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Show LAYTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 ROAD SAFETY: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Russian Motives Puzzle Diplomats As Berlin Dlockade Comes to End; U. S. Spending Widely Criticized :or Boys & Girls In the year 1947 figures for last Nayear are not yet available tional Safety Council showed that 7,150 persons between the ages of 15 and 24 were killed in automobile accidents on American highways. In addition 330.000 and girls within that age boys EDITOR'S NOTE Win plnUas in fipnaael U thou Mlimna, tbif nr tbtu it Westers Newspaper Union's news analysts and not nemtariiy of UUi newspaper.) group were injured in highway accidents. ACCIDENT REPORTS from 29 states last year disclosed that 27 per cent of all drivers involved in accidents or nearly one out of three were under 25 years of age. That was an appalling toll of the nations youths and something, it appeared, should be done about it Now, something was being done about it. The highway safety committee had come up with a program designed to enlist the aid of youth itself in cutting down highway accidents and fatalities among the nations youth. The program Is one of education which would tend to encourage greater responsibility on the part of younger drivers when using the family car. Program material now Is being distributed to national organizations which agree to help sponsor the movement. The program Is centered around drivers 15 to 25 years of age. CHIEF r in the program are ma t an and agreement cards. The BLOCKADE LIFT PREPARATIONS . . Preparations to get things agreements are for the signature for of the blockade went busily ahead as of eligible sons and daughters with lift Berlin Russian the ready agreements between the occupation powers fixed the time. Photos their fathers, and outline eight above show workers getting trains ready to operate under regula-- J good driving practices which the tlons fixed by the Soviets rules which will permit 16 freight trains young drivers agree to observe I to operate dally Into the city. Efficacy of the U.S. airlift In supplying while using the family car. All state and local public supBerlin with needed supplies despite the blockade was given major port organizations were urged to credit for the Reds decision to end the road block. take advantage of this opportunity to help reduce highway traffic acBERLIN: cidents involving youngsters. Nuelaar Sclantist Glvat Those Interested were directed Up Tht Barriers Definition His to of Kind write: highway What had really Impelled the safety committee, 1026 17th street, Russians to lift the Berlin blockade, la Baltimore, nuclear scien- N. W., Washington 6, D. C. and how would the action affect tist Robert D. Fowler, of Johns 'world peace! Hopkins University, gave this WHEAT YIELD: Those were two top questions definition of a nuclear scientist d actuating western power diplomats to a group of government offiCrop as a semblance of peace was recials at a symposium: With wheat surplus already stored to the troubled Berlin secA man standing in a field in and grower governmental straining tor of Germany and the U.S. airlift absolute darkness with thouIngenuity in housing it, word was 'eased oft sands of baseballs on the ground that the United States may apMANY OBSERVERS professed to around him. Somewhere in the proach a new crop record during see In the Russian action proof that field, invisible to him, is a barn the new season. Farmers, already the U.S. airlift operations had with but one window and some off to a good start, were not surshown the Soviets so decisively the kind of animal inside. at a U.S. department of prised blockof futility maintaining the man The ball a and up picks agriculture estimate of more than ade, that even the obtuse easternIn any direction. If, by throws it a billion, 21 million bushels from ers finally had seen the light some chance, it goes through the the winter-whea- t crop. That estiThere were others who insisted window barn anitwo million mate and hits the was nearly the blockade lift decision was motiout again so then bounces was more mal, than bushels forecast vated by a hope within the Kremlin the man can catch it in the several weeks ago. that such an action would delay that darkness he attempts to idenNo official forecast was given on formation of a German people's the animal the tify by smelling wheat, but the department spring not government However, this did . ball. said prospects point to around 300 seem a tenable theory, inasmuch That Is something like a million bushels for that type of as the western powers already had scientist wheat. nuclear practicing to with ahead declared plans go nuclear science. OFFICIALS indicated the tresuch a project wheat yield will create mendous Seekers of peace attempted to see further surplus and might lead to in the decision evidence that Russia SPENDING: government controls designed to really did not mean to make war cut the acreage in 1950 between 15 Slash now and that some Urged and 25 per cent. Controls would inmotive looking toward continuation Suggestions that U.S. spending clude planting restrictions and of Red expansion without recourse might be curtailed somewhat were possibly marketing quotas for into arms was really behind the coming from several quarters. Lat- dividual farmers. move. est source was President Trumans No forecasts were given on other SINCE MOSCOWS original an- economic advisers who held the except rye, hay and southern crops nouncement concerning the end to idea that some existing tax burdens But the department said peaches. broadwas the blockade, the order might bo lightened and that the reports from various parts of the ened. Restoration of transport, administration might scale down indicated progress of 1949 servtrade and communications its call for four billion dollars in countryis crops encouraging. Rye producices was directed. new levies. tion was estimated at 22 million The order permitted 16 freight THE COUNCIL of economic adsecond smallest acreage trains a day to move into Berlin, visers, whose function is to counsel bushels, in 75 years. The hay crop was put restored highway traffic, waived with the President on fiscal matters at 101 million tons, a more than previous Soviet claims to search Al- as they affect finance and econom- average yield. The peach crop in lied baggage, and demanded Soviet ics, was reported to feel that cur- 10 states was foresoutheastern travel permits at certain check rent business trends justify an cast at 15 million approximately points. Mail service was also to be early check on federal spending about the same as last restored. Actually, the Soviet order that is, if the budget is to be bushels, year. restored the Berlin situation to what brought anywhere near to a balit was on March 1, 1948. ance. Both British and Americans It was the councils opinion that moved in reinforcements for the such levies as taxes on the transsmall units at border points to portation of goods add to the busicheck papers of travelers and hotels ness costs and consumer prices and and rooming houses had filled with an orderly withdrawal from impede to persons waiting for the barriers the postwar business boom. be raised. The council was more than cool to any extended public works PARROT: its opinion by rePretty Smart fraining from making any such Lorchen the parrot Is a pretty recommendations in its report. The advisers have consistently urged smart bird. local governments prepare that & Coin HE LIVES in the Stamp s blueshelves of New in on Times Square Shop boltor use when needed to prints .York. ster and puremployment public A customer tried to enter the store, but found the door locked. chasing power. BUT THE PRESENT trend of the However, as he turned away he heard Lorchens insistent screams: national economy which council chairman Edwin G. Nourse called Let me out! Goodbye, goodbye. ' does not Intrigued, the customer listened a healthy disinflation works spending closer, heard muffled moans from warrant large-scal- e now, the council said. Such outlays Inside the shop. President Harry S. Truman is HE SUMMONED a building su- would make it harder to reach the shown lighting the candles on a perintendent who opened the door goal of lower government costs. cake presented to and found Gustave Moerz, 50, the After a White House visit, Nourse him by the White House staff. parrots owner and shop proprietor, informed newsmen that the council Bundles In front of him represent bound in a chair by tape and wire. expects some further easing of only a portion of the birthday His mouth was taped. living costs." Prices, he said, are greetings he received. Having obmen told Moerz broke continuing downward, but not on served his 65th natal anniverpolice two into the shop, tied him and took a demoralizing basis and there is sary, the President was described $644 from a safe and $100 from his no need to dig into the storm as being in excellent physical cellars. pockets. condition a veritable Iron man. PtlK INTO FUTURE Lose In Stretch figures Inter-Industr- CANT They're Happy Zhe flew Mouse v v AA Chrift ihtll come, end here He shall sbide. uble shell be set fot our greet Cued; Our lamp be lit, our hearth be warm and wide; And here He shall find shelter, food, and reft. HERE ,AA( And He will talk with us beside our fire. And He will walk with us through every task. We can confide each hope and each desire. M No too great or small to ask. Because He fives with us, is one of us, We shall uke care no evil thing be beard; YCm, a queftion be Because His ways ate kind and courteous, We shall watch our ways, our every spoken word This is our new house, Lord, be Thou its Hetd; We gladly share its simple fare with Thee. Sit at our able, break and bless our bread. And make us worthy of Thy company. Near-Recor- TT SEEMS to be universally pre- - public-work- By INEZ GERHARD new the BECKER, in the Dr. Malone CBS daytime serial, started out to be exactly that, a doctor, to please his father. But his mother had always been keen about amateur theatricals; at a tender age he had appeared in a play with her. When he was eight he was making puppets and putting on shows at local church bazaars. So, when half way SANDY ing. "Jed Thomas, a farmer by trade, was congenial and willing to let he school, through abandoned the career of his fathers choice and chose a branch of his mother's hobby, radio. He has hobbies of his own, sculpturing and sketching in winter, playing tennis or golf in summer but with his son and daughter limits his free time. pre-medic- baby-sittin- g Cathy Downs, who is featured in Artists Massacre River," is knitting like mad, all because she posed in six knitted dresses for a fashion layout, liked them, and decided she could duplicate them herself. Allied pre-birthd- Scientist Sees Eggless, Meatless World eggless world . . . conclusions are inevitable. Man, he earthenware houses . . . pyjamas said, must stop eating up his resources and, instead, turn to chemthat may be eaten trains . . . food from lumber. istry. Thats when he gave out All that and more is one man's pre-- 1 with the meatless, eggless world diction for the future. theory, taking the position that He is Prof. Eugene C. Rochow of these items must disappear from Harvard, who has been awarded a man's diet because the fowls and $1,000 prize for research on sand animals producing them eat too derivatives. much. Clothes, he said must come Professor Rochow Indicated his from synthetic materials A meatless, ... j atom-powere- d It was a rough day for London merchants. Thousands of women besieged west end stores in the biggest nylon stocking hunt London had ever seen. Crowds, including some men waited outside the stores at dawn. But it was in vain. The London Standard had announced the sale, but didnt mention that only 500 pairs of hose were issued to each of the 10 leading stores. said Inspector Ben OdelL that people who arent in their own element are at a disadvantage. I'm thinking of the time Detective Sergeant Rod Upshur went up to Round Pond for his summer vacation. Rod was city bred and city raised. He worked on the police force of one of the countrys largest cities. He didnt know a great deal about the country and country ways. But he knew human nature, and he was smart. Rod was staying at one of those summer camps and was having a pretty dull time, when Henry Graves, the owner, came to him with a request. been a drowning There op the river a ways, he explained. Med Thomas, the local officer, isnt so sure but what there's foul play. I know Its out of your jurisdiction, but v wed appreciate having you lend us a hand. He smiled flatteringly. You see, your fame as a detector of crime is far reachsupposed," 'Iron Man" m-indicating Other cases reported today, statements by each follow: Thaddeus Swlvelhead: Yes, I have been living in the top drawer of an old dresser for five yeari. I crawled In because of the depressing war newt all over the world. After a little while I heard that the war was over and that peace had been declared. I came out, read the newspaper headlines and leaped back in again. Im with on all night. A room across the hall was occupied by an opera star who vocalized all day. Every few weeks there was an eleveator strike in the building. And in order to get to my job I bad to cross nine picket lines. So 1 got into this filing cabinet and. mister, it seema paradise. Jarvis P. X. Waffle, who has been living In a abandoned cello case ever since 1919: I got in right after Woodrow Wilson announced America would maka the world safe for democracy. I knew what that would mean. Now and then I get a pretty good line on what life is like outside this cello case and, boy, am I happy to be where I am! No flyNo video ing saucer mysteries I no fool. comedians! No bop music! No Asa Z. Boogie, who has been radio jingles! No jackpots! They even get me interested In living on a shelf in a basement cant Music." The Stop 1943: climbed "I pantry ever since onto this shelf when the prices of everything began rising, with gov- Jottings ernment controls helping very litThere are ao many daily changes tle. From time to time I peeked In President Trumans cabinet out and found things getting more unbearable. I am a fugitive from cocktails, beer at a glass, $4.50 steak dinners, gasoline, shrimp cocktails at $1.10 a throw, 90 cents for watered soup, the $1.25 raw lambchop delivered on the butchers block and people who call up to know what radio program I am listening to. Come out again? Why? ts 28-ce- that it seems to us something should be done to number the players or abolish the two platoon system in government ... L. Lewis Hopes to Headline Wanna bet? John Avoid Strike. Olympia flew to Churchill Downs by plane. It was just for practice. In his recent races the horse had H. K. G. Stuffinbox, who has troubla getting hia landing gear been residing in a filing cabinet down. for ever so long: If you wish to talk to me, climb in. I refuse to Secretary of Commerce Sawyer come out for anybody. I consider administered the oata to hia new that I am a sane, wise and highly chief aide. Cornelius Vanderbilt Journal of Commerce . . . Come, judicious fellow. You and all others who prefer the outside come, boys, the letup in Washingworld in its present shape are ton isnt getting that bad! nuts. The psychiatrist said that the The location of my home and bank looter was clearly a victim my place of employment was such of unbearable emotional conflict that I had to use the subways for coupled with a form of latent north and south travel and buses The man attempted to for east and west. Once in a while establish an impression of imporwhen I went to a theater I had to tance, and in so doing got hopelessget a taxi. I lived in an apartment ly into debt without the stability ti where everybody kept the radio correct this condition. News. y progra- oratorical tirade over the mike. We nearly got him out this season, but he heard Vishinsky, Elmer explained. Then he nailed up the door from the inside. Hitler 75-ce- nt I DAYS IN CLOTHES CLOSET THESE H. I. PHILLIPS department has come into possession of the fact that there are numerous such cases. Elmer TwitcheU, for Instance, has a neph-ePastrami TwitcheU. who has not only been in a closet for 10 years, but has resisted aU efforts to entice He went in during him out. The case of the young New York man who lived in a clothes closet for 10 years and, upon his release, cried, I want to go back in there. I dont like it outside, Is not as unusual as you might think. o-- m Inter-Industr- ... This CLOTHES CLOSET REFUGEES tlon-gette- n-- - in Their Hermit Heavens! By y INTEREST-and-cooper- BLAME ANYONE FOR HIDING . . . The success of Variety Time" has spurred RKO Into speeding up vaudeproduction on a ville picture to be called Make Mine Laugh." It will comprise a batch of new acts and a series of Flicker Flashbacks for flavor. big-tim- e old-tim- e Horace Heidt is planning a musical comedy to feature the youthful talent discovered on his Original Youth Opportunity Program. It will be titled The Kids Break Through," is tentatively scheduled for this fall on Broadway. Fatric Knowles Is going to let his rusty Spanish get even rustier from now on. In Mexico on location for RKOs "The Big Steal he had a linguistic disaster when he needed soap, asked a storekeeper for Sopa" and got a can of soupl assume the entire burden. " 'Fact is, Mr. Upshur, theres Rod been a feud hereabouts. Between the Hallams and the Spencers. Well, sir, couple days back Herm and Punk Hallam come to me an saya they was bait diggin in their lower pasture and suddenly they sees a boat with Pat Spencer in it come sweepin around the bend. He was clear across the river, which' is about 200 yards wide there, an they claim he hit a submerged log and stuck. They claim he tried to push hisself off with an oar an the oar slipped an it an him fell overboard. Well, sir. Pat cant swim an he just naturally drowned. Jed Thomas drove Rod out to the Hallam' farm and introduced him to Herm and Punk. They were big fellows, strapping smug, amused 'I see, Rod remarked to Jed. That you recovered the oar Pat Spencer lost overboard. Yep. replied Jed, and not too happily, T found it caught in some weeds along the bank about 15 yards downstream. I guess he musta lost it, just like Punk and Herm said. Punk and Herm laughed. " Wait a minute, Rod said easily. 'Not so fa si boys. You two are smart all right. Too smart. So smart you made one awful blunder. Officer Thomas. I think you'll be safe in arresting these men and charging them with murder.' pATS AND HERMS mouths fell open. In facl so did Jeds. Jed said: Yuh mean, you know Pat didnt drown hisself? 0 course he did! Punk Hallam said darkly. Listen, city jigger, you aint cornin up here an gettin away with accusin' us o murder. You aint scarin us, none. We got each ether for witnesses.' " Tine, said Rod. That makes the lie all the worse, because you both declare you saw Spence fall out of the boat, first dropping his oar. No. I must confess I am a city man and the ways of the country are strange to me. However, any dumbbell would know after looking at that river and seeing that bend above here and knowing that theres a fast currenl that an oar dropped overboard near the opposite bank, could never lodge in underbrush along the bank on this side 15 feet from where were standing. It would be two or three miles down stream by now. For a minute, there was silence. The three men stared at Rod blankly. It took quits awhile for the announcement to penetrate. Officer Thomas fortunately, recovered first He had a gun in hia pocket and he got it out just as Punk Hallam jumped at him. He had to shoot Punk through the shoulder, and would have dona the same to Herm, apparently, had one more ounce of grey matter than his brother. Ha quit" CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS Btlillti la Naxt Iaaaa. Single sheet of a book 5 Valley 1 (poet) 9 Donkey 10 Musical 12 13 drama Rage Attendant spirits (Rom. 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