Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - June 4, 1951, Yuma, Arizona Cn Highest last 21 Lowest last 21 hours Average high this date us Average low this date 01 Relative at 11 Tl AND THE TINEL Weather Forecast to Tuesday locally windy this after- tonight anil Not quite so warm this afternoon and YUMA 132 YUMA ARIZONA MONDAY 4 1951 Copy ARIZONA 131 Eleven Communist Convictions Upheld Convictions Were For Conspiring To Teach Violent Overthrow Of U.S WASHINGTON Junc 4 The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of 11 communist party leaders for conspiring to the violent overthrow of the government The decision was 0 to 2 Justices William O Douglas and Hugo L Black dissented Justice Tom C Clark did not take part The tribunal upheld the constitutionality of the Smith Act of HMO under which the 11 were Price War To Western U.S By United Price wars spread today to San Francisco and Omaha despite a threat of federal action against merchants who slash their prices below costs In New York meanwhile convicted in New York in October 1919 The net makes it illegal to teach tile overthrow of the ment by force or to organize any im Uils Chief Justice Fred M Vinson handed down the court's ruling The 11 communists were con- by a federal jury after a trial Th Jury found that the overthrow of the ment by violence was the purpose for which the 11 organized the U.S Communist party With one exception the ants now face five-year jail terms and fines of each Robert G Thompson drew the same fine Macy's department store offered but only three years in prison Vinson held that the U N Willing To End War Along Parallel o call a truce in the battle of the lags provided its keep their levels six per cent higher than those offered in the largest department store In the world The rivals rejected the peace offer and the war roared on department store in San Francisco put the axe to prices on many fair trade goods mostly drugs and sundries today Other stores retaliated by ing their prices even further i In Omaha Lee Smith president of Smith Drugs ordered his stores to mark down fair trade items that he considered out of line He expected other stores to do the fame and said he believed a price fight would be healthy for re- tailers But in Washington George J Burger president of the National Federation of Independent ness said some sales made in York's price war may be in violation of federal laws Me quoted a section of the law that selling below the costs is an unfair act where both sjich action is to destroy fair competition i Reviewing the prices being of- for resale on trade mark brands some sales may be found in unfair competition ing below the he adding that the Federal Commission had a grand to prove its worth to our economy by law State action also was imminent New York chairman of joint legislative committee on tirade said the tee will begin an investigation Thursday into the New war Meat Price Rollback Is Effective today WASHINGTON June 4 The government's delayed 10 cent rollback in live cattle price aimed at relieving a price on meat packers went into effec today at all slaughtering houses As it did the House committee began drafting a re which may influence Congres decision on whether to let con sumers have the cheaper beef th government has promised fron two future rollbacks The second and third cattle rot backs scheduled for Aug 1 an Oct 1 are supposed to trim eigl to 10 cents a pound off retail ceilings for beef prices b early fall intended to overthrow the government of the United States as as the circumstances would permit Their conspiracy to organize the communist party and to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States by force and violence created a clear and present danger of an attempt to overthrow the ment by force and he id They were properly and con- convicted for tion of the Smith Act The of conviction are rmed The 11 Thompson New York state arty chairman Eugene Dennis general secretary of the U.S Communist party Gils Hall 38 Cleveland Ohio state party lan John B Williamson 46 rty labor secretary Jacob A 50 of he party Carl Winter 42 De- roit Michigan state party lan Gilbert Green Chicago state party chairman Jenjamin J Davis Jr 44 former York city ng -17 vice president of he Fur and Leather Workers John Gates 35 Editor of he New York Daily Worker communist party newspaper and Henry Winston Dennis general secretary of the party recently completed a jail sentence for contempt of Con- ress The others have been free on bonds ranging from to The high court's mandate in the case will go to the lower courts in 25 days unless it is held up to allow for a petition Then the 11 will be ordered to appear for committal to jail It was believed they will ask to re- main free on probation RESISTANCE resistance was in an attempt to Keep Army from the Iron Triangle Rea supplies ana reserves are tanks and infantry out ran into Heavy enemy artillery slowed up their attack Koreans crossed tlie area lignt Allied to within sinking distance ol Chorwon and at the base ot the Red triangle The largest gains were made by ROK forces north ol 2 In the cast Q Q Q UN Infantrymen Slash Small Gains Toward Iron Triangle But Communists Must Agree To Negotiate Korean Problems WASHINGTON June -I The United Nations allies would be willing In end tlie Korean war along the if tlie communists would lo negotiate all Korean problems Diplomatic reported thai ihr United Britain and other key nations whose forces are fighting In Korea are ready to fount war a success and bid for a This attitude would lie reversed they added If Reds slart offensive The policy of the UN allies these said was to give the Chinese and North Korean every opportunity to end war Definite proposals are mil agreed but a joint ment of seek pence or face mure is under ation here and in Allied Tlie testimony the Yuman Fells 2 Power Poles Charged With Reckless Driving Loye Campbell Yu- man will stand trial in city police court Wednesday afternoon on reckless driving charge The youth driving a 1937 model sedan knocked down two power poles along 4th Avenue near 12th Street early Sunday leaving u tion of mesa area without He told officers he went to at tlie and woke up a pole TOKYO Tuesday Junc Nations infantrymen are hacking their way into the tains guarding the Chinese R e d army's Iron Triangle fortress in central Korea today The future of Chinese Com- munist military operations in rea may hinge on the success ol the Allied drive into tlie tri- angle It was reported hand grenades as they crawled over rugged peaks honeycombed with a fantastic network of defenses Allied troops made gains of up to three miles Monday pelting rain The rain limited 5th Air Force tions to 250 sorties The communists threw Heavy fire into the advancing Allies nnd made three strong which were beaten off From their bunkers and deep entrenchments the Reds poured artillery mortar machine gun anil rifle It was indicated that the Allies hit a main line of com- munist resistance in fortifications built by the North Koreans before the war started War Correspondent Robert Gibson said The right arm the two- pronged drive advanced 1.000 to yards Monday astride the road between and The left battled counter- attacking Chinese in the sector near 12 miles of Chorwon At the eastern end of the line communist resistance appeared to DC crumbling before the Allied drive northward from and United Press ent William from ith Army headquarters that the UN assault on the communist Iron Triangle based on won and may determine the future of nese military operations in rea It is a bone-crushing hill drive into the very heart of the communist military he said It is a relentless p ti s h against a winded and enemy designed to deny him the time to reorganize his battered forces He indicated the Chinese may have massed more than 200.000 troops on a triangular plateau north of the line ringed by high mountain peaks He put enemy strength at up to five communist reserve corps with a potential of men plus the remnants of six other corp: decimated in abortive enemy ported communist and stubborn resistance all along the front below Chorwon 17 miles north of the liSth Parallel and II miles to the east The Allies made their biggest advances to yards by -n o rt h e a s t and west northwest of miles southeast of Censorship prevented exact pinpointing of the UN spearheads To the west Allied column pushed bead to 000 yards near 12 miles south of won UN units elsewhere on tlie tral front either were stopped by fierce communist fire or measured their advances in scores of yards They resorted to grenades and when Allied artillery and aerial bombs failed to dislodge the enemy ate committees and statements by Allied nnd UN officials to tlie lint North Korea will lie deeply only if they want to tbe war Diplomatic pointed thai if a cease-fire could be along the Parallel UN objectives would be fulfilled In large mcas urc The complete fulfillment of these objectives it was said would require agreement by the Reds to help restore peace and security i tlie area Tlie United Tor Its purl Is willing lo support general UN peace terms rejected by the com- before their Spring of- fensive was shattered The most important features of these terms provided for a cease-fire a demilitarized zone just above Parallel and a phased withdrawal of forces in advance of negotiations under Secretary of State Dehn son in his testimony on Hill has drawn a sharp line on the extent of negotiations that would follow a cease fire This ment lie said would place the Formosa problem and Chinese Red representation in the UN apart from Korean negotiations Optimism is rising that the communist defeats may prompt the Reds to take new looks nt Hie previous peace offers or new ones under preparation But strategists Council Takes Up City Sales Tax Election Tuesday Final consideration Is to be en Tuesday afternoon to n city calling for the special sales election on October ffl The ordinance was introduc last Tuesday at a special of the city council which developed Into a stormy session of verbal exchanges of the new sales lax vigorously Hie setting of such a far-off date for the election They demanded to lie reasons for the selection of Unit date at de- to discuss It on thu grounds that protests were to be voiced at the time of final consideration but ere finally drawn into the heated Opponents to the legislation we'll hear more of the ty sales tax but It Is not known hether this Is to be in the form somo sort of action tomorrow later Curfew Reduces Spring offensive An Army communique re- Arizona Edison Gets Higher Rates PHOENIX June Arizona Corporation Commission has proved a general eight per cent rate increase In gas electric and waler rates for the Arizona Edison company which will result in an annual rate increase of to the firm The decision came at a meeting j emphasize that so far the Chinese have ignored peace feelers and rest publicly on their expressed determination to run tlie UN out of Korea Washington Meet On Conditions PARIS June agreed today to attend a meeting of tlie Big Four foreign ministers in Washington Inly only on condition that tbe North At defense Pact and the ques tion of American military bases in Europe are put on the program This condition thc Western Allies the United States Grea Britain and France have refuse throughout weeks of argument a a conference of Big Four here Soviet Deputy Foreign Andrei A Gromyko handed th Western Allies late today a Rus sian note containing the conditional acceptance Thd Soviet note was a reply t nnc handed to Gromyko and dt simultaneously in Moscow last Thursday proposing th Washington conference Saturday The company based its request on increased operating costs and was granted the boost on thai basis Arizona Edison customers in Globe Miami Bisbee and Douglas will pay eight per cent more for gas Coolidge Florence Casa Grande and Yuma Galley buyers will pay eight per cent more or water The increase will go into effect immediately Commission man Wilson T said NAA Barbecue Friday Reservations can be made now for the annual NAA barbecue for Friday night at the NAA clubhouse Howard Gwynn serves as chef and Mrs provides a cret barbecue sauce at thc annual affair The meal will include spare ribs and roasting ears with all thc trimmings Cost will be 51.50 per plate Members of the NAA and guests are invited They also arc urged to make reservations by phoning C H Trigg at or C P at BOULDER CITY Nov June A board of appraisers for the division G i 1 a project in southwestern Arizona has been appointed to determine land values for excess land dis- posal and speculation control Re- Director E A Moritz here Bureau member recommended appointment of Mr Moody as the third appraiser Tlie land appraisal board will play an important role in an- Thc three-man is posed of Wayne T er Robort J Moody er Yuma and F H Handforth appraiser Bureau of Reclamation Frank farmer ton was appointed an an nate on the boaid Mr Moritz said ment of the appraisal board is provided for in the contract now icing negotiated or the unpaid gallon against construction the tract The provisions are to be effective only during the development period and the first period after the project begins payment on construction Thc purpose of the program Mr Moritz said is not to prevent legitimate transfers of land at residing in thc division pending the organization of an irrigation and drainage dis in thc area and the election of an official board of director division land affairs Mr Moritz stated Thc division contains 75.000 acres of lands that j will be irrigated with water from com- the Colorado River Under mation law all irrigable land in j to people inter- of 100 acres held by one in farming but rather to curb buying and selling for purposes which often result in thc ultimate with an excessive mortgage indebtedness Mr Moritz pointed out that land sales in thc area to date in most cases have not excessive prices partly with individual must be of at prices not in excess of its praised value lo be lo re- waler the project tem By lhc landowners are allowed a reasonable period of time to dis- pose of excess acres Values at which thc excess lands may be sold will he determined by the appraisal board In addition appraisals will h needed in connection witli is known as Ihr incremental value for the district The proposed provisions nf the repayment con- provides that one These provisions are de- ber of the appraisal board shall j signed to curb speculative buying be selected by the district one and selling of land by member by the Bureau of mation and a third member by thc other two Mr Wright UK i jinn ine appraised ot nip representative on thc be by the seller to the has successfully operated a farm Mr u I requiring that one-half of the dif j between the sale price 1 find the appraised value of the because of previous ments regarding the control program However there are some indications that land is purchased solely for resale a practice thc Bureau and farmers residing in the area wish to discourage graduate of the University of and has had previous land appraisal experience in the area Mr Moody farms near Somerton is Yuma Supervisor Asks Trim Budgets ATLANTA June new havo in cnt another outcropping of e delinquency like that during World War II a Press survey showed today In only a few places lias p industrial work been d by an increase In the uency A u t h o r I t i organized recreation are centers and strict of liquor minimum age laws ith helping to keep youths out of But the most successful measure is the old curfew Nearby Marietta posted an 11 111 deadline for children mulct 6 when its big bomber plant re recently Hi Mozley of the juvenile com aid the curfew win designed elp the working parents heir children out of trouble we want to keep the -en from hanging around dowi own late at night A 10 p.m curfew was imposts t San Diego Calif when incl ship factories started ng their payrolls San Diego ort Conn Syracuse N Y and other towns where employment js on the upswing reported that was much less of a problem than during the war years KM ol Dean faces the hostile Republicans he begins nis testimony in the Senate committee Investigating the dismissal of Gen MacArthur OUR CHINA Yalta Concessions Russian Help in Japan I WASHINGTON June of State Dean today that concessions were made to the at Yalta ot grave danger they would wait until we had spent nir strength defeating Japan and hen come in and do what they wished Also told Senate Arthur investigators military loaders at that time n very bloody and terrible in attacking the homeland islands of Japan and it was of the most importance that the sians should come into the war in the Kast in time In return for entering the war against Japan Russia under the Yalta agreement won the southern half of the Sakhalin ands and restoration of her er rights in Port Arthur nnd ren Manchuria and of her forme interest in two Manchurian ways critics of the nd ministration have called the ment a sell-out of Chiang Nationalist Chinese by the United States In his third day before the ate committee investigating the dismissal of Gen Douglas others too that they should come in time so none of tile Japanese Manchuria nnd none IF possible l the Japanese froths n China would come strengthen the troops of Japan would be occupied with sian effort on the then said that the con- cessions to Russia at paid for Her agreement to enter war against Japan three months tlie end of the war i In August 1013 d r o p p c d two atomic Japan and the promptly surrendered ics have contended Russia's help was not and ta agreement gave her a China that helped pave lor the overthrow of ist government said Russia's claim to the rights granted her was similar to the claims the Chinese toward their rights in Formosa Tlie Russians had lost theirs to the Japanese by war lie said Tlie Chinese had graduate of the University of Arizona and is widely known in the Yunia from his previous work is Yuma county agricultural agent ami as] employee of a farm implement j mil careful budgets for concern at Yuma Mr Mr said he had con- now in charge of land appraisal most of the department M G chairman of Yunia county board of supervisors is hopeful that heads of count y government departments will sub Telephone Strike Set for Midnight By United Press Sixty-three thousand telephone workers threatened to strike against the Bell Telephone system slates Aboul members of District 6 CIO Communications Workers of America were poised to strike at midnight unless a settlement is reached today in wage negotiations with officials of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company at St Louis A work stoppage by the district l J would workers in Missouri Arthur from Supreme Command in Acheson put on a fighting defense of American China policy dating back to 1945 On the Yalta agreement be Now there very little that tlie would come in into but the was that Kansas Texas Oklahoma kansas and part of Illinois At Denver officials of District 8 of the CWA predicted that tbe district's 12.000 members woul vote to strike against the lain States Telephone and Tei the Bureau in Region 3 heads personally asking pll Colorado previously had experience m Uon in an effort to prevent t h c praising lands for banks ance companies and others Thc alternate board member Frank iias operated a farm in the area for a number of years in partnership with his father R H dent of the Op- Company a nonprofit to prevent t h c Wyoming New Mexico properly lax rate from j Arizona and climbing In a prepared incut lo department heads issued today he It is with sincere thanks and pleasure that I review your efforts toward holding lhc economy line in operation of the county this past foil Formosa to tlie anese by war in 1895 Russia made its claim for those rights and the claims were granted at the meeting in Yalta He was emphatic in saying the Kremlin's ability to Far East at will if a prolonged struggle had spent U.S strength also was a Yalta consideration There was very little hood that anybody the war was over and until we will fpw people had expended our effort and hc to throw them of blond to win the war and lhc mainland which would then come in and do occupy and where they micht have taken without n legal claim Chinese ist regarded their treaty with Russia based on the Yalta they wished Besides said the embattled of State th late President didn't give the Russians anything at Yalla thai they couldn't have taken for company established to handle thc Aml affairs of the users pending organization of an irrigation dis- The canal The water users and the Bureau I tern and pumping plants which are fortunate in obtaining the will deliver Colorado River water vices of three highly qualified to the division are for the now under construction At board Mr said Mr Wright ent about 7.500 acres in the Valley are being from your budget requests careful con- sideration fnr this mining year Utah Texas Members of District 6 voted 10 to 1 last week to walk out unless a new contract was signed as of i day Tbe company terminated union's present contract months ago as of this date District 8 is taking a strike now wilh a deadline of June 10 for he return of ballots From all indications the vote as valuable because it selves anyway provided for Russian evacuation Unquestionably the Russians recognition of- the it in their not only to government and take what was vipl m but much more besides he Iuvo in Manchuria i out tbat in early when lin and met at Yalta States did nut it would atomic bomb use tlie to Questions Blonde Theft Suspect June The said it was is going to be in evitable that certain expenses of favor of n said county government would increase i fly CWA agent for District 8 in because of inflationary influences j Arizona I'm told the vole will be But he is hopeful that economics almost 100 per cent in favor of a strike Bolh planned nation can bead off an increase in tions today to try lo thc elsewhere coupled with an in crease in the overall assessed vat ore I Bureau of Investigation agents I question an attractive blonde for a ible lead in solving the year-old Bank of Douglas robbery hero Tile was booked 1 nicht fnr investigation of assault with a deadly after she nulled a gun nn an FBI office clerk She was disarmed a I minutes later i battle merchant Patrol officer thc to Russia would off the FBI office after she it suited her own purpose him on a street and told him ItK of Douglas was very ir the threatened her and 8 malt com- of thc WMS the the ion red in ny he said thai the Have to be brought by a large the of Japan and the of that fighting froin fighting on other that and then until
