Nephi Times-News | 1948-12-23 | Page 2

PAGE TWO THE TIMES- - NEWS. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS' Berlin Red Vote Tightens Issue (EDITOR'S NOTP: When opinions are expressed In these columns, are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of they this newspaper.) News Analyst and Commentator. New Year's day, according to an WITCH HUNT: encyclopedia which I once remember consulting, is cele- Pumpkin, Too brated in the western world by merrymaking and, theoretLike a delayed Halloween epiat least, in the meeting of old friends. ically sode, with macabre rather than huI remember when we took the idea of New Year's "calls" WASHINGTON. seriously. That was back in western New York. I also remember later, when I was a student in Europe, three of us living in the same "pension" (a word which Americans abroad prefer to "boarding house"). We made our calls consecutively so that the one pair of gloves and one silk hat, which we possessed collectively, could serve for all. In that day and place both were essential. Today I have been meeting some uary 6 record Is 3&a"Baukhage talking . . . from the radio gallery of the . house of repre sentatives after having watched the opening of the second session of the l f historic 80th Note congress.""histor- the word ic." No one guessed then that other adjectives applied that legislative body were to help cause one of the to BAUKHAGE of American On great "upset" election victories history. January 7 (my birthday) there was "a bright sun shining down on the Capitol but," I broadcast, "the shadows beneath it are deep and dark." On that day the President de- livered his message and the next day the Associated Press said: "Most of President Truman's 1948 legislative proposals, particularly his tax reduction and plans appeared headed today for a congressional waste basket." How true that was and how it him. In his anhelped nual message he is to present most of them again, more hopere-ele-ct fully. January 12 was a cold day in New York which had just emerged from a blizzard. I was there covering the assembly of the United Nations and that day the Palestine commission was preparing its program of partition which was to be completed with bayonets and hand-grenade- clever speech without revealing and her husband are going to plump for Vandenberg later. Television is most unkind to what should have been a most telegenic subject. JUNE 23. A heavy mist bung over the city of brotherly love on the day of the convention's crucial session. I had left the hall at 4 o'clock that morning. We had witnessed a stirring and a pathetic scene when the blind veteran, Harlan Kelly, nominated General MacArthur in a clear, unhesitating voice which held in it the ring of a true devotee. Earlier, there had been the longest demonstration so far, for Taft. Stassen's had been the most vigorous. JUNE 24. I was looking over the public opinion polls and mentioned that qualities the voters said they would prefer in a presidential candidate were those of "the humanitarian, the protector of the weak, the benevolent guardian of the children, of the common man." Perhaps that was a better guide to what the choice was to be than the figures the pollsters provided us. It was late in the evening when candidate Dewey, accepting the nomination, raised his hand and swore that he had made no commitments to any man. JUNE 26 The Berlin airlift, which with the Marshall plan achieved the two greatest victories in the cold war, begins. JULY 12. The other side: a leconvention Democratic thargic demwoke to life with a onstration for keynoter Barkley which "had more real feeling and spontaneity in it." I broadcast at the time, "than anything which even the Republicans produced. JULY 13. This was a day of the battle of the extremes against the middle. The Negro attacking the Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for a candidate acceptable to the South. So heated were the arguments on the floor that policemen walked into the aisles several times. The Democrats' glamour girl had her chance, and Helen Gahagan Douglas, for some reason or other more telegenic than her Republican rival, emerged equally triumphant, foren-sicall- that she super-confide- JANUARY 23. At 11:30 a. m. a message came over the news ticker, and such a sigh of relief went up from the White House and from both Republican and Democratic headquarters that the trees on Connecticut avenue bent nearly double. "I am not available for and could not accept nomination to high political office." Signed General Dwight D. Eisenhower. JANUARY 30. Gandhi is dead. The priest and prophet of Indian independence was shot to death at his prayer meeting on the lawn of the estate where he lived. MARCH 9. Truman announces rehis MacArthur candidacy; nounces his. MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk is dead. Much died with that name. From the house radio gallery again on March 17 I report the y. JULY 14. The President finally is nominated and makes his acceptance in the small hours, offering a sample of v.hat was to come forth in the campaign. Many had already left the hall. He called for the special turnip day session of congress. "I have run into perhaps four or by the President of five people," I commented next what was then called the "Truman day, "who venture the assertion that perhaps he might still win." Doctrine." MARCH 19. Wallace attacks the But everyone else laughs at the President's foreign policy. thought. The calling of the congress proved good strategy. It was no April Fool's day Joke when the Russians stopped Thousands of people braved the trains in Berlin. Washington's heat of July 19 to The next day, April 2, our line the long, slow march of the caisson bearing the General of jountcr move: Congress passes the European recovery prothe Armies, John J. Pershing, to his last rest In Arlington. gram. The gaygreen of leaf and lawn On the afternoon of Friday, the on this 12th day of April are not 13th of August, as we were leaving enough to dispel Washington's conthe White House press and radio cern over the revolution in Bogota. conference. Stephanove Kascnkina (Remember? A Communist-directeJumped from the window of the affair. Secretary of State Marshall Soviet consulate in New York City. was there.) She lived to become the symbol .of At 10:30 in the morning of April the escape which so many human 19. Justice T. Allen Goldsborough beings, suffocating behind the iron ruled John Lewis guilty of crimcurtain, have sought before and inal contempt. since. On April 27 come the rumors of Al'GI'STlfl. The diamond's war from Palestine. beloved Babe Ruth. dies. The Moscow newspapers of May 8KPTEMBKR 17. Tragic end of 11 ar bought out Ambassador a man who had lived and died for Rodell Smith is conferring with peace. Count Bernadotte. Molotov. SEPTEMBER 20. A stormy session of the United Nations begins. The birthday of a state, May Its deliberations all but forgotten in 11 Israel is born. the heat of the presidential camDewey wins the primary in Ore- paign. NOVEMBER 2. The election of a gon on May 24. Later he won the state. President who nobody believed when A veteran steps down. Prime Minhe went to bed that night or even ister Smuts of South Africa is de- in the early hours of the next day feated on May 28. had won. 3. A little hefore NOVEMBER Oregon in the news again, tragically. The little town of Vanport noon in a New York hotel Goveris inundated. May 31. nor Dewey announced one of the Tragedy for a neighbor state on greatest upsets in American poJune 10. Secretary of Labor Schwel-lenbac- litical history when he conceded of Washington state dies his defeat and congratulated "the at the age of 53. champ." NOVEMBER 14. A male heir Outdoors, Philadelphia was cloudy and gtay on June 21. Inside Repubto the British throne is lican headquarters it was rowdy and born. gay. Dewey starts his shock and DECEMBER 13. Baukhage reblitz tactics against the field. Cor- turns from his vacation with a lot respondents discuss the mystery of of lies about the fish he caught. 1 the vacant seats in the gallery. hope my readers will understand (Did this foreshadow the absence that the last hectic days of the year of the Dewey voters from the polls have been recorded In the daily on election day?) The attractive press and are fresh In your memRepublican glamour lady. Clare ories. Hence I think they can be Booth Luce, hurls ber barbs in a safely omitted. d rough-diamon- b morous undertones, was the revival of the spy hunt in Washington. All the ingredients were there the cornfield, the pumpkin, and the specter of Stalin hovering over the unsavory whole. But there was nothing funny In the situation to the house activities committee or to a federal grand Jury seeking to rush indictments against suspected traitors and espionage agents. THE PROBE committee declared it had "definite proof of one of the most extensive espionage rings in the history of the United States." Bolstering this assertion was discov- ery of microfilm documents, termed by the committee of "tremendous importance." which had been removed from the state department for transmission to Russian agents. The microfilm was revealed by Whitaker Chambers, a senior editor of Time magazine, who admitted its possession and declared Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, had given it to him for transmission to Russia. Hiss promptly de- nied the charge. PLACED ON the witness stand, Chambers said he had not had possession of the film during the years after until recently, and 1937, de- clined to name the persons in whose hands the film rested before being turned up in a pumpkin on Cham- bers' farm. EMPLOYMENT OF MALE WORLD WAR H VETERANS 198. SEPTEMBER EMPLOYED A loNfNON-AGRICULTURA- 3Z 6 UNEMWOi ir -- T v i J ' EIIGHER TAXES: Some Frightened "sock-the-ric- twice-rejecte- d GOLDEN FLEECE: Pape Jason The "golden fleece," subject of one of mythology's most romantic, colorful stories, crashed the world press by proxy as a result of a row over custody of its namesake. The fleece, symbol of one of the world's most exclusive orders of nobility not even the king of England is a knight may be "kidnaped" by the city of Dijon. THE GOLDEN fleece of which Three years after the war most veterans, by and large, are firmly established in civilian employment, according to statistics compiled by the Research Council for Economic Security, Chicago. Eighty-nin- e of the estimated 14.9 million living veterans of World War II were employed as of last September. Of these, about 900,000 0 were on farms and another in school. About 450,000 were unemployed, .vhile an additional 300,000 were "resting" or unable to work. 900,-00- Besides doctors, FBI men have been getting these ears because they are on call 24 hours a day. Undertakers are getting them because more people seem to die at night. I i Notes of - ' ' 11 iiiniy i . 'i i a New Yorker'. Stage Door: Two Broadway hits are backed by Chicago racket-coi- n . . . Producer M. Gordon has chewed his nails down to here. Not only because of recent flops; he also reportedly turned down the hit, "Goodbye, My Fancy.". . . M. Todd's "As the Girls Go" claims a $500,000 advance sale. . . . "Real Gone Gal" Nellie Lutcher has come a long way in a year, "following the Winchellectricity," reports a critic. . . . Cole Porter's brand-nechune for his "Kiss Me, Kate" show Is tagged "Bianca." Backstagers predict it'll rock the nation. . . . Remember showgal Gay Orlova? Broadway now has one named Ha Doit. . . . Having trouble getting tix to hits? Then try the midweek matinees, which . . . are slim even for smash-cliIn Playbill (theater program) Eugene Burr writes about show folk superstitions. The reason, he says, shoes shouldn't be placed above you is "they could easily fall and conk you on the noggin." . . . You ain't hep to the jive, Jackson. On the noggin is redundant. When you're conked, you're hit on the noggin. . . . Dig it? . . . (Jes call me perfesser!) if tion you use a pressure sauce- pan. Follow the manufacturer's directions on timing. If the stew is allowed to simmer a while before serving, so that the flavors become blended, it will be greatly Dutch Elm Disease Dead, elms should be cut and burned before next April 15, to eliminate- - the danger of spreading Dutch elm disease. Mere cutting is insufficient. Most important is burning the bark at once. Piling it in the woodshed for another winter is not removing the danger. For it is in the bark of dead and diseased elm wood that the Scoly-tu- s bark beetles winter over. These beetles will carry the fungus infection next spring to other trees, and along in late June and July their leaves will begin to flag and show signs of the disease. Burning the dead bark now will destroy these beetles before they have the of advantage another spring. Classified Department newly-installe- rain-makin- body-ban- Polio Poster Girl highlights the influence of the almanac on Ameri1949. Poor Richard mas the nom de plume of Benjamin Franklin, whose Poor Richard Almanac began the popularity of this type of publication In hundreds of thousands of homes, rural household! especially. two-shilli- 0 'if S; There was no longer any doubt. n Farmers, at last, had a portrait of the American housewife's ideal potato. The U. S. department of agriculture even suggested that farmers tack it up iii the barn for quick reference. The department found, after a survey among 3.300 housewives, full-blow- that farmers and shippers should see to its that potatoes prepared for Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect on a Richard's anniversary. Jan d ... POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC life. ear. II FINE - can serviceable. Tom Edison also would have nodded in approbation, for these same scientists had tied together two great contributions to living to make their convenience even more marked, more appreciated. A NEW robot ear that hears the phone ring and turns on the light was shown to doetors at the American Medical association meeting in St. Louis. The ear could be used when no one is at home to turn on the light outside the front door. When the householder got ready to go home, he could call his house, and the ear would turn on the light. No one need answer the phone. THE ROBOT is a box on which the telephone sets. When the phone rings, the noise of the bell vibrates a salt crystal in the box. The vibration makes electricity flow in the salt, and the current is amplified to turn on the light switch. The box and phone are set in the circuit with the light to be turned on. In this way, the ear could be used to light any lamp in the house, or outside. The device comes from wartime submarine and surface ship detection by sound. Nothing but the vibration of a phone bell affects this The First Nights: The week's initialer, baptized "The Young and Fair," was dunked in lukewarm AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. RAIN-MAKEnotices. Dealing with life in a femme boarding school, it was In the Bag whacked across the girdle for its Perhaps it was in the bag, but dramaturgic flaws but the capable USED CARS DEAD END: Franklin Fenenga, an archeologist cast copped caresses. Reviewers of California university wasn't say- generally regretted that every act Reds Block Way Liberal Credit Terms The struggle for a Berlin peace ing. All he would say was that he wasn't as compelling as some of its have midid the bag. episodes. Critic Wm. Hawkins' dragged wearily on, extended by g THE BAG was a complete nority report: "There is power and Russian establishment of a Comhe had acquired from provocative good sense in this munist "government" in the Reich an Indianoutfit JESSE M. CHASE, INC. whose grandfather was a play." . . . The next entry was capital. medicine man. Thittir contrib second Guild's the Trade Buy Sell Demanding elections be held on The bag and its potentialities of the season, "The Silver Whistle." a "city-wid- e basis," the United Sail Lak City Main at 4th So. came to light when Kern county, in It had the aislemen blowing horns States, Britain and France told the the southern part of California's Alto locations in jubilantly, the loudest toots for the Soviet union that there could be no central valley, had its first rainfall expert performance of Jose Ferrer. POCATEUO BLACK FOOT BOISE solution to the Berlin impasse unFenin eight months not long ago. Reviewer Chapman trumpeted: d til the Russians disown the vas right there in the middle "Charming fable, captivatingly actBerlin government. The enga of the And, when he reed by Ferrer.' FARMS AND RANCHES terms were clearly expressed in a turned downpour. to Berkeley, the rain came note accompanying a list of Soviet down there in torrents. Between the Acts: Broadway-tte- s CANADIAN FARMS Writ for FREE INviolations of the Berlin constituFORMATION on firm Mtllenient opportunltlai. were gabbing about the exarose NATURALLY, speculation FwtUa soils. Rcllonably prlctd. C. F. tion that the three powers had subCmosdiu FaelOe Bailwaj, Yancouver, B.C. citing doughmance of Indian concerning the properties of the mitted for guidance. " g millionaire Ali Kahn and Rita bag, for, when the outALTHOUGH FORMALLY adHayworth. . . . "Do you think," fit, including the tail of a beaver, MISCELLANEOUS dressed to a United 'Nations comwmeone asked, "she would of snapdragon seeds, a bag a bag JUMPING JACK. A proven and safe exmittee, the note obviously was of eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra care to be Just another of his erciser tender for baby. No wobblinjr and meant as a strongly worded warn- and various charm stones and pebd wives?" . . . "It's better," Wide, heavy web safely holds erect Baby cannot fall out. back baby's ing to Moscow. It indicated that if bles, was brought out of storage, Arthur Murray, "than ohrugged contented. It's an ideal ChristKeeps baby what it termed the "illegal body" the rain started. mas Gift. Price $4.95. Write for literature. being Just one of Orson's fans!" SRURTLIFfWANUFACTURrNG CO. in the Soviet sector were not dist2S South loth Arena him with Focatella, Idaho the had bag Fenenga would western banded, the powers Grable The Cinemagicians: Betty a in he entered when Berkeley take a series of measures required storm. It is now in possession of is again putting her best limbs forBUY U. S. SAVINGS BO by the fact, in their opinion, that ward in a roliicky musical called the university. the "legal, unified administration" "When My Baby Smiles at Me." of Berlin had ceased to exist. Dan Dailey makes a fine partner HELP WANTED MEN, WOMEN The western powers placed no AGENTS WANTED for the Grable-bodiegal. . . . time limit for the Soviet union "Miss Tatlock's Millions" is a hi- Insurance agents wanted, full or part time, to make a decision on whether to Utah and Nevada. A full line of Life, Accilarious motion-pixie- . Monty Woolley dent and Health policies, individual or famcontinue collaboration. However, and John Lund are among the tal- ily group to meet the public's needs. Ltberal the tone of the note, as informed pension plan. Investittate-thented inmates of this padded-celluloi- compensations and with opportunUies in one of the fastest sources stressed, indicated that un. . . "Blanche Fury" is the West. growing companies a , less the normal administrative cona British immigrant with million-dolla- r GREAT MUTUAL LIFE INS TRANCE CO. S 606 Beason ditions were reestablished "pretty Technicolor and a Building i Salt Lake City, Utah "A Southern Yansoon," a new policy would be tale. ACCIDENT fiesta with LIFE kee" is a rattle-braine- d adopted. if FROM BEGINNING to end the the Civil War playing straight for note gave what the western powers Red Skelton's hoke and joke routines. . . . "Hills of Home" is as regard as detailed proof that the Soviets have pursued in Berlin a wholesome as milk, and the playpolicy of systematic violation of all ing of Janet Leigh and Edmund w ? Gwenn is warm and human. . . quadripartite agreements. ' r v v" Via t ir" "Behind Locked Doors" is one POTATOES: sleeping pill you can take without a medico's prescription. No More Doubt market are: CLEAN, of medium size, marked by few "eyes," light in color, undamaged and of such quality that they will cook up soft, mealy and evenly throughout, without falling apart. Housewives like medium sized small replicas were awarded the potatoes because they rate them to peel and handle, and best knights was kept in Dijon. France, easiest after the order was founded by for Judging Individual portions the potato, they say. Philip the Good, Duke of BurgunThe survey showed more than a dy, in 1429. for several generations until Mary of Bureundy took it with fourth of the householders disher to Austria when she married turbed by "mechanical and hanSaid Maximilian the Fair. dling injuries" to potatoes The fleece remained In Vienna the department: "IT IS PRETTY good evidence until the French army recaptured the city during the last war and that too many potatoes are being returned the f eece to Dijon. Now, dug and handled with improper maAustria is asking for It back. But chinery and tools, and that the pothe good Burgundians of Dijon tatoes are not properly culled behave petitioned the city council to fore being sent to market." Immediate question to arise: Will urge the French government to refuse the Austrian bid and to re- potato growers and ahippers do tain the fleece in Dijon. anything about It? 17, would l. Some business men and industrialists, who feared a Truman victory might result in a new tax program, shivered anew as they read a statement by one of the leading proponents of President Truman's plea to impose a modified form of the wartime excess profits tax. THE SPEAKER was Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, who cited the 1929 financial crash as an argument for boosting taxes on business profits. The senator declared that "if corporate profits of 1929 had been adequately taxed, this government would have been in a much better fiscal position to meet the depression." He pointed out that corporate earnings now are piling up at the same rate as in 1929. although the companies are bigger. So earnings are greater than ever before. industrialists, leadHOWEVER, ers of the big labor unions, accountants and economists have been requested to give their views on what, if anything, congress should do about profits, estimated at a record 20 billion dollars this year. O'Mahoney proposed that "little business," or small, independent corporations be given special exemptions under any excess profits tax plan. uary Bell Stews popularity that knows no international boundaries. There is the Irish stew, French ragout, Hungarian goulash, and the American meat pie, all with the goodness that comes from long, slow cooking and proper seasoning! You needn't get in a rut when it comes to preparing stews for your family. Although you may follow a recipe, ingredients may be added or subtracted provided the stew stiil looks attractiVand tastes delicious. It is not nrtjary to spend all morning in prepara- rain-makin- Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, studied the microfilm documents, evaluated their contents, but declined to divulge their importance. Chambers, an admitted member of a Communist spy ring which operated here a decade ago, was slated for further witness stand appearances, as was Hiss, who maintains he was never a Russian agent. Meanwhile, Poor Graham have approved. Science had moved to make his telephone even more Tax Hike Bugaboo Frightens Some; By BAUKHAGE old "dates of 1948." The first I have to Alexander 23, 1948 Mews Always Popular have a ROBOT EAR: New Magic New Spy Ring Data Revives Probe; Baukhage Finds Old Dates Of Interest in Year 1948 Thursday, December NEPIII, UTAH the almanac hangs peg In living room or kitchen. There, already, the 1949 almanac has begun to hide the 1948 and earlier editions The almanac It many things to many people It carries an anniversary-- calendar, astronomical listing data, information on how to get rid of rats, raise healthy chirks, how to ftay awake in church Linda Brown, 4, of San Antonio, Tex., has been selected the poster girl for the 1949 March of Dimes, January 14 to 31. Stricken with polio two and a half years ago, Linda was treated at the Robert B. Greene hospital In San Antonio with funds derived from the March of Dimes. She now walks without braces and has only a slight limp. . Memos: Edgar A. Poe: One-hatat pleasure experienced at a theater arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience. . . . Schopenhauer: Not to go to the theater is like making Duone's toilet without a mirror. mas: One should never take one's daughter to a theater. Not only are plays immoral; the house itself is immoral. 'say lf ... about good tasting SCOTT'S y EMULSION I- IfL . u.u.auu. va "WW loiaa t fa.ttr-a- blp nd kM r -i- w mww- EmuUloa hIpa Too itiuw una i taitln Scott' yon ward off cold klp well kp yon ! Coins (tronf whan your diet nor natural AID Vitamin I Beott'l I TON1C-rieh m HIGH ENERGY FOOD tMM The Airlstocrats: The 20th Centupurchase of the American network couldn't have pleased Guess Who more. Let's hope RANKIN: Darryl F. Zanuck doesn't change Outward Bound? the key station letters WJZ to Rep. John E. Rankin (D., Miss.) DFZ. . . . Why isn't the Mr. and stanza one of the foremost house oppo- Mrs. North comedy-mysternents of President Truman's civil televised? It'd make swellevision. rights program, faces a strong Gabe Heatter is this kind of guy: competitors' scoops. fight by northern Democrats in He patty-cake- s congress to force him off the house Imagine! . . . Geo. Gallup (he conactivities committee. ducted the straw vote that broke UNDER THE seniority system, the elephant's back) guested on a Rankin is slated to become chair- Mutual newscast. The commentator man of the house veterans' affairs comforted George by ackchelly tellcommittee The attempt to oust ing him Sarah Bernhardt never acted better than after she had a investihim from the . . . Sacasas (a gating group will be based on the leg amputated! grand rhumband) recorded a numgeneral house rule that the chairman of a committee may hold only ber titled "The Mambo" for Victor in 1943 and Music Business mag one committee post. f The northern Democrats will ar- credited him (in 1946) with introothnew the which rhythm, ducing vetif Rankin the that accepts gue . . Norman Cor-wierans' affairs committee chairman- ers have Cerfd. that complains Hooperatings WNU be should be restricted to ship, "perpetuate sameness and medthat. iocrity." 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