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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH Atlanta Armory Destroyed f-r- f i '' 1? If A view of the early-mornin- g fire that swept through and destroyed the 179th Field Artillery National Guard armory in Atlanta, Georgia, The damage to the building and to equipment for the army was esti-mated to be about $500,000. Tending Investigation, authorities would not comment on the possible cause of the blaze. 'Glamour Girl!' - - .v r!rr,r I - V Mary Lee Abbott, of Boston, who was picked from a host of debu- - tantes as the "Glamour Girl of 1910" by a committee of pulchritude ex- - perls In New York. New Yorkers Are Talking About: Baron Oppcnhrim of Germany, who can't get back into the U. S. from Mexico because he has no visa. He' the bloke who got in the news-papers when that pretty dancer jumped to her death from his apart-ment window . . . The defense post In Washington that Robert Moses can get if he wants it . . . The $2.r),000 they gave Ben Hecht for one week's work on "Foreign Corre-spondent" . . . Frances Farmer end D. Flamm, the radio magnate . . . Ursula Parrott, the novelist, nd her John Wildberg, the producer. The new plane program to make It the United States of AIRmerica . . . Valcntina, who designed a wardrobe for Norma Shearer to wear in "Escape," being mighty surprised to see the screen credit go to Adrian . . . The dismissal of charges and complete exoneration of W. D. Clelland In a Canadian court when his wife, former showgirl, didn't appear to press her complaint . . . The luck of King Carol and Lupescu being run out of Rumania where the quake might have killed them . . . The rumor that the Doro-thy Arnold police files have myste-riously disappeared. Her fadeou? wua never suiveu. The first rumor of FDR's plans after 1944: He can become editor of the Atlanta Journal, owned by his dear friend, James E. Cox of Ohio, according to chums of Cox . . . The silent but smoldering rivalry between Tommy Manvllle and George Trommer over the prettiest belles In the show sector. Lucky girls they get the costliest gifts while the vet Romcos quarrel over them. Pathfinder mag's remark that the Literary Digest didn't fold up be-cause of its bum guess on the 1936 election . . , That's like saying the bird died from the fall Instead of the bullet . . . The forthcoming book by Don Qulnn about the radio censors who spoil programs. It is brilliantly titled: "Idiot's Delete"! Reprinted from ye ed's air Jour-nal: Heat and pressure bring out the best in steel and men ... In a hot campaign both political parties have sharply set forth the things they hold different . . . Lest they forget, your newsboy reminds the American people of things they hold in common . . . Together, they own a great Union, a Declaration of In-dependence, a Constitution and a Bill of Rights . . . They hold these things together because they hold, separately, the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness . . . They know by now that an Ameri-can election decides only policies, not principles . . . Under our com-mon law traditions the majority is privileged only because under our common sense Constitution every minority is protected . . . They own a common future because they own a common past . . . Nobody will ever know the politics of the Unknown Soldier. The people who buried their heroes together at Trenton, Shiloh, Manila and the Marne, will continue to bury their differences at the polling places. To both parties then, the Amer-ican people owe their thanks for pro-ducing a house not divided but de-voted. Orson Welles' constant dinners with his pretty sec'y, Kathryn Trooper . . . The lavender lads who are flocking to see "Charley's Aunt" . , . The 4,000 reserve officers who will be called between Nov. and Dec. 15 in N. Y. . . . Jack Dempsey's real burn over Gene Tunney's quot-ed political speeches about Demp-sey's war record and Dempsey's oath to sock him on sight . . . Am-bassador Wm. Bullitt's "torch" for his old girl whom he met again in Washington the other day but who has married another . . . The ad-mission now by their Intimates that Myrna Loy and A. Hornblow Jr. are on the verge . . . Betty Allen's thumbnail descriptions of Goebbels and Hitler: Peewee and Peeyew. Diamonds will be cheaper in 1942 because a company mining silver and gold in Central America has discovered diamonds on its lands . . . The forthcoming Dies commit-tee "white paper," which will con-tain the names of the U. S. Nazis and Scummunists with whom they are at war . . . Claude Rains' re-treat to his Pennsy farm to undergo an operation . . . The line sweeping Hollywood after it was overheard at the Houje of Murphy bar: "He's the type that got a helping hand and broke It off at the elbow." The Cuban comul general's son and Charlotte Van Duyn, the Dutch rhumba dancer at Havana-Madri- d a breathless n alliance . . . The Herald Trib's forthcoming expose on names bigger than Tex Eieber and Dr. Westrick and sev-eral "loyal" American big guns who should be shot ... All that extra airline, industrial and national ad-vertising the Times got plus $80,000 in political ads during the cam-paign . . . The soon-du- e clean-u- p of all subversive outfits, including the Scummunists. ffGENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON mJaar: Washington, I). C. DANGER OF 'INFLATION The greatest danger before us now is "inflation." In barnyard Ameri-can all that means is high prices. Since they are not as spectacular as the bombing of workers' homes, they usually don't get attention be-fore it is too late. War inflation is about the deadli-est bearing of war upon the poor. Wages in war never have advanced as fast as the cost of living. The price of anything is mostly the cost of labor to produce It The higher they go, the higher the cost of living. War inflation (high prices) is the worst bearing of war upon the help-less. Germany is bombing the homes of England's poor and seeking to cut off the supply of milk to babies and food to adults. England is hell-be- on 'the same process to blockade Europe and starve into submission even her most gallant defenders: France, Finland, Poland. I do not counsel otherwise. We, ourselves, Invented war frightful-ncs- s In our blockade of Southern ports and our destruction of food supplies in Georgia and the Shenan- - doah.. It must make the wounds of Christ bleed again, but so It Is and we must accept it. Tint lnt'a nttt h Klin1 in A flimilnr war of starvation against our own people high prices. If they go too high they will destroy the practical living value of every insurance pol-icy, social security benefit wage, salary or pension in the United States. This is not because they will reduce those payments. They won't But those payments will buy so little in a high price structure that they will become chaff. I hear that Wall Street pundits say that It will be only a "mild Infla-tion." I honor the sincerity of their opinions but I suspect their knowl-edge. Once you start this deadly process it is like a snowball rolling down hill. You can no more suffer it "gradually" than you can fire a gun gradually. It is a progress that feeds upon itself. With much actual experience In war Inflation, I have made a study of this thing for years from the beginning of history. War price in-flation always grinds the face of the poor, not only during hostilities, but for years thereafter. It lowers the buying power of their wages. It also doubles or multiplies the cost of war, not merely while it is going on, but for years thereafter in the toil, sweat and taxes in which work- - ers and their children must pay for the vastly Increased cost. So far, we have only the symp-toms of war inflation. But the germs are so plain that it takes ne microscope to see them terrific governmental spending and in-creased debt and deficit capacity production, a sellers market and a desperate disposition for counter-biddin- g in a congested market with expense no object It has been said that high taxes will stop it. I shall write another column on that. It is crazy non-sense. Do high taxes of as much as 10 cents a gallon prevent the price of gasoline from going up as high as 18 cents in some states when It should be 6 cents? High taxes, are not the answer. Mad as it snay seem, I am for deficit financing of this war and not for higher taxes. This may come strangely from me. who hates personalized power, but I am also for giving the Presi-dent a complete power of priorities to stop competitive bidding and to ration production not to the longest purse, but to the most necessitous use. The latter can only mean sky-rocketing prices. If necessary, I am for giving him complete authori-ty over the price structure to pre-vent its rising above reasonable lev-els. Everybody knows it is high enough now for reasonable profit TWO PARTY SYSTEM It is suggested that Mr. Willkie should be appointed to Mr. Roose-velt's cabinet and accept I think not. We must stand united in pre-paring this country for defense, but that doesn't mean that we should give up the principal Instrument of our democracy which we are pre- - paring to defend our two-part- y sys-tem. We are not at war and even If we were, we would commit suicide for Americanism if we abandon the in-stitution of political debate by re-sponsible leaders of opposing schools of thought. For the present Mr. Willkie is the titular leader of the party of almost half of the Amer-ican people. That half is In opposi-tion to many of the policies of this administration. He now acts as their anointed spokesman and advocate. If he abandons that part he would certainly be derelict in the duty he owes to them for their trust Mr. Willkie so far gave away at the outset the greatest asset of his party the strong opposition of mil-- i lions to any Involvement in Europe's quarrels that I sometimes wonder at his decision to run and his Phila-delphia acceptance. There were preconvention candi-dates who did represent that opin-ion. He didn't challenge them on that vital point then. If his beliefs on that question were those of so many people in opposition to this administration's, he should have fought for them more openly. TlMlniitop-- WW Washington, D. C. WALLACE TO PLAY STRONG ROLE For about 160 years, the vice pres-ident of the United States has been either a pure figure-hea- d or else a trouble-make- r in the family of hl chief, the President Tom Marshall, vice president un-der Woodrow Wilson, is remembered only for his remark: "What this country needs is a good five-ce- nt ciear" Charles G. Dawes, vice president under Coolldge, became famous when his alarm clock allegedly failed to go off and he arrived at the Capitol too late to change a tie vote. Charley Curtis will only be re-membered because of his social war to place his half-siste- r ahead of Al-ice Longworth at dinner. And Jack Garner will go down in history be-cause of his private refrigerator and his covert opposition to Roosevelt None of these vice presidents was an active worker for the head of his administration; many of them deliberately hindered it Now, however, for the first time in recent history, we have a vice president who will be a right hand of the President. Wallace was trained under Roosevelt and can be COUmeu UpUU IU UC 6lco ao t, not a deterrent. It is not supposed to be known yet but already Wallace has dis-cussed ideas with the President whereby he will work on three im-portant problems. They are: 1. To act as liaison officer be-tween the White House and con-gress. This is the most important job of all 2. To act as a sort of ambassador-at-larg- e in cementing Good Neigh-bor relations between the United States and Latin America, especial-ly where congressional affairs are concerned. 3. To formulate plans for shifting the nation's industrial economy from armament to a normal basis, after the war is over. PATRIOT BUSINESS MEN Behind that irate outburst from the New England Shoe Manufactur-ers association at the army's new method of buying shoes was an un-told story of how a group of busi-ness men working for the govern-ment saved the taxpayers about $6,000,000. The manufacturers were indignant XI 11 I T uiai uie army, uuuer ueiuuse com-mission guidance, had scattered its orders for 4,000,000 pairs of shoes instead of giving this juicy business, as in the past, to a few big firms. But by this new method the army was able to obtain shoes at $1.50 a pair less than they cost during the World war. A group of business executives, working devotedly in the procure-ment division, in the past six months not only have saved the government several hundred millions on defense supplies, but have not disturbed market conditions or caused con-sumer prices to zoom. The shoe deal was only one item In this re-markable record, but it is a typical one. Because of the long battle in con-gress over the Selective Service act, the army was not sure until the very last moment whether it would need shoes for 400,000 regulars, or for 1,000,000 additional draftees. So it was September 16 before Brig. Gen. Clifford Corbin of the quartermas-ter corps rushed to the Defense com-mission with his requirements. The procurement aces were all ready for him. For weeks they had quietly sur-veyed the shoe industry. They knew the capacity of every plant, from the giants capable of turning out thousands of pairs a day to the smallest factory in a Boston loft. Also, they had carefully studied World war experience, when the price of shoes had as a result of the placing of big orders with a few firms. So, discarding the army's system of asking for bids on the entire 4,000,000 pairs, the commission ex-- Dertl ailiptlv ncborl ,.n(Bkl. manufacturer in the industry for a price on the number of shoes he was capable of producing. The re-sults of this wily trading were re-markable. During the World war, the army paid $4 a pair for shoes. Through the procurement division's method of negotiated contracts, distributed among 25 factories from New Eng. land to St. Louis, the army was able to get its 4,000,000 pairs of regula-tion shoes at $2.50 a pair. Note Chief of the procurement di-vision is quiet-spoke- n Donald Nel-so- n, the former Sears, Roebuck dynamo. MORE Along with the speed-u- p in produc-tion of airplanes and tanks, there is a much d speed-u- p in the production of J. Edgar Hoover is now turning out special agents of the FBI at the phenomenal rate of 40 a week. Formerly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had only 90 special agents, but a recent congressional authorization boosted the figure to 1.500. Hoover now has almost at-tained that mark, with 1,340 trained and 160 more to be produced. DLACK and white ya chet hook-presto-p- anda cuddle toy. Sim forms the exterior of thi mal; cotton stuffing th buttons do excellent i eyes. Easy directions for this ( are Z9038. 15c. He li about i when finished, and will be a i vorite. It takes but little effj him. Send order to: AUNT MARTH! Bo 166-- Kantai ; Enclose 15 cents for ea desired. Pattern No ,( Name Address lt- - Vtt '''riL AsoiriniT VJL .- -- drinks f Repeat i j - fj jj'11'.' c Past n g3 JJ Three simple steps rein n symptoms fast . . . accc , sore throat eased in i At the first sign of a cold ft directions in the pictures the simplest and amom effective methods of rt i to modern science. 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City of Flint Aground in Storm ' m fmUL j ;, ' l"d8K ""1t"' """ l'MilBiit'''';":;,'yJ"' - " Z ' This picture shows Ludington, Mich., coast guardsmen rigging a brecchra-buo-y in an effort to remove crew members of the Ciiy of Flint, flagship of the Tere Marquette Railway carfcrry fleet. The City of Flint went aground during the terrific gale which swept the Midwest, and in which 75 men were known to have perished on Lake Michigan. 'Marching as to War' . - ---i j 1 1! li - r f It I I, I IN',! I 1 - 186 - v"- li ti iff U ht x Father, mother, brother and sister joined the parade of the marines down Constitution avenue, Washington, D. C, m the Fifth battalion, ma-rine corps reserves, marched to the Union station. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, Elizabeth, 18, and Robert, 8, tramp alongside their own Henry Smith, who Is one of the contingent departing for a year's training, prob-ably in the West Indies. Hi-Jin- ks in Gotham . '11 , , f . The big town "went to town" in a big way to celebrate election night. Here is a joyous scene at Times square in the heart of New York's white light district. Being Conten To the contented, eiftf and obscurity bring pif while to the ambitious, pf honors are productive pi1 Cowardly Falseff Falsehood is cowardf i!0( courage. jp Nazi Bombers Overhead IT' 'ilf'li1iiriTriilMl A scene repeated night after night throughout England as Nazi bomb-ers, taking advantage of darkness, stage raids meaning death and de-struction. A 4-- anti-aircra- ft battery of the western command goes into action. An elongated flash frtfm the gun in the background knifes through the blackness. In the foreground are the predictor and range-finde- r. Panamanian Consul J. If v Miss Josefita Arias, sister of Pres-- j ident Arnulfo Arias of Panama, shown as she arrived in New York to take over the post of Panamanian consul general. |