H Guild one-time general manager of the south central dis- Union Pacific headquarters in Salt Lake City was elected vice president ot the railroad's board of directors today General Carl A Spaatz Spaatz Succeeds Gen Arnold Who Is Granger Firmly Behind Congressman Granger tele- graphed The this afternoon as The chairman of the on appropriations Mr has just announced that where any army hospital is of- to the veterans tration the VA must give good and sufficient reasons why it cannot be used by the VA I think this will be very helpful in the case of Bushnell The foregoing telegram was received a few hours after the congressman had telephoned to the newspaper restating his sition with reference to Bushnell Hawaii Favored For Statehood By Honse Group WASHINGTON Jan 24 UP A house territories sub-committee today recommended immediate consideration of legislation to give Hawaii statehood The under the chairmanship of Henry D Larcade has just returned from a visit to Hawaii It reported that Hawaii had beyond question alty patriotism and a desire to assume responsibility of hood Truman Favors Move President Truman's annual sage on Monday also ed statehood for Hawaii The re- port pointed out that U S policy is to permit self-determination to allow peoples to choose freely their form of political status It stressed Hawaii's strategic location in the Pacific and said that since the territory plays so large a part in our country's international position in this it should be admitted to statehood Big Five Industries Referring to the Big Five industries the report said their influence had not prevented the enactment of progressive in the field of labor cation and health It did not the Big Five by name The report said that efforts have been made to improve the tion in which Hawaiian ings are concentrated among a few persons It said labor had made great strides since 1937 and has contributed greatly to the tory's progress It said there is growing mutual respect and dence between management and labor in industrial relations ute was paid to the Hawaiian school system which has a literate population ble of discharging the duties of citizenship The full territories committee considered the report for one hour but Chairman Hugh Peterson D- Ga said it would want to study the complete record of the sub- committee's hearings in Hawaii before acting on legislation Walter K Granger member of congress from the First Utah dis- told The in a telephone call from ton today that his position with reference to Bushnell hospital in Brigham is unchanged His position is that the veterans administration should not write off Bushnell's possibilities until the VA has investigated to learn what the hospital offers The VA is right in setting high standards for the hospitals to be operated in behalf of ill veterans and nobody objects to the cations the VA insists any hospital must the congressman said But my position is that the VA doesn't know whether Bushnell meets those specifications The VA has not sent a competent group to make a survey I think this should be done and so do a great many other persons Let General Bradley the VA administrator send out a survey staff armed with the tions for an excellent veterans hospital Then let the survey ty check what Bushnell has to of- fer with the specifications from General Bradley It quite easily may happen that everything the VA wants is available at this big army hospital Mr Granger said that General Bradley has not said he will make such a survey neither has he said he won't MacArthur Bans Prostitution TOKYO Jan 24 Douglas MacArthur today ordered the Jap government to annul all laws authorizing or permitting censed prostitution and to cancel all agreements which bind any woman to practice prostitution MacArthur's directive invoked what a press release said were terms of the Potsdam agreement which guarantees respect for human rights Colonel Crawford Sams chief of the public health and welfare tion said that for centuries girls have been literally sold to proprietors of brothels for loans of 500 to yen to their parents Frequently he said these girls were obliged to enter the houses against their wishes The girls contracts generally in- cluded an arrangement whereby the loan must be repaid from their earnings he said un- scrupulous managers adjusted the agreements so that the payments would take a long time The system of furnishing her kimono and other articles at two to three times their cost is calculated to keep her bound for the longest possible time so that eventually she might find it impossible to turn to any other way of Sams said 1919 Very Similar to Strikes Turmoil By Max Hall WASHINGTON Jan 24 AP Yes they had a wave of strikes after the first World war too In 1919 more workers went out on strike than in any other year in American history The labor department says were involved in work stoppages due to labor dis- putes in 1919 Whether 1946 will break that record is something the future will tell Those who are fearful for ica's future because of 1946 labor troubles might get some comfort out of reviewing the history of 1919 It year of unrest Unions struggled for higher wages to meet the soaring cost of living struggled for the week In some cases they struggled for recognition and for their very ex- istence The nation was alarmed There much talk of agitators anc bolshevists Congress was urged to pass laws to prevent strikes Many remedies for the unrest were proposed John D Jr in an interview said the Golden Rule would bring labor peace Bu both sides put more faith in eco nomic force than in the Golden Rule Generally speaking they still do There was a big bitter steel strike in 1919 A F L union determined to organize th steel The companie fought back They fired many union members President tried to prevent the strike through conferences He failed The strike began on Sept 22 I involved about workers There were fights and riots Th steel industry was in turmoil fo weeks but the workers were badly split and the companies gradually Continued on Page Two Says Government Should Invoke Power of People The number of American workers idled by strikes surged upward to a new high of more than today as President Truman said the current industrial arose from a battle for power be- ween management and labor Mr Truman told reporters at Washington that he believed the government should assert the er of the people in the agement deadlock over wages He said he personally had done as much as he could As the government prepared to over the meat packing industry the president said he did not think it would be practical to seize the steel mills now He said however that this should not be construed as a ment that he would not seize the struck steel mills eventually No Pledge A F L meat cutters joined with C I O Packinghouse ers in not pledging themselves im- mediately to return to work after government seizure Delegates from C I O Workers will meet in cago tomorrow to decide on a course of action The A F L said its striking members would not be ordered to return to the packing houses until assurance is received that wage increases by a fact-finding com- mission would be retroactive to the date of seizure The government seizure of ing plants closed by strike will take place at a m In Other Disputes In other labor 1 More industries were forced to curtail operations as a result of the walkout of C L O Steelworkers now in its fourth day 2 Company and union officials were scheduled to meet today in New York in an attempt to settle the strike of 200.000 bers of the United Electrical ers C I O against General tric Westinghouse and General Motors 3 Last minute negotiations averted scheduled strikes on the Indiana Harbor Belt and Chicago Junction railroads vital links in the cross-country movement of freight Electrical Strike Seen 4 Workers in two electrical plants threatened to strike coal mines in tucky and Virginia to close and throw miners work a new contract has not been signed by then Meanwhile C I p President Philip Murray and his ers wage policy committee called on President Truman to turn over government-owned steel facilities to men like Henry J Kaiser Kaiser signed a contract the union granting an cent hourly wage increase to workers in his Fontana Calif plant The compromise figure suggested by Mr Truman had been accepted for the entire industry by Murray but rejected by U S Steel and other big companies Hill Field Welcomes Naval Officers Brigadier General Ray G ris commanding general of Hill field welcomed a group of naval officers who arrived today by navy transport plane to discuss naval problems with various Ogden groups The party included Rear Ad- Russell S Barkey and land P Lovett Marine Colonel Julian C Brown Captain Lyle O Armel Lieutenant Emil E Mosbacher and Spencer S Eccles of Ogden former national com- mander of the Forty and Eight American Legion The officers were scheduled to be honored at an informal dinner today at the Weber club by Mr Eccles They are members of a party of 10 en route from San Francisco to Kansas City Mo where they will discuss naval problems witli leading publishers in that area At today's dinner they were to meet Utah ers Says A-Bomb Secret Cannot Be Kept SALT LAKE CITY Jan 24 UP Developments of the atom bomb by countries other than the United States Britain and Canada could not be delayed more than a year or two by any scientific data held secret by the three countries Dr G Parratt physicist at the Los Alamos N M atomic bomb assembly plant said here today Parratt is vacationing here prior to returning to Cornell university where he was professor of physics before joining the government's atomic bomb project
