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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS THE RICH COUNTY REAPER u Entered second class matter Feb. 8, 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION 81.50 Per Tear in Advance. Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager , Layton Marshsll, Editor and Proprietor Stowaways Give U. S. Headache, Strikes Hurt 1,075 Aliens Caught Coming Info United States 7ithout Papers. NEW YORK. Port authorities and shipping officials of the United States, hampered by recurrent shipping strikes and limited commercial sailings, are contending with the greatest stowaway problem since immigrants first began com- ing here. W. J. Zucker, acting director of the Immigration and Naturalization service office in New York, said that not even before World War I, when the United States had no immigration quotas, was the stowaway problem so serious. Free Riders.' From July 1, 1945, to August 30 this year, immigration officers caught 1,075 free riding aliens who had reached the United States from abroad without papers and without cost. They came from nearly every country in the world, but especially from Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Cuba and the British West Indies. Greatest number of illegal entrants came from Le Havre, France. Most of the 189 Spaniards and 60 Frenchmen apprehended during 14 months left from there. Next major embarkation point was Naples revealed in the apprehension of 119 Italian stowaways. Southampton, England, was third with 105 stowaways. have These immigrants-in-hidin- g 6 of 60 to from age years ranged with almost 5 per cent of the total women. Not all the free riders are for- eigners. Many are American citizens who have no fear of violating immigra-- tion laws. Among them are naturalized citizens who were caught in Europe when the war started. ' Blame European Ports. Others are American seamen who left their ships in European ports and could not find jobs for the voyage home. Unsettled conditions in European ports are considered largely responsible for the stowaway increase. Some find it easy to circumvent the sketchy guard system. Others working as longshoremen just forget to go ashore at sailing time. Recently, the Queen Mary arrived from Southampton with 10 stowaways. Three came in aboard the Vulcania after a trip on which the ship had returned to Italy to put ashore 13 others discovered aboard the first day out. Most stowaways are returned to the country they came from. But if they repeat the performance, or if shipping companies lodge complaints against them, they may suffer penalties of $500 fines, a year in prison, or both. Of the 1,075 stowaways caught, only 13 still are in the United States. These few included fiancees of American war veterans, some orphan boys adopted as mascots by troops overseas and others whose g and care in America is assured by responsible citizens. Others were deported after hearings before U. S. department of justice officials. well-bein- Confined 27 Years as Mental Inmate, Sues for $300,000 LANSING, MICH. James Jones, 18, who spent 27 years in Michigan mental institutions, is suing the state for $300,000 damages, charging he was illegally detained in virtual involuntary servitude. Jones suit asserts that when he was 11, on March 14, 1918, he was taken from the former state public school at Coldwater, and in a mass trial with 20 other juvenile wards of the state was committed illegally to the Michigan state home and training school at Lapeer as a feebleminded inmate. Escaping in 1923, he was recaptured and confined in the Ionia state hospital for the criminal insane until December 4, 1945, when he was released on a writ of habeas corpus, he related. Denying that he was mentally incapacitated, Jones asserted he learned to play 11 musical instruments while confined, became an adept repairman, had charge of the Ionia hospital cannery and prepared diets for inmates. In return for working 87 hours a week, Jones charged, he was given a package of chewing tobacco weekly and 92 cents when he was released. 10-ce- nt FARM INCOME: Tax Cut Tops GOP Legislative Program; States Vote Labor Curbs; Foreign Trade at Peak Slight Dip Gross farm income will dip only per cent in 1947 under this years mark of 27 billion dollars but higher operating costs will trim operators net return, the bureau of agricultural economics declared. Production expenses for 1947 are Released by Western Newspaper tT"1' ....I times as large (EDITORS NOTE: When eplnlons are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those ef expected to be 2 Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily ef this newspaper.) as in 1938 but nearly half again as big as in 1920. The agency based its projection on soaring costs of all production items, including labor and purchased feeds. As a result, net income may dip 10 to 15 per cent under 1946. . Estimated gross farm income of 27 billion dollars for this year was based upon actual receipts of during the first eight months. During this period, was derived from meat, poultry and dairy products; $5,312,000,-00- 0 from crops, and $752,000,000 from government payments. The latter are expected to pass the 1939 peak 5 $7,854,-000,0- 00 Mark the place for each buttonhole with a thin coat of colorless pail polish. When polish is dry, cut through the center and you have straight edges to hold your stitches. non-raveli- ng Combine equal quantities of pitted, chopped, cooked prunes and marmalade. Cut doughnuts crosswise, spread with the marmalade mixture and put together again sandwich fashion. You can freshen a felt hat beautifully by steaming it. of $807,000,000. PACIFIC: To Retain Bases In proposing a U. S trusteeship for strategic Pacific bases under the United Nations, President Truman Almost a year and a half after the end of the conflict, Germans continue to feel the tragic effects of the war. Carrying all their earthly possessions with them, these Germans return to battered homeland from Denmark, whence they fled before allied armies. give way to a GOP nominee. He said he intended to introduce a constitutional amendment which would congress to authorize a presHardly had the election din at- permit election if the two parties idential tending the Republican landslide divided legislative and executive subsided than Rep. Harold Knutson control. (Rep., Minn.) revealed that he Marshall Field, crusading New would move for a 20 per cent cut in personal income taxes as soon Deal publisher, joined Fulbright in as the 80th congress assembles Jan- asking President Truman to step down. By turning the job over to uary 5. In addition, Knutson said that the the GOP, Field said, the Republiways and means committee, which cans would be charged with full he is scheduled to head as the rank- responsibility for development of a ing majority member, will open national program, and the issues hearings sometime in February to in the 1948 election would be clear pare or eliminate excise taxes on a cut. long list of consumer goods, in- CANNED GOODS: cluding jewelry, furs, cosmetics CONGRESS: Act Fast - and liquors. Republican intentions to slash taxes ran counter to President Trumans position to maintain high levies to balance next years budget estimated at 40 billion dollars. By lopping off unnecessary expenditures and trimming the payroll, Knutson said, the GOP hopes to scale down the budget to 32 billion dollars, thus permitting the tax reduction and allowing for a substantial retirement of the national debt of 262 billion dollars at the same time. Big Packs " Housewives can look to appreciable supplies of canned fruits and vegetables through the coming year as a result of heavy packs in 1946, provided for substantial American control of these areas in any agreement. While nominally subjecting the U. S. to U. N. authority in fortifying the bases and developing the political and economic life of the inhabitants, Mr. Truman stipulated that U. N. inspectors could be excluded from certain strategic centers of these outposts. By providing for ultimate U. S. authority over the new bases, the President sought to satisfy service demands for effective American control over the areas. At first, the army and navy had held out for outright possession of the bases, but Mr. Truman overrode this position to adopt the department of states recommendation for a nominal U. N. trusteeship to express American for world peace. Although maintaining military and political control over the bases, the U. S. would grant all other members of the U. N. equal trade and commercial rights. Good System to Follow When the administrative and budgetary committee of the UJV. assessed the V. S. per cent of the annual costs of tha international organisation on the basis of per capita income, V. S. Delegate Vandenberg protested. If the American economic system is so good as to provide Us people wUh SO per cent of total world income, he said, then other nations would do well to adopt it. Britain was assessed 10 per cent and Russia 6 per cent. trade spokesmen attending the ninth annual convention of the Super-markinstitute in Chicago declared. Over 190 million cases of canned vegetables will be produced this year compared with 163 million last year, it was predicted. The canned fruit pack will total 75 million cases J compared with 40 million in 1945. Despite adequate supplies of More to Do frozen foods, distribution has been Reduction in taxation was only hampered by a lack of warehous- COAL: one of the many issues facing the ing space, a large carryover from Demands hew GOP congress. last year and a shortage of refriger- Study ator cars equipped for low temperCompany spokesmen were quick Briefly, others included terminatto hit at John L. Lewis new wage ing the President's wartime powers atures, it was said.. and hour demands for the United to restrict government by execuMine Workers as threatening the futive decree; widening managements Vote Labor of the industry against the inture reRegulation rights under the national labor lations act and providing for imparcreasing competition of gas and oil. While the government presently is tial administration of the law; Four states, including a heavy reto of abolition controls running the pits, private interests industrial region, reflected popuhastening were thinking of their position when lar sentiment for regulatory the properties are returned to labor legislation in the face of them. the growing strength of unions Mr. Lewis Declaring that in the economic pattern of the is going to price his boys right out country. on the street, company spokesmen By heavy majority votes, ridiculed the idea that a reduction Nebraska and South Dakota of the work week from six to five adopted constitutional amenddays would lower operating costs ments banning the closed shop, and permit the operators to pay a which requires all employees of 25 cent an hour raise. Under the a shop to join the prevailing old contract, miners were paid union. Arizona passed the same cents an hour, with overtime $1.18 Senator Vandenberg (left). law but by a closer vote. 35 hours. rates beyond Martin (center) Representative ' the dominant While Despite the position operators remained and Senator Taft. of labor in industrial Massachuskeptical, UMW economists figured store free enterprise, and formusetts, the electorate voted to rethat a shorter work week would trim lation of a farm program adjusted quire unions to make public production costs from 20 to 70 cents their financial records, with to postwar conditions. 7 a ton, with an average saving of 45 for and 227,307 against. In In the field of foreign affairs, cepts. Since miners dig from four all cases, organized labor fought to five tons of coal daily, the saving Republicans were expected to adthe amendments. here to the current polof $2 per day would cover the conicy mapped by the administration templated wage increase, they said. , with the help of Senator Vanden- FOREIGN TRADE: JAPAN: berg (Rep., Mich.) as representaNear Peak" tive of the GOP congressional bloc. Spurred by U. 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Remembering the unhappy results of previous divisions of legislative and executive power between the two parties, when solution of pressing problems gave way to. indecisive bickering and both sides maneuvered for political advantage, Senator Fulbright (Dem., Ark.) was the first to call upon Mr. Truman to Chigeo With practically all areas of the world sharing in our expanded over- seas trade, commercial exports have been running two to three times above the volume of the late 30s. Of total exports of approximately 8 billion dollars, U. S. loans probably will finance 35 per cent or 2.8 billion dollars. Indicative of the heavy overseas business, Canada is buying almost 200 per cent more than before the war; Latin American countries 300 per cent more; continental European nations, 150 per cent more; and the United Kingdom, 50 per cent more. Emotos treatment of U. S., British and Dutch war prisoners stood out like a beacon against the atrocities practiced by less human commandants. 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