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Show A'. - - . Disorders Believed 'General Rehearsal7 for (Communist Offensive Against Marshall PARIS,; Dec. . 24 TJO,: i Re- JMoch, Twho is the head , of the cent disorders In France . and Italy were intended mainly ax "general rehearsal" Jor ait international in-ternational Communist mid-win-; . ter -offensive against the - Marshall Mar-shall plan, , 'Interior Minister Jules Moch told an interviewer today. "i 10 . : The tall, thin minister said the secondary purpose of ttie disorders dis-orders was "to break down the economy and - normal life of France and Italy, so the Marshall' Mar-shall' plan would be ineffective when it is put into operation. . - Moch added that new and possibly, pos-sibly, more violent outbreaks may be expected probably "in February Feb-ruary or March when food is scarce, vegetables are rare and meat-Is most expensive." "If m 'certain that the recent troubles in France were not a trial -civil war, but a general -rehearsal for next time,: said French policy .system. "The clashes were used to train 'com mando in the north and in Marseille." Mar-seille." ' ' - He added hat the government knew the plan which the French Communists, "wanted to put into action, as part of an attack 'unleashed 'un-leashed by .the Communist parties of Europe on the orders of the com inform. The whole thing was put'Jnto action on Nov. 1 in Marseille, on the pretext of a protest against a rise in trolley fares, Moch. asserted. as-serted. "The strikes were ex tended over the entire coast, to cut off France from the south and also, possibly, to , make contact con-tact with agitators in Italy, . "On the northern , side, where the Communists, are i strong in mining areas. strikes and dis orders were ordered "to open liaison with Belgium, from which evetnually . material -and arms could be .- obtained . as well as from Italy.' . .. - ' ; The Communist party was certain - that: ' no Democratic French government ? : could ' act strongly enough. ., and ? quickly enougn, to, cope,, wiin sucn -a move. The 'Communists expected tne government to tail, or al least to grant: the striken de- mandsv . ? Moch said the Communists' preliminary campaign in France failed forthree reasons the swift and energetic counter-attack' launched by the govern ment, tne , -maturity' or the French working class, , and' ; the willingness of the government to grant . "reasonable" . - labor - demands. de-mands. CV-' ; f - Comic Just a Bum Again, And ; With Christmas Coming, Too HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 24 E That ole Christmas spirit isn't doing so well by him these days, funnyman Ben Blue reports. Not anything like the way bis fortunes zoomed around Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en when he got killed, off by mistake. j "The gifts and presents and flowers came in by the truck-load truck-load then," Blue (the live one) signed reminiscently. "Here it is Christmas and I'm a bum again." j Blue made news last fall when reports of his death 'famed comic dies" whizzed around the world. !-Critics who'd panned you-know-what outa my past performances, per-formances, Ben chuckled "all Of a cudden discovered I was a great guy." '(' - After the news got out . somebody discovered the1 Ben Blue who'd died wasn't a ' comedian he was a promin- Gift Buying Spree Setting a Record " More Christmas shoppers than ever, with pocketbooks at least ' 10 per cent fatter than last year, jammed the aisles of the nation's na-tion's stores last week. They heard organs pealing out carols, herded their children to visit St. Nick and gaped at sparkling gewgaws gew-gaws just like last year. With prices up" 15 per cent, however, they showed a stronger tendency to "look around,' to "find the most- for the least." .Only one 1947 shopper in 20 says,. "Charge it." The rest pay cash; Some $300,000,000 in Christmas Club checks will be handed over still -only a third of all- $ucb deposiU made - this.! Christmas, IW year. Babies Have Chance To Reach 100 Years Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical Association, Associ-ation, had good news for infants last week: Given proper care in childhood, he said, a baby born today can expect to live to be 100. Latest old-age statistics show that human life expectancy has jumped from 47 in 1900 to 65.8 in 1947, will reach 67 by 1950. From there it will keep climbing but for a different reason. While greatest longevity advances so far have resulted from preventing prevent-ing infant deaths - (more hospital-births, cleaner milk, etc.) bigger progress from now on will come from adding to the lifespan life-span of older people. One result: a greater proportion of the U. S. -population in the "over 65" age group. ent trial attorney and Democratic Demo-cratic nominee for congress. In 1940. Everybody took it back. Plus quotes from the "dead man But that was too late for the true Blue fans. "I got dozens of memorial cards and wires addressed to my wife," Ben said. "For weeks, I was in heaven' more ways than one. Guys who'd hated me all my life and didn't mind admitting it suddenly came forth with glowing accounts of my virtues. The phone rang all day and all nignt. Blue posed as the undertaker took most of the calls himself, and went right along with the gag. . "One big-shot who had me tossed out of his office not too long ago sent a whole bank of potted lilies, Ben remembers fondly. The chorus girls at the Copacabana offered to fly out and act as pall - bearers. Dennis Morgan Mor-gan was all set to sing at the services." He admitted he could have straightened out the switch sooner. soon-er. But it was all too wonderful wonder-ful to miss. "Did you ever," he demanded, "have several hundred people telling you what a sweet -fellow you were?" Now, says Blue, h e wouldn't dare stick his head in the Copacabana if It had an iron hat on it. And Morgan, Mor-gan, who worked with, him after his "reincarnation" In, Warner brothers' "Wild Irish Rose," swears he wouldn't sing at his funeral if he died six times all real. The big-shot stomped over to Blue's house and took his lilies back. "Now I'm a bum again," -Ben laments. "Everybody's mad at me. Nobody's getting me anything for : t PRQVQ. r, UTAH 'C. COUNTY v UTAH. WEDNESDAYS DECEMBER, 24. 1947. Field'Tripi - FORT ; COLLINS, - ColdiV'Dech 24 , tU.R : iA , series , of ; 11, field trips for- graduate students at the Irrigations Institute at" Colorado A&M, college are proving of great valuer according to N, A Chris tensen,) dean oi -vtne , engineering department,, , I ;i - . , - . r Chrlstensen said .that the trips, two i of which have already' been taken,, ranged, anywhere from 50 to JOO: miles; He , pointed out that . students' making the trips paid ' their; own', hotel 'and : meal '.expenses. ...," Several weeks ago the staff of the . Irrigation Institute1; and : the students Indicated ' which ' trips they wanted, to take and a scheduled sched-uled was worked out," Trips already al-ready made- Include .one to- the Longmont - Greeley area,1 the the North Platte valley and the Lodgepole valleys. Vi . . Next trip on the schedule is one to Eftes park where, the students stu-dents will look- over power and recreational planning. And probably prob-ably the most important' trip. according to the dean, would be in mid-March, ' when- the group would go to -the middle JRlo Grande valley to gala knowledge of silt and flood, control. . ' Deen Christensen said the trips had been organized to give mem bers of the Institute an opor-tunity opor-tunity for examination and discussion dis-cussion of problems of an irrigated irri-gated agriculture. A small lake or fish pond is a valuable asset to any farm. FuelShortaq e Wo r r i es Dewey ALBANY. N. Y.. Dec. Z4 (U.R Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is "grave ly JConcernedT over thprospect of a serious fuel oil shortage- in New -York state and , may ask residents to adopt a voluntary rationing', program, an informed source said tonight. An administration spokesman said a Dewey was convinced skyrocketing sky-rocketing demands for fuel oil would result in a 15' per cent shortage this winter in the northeast north-east states. Dewey conferred yesterday in New York city with 20 repre-senatives repre-senatives of major oil companies on the problems of supplying fuel oil in New York. He' Was understood to believe that a self -rationing program, -under .which house temperatures would be cut to 68 degress, would be needed to solve the fuel scarcity. The administration source said "the simple fact is that consumption consump-tion in-the country as a .-whole is away beyond the capacity of shipping facilities." He said the situation was; com plicated by: A scarcity of steel tankers, that some fuel oil is being be-ing sent to Europe, that .jnore than 100,000 new dwelling units in the state are being heated with oil. NOT SELF-CONSCIOUS , MILWAUKEE (OR) There's a young Milwaukee woman- who likes to keep her dresses looking neat. She got on a downtown bus carrying a dress on a hanger. She hung the garment from the high hand rail, took a clothes brush from her purse, and brushed the dress during the. trip downtown. Claus died . h jjj jfsarX-ffii!- Fast Readers Get More From Book NEW YORK (U.R) A fast-read-er develops a much keener pre-ception pre-ception and understanding of the material than the slow reader. Norman Lewis, supervisor of reading-improvement courses for City College's adult education program, said. A study of the habits of 700 men and women attending his course in the last three year? shows that slow readers learn less, he said. "Too-careful reading, where speed is sacrificed by plodding through material," he said, "leads detail and the result is that the to an excessive concentration on reader.lo es the meat of the text. Rhode Island's chief industries are weaving and manufacturing. 5 Cliristmas tring you many Ucssings and mucK nappincss Frank J. Mutlett (Jewelers) Provo k5 1 -s -i - '(it V. V . . 3 - ; t i 1 il ; ai sr w I I! i . f - '5 ft d !l i "-vis - (fin Lm? tiii! ii -jWON' X KT 3 ."?w.T. V 7 V j . ' '''iJ Vs ' SIfS&SSXSIEK IS, n vl yJ v - -i .- - v i - t V-' . .' I ". 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