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Show RED CHINA: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS GOP Leaders Hap Demo Depression And Plan Bill to Meet Situation; Brannan Plan Held Farm Vote Bait ef ro expressed In those column, they nr th (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whm pinion Western Newspaper Limin' news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Bares Mission FARM VOTE: Bait Is Set There was more to the Brannan federal farm program than had met the eye. According to seasoned Washington observers, the plan would serve as a bait for the farm vote in the congressional races next year. For instance, if administration leaders. could extend wartime price supports for another year, it would give voters a chance to pass on the controversial Brannan plan. Thus the plan could be dangled as a major issue when Democrats and Republicans began struggling for the important farm vote. AT a midwestem Democratic conference, both Brannan, secretary of agriculture, and J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the national Democratic committee, made a plea for extension of the price support program as they began to with plan for next years tug-of-w- the GOP. McGrath, making it plain that the Brannan plan has Mr. Trumans endorsement, said continuation of the present relatively high-pric- e support program was to be pree farm ferred to the Aiken law passed by the 80th Republican congress. Unless congress acts, Me. Grath pointed out, the Aiken law will go into effect next year. The Brannan plan is designed to support farm income at a prosperity level, but at the same time to provide consumers with lower prices for perishable foods especially meat, dairy and poultry products when there are surpluses. It would use government payments to assure desired farm cash relong-rang- turns. PRESENT laws direct the government to support prices of major products at not less than 90 per cent of parity. CONJURER: Name, Smile Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who Inherited a name and a smile to conjure with and wasted little time in conjuring with them, has been duly sworn in as a member of the house of representatives. The congressman from New Yorks 20th district, filling the seat left vacant by the death of Sol Bloom, ran as a candidate of the Four Freedoms and Liberal parties, although he will operate as a working Democrat in, the legislative arena. ROOSEVELT failed to get the regular Democratic nomination during the campaign so he ran on the Four Freedoms ticket. In so doing he scored a popular upset over the regular (Tammany) Democrat, a Republican and an American Labor candidate. The third son of the late President took the oath from Acting Speaker John W. McCormack (D., Mass.), while his mother beamed happily from the gallery. During his first day on the job Roosevelt: CHATTED briefly with President Truman; denied a rumor that he might run for mayor of New York; allowed that he hoped congress y labor would repeal the law, enact Mr. Trumans civil rights program and put through a national housing act It all looked like a reasonable beginning for another Roosevelt political career. Taft-Hartle- HOUSING: Action Seen Indications were that despite opposition from many quarters, the administrations big new housing bill would get out of committee and go to the house floor for action. THE RULES committee, which twice last year killed similar legislation, had refused to clear the current bill. But Rep. A. J. Sabath (D., 111.) was predicting the committee would act to clear the measure. Sabath was on fairly safe ground, antifor under the new house bottleneck procedure adopted in January, the multibillion dollar housing bill could be put to a house vote over the rules committees objections. THE housing program, one of President Trumans major campaign promises, was approved by the senate April 21 on a 57 to 13 vote. It then bogged down In the house. The bill calls for a vast program of slum clearance, low-rehousing and farm housing aids. GARBLE GIRLS DISCUSS Quiescent Editor Louis Budens Is shown as he told a senate committee that Ger-harElsler, who fled the U.S. as a stowaway, was ordered to Europe by Moscow to train "new espionage agents for use In the United States. Budenz testified In connection with the committees probe of subversive activities by aliens. dt Communism, like the worm In was creeping swiftly the bud, through China as the presence of the Red conquerors began to make itself felt. At one village meeting in north-er- a China, a man, bewildered and dismayed by the use of the Russian hammer-and-sickl- e flag in Chinese Communist meetings and parades, ventured to rise and ask a question: WHY IS THIS DONE? he said. Russia is a foreign country and wg are Chinese." And the presiding political commissar . snapped. This subject is not on the agenda." About the only thing that did show up on the agenda throughout the country was the puzzled but ready acquiescence of the Chinese to Communist rule. As a result, the nation appeared to be well on its way to assuming a regular orbit as a willing satellite of Russia. FOR THE MOST PART there have been no signs of coercion or compulsion in the relationship. There is every evidence that the Chinese Communists are in fact eager to follow the dictates of Moscow. And that revelation should be enough to destroy any illusion that the Chinese Communists are just simple agrarian reformers. comThey are whole-heartepletely dogmatic Communists, following the doctrines laid down by Karl Marx and adapted for 20th century application by his disciples, Lenin and Stalin and by Mao Tze-tun- leader of Chinas relief-plannin- . . . AND FIND IT'S ALL VERY CONFUSING By H. I. PHILLIPS Oh. I go to the races and basefor the honorary degree. By the vegetarian and there is no evidence and the movies. I loved Spenball with bus way, what do you think of Mar that when she got on that The Peter Pan HandiDo you think theyll pin anygareto Vickers marrying the Ago the top secret documents he got on cer Tracy in And that pennant race between cap. thing on Mickey Rooney for losing Lilienthal? at the same time, anyhow. . the Dodgers and Potsdam was a that bottle of uranium in that Cght You mean the Aly Acheson, for a time that with Scott Lucas over American dont you? I dont see why Martha Brien thriller. I thought Old Rockport would win. aid to the act? Oh yeah. I read so many papers got so excited about it. Its an even bet. Mickey had no so fast I can understand it in the "She didnt think either of em business giving that jug to Mrs. Alys case because he is a Moslem should have fled the country as Mary Margaret at Stadium Whittaker in the first place, even but she is supposed to be a strict stowaways. The Yankee stadium was hired other day for an anniversary the Did you read where Judy admits having kept all party thrown for Mary Margaret McBride, famous radio star. More those Columbia library books? than 42,000 people attended. Thats Yeah, but theyll never convict more than half the rival Yankee an in even of Hickenhiss anything, extra session. It was a mistake to baseball clubs draw. give either of them free scholarIt was a sensational affair and ships. GIRLS... THE GARBLE Taft-Hartle- y .r Hick-enloop- er . OUT of the noise and clamor of the town come down this green pasture land where sheep Graze in the golden light. Where shadows creep As deliberately as they across the grass. The slow hours pass, And I am one with the rhythm and the rhyme Of this Still land, this quiet time; Even my hurrying heart has Stayed its pace Within this quiet place. sf ' is 1 Time is nothing here the sun, the moon. Come neither late nor soon; There is no change in the ways of sheep. They have kept Step with the ages, hurrying not at all. And no relentless call Bids them keep Appointment with the hours. If I could Stay Day after day Here in this clean green land, perhaps I, too. Could be more true To the movement of the years; could march with time Until the far sublime Music of the spheres Would reach my ears. And I could keep the tempo my life through That sheep and shepherds do. g way things are going. Truman Is too late to save Hong Kong, Im afraid, even with Stan Musial and Johnny Mize offering to do it with 230 planes. Bob. Porterfield and Harry aint doing so well with that Atlantic pact, either. Whats the Atlantic pact? Its the one to keep anybody on our side jumping to the Mexican league without a passport and loyalty test. ' Bre-chc- 1 c. cn Do you think the countrys facing a big slump? You never can tell so early In the season. The standing on Fourth of July is what counts. I think congress should vote for economy like Miss McBride scored standing up. It wasnt necessary for her to slide, although it would have pleased thej fans no end. And If she had had to slide she could have done it. Mary (Happy) McBride has the baseball spirit. She can hit and field. No position is beyond her. If you take note of tha countless commercials the lady has delivered for dinner-tabl- e edibles you have to admit nobody has been more versatile behind the plate over so long a period. Mary is in her way a pitcher, too. . be yanked off, the mound in her career with thei Olympia recom- NBC club. Her greatest asset is her mended in the Capot report to control. There is almost no wind up General Symington. in her delivery. Smoothness marks How are things going over there her style. with the Big Six in Paris? Ernie Durocher is causing Mary has a chuckle ball, trouble and theyre still that Is the talk of the also, Lee Shubert, but I think league and her "nonchalant everybody will get pensions at the curve is a wonder. She can age of 45 before they get through, fan em all with either. unless Vishinsky gets back into the lineup. Whats the matter with him? The lady is a good Hes got a spur in his left player, too. Shortstop taxes her,' heeL but every other position is duck-sou- p and she will name the brand Whatre you doin for fun these of Huck soup and tell you where to days? get it She has never had to cross-examini- flue-cure- ed air-cure- ed fire-cure- Cue-cure- d air-cure- d Didn't Like It SCHOOL AID BILL OPPOSED BUDGET TRIM: Eisenhower Warns of too Much Government Asked of Truman Congress apparently wasnt fooling about Us demands for moro economy in government. Nineteen senators, representing both major parties joined in sponsoring a resolution directing President Truman to cut federal spending by amounts from two million to four million dollars. The reductions would be made In funds provided for the new fiscal year, which begins officially on July first of each year. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speaking eral money available to help pubnot as a military leader but as a lic schools in all states, he said college president, again saw fit such a practice would stimulate to warn the nation against letting a competition among states and the federal government get too localities for greater shares of govstrong. It was the second time the ernment money. supreme commander of Allied forHe conceded some areas have ces in World War II had Issued that such meager tax resources that warning. they need air, and that he would Declaring that he is opposed to favor aid to such areas; but withlegislation which would make fed out abuse or duect interference. "I get awful depressed the GraccNll)rowell g, g . So It Was Mickey Rooney Lost T hat Uranium! Commu- nists. THERE IS as yet no conclusive evidence that the Kremlin is giving direct, active aid to the Chinese DEPRESSING: Communists. But the affinity and 'Right Now' spirit of cooperation that exists bethe senator from tween Moscow and Peiping, capital "I regret, Maine said, "that we are now in a of Communist China, is tangible state of depression. It is not a thing enough. The application of Chinas inof the future. It is right now. After thus evoking the spirit of ternal situation to the rest of the the 1930s, Sen. Owen Brewster an- world is disturbingly clear: Through and his nounced blandly that senate Re- the rule of Mao is China party, inevitably becoming publicans shortly would sponsor a public-work- s and a massive extension of the Soviet power-bloto meet program the growing Democratic depresPRICE SUPPORT: sion. THE BILL to be projected along Smoke, Smoke, Smoke these lines would not in itself proArrangements for new price supvide funds for public works, but port programs for tobacco were merely would finance the planning announced by the federal departof a shelf of such works to be ment of agriculture. started when deemed advisable. THE government will make loans Sen. Robert Taft (R Ohio), who on d tobacco at 90 per cent also is in on the deal, said that of the price as it was June parity what he had in mind was a bill 15. Loans on burley and other types that would establish the framework of tobacco would be at the Septemfor federal grants to states if their ber 15 parity price, except fire-currelief cases should reach a certain tobacco, which would be 75 percentage of their total population. per cent of the burley rate, and Said Taft: What we Republicans dark d tobacco 68 per want to avoid is the creation of cent of the burley rate. another WPA like Harry Hopkins (Parity is a price based on the ran." relationship between prices of the Without trying to guess how much things the farmers have to buy and rehef spending might be necessary prices of the products they sell. The under such a plan, Senator Brew- government uses a basing period ster opined that would depend up- during which this relationship of on just how bad this Democratic prices gave the farmer what it considers a fair profit). depression gets." THE RATES a pound at which Whether this relief bill prowas posal is sincere or whether it is a the support prices will be paid Cue-curcynical attempt to discredit the ad- to be announced in July for tobacco and for other types ministration in the face of the coming 1950 elections, only time would in October. The full loans will be made only telL to tobacco growers who do not TRUMAN: grow more tobacco than they are under marketing quotas. permitted Drops Curb Bill These quotas have been set up for There was one thing about Presiand burley, dent Truman he was beginning to dark, tobaccos. There are Ihe develop ability to recognize a no quotas on other types. hint when he saw it. There have been times when the President seemed to suffer from an ability to do that, but now its different The President, obviously with an understanding ear to the ground, has decided he wont press congress to give him standby war powers. THATS not only wise of the President, its good strategy, particularly since it would have been impossible for the administration to convince the 81st congress that any such powers are needed. However, there was an official reason advanced for the change in objectives. One authority described the revision of plan as a "quiet of the national demilitarization security resources board on White House orders. In other words, the emphasis would be away from keeping the people agitated and alerted for possible future war. THE war powers bill would have Lewis L, Strauss (left) memprovided a detailed mobilization ber of the atomic energy comact covering priority and seizure mission, confers with Chairman powers, controls over prices, manDavid E. Lilienthal after power; production and transportaStrauss had told a congrestion. It would. If enacted, go Into sional committee he had not apeffect automatically on the declaraproved shipment of Isotopes to tion of war emergency by congress. friendly nations abroad. He Mr. Truman was said to have was called to the chair over decided it would be inappropriate protests of Lilienthal who said, to try to get such a law passed in It Is unusual to start with dispeacetime. senting views. Tze-tun- yORLD AFFAIRS Mr. Otis Gill had to take a liking to young Arthur Forbes. But he By INEZ GERHARD has changed his opinion when the DURYEA name) (real DAN his reputation on stage Champion began to buck the and screen as a heeL He has choppy seas of the open Atlantic. slapped Joan Bennett, Lizabeth She was not a large liner, and the In waves were running high. Arthur Scott and Yvonne De Carlo. his latest film for Forbes turned away suddenly and, "Manhandled, Paramount, he twice delivers a clutching the deck rail for supshort right to Dorothy Lamours port shaped an unsteady course for chin. As an actor no one can be the companionway. slicker or slimier. In real life hes Mr. Gill burst Into guffaws of one of the nicest guys you could laughter. ask to meet, devoted to his wife Seasick! he said, addressing a and two young sons, active In PTA couple nearby and nodding young t toward the companionw a y. FIRST fortable in this position. Instantly I'll change your order, the same strange sensation atyou some hot food. tacked him again. Mr. Forbes smiled. Thanks- -' Mr. Gill was sober now; his face And say, steward, that was a smart pale; his eyes glassy. Realization idea of yours asking me to play of what was happening to him came the role of the helplessly seasick like a shock. He was seasick! passenger and placing Gill at that) Helplessly, miserably ill. Never In table directly opposite the port--) his life could Mr. Gill remember hole. feeling so utterly at the mercy of The steward nodded, eyes a- -, anything. twinkle. We have a man like Mr. Gill on board every voyage, sir.' Mr. Gill Miraculously reached the doorway and disAnd we have that table placed there for just his type. No one' appeared up the stairs. Instantelse is asked to sit so far forward.' ly the dining salon was a bedlam of laughter. Up toward the Mr. Forbes chuckled. "Think of bow young Arthur Forbes was everything for the comfort of yourj wiping some white substance passengers, eh? Well, if you didnt Should have from his cheeks and grinning Im afraid this voyage would have home broadly. Several men came stayed proved almost intolerable with; over and spoke. and tended to Gill talking the way he was." his knitting. The young couple smiled politely LAST WICK'S but with a lack of enthusiasm. SSWDRD Neither of them felt equal to the ANSWER task of getting up and following on young Arthur Forbes heels. The dining salon was located beneath the forward deck; Mr. Gills ACROSS DOWN 21. Russian table was at the extreme end, near 1. Piece of I. Strong, that section where the vessels bow village 22. Mark of a furniture sharp flavor began to narrow. He had hardly DAN DURYEA 5. Spotted 2. Topaz hummwound and with the Boy and Cub scouts. seated himself when he saw that 9. 'Affirm 25. Scrutinize ing-bird He played a cur on the stage in young Arthur Forbes was placed 20. Measure 3. A birds 27. Fencing "Missouri Legend, which set him two tables away and slightly beof land home sword on was a food hind. There of plate 11. Degrade for a similar role in "The Little 4. Vast 28. Lives In the table before the youth, but it 12. An owner 5. Chum Foxes on stage and screen. of an estate 6. River some 25 pictures he has given such was untouched. Like one in a trance as in (So. Am.) a tent excellent performances that some- Mr. Korbes was sitting with eyes (Scot) 14. Man's 7. One of the 29. Organ of their ones description, a heel with sex widened greatly beyond Aniwer t Paul N. 4 nickname Great Lakes sensation will probably type him normal size, cheeks as pale as appeal, 15. child 8. Little Member of death. (zool.) forever. t 17. Biblical SO. Tuber a Moslem 40. Forest After a time Mr. Gill saw name order (So. Am.) 42. Forehead If Alexander Knox doesnt like that the youth at the other 18. Primary 11. River 35. To Jump 45. Strange his role In "The Judge Steps Out table was staring toward a color aside (Switz.) 46. Foot-lik- e port-holIt will be his own fault; he coland his grin broad20. Caps 13. A little song 37. Sudden e loport-hollaborated on the screen play. A was The ened. 23. Neuter 16. Perils attacks organ cated far forward, and with 19. A puppet reporter for 12 years before taking pronoun 38. Hebrew 48. Malt 24. Bone to the stage, he starts his 10th year each dip of the vessel one could letter toy beverage In films with this one. see the entire slope of a wave, (anat.) 26. Pleasantest from trough to crest. Then for 28. Art of Ben Johnson, star of "Mighty a space there would be nothing drawing Jo Young, was the favorite but open sky. It provided a with pastels stunt man of Gary Cooper, sensation similar to riding on 31. Medieval Errol Flynn, Johnny Weismula roller coaster. dagger ler and most of Hollywood's Mr. Gill knew that as long as 32. Music note other male stars before John Forbes continued to stare young 33. Mountain Ford and Mcrlan Cooper dishis seasickthrough the port-hol- e (abbr.) covered him In "Fort Apache. 34. An aromatic ness would steadily grow worse. He was doing stunts for the And he chuckled at the thought. perennial picture on loestlon at Monuherb After a while Mr. Gill found It now hea ment Valley, Utah 36. Epoch was easier to stare straight ahead 39. A long, starring in their new picture. in his chair than to sit bench-Uk- e in order to watch young Forbes, seat In one of the biggest deals In most wasnt the who, after all. 41. Weep con. radio history ABC has arranged pleasing sight In the world. And in vulslvely with Ted Collins for a new series straight ahead Mr. Gill 43. Sloth Kate Smiths Music staring of shows, found that he was looking directly 44. Pry Room. Kate and Collins will play the porthole at the swish47. Draw off, through comand records, discuss songs as water ing seas. and present nationally posers 49. A knot known guest stars. Said to be a HE WATCHED Idly for a few mo50. Precious ments and then looked away, $5,000,000 deal. The show will run metal In a of stomconscious his feeling from 9 to 11 p. m. beginning July 51. Sumsu ach not wholly normal. The sen4, but will not affect Kates two 52. Female sation passed and he looked again MBS shows. sheep at the port-holfeeling more com- STAGESCRE AT Eir-Bri- ng ! j PlllilE e, , half-turne- d r |