Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS' Bumper Crops Due This Year May Crack High Cost Living Spy Probe Confusion Mounts By fly Dill Bm Staff Stan Writer Writer- IF- IF NOTE NOTES Wh pinion au r ti pu pr std td In n th th t column th ars th It f pr Union nw nn n lr l a. a InS nd not nil t 11 l i Ibl thu a r- r 7 A 0 No II SIDETRACKS Two potential witnesses who were Mere expected to o add some information to the tho Washington Red spy hunt bun I were vere Mrs OkUDa Oksana left and Alexander Koral Neither did however Mrs I who taught children of ot Russian U. U N. N officials In New York lork made headlines by leaping from a third story window v in the Soviet consulate where she sho allegedly was being held against her will ibm Koral billed blUed as a II mystery witness and accused of being a II paid courier for tor the wartime Communist espionage ring ting refused to tell anything he might know v on the grounds that he would be bo Incriminating himself i e CROP REPORT M Momentous There was momentous news from the nations nation's farms In the cards for tor 1948 1048 was a setting record corn crop the second largest wheat crop and substantial Increases over last year hi In oats barley and rye Government estimates as of ot August 1 1 of ot this years year's grain production production production pro pro- read like a statistical fan fan- tasy of ot the promised land Bureau of ot agricultural economics reported that a corn com crop of bushels is Indicated this year far tar above small plagued er-plagued crop of 24 billion bushels An a approximate te bushels of ot wheat will be forthcoming forthcomIng ing this year Other crop estimates were Oats bushels barley bushels and rye I bushels Trouble grew out of the fact that although the huge crops are welcome wet welt come this year they may set the scene for tor huge buge postwar surpluses mostly of corn com and wheat Officials contend that there simply simply simply sim sim- ply arent aren't enough animals left on the nations nation's farms to take care of the kind of ot p pro production r o d u c t 11 I o 0 n being achieved this year particularly the I corn outturn Immediate result of ot this sudden condition of ot oversupply probably will be the governments government's starting to support corn com prices as soon as the crop starts tarts moving Other grain supports are likely to be evoked later Grain Gram exports will be pushed of ot course course but the export market is almost certain to fall taU oft off in a year or so because other nations also are intensifying their farm fann production production tion Uon with considerable success Deflation Brighter side ide of ot the crop situation is the fact tact that it promises the consumer almost almot certain relief from inflated food tood prices sooner or later since grain supplies and prices are arc basic In determining cost of ot living at the household level Prices of ot most grains as a matter mat ter of fact tact already have broken Corn Com was down to a bushel THESE BIS CROPS REDUCE FOOD PRICES v from rom Its postwar peak of 01 Wheat was down from to oats from Irom to 74 cents Further decreases are Inevitable when this years year's great yield makes itself felt Generally cheaper grain means cheaper feed teed for tor livestock Cheaper Cheap er feed teed means less expensive meat In n the butcher shop hop This apparently certain relief from rom the tho high cost of ot living is not just around around the the comer corner however It t lies somewhere In the tho middle future Prices Price probably will con con- I to rise somewhat for lor the rest of this year ear after alter which the Impact Im Un- pact of ot the 1948 1048 crop should hould be felt causing ausing them to come down Despite the optimistic outlook there i Is II another problem to complicate com corn plicate the picture This years year's ear great reat crops could la lay the ground work for tor farm tarm gluts that would be followed by costly subsidies in the form of ot farm price supports Should another year of ot heavy crop yields follow this one and should there be a recovery of ot agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture abroad tremendous surpluses surpluses sur sur- S pluses in grains would result Thus U. U S. S taxpayers would stand to lose in the cost of ot price supports a good deal of ot what they might save In food tood prices CONFUSION And Spies Americas America's current top thriller the Russian spy sensation had developed developed devel devel- m more re facets than a cylindrical lens in a a lighthouse and each one was blinding to the eye of the be be- holder The motley group of persons persons' called to testify before congressional investigating investigating Investigating In in- committees was growIng growing grow grow- ing and growing It was getting to the point where even the witnesses had witnesses A sensational offshoot of the origInal origInal original inal spy Investigation temporarily stole the spotlight from the main event This was the battle of ot the schoolteachers schoolteachers Mikhail Mikhail I. I and Mrs Oksana Ko Ko- Ko- Ko both U. U N. N personnel I The goings on over this pair of ot Russian pedagogues seemed to be fairly complicated but they could be boiled down to a sophisticated international game of run sheep run Both and Mrs lna ma had appeared on the scene as potential witnesses In the congressional congressional investigation Then things started to happen First Mrs disappeared for tor a few tew days According to the official Soviet version she had been captured by a group of antiCommunist antiCommunist anti anti- Communist White Russians and held prisoner Then she was rescued rescued rescued res cued by loyal U. U S. S S. S R. R sub sub- A few tew days later she leaped from a window in the third story of the Soviet consulate In New York where she said she had been held i captive Driven to desperation by fear lear she was seriously Injured when I she took the onlY way out On top of all this the other school teacher also disappeared He too was supposed to be in custody cus cue tody of ot Commie anti White Rus Rus- siane However Information leaked out from the camp He wanted to testify he be liked the U. U S. S and revolted against going back to Russia ACCIDENTS Deaths Possibly the most shocking set of statistics compiled year in and year out in the U. U S. S is that dealing with the nations nation's accidental death rate In 1947 19 National Safety council has disclosed about persons died accidentally The full fuU accident toll was approximately 2000 deaths death higher than in 1946 1948 Accidents in the home accounted tot for tota a majority of all aU the deaths listed list ed by the council There were such uch fatalities The total also In Included included In in- traffic and occupational occupational oc oc- deaths Some of the other facts released in the annual report More people died in disasters last lest year than In 1948 1550 1046 In the stupendous stu stu- Texas City e explosion in a Texas Oklahoma tornado UI In the Centralia Ill mine blast blut and In airplane crashes Total of ot deaths resulted from rural t traffic accidents accIdent while city traffic accidents accident accounted for tor fatalities YOUTH MONTH Awareness If It the day should ever dawn when every family in the nation becomes fully aware that all aU Juvenile delinquency delin delinquency quency has its beginning In the home then U. U S. S society will have reached its Elysian fields Once families become endowed with this awareness they will tend to bring pressure to bear to eliminate eliminate nate the secondary factors that contribute con contribute tribute to delinquency In young people people peo pee pe School failure church failure bad housing and the inevitable shift In ethical values from one generation generation genera genero- tion to the next which are sometimes sometimes some some- times c confusing and frightening to immature minds To 0 that end and because a healthy store of ot young minds and bodies Is the best overall Insurance any nation can have September has been proclaimed Youth Month The Theater Owners of ot America who feel teel they have a big stake Inthe in inthe inthe the welfare of ot U. U S. S youth have undertaken to organize the principal principal principal pal media of ot information Information newspapers pers magazines radio and motion pictures pictures to to publicize the month Aside from the publicity to be accorded accorded ac aCt ac- ac corded the problem of ot Juvenile delinquency delinquency de de- de which is the immediate purpose of ot Youth Month the observance observance ance once is more deeply significant in that it provides some evidence that Americans are becoming actively conscious that at least a partial remedy must be found Springboard for Youth Month and and any other concerted group action that might obtain is a probing and thoughtful report on Juvenile delinquency delinquency delin delin- quency by the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Ju Juvenile Ju- Ju venue venile Delinquency Washington D. D C. C A digest of ot this report or series of ot panel reports covering basic causes and possible solutions of ot the problem Is well worth a few tew hours' hours study on the part of ot every parent who Is aware of his Inevitable falli as a guide and leader of his children S NEW LOW Bitterness While American British and French ambassadors In Moscow were grimly making peace talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov Molotov Molo- Molo tov toy In the Kremlin general relations between the East and West were sliding sUding to new depths of mutual re re- re crimination This Tills state of affairs was not eased any by unsubstantiated reports that the he Moscow talks had degenerated Into nto a deadlock and that no progress was being made For the most part however the animosity was being spread through raucous propaganda by Berlin i I newspapers with the publications sponsored by the Russians and the western powers waging a pitched battle Dattle of ot words The licensed British paper Tele- Tele graaf grad reported that the Soviets were getting jetting ready to move great numbers numbers numbers num num- bers of new troops into Germany and that Russia was pressing to toward toward to to- ward sole rule over all aU of Berlin BerUn Soviet propaganda instruments meantime renewed their overall i attacks on the West demanding that the Berlin city council be ousted ousted ousted oust oust- ed and that the whole city be made part of ot the Soviet zonal tion ion Regard Regardless ess of at any truth implicit In the Berlin BerUn newspaper fight It was obvious that the vindictive battle would do much more harm than good to relations between the the two power spheres It was equally obvious that there was more bitterness and fear tear at work in Berlin than there was a rational understanding of how bow to cope with the crisis |