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Show THE BULLETIN. JUNG HAM CANYON. UTAH 'General Store' In N.Y. Sells Pigs, Gold, Gas Masks Salvage Division of City Disposes of Weird Possessions NEW YORK, N. Y.-- How would used radio-active you like some slightly 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 stores" in the world. He is in charge of the salvage division in the New York City department of purchases. Most everyone else in his depart-ment buys things. He sells them. It's his job to dispose of municipal possessions waste material, worn-o-ut or surplus equipment anything that'll still bring a buck. Flood's been selling more than $500,000 worth of stuff' a year. This year the figure may reach $900,000. His wares come from various places police and fire departments, hos-pitals, prisons, schools and almost every phase of city government. He does not handle material col-lected directly from the citizenry by the police and sanitation depar-tmentslike guns or illegal drugs or the refuse put out in garbage cans every morning by private residents. But .he can and does find a mar-ket for refuse which comes from city institutions. Sells Ashes and Cinders Last year, for example, Flood re-ceived: $7,100 for about 5,000 truck-loa- ds of ashes and cinders from firms which use the stuff to make building blocks; $5,000 for 3,500 tons of garbage and swill sold to pig farms; $12,000 for bones, entrails, fats, grease and scrap gristle left over from city-owne- d 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 zoo). 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, 165 grams of just plain gold, 250 pigs from city-owne- d reform school farms, a $50,000 cannery, two iron lungs, two fire engines, one ferry boat, two wooden deck scows, sev-eral steam-roller- s, 11 dozen pairs of reading glasses, maybe a plane now used by the police, and a wide as-sortment of stuff left over from the days of civilian defense. Gold Comes 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 den-tal 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 them-selves for attack includes a wide assortment: Ten thousand gas masks, 107 pounds of ointme- - t for burns, 900 air raid warden arm bands, 1,750 flashlight batteries, 1 blackboard, 2 metal bombs and 34 wooden bombs once used for demonstrations, 351 blood bank bottles (you supply the blood), 3,000 stretchers, 13,000 metal helmets, 1,000 surgical dressings, 140 pairs of asbestos gloves, and the keys to 879 street lamps Man About To. - NOTES TO A state departal rt blame fcr the uK HuS ? merRedcangeti ' i. ut ln : ting anypersonon T: d urthor the coma, J Oie United States. ,w f"ds of "commeri ' gained i law. They came osw . Purposes but in GPU agents. NEW YORKERS I AUOL'T: Goering She was sion to return to fl a by U. S. authorities. come a Berlin night & traction ... The which features from $l.e0up..,je daughter, who (in'tii paying a high price &r She can't take the jj, "is so ashamed." Leigh, the 'deb, eie.. a shattered heart nr i heir to a mint starlet who side-ste-by suddenly divorcing Gov't agents are btuj; s dope purchases. 7 I1 In the Pentagon Uk i f eon Gen. Tooney Span f ing to a group of siri ? discuss Finletter'i : the Air Age." Tuii"i for every American sians will bare the i v January 1, 1953. Spu signed recently, f bled: "That meui years of fishing." I BROADWAY UK : Chump: The guy whop; , check . . . Heel: The f pects you to pick up;:, ; Etiquette: Not tote; : omeone's praising ;r. The guy who icoreii; '. who snub you . , . Cfc the wife credit for tin J (' . . . Charity: Forgiving did you a favor , . . Qa who expects to get paid Memos of a Hidnlp , lene Dietrich if amuc reads about the gem "coming from a mjW: , er." She bought ever;: . . . The lad who wrote "Time Out for lean," himself a good cry ve. ditty is doing fine. Tin spired It Just got nc Violinist Louis Kaufmt dllng you've heard In the of over 400 flicken, t H'wood for the conceit Some penny-arcad- r ( the belly-ach- e. One of our pet yam enhower concern! hu yes-me- n. Ike once W them: "I want yos to some things which are' . this army camp. louiu comfortable by with me. I feel " don't say what yos you are as big- ft fool ai New York Story: hi: cember 29, 1947, at the ( Ball in the Waldorf" The crowd was having il dancing when a clumsy p kicked L er accidentally Councilman . . . She's debeaut ... When at some spectators tboufr; putting on an act... er. kid?" a voice he, take it?" ... This the football player, cy's leg was amputee in Our Town... Wel have a good time. The Intelligentsia: R "The Great Ones" t" the best seller lists. to 14th place just lito" Ruth Miller is doing communism. She's tn favorite . . . Laval iij going begging . pose." Churchill. other Allied diploma" white-was- h . . . the field is called J editor Is Edythe Fan .respecUbleladyo Gazette ... ca'aCa,di celebrate Erskine eight million sale i edition-brou- ght Penguin-Signe- t him almost v, ties in two yea" . laugh . . . Marten' novel. "The Foolish w will be June Book-oi-"- 1 Att'n J. Harrington, boss on the H- -J This U the very . statehood for HjaWf""' in Congress. Wh would be one of tw r; enators-t- he eC0sr fear, would be , cause, they add. w ; voter, in HawJ -- American." . . - WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Revolt Interrupts Bogota Parley; Miners Get Pension, Ertd Walkout; GOP Aspirants in Primaries Fight I By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE i Whn opinion! art tiprmrd In Ihm eolumm. Ihfy r thw of Wmtf rn Nwippi Union't ocwi aniljiti nd not neceuaril of thu ncwipipcr.) I Oji Wisconsin I ... 1IH M REVOLT: Bogota It was a peaceful early afternoon In Bogota, Colombia, and the inter-Americ-conference was droning along in customary style in the capl-to- l building on the Plaza Bolivar. Then, with the firing of four assas-sin's bullets into the body of Jorge Elicier Gaitan, popular leader of Colombia's Liberal party, one of the worst revolts Latin American has I 3 TREATY: Finns-Rus- s Russia had what it wanted bom Finland- -a buffer state to the north- - WThe two nations signed a treaty of mutual assistance which binds Finland to fight within its owr. borders in the event either country is attacked. Finland and Russia, stated the Pact, would battle side by side tc repel aggression by Germany oi another state allied with" Germany failed to The treaty circumspectly mention any other state by name. Despite the fact that Finland s delegation virtually had been com-manded to appear at Moscow to sigr Russia, Premier Josel a treaty with Stalin beamed expansively after the agreement had been concluded, hail-ing it as a "treaty between equals. And he said: "I would like to see us pass from a long period of mutual distrust against each other, to a new period in our relations-- to a period of mu-tual trust." Actually, the Finns got a better deal from Russia than they mighl have hoped for. Their nation had not been forced into a tight, arbi-trary military accord with the So-viets, nor had Finland lost its sov-ereignty although it was brought firmly into the bloc of states along Russia's exposed western flank. ATOM BOMB: No Secret Secretary of Defense James For-rest-put a name and a definitive edge, after a fashion, to all the rest-less postwar fears Americans have been experiencing. He did it by announcing to the house armed services committee that Russia knows how to make the atomic bomb. More specifically, 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 knowl-edge. Russia does not yet have an atom bomb, but the days of U. S. monop-oly of production are num-bered, Forrestal said. He told the congressional committee that he got his information from Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the U.S. research and development board. During the course of his testimony regarding a two-ye- draft of men 19 through 25, the defense secretary answered queries with: "I said they do not have the atom bomb. I did not say they do not have the secret of the atomb bomb. "I am informed by Dr. Bush that the scientific knowledge and techni-cal procedure involved in the manu-facture of the atom bomb are known to Russia." Thus, U.S. --Russian 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. seen exploded into violence. During the first afternoon Bogota descended into a state of complete anarchy. Mobs prowled the streets, burning and looting. Scores were killed. The residence of President Ospina Perez was attacked and win-dows 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 sim-mered to a halt, 300 person were dead, many others injured. Down-town Bogota was a welter of de-struction. Colombia had broken re-lations with Soviet Russia, and the inter-America- n conference had al-most cracked up, with delegates un-certain as to whether they could con-tinue. On the face of it, the revolt was a sudden eruption of violent senti-ment of Liberal party followers against the Conservative govern-ment in power. Immediate result was the formation of a new coali-tion cabinet, equally composed of Liberals and Conservatives. Big question was how much Com-munists had to do with the Bogota riots. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, who with other Americans In Bogota got through the riots un-scathed, claimed the revolt was Communist: "The occurrence goes beyond Co-lombia. It is of the same definite patterns as the occurrences which provoked strikes in France and Italy." And the Colombian government, in severing relations with Russia, de-clared that a "Communist Insurrec-tion" had touched off the mob fury. Finally, it was announced from Bogota that the inter-America- n con-ference would resume "so that Com-munism coujd not triumph over Co-lombia and the rest of the nations of the hemisphere." SETTLEMENT: In his South St. Paul home Slav sen grinned with the comfortable cheer of a cat who had just swiped all the cream in Wisconsin as he sat with his wife and received re-ports stating that he had run off with 19 of the 27 delegates in that state's primary election. PRIMARIES: Wisconsin Wisconsin's presidential primary election to choose delegates to the Republican national convention in Philadelphia on June 21 was regard-ed, as usual, as a straw in the wind; but this year the political breeze was a shifting one. For Harold Stassen, of Minnesota, a hard, thorough cam-paign waged by himself and his volunteer supporters up and down the state paid off nobly when Wis-consin 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 sec-ond, despite a flamboyant publicity drive carried out by his backers (notably the Hearst newspapers) 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 Wis-consin, where he had been the Re-publican favorite In 1940 and again in 1944. As a result of the Wisconsin elec-tion, Stassen was catapulted into public consciousness as a leading contender for the Republican nomi-nation. It was certain that his y victory there would be reflect-ed in the other primaries to follow, and that he had gained considerable Italian Style Pi y n i E.!i,,t,.. M1 m U.S. Ambassador to Italy James Clement Dunn (right) peers benev-olently at an Italian worker in Taranto as he tastes grain that was among the foodstuffs delivered aboard the 500th relief ship to bring food to Italy. CONTROLS : Cold Shoulder Coal Strike John L. Lewis wasn't exactly in the position ef 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 situation. Half a million soft coal miners started to straggle back to work after a y strike when Lewis in-formed them that the fight for pensions had been won, but Lewis 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 1947 nemesis, on the grounds that he Ignored an April 3 court order to call off the strike. Apart from the contempt of court citation, settlement of the coal strike was distinguished mainly by a slightly marvelous amalgam of po-litical action and expedient compro-mise. ' , Beginning of the end came when Speaker of the House Joseph Martin (Rep., Mass.) moved into the dis-pute by persuading Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, a mine operator, to meet with him in his office. Martin then suggested that Sen. Styles Bridges (Ren.. N.H.) be named the third stature in me wiawesi. It was difficult to tell which of the two losers Dewey or MacArthur had been hit harder by his defeat. Dewey, who received no delegates, might seem to be in a position simi-lar to that of Wendell Willkie in 1944 when he withdrew from the GOP race after losing ignominiously in the Wisconsin primary. But the New York governor previously had beaten Stassen in the New Hampshire pri-mary, and, also, he had the full slate of New York delegates pledged to him. It was on MacArthur, who had claimed Wisconsin as his home state, that the axe of public disfavor appeared to have fallen with great-est force. More To Come From Wisconsin the election year wind swung to the plains of Nebraska where seven leading contenders in the Republican presidential race fought it out in a free-for-a- match, with Stassen again emerging as the big winner. After Nebraska the battlefield shifted to Pennsylvania and Massa-chusetts on April 27. A total of 108 delegates to the GOP convention was at stake. The jeering specter of price, wage and ration controls was invoked again by President Truman's coun-cil of economic advisers whicl called for nationwide "discipline" tc prevent inflation under the impact of the new defense program. As usual, this advice rattled cheer-lessly among the stony hearts oi electioneering congressmen. In its report covering the first three months of 1948 the council de-nounced the tax cut law as "infla-tionary" and recommended new member of the board which admin-isters the miners' welfare and re-tirement 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, 1946, the date on which the miners' welfare fund was set up. Bridges' plan was accepted and the strike called off. Actually, Lewis, in approving the New Hampshire senator's proposal, had descended several notches from his original demands. Politically, the most fascinating aspect of the affair was how Joe Martin managed to take the play away from the administration in arranging for a settlement On May 4 Harold Stassen was to carry the fight to Sen. Howard Taft's home arena, the state of Ohio. It was no secret that Taft was wor-ried over which way his fellow Ohio-an- s might go, and a good showing by Stassen would hamper materially Taft's White House ambitions. 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 21. While results of the Oregon primary were not ex-pected to be conclusive, they would serve to provide a first sampling of West coast opinion. Final state presidential primary on the Republican side occurs in California on June 1. Earl Warren Is unopposed as the state's favorite son for the GOP nomination. taxes if the planned defense spend ing is not offset by reduced govern ment costs in other areas. Republican - dominated congress received rather happily the coun cil's call for reduced government spending, but maintained a glum silence on the subject of selective price, wage and ration controls. Congressmen indicated that they want to study possible inflationarj effects of the preparedness program and foreign aid spending under the Marshall plan before they give any serious consideration to resurrect-- ing economic controls. Although the council admitted thai foreign spending coupled with a bit defense outlay "will not swamp our economy nor require us to pass from free enterprise to regimentation," it added that "some rather system'atii and vigorous discipline must be ex ercised." Muff (a Dog) Has Her Ideas About the Nobility of Man By BAUKnACE ISeta Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON There is nothing particularly strange about a dog guarding a batch of milk cans like the one in the accompanying photograph. You wouldn't be too surprised to be told that the dog knew who should collect the cans and who shouldn't ; to hear about other dog3 who go to the store with a shopping list, bring back groceries and even steaks in the basket they carry ; and you know all about the wonderful "Seeing-Eye- " dogs which not only guard their masters from harm, but often appear to sense danger's approach. But the other day I had an experience with a dog which you prob- - ably won't believe. I was sitting at twilight on my porch after a long day and a com-forting meaL I was digesting my except by "balance of power'; men are 'fighting animals' and so on ad nauseam (pardon the Latin but a Roman senator belonged to one of my ancestors.) Now I, with my race memories can recall more of them which have worn thin and been dis-carded than your species (which I doubt will have a very extended destiny) ever will have. "Just an example. With little ef-fort, I can recall some of the silly shibboleths which made trouble for some of my ancestors. It was back in the stone age, just about the same time when we canines decided Man had reached the point where be was ready for adoption and training in fa I A ( dinner while Muff, !my wire haired fox, was removing the last vestiges of her share of it from her beard. She was lolling in front of me on the flat topped porch-pos-t, her favorite resting place. She finished her toilet, flopped her chin on one paw facing me and winked or so civilization. "At that period in pre-histo- we had advanced to the point where we hunted in packs instead of singly. Our policy was still kill and let be It seemed in the fading light. A robin was sounding the last sleepy cadences of his vesper song from the recesses of an ancient maple. I looked at Muff. She looked back and smiled beneath her whiskers or so I guessed she might be doing. "If I had the patience," I said half-alou- "I could teach you to talk." "Oh, no you couldn'tl" I could almost swear Muff had responded. She certainly had opened her mouth. I let my Imagination run on. "Oh, yes, I could," I re-plied, pretending she could under-stand me. "You've got the brains. How do you know that when I take my briefcase, I'll be back in the evening and when I take my suit-case, I won't be back for several days? You DO know, because you show it very plainly: briefcase, a couple of wags and a woof; suitcase, body-wiggle- s, plaintive ' arfs, and hand-licks.- " I went on cataloguing the obvious Indications of Muff's intelligence, which far surpasses that of many loquacious human acquaintances. As I talked on, Muff rolled over care-fully (there was just room for it on her perch) and yawned. Not ecause she was bored, as I was to learn later, but because praise of this type always embarrasses her. 6h will waff herself wa Bless at a "We canines picked man as a friend and were probably one of the great factors In his domestica-tion." killed although some of us had dis-covered its fallacy. We also had a long list of hereditary en-emies, and next to the apes, Man led them all. "good dog!" for some stupid, fetch-and-car-trick that even a Boston terrier could learn, but when one praises her intellectual achieve-ments, Jt always embarrasses her and she tries to hide it. "Well." I Insisted, "It's true you are intelligent enough to talk." Then I was pnzzled. Distinctly, though in a breathy voice which sounded the way a dog does be-fore he has quite decided to bark, I heard an answer: "It Isn't that I am not intelligent enough. And it isn't that dogs will never talk, but I'm afraid I shall never learn." I'm dreaming, I said to myself, but no. There was Muff, there was the outline of the maple, dim now as the darkness gathered. There was I. I shut my eyes. I'll handle this "I don't know how many cen-turies It took to revise that list, and accept Man as a friend. A pretty stupid and crnel friend, to be sure, but one who could be trained. There was one saying, I believe, which was very popular, but which the more enlightened canines knew was nothing but an old females' tale. It went: 'Don't trust a man any farther than you can smell him.' Ton would realize the force of that if you knew how far you used to smell. "There was another saying: The only good man is a dead one, and even then you'd better let the jackals taste him first.' I could go on end-lessly. It took an awful lot of work to explode those myths. Almost as long as it did to get some of the cruelty out of Man. We've gone a rationally, I said. Just let things happen. I relaxed and was less sur-prised to hear the soft, breathy voice continue: "It isn't that there's any-thing wrong with my speech center In the third, left convolution of my cortex but, I want to repeat, that dogs never can learn to talk. . . ." Gently I opened my eyes. Muff was sitting up now, her head cocked to one side, her mouth, or at least her jaw, moving a little, because even in the crepuscule I could see long way in that direction, as you know. In another 10 or 15 centuries I wouldn't be surprised if we got you to treat each other as well as most of you treat us. Your wars! Ugh! That shouldn't and wouldn't happen to a dog!" At this point I sat up. Muff al-ways had been faithful, obedient, and I thought not only my true friend, but also my respectful and humble servant. And this was going too far! Why this was impertinent. her beard wagging gently as she went on: "Because, as you may know, we canines, and I believe this applies to other animals as well, have far clearer race-memori- than human beings. You sometimes mistakenly lvfer to these memories as intuition. That is nonsense. "We canines picked man as a friend and were probably one ef the great factrrs in his domestica-tion, largely because we found him more malleable than any of the other fauna. And I think we have ' done a good job. We have not been harsh masters. We may be at times, but you with YOUR maudlin sentiment, you frequently Interpret sound, practical loyalty, motivated by a high moral sense, as a slavish devotion. My own dog, talking like that! J must have spoken out loud, for I heard something that sounded like a laugh. "Now don't try to bust your leash," I heard her remark. "After all, if you think I'm your dog, okay. Some-how I feel that you're my man. So let's let it go at that and we'll both be happy. "I didn't mean to run on like this and I didn't mean to get dog-matic. I just wanted to say that I know my limitations. I can't talk. But if It's In the canine cards, my descendants will. It took several thousand years to kill the race memories which would have dictated that I take a nip out of your calf instead of licking your hand. And, there's hope for you. too. Maybe progress is Just around the corner " There was a sudden whoosh, a flash of gray in the night, followed by a parabola of fur as Muff left the post in one leap after the neigh-bor's cat which by now was snick-ering at her from the maple branch. Muff came back. She gave me a hang-do- g look and remarked through her whiskers. "That is one race-memo-that I can't eliminate." "And by the way." she added, "Don't mention this conversation. Nobody will believe you if you do." "But I'm digressing (the voice went on) what I would like to bring to your attention is this business of race memories. You men have some, too, and you have something else traditions. They don't go back as far, but they are part and parcel of the same thing. Only many "of your traditions lead you into trou-ble. In the last few months, while you thought I was asleep, I've heard you and your high-bro- friends use phrases like, 'always been wars'; peace never has been maintained Small Boy Captures Nimble Goat With Flying Tackle DES MOINES.- -A flying tackle by a boy put a stop to the escapades of a fabulous goat The critter's first triumph came when he eluded 2 patrolmen by leaping 20 feet from a church roof A startled grocer called headquar-ter- s to report: "There's a goat on my roof. ' Patrolman William Purdy wto was sent to the scene, called "That goat's as big as a cow. He runs like a deer." Later a whole squad of pursuers closed in after trapping the goat against a fence. The goat eaped the fence. But Walter Davis 12. saw the goat on a porch, caugh him and hung on. Death Reunites Mother and Dead Hero From Guadalcanal PoSf- Hester waited a long time father son to come home from the Thtn the H W3S h0pefuI wai"ng. news came that Marine SiXi-- home for buria, on native'soil. for e?,t7S0n fIinaIly cam home were He and his ride bvm'H her EDUCATION: Nearly half of the 5,245,000 World War II veterans who entered special education and training programs under the G.I. bill of rights have abandoned i their courses. Veterans' administration says. More than 400,000 completed their work, however 382.000 of them under the G.t. bill and the rest under the rehabilitation program for dis-abled veterans. Many of those that quit plan to return later, it was Indi-cated, Gaseline frcm Coal Gasoline made from coal, even when it comes into general use, prob-ably will cost more than petroleum gasoline, but at least motorists won't have to worry about shortages, a re-search scientist, Dr. R. W. Krebs of Baton Rouge, La., has predicted. He estimated that coal gasoline will cost from 10 to 15 cents more a gallon than gasoline currently in use, but he added that the supply will be enough to last 1.000 years. |