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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS CREDIT CONTROLS: U.S. Seeks to Avoid Chinese War As Warships Flee Shanghai Trap; Reds Talk of Berlin Blockade End (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these eolumm, they are those of western newspaper union's news analysts ana not necessarily of this newspaper.) j ' BOUND FOR "HOT SPOT!" . . . American marines wave from U.S.S. Si. Paul as they embark for trouble spots in China. The St. Paul, heavy cruiser, was one of the two warships leaving: for China and which carried much larger complements of marines than the normal. ' The United States was showing the world that it planned no maneuwhich might create the situation for an "incident" leading to involvement in the Chinese war. To the surprise of practically everyone, particularly the 2,500" Amer icans in Shanghai, the entire U. S. fleet fled suddenly from Shanghai, BERLIN: evidently having abandoned then current plans for evacuation of Reds Want Talk American nationals from the scene. If the United States and Britain THE GOVERNMENT ' was sending some marines to Chinese troub- looked with a jaundiced eye on led spots, but these were to do Russia's public offer to lift the Berlin blockade, it was thoroughly unonly sentry duty. Too often the Soviets United States action came despite derstandable. have held out the 'olive branch or admittedly great provocation. The made apparent overtures that Chinese Communists, in their tri- never materialized to ease the China across to surge umphant crisis the Reds have been deShanghai, had invaded the home veloping at that may time. of U. S. Envoy J. Leighton Stuart HOWEVER, the western powers in Nanking and hinted he was to be had virtually accepted the Russian held in custody. proposal to lift the Berlin blockade Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds in conexchange for a broadcast demand for American ference on Germany. But it was and British officials to evacuate all very plain that acceptance their "aggressive forces" from made was based on the condition that China. Russia had no secret strings atAlrea'dy British warships had tached to the offer. been fired upon and it was assumed A U. S. department official American fleet elements had fled was quotedstate as saying that if MosShanghai in order to avoid any cow's policy actually stands as it such predicament as was exper- was reported in a dispatch by Tass, ienced by the British vessels. Russian news agency, the apTHE COMMUNIST threat to pears clear for the lifting"way of the Shanghai was increasing hourly blockade and a meeting of the counand despite Nationalist decision to cil of foreign ministers." battle to the end, it appeared the At the same time, however, it city's plight was hopeless. was learned that the Russians were Communist victory in China told that the United Britwould put all the western nations ain and France do not States, intend to dein a ticklish position. For, with the lay their plans for unifying western Reds in control of all China, those Germany and creating a German who opposed communism would government, probably by Jury 15. be helpless and hopeless in event SOME TOP officials believed the f a western'powers move to ap- Russian offer's real purpose was to ply economic sanctions, if such a delay this action, and indicated that step should be taken. If this pro- if this were the case it was most cedure were not to be followed, the uncertain whether a real and final western powers would be put in agreement on the Berlin blockade the paradoxical position of recog- would be reached any time in the nizing and trading with proponents near future. of an ideology with which they The Russian proposal was conwere struggling in a cold war. strued as suggesting three concrete means for reducing international AUTO LABOR: tension. These were outlined as (1) proposal for a meeting of the counFlareup Looms The nation's coal mines didn't cil of offoreign ministers on the subGermany; (2) lifting the present the only likely flareup in ject Berlin as soon as a e relations as bargain- meetingrestrictions date was fixed for that ing time rolled around in various meeting, and (3) direct industries. Those who were in posi- between Premier Stalinnegotiations and Prestion to know held the opinion that ident Truman on conflicts it was an "uneasy peace" which between the United .basic States and the bung over the automobile industry. Soviet union. UNION FLAREUPS had been quelled at the Packard and Ford FARM PROGRAM: motor companies and a temporary work stoppage had halted body pro- Who's Confused? duction at the Briggs manuThe administration's bold new facturing company's plant. farm program was becoming so The future of labor relations in muddled even its proponents the industry was as confused as it seemed tothat be less than certain of was uneasy. Recent action by manits purpose is, to say ufacturers in cutting prices of auto- just whatof how much it will cost. mobiles had brought accusations nothing When the program was first prefrom labor that the reductions were only "token" cuts, and did not rep- sented, the general impression genresent a fair action on the part of erated by its proponents was that it was a duality of beneficence, as the manufacturers. However, with prices of other it were a device that would keep commodities beginning to spiral up the price of farm products while downward and easement of install- at the same time resulting in less ment buying widened, it began to cost to the consumer. TO CRITICS who callously appear that labor would be in a vulnerable position by the time contra- pointed out that it would require ct-signing tax money to finance such a protime rolled around. WHILE there was little in the gram and that both farmers and press about the intentions of dyna- consumers would have to pay those mic Walter Reuther, head of the taxes, the plan's advocates anUnited Automobile Workers' union, swered that such persons simply there was slight doubt that the didn't understand the aims of the fiery redhead would be in there proposal. Then along came Agriculture pitching for his union members when the time came to sit down at Secretary Charles F. Brannan with the bargaining table. a statement that indicated ha didn't Would labor attempt to overreach quite understand it either, or if be itself in bargaining or would it did, it was a new conception. Now, recognize the trend of the times the secretary was saying, the plan and be content to hold present wasn't meant as a consumer subgains? That was the question whose sidy at all. No 'indeed, it was a answer would be anxiously awaited farm price support measure, aimed by the citizen who is always in the at giving the farmer a "fair remiddle in such struggles the aver- turn" on bis investment and his labor. age American consumer. ' SPRING COMES TO ENGLAND vers - four-pow- labor-employ- . Thursday, May 12, 1949 THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPITT, UTAH PAGE TWO Nature Gives Weird Vent to Vernal Urge It was spring in England, and whimsey and fantasy were all around. For instance, cows got a license to kiss. A lovelorn cat set fire to a house. A thief, no doubt actuated by the season, stole two dozen love birds. A swan, winging majestically up the Thames in search of a mate, plumped on a bridge at rush hour and piled up traffic for Are Eased Again Developments were shoving President Truman's demands for price control power further and further into the realm of absurdity. THE FEDERAL reserve board, after looking the situation over, decided that installment buying controls could be lowered again safely. And this it did. It set out that on household appliances such as refrigerators, radios, electric washers, etc., the down payment would have to be only 10 per cent of the cost of the item, instead of the previous 15 per cent. On automobiles, the down payment remained at 30 per cent; but on autos and household appliances, too, the time of payment was extended from 21 to 24 months. THIS ACTION brought both and criticism. That element inv the federal government which would recoup all the .wartime controls for the President, was aghast at the action, terming it dangerous. Others who had watched prices continue their downward spiral especially merchants who were facing a buyers' market and difficulty in moving goods off sales floors saw the action as a boon to business. SULLIVAN: Quits Navy Post There was little else that John L. Sullivan, secretary of the navy, could have done but resign after the "multi-millio- n dollar reprimand" he received from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. SULLIVAN, as navy chief, had gone ahead with plans to construct U. S. aircraft super- the 65,000-to- n carrier, the United States, despite lack of congressional authorization for the project. It was no particular secret that abandonment of the carrier and Sullivan's resignation were all a continuing part of the apparently hopeless fight to unify the nation's armed forces. The congressional act calling for such a step has never been carried out, and the navy's attempt to go ahead with building the huge carrier without any legal authority was another d service example of tactics that have tended to make unification appear impossible of realization. DEFENSE SECRETARY John son, commenting on Sullivan's resignation, said, "I regret very much that my old friend and colleague . has joined the aircraft carrier issue on personal grounds and I believe that he too will soon regret his action of today." high-hande- PEACE ORGANIZATION WOULD . . . Why Not Let the Ladies Take Over UN's Job? . . . SOLVE THE By H. never loses anything through being photogenic. I. GROMYKO PHILLIPS somebody who could a cake. at least bake get what they want merely by message flashing a . Sen. Margaret Chase of Maine to all women everywhere: of women men the the The had their have chance No matter how deep the proposes that "Stop cooking!" And they could world form their own United Na- at bringing world peace and have follow that np with an order to planet's faith In those men deletions or other peace organization. sliced every shot, Senator Chase degates ever got there was althe girls to refuse to answer the Why not? Even if they didn't get clares. We agree. This harassed ways the realization that they universal question, "Where did peace the fighting would be easier world would feel better if it knew didn't know how to rer really you put the aspirin, Nellie?" on the eye. An international debate that its future was in the hands of . place a lost shirt button. o To cap it all they could say, "Not It seems to us that the men might a bed will be made or a sock well be called off the peace job washed until the armies of the and the women sent in. In four earth disband." years the men haven't even made anybody turn around and look at Gangway for the ladies! They them. Not a delegate has had a will know the right perfumery. And song written to him. There hasn't if, by any chance, they muddled been a heartthrob in a carload. things up even more, the muddle would at least have that certain God for night, with its grot gift U. N. has no glamour. For one per- something. son who can name the head of the T1ANK sleep, than all His gifts to men I organization 1,000 can name the For flan that walk the dream ways, and that keep young woman who was Miss Some- CUFF STUFF President Truman threw out the, watch until dawn breaks again. Their body's Beer for 1948. first ball at the opening of the Thank God for blessed silence down the land, baseball season in Washington. It If the women formed a peace More soothing than the drip of summer rain; was a Blair House twister with alorganization, took over U.N. and For darkness, soft and cool as some dear hand sent the men home to look after ternating altitude and depth, and Laid on a forehead feverish with pain. the kids, put out the cat and do everybody can now understand why not subject to the he feels control is so mandatory tor other things those who scars Oh, only carry sleepless the American system. veto, the peace movement Can know how sweet sleep is that comes at laft; would immediately acquire imAnd only the eyes that have looked long at fiars Can you remember away back mense affection and devotion. Have learned night s secret as it marches paft, when the flags in a college student's, Maybe what the world needs Have learned to know how quiet God must keep include picket room did not Is a League that can be whistled To guide an earth through fiars that men may sleep. banners? at! LET THE GALS TAKE OVER! two-wo- NIGHT wide-eye- d Grace Noll Crovvell IIP?' We can see swift results. A female U.N. would get a bigger play in all the newspapers and magazines. It would probably make the cover of Life. It would even make television, which is the ultimate goal these days. Whenever interest in the organization tailed off the delegates could be photographed in beach attire or endorsing a girdle. Fiction POACHERS OUTWITTED Corner - MARIAN Jordan had in and out of small-tim- e show business for several years when a $10 bet landed them on the radio. They were visiting Jim's brother in Chicago when Jim remarked that he and Marian could do a better Job of singing than anyone on the radio program they were listening to; Jim's brother bet him $10 they couldn't That was a lot of JIM AND duty when Chief Fred Mather received word that poachers were doing a wholesale business in moose meat up in Birchill county. Glen was a rookie on the Job. As yet he'd had no contact with either the hardships or the dangers of a north woods game warden. Chief Mather decided to use discretion. "You go up there and do some reconnoitering," he told the youth. "You'll find a base camp un- Minute der a cliff near the headwaters Fiction of the Beaver. Make this your headquarters until Warden Loom is arrives. He'll tell you bow to proceed." Chief Mather drummed with bis pencil. "Don't take any chances, son. I've an idea that Moe Stanford's behind this ring. He's a bad actor." Glen reached the base cabin two days later. The ground was covh ered with a fall of snow Glen waited two days more and then decided to take matters into his own bands. Armed with his service pistol and a flashlight he concealed himself near the tote road on top of a ridge where the progress of the truck would have to be slow. It was bitterly cold and a brisk wind was blowing. Also there was the promise of snow in the air. Midnight came and went and Glen's spirits ebbed low. Cursing himself for delaying action. Glen was about to quit his hiding place when he beard distantly the roar of an automobile motor. He waited until the driver was shifting gears for the final pall, then stepped oat Into the glare of the lights. He held his (an In one band. The badge on his sheepskin coat was plainly visible. Instead of stopping, the driver bore down on the accelerator. The truck roared straight at the warden. Glen stepped to one side, barely avoiding being hit, and as the heavy machine lumbered by be swung himself onto the running board. He clung there perilously for a moment, then something hit him on the head, he heard an angry curse, and went spinning of into space. Fifteen minutes later he emerged on to the same tote road where It doubled back on itself. The lights from the truck were already sweeping up the Incline. behind a GLEN CROUCHED glad that ths darkness was so Intense. He waited until the truck had crawled by, then ran after It He caught the tailboard and hoisted himself up. Two men were standing up front leaning 3- six-inc- Fibber and Molly money to the Jordana then; they showed up at Station WIBO, and landed on the air. Five months later the radio Job ended, and they went back to vaudeville. It was not until later that they became "Fibber McGee and Molly" in one of radio's top ranking radio series. Dr. Henry Dsrlington, Rector of the Heavenly Rest, recently appeared as family New York's Church of counselor on "The Second Mrs Burton." Listening to the singing commercials, be remarked, "II churches used a device as catchy as this, I could guarantee standing room only." No doubt he wen) borne and asked the cook to try those seven delicious flavors. FROZEN FROG: at the piano? Harry; The Grown Up Shirley Temple, ene - time "Little Miss Marker" of movie fame, now Is fully grown op. She recently celebrated ber 21st birthday anniversary. The dim pled child screen star of mere than a decade ago Is the mother of a year-ol- d daughter. move to discourage all-o- Elm trees a half century old' have been carted in from the coun-'-I solve the Gromyko problem pronto. try and planted along Fifth ave. I There has never been a time when We feel sorry for them. It's a little' one woman could veto 1,000 other late in life to start afresh in New' York. We saw one of the trees onl women and live. a truck preparatory to planting and' What can men do when the distinctly heard it moan, "Newl York is all right for a visit, but' world Is ornery? Nothing. But I'd hate to live there." in showdown the women could ST&G&CSCRE Effi: RADIO TT HAPPENED that young Glen over the cab. The noise of the motor out sounds of his apLloyd was the only warden on had drowned By INEZ GERHARD W The Blair House, now occupied! by the president as a temporary White House, has been piped for music from a corporation rendering this service to hotels and restaurants. Does this, mean Mrs.' Truman and Margaret are in ark A woman's United Nations would Will Push Sales According to the experts, milk prices would be tumbling again this summer, but American dairymen wouldn't be cheering about it. In fact, dairymen were getting set to launch a 1.5 million-dolla- r campaign to promote the sale of dairy products and, at the same time, wage war on oleomargarine. Most dairy leaders were said to believe that a promotional campaign to boost consumption was the in only way to check a nose-div- e milk and butter prices that has caught producers with their income down and their costs up. In little more than seven months, according to a federal dairy specialist, dairy prices had dropped 33 per cent Butter, which not long ago was at almost prohibitive prices, had dipped to the government support level. Milk prices also had been falling off a cent or two at a time on retail markets. The federal specialist pointed out that domestic unemployment has contributed to the drop in consumption of dairy products. -- rd i fx- 1: PRONTO PROBLEM DAIRYMEN: May Yet Jump Dr. D. L. Albaslo, of Angels a mile. Everything, It teemed, was Camp, Calif., was keeping his entry in a tizzy. in the annual frog jumping conThe Denham town council gave test on ice literally speaking. He cows the kissing license. It ruled has to, because his Lazarus, that it's all right for them to nuz- has been frozen stillfrog, for an estizle over the fence, even if one pasmated 1,200 years. ture is certified tuberculosis-freThe physician said he found his and the other isn't. prehistoric frog frozen deep in the A Mikado pheasant, which usually Ice of Dana glacier in Yosemite lays eggs only In its native habitat national park and felt confident bis in Foromoia, laid six eggs. entry would be able to Jumjj. e FEMALE Burt Lancaster la back In the Circes; he finished "Rope ol Sand" and headed for Louisville, Kjr., and the Cole Brother's clrcas, to do an acrobatic act with his former partner, Nick Cravat; will appear with It In 26 cities. Howard "Sam Spade" Duff relived a scary experience when he and other members of the "Partners In Crime" cast were flying locato s tion in Tucson. The plane shook violently, and one engine went dead. Finally landed on the remaining three. When be was In the South PacUIc during the war. Duff was in a plane that encountered severe headwinds, threatened to run out of gss. He admits that he was as scared as anybody else, but he took out some csrds and started a poker game Universal-International'- proach. Reversing his service gun. Glen crept up behind the men, felled one of them and grappled with the other. The scuffle was short-liveTaken completely by surprise the poacher was at a disadvantage. Stunned by the blow which he tried to dodge, he fell against the cab and slumped to his knees when Glen struck out a second time. The warden handcuffed the two men to an npright in the truck, then approached the cab. There was a small window In its rear. Through this Glen thrust his gun, splintering the M ;wi glass. The two men Inside turned to find themselves star' ing into the gun's muzzle. Warden Loomis, trekking northward to join young Glen Lloyd, was: astonished to find a truck on the-oltote road. The truck stopped and a friendly, boyish voice greeted him. "Hi, Joe," Glen yelled. "Put some bracelets on these birds in front, will you? My band's so stiff from holding this gun I can't move-i- t let alone pull the trigger." When Chief Mather beard he wrote a personal letter to Supervisor Herrick, complimenting the supervisor on his choice of men. d the-stor- CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 laltea la Mast laaaa. 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