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Show THE MTLLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH SJ L-- ' .7v I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Soviets Express Desire for Peace, Agree to Discussion of Differences; U. S. Seizes Railroads-Str-ike Off I By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whea plaloas ara aspresacd la theaa aolumni. they are ' Wastera Nawapaper Unloa'e news aaaiyita aad not eeeaaarlljr at thla aewipaper.j UNCERTAINTY: Who Won? that anyone was just about .11 the smoke from the sure of when election, , had c ear d Ohio primary was that Sen. Robert Taft had won 44 delegates to the Republican na-tional convention and that Harold atTaffs door, had Stassen. the wolf captured nine. should be In-terpreted How those results promised to be a thor-oughly argued question by the time convened inmia-delphi- a the Republicans to nominate a presidential candidate. Many held the opinion that the if not an Ohio primary resulted in, outright defeat for Stassen, at least a brusque check on the Minneso-tan'- s heretofore snowballing cam-paign. Stassen had competed with Taft for 23 of the state's 53 delegates. He won nine and Taft took 14 of those 23. In a state-ment, Stassen had said that the Ohio contest could be accounted a victory for him only if he won a majority of the 23 disputed delegates. Thus, by his own estimate, Stas-sen lost in Ohio. He lost, however, to a "favorite son" candidate strong-ly supported in his own state by Ohio's powerful political organiza-tion. It was hardly a victory for Taft to shout about. In the final analysis the CO. P. election race had not changed much. OVERTURE: Peaceful All of a sudden the air between Washington and Moscow was filled with talk of peace and desire for co-operation. Exactly what had happened to bring about the quick flow of the milk of human kindness between the U. S. and Russia was not clear. Certainly there had occurred no basic change in the potentially ex-plosive relationship. It began with a U. S. statement of position, voiced by Bedell Smith, ambassador to Russia, in the pres-ence of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. Smith, apparently speaking offi-cially, suggested that the way is clear for a discussion of differences with Russia. Said the U. S. am-bassador: "The present state of U. relations is a source of grievous disappointment to the American people. As far as the United States Eastern Hotspot Miiii'iiii'fa jr-ym- n ' jr cwiP ,. It was Taft and Dewey teaming up to force Stassen into the rail, with Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigao coming up fast on the outside. FARM ISSUE: Truman Rather hard put for a good, earthy issue to play upon In his coming campaign, President Truman has hit upon the farm prdblem as the vehicle to carry some of his con-victions before the public. He began by planning a message to congress on the subject of long-rang- e agricultural legislation. The Idea was originated by the retir-ing Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson who opined that such a plea to congress would put the Re-publicans "on the spot." The message which Mr. Truman was preparing would ask for an "adequate appropriation" to con-tinue the government farm program, "particularly on soil conservation," according to Alben Barkley, senate Democratic leader. Barkley acidulously recalled that the President had asked in his budget message for 300 million do-llars for soil conservation in the coming fiscal year, and that con-gress had cut that sum to 225 mil-lion. Many U. S. farmers would be Inclined to agree. 'X' for Taft is concerned, the door is always wide open for full discussion and the composing of our differences." Russia's reply, as broadcast by the Moscow radio, expressed a positive attitude toward improving Soviet-Americ-relations and stated that Russia "is in agreement" with a U. S. proposal for "discussion and settlement of existing differences." Although these developments re-ceived a big play in the press and radio of both nations, indications were strong that the aura of mutual hostility separating the U. S. and Russia might not be dispelled by the willingness to "compose our differ-ences." Neither side had modified its for-eign policy. Rather, each had em-phasized it in the exchange of notes. The U. S. statement said, in part: "The concern and the determination of the people of the United States have been intensified by the inexpli-cable hostility of the Soviet govern-ment to the European recovery pr-ograma measure which in its in-ception and subsequent develop-ments is so obviously only a meas-ure of American assistance for re-construction on a basis without menace or threat to any-one." In their reply the Soviets con-trasted what they termed military threats against the Soviet Union with the Russian government's pur-suit of "a consistent peace policy." At least there was a definition of terms and a preliminary agree-ment to talk things over. Whether or not any good would come of It was, at this stage, problematical. There- was a suspicion abroad that Russia, balked In its ambitions to expand into western Europe by the European recovery program, might be ready now to try to make Latest area to emerge as a pivotal point In the world-wid- e drive against communism is south-ern Korea where about seven mil-lion registered voters went to the polls to elect 200 representatives to what Is known as the Korean national assembly. Prior to the election, Communist -- trained agents were reported to have been attempting to stir np trouble in the U. S. tone te influence the bal-loting. Lewis, who didn't have a word to say about it. But Lewis had set the pattern. The rail union leaders Alvanley Johns-ton of the engineers, D. B. Robertson of the firemen and A. J. Glover Jr. of the switchmen were uncomfort-ably aware of what happened to the mine chief when he disobeyed an in-junction to call off his soft coal strike. They knew that if they disobeyed Judge Goldsborough's restraining order they would be exposing them-selves and their unions to whopping big fines and possible jail sentences. It was becoming apparent that the government had hit upon a hard-fiste- d way of delaying crippling strikes. With labor unrest destined to grow this summer, that method though far from ideal, might come to be the basic formula for Induc-ing arbitration and settlement of strikes. DIXIE: Anti-Truma- n Although President Harry Truman had not held forth publicly on the subject of civil rights for some time now, the echoes of the civil rights program he advanced earlier this year were rattling around like sabers soutn or tne Mason-Dixo- n line. Alabama voters had expressed themselves as being In the state's primary election they had given majorities to candidates pledged to cast electoral votes against the President because of the civil rights issue. It was the first concrete indica-tion that a bolt from the regular Democratic party nominee might not be unlikely next November if the nominee (like Mr. Truman) is committed to supporting the civil rights program. And in Jackson, Miss., a "state's rights" Democratic rally was key-note;" with a flat prediction that President Truman would not be R-eelected because he is not acceptable to the nation or the southern Demo-crat a some kind of deal. ALL ABOARD: Trains Run U. S. economy escaped being a victim of railroad paraplegia at the eleventh hour when three rail broth-erhoods yielded to a restraining order brought against them by the government and called off their im-pending strike. Events leading up to that climax had run a course which has become familiar to strike-wear- y Americans. Negotiations between the railroads and the three dissenting brother-hoods engineers, firemen and switchmen had been fruitless. As the strike deadline approached they remained miles away from any kind of agreement on wages and working conditions. Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina defined the South's stand when he told the rally that the South is not in revolt against" the Demo-cratic party but against its present leadership. Spark that kindled the political fire in the South was Mr. Truman's espousal of proposals to pass fed-eral laws outlawing lynching, poll taxes, job discrimination and segre-gation of races. Legislation like that. Governor Thurmond asserted, would violate the historic principle of the right of states to determine their own attitude toward such mat-ters. So far It was only talk, but n feeling had crystallized In the South to the point where party leaders were badly worried. If the Dixie Democrats carried their de-fection to the ultimate point of nominating their own candidate, the big-wig- s might as well throw in the sponge for the '48 elections and start looking to 1952. By that time President Truman had built up a full head of steam and he opened the throttle wide. The U. S. could not stand "a nation-wide tragedy" such as the rail strike would be, he said. Acting under the sanction of a 1919 law which authorizes the govern-ment to take over the railroads dur-ing the time of war (U. S. is still, officially, in a state of wartime emergency) Mr. Truman seized the entire vast network of tracks and trains in the name of the federal government. That move paved the way for a court order restraining the unions from striking for eight days. Fed-eral District Judge T. Alan Golds-boroug- h issued the order and the nation's trains kept running, for the time being, at least Possibly proving that there is no wind so ill that it doesn't blow up some good for somebody, one of the major influences leading to cancella-tion of the rail strike was John L. Sen. Robert Taft's presidential star once again was in ascend-ancy following the important Ohio primary election of S3 Repub-lican national convention dele-gates. He won 14 of the 23 con-tests In which Harold E. Stassen was a strong disputant. WHEAT: Big Crop Word from the department nf agriculture was that the U. S. would produce the third largest wheat crop in history this year. The department stuck to that pre-diction even though it had reduced its estimate of the important winter wheat crop by 14.5 million bushels from the April 1 estimate. Except in parts of the southern great plains, the crop made good progress, it was revealed in an offi-cial department report As of May 1, prospects were for a total of 1.117 billion bushels of wheat Largest crop was 1.38 billion bushels last year. Production in the 1936-4- 5 period averaged 890 million bushels. Department of agriculture estimat-ed the fall-sow- n winter wheat crop at about 845 million bushels, a de-cline of 14.5 from its April 1 fore-cast. No official estimate of spring wheat was available, but a guess was that average yields should pro- duce 272 million bushels. PLANT LIFE: Appetites Atomic scientists have learned that some plants, like human be-ings, are finicky eaters. This new knowledge. Important commercially, is the result of ex-haustive tests with radioactive iso-topes of phosphorous. Now science can tell a farmer who spends $50 to put phosphate fer-tilizer on his land whether the plant only nibbles or takes a bite big enouKh to reDay his exoensa. Series of Contradictions Marks Political Campaign By BAUKHACE News Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON Political currents and cross currents are running high, wide and deep along the Potomac these days. The wave of popularity stirred up by Stassen supporters is not pleas-ant for regular Republicans to contemplate. Some of the however, particularly those in the Taft corner, are very bitter about it, not because they think that Stassen will get in, but because of the way he has served to block the Taft efforts despite the fact that those efforts have been labelled, rightly or wrongly, futile from the beginning. Deweyites don't admit triey are worrying butl I talked to one of the Taft men recently. "What makes me sick," he said, "Is the way the people who ftp S&A have done their best to break down Taft are full of praise for him now that t h a y think be is beaten. They describe his efficiency, his knowledge, h 1 s frankness, his grasp of the sub-jects he discusses. And they talk about Stassen's vagueness and in- - But some observers feel as News-week magazine expressed it soma time ago: "Stassen's forthright quest for votes may end much of the tradi-tional coyness of aspirants. In the future, it's thought that more can-didates will frankly announce their intentions well in advance of elec-tion." WelL maybe. There is plenty of old-lin- e resent-ment against Stassen, not only be-cause he began an open campaign so early, but also because of the efficient, powerful highly-organize- d and aggressive machine he has built up. A right wing Republican I spoke to recently seemed especial-ly resentful, grumbling about the "big money" backing Minnesota's and the New York banking interests "that wanted in." Senator Taft was reported se furious over Stassen's Invasion of Ohio that it was thought that he might forget his rivalry with Dewey, and throw his support to the New Torker earlier In the convention If the deadlock was certain. All this talk AGAINST candidates is interesting psychologically. You always hear far mora rea-sons for voting AGAINST a candi-date than you hear for voting FOR one. It's a very good thing that no candidate is ever quite so bad as his opponents claim he is. Other-wise the government would fall apart regularly every four years. Monroe Doctrine Is Reactivated On Charles street in the sleepy little town of Fredericksburg, Va., in the first floor office of a story-and-a-ha- lf brick house, you can see, if you obey the parking signs and stop there, a beautiful brass-boun- d mahogany desk, artistic handiwork of the French cabinet makers of the early 18th century. It is an historic piece of furni-ture for on its surface 125 years ago, there was signed a document which, reactivated today, becomes at once the challenge and the hope of free men throughout the world. That desk, carefully carried across the seas as a precious heirloom, found its way into the great, empty rooms of the White House, newly-rebui- lt after the destructive fire set by an enemy torch in the War of 1812. ability to answer Taft s cnarges." "And these," he wound up, "are the same people who have been shoot-ing at Taft ever since ha started his presidential campaign." There is something in what this man says. You would be surprised how many liberals, how many Dem-ocrats even, praise Taft privately, would really like to sea him elected, but either they can't quite come out openly in his favor, or they take lor granted he can't win anyhow. Then there la the great groirp of Republicans who are going to vote for Dewey, but act as if they were gritting their teeth In the process. "What have yon got against Dewey?" I ask them. Some are vague, others say the New York governor is a "strad-dl- cr ... an opportunist . . . never eomes out for an Issue until he sees a GaUnp poll on It . . . but I suppose he'll win . . ." Can he? Since the Stassen hurricane, the oldtimers are talking a little dif-ferently about Dewey. Some of them who have predicted right along that Dewey would win now are saying that Stassen has undermined him so thoroughly that now Dewey has no more chance than Taft. And all the time the Vandenberg tide is rising. But here's an inter-esting thing. Way back in Febru-ary some very canny observers were saying that Speaker Joe Mar-tin of the house of representatives had the best chance of anyone for the Republican presidential nomina-tion, in case of the expected Taft-Dewe- y deadlock. At the time many people were surprised at that opinion. But It wasn't long before we began to see mention of Martin here and there. Turn back the pages to December of the year 1823. At this desk sits a man in a stiffly-starche- d stock. His broad forehead is wrinkled with thought His wide eyes look down at the document he is about to sign. It is his message to the 18th con-gress of the United States, but it embodies the spirit and is couched in the phrases which his predeces-sors have used before him expres-sing the intent and the obligations of the young republic of which he, James Monroe, is the President. Two years before, the Czar of all the Russians had uttered a ukase that no foreigner must approach within 100 miles of the American coastline north of the 51st parallel. Russia then had a firm foothold on the northwestern coastland of the western hemisphere. The iron cur-tain had descended. Then, finally, insiders accepted him as probably the best bet of the sev-eral Republican dark horses. I know I could feel his popularity growing is I travelled around the country. But then came the surprise move when Martin was credited with bringing abont settlement ef the coal miners' pension row the appointment of Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire as neutral trustee on the pension board with John Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, and the agreement that was reached between Bridges and Lewis. At first the settlement put Martin in a favorable light with the pub-lic. Then some of the conservative Republicans who hate Lewis ex-pressed their disapproval There were hints of a "deal" that had been reached between Bridges and Lewis before Bridges was appointed. Dem-ocrats charged that Martin was poll-tickin- Horn, representing the op-erators, appealed to the courts to declare the pension agreement in-valid. Martin's stock dropped. And the oldtimers began to say his chances for the presidential nomination were slim. Not so much because of the pension deal itself, but paradoxica-llyand this is one of the accepted paradoxes of politics because his intervention in the row was taken as a public avowal of his candidacy. Martin ceased to be a dark horse and as a light horse, he wasn't con-sidered nearly as much of a favor-ite The paradox applies to Senator Vandenberg. The Michigan sen-ator constantly and consistently has disavowed any desire or In-tention of being a candidate for the Republican nomination. If, ac-cording to this paradoxical po- - Plus ca change, plus ca reste lax meme chose! "We could not view any interpo-sition for the purpose of oppres-sing them (the free countries of the Americas) by any European power In any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriend-ly disposition toward the United States." One hundred and twenty-fiv- e years pass. Today, the United States, in a world that has shrunk until Moscow Is nearer to Washington than Bos-ton was In Monroe's time, rededi-eate- s Its resources to "help free peoples to maintain their free Insti-tutions and their national Integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totali-tarian regimes." The words are President Tru-man's, bnt the spirit is the same as that breathed la the Monroe doctrine. America carries on. Polysyllabically, John L. Lewis and Gen. Douglas MacArthur have something in common. Perhaps Lewis should run as MacArthur's vice president. Think of all the sonorous f I v state-ments they could get out In President Lincoln's time, most of the speeches were made in the open air without benefit of public address system or microphone. Now all you really need is a few friends who can make themselves beard in a smoke-fille- d room. Utical rule, tne oldtimers say, ne were thrust Into the limelight, his cause would suffer too. At this writing, Vandenberg seems to stand as the No. 1 bet. Stassenites, however, claim that this paradox is all old hat; that times and political thinking have ehanged. One of the first black marks which the Republican old guard checked against Stassen was the fact that he came right out as a candidate way ahead of time. The traditional thing is to be oh, so coy about it TAKES i!& ' pre" 'A coun BysDomiiji lite, Youngster, ftp doors In this ,eal ai can easily U ajjj f below notonl ftwi Btructionbutprw? 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Waxingp: M. trous, clean look; and: ),o!d jtroul When picking hind g sandwiches on edge t . ing them flat: this is 1 ? Is less apt to soak I bread. ' J Coleus plant, will Pm shade, but the moti e the deeper the color i f 1 smo mII I wmumm,l'TKm hum J Atom Scare in Washington Washington was frightened out ol its dreams the other night when the most violent thunder-and-lightnin- g storm Tve ever witnessed atomie'd the capital. It broke about 2:18 a. m. and lasted several hours . . . Next day wherever you went, from the White House to Harvey's restau-rant, the people all said trie same thing. "I thought Russia dropped an on us" ... The lightning Just didn't stop and the boom-boo- m of a zillion rolling bass-drum- s made me wonder if that isn't exact-ly what our men go through up front during war ... A devoutly religious woman said: "Nobody can make me believe God didn't arrange It Just that way right over Washington, D. C, so all the wicked men at the Pentagon would be reminded of what war sounds like when It gets close." Sounds In the Night: At the Harem s comedian was bragging how he wowed 'em at Miami for two weeks ... "I wowed 'em In Chicago be-fore that," he added, "and I was a wow in Frisco, too!" . . . "You must have," interrupted Wally Wanger, "the wowsiest act in show businessl" ... At the Encore some-on- e was reading aloud the news that Hollywood publisher Billy Wilkerson led Lana Turner down the aisle for her fourth marriage ... To which Dot Kilgallen meow'd: "She shoulda been able to do it blindfolded 1" Robert Merrill, the Met. star, was telling an opera crltlo one of his first Jobs was at Youngs Gap hotel (In the Catskills) serving meals. "Oh," said the critic, "in those days yon were a singing waiter." "In those days," sighed Merrill, '1 was a waiting singer." Manhattan Murals: The elevator operator at 139 E. 67th who still wears his battered air corps bat his "plane" . . . The blood bank on 39th street for the Palestine wounded . . . The sign in the window of a 46th street Russian restaurant: "Dishes for Democratic gourmets" . . . The Columbus ave-nue delicatessen which advertises: "The New Lox." Once a heckler caused the death of a great star, to hear vaudevets argue it . . . Literally, not profes-sionally. It happened at the Palace in 1913 . . . His name was Nat Wills, a be-loved tramp comic . . . The head-line- r was Sarah Bernhardt ... It was the opening matinee and Sarah went over big . , . The clapping kept on long after she took her last bow ... Wills made the boner of coming on stage. I The audience broke into heavier applause and an usher, who waited too long, handed a huge bokay of posies over the footlights. They were for Sarah, of course . . . Wills mo-tioned to her to come on stage and take them ... He removed his hat in great respect to her. But a heckler yelled: "Give 'em to Wills. He's dying!" Two-a-daye- Insist the cruel crack ruined the sensitive Wills. He was never the same after it A few years later he died of carbon monox-ide poisoning in his garage . . . Broadway never stopped wonder-ing. Bernard Baruch, whose advlc Is widely sought, is considered by many to be the smartest man In the country. He wears a hearing aid. A well known politico, often seen with Baruch, was asked If Barney still had trouble with his bearing. "I really don't know," he re-plied, "when I'm with Baruch I Just listen." The Press Box: Simple to sawy the diplomatic scrambling if you re-member that the international crisis now has reached the stage where na-tions are more concerned with mili-tary positions than moral standards . . . Sudden thawt: Appeasement can .on.l.y g1Ve us a peace to end all peace The reports about the rooking Russian-dominate- d nations are tak-ing merely indicate that the Kremlin drove out the Nazis In order to In-stall communistic slot machines. In a Bronx haberdasher-sho- p a patron was blowing-- his top abont the President. "Everything he does makes me mad!" he barked. "Dn't et apoplexy," shrngged the storekeeper. "He can't help line" dSn,t happea be h,a N. New Chitchat: One York paper i. preparing an expose that'll fracture the country. alleges that the head of a greatly Publicized congressional committee mmheT of the Klan in 1925. Under his real name) ... come How editor, haven't tried getting an interview with Frances Crane. tZT? lumbIn ten for--. Jan Masaryk's ex-wi- fe eported "still Wtter. . h' ' MacArthur "ha, more Migratory Bird rim' I m0 Ducks and other wii from north to south, u , a; again, as season, chq b. favored routes, which i the Atlantic seaboard; Mississippi valley; (31! to Montana and then i J1" or southeast into the C. u area; (4) tht Pacific explanation for the t im some birds 1, herediiy 'n born In the North, and: sl date back to the Pto jjn dl; SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE Americans Burning More Cigarettes Cigarette consumption in the U. S. in 1947 ascended to an all-tim- e high for the 14th consecutive year, despite spectacular wartime gains which would have made a subse-quent postwar decline no great sur-prise to the industry. According to an article In the May edition of "Business Comment." bulletin of Northern Trust company. total output of 370 billion cigarettes last year was 5 per cent greater than in 1946. "Per capita cigarette consumption In the U. S. has followed an upward trend, with minor Interruptions, since prior to World War I," the bank reported. On a per capita basis consumption jumped from 163 in 1914 to 2,400 In 1947 |