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Show 1 tllE PAGE TITO TRUMAN: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Beauty Texas Elects First Republican Congressman in 24 Years; President Truman Orders Loyalty Files Opened to' Probe T Political observers were face to a face with the question: is there Whea opinion are (Editors Not: new political trend in the wind? In these eolnmne, they expressed re those of Western Newspaper George Ia Florida Unions news analysts and not Smathers defeated .Sen. Claude of this newspaper.) e new dealer, by Pepper, well over 65,000 In the, democratic primary. Critics of the Fair Deal, especially the revolting southerners, called it a victory over alarming "creeping socialism,' big government, unbalanced budgets and the welfare state. The winner, ' however, told Republicans to take no comfort from his victory. He said: "The people of Florida in this election proved they were unwilling to depart from the and basic principles of the Democratic party. .They do not wish to venture off down the side roads of extremism or dangerous experimentation. "Nor are they interested in tum-- George Smathers, 36, casts ing the clock back to isolationism r his vote in his race against attitude of the and the Senator Claude Pepper for the Republican party. U.S. senate. Smathers defeated Meanwhile, the people of Texas ""Pepper by well over 65,000 elected the , first Republican convotes. Pepper had been a memgressman in' 24 years when Ben H. ber of the upper house for 14 GuiU, Pampa broker years. Ills defeat Is considered and former schoolteacher, defeated a blow against President Tru10 Democrats. It 'was a sudden-deat- h man. election to fill the unexpired terra of Gene Worley , who had reT-- H LAW: signed to become a federal Judge. Gulll said ha was going to Wash- Non-Re- d Oath ington as one small protest and Labor unions, bitter enemies of added: " If I go up there y the the act since the day small one as protest, maybe It think was be won't enacted, found themselves they powers that have the whole country in the bag. confronted again with one of the Maybe some of those big shots will most disliked provisions of the law. The U.S. supreme court upheld take a look at this little segment of Texas and take warning. the provision that requires union officials to file oaths if 'their unions are to use KING: machinery of the national labor Crowns Self relations board. Boston-bor- n Phumiphon Aduldet, Both, national and local officers who has been on the front pages of most unions have filed such afof American newspapejs a great fidavits, although a few holdouts deal recently because of his mar remain. riage and the announcement that Chief Justice Vinson said in his he had written music for a BroadThose who, so opinion, way production, lifted a nine-tiere- d would subvert has found, crown on his head and became Congress cannot the escape public interest Rama IX, king of Thailand. all regulations because, at the same The coronation was performed time, they carry on legitimate powith all the mystic pomp and cere- litical To encourage activities. mony of the Chakri dynasty. unions to displace them from posiThe ceremony began with the tions of great power over the natraditional sacred bath. Phumiphon tional economy while at the same dipped himself into waters gath- time leaving free the outlets by ered from all parts of his story-boo- k which they may pursue legitimate kingdom. political activities of persuasion . A court astrologer proclaimed the and advocacy, does not seem to us moment auspicious and a Brahmin to contravene the purposes of the high priest handed Phumiphon the first amendment. nine-tiere- d crown. The boyish king on his head. placed it BOND DRIVE: In a world with fewer and fewer for Independence kings, Thailand at last had a new Saye one, successor to his brother. With a gentle tap on the Liberty Mahidol, who was mysterious- Bell, Secretary of thev Treasury ly slain four years ago. John W. Snyder on May 15 opened the greatest savings bond drive in DERBY: the peacetime history of the country. The drive continues through Near Record Bet aeo-essar- one-tim- . The Winner! ' well-establish- ed do-nothi- ng .... Taft-Hartle- The Communist spy hunt, called by many a witch hunt and. a mud slinging campaign against administration big shots, took a new turn when President Truman agreed to give investigators the complete state department loyalty files on the 81 cases cited by Senator McCarthy. Although Trumans approval did not cover F.B.I. files, a great amount of F.B.I. material is included In the reports. It now comes to light that the 81 persons named by McCarthy have been Investigated by four other congressional committees. Senator Tydings, chairman of the subcommittee which has been looking into McCarthys allegations, said: "No adverse report concerning these employees came to the floor of the house or the floor of the senate and none , was sent to the state department after the other investigations. Some sources are saying public opinion is beginning to blow the lid off the scandals of the Truman administration. But others believe too much time and money are being wasted in an effort to create Communist hysteria for political reasons. . The public, meanwhile, was becoming a little bored and skeptical of explanations from either side. Some logical explanation of what has been going on had better be, made and soon, the voter was saying. WAR: Cold and Hot President Truman has told he is not alarmed over the world situation and that he feels it is not as bad as in the first half of 1946. Many observers are inclined to support the President's- - optimism. The President, in fact, even promised to reduce the defense budget next year. Of the European recovery program he declared it should be continued on its present scale as our most important weapon of the "cold war, In his opinion the Marshall plan was much cheaper than a shooting war. No one disagreed. While the President was expressing pptimism, the state department was delivering another note to Moscow which charged the Soviet with giving out "erroneous account of the shooting down of the American plane in the Baltic. The note declared: "It is clear that this disregard for law, custom and the opinion of mankind constitutes a further obstacle to the establishment of harmonious relations among nations and cannot be reconciled with the Soviet governments continued protestations of Its devotion to the cause of peace. The note also declared that Russia "has not only failed to meet but has no intention of meeting the obligations which international law and practice Impose on members of 4. July . .The bell is the" symbol of the the family of nations. 1950 drive. The theme: "Save for your independence buy U.S. sav- MARGARET TRUMAN: ings bonds. Strictly Long Hair Fifty-tw- o of the historic replicas Margaret Trumans fmuch publi- -' relic are on tour of the 48 states. cized story, "Why Shouldnt I District of Columbia, Alaska, cleared the air for some Sing, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. They will critics of the Truman family, visit over 2,000 communities and music not politics, that is. critics, will be viewed by millions of peoSaid Miss Truman: "I must conple. fess were strictly a long hair famThe bells were made at the ily from way back. Her r?no foundry of the Sons of Georges playing father is not an am; ur, Paccard at Annecy-le-Vieu- x in but "a skillful artist. France and are said, to produce the The story, cleared exact tone of the Liberty Bell be- the air also on incidentally, La Trumans talent fore it was cracked in 1835. There had been, and in instances, The treasury department has one still is, some criticism of her voice. objective to promote the sale of Now Miss Truman reports she is savings bonds in order to encour- Improving. age thrift. An attempt will be made Other incidentals reported by to contact every potential buyer of Miss Truman: (1) She could earn more than the $75,000 shell make savings bonds in the nation. At the conclusion of the drive, ths year; (2) The revenue man Snyder said a bell will go to each : wn the street from the White state and territory for permanent House will call. "But who am I to exhibit. complain about taxes, said she. nori-Commun- lst 31-pa- ge An-an- da A Texas colt and a Texas boy won the greatest sport event on the American scene the 76th running of the Kentucky derby. The colt was Middleground. The boy was Bill Boland of Corpus Christi. There was another news story In the event, however. Those who keep an eagle eye on the nation's purse were startled that wagering on the race was only $5,018' short of the record. A total of $1,248,028 was bet. The record handle of $1,253,042 was set in 1947. For the full nine-rac- e derby day card, the handle 'was the third highest In history. A total of was wagered. The 1947 record was $3,636,403. The handle in 1943, second highest In history, was $3,-559,3- 32 $3,603,208. - If betting is any indication of the economic trend, the prospect for the rest of 1950 would seem excellent Observers point out that peotimes are ple dont wager-wh- en hard. ' Tuesday, May . 23, 1950 EUAGteRtON TRIEENE, DIUGERTON.UTAQ ' On Tour Elizabeth Taylor, generally known as one of the most beautiful women in the movie world, was married in what has been publicized as the movie capitals wedding of the year. The groom is Conrad (Nick) Hilton, scion of the hotel family. Seven hundred guests were invited to the wedding and about 200 counto a reception at the Bel-AI try club. Elizabeths wedding gown was a production In itself and arouse a brief controversy. One reporter said that it would feature a plunging neckline. The horrified designer. Helen , Rose of MGM, quickly squelched the report. "The gown Is about as unplunging as anything can be, she skid. The gown, which Miss Rose termed a "nice, modest, pretty dress that any girl would wear, required 25 yards of pure silk satin and handfuls of seed pearls and beads. .The studio footed the bill. ir LABOR: Strike Settled The Chrysler strike, the second longest and costliest In the history of the automobile industry, has been settled. "10 The union claimed it won the cents an hour package in pensions and hospital and medical benefits for which the strike was called. To put the strike above the mercenary level, UAW president Walter P. Reuther said, "The Chrysler strike was a part of a great human crusade to build a better tomorrow and a better world. But labor observers " said the strike was too long and too costly for anyone to benefit. About 89, 000 Chrysler workers in 25 plants and 50,000 in supplier plants had been idle. Also on the labor front, John L. Lewis announced that the UMW welfare fund would resume payment of benefits next month. Benefits were suspended for almost a year during the UMWs drawn out strikes and restricted work weeks. Another important move in the labor world was the 'announcement of William Green of the AFL-tha- t his union is willing to meet with the CIO to form a united organization of all forces and groupings of organized labor. In a letter to Philip Murray, Green proposed: 1. To work on economic, legislative and political problems. ' 2. To achieve organic untiy. John L. Lewis and his UMW were not mentioned. 100-day-o- ld President Truman began tv.-- west- ern tour with four speeches on be--, half of the Brannan agricultural program, but took time also to preach the gospel against isolationism. ' And it was a new Truman, using gentle ridicule against his political enemies instead of the sledgehammer blows he used on a similar trip two years ago. That in itself. was enough to make many a politician raise his eyebrows. The President shoved his needle of ridicule deep when he touched on isolationism. He said: "Now isolationism would be a cheap policy to follow. It would be easy and cheap to stop spending money on our army and navy and air force and to stop sending supplier to other countries who survived the great war. We canxtop thee things today. "Isolationism would be mighty cheap for today and tomorrow and maybe next week. You remember how cheap isolationism was in tne 1920s. Taxes were cut, at least for the big fellows, but look at the terrible' price we have paid for isolationism in the second world war Today exactly the same issue faces us. There are .still some- - men who keep telling you that we can economize by following an isolationist policy. These men cant see beyond, the end of their noses. "They dont see that isolationism would let the rest of the world be swallowed up by communism. That would certainly bring on a new world war just as it did in 1939. We reneged in 1921, just as Russia today is doing with the help of our own isolationists. free-swingin- GERMANY:. g, ' Greater Freedom announcements concerning Germany, one from Russia and one from the western powers, were in the news. 1. The Russians have agreed, it is reported, to city-wid- e elections in divided Berlin. But with conditions. of course, 2. The United States, France and Britain are near agreement on revising the German occupation statue to give the Bonn republic virtually complete leeway in its political and economic affairs. The Soviet proposal is nothing more than a move to get Berlin under its control, observers report. The catch of the proposal is the condition under which the election could be held. Among the Russian terms was one that would require the withdrawal of the occupation troops of all four powers from the city. Observers pointed out this would INDOCHINA: mean pulling Russian troops back only to the outskirts of the city To Get Aid while American, British, and French Secretary of State Acheson an- units would have to be evacuated nounced in Paris that Indochina to western Germany. That one, no would get immediate American aid doubt, will get nowhere. in the form of military equipment in an effort to rid the country of the guerrilla war which has been going on- - for four years. ' He announced the bulk of already appropriated to combat communism in the Far East will go to the French backed Vietnamese of Bao Dai and the associated states of Cambodia and Laos to fight Moscow backed Ho Chi Minh. Many observers felt the move was an important one in the battle against communism in that section of the world. Some believed the Communists may have made too many gains and the aid will be "too little and too late. Acheson indicated the United States would expect a greater degree of for the Beautiful Elizabeth Taytyr three Indochina states under the French. and Conrad (Nick) Hilton, Jr., He added, "The 'United States son of the hotel magnate, were considers the situation., to be such married in what was publicized as to warrant its according ecoas the Hollywood wedding of the nomic aid and military equipment year. At the license bureau the to the associated states of clerk told Hilton he didnt look Indo; china and to France in order to old enough. Hilton went home assist peaceful and democratic to get his birth certificate. Two important Beauty Married $75,-000,0- 00 nt ' Released by WNU Features . v V - - |