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Show THE Rl U ET1V B1NGH M CANYON. I TAH "M 1948 Campaign Maneuvers Started A Top Republicans Angling For Presidential Candidacy By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. More than two weeks before congress adjourned, the last bit of fight went out of it and it looked very much as though it would glide rapidly but smoothly to an unperturbed finish. Then the Missouri scandal raised its ugly head. Sen. James P. Kern (Rep.. Mo.), insisted that he was going to present his resolution, S. Res lr0, to investigate the justice department's handling of the alleged Kansas City vote frauds in 1948. This, despite the fact that the judiciary commit-le- e of the senate already had decided against such a probe. To the Republicans this was by no meuns an unpleasant dish to have on the file for they intend to make it one of the pieces de re-sistance of the campaign. But they didn't want to start it cook-ing before ad-journment for they realized that while too many cooks can't spoil this broth, it might make ev-erybody late for $ which Is insisting stubbornly: "We'll win with Taft." They may admit if you put them in a corner that they can't "win with Taft now," because of the positive evidence re-flected in the Truman poll and the negative evidence revealed in the Taft poll. Hut, they say. "Taft hasn't started to campaign. When he does he'll change all that." How about Warren of California, toward whom those who like neither Taft's conservatism nor Stassen's liberalism nor Dewey's deweyism are looking hopefully? Well, there is one story that Warren couldn't possibly swing the No. 1 place and that he doesn't want the No. 2 job-t- hat what he does want is the at-torney generalship. At this writing nobody is afraid of the formation of a third party by the who would fol-low Wallace in the hope of building him up for 1952 or merely to spite everybody else. As to a "revenge" labor vote for the Taft-Hartle- y act, Taft's friends are going to insist that he was the man who saved it from being a really vicious anti-labo- r weapon. Shortly after the veto was over-ridden, he indicated that the clauses which muzzle the labor press and prevents them from expressing their political views should be amputated. In fact, some people who are much farther to the left than Taft, in both parties, insist that this bill is going to lose its terrors with time. that familiarity will bring, not con- - tempt, but the realization that it may be "used" by both manage-ment and labor to their advantage just as the railway labor act, much-belabore- d in its early days, eventu-ally became a useful gad-get Meanwhile, the White House con-tingent has not been heard hum-ming Tosti's "Goodbye." dinner dinner Haukhage back home. The Democrat, of course, were set to fight it and some of the Re-publicans rather than prolong the battle, wanted to forget it for the present. It couldn't be entirely neglected for, despite violent digging on the part of the Republican and Demo-cratic national committees, no real-ly luscious campaign issue has been unearthed. The Pendergast issue will be used but it cannot be depended upon as a major weapon in the battle of 1948. At present the Republicans, al-though they are optimistic enough concerning the final victory, realize that it cannot be achieved without some heavy artillery capable of smashing the Democratic defensive, the strongest feature of which to date is the poll the poll that showed in July that Harry Truman still had a 54 per cent popular majority That is why e lot of politicians on Capitol Hill are saying: "We'll win with Dewey," not Just. "We'll win." You'd be surprised to see how many good Democrats turn sadly away, without replying to the Re-publican boast. There is one group, of course, A-- A-tmkf UNITED STATES jjj Minnesota Fete Recalls Historic Indian Uprising WNV Features. month trie NEW ULM, yiS&BSSRSm struck out Sioux Indians drive the white men from their to in a last despera teJ Midwest states. Center of the rapidly shrinking emVl?Tlod when America was en-attac- k, which occur re dhe states was New Ulm in bitter civil war bet weer Indiang struck eA J2&SE, has recorded as the LEADS UPRISING . . . Chief Lit-ti- e Crow of the Sioux Indian tribe led more than 4,000 warriors in the historic raid against New Ulm, pioneer southern Minnesota farming center. Little Crow es-caped U. S. troops sent in pursuit after the Indians were driven off in a climactic battle August 18, 18G2. Thirty-eig- of his warriors were hanged later at Mankato, Minn. Little Crow escaped that fate, but later was found and shot. Bravery of their hardy forefathers whose valiant defense once and for all destroyed the g power of the Sioux in the Midwest and made the area safe for settlers, will be commemorated in a huge six-da- y observance, August 12-1- by resi-dents of New Ulm. None of the actual defenders is known to sur-vive, but still living are more than a score of men and women who, as children, shared the anxious mo-ments of those trying days. Some, despite their advanced ages, can vividly recall many harrowing ex-periences. Descendants of the de-fenders today make up much of the city's population. The observance not only will hon-or the pioneer settlers of the region but also will serve as the official homecoming for several thousand New Ulm and Brown county vet-erans of World War II. Attendance of residents from throughout the Midwest is expected to swell attend-ance at the six-da- y program to 150,-00- 0 and the city will be appropri-ately decked out for the event, which commemorates so vital a period in the history of the Plains states. Although thc New Ulm Massacre hopeless from Indians' cause was the outset, it cost the lives of more and children than 700 men. women of Southwestern Minnesota. the end, bad- - The Indians were, in ly defeated and driven from the into Dakota territory Many were captured and more than 3UU were sentenced to hang. Interven-tio- n of President Lincoln spared the lives of the great majority of these, but 38 eventually died in the great-est mnss hanging America ever has recorded. There are different versions of the incident that touched off the trouble, conceded to have been one of the most serious of all American Indian uprisings. Accepted by many is the story that it was provoked by the craving of a renegade Indian, named One Who Kills Ghosts, for a mess of eggs for break-fast. The story has it that one of his companions ordered One Who Kills Ghosts to put down the eggs to avoid starting trouble. One Who Kills Ghosts thereupon accused the other of being a coward and afraid of the white man. Muster for War. That, allegedly, set off the spark. In the quarrel that followed, the young bucks decided to prove their valor and went to a nearby settler's home and shot up members of the family. Indians throughout the Min-nesot- a river valley immediately be-gan mustering for war and the very next day whites at the lower agency were attacked. The Indians spread out over the country on both sides of the river, despoiling every settlement by torch, tomahawk and terror. Terrified settlers hurried their families to New Ulm as the Indians massed for attack. Milford, a rural settlement seven miles west of New Ulm, was attacked and many of its inhabitants killed on August 18. The following day a force of war-riors hit at New Ulm, killing sev-eral persons and burning a number of buildings. The defense held, how-ever, and after some spirited fight-ing, the savages withdrew. During the battle reinforcements arrived from St. Peter, Mankato, Le Sueur and other neighboring settlements, bringing the defense forces to around 800. Maj. Charles E. Flandrau, a former Indian agent, was placed in command and defenses of the town were strength-ened. Path of Destruction. Four days later, on August 23, the Indians attacked New Ulm in great-er number. Fighting continued un-til noon of the following day, when the attackers withdrew. Of the New Ulm defenders, 34 had been killed, 60 wounded. Nearly 200 buildings had been destroyed. During the same time the Indians also laid siege to Fort Ridgley, a United States military post estab-lished in 1853, 18 miles up the river from New Ulm. During the nine-da- y siege, two formidable assaults were made and repulsed. The In-dians then retreated into the taking with them many captives Whatever it was that started the uprising, historians are agreed that it wasn't a mere sudden whim. The Indians were well prepared when they launched their attack. Their leaders knew well what they were doing when they chose Fort Ridgely and the settlement of New Ulm as their main ob-jectives. It is felt that the underlying cause goes back to 1851, before the state of Minnesota was founded, when treaties were negotiated with the upper and lower branches of the Sioux nation for the transfer of most of their vast lands in southern Min-- ! nesota and in Iowa to the govern-- ; ment in return for specified pay- ments. The Indians were to make their homes on a reservation con-- j sisting of a strip on both sides of the Minnesota river near Fort Ridgely. The treaty was unpopular with many of the Indians, for they had exchanged a big empire for a nar-row strip of not very suitable land and payments were not as large as they had expected. Other fac- - tors. too. contributed to the hostile feeling which was becoming more pronounced at a time when able-- j bodied men were being sent out of the state to fight in the Civil war SEEK WORLD'S OPiJ Eugene Pulliam, S Ind., newspaper mM his wife wan wotid jB tory to leaving on ,J find out what the paillJ over think of the M - m M3&t WStWik. wKUtt lift i'K 3 NOSTALGIC SCENE ... A scene dear to the hearts of rs is that of mares at the watering trough. These three Percherons are typical of the many blue-bloo- who will be rounded up from farms throughout the U. S. to compete at the National Percheron show August 23-2- 9 at the Ohio state fair in Columbllf. NEWS REVIEW Aid to Poland Cancelled; Reds Delay Jap Treaty "the big shots in Washington," but apparently held no animosity to-ward the President. Later, he was sent to a Washing-ton hospital for observation. The coincidental appearance of President Truman in the senate chamber was the result of a dare which he took while having lunch with some of his former colleagues from the senate. He spoke for five minutes from the seat he held as the senator from Missouri, dwelling largely on the "auld lang syne" theme. READING PUBLIC: 49 Per Cent Heard It is probably a safe surmise that Secretary of State George Marshall was shocked clear down to the bot-tom of his briefcase when a Gallup poll revealed that only about 49 per cent of America's voting population had heard or read of his cele-brated plan for repairing and re-building Europe's shattered econ-omy. On the other hand, he could take some consolation from the fact 57 per cent of those who were aware of the Marshall plan also approved of it. (The plan, in simple terms, was e suggestion to the European nations that they get together to work out their economic saltation on a coopera-tive, sell-hel- p basis. Playing a major role in financing the recovery would be American money obtained through taxation of both the 49 per cent who had beard of the plan and the 51 per cent who hadn't.) Here is the first question which Gallup pollsters asked: "Have you heard or read about the Marshall plan for helping Europe get back on its feet?" POLAND AID: t Canceled Following a report by U. S. sur-vey mission that Poland has enough food to meet her minimum require-ments at least for this year, the state department canceled Poland's share of the 350 million dollar American relief program. In its announcement, the state de-partment said that special items, such as medical supplies and foodstuffs for particular groups, could be supplied Poland through private relief agencies and other organizations. The announcement added: "In view of the above and of the fact that funds available are suff-icient to meet only the most urgent relief needs, it has been decided not to undertake a relief program for Poland." Next on the list, according to in-dications, might be Hungary, where better crop prospects are in sight. The state department said that the decision to cut off relief to Poland was based entirely on the relative needs of European coun-tries. No official comment was made on the fact that Poland is well within the Soviet sphere of in-fluence and that Hungary is defi-nitely Communist-dominated- . NEW SPLIT: Peace Treaty Russia's rejection of the United States proposal for drafting a Japa- - nese peace treaty is showing up as another breach in the already badly weakened structure of American-Sovie- t unity. In addition, it may delay indefi-nitely work on a peace treaty for Japan which, the United States con-tends, is an absolute necessity if the conquered nation is to get back on its economic feet. American proposals for begin-ning the task of writing a treaty on August 19 were turned down by Moscow on the grounds that the U. S. was attempting to act uni-laterally and without having made any previous agreements with Great Britain, China or Russia. Major question now facing the United States and other nations in-terested in making progress on a Far East peace settlement is whether to go ahead with the writ-ing of the Japanese peace treaty without Russia. GUN TOTER: Coincidence For a few minutes Washington police thought they might have a would-b- e assassin on their hands when they picked up a man carry-ing a gun inside the capitol just after President Truman had made a visit to the senate chamber. But Clifton R. H. Spires, 39, of Augusta, Ga., arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, ap-peared more confused than anyone else about the affair. He seemed to think that he had a grudge against ELKS' HEAD MAN J A, Lewis, Los Angela has been elected grujflj ruler of Benevolent utm tive Order of Elks. I LEADS DUTCH FORCE! Gen. S. H. Spoor issued of the day announcinfe hostilities between Diid and Indonesian troops, collapse of negotiation! Dutch and Indonesian ments. n Serving the Public It isn't an ordinary ad. It Is not directed primarily to the people without homes, without nurses, it is directed to the persons and organi-zations who can help bring these facts home to the general public to you. It is an ad written by and about the Advertising Council, con-cerning an operation of which al-most everybody is conscious but about which few people know the details. It is an operation based on giving away what the givers ordinarily sell advertising space, advertising ideas, advertising copy. It answers the question: "Why doesn't some-body DO something?" The reply is it's given in works as well as words "Somebody IS." The council grinds nobody's axe except yours, the public's, seeks no profits, asks no expense account, has only one objective: To make Amer-ica a still better place than it al-ready is. The Advertising Council was born a week after Pearl Harbor when Donald Nelson, about to take over chairmanship of the war production board, called in a group of advertis-ing executives and discussed with them what the average citizen could do to help victory and incidentally, what would make him do it. Now you are reading and hearing the results of the council's peace-time efforts they are embodied in the various forms of advertising of many firms, as spots on the radio, many other places. The council is providing suggestions, ideas, radio fact sheets and other material to members of business firms, unions, civic groups and other citizens who can put that tremendous power, ad-vertising, to work personalizing big national problems. What does the word "advertise" mean to you? Does it mean "to warn, to give notice to, to inform, to notify, to make known to"? Or does it mean some sort of d skull duggery Involving sky-scrapers, Hollywood blondes, bill-boards and singing commercials? , The first definition was written by Webster not the senator, the gen-tleman who wrote a dictionary). The other concepts are the result of a rash of lampoonery of advertising which, while some of it may con-tain a grain of truth, looks to me like biting the hand that is not feed-ing you. The big, bad novel about adver-tising at its blooming worst was called "The Hucksters." a best sell-er highly salted with erotica which has been tinned into a movie. There is no accounting for tastes, and I won't object if you see the picture and like it AU I ask: "Don't ac-cept the advertising sequences as the literal truth. There is much about advertising I could loudly decry (and often do) at the risk of biting the hand that is not feeding me. But there are "hucksters" who are undertaking projects of a very decent sort of which you may not be aware. Maybe in these past few months you've asked yourself: Why doesn't somebody DO something about a tot of things. Something about the people killed or injured in automobile accidents every year. Something about housing. The war ended two years ago. Yet the land of the free still isn't providing homes for the brave. Shame on all of us! Something about the shortage of medical services. Patients are neg-lected, hospital wards closed be-cause the nation desperately needs nurses Training them is a long-rang-national job. Something about world trade. Our economic future depends on unham-pered world trade. Yet pressure groups make our world trade a foot-ball for selfish interests. Something about the nation's health. Between the ages of 15 and 34. tuberculosis is our greatest kill-er. At any given time. 500,000 peo-ple have it. But they don't know it. Alarming? You bet it is. Something about our kids Your children are getting a rough deal in school. Too few teachers. Too antiquated equipment, old textbooks or none at all. Make you mad? It should. What has all this to do with ad-vertising? Just this: The above words were copied from an adver-Usemen-a full-pag- advertisement in a recent New York Times, and oerhaps other papers by this time 49 j SV?L Those who had heard of the plan were asked: "What is your opinion of the plan?" Texans May Resort To Law of Six Gun To Guard Property AMARILLO, TEX. Sturdy Texas plainsmen again may have to resort to the law of the six-gu- n in order to protect their property. But this time the war win be against wheat thieves, not cattle rustlers. Bandits are making steady forays on huge piles of wheat, dumped on the ground at har-vesting time as a result of short-age of shipping facilities. Wheat rustlers, it is reported, are especially active on the south plains. Floyd county farm-ers have reported large losses from their estimated million bushels of grain left in huge piles on the ground. CINDERELLA MAN Lockridgc Jr., lish, father of four m down to his last P" heard that his first w tree County," hsd novel Goldwyn-Maye- r worth 5150,000. w 57 217. j 22 As a footnote, the poll disclosed that while public opinion was gen-erally in favor of Marshall's pro-posal, support would decline sharp-ly if taxes had to be raised in order to put it through. Fancy Names Abound In South, State Finds MONTGOMERY. ALA. First of September has a brother named First of August, it is revealed in a list of fancy names compiled from records of the Alabama department of industrial relations. Pearly Gates, another unusual monicker, may be indicative of a fond mother's future hopes for her new-bor- n baby. Then, too, there's actually a person with the name Ima Hogg. Among others included in the list are Dixie Cola, Square Bell, Main Line Harris, General Davis, Presi-dent Dickinson, Apt Greene, Effort Hicks, Stonewall Jackson and Early Jones. NOT ALL OUTGO Peak Foreign Income Reported WASHINGTON. Compensating in an infinitesimal degree for the vast sums of United States money which have flowed abroad during the post-war era for relief of devastated countries, earnings on American in-vestments in foreign countries reached a new peak of 520 million dollars last year, it is revealed in a department of commerce survey. The return, highest in history, sur-passed by 18 per cent the best year of the 1930s and was well above the preceding peak of 474 million dol-lars earned in 1928. For 1938, top year of the '30s, the figure was 440 million dollars. The higher return was largely at tributed to an increase of direct in-vestments abroad. These are direct private business investments not government loans. They include principally foreign branches and subsidiaries of Amer-ican enterprises and foreign com-panies in which Americans own more than 25 per cent of the voting stock. About one-ha- lf of the 1946 income, or 273 million dollars, was received from Latin America, and 126 million dollars, from Canada. The remaining fourth was divided between Europe, Asia, Af-rica and Oceania. Among the countries involved. Canada has consistently occupied first place. Countries next in im-portance in providing income or American direct investments were Venezuela, Chile, the United King dom, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Largest single income producer was the petroleum industry, which accounted for 170 million dollars in 1946. Manufacturing was second with returns approximating 130 mil-lion dollars. Mining and smelting produced 65 million dollars; public utilities, 50 million; agriculture, 45 million; distribution industries, 40 million, and other industries, 20 million. NEW SECRETAB ;d Koyall was TZd dent Truman as ,!ers to succeed B J3 resigned after war department. dersecrctary of ' . Identical Twins Pose Problem PITTSBURGH. PA. - Identical twins who are as alike mentally as physically posed an unusual prob-le- for Mrs. Edith Sleath. history instructor at Latimer junior high school, when the two were nominal-- j ed for the same merit award, Frances and Nancy Bonch are th,e twins Evolved. Their phvs.cal characteristic, are so identical that tr'enda frequently have difficulty 'den ifying them. Proof that their mental capabilities also are identi- cal was contained in a report show-n- g their final grades for the past iubje't"8 Were SamC ta W Both were nominated for the DAR American history merit award At- - cidedTaiCOnfer0nCeS' the DAR between the two was botnhCSry- - MCdaU W"e 8iVen |