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Show A wmmmmmn iiiMii)iiiwMiunmiuunmiiiiiniiiiiimiiiiii)pui, iiniumiwipiimw HUNGARY W CASPIAN ... . .ill ' 1 WWW . iisrwKAnf iiaf lACK $tA www At COURAGE . Eddie inia, 15, wnose s listed by Infantile paralysis bee he was two, U shown at hi Bition u pitcher en Carbondale, I,, team. He never sk favors; gm opposition. " f E HAT . . , Fiorello H.LaGuarv i.New York's former mayor, re-ally re-ally climbed to the top of the' eat ladder to give the farmers few (acts of life. At Fargo, ; D., he asks for wheat for En? AEEIED . , Remember Fred- Bartholomew, child star of yes f day? Press stories tell ns that ran away from his aunt, elope d married bis press agent. She six years older than Freddie, Tfi - 5 mm i A. ! i ' RIBS mm t what David Rothman, months, and Marianne wV ?nUls' re Merest In. rt,ny bottoms so they can 0J They have received m5S the 0PA offlc,aI" , UI soon be covered. ian Be.;: r WEXC0 . . Mex-,sWi Mex-,sWi ?tands besld e . AleBjI, , Aleman atMaiat-T4fm atMaiat-T4fm K. n,aklns the most fo ?PaiCT ta Mexican ! ' e election. Y 5 I,- , 1 i . ?" 'ty .,A , !1 HIS MODELS WERE THE TOPS . . . Flying Officer Carl Freeman, lake Field, Aria., Is shown with the model planes which won first and second prizes at the model airplane meet held at Lnke Field. Record 61.2 mph. The army air force has a program to encourage the building build-ing and flying of model planes not only among enlisted personnel and fficers bnt also among civilian groups. Many aces in World War II became interested in aviation while building model planes. i 4i I FAST FEEDING . . . Jimmy Slyter, 19, receives food through tube front thermos bottle during his Los Angeles-Catalina Island swim try.' The navy veteran was forced to abandon his attempt after two hours and 49 minutes of paddling, approximately five miles short of the 22 mile route. He was pulled aboard exhausted. Judges believe that he struck his head on boat which caused collapse. f t i .mi 1 L j.'1 .J COLONEL SERVES SERGEANT . . . When Sgi Bass H. Lewis JTr Columbus, Ga., went overseas he expressed the wish that npon his discharge he could have a suite at the Astor and have bis colonel serve him breakfast In bed. He got his wish. Col. Cecil Rutledge, Buffalo, N. T., is shown serving former Sergeant Lewis. ; - . - ! "r r m - f ' ' :fi j SLEEPY HOLLOW HAS TWINS . . . SSSHiSH selmo, Calif. IS proud of twins. Regta nd Jfftf 1 ' by Ella and Dick GlaninnL Birth of twins ta "orsedom Is cirrence. This was the first set of twins ddivered bf the teterlnar. Ian In 40 years. ji iinjiunuivii 'iB -Walter Shepd x j WNtf Conoiirfnl WW If tPuUnftoa Bura, SUffer Attitude Toward High-IIanded Unions Seen :: THE ,ana-Petrmo,, la now the law of the land, signed by the President And. that signature marks a milestone ot some kind, tor this reporter believes that de ipite the fact that we have a week, kneed, supine congress, the law will mark the turning point In govern ment relations with labor abuses. This so-called Petrlllo bill is a slap on the wrist for Mr. James Caesar PetrUlo, head of the musi cians' union, but if eliminates abuses ta only one Industry, "featherbed- ding" In the radio industry. ; It permits the same abuses to be practiced prac-ticed by Mr. Petrlllo In other indus tries . . rotably motion pictures and theaters, and it leaves other unions free to perform the same practices that Mr. Petrlllo la punished pun-ished for in the radio industry. , For Instance, the law says that Mr. PetrUlo cannot levy royalty or a tax on phonograph records used for broadcasting, but the union can still levy this royalty on every record you play In your home. Mr. John L. Lewis Is at this very mo ment seeking to levy tonnage tax on every ton of coal, 10 cents ton, to provide a huge fund for his miners min-ers union. But Mr, Lewis is free to do that since the "anti-Petrillo" law doesn't apply to the miners' union. . , But s congress which gave In to political expediency in. Its worst sense, and played checkers with the security of the nation in the emasculated emas-culated draft bill, and which indi cated such utter stupidity and dis regard for the welfare and opinions ot the rank and file of the American people in passage of the vivisected OPA bill. In the house, probably could not be expected to take up the abuses of labor union leaders in one fell swoop. Untoni Are Necessary Your Home Town Reporter believes be-lieves In labor unions. They are necessary in our American way of life, since witiiout them the American Amer-ican workers would be at the mercy of greedy employers. Were-it not for labor unions, a man's toil would still be a commodity to be bought and sold, to, be used . or disregarded at the whim of any capitalist. But the abuse of these beneflts which have been granted to labor by Certain Cer-tain labor bosses and in which these bosses even defy the government ot the United, States, should most definitely def-initely be curbed. - Public pinion polls indicate that the tank and file of the American people hold to this opinion and the folks who live in the smaH towns and the rural areas are particularly incensed at practices prac-tices and unlicensed effrontery of some of these leaders. ' the Case bill, 'approved here by some of the farm organizations, will die aborning in the senate and In the senate labor committee, majority ma-jority of this committee hat had the temerity to propose a measure which would Dunish unions aeeklna to extort, money from farmers by coercion or force to nrevent farmers farm-ers from transporting perishable farm products to market This has happened in Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, In New York, and In other sections wherein farmers tracks have been overturned, or the farmer farm-er has been forced to pay tribute to onions to drive bis truck of produce prod-uce into the market place. Bat what about the fanner who seeks to transport aonperlshable products? Why not include that to the biO for it Is most certainly as wrong for unions to prohibit the hauling of logs to market as It Is to levy tribute tor lettuce. And why not at the same time protect ethers besides farmers? A Tribute on Every ton Now the entire country is Just about to pay tribute to John L Lewis Lew-is before he consents to let his miners min-ers mine coal for industry and to heat your houses. Mr. Lewis struts from the headquarters of the United Unit-ed Mine Workers of America, a stone-facaded building about a block from my office here, and which resembles re-sembles nothing more than an exclusive ex-clusive Union League club or s Carnegie Car-negie library, and issues an edict . . . an edict to the Mine Owners, to Industry, to the American Public and to the Government of the United Unit-ed States . . . and he will probably get away, with it Wages for his miners is a secondary sec-ondary issue. What he wants most is that royalty of 10 cents ton which would mean some 60 to 60 million-dollars year In Mr. Lewis' coffers for welfare or whatever be determines to use ft for. So what difference; 400.000 miners -out of work tor three, or five Or sx weeks, or why should Mr. Lewis care if members of other union in steel, autos and dozen other industries re thrown out of work by bis coal strike . i . or that production Is stopped and reconversion slowed? Mr. Lewis wants to strut his power- tlVI ;. J 5 -V V MEDITERRANEAN ' CCA i -w ' ; io I MOtA f H JkOttlH ! LI3YA EGYPT SHORT "CUMMRO0CH DA0ENUU$ ! fmummmimmmmmmmmmmn L SYRIA j ; yjz Vis- SJ A Vyl nvtN HAnRHAMAUtSk ANOlO EGYPTIAN SUDAN tNDlAN OCEAK t COMPLICATIONS FOB BIQ FOUR , . While the Big Four conference In Paris faces many difficult problems : Involving treaties and claims and boundaries, the Turkish situation presents future complications. In the , dark areas shown are the three buffer states of the Near East and Middle East. Here the stratcglo and ' economlo interests of Russia and the western powers meet. Control of the Dardanelles is a vital issue and' Russia has sought to press claims on Turkey's eastern frontiers. Arrows on the map show how use of the straits cuts 8,000 miles from the supply line to Russia. At the opening sessions the Big Four sidestepped the ? troublesome Trieste and Italian colonial questions and began' the consideration of the Italian-French frontier, the slse of Italy's future armed strength and disposal of ber surplus shipping. France's proposal to add In-1 In-1 ternationalisation of the Ruhr and detachment of the Rhlneland from Germany to the agenda, added further : complications. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln caused another upset by Insisting that Belgian, s Dutch and Luxembourg representatives be permitted to sit in on such negotiations as spokesmen for nations which suffered heavily through German aggression. -Ll Alt TO INVESTIGATE FRANCO'S GOVERNMENT Committee of the U. N. security council which will investigate in-vestigate the charges that Generalissimo Franco's government in Spain is a menace to world peace and security.- Left to right: Oscar Lange, Poland; Henri Bonnet, France; Pedro Velloso, Brazil; Paul Hasluck, Australia, and Hsushl Shu, China Eimiyw 1 1 ""'""""" J ' jl " J"""""""" " mmmm'm";'""'' " ft I j . J;-'"'' - -1 v--vvM-m will - Tr 'V V YOUNGSTERS STUDY AT FBI ACADEMT . . Kenny Rose, Dick Little and Hugh McMabon, cub scouts of Falls Church, Vs., look oyer a small section of the huge "model city which Is part of the equipment used by the FBI national academy fa teaching traffic problems to leara modern police science. Thousands of youngsters visit the FBI monthly. KT h . f 1 1 '-' ! i : 5 . ,k , ' " i TEA TIME FOR TRILBT , . Trilby, leader of the elephant herd of the RingUng Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus, shows his latest tea cop, A veteran of the show, he still rules the herd. " 11 in wiukii irrrrmrrm r I ' ' " " 1 '-j tic 'A J MOST VALUABLE . , . BasebaU's most valuable players, Phil Cav srreltaChlcago Cubs, left, was chosen as the National league's most, valuable player In 1945, and Hal Kewhouser, Detroit, won the sward for the most valuable player la American, league. Both men show premise of being leading contenders for the high honor this season. CEEEN FOR OPA . . . William Green, president of the AFX, told the senate banking committee that those who opposed extension of the , OPA were a "death lobby." He demanded It be continued Intact, STAGEvSCREEN-RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union, By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN Jackie Coogan was five he skyrocketed to fame in "The Kid." He was making his second pic ture, "Peck's Bad Boy," when the car taking him to the studio crashed; he was taken to tha hosDltal with a fractured skull, and he's been total ly deaf hi one ear ever since, a fact he's just revealed. He faked his way Into the army, made an en- rmnm. mmmjMmmMmmm, I i 1.1 iimlliiin liiliniiiiln-T- ' JACKIE COOGAN viable record as a second lieuten ant in the army air forces. Now 31, he's been discharged, and is on the air with his own radio show, "Forever "For-ever Ernest," on CBS Monday nights. He broadcasts from Holly wood, and is ail set to return to pictureshas pic-tureshas a new film scheduled to start In June. Pretty good for that wistful Infant. "The Kid"! David Rose, 20th Century -Fox musical director, never goes to bed before 5 a. m. can't compose In' daylight Yet he thinks a good musical musi-cal piece can be dreamed up on a street corner or a busl That new composition of his, "Gay Spirits," which you heard on his Wednesday night radio program, is the result,' he says, of playing his popular "Holiday for Strings" backward. .- Dorecn Taylor, who for the past four years has done the singing for many a famous non-singing movie queen, attest sings In her own right on the screen In RKO's "From This Day Forward." They Anally tested her and discovered that she's very pbotogento. For Universal's "So Goes My Love," Myrna Loy had to get used to moving about in the burdensome costumes of 1870, but she says It needed no adjustment to play the young woman who planned to marry a rich -man, won Hiram Maxim, the famous Inventor, piloted pilot-ed his career and raised their children. chil-dren. For, says she, girls employ those same stratagems today. "Exactly four years ago," said Gregory Peck on his recent birthday, birth-day, "I spent my birthday washing dishes in a New York restaurant" Now he's on top; David O. Selznlck has signed a new contract with him, will star him in "Benedict Arnold." Ar-nold." It will go into production late this year, will be done In technicolor, techni-color, and on the same scale as "Gone with the Wind" and "Duel In the Sun." : The story of radio since Its Inception Incep-tion will be the basis for a two and one-half million dollar film tentatively tenta-tively titled "Magic In the Air." Jer-rold Jer-rold T. Brandt, who produced the "Scattergood Balnes" series before he entered the service, and made 150 training films while In the navy, f will produce the film, bringing to the screen the top personalities of radio since the days of crystal sets. a Anne Francis, IS, who plays "JCathy Cameron" on NBC's "When a Girl Marries," has been signed to a seven-year contract by MGM. Anne made her radio debut in 1933 . eo the children's program, "Coast to Coast on a Bus," and has been acting ever since. - , . .- X ff v-1 1 When Mutual comes on the air : with Its four separate broadcasts of the Indianapolis Speedway race " 1 on Decoration Day, a record num - ber. of nine announcers will be on hand at various positions around the track. Bill Slater , and Ford Pear son among them. ; , ' When Fred Waring and his Penn: sylvanlans take over the Fibber Mc Gee and Molly time on NBC for the summer, starting June 18, Fred will '"''If ( . ..... . . ,, ..! . proDamy be setting a record; with .s. . r his five morning programs, he'll be " ' doing six half-hour shows a week !V,.; -c on a network. - - , -, , P - t ODDS AND EXDS-In Suddenly - h'$ Spring" ' Fred MacMurray had to taka fix falltand laid: "This picture is misnamed it thould be 'Suddenly lt'$ Fait." ... Boris Karloff plays a dramatic role in a comedy for the first time in the Danny Kaye picture, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." . . . A fan who asked Perry Como for his script after a recent 'Supper Club" broadcast teas told he'd need it for the repeat for the Vest Coast, but she could have the script if she wanted to wait; to his astonishment there she was, four hours later. . . . Paul Laval! t 1 has been given three dachshund pups, named Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. , ft |