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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH wwpii.uimi iiiipiiiiiii!wtMMiiu' ii!'uiij.i'iii.m..ll"wuw I Truman Purge Aimed at Restoring Party Machinery By BAUKIIAGE New$ Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C Before the Paris Peace conference even got underway we learned that the rules committee, which heard so much heated or atory, was as powerful as the powerful rules committee of the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. It wasn't until after the primary pri-mary returns were In, and Representative (Truman hater) Slaughter of Missouri, Mis-souri, a member mem-ber of the rules committee, was Jefeated, that most laymen realized real-ized the Importance of that battle, ind why the President stuck his neck out as far, as he did In help-tag help-tag to beat him. I can see the President now as be looked up with that pert, bird-tike bird-tike glance he has Just enough of i smile to make you try to listen sympathetically and say that if Slaughter was right, he (the President) Presi-dent) was wrong. Think what Slaughter could have laid if he had been elected! But he was defeated and the Say after the primary, the real significance sig-nificance of the battle became clear. Never In American history has my administration been up against the situation which developed when the Roosevelt honeymoon ended. I im not arguing how or why that lituation came about But the fact Is we have had a situation where party lines meant little, and the ge-old principle of majority rule, Hie theory on which congress, as a working body. Is organized, has been violated. Outstanding example was the rules committee. There were five loutherners anti-administration Democrats on that committee, and with Slaughter's help, they could tie up the vote and tie up any legislation legis-lation Truman asked for. Now maybe the fact that the administration ad-ministration couldn't get its legislation legis-lation before congress, or couldn't jet it passed when it did, was a food thing. I am not discussing ttiat. I merely say that what happened hap-pened is not a good thing for the two-party system. And as the situation situ-ation grew more acute, congress wasn't a working body. Let's take the testimony of a Ihoroughly loyal Republican mem-ter mem-ter of the committee and acting minority leader. Representative Michener of Michigan. If the Dem-icrats Dem-icrats retain control of the house, Uichener said, the absence of Representative Rep-resentative Slaughter will permit he rules committee to function the vay it was intended to function; lamely, the legislation of the )arty in power will be sent to the loor. That didn't mean Michener wanted want-ed the . rival party's legislation jassed. It simply meant he knew hat Slaughter, teaming up with lie anti-administration Democrats tnd the Republicans, was able to ie the vote and stymie action. And that isn't two-party government govern-ment n Air-Power Big Killer in War This has been an aviation year. The first peacetime year that America has been acknowledged is mistress of the air as well as of the sea and the land. It has jeen a time of reminiscence, of ecapitulation, as well as forecast ind foreshadowing.- , I remember the interview I had with a certain army official dur-ng dur-ng the war. His impatience, rmashing the ordinary rules of cen-torship, cen-torship, had revealed the secret f the bazooka kept "confidential" long after it was in use, and the ietails of which Germans had long ilnce learned to their sorrow. (The bazooka functions on the rocket principle.) The officer pointed to an old print on his wall.. It was a picture if American soldiers discharging I rocket projectile in the War of 1812. Why, then, if the rocket principle princi-ple was known to us in those early lays, did we not develop it as the Germans did, I asked. The reason the rocket was aeglected in the Civil war period, was told, was because ordnance experts were concentrating on BARBS Roy G. Ownes, said to be an engineer en-gineer economist offers me (and you) this suggestion: Only by supplying sup-plying the mouse with cheese to the point of self-satisfaction can the mouse be taught to abstain from stealing.' He says man is much advanced beyond this point Remember that onto each racetrack race-track a little rain must fall. r 1m. 'flf Mi- the development of the breech, loading firearm, and the perfection of rifling the making of spiralled grooves Inside the barrel which gave the bullet or projectile a twisting movement, and kept it from tumbling "head over heels." This increased range and accuracy. accu-racy. The emphasis was still on the rifleman rather than the artillery, and such statistics .as we have Indicate that the infantry in the Franco Prussian war of 1870 wounded 10 times as many men as the artillery did. Undoubtedly the bayonet claimed many. By 1914-15, however, artillery produced one-half the wounded, showing the rapid advance which, in part, made experts forget the rocket again. Artillery, according to the old definition, def-inition, is "group-served, mounted firearms of caliber greater than that of small arms." This definition could easily be made to include the firearms, shells, or bombs carried car-ried by planes, or contained in the war-head of a rocket I mention the effectiveness of "artillery" in the latter sense, not to belittle the doughboy who is really the "ultimo ratio," but because be-cause the projectile, either carried in a plane or by propulsion in a rocket, is what might be called the definitive weapon. The point is we did not develop the rocket in the Civil war because we felt we had something better (breech-loading rifled artillery and small arms). And again the rocket was set aside by a decision arrived at before we engaged actively in World War II when our experts, both in the army and out of it, including the great industrialists indus-trialists who could gauge our production pro-duction capacity, felt the airplane was a superior weapon. We did not entirely neglect study and experimentation on the rocket rock-et during the war, however, and now we are probably farther advanced ad-vanced in this type of "artillery" than any other nation. We also have learned to project our "artillery" "artil-lery" by means of the "drone" (pilotless airplane). On August 7, the dones ' droned their way from Honolulu to California. One of them dropped a bomb. The rest landed successfully. A plane with no pilot can bomb a nation that far distant without risking human life. Is This the Army, Mr. Jones? In World War I when VMCA and Red Cross canteens were established right up into the zone of the advance, and even nearer the front some of the "old timers" of those days wrote to the editors insisting that the Civil war was won on "salt horse and likker" (I recall that phrase in one of the letters) and we were Just softening the boys. Well, it didn't soften them too soft for Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. Then came World War n, and some of the veterans of the earlier war raised their eyebrows at the USO, turkey dinners at the front on Thanksgiving, ice cream (in stead of beans, salmon, corn willy or nothing). ' But, soldier, you ain't heard nuttin! When they say ""This is the army, Mr. Jones," to you future G.Ls, you'll hardly believe it Did you hear what Field Marshal (blood, sand, and green for the Normandy hedges) Montgomery had to say? He believes enlisted men in the British army ought to live like other folks. Bedrooms, not barracks. "You had your, breakfast in bed before," goes the warning song, "but you won't have it there any more." Maybe not But if Monty has his way, British soldiers can read in bed. And what about those tricky uniforms uni-forms American soldiers are going to wear? Blue! (like the boys in blue who said good-bye to Blue Bell). And perhaps "two-note." with a lighter light-er shade for the trousers! And overcoats AND CAPES! You aren't in the army now, Mr. Jones. You're In grand opera! And then there is that terminal leave pay bill passed by congress, I suppose, to pacify the fellows who got out of the army without knowing what they were going to miss. Almost three billion dollars dumped into G.L pockets to even them up with what the officers received re-ceived for furloughs they hadn't taken. by Baukhage It seems to me White Russia and Ukraine have as much right to a separate vote in the UN as do California and Maine, not to mention the District of Columbia, which ought to have a vote somewhere. some-where. Automobiles soon will be sold through army post exchanges. Neither jeep nor cheap WEEKLY, NEWS Europe's Wheat Crop Short; Buck Admission of Refugees; OPA Board Restores Controls I Released bj Western Newspaper Union rniTAD'i v ft tit. whfi anlnton r txDrensed la these eolt Western Newspaper Uniun's news fttialvtt ' ' J v , , ft '. .4:1 Flash Floods More than 2,000 persons were left homeless and property prop-erty damage estimated at $3,000,000 was suffered as a result of flash floods In the East St. Louis, 111., area. Two persons were reported dead and two missing. The overflow followed two weeks of steady rain, culminated by a two-day downpour of nearly 14 inches. Photo shows drenched chickens floating on detached barn door. EUROPE: , Wheat Output Despite indications of a substantial substan-tial increase in the European wheat crop this year, output will fall short of requirements, the department depart-ment of agriculture reported. As a result, large imports from such surplus-producing countries as the U. S., Canada and Argentina will be needed, with the U. S. alone expected expect-ed to ship 250,000,000 bushels. The greatest improvement in the crop was recorded in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean region because of increased seeding and fine growing weather; in western Europe because of larger larg-er supplies of fertilizer and favorable favor-able weather conditions, and in the Balkans. Partly because of inadequate rainfall in the spring and early summer, sum-mer, prospects are least favorable in central Europe, the department reported. In all, the European crop should approximate 830,000.000 bushels, a 30 per cent increase over last year's very poor harvest but substantially below the prewar average of 1,115,567,000 bushels. Accompanied by his wife, Sen. Tom Connally (Dem., Tex.) embarked em-barked for Paris peace conference confer-ence to join Secretary of State Byrnes. Connally preceded Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.), who also was asked to attend. Together, To-gether, the presence of the two senators was expected to indicate bi-partisan unanimity in foreign affairs and strengthen Byrnes' hand in seeking an effective peace. YUGOSLAVIA: Arouse U. S. Changing its tone from one of dip lomatic nicety to correct firmness the -U. S. state department ripped Yugoslavia for harassment of American military forces. While the U. S. protests were strong and indicated this country'! impatience with Yugoslav tactics Chairman Bloom (Dem., N. Y.) of the house foreign relations com mittee said there was no danger of war. Describing the Yugoslav ac tion as "foolish," Bloom said such foolishness had to stop. Publication of the U. S. notes oc curred as Yugoslav air and ground forces attacked an American transport trans-port plane en route from Vienna to Udine. The attack was the second sec-ond upon a U. S. craft in the vicinity, vicin-ity, Amb. Richard C. Patterson having called the first assault "wicked, inexcusable and deliberate." deliber-ate." DPS: Admission Sought President Truman's proposal to admit a fixed number of Jewish refugees and other displaced persons per-sons into the U. S. faced stiff congressional con-gressional opposition, with Chairman Chair-man Lesinki of the house immigra- FOREIGN TRADE: . During the four war years 1942-45 United States exports of $45,000,000.-000 $45,000,000.-000 equaled the combined value of exports in the previous 14 years, according ac-cording to, the chamber of commerce. com-merce. Of the total. $32,000,000,000 represented repre-sented the value of goods to Allied nations under lend-lease and the remaining $13,000,000,000 were commercial com-mercial exports, mostly involving cash reimbursement. Commercial exports averaged $3,200,000,000 a year. i V , L k i if" 4 ? : ..V.;., ANALYSIS I columns, mey are mo- am. -.a and not aeeei - V? VS I tion committee declaring that his group would not consider relaxa tion of admittance laws. Much of the opposition to Mr Truman's suggestion was said to stem from congressional pique over Britain's refusal to admit refugees to the home islands or permit col onization in suitable locations in its vast empire. The President's proposal was designed to take some of the pres sure off of Jewish demands for large-scale immigration to Pales' tine. In Paris, however, a spokesman spokes-man for the Jewish agency com mittee declared that limited en trance of refugees to the U. S. would only represent a drop in the bucket since there were 500,000 homeless in Europe. OPA: Board Acts Decision of the new Drice control board to restore ceilings on live stock and meat and sovbean and cottonseed products followed the study of extensive testimony sub mitted by government, industry and labor officials.- In re-establishing control on meat, the board, headed by Roy L. Thompson of ,New Orleans, La., declared that a department of labor report stated that meat made up 19 per cent of the average aver-age food budget and excessive prices would deprive many poorer families of adequate supplies sup-plies of this vital edible. With the expiration of OPA, the board found, livestock prices shot up from 20 to 50 per cent and wholesale meat charges rose from 35 to 80 per cent. Indicated shortages of soybean and cottonseed products in the face of heavy food and industrial demands de-mands led to the determination to slap ceilings back on these items, the board said. Besides being used in oleomargarine shortenings and salad oils, these products are also in demand for paints, floor coverings cover-ings and plastics. Because of an apparent plenitude plen-itude of wheat, rye, corn, oats, feed oats, mixed feed oats, barley bar-ley and grain sorghums, and any livestock or poultry feed made entirely from any one or more of the whole grains, the board decided against re-establishing control on these items. The board also acted to decontrol decon-trol dairy products because it said it found no unreasonable price advances ad-vances in milk, butter, cheese, ice cream and other food and feed products prod-ucts since the expiration of OPA regulation. Price Changes Continuing to act in compliance with the new law, OPA boosted the prices on a variety of consumer goods. ; In restoring retailers' profit margins mar-gins as of March 31 and no longer compelling them to absorb part of manufacturers' increased costs, OPA boosted the prices of radios 3 per cent; gas stoves, 5 per cent; toasters and electric irons, 4 per cent; coal, oil and wood stoves, 5 per cent and cameras, 6 per cent Also upped was household china-ware, china-ware, 7 per cent; aluminum cooking- utensils, 5 per cent, vacuum cleaners, 7 per cent, and washing machines, 7 per cent Partly to restore reilers' profits and partly to reflect a further increase to manufacturers, man-ufacturers, refrigerator prices were raised 6 per cent. Army Trains Scout Dogs Of the 20.000 dogs donated to the army for use, some younger canines have been retained to form the nucleus nu-cleus of the army's new scout dog platoons, the war department revealed. re-vealed. While long-range plans contemplate contem-plate platoons for .assignment with infantry divisions, present arrangements arrange-ments call for the organization of only four platoons of 27 d gs each OIL: Big Stake Repeating warnings that dwln dllng U. S. oil reserves will com pel this country to import sub stantial amounts of petroleum with in 20 years, government official! pointed up the stake America hai in foreign fields. Referring to Russian seizure a Standard Oil of New Jersey con cessions In Hungary, Charles B Rayner, petroleum adviser of tin state department, declared that th U. S. was seeking to obtain repos session of control because stepped up production by the Soviets wai wasting natural gas and exhaustini well pressure. Regarding Russian claims to Soc ony-Vacuum and British Shell in stallations in Austria as war repara tions, John A Loftus, chief of th petroleum division of the depart ment, asserted that the Austrian! should have the right to determim policy on the properties. Col. G. H. Vogel of the army navy petroleum board, emphasizec the importance of the U. S. staki in Middle Eastern oil. No less thar half of proven world reserves ar situated in this trouble spot he said, and of these known deposit! U. S. companies own 42 per cent INDIA: Political Differences As India counted at least 3.00C dead and an estimated 24,000 in Jured in the fighting between Hindus and Moslems, the predominant! Hindu Congress party proceeded with the composition of an interirr government without Moslem par ticipation. Following Moslem demonstra tions against Britain's deference tc Hindu leadership in forming a pro visional regime, the rioting brok out in Calcutta and spread to othei sections of India. The outbreaks were most violent in Calcutta, how ever, with Hindu and Moslerr. mobs invading hostile neighbor hoods in bloody clashes and dead littering the streets. While the usually temperate Hindu leaders invited the Mos lems to name five members in s proposed 14-man cabinet .thej were forming, Mohammed Ali Jin- nah, the Moslem chieftain, accused them of trying to dominate the gov ernment with British armed sup port. Besides the five Moslems, th( Hindus had asked representatives of three castes to join in the new regime growing out of British recognition of Indian independence, Looks for Hiccup Cure After 17 months, 65-year-old Wil liam C. Wells of Dayton, Ohio, li still looking for a cure for his hic cups. So far, ministrations of sev eral doctors have failed, as have such traditional home remedies a being scared, standing on the head. holding the breath and drinking water wa-ter from the opposite side of the glass with the head bent down. GREAT LAKES: NMU Walks Out In launching he National Mari time Union strike against Great Lakes shippers without the full sym pathy of the CIO, Big Joe Curran had to go it alone in the early stages of the walkout. By engineering the strike for shorter work week, Curran ran counter to the CIO program for con centrating on maximum production in the fight on inflation. While some CIO leaders advised him that the walkout was untimely, Curran struck at the peak period of lake shipping. With most of the lake vessels operating, op-erating, Curran called upon CIO Pres. Phil Murray's United Steel Workers to quit unloading ships at the Buffalo, N. Y., port Earlier steel officials had declared that cessation of ore shipments on the lakes would seriously crimp production pro-duction already set back by the coal strike. The steel workers' action embar rassed Curran in his efforts to get Ar L. unions to join the NMU walk out. DISASTER CORPS: City councilmen and thousands of volunteers with wartime training are joining ranks in San Francisco to form a disaster corps equipped to cope with earthquakes, fires and other Bay area emergencies. Other California cities with well- established disaster councils include Berkeley and Los Angeles. In Neu England, the Hartford Conn., dis aster emergency council is a tyi ical disaster plan providing fo emergency organization of regula cny aepariments under the mayor. I I fJ , : if y j Editor's Note: While Win-cheU Win-cheU Is on vacation, Jack Lait Is acting as guest columnist. Unshackled in a Garden of Eden- Best American Divorce, and fastest, is the decree issued by Federal Judge Moore in St Thom as, Virgin Islands, U. S. A. ... It takes eight hours to get to St Thomas from New York via plane, flying the new nonstop route. . . . By a new regulation, after six weeks' residence, the decree Is signed, eliminating long periods of publication and other delays pertinent perti-nent to Reno or Miami divorces. . . . The Virgin Islands are a practically prac-tically unknown paradise few tourists, best Scotch on earth at $2.50 a fifth, cigarets 50 cents a carton, shopping for native woven products at prewar prices and your buck worth 100 cents. . . . Two American hotels Hotel 829 and the government run Bluebeard's Castle total accommodations 60 people 1 . . . The Virgin islands divorce decree is the only one in the country signed by a federal Judge, who is appointed by the President ... No V. I. divorce has yet been contested by any state. Lawyers feel that the federal char acter of the decree puts it above protest. ... In this tropical Capri, the city-harassed American finds new world comforts along with authentic old world atmosphere like the South Sea islands once had. . . . Natives live in tiny huts, the beaches are blue and coral, the water crystal clear, with vast acres wild, awaiting settlement. . . . The government local and national is eager to sell at ridiculously low figures. fig-ures. ... At Caneel bay, on St. John (one of the U. S. Virgin group), the most breath-taking beach on earth rests its spreading white arms in cool tropical splendor splen-dor with an average of three bathers a day! Cabanas, furnished by the U. S., are usually empty. Atlantic City shut up tighter than ever. . . . The cops Just sent the sad word around, and the wheels stopped rolling. . . . Jack Lynch, who lost his historic club on Philly's Walton hotel roof when sudden fire regulations closed it is hunting a new street-floor spot there; meanwhile, he wants to take over the now dark Rainbow room, in Radio City but the Rockefel lers don't seem to need the money. When George White, whose "Scandals" rivaled Ziegfeld's "Follies," ran into hit-and-run trouble in San Diego, the supposedly sup-posedly hard hearted Broadway Broad-way boys called a meeting and chipped in for a defense fund. . . . Buddy de Sylva was the leader. . . . The kitty went to $50,000! , Faye (Mrs. Roosevelt) Emerson returns to the stage at Cape Cod, Mass., August 12, in "Here Today," a warmed-over Ruth Gordon starrer star-rer of 1934. . . . It's official Joan Crawford's next is "Possessed," with Van Heflin, based on a Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan magazine novelette, "One Man's Secret" by Rita Weiman. , . . Civil aeronautics bureau may not know this: When it approved an around - the world route for TWA linked with Northwest Air-Line, Howard Hughes, who owns TWA, had an option on control of Northwest. North-west. . . . TWA is to fly N. Y. to Shanghai, via Europe; Northwest North-west is to pick up there, flying to Alaska and Seattle. . . . Hughes' option was to become effective if, as and when Northwest got government govern-ment permission to fly the Pacific. . . . So it appears Hughes, who broke the around-the-world air record, rec-ord, has in hand the around-the-world route he laid tut on that famous four-day zoom. . . . And, with announcement of the globe-circling globe-circling license, plus the approval of the Constellations with changes, TWA stock leaped so that Hughes' holdings have been rising at a rate of about $1,000,000 a day as he lies and listens to his ribs knitting. knit-ting. Jack Dempsey and Jake Amron, former Hollywood restaurant boss, have made a flossy offer for Henry Lustig's Longchamps tax-tainted restaurant chain. . . . "Tobacco Road" earned a fortune largely because be-cause Harry Oshrin doesn't go wild on payday. John Barton will draw $350 a week starring as Jeet-er Jeet-er Lester on tour next season, which gives you a rough idea of what the lesser hillbilly performers will rate. Saratoga bit deeply into New York nightlife. ... The best and steadiest stead-iest spenders have flocked to the Spa, which, with all its hopes, didn't anticipate such a gold-rush. . . . The OPA doesn't seem to have penetrated there. . . . Prices were pegged steep for a short season. . . . But when the New York influx fluxed in, the natives took up some notches in the Jacks. . . . Now the common man with a $5 bill doesn't know whether to lay it on the favorite to show or buy a not dog. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS HOMES ON WHEELS Naw and Uted Horn Trailers SO factory Built Modnli to Choos from 714 South Main Salt laka City, Utah Phone 47701 MISCELLANEOUS WE BUT AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters, Ad lng Machines, Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE IS West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah. : Invest in Your Country Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! -A: KID OSULUVANSAYS "Get O'SulIivan SOLES as well as Heels next time you have your shoes repaired. 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