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Show V IfINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Pleas for Rearmament of Germany Swell in Intensity; Vote System High Court Upholds Georgias County-Un- it Any C-- f rearming ra mil chills many Ger- - down mcae who remember msmxmled Reich hov i wia aurmliui Xr roc: baci mi iunj;f; ihr viril nor tihe meat 'oa;:?-- s a ou-uif- (Editor'i Note: When opinions are expressed inof these columns, they Western Newspaper are those Union's news analysts and not necof this newspaper.) essarily dev-rjm.'h-n- Ircvx. n ti m- - x rdi.rrc. yrM.;, Oemm vac mammies hare uni mriniissiy it tie stmur, :fc lad n-- ; jkucs n. tilt? var'x. Had bite 'lur-io-s i':renf wnz. i verisi ouintninm; via.; m; Ger-mum- Starts Sixth Year u ccn-di- ur vm-qiuan- uii t't isecc id is pro-Tiiin. cif i hjerra laid down by cmquiic;rj ; the French in I i'X wnen German tree pa stayed on French 3 cil tmtl every penny ci reparadonj demanded was paid- E ;v the individual may have fared under the Teuton heel was re-vcltl-.gi-y demonstrated by Hitler xmpne. a a u'i sadistic Nazi3. Now. all the great talk, the board planning, the global thinking is merging into one resounding chorus: :d his Rearm Germany! Joining this chorus was General Jacob L. Devers, retired chief of U.S. army field forces, who said In an address in Louisville, Ky., that western Germans Would like to fight for us, under American officers, against the Russians, if war should come, and he added They can fight like Hell! NO ONE disputes that. But recent history is too grim for such proposals to be received with general equanimity. Too nany people of the world will remember that it was that very fear of possible Russian attack which led France and England to sit by with folded hands while Hitler flouted the Versailles treaty and served notice on the world that he was going to rearm Germany. Let him go, seemed to be the whispered desire, hel serve as an excellent buffer against the Russians. So Chamberlain went to Berches-gadewith his folded umbrella and came back hugging to his breast the miserable pledge of the Austrian madman of peace in our time. The world had a horrible taste of that kind of peace. To rearm Germany creates a fearful possibility that the dose may be n . vvw Y. 'ss.-- Harry S. Truman, looking trim and fit, has started his sixth year as President of the United States. The Chief Executive, 66 on May 8th, rounded out his fifth year with a renewed determination to win the "cold war" with Soviet Russia. DEATH & TAXES: Never So Sure Nothing is surer than death and taxes, and latest to record proof of the adage although one he knew and the other was an unwelcome visitor was Kansas Citys Charles Binaggio who could have told anyone had not a fusilade of bullets cut short his career. BINAGGIO, the Missouri metropolis Democratic political boss was shot down in his office. Slain, too, was his henchman, Charles Gar-gott. a. air-suppl- y TV FOOTBALL: Cry for Help As has been iv, dawn of history who seem to siifer is the 0St it ecme strife. Chin, r The air forces Republic Thunderjet was reaching out farther and farther to deal death and confusion to any potential U.S. enemy. The air force reported that the :our has been increased to range freq where it can carry out most types of ines missions more than 1,000 miles from urally difficult base. The increased operation radi- ence has nas civil war us is available for straffing misbomber escort and hunting sions, enemy fighters. On bombing missions, the planes ROYALTY: Tough Going Everyone has known for a long time that with the exception of England, royalty has been having a tough time. With the changing times have gone royal privilege and pomp but, chiefly regretful to royalty, the cash, too, has gone. LATEST to join the ranks of impoverished noblemen was a German duke, Ernst August, of Coumebr-lan- d and Brunswick, father of a queen and cousin of a king. Duke Ernst was really up against it. He was so badly off, financially, that he had to sell treasured antiques just to pay his grocery Jills. Rare old relics of his familys medieval splendor were to go under he auctioneers hammer. Said the duke, philosophically, Of course, Im sorry to part with these things, but it just cant be lelped. The duke wi.s down to his ast two castles and one of them ts a war ruin. -i F-84- 3s . strugg beenJ radius remains at 850 miles. That is because the increase has been obtained by installing two additional fuel tanks on bomb shackles beneath the wings. On bombing missions, these tanks would have to be taken eff and bombs substituted. The added fuel tanks have a capacity of 230 gallons each. The planes already are equipped with two wing-titanks. The wing-titanks and the new one beneath the wings may be dropped, if necessary, during combat which adds to the versatility of the craft. 230-gall- p p GAMBLING: Up to Congress Congress itself may hold the key to solution of the nations gam- bling problem and existence of the gambling syndicates. That, at least, is the opinion of Senator Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado Democrat, who has urged congress to pass an bill immediately. Johns oif believes that should be done before beginning a nation-wid- e crime investigation. THE SENATOR happens to be on good solid ground, because it is partly through federal winking at that the individual states have so much trouble copd ing with the bandits. The federal government licenses despite the fact that in the vast majority of states their use and operation are illegal. If the federal government slapped a ban on the machines, as it has on narcotics, white-slav- e traffic and other morals offenses, the state would find it far easier to deal with the problem. THE BILL envisioned by Johnson would outlaw manufacture of gaming 'devices in states where they are prohibited and forbid their shipment into such states. It would not apply, however, to states where operation has been made legal by legislative act. Johnson explained his ideas on the subject as indications pointed to a fight on the senate floor on the question of who would get the job of inquiring into the nations crime. Johnsons bill already is through the commerce committee, where it was approved without hearings. slot-machin- es one-arme- slot-machin- One Show Over Football fans who have been following Big Ten football via television screen, will find that this fall the shows over. Theyll have to go out to the stadium now, instead of sitting cozily at home and following the play. Big Ten athletic directors, meeting in Chicago, voted to ban live television of their schools football games for this Reason. The action may cost the conference $200,000. This was because two separate offers for more than $100,000 each had been made for television rights for the 1950 campaign. The confer ence decided that television definitely will have an adverse effect on attendance. It will affect the con test being televised, as well as other contests in the reception area. The fee was also described as variable and debatable. Continuing, the conference ruled that live television of football would LEUKEMIA: be more harmful than helpful to New Treatment college athletics in general, and to A mysterious football in particular. lung graveyard, which removes white blood cells from the bloodstream, and can do STRIKE THREAT: it at a prodigious rate, is said to Old Issue Flares point the way to a new treatment for leukemia or cancer of the blood. Two big railway unions were The discovery has been reported to ready to review the whole case the American of their Diesel-engin- e association for candispute with the nation's railroads. If the re- cer research. Its use as a weapon sults werent satisfactory to the against leukemia was based on the brotherhoods, the country faced a fact that in this malady, a persons body produces too many white blood major strike threat. cells. The argument was two old years THE REPORT to the cancer assoand was easy to state. The unions felt that the adoption of Diesel-powere- d ciation also pointed out that in its of white blood cells, the locomotives discriminat- production fails to body remove them as fast ed against manpower and insisted as it should. that an extra man be put on these The discovery was made in exlocomotives, whether there was periments hooking up the blood flow any need for him or not. between two humans, one with The railroads, on the other hand leukemia, the other free of the have refused to do this. disease. They lay side by side, with Union leaders refused to discuss arteries connected, just how imminent a strike might blood for as long as 25 exchanging hours at a be or when and in what matter it time. The second persons lungs remight be called. Instead, they indi- moved the excess white blood cells cated a review of the situation. in the blood of the leukemia patient. The union was in a highly straThe of blood tegic position. It was free to brought quick improvement in the strike at any time, inasmuch as lung condition of some all cooling off of the people provisions of the with leukemia, and this improvement railway labor act have been lasted from three weeks to one month. slot-machi- boxes. conviction it came from the missing plane, which had 10 crew members aboard. A British ship under command of Captain J. Henderson reported finding the raft and said it was partly collapsed. The bottle was exhausted and supply pockets were open and empty. Had the Soviets shot down the plane, or so crippled it by gunfire that it crashed in the Baltic? That was the big question. Bigger yet was the question: What would the United States do if it were developed that the plane was a victim of Russian gunfire? THOSE were questions that would have to wait, however, until the answer to what had actually happened to the plane had been cleared up if it ever could be cleared up. Meanwhile, American tempers grew a little shorter with Russian tactics and there was no denying that the Cold War had taken on a degree or so more heat. vote determina The county-uni- t tion system is unique in the United States because only two states use it. It is unique, too, in that it is found acceptable by city populations in these states, when its use gives votes in some rural counties up to 122 times more weight than those in city areas. But, the U.S. supreme court has said the system is all right. In' a 7 to 2 decision it refused to strike vote in Geordown the county-uni- t is the only other state gia. Maryland employing this system. JUSTICE BLACK and Douglas protested bitterly against the ma jority opinion, which was brief and unsigned. These two members of the court declared the action failed to plug what they called the last loopholes In the courts decision which gives Negroes the right to vote. The majority opinion said that federal courts have no right to interfere with the way a state geographically apportions voting strength. It made no mention of any racial issue the dissenters saw in the case. Two Georgia voters attacked the existing law. Under the system, each of Georgias 159 counties Is alloted a number of unit votes, ranging from six for the eight counties down to two for most of the counties. THE CANDIDATE who receives the most popular votes in a county Is awarded all its unit votes. The system, in that respect, works something like the electoral col lege. most-populo- The murders had repercussions as far as the national capitol where demands were made in congress for an investigation of the political implications in the affair. Kansas City, itself, launched a probe, came up with a clean bill of health for its COLD WAR: police department. But where there was death, there Heating Up was taxes. Hardly had Binaggio Russia had heated up the Cold been laid in the crypt when the war. A United States air force navy government stepped in with two Privateer had disappeared after a tax liens against his estate. Binaggio, the suits contended, flight in which it was reported to the government a total of $70,-74- 2 owed have flown over Russian territory. in back income taxes, penalties The Russians claimed the plane had fired upon a Russian aircraft, and and interest. THESE LIENS, apparently, were then had disappeared over the the result of the government having Baltic sea. spent months investigating Binag-gio- s A WIDESPREAD HUNT by Ameraffairs. ican officials was launched for the To those who like to mouth the missing plane. Erroneous reports crime had it that life rafts from the plane smug observation that It doesnt be pay, might pointed had been found. The first reported out that, at least, it pays the govrafts turned out to be only fishing ernment in taxes. But later, a life raft was picked up and air force officials indicated a CHINA: Thunderjet ne slot-machi- cross-circulatio- ne n in whi 'or u h'A 2r'"2s:d3 organization, with6 to help Communist Ch5 their usual partment, the skill Reds i in have a to confuse world opinion uation. . The Communist regime a good job of beclouding most all say is one of the worst Chinas history. The Reds, mitted that the situation is saying some 16 million m affected. Private letters from Red-hel- d China indi number was 53 million. fc AN EASILY understan stacle, of course, was & tainty as to final dispositia aid that might be forth Some assurances would hn made that relief goods those for whom supplies tended. Who could give surance? The i Chinese nists? Yes, there was a way Reds would agree to gr conduct to relief missions I area, perhaps the job of off starvation by i death sands might be successfo? pleted. But, barring sos procedure, the outlook wai deed. CENSUS: 40 in 1,000 If one should have a 6 acquaintance with whoml of contact, and whose are unknown, the odds an 25 that he, or she, is on .of public payroll. Thats U.S. census bureau report eral, state and local govij i the report stated, has a 6,204,000 workers drawing! high monthly total of oa 406 million dollars. Too, the bureau counted ilian workers. The coma partment, counting the ljj in the armed forces and ptf federal government, estinuj ernment payrolls were 2UL While the federal govertf self had only 33 per cerf K workers, it carried 38 per civilian payrolls. Compaq? for the states were 17 cent, and for local governs and 47 per cent. Governrocn ers ranged fewer than 30 jx six states, as compared l.Ow general figure of 40 in ie. Free Mon Barnard J. Smithtw Fair Haven, vt.f chest and takes air npofl snow-fille- d from jail after taking ca debtors oath. His be national attention prevalent but n ous opinion that In Jailed for debt Smith was jailed B.50 Released by H1 . , J J '0 ,Ppr |