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Show ' TUB BULLETIN. BINGHAM CAI 11 """ 1 , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Bcrnadotte's Murder Dramatizes Question of Palestine Before U.N.; East-We- st Crisis Hits Final Peak I By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- - ' (EDITOR'S NOTE i Whca aplaleaa r aiprasita1 la thaaa calamas, they are Iheee el Weatera Nawaaaaar Ualaa'a aawa aaaliale aat aat aaeaaearll af thla HOLY LAND: Murder The sullen-face- uniformed men In the Jeep didn't say a word after they had stopped the procession of United Nations cars that was wind-ing through the Katamon section of Jerusalem. Carrying a machine gun, one of them walked up to the automobile In '',11115 lajwia which Count Folke Bemadotte end CoL Andre Pierre Ser-r- ot were sitting, looked Inside and started shooting. The two killers fled, leaving Serrot dead and Bema-dotte mortally wounded. The U. N. Palestine mediator Shrinkage Hies "' 0001 f aixui men aooot - f SOUAI to- o-jTM- V- j"'" TartMowwiiwT'fci u'V. l948NfTf jTps (Graph by Family Economics Bu-reau. Northwestern National Life In-surance company.) Since 1939 the total number of dollars In circulation In the U. S. has more than trebled from 33 billion to nearly 109 billion while our Industrial production of goods to buy has less than doubled. Result: Cheaper money. Each dollar's proportionate worth In goods has fallen until it now takes 1.76 dollars to buy as much as one dollar would buy in 1939. Over three times as many dollars bidding frantically for less than twice as much goods equals in-flation. Bemadotte died as he was be-ing carried into Hadassah hospital on a stretcher. For Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross, nephew of the king of Sweden, diplomat and hu-manitarian, it was a wretched, fu-tile end. His death was mourned not only by governments but by millions of ordinary citizens, yet he died not knowing when or if ever his assidu-ous and. sincere efforts to organize peace in the Holy Land would be fulfilled. Bernadotte's assassinatlonbrought Jerusalem and all of Palestine, for that matter perilously close to the brink of general violence. There PRICE AID: Sure Thing One thing Is dead sure about the coming election: No matter who gets into office, farm price supports will be continued. Governor Dewey is on record as favoring the Hope-Aike- n law passed by congress last June, and Presi-dent Truman says he is in favor of farm price supports and has been all along. BOTH SIDES have promised their help to the nation's farmers. As a result of the growing amount of light that has been shed upon the idea of price supports there has been a lot of argument as to wheth-er they keep up costs of living in the city and, hence, contribute gen-erally toward inflation. The system was started In the 1930s to save farmers from bank-ruptcy caused by surplus production and lack of consumer buying. It accomplished that end. IT WAS CHANGED during the war to make farmers produce more food than the country needed to feed less fortunate nations who were fighting the Axis. It did that. After the war this incentive sys-tem was continued to keep greater amounts of food flowing into desti-tute areas abroad. It was success-ful in that, also. Now, however, as a result of this artificial stimulation, production is beginning to pile up in the U. S. The. wartime pattern of price sup-port no longer fits the American market. THE POTATO situation is a case in point. As the government con-tinues to stimulate the production of potatoes the guaranteed prices keep consumers from getting the surplus crops at bargain prices, and at the same time the system keeps farmers growing too many potatoes. Congress this year elected to re-vise the price support program, ef-fective in 1950, by providing new parity prices based on modern farm practices and by allowing a fluctu-ation in support levels to conform with general economic conditions. Dewey and Eggs RUSSIANS: Western Stand Those who, In commenting on the strained relationship between the East and West, have been wont to say, "It'll get worse before it gets any better," probably had reached the end of their rhetorical rope. For it was unlikely that it could get any worse without producing armed conflict of some kind. This, it appeared, was the top of the heap of crises that had been piling up for two years. There were; these developments: THE AMERICAN, British and French ambassadors, who had been talking with Soviet Foreign Min-ister V. M. Molotov and Premier Stalin In Moscow for six weeks, left the Russian capital, presumably ending the four-powe- r discussions. THE THREE western powers asked the Kremlin for and final "yes or no" on the question of whether Russia will lift its block-ade of Berlin. U. S. SECRETARY of State George Marshall, speaking before the U. N. general assembly, warned the Soviet Union that American pa-tience should not be mistaken for weakness. With the Moscow talks at an end the center of action in the crisis had shifted to Paris where the is-sue would be debated In the U. N. The western nations the U. S., France and Great Britain plainly had had enough and were deter-mined not to give another inch. In an hour-lon- g speech before parliament, British Foreign Secre-tary Ernest Bevin expressed his na-tion's determination: "We are firm-ly resolved to go on with our pol-icy. "I AM NOT SAYING by that that we are committed to war and all the other things that might ensue. We have not reached that stage yet." Speaking to the United Nations in Paris, George Marshall, U. S. sec-retary of state, outlined the basic U. S. foreign policy in much the same manner as Bevin. The United States, he said, would not "com-promise the essential principles" or "barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples." HOME OWNERS: Record High One of the most maddening of all the modern paradoxes is that while millions of American families are searching desperately for decent places to live, at the same time more American families own their own homes now than ever before in history. About 49 per cent of the nation's non-far- families owned their homes at the beginning of this year, it has been revealed by a federal reserve board survey. That comes to a total of 18.5 million city and town families. Although the survey did not take up farm families, the proportion of home-owner-s among that group tra-ditionally has been much higher than among city dwellers. was danger, too, that the uneasy Arab-Jewis- h truce might fall to pieces under the circumstances. For the time being, Bernadotte's killers remained unidentified. The Israeli government called it the work of Stern gang terrorists and Issued an edict outlawing that ex-tremist group. In Oslo, Norway, U. N. Secretary-- General Trygve Lie added his panegyric to the praise that was be-ing heaped on the martyred Berna-dotte: "He burned with eagerness to bring about an understanding Arabs and Jews. He thought always of justice and peace." FINAL REPORT: 'EndltNoiv As the United Nations general as-sembly convened for its fateful 1948-4- 9 session in the Palais de Chail-lo- t the member nations took time out to pay somber tribute to Count Folke Bernadotte, their representa-tive in Palestine who had died while trying to Implement the peace of which they were supposed to be the architects. Then they began consideration of the plan for an enforced Palestine settlement that Bernadotte had sub-mitted before his death. THE SWEDISH COUNT'S final report recommended that the Arab-Jewis- h war should be "pro-pounce- d formally ended." If the Arabs and Jews refuse to make peace, the U. N. should do so itself, the report said. It calls for changes in the bound-aries of the U. N. partition plan adopted in November, 1947, pro-posing that the Negeb desert be giv-en to the Arabs and that the Jews should receive all of Galilee instead of only the eastern part. Other recommendations include: 1. INTERNATIONALIZATION of Jerusalem by placing it under U. N. control 2. ESTABLISHMENT of a techni-cal boundaries commission to delim-it the new frontiers. 3. CREATION of a Palestine con-ciliation commission to deal with population exchanges and supervise other parts of U. N. decisions. 4. SETTLEMENT of the problem of 360,000 Arab refugees by giving them the right to return to their homes In Jewish territory or to re ceive compensation if they choose not to return. It was a good plan, the United States thought, and Secretary of State Marshall announced that this nation would back it to the fullest extent. Said Marshall: "THE UNITED STATES consid-ers that the conclusions contained in the final report of Count Berna-dotte offer a generally fair basis for 'settlement of the Palestine ques-tion." He called it "the best possible basis for bringing peace to a dis-tracted land," adding that "No plan could be proposed which would be entirely satisfactory in all respects to every interested party." in sharp contrast to Henry Wa-llace's unsavory experience with eggs in the South, the product of the hen brought nothing but good to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential candidate. At his Pawling, N. Y., farm he was made honorary member of the national "Good Egg" club and was pre-sented with an plaque by Hobart Crelghton (left), GOP nominee for governor of In-diana and president of the Poul-try and Egg national board. ANSWER MAN: Brannan When it comes to questions Secre-tary of Agriculture Charles Bran-na- n gets all kinds, many of which have nothing to do with farming. Pouring in at the rate of 3,000 a day, the queries vary from: "How do I bury cats in the ground'" to "What was Little Eva's last name in the play, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin?'" and "Can you recommend a hearts club? lonely Three of us girls are Interested.' Washington Social Hours: Cold Turkey, Hot Gossip By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst end Commentator. WASHINGTON. Washington cocktail parties and other social gatherings have been widely publicized as makers and breakers of reputations, national candidacies and interna-tional policies. Not all of theie affairs may force or fracture tha destiny of nations, but many often bring together as great a variety of human Ingredients as are to be found at any one place at any one time, anywhere. For example I have just returned from lunch. I probably should say "luncheon" con-sidering what It must have cost my red-head- college mate host whose excuse for giving it was the fact that he was celebrating his 55th birthday but whose real rea-sons lay beyond distant frontiers. The bearded Ital-ian scientist on his left reminded him that iYtm nonnnlnn ily, had outlived the Japanese oc-cupation, and with his sister, had participated In the effective Philip-pine underground, memories of which made this day's current trag-edy of the Philippines the eruption of Hibokhibok volcano on Camiquin island a decidedly minor concern. On my left was a prominent Wash-ington lawyer. During a lull In the discussion of International, If not cosmic affairs, he suddenly asked: "What was your mother's maider name?" "Alice Blood." I replied. "Tea," he nodded In satisfac-tion, "My aunt, Clara Brown, often told me about your moth-er. They were classmates (Ing-ham university '78), and she waa a bridesmaid at your mother's wedding in La Salle, Illinois." Skipping your correspondent around the table, we an ve at a famous scientist We exchanged reminiscences too, for he also was a graduate of the same college. As we talked, I remembered an anec-dote about him I had heard from a mutual college friend. A Check by Any Other Name . . . Not many years after his gradua-tion, this scientist and his young wife arrived In the city where our mutual friend was in business, and called on him. The businessman recognized the scientist's face Im-mediately but for the life of him, couldn't remember the man's name. During their lunch, the scientist remarked that he was going on an extended trip into Canada and had unfortunately run out of money. He wondered could he get a check cashed at the businessman's bank. The businessman gladly acquiesced, thinking that when he saw the sig-nature on the check, he would rec-ognize the scientist's name. Togeth-er they went to the bank, the scien-tist wrote the check, and the two men went to the cashier's window. But as the scientist handed in the check, all the businessman could read was the name of a bank in a very distant city and the amount-fi- ve hundred dollars. He had already said to the cash-ier, "I want you to meet my friend ..." but could get no further. Ter-ribly embarrassed, he turned to the scientist and said: "I'm sorry, but I can't recall your name." BAUKIIAGE wa" unique be-cause it was hard-ly likely he would celebrate a simi-lar occasion 53 years hence. A little macabre, I thought, but no one seemed to take lt that way least of all the fellow-citize- n of Dante who was enjoying himself immensely over his cold smoked turkey and doubtless became lyric over the lira and other Important transalpine Institution! before we were through. On the bearded one's left was a representative of the state depart-ment who gave me a disappointing-ly eye-witne- and unsensational ac-count of the recent parliament ses-sion of one of our South American neighbors a session which I had judged from previous dispatches, would be punctuated by revolver shots. We bad heard rumors of mys-terious shootings there which were supposed to have made np In political significance what they lacked in marksmanship. Also there had been hints of cabinet changes due not only to mistakes in policy, but to hasty burials. I asked my fellow guest about lt. "Oh, no," he said, "there were no cabinet changes." "But what about these terrible rumors of graft and corruption?" "Well, the President in his ad-dress did make particular reference to the evils of political corruption and to the importance of selfless loyalty on the part of the servants of the state." "But was that all?" I persisted. "No names, addresses, or telephone numbers?" "That was all," he insisted, "It was a very quiet session. Further-more there was none of the proto-col we observe at a joint session of the two houses of the American con-gress. This parliament was called to order, the President came in, spoke his piece, and went out." Of course the cashier over-heard this remark and with th natural caution of the banker, said to the businessman: "This will be fine, Mr. X, but will yoi please endorse this?" Mr. X turned It over, noted the name bat did not recognise It, trem-bled to think of what would hap-pen to his bank account if It bounced (and he was sure It would), and signed. Farewells were spoken, the scientist de-parted. Day after day the busi-nessman awaited the call from the bank. In fact, he told me he had picked out a space on the wall where he Intended to frame the paper so that he could call attention to it casu-ally should some other vaguely identified caller request a similar favor. Nothing happened. A month or so later, another col-lege friend came to town. The busi-nessman related the story, describ-ing the scientist and his occupatios Unaccountably his listener burs into laughter. "Didn't yon know," he said be-tween gasps, "That man's tech-nical as well as scientific Infor-mation which he acquired at school along with his Ars Mag-ist-er made him a cool million the year after he was gradu-ated?" At the luncheon there was also a Chinese oil expert who merely lis-tened and an ERP representative who left early. And now back to my d host. He related the adventure of one of the guests who had been un-able to appear. It seems this gen-tleman had formed a corporation called "World Development, Inc." or something very similar. When my host heard his glowing pros-pectus, he said, "Aren't you cover-ing a lot of ground." "Oh, no," said the promoter who since had acquired considerable in-fluence in international affairs, "this is Just a subsidiary of the Inter-- corporation." Then I had to go, so I never knew what master-pla- n for the rebuilding and exploiting of the nation, th world or the sidereal spaces were discussed or consummated. But I have no doubt you can go a lon( way In Washington starting with cold turkey. At this point, my host broke In. He insisted that I repeat the story of the opening of this sum-mer's special "turnip" session of congress which nobody outside of a few million radio listeners who happened to be tnned In had heard before. Legislative Faux Pag, De Luxe Style This July 28 when a very angry house of representatives was called to order, it was known that the regu-lar chaplain could not appear. So, when a stranger took the rostrum, the members rose, bowed their heads, as is the custom, to listen to the prayer. The first words they heard . resounding through the chamber were: "Where-as the public interest requires that the congress of the United States should be convened at 12 o'clock noon on Monday, the twenty-sixt- h of July, 1948, to receive such communi-cation as may be made by the Ex-ecutive; Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States . . ." and so on. . . . Gradually the members real-ized that the man addressing them was not the substitute for the absent chaplain of the honse, but the substitute for the equally-ab-sent reading clerk whose duty it Is to read bills and offi-cial communications. It was most embarrassing. The voice they were hearing was not the voice of a man repeating the word of God; it was the voice of the sub-stitute clerk repeating the procla-mation of the man at whom they were maddest The members didn't like to make public admission of their error by sitting down, and so they had to stand through the pain-ful 114-wo- pronouncement which had torn them from the bosom of family and constituency, and brought them back to heat-ridde- n Washing-ton. Next to the state department off-icial who had unwittingly provided the excuse for my anecdote was the consul-gener- of the Philippine re-public who happens to be the son of another college classmate of mine. He, like the rest of his fa ru I ? Current Events ? you haven t been spending f 'he following five esUon are based. Can you answer them. 1. The United Nations general assembly recently convened Uj Paris for a 10 or session. What Is the name of he elaborate building In which the assembly Is meeting? t. The American, British and French ambassadors who have been conferring with Molotov re-cently took their leave of Mos-cow. Can yon name them? 3. This year, 16 years after he soared 10 miles Into the strato-ephe- re in a balloon, a Belgian .dentist-explore- r plans to plunge two miles under water to Investi-gate the deep sea world. Who is he? 4. Who Is the man who took the assassinated Count Bernadotte's place as U. N. mediator In Pal-estine? 5. Princess Elizabeth of Eng-land was In the world spotlight when she got married last No-vember. Now she Is In the news again for a different reason. What Is it? ANSWERS 1. Palais de Challlot. 2. Walter Bedell Smith (U. S.), Frank Robert (British). Yves (French). 3. Prof. Auguste Plccard. i. Ralph Bunche, an American, Bernadotte's assistant. 5. She Is expecting a baby In No-vember. I CUTE ASAKiTTENJ 7314 flR FRISKY .AS A PUP JUST six cross-sti- t inch! 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If you stand close enough to their elbows, the tbancet are they'll be talking about: The preparations of the Swiss general staff for a Russian airborne attack in the dead of winter. It may never come, but every Swiss male over 16 has an army-issu- e rifle with-i- n reach. ... The way General Clay Is working himself Into an early grave at his desk before eight In the morning until midnight, when he goes home with a sheaf of papers in his briefcase. He not only administers U. S. policy In Germany, he's got to make It up as he goes along. Washington gives him as much guidance as a seeing-ey- e dog with cataracts and a broken leg. The growing exhaustion of our air force pilots who've been fly-I- ng the Berlin route since Jane 21. They see Yaks In their sleep as well as In the air. . . . Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the "lift" commander, who made hia repu-tation by never asking his pilots to do anything he wouldn't do himself. Every few days he walks out to "the circle" like any second louie and flies a freight plane to Berlin Just to see for himself how the thing la working. The m of Ernest Bev-i-n, whose personal hate is the best known political fact in London. Some of his best friends call him a "gut-tersnipe anti-Semit- as opposed, lt is presumed, to the more gentle-manly species. . . . The confidential Labor party report that If a general election took place today, Attlee would be returned by a margin of less than 25 seats in the Commons, which makes the next election (scheduled for 1950) an even money proposition. The "de facto" appointment of Montgomery as commander-in-chie- f (in addition to Britain's army) of the French, Belgian and Dutch armies. No appointment was necessary; they merely accept bis military leadership as the world automatically accepted FDR's diplomatic leadership. . . . The Duchess of Kent's private crush on Danny Kaye. (My word, so unregall) The Vatican's Intelligence sys-tem, which has superseded the Brit-ish as the most effective in Europe. No other chancellery knows as much about what's going on inside Rus-sia. . . . Marshal Tito's sudden gen-erosity with visas for American cor-respondents to work out of Belgrade. He feels safer with America's free press looking on just in case the Russians start a roughhouse inside the country. Lucky Lnciano'a quick and frequent round trips between Rome and Naples, apparently on urgent business but nobody knows what business and he Isn't telling. . . .. Rome's Excelsior hotel which looks like a branch office of the 20th Century-Fo- x administration building except that the Hollywood place hasn't Orson Welles standing out in front like a cigar store Indian. . . . Jack Warner's heavy losses In the European casinos dnrlng August ninety thousand bux, they say, one night. (Only the brave chemin de fer, said R. E. Sherwood. Or was It WooUcott?) The Norman Mailer best-selle- r. "The Naked and the Dead," which has the former war correspondents green with envy. The trained seals saw it all but left it to a GI to write the masterpiece. ... The offhours literary activity of the American correspondents in Italy (everybody is writing a novel) since Lionel Shapiro (ex-CB- S man in Rome) struck Hollywood gold with two books in a row. ... The modesty of Homer Bigart who, despite the fact that he regularly scoops the pants off every foreign correspondent, is the most beloved guy in the busi-ness. . . . The talented toughness of Wes Gallagher. AP's Berlin chief, who has worn the same scowl prac-tically since birth. His nickname: Laughing Boy. Confirmation from high Czech sources (now in the American zone) of the details of Masaryk's death. Trapped by Gottwald's gestapo as he was about to leave his office for a flight to freedom-- he shot four of the secret cops before backing out of the window to his death. . . . The flood of French big business money flowing into DeGaulle's treasury because it is now a bet that he'll be the leader (not toe premier) of France. ... The Russian drunk (a colonel) at a party m Vienna, who mumbled: "Nobody "n afTr w cept the Soviet Union. What have we got to lose?" 'tTvermaln "Want, just re-a-" i.P;"il'l rom three year, mls Zi?a: prisoner who bh outfit have Pbercotmenet f th i Communists. Water in K Mine water probl Pennsylvania hards are of long standing t Ing worse; the avera mine now pumps 0 tons of water for ever removed in compari 8--1 ratio 25 years eg THERE'S NO EXCUSE America's Rural Fire Loss Can Be Cut Although fire prevention week Is aver for this year, the danger of farm fires is not over and possibly never will be. But that seeming inevitability Is no excuse. As a matter of fact, fire protection experts say, there is no longer any excuse for America's annual farm fire loss able to almost any community that wants to make the effort Principal means of cutting rural fire losses, according to the Nation-al Board of Fire Underwriters, is a good volunteer fire department quartered in a small town but serv-ing the surrounding area that has been organized into a fire protec-tion district, such as now is author-ized in 39 states |