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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER US,, Canada Cooperate Against Arctic War Threat; Labor Reform Balked by Industry Disagreement Thieves Hidden In London Fog Steal $32,000 PALESTINE: Problem for U.N, WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Entered as second class matter Feb. 8, 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, under the Act of March 3. 1879. 1.50 Per Year in Advance SUBSCRIPTION La' on Marshall, Editor and Proprietor Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Newspaper Unions news analysts and not neoessarily of this newspaper.) Western Carry Ladder to Home of a Society Woman and Nab Rare Jewelry. oil-ric- East. Not only could the Arabs create trouble in Palestine itself but they h Saudi also could kick up in Arabia and Iraq and exert pressure in Egypt along the vital imperial lifeline from the Far East. Submission of the case to the U.N. would relieve Britain of the onus of imposing peace on a hostile country. LONDON. London was covered by such a dense fog recently that burglars were able in broad daylight to lug a ladder to a society womans home, run it up to her boudoir window and make off with $32,000 worth of diamond and sap- phire rings. The ladder was not noticed and the burglary was not discovered until the woman, Mrs. Irene Roberts, had occasion to look into her jewel casket. She offered a $3,200 reward for information leading to the covery of her jewels. The burglary broke a brief surcease in an epidemic of society page jewel thefts. They began last October, when $100,000 worth of jewels were stolen from the duke and .duchess of Windsor. Queen Is Marooned. Visibility was about three feet in the fog, one of record heaviness in a city renowned for its fogs. Thousands of persons became lost, including Queen Elizabeth, who was marooned in her automobile 100 yards from Buckingham palace and had to be rescued by a police searching squad. The fog was accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature, freezing a thin layer of ice on streets and sidewalks. Ferry service had to be suspended between Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Buses crawled along; trains were hours behind schedule. Firemen had to walk ahead of their trucks to fires, and when they got to them the fog hampered their work. All four main railroads reported delays. Even subway service was slowed because thousands of people who normally ride buses were using the tubes. At Southampton, where the fog was as thick as it was in London, the United States Lines ship America had to postpone its departure for Le Havre. Three K.L.M. (Royal Dutch) airlines planes that had no choice but to land in the fog were talked to the ground from a control tower after special sodium flares were lighted and rockets fired to give the pilots the outline of the field. Two flights to the United States were canceled. Several Accidents. Several accidents were reported, but injuries were minor. A ferry carrying 40 passengers collided with the Hampton ferry at Southampton. Three persons were slightly injured. The ferry had taken three hours to make a run that usually takes 15 minutes. The fog fell during the rush hour, aggravating the general confusion. Police cars with were parked at strategic points, warning motorists to be careful and giving One groping pedestrians a fix. motorist said it took him two hours and 35 minutes to drive two miles. Subways stopped running at midnight, and many had to spend the night where they were if they did not reach the stations by that time. At Wembley skating rink more than 2,000 persons sang and skated all night because they couldnt get loud-speake- rs home. When fire broke out in a London crematorium, firemen had to walk ahead of their trucks with lights. When they arrived at the fire, they lighted acetylene flares so they could see what they were doing. A chapel at Putney Val cemetery caught fire. The fire was so well advanced by the time the firemen had groped their way to it, there was little they could do. , Indict Parents In Death of Son; Refused to Call Help EASTON, PA. and his William Focht, wife, Ada, were under indictment on involuntary manslaughter charges in 'Jie deatxi of their bop. The Northampton county grand jury ordered the two held for trial on the charge after Coroner D. F. Bachman testified the couple refused to call a doctor for their son, Edwin James, who fell into a can of boiling water last September. 55, Dr. Bachman 'told the jury the boy would have had a 0 chance of recovering if he had been given prompt medical aid. The Fochts, he said, belong to a healing sect which 50-5- opposes medical attention. &in!L Strong Arab and Jewish opposition to the British plan for dividing Palestine to provide a homeland for Jewish refugees promised to result in submission of the problem to the United Nations to check the outbreak of a bloody civil war in the Holy Land. Britain had appeared too near the end of her rope in trying to work out agreement between the Arabs and Jews. While Jewish terrorists had goaded the British into developing a compromise plan, they were reluctant to enforce it against the unwilling Arabs, the mightiest force h Near in the strategic and 9L Sol wedding ring has been defined as a matrimonial tourniquet designed to stop cirA culation. History keeps on repeating itself because man keeps on making the same mistakes. The postman finds that to win the stamp of approval he must stick to his post. Who warms to his bosom the eggs of hatred hatches a nest of snakes. Dont tear your hair out over a woman; itll be harder to meet the next one if youre bald. oil-ric- CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. POLAND: Offer Amnesty Desirous of repatriating thousands of Polish exiles spread throughout Wintry blasts in the Windy City of Chicago converted this fire o temperature froze engine fighting fire into a pillar of ice as of welcomed week a After hoses. from Chicagoans shivering, spray break in weather, thermometer hitting the 30s. sub-zer- stocks, the government acted under military defense regulations, decreeing: Railroad passenger service would be curtailed to clear rights of way for coal trains and divert locomotives to such haulage; servicemen would be employed at digging surface coal; additional trucks would be provided to transport fuel from docks and railroad depots; all but essential street lighting would be banned, and violators of electricity conservation orders would be pun- CANADA: Defense Agreement Partners in war, U. S. and Canada will remain partners in peace to strengthen the defense of the northern portion of the western hemisphere. Agreement to extend wartime military cooperation into the postwar world was announced simultaneously by Washington, and Ottawa. Be- cause the agreement was of a friendly, informal character and involved no treaty or obligations, ished. connec- gressional approval will not be essary, the state department said. d With development of bombers, supersonic rockets, guided d missiles and pilotless aircraft, Canadas arctic circle comprising the shortest distance between Asia and Europe and the western hemisphere is considered as this countrys chief natural defense frontier. Cooperation with Canada thus would afford the U. S. a strategic advantage in coping with an arctic aerial attack. The new agreement calls for familiarization of U. S. and Canadian officer with one anothers military establishment; gradual standardization of weapons, and mutual and reciprocal use of military and naval facilities. Airplanes were used to drop food d and other essentials to villages cut off from railroad and highway communication by the heavy drifts. snow-boun- high-spee- radio-controlle- Sick Industry Behind Britains acute coal crisis which left millions jobless and shiv- ering as industrial and domestic services Were sharply cur-- 1 tailed lay the story of an antiquated coal mining industry enfeebled by low wages, undesirable working conditions and outmoded machinery. Nationalization of the mines by the Labor government, with the promise of an Improvement in the industry, has been too recent to afford substantial relief from the aggravated conditions of two and a half decades. In 1913, Britain produced 287,000,-00- 0 Divorce Rate Climbs tons of coal with 1,107,000 minThe number of divorces in the 17. S. but by ers, dropped to nearly doubled during war years and, 230,000,000 tons. Despite a larger if the current rate of increase continworking force, the decline was atues, annual divorce totals will match tributed to the advancing age of the marriage totals within the next decade, miners and lack of adequate equipstatistics from the bureau of the census and the public health service inment. dicate. There were 502,000 divorces Year by year production conin the country in 1945, according to to slip until it sagged to tinued while census bureau estimates, during all-tian low of 182,000,000 tons the same period there were 1,618,331 in 1945. But whereas U. S. the war before In 1940, marriages. output continued to climb to over stress on the put unprecedented bonds of matrimony, there were an 600,000,000 tons and wages estimated 264,000 divorces and l,595r to high levels, both Brit879 marriages. Thus while divorces ish industry and mine help reduring the final year of World War sisted introduction of new maII were more than 90 per cent higher chinery which would have inthan in 1940, the nationwide marriage creased volume and allowed rate was up less than a net 1.4 per more pay. cent. . Because of the unattractive prosin the mines, the industry has pects GERMANY: had difficulty recruiting younger men. As a result, it has been forced Allies Conflict to stumble along in the face of risImplementation of differing Allied ing demands, with production just in Germany about economic policies meeting immediate needs and promises to produce a conflicting allowing no stockpiling. hodge - podge that will complicate any future unification of the reich CONGRESS: as an independent state or ward of Slow on Labor U. S., Britain and Russia. With industrial spokesmen dividThe confused situation was point-e- d up by the U. S. promulgation of ed among themselves upon correcanti-trulaw in the American oc- tive labor legislation, house and Designed to pro- senate labor committees found their cupation zone. mote independent enterprise, the tasks complicated with little chance law will require reorganization of for early action. some 30 large German corporations With action already delayed by with assets of 300 million dollars. Republican reorganization of the Firms employing over 10,000 people new congress and streamlining of will be the first targets. procedure prdvided for in the La Fol-letbill last year, it appears that While the British issued a similar law in their occupation 'zone, they the lawmakers will not be able to agree upon any substantial correcprovided safeguards for socialization tive legislation before expiration of of certain industries. Over in their eastern occupation John L. Lewis truce with the March 31. zone, the Russians already have in200 of the differences beconcerns more Indicative than corporated into state monopolies along commu- tween industrial interests, Forhey nist lines. Johnston, special counsel for National Coal association, blasted industry-wide BRITAIN: bargaining with unions, while Almon E. Roth, president of Crisis Fuel National Federation of American Britain returned to an emergency Shipping, approved of it. While indfooting in the Labor governments ustry-wide bargaining, which covdesperate efforts to resolve the seri- ers many plants, is considered less ous coal shortage. troublesome and costly, individual In striving to move precious fuel employers sacrifice some of their d from regions and at the independence in consummating such same time conserve dwindling agreements. power Inflation Hits China t FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP. WESTERN RED' CEDAR FENCE POSTS Sale by Carloads. BONNER CEDAR CO., Sandpoint, Idaho. MISCELLANEOUS WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters, Adit Ins Machines, Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SB West Broadway. Salt Lake City. Utab- - FOR SALE First grade English Walnuts. Priced only 35c per lb. packed in ten-lpackages. Buy direct and save. Cash with, order. E. M. BAKER, Box 442, Chico, b. Many a Chinese wondered if it was the beginning of the end. Chinese dollars were as plentiful as goods were scarce and from Canton in the south to Peiping in the north the price of the national staple1 rice soared. In Shanghai where workers are guaranteed pay in . 1920-outp- California. The best place to start your shop-pin- g tour is in your favorite easy-chawith an opea newspaper. ir, Make a habit of reading the advertisements in this paper every week. They can save you time, energy and money. iaa ut ad-vanc- ed st te gov-emme- snow-boun- Europe, the Mediterranean region and Canada, the Russian sponsored Polish government offered political amnesty to refugees who have opposed the present regime or committed crimes against it. Equally desirous of uniting Poland itself and checking continuing bloody civil warfare, the government announced the application of the amnesty order to 100,000 political prisoners within the country and members of the rightist underground hiding out in forest lands. On the "very day that the Warsaw regime appealed to exiled Poles to return to their homeland, the British parliament approved a resettlement bill for 127,000 Polish troops in Britain. nt Add more Smiteage to walking with SOUS as well as Heels by O'Sullivan. creases commensurate to the rise in living costs, many business men considered closing shop since mounting costs threatened to ruin them. Indicative of the inflationary spiral, one American dollar bought Chinese dollars. With the creeping paralysis in the Chinese economy intensified by the civil strife raging between the Nationalists and Communists, the U. S. g decision to abandon its and pull out of the country was said to have contributed to the 19,-0- 00 lib peace-makin- financial breakdown. IiJSi 13-- it) HIM' ' Id if1 1 UAW: Empty Purse In battling for maintenance of e pay during the rehigh conversion period, strikes cost the take-hom- powerful CIO - United Automobile Workers more than $2,000,000, George F. Addes, secretary treasurer of the union, disclosed. As of last November, Addes revealed, the UAW net worth stood at $134,869 compared with $2,689,000 at the time of V-- J Day. Toward the close of 1946, he said, the union had cashed in all of its government bonds save for $10,000 and was compelled to borrow $250,000 from other ATTENTION FORD and PLYMOUTH Owners 50. Sate up to Deal direct. 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