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Show : :ib-: -k is-.1:. ;: ft - 1 U'' - (j - Utility Lobby Can Handle ! fe I $ A 4 Hit V M ' I "N ! f I - " Jf J Congress, but Not the People a KVVm f l f V 7 V L 1 A" fCM t X . ' , THE Powerful utility lobby InffdF JtlVI s I i I If tKl'" P " y IAia-W f J4 1 Washington ha. be quite .uc f f VUX H I 1 j f V ' HONOR CAMP FIRE LEADER NtC-V Yi r' ' I 'l? 1,1 botUing up masures f !k ' 1 1 ' " 1 v i "V f ? t J "Edith M. Kempthorne Ex- Ja j I V 4 I 1 hih they consider inimical to the ' 1 R' jpS i V , I f , J .'Tri mm Fund" has recently been V 'V . I V Interests of the private utilities. Of If ftt X 4 V fU - t Vi !l Sished to honor of Edith Jkv'lf coum most important of these I ;f V: H V- iV. Wtfc V' - V ' ben bottled up in committee for Vf ' I I ' , I v ' But hearings reveal that out In V -J S '7 1 1 - "fc ' ' 1 ' the country where the utilities come 1 - - "" ' " ' 'I 'I 1 , ' "P against the rank and file of the 1 : . . " 1 - ' ' - ' "lm--Rh. . American oeoDle close to home.! : , i AUM I f; -H,' II V A -"- ""s , , , " - I 'heir batUng average is almost nU. ' I I CVi ' ' I krir 1 it' WAE PK0FIT3 PROBE . . . MaJ. Geo. TVilliam V. Porter, retired chief of the chemical warfare service, is shown at he appeared before the Senate Mead committee si it mi Investigating Rep. A. i. Hay and war profiteering. WHAT nn vnn . dentiv imt iw T . W-AX Meat ahortoKeT They evl- dentty never heard of a meat famine down Rocky Mount, N. C. way 1 rrke".Part With Klant " Mke the one above, which Upped ta L.i? ! u somethtaS" Batter a large size ham to put to the oven, meat shortage or no meat shortage. if ! ( ) s !. 1 1 r - J 11 .. .1111 11 ill 1 mn.ii.tit,WiMiJ M ml, imMV,B,iM,,w B v. -3 Ws i ! ' - :- v.: ITALIAN PRESIDENT GAINING FAVOR . . . Benedetto Croce, famous fa-mous philosopher, is shown, left, as he congratulated Enrico de Nicola, who was recently named provisional president of the Italian republic. President De Nicola enjoys enormous personal popularity In Naples, a monarchist stronghold, and his election by the Italian constituent assembly, won some ardent monarchists over to "De Nicola's Republic." JAPOOSE-PACKING PAPA . . . morning beach stroll and taliy-tending chore are easily com-taieilky com-taieilky this papa at Nag's Head, V C. He took the baby's anto seat t the car and h'lsted It onto Ihoulders. The idea was "Pied from packs brought to rlca by war brides. Minn. S- C . & ' - a J.I ! . s-' 1 L Tim'jttiira nutffi.- rtffi:M,..iimi'm jnmniiihftiiiinnnawt mmm mmmf"' ii"-i'iiifirti'.:W fa Bm WILL REMEMBER urn holding blood-stained n' battle of Bastogne fresented to President Tro-tabas!iriteIl0Hse Tro-tabas!iriteIl0Hse "y Belgium 5-cGir Be,e,umin IANNIS Orrr i,wS'?50rni itar Who took fiaibw0"'1 tennI crown ca? I! Broneh, Beverly b tr1" seto to aa aa-Amerlcaa final. THE ARMY GOES BACK TO THE HORSE . . . The horse has come back into his own with the V.S. constabulary forces now on duty patroling some 1,600 miles of German border along the Czech and Russian frontiers. Here Pvt. Manuel Ward, standing, is Inspecting-the Inspecting-the pass of a civilian from the Ukraine, while Pvt. Gene Bobbins sits on his horse. Both GI's are from Troy, Ohio. MaJ. Gen. Ernest Har-man. Har-man. who rides a grasshopper plane commands the unit. " ''I: ! i I - Si - ' , V " . v f- y'---- - . . . - --j - "-rtmg;i!aiteA """"" DAn nnr.mrs s MAMOETH PLANE WRECKED . . . Wreck. age of Howard Hughes's largest great plane is shown after it had hit telephone wires, crashed into a home and then Into Rosemary De-camp's De-camp's garage, finally hitting another home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Home Is shown burning in background. Hughes was enly one In plane when it crashed. He was rescued from the fire and rushed to hospital, hos-pital, where it was first reported that be had little chance to survive. THE powerful utility lobby in Washington has been quite successful suc-cessful in bottling up measures which they consider inimical to the Interests of the private utilities. Of course the most important of these are the bills which would set up regional authorities in the Missouri river basin and other rivers of the nation. Several of these bills have been bottled up In committee for months. But hearings reveal that out in the country where the utilities come up against the rank and file of the 1 American people close to home, ! their batting average is almost nil. ' During the past year 100 cities and towns have chanced from orivate to municipal ownership. We now have 3,371 incorporated towns in the nation served by publicly owned electric systems. Of this number, and this is important, im-portant, 2,827 towns are in the population popu-lation class of 5,000 and under, the Home Towns of the country. On top of this there are more than 800 Rural Ru-ral Electric Co-operatives operating outside incorporated towns and con gress has appropriated $550,000,000 to be spent in two years for the organization of new and extension of the lines of existing REA cooperatives. co-operatives. Moreover, during this past year there is not one city or town on record which has gone back to private utility ownership. These figures put the utility lobby in the bush-league class, making strange indeed the influence they have upon the elected representatives representa-tives of these same people in the small towns and rural areas of the nation. Cost of Current Lower Why are the people looking toward to-ward municipal ownership instead of private ownership of utilities? The simple fact is that the records show every city with a municipal utility has a lower tax rate than cities of comparable size with private utilities utili-ties . . . that they have lower electric elec-tric rates, that they can afford to make more use of electricity as a result, for as the price of electricity has been reduced by municipal ownership, own-ership, its use has been multiplied. Wider use of current permits further fur-ther rate reductions and consequently consequent-ly still more use of electricity. According to the testimony in these hearings, however, the folks in our small towns and even in our cities have only scratched the sur face in the use of electricity as a means of better living. For in stance, in 1945 the national average of electric consumption in the coun try was 1,225 kilowatt hours per res ident consumer, while in Canada where municipal ownershiD has been In vogue for many, many years. the consumption runs more than 5,000 kilowatt hours per consumer. Contained in the testimony is acrid denunciation of the Tennessee Valley authority, and yet the same testimony shows that when private utilities have lowered their rates to meet municipal competition they have invariably shown higher net i earnings. This was true when the Georgia Power company lowered its : rates to meet TVA competition "and experienced the highest net income ! the following year in the history of their company. Many samples ! were given where this same condition condi-tion held true. Twice National Average Down in Mississippi at Tupelo. for instance, the first town to get TVA power, folks there are using more than 2,000 kilowatt hours per consumer, almost twice the national average. These higher averages are true all through the TVA area, and at lower rates than ever were dreamed of in the days of private monopoly of electric utilities. In many sections of the country private utilities are now attempting attempt-ing to choke off or eliminate REA co-operatives by building spite lines and cutting rates for consumers who were refused private service until REA promised to serve them. Claude Wickard, REA administra tor here in Washington, warned that 'We are facing a bolder and per haps a more desperate opposition from private utilities at this time than REA has ever before experienced. experi-enced. This opposition extends from cream-skimming spite line activities in areas laid out for development by co-operatives, to the maintaining ol a strong lobby in Washington. A national advertising campaign in the weekly and daily press, in nationally na-tionally circulated magazines and on the radio networks is being carried out State legislatures and regulatory regula-tory bodies are being flooded with utility proposals for various restrictive restric-tive measures to be applied to the REA program," Mr. Wickard continued. con-tinued. It would seem, however, that with growth of municipal utilities and the REA in the borne towns and rural areas, this lobby is only affecting members of congress, not the people peo-ple who elected them. heat BEGINS TO FLOOD MARKETS . . . Interior view ef meat packing plant In New York City scant few days following explraUon et the office of price admlnistratlon-ehowtof neat en the book and plentiful. In meat centers such as Chicago, Kansas City and Lot Angeles the supply wan even more plentiful. Whether It was a rash by farmers to get catUe to market before enactment of new OPA er be. cause of, at least, temporary end of black market, the reason Is not entirely clear. Higher prices was e factor. 1 ' ? Mi A V it 4Q V t' BelMasd by Wtttera Nnrapapcr Unloa. By VIRGUm TALE TANET BLAIR. In pigtafls, calico dress and high button but-ton shoes, reported for a test tor "Regina" in Columbla'a Gallant Journey": Pro. ducer-Director William Well-man Well-man said she was the first girl be thought of for the part She was supposed to took 11, and she did. She lays It was the first time ahe wasn't , told that she looked toe -young to play a role. Janet started her career soloist with Hal Kemp's band straight out of high f i JANET BLAIR ; ichool. broke Into pictures before;, the was 20. In her colorful eay 80s costume she grows vp charm Ingly In the picture, with Glenn Ford, who's 19 when the picture begins, be-gins, romancing with her. V.S. CA VALET PARADES IN TOKYO ... Toe U.S. 1st cavalry division Is shown parading down ens of the main streets of Tokyo during celebration held In the Japanese capital. Lt Gen. Robert Elchelberger, commanding officer of the 8tn army and MaJ. Gen. William Chase, commanding officer of the crack cavalry cav-alry nntt, reviewed the display of U.S. might from n stand In front of the Imperial hotel In Tokyo. Many GI'S watched from the sidewalks. , T Mill j I M.-Jiliin i JJW nun SA : Jri- - - . ' - 1 I'vi 1 ' ',,:?', THE WINNER AND HIS CANDIDATE . . . Former governor ef Min-nesota, Min-nesota, Harold Stassen, and Mrs. Stassen are shown as they voted at Bt. Paul In Minnesota Republican primary election. Insert shows Edward J. Thye, Republican governor of Minnesota and political protege ef Stassen, who defeated Senator Henrik 6hipstead. Stassen fought Shlpstead on his record of having voted against the U. N. "US" Between icenes of "Angel on My Shoulder," Claude Rains covered bis own ihoulders with a worn tweed coat He's superstitious about It He wore it on the "Casablanca" let - the picture won an Academy Acad-emy award. And on : the set of "Caesar and Oeopatra" in London, (or which ho got the highest salary ever given en actor, $1,280,000. -, nppy Hollywood Homes' wilt be the title of n Columbia Screen Snapshot, avowing film players and tlreotore and their mates who've been married for more than II years. Producer Balph Staub ex. pects to have about 60 such eouples In the picture. Unprejudiced observers think maybe he's stick. Ingvhls chin out, since Hollywood marriages have way ef breaking up even after It years. I -. - - - fmmr-'mtmm, mmm i n i il '"' - f J ' i', , ' v r I f " "" $ 1 v f . 7 TOKXO GANGSTER LAID TO REST . . . Toyko had Its first gangster funeral since the occupation, when Matsuda, the "Boss of Shlmbashi" district, was sent off to bis ancestors In the true gangster fashion. "a-la-Chlcago. The streets were banked with flowers as the two-hour two-hour memorial service began with the chanting of the priests and the beating ef tom-toms by his "boys." Photo shows MstsndVs ashes Wing carried In the procession through streets of Shlmbashi. CLOUD OVER BIKINI ... The atom bomb as It exploded ever the "guinea pig" fleet moored in the lagoon at Bikini. The photographer photog-rapher was In n B-29 flying at a safe distance and altitude from the atom bomb explosion en the atolls. ! v' ....-..r...,.-,..,,....,,,..s,. -1f... HinftflittHIMMgiiMsj, VET DANCES WITH PLASTIC LEGS . . . Jerry Singer, Hollywood Holly-wood film dancer, who lost n leg at Okinawa, Is dancing again these days, despite artificial leg. He is shown going through n dance for film, "If I'm Incky." Fred Waring and hli Pennsyi-vanlani, Pennsyi-vanlani, who have n schedule call, tag for tlx half-hour broadcasts e week (five mornings end Tuesday evenings) have found time to trans cribe a special 15-mlnute show for the Veterans' administration. If a tune's danceable, singable and bas an appealing Ides, the chances are It's set for the "Hit Parade," according to Harry Warren, War-ren, who wrote "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,M -"Down Argentine Ar-gentine Way" and other bits. "Of count, he added, "a Bug Crosby Cros-by or Frank Sinatra to sing it won't do any harm." He's currently writ big the music for M-G-Mi "Summer "Sum-mer Holiday." Walter Pigeon ("Mr. Mlnnlver," "Pierre Curie," ete.) will shag, truck, do the Susy-Q and Big Apple Ap-ple with Oaudette Colbert for e jitterbug jit-terbug routine In "The Secret Heart," now before the cameras et Metro. Quite a change for the dig. nified Mr. Pigeonl "Possessed" to the new title of the Warner Bros, picture starring loan Crawford, known till now as "The Secret." It looks like another top-notcber for her Van Heflln plays opposite her, Raymond Mas-ley Mas-ley and Joan Chandler have important impor-tant roles. Johnny Desmond sent a carton of Ms latest records to Princess Elizabeth Eliza-beth of England at her request She became a Desmond fan when he sang for her In Bedford with the Glenn Miller army air force band, and asked that copies of his first recordings be sent to her. It was reported later that Desmond was her "favorite crooner"; she'd heard him sing his "Soldier and a Song" over the armed forces network. Meredith WiUson has been named to the music advisory committee of the Atwater Kent radio auditions, one of the radio's oldest and most honored radio institutions, which was started in 1827, but was discontinued dis-continued during the war. Resumed Re-sumed this year, it Is designed to uncover young talent in singers and musicians, and has given a start to many a successful career. ODDS AND ENDS-CBS Nmn fie. porter Bob Caned ha$ completed no ration for a Columbia Picture snort, and executives plan te put aim under a year's contract for timilar picture eftores. . . . "Philo Vanta Hat bam bought to replace Bit! Gargan't "Mar der Will Out," with the role "Sen geant Heath" played fry Humphrey Davit. . . . Dan Seymour, rotund char-meter char-meter actor te "Cloak and Dagger," need to be a cheut strongman. . . . Bint Crosby bee notified that ke'l the write eocaliit of American occupation troop te Europot next in order Frank Sinatra, Vaughn Monroe and the -, King Colo Trio, according to a poli. C J |