Show TIIR GARLAND TIMES GARLAND WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS flew Spy Ring Data Revives Probe Tax Hike Bugaboo Frightens Some Berlin Red Vote Tightens Issue (1IITOM NOTE: Vwtoii Nowiaptr opinion art HiraoNl (Jiioi'i aulyila h4 Whoa WITCH HUNT: Pumpkin Too HIGHER TAXES: Frightened Some business men and industrialists who feared a Truman victory might result in a new “sock tax program shivered anew as they read a statement by ene of the leading of proponents President Truman's plea to impose a modified form of the wartime excess profits tax THE SPEAKER was Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney Democrat who cited the 1929 financial crash aa an for boosting taxes on argument business profits The senator declared that “if corporate profits of 1929 had been adtaxed this government equately would have been in a much better fiscal position to meet the depres- sion” He out that corporate pointed earnings now are piling up at the same rate as In 1929 although the companies are bigger So earnings are greater than ever before HOWEVER industrialists leaders of the big labor unions accountants and economists have been requested to give their views on what if anything congress should do about profits estimated at a record 20 billion dollars this year O'Mahoney proposed that “little business” or small Independent exbe given special corporations emptions under any excess profits tax plan GOLDEN FLEECE: Page Jason The "golden fleece” subject of one of mythology's most romantic colorful stories crashed the world press by proxy as a result of a row over custody of Its namesake The fleece symbol of one of the world’s most exclusive orders of nobility— not even the king of England is a knight— may be “kidof the Dijon city naped” by of which THE GOLDEN fleece the small replicas were awarded kmghta— waa kept tn Dijon France after the order was founded by Duke of BurgunPhilip the Good dy in 1429 for several generations until Mary of Burgundy took it with her to Auatria when she married Maximilian the Fair The fleece remained In Vienna until the French army recaptured the city during the last war and returned the fleece to Dijon Now Austria is asking for it back But of Dijon the good Burgundiana have petitioned the city council to to reurge the French government fuse the Austrian bid and to retain the fleece tn Dijon - POOR RICHARD’S thooo ! nIimm EMPLOYMENT WORLD WAA Halloween a delayed with macabre rather than was the revival undertones All ef the spy hunt In Washington the ingredients were there — the cornfield the pumpkin and the the of Stalin over specter hovering ansavory whole But there was nothing funny In the situation to the house activities committee or to federal grand Jury aeeking to rush Indictments against suspected traitors and espionage agents THE PROBE committee declared had “definite proof of one of the most extensive espionage rings li) the history of the United States" Bolstering this assertion was duepv-erof microfilm documents terrhed by the committee of “tremendous Importance" which had been re moved from the state department for transmission to Russian agents The microfilm was revealed by Whitaker Chambers a senior editor of Time magazine who admitted its possession and declared Alger Hiss president of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace bad given it to him for transmissdeHiss promptly ion to Russia nied the charge PLACED ON the witness stand Chambers said he had not had possession of the film during the years after 1937 until recently and declined to name the persons in whose hands the film rested before being turned up in a pumpkin on Chambers' farm forMeanwhile Sumner Welles mer undersecretary of state studied the microfilm documents evaluated their contents but declined to divulge their importance Chambers an admitted member ef a Communist spy ring which operated here a decade was ago slated for further witness stand as was Hiss who maintains he was never a Russian agent I Lika Some la Ihty af Ibti that W in MwMMr) OF MALE VETERANS SEPTEMBER 1948 Three years after the war most veierana by and large are firm'y established In civilian employment to according statistics compiled by the Research Council for Eoonomlo Chicago Security of the estimated 149 million ' living veterans of World War II were employed ae of last September Of these about 900000 were on farms and another In school About 450009 were unemployed bile an additional 300000 were “retting’’ or unable to work The struggle for a Berlin peace dragged wearily on extended by of a ComRussian establishment tn the Reich munist “government” capital election! be held on Demanding basil" the United States Britain and France told the Soviet union that there could be no solution to the Berlin Impasse until the Russians disown the Berlin government The terms were clearly expressed In a note accompanying a list of Soviet violations of the Berlin constitution that the three powera had submitted for guidance adFORMALLY ALTHOUGH to a United Nations committee the note obviously waa meant as a strongly worded warning to Moscow It indicated that if what it termed the "illegal body In the Soviet sector were not disbanded the western powers would take a series of measures required by the fact In their opinion that the “legal unified administration’’ of Berlin had ceased to exist The western powers placed no time limit for the Soviet union to make a decision on whether to continue collaboration However the tone of the note as informed sources stressed Indicated that unless the normal administrative conditions were reestablished “pretty toon” a new policy would be adopted to end the FROM BEGINNING note gave what the western powers as detailed proof that the regard Soviets have pursued in Berlin a policy of systematic violation of all quadripartite agreements dressed 1300 housewives aurvey among that farmers and shippers should see to its that potatoes prepared for market are: CLEAN of medium size marked by few "eyes" light tn color undamaged— and of such quality that they will cook up soft mealy and without falling tvenly throughout apart lika medium Housewives sized" because they rate them potatoes easiest to peel and handle and beat for Judging individual portions— the potato they say The survey showed more than a fourth of tha householders disand hanturbed by “mechanical to potatoes Said dling Injuries?' the department: “IT IS PRETTY good evidence that too many potatoes are being dug and handled with improper machinery and tools and that the potatoes are not properly culled before being sent to market" Immediate question to arise: Will and shippers do potato growers about ItT anything Richard'a anniversary 1949 highlights the fluence of the almanac on Ameriaa the can life Poor Richard Franknora de plume of Benjamin lin whose Poor Richard Almanac began the popularity of this type 17 ef publication of In hundreds of thousands hosnaa rural households especially Perhaps it was in the bag but Franklin Fenenga an archeologist of California university wasn’t sayAll he would say was that he ing did have the bag THE BAG was a complete outfit he had acquired from an Indian whose grandfather was a medicine man The bag and Its potentialities came to light when Kern county in the southern part of California's central valley had Its first rainfall In eight months not long ago Fenenga vas right there in the middle of the downpour And when he returned to Berkeley the rain cam down there In torrents NATURALLY arose speculation the properties of the concerning bag for when the outa fit including the tail of beaver a bag of snapdragon seeds a bag of eagle down a fossil fish vertebra and various charm stones and pebbles was brought out of storage the rain started Fenenga had the bag with him in a when he entered Berkeley storm It is now in possession of the university Polio Poster Girl Linda Brown 4 of San Antonie Tex has been selected the poster girl for the 1949 March of Dime January 14 to II Stricken with polio two and a half years ago Linda was treated at the Robert B Greene In San Antonio with hosptal fund derived from the March of Dimes She now walks without braces and has only a alight limp RANKIN: Outward Bound? Rep John E Rankin (D Miss) one of the foremost house opponent of President Truman’a civil faces a strong rights program in fight by northern Democrats congress to force him off the house committee activities UNDER THE seniont) system Rankin is slated to become chairman of the house veterans’ affairs committee The attempt to oust him from the investigating group will be based on the general house rule that the chairman of a committee may hold onv one committee post The northern Democrats will argue that If Rankin accept the veterans' affairs committee chairmanto ship he should be restricted that BIKINI: Still Echoes Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect the almanac hangs on a peg tn living room or kitchen There already the 1949 almanac hat begun to hide the 1948 and earlier editions The almanac It many things to many people It carries an calendar listing astronomical data information on how to get rid of rata raise healthy chicks how to stay awake In church wagons Niws and stampeding buffalo By BAUKIIAGE Classified Department POTATOES: More Doubt There was no longer any doubt Farmers at last had a portrait of the American housewife’s ideal potato The U S department of agriculture even suggested that farmers tack it up in the bam for quick reference The department found after a Baukhage Finds Old Dates Of Interest in Year 1948 Fort Koarnoy Stamp Issua Recalls Westward Movement A stamp buys a large order of American history In the issue of the 100th commemoration of Fort Kearney aa tha anniversary "Guardian of the Pioneers” Fort Kearney belongs to the taga o' tha Oregon Trail of covered mountain herds of fur traders men and Indian fighting notes tha Analyst snd Commnttor National Geographic society — New Year’s day according to an WASHINGTON books and Curiously history which I once remember consulting is celeencyclopedia mapi differ about its spelling Abrated in the western world by merrymaking and theoretIn SL Louis lthough named for General Stephen who served Watts Kearny at least In the meeting of old friends In the The ear could be used when no ically I remember when we took the idea of New Year! "calla” seriously Mexican war and led early one is at home to turn on the light over the pioneer trails tha outside the front door When the That waa back in western New York I also remember later when I wa a student In Europe three of ua living in the same “pension” (a word fort— lika tha town of tha householder got ready to go home We made our callj he could call his house and the which Americana abroad prefer to “boarding house”) sama name beara the statutory ao that the one pair of gloves and one silk hat which we ear would turn on the light No consecutively spelling "Kearney" could serve tor aQ In that day and place both in the possessed collectively The fort was established one need answer the phone were eaaentiaL THE ROBOT is a box on which summer of 1848 to protect travelers from the telephone sets When the phone been I some have Today meeting Indiana Built bell vibrates along the Platt rings the noise of the j old "dates of 1948" a salt crystal in the box The viclever without valley in the heart of what la now speech revealing The first I have to record Is Janflow In bration makes electricity Nebraska It replaced a temporary that aha and her husband are going “Baukhage talking uary 8 to plump for Vandenberg the aalk and the current is ampliflater camp to tha east which had been from tha radio Television ied to turn on the light twitch set up a year or two earlier and is most unkind to what gallery of the should have been a most telegenic was first to use tha general’s name The box and phone are set in the of house represTha new site was a practical circuit with the light to be turned subject entatives after one choaen for convenient grazing on In this way the ear could be JUNE 23 A heavy mist hang having watched land and fertile soil crops for used to light any lamp tn the house over the eity of brotherly love the opening of the or outside good water supply and neighbora the day of the convention’s second aesaion of The device comes from wartime ing woods for building materials 80th the historic crucial aesaion I had left the Soon the commanding submarine and surface ship detectlieutenant at 4 o’clock that morning and congress” Note hall his 173 volunteer mounted ion by sound Nothing but the viWo the word “historhad witnessed a stirring and from Missouri had raised bration of e phone bell afTects this troops a pathetlo scene when the blind ic” Noone guessed blockhouses ear a guardhouse and then that other veteran Harlan Kelly nomilookout station officer’ Besidei doctors FBI men have quarters In a nated General MaeArthnr adjectives applied been getting these ears because stables and a tawmilL to that legislative clear unhesitating voice which they are on call 24 hours a day held In It the ring of a true body were to help Undertakers are getting them bedevotee Earlier there had been cause one of the cause more people seem to die at the longest demonstration so far great “upset" night for Taft Stassen’s had been the election victories No ALMANAC Poor Alexander Bell would Graham have approved Scienee had moved to make his telephone even more serviceable Tom Edison also would havt nodded In approbation - for these same scientists had lied together two great contributions to living to make their convenience even more marked more appreciated A NEW robot ear that hears the phone ring and turns on the light was shown to doctors at the American Medical association meeting In the Bag DEAD END: Reds Block Way UTAH ROBOT EAHi New Magic Bikini’s atomic blast was still choing President Truman denied a charge that the White House had a final report on tho suppressed atomic tests off the atolL The Preaident'a statement made at a newt conference waa In answer to an assertion by a that the Whit Bradley Dewey House had clamped the iid on the Bikini findings of American history On January 7 (my birthday) there was “a bright aun shining down on the Capitol but" I broadcast “the shadows beneath it are deep and dark” most vigorous AUTOS TRUCKS & ACCESS was looking over the JUNE 24 public opinion polls and mentioned that qualities the voters said they USED would prefer in a presidential candidate were those of "the humaniOn that day the President detarian the protector of the weak Liberal Credit Terms livered hla message and the the benevolent guardian of the chilnext day the Associated Press Perdren of the common man” aaid: "Moat of President Truhaps that was a better guide to man’s 1948 legislative proposwhat the choice was to be than the JESSE M CHASE INC als particularly hla tax reductus figures the pollsters provided ion and It waa late tn the evening when plana Buy — Sell — Trade beaded today for a appeared candidate Dewey accepting the Salt Lako City Main at 4th So waste basket’’ eoagresaional nomination raised his hand and AUo location! la How true that was and how It swore that he had made no comhim In his anBOISE POCATEUO helped BIACKFOOT to any man mitments nual message be la to present 26— The airlift Berlin JUNE most of them again more hopewith the which Marshall plan AND FARMS RANCHES fully achieved the two greatest victories war begins January 12 was a cold d ay in in the cold CANADIAN Wrllt ai for FIIKE IN JULY 12 The other aide: a New York which had Just emerged FORMATION enportunltlM convention Democratic aolli a thargic C T Coro I covblizzard was from there vaU Canadian Vancouver demto life woke with a ering the assembly of the United onstration for keynoter Barkley Nations and that day the Palestine which “had more real feeling and commission waa preparing its proMISCELLANEOUS gram of partition which was to be spontaneity in It" I broadcast at JUMPING JACK A proven and safe the time "than anything which erciser and tender for baby No wobbllngt completed with bayonets and Wide web heavy safely hoiat even the Repubbaby’s back erect Baby cannot fall out Keeps baby contented It’i an ideal JANUARY 23 At 11:30 a m a licans produced Write for literature gift Price $4 JULY 13 This was a day of the CO SHURTLHF MANUFACTURING message came over the news tickfoeattlle Idaho er and such a tlgh of relief went battle of the extremes against the ttft South 10th Arena The Negro attacking the up from the White House and from middle for Southerners Dixiecrats begging both Republican and Democratic BUY U S SAVINGS BONDS headquarters that the trees on Con- a candidate acceptable to the South necticut avenue bent nearly dou- So heated were the arguments on HELP WANTED-MWOMEK walked ble “I am not available for and the floor that policemen AGENTS WANTED The could not accept nomination to high into the aisles several times Insurance Agent wanted full or part tlma had her Democrats' — glamour girl office” Signed General political Utah and Nevada A full line of Life Accident and Health policies Individual or chance and Helen Gahagan Doug Dwight D Elsenhower ily group to meet the public' needs Liberal las for tome reason or other more 30 JANUARY Gandhi la dead compensations and pension plan lnvesugats tha opportunities with one of the failed The priest and prophet of Indian telegenic than her Republican rival growing companies In the West was shot to death at emerged equally triumphant foren independence GKEAT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO his prayer meeting on the lawn of sicaily 606 Besson Building Balt Lake CUy blah JULY 14 The President finally is the estate where he lived MARCH 9 Truman announces nominated and makes his accept ACCIDENT LIFE HEALTH ance in the small hours reoffering MacArthur his candidacy a sample of what was to come forth nounces his in the campaign Many had already MARCH 10 Jan Masaryk Is dead left the hall He called for the spe Much died with that name From the house radio gallery cial turnip day session of congress "I have run into perhaps four or again on March 17 I report the next five people" I commented by the President of what was then called the ‘Truman day “who venture the assertion that Doctrine” perhaps he might still win’ the else at laughs Wallace attacks the But everyone MARCH 19 thought The calling of the congress Preaident'a foreign policy riaj many old folks strategy good proved It was no April Fool’s day about good tasting of people braved Joke whea the Russians stopped Thousands SCOnS EMULSION heat of July 19 to the trains In Berlin Washington's The next day April 2 our line the long alow march of the counter move: Congress passes caisson bearing the General of TboMtod ef happy folks know this t the European the Armies John J Pershing recovery Scott’ ErauUloa - to hla — last rest in Arlington holy you ward off soldi— help you wall faatar— and help you hoop tat of leaf and lawn Tha gaygreen On the afternoon of Friday the da going tronf when your diet on this 12th day of April are not 13th of aa we were leaving August mcr natural A&D Vitamin Scott la enough to dispel Washington’s conHIGH ENERGY FOOD TONIC-rithe White House press and radio la natural AAD Vitamin cern over the revolution In Bogota conference Kasenkina Stephanove and natural A (Remember? Jumped from the window of the olL Try It Sw how wU yoa affair Secretary of State Marshall Soviet consulate In New York City fnL Eaay to Uks and dlgwt waa there) EaonomleaL Bay today at yowv She lived to become the symbol of At 10:30 In the morning of April the drag atorel escape which so many human 19 Justice T Allen Goldsborough behind the iron beings suffocating MORI than ust a tonic — ruled John Lewis guilty of crimand have sought before curtain iff powerful nourishment t inal contempt since On April 27 come the rumors of AUGUST 16 The diamond' rough war from Palestine beloved Babe Ruth dies diamond The Moscow newspapers of May 17 SEPTEMBER Tragic end of out— Ambassador a man who had lived and died for 11 are bought Smith la conferring Bedell with peace Count Bemadotte Molotov A stormy tea 20 SEPTEMBER aion of the United Nations begins The birthday af a state May all but forgotten In Its deliberation 14—Israel is hern Relieve the heat of the presidential camDewey wins the primary In Orepaign NOVEMBER 2 The election of a gon on May 24 Later be won the due to state President who nobody believed when A veteran steps down Prime Minhe went to bed that night— or even ister Smuts of South Africa la de- In the early hours of the next day --or DOUBLI YOU MONEY MACK —had won feated on May 28 3 A little before NOVEMBER Oregon in the news again tragically The little town of Vanport noon in a New York hotel Gover- WNU —W 51 — 48 one of the nor Dewey announced it inundated May 31 in American Tragedy for a neighbor stats on greatest poupsets litical history when he conceded June 10 Secretary of Labor of Washington state dies hia defeat and congratulated “the at tha age of S3 champ" Outdoors Philadelphia was cloudy NOVEMBER 14 A male heir preto the British throne Is and gray on June 21 Inside Repubsumptive lican headquarters it was rowdy and bom' 13 his shock DECEMBER starts and re gay Dewey Baukhage Are yeti going through the blits tactics against tha field Cor- turn from hla vacation with a lot ’middle age' period peculiar discuss tha mystery of of lies about the fish ha caught to women IM toSlfnlt Does respondents thla tnaka you suffer from hot Qaabea I hope my readers will understand the vacant seats in tha gallery ao nervosa hlghstrung tired t (Did this foreshadow the absence that the last hectic days of tho year do try Lydia E Pink ham pen ef the Dewey voters from the polls have been recorded In the daily Vegetable Cempound to relieve such Plnkhtm eymptom en election dayT) The attractive press and are freah In your memCompound also haa what Doctor —if a Republican glamour lady Clara ories Hence I think they can be tonlo effect Booth Luce hurl ber barbs la a safely omitted LYDIA EFINKHAM’SrrCTTu FINE CARS FOLEY PILLS Backaches Sluggish Kidneys ofUFE?a ft 9 N |