Salt Lake Tribune, The (Newspaper) - November 15, 1945, Salt Lake City, Utah WORLD NEWS Associated Press United Press N V Times Foreign Service WEATHER Cloudy Warmer Details on Page 18 VOL 152 NO 32 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 15 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS SYU President Speakers Stress Necessity For Spiritual Values LEASED WIRE PROVO Nov vithout spirituality is as noth Dr Edwin A Lee dean of the school of education of the University of California at Los and J Reuben Clark of the first presidency of L D S church declared In at the inauguration Wednesday at Brig lham Young university in which S was in stalled ns the fifth president of the institution Both Dr Lee In the principal I address at the ceremonies and Clark in giving the charge I to Mr McDonald stressed the necessity of teaching the wisdom I of God along with In the fields Pres Clark stressed the fact I that spiritual values must always precedence over secular or fundamental values or any others that oppose ns spiritual arc based on eternal truth Spiritual Need Speaking on The Glory of God I Is Dr Lee said It I would be difficult to find a state ment from which to start to de a philosophy of life and edu cation better suited to our tlm this It is conceivable that If a un president were to nil his decisions in terms of th statement and follow the leads h there discerned he would mak few major Likewise If were possessed of such philosophy the teaching and th research which took place woul In truth set men free A generation of young me and women no set free by college and universities might In tim cure the world of Its sickness Ex cept by setting men free tually I doubt inhere Is any waj to make the world or this nation or even this state a truly place in which to live and rca In discussing the production of the atomic bomb Dr Lee said Something which the Creator ha hidden from the of man am which might never have been seen by those eyes was seen by the mind of man and ulti mately harnessed by man Thu fur intelligence had In truth been the glory of God Coil and Atomic Energy It still the glory of God when the first atomic bomb was exploded In the heart of Np Mexico Then followed the produc tlon of other bombs their trans portation across seas and their release over the cities o Nagasaki and Hiroshima with the horrible and dreadful destruction of which the whole world knows only too Somewhere in this period of feverish activity with its two bil lion dollar budget its tens of thousands of workers and its se cret cities that intelligence which is the glory of God faded out anc something else took Its place Per haps It was that smartness which is the shame and degradation of Satan and which Is so often con fused with true intelligence What ever we choose to call It the fact la that the whole world Is in ter ror of what may result from fur ther development of the atomic The truth Is that science in and of Itself is without Intelligence or morality or any other character istic which may be called human See Page 4 Column 4 RUSS CONTINUE VETO DEMAND WASHINGTON Npv 14 7P once more Is demand ing a veto power in the pro posed control council for Ja pan Secy of State Brynes dis closed Wednesday The U S advocates a coun cil on which Russia and the other allies would be repre sented but in which Gen Mac Arthur as supreme commander would have a decisive say in case of disagreements Sev eral weeks ago Byrnes re ported that Moscow apparent ly agreed to this plan But now Byrnes told his press conference the Russians have veered back to their original demand This was for a council like the ono which governs Germany in which all members must agree upon a course of action before It mny be adopted and In which any one member alone could veto a proposed action The latest Russian position was made known In recent con between Foreign Commissar Molotov and U S Ambassador W Averell Harri man UNIVERSITY WELCOMES NEW CHIEF As academic procession approaches Joseph Smith Memorial hall at Brigham Young university for inauguration of Howard S McDonald towering Y mountain white with now snow forms a majestic setting Lower Mr McDonald fifth man to become president of university is shown delivering acceptance speech Water Delegates Divide Over TVA Land Limits DENVER Nov 14 split among delegates at the National Reclamation Assn convention de Wednesday night over two introduced in a message from Pros author tics and land limitation One group said the president added nothing new to previous re marks Association Pres Ora Bundy of Utah said Pres Truman went on record against authorities controlling future river The president his statement at Gilbertville that the form river develop ment will take in any region was or the people of the region to Mr Truman also stated that the commonsense principles of the Valley Authority could guidance and counsel to he people in other Bundy declared the presidents lews coincided with the ion existing agen ies are competent to develop the resources of our river val Opposes Authorities In an official address to the convention session Bundy I do not believe the peo le of the west want the authori But Utah State Engineer Ed Wataon of Salt Lake City de The president has not ome out in opposition to the au He still maintains TVA with ts low retail cost of power and ts development of resources has een a Pres Truman commended rec laws limiting individual Irrigated by reclamation reject water to 160 acres These aws he declared protect the principle of the family farm and are one of the real bulwarks to the Regions Differ Bundy in his report said We now find that such limitations as might fit perfectly into the scheme of things in Idaho or Utah may well prove difficult of application in California or He suggested some amendments should be made but Gilbert H Jertberg Fresno reporting for the associations voluntary committee on land limitation of which Bundy is a minority mem ber went further Jertberg presented a proposed to be submitted in congress which would remove all tions on the size of farms under private ownership which could be irrigated with reclamation project water The individual farmer Jertberg declared should not be shackled to the level of mere Many of the 1500 delegates met in state caucuses Wednesday morning to choose the following state directors for the coming year Arizona J H Moeur Phoenix California J R Fauver Colorado Clifford H Stone Den ver Idaho N V Sharp Filer Kansas Paul W Applegate Wah keeney Montana Earl E Tif fany Billings Nebraska H D Strunk McCook Nevada A M Smith Carson City New Mexico E W no final North Dakota Harry E Polk Wil Oklahoma Homer L son Boise City Oregon Robert W Sawyer Bend South Dakota Millard G Scott Pierre Texas J E Sturrock Austin Utah Bundy Washington James A Ford Spokane and Wyoming W F Wilkerson Casper GM 10 Salary Hike Hints Offer to UAW DETROIT Nov 14 UP A pay boost for 000 salaried employes of General Corp Wednesday night was seen as possible foundation forh new offer to CIO union members when negotiations resume Thursday Wilson president of the nations mightiest industrial sys tem announced the wage increase for all salaried workers earning a month or less and for the first of wages per month for those receiving over that amount Payment Leaders of the United Auto Workers CIO immediately branded the increase as down payment on a 30 hike which it contends all G M employes should receive UAW Pres R J Thomas said at Washington that the salaried workers would have done better If they had been organized and invited them to get into the CIO Wilsons announcement made the 10 adjustment retroactive to Nov 1 on the basis of contribu tions in services The amount of increase was approximately the percentage offered the UAW in compromise of its 30 demands Shuns Work Week Wilsons statement contained no reference to a 45hour work week as first was proposed to the union in a compromise offer Discussions between corporation and union delegates restart at 2 p m Thursday and the session Is assigned to management argu ments Corporation spokesmen were silent on whether days announcement might serve as basis for a new proposal to the union But the fact that no breach had developed in the negotiations thus that additional meetings were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday of next week reflected hope for some decision which would avert a systemwide strike Walter P Reuther UAW vice president in charge of General Motors negotiations denied that a strike call had been prepared or a date for the walkout had been set However strike authorization has been placed in the hands of a sixman committee of Detroit UAW officials and Reuther ad mitted that if the company per sists in ignoring the economic facts a strike would be a nec essary Buildings Fired As Jews Riot In Holy Land HOLD THAT TIGER Luce Requests Atomic Curb WASHINGTON Nov 14 International control and reduc tion of armaments and weapons especially atomic power was sug gested Wednesday by Rep Clare Boothe Luce Connecticut Mrs Luce introduced a concur rent resolution calling for congress to express itself in favor of the creation of international machin ery within the framework of the united nations organization for this purpose Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas California proposed that the United States Great Britain and Russia get together on a plan for controlling atomic energy To pursue a foreign policy based on our temporary superi in atomic weapons will force other nations as well as ourselves into an atomic armaments race thereby creating a world of fear and hatred in which nations great and smell face sudden Mrs Douglas said in a statement Senator Urges New Wage Base Formula WASHINGTON Nov 14 Sen Knowland California Wednesday proposed a laborman agement formula based on an an adjustment of pay rates to the employers earning power Knowland submitted his plan to Secy of Labor Schwellenbach with the statement that he believes it can increase both employes earn ings and employers First would come at least a 10 increase in hourly wages Thereafter under the formula labor and management in bar gaining conferences once a year would Estimate the coming years business Agree on the most equit able and economic division of its intake among workers manage ment stockholders and consum ers the latter in the form of lower prices which might advance the general prosperity of the company and bring larger returns to all in subsequent Provides for Leeway Having arrived at these esti mates as Knowland explained it the bargainers would negotiate a leeway for further increase in wages Under current conditions in the automobile industry for Knowland wrote Schwellenbach this leeway might amount to difference between the roughly 10 which could be granted by restoring average hour ly earnings after the drop from a 48 to a 40 hour week and similar factors and the 30 asked by UA Differs From Bonus The senator told reporters that in other words labor representa tives propose a further raise leeway that management feared would be too costly How ever at the years end under plan there would be an accounting to determine just how much of extra pay might safely be allowed Knowland explained this differed from the ordinary bonus in that It would be promised ahead of time the amount to be figured later I Army Fights Writ for Yamashita By ROBERT TRUMBULL Exclusive N Y Times Salt Lake Tribune MANILA Nov legal representatives wiT appear before the Philippine au preme court Thursday with a mo tion to quash the petition of Gen Yamashita now on trial here as a war criminal for a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of pro The corpus writ if granted would return the tiger of Malaya to the status of an or dinary war prisoner and the second writ would halt the trial Col Charles C Young Denver judge advocate and Lt Gen commander of the army forces in the western Pa will contend that the Philip pine court lacks jurisdiction over the army military commission try ing the former Japanese command er for atrocities committed by his troops Col Young also will aver that the Philippine court has no jurisdiction over atrocities or over person Evidence Builds Up which he signed in English declared first that the military commission was without jurisdiction since the Phil are not occupied territory and secondly that under the war crimes procedure set by Gen Douglas MacArthur he was unable to obtain a fair trial Regardless of the courts action the attorneys for one side or the other likely will refer the case to the United States supreme court Meanwhile in the courtroom in the partially ruined United States high commissioners residence here the prosecution Wednesday afternoon continued to build up evidence that the massacre of more than Filipinos was a plan stemming from headquarters As a particularly damning bit the prosecution read an excerpt from a United States army nth corps report on Luzon atrocities which quoted an official Japanese military order stating that even Filipino women and chil dren were to considered as guerillas and on the battlefield but Japanese troops civilians and construction workers should be slain Atrocities Gain Horror The excerpt from a translated diary of a Japanese soldier also read Feb 7 guerillas dis posed of tonight I personally stabbed ten Feb am guarding 164 guerillas who were brought in to day Feb burned to death 1000 guerillas Wednesdays testimony contin ued the history of the apparently unending orgy of torture lust and murder as American through the Philippines last fall See Page 5 Column 4 Police Army Fire on Mob Protesting Palestine Plan JERUSALEM Thursday Nov 15 from Tel Aviv early Thursday said two Jewish youths were killed seven were seriously wounded and about 50 less seriously injured Wed in street rioting during a 12hour general strike protest ing new British proposals for settlement of the Palestine problem The casualties occurred when police and military units fired and charged with clubs into crowds which set afire government buildings and stoned police A renters dispatch said British troops fired 16 rounds of ammunition at the The riots started when a crowd of unruly youths estimated at 300 to 400 broke up a parade of orderly marchers who were returning from a mass demonstration against the statement Wednesday by the British govern ment on Palestine After breaking up the parade the rioters stormed the govern ment district office and attacked about 20 Jewish policemen guard ing it Four policemen were in jured in fighting the rioters who yet fire to the building Another attack was directed against Tel Aviv central fice where windows were smashed Pressed On Domestic Atom Control WASHINGTON Nov 1t The war department called Wed for quick creation of do controls over atomic en ergy as American British and Canadian leaders neared the end of their conference on al controls Secy of War Patterson told a news conference that domestic legislation should be adopted promptly to clear the way for in action My own he said is that international arrangements will require a domestic control ta order for t h 1 s government to make good on any The war departments idea of legislation he said contemplates that nine man commission would control all atomic energy WASHINGTON Nov 14 Pres Truman and Prime Minister were re liably reported Wednesday night have agreed on turning over Hie secret of atomic energy to the united organisation provided Russia clarifies Its postwar aspirations and with oilier member nations agrees to throw Its military poten tials Into the same common pool activities including the construc tion of atomic bombs After a session Wed afternoon the three gov leaders scheduled another meeting at 10 oclock Wednesday night and still another for 10 a m Thursday William D Hassett White House press secretary did not indicate what progress was be ng made Asked when a communi que might be expected he replied when the conferees have reached a Allied diplomats speculated that if the leaders agree on any for control of atomic force hrough the united nations the plan would be immediately com to Generalissimo Stalin of Russia and possibly to leaders of France and China as well Those countries with Britain and the United States would have primary responsibility for carrying it out as permanent members of the united nations se curity council Furniture was smashed in an at tack against the income tax of fices During the melee were hurled at police Twelve persons were hurt in Jerusalem when youths hurled stones at buses and taxis A complete curfew for all civ ilians was imposed in Tel Aviv at 11 oclock Thursday night It will further notice Tank Reported Hurt Reuters quoted a police bul letin as saying an American army sergeant and one other person were injured in Tel Aviv by glass splinters when Arabs fired on a truck operated by an armed Brit ish crew The bulletin added Reuters said that one Arab and a Pales tinian constable were injured in a clash between Jewish youths and Arab shepherds near Haifa Reuters also said that the Pal estine Arab partys executive com Thursday in nn official statement called on all Arab na tions to support resistance of fur ther Jewish Reports from Tel Aviv said troops of the Sixth airborne divi sion fired at the legs of demon after giving orders to dis perse immediately or we open Youths Fire A surging crowd of youths set fire to the British district office breaking windows to hurl torches inside the advices said and also attacked the income tax office Two Jewish police were reported hurt by flying stones The troops were said to have erected huge posters in the Eng lish Arabic and Hebrew lan ordering demonstrators to go home or be shot were directed on the posters and the crowds dispersed by 10 p m No official statement was ex before Thursday A Reuters dispatch said one of tile buildings set afire housed the income tax and light industries office Explosions occurred inside it First reports from Tel Aviv said the crowds attacked four build ings setting three afire See Page 5 Column 8 Military Leaders Testify Today As Pearl Harbor Probe Opens WASHINGTON Nov 14 Congress Wednesday night sum moned an admiral and a colonel as first witnesses in the Pearl Har sor inquiry The joint congressional commit tee will start public hearings Thursday with Rear Adm T B and Col Bernard Thielen on hc stand Inglis is chief of naval intelli gence Thielen is on the army gen eral staff Neither at Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941 Chairman Barkley Kcn didnt explain why the committee selected these two The was that their testimony will set the stage for developing what was happening in higher cir les during those tense days pre eding the outbreak of the Pa war A new pledge of im partial inquiry was made on the eve of the hearings It came from Rep Murphy Pennsylvania member of the committee dur ing an angry exchange in the house Murphy took special time to de Republican members who have insisted on conducting what he called their own investigation He was aiming at Reps Keefe Wisconsin and Gearhart California who have interviewed a naval intelligence officer Capt Alwin D Kramer and only Tues day called on J Edgar Hoover chief of the FBI Murphy shouted at Keefe that the Republicans were trying the case In the When both Keefe and Gearhart tried to interpose Murphy de clared this is not the time nor the place to go into the Gearhart tried repeatedly the floor and Murphy refused to yield So the started talking anyway Democrats cried Speaker Rayburn slammed his gavel and finally Murphy shouted This isnt a duct Murphy said both Keefe and were they said the army and navy never warned commanders at Pearl Har bor except in weasel that the situation was critical He read from a voluminous Inquiry board report messages from each branch to the Hawaii post In one of them quoted the navy as saying that this is a warning of The army message said according to Murphy that the Japanese nego had broken down and hostile action could be expected at any moment Were those weasel asked Gearhart finally got the floor long enough to say that the FBI alerted its men in Pearl Harbor but neither the army navy put their forces on a proper Whatever happened will be de at the Murphy countered Thats why I repeat this is not the proper tribunal to try this
