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Aspirants in Primaries Fight Bv Bill Schoentgen NwPv B BAUKIIAGE j REVOLT: Arses Anelyti and Commentator WASHINGTON — There is nothing particularly strange Bogota It was a - worst revolts Latin American has seen exploded into violence During the first afternoon Bogota descended into a state of complete anarchy Mobs prowled the streets Scores were burning and looting killed The residence of President Ospina Perez was attacked and windows were broken before army troops drove away the crowd Above the confused clamor of the throng could be heard shouts of “Down with the government down with the Conservatives’ Three days later as the riots simmered to a halt 300 person were dead many others injured Downtown Bogota was a welter of destruction Colombia had broken relations with Soviet Russia and the conference had almost cracked up with delegates uncertain as to whether they could continue On the face of it the revolt was a sudden eruption of violent sentiment of Liberal party followers against the Conservative government in power Immediate result was the formation of a new coalition cabinet equally of composed liberals and Conservatives Big question was how much Communists had to do with the Bogota riots US Secretary of State Georg Marshall who with other Americans In Bogota got through the riots unscathed claimed the revolt was Communist: "The occurrence goes beyond Colombia It la of the same definite patterns as the occurrences which provoked strikes in Franca and Italy" the Colombian government in severing relations with Russia declared that a “Communist insurrection" had touched off tha mob fury from Finally It was announced conBogota that the ference would resume “so that Communism could not triumph over Colombia and the rest of tho nations of the hemisphere" And SETTLEMENT: Coal Strike John L Lewis wasn't exactly In tha position at a man who had asked friends out to dinner and then found he couldn't pay the check but he was verging on some such sltuatioa Half a million aoft coal miners started to straggle back to work after a atrike when Lewia Informed them that tha fight for pensions had been won but Lewia himself had to appear before Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough to answer a contempt of court charge Lewis was cited for contempt by Goldsborough his 194? nemesis on the grounds that h Ignored an April 3 court order to call off tha strike Apart from the contempt of court citation settlement of the coal strike was - distinguished mainly by a lightly marvelous amalgam of political action and expedient comp- mImbs tfcr sts thaa ill ! Ibis sf PRIMARIES: Wisconsin Wisconsin’s presidential primary election to choose delegates to the in national convention Republican Philadelphia on June 21 was regarded as usual as a straw In the wind but this year the political breeze was a shifting one For Harold Stassen a hard thorough camof Minnesota paign waged by himself and his volunteer supporters up and down the itate paid off nobly when Wisconsin voters granted him a total of 19 of the state's 27 delegates to the GOP convention Gen Douglas MacArthur took the remaining eight to run a poor second despite a flamboyant publicity drive carried out by his backers the Hearst newspapers) (notably which was built around the theory that he is “the only man equipped to deal with Russia" Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York drew a complete blank in Wiswhere he had been the Reconsin publican favorite tn 1940 and again 1944 Aa a result of the Wisconsin election Stassen waa catapulted into as a leading public consciousness contender for the Republican nomination It waa certain that his victory there would be reflected in the other primaries to follow and that he had gained considerable stature in the Midwest to tell which of waa difficult the two losers— Dewey or MacArthur —had been hit harder by his defeat who received no delegates Dewey might seem to be in a position similar to that of Wendell Willkie in 1944 when he withdrew from the GOP It in race after losing lgnominlously the Wisconsin primary But the New York governor previously bad beaten Stassen tn the New Hampshire primary and also he had the full slate to of New York delegates pledged him It was on MacArthur who had as his home claimed Wisconsin State that the axe of public disfavor appeared to have fallen with greatest force EDUCATION: Nearly half of tha 8243000 World War II veterans who entered special education and training programs tinder tha Ol blU of rights have abandoned their courses Vf terms administration says More than 400000 completed their work however—382000 ©f them under the GL bill and the rest under the rehabilitation program for disabled veterans Many of those that quit plan to return later it was Indicated ATOM BOMB: No Secret of Defense James put a name and a definitive restedge after a fashion to all the less postwar fears Americans hav been experiencing to ths He did it by announcing Secretary house armed aervlces committee that Russia knows how to make the More specifically atomic bomb the Russians possess the knowledge of how to put the bomb together but so far do not have the Industrial capacity to capitalize on that knowledge Russia does not yet have an atom bomb but the days of U S monopare numproduction oly of He told the bered Forrestal said committee that he got congressional from Dr Vannevar his Information Bush chairman of the US research board and development During the course of his testimony draft of men regarding a 25 the defense 19 through secretary answered queries with: “I said they do not have the atom I did not say they do not bomb have the secret of the atomb bomb “I am Informed by Dr Bush that the scientific knowledge and technical procedure involved in the manufacture of the atom bomb are known to Russia" Thus relations on the atomic level had developed tc the point where there was only one unknown quantity: How soon would the Soviets acquire the Industrial capacity to produce atom bombs? Secretary Forrestal admitted he didn’t know Italian Style " L tf ‘ f :a ' t r ' a Ai More To Come From Wisconsin tha election year wind swung to the plains of Nebraska where seven leading contenders In match Stassen again emerging aa the It out in a with big winner After Nebraska the battlefield shifted to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts on April 27 A total of 103 delegates to the GOP convention was at stake On May 4 Harold Stassen was to the fight to Sen Howard Taft’a home arena the state of Ohio It waa no secret that Taft waa worried over which way hH fellow Ohioans might go and a good showing by Stassen would hamper materially Taft’a White House ambitions carry In his second pitched battle with Governor? Dewey (New Hampshire was the first)’ Stassen was slated to Invade Oregon for that state’s GOP primary on May 2L While results of the Oregon primary were not expected in beconclustve they would servo te providelirat sampling ef West coast opinion tFlna ‘state presidential primary on the Republican kid occurs In On June 1 California Earl Warren Is unopposed the state’s favorite ion for the GOP nomination US Ambassador te Italy James Clement Dana (right) peers worker in Taranto as ha tastes grata that waa the foodstuffs among delivered aboard the 500th relief ship to bring food to Italy The Jeering specter of price wage and ration control! was invoked again by President Truman’s coun cil of economic advisers whlcl ealled for nationwide "discipline" tt prevent Inflation under the Impact of the pew defense program As usual this advice rattled cheerlessly among the stony hearts ol auctioneering congressmen la its report covering the first three months of 1948 the council denounced the tax eut law as and recommended new taxes If the pltnned defense spend k n°t offset by reduced govern orient costs tn other treat Republican dominated congress happily tha counfor reduced governmeni but maintained a pending glum idene on the subject of selective price wig nj ritlon Congressmen Indicated eli gasolne but It least motorists won’t have to worry about shortages a research aclentlst Dr R W Krebs of Baton Rouge La bus predicted Ha estimated that coal gaeoltn will cost from 10 to 13 cents more a gallon than gasoline currently In use but hd added that the supply will be enough tej last 1000 year I new YORK N Y— How would like some slightly used radioactive gold? Maybe you would be Interested In a ferry boat for the missus some pigs or a bright red fire engine for Junior If so there’s a “general store" In New York City that will be glad to have you for a customer The man to see about all this Is Leo P Flood who operates one of the wierdest "general atores" In the world He is in charge of tha salvage division In the New York City department of purchases Most everyone else In his department buys things He sells them It’s his Job to dispose of municipal wogn-opossessions— waste material or surplus equipment— anything that’ll still bring a buck Flood’s been selling more than $500000 worth of stuff a year This year the figure may reach $900000 His wares come from various places hos—police and fire departments pitals prisons schools and almost every phase of city government He does not handle material collected (firectly from the citizenry by the police and sanitation departments— like guns or Illegal drugs or the refuse put out in garbage cans every morning by private residents But he can and does find a market for refuse which comes from city institutions Sells Ashes and Cinders Last year for example Flood received: $7100 for about 8000 of ashes and cinders from firms which use the stuff to make $3000 for 3300 tons building blocks of garbage and swill sold to pig fsrms $12000 for bones entrails fats grease and scrap gristle left over from kitchens and bought by people who make fats for soap (one year this included the mortal remains of a lion and bear which died at a city roo) Don’t grimace All this saves the taxpayers money Among the odd Items that will go to the highest bidders this year are 500 grams of radioactive gold 163 grams of Just plain gold 250 pigs from reform school farms a $50000 cannery two Iron two fire engines one lungs ferry boat two wooden deck scows sevs eral 11 dozen pairs of reading glasses maybe e plane now used by the police end a wide assortment of stuff left over from the days of civilian defense Gold Comet In Tubings The radioactive gold is In tubings which were used to encase radon a radium gas used in the treatment of cancer The other unpolluted gold which could be used for dental fillings is in new tubings which were Intended for but never used in the cancer treatment The civilian defense equipment remaining from those dark days when cities tried to prepare themselves for attack Includes a wide assortment: Ten thousand 107 gas masks pounds of ointme- -t for burns 900 air raid warden arm bands 1750 flashlight batteries blackboard 2 metal bombs and 34 'wooden bombs once used for demonstrations 351 blood bank bottles (you supply the blood) 3000 stretchers 13000 metal helmets 1000 surgical dressings 140 pairs of asbestos gloves and the keys to 879 street lamps you Small Boy Capture Nimble Goat With Flying Tackle DES MOINES— A flying tackle by stop to the goat came triumph hen he eluded 2 patrolmen by leaping 20 feet from a church roof A startled grocer called headquar-te- r to report: 'There goat on my roof Patrolman William Purdy Cene CU back: boy put a of a fabulous run g°at’ i doer whole in sftcr like cfoifd ‘‘wi'ih f00‘ uLh IS a big cow He of pursuers trapping the- coat Tb ‘Quad ""'' D“ W"r PCrCh- D 0' nd foreign Marshall plan before erlous consideration sconomlg they tg glv Although tha council admitted that foreign spending coupled with a b! Z rfqulrt SU- P- rcther from system M tl But in PcrtnE- P0n C“r- hVr °frh i wiltt'i tbigny ‘WU rived Hm1“ wted °n ( time home from the - ’"HKJeMnj" S£“"agents NEW ABOUT: MrUl Udf’i ' t°r’ from h!"- YOlljL Goeiw SheL J ion to return to ft by U S author which feature las from $io ft! up who high pru She can’t take the is so ashamed" Leigh the deb a shattered heart over! heir to a mint starlet who (2 daughter Paying a w by suddenly divorcing Gov’t agents are busy dope purchases In the Pentagon the ifc eon Gen Toohey Sputa to a group f ain1 discuss Flnletter’s £) the Air Age" This tor every Americu nyi J lns will htvs th January 1 1953 SpuD signed recently sighed bled: "That mean l1 years of fishing" J BROADWAY MCE Chump: The guy who p check Heel: The pecta you to pick up joari Etiquette: Not interrupt omeone’s The guy who snub the wife praising you who scores wit you credit for Chivab the Charity: Forgiving c Chiiti did you a favor who expects to get paid Memos of e Hidnlgfek lene Dietrich is amused i reads about ths gems i “coming from e mysteriss er" She bought tvery te The lad who wroti h “Time Out for Tern" himself e good cry event ditty Is doing fins The p spired it Just got main Violinist Louis Kaufmu c dling you’vt heard tn tha over 400 flickers he IT wood for the concert ao s Some t si the e ef ear petya enhower concerns his cote One eec Ik W them: “I went y b some things which en this army camp Yss wM comfortable by alwT with me I feel tta J"J don’t eay what yss fool aa ye ere e big e New Yo$ Story: eember 29 1947 at tbs Pi Bell la the s The crowd was having Fj dancing when A r accidentally kicked Shi’s Councilman ea dsbeeut ome spectators theuj putting on an set heckled r kid!" a voles W Uke It?" the football player it cy leg was la Our Town have e good tiros- - The UUlttrenU The Crest Ones" the best seller to 14th place Ruth Miller ! d0 communism 5 UvtTtn-goin- XavoriU 4I - bod Churchia Allied thi ‘flsldl U Wy?!! errublef Celebrate Erskin eight million brought him ties In two 7trt laugh novel “Tb Bookwfll be June WAftlnf brld1'rh"rrn'lth" nV Person further the comm the United Stat Lv dreds of mmrt4h laches" EainentrnJ editor k“p tr lid 7' 1933 poses" other — any resurrart controls agent law m this bmW rther esR thk f°vit tion - Reunites Mclhtr end DMd Hero From CoaJoIeonol WM hoptful that tho Thin Pfc Edga! Dew tonationrj Prrpmdness program aid spend-nunder the Jng Man About N01ES To tate blame for fit CONTROLS: Cold Shoulder Casellni Iren Coal Gasoline mad from'’ coal even when It comes Into general use probably will 'cost mar than petroleum Salvage Division cf Ciiy Disposes cf Weird Possessions escapades rcccivd Ul j binds In his Sooth St Paul home Stas sen grinned with the comfortable cheer of n cat who bed just swiped all the cream In Wisconsin ns he sat with his wife and Received reports stating that he had ran off with 19 of the 27 delegates In that state’s primary election romise— Beginning of the end cam when Speaker of the House Joseph Martin (Rep Mass) moved Into the dis put by persuading Lewis and Ezra Vhn Horn a mine operator to meet with him In his office Martin then suggested that Sen Styles Bridges (Rep NH) ba named the third member ef the board which administers the miners' welfare and retirement fund (Lewis and Van Horn are the other two members) At a subsequent meeting of the three Bridges proposed a plan that would give pensions to miners with 20 years of service who retired after May 28 1948 tha date on which the miners' welfare fund was set up Bridges' plan waa accepted and the strike called off Actually lwts In approving the New Hampshire senator’s proposal had descended several notches from his original demands i Politically the most fascinating aspect' of the affair was how ‘Joe Martin managed to taka the play way from the administration In arranging for a settlement nations signed a mutual assistance which Finland to fight within it own borders in the event either country Is attacked stated the and Russia Finland side to pact would battle side by “o: repel aggression by Germany another state allied with" Germany tfhe treaty circumspectly failed to mention any other itata by name the fact that Finland's Despite virtually had been comdelegation manded to appear at Moscow to slgr a treaty with Russia Premier Josel Stalin beamed expansively after the hailagreement had been concluded ing it as a “treaty between equals” And he said: “I would like to aee us pass from of mutual distrust a long period against each other to a new period muIn our relations— to a period of tual trust" the Finns got a better Actually deal from Russia than they might have hoped for Their nation had not been forced into a tight arbiSotrary military accord with the viets nor had Finland lost its sovit was brought although ereignty firmly into the Bloc of states along Russia’s exposed western flank The two of Pigs ftasks Gas Gold treaty On Wisconsin In NX Sells west peaceful early afternoon about a 19? guarding a batch of milk cans like the one in the In Bogota Colombia and the accompanying photograph You wouldn’t be too surprised to be conference was droning told that the dog knew who should collect the cans and who along in customary style in tha Capishouldn't to hear about other dogs who go to the store with a tol building on the Plaza Bolivar shopping list bring back groceries and even steaks in the basket Then with the tiring of four assasthey carry and you know all about the wonderful “Seeing-Eye- ” sin's bullets into the body of Jorge dogs which not only guard their masters from harm but often Elicler Gaitan popular leader of appear to sense danger’s approach Colombia's Liberal party one of the But tha other day I had an experience with a dog which you probably won't believe I was sitting at twilight on my except by balance of power’ men porch after a long day and a comare ‘fighting animals’ and ao on ad forting meal I whs digesting my nauseam— (pardon the Latin but a while Muff "wewwj dinnerwire haired Roman senator belonged to on of my my ancestors) Now I with my race ’fox was removing memories— can recall more of them the last vestiges of which have worn thin and been disher share of it carded than your species (which I from her beard doubt will have a very extended She was lolling In destiny) ever will have front of me on the “Just an example With little efOat topp'ed fort I can recall some of the her favorite shibboleths which made trouble silly fdr She resting place some of my ancestors It was back finished her toilet in the stone age Just about the same flopped her chin on time when w canines decided Man one paw facing me had reached the point where he was and winked— or so ready for adoption and training In seemed In the fading light A civilization robin was sounding the last sleepy wa “At that period In cadences of his vesper song from had advanced to tha point where wa tha recesses of an ancient maple hunted Id pack Instead of singly I looked at Muff She looked back Our policy was still kill and let be and smiled beneath her whiskers— or so I guessed she might he doing It I had the patience" 1 said "X could teach you to talk1 “Oh no you couldn't H I could almost swear Muff bad responded She certainly had opened her mouth 1 let my imagination run on “Oh yes I could" I replied pretending she could understand me “You've got tha bratna How do you know that when I take my briefcase I'll be back in the take my suitevening and when case I won’t be back for several You DO know because you daysT show it very plainly: briefcase a couple of wags and a woof suitcase arts plainUva and I went on cataloguing the obvious Indications of Muffa intelligence “Wa canines picked man aa a which far aurpassea that of many friend and were probably ene ef the great factors In hit domesticloquacious human acquaintances As 1 talked on Muff rolled over careation" fully (there was Just room for it killed although some of us had disNot on her perch) and yawned because aha was bored aa I wai to covered Its fallacy We also bad a hereditary enlearn later but because prslse of long list of this type always embarrasses her emies and next to the apes Man Eha will wag herself wagless at a led them all “I don't know hew many cen“good dog!" for some stupid turies It task te revise that list trick that even a Boston and accept Maa aa a Mend A terrier could learn’ but when one pretty etupld and cruel friend U praises her Intellectual achieveba sure but one who could be ments It always smbsrrasses her trained There was ene saying I hnd she tries to hlds it belltvt which waa very popular “Well I Insisted “It's trus you but which tha mere enlightened rs Intelligent enough to talk" cnnlnea knew was nothing bnt na Then I waa posited Distinctly aid females tale It went: ‘Don’t which la a voice thaogh breathy trail a maa any farther than yen tended the way a deg dees beeaa smell him' Yen weald realize fore ha haa nit decided te bark the force ef that If yea knew baw heard aa aaswart “It Ua’t that far yen esed to smell I am not Intelligent enough And “There was another saying The It Isn't that dega will never talk only good man la a dead one and bnt I’m afraid I ahaQ never learn" ven then you'd better let tha Jackal I'm dreaming I laid to myself but taste him first' I could go on endno Thera was Muff there was tha It took an awful lot ef work outline of the maple dim now as lessly to explode those myths Almost a a tha darkness gathered Thera was L long as It did to get soma of the shut my eyes I'll handle this cruelty out of Man Wa’va gone a said Just let things long way In that direction as you rationally in another 10 or 13 centuries happen I relaxed and was less sur- know prised to hear tha soft breathy voice I wouldn't be surprised if we got continue: 'Tt Isn't that there' anyyou to treat each other as well as thing wrong with my speech center most of you tr$aU usYwr WMl In' the “third" "left "convolution" of "my' Ugh! That shouldn't— end wouldn't cortex—but I want to repeat that —happen to a dog!" " doga never can learn to talk At thla point I aat up Muff Muff opened my eyes Gently fiad been faithful obedient was sitting up now her bead cocked and I thought not only my true to one side her mouth or at least friend but also my respectful and ber Jaw moving a little because humble servant And thla was going even in the crepuscule I could see too far! Why this was Impertinent her beard wagging gently aa she My own dog talking like that! went on: 1 must have spoken out loud for 1 “Because at you may know we heard something that sounded like a canines and I believe this applies laugh to other animals as well have far “Now don't try to buit your leash" clearer than human I heard her remark “After all tf beings You sometimes mistakenly you think I'm your dog okay Someivfer to theae memories as Intuition how I feel that you're my man So That Is nonsense let's let It go at that and wt'll both “We canlacs picked man as a be bappy friend aad were probably one ef “1 didn't mean te ran a Uke the great faetrrs la bis deueatlm-Ho- t thla and I didn't mean te get doglargely became we feand blm I Jus! wanted te eay that matic mere malleable Utaa aay ef the I can't I knew my limitations ether fauna Aad I think are have But If lt'a b the canine talk deneWe baveeat goad Job will It descendant tardt my Wa may be bcea harab matter took several thousand year te kin at tlmea bat yea weald which race memoriae the with YOUR maadiia aentlmcnt have dictated that I Uke a nip yea freqncatly Interpret eeund eat of year calf Instead ef licking practical loyally motivated by a' your hand And there's hope for high moral tense as a elavlah Mayhe progress la Jnst yon too devotion around the earner—" “But I’m digressing' (the voice sudden whoosh a There was went on)— whst 1 would like to bring to your attention Is this business of flash of gray In the night followed You men hsve by a parabola of fur at Muff left rsea memories tome too and you hivt something tha post In ena leap after ths neighbor’s cat nhich by now was snickelse— trsdtlons They don't go back as far but they are part and parcel ering at her Xrom the maple branch Muff came back She gave me a of the same thing Only many of look and remarked through your traditions lead you Into trouble In the last few month while her whiskers “That Is one heard (list I can't eliminate' you thought waa asleep I you and your high brow friends use “And by the wa" she added “Don't mention this conversation Nobody phrases like 'tlwsys been wars' peace never has been maintained will bsllsve you If you do" had what it wanted from a buffer state to tha north- Russia Finland— WNU Staff Writer eelateM ere irws4 ta siS Mi listen's Mti saulyM (KDrrors NOT: Wkl ’General Store In TREATY WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Wwtera UTAH r D“t" bo s on ths This la the very statehood for to Centres would be one senators-- to faar '' Wr rcCi - y f w |