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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH --- -j j WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Anti-Commun- ist Coalition Crushes Red Opponents in Italian Election; Lewis, Miners Fined for Contempt By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion! are expressed In these rolumns, they are (hone of Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I Requirements NEBRASKA: Stassen Again Harold E. Stassen had husked his political corn well in Nebraska. Voters in the state's preferential primary-typ- ed this year as a "pop-ularity poll"-show- ered their favors on the wayfaring campaigner from Minnesota in field of seven Re-publican presidential aspirants. Results of the Nebraska balloting gave Stassen 15 national convention delegates for at least the first bal-lot. Legally, Nebraska's delegates national convention un-pledged. go to the By custom, however, the outcome of the preferential primary is binding on the delegates for the first ballot. Stassen now estimated that he would command at least 300 delegates on the first ballot in Phila-delphia this June. As far as Thomas E. Dewey was concerned, the Nebraska primary added not a cubit to his political stature. He ran an indifferent sec-ond to Stassen; and there were many who predicted that this defeat, close-ly following the complete rout of Dewey forces in Wisconsin, virtually eliminated the New York governor from the GOP presidential campaign yiin'iiiwr);i,ffii?!H.;fB vi f fr. w, y.J y,: i : EAST, WEST: In Italy By the time officials finished :ounting the first vote returns from Daly's national election there was 10 longer any element of surprise n the fact that the :oalition parties were winning two-io-on- e. Unusual thing was that the anti-Re- d Christian Democrats, Repub-licans and Social Unity party had icored such a top-heav- y victory. They led everywhere, even in the "Red North" where Com-munists had amassed considerable strength in the industrial cities. It appeared that the lad secured absolute majority in both the Italian senate and chamber of deputies. Communist front spokesmen con-ceded that the election results "must oe considered a victory" for Pre-mier Alclde De Gasperi's coalition. This Italian election had been the plum for which both the U. S. and Soviet Russia had been competing frantically for six months. It was a real contest. Each nation had sent myriads of entries: "I think Italy should be (or Com-munist) because " Each entry was accompanied, not by boxtops, but by boxcars of food and machinery as Gen. Omar Bradley, army chief of staff, told the bouse armed services committee that in the event of another war the U. S. must occupy Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen and the Azores or ex-pose its industrial and population centers to air attack. In bid for congressional support of the draft and UMT, General Bradley warned that the army today would be in no position to take such posi-tive action should the need arise. HOLY LAND: What Now? arena. Ohio's Sen. Robert Taft, who had the support of Sen. Hugh Butler's state political organization, took third place, although he had been expected to show considerable strength in Nebraska. It was a critical blow to his political stock. Far down the list and completely out of the money were the other four contenders: Sen. Arthur Gen, Douglas MacArthur, Gov. Earl Warren of California and Speaker of the House Joseph Martin. As always after a pivotal political event such as the Nebraska pri-mary, innumerable experts were scurrying through their mental gymnasiums to find significances. This was the consensus: Stassen had generated a lot of horsepower because of his Wiscon-sin and Nebraska victories. Con-ceivably, he could sweep the GOP convention, although that contin-gency was by no means certain yet. Taft and Dewey were in shoal water and heading for the rocks un-less some outside force gave their candidacies a boost. The question no longer was whether Taft or Dewey would get the nomination but whether they could resolve their differences long enough to get to-gether to stop Stassen. General MacArthur, it appeared, would not get a chance to accert the nomination. well as other blandishments. Victory of the In the election was, in a manner of speaking, a clear-cu- t victory of benevolent capitalism over militant communism. As such it could exert tremendous influence on the course of European history. Probably the principal factors de-ciding the outcome of the election were passage of the European recov-ery program and the U. S. proposal to return Trieste to Italy. Further, the election appeared to make an Important point concern-ing the workings of Communist ag-gression: Ability of the Communists to take over a country is greatly reduced in cases where the Red army cannot be brought into posi-tion to exert pressure on the in-tended victim. In its first positive action since the U. S. backed away from its stand favoring partition, the United Na-tions security council issued a call to both Jews and Arabs to stop fight-ing in Palestine. It probably was a gesture of im-potence, rendered even more im-potent by the fact that the security council, although it laid down spe-cific truce directives to both fac-tions, decided against sending a U.N. commission to the scene of trouble to check on compliance. Russia, continuing to favor the partition plan, refused to support the truce proposal but at the same time Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate, re-frained from applying Russia's big-pow-veto and thus permitted the agreement to be concluded. Successor There was no assurance that either Jewish or Arab forces would agree to a United Nations truce and lay down their arms. Well aware that the truce proposal had little or no significance in the pattern of the Holy Land tragedy, U. N. delegates shook their heads gloomily and wondered if the United Nations, not yet three years old, might not be a blue baby. It was clear that the U. N.'s lack of "elan vital" in the Palestine prob-lem stemmed directly from the de-cline of American prestige and leadership in the world organization. After having pushed the partition plan through the U. N. by the sheer weight of its apparent conviction, the U. S. suddenly abandoned its The Red army was not a factor in the Italian elections. It was a factor, either through its immediate presence or its threatening prox-imity, in the coups of Czechoslo-vakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and eastern Germany. If that reasoning is sound, a dis-turbing conclusion is evident: Should Russia realize that Soviet domina-tion of Europe cannot be accom-plished without use of military force, the next step might be to bring the Red army into action. LEWIS: Lost and Fined All things considered, John L. Lewis came away from his brush with the government in fairly good : A k ' shape suffering only relatively minor abrasions of the pocketbook. For ignoring a federal order to end the soft coal strike that began March 15 over a pension dispute, Lewis was convicted by Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough of criminal contempt of court. As punishment Judge Goldsborough imposed a $20,000 fine on Lewis personally and fined his United Mine Workers union a total of 1.4 million dollars. It was almost a verbatim of the h drama of 1946 when the judge fined Lewis $10,000 and the union 3.5 mil-lion dollars for contempt. This time, however, Judge Golds-borough wanted to be tough. He wanted to give Lewis a jail term but support 01 partition in order to dab-ble in power politics with Middle East oil as the stakes. Instead of partition U. S. leaders advocated a temporary United Nations trustee-ship. But they failed to indicate what kind of trusteeship or exactly how they thought it should be en-forced. While the American U. N. delega-tion was playing hard-toge- t, other delegates were asking "What are we here for?" Unofficial explanation was that the U. S. was trying, through Secretary of State George Marshall in Bogota, Colombia, to get some South Amer-ican nations to offer to supply the troops that will be needed to enforce a trusteeship. Epidio Quirino, nt of the Republic of the Philippines, succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President Manuel Roxas. Roxas died in a Clark field hospital, only a short time after uttering a pledge of "inde-structible faith" between the American and Philippine peoples UPSWING: Inflation Latest of President Truman's re curring announcements that the na-tion's economy is being endangered by high prices was backed up this time by department of commerce economists. They found that business activity had been growing stronger in re- cent weeks and concluded that this increasing strength must be inter-preted in the light of the economic impact of lowered taxes, the foreign aid program and stepped-u- military spending. Dingo! Another batch of atoms has been exploded on the sea-gir- t wastes of Eniwetok atoll in the far western Pacific. In the words of the U. S. atomic energy commission, the event marked the successful completion of an "atomic weapon." There was no further description of the sixth known atomic explosion in world history; but, as always in the case of applied nuclear physics, the ele-ment of mystery involved was at least as awesome as specific knowl-edge of the instrument might be. At this stage, the situation between U. S. and Russia was not unlike a popular American game of chance. Democracy had just completed a row of numbers on its card; and in the U. S. announcement of a new atomic weapon kibitzers around the world could hear a loud cry of "Bingo!" refrained from doing so upon advice from the government, chief prose-cutor in the case. Nevertheless, he deplored the gov-ernment's policy of "expediency" which dictated that the mine chief's punishment should be limited to a fine and that he should not be given a jail sentence because that would make a martyr of him in the eyes of the miners. It was a bad spot for Lewis per-haps the worst of his career. Not only had he failed to beat the Taft-Hartle- y act and been forced to ac-cept terms far short of his original demands in settlement of the pension dispute, but he also had put his UMW treasury 1.4 million dollars In the hole. And now, if the miners continued to stay away from work in protest against the punishment, the govern-ment retained a powerful weapon it could wield. The Taft-Hartle- y in-junction against them still was pend-ing. HYBRID CO UN: North Central Twelve North Central states are well in advance of the South in the percentage of corn acreage planted with high-yiel- d hybrid seed, accord-ing to a report by the department of agriculture. The North Central group has in-creased its use of hybrid seed from zero in 1933 to 92.5 per cent of all its acreage planted last year, while the South has only 27.2 per cent planted to hybrid seed. Ancient Africans A heavy flint cleaver, reduced to chalk-lik- e consistency after having Iain in the earth for milleniums, is part of the evidence a Harvard thropologist brought back from Northwest Africa to support his claim that man existed in that tion of the world 150,000 years ago. Dr. Hugh Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Re-search, returned from the expedi-tion with two tons of fossils. 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Well, since Gr I her oS to KELLOGG- S Mom has joined the 'W: what a difference in h.; I off a bowlful of AiW; j a.m., drinks a lot cj j taken to baking swell c , from the recipe on the j box. So come on b home' was never like - ALL-BRA-N. Ji s Thousands now ileP. the nsws that their benig niRbt mwht 6 from J'"?,, ktdnw- Ufa hope s?n PUla usaally allay "ive'-de-irritation is so prt,ner potent. Foley Pi" ,?r SA tour, or DOUBLE "f Maka test. Gst loU gist. Full satufactioa MONEY BACK. You Can BePJ 3uy U. S. Saving' Driven nearly frantic burning of simple p" you fidgeting in discora Countless sufferers tf told relief from bathing tender gently-cleansi- ng Lt. Soap then applying: fullynedicatedResmo' Why don't you try ey way to long-l- a RESIfJOL'" ( Is This Where We Came In? War Department Thinks Not By BAUKIIACE Neies Analyst and Commentator "Just now Washington isn't as warlike as it sounds. The emphasis is on defense, not offense. However, there are con-flicting views on what we ought to do . . ." That sentence just about reflects sentiment here as I write these lines a sentiment that has changed rapidly in the last few weeks, days, hours, and may change still more before these lines are printed. That sentence also reflected the sentiment in Washington eight years ago. (I found it among my clippings of the column which appeared early in October of 1940.) I had just come back from the war depart-ment which then was located on Constitution ave-nue, There wasn't any Pentagon building then. I bad been inter-vewin- g an officer on the subject of In case you have forgotten, the United States army, the greatest military machine in history, was "redeployed" out of existence and under such pressure from mothers and wives, and at such a breakneck speed, that in many cases it didn't leave a pile of scrap behind it to mark the spot whence it melted and dribbled away. The Red army didn't It is still largely de-ployed. And so here we are again! Panicky Outlook Is Not Justified One might become exceedingly pessimistic, one might grow panicky. But, as I think over the interviews, as I recall the faces of those men charged with our nation's defense, as I ponder the words, the tone of voice, I must say the net impression of the contacts is to make me feel more hopeful than I had felt before. "our new citizen army." "According to many letters I get" (I wrote) "what a lot of people want to know Is why we need a citizen army in peacetime?" A lot of people are asking that question again today. The answer which I reported to you in this col-umn eieht vears aeo was this: "Speed is what counts In an army today. We aren't calling out these boys to fight anybody. We are calling them out to train them so they'll be ready if we ever need them. The United States can al-ways raise a big army If war is declared. But neither we nor any other country can raise a trained army overnight. And a lot can happen in the night these days. What we want to do is to train these men for a reserve . . ." It was a year and three months after I wrote those words that some-thing did happen, not in the night, but in the early morning, over Pearl Harbor. We didn't start it. The Japs did the deciding. They decided that we had to go to war. The Lesson's Over, TVo Time for Recess Today we have more to say. We have learned a great deal since December 7, 1941. We have learned how to fight a global war and win it. The question is will we do the things which will prevent a global war? That will be something if we do. Meanwhile the wheel seems to have made the circle and some of the boys who were learning squads right in 1340 are wondering if this is where they came in. I had a chance to think about that on another trip back from the war department recently, or I should say the depart-ment of national defense. It's a longer journey now than it was to the old "temporary" World War I build-Inf- f on Constitution avenue. The It was only three years ago, In April, 1S15, that this high point o' Kussian American camaraderie was reached when Maj. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt of the U.S. first army greeted the major general com-manding the Hussian 58th infantry division at a meeting of American and Russian units at the Elbe river in Germany. I had been pretty depressed when I began the round of calls in the var-ious little cells that open onto the endless corridors of the Pentagon offices, large and small, with maps on the walls, the men in uniform or civilian clothes at desks. When I left, I had the feeling that here were men who were looking at the task before them coolly and calmly, neither obsessed with a certainty that they were moving Into another Inevitable conflict nor Indifferent to the possibilities that such might be the case. "We anticipate no belligerent or provocative move on the part of the Russians. We don't pretend to be able to say what their plan is, or whether they have one. In any case, it is not our move. Whether there is to be peace or war depends upon the men in the politburo. We have no way of knowing what their next step will be. We doubt if they have made up their minds . . ." And then one official came back to the remark I quoted before: "Personally," he said, "I do not Pentagon sprawls geometrically over 310 acres across the Potomac in Virginia. The message I brought back was very much like the one I reported eight years ago. It was a reassurance that the request for three billion more dol-lars for national defense is what the military men say is the mini-mum peacetime expenditure to prevent war. In other words, de-fense, not offense. It was pointed out that if it were necessary now to prepare for actual conflict, the cost would run closer to 50 billions than three. I was most heartily assured that the United States did not want war, that no encouragement whatever was being given those few persons who. urged "preventive" action. With less certainty, but advanced as an honest opinion, was the statement that Rus-sia did not want war, either. "There is no reason, as far as we know now," one official told me, "why war cannot be avoided, provided a reasonable balance is established between the military forces of the two countries. Now we are in imbalance." It was noted that Russia and her satellites now have under arms near-ly twice the number which this country and the anti Communist countries of western Europe could put in the field. It is well to remember too that the Russian Red army is mobilized; it is largely concentrated in eastern Europe, whereas American troops are thinly scattered over the whole earth. Russia has never really de-mobilized, she has more combat planes and men to man them; she has a greater land force; a numerically-- superior artillery. think Kj:ssia wants war. I am cer-tain that we do not." As I say, I went out past the re-ception desk, through the high doors and out to where the quiet river holds the city in its tranquil em-brace. It looked no more turbulent, no less peaceful, when, during the war years, I used to come out that same door with my notes interpret-ing the latest strategic war in Nor-mandy, the breakthrough at St. Lo, the Battle of the Bulge, Patton's tactical miracles. ' Washington is calm. The other day as I opened my closet door, I noticed my trenchcoat with the faded blue patch with "war correspondent" on the shoulder. It didn't give me a turn. After all, we have just won the greatest victory of its kind in history the completion of the plan to aid Europe. That and a few bloodless steps which caution and not desperation dictate are enough for now. Even clergymen are able to think fast in a crisis, even though those I who are prone to sleep through inter- - minable sermons may be inclined to doubt the assertion. But up in Cambridge, Mass., a policeman was induced to tear up a speeding ticket when a clergyman he had stopped explained, "You have to be fast these days if you want to save souls." June is the "dew month" in Ja-pan. In this country, we insist, every month is "due month." We are strong in bombing planes, but she has a . stronger defense in fighter and interceptor planes. She is believed to be producing from 75,000 to 100,000 planes a year. We produced 1,700 military planes of ell types last year. But "our biggest shortage is in equipment," said a veteran officer. One might go on at great length. I won't. I have rehearsed the sad story of "redeployment" ever since I first heard it from a general's sec-retary, vho, like most of the rest of us, thought it was "reemployment" Candid Microphones The Comic: Broadway, what a street! . . . They tell you to be dif--i ferent then when you're different, they call you a character! Hey, I wonder, maybe I'm asking too much? . . . Maybe I oughtta cut my price? . . . Maybe I oughtta change my agent? . . . Yeah, but who else would have me? ... I'd write my ' autobiography but I don't have enough old jokes ... If I play one more benefit they'll be holding a benefit for me . . . One thing I can't figger ... I'm good-lookin- g I got talent I got class I got charm my material is stolen from the fin-- j est comics So, how cum I'm not working???? Broadway Merchant: Nah! It's not what it usta be! . . . Hands me a laugh . . . "The Gay White Way," hah! . . . shootin' galleries, honky-tonk- an' custard stands . . . What've they done to My Street? . . . Why, in my day people didn't dare walk down Broadway unless they were dressed formal . . . An' ya shouldda seen 42nd street Ziegfeld's "Follies" on one side George White's "Scandals" on the other an "Abie's Irish Rose" playing a seven-yea- r stretch . . . Men in silk toppers, soup-- n fish n diamond stick-pins . . . Beeeyoootiful chorus girls in gorgeous gowns . . . Ain't the same Broadway . . . Y'know, I'm gettin' good and tired of it all . . . One a' these days I'm gonna sell this hot-do-g stand and retire. The Panhandler: Kin ya help a fella, bud? Mcbbe stake me to a meal, or sumpn'? T'anks, bud! . . . The cheap bum cats in Lindy's an' on'ey glz me a t'in dime! . . . 'Scuse me, pal kin ya stake a fella got no carfare to Joisey. Whattaya mean, I'm drunk? ... I jis loss me carfare home ... Ah! Here comes that guy good fer a buck . . . Hey, Mr. . . . kin ya spare a Jee, t'anks! . . . Say, old boy, kin ya spare a fella two bucks for a hotel room fer the night? . . . Keep the whole five? . . . Jee, t'anks! . . . Whatta routine. Eddie, my boy, you're a genius! . . . Say, buddy, kin ya spare a wbaddya mean you're workin' this side-a-th-e street? . . . Beat it before I hitcha over the head with me bank-roll . . . Gosh, it's startin' ta rain . . . Guess I'll quit for the night . . . Hey, Taxi! ! ! Memos to All Editors: Objective of the Red blockade was to prevent any of the German leaders favoring us to get out. They will be massacred if we do get out. In the intelligence game, it is a sacred obligation to deliver your friends from an exposed position or you will never get help again. (In spite of denials, British Intelligence got Mikolajcyk out of Warsaw.) The general Commy objective is to dis-credit us with the Western Union alliances at the same time they set up the Second New Germany. The intelligence departments of all major powers are engaged right now in the Second Battle of Berlin. Czechs completely reject the suicide version of Masaryk's death. They believe that a strone-ar- m squad of Russian intelligence called on Masaryk. They produced documents and told him he was going to do as he was told or stand trial for treason. Masaryk had a pistol and when ho reached for it the squad finished him. His body was laid out in the courtyard. There were no visible bruises, and the Czechs say that had he jumped his body would have shown it. Of even deeper significance, there were four Masaryk servants in the apartment that night. They have disappeared. If Masaryk had com-mitted suicide, they would not have been spirited away. Manhattan Murals: The grue- - s;ly-dccornte-d car festooned with lemons and the sign on it: This Cars a Lemon!" It's a new . too . . . The Chinese restaurant on West 43rd street named "Old 'u,er iiubbard's" . The . . hint on ZTnCnn KImcr Leterman's Sndship ViSHS M3ke Senator Barklcy, the Kentucky a Georgetown dow ; hll hh, Girltowi is electric ' famcd iaZ'nS SCandal wncerning who paid $10 000 n accountMo hush his starlet trou-- , ' ' ' Frcdd'e Bartholomew's slue Snatchi,make.eXcUing when ' him. The star's -- d cash ' disappeared Jhe President of the U. was' Jashmgton gwTLT ' other ante meridian.8 He re of m'LJd! mS bbdeS in th Patrick Henry's OKI f To Become Nr I? For a long time to :! Patrick Henry lived t 1 was forgotten. Now; an American shrine, F ' The Henry home--i Charlotte county, f: ;;e was burned in 1911,: jpr stored as it was in Pi: time, and furnished t if niture and decoratiosi e Henry had. 'I" This great patriot 1 fvi f .me by demandiTb ginians the right, 0! l He won his greatert: o manding for all Amer:, freedom forever from t Although a lave-- t Henry considered slare g. economic curse a, i. evil. He was a lawjet jfe sion, and also a Ten & politician. t By 1775 war was k March 23 Patrick Hea ir-resolution to organize jj; militia and put the t : state of defense. In r 1 he made his moit fc which closes with the 4 "Give me - liberty death!" Headliners IN SCKAXTON . . . Mrs. Mamje Francione pointed out that drinking is bad for the liver, dancing is hard on the heart, singing weakens the ungs, cited her abstinence from all three activities as the reason she has lived to be 100 IN PHILADELPHIA . . . Raymond Palmer heaved a box through a jewelry store window, was led away to jail muttering, "I did it I did it It's something I wanted tn do all my life It's this very window I wanted to break." IN TOKYO . . . Japanese whalers convened in a Buddhist temple prayed for the souls of the 1 3"j whales they caught last winter ' IN FORT WORTH . . . Thieves ieav- - ing a lumberyard in the middle of the night with a truckload of loot got stuck in soft ground, called a garage, had a tow truck pull them out, paid the garage man. drove away with their stolen lumber IN NEW YORK... American Bible society announced that it had dis tributed 9,310,439 copies of the B'ble in 147 languages during 1947 |