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THE DULLETIi . B MMMMMMM"""MMMM"M"T"mrM""MMi r wiFKLY NEWS ANALYSIS New Taft-Hartl- ey Battle Looms; Solons Ridicule Recession Idea; Dictator Feared in Defense Plan j Newlyweds - ' VJ i '(it"' SlMWv - I , ' jixxv, f, ' msi""WWWMWj TAFT-HARTLE- Y: Another Try The administration hadn't given despite a humilating setback ST the senate by Taft-Hartle- y law It was reported th. supporters. President Truman'. conrlon" aides were planning another try repealing the measure, but had reached no decision. THIS CAME to light after House Speaker Sam Rayburn concluded . conference with the President. The decision on a new repealer ef-fort was to await further confer-ences with labor committee mem-bers in both houses. While the persistence of the ad-ministration might be comendable, the wisdom In any further effort toward a Taft-Hartle- y repealer was doubtful. A majority of top leaders had conceded there was little hope of getting the bill changed at this session of congress, and all, in-cluding administration leaders, were wiUing to make the question an issue in the 1950 congressional elections. THE RESULT of the vote on changing the Taft-Hartle- y labor law was confusing to the average observer of the political scene. If labor had played as important a part as it was conceded In the elec-tion of President Truman and with congressional elections up next year how could so many senators have found the courage to fly into the face of what might seem cer-tain defeat? On the other hand, if labor', role In politics is as negligible as others claim, why was the administration pressing so hard for the Taft-Hartle- y repealer. One thing appeared certain: There were many congress-men sufficiently unimpressed with labor's political Importance that they didn't mind going contrary to labor's wishes on the Taft-Hartle- y Issue. RECESSION: Ho, Ho, Ho! With unemployment figures stand-ing at the highest peak in II years, and many nationwide organizations and national leaders casting about Governor Fuller Warren of Florida and a honey blonde daughter of California, the for-mer Barbara Manning, are shown as they left the reception following their wedding In Cali-fornia. DEFENSE: Dictator Feared In nearly all discussions concern-ing unification of the nation's armed services, one thing stood out many congressmen feared the possibility of a "military dictator" if framers of a unification bill weren't careful. THIS feeling was put Into words by Georgia's Representative Vin-son who proposed several amend-ments to the pending bill, declaring that he wanted to make sure no military dictator ever arises in the United States. Vinson, a Democrat, is chairman of the house armed services committee. The amendments he proposed would take the armed forces out from beyond the recently enacted government reorganization law, and put them beyond a shuffling by President Truman; put a civilian chairman over the joint chiefs of staff, a body which includes the highest officers of the army, navy ana air lorce, ana nx me memDer-shi- p of the national security council by law, requiring that other mem-bers be subject to approval by the senate. THESE AMENDMENTS were proposed to a unification bill which already has passed the senate. The measure is one which would in crease the direct authority of the secretary of defense over the armed forces. Louis Johnson, who holds that post, has told the house committee he needs that authority to make the 1947 unification act work. He pledged to save over a billion dol-lars a year in operation of the mili-tary services if the bill were passed, and a civilian manager put in charge. for a bulwark against economic hazards, congressional leaders were laughing at the idea the nation might be edging into a depression. THEY had just conferred with President Truman and upon emerg-ing from the conference ridiculed the notion that all might not be as rosy as possible with the nation's economic picture. If the lawmakers were out on a limb, they were way out, for House Speaker Rayburn and the senate Democratic leader, Scott Lucas, minced no words in expressing their optimism. "WITH 58 million people em-ployed in Industry and 30 million farmers with money to pay for whatever they need, I'll be if I see how you can call it a reces-sion," Rayburn declared. Said Lucas: "If it is, it's the most prosperous one we've ever experi-enced." MEANWHILE, it was said Presi-dent Truman was preparing a spe-cial economic message for delivery to congress. It was expected to carry recommendations for deal-ing with declining prices and the unemployment situation. Out of all this came repetition of the additional-taxe- s proposal. Asked about that, Rayburn said it had yet to be determined. He did not make it clear whether he meant President Truman is reconsidering his plea for four billion dollars in additional taxes a year, or whether the matter is still up in the air in congress. INTELLECT: Women's Best? If two Indiana university profes-sors are to be believed, then the male of the species must face an unpleasant fact namely, that girls (or women) can reason better than boys (or men). THE professorial gentlemen claimed, and cited figures for proof, that the female is the su-perior of the male in the reasoning department, and this despite ten million jokes, books, philosophical discourses and general experience to the contrary. The professors say unequivocally that given a set of circumstances, the lassies can come up with more logical answers than boys can do. These gentlemen are Dr. William H- Fox and Prof. Nicholas A. attu of the research division of Indiana university's school of edu-cation. They made the tests in two high srnoolH, one in a city of 11,000 in north central Indiana, and the other in a consolidated rural school near Indianapolis. ro USE the professors' own words m the report: "Scores on the interpretation of aa e test seeking to establish their re Uttonship to measures of achieve- - fotmrt no!:"'rd?.ofTnaeHretyntiatiaonnd ..M.erest, here was but a clear cut advantage r girls m both schools in ability o reason, to see relationships, to make comparisons and to suspend c?e?S.UnUI PCrUnent ,3Cts are Kh,muny a male wm c- - tlc'JtZ when thCy Seem t0 lose those NEW HOMES: More Cash Buyers planning to finance homes through FHA-insure- mort-gages may have to make larger down payments from now on. THE federal housing administra-tion had cautioned its underwriters to consider declining construction costs when appraising houses for insured loans. wJm Kre,SUlt' the agency 6ai3, mortgages on many new homes. If the builder fails to cut his selling price in line with lower costs, the down payment will be higher. THE decline in building COsts and materials have been noted since late last year, the underw ers were told. Most materials Plentiful, it was said, and bon rates of workers in many tl tions have improved. DON'T SHOOT FIRST BASEMAN UNLESS . . . Childhood Memories Drive Batter Berserk . . . YOU WISH TO BE SWITCHED TO THE MINORS " ' " ly H. I. PHILLIPS A PSYCHIATRIC EXAM (Wherein Elmer Twitchell, hav-ing shut a first baseman, is ques-tioned for reasons.) Doctor. Now, then, I want you to relax and let your thoughts run freely. Elmer. Are you a good psychi-atrist? Doctor. Yes, I never played first base in my life. Elmer. What position did you play? Doctor. 1 was a southpaw pitch-er in my college days. Elmer. That does It! I must have my gun back . . . Please, my gun! ... It rests my nerves so! Doctor. Quiet! I'm trying to help you out of a very serious Jam. You shot a ballplayer and can go to prison. Elmer. Do they put people In prison for shooting ballplayers? Doctor. If they didn't some clubs would be bumped off in a single afternoon. Now, listen, there must be a psychopathic reason for what you did. As a child how was your home life, and you'd better make it bad. Was there, for instance ever a Christmas when your folks spent $5 on your brother for a first baseman's mitt and only $2 on you for a book? Elmer. That could have done It. Doctor. Did your father ever read the baseball summaries aloud? Did you ever live In Brooklyn bark In the days of those eccentric Infields? Was anybody In your family a base-ball fanatic? Elmer. I had an uncle who used to recite that Costello thing en-titled "Who's on First?" Doctor. Good. I'll make a note of that. In your Infancy were you ever chased with a ball bat for not doing your homework? Elmer. I seem to remember something like that. And I recall that as a little child I was taught to walk too early. I developed an aversion to walks. Doctor. That would explain it if you shot a pitcher. In school did you ever have a teacher who wore a mask and chest protector? Elmer. No, but I had a kinder-garten principal who carried a sawed-of- f bat and insisted he had been ordered to bunt. Doctor. In your immature years did you ever play softball? Elmer. Yes. I was such a poor hitter I never got to first except when hit by the pitcher. And I never got to second because there wasn't a .300 hitter on the team. Doctor. Now It's all clear. If you ever were to get to second base you knew you would have to shoot the first baseman . . . The idea took pos-session cf you! ... It became an urge! . . . You couldn't re-sist it! . . . We can explain everything to the court. You are as good as free. Elmer. Goody! Goodyl Can I have my gun back? Doctor. Probably, but we may have to switch you to some other league! President Truman says there is no depression. If you are out of work it is all a red herring. Milton Bcrle and his former wife, Joyce Matthews, separated in 1947, were remarried the other day . . . The ceremony was disappointing to us as no Texaco quartette showed up to sing the wedding march . . . It was one time on a Berle pro-gram where the other performer got equal billing . . . Everything went off smoothly, Surrogate Bill Collins, who presided, refraining from opening the ritual with "Tell ya what I'm gonna do." VANISHING AMERICANISMS: "All I need is steady work to have a good bank account." . "We'll give you one month free rent during alterations." "Roys' Suits! Nothing over $12." "Let's live within our income." "I've got 50 dollars; let's go to a nightclub." When that new Sherwood-Berli- n musical opens in New York the cry of the seat seekers may be "Give me Liberty or give me Kiss Me Kate." Baccalaureate Gentlemen of the classes of 1949: I am going to scrap the plati-tudes, ignore the old rhetorical pat-terns and skip anything resembling baloney balonus. It will be a novelty, I am sure, to hear a baccalaureate a little dif-ferent from the one delivered last year. I give you these three words of three and four letters which rate paramount im-portance in the struggle ahead: "Use your head!" ASH if Mi'itary 2. What f? called? Htn 3- - From what ) 1 he l in what sport? J- - West PoiT"" J- - The States of th tf7 1T 'HEY sought the Master's healing touch, I They followed Him down lane and field, r- - - And every ailing, seeking one . Who came to Him was healed. " ' frfra Master, still today we come; The grcat throngs down the earthly roads, ? r fi fjv e kar our sorrow and our Pami r f''','' Jpr-- Jt We stoop beneath our heavy loads. A 0 We pray, and often grief is stilled, i$'Jhf'''' AnC P3'0 kecomes 4 Grange, past thing; r' fw ur lack are ''fad. many'times B Even from our remembering. ' !sj; And these are miracles as great ' ' "J As those far ones on sea and land. 'X-Lj-t All healing, all release, dear Lord, Comes from Thy hand, Thy unseen hand. When he was , untimely death of one he had baptized the a shook his head sadly' "Yes, how well I him," he said, "and nect his ambition shiftlessness. He died I imagine he made "Yes, he did," ,r formant, "and he left; tiful widow" "Well, tha. jast p the moral in hard woil fellow probably hasn't wife." "Oh, yes he has," ft rected him, "he marr. worker's widow." "Why, when I was Uncle Pete sounded of a job in a grocery t at four dollars a t years until I had enouf buy the store. That j: you what hard workai will do for a man. Wi go out and duplicate: "Well," said Julius, head as if frustrated,' em cash registers art to beat." The Fiction BEST ALIBI Richard H. Wilkinson Corner shoes. Carrying the shoes he returned to the study and asked Firbush if they were his shoes. "Why, yes,' said Firbush. "Why? Where did you get them?" "Out of your closet. 1 searched the rloscts of all the servants till I found a pair of shoes with some mud on the soles. It was you who com-mitted the robbery." "You're crazy. That's a cock-eyed theory. The robber came up the ladder." "No," said Inspector Beatty, "that's only what you expected us to believe. That's why you put the ladder there and left the window open. The robbery was committed before you placed the ladder there." "How do you know that? You can't prove it." "I won't have to. What I can prove is that no one came up the ladder. It rained last night. There was mud. There's mud on youi shoes. The shoes fit the footprints at the foot of the ladder. Yet there is no mud at all on the rungs of the ladder. If there had been I would have probably been fooled and no1 been sure that some one inside com-mitte-the theft. Besides you had the best alibi. I checked with the man with whom you said you at-tended the movie. He broke down and confessed everything." MacDougal was amazed. After-wards he said to Beatty: "I didn't know you checked with Firbush's friend. When did that happen?" "It didn't." said Beatty. MAX SANDERS' home had been of jewels valued at $50,000. The jewels were kept in a wall safe behind a picture in Max's study, which was located on the second floor of his Beverly Hills home. Inspector Ray Beatty was as-signed to the case. Leo MacDougal, a police officer, I who had been Minilte summoned from 3 FlCtl0n his beat, showed I Inspector Beatty the evidence that had thus far been discovered. First there was a ladder placed against a window that opened into a second floor hall. This window had been discovered open. Inspector Beatty told MacDougal to summon all the servants. Then he questioned them. They all had good excuses. Sid Firbush, a secre-tary, had spent the night at the movies with a friend. Edwards, the butler, had read in his room un-til Mr. and Mrs. Sanders returned from a party, when he admitted them. It was right after that, that Mrs. Sanders went to the safe to replace the jewels she had worn, and found the others gone. Martha Greene, the housekeeper, had been in her room all evening. Her room was located on the sec-ond floor. She had gone down to the kitchen about 10 o'clock for a bite to eat and found Viola Mat-so-the maid, there with her boy friend. Returning, Martha had passed Edwards' room and seen Ed-wards sitting by his table, reading. INSPECTOR BEATTY dismissed and went back to the study. He examined every inch of it. Then he went into the hall and examined that. He also ex-amined the window and the ladder and the ground below the window. It had rained a little the night be-fore and he found some footprints beside the ladder. They looked like men's footprints. Inspector Beatty sought out Sid Firbush. He asked the secretary if Max Sanders held business confer-ences in his study. Firbush said that he did. "The chances are, then, that he's had occasion to open the safe when others were pres-ent?" "It's quite likely." "I want as complete a list as you can make me of all the people you've known to be in the study during the past month." Inspector Beatty left Sid Firbush making out the list, summoned MacDougal and went down the hall. He entered one door after the next, first knocking to make sure the room was empty. Presently he re-turned to the hall, bearing a pair of BY INEZ GERHARD TT'S NO WONDER that Ben Grauer is regarded as the out-standing special events reporter In radio and television. Starting as an announcer, he was switched by NBC to special events reporting and elimbed to the top of the heap. He has covered everything from presidential inaugurations to golf matches, UN sessions to prlinso: in Brazil, Is much sought after as &Art-- nil i iMimi nrfinii irfrtlTMi if t' 1: i BEN GRAUER emcee for radio and television shows. Pleasing microphone per-sonality and "the gift of gab" have helped make him a success, but the most important factor is his pro-found knowledge of politics, sports, psychology, science, literature practically everything he needs to know. Pauletie Goddard says that curves are coming back into fa-shion, so far as the girls of the country are concerned, because men like womenly women. Paulette has practiced what she preaches; she put on 10 pounds for her role as the wayward heroine of Colum-bia's "Anna Lucasta" to make the lady alluring, says she looks and feels so well she's going to keep them. When a drama in CBS' "Green Lama" series included two femi-nine suspects named Susan and Leslie only a few of the intimate friends of writer William Froug knew that he was announcing the birth of his daughter, Susan Leslie. 100,000 gallons of water and nine days' work by more than 100 tech-nicians produced the cloudburst which menaces Marguerite Chap-man and little Natalie Wood in "The Green Promise" all done on a huge stage, indoors, at RKO. CLASSIf DEPARTM BUSINESS & INVEST THE OWL CU B at Eij. fixtures and equipment v. long lease at reasonable : ther Information, contact IS Salt Lake City, I tab. P. MISCELLAXIO WAIEBSCOPt Amazing, thrilling, educi'. many wonders beneath t face. Send check today. On.' Waterscope Co.. BoiW.P AMERICAN portable wwn ly new, complete wlthpowi Brldter, Wyo. DEER H I NTERS get JK take chances. Use newly ) Call. $2 Postpaid. AUi CALL INC., Bt. I. Bil Ore. miioj)Lnic. flnrben WW New Clnimra Now (.rndnateli SU SALT LAKE BAHBEI Salt Lnke Clty.gt. 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