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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. REAVER. UTAII elephone Traces White House History w y- President Hayes Had First Phone in Executive Mansion :' f - - " 'wwwtji w '(yawp y D?E!F PEARSON Deadlock Over Korea - V L. LERCH, military P0V talk tn rnc,oi.'i... e err'r'." n oitoq great pessimism regarding U. S ' wrt" cently expressing in to an tirith Rnccia tnliL' re'3tlor. Knrpfl Latest ptTnrts as well Lerch General be said, may written ,p a f Ui" sia, GEN. ARCHER M AJ. Knrpa onavp an " t . i What caused the deadlock was recognition of political paries would not recognize any Korean parties not controlled bv C General Lerch also revealed: (1) Russia's agrarian reforms in northern Korea hav 6 h, fired. Northern native farmers, oppressed by a 56 per on produce a,nd strict control under the "cooperative" syste m' te drifting south across the 38th parallel. (2) Border incidents have been reduced along the R American line. However, two Russian soldiers, prowling below the border, were shot and killed by Korean police" (3) Only 53 Japs are left In southern Korea all hospital (4) Russia, which controls the Industrial half of the co'T is permitting a smooth flow of electricity into the American17' ,one without Interference. he was net worried about too many Ko General Lerch said re4Bl coming converted to communism. "Koreans," he said, "could nevet I into am sure." communism, regimented Jre-si- By BAUKIIAGE New t Analyst and Commentator. ' WASHINGTON. Recently the President turned down a very flossy television set because he alr'eadv had one. It was installed in the White House last January in time for Mr. Truman to "see" the installation of the new Republican congress. However. I imagine this innovation caused nowhere near the flurry among the White House staff that ensued on that day in 1878 when the i x t i first telephone instrument was put in. That was in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the 19th president and that was the year in which the Democrats, who already had control of the house, acquired control in the senate as well. However, the opposition, when itbecame the majority, made blunder said, "she doesn't need a number to after blunder. Mr. Hayes continued get her man." his administration with a quiet if Once she located Cornelius perhaps somewhat monotonous digJr. with no other clue than nity, until he was succeeded by an- that he was motoring east from IT PAYS TO BE EDUCATED . . . Some kind of high-watmark other Republican, President Gar- California. for radio quiz show prizes must have been reached when $7,440 field 1 don't know how many longlargest amount of money ever offered on a radio show went to Mr. I doubt if the even tenor of Mr. distance calls a day she put in at and Mrs. Albert Fowler of Glen Rock, N. J., whom M. C Bert Parks Hayes' existence was frequently the peak of the war but I do know is congratulating here. Both in their seventies, they are teachers in disturbed by the that the number of i Fatcrson, N. J. Radio City has three employees Slavery was abolished In ManhSL f ringing of the calls out of Washington jumped " whose duties consist of picking up tan before the Revolutiona bell telephone from j approximately 11,000 a day in In the year ciggie butts all day. or rnucii 01 any1939 to well over 48,000 in 1945. To2015 Rockefeller Center's maze of uu was called New Am thing else for day they have dropped back to a will become sterdam. But for a few yeajTtt skyscraper buildings 1 h t a t matter. little over v 44,000. It is fair to asthe property of Columbia university also had another monicker' N Very few resisume that the White House calls cost. without dences or places have followed the same curve ; Scien"sts claim ttt ,ra,n!!- M --ifof business poinaxes u,al up lower Mania. under the direction . How Times Change: At the ssessed phones of "Hackie." yiucmuiy uie oldest knowi turn of Uie century a shave and part of the earth's surface. then. FurtherEven by 1935 it took live haircut in the Big Burg cost two-bit- s. more, the teleoperators in shifts to handle the Tipping was taboo. . . . phone was by no Aly of the jewels in the door si White House calls. At time 1 The reason some of the old means V accepted Miss flacluneister was the first ANNIVERSARY: nruunuioB corner are stones fromik brownstones have blue windows: as a means of and only woman to operate a to come from the state derings of women married then. protests one At it believed was time that Hells communication Tolled Maiden Lane eots its tl.' White House switchboard. partment since American planes blue through sunlight for presidents or streaming Dutch maidens once washed thn In Hiroshima, Japan, the hells Raukhage were down President shot over a Truman the teleuses was Yugoslavia glass their entourages very healthful. cwwes m a orook there. tailed. People of the city stood ne has so year ago, the note marked the first in those days. In any case, the pnone a good deal in silently for a prayer moment, official unpleasantry to be delivered White House managed to limp along many friends on Capitol Hill that then went on about the business by the United States to the puppet on one phone until the end of Presiof living. dent Cleveland's administration. It was the second anniversary of Hungarian regime. The incident grew out of the arBy the time President McKinley the radiant, consuming flash of the rest of Stephen T. Thuransky, an entered the White House, all govworld's first atomic bomb. American citizen, for his alleged ernment ofliecs had phones and Hiroshima, which saw 92,000 of its NE of the main reasons why veterans are failing to obtain loans under "revolting and scandalizing vilificathey were accepted as evcry-dacitizens immolated in that uncon the G.I. Bill of Rights is the fact that the 80th congress has clicwd tions in public" of Hungary's presi necessities, but they were not an trollable outburst of energy in 1945 dent and other ui uie nuance corporation to purchase these momemfuwer government in element the important was perhaps the one place on earth handling bers. Thuransky, his wife and two rtgages from banks. The 79th congress whirh naPH tha r. t km of White House business. where the bomb could be thought RFC authority to purchase mortgages on homes where the loans had bts were taken into cusWhen Teddy Roosevelt came in, of as a reality. Everywhere else daughtersU.later S. legation officials and tody by guaiaiuceu uy veueiaus auinirusirauon unaer terms of the G.I. bill. Tht despite his strenuous activities and it was a nightmarish, Damoclean removed to Vienna. vni,J t... authority under which the RFC Durchased thesov mortpairo. VAUU what was considered then a some uiC in but .....,QHbJ sword; Hiroshima the people 30. When the new law was passed by this In the protest note, the state dewhat revolutionary the RFC congress he outlook, extending were paying it a sort of fantastic partment pointed out that the ariui uouier year ana siasmng its loan auuionty from something like 1! made very little use of the teleand bewildered adulation. billion dollars to two billion dollars , rnnirrps ,. ,w. rest of an American citizen on pure- nnt rmt o- phone himself. awaj uie tolled v,uj They bells, and thoy ly political only source of small business and small Industrial loans but refused tt Then along came Franklin Rooseis charges "absolutely planned the building of a modern inadmissible" under the armistice 6ivc ar Buuiomy 10 purchase U.I. home, business and farm mortgan velt and the New Deal, a part of city with a peace memorial at the which prevails in Hunwhich was a agreement branch over which the bomb had been spot gary. Also, officials of the HungariBanks throughout the country, therefore, have no outlet for exchange with more than 200 offdropped. an ministry of the interior were icial extensions and 20 outside trunk disposal of these loans and must bold them In their own portfolies, At other points across the globe, accused of being "uncooperative in connections to handle the calls. and from all over the country veterans are the atomic age was living up to Its finding It almost Imthe extreme and in some cases "White House calling" became a possible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are annei awful reputation by wringing fearinsolent." with letters of eligibility. some comments and predictions titiiiih Xvi r "jji't iji'ii mm i Then also came the first woman Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama 1ntrvllirts1 a Kill 4n Ka to tvitnot from men who are supposed to know VIVA: uit iaJi uutiH telephone operator and probably usu V1 about it. LOUISE isrc3s IIACHMEISTEK seeiung to extend this authority of the RFC. the most efficient of either sex that Robert M. Hutchins. chancellor of Toreador . . . doesn't need a number , . . the White House ever had or will of Chicago, said that two University Orson Welles, the man who rtirtn-- t have in many a day. Louise r his voice is almost as familiar over atom bombs which . . now could be come from Mars, has founri him. "Hackie" is probably fa- those branch lines as it was when manufactured would make the Unitto it self, on the politelv. put home known to more famous he was a senator himself. vorably ed States uninhabitable if exploded of a dilemma. users of the telephone than any 1 don't know how much tun The nenius wa kther operator in history. Her gen- gets out of the television set. he simultaneously. He made it a comHis plete Jeremiad by adding, "We quoted recently as ius in being able to locate people bowling alley is he had saying wunam U Keefe. who used to be pretty dusty and know that some sntxsr: Airprrvcvc anywhere in the world has been the the dirt doesn't often fly on his have the atomic other country will killed 20 bulls, and immediatelv ha a reporter back home, wants to "Horn to Let. $20 a Month WA bomb within five was challenged by another actor, subject of many a story. Louis horseshoe pitching court or whatknow if we ever heard of a We know that when that Fortunio Bonanova, years. morning Heat." to enter the paper Howe, who introduced her to the ever the technical name oi publisher that we are all set for the final many years ago happens President while she was working at arena is. As to the "video." it ring at Tijuana, Mexwho moved a half-tosafe one day can't "Everybody is entitled to simm ico, and perform for the Friends of Roosevelt headquarters, be half the novelty to him that the catastrophe." to get at a nickel beneath it, and vacation, In a constructive moment. Dr. and it doesn't cost much" charity. tailed her "the world's greatest explained, after a severe injury to telephone instrument Robert nio- atom Oppenheimer. Said the Spanish-borBona nova telephone detective" because, he was to President Haves. his back, "I wouldn't have moved it neer, said that usable electrical in an open letter to Welles -- Kin in "All You Can Eat for only I thought it was a dime." power derived from atomic en20 bulls is a lot of killing," neglect ergy may be available by 1952. w ing to add that it is also And he tells the one of the fellow "Mommer, may I bring ceuflt f But everybody knew that the Unitbulls. friends home to dinner.'" to who, take urged ed States was stressing development another drink "So let us do a corrida (series of by a friend pretty well under the and Boris Krelov has gone home He anu of the atomic bomb fights) this season in Tijuana for explain why your govern- - to production "Corn Crop Moch Improved." build a stockpile for utter dewas a member of the staff of Tass ment " the motion picture relief fund. I weather, refused. "Oh, come on," the friend argned. "If official Soviet news agency), staAnd everybody knew that am sure the struction. anybody Before she could impresario would give notices finish (he Russia was tioned for some three vears in guessed what was anything, I'll saT it's my laboring furiously to- us a Sunday afternoon. What do coming) he held ward the same breath." 'Tertians ' ua. th ends Washington. you say to two bulls aniece'" "Listening; in on the radio I wioM up his hand. swer, "but suppose they also ask, think It was the best ever," 1 The people of Hiroshima did well So far as I have been able to Admission: he said with a dis"Please," Shady side, $2; sun'Is that yonr stagger?" " to toll bells two years after they ny side, $1. learn, his American contacts, which J. t. W. arming smile that took the felt the were many, both official and per bomb. It brought to mind sting out of his words. "We are an old, poetic question: sonal, madf not a single ideological ALEUTIANS: having such a pleasant time, PAUL Did the bells herald a wed impact upon him or his way of but you force me to say this: liases Retained or He a funeral? I cannot explain what ding thinking upheld the Russian you wish The Aleutian islands, that cause; he talked more freely than because you people are just too long, INSOLENCE: cold chain of most Russians in a or rocks which stupid to understand Commuofficial capacity do but (also so far started an many American G.I. nism." Slap Hands ,JUCH has been made of the superior size f the Huislin intf s I can learn) he never offered talking to himself during the war. If that sentiment is a sincere and ft men The United frequently mentioned this States, visibly irked Is being integrated into the recently to get the slightest compromise of viewppropriaUon. through congress. But little or typical expression of how the men by recent actions of the pattern been reported new Comhas of nothing the North never American defense sysof the critical m point, accepted any argu- who run Russia feel, the road ahead munistic Hungarian liUry weaknesses of Russia. She may be an I tem. government ment or explanation of democratic is a rocky one. Kipling once vented put its l and,piUiCal P0wer existin curtain, but W rage in a General of the Army Dwight (American - style) methods of into verse the problem he felt the stinging notediplomatic y tandp?int' he l e open from the air on three ildei. td which accused Hun-gar- y Eisenhower has or action. thought revealed that the foreigner faced in trying to undervulnerable In oil. of "inadmissibly insolent" conframework of strategic bases in the stand the American. What he said duct toward And yet and here Is the American U diplomats Aleutians is being kept intact for Tb!nUm K"! M BncMquerahle pecans K4 h- -. might be applied to Russia: thing that baffled most of as in that country. vast .pace,. Hitler', mmury mistake wm In attempting if rapid expansion he he was good necessary. "Inopportune, shrill stctnted, tbt Second cause for U. S. anger was " be canM chtw- After tUok 4 Asiatic scrid mirth a that Uat having we and li visit to the paid ts him. could have company, . . vaster. autr fir...-- careless 'mid hit dead, the scandal the arrest and beating in Budapest continent's northernmost line of de! aeiense, which i. found the tiniest peg on whleh ' iincme too an of Ko extemstTe ta American citizen and the sub- fense. General ol the elder earth. How shall he clear to hang an idea, he would have Eisenhower said that himself, hou reach your bar or sequent unsatisfactory explanation the Islands were not ( inspired us to write about Rus beyond current mihtary reahtie,. being abandefense prefer a brother of the incident offered by Hungarian doned, but were uetgbed does M "with a heart." as a Rus-xia-o a "conin of world undergoing politics, the officials alien hedged comorise speech and lacking traction and concentration nf woman interpreter is re8qUare mil"' but an interpreter.' rure mile, eccupiedW One of the most harshly worded tt xary to have " ao". cnteny In a few large cities nay potential" ported begged of Sam and Leningrad) Welles, " Time's correspondent the 75 in Moscow. withST Srnu?hU,H r,1eCtiVCly isolaled x"m the rest ofmlisBa We wonder about Boris. " the oth" J oZ, to2,nB e atomic We would have liked so much to sit -e- what dulied down and talk frankly and freely vith him about the common problems and the sMI more romtvnn '"n'""n- W ar Protected everywhere f r. isuiidi'1 t.irdim: " """""d 'A wAMU.Xtii'O.N Fourth largest plouing up our PoshilitiJl from atom m suited for way wry excepting Fstimati on S the b.'o of onir'rirs Was hi ;it.lir so wheat acreage the farmers of this sustained farming m 01 -r to take year aver .ge Vieid li n natair, hevo ever planted may he advantage of high whe it get.ial and friem i r, prices. DiiMicis an acre. t because he field Virh rk at re.il'.rd m IIMi! if the department However, an t r, mere impor-thwould he (17 billa,., of agr.i m'tare's revised goal of 73 tnnt factor in home that he wa sift ' na- determining the outturn follows t m Huts .teres :s met next sort, as far as pVfM'T. ii rr lion s wheat acreage in m ill t.e ago of IfJ 3 year. has, a I'n went, as a t rust in (ru ui" That mark is a (He million-acrthe lure of the two duct-iowould re.ic Was he so deeply indoctrinated h !; n increase frir: the pattern recom- market price, 'department auihon-- j bushels. In the ideology of M.irxism mended last year at.d a seven ties admitted that h.gh market in uie wake of tins ear's that he s filled n lilain acre boost over the wheat prices, will do more to dictate bumjH'Y the with pity rather than the vpual goal yet last amount of wheat planted than could VlfM a nuicn similar wheat spring hef..re the corn .v, nn.n,nll.. suspicion which seems to ermeate "'look took on its gloomy cast. any arbitrarily assigned ooriy argument nas hcJ ..u.i.uuiy wuul,l be cated: governmost Russian-Americatrie melrJ nowever, world foo,. question: "Whose telal uns' Continued and unremitting internaj ment goal. Mortage To One slight clue we have, though it tional demand for food - " la my back yard?" leiiowg watermelons. inid,.,!- to tie aid ""uie, The millio75 said the grains department Lter fcr ate the melons. purtment more than htf may be a false one. Or.ee, at a fluenced the agriculture department n-acre spokesmen goal, if achieved, would United States century I w. rather intimate gathering. Kr ,'ov's into making the hi, "ever t" co,,t,,nK.ts h r tempted. Now upward revision. provide the fourth largest wheat of production. The hostess finally grew a little impaWhile officials admitted that the acreage the farmers in the United has warned that the United N. v't watcr tient and said something like this: increased "t If we have to Ugh melon rr,V vine in world food acreage constitutes nn in. States have ever planted' Huh,.r "Listen here, Boris, we're friends vitation to farmers to uation has not improved in the war croM the North IW dyarbut v r.e that plant heavily plantings occurred in 1919. 19:;7 and vear anI . " wfll Had It hard sledding, Surely you can be frank with u o will bor', garden. tZTZ tauiionea against IWJo fr.endly. neigh- continue anoi Uo y,ars cUIly for the ground troopVan-derbi- lt er WALTER WINCH ELL Oddities in the f 2r, Bunr ... NEWS REVIEW nimble-fingere- Pi Big; lonp-dist.-- Mark BirthdavJ of Atom: Hungarian Attitude Hit d Mh rbj't th-a- t ' WALTER SHE AD Doom to Veterans' Loans y .,. ,.,-- d. mi rrfi1- PHILLIPS Hach-meiste- Treasure Hunt of Long Ago iani g n n Russian Enigma Illustrated MALLON Military Weakness of Russia semi-offici- "to" SflZ. SJSu u well-like- d, .hTu,'"rl j.l.vi. n.dentioM 1T 'i1 T MILLION ACRES U.S. Boosts 1948 Wheat Goal 'w nuS-Z - sod-land- cP ! e A do!lar-a-biiste- 1 Stolen I'Vuits Arc Sweetest i oc, "". ... . j;-- " r"7Ck ' - r |
