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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1946 Another Housing Problem The Washington Merry -Go - Round By Drew Pearson A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs WASHINGTON If President Truman had read the Rogge report on Nazi tie-ups with high-up high-up Americans, he might well have saved John Rogge's dismissal from the justice department. For, in reading the report, he probably would have compared it with certain things which are happening between Americans and Nazis today. to-day. One of the most serious handicaps to U. S. war preparedness was the business tie-ups between be-tween American and German firms. I. G. Farben's monopoly agreement with Standard Oil of New Jersey prevented the United States from develop- Editorial..-. Amendments 3 and 4 Two of the eiarht amendments that appear on the ballot for the voters' consideration November 5 deal directly with an improved method of financing the public schools of Utah. The constitutional mandate to the Legislature to "provide a uniform system of public schools" has only partly been adhered ad-hered to heretofore. Certification of teachers teach-ers by the state board of education, transportation trans-portation requirements, minimum length of the school year, and other phases of "uniformity" "uni-formity" have long been a reality but the hurden of taxation still carried extensively by the local school districts has no semblance j ing synthetic rubber and kept the American public of a "uniform pattern. The last punlisnecl wunout ruDDer ures ior iour years, ine monopoly State school report shows the assessed valua- iT" Xh Aluminum Corporation of American sunt: B1.11UU1 ickui , -ij . , . . . . . . and I. G. Farben kept magnesium away from the tion per school Child in one district 10 ue American aircraft industry and retarded our prod-more prod-more than 15 times the valuation of another , uction of airplanes. Bausch and Lomb's secret district. This extreme divergence of wealth agreement with Carl Zeiss was extremely detri-f detri-f orces a heaw tax burden on the JXHjrer ! mental to the U. S. navy submarine sights. district,. The 'local school tax levy during y Sn"SrJTSSt Si "I the past three years has varied from 4.6 mills first Americans to arrive in Germany after V-E in the richest district to 20.5 mills in one of day were three vice-presidents of International the poorest districts. Customarily where the Telephone and Telegraph. One of them. K. E. levy is high the available school revenue to ; Stocked, was even dressed in a iU Smarmy uni-, uni-, . . ; ti,,. '"- The other two were Mark Sandstrum and pay the costs of education is limited. 'Frank Page total operating cost per child last year aricd . . from $174.57 to $54X)8. Provo has paid the nIbus2nMEback highest local school tax in the State bJt Of i significantly the men thev conferred with the 40 school districts ranked 39th in ex- were Baron Kurt Von Schroeder. the big Nazi pendituref. The magnitude of this dierg ; banker who financed Hitler, and Dr. Gerhard ence of wealth mav be further noted irem westrick. the Hitler agent who came to the this published State report. Jordan, the dis-j United States in IMO. To urge American bus!-1 bus!-1 a. i. . iu u a ,i'ness leaders, including I. T. & T.. to keep the tnct of greatest wealth, had an a.eed Unjted states neutraK These tw0 powerful Nazi valuation of $130,595,395 and a census fjgurt.s were not then prisoners but lived in a enumeration of 5,905 children. A cross-sec-j German castle thanks to their friendship with tion of school districts, fifteen in number. American big business. including Provo, Alpine, and Nebo. had a." An this haPPed just after the end of the With $5,982,139 less valuation the 15 districts dis-tricts had to pay the cost of education for. 52.163 children or 47,258 more children than live in the Jordan district. The single school district provides a tax base that is too narrow to guarantee the j resident children an education without in-; creased state financial aid. The assessed j wealth of a number of school districts of strategy was to bring all of Europe to its knees Utah has fluctuated greatly during recent I be.re lcthr u- S. public opinion could realize n i -.!. - i iwhat was happening. To this end Dr. Westrick was years. Park City formerly possessing is- sent to thc Unitpd states The Rogge tells sessed wealth of more than $11,000,000 has. the rest of the story. recentlv been below $2,500,000. The assessed '. "Westrick was well equipped with money." . M ? C $mm&. ! " ! 1 rf&A i&p" Your Gl Rights i "SgS ! SELECTIVE SERVICE SULINGS I AFFECT VETS WASHINGTON (NEA) N-tional N-tional Selective Service has recently re-cently made three announcement which are important to veteran and possible draftees. The announcements an-nouncements which answer a lot of questions veterans have been asking lately, are these: Moffat Road Consolidation With DRG Favored DENVER. Nov. 1 (U.R Income bondholders of the Denver 4 Salt Lake (Moffat) railroad have authorized au-thorized consolidation of the road with th niir Jl. Ri. r 1-Selective Service Boards no ! Western, it was disclosed today, longer have the responsibility for . , ,. J getting veterans new Jobs. By an l)soUiuZn was announc- order of President Truman, this! Wilson McCartJiy, president function is now exclusively in thejf Moffat line and a trustee of hands of the Department of La-,th,e .DiRGW:l. Marthy id. bor's United SUtes Employment I ""81 more than 90 per cent of Service. I e ""at bondholders had voted ; All veteran, reporting to local Grande R, ooaras seexing new empraynwm t hereafter will be referred to the H cr, the R, Crande organi-nearest organi-nearest office of the USES. That ft " Elan' recently approved by agency has been reviewing its ex-1"10 u; supreme court, approval utir.. f.rilltlo and tff to de- ?' Bt least 90 per cent of the termifte whether they are ade- Mo"' holders was neces- quate to provide veterans with!81 for e merger. maximum job opportunities, especially es-pecially in cases where no such lupvtiv viafjbst Hfnr Selective Service will still aid returning veterans to get reinstat ed in their old jobs, however. 2 Selective Service also an nounces that traveling ttlMraen TL-.i. Y tnr Ann who have returned from service) i CUTS iflTO have a legal right not only to the ., K .tot... K,. n tV. mvnnm. r01" tnC Hies Of territory they had before entering ,EwPRO,V "ER the armed forces. of- Nov- 2- 19,6 This ruling was upheld in are-; The cntire issue waj devoted cent court decision in Iowa. The. uti tv, f .w ! court held that the employer s of-;nartv canHidatos nrpntPH n th fer of the same commission, draw- readers Candidates for president ing account, and traveling ex- -. wir,.. . . penscs in a new territory did not;Charl E Hugh Ralli were mfl "he PV r.e,uir.menlS scheduled for thc closing days of of the Selective Service Act. the campaign Farm Or Serve . Once News Now History ALD Eleven juveniles were arrested Every Man A Boss Now to eet the significance, you have to study the suppressed Rojcge report to see what happened at the start of the war. President Presi-dent Truman obviously intends that this report re-port shall stay suppressed, but this column has obtained a ropy and is able to publish Westrick's own version of his attempt to prevent pre-vent the United SUtes from aiding- the allies. It will be remembered that Hitler's whole wealth of Nebo school district has changed an amount greater than the total assessed j accord ing to the testimony of Von Strempel, secretary sec-retary of the German embassy in Washington. "He wealth of Provo at the highest point inifunri and he said hp could innuencc prominent Provo's history. This danger of depending businessmen through unfreezing their blocked too extensively on the district as a source credit? in Germany. Of revenue may be noted bv the fact that,,,, "According to Thomsen (Nazi ambassador in if a district issues bonds while the assessed ?:",?t",; ' :trJ5,L?lrfl,f"alary rm thC wealth is high and then decreases substantially substan-tially the tax burden becomes excessive for debt service. For example while Jordan was paying a total local levy of 4.6 mills for ml school costs. Piute school district was paying 7 mills on the one item "bonded indebtedness." WF.STRICK'S OWN STORY I By PETER EDSON lean Federation of Ibor conven- ( NEA Washington Correspondent tion just closed in Chicago wentl i WASHINGTON. Nov. 1 (NEA)"" record as favoring the six hour' -Last summer a bi eastern ad- ria ,nc 30-hour week, vcrtising agency put out a full Think of it. Start at nine, take; page piece of copy in the slick a half-hour oh, what the heck paper magazines, to the effectitake an hour for lunch and be that everybody should feel sorry through at four, just as the kid-for kid-for the boss. Most bosses the dies are being let out of school, argument ran. began at the bot- Children's hours for grown-ups. torn as simple working men. The Thai's the stuff. Communism president of thb big steel com- can't make any headway in the) pany began at 58 a week. The United States as long as working head of that auto company started people have working conditions out as an office boy. But by the better than the capitalist bosses, dint of honest endeavor and ap- a good start on this "Every plication of his noodle he rose to Man Better Than a Boss" move-the move-the top. where he now had re- niPnt nas already been made. The sponsibihties and troubles for foremen have organized for their which he got no overtime pay protection. The supervisory em-just em-just a lot of free kicking around. piovecs in the coal mines arc or-by or-by one and all. 1 t;anizing. Ship captains and en- What all this suggests is not Rine room officers are organized the usual Horatio Alger line that hundred percent, and boy when in tnis.golden land of opportunity, lnev st, ike. the place stavs struck, anyone can rise to the noble re- Airline pilots are stri'king for sponsibihties of bossism. To re- $14,000 a year. What's the use of duce it to complete absurdity,! being a mere boss when you can what this suggests is that there, ha. ii it in haf Barbs BY HAL COCHRAN The parkins problem is inst an other byproduct of the machine colleges today age. . 6 . 3 Draft registrants who are 19 1 nr mnr VMrl nlri inrl tt'hn Are. I - .. u Dm... rli ,.1-f , 1 deferred under tne ryoings; t-- w...v..a u. nmrndment to the Selective Serv-.1,,n ,h. ordinance prohibiting ice Act cannot leave the farm to!r,din8 bicycle on the sidewalk. ! go to school. , , " , , f Any such registrant who leaves The national guard from Provo ihis agricultural occupation to go .was still in service on the Mexi- to school will be reclassified, and,"-"" M-wunc-u near 10- 1 11 h mnu.rv fales. Ariz. service he Will be ordered in-! dued . ' twenty Years Ago There is a two-fold reason for. " this ruling. If a draft-age man rrom tne rnes is not needed on the farm he is Of. Nov. 2. 1926 ! needed in the Army. Then. too. j. e. Bone of Lhi. was in- this order will help combat the1stantv kiilc(1 OJI thp road lo .overcrowded condition of mostiredar Fort, six miles wnt of Just because meat controls are off, don't gorge. It's Just stuff and nonsense! Just a short time now until "AJ "This is Westrick's own account of his trip." continues the Rogge report. ' "I was a Berlin lawyer. My most import" nt connection with American business was with International In-ternational Telephone and Telegraph comoany. 'whose nrpsidpnt was Col Sosthcnes Rrhn Behn If approved by the voters of Utah at the was also a director of Standard Elektrizitats Ges-general Ges-general election on Tuesdav, these extreme jellschaft (Westrick was president of this company) weaknesses of public school financing wiH which was affiliated with International Telephone should be a union of bosses. It coi'lri have some riandv de- jtnanrls. It could recruit members , on thc slogan. "Every man a Boss." It could seek thc one hour week. It could bargain collectively collective-ly with the workers to see wheth- woman's place will be in the fur coat. An English runner won a race while suffering from a severe toothache, lie . may have thought he was on his way to the dentist. e K l 1.. l,-,;j TV. ; ! "no leieprupn cumpaiij. w m.gc.v e....imbCu. uc mnaii - also represented the Underwood Elliott- quate system Will be replaced With one j Fisher company which owned a German company wherein the State may pay up to 75 percent 'by the name of Mercedes Buremaschinen A. G.: of the total COSt of operating the schools., the Eastman Kodak company which owned the The tax lew will be uniform on all propertv ; Kdauk A' G thc International Milks Corporation .... . . . . . , . . . "j which owned a subsidiary in Hamburg, and as it is in any other state tax. Rich district 'various others. and poor district will pay the same and re-! reive the same. Whatever . any district! chooses to do beyond this state program is "'In 193? I had a talk in Berlin with Secretary of State Keppler and Col. Soithenes Rrhn. This discussion took plaee before September Sep-tember 1939. At the end of 1939. Keppler phoned mc and told me that I should see Ambassador Dieckhoff. who had been the German Ger-man ambassador in Washington, and discuss my going over to the United States. " I told Dieckhoff that I could not make a These arc some of the to keep in mind as the country goes into its second round of negotiations ne-gotiations for higher wages. There are going to be some demands made which will be a lot sillier than have been mentioned here. They deserve only to be laughed It isn't too early to start picking thingsl out places to hide Christmas pres ents from the kids. But it's useless. it L.'t ttri lkj"r'iin with the workers. It could seek i 1UI ,ne negouaung rooms so: mai ine serious aemanas wniciii Q's and A s Undelivered Letter Tells Nazi Tragedy LOS ANGELES OI.R) Moije than six and a half years ago. i Mrs. Celia Pons sent a letter enclosing en-closing a check for 65 marks to ! her school-teacher sister. Frau-'lein Frau-'lein Estcra Gornicka. In Berlin, j Mrs. Pons mailed the letter in i answer to a request for money and papers which would enable the school-teacher to leave Germany. Ger-many. It has just been returned, bearing bear-ing five notations in German stating that Fraulein Gornicka "had moved, could not be found," and that she had "left no forwarding for-warding address." Two were writ-' ten with pen, the others stamped. Another sister. Mrs. Civa Fish. Tel-Aviv, Palestine, advised Mrs. Pons that Fraulein Gornicka had died in a Nazi concentration camp. Mrs. Pons also learned from Mrs. Fish's letter of the death of her mother, father and two brothers, broth-ers, one with a wife and children, in a German concentration camp after they were removed from their Grodno. Poland, home. jLehi. wiien the car tipped over in loose gravel. Harry Houdini. famous magician, magi-cian, died at Detroit. The body of the "handcuff king" whose feats of legedremain were known on both sides of the Atlantic, was placed in a bronz, airtight bronze coffin, recently constructed construct-ed for one of his own myriad tricks. An Italian Viob. incensed over an attempt to assassinate Premier Benito Mussolini, killed an 18-year 18-year old youth who fired at his passing automobile. determined by the local board of education. More than 30 of Utah's school districts, including Provo, Nebo, and Alpine, can re- ( duce their taxes and secure the same amount! of revenue they currently receive providing! the legislative tax studv committee's renort is approved by the voters and effected bv jive answer before discussing the matter with j 1 t ' 1 Col . Behn. I then saw Col. Behn either at the tne legislature. ; Hague in Holland or mavbe in Belgium at Ant- In order to create a more equitable plan,werp. 1 am not sure about this, but I think it was of school taxation for all of Utah and toithp Hague. I told Behn about the plan. Coming more adequately assure each child at least alback to Berlin. 1 told Dieckhoff that I was willing Ko.,. fV, T,. uoi , ii t0 do the 3b- A few days later I had an inter- x.cia.u utum .i,view with Ribbentrop himself. " 'Thereafter, I left Berlin and went to San 1 Francisco by way of Siberia. From Sarr Francisco I went to New York. My talk with Ribbentrop was at the end of December 1939, or in the first days of January 1940. Among those I saw in the United e t j u States were Torkild Rieber of the Texas Companv. On ban Juans day, as usual, the famous . Eberhard Faber of the Faber company, James swallows of San Juan Capistrano Mission Mooney of General Motors, and Edsel and Henry flew out to sea. And if nothing upsets their j Ford. I first saw Edsel Ford, and when I got to undeviating 167-year schedule, thev'll return i N,cw, York- 1 ot a phone call from the secretary . r . . . T " . , , j of enry Ford asking me to come again to see to the California mission on St. Joseph s day,! ucnr. Ford March 19. Local residentscall it a miracle t paid Mooney (of General Motors) a visit On San Juan's day John L. Lewis threat- and one day he came to visit me in the Waldorf-ened Waldorf-ened a COal Strike. And it will be a miracle Astoria, and on his own initiative he told me that if feo .v,,. (l. e. he and a grouo of other people had the intention if he isn t threatening another one on St. of swin? ,e president amT trying to convince the Josepn S day next -March. orcsident that he should insist on normal oomical We fervently hope that the miracle will i relations between the United SUtes and Germany. jThis was after Germany had invaded France, Bel-jgium, Bel-jgium, and Norway. Mooney said: " 'Our idea is that Germany, as well as England, Eng-land, should just state exactly what their aims I of the war would be and then the United States two bathrooms for every office IVtn rrt hour iirrlr nrrtn L- e cation a year at double time, ofi deration they deserve course. By way of social security, it could seek free education for KnflCAC l.n tn t n n tft t-nt i -w n.. 4 WVMVi. KJ OKV 'J , I I. Ill t 11 II IjL Uull phv atrRe ?1yit?,a.Kded'etup To Change old age benefits at 62. If these 3 conditions were not met. the. WASHINGTON. Nov. 1 WJ.R)-bh'fl WJ.R)-bh'fl h g T ,f a?d The agriculture department hopes Su'in ou"tr' ood u,im by the end of the year to slough and , ?reVshKs art senses off its role of purchasing agent anlac V" start for foreign countries buying food r th- y a.Z'er ,hai8ome in the United States. 2Li. RS . vf1 Hre "tu.allyi Under the plan now being con- " ,c,"", """"""'"isidered now. Q Are international great cir- make senso can be given the con-jcle air flight distances recognized j be a problem for an entire gen- on basis of actual distance flown, eration. A No. Recognized distance is a!! Food Purchasing on): it was learned, foreign A , . ; ... , . . , iirumi ica stun win utr iiitriiavru ivr n lauur uiuuii in w asningion ! precming us nemanas ror a new iciemiy came in wiin a u.r; or, iPJ"?ai"rdo"b,e ime llay dur-' the only 'exception will be y U. S .food. But the agriculture department will not act as their shortest distance between takeoff and landing points. Q What is the AMG plan for civilian - military personnel ratio in Germany A Two-thirds civilian, one-third one-third hnilitary. Q Is the UN planning an agency agen-cy on behalf of war refugees? A An International Refugee Committee is in the making, it is expected that war homeless will; Q What delegate to the Paris Peace Conference was also a delegate dele-gate to the 1919 Peace Conference? Confer-ence? A Jan Christian Smuts. Premier Pre-mier of South Africa. Q When was anesthesia first used in surgery? A March 30. 1842. by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, when he adminsitered) ether to a patient pa-tient at Jefferson, Ga., says the Encyclopedia Britannica. : wheat. Because of the continuing j world shortage and this country's I voters to vote "yes" on amendments 3 and 4. Strictly Miraculous mg vacations. Don t laugh. They i had a serious argument. I Tl .1 . j jut way im-y naa u iiijurea .i i : a . . , fcrv 1 t. Vllllllil.i il. ll Ll (C itl I t ZLu h u 3 m37 g0t aiculture department will continue! kPUS,Ualy Went, away to handle all export wheat, fna in t0 P3y l' ln thc case of other commodi-: e ' V reSrJ roomties. the U. S. would decide how, hLS n 'wfi m1S m f much each country should be' .1 i,fr1d Ar r,e,staurfnV allowed to buy and issue export! h l.uifc an? hims?u lot ofi licenses good for only that vivhivj mau MU J VI ICI till be forthcoming. portant money for incidentals i Meanwhile his rent, or mpnt nn hie hnnco anH hio i n v rc i went merrily on. Since this added' up to higher expenses all the way; 'round, the worker ought to have more money to break even on' his vacation. : In the light of this, thc idea ior a Dosses union makes complete com-plete sense. The only trouble with it is that everybody can't be a boss. Or can't he? He can be better bet-ter than a boss. The way things are going now. there just isn't any incentive to be a boss. William Green and the Ameri- I amount. It would be up to the ' tn4lriHif al AAitnlvifti 4a trmt tha the pay-ir, ntn One World Headache ..: , .. . , , could decide to enter the war or stay out of the An aspirin company dedicated one of its war or even try to come to understanding recent sponsored broadcasts to the I. nited between the belligerent nations.' Nations. It might be a. nice reciprocal ges- "I asked Mooney: 'Why do you tell me this? ture for the United Nations to dedicate onej1 can 1 do anything. of its sessions to the aspirin company. iIe .Vou have to go to the German The aspirin people aren't alone in their charite de'affalres and we cannot do that be- regard for the United Nations. We don't cause he is a German official. know where the world would be today with-, To all lhis Rojfge adds: ..The conabol.ation be- oui ine urs. cut, aias, we aon t Know wnereltween German and American industrialists is be- the LN would be without aspirin, either. yond the scope of this report. However, it is not inappropriate to remark that one of the documents in the hands of Justice Jackson's staff is a copy of a letter from Westrick to Sosthenes Behn. written writ-ten after the Nazis overran Czechoslovakia, in Normalcy Now that the meat shortage has eased uuiwnich Wcstrick proposes the division of the the we can fro back to susntvtinir rpnranto df lassets of a Czechoslovakian company." we can go DacK 10 suspecting restaurants of I Note President Truman might not only read rt i T ri rr root in thAtv AhiAbAM paU .... J If the worker has less fear of tomorrow he will produce more today. Herbert H. Lehman, New York Democratic Demo-cratic senatorial candidate. the Rogge report but should also check into his export-import bank and ascertain why it has allotted al-lotted 14 per cent of all its loans to International Tel and Tel. That company, despite its flirtations' with the Nazis, has received more government money than any other. (Copyright, 1946. by thc Bell Syndicate, Inc.) FOLKS FAR AWAY RUST CRAFT CHRISTMAS CARDS at UTAH OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 43 F-ast Center Phone 15 131 GRID QIC GEED j-" bmbi mm a a . k i Paid Political Adv. by UTAH VALLEY FURNITURE CO. X i P 'A Red Foley Singing Emcee of "Grand Ole Opry" Saturday 8:30 p. m. It's a Laugh Riot "Truth or Consequences" Saturday 9:00 p. m. TUNE IN NOTICE OF SALE SURPLUS GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AT CENTRAL UTAH RELOCATION PROJECT TOPAZ -UTAH The following buildings, exclusive of personal property, are now available for disposal to priority holders under the Surplus Property Act of 1944. as amended, and War Assets Administration Regulation 3, as amended, for removal ofS-site use only. Approximately saa wood frame buildings. Including barracks, mess halls, warehouses, bathrooms, laundry buildings, auditorium, refrlgeratioa plant, two apartment houses (i onits each) and small buildings. These will be avaUable to the following priority holders, in the order listed, for ten (10) days beginning Wednesday, October 30, 1946, and ending Saturday, November 9. 1946. 1 1 1 Government Agencies (2) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (for resale to Small Business) 13) Stat and local Governments (4) Non-profit Institutions Any buildings not claimed by the above priority holders within the ten (10) days period will be available for sale exclusively to persona per-sona certifying that the buildings or resulting materials will be used (or the construction under HH ratings of housing accomodations under Veterans Emergency Housing Program. HH ratings arc tor Veterans housing only -and can be obtained by applying to the Salt Lake Federal Housing AdministraUon Field Office, 210 Dooly Building. Salt Lake City 1. Utah and conforming with regulations which will be explained at that office. Disposal of these buildings, individually or in such groups as War Assets AdministraUon may determine, will be to the highest acceptable bidder holding an HH rating, who submits a sealed bid. accompanied by cashier's check, certified check, or United States Post Office Money Order. In an amount representing ten per cent of the total amount of such bid. All bids must be submitted on forms and in accordance with the instructions and conditions now available at the War Assets AdministraUon at the address given at the bottom of this advertisement, Bids will be publicly opened at 10:00 o'clock a. m. November 25. IMS. and no bid received after that time will be considered. War Assets AdministraUon reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Office Real Property Disposal Phone No. 5-6611 Ext. No. 245 YAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION SALT LAKE CITY REGIONAL OFFICE BLDG. 440. FORT DOUGLAS. UTAH Vote For ARNOLD C. ROYLANCE - - - - i ' 1 flf I Democratic Candidate For Utah County Attorney . His record of efficient prosecution merits for continued con-tinued support on NOVEMBER 5 Paid Political Adv. by Elmer L. Terry) |