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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH '!!ig?w'r 'frilX- rw5w'Mu'"j GO? Aspirants in Primaries Figlit By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion! r eiprmrd In these eolnmna, thty ro thou ot Western Newipaper Union'! newi analyst! and not necessarily of thia newspaper.) By RAUKIIAGE us Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON about a dog guarding a batch of milk cans like the one in the accompanying photograph. You wouldn't be too surprised to be told that the dog knew who should collect the cans and who shouldn't; to hear about other dogs who go to the store with a shopping list, bring back groceries and even steaks in the basket they carry ; and you know all about the wonderful "Seeing-Eye- " dogs which not only guard their masters from harm, but often appear to sense danger's approach. - But the other day I had an experience with a dog which you probebly won't believe. I was sitting at twilight on my except by 'balance of power'; men are 'fighting animals' and so on ad porch after a long day and a com forttng meal. I was digesting my nauseam (pardon the Latin but a - dinner while Muff, Roman senator belonged to one of my wire - haired my ancestors.) Now I, with my race fox, was removing memories can recall more of them the last vestiges of which have worn thin and been disher share of it carded than your species (which I from her beard. doubt will have a very extended She was lolling in destiny) ever will have. '3 front of me on the "Just an example. With little efflat topped porch- - fort, I can recall some of the silly shibboleths which made trouble for 4 resting place. She some of my ancestors. It was back XJ finished her toilet ' in the stone age, just about the same 1 flonned her chin on time when we canines decided Man had reached the point where he was ' ' '"H and winked or so for adoption and training in ready it seemed in the fading light. A civilization. robin was sounding the last sleepy we "At that period in cadences of his vesper song from had advanced to the point where we the recesses of an ancient maple. hunted in packs instead of singly. I looked at Muff. She looked back Our policy was still kill and let be f y and smiled beneath her whiskers or so I guessed she might be doing. "If I had the patience," I said "I could teach you to hail-alou- talk." "Oh, no you couldn't!" I could almost swear Muff had responded. She certainly had opened her mouth. I let my imagination run on. "Oh, yes, I could," I replied, pretending she could understand me. "You've got the brains. How do you know that when I take my briefcase, I'll be back in the evening and when I take my suitcase, I won't be back for several days? You DO know, because you show it very plainly: briefcase, a couple of wags and a woof; suitcase, plaintive body-wiggle- and hand-licks.- On Wisconsin REVOLT: Bogota There is nothing particularly strange It was a peaceful arfs, early afternoon n and the conference was droning along in customary style in the capi- tol building on the Plaza Bolivar. Then, with the firing of four assassin's bullets into the body of Jorge Elicicr Gaitan, popular leader of Colombia's Liberal party, one of the worst revolts Latin American has seen exploded into violence. During the first afternoon Bogota descended into a state of complete anarchy. Mobs prowled the streets, burning and looting. Scores were killed. The residence of President Orpina Perez was attacked and windows were broken before army troops drove away the crowd. Above the confused clamor of the throng could be heard shouts of "Down with the government, down with the Conservatives." Three days later, as the riots simmered to a halt, 300 person were dead, many others injured. Downtown Bogota was a welter of destruction. Colombia had broken relations with Soviet Russia, and the conference had almost cracked up, with delegates uncertain as to whether they could continue. On the face of it, the revolt was a sudden eruption of violent senti-meof Liberal party followers against the Conservative government in power. Immediate result was the formation of a new coalition cabinet, equally composed of Liberals and Conservatives. Big question was how much Communists had to do with the Bogota riots. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, who with other Americans in Bogota got through the riots unscathed, claimed the revolt was Communist: "The occurrence goes beyond Colombia. It is of the same definite patterns as the occurrences which provoked strikes in France and in Bogota, Colombia, inter-America- inter-America- n Italy." " I went on cataloguing the obvious indications of Muff's intelligence, which far surpasses that of many loquacious human acquaintances. As I talked on, Muff rolled over carefully (there was just room for it Not on her perch) and yawned. Because she was bored, as I was to learn later, but because praise of this type always embarrasses her. Shi will wag herself wagless at a "good dog!" for some stupid, trick that even a Boston terrier could learn, but when one praises her intellectual achievements, it always embarrasses her and she tries to hide it. "Well," I insisted, "It's true you are intelligent enough to talk." Then I was puzzled. Distinctly, though in a breathy voice which sounded the way a doff does before he has quite decided to bark, I heard an answer: "It isn't that I am nit intelligent enough. And It Isn't that dogs will never talk, bjt I'm afraid I shall never learn." I'm dreaming, I said to myself, but no. There was Muff, there was the outline of the maple, dim now as the darkness gathered. There was I. I shut my eyes. I'll handle this rationally, I said. Just let things happen. I relaxed and was less surprised to hear the soft, breathy voice continue: "It isn't that there's anything wrong with my speech center In the third, left convolution of my cortex but, I want to repeat, that dogs never can learn to talk. . . .'' Gently I opened my eyes. Muff was sitting up now, her head cocked to one side, her mouth, or at leait her jaw, moving a little, because even in the erepuscule I could see her beard wagging gently as she went on: "Because, as you may know, we canines, and I believe this applies to other animals as well, have far than human clearer bc'njjs. You sometimes mistakenly refer to these memories as intuition That is nonsense. "We canines picked man as a friend and were probably ne ef t':e great fa cirri In h' domcstira-t'on- , largely because we found him imre malleable than any of the o'.hrr fauna. And I think we have done a Rood job. We have not bren harsh masters. We may be at times, bnt you wHh YOUR maudlin sentiment, yen frequently Interpret sound, practical loyalty, motivated by a Jii.h moral sense, as a slavish devotion. "But I'm digressing (the voice went on) what I would like to bring to your attention is this business of You men have race memories. some, too, and you have something c!re traditions. They don't go back as far, but they are part and parcel of the same thing. Only many of your traditions lead you into trouble. In the last few months, while you thought I was asleep, I've heard friends use you and your high-browars': been like, 'always phrases peace never has been maintained fetch-and-car- "We canines picked man as a friend and were probably one of the great factors hi his domestica tion." inter-America- n killed although some of us had discovered its fallacy. We also had a long list of hereditary enemies, and next to the apes, Man led them all. "I don't know how many centuries it took to revise that list, and accept Man as a friend. A pretty stupid and cruel friend, to be sure, but one who could be trained. There was one saying, I believe, which was very popular, but which the more enlightened canines knew was nothing but an old females' talc. It went: 'Don't trust a man any farther than you can smell him.' Yon would realize the force of that if yon knew how far you used to smell. "There was another saying: "The only good man is a dead one, and even then you'd better let the jackals taste him first.' I could go on end- lessly. It took an awful lot of work to explode those myths. Almost as long as it did to get some of the cruelty out of Man. We've gone a long way in that direction, as you know. In another 10 or 15 centuries I wouldn't be surprised if we got you to treat each other as well as most of you treat us. Your wars! Ugh! That shouldn't and wouldn't happen to a dog!" At this point I sat up. Muf always had been faithful, obedient, and I thought not only my true friend, but also my respectful and humble servant. And this was going too far! Why this was impertinent. My own dog, talking like that! I must have spoken out loud, for I heard someiing that sounded like a laugh. "Now don't try to bust your leash," "After all, if I heard her remark. you think I'm your dog, okay. Somehow I feel that you're my man. So let's let it go at that and we'll both be happy. "I didn't mean to run on like this and I didn't mean to get I Just wanted to say that I can't I know my limitations. in canine the If It's f'.tit talk, cards, my descendants will. It took several thousand years to kill the race memories which would have dirtated that I take a nip out of your calf Instead of licking your hand. And, there's hope for jou, too. Maybe progress Is Just dog-mali- around the And the Colombian government, in severing relations with Russia, declared that a "Communist insurrection" had touched off the mob fury. Finally, it was announced from conBogota that the ference would resume "so that Communism could not triumph over Colombia and the rest of the nations of the hemisphere." corner" a There was a sudden whoosh, flash of gray in the night, followed by a parabola of fur as Muff left the post in one leap after the neighbor's cat which by now was snicker, ng at her from the maple branch Muff came back. She gave me a look and remarked through hang-doher whiskers. "That is one that I can't eliminate." "And by the way," she added, "Don't Nobody mention this conversation. will believe you If you do." race-memor- SETTLEMENT: Coal Strike John L. Lewis wasn't exactly in the position ef a man who had asked friends out to dinner and then found he couldn't pay the check, but he was verging on some such situation. Half a million soft coal miners started to straggle back to work after a strike when Lewis informed them that the fight for pensions had been won, but Lewis himself had to appear before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough to answer a contempt of court charge. Lewis was cited for contempt by Goldsborough, his 1947 nemesis, on the grounds that he ignored an April 3 court order to call off the strike. Apart from the contempt of court Citation, settlement of the coal strike was distinguished mainly by a slightly marvelous amalgam of political action and expedient compromise. Beginning of the end came when Speaker of the House Joseph Martin (Rep., Mass.) moved into the dispute by persuading Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, a mine operator, to meet with him in his office. Martin then suggested that Sen. Styles Eridges be named the third (Rep., N.H member of the board which administers the miners' welfare and retirement fund. (Lewis and Van Horn are the other two members.) At a subsequent meeting of the three, Bridges proposed a plan that would give pensions to miners with 20 years of service who retired after May fS, 1916. the date on which the miners' welfare fund was set up. Bridges' plan was accepted and the strike called off. Actually, Lewis, in approving the New Hampshire senator's proposal, had descended several notches from his original demands. Politically, the most fascinating aspect of the affair was how Joe Martin managed to take the play away from the administration In arranging for a settlement. y EDUCATION: Nearly half of the 5.245,000 World War II veterans who entered special education and training programs under the G.I. bill of rights have abandoned their courses. Veterans' administration says. More than 400.000 completed their of them work, however-3R2.0- 00 under the fl.l. bill and the rest under the rehabilitation program for disabled veterans. Many of those that quit plan to return later, It was J iff H i 1 .r-.- r EL 7 In his South St. Paul home Stas-se- n grinned with the comfortable cheer of a cat who had just swiped all the cream in Wisconsin as he sat with his wife and received reports stating that he had run off with 19 of the 27 delegates in that state's primary election. PRIMARIES: Wisconsin Wisconsin's presidential primary election to choose delegates to the Republican national convention in Philadelphia on June 21 was regarded, as usual, as a straw in the wind; but this year the political breeze was a shifting one. For Harold Stassen, of Minnesota, a hard, thorough campaign waged by himself and his volunteer supporters up and down the state paid off nobly when Wisconsin voters granted him a total of 19 of the state's 27 delegates to the GOP convention. Gen. Douglas MacArthur took the remaining eight to run a poor second, despite a flamboyant publicity drive carried out by his backers the Hearst newspapers) (notably 'which was built around the theory that he is "the only man equipped to deal with Russia." Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York drew a complete blank in Wisconsin, where he had been the Republican favorite in 1940 and again in 1944. of the Wisconsin election, Stassen was catapulted into public consciousness as a leading contender for the Republican nomination. It was certain that his victory there would be reflected in the other primaries to follow, and that he gained considerable stature in the Midwest. It was difficult to tell which of the two losers Dewey or MacArthur had been hit harder by his defeat. Dewey, who received no delegates, might seem to be in a position similar to that of Wendell Willkie in 1944 when he withdrew from the GOP race after losing ignominiously in the Wisconsin primary. But the New York governor previously had beaten Stassen in the New Hampshire primary, and, also, he had the full slate of New York delegates pledged to him. It was on MacArthur, who had claimed Wisconsin as his home state, that the axe of public disfavor appeared to have fallen with greatAs a result y hd Russia had what it wanted from Finland a buffer state to the northwest. The two nations signed a treaty of mutual assistance which binds Finland to fight within its own borders in the event either country is attacked. Finland and Russia, stated the pact, would battle side by side tc repel aggression by Germany "oi another state allied with" Germany. The treaty circumspectly failed to mention any other state by name. Despite the fact that Finland's delegation virtually had been commanded to appear at Moscow to sigr a treaty with Russia, Premier Josef Stalin beamed expansively after the agreement had been concluded, hailing it as a "treaty between equals." And he said: "I would like to see us pass from a long period of mutual distrust against each other, to a new period in our relations to a period of mutual trust." Actually, the Finns got a better deal from Russia than they might have hoped for. Their nation had not been forced into a tight, arbitrary military accord with the Soviets, nor had Finland lost its sovereignty although it was brought firmly into the bloc of states along Russia's exposed western flank. ATOM BOMB: A o Secret Secretary of Defense James For- restal put a name and a definitive edge, after a fashion, to all the restless postwar fears Americans have been experiencing. He did it by announcing to the house armed services committee that Russia knows how to make the atomic bomb. More specifically, the Russians possess the knowledge of how to put the bomb together but so far do not have the industrial capacity to capitalize on that knowledge. Russia does not yet have an atom bomb, but the days of U. S. monop oly of production are numbered. Forrestal said. He told the congressional committee that he got his information from Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the U.S. research and development board. During the course of his testimony r draft of men regarding a 19 through 25, the defense secretary answered queries with: "I said they do not have the atom bomb. I did not say they do not have the secret of the atomb bomb. "I am informed by Dr. Bush that the scientific knowledge and technical procedure involved in the manufacture of the atom bomb are known to Russia." relations on Thus, the atomic level had developed tc the point where there was only one unknown quantity: How soon would the Soviets acquire the industrial capacity to produce atom bombs? Secretary Forrestal admitted he didn't know. two-yea- n Italian Style 11 .KS. ' "'' Sfs,' 'O i V 5 T est force. More To Come From Wisconsin the election year wind swung to the plains of Nebraska where seven leading contenders in race the Republican presidential match, fought it out in a with Stassen again emerging as the big winner. Nebraska the battlefield After shifted to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts on April 27. A total of 108 delegates to the GOP convention was at stake. On May 4 Harold Stassen was to carry the fight to Sen. Howard Taft's home arena, the state of Ohio. It was no secrst that Taft was worried over which way his fellow Ohio-an- s might go, and a good showing by Stassen would hamper materially Taft's White House ambitions. In his second pitched battle with Governor Dewey (New Hampshire was the first) Stassen was slated to invade Oregon for that state's GOP primary on May 21. While results of the Oregon primary were not expected to be conclusive, they would serve to provide a first sampling of West ccast opinion. Final state presidential primary on the Republican side occurs in California on June 1. Earl Warren is unopposed as the state's favorite son for the GOP nomination. free-for-a- Gasoline frcm Coal Gasoline mada from coal, even when it comes into general use, probably will cost more than petroleum gasoline, but at least motorists won't have to worry about shortages, a research scientist, Pr, R. W. Krebs of Baton Rouge, La., has predicted. He estimated that coal gasoline will cost from 10 to 15 cents more a gallon than gasoline currently in use, but he added that the supply will be enough to last 1,000 years. U.S. Ambassador to Italy Gold, Gas Masks CONTROLS: Cold Shoulder Possessions How would you like some slightly used radioactive gold? Maybe you would be interested in a ferry boat for the missus, some pigs or a bright red fire engine for Junior. If so, there's a "general store" in New York City that will be glad to have you for a customer. The man to see about all this is Leo P. Flood, who operates one of the wierdest "general stores" in the world. He is in charge of the salvage division in the New York City department of purchases. Most everyone else in his department buys things. He sells them. It's his job to dispose of municipal possessions waste material, worn-oor surplus equipment anything that'll still bring a buck. Flood's been selling more than $500,000 worth of stuff a year. This year the figure may reach $900,000. His wares come from various places police and fire departments, hospitals, prisons, schools and almost every phase of city government. He does not handle material col lected directly from the citizenry by the police and sanitation departments like guns or illegal drugs or the refuse put out in garbage cans every morning by private residents. But he can and does find a market for refuse which comes from city institutions. Sells Ashes and Cinders Last year, for example, Flood received: $7,100 for about 5,000 truck-load- s' of ashes and cinders from firms which use the stuff to make building blocks; $5,000 for 3,500 tons of garbage and swill sold to pig farms; $12,000 for bones, entrails, fats, grease and scrap gristle left over from kitchens and bought by people who make fats for soap (one year this included the mortal remains of a lion and bear which died at a city zoo). Don't grimace. All this saves the taxpayers money. Among the odd items that will go to the highest bidders this year are 500 grams of radioactive gold 11)5 grams of just plain gold, 250 d reform school pigs from farms, a $50,000 cannery, two iron lungs, two fire engines, one ferry boat, two wooden deck scows, sev 11 dozen eral steam-rollerpairs of reading glasses, maybe a plane now used by the police, and a wide assortment of stuff left over from the days of civilian defense. Gold Comes in Tubings The radioactive gold is in tubings which were used to encase radon, a radium gas used in the treatment of cancer The other, unpolluted gold which could be used for dental fillings, is in new tubings which were intended for but never used in the cancer treatment. The civilian defense equipment remaining from those dark days when cities tried to prepare themselves for attack includes a wide assortment: Ten thousand gas masks, 107 for burns, 300 pounds of ointme air raid warden arm bands, 1,750 flashlight batteries, 1 blackboard, 2 metal bombs and 34 wooden bombs once used for demonstrations, 351 blood bank bottles you supply the blood), 3.000 stretchers. 13,000 metal helmets, 1.000 surgical dressings, 140 pairs of asbestos gloves, and the keys to 879 street lamps. NEW YORK, N. Y. ut ing economic controls. Although the council admitted tha' foreign spending coupled with a bif defense outlay "will not swamp our economy nor require us to pass frorr free enterprise to regimentation," i! added that "some rather systematic and vigorous discipline must be ex crciscd." Aim I wt Ta oven NOTES TO A NEflW The state department i, blame for the U. Soviet agents. tion law in this country fn-that no Russian Comm mer Red can get a viSaCl3tr But In 1933 a law waspasfj ting any person onavisa6te further the commercial mo uunsa slates. Lit dreds of "commercial's! I ThftSD tlr" 0 ..... city-owne- s. Small Boy Captures Nimble Goat With Flying Tackle DES MOINES.- -A flying tackle by boy put a stop to the escapades of a fabulous goat, The critter's first triumph came when he eluded 2 patrolmen by a leaping 20 feet from a church mnt trapping the goat fence. The coat loaped the fence. But Walter Davis 12. saw the goat on a porch, caught him and hung on. against n nere ciury law. They came purposes but in f - ostenstw., 1 (' reality . NEW YORKEKS AHEtJ ABOUT: 3 Goering's . at t was reius fee C to the GeXie U11C sion to return by U. S. authorities, ,0 L come a Berlin night club'.;m. traction . . The . East .feuA: S which features las from $lf0 up . . .'Heniirfaii daughter, who (intimates n paying a high price for hirL She can't take the jibes, "is so ashamed." . T. Leigh, the deb, allegedly ijlis a shattered heart overfct-L-aheir to a mint . . . The E Lf fi 5 J i starlet who d i ha by suddenly divorcing uov i agents are busy dope purchases. La, 1 " ipiity In the Pentagon the cGc fee c eon Gen. Touhey Spaabmkc., ing to a group of air fore; o t discuss Finlctter's "Sun- - m a the Air Age." This "musr ne. for every American lays t fous sians will January 1, have the 1933. Spaab, Jurinf n signed recently, sighed ie ' bled: "That means fro years of fishing." tanje kians eorke r city-owne- d The jeering specter of price, wag; A startled grocer called and ration controls was invoked ters to report: "There's headquara coat nn again by President Truman's coun my roof." Patrolman William Purdy, cil of economic advisers whicl wnu was sent to the scene, called called for nationwide "discipline" tc back: prevent inflation under the impact "That goat's as big as a cow. He of the new defense program. runs like a deer." As usual, this advice rattled cheerLater a whole squad of pursuers lessly among the stony hearts ol dosed in aftar electioneering congressmen. In its report covering the first three months of 1943 the council de nounced the tax cut law as "infla tionary" and recommended new taxes if the planned defense spend ing is not offset by reduced govern ment costs in other areas. Republican - dominated congrc.; received rather happily the coun cil's call for reduced government spending, but maintained a glum silence on the. subject of selective price, wage and ration controls. Congressmen indicated that thej want to study possible inflationarj effects of the preparedness prograrr and foreign aid spending under th Marshall plan before they give an serious consideration to resurrect XI nn Salvage Division of City Disposes of Weird James Clement Dunn (right) peers benevolently at an Italian worker In Taranto as he tastes grain that was delivered among the foodstuffs aboard the 533th relief ship to bring food to Italy. IP 'General Store' In MX Sells Pigs, Finns-Rus- s Revolt Interrupts Bogota Parley; Hitlers Oet Pension, Edd Walkout; Muff (a Dog) Has Her Ideas About the Nobility of Man A. TREATY: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS T&xyx&rty??' i BKOADWAY of DICTl: Chump: The guy who p:cla rUhia check . . . Heel: Thefjj: pects you to pick up yourtfeveI : Not Etiquette: P interrupt!; someone's praising you The guy who scores with : who snub you . . . Chiva!?! the wife credit for the Cop . . . Charity: Forgiving at;.: did you a favor . . . Chlselr who expects to get paid fcf .1 Memos of a Midnights Sh lene Dietrich is amused iJ reads about the gems t Sab "coming from a mysteriia i She bought every he er." The lad who wrote l- post c "Time Out for Tears," cat jhimself a good cry even i t, th ditty is doing fine. Tht Inspired it just got mamt Violinist jjouis liauiniaii, lansid dling you've heard in the bast '2 of over 400 flickers, hafcvorjr H'wood for the concert ttla!!afe noi s Some Tat . . . penny-arcade- 'f InaGo' it the belly-ach- - Seller- e. Tjre!!, One of our pet yarns it teri-.enhower concerns bis ": 'wfl' Ike once toU mS r yes-mev ' n. them: "I want some things which this army to to re " you t h camp. Youma CbjJ comfortable by t,W bn r : with me. I feel that 1 H p don't say what you 1tA& Wre'r.' RUnih you are as big a foolul' lo har New York Story: cember 29. 1917. at the V ' Ball in the Waldorf-Aste- ; The crowd was having I Fclumsr 'K'"' a when dancing er accidentally kie(1 Councilman. .. She's When K3KI debeaut - , f f- f thoujM 1. .me u na' fc , ; on act rii er, kid?" a voice nu-la tl 71 "T" " . . "feD take it?" the football player, cy's leg was ampul Where In Our Town u t have a good iime. Dumo CT , i The Intelligentsia: B.. fc, f "Tho Great Ones" e5' t;, the best seller lists. to 14th place Just like W'; Taf u Ruth Miller is doing t n communism. She's v ..( LavaTi . . . favorite A" going begging . CM Churchill, .f , poses" diplo"18" &m other Allied s, tf j-- ... N!?,r. '0 . . white-was- Death Reunites Mother and Dead Hero From Guadalcanal the field is called editor Is Edythe out " m a resoectable lady GAFFNEY. S. C.-Hester Porter Thompson waited a long time for her son to come horn, from the war. At first it was hopeful nien the news came that waiting, Marine r.agar Dean Tho mpson had tfen killed in action on Guadal- canal. After that it wa, painrul h !pss wa,t'"K for his body to come home for hunal on native soil ome hpTh",Tn fin,'"y "C a"d his were1 i' ceieorai Mrs. J'' shorty after her son's from the Pacific. body Double funeral service, were held Farr4..; eight V' tin .... brought rum in two p ediU', Penguin-Signe- t ties j sale million Til Cali" . i.rtet I.- " : laiich . . . Margery; novel, "The Fooli COOk-O- f will be June Atfn J. on the is the very Hawaii siaicnoouj iui M in Congress. would be one .enators-t- he would "tttv ( bf. hit,. , 5int -JJ, Thii . . , V -- . H r gtj wcoj, 14 ts add. voters in Hawaii Americans" th Ai Ni'e: ' be.V, cause, they fear, a ht M Hrrlite-bosH- "m hH ir ' yea" rr vo f I a |