-- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- Court Upholds Georgia Vote System (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions r expressed In these columns, they are those ef Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Starts Sixth Year COLD WAR: Heating Up Russia had heated up the Cold war. A United States air force navy Privateer had disappeared after a flight in which it was reported to have flown over Russian territory. The Russians claimed the plane had fired upon a Russian aircraft, and over the then had disappeared Baltic sea. A WIDESPREAD HUNT by American officials was launched for the missing plane. Erroneous reports had it that life rafts from the plane had been found. The first reported rafts turned out to be only fishing boxes. But later, a life raft was picked up and air force officials indicated a conviction it came from the missing plane, which had 10 crew members aboard. A British ship under command of Captain J. Henderson reported finding the raft and said it was partly collapsed. The bottle was exhausted and supply pockets were open and empty. There were no signs of life and no messages were found. Had the Soviets shot down the plane, or so crippled It by gunfire that it crashed in the Baltic? That was the big question. Bigger yet was the question: "What would the United States do if it were developed that the plane was a victim of Russian gunfire? THOSE were questions that would have to wait, however, until the answer to what had actually happened to the plane had been cleared up if it ever could be cleared up. Meanwhile, American tempers grew a little shorter with Russian tactics and there was no denying that the Cold War had taken on a degree or so more heat Harry S. Truman, looking trim and fit, has started his sixth year as President of the United States. The Chief Executive, 66 on May 8th, rounded oat his fifth year with a renewed determination to win the "cold war" with Soviet Russia. air-supp- ly GEORGIA: Unit Vote Stays The county-uni- t vote determination system is unique in the United States because only two states use it. It is unique, too, in that it is found acceptable by city populations in these states, when its use gives votes in some rural counties up to 122 times more weight than those in city areas. But, the U.S. supreme court has said the system is ail right. In a 7 to 2 decision it refused to strike down the county-un- it vote in Georgia. Maryland is the only other state employing this system. JUSTICE BLACK and Douglas protested bitterly against the majority opinion, which was brief and unsigned. These two members of the court declared the action failed to plug what they called the last loopholes in the court's decision which gives Negroes the right to vote. The majority opinion said that federal courts have no right to interfere with the way a state geographically apportions voting strength. It made no mention of any racial issue the dissenters saw in the case. Two Georgia voters attacked the existing law. Under the system, each of Georgia's 159 counties is alio ted a number of unit votes, ranging from six for the eight counties down to two for most of the counties. THE CANDIDATE who receives the most popular votes in a county is awarded all its unit votes. The system, in that respect, works something like the electoral college. -- most-populo- ROYALTY-- . GERMANY: A Repetition? mention of rearming Germany makes cold chills run down Any the backs of those who remember how a beaten, dismantled Reich was permitted to come back and plunge the world into the most devastating conflict it had ever known. THREE TIMES in the past 80 German war machines have swiftly and ruthlessly at the of the world. Had the Gerhordes ever won a world conflict, something of what the vanquished might have expected is provided in the terms laid down by these conquerors of the French in 1870, when German troops stayed on French soil until every "penny of reparations demanded was paid. How the individual may have fared under the Teuton heel was demonstrated by Hitler and his sadistic Nazis. Now, all the great talk, the board planning, the global thinking is merging into one resounding chorus: "Rearm Germany!" Joining this chorus was General Jacob L. Devers, retired chief of U.S. army field forces, who said in an address in Louisville, Ky., that western Germans "Would like to fight for us, under American officers, against the Russians," if war should come, and he added "They can fight like Hell!" NO ONE disputes that. But recent history is too grim for such proposals to be received with general equanimity. Too many people of the world will remember that it was that very fear of possible Russian attack which led France and England to sit by with folded hands while Hitler flouted the Versailles treaty and served notice on the world that he was going to rearm Germany. "Let him go," seemed to be the whispered desire, "he'll serve as an excellent buffer against years, struck peace manic the BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET CHINA: - Plane Incident Heats Up Cold War; German Rearmament Pleas Spread; ' Thursday, May 4, 1950 THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPITI, UTAH PAGE TWO Russians." Chamberlain went to Berches-gade- n with his folded umbrella and came back hugging to his breast the miserable pledge of the Austrian madman of "peace in our time." The world had a horrible taste of that kind of "peace." To rearm Germany creates a fearful possibility that the dose may be repeated. So Cry for Help As has been the case since the dawn of history, it is the innocents who seem to suffer most in internecine strife. China is no exception. In that country of vast population and so frequently too little food, many Chinese ara starving. A naturally difficult struggle for existence has been intensified by China's civil war in which the Communists emerged victorious. NOW there is a cry for help. A Chinese Nationalist group has appealed to American labor, as an organization, to help combat famine in Communist China. But with their usual skill in that department, the Reds have managed to confuse world opinion on the situation. The Communist regime has done a good job of beclouding what alsources most all say is one of the worst famines in China's history. The Reds have admitted that the situation Is 'critical, saying some 16 million people were affected. Private letters filtering China indicated the from Red-hel- d number was 53 million. The Chinese Nationalists and western relief agencies and religious organizations have been seeking some means to help the starving, hence the appeal to American labor for help. AN EASILY understandable obstacle, of course, was the uncertainty as to final disposition of any aid that might be forthcoming. Some assurances would have to be made that relief goods went to those for whom supplies were intended. Who could give that assurance? The Chinese Communists? Yes, there was a way. If the Reds would agree to give safe conduct to relief missions into the area, perhaps the job of staving off starvation by death for thousands might be successfully completed. But, barring some such procedure, the outlook was dim indeed. Old Issue Flares Two big railway unions were ready to "review the whole case" Tough Going of their Diesel-engin- e dispute with Everyone has known for a long the nation's railroads. If the retime that with the exception of Eng- sults weren't satisfactory to the land, royalty has been having a brotherhoods, the country faced a tough time. With the changing times major strike threat. have gone royal privilege and pomp The argument was two years old but. chiefly regretful to royalty, the and was easy to state. The unions felt that the adoption of d cash, too, has gone. LATEST to Join the ranks of imlocomotives discriminatpoverished noblemen was a German ed against manpower and insisted duke, Ernst August, of Coumebr-lan- d that an extra man be put on these and Brunswick, father of a locomotives, whether there was queen and cousin of a king. any need for him or not. Duke Ernst was really up against The railroads, on the other hand, it. He was so badly off, financial- have refused to do this. Union leaders refused to discuss ly, that be had to sell treasured antiques just to pay his grocery Just how imminent a strike might bills. Rare old relics of his family's be or when and in what matter it medieval splendor were to go under might be called. Instead, they indithe auctioneer's hammer. cated a review of the situation. Said the duke, The union was in a highly straphilosophically, "Of course, I'm sorry to part with tegic position. It was free to these things, but it Just can't be strike at any time, inasmuch as helped." The duke was down to his all "cooling off provisions of the last two castles and one of them railway labor act have been exis a war ruin. hausted. tele-visio- air force's Republic Mittel-Europ- Most of the stories spun by these continental katzenjammers are on the comic side; yet, once in a while they come up with a yarn which ball in your throat. leaves a ping-ponFor instance, there's the tale when a detachment of SS men about the old gentleman and his rang bis doorbell. The doctor, greying wife who, during the sumwho bad been warned to expect mer months, can be seen almost them, led bis wife and son out every day on the carousel near the the rear door, but as they hurried Central park zoo, up the street a neighbor spotted holding hands as f them and gave the alarm. their adjoining As the hunted trio turned a corponies pump up and down. ner, they came upon a small caWho are they? rousel which had been set up in a Well, to tell you. public square to celebrate the arI'll have to go rival of the German "liberators," back and thinking fast, the surgeon years and several bought three tickets and climbed thousand miles. aboard with his family as the battered runabout started up. The Shortly Hose Billy the Nazis goose- child was placed astride a gaudy stepped into Vienna and decency zebra while the parents sank way n went underground, a back in one of those chairs whose surgeon and his wife, both of outsides made a swan. frowned-upo- n The SS men searched the square ancestry, were urged and were about to move on when by friends to take their son and leave the country. the boy, to whom it was all a game, The surgeon refused. "I'm need- reached out, and grabbed a brass ed at the hospital," he said, "and ring and, turning to his parents, I intend to stay as long as I can shouted, "Look, look! Now I get a be of use." free ride!" His usefulness, however, came Attracted by the boy's cries, the to an end a few afternoons later storm troopers dragged the doctor g several after well-know- ld and his wife from the carousel and were about to take the child when their leader, a youth with a hangman's sense of humor, stopped them. "The kid got the brass ring," he said. "He's entitled to a free ride." By 2 EN! RADIO Gif-ford- 's WW "one-arme- Para-mount- n Jean Simmons seems to be hiri-bim- drowned " merry-go-roun- . M Barnard J. Smith. Jr., 24, ef Fair Haven, Vt., thumps his chest and takes a deep breath of snow-fille- d air upon his release from Jail after taking the oath. His case attracted national attention because ef the prevalent but obviously erroneous opinion that no one can be Jailed for debt In this country. Smith was Jailed for failure to satisfy a $2,500 Judgment. poor-debto- New York paid his passage, and he and tils wife were among the lucky ones who got by the immigration quota. Ever since, the pair has been spending most of their summer days in the vicinity of the Central park carousel. The old boy is pretty much off his trolley, but his wife continues to humor him, and whenever he gets agitated and mutters, "Where's Otto? I saw him on the zebra a minute ago," she patiently takes him by the hand and says, "Come along, dear, maybe be got tired and went home." Richard H. Wilkinson BOYNTON of the Union second army's Company E, regiment, Massachusetts teers, wore a look of utter 3 . court-marti- "Thun- derjet" was reaching out farther and farther to deal death and confusion to any potential U.S. enemy. The air force reported that the range has been increased to where it can carry out most types of missions more than 1,000 miles from base. The Increased operation radius Is available for straffing missions, bomber escort and hunting enemy fighters. are unknown, the odds are that he, or she, is on some kind of public payroll. That's what the U.S. census bureau reports. Federal, state and local governments, the report stated, has a total of 6.204,000 workers drawing a rerord-hi?monthly total of one billion, 406 million dollars. one-ln-2- 3 h Alton, 111. This Is Your Paper Printing News Is a Duty By William R. Nelson MANY readers of newspapers mistakenly reluctant to report newsworthy events about e which only they know the facts. it apparently is embarrassing to tell the paper about social affairs in their homes, visitors, information received in letters, or other equally newsworthy items. Telling the paper about news, whatever its nature, whether large or small in importance, should not cause embarrassment, and will net if rightly regarded. In- fact, giving news to the home tqvn newspaper might better be looked upon as a social and civic duty one owes to the community. Certainly the newspaper will receive it in that way. Newspape r s ; Must Rely cannot afford to mai n t a i n! on News Tips staffs tolarge acenough tually hunt out every news item they; publish. Ail must and do rely upon, voluntarily supplied news tips and items for a large part of the news they publish. But there is another way to look at it that is equally important Whenever you invite guests into your home you are honoring them. When they accept they are honoring you. To acquaint the community with such incidents is a gracious action which your guests and the community will fully approve. Even information received in letters, excepting of course the confidential and purely personal, is news if the writer is known by others. On those casions when Is sickness, acci- Interested dents, or other personal troubles occur, the community will want to know about them so it can respond accordingly. To neglect or refuse to give such information deprives your neighbors and other friends of opportunity to show their interest and friendship. One of the main reasons why people like to live in smaller communities is the greater number of friends they make. One of the surest ways to make friends is by giving news to the home town newspaper. , Next time you entertain, receive news in a letter, there is illness, or some member of your family experiences disappointment or success, tell the paper about it If you have never done so before you will be surprised and pleased by the glow of satisfaction its publication will generate. have-guests- WEEK'S LAST SSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. 5. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. One day while going through the relics of long-ag- o battles, be came upon a letter. Fragment Scrutinize Vestige Daises Black bird Percolated A bead of a rosary 15 Leap 16 Lord (abbrl short legged, flightless 17 A bird 20. A wing 21. Harbor i t MlI '1L IWML B H F J ' r XT Ij' 0 uTrVltf -z water for flowers O BO H LI A T t N Enclosure 20. Devoured 22. One's Eating a ojr tlTllK AjiT 2. utensil father's pIjZ r KHM' ' sister Cage Lwi(i' P'ri Cutting tool 23. Middle t s Alfrle fie abo u 24. State of Alloys of sulphur, with being aroused silver, etc. 25. Offer Snare 33. Falsehoods A famous 26. Firearm 35. Notice social 28. Girl's name 38. Isthmus, 30. Transport worker SE Asia 15. Crested over a river 39. Short sleep 31. Man's name 40. Eskimo tool 32. Insert L fc T F 22. rartlcle 23. Rude dwelling 26. Conjecture 27. 18. Win 19. Receptacle Congealed n ANSWER rius tn rested, to be held for questioning Sammy Kaye Is recording; a regarding the leakage of informaseries of 14 radio shows to step tion to Confederate Gen. Johnson. rethe United States up navy "You can't hold her forever withThe series cruiting program. out a trial, Boynton," the older will be heard on 1,500 radio man pointed out after another stations throughout the country, week had passed in which the lieustarting in July. George Hicks tenant had failed completely in his does the announcing. efforts to unearth some grain of evidence. "Miss Struthers is popFollowing the appearance of his ular among the officers. Some swear they have known her for article. "Be Kind to Bachelors," Ben Grauer reports the receipt of years and will vouch for her loyalletters from all parts of the coun- ty to the Union." try applauding his stand on "Which makes It all the More than 60 per cent more likely she would succeed are from women. Ben's a most as a spy. I happen to know that eligible bachelor. all of Miss Struthers' maternal ancestors came from Georgia. She herself spent a good part George Fisher has Joined the of her girlhood In Savannah." ranks of .radio commentators who have become movie sctors. Fisher, Idly he fingered a package of whose "Hollywood Whispers" CBS letters that he brought in with him. show Is one of the West coast's "I'm convinced that in these letmost popular daily programs, also ters the girl is sending out the inconducts "Confidential Closeups" formation. How, I don't know. Cerover NBC Saturdays. He will make tainly she is using no code. I have his movie debut In E. A. Dupont'a checked every letter a dozen times. "The Dungeon." John Purposely I have permitted each Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge to be mailed. Events immediately and Emlyn Williams. following convince me that some bach-elordo- 40 in 1,000 If one should have a friend or acquaintance with whom he is out of contact, and whose whereabouts d. this time, however, the surgeon's brain was a bit misty, but friends in in advice. She was to have had the lead In "Quo Vadis". but when she demanded a huge salary and Stewart Granger for her decided that leading man, she wanted too much. With Robert Taylor slated for the male starring role, they had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor to play opposite him, so once more they tried to pursuade her. Tr,....-...- out the mother's screams, and the last the couple saw of their son be was riding on the The surgeon was too valuable a commodity to kill right oft and so was his wife, a skilled nurse. They were sent to a slave labor camp to tend those prisoners considered too healthy for the ovens, and when the Allies marched into the camp in 1945, the couple were still alive. By how those letters are the means of conveying the information." volunCAPT. LACEY picked up the dejecand read them briefly. tion as he entered headquarters nothing to excite tent, nodded wearily to Capt Finn They contained mere of love messages suspicion stool. a onto Lacey and slumped and devotion to friends in the The captain stopped writing, South. leaned back in his chair. Lacey suddenly pounded the "She wouldn't talk, eh?" table. "By George, Boynton, I ben Boyn-toshe wouldn't "No, talk," lieve I have it! Obviously someHe stretched his answered. thing has to be done, and I'm more long legs out in than half convinced though heavfront of him and knows why that your suspicions Minute studied the worn en are well founded." boottoe of his Fiction I "So?" she's "Maybe "So we'll deport her. Turn not a spy after her over to the Confederate all," Lacey hazarded. army. If that stops the leakage Boynton's blue eyes flashed as we'll know she was the guilty he jerked up his head. "Yes, she party, and there will no longer is! I'm sure of it." be danger of its continuance." and gestured Lacey shrugged "And it will mean Alice Struthwith his cigar. "If you're so sure, we'll hold a and" ers'Twocomplete freedom." days later prisoner Alice "No!" Boynton was on his was turned over to ConStruthers feet. "Don't do that, sir. We Gen. Johnson under a flag federate haven't enough evidence to of truce. convict. It will mean she'll go But it wasn't until after the war free and we'll lose our one ended that he found the anhad Inleak. the chance of stopping to the riddle. One day while swer formation is getting through going through his relics of long Alice Struthers is somehow. ago battles he came upon a letter. responsible. We must learn her It was one that Alice Struthers had methods." written to her friends in the South, "How?" and which he had kept for a souHow? That was the question that venir. had driven Lt. Boynton nearly The paper was yellow, the ink to distraction, had caused him the faded. The postage stamp had loss of sleep and wearied his brain dried and was hanging by a mere from thinking. A week ago, basing thread. As he looked at it, Lt Boynthe act on the slimmest of reasons, ton's eyes grew wide. For beneath he had had Alice Struthers ar- - the stamp were some closely written, finely penned words, obviously the cipher employed by Alice Struthers which he had tried so hard to locate. LT. JEFF need of good 4'llt V SSt&aBt SAFE . . . Leo Battershell has set what probably Is a world's record by driving 1,098,375 miles during the past nine years without a single accident not so much as a scratched fender. He is a member of the protection department of the western company at East Cartridge As the carousel started up again, the tinny strains of "Cbiru PERPLEXING RIDDLE CORNER By INEZ GERHARD Congress itself may hold the key pWO YEARS AGO Frances to solution of the nation's gammovie career looked fine; bling problem and existence of the she had been in about a dozen picgambling "syndicates." That, at tures, with increasingly important least, is the opinion of Senator Ed- roles. Then, at the height of the win C. Johnson, Colorado DemoNew Year's festivities, she was in crat, who has urged congress to an automobile accident. She spent bill impass an J.'.'.U. J.'M wwwwwr. mediately. Johnson believes that M should be done before beginning a nation-wid- e crime investigation. THE SENATOR happens to be on good solid ground, because it is partly through federal winking at that the individual states have so much trouble copd bandits." ing with the The federal government licenses despite the fact that in the vast majority of states their use and operation are illegal. If the federal government slapped a ban on the machines, as it has on nartraffic and othcotics, white-slav- e er morals offenses, the state would find it far easier to deal with the problem. FRANCES GIFFORD THE BILL envisioned by Johnson would outlaw manufacture of agonizing months in bed, never sure gaming devices in states where whether she would ever face a they are prohibited and forbid camera again. Complete recovery their shipment into such states. It finally came, plastic surgery rewould not apply, however, to states stored her beauty, and she has where 's operation has returned to the screen in been made legal by legislative act. "Riding High", opposite Johnson explained his ideas on Bing Crosby. Ahead lies the success the subject as indications pointed she deserves. to a fight on the senate floor on the question of who would get the "Riding High", a Frank Capra job of inquiring into the nation's production, is one of Crosby's best crime. It is a race track story, with Bing Johnson's bill already is through starred as a broken-dowvagathe commerce committee, where bond, owner of one horse and no it was approved without hearings. There is a nice little love Whether it would win congress money. there are new songs and old story, on the politics ones, and a fine cast, which inapproval might rest involved. cludes Coleen Gray. William Demarest, Jimmy Gleason. Gene Lockhart, Charles Bickford and Oliver Hardy. Writ III ' - THE FICTION Up to Congress CENSUS: Thunderjet The ROSE Some of the sprightliest talk to be heard in Manhattan these nights is in the coffeehouses frequented by the talented and threada. bare refuges of Night after loquacious night, you'll find them huddled over red - and - white checked tablecloths, and though many a cultural door has been slammed in their faces, they remain a spirited and sociable lot, short on money, perhaps, but long on banter and bravado. STaGESCRE GAMBLING: Diesel-powere- One Show Over Football fans who have been foln lowing Big Ten football via screen, will find that this fall the show's over. They'll have to go out to the stadium now, instead of sitting cozily at home and following the play. Big Ten athletic directors, meeting in Chicago, voted to ban live television of their schools' football games for this season. The action may cost the conference $203,000. 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