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Show UESDAY, JANUARY SO, The Dragerton Tribune Dragerton, Utah 1951 Page 3 PREMIER WARDS OFF QUESTIONS . . . Prime Minister Alclde do Gasperi of Italy looks as if he might be conducting a band, but actually he Is putting the quietus on reporters who fired a barrage of questions as the premier arrived for a cabinet meeting. The meeting was to discuss Italys rearmament program. Several Italian divisions are to go into the international army under General Elsenhower as Atlantic Pact nations build up for the defense of western Europe. LINK WITH CAPONE CRIME EMPIRE? . . . Members of the senate crime investigating committee are studying a chart in Washington purporting Jo show a link between Chicago mobster Tony Accardo and the remnants of the racketeering empire left by the late A1 Capone. Left to right are Julius Cahn, assistant to Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, Senator Wiley, and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, chairman of the committee. The chart was introduced when Accardo appeared before the committee. He refused to answer questions and the committee voted to request the senate to cite him for X Tho fiptfitius FEDERAL BUDGET Y-- 'i t. - v lictipts SS5J vc ' 4 a v x. ( 4 v tv $h. $ i X " l - Billions of Dollars 1931 Ixtlfh IkUi Rt lii Fniiiilt $412 , V fr - ( - .a yy v Jar - ' . z V' ? f ' ''' f?f i ; A' w V'v,w V t, i ' 'v A v1' S'A; ? A-- v v VS - S 4 r , A r , X'.'iiuW'X AW y O COLD PEACE IN A COLD WAR AREA . . . This angel of peace driv- chariot is a big attraction in Stuttgart, Germany. It ing a four-horIs carved from packed snow, and it is the work of sculptor Hans Edel-bauwho used six truckloads of snow to do the job. It took him four days. The burghers of Stuttgart hope it will be a good omen for 1851. The citizens hope that it wont melt away with the first warm days, as the new peace hopes have faded. se er OWL WITHOUT A VOWEL . . . Bill Mlkvy, Temple is scorching the nets basketeer, with an average of nearly SO points per game. Known as the Owl without a vowel in his name," he hit 354 in 12 games. New whiz, SPANISH ENVOY - DESIGNATE . . . Jose Felix Lequerica, who has been inspector of embassies in Washington, arrives at state de- partment in role ssador-designate with Secretary Acheson. of Spanish amba- for conference State Dean of NEW BUDGET AND OLD . . . President Truman in his budget message forecast expenditures of $71,594,000,000 for 'coming fiscal year, or $468 for every man, woman and child in the country. Of the total, more than $41 billion will go for military services, or three and one-ha-lf times the amount spent in the last fiscal year. The higher outlays reflect the cost of the rearmament program. The diagram above shows how the budget for 1952 compares with those of previous years. CADET SOLOS TO DEATH. . . Washed out" of his pilot training at Randolph Field, Tex., French aviation cadet Jean le Mitouard, Tangier, son of a French surgeon, took his flunking so hard that he took off in a plane from the field and sought death in the skies. He went into a death dive 120 miles from the field after other pilots tried to talk him. down." Before going into his death dive, he apologized to the United States government for wrecking the plane (shown above). JOHN L. IS AGIN IT" . . . John L. Lewis chats with government wage board chief Cyrus Chlng (left). Lewis told newsmen that he Is strongly opposed to any wage freeze and said there Is no need to put the American economy in irons. While he was criticizing the idea of controls, other prominent figures were demanding them. |