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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS microphone in Washington; my connection with World War I was less vicarious; my experiences during earlier conflicts such as San Juan, Gettysburg, Chapultepec, Yorktown and Hastings are a little hazy. I real nn - a? r story. the careful German preparations for war, there was still a certain amount of confusion in the office of propaganda under the highefficient father of lies, Dr. Goeb-bel- s, For all ly but I managed to get the use of a German army transport plane to fly me (with a German radio man) from Berlin to Wesermuende. be war was roaring westward into Poland and the great airfield in Berlin was all but deserted when we arrived before dawn and were escorted with alacrity, and not a little wonderalment, to our transport which We had up. was warming ready been up all night and my colleague Immediately fell asleep on a pile of parachute equipment. As soon as dawn broke, I busied myself batteries watching the In the fields surrounding Berlin, n;ts in fields stirrounuen Dy sji. complacent, cud - chewing cows rc, like the rest of the unaware of nulntion, wh.it th. Fuehrer was about to bring down on them. Tcm-pelh- We explained briefly, and waited for the skies to fall. They didn't. The officer continued his speech without even dropping his monocle just to be sure editing it slightly to make it apply as he went. There was no question that he thought we were going to be, certainly OUGHT to be Gocbbels. The formation melted away, the truck which had been requested to transport sound equipment started to load, all but one of the staff cars slunk away. There was only one red face, the airforce commander's, and he felt not embarrassment, but rage. This was a purely military field and I had held up the German war effort for half a morning, thus contributing my bit to Allied victory even before America was in the war. For the rest, the only significant memory, except for my interview with those British boys, was the questioning by the German officers. Obviously they didn't share the complacent assurance of victory of the Nazi higher-up- s they remembered World War I. Today the greatest danger to the peace is the possibility that the will, the purpose, the power of the United States will not be understood in time by the Russian command that they will fail to recognize the risk of they are taking in their "cold war," as the Kaiser and Hitler failed to realize it. Hoses, Hut Never Spray of Yew A anti-aircra- ft i- d e half-Englis- e i ' how-to-do-- With a clashing of arms and babble of alarmed voices, events in Palestine appeared to be piling up for another minor but bloody climax in human history. This particular crisis had its immediate beginning in a savage at tack on the Arab city of Jaffa by members of Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground force. Fact that the Irgunists' foray against Jaffa was made in defiance of orders by Haganah, the regular Jewish militia, carried no weight in the rush of in cidents that followed. From Palestine's coastal plain, site of the neighboring cities of Jaffa (Arab) and Tel Aviv (Jewish), the focal point of the disturbances moved swiftly inland to the holy city of Jerusalem. Arabs and Jews hastily deployed forces in preparatheir tion for what stacked up to be a major battle for possession of Jerusalem. Facing each other across a scant 200 yards of land, each side had its eyes fixed on the strategic AJamein camp which the British were evacuating. But that wasn't all. It soon became apparent that the Arab league nations surrounding Palestine did not intend to stay out of this fight. Reports were current that six Arab nations had decided to invade the Holy Land with ground, sea and air forces before the British ended their mandate on May 15. The whole thing was shaping up in the form of a more or less total Arab effort to crush completely the Jewish intention of creating a Zionist state in Palestine. Worried United Nations delegates, meanwhile, cast about for a means to prevent the inevitable carnage, or at least to preserve the city of Jerusalem. France pushed its sponsorship of a heavily-arme- d volunteer U. N. police corps to safeguard Jerusalem. Hint of the make-uof such a force was given in the suggestion that it might include 100 New York police volunteers, but no Russians. This protective army would number from 500 to 800 members. While the Palestine leaped into a frantic state of flux, the United States kept discreetly out of it all in conformation to its recently adopted policy of apparent disinterest to what happens in the Holy Land. situation DEFIANCE: Ttco Issues In a surprise speech at a dinner given by Michigan chambers of commerce for the state's congressional delegation, Sen. Arthur served notice on Russia Van-denbe- that: The United States may join west-eEurope in a military alli- ance against Communist aggression, and r "We shall not surrender to conspiracies in the Unit- Com-muni- st ed States." Thus, the chief Republican proponent of foreign policy split the rind on two issues which, like grapefruit, will come more and more to be in the public eye as 'this year wears on. Simply stated, those two issues are: Whether the U. S. should line up militarily alongside the recently formed union of western European nations, and whether the Communist party should be outlawed in this country. They could become decisive Issues Inin the presidential campaign. deed, Harold Stassen already has introduced one of them by coming out bluntly in favor of outlawing Communists in the U. S. Vandenberg said, "We are suicidal fools if we do not root out and destroy any treason at home which may dream of bringing world revolution to the United States. " The Michigan senator only hinted at a U. S. military alliance with western Europe, but his remarks hardly could be misconstrued. What Vandenberg didn't say is that while the U. S. h3 no formal or offi cial role in the union of western Eu ropean nations, American aid and of that union support, military-wise- , almost Inevitably is implied. Whether or not this nation will grant that assurance will come to be a towering question in the public mind soon. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, army chief of staff, was taking a dim view of the possibilities of peace. In fact, he admitted to the senate armed services committee, the pros pect of a war is appreciably greater now than it was three months ago, Adding forcefully to the pattern of evidence which U. .S. armed forces representatives have been construct ing to support their requests for military draft and universal train ing, Bradley said: "I think we would be neglecting our duty if we did not try to tell you that we are a little bit more afraid something will happen than we were three months ago when we were talking in terms of reserves." And he added "we are not so sure" that war might not be looming in the immediate future. To his testimony Bradley appended this clincher: "We know that we are all speaking about Russia." There it was a responsible ap praisal by the chief of staff of where the present talking war between Russia and the U. S. might lead, What caused General Bradley to think the situation is more critical now than it was three months ago? He didn't say, but there is only one apparent explanation. The tide of power politics has turned against Russia and is moving in favor of the western democracies. With ERP beginning to channel money and supplies into Europe, the fields most favorable to Communist growth poverty, hunger and dis satisfactionare starting to be re claimed. As far as getting control of west ern Europe was concerned, Communists saw their main chance go glimmering when they lost the Italian election. They have, in short, gone beyond the stage where they can carry out territorial acquisitions through political coups. In order to expand further now. Russia probably would have to apply force, which, in this case, would be the Red army. And that may be why General Bradley thinks war is more of a likelihood now than it was three months ago. SMASHER: For Atoms To expand further the constantly widening fields of atomic research, a gigantic new cyclotron will be built at the University of California at a total cost of nine million ollars. In announcing the project the atomic energy commission said the new cyclotron commonly known as r an would be 20 times more powerful than the 4,900-tomachine currently in operation at the Berkeley Institution. David E. Lilienthal, AEC chair man, provided a hint as to the kind of long range planning for peace the commission is visualizing when he 6 a id that the new cyclotron "serves notice to the world that it is the intent of the people of the United in the deStates to be velopment of fundamental science of all kinds." Engineering already is under way on the huge but it will take five years before it is completed. Conceived as 20 times more powerful than the most powerful cyclotron now operating, it will produce atomic bullets ranging in force from six billion to 10 billion volts. atom-smashe- atom-splitte- r I... m i ..' .j., .' - At nmj.it, iijun t - ' . s. im. . Vvt . ; Vv Secretary of Commerce W. Aver-e- ll flarrlman ha been amrd by rresident Truman a ambaisador-at-larg- e for the European recovery program. tUrriman resigned hit cabinet post Immediately. SKY-HIG- liombirtft team of air force and army ordnance men is seeking better t bomb methods of hitting targets from extremely high altitudes, out of reach of most guns or fighter planes. This Joint organization is conducting most of its secret tests in the California desert at Muroc air base It's assignment is to carry out re search in bombing techniques, par ticularly at high altitudes. A MINERS: Temporary Let not the public be deceived by the spell of quiet that is reigning in the nation's soft coal mines and the temporary evaporation of John L. Lewis from the stage. As it looks now, this peaceful situation is good only until June 30. Even while the miners continue to chop coal in the pits, they make it clear that they expect to go back to their fishing on that date. June 30 is the day the present wage agreement between the United Mine Workers and the coal operators expires. It is possible, of course, that a new agreement may be reached before then, but it is practically impossible to find anyone who thinks so. After Lewis' tussle with Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough in which he and the union were fined a total of $1,420,000, the miners went back to work after hearing John L's "wish" that they do so. This, however, is regarded as merely a temporary truce. One of the reasons advanced for Lewis' cantankerous delay in coming to terms on the pension dispute was that the mine leader was eking out the work stoppage as long as possible in order to deplete the nation's coal reserves and so put himself in a better bargaining position when the contract negotiations came up. That he accomplished that end there is no gainsaying. Coal stocks went down almost to zero all over the country, resulting in curtailment of steel production, a cut in rail travel and various major and minor industrial shutdowns. It is a fact, too, that industry will not have recovered its balance suffi ciently by June 30 to cope adequately with whatever emergency Lewis might precipitate this time. FOOD PRICES: Logical Not that it makes it any easier to pay the grocery bill, but the reasons why food prices are so high are no mystery. U. S. has been channelling food and resources into foreign countries at a rate and volume never before approached. Also, every American able to digest solid food is eating 17 per cent more than he did before the war. Of Money Talks Now an inventor has come up with check that not only will talk but will scream if it has been forged or tampered with. Burgess Smith, who used to do legal counterfeiting for the U. S. treasury, claims that his check will identify Itself rfrb.il'.y when it is passed through a special machine. And If it has been t.impcred with it will emit a shrill screech, indicating that It Is worthless. OREGON: IS'pxt Up After whirling breezily through Ohio to the thorough disgrun'.lc-menof Sen. Robert Taft. campaigning Harold E. Stassen set his sights on the May 21 Orey.n primary election where he was duo to Joust with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey f r wai sme s Republican convention delegates. In a Stassen 1 ..tetM thVM and staiaT' 1A Scrape off mokt as Possible and th her clean with a shoes dry slowly Mud should gloves promptly. fat- .$pa hJ.M jtSSJan i Commi T, mor lq-- i Vfct est in wor , d Million, tTfeiners, '?. au... An of the cent nve population of buted equally Ke4 through try, 22 persons would fr.f&s PopulationSS; ajfcligre bai portant occupation Before the revolution o.W- -r he farm land ' wealthy land 01 Snow Crystal Science, Into nature's every cnnn. . "get the jump" -t- m W moot . o 9 of an electric cians...u, i revised k ing company John Barrymore (once called John Barleycorn) was appearing in a flop play. The critics devastated it and him. He came to the second performance cold sober. "I told you," roared the producer, "not to show up drunk!" "If I wasn't," he said, "do you think I'd show up?" rr-,.- f nH' Arbo,s l? the B Celebration of An intensified obsOTftVtfatd bor day, perennial ha6 advertI: spring, which now js k brated on various dates i,ielf Rus Midtown Vignette: Where else but of the union, is the aim d &ecbotlova In Our Town could you find this aorticultural organtatto.Jker 0n ' s hilarious scene. He's a beer execu out the nation. The genii0 tive . . . Recently remarried . . ed tree planting job. fMrican.s, Very young bride . . . When he gets on Arbor day. has been ;jar's tM A daily WaS tired so does his face successive presidents of fcr mud pack facial at the Waldorf bar- States since the tKEAL inceptia ber shop is a ritual . . . Very rest- 3ay, 76 years ago. 'NMUX1S less . . . Can't stay in the chair or fLEASA-i "un-lax- " Siberia, Farthest WITH;: A B waiting for the black-gree- n A large portion of SiVffce smears So he mud on his puss to dry walks up and down the place im- north of the arctic circk fciotiooal r patiently . . . Glaring at you through climatic conditions in SfekencS wei his ridiculous-lookinbeauty treat- south as far as Lake Btfirth by c He also has a bath towel Eastern Siberia, which ii lease of dec ment tion that draped around his conk turban style twice the size of Lake . . . Scares the bejabers outta ya more than a mile deep, 5it th arm . . . The big howl came the other west of Lake Baikal lis ieterans of day . . . Our Hero was stomping up gion of Irkutsk, a huge fgiua is and down in his wild get-u- p (turban which is being develoneauds"perpt and mud pack) when in came two turally. t interests U.N. delegates from Arabia attired Canned BabmpaSSi smartly in American apparel. They Production of canned k I took one look at him and got has developed into a fcij pLn In the last few years. Fipf f that the average babyinii 6' TTV a'ae Onfiriff ftnlw ttrrt , J tommies Soldiers of the Press 1Mf i canned UnU. lib 3L Id the vctvy IUUU the au Probably fightingest publisher 13 pounds by Lbvernment. eating. of all was E. W. Scripps. He battled foods of ver .had t corruption in Cincy for three years consumption Tnr hi3 iiqa u:a w I before getting results. His free nprl ere tar frc ; r inn rr.,Ac 'ere shiftlcs swinging style of journalism hatched many dangerous foes. As a result tetais dn JVvn Scripps had bodyguards and was alai He was involved ioney ways '..!0 that in many street fights and usually ' footed gave a good account of himself. tt4 monc Scripps was handy with his dukes e and never ducked a Franklin WANTED 10 Bfl jflpiomatc challenge. Of course, James Gordon Bennett fought some of the fiercest the WE BUY ASDSEuf05511brawls in journalistic history. NothOffice Furniture. Filw, TjpwftW! levery ing Machines, Saf, Ctih comraiinisni ing could stop the whip of his indigSALT LAKE DESK BCHwg . nation from snapping. As a result, Bennett and his family were the vic- S5LIIilLttI!Jit&riris of th tims of such unspeakable slander SEEDS, PLANTS, IK pitied tha his wife and children were forced to Be oomestu and hmcxl "fe&te. o leave the U. S. and live in Europe. Tomato. Cabbage .660 CoIlMt ( F. II KO But Bennett remained and continued nntniH gave ai Spanish or Crystal Wu OwP S0O postpaid $1.60: 6,0 "'KanMBunts tossing bombshells. Editor Henry LAKE . MEAD FARMS, Owl Watterson once said: not "It's enough for a newspaper to report a MISCELLANEOO jmpign fu "pationL light it must fight on the right I . . s, side. " M werc t All liai ... ... g ... i : I ! 111 153! I well-arme- bare-knuckl- - . ! 1 , Finally, until just recently, consumers have been spending their money on food because there was nothing much else available to buy. Those conclusions were reached by University of Wisconsin economists after an investigation into the causes of current high price levels. Center of the whole spiral are grain prices. Strong exports of corn and wheat uutu an upswing in prices on trie commodity markets. More expensive grains cause prices of flour, bread, ham. pork loin and rib roasli to go up. nui urn,, "ther, gathering to watch a pussycat vainly who roost on the Iceland marquee . . . The dollar bill in the finance window near Columbus circle, with the caption: "I Want to Be a Loan" . . . The dignified looking man who ankles up and down Fifth avenue playing with one It lights up of those trick bow-tiewhen girls approach. (Oh, you kid!) . . . The sign in the men's room of a 10th avenue lunchroom: "Employees must wash their hands." Pencilled below is: "And it wouldn't do the customers any harm either!" . . . The car in front of the Plaza with the Connecticut plates tagged SONG. It's Alee Temple ton's . . . The oomphy cashier in the 80th and Madison pewsreel glass-cag- e box office, who gets umpteen offers daily that start with: "Baby, why don'tcha lemme take you away from ill this?" Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers (CIO), was seriously wounded when he was shot by an unknown assailant wh fired a shotgun at him through the window of his Detroit home. Communists were suspected of being behind the attack because of Reuther's strong opposition to them in the union. h, aavise ' lattice before hnicM stalk the pigeons The Dim Peace At Large easily All the Broadway daytime crowds OUTLOOK Palestine p Thsre are many good garden books, and I for one had about come to the conclusion that the final word on gardening had been written, when along came the Woman's Home Com panion Garden Book (P. F. Collier and Son corporation, publisher. New York City) with many new angles. Edited by John C. Wister, director of the Arthur Hoyt Scott horticultural foundation, Swarthmore college, this book speaks with aual flew we low, For some reason most seratchinir our wings on the thority. "It is correct," it states on page church steeples. At last my com 472, "to speak of narcissus, and also panion awoke. We were approach correct to use the English term daflng the airfieldi It was a lively spot. fodil for all species and varieties of As we drew nearer, we could see detachment of marines which came narcissus. There is confusion about this, a popular impression being that to attention as we approached, half dozen staff cars were drawn up daffodils are the yellow kind, and balanced by blue narcissus the white kinds. There also in a semi-circland personnel of the has been confusion about the name ground jackets jonciuil. AU the daffodils of the jonforce. air quil group are distinguished by their "We're lucky," my companion re- narrow, garlic-lik- e foliage and by marked, "some big brass must be their characteristic bright yellow No coming, we'll see a parade." color, which is the same shade other plane was visible though, as throughout the flower." we circled a couple of times over AH of this interested me mightily the docks, thick with ships including I had just been studying a as on back her the long-los- t Europa. of a clump of narcissus photograph dash from Murmansk. Finally we in a popular magazine's "name landed a couple of yards from the this picture" contest. The leaves military formation which by now on the plant shown were broad, was drawn up at attention. We were though the answer given by the p little embarrassed, for we were in editor was "jonquil." Obviously, plain sight of the imposing array, even contest editors may err. and were afraid we might suddenly The narcissus discussion is a sam bump into the visiting dignitary and we were hatless and unshaven ple of Editor Wister's directness in I let my companion go ahead. There this new garden book and there is was no place to go. however, but more like it on every page. in the direction of the naval Not the least interesting writing and their commanding of in this book is the foreward by the ficer. It later developed he was the Liberty Hyde Bailey, dean commander of the base, a tall, slim of all gardeners, whose accomplishcorrect naval officer, perhaps a little ments need no eulogy here. nervous, though we were too nervous Another intriguing feature is the ourselves to realize ft at the mo discussion and diagramming of vament. rious geographic areas according to their geological and climatic condiWe advanced, tike pups aptions. Most of us have been frostproaching a porcupine. A comtoo often for comfort by blindbitten mand rang out. The troops snapped ly following the usual maps. to present arms, the officer saAdditional data and measuring luted and drew a manuscript from qualities have been added to long- his tunic, something new to me in established material in making a military procrdure all I could broader and yet more personal prethink of was a painting of General sentation of his problems to the to a message Washington reading gardener in any given section of the his troops (and I always had United States and Canada. The net of was the a that flight thought result Is the clarification of many artist's fancy). heretofore-vagustatements. The officer began reading it was It would be unfair to other ex a message of welcome all right. cellent books to say that this Is the best garden book yet published. Finally, my companion (he was which may explain his In some ways it excels ail others. but still there are other olumes fortitude) interrupted: "There must which may contain more Informa be some mistake. We are two radio tion on specific subjects. correspondents." Perhaps the way to size up this The commander bowed, looked volume is to say that re abashed, glanced over our heads 1.000-paggardless of whatever other garden toward the plane. ing books you own, you need this "But where are the other gentle-men1- " one too if you seek fresh angles on he wanted to know. your favorite hobby. "There are just two of us." we With its fine cover and paper stock, replied. its 24 photographic pages in full "But the minister of propaganda? color, its 56 page9 of black and Who Is representing him? We were hite illustrations and more than 100 notified by the department a spepictures, the Wom- n's Home Companion Garden Book cial plane the truck for the is completely satisfying. well-love- CLIMAX: - iJr- Even though - "'ore Bigtown Murals: (EDITOR'S MOTE: When opinion! are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Lnioa's news analysts and not necessarily e( this newspaper.) WASHINGTON Last month there was a memorandum on my desk from the department of the army addressed to "all former war correspondents, subject: Army Day, 1918." It suggested that perhaps I had a war story that stood out in my mind that I would like to relate as an Army Day feature. The memorandum didn't state which war was preferred, if any, but I supposed that it didn't matter so long as it wasn't the next one. I reported the landing on the Normandy beaches, the Battle of the Bulge and many of the other important events of the last war from a V- "iC WDrse the WNU Staff Writer By Bill Schoentgen, By BAUKIIACE News Analyst and Commentator decided that the de partment of the army might permit me 10 relate an aapwJAr'rvn " venture which pro (T ' vided a little com' edy relief in 1939, in the nervous in terlude, known as the "phony war. before the It storm broke. went something , IIX-SWHike this: happened at esermuende, the German air and j2 naval base, shortly after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. American correspondents still had considerable freedom, and I had managed to wangle permission to interview the first British fliers shot down by the Germans. I did, but that isn't this Hi Target Palestine Trouble Heads for Climax As Arab Nations Prepare to Attack; Vandenberg Gives Warning to Russ Case of the Nazi Reception, Or Misleading Propaganda Therefore 1 address in Portland refurbished his foreign and domestic policies for the ed.fication of Oregon voters who will elect th 12member GOP delegation. Stais-- n wai taking his Oregon campaign seriously because a larpe measure of importance was bein? attached to the election insofar as it would provide the first test of West coast opinion on Republican pre3i. dential contenders. kiek-of- f SHORTAGE: Farm Machinery Behind the present shortage of farm machinery in the U. S. lies a now miliar story: More such machinery Is being produced than ever before but it isn't enouch to meet the demand. Waiting hst for farm mjrh;n Is phenomenally long, yet V Per cent more tractors, cream cpara. "''u oiiicr pieces of irm equip- men were prndured jn 1947 than were available in 1333 .... At Bradley's one night a diplo- mat, just back from Washington said: "The state department is running our Middle East with firm hand." "Zatzo?" snapped Ted Mack. "What's the name of the dard Oil?" firm-Stan- Hish.dloM Printa. . 8c Each. Jumbo Enlargements 5e tw ' f 01 Studios, Biiunp. DOGS, CATS, monkey-w- ... two-time.- a trylmo ; s ' SChmeling dniCd him cool his heils. Headline: allT2mCanS lhe Russian hC'Pthe Fi the RssSj,to l 'dj knded SiU FOR felted. Sin,. J V I", CANAnlAN rARMS-lW-lia TORMATION on fira lei L HMIMIOJ P""! wsU. Canauiai I'acl-- m (jffi Jf.a.. wis. the ' 'aw "Xsc Str.'os I 1 ""it, IT BUSINESS & INVEST. WAS 0PJriSa,hvAvT, ItSir . 1 Exclusive drr cleaninf In tnwn 1CO0 SODsllli" J I settled outlrins district. nearness s"1"1" " , nlh.F $6500. Well carry, no j "VT eiuipp" , it- pici pQfty i U r tii i . Hulldini j., 117.000. I Lakeriew apartment", rates Between. 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Ansrora wool now $II.H :rsUng and now with i doea ana 1 breed, $50 for sii. StuM P&afon and i"" LfM none? refunded. N lab' r rei Smlthfield, Ltah. FARMS Appeasement is taking a lacing . . . Our diplomats have planted wet kisses all over Peron's two faces, and what did they reap? At the huddle in Bogota, Argentina has been attempting to gum up the works by whizzing The other day Peron'i mouthpieces denounced proposals for collective action against communism! In other words Fascist Peron wants to make it easier for Communists to continue crawling, and the state department's excuse for embracing Argentina was that it would help us stop the spread of communism. The difference a Nazi, a Fascist and a Communist is the difference between a skunk, a snake and a rat. f p y ha. i,. ''rmin,. rv,r wf4rr.;,t, f 3 fr er.t a..... .... |