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Show r A WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS FIRESIDE CHAT: Dulles Rebukes Pact Detractors; England, Faces More Austerity; US Steel Dislikes Truman Plan KOTCi Wl tflRim r tifrttitl hi (kn m4 Mt Bttiera Mivihm' Uitti'i hwi Matyiic (IDITOBI r 1 (1ty Ul ir Uatl u. 'I--'- ' 1 7 , i Selfish Interests President Truman charged in a "fireside chat to the nation that "selfish interests" are making budget-cu- t requests which threaten to "blunder" the nation into depression. In his economic report, Truman assured the nation that it is not In a depression, despite business lead Political reasons decline. some people to want depression, he said. He added that depression can be avoided. He blamed "selfish Interests' tot the tax cut that congress passed over his veto and for the denial ot afrtHnflatiort" Curbshe requested. HE FEARED a third great blund. er and warned that "to alasb government expenditures now would add to the downward trend." He defended his $42,000,000,000 budget for government spending the next 12 months. He "O 7 V . S ,4 v- ' 4 - A POTENTIAL PEARL HARBORS . . . Ferros Hoffman, specialist on Alaskan affairs for Seattle, Wash., newspaper, teUs a senate appropriations subcommittee on Alaskan defense that the territory today is the most widespread collection of potential Peart Harbors under the stars and stripes. Shown at the hearing left to right; are Alaskan delegate E. L. Bartlett; Senator James E. Murray (D.,Mont.), member of senate interior affairs committee; Hoffman, and Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee. MONROE DOCTRINE: Vaughan V r was on the grounds that the treaty commits its the United States to European signers. Dulles countered with the defense that the pact does not obligate this nation to enter any arms program which Isnt defensible on its own merits." Dulles said that the treaty doesnt give any individual mem ber the right to get any particular thing from any other member. No particular member has any claim on any particular aid he averred. It does not require the United Elates to build each signer up so that it could defend itself alone, Dulles said. ANOTHER FOE of the pact, Sen ator Flanders of Vermont, wanted to extend the Monroe Doctrine in place of entering the pact. Ha said this nation would not be obligated in details any more than in the original Monroe Doctrine. Flanders also objected to possible arms commitments to Europe if we signed the pact He said that if vast arms shipments are made to Europe we dont know what will happen to them In case of com' munist domination of nations bene fitted. Tafts opposition re-ar- m cited the armys suspension of two other major generals, Herman Fieldman, the quartermaster general, and Alden H. Waitt, chief of the chemical corps, They were suspended pending I senate investigation of army con tract handling. - Shafer a a 1 d Vaughan was implicated in the same case, but gave no details, AH three generals were men tioned in a recent news story which inspired the inquiry into dealings five per centers," those who of hire out to obtain government con- tracts, 1 . STRIKE RESPITE Steel Accepts Plan The steel industry's biggest corporations accepted President Trumans peace plan under protest, thus averting a nation-wid- e g steel strike. The board, appointed by the president will study the dispute over a fourth round of postwar wage Increases and pensions and group intranet and will make recommendations. The United States Steel Corporation had asked President Truman to alter his terms for a peace proposal with the United Steelworkers, as a steel strike deadline rushed Senator Scott W. Lucas, tha Demcloser. ocratic senate floor leader, said The corporation demanded that that the treaty imposes no legal g obligation for an arms program, the presidents proposed board be given no power to but added such a program is needsuggest a settlement ed Just the same. The union threatened to strike Tha Truman - administration U. S. eeks a $1,130,000,000 program to against four companies Steel, Bethlehem, Republic and Inrearm western Europe. land. These firms are against any g boards outside the ENGLAND: y fact-findin- fact-findin- Taft-Hartl- fact-findin- Mon Austerity , . act , Phillip Murrays big steel union Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of agreed to a postponement the exchequer, has placed a new of the walkout at companies which program before the agreed with the presidents propoausterity British people. He announced that sal The Taft Hartley act provides Britain will reduce her spending In for an Inquiry board with no power the United States and Canada by to make recommendations. or $400,000,000, in the Earlier, Rep. Franklin D. Rooscurrent fiscal year. evelt Jr. D., N. Y.) flayed BenTHE BRITISH financial situation jamin Fairless of United States Is more serious than Secretary 'of Steel In a speech before the United State Acheson has made It appear. Automobile Workers in Milwaukee However, It is not insoluble. British for not acceding to the presidents difficulties cannot be attributed 'to proposal the American slump. The British Will benefit from declining prices YARDSTICK here of raw materials and food. Inflated war prices are blamed for Cancer Gauger the rapid consumption of AmeriA "yardstick for measuring the ca's 194$ loan to England. growth of cancer has been reported There is taking place in England, discovered. to a recent poll of the - according A simple, quick end Inexpensive British Institute of Public Opinion, method of gauging the growth or a shift of political sentiment to- decline of a cancer wai reported ward the right A general election by Doctors Phillip West and Jessanow might turn the Labor party mine Hilliard of the medical school eut of officer " at the University of California. Union leaders promised to try The technique is based on an to end Londons wildcat dock strike analysis of blood compounds and as more soldiers, sailors and air- will measure the effectiveness of men went into the miles of wharves curative treatments. It is not to unload ships and move cargoes cure Itself, nor is it a test for the of food. presence of cancer. 60-d- one-fourt- h, " " HOOSEGOW Three N. Y. Reds Sweat Out Trial In Jail The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals In New York ruled that three st defendants, on trial for conspiracy and recently Jailed for contempt, must stay in Jail for the remainder of the trial between court sessions, The action of federal Judge Harold R-- Medina In ordering the three men, Gus n and Gilbert Green, confined Com-inuni- HaD,-Harr- y Win-Sto- said, "If In Jail, was upheld by the appeals court With eight other defendants and high party leaders, they have been free on bail The defense to the circuit court that their sentences were Indeterminate since the length of the trial was not known was argued by attorneys In their appeal The Judge refused to allow this plea and passed sentence. 'MARRYING' ENGEL MAY "Trivialication" , BE FREED COURT 5-- 4 DECISION Br H. I. PHILLIPS to pot back controls to stop The Garble Sutlers like that. He hat a operations "What a lot of exciting news ' good chance of getting free on theres been lately! Alger Engel one of them supreme court marrying ail those womenl Judy five to four elections. Look Palmer being found guilty of lying what the coart did in that lone- -' about that typewriter! And the ly hearts case . . . they threw attorney general suing the Yanks the case out because there was to make them break up DiMaggio! no quorum present" Yeah. And aint that Engel a What'll do with him?" honey? "I wish the high courts would they "The government may have agree on what Is the law like the CW I u v U11 I 1 4A V Seed for the Springtime C N- - S.V V HEART wa$ heavy with its load of care: So much to do, so many clamoring needs! task I quit my and walked out where the air Was dead and sweet to cull my garden seeds. Seed for the springtime! Hope was in the sound. And gladness lifts through every singing word. I gathered the shaken seed from stem and ground. And quite distinct were the dear words that I heard: I will not leave you comfortless . , This pod, Dade as it seems, will someday blaze with light "Except a grain of wheat falls to the ground . . i Here is the golden cosmos, here the white: Seed for the springtime seed for a new dawn. That life and love and beauty may go on. btf ft t M o- Fiction new-gaine- Injured r jf r , Tork-Csll-forn- U -- gas-turbi- . BY SUPREME Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, GRACE NOLL CROWELL demanded that mankinds expandbe turned toward ing knowledge achievement instead of triviallca-tio- n and formation ot a huge "Coney Island. He spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation at Aspen, Colo. He said that world catastrophe is inevitable If the tribal selfadoration, which goes under the name of patriotism continues un checked." He asked for a world union of men of good will," and said that world government Is a step in the right direction to avert global suicide. He argued that "communication" with Russia la possible If The. other nations were sincerely willing to try. A "moral, intellectual and spiritual" revolution Is the only thing that will turn the world from Corner downward course, he argued. He attacked the "purposelessrPRACY clawed his way up over ness" of contemporary living, IEvSCREEII the slippery ledge, threw his skis made more so by technology, and BT INEZ GEBHARD and poles on the ground and sat d declared that leisure has been used tor meaningless recT3UTH HUSSEY may some day down panting. Generva laughed reations. get the kind of roles she de- merrily. "Thata what city life does Of atomic energy in peace and serves in pictures; until then shell to y o u, she war he said, "If we have war, we probably continue to do her best chided. "S e e? shall be blown to bits; if we have work on the stage. Her new picYou cant take ture is Paramounts "The Great peace we shall be bored to death. it any more." Hutchins compared todays civi"Goodher current play, Gatsby; "For a fact lization with the fears and hopes bye My Fancy," in which she has I cant, he expressed by the 18th century the role created by Madeleine Phew! What a climb!. grinned. humanist, Goethe. The theme of his Carroll She has moved her fam- - Skis are no good up here. If were speech was "Goethe and world going' to the top well have to hobunity." nail it up." Goethes dream for the world "We can quit and go down," she was that it should be a "world of said. Her voice held the barest hint friends," Hutchins said. He advov. of a taunt She hated herself for it cated Goethes "civilization of "Quit nothing! Just because Ive dialogue." been away for two years you neednt think you can stump me. Tracys eyes flicked over the girls slim, wiry figure. "Boy, you always could At un"i take it," he admired. "Ever since we were kids I've had to hump to .L" f keep up with you."' The reference to their childhood escapades brought on a flood of regrets. RUTH HUSSEY Two years ago he had left two small boy and ily husband, her with a brotherly clap on the a dog to New York for its duraback and a firm handclasp. She tion. Lunching with three memhad almost hated him. He had bers of the press, she could hardgone down to the city to become ly get in a word until they finished an architect. Then hed written telling her, at length, how wonabout Jessica.1 She waa a singderful she had been in "State of er in a night club. He had fallthe Union," and how much they en madly in love with her. His hope that Hollywood will soon do letters had been full of their right by her. romance. 7 Generva had wanted to tell him That same day Betty Field to stop writing his Everlasting pratlunched at an adjoining table. She tle about a silly night club singer. and Miss Hussey hadnt seen each Didnt he know that every word was other sinc they worked together a knife - thrust in her heart? "You- know, be said suddenly, in Gatsb." in which Miss Field and Alan i Ladd star. MacDonald youre growing more lovely every Among the Injured In the crash of the New Carey and' Barry .Sullivan are year, Gen. Some day soon a mans featured. coming along and airliner that came to She- - laughed cut loud and grief in the Santa Sosana Off stare atmosphere: scrambled to her feet. "Come on. Two mountains near Chatsworth, City Man, wev4 got to get going Jeputie of the Hollywood sherCalif., waa movie iffs office stood guard for two if wo want to make tho top and get Caren Marsh. Latest estimates back before dark." days over the machine gun plaee the death toll of the crash used In RKOa "Follow Me Tracy grinned and yanked himat 25 with IS Injured. The plane self up the first steep ascent. Before The law demands Quietly. crashed shortly after the pilot he had gone 10 feet he realized that hat such guna be constantly radioed that a violent fight was the eye of a law enforceunder it was a foolhardy business. Withgoing on In the plane among ment officer while In nse In a out ice picks 'and ropes climbing the passengers. was hazardous. picture, and that H be in the He started ahead again and then hands of an officer of the law SCIENCE: between takes. No unscheduled stopped. Above him, maybe 30 feet away, be could make out the blurred urbint Aircraft shooting allowed! form of Generva. Research on engines The blurred outline stopped. He Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, at McGill University, Montreal who wrote "Buttons and Bo.ws listened for her reply, but if she about may bring Improved flying. for Bob called the wind drowned it For an "The Paleface, Hope A turbine engine is a scientific have done such a good job on Instant her hobnailed boots were version, of the mill wheeL It has written for his clawing against the ice. Then she "Faftcy Pants, blades amall few instead a of many "When Men Are Men. that he came coasting down the incline, big ones, and instead ot water, hot thought that would be a good title reaching frantically for bushes that gas is used to push the blades. for the picture. However, the other slid through her hands. Tracy THE HOT GAS is produced by a title sticks. Meanwhile Evans and made a lunge. His hand caught at blowtorch in which fuel is burned Livingston, authors of To Each her ski jacket as she whipped past, with the aid ot air scooped from His Own" and other hits, are held, felt it slip through his fingers. the atmosphere and compressed. A strangled cry escaped his lips. writing a second song for him. telrtu . . . N. Y. Reds Didn't Register as Man and Wife we follow the wrong budget policy at this time and slash our expenditures, we will decrease employment, cut down investment. weaken our defenses, and injure our efforts for peace." His speech was seen as a movement to line up popular support for a showdown fight with the economy bloc In congress which is demanding that government spending be cut to income. He criticized those who say we are In a depression. . "Many ot these persons tor political reasons would like to have a depression," he said. "Others are saying that there is nothing to worry about and an Increase of the number looking for workll a good thing. This attitude ignores the human suffering . . . "CONEY ISLAND:" Accused Poet Fuss President Truman has been John Foster Dulles, in his first asked to his U.S. as senator appealed MaJ. Gen.suspend H. military aide, speech Vaughan. Harry for ratification of the North Atlantic came from Rep. The request Robert rebuked Senator and pact A. Taft and others opposing it Shafef, Michigan Republican, who . Tuesday, August 2, 1945 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO Months have sow elapsed since the peace. And except for the lack she is carrying a bag loaded with of actual gunfire and bloodshed secret papers from government there seemed to be as much fightfiles why should it make any dif- ing going on between the nations ference whether she worked for the as ever. A Hollywood movie, czar Carnegie" library and took a rug had in fact put in a bid for pictures from gome auto dealer?" of the peace conference thinking "Its like that trial of the eleven he was bidding for fight pictures. Communists in New York, They all Representatives of Russia, France, deny they registered in Baltimore England ,and the other nations on aa man and wife and say that our side brothers all were standwhen they were arrested on that ing toe to toe in many arenas, nobus they were just getting material punches barred, and not even for a novel bothering to go to a neutral corner after knockdowns. 1 can't see why President Truman named Perle Mesta to that There were rumors that Anthony supreme court vacancy anyhow when Wagner stepped out with Eden had come out of a council Justices Palmer, Murphy, Musial meeting with the "Shiner of the that an American peace Year, and Waitkus dissenting. "It was ail on account of the conferee had been seen rolling on the floor with a Russian brother, law." Where does that stand now?" and that Big Three meetings were being opened with demonstrations "The part requiring anybody in The spirit of mutual to answer yes or no has been distrust was rampant. cut out but everything else is The assorted peace committees left in, including the agenda and were giving which lets both sides bring evidences of beading for the rocks their own referee and puts the and discord, and some of them coal miners on a three day -- week." were less inclined to try dynamite than to upholster the rocks for Ima Dodo says he read the ver- comfort Tossing in the heavy seas dict in the case but couldnt find of conflicting interests in small out whether Judy Coplon retained boats, they seemed at times bent on attempting to cure seasickness the custody of the microphone. by resolution and plug up leaks by amendment The writer of this column does not claim to be the sevThey were good men, kindly and enth son of a seventh son, but well meaning, in these postwar the following chapter from a world huddles, but they were in book by him,- "Private Purk-ey- s one of the hot spots of history, andf Private Peace (the origit made them jumpy. inal and much more apt title was Peace, Wearing Purple "There is no need for any busiTights) , published a few to seek assistance from nessman weeks after World War II to do business any- ended, revealed distinct powin Washington. President Truers of prophecy. In the story, man. Private Turkey and several Wanna bet? companions crashed a peace conference in Paris, a feat A committee duplicated In a way by Garry of New York Davis a few weeks ago. And' in theatrical producers proposes that a chapter headed "Discord In men and theater treasthe Dovecotes" ye ed pictured urers be licensed to handle alt the collapse of peace hopes, ticket sales. Suspensions could the friction between the great then be made, we take it for expowers, etc. thusly: ceeding the greed limit. low courts do. When a girl meets a Russian agent in New York and Taft-Hartki- jiu-jits- - er box-offi- THE RIGHT LOOK By Richard H. Wilkinson be watched her reacb the ledge and flip ovei its edge, disappear. In a moment be was back on the flat ground looking over the edge, not daring to hope. Fifty feet below he made out a green patch, like a wisp of cloth caught in the gnarled branches of a hardwood shrub. SEEMED like hours before he ITfound footing against a rock 10 feet from where Generva clung to the hardwood shrub. Directly beneath her was a chasm. Tracy slipped the handle of cme pole through tho wheel of the other, tightened the strap on his wrist and cast out across the Ice. At bis second attempt Generva grasped the slim Horror-stricke- 200-fo- Take it easy, he called. Youll have to swing down like a pendulum, then slowly upward. She nodded and released her grip. The impact of her 112 pounds almost caused him to lose his grip. But be held on. The moment she was below him he began pulling upward, hand over hand. In a moment their bands touched and she was safe on the rock. Tracys hand reached for hers. There was a queer light in hi eyes. "It Just came to me." he said, what this old world would be like without you, Gen. I mean he gulped "I never realized It before. Her eyes were misty. "Darling, you dont have to. 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