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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BROADWAY TAXES: Votes Cut May Day Disappoints Communists; New York Students Stage Riots; Gambler Admits Making $1C3,CC3 (EDITORS NOTEt Whe Waalara NniHPU Union arc liprlafl la than lamas, thy ar plain tkla aa Bat aaaaaaarllr aawa nnnlyain tkaaa ( aawaaapal.) vote-catchi- Students Riot MAYDAY: Disappointing Outside Russia, May Day proved a great disappointment to the Communists. In Berlin, tor Instance, where the Reds had hoped for strife, a half million people, drawn from both halves of the divided city, roared defiance to the Soviet Union and and German communism pledged allegiance to freedom. At least 500,000 staged a spectacular demonstration in the British zone, dwarfing the parade only a few blocks away. The Reds claimed that 800,000 parpolice on ticipated, but east-sectthe spot volunteered that the crowd was no more than 250,000. And, although the meetings were next door to each other, there was no outstanding violence. A flurry and a few fist of fights was the extent of battle. Of the speakers, aging Mayor Ernest Reuter of Berlin was the most popular. The crowd applauded and cheered when he said, "We Berliners are not afraid of any- $655,000,000. At this point another problem appears. The committee had not yet voted on two of the most important of wartime excises communications and transportation. Some members predict that another $500,000,000 cut would be approved in these fields. If that should be the case, the total reduction would climb to more than stone-throwi- thing." In New York, the annual May Day parade was held to the tune of jeers from spectators and a tew fist fights. About 13,000 persons attended the rally, the smallest number in years. Also on the home front, the little town of Mosinee, Wls., experimented with communism for the guerrilla" day and a strong-arme- d band ground 2,000 residents under the heel of a mock Communist The house ways and means committee has voted a 20 per cent slash of the federal admission tax on film, stage and sport tickets. The action, were it to become law, would mean an annual loss estimated at $242,000,000, bringing the total cuts and exemptions approved thus far to $575,000,000. Political observers agreed that the cut would be a popular move, but at the same time, were beginning to wonder if there are enough "loopholes in existing tax laws to make up the deficit that appears likely. President Truman was of the opinion that by tightening certain tax laws, funds will be available for government operations the next fiscal year. In fact, the President threatened to veto any bill that fails to offset the losses by provision of 'new revenue from other sources. He asked that the excise cuts be held to Holding a boy firmly by the collar, a New York mounted policeman is shown taking into custody one of the thousands of high school students who demonstrated and rioted in of Foley Square as a follow-u- p their support of teachers salary and other demands. What happens next? If Mr. Truman kept his word he would veto any bill that did not take up the slack from another quarter. Add to that, the cut is 345 billion above what the President recommended. It seemed that a battle was shaping up for the future. It was an interesting situation, to say the least Stage Riots Thousands of New York high school students staged repeated EMPLOYMENT: cipline on attendance of Labor members of the house. Observers said that the vote also gave a true picture as to Just how narrow the balance of power in the British government has become. demonstrations some outright riots Almost Peak The census bureau reported that demanding higher pay for teachers and protesting a virtual halt in employment was within a stones activities. throw of 60 million jobs, a pickup As many as 5,000 students repeatof 1,117,000 over the bureaus preedly rushed city offices and clashed vious report. with police. They shouted and Included in the report was the shoved, threw stones, stuck pins in good news that the 1950 number of police horses, set off firecrackers, unemployed sank to 3,515,000 a new and made trouble in general. low for the year. New Yorks school problems can Secretary of Commerce Charles be traced directly to the teachers Sawyer said the gains were probwho have demanded more money. ably greater than was generally anAs a result, $13,000,000 was added ticipated." He cautioned, however, to the school budget, but Mayor that the gains were at least partly seasonal. O Dwyer cut this figure to $7,000,-00Commerce officials had hopes The teachers then called a modified strike, keeping classes but re- that the high employment rate might be maintained through the fusing to supervise summer. The reason: factory proactivities such as commencement exercises, senior dances, duction and sales both at the highest levels in more than a year, plays, proms and class days. As a result, the students staged new orders placed with manufacdemonstrations which at first were turers reached a postwar peak, and unfilled" orders continue to actaken lightly, but soon gave evidence of brilliant organization and cumulate. Farming was the only branch not direction. however. DeThe picture became more con- -' reflecting increases, spite the seasonal rise in jobs, the fused when the Communist Daily total number in farm work conWorker praised the demonstrators below the level a year ago tinued and accused the New York police by about 625,000. of Invoking terror" methods against them. CORPORATION: Said Federal Judge John C. Knox of southern New York dis- Capital Up trict court: The photographs of The securities and exchange jostling mobs "will' bring joy to the commission reports the net workinmates of the Kremlin; the riots ing capital of United States corporare "daring and disgraceful." ations rose 2.9 billions last year to 64.7 billion dollars. GERMANY: The business world took immediate notice of one item in the report. Police People's Corporate working capital at the Two Communist storm troopers, end of 1949 was more liquid than at who wandered into West Berlin, any time since the early part of confirmed long - standing British 1947. and American suspicions that the This increased liquidity last year Soviet Union was . rearming East resulted from a rise in holding of cash and United Germany. The two strays, armed to the States government securities, and teeth, pleaded guilty in a U. S. a 5.5 billion decline in current liacourt of entering the section in bilities. y uniform. Weapons inIn all, the outlook was good most cluded army pistols, machine guns observers agreed. and assault rifles. The men said they were members of the Soviet zone "Peoples Police but that it is in reality an army. Members of the organization get short training as policemen, including law courses, then go in for tanks, armored cars, light and heavy machine guns, grenades and assault rifles. On top of that, daily classes in political education" under Communist commissars are given the 36 units of 1,000 men each. As if in answer to Communist plan, the United States defense department answered the following day that 146,500 army .troops are maintained by this country in west Germany. The department said nearly 0 men, more than 40 per cent of the countrys total all - service e Frank Erickson, armed strength, are on duty outgambler, admitted to the senside the United States. ate committee investigating Of the troops in Germany, an gambling that he made $100,-00- 0 army spokesman said, 85,000 are a year from taking bets concentrated In Berlin. The defrom anybody who wants to fense department has long operbet." The senate group is ated on the theory that Russia studying legislation to bar would like nothing better than a interstate transmission of gamchance to take over Berlin. bling information. BELGIUM: WAR: Crisis Again For the third time within a year Not Imminent boot The mayor was forced to surrender the town, the police chief was executed, a consentration camp was filled with hymn singers, churches were closed and food rationed. The residents of the little town felt it was well worth while. All in all, the day outside Russia proved a great disappointment to the Communists. It was evident "witchalso, that the hunt" underway in congress is making a great many Communists depart the company of fellow organizers. GAMBLING: Probe Continued The battle against gambling syndicates conducted by cities throughout the nation and many states for years, and recently picked up by the senate, seemed to have reached the right road and moved along rapidly. The senators, considering a proposal to bar the Interstate transmission of information about gambling, hope to curb what some lawmakers crime syndisay is a nation-wid- e cate founded on illegal bookmaking and slot machines. The senate subcommittee in its investigation gained two admissions from Frank Erickson, called one of the nations biggest gamblers: 1. He broke the law in running r.p a $100,000 a year net income from taking bets which ranged from $20,000 to $40,000 a day. 2. His interstate operations would be stopped if the government prevented the transmission of gambling information across state lines. At one point in the investigtion Erickson admitted that he was often ashamed of his activities. LABOR PARTY: Stands Test Bulletins on the physical condition of ailing members of the house of commons have become a part of British humor recently. Members of the labor party, however, are not finding them very funny, especially since the one-vovictory on a minor issue. By Just one vote the government escaped an embarrassing defeat and a serious blow to its prestige. The issue, a token cut to the transportation appropriation te amounting to only 1,000 pounds, tied 278 to 278. The chairman of the house, Laborite James Milner, cast the deciding vote on the governments side. As a result of the narrow escape, English political observers said they expected Prime Minister Attlee to enforce even stronger dis- the Belgians will vote on the ques- after-scho- 0. para-militar- 'Big Time' 600,-00- big-tim- Rich Nizam The world was glad to hear the words of Chairmman Connally, of the senate foreign relations committee, that there seems to be no immediate danger of war with Rus- tion of the exiled monarchs future. The new election was ordered after the collapse of a final effort to constitute a new coalition gov- sia. The Texan said in an interview: ernment of social Christians and liberals for the recall of King Leo- (1) Communist pressure would force the United States to abandon South pold m. Observers predicted that the Korea; (2) the Baltic plane next election would be as Indecishas not hastened war between this country and Russia. ive as the recent referendum; inci-d(S- it Two Stories of the Futures of Two People A Girl Worried About Hers; a Man Did Not By BILLY ROSE Here are two stories, both true. The first is as mean as a thumb in the eye; the second, as heartening as a sunrise. . . . on one a of his Philadelphia industrialist who, frequent business trips to New York, made the acquaintance of a young lady whose good looks were only surpassed by her amiability. Despite the fact that he was married, the tycoon began to see a lot of the girl, and it wasnt long before he had set her up in a Madison avenue apartment and was forking over $300 a week to cover expenses. After u couple of cozy and clantheft because ibi transfer of so destine years, the girl said to him If large sum would cons to lb one night, attention of tb board of direcsomething ever tors and cause a lot of talk. Howhappens to you. ever, if anything happens to me, Ill be Daddy, you can write your stem in and left without a pensell the whole lot at any brokerny. Dont you age bouse" think you ought to do something The girl thanked him, and the about securing pair continued seeing each other my future?" until the tycoon keeled over in his "Youre a b s Philadelphia office a couple of right," said years later with an attack of corothe industrialist nary thrombosis. When his lady "Give me a few days to work it friend read the obituary in the paout. pers, she wrote her name on the The next time he called on the bonds and took them to the brokergirl, he handed her half a million age house. dollars worth of 3 per cent railroad The broker examined the certifibonds. cates. Youre a little late. Miss," an will income These yield you he said. This railroad went out of of 15 thousand a year," he said. existence almost 30 years ago." "Every three months as the couThe girl picked up the worthless come Til them and due, clip pons and walked out The dirty cash them in for you, and you can paper she muttered. All use the money for expenses.. he gave me was the same three "You'll notice I havent put hundred a week." AND NOW let me take the thumb your rum on the bonds. Well, The mean one is about One or the richest men in the world, the Nizam of Hyderabad, India, who keeps silver, gold. Jewels and bank notes valued at about $130,000,000 in vaults into which he alone may enter, patches and darns his worn garments himself. Although he uses a large uncut as a paperweight, he diamond doesn't throw money around. out of your eye and show you the sunrise. Some years ago, an Iowa garage-ma- n went bankrupt and decided to make a fresh start in another state. He scraped together a little cash, loaded his wife and kids into a beat-u- p Chevrolet and headed for California. Unfortunately, the jalopy broke down outside of Tucson and the cost of getting it fixed cleaned him out To get a little eating money, he set out to canvass the garages in town for a job but quickly found the supply of local labor was greater than the demand Tucson, because of its climate, was filled with tuberculosis victims, a good many of whom were mechanics. At the last garage on bis list, be repeated bis bard-luc- k story and got toe standard tsemdoum, but as be started to walk ostt be was stopped by one of the mei chanics. JVj PRODIGY . . . Zola Mae Shaulls of Millville, N. J., is shown as she played Mozarts Concerto in A Major with the PUladelphia orchestra. Seven-year-o- ld This Is Your Paper Not All Pictures!. Are Good Ones By William R. Nelson PICTURE may or may not be worth "10,000 words, as the If you need a job as bad as you Chinese proverb claims, but it cersay," he said, you can have mine. Fm pretty sure I can fix it with tainly represents a pretty penny ia costs, time, space and judgment the boss." if published in a newspaper. In addiDont you need the job your- tion, it is seldom desirable to re-- : self?" said the man from Iowa. a picture, so all of the efpublish I've saved enough to last me time and money expended i fort, six mechanfor months," said the for a single use. ic, and the doctor whos treating Editors appreciate the interest me for TB says thats all I figure shown when readers suggest pubto live." lication of pictures, and they comply as often as possible. But publishing a picture in a newspaper i not as easy as it may seem. Pictures are Pictures worth only 10.000 Are words" when they con News, Too vey desired information. That immediately classiDAY BEFORE Darlings out with Ms fies them as news and means they breakfast set and THE should be selected for their news circus, largest to ev- pitchfork over his shoulder and a value. Unljss a photograph is of INEZ GERHARD whistle on Us er visit New England, came to lips. Once out of sight of the house, someone or some event currently his Silas Ledbetter called Dexter, DANNY SCHOLL, as a wartime son in from the barn the wUstle died. The ache and in the news, publication has little of our troops, had and said: misery in Us heart just wouldnt or no meaning. to bail out of a blazing plane in the Assuming that a picture has news Look here, let it go on. Still, he was going to South Pacific. Recently, telling the see the parade anyway, and pop value, it then must be of such qualyouve Jackie, story to three songwriters, he said: it will reproduce well in the been a pretty and mom would think he was go- ity "I prayed, and I guess the good paper. Many photographs wUch are to was the comfortcircus. It ing good boy this Lord made that parachute open. to know that pop and mom entirely satisfactory for an album summer. Guess ing Result, the new National Record cannot be reproduced distinctly you deserve bein on hand with the were happy. song hit,, Open Parachute," sung other enough to be recognizable in a newswhen it at circus that reached lot Jackie boys lower the by Scholl which led a Paramount gets here tomorrow. paper. Publishing such pictures is and began to shake out the hay a disappointing waste of space, efThe Ledbetters were poor as as pop had asked him to do. fort and money. church mice, and Jackie hadnt He couldnt loaf on the Job, he There are other factors, too, such dared even let himself think his told himself, because if he did as permission of those in the picpop would let him attend the cirpop wouldnt think Um very ture for its publication, its news cus. Consequently, his round blue grateful for the eyes grew even rounder. Jackie turned the hay in one value or the amount of interest in windrow and started on the next it among the papers readers, and Old Silas grinned and swalBut all the while his. heart fairly whether there is time to make a cut. lowed a lump In Us throat. He If not taken sobbed with misery. And then abdug down into Us pocket and No Place for specifically same that heart almost silruptly brought out a shiny, new for the paper, on ceased to beat. Jackie stared and ver Its order, a stared at something round and Incongruity Jackie carefully placed the unin the that stubbles shiny photograph lay in a pocket of his tattered the forkful of hay hed just may not be timely and therefor der well straw his hat overalls, pulled its use may seem incongruous. over his ruddy face, puckered up picked up. After a long time, it Even if timely but received too lat Us to heart seemed. began thump his lips and began to whistle. He to get a cut made, it may not b He felt goose again. pimples whistled all that afternoon and to use it in a later issu DANNY SCHOLL was still whistling when he came breaking out all over Us body. He practical to cry and shout and do all because reader interest will wanted in from the lower lot for supper. official to discuss a film contract by then.. sorts of things. Once upstairs, Jackie carefully with Danny. He has had plenty of And then Jackie remembered For and many other reathese radio experience, and as singing took off his shirt and then felt in that he'd been working here on the sons, the editor is always the best of the his for the overalls pocket lead in the musical, "Call Me Miafternoon before, and the or not a picture judge of whether dollar. Hed better sleep with ' must can or have out of be should ster, was signed by MGM for a role half Us be published. slipped it under his pillow, he reasoned, opposite Ann Sothern in If the paper publishes other picNancy like pocket He picked up the coin, folks read about hed doing. Goes to Rio. He stands six it lovingly and, holding tures, some not local in origin, in It was right then that Jackies squeezed is good looking, is now appearin his clenched fist went the very issue for which yours was it tightly heart the then that sank, to out the hay again. The rejected it is well to remember ing on Broadway in Texas, Lil world turned right black and there was bestshaking mom and the best pop in the that in addition to the above facDarling and doing fine. a horrible, terrifying, empty feelworld, he told Umself joyfully. tors, there is still another. It is ing in the pit of his stomach. The that some pictures, always of news Irene Tedlow, Mrs. Archer of half dollar was gonel Wind Erosion Meet Corliss Archer, says she value, are furnished to the paper in Jackie wanted to cry, but he In North Dakota wind erosion of forms that make their use easy and has learned a lot about bringing up was too much of a man for that. her two young children from her He searched through the other soil is more important than water inexpensive, because they are also supplied to many other papers- years on the CBS show and about pocket very carefully, and then erosion. what to expect when they reach looked in his shoes, and under the their teens. Shes had the role since the very beginning, and has never LAST WEEKS missed a performance, but manANSWER ages her household, does other radio shows and several movies a year. double-crosser- $1,000,000,000. STUDENTS: AND MAIN STREET A ," half-dolla- r. half-dolla- r. half-doll- ar have-wane- half-doll- feet-fou- r, SSW1D PIIIIIE Kathl Norris, who has Just switched to NBC, will be groomed by the network to become its female Ben Grauer. In addition to running her shows on another network she has been a special events reporter, may be teamed with Grauer. To enable future army officers to know their Shakespeare as well as their Articles of War, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point has arranged with Universtal International to show Hamlet once a year at the Academy. ACROSS 5. Jackie carefully placed the in a pocket of Us tattered overalls. in The Snake Pit" but re- tired to private life following her marriage to Norman Corwin, the ace radio writer, has been pursuaded to return to the screen in an important role in Sound Of Fury". A savage story of mob violence, much of which will be shot in Phoenix, Ariz., it stars Kathleen Ryan, Frank Lovejoy and Richard Carlson. Madge Blake, former Pasadena school teacher, who waited until her children grew up before embarking on an acting career, has been cast for the important role of Evelyn sister-in-lay Keyes The Cost of Living." slap-happ- In Vanessa Brown, starred with Lex in Sol Lessers RKO "Tar-za- n and the Slave Girl, came up with the most novel excuse for leaving a party. I simply must go." said she. Ive got to go elephant riding early in the morning. Barker ar bed and about everywhere that the half dollar might have been. But it was gone, completely vanished. And so Jackie, his heart aching with misery, crawled into be couldn't bed. And then help it he cried. But all the time he kept telling himself he was a man now and hed better stop crying before mom came up to tuck him In and kiss him good night. If mom found Mm crying shed feel bad and probably cry, too. And Jackie didnt want that to happen. COULDNT, he decided, let mom know that he had lost the half dollar. Or pop either. That wouldn't be fair. Hed just go off by himself tomorrow afternoon and make them think he was at the circus all the time. He wouldnt want them to know for anything. There wasn't any one in the world bad a better pop and mom than he. Jackie fought to keep back the tears. He didn't wait long after HE 3.- ' Appearing as if eaten 4. Norse god 5. Impersona- 20. Friars title 21. Ventilate 23. Exclama- tion Japanese 9. White festival with age 26. Erased (Egypt) 10. A maiden of 6. Bruise 28. Artificial 7. Formal reservoir for water paradise of books 12. Protective 31. Whether 8. Raised 32. Radium covering 9. Owned 13. Beneath (sym.) 11. Anger 33. Music note 14. Skips a 17. Music note 35. Issue stone on 18. Jumbled water 36. Coin (India) 37. Moving type t$. Ebb and 19. Gold flow of part ocean (Heraldry, (Mach.) fish of 16. Kind r 20. Distant wound half-doll- Katherine Locke, who won it stand (Print.) Crust on a 1. Let 22. Manners 23. Gulf (Sib.) 25. Origin 27. Resound 29. Land-measu- re 30. 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