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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Entered as second class matter Feb. 8, 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, nnder the RYE: Crack Down on G. .s in Europe; UNRRA Aid F alls Short of Needs; U. S. Sets Foreign Loan Terms' Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Year in Advance. Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of (Western Newspaper Unions npws analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Telephone Wires Not Used by New System Power Lines to Carry Voices in Rural Zones A new telephonic communications era has begun for the nations farm families. Tests made in Arkansas and Alabama by the telephone, private power companies and the REA have proven the feasibility of ing over the same rural power lines t Futures Soar May rye hovering at the bushel mark and daily fua $2.63 ture transactions running far above prewar levels, the Chicago Board of Trade was scheduled to undertake its second investigation of dealings in the commodity to ascertain if any operator or group possessed a comer. Having failed to uncover a corner after a probe several months ago, the board renewed its investigation by ordering all members to report accounts with opeD positions. Because May rye carries no ceiling, observers said that the high prices the grain commands reflect supply and demand. Against the $2.63 a bushel figure in the open market, the new crop was selling around the $1.48 a bushel ceiling, With RAIL WRECK: Big Toll In the worst train wreck since when two sections of the Southern Pacific collided near Great Salt Lake, Utah, and 48 persons were killed, the Burlingtons Exposition Flyer plowed into the rear of the stalled Advance Flyer in Naperville, 111., to take a toll of approximately 48 dead. Running on the same track three minutes apart, the two crack trains crashed when the Advance Flyer pulled up to a stop for its crew to investigate a flash of flame from beneath one of the coaches. Though an automatic caution signal went on 7,784 feet to the east and a danger signal beamed 1,100 feet from the stalled train, the engineer of the Exposition Flyer was unable to brake his charging Diesel in time to avoid the crash. Though Engineer W. W. Blaine, 68, of Galesburg, 111., himself suffered only a face cut, many passengers were killed wfyen his big locomotive ripped into the last steel coach on the Advance Flyer and the impact buckled the diner ahead of it and overturned two other cars. In all, six coaches were upset or derailed and lay strewn over the twisted track like toys. In addition to the 48 killed, over 100 were injured. 1944, Pointing up Herbert Hoovers statement that 30 million European children are in need of extra food, these Italian youngsters beg photographer for bread. Boy at left tries to sell peanuts to obtain money for purchasing cereals. ic government for the country. Of the 90 million dollar loan to Poland, 40 million will be used for Tighten Discipline With the low state of discipline the purchase of American coal cars and locomotives to facilitate the leading to loss of respect for Amer- movement of fuel to western Euican authority by the enemy and U. S. injury to our reputation among the rope and the Balkans, the reAllies, Gen. Joseph T. McNamey, state department disclosed. The will of mainder the credit be applied orU. S. commander in Europe, dered all unit commanders to jack against Polands acquisition of surplus property in Europe. up on personnel. Besides requiring the conduct of demobilization the Citing rapid free elections, the U. S. obtained and dissolution of tried battle Polands agreement not to discrimgroups, McNamey declared that inate against American nationals makeshift units possess none of the and trade and to properly compenpride of the veteran outfits and of- sate U. S. citizens and corporations ficers do not have the same tradiwhose property has been taken over tional attachment to their men as or nationalized. would for those have they regularly U. S. demands on Russia for free under them. in eastern Europe in exchange DIPLOMACY: trade of McNamey listed six indications a one billion dollar loan followed Four-Powfor a deterioration of army discipline in Meet Soviets the quick postwar maneuEurope, including participation in Settlement of the ticklish Yugoblack markets and drunkenness; vering to bring the region under slav claims to Italian Trieste economic their domination. high absence without leave; the imloomed as the foreign ministers of Huna Under pact with posing automobile accident rate; U. the S., Britain, Russia and navigary, joint excessive venereal disease infecFrance met in Paris in an attempt and bauxite oil, aviation, gation, of smartness in appeartion; lack to iron out complex political and ecoance and conscientious observance aluminum companies were set up, nomic questions holding up the while a with similar deal Romania of military courtesy, and complainof peace treaties for forformulation in of resulted formation ing attitudes toward top authority. bank, oil, navigation and mer Axis satellites. As Byrnes, Bevin, Molotov and aviation enterprises. In some inOVERSEAS RELIEF: stances, the Soviets equities con- Bidault met to speed up the con- UNRRA Aid sist of concessions or Axis property claimed as reparations. Set up to provide relief for Short term barter agreements areas, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation admin- also were negotiated with Poland, Finistration furnished 4 million tons of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, land, Bulgaria, Romania and Hunsupplies costing most 700 million gary, involving substantial amounts of raw and finished material. Decem-be- r to up Ripping into the Soviets eastern 31, 1945, but extended deals, the U. S. has proEuropean help only a drop tested on, the grounds that no perIs, in the bucket com-- manent peace treaties have yet Bevin, Byrnes and Molotov. pared to over-a-ll re- been drawn as a basis of negotiathe allies tions; major pledged elusion of terms, their deputy quirements. President Tru: themselves to work together for re- foreign ministers who had found. .... mans release of a building countries, and ered over a majority of the issues repQrt of UNRRA.g composition of joint companies ban happily advanced a solution to the Famin activities came as be implemented to exclude other na- Trieste problem: Agreeing to setCommittee Poster combined U S., tions from participating in econom- tle territorial claims on the basis of residential nationalities, the depBritish and Canadian food board al- ic enterprises. ARMY: Claude Gregory, president of REA Craighead Jonesboro, Ark., making one of first calls over the carrier cur- -' ent telephone. which provide farmers with electric energy. Outwardly, the new end old telephonic equipment looks very much alike. In the new system, however, speech is transmitted over power wires by means of a carrier wave of radio frequency produced by electronic tubes, located either in a small box adjacent to the telephone or attached directly to the A device called a instrument. coupler, placed on a pole outside each telephone users house, allows the carrier current to enter and leave the lines but prevents the power current from interfering with transmitting and receiving instruments. Equipment, to change the high frequency current back to normal voice frequency, is located at a point on the power line where vocal messages are channeled over wires to the telephone central office. The new system, experiments on which were started by Bell laboratories and REA in 1938, is expected to telephonically link thousands of families who now reside along rural power lines but are too far off the beaten path to be reached by existing telephone lines. Approximately three million farms ate now electrified and scores of others are being added daily. er - five-ye- - an Russo-Ro-mani- an en al-Lfl-od dol-la- rs con-stitut- es M U. S. Can Produce the Highest Quality Silk A movement was started in the United States about 1830 to produce silk. Prbper varieties of silkworms were not available and the industry failed. It has not been determined that California has a more suitable climate than Japan for silkworm culture, being able to raise, three crops a year, contrasted with Japans one, and at the same time produce a better quality silk. In Texas sericulture has become a community project. At Mineral Wells, a fund to develop the Texas silk culture was oversubscribed. There are other states in the South, East and West, where silk culture can be made to produce satisfactory returns. ex-ene- . 0 lotted the international agency tons of cereals from its grain pool. While UNRRA Director had asked for 700,000 tons, Allied food experts were unable to grant his requests in view of the needs of other people not fed by his organization. With the U. S. and Britain providing the bulk of the funds, UNRRAs distributions to December 31, 1945, included: 460,-00- La-Guar- ITALY: Fascist Underground 1,739,667 976,223 408,427 348,219 197,112 China 134,017 Italy 67,175 Albania 44,136 Ukrainian S.S.R .. S.S.R. 22,226 Byelorussian 1,588 Dodecanese Islands .. 20,467 Others U one-billi- on Soviet-dominat- air-bla- st push-but-t- qn ed Value, dollars 206,107.000 190,057,000 87,575,000 113,212,000 23.237.000 24.129,000 13,000,000 10,434,000 4,687,000 123,000 8.992,000 uties recommended Italy's retend tion of Trieste and surrender to Yugoslavia of Yugoslavian-settled land nearby the vital port. Disposition of Trieste was only one of the knotty problems facing the Big Four in drawing terms for Italy. One of the principal bones of contention centered in Russias demands for trusteeships over Italys North African colonies situated along Britains Mediterranean lifeline to the Far East. With Britain resisting the Reds claims out of an unwillingness to establish the Soviets in a strategic position along the imperial lifeline, the U. S. advanced a compromise under which the colonies would be placed under a United Nations trusteeship. Italian-populate- Theft of the remains of Benito Mussolini from a potters field near Milan pointed up the undercover activities of fascist forces in Italy. Bitter foes of the communist-socialibloc, II Duces followers have been working quietly in the immediate postwar period, seeking to capitalize on complaints of cumbersome st democratic processes and foster sentiment for renewed authoritarian rule. ....... When Mussolinis body was dug up from an unmarked grave and carried off, with a boot with part Improved Machinery of a rotted leg left to lie behind, a Power Spray note extolling H Duce and signed Democratic Fascist party was 681,553,000 3,959,257 Totals placed near the burial plot. In lyrConcern over the feeding of the ical style the note read: The time worlds hunger hit areas was will come in which Benito Mussolini heightened by a U. S. weather bu- in his coffin, kissed by our sun, will reau report that rain was sorely parade through the streets of Italy needed in some sections of the and all the roses of the world and great plains wheat growing states all the tears of our women will not if the department of agricultures be enough to give extreme greetforecasts of another bumper crop ings of the country to this great son. were to materialize. According to some estimates, no S. less than 200,000 Italians are said U. CREDIT: New Meyers Power Spray to be members of the secret S.A.M. Built to be operated by one man, Name Conditions (Squadre dAzione Mussolini) orWhile the U. S. was determined to ganization, which has been most this power sprayer was designed demand free trade in eastern Eu- active in the northern section of Hie to cut down weight and over-atank eliminates rope as a condition for granting country. Consisting of personnel of length. Cypress dollar loan, a former fascist military units, the Russia a corrosion. , The sprayer, built by F. E. Myers 90 million dollar advance was S.A.M. work in units of from 25 to Poland 50 persons, with instructions to & Bro. Co., Ashland, Ohio, is of the made to on the stipulation that free and check political activity and infiprinciple. Handy control regulates the accuracy unhampered elections would be held ltrate into parties and foment to name a representative democrat for orchard work. Tons Country Greece Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Poland CONGRESS HAS NOT DESTROYED OPA WASHINGTON. The overlooked fact in most accounts of the house OPA continuance was1 that the legislation proposed extension until next March 31, nine months more. The way some of the stories read you might think discontinuance was immediate. The oppo- sition statements of Messrs. Bowles and Porter absorbed tention of the atre- porters entirely. When the extension date was ment- ioned, it frequently was presented as I have done above, in a confusing way. Actually, the extension works out to be ,more than 11 months from now, and nine months beyond the expiration date of OPA powers on June 30. A lot of water may go over many dams in the next 11 months and the continuance of the governments powers to act against prices for that long a time could hardly be called destructive of OPA. What angered the administrato tion unusual bitterness against the bill were the amendments. One amendment what was generally described as cost plus reasonable profits to producers and OPA contended this handlers. would upset their ceilings on many of the major items of production, autos, rubber and such. This would depend upon whether their ceilings now deny cost plus profit , on these items' and it would require a skilled mathematician a week to figure out the involved formula for one item. Frankly 1 ' would not attempt to referee this argument. pro-pos- ed ar Russo-Hungari- war-strick- Released by Western Newspaper Union. CIGARETTES: Hike Prices In granting increases in the price of cigarettes, OPA declared that rising manufacturing costs necessitated the boosts to assure producers of earnings equal to prewar levels. While manufacturers were allowed a 25 cent raise per 1,000 cigarettes, retailers were permitted to hike the prices a half cent a pack on multiple sales of two, four, six, etc., packs and five cents on a, carton of 10 packs.' Where sale of cigarettes through vending machines is permissible, an increase of one cent a pack was granted. Allowed primarily on sales of muls, the tiple packs offered at price increases were not extended to single packs. cut-rate- NEARLY YEAR LEFT FOR NEW ADJUSTMENTS Certainly, however, the general notion of "cost plus a reasonable profit does not sound like an unreasonable invasion of the consumers rights, or what OPA is supposed to have been doing. There was one amendment which seemed to me logically what might possibly be called murderous of OPA, as one irate Democratic congressman termed the bill, which was approved on a final passage by 205 Democrats, including himself, and 148 Republicans. This was the one to drop control over certain articles when their production reaches the level of production of the year July 1, 1940, to June 30, 1941 which was far from the peak year it was ' described to be in one of the accounts. Production did not a reach peak until the last year of the war. Now it would be entirely logical and sensible for price controls to be removed the moment production reaches current demand. Of course current consumer demand is great1941. It is er than July, very much greater, due to the accumulation of demand for consumer goods during the war. It might be murderous to OPA to impose that new formula on cessation of regulations, but it would be what fairness demands. Relief of regulations should be timed to the period when production can care for the present demand, when the pressure of shortages for higher prices has been relieved. The other important amendment called for gradual elimination of subsidies. Frankly, I have never liked subsidies. The theory is wrong to pay from the treasury, which is the money of all the people (and their debt now .is heavy), a certain portion of the price which should be paid by the man who buys the article. Not even Mr. Truman has defended subsidies as a permanent proposition. Whether the time limit fixed by the house would work efficiently, again calls for intricate technical knowledge of the effect of the removal on each article at each time. A revision of the bill by the senate is being prophesied by most authorities, but it is not Ikely to be a lease of existing authority as the administration has been demanding. 1940-Jun- e, full-pow- er |