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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. DUCHESNE, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Baukhage Finds Old Dates Of Interest in Year 1948 How Spy Ring Data Revives Probe; Tax Hike Bugaboo Frightens Some; Berlin Red Vote Tightens Issue (FDITORS NOTE; When opinions re expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of Newspaper Unions news analysts and not neeessariiy of this newspaper.) By BAUKIIAGE Western News Analyst and Commentator. New Years day, according to an WITCH HUNT: encyclopedia which I once remember consulting, is cele- Pumpkin, Too brated in the western world by merrymaking and, theoretLike a delayed Halloween epiically at least, in the meeting of old friends. sode, with macabre rather than huI remember when we took the idea of New Years calls WASHINGTON. seriously. morous was the revival That was back in western New York. I also remember later, when I was of the undertones, in Washington. All hunt spy a student in Europe, three of us living in the same pension (a word the ingredients were there the which Americans abroad prefer to boarding house). We made our calls the pumpkin, and the cornfield, of gloves and one silk hat, which we specter of Stalin consecutively so that the one pair hovering over the possessed collectively, could serve for all. In that day and place both unsavory w'hole. were essential. But there was nothing funny In the situation to the house Today I have been meeting activities committee or to a old "dates of 1948. clever speech without revealing federal grand jury seeking to rush The first I have to record is Janthat she and her husband are going indictments against suspected traiuary 6 . . . "Baukhage talking . . . to plump for Vandenberg later. tors and espionage agents. from the radio Television is most unkind to what THE PROBE committee declared of the should have been a most telegenic it had definite gallery proof of one of the house of repremost extensive espionage rings in sentatives after subject. the history of the United States. JUNE 23. A heavy mist hung having watched this assertion was discovBolstering over the city of brotherly love the opening of the ery of microfilm documents, termed on the day of the conventions second session of by the committee of tremendous crucial session. 1 had left the the historic 80th importance," which had been rehall at 4 oclock that morning. congress, Note moved from the state department We had witnessed a stirring and the word historfor transmission to Russian agents. No blind one scene a pathetic ic." when the guessed The microfilm was revealed by then that other veteran, Harlan Kelly, nomiWhitaker Chambers, a senior ediIn a nated MacArthur General adjectives applied tor of Time magazine, who admitto that legislative clear, unhesitating voice which ted its possession and declared Alheld in it the ring of a true body were to help ger Hiss, president of the Carnegie cause one of the devotee. Earlier, there had been Foundation for International Peace, the longest demonstration so far, great "upset had given it to him for transmisfor Taft. Stassens had been the election victories sion to Russia. Hiss promptly deof American history. most vigorous. nied the charge. On January 7 (my birthday) PLACED ON the witness stand. JUNE 24. I was looking over the there was a bright sun shining public opinion polls and mentioned Chambers said he had not had posdown on the Capitol but, I broadcast, the shadows beneath It are that qualities the voters said they session of the film during the years would prefer in a presidential canafter 1937, until recently, and dedeep and dark. clined to name the persons in whose didate were those of the humaniOn that day the President detarian, the protector of the weak, hands the film rested before being livered his message and the the benevolent guardian of the chil- turned up in a pumpkin on Chamnext day the Associated Press Per- bers farm. dren, of the common man. said: "Most of President TruMeanwhile, Sumner Welles, forhaps that was a better guide to mans 1948 legislative proposwhat the choice was to be than the mer undersecretary of state, studied als, particularly his tax reducfigures the pollsters provided us. the microfilm documents, evaluated tion and plans It was late in the evening when their contents, but declined to diappeared headed today for a candidate Dewey, accepting the vulge their importance. congressional waste basket. nomination, raised his hand and Chambers, an admitted member IIow true that was and how it swore that he hajl made no com- of a Communist spy ring which ophim. In his anhelped mitments to any man. erated here a decade ago, was nual message he is to present JUNE 26 The Berlin airlift, slated for further witness stand apmost of them again, more hopewhich with the Marshall plan pearances, as was Hiss, who mainfully. achieved the two greatest victories tains he was never a Russian agent. in the cold war, begins. 12 in was a cold day January JULY 12. The other side: a le- HIGHER TAXES; Neiy York which had just emerged convention Democratic thargic from a blizzard. I was there Some Frightened demering the assembly of the United woke to life with a Some business men and indusonstration for keynoter Barkley Nations and that day the Palestine commission was preparing its pro- which had more real feeling and trialists, who feared a Truman vicgram of partition which was to be spontaneity in it," I broadcast at tory might result in a new than anything which tax program, shivered the time, completed with bayonets and anew as they read a statement by even the Repubone of the leading proponents of JANUARY 23. At 11:30 a. m. a licans produced. JULY 13. This was a day of the President Trumans message came over the news ticker, and such a sigh of relief went battle of the extremes against the plea to impose a modified form of up from the White House and from middle. The Negro attacking the the wartime excess profits tax. THE SPEAKER was Wyomings both Republican and Democratic Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for to South. a Senator candidate the Conon acceptable OMahoney, Democrat, who that trees the headquarters necticut avenue bent nearly dou- So heated were the arguments on cited the 1929 financial crash as an tor boosting taxes on ble. "I am not available for and the floor that policemen walked argument could not accept nomination to high into the aisles several times. The business profits. The senator declared that if corpolitical office. Signed General Democrats glamour girl had her chance, and Helen Gahagan Doug- porate profits of 1929 had been adDwight D. Eisenhower. JANUARY 30. Gandhi is dead. las, for some reason or other more equately taxed, this government The priest and prophet of Indian telegenic than her Republican rival, would have been in a much better foren-sicallfiscal position to meet the depresIndependence was shot to death at emerged equally triumphant, sion. his prayer meeting on the lawn of He pointed out that corporate JULY 14. The President finally is the estate where he lived. MARCH 9. Truman announces nominated and makes his acceptearnings now are piling up at the ance in the small hours, offering same rate as in 1929, although the rehis candidacy; MacArthur a sample of what was to come forth companies are bigger. So earnings nounces his. MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk is dead. in the campaign. Many had already are greater than ever before. 4 left the hall. He called for the speMuch died with that name. HOWEVER, industrialists, leadFrom the house radio gallery cial turnip day session of congress, ers of the big labor unions, accountI have run into perhaps four or ants and economists have been reagain on March 17 I report the reI commented next enunciation by the President of five people, quested to give their views on what, who venture the assertion if anything, congress should do about what was then called the Truman day, that perhaps he might still win. Doctrine. profits, estimated at a record 20 MARCH 19. Wallace attacks the But everyone else laughs at the billion dollars this year. Presidents foreign policy. thought. The calling of the congress OMahoney proposed that little proved good strategy. or small, independent It was no April Fools day business, corporations be given special exThousands of people braved joke when the Russians stopped the trains in Rerlin. emptions under any excess profits Washington's heat of July 19 to tax plan. The next day, April 2, our line the long, slow march of the counter move: Congress passes caisson bearing the General of GOLDEN FLEECE; the European recovery prothe Armies, John J. Pershing, to his last rest in Arlington. gram. Page Jason The gaygreen of leaf and lawn The "golden fleece, On the afternoon of Friday, the subject of on this 12th day of April are not 13th of August, as we were leaving one of mythologys most romantic, enough to dispel Washingtons con- the White Housb press and radio colorful stories, crashed the world cern over the revolution in Bogota. conference, Stephanove Kasenkina press by proxy as a result of a (Remember? A Communist-directejumped from the window of the row over custody of its namesake. afTair. Secretary of State Marshall Soviet consulate in New York The fleece, symbol of one of the City. was there.) She lived to become the symbol of worlds most exclusive orders of At 10:30 in the morning of April the escape which so many human nobility not even the king of Eng19. Justice T. Alien Goldsborough beings, suffocating behind the iron land Is a knight may be kidruled John Lewis guilty of crim- curtain, have sought before and naped" by the city of Dijon. inal contempt of which THE GOLDEN fleece since. On April 27 come the rumors of small replicas were awarded the AUGUST16. The diamonds war from Palestine. beloved Babe Ruth, dies. knights was kept in Dijon, France, The Moscow newspapers of May SEPTEMBER 17. Tragic end of after the order was founded by 11 are bought out Ambassador a man who had lived and died for Philip the Good, Duke of BurgunBedell Smith is conferring with dy. in 1429, for several generations peace. Count Bernadotte. Molotov. SEPTEMBER 20. A stormy ses- until Mary of Burgundy took it wjth sion of the United Nations begins. her to Austria when she married The birthday of a state, May Its deliberations all but forgotten in Maximilian the Fair. 14 Israel is born. The fleece remained in Vienna the heat of the presidential camuntil the French army recaptured Dewey wins the primary in Orepaign. gon on May 24. Later he won the NOVEMBER 2. The election of a the city during the last war and state. President who nobody believed when returned the fleece to Dijon. Now, A veteran steps down. Prime Minhe went to bed that night or even Austria is asking for it back. But ister Smuts of South Africa is de- in the early hours of the next day the good Burgundians of Dijon feated on May 28. have petitioned the city council to had won. Oregon in the news again, tragNOVEMBER 3. A little before urge the French government to reically. The little town of Vanport noon In a New York hotel Gover- fuse the Austrian bid and to reis inundated. May 31. nor Dewey announced one of the tain the fleece in Dijon. Tragedy for a neighbor state on greatest upsets in American poJune 10. Secretary of Labor Schwel-lenbaclitical history when he conceded of Washington state dies his defeat and congratulated the POOR RICHARDS ALMANAC at the age of 53. champ. Outdoors. Philadelphia was cloudy NOVEMBER 14. A male and gray on June 21. Inside Repubto the British throne is Poor Richards anniversary, Janlican headquarters it was rowdy and born. 17, 1949, highlights the Inuary regay Dewey starts his shock and DECEMBER 13. Baukhage of the almanac on Amerifluence blitz tactics against the field. Corhis a with turns from vacation lot respondents discuss the mystery of of lies about the fish he caught. can life. Poor Richard vas the the vacant seats In the gallery, I hope my readers will understand nom de plume of. Benjamin Frank(Did this foreshadow the absence that the last hectic days of the year lin. whose Poor Richard Almanac of the Dewey voters from the polls have been recorded in the daily began the popularity of this type of publication on election day?) The attractive press and are fresh In your memIn hundreds of thousands of Republican glamour lady. Clare ories. ilence I think they can be homes, rural households especially. Booth Luce, hurls her barbs in a safely omitted. EMPLOYMENT OF MALE VETERANS WORLD WAR I SEPTEMBER (98 Three years after the war most veterans, by and large, are firmly established in civilian employment, according to statistics compiled by the Research Council for Economic Security, Chicago. Eighty-nin- e of the estimated 14.9 million living veterans of World War II were employed as of last September. Of these, about 900,000 0 were on farms and another In school. About 450,000 were unemployed, while an additional 300,000 were resting or unable to work. 900,-00- anti-inflati- re-ele-ct sock-the-ric- hand-grenade- s. super-confide- twice-rejecte- d rough-diamon- d Alexander Graham Bell would have approved Science had moved to make his telephone even more serviceable. Tom Edison also would have nodded in approbation, for these same scientists had tied together two great contributions to living to make their convenience even more marked, more appreciated. A NEW robot ear that hears the phone ring and turns on the light was shown to doctors at the American Medical association meeting in St. Louis. The ear could be used when no one is at home to turn on the light outside the front door. When the householder got ready to go home, he could call his house, and the ear would turn on the light No one need answer the phone. THE ROBOT is a box on which the telephone sets. When the phone rings, the noise of the bell vibrates a salt crystal in the box. The vibration makes electricity flow in the salt, and ,the current is amplified to turn on the light switch. The box and phone are set in the circuit with the light to be turned on. In this way, the ear could be used to light any lamp in the house, or outside. The device comes from wartime submarine and surface ship detection by sound. Nothing but the vibration of a phone bell affects this ear. Besides doctors, FBI men have been getting these ears because they are on call 24 hours a day. Undertakers are getting them because more people seem to die at night. RAIN-MAKE- R: In the Bag -- DEAD END; Reds Block Way The struggle for a Berlin peace dragged wearily on, extended by Russian establishment of a Communist "government in the Reich capital. Demanding elections be held on e a the United basis, States, Britain and France told the Soviet union that there could be no solution to the Berlin impasse und til the Russians disown the Berlin government. The terms were clearly expressed In a note accompanying a list of Soviet violations of the Berlin constitution that the three powers had submitted for guidance. ALTHOUGH FORMALLY 'addressed to a United Nations committee, the note obviously was meant as a strongly worded warning to Moscow. It indicated that if what it termed the illegal body In the Soviet sector were not disbanded, the western powers would take a series of measures required by the fact, in their opinion, .that the legal, unified administration of Berlin had ceased to exist. The western powers placed no time limit for the Soviet union to make a decision on whether to continue collaboration. However, the tone of the note, as informed sources stressed, indicated that unless the normal administrative conditions were reestablished pretty a new policy would be soon, adopted. FROM BEGINNING to end the note gave what the western powers regard as detailed proof that the Soviets have pursued in Berlin a policy of systematic violation of all quadripartite agreements. city-wid- newly-installe- POTATOES: No More Doubt There was no longer any doubt. Farmers, at last, had a portrait of the American housewifes ideal potato. The U. S. department of agriculture even suggested that farmers tack it up in the barn for quick reference. The department found, after a survey among 3,300 housewives, that farmers and shippers should see to its that potatoes prepared for market are: CLEAN, of medium size, marked by few eyes, light in color, undamaged and of such quality that they will cook up soft, mealy and evenly throughout, without falling full-blow- n apart. like medium sized potatoes because they rate them easiest to peel and handle, and best for judging individual portions the potato, they say. The survey showed more than a fourth of the householders disturbed by mechanical and hanto potatoes. Said dling Injuries the department: IT IS PRETTY good evidence that too many potatoes are being dug and handled with improper machinery and tools, and that the potatoes are not properly culled before being sent to market. Immediate question to arise: Will potato growers and shippers do anything about it? Housewives Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect the almanac hangs on a peg In living room or kitchen. There, already, the 1949 almanac has begun to hide the 1948 and earlier editions The almanac Is many things to many people It carries an anniversary-listing calendar, astronomical data, Information on how to get rid of rats, raise healthy chicks, how to stay awake In church. have a popularity that knows no international boundaries. There is the Irish stew, French Notes of a New Yorker. Stage Door: Two Broadway hits are backed by Chicago racket-coi- n . . . Producer M. Gordon has chewed his nails down to here. Not only because of recent flops; he also reportedly turned down the hit, Goodbye, My Fancy.. . . M. Todds As the Girls Go claims a $500,000 advance sale. . . . Real Gone Gal Nellie Lutcher has come a long way in a year, folrelowing the Winchellectricity, ports a critic. . . . Cole Porters brand-nechune for his Kiss Me, Kate show is tagged Bianca." Backstagers predict itll rock the nation. . . . Remember showgal Gay Orlova? Broadway now has one named Ha Doit. , . . Having trouble getting tix to hits? Then try the midweek matinees, which are slim even for smash-cli. . . In Playbill (theater program) Eugene Burr writes about show folk superstitions. The reason, he says, shoes shouldnt be placed above you is they could easily fall and conk you on the noggin. . . . You aint hep to the jive, Jackson. On the noggin is redundant. When youre conked, youre hit on the noggin. . . . Dig it? . . , (Jes call me perfesser!) x. The First Nights: The weeks initialer, baptized The Young and Fair, was dunked in lukewarm notices. Dealing with life in a femme boarding school, 'it was whacked across the girdle for its dramaturgic flaws but the capable cast copped caresses. Reviewers generally regretted that every act wasnt as compelling as some of its episodes. Critic Wm. Hawkins minority report: There is power and provocative good sense in this play. . . . The next entry was the Thittir Guilds second contrib of the season, The Silver Whistle. It had the aislemen blowing horns jubilantly, the loudest toots for the expert performance of Jose Ferrer. Reviewer Chapman trumpeted: Charming fable, captivatingly acted by Ferrer.' Perhaps it was In the bag, but Franklin Fenenga, an archeologist of California university wasnt saying. All he would say was that he did have the bag. THE BAG was a complete rainmaking outfit he had acquired from an Indian whose grandfather was a medicine man. The bag and its potentialities came to light when Kem county, in the southern part of Californias central valley, had its first rainfall in eight months not long ago. Fenenga was right there in the middle of the downpour. And, when he returned to Berkeley, the rain came down there in torrents. Between the Acts: Broadway-Ite- s were gabbing about the exNATURALLY, speculation arose citing doughmance of Indian concerning the properties of the g millionaire All Kahn and Rita bag, for, when the outDo you think, fit, including the tail of a beaver, Hayworth someone she would a bag of snapdragon seeds, a bag asked, care to be just another of his of eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra . , , wives? and various charm stones and pebIts better, shrugged Arthur Murray, than bles, was brought out of storage, the rain started. being just one of Orsons fans! with him Fenenga had the bag The Cinemagicians: Betty .Grable when he entered Berkeley in a storm. It is now in possession of Is again putting her best limbs forward in a rollicky musical called the university. When My Baby Smiles at Me. Dan Dailey makes a fine partner for the Grable-bodie- d gal. . . . is a hiMiss Tatlocks Millions larious motion-pixie- . Monty Woolley and John Lund are among the talented inmates of this padded-celluloi. . . "Blanche Fury is a British immigrant with million-dolla- r Technicolor and a A Southern Yantale. fiesta with kee is a rattle-braine- d the Civil War playing straight for Red Skeltons hoke and joke routines. . . . Hills of Home is as wholesome as milk, and the playing of Janet Leigh and Edmund Gwenn is warm and human. . . . is one Behind Locked Doors sleeping pill you can take without a medicos prescription. ragout, Hungarian goulash, and the American meat pie, all with the goodness that comes from long, slow cooking and proper seasoning. You neednt get in a rut when it comes to preparing stews for your family. Although you may follow a recipe, ingredients may be added or subtracted provided the stew still looks attractive and tastes delicious. It is not necessary to spend all morning in preparation if you use a pressure saucepan. Follow the manufacturers directions on timing. If the stew is allowed to simmer a while before serving, so that the flavors become blended, it wall be greatly Dutch Elm Disease Dead elms should be cut and burned before next April 15, to eliminate the danger of spreading Dutch elm disease. Mere cutting is insufficient Most important is burning the bark at once. Piling it in the woodshed for another winter is not removing the danger. For it is in the bark of dead and diseased elm wood that the Scoly-tu- s bark beetles winter over. These beetles will carry the fungus infection next spring to other trees, and along in late June and July their leaves will begin to flag and show signs of the disease. 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UNDER THE seniority system, Rankin is slated to become chairman of the house veterans affairs committee The attempt to oust him from the investigating group will be based on the general house rule that the chairman of a committee may hold only one committee post. The northern Democrats will argue that if Rankin accepts the veterans affairs committee chairmanship, he should be restricted to that. BIKINI: Still Echoes h Stews Always Popular Stews ROBOT EAR: Netv Magic MISCELLANEOUS JUMPING JACK. A proven and safe exerciser and tender for baby. No wobbllngf Wide, heavy web body-ban- d safely holds babys back erect. Baby cannot fall out. Keeps baby contented. Its an ideal Christmas Rift. Price $4.95. Write for literature. SHURTLIFFWWANUFACTCRING CO. 2-South loth Avenue - Pocatello, Idaho 5 BUY U. S. SAVINGS IIELP WANTED BONDS MEN, WOMEN AGENTS WANTED Insurance agents wanted, full or part time Utah and Nevada. 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Gabe Heatter is this kind of guy: He patty-cake- s competitors scoops. Imagine! . . . Geo. Gallup (he conducted the straw vote that broke the elephants back) guested on a Mutual newscast. The commentator comforted George by ackchelly telling him Sarah Bernhardt never acted better than after she had a leg amputated! . . . S?casas (a grand rhumband) recorded a number titled The Mambo for Victor in 1945 and Music Business mag credited him (in 1946) with introducing the new rhythm, which others have Cerfd. . . . Norman Corwin complains that Hooperatings perpetuate sameness and mediMr. Corwin, they just ocrity. measure what Americans listen to most. 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