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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH . " , i BOND DRIVE ": WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U.S. Orders Expulsion of 22 Czech Officials; Observers Say Political Picture Becoming Foggy, Unreal (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whm opinion r ripre.ard In thfie tolnmn. thry r lho of Wrairrn Nfwupaper Union ntw. analyst and not neremarllv of Ihl. newspaper.) Truman Speaks Wonts Hot War Most Americans, who cannot make themselves believe Russia is ready or wants a war, were being told otherwise by European diplo-mats. In Europe the belief Is growing that Russia now accepts a shooting war as the alternative to the cold war in winning world supremacy. Until recently experts believed European security could be viewed In terms of political activity and economic pressure. A recent poll of European diplo-mats, however, reveals that they now believe the political bureau of the Russian Communist party soon will be willing to fight a hot war in pursuit of its aims. One reliable source declares the Russians would be "ready" to fight In 19!2. By then the Soviet Union will have a stockpile of atomic bombs and numerical superiority in ground and air forces. The Russians are estimated to have 20,000 first-lin- e planes In oper-ation at the present time. That would indicate Russia may be able to fight a "hot war" on a moment's notice. It Is generally accepted by observers that the atomic bomb is already In production behind the Iron curtain. BARUCH: Stop Inflation Since the war all classes of Amer-icans farmers, laborers, business-men, office workers have worried about inflation. For all of them the dollar buys less than before the war. Of late, CZECHS: U. S. Hits Back The United States has ordered expulsion of 22 Czech officials from this country in retaliation of recent n conduct by that country. The U.S. note, which hinted at future diplomatic blows against the Kremlin - controlled government, ehargpd Czechoslovakia "will not or cannot" conduct itself decently with other nations. Diplomats considered the U. S. note strongly worded and saw the netion as clear evidence of the disintegration of relations between the two countries. It reduced the number of Czech officials in this country from 33 to 22. The state department note said In port: "Since the United States cannot conduct normal diplomatic and con-sular functions in Czechoslovakia and since the relations between the two governments are being re-stricted in scope through the actions of the Czechoslovakia government, the latter has been requested within a reasonable time to close Its con- - ...I.U. 1 0 - J nnJ DIIIk..U This Is a part of the "10 acres of citizens" that turned out to hear President Truman on his "non-politica- l" tour across the nation. He Is pictured speaking from the rear platform of his special train. POLITICS: Foggy ond Unreol oumira ill icvcimiu auu jilouui gil and to make a reduction In its of-ficial personnel In the United States similar to that demanded of the United States in Czechoslovakia." The expulsion order means the Czech government will have 11 rep-resentatives In this country, all pos-sibly In Washington. The order does not include that country's represen-tation to the United Nations. Nearer to Europe Millions who have had the Jitters since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan received a new jolt when it was announced U. S. military officials are considering placing atomic weapons within easy reach of this country's European allies. Such a move Indicates that this country would use the atomic bomb in case of war and has no immedi-ate plans of trying to get it out-lawed, observers said. Some congressmen called the idea terrible and predicted 98 per cent of the legislators would rebel if it should be presented to them. Observers agreed that Initial con-gressional reaction to the idea indi-cates it will have tough sledding If it reaches Capitol Hill. Military authorities were explor-ing the highly controversial pro-posal and possible safeguards against having the bombs fall Into enemy hands. Before atomic weapons could be Observers are beginning to shout that the current political scene is becoming so foggy and unreal that the general public is confused. Per-haps it is the observers themselves who are confused. Regardless of their shouts, how-ever, President Truman concluded his tour across the nation making as many as 16 speeches a day while congress tied itself into knots on one Issue after another. As if that wasn't enough, the Dixiecrats had mapped plans of winning the Solid South and were screaming louder than anyone about deficit spending and creeping socialism. The President has been making speeches pointing out: (1) The low-er brackets cnn double their in-come into "real" money within the rext 10 years, possibly as hiph as M.onr) a year; (2) Republican chnrfes that the Fair Deal is lead-ing to socialism are "silly non-sense;" (3) TVA power develop-ments "will keep us the most pow-erful nation in the world"; (4) The nation's output of goods and services can be lifted to 350 billion dollars by 190. In the East, meanwhile, the house cut the " appropria-tions bill by an estimated one bil-lion dollars and sent the measure to the senate. The vote, 362 to 21 was consid-ered a big defeat for Truman. Democrats joined Republicans In making the cut. however, there has been little said or done about the Inflation spiral. Now Bernard M. Baruch, adviser to Presidents for 40 years, has taken another swing at inflation. "Inflation is the cold war we Americans are waging against our-selves." the statesman warns. "Inflation affects the integrity of all our defenses, both moral and military, national and internation-al," he added. "This continuing spiral doesn't necessarily mean trouble at the moment, but it means trouble ahead if we don't put a stop to it. Sowewhere along the line, the balloon always bursts." The national situation as he sees It finds the country balancing pre-cariously between employment and the maintenance of a high standard of living, and unemployment and in-flation. We must work out a program to curb inflation that will be fair to everyone, he said. No one will like it, but we must do it and soon. STATE DEPARTMENT: McCarthy Lied The state department had waded into the McCarthy spy hunt of the department's personnel by issuing a white paper that hints that the senator deliberately lied. Assistant Secretary Edward W. Barrett sent 500 newspaper editors an eight-pag- e analysis of Mc- Carthy's speech which charged the department was overrun by Com-munists. Barrett's reply contained a point-by-poi- nt denial. While It did not as-sert in so many words that Mc- Carthy was lying, the document re-peatedly sought to show that he uttered "misstatements" and "in-accuracies." Meanwhile, the loyalty files, re-cently turned over to the senate foreign-relation- s subcommitte in-vestigating communism in govern-ment posts, were being studied. Senator Tydings, chairman of the committee, said he would make a full report to the people on the contents of the files. Eighty-on- e cases were being in-vestigated. Parting? made available to European mem-bers of the Atlantic pact, however, congress would have to amend the atomic energy act. SANDERS: Farms for Living Dr. Hermann N. Sanders, de-prived of his right to practice medi-cine in New Hampshire following his mercy slaying trial, has turned to tilling the soil for his neighbors to support his wife and three daugh-ters. Some observers, however, felt he would be reinstated when the state medical board let him apply on June 19. Meanwhile, the doctor was supply-ing his own tractor for the farm work and moved about from Job to job on a trailer attached to his auto-mobile. Neighbors said his rate of pay for plowing and cultivating farm-lands of the area was $4 an hour. NATIONALISTS: Repulse Landing The Communists tried a practice landing on Chushan island 100 miles southwest of Shanghai but were the Chinese Nationalists report. The announcement caused specu-lation that the invasion of Formosa itself, protected by 100 miles of open seas from the mainland, was about to begin. Nationalists sources said they re-gard a Red "inside job" as great a threat as an actual invasion. A In the South, publisher J. Oliver Emmerick told the third annual States' Rights convention that "our task Is to sell the people against deficit spending, creeping social-ism and the totalitarian state." They seek to weld the south Into the nation's most powerful minority, even so strong they could become the national balance of political power. And, from the looks of things, they may succeed in crea-ting another congress very hostile to Truman. GERMANY: When A Treaty? Germany may never get a peace treaty, some political observers have hinted. The hints were being made after America, Britain and France announced they will keep troops In Germany and refuse to write a peace treaty as long as Russian policy divides the country. For that reason there may never be a treaty, observers report. Rus-sia is not likely to change her policy because it would be a political de-feat. The Soviet is only interested in victories. The western powers said: "In view of the continued refusal of the Soviet government to permit inhabitants of their zone of occupa-tion to rejoin their fellow country-men in a democratic and unified Germany, it has not been possible, and will not be as long as this Soviet policy persists, to proceed to conclusion of a treaty of peace with Germany. at fid I iXi sfa Xsf&sOi "In the present situation of Europe supreme authority must re-main in the hands of the Allied powers." The three powers, however, have agreed to the gradual modification of many controls to which western Germany is still subject. The movie fans of the nation were startled with the rumors of "strained relations" between Bing Crosby and his wife, Dixie Lee. This 1939 photograph shows the Crosbys with their four sons. Bing is In Europe and will not return until mid-Jun- e. GAMBLING: 13 Billion Take The American Academy of Poli-tical and Social Science reports there are 50 million suckers in the United States who lose 13 billion dollars a year to gamblers. The experts said Americans bet eight billion dollars a year with horse-rac- e bookies. Pari - mutuel machines alone account for $1,600.-000.00- 0 a year and produce more than 100,000.000 annually in tax rev-enue. Communist fifth column on For-mosa had been broken up, it was reported, but many of the Red agents remained at large. The Nationalists had nothing to say of their raid a few days earlier on villages on the mainland, 50 miles southwest of Chushan. WHISKEY: Gig Business The whiskey industry has long been big business, but now it comes to light that moonshiners apparently are producing more whiskey in the United States than the legal dis-tilleries. A spokesman for the industry said moonshine stills seized by state and federal officials in 1949 had a daily productive capacty of 97,709 gallons more than the nation's dis-tilleries. Shadows Republicans may have talked down President Truman's "nonpoli-tica- l trip." but they kept an eye on him just the same. The eye was Victor Johnson, ex- - ecutive secretary of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. He shadowed the President across the ration by chartered piane and showed up at all the chief execu-tive's important speeches. SAVINGS Replicas of Liberty Bell T0l Nation During Bond Campo Few historic relics have a greater romantic or , peal to the people of this country than the Liberty firfi" lie 1950 Savings Bond drive now underway. eiH None, certainly, could tell so completely the ston, winning its independence if it could speak. If it could": Croat men who touched it and their thoughts, or of it. ures, a new history of the United States would be rev1 In 1751 the assembly of the colony of PennsylVaJ a committee, headed by Isaac Norns, speaker of th. 7. chase a bell to be put in the state house. After due consideration and de-bate, the committee commissioned a bell that was cast in London in 17,r)2 and had it brought to Phila-delphia. It was recast the follow-ing year when the inscription, "proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof," was placed on it. Then on July 8, 1776, 23 years after it was cast, it pealed the signing of the Declaration of Inde-pendence. The next year the Brit-ish took it from the tower of Inde-pendence Hall and threw it in the Delaware river. But it was re-covered and rung on July 4 every year until the day it cracked. That is the bell which is the symbol of the 1950 Savings Bonds Independence Drive. The theme: "Save for your independence buy U. S. savings bonds." Silent for 69 Years On May 15 the drive got under-way with Secretary of the Treas- - to the mayor of have the bell sent to "i ' Pacific exposition. Symbol of Freedom There and on its jour: to and from the 17,000,000 turned out to see fte New Year's, 1926, struck 18 times with tipped gold mallet to year, it has not be' directly, nor is it likeln ury Jonn w. snyaer symDonuauy tapping the bell. The drive opened with a nation-wid- e radio program carried by 2,000 stations and fea-turing stars of stage and screen. Television stations on networks lined with Philadelphia and New York carried the program direct from those places. A record num-ber of people heard the broadcasts and saw the television show. Rut the most dramatic mo-ment of the show was when Secretary Snyder gently tapped the cracked, old bell that sym-bolizes liberty for the people of this country. Why did he just tap the bell? Therein lies another story of interest to ev-ery American. The last time the Liberty Bell really rang was on Washington's birthday, 1846. The original crack, that had appeared when the bell was being tolled in mourning for Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 had been drilled out in 1846 A trip across a cor.; voice of sorrow and stolen and cast Into i first to proclaim freed:-i-but a part of Its his:: continues to serve Its c: day it is the symbol teL cans to purchase savkg; insure their freedom pendence. Fifty-tw- o replicas ol have been donated to tngs bond cause and on tour of the com bells, one for each s, for the District of C and one each for Ala wail and Puerto Rico act copies of the orid crack is Indicated on face; the bells ring harmonically tuned. The tour of the rep).: will end July 4, will s lions of Americans, w5; er seen the original beL never get to Philadelph.i to inspect an exact c: most hallowed of our b ics. Since its return tor. Francisco exposition it bell has not been allow Philadelphia. Since C: 1917, when it was the ;! tion in Philadelphia's !. loan parade during the War, it has not even leS in Independence Hall, the danger of further ci the historic relic. " a " 34 .. & W in Jbaal Bennie Ray Wagner, Jr., 6, Is the son of a war hero. His father, Tfc. Bennie Ray Wag-ner, was killed In action on Luzon, March 15, 1945. Here he displays the government bonds he has purchased each month with a government allotment check. He is well on the way to independence, his guardian sas, with Savings Bonds amounting to $1,000. so that the edges would not vibrate against each other. The bell rang clear until almost noon in honor of the father of his country, when the crack spread and the ringing changed to a hoarse rumble- That was the last time anyone heard the true voice of the original Liberty Bell. Made in France On the last journey i d iron spider m to the clapper bolt crown, with arms hoc the lip of the bell to dist strain of its weight, 2!: more evenly. The bells now on tour tion were made at the the Sons of George F Annecy-le-Vieu- x in Arthur L. Bigelow, F engineering and be" Princeton university, measurements and dra which the new bells we: Andrew J. Dunn, direr labor section of the U bonds division in Wasto its liaison officer with to Federation of Labor, France to expedite the and shipment of the To symbolize for " Americans the Idea which Is essential to dence, the replic" visited 2,000 commuoii ing the nation-wid- e tow Authorities report the cause of the painstaking production, sound exact- Liberty Bell would if rung. They attributed the bells are of the position as the origin3; per cent copper, and tha. struction gives the sam Millions of Americans to the sound that the Philadelphia hearf original bell ProC 31 "throughout all the W the inhabitants there At the conclusion drive on July 4. the the treasury will ' each state and territory nent exhibit. in 192G, to usher In the sesqui-centonm.- il year of American inde-pendence, the wife of Philadelphia's mayor tapped out The cere-mony was broadcast, but radio could only reach about half the na- tion 24 years ago. The shattered rumble of the cracked relic has been heard by radio only once since then: on D-a- June 6. to signal the in vasion of the continent of Europe by American and allied forces in another way for freedom - and then a recording of its sound made on New Year's, 1926. was used On February H. i9lg the beU silence of nearly 69 years was broken to signal the linking of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by long stance telephone. Three times it n mblec hoarsely over the wire to 10 the that followed, , c"versation the mayor of San franctsco made a personal plea I . " J" "'" A? .. .fit. JS) Hvy if wy if 2V A ' KISS FOR NEW DADDY . . . Noelle Morse kisses brow of her new father, Carlton Morse, New York radio producer-writer-Oirecto- r, while Mrs.' Morse beams approval. The Morses adopted the French child financially through a foster parents' plan, then adopted her legally after seeing her in France. They brought her home with them and now are a happy threesome. ' - r-- - 3l TIES WORLD RECORD ... The Duke and Duchess of Windsor con-gratulate Ben Hogan (center) for winning the $10,000 Greenbrier open golf tournament at White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.. with a four-roun- d score of 259. Hogan tied the PGA world mark established by Byron Nelson in the 1945 Seattle, Washington, open golf tournament. IV'-j- Hi ' ; :,'ifj fell i. lift 3mK "? "" - PR1VA1LER-- L E RAFTS . . . Two life rafts found in the Baltic are exhibited at he Pentagon after identification sea as belonging to the missing i s. rr.vateer fired on by Soviet fighters. Examining he rafts are (left to right. Lt. Commander Malcolm Cagle. Ten ; leoman 3C Wade Myers. Welch. W. Va. and Yeoman VV?Za I er.stan.aker, Akron, Ohio. The shooting down of the Privateer suited in strong protest to Russia by the L. S. re mwmWAvvwf ".v v ................. ? v I i $S Jn. it , h, v4iv x- - r V-'V-A,,- ''' j4 MISCHA TAKES A BRIDE . . . RUssian-bor- n Mischa Auer. Hollywood r . 45. stands beside his bride. Suzanne Kalish n v v'3" scenario writer, after their marriage in Rome. It was L . mony with only a few close friends in attendance CPr' sonality entered marriage for the second time. The cctJI'" said in Italian and then was translated into English 'or thA"r both bride and groom. of es Donated by Copper Ind1 Actual cost of the 52 bells on tour in the treasury i bond dnve is not known. They are being paid for by Am per industry The Ford Motor company will haul the bells from navy yard to each M9 Washjngton. o the Liberty Bell, each weighs 2080 pounds and is eofF m!p".ccnr coppcr- - They were prduced b the formula colled the "lost wax" process. |