The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 1

lie Vol. LXXVIL No. 282. Missoula, Montana, Monday Morning, February 6, 1 950 Price: Five Cents TV 7T 0 0 ITS0 a ITS Five Missing in at TrumanReadytoUse Taft-Hartley Sudden Fire Destroys Eureka Building LawonMinersToday Washington, Feb. 5.

(P) President Truman is ready to hurl. the Taft-Hartley act at John L. Lewis Monday and try to hurry up its processes, advisers said Sunday. The law to halt strikes will be invoked unless Lewis' soft coal diggers are back at work Monday, White House offi Blaze Destroys Hotel and Post Office By JAMES W. FAULDS Eureka, Feb.

5. Five persons arc missing and believed dead after a roaring fire consumed the three story Eureka hotel and the post office here early Sunday. The fire, third major blaze in this northwest Montana town in a month, enveloped the building in minutes, a witness said, Burglary Suspect Arrested; Another Sought I adding that "those who did ii inn ii win i irffiTi miM iii tmu Tiniifi-im ar- rire. H-BombMay Give New Hope Baltimore, Feb. 5.

(P) Senator Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, said Sunday the prospect of developing a super-poweriul hydrogen bomb both in this country and in Russia- should brighten chances for inter national control of such mass weap ons. The chairman of the senate armed services committee based the opinion on the instinct for self-preservation hydrogen bombing would kill Rus sians "the same as anybody else," he commented. And he pointed up the idea by a suggestion, all the more jolting for Tydings' casual use of figures, that it would take good evacuation plans well executed to save even "15 or 20 per cent" of the population of a hydrogen-bombed large city. He said such plans for this coun try are in the discussion stage and urged speed on their development. "Certainly, with so many of the men, women and children on the face of the earth threatened with incineration or total extinction, in the event of another war, with the weapons now in the oiling, it would seem to me that common sense would impel all people to try to arrive at some solution for the control of these mass-killing weap ons," Tydings said in a radio broad cast here.

He went on: "I should think that Russia would rather devote her energies and her plans toward creating a more pros perous country for the Russian people, raising their standards of living, than to waste their substance on such things as the hydrogen bomb if It could be laid aside with safety. (Continued on Page 6, Column 7) Stronger Military Attitude In Far East Urged Toyko, Feb. 5. WV-A stronger military attitude towards communist Asia may result from the current tour of the American joint chiefs of staff. It may be backed by increased attention to military needs in this area and by a program of "digging in." These were the prevalent impres sions In Tokyo after three days of secret conversations among Amer icas four top commanders and Gen eral MacArthur and his chief planners.

Only the participants know fully what went on at these conferences, but it is evident that the local occu pation commanders urged a bolder display of force to save a situation they described as critical. A main issue was the new threat to southeast Asia, posed by Chinese communist armies on the border of French Indochina. This is known to have been discussed. Local commanders believe a new American defense line should be erected on the Indochina border by supplying French forces. It is known also that the Joint chiefs were asked to increase American land, sea and air strength in the western Pacific.

The response of Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, was indicated when he told a news conference a second aircraft carrier and some smaller warships would be assigned to the Seventh task fleet because of Russia's expanding Pacific submarine program. The question of Formosa also undoubtedly was discussed. General MacArthur is known to favor steps short of involvement In war to save that nationalist island from the reds. General Omar N.

Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs, has termed Formosa of strategic importance to an enemy. Any steps taken to follow the recommended policies would mean a notable new military toughness by America in this part of the world. Moderate Weather Expected Here Missoula had above-freezing temperatures Sunday for the first time in nearly two weeks, and the weather bureau said more of the same relatively balmy weather is in store for the next couple of days. The mercury climbed to 39 degrees Sunday, using a portion of the thermometer which has seen little service since the first of the year. Temperatures were above freezing four days in a row beginning January 20.

Before that were 10 straight days with below-freezing temperatures and plenty of subzero readings. The weatherman sounded another encouraging note Sunday when he said a check of records shows that any cold weather after this date is nv jj not to more than a day 0 or two. With the weather situation stationarythe northern cold air is hanging Just north of Great Falls 1 fp Jmm'i tfciVv-fclfJlfatlriVitrr H- a tX ll 111 n' I "ifli i'H faalM cials said. The nation coal pile is down to a 15-day supply in the dead of winter. But field reports made It clear that the strikes will spread fast Monday, not diminish, unless the chief of the United Mine Workers gives the signal.

This signal was not expected. In stead, Lewis hinted broadly at a work slowdown If the Taft-Hartley act forces the men back to their Jobs. Wary government observers, how ever, kept a close watch on the early mine shifts at midnight and 7 a. knowing that Lewis Is full of surprises. Lewis could cross up the White House and the operators by keeping his men on the job for at least three days a week despite public statements by local leaders indicating a strike.

Should Lewis keep the mines In operation on a short schedule, he might obtain a contract quicker than by presidential use of the Tatt Hartley act, which would entail full production for 80 days or a show. down with the government and the courts again. Under the act's procedure for halting a strike while contract terms are ironed out, a board of inquiry into the facts first is set up by the president. Ordinarily it reports in a week or 10 days. Then the attorney general can ask the federal court for an 80-day injunction against the strike.

But White House officials said Mr. Truman will urge the board to report In five to seven days tf possible. This would hurry the law's machinery by a few days which might prove precious in event of an all-out strike. It also demonstrated the state of deep concern gripping the White House in the face of failure of Mr. Truman's proposal for 70 days of normal work while in independent fact board tried to break the contract deadlock.

This board would have made recommendations to both sides for settlement. The operators agreed to the plan, but Lewis Saturday scorned it. He said such a board could not understand the miners' problems." And if the union rejected its findings the Taft-Hartley act would be invoked, he contended. Mr. Truman has consistently refused to use the drastic law in spite of strong Republican demands in congress.

He repeatedly said there was no national emergency justifying use of the act which he has denounced and tried to have repealed. He said he would act when the emergency arrived. But last week saw scattered strikes swell to 100,000 men one-fourth of the Lewis work force in the soft coal mines after a period of three-day work weeks decreed by Lewis had succeeded in cutting deep into the nation's coal supplies to Rive him a better bargaining position. Lewis had "suggested" the men stay on the Job, but this met defiance from the diggers who fell back on their traditional "no contract, no work" stand. New Radio Clue Followed In Plane Search Edmonton, Alberta, Feb.

5. (P) An SOS signal which appeared to come from the interior of British Columbia was picked up early Sunday by a B-29 bomber searching for a vanished C-54 transport, the royal Canadian air force reported here. The plane, one of 10 conducting a radio search, heard the signal north of Spokane, Wash, The flight was sent out from Great' Falls, after a settler at Beaver Lake, in British Columbia's rugged Caribou country, reported a big plane flew low over his cabin the night the C-54 disappeared with 44 persons aboard. Numerous other radio signals have been picked up from Alaska to the international border ever since the U. S.

air force transport dropped from sight January 26, but all have proved groundless. The RCAF said planes taking part in a search fly in a wide formation with a listening watch kept on all radios. The SOS was heard on the 8280 high frequency distress band, and was not the same as those picked up later Sunday by search planes in the Yukon. These signals were identified as transmissions from Denmark. Weather in the interior of British Columbia was not good for searching Sunday, but the RCAF said there, was prospect of better weather Monday.

Planes carrying radio direction finders may make a sweep up the west coast in an attempt to get bearings on the distress signal if it is repeated. HOPE FADES Great Falls, Feb. 5. Hopes that a C-54 missing since January 26 with 44 aboard could be found grew fainter Sunday at the Great Falls air force base here. Planes returning here from missions over the Canadian Rockies in an attempt to get radio "fixes on signals heard Saturday and Satur- day night reported negative results Two fast working Missoula police officers captured a burglary suspect and threw out a dragnet for an accomplice Sunday a scant hour after reports of two break-ins were re ceived.

In the county jail on a suspicion of burglary is Madison Joseph Pape. He was arrested by Lieutenant James J. Doyle and Sergeant Ted Foust in a downtown bar about an hour after break-ins were reported at the Gardner service station at Spruce and Stevens streets and Louie's garage, 115 West Pine street. Pape is scheduled to be arraigned in district court Monday, Lieutenant Doyle said. The officer said that Pape broke down under questioning and made a verbal statement that he broke into the businesses with an accomplice, who officers were seeking late Sunday night.

Only 10 pennies were taken in the two break-ins. Sergeant Foust first suspected burglars at 6:05 a. m. when he found tracks behind the Production Credit association building, 412 Stevens street. The tracks led to two windows and a door, then around the building.

Lieutenant Doyle said that Pape admitted trying to enter the building. Merchant Policeman Willard Gar-rin, making his rounds 10 minutes later, saw a blanket flung over the (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) Brannan Program DrawsForum Fire and Praise Officials of Montana farm organizations alternately praised and condemned the proposed agricultural parity price program of Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in a forum discussion at the State University student union building Sunday afternoon. Richard Shipman of Brooks, vice I president of the Montana Farmers Union, outlined the objectives as to provide abundant production for the nation and at the same time maintain parity prices for agricultural products. He praised the Brannan proposal as the first advanced which seeks to maintain high production and parity for all commodites. In explaining the mechanism of the Brannan plan, A.

Peter Ruder-man, assistant professor of business administration at the University, said under it parity is considered the price relationship prevailing in the first 10 of the most recent dozen years. This would provide a moving rather than a fixed (such as the long used 1910-14) period for use in calculating the relationship of the income of farmers with that of the rest of the population. The professor said 100 per cent parity prices would be fixed for all farm products. In the case of perishables, prices would be allowed to rise or fall in accordance with supply and demand, with the federal treasury making up the difference to farmers if the selling price were below parity. He saw this as a way of letting consumers have the advantage of such low prices as a free market produced, while abundant production would be assured as the result of government underwriting.

While the Brannan plan occupied the major portion of the discussion, which lasted one and three-fourths of an hour, the subject was "Federal Farm Policy." Winton Weydemeyer of For tine, master of the Montana Grange, said (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) Weath er Montana west of divide: Considerable cloudiness Monday through Tuesday, occasional showers of rain or snow and some freezing rain north. High Monday 35-45. Missoula and vicinity: Cloudy Monday, Monday night and Tuesday with occasional showers of rain or snow. Little change in temperature with the maximum Monday near 40. YESTERDAY IN MISSOULA Maximum 39 Minimum 17 At 6 a.

21 At 6 p. 27 At midnight 26 Prec Trace YESTERDAY ELSEWHERE City- Max. Min. Billings 45 27 21 3 37 12 22 9 32 32 17 15 34 26 Butte ...45 29 ...49 ..40 ...33 Glasgow Great Falls Havre Helena Kalispell Lewistown Livingston Miles City .49 .34 .40 Superior i Seattle 43 I Spokane ...38 not get out right away did, not get out at all." Several persons jumped out of second and third floor windows into the deep snow. The coach of the Browning high school basketball team, which was quartered at the hotel, was saved by members of the team.

The missing are: John Powell, 17, guard on the Browning basketball team. Delena Grayson, 16, manager of the team. Ed LaFrance, 55, Eureka hotel clerk. Charles Cameron, 70, Eureka. William Peterson, 62, Eureka.

Sheriff-Coroner Roy Llvlngood of Lincoln county, here from Libby, reports so far as known there are no other persons missing. He said that because the hotel clerk lost his life in the fire, along with all rec ords, it would not be known until investigation of the ruins if there were other possible victims. Sheriff Livengood said H. P. Dire- man, garage mechanic across the street from the hotel, was probably the first to discover the blaze, an after giving the alarm cushed the fire equipment to the scenS.

He reports that moments after the whole hotel was ablaze. Cause of the fire was not immediately known. Apparently members of the Browning high school basketball team, which had won from Eureka Saturday night by a 49-to-48 score, (Continued on Page 6, Column 7) Senators Probe Extradition Of Alleged Spy Washington, Feb. 5. (P) Chairman McMahon, Democrat, Connecticut, said Sunday night that the congressional atomic committee is exploring the possibility of American extradition of Klaus Fuchs, the British scientist suspected of passing atomic and hydrogen bomb secrets to Russia.

The Connecticut senator added, however, that preliminary study by the committee's lawyers has raised doubt as to whether any effort to force Fuchs to come to this country for possible trial would succeed. Fuchs, 38, is a native of Germany but a British citizen. He was arrested in London last Friday on charges of violating Britain's official secrets act. As a member of a British team of scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb in this country in 1943-46, Fuchs had access not only to secrets of that weapon but to data then available about the super-powerful hydrogen bomb which the United States now is attempting to build. Senators have quoted FBI Chief J.

Edgar Hoover as saying the evidence indicates that Fuchs passed both hydrogen and atomic bomb information to Russia. Hoover already has told a senat appropriations subcommittee about the Fuchs case. Monday he is scheduled to meet behind closed doors with the joint atomic committee. After hearing Hoover, the same committee will have a public session to question Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, wartime director of the A-bomb project. The committee quizzed Groves privately Saturday for more than two hours.

Groves, McMahon reported, said Fuchs was cleared by the British government for A-bomb work in this country, and that the clearance never was double-checked by Groves' army unit which had Jurisdiction over the project at the time. He said the British vouchsafed loyalty and discretion of all members of their mission. Stabbing Puts Man In Hospital Raymond Mulhauser, 431 Daly avenue, was in St. Patrick's hospital Sunday night with stab wounds received in an altercation In a downtown bar, police reported. Hospital attendants said he was recovering but still under anesthetlo late Sunday night.

They added that Mulhauser was brought to the hospital from Murphy's Corner, and had received seven wounds. Joe Farrington was jailed on an assault complaint signed by. Mul-hauser'i father, Ray. Police Chief James A. Phelan said that Farrington will be arraigned on second degree assault charges.

Mulhauser received a gash on the inside of his right leg and cut on the back of one hand and on the neck. Plan to Revolt In Berlin Said Uncovered Bonn, Germany, Feb. 5. (P) Social Democratic Leader Kurt Schumacher declared Sunday he had information of a communist plot to take over Western Berlin on May 28 and said the allies should stop it with tanks. The fiery, one-armed Schumacher spoke at a news conference after a two-day rally of chieftains of his party.

His charges could be part of political maneuver against the West German government headed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Schumacher is opposition leader. This is the plot as he outlined it: The planned rally of 600,000 East German communist youths in Ber lin at Whitsuntide May 26, 27 and 28 is to be the communist "signal for national insurrection. It is being prepared under the slo gan "forward to Berlin." It is an attempt to incite the Germans to do in Berlin what the Russians could not do by the block ade and do not dare attempt by force. The blue-shirted communist youths are scheduled to march definitely through the western sectors, armed with alpenstocks, stout poles five feet long used by mountain climbers.

Part of the Soviet zone's people's police virtually an army are to march as members of the youth or ganization. The marching is intended to paralyze traffic and lead to disturbances which would provide an excuse for uniformed formations of the Soviet-backed people's police to "re store order." Special leaders are being trained for the demonstration in Mecklen burg now. About 200,000 youths are to be brought from the Soviet zone to the outskirts of Berlin by train. An other 400,000 are to converge on the city by toot from all sides and join in immense columns. The plan for the propaganda spec tacle was announced January 31 by Gerhart Eisler, who jumped bail as a communist agent in the United States and became information chief of the East German commU' nist republic.

Schumacher said the wide-open borders of the western sectors con stituted a great danger. He said the western powers should stop the demonstrators from entering the western sectors by stationing tanks (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) Reds Again Slow Traffic At Border Point Berlin, Feb. 5. (VP) Berlin-bound truck traffic was slowed down again aunaay mgnt on the Soviet zone ironner. However, an American transport official said he did not consider this a re-establishment of the "little blockade- Saturday the Russians said they were dropping their two-week-old traffic restrictions.

They said they were imposed to stop smuggling. Western officials believe It was their threat of economic reprisals that caused the Russians to call off tactics that choked highway traffic to tsernn. After almost a day and a half of ireedom from restrictions the Ber lin-bound traffic was reduced to six trucks an hour from 5 p. m. onward Two hours later a backloc of 23 vehicles waited at the Soviet barrier across the superhighway at Helra-stedt.

Charles A. Dix, U. S. transport chief here, said he did not consider this proved re-establishment of the "little blockade." "East German authorities have promised that various document difficulties will be eliminated by tomorrow, so I prefer to wait until then to see whether they make good," Dix added. "If these difficulties are removed, then a normal winter rate of 10 trucks an hour should be maintained at Helmstedt.

The Russians dropped their "little blockade only six hours before tell ing ine western powers tnere naa been no blockade only an anti-smuggling drive at the frontier. Formally answering two allied protests of January 21 and January 26, Major General Alexander Koti (off the Soviet zone in West German trucks. Volunteer firemen fought in vain against a raging fire w-hich left five persons missing Sunday morning at Eureka. In the top photo firemen are shown spraying water on the smoldering ruins of the three story hotel, which housed the post office. The center picture shows one of the few portions of the walls which remained upright after the fire.

In the lower photo, Ranger E. J. Grambo of the forest service is shown manning a forest service pump which kept water pouring on the blaze while the temperature ranged slightly above 10 degrees. The two upper pictures were made by Mrs. Guy Brock and the lower one by Mildred Fewkes, both of Eureka.

All are exclusive with The Missoulian. Progress In Battle By Associated Press Aided by the weather, an army of men and machines made progress Sunday in an attack on road blocks along a 500-mile front in northern Montana's winter emergency area. Reports reaching Governor John W. Bonner late Sunday gave this breakdown of the area where mammoth snowdrifts have marooned; thousands of farmers andjQ Woman ranchers: Reported on Snow iTnL pri Affpr f.flPQP Golden, Feb. 5.

Ph-An arsenal toting gunman and his worn an companion were captured by of ficers on an icy mountain road early Sunday after a five-hour chase dur ing, which they kidnapped two men and stole three cars. Jefferson County Sheriff Carl En- low said the gunman identified him self as Andrpw MrCnulpv of Denvpr. Tne wornan, he said, told him she was Jean Carron, 28. of Houston, Texas 1Bltal(ta A. chprk, 12 0i ul Miss Carroll said she knew nothing cars at the Lookout mountain junc- GOP May End Bipartisan Foreign Policy Washington, Feb.

5. (P) A west ern governor said Sunday Republicans should include in their 1950 policy statement a declaration that the GOP will be forced to take its own foreign policy stand unless the administration changes course. The views of Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington were dropped into the party pool of ideas for a statement of Republican principles for use in the coming congressional elections. The statement is due late Saturday.

"Secret arrangements and partisan action," said Langlie's proposed draft, "are destroying our foreign policy and the great investment of life and money made by the American people in trying to preserve freedom throughout the world. "The Republican party has cooperated, on a bipartisan foreign policy which is no longer bipartisan "Unless the party in power is fair and square with the American people in its foreign commitments. we will be forced to oppose the pres ent policy and enunciate a new and fairer one." Langlie's views became known as a Republican national committee BuutuimiiHwe went over hi secret session Sunday a tentative draft of urday by senate and house drafting committees. The tentative draft was approved by the subcommittee late Sunday. National Chairman Guy Gabriel- sen said the statement would not Conditions still "critical" in Gla Lincoln and Fergus counties in "pretty good shape except for a few isolated spots." Hill, Liberty, Toole, Sheridan, Daniels, Roosevelt.

McCone, Garfield and Blaine counties in "pretty good shape." Montana Highway Engineer C. E. Stahl. directing the fight against snowblocked roads in the area from Glacier national park east to North Dakota, Sunday was en route to the Blackfeet Indian agency town of Browning. There conditions are the worst.

Stahl deployed federal, state, coun- ty and private contractors heavy road machinery Sunday. Skies werel cloudv in the emergency area, but; 01 wcauit-ys rewra. ana hhu no the temperature rose well abovePlice "cord of her own. She said zero. It was thawing at Browning sne mpt him Ir Houston and came There was little wind, and no new he 1th him to marry him.

snow was reported. The pair gave up without a strug- Trucks with supplies followed gle when they were trapped with plows. their last hostage by five police and a storm in the Pacific is moving jkov, the Soviet commandant, alleged very little at least two days of! in a letter that large amounts of moderate weather can be expected. contraband had been slipping out tion of U. S.

highway No. 40 about Small planes, equipped with had about finished their job jscouting the snow-covered area. I (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) of 1 '20 miles west of Denver. (Continued on Page 6, Column 8) jonly be -critical" of the Democrat maximurn temperature predict (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) ed for Monday is about 40 degrees,.