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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1947 Edit on a I . . . What's With the 'Democratic Leader'? A new honor has been conferred upon Henry A. Wallace. In a speech before the UN general assembly, -Vladimir Popovic, the Yugoslav ambassador to Russia, gave him the title of "Democratic leader of the United States." The Yugoslav diplomat then proceeded to read in Russian, quite appropriately some of Mr. Wallace's editorials in the New Republic Re-public which denounced the Truman doctrine of aid to Greece and Tip-Key, ana wnicn saia our interference in the economic affairs of other nations was making us hated more and more by all the" world's masses. From these excerpts, Mr. Popovic drew the comforting conclusion that the American people "indict the policy of the United States which is directed against ... the United Nations, Na-tions, and which threatens peace all over the world." Mr. Popovic's speech was made on the day that former Secretary of State Byrnes' new book, "Speaking: Frankly," was published. And it was delivered a few hours before the unpredictable Mr. Wallace, in a Baltimore interview, in-terview, endorsed the plan for world peace which the Byrnes' volume contains. We dont know what Mr, Popovic is thinking think-ing now. For Mr. Byrnes' plan includes two strong last-resort recommendations: If Russia Rus-sia should boycott the world conference to draft a German peace treaty which Mr. Byrnes proposes,' then the other participants would go on without Russia. And,- once a treaty was signed and the Soviets refused to evacuate eastern Germany, the United States and such allies as could be mustered would attempt to drive them out. This program, Mr. Wallace told reporters, would result in "peace and understanding with Russia." Yet, he thought the milder, patience-and -firmness Russian policy of Mr. Byrnes at last year's Paris peace conference was "war mongering." Later, before a Baltimore audience, Mr. Wallace said that Defense Secretary For-restal, For-restal, Commerce Secretary Harriman and Acting Secretary of State Lovett are "a holding hold-ing company for Wall Street bankers" and that he would try to "get thern out of Washington Wash-ington before they get us into war." All this leaves us wondering who heard Mr. Popovic's speech, and who may be .a little lit-tle vague on American politics. Do they think that the American people would choose a "Democratic leader" who believes be-lieves that an almost conciliatory policy is war mongering, and tha,t one which advo-5 advo-5 cates military action, if all else fails, who promote peace? Do they think the free, democratic American Ameri-can people would sit supinely by while three ; .of the president's top advisers really tools ; of Wall Street, acording to the "democratic leader" are notoriously plotting World : War III? Now that Mr. Wallace has been knighted i with a title of democratic nobility by an emissary em-issary of Marshal Tito, he might live up to his new honor by making a little more sense. Can he justify his present inexplicable position posi-tion on war and peace mongering? Can he prove his very serious charges against Mr. Forrestal, Mr. Harriman and Mr. Lovett? If he can't there is grave danger that both the "democratic leader of the United States" and his Yugoslavian press agent may wind up looking, in the eyes of the American people as well as of the foreign visitors, like a couple of dopes. The Washington Mrry - Co - Round By Drew Pearson Eisenhower's Comrades-in-arms Anticipating His Victory WASHINGTON Some of General Eisen- ihower's comrades-in-arms are licking their lips over the prospect of his being president of the United States. - At a Washington dinner party the other night, guests crowded around vivacious Anthony Drexel Biddle of the Philadelphia banking family, whom F. D. R. elevated from court tennis champion to i United States ambassador to Poland. As guests gathered around Tony, admiring his medals. Gen. Edwin Sibert, .intelligence officer, remarked re-marked : "Tony, you'd better not go back to Europe. Stay in this country and get aboard the Eisenhower Eisen-hower bandwagon. It's going places." Tony looked wistful but said nothing. Perhaps he remembered the $90,000 he contributed to the Roosevelt bandwagon before he got his ambassadorship, ambassa-dorship, and also how Chip Robert, then treasurer of the Democratic national committee, used to phone him in Europe, brazenly hinting that Democratic Demo-cratic coffers were very low and the state department, depart-ment, was avidly eyeing his job. Whether he remembered or not, the Democratic Demo-cratic Mr. Biddle did not move to join the Eisenhower Eisen-hower bandwagon. Note Gen. Sibert, in charge of Gen. Bradley's intelligence and who let the United States army get caught aslelep in the Battle of the Bulge, has now been promoted to a top spot in the central intelligence in-telligence group, the super-duper intelligence agency of the entire government. Twelve people recently were kicked out of central intelligence for suspected disloyalty, but the man who refused to believe the Germans were massing in the Ardennes remains a top executive. Ah, Enters the Hero HOLLYWOOD VS. CEMENT l While the house un-American affairs committee com-mittee made headlines with its Hollywood hoopla, the supreme court, just across the capitol lawn, was quietly making history but no headlines. Scores of newsmen and photographers jammed the house caucus room to hear Congressman Thomas of New Jersey, gavel down movie writers who demanded a right to be heard. In the supreme court, however, only one newsman was present, while about $5,000,000 worth of the best legal brains New York could muster listened to a dreary but vital argument going to the roots of American free enterprise. The case was the federal trade commission's opposition to the cement industry's basing-polnt formula, by which the cement manufacturer in Keokuk, la., sells cement to the builder in San-Francisco San-Francisco for exactly the same price as he sells to the builder in Keokuk. In other words, it is charged that all the nation's cement manufacturers manufac-turers conspire to fix prices, so that no matter what the cost of freight shipment, the price of cement throughout the entire United States is just the same. Actually far more than cement was at stake in the supreme court hearing. For the steel industry follows the same basing-point monopolistic system, so that upon the supreme su-preme court's ruling- partly depends the fu- . ture of American competition. That is why so many of the nation's top lawyers law-yers overflowed the court to such an extent that they had to sit in the spectators' seats. "Wild Bill" Donovan, grizzled World War I hero, represented the cement institute. At his side sat fiery, silver-thatched silver-thatched Nathan Miller, ex-governor of New York, backed by 75 other high-salaried barristers, including in-cluding U. S. Stecl's chief counsel, Roy Blough. Facing this overpowering array were two government gov-ernment lawyers, Charles Weston of the justice department, and Walter Wooden of the federal trade commission, whose salaries are less than $10,000 a yeaf each . Weston opened the case for the government by citing the sealed bids submitted to supply cement ce-ment for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan. Seven independent producers submitted sub-mitted bids each identical down to a tert-thou-sandth fraction of a cent regardless of how far they had to ship the cement. On another occasion, the Illinois highway commission requested bids for delivery to 101 different destinations. Nine producers pro-ducers bid an identical price. "Here are some 75 different producers." squeaked Weston, "selling at thousands of places, and all using the same system in substantially .all sales with minor variations." Tough Assignment England has resumed the export of Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce automobiles to this country, and that seems to intensify an already puzzling question. ques-tion. How are Americans going to help Britons build up their dollar ballances by buying $19,000 cars and drinking $7 Scotch, and still avoid being cursed by most of Europe as greedy capitalists who live in selfish, sinftil luxury while the rest of the world goes hungry? SHOE OFF IN COURT Risky Business Denmark conferred its Highest decoration on General Eisenhower w hen they made him a Knight of the Elephant at a dinner in Washington. Afterwards the chief of staff had his picture taken with the decoration, which consists of a star and a broad ribbon, from which hangs a small statuette of an lephant. , - If General Ike still wants to present himself him-self in the country as a political neuter, perhaps per-haps he'd better not have his picture taken while wearing an elephant even though the symbol happens to be Scandinavian, not GOP. ! Answering the charges, war hero "Wild Bill" Donovan, once GOP chief of the antitrust division, divi-sion, denied that the FTC ever found any evidence evi-dence of an industry-wide agreement not to undersell un-dersell each other. Supreme court justices, however, how-ever, were skeptical. "If a customer in Ohio wanted to buy cement ifrom Atlas." interrupted Justice Stanley Reed, !"how would Atlas know what price to quote?" wen, ne wouia get n out or tne iieid, explained ex-plained Donovan. "He would have his own intelligence intel-ligence system to do that. They all have. All they need to do is to send someone out in that area. They pick it up. They get it over the phone." "For each transaction, each inquiry, they have to go through that?" snapped Reed. "Well," hedged the man once entrusted with enforcement of the antitrust laws under Coolidge, "they have salesmen tn the field too, in all of those areas, and those salesmen telephone in. That information is coming in every day." As the hearing ground on, Government Attorney At-torney Weston, who was dressed in long tails and striped pants idly removed a shoe and freed his toes. Hoary ex-Governor Miller wound up the argument argu-ment for the cement industry. As he steamrollered down the homestretch, Justice Frank Murphy tried to ask a question. "I've only got five minutes, your honor," barked Miller, rushing on with his oratory. WALL STREET CRACKDOWN i If the British need gold, their lords and financiers should sell the billions of dollars of gilt-edge securities they still hold in the pnited States. Rep. Adolph Sabath (D) of Illinois. 'i The battle to save food in the United States is the battle to save our own prosperity pros-perity and to save the free countries of Western Europe. - President Truman. An atti'mpt U lining made to make labor he whitping titty" for the high cost of liv-htfg liv-htfg Uy imrt boost a the cause for -9fa:Ttkry ot JtW ikhwellenbach. When Wall Street's gilt-edged legal talent arrived ar-rived at the justice department to make one last effort to sidetrack the big antitrust crackdown on investment bankers, they had not seen the Washington Wash-ington Merry-Go-Round column of that same morning However, Gerhard Gesell. attorney for Smith, Barney and Co., puled the column out of his pocket, passed it around among his cot-leagues. cot-leagues. With long faces they read that President Presi-dent Truman and Attorney General Tom Clark were determined to crack down on Wall Street's investment monopoly, would not compromise com-promise on the long-delayed antitrust ease. Nevertheless. Donald C. Swatland of Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine and Moore, representing Kuhn. Loeb and Co., acted as spokesman He made a plea to justice department -officials' that the seventeen big houses which had always been allowed al-lowed to combine on financing were unwilling to disband now. Justice department attorneys listened, stood paL The government suit ftfainst Wall Street is expected shortly. - Copyright, 1947, by the Bell' Syndicate, Inc. KIMW Mini iiic-n,n - ri i i n inn i m i i ii mi i iii i i iii -' Once News Now History From the Files of The Proyo Herald 0 Years Ago Oct. 28, 1927 . Mayor Q. K. Hansen of Provo was named president of the Utahf , Public Hearth association to sue ceed Dr. John A. Widtsoe on Lincoln hieh school's honor roll were Lucile Farley, Zelda NOCTURNE Larsen, Phil Christensen. Lois The wind is full of mystery to Desk Chat UNTOLD WE ALTH that . which. is not recorded on the income tax report. : . V-. REMORSE- what, you experience after the neighbors find out you have been indiscreet.., MISS' AMERICA a bathin beauty with a lovely figure all the way up. -4 SKELETON bones with trie personality scraped oft . : oOo Linford, Carol Partridge, Evelyn Kofford, Leonard Johnson, Lu cille Skinner, Esther Huff, Elmer Terry, Virginia Taylor, Melba Pulispher, Lloyd Baum and Fay Allred " Milka Sablich, 19- year-old girl leader of the IWW pickets at the Ideal mine near Walsenburg, Colo, was injured after she had been dragged half a block by a mounted guard Rear Admiral Thomas P. Ma-gruder Ma-gruder was marked for punishment punish-ment for the manner in which he verbally campaigned against alleged al-leged inefficiency in the navy department. 10 Years Ago Oct 28, 1937 Announcement was made that the Illinois Powder company ofj St. . Louis, Mo. planned to build J a plant in the mouth of Spanish j Fork canyon to supply the mines! and the construction trade in the ! intermountain territory ; Captain George E. T. Eyston drove his huge racing car "Thunderbolt" "Thun-derbolt" through the measured mile on the Bonneville salt flats! at the speed of 309.6 miles per: hour but failed to set up a record because he did not make a return trip as required John O.; Beesley and Allen D. Johnson were nominated for Kiwanis club president. night As though it had a secret it would - ' keep; It whispers fitfully, and bids me. sleep, Drowsing my senses with lta balmy might. " Now, something it relates that. hints delight Unto the trees, for see! their wav- ihg branches leap And dance about, and now the: flowers reap , a gentle petting, nodding lere ana right. The silence falls, and then r, night-bird 1' Somewhere within the garden calls As if he were kin to all Infidels..1 LISTEN ', Every Wed. Kite 1 To ; "Yours For the Asking" Over KOVO 7:30 to 8:00 Sponsored JBy ' " , Intermountain Heating and Appliance Communist Case Histories By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) If representatives of Soviet Russia, now in t!.e United States, can read American newspapers, ' or are having them translated and analyzed, they should have no doubts about the wave of anti- Communist sentiment now sweeping sweep-ing this country. There is the president's call for a special session to implement the Marshall plan to aid Europe There is the firm resistance to the Communist bloc in the United Nations. There is the determination determina-tion to keep watch on the Balk ans. There is the new impetus to strengthen national defenses and make America safe against any threat of foreign aggression. These things are on the higher, international level, but the feeling runs deeper, down to the individual indi-vidual arid personal level, too? The government's lowalty probe on every one of its employes ex emplifies it. The Hollywood investigation in-vestigation by the House Un-American Un-American Activities Committee is merely the sho'w-window for all this business. The crowds in the hearing rooms are definitely with the witnesses who are castigating the Communists. Maybe it is the glamor of Meniou, Cooper. Taylor and Montgomery that draws the crowds, but the things they applaud ap-plaud and demonstrate about are the expressions of opposition to communism. What the Thomas committee is publizicing is exactly what has happened in every field of ac tivity in which Communists have been allowed to infiltrate under cover in labor organizations, in the armed service, in govern ment. There are hundreds of cases. but these three, which can be fully documented, may be taken as typical: 1. In a union, there is the case of a 40-year-old Clevelander. recocnized as one of the most in fluential labor leaders in his area. He Joined the Community party when he was 30 as a protest against his own failure to make more headway in life. He was then an unspectacular field organizer or-ganizer for his union. Carefully coached by Communist Commun-ist party leaders, he began to take more interest in union activities He reported evervthine that went on in the union to the party leaders. He became not onlv a leader in his local union hut in the Cleveland City Union Council and in Ohio labor circles as well. All this time he kent his memhershin in the Communist Party a secret, denouncing anyone who accused him of heintr a Rerl as a "RoH. baiter" or '''arjtl-uriioriist." Work ing uuuci-cuvcr in mis way, ne has for five-years been one of the most valuable tools of the Com munist party m the midwest. 2. In March. 1946. Gen. Dniielac MacArthur removed from the staff of the TokvO "Stars and Stripes" an army sergeant whose writings were said to be flavored with Communist thought. The sergeant protested loudly that he was not a Communist. He said he was being persecuted. Less than a year later, after his discharge, he was a by-line writer on the New York Daily Worker, Communist party organ in the U. S. Check-up on this man's record showed he had been a top Red leader in Reading, Pa. In 1940 he tried to get his name on the ballot as Communist candidate for congress. con-gress. In election irregularities, he was charged with perjury, found guilty, sentenced to a year in jail. Defended by Community Party lawyers, he was able to avoid serving sentence. He moved to Waterbury, Conn., and there became be-came a Community Party leader until he was inducted into the Army in 1944. 3. In February, 1942, a govern ment employe was investigated on a tip that he belonged to Communist Com-munist organizations. He denied, under oath, that he was a party member. A month later, a report was sent to the head of the agency employing this man, proving that he was a member of the party working out of the national of fices. In 1944 he was elected to the ! National Committee of the Com-j munist Political association,; which, in 1945. became again thej Communist Party. Theparty con-' stitution requires that members' of the National Committee must have been party members in good standing for four years. So he, must have been a member of thej party when he took a government oath that he was not. You can't trust 'em any farther1 than you can spit. I ELIZABETH'S HONEYMOON TO BE IN BRITAIN LONDON, Oct. 28 (U.R) Buckingham Buck-ingham palace announced tonight that Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten will honeymoon honey-moon in Great Britain. Recognize Him? m ... . :: ..tfx v The news of the day comes to crisp, vivid life as it is delivered daily, every Mondav through Friday hy LOWELL THOMAS. Famous for years as a leading radio broadcaster, seen and heard by millions as he reports news on the screen, Lowell Thomas brings you up to date everyday on the happenings of that day, keeps vou abreast of the world's events. KSL 1160 Mon. thru Fil., 9 p. m. 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