Show - THE GARLAND TIMES WEEKLY NEWS Plane Incident Heats Up Cold War German Rearmament Pleas Spread Court Upholds Georgia Vote System ara tbaaa al Ihr Ikia aawapapar) IKBITOR’fl NOTH: Wkta apInUa art cxprcnei la tkaaa Mlimii Weatara Nawapaper UaUa’a aawa aaalpala an aat aaaaaaarllr al Starts COLD WAR: Heating Russia Up had heated up Sixth Year the Cold war A United States air force navy after a had disappeared to flight in which it was reported have flown over Russian territory The Russians claimed the plane had fired upon a Russian aircraft and the over then had disappeared Baltic sea HUNT by AmerA WIDESPREAD ican officials was launched for the Erroneous reports missing plane had it that life rafts from the plane had been found The first reported rafts turned out to be only fishing boxes But later a life raft was picked up a and air force officials indicated it came from the missing conviction plane which had 10 crew members A British aboard ship under comremand of Captain J Henderson ported finding the raft and said it was partly collapsed The and supply bottle was exhausted pockets were open and empty There were no signs of life and no messages were found Had the Soviets shot down the plane or so crippled it by gunfire that it crashed in the Baltic? That was the big question Bigger yet was the question: “What would the United States do if it were developed that the plane was a victim of Russian gunfire? THOSE were questions that would have to wait however until the answer to what had actually happened to the plane had been cleared up— tf It ever could be cleared up Meanwhile American tempers grew a little shorter with Russian tactics and there was no denying that the Cold War had taken on a degree or so more heat 71'vrifrii Privateer GEORGIA: Unit Vote Stay t vote determinaThe tion system is unique in the United States because only two states use it It is unique too in that it is lound acceptable by city populations in these states when its use gives votes in some rural counties up to 123 times more weight than those In city areas But the US supreme court has said the system is all right In a 7 to 3 decision it refused to strike t down the vote in Georgia Maryland Is the only other state this system employing JUSTICE BLACK and Douglas protested bitterly against the mawhich was brief and jority opinion These two members of unsigned the court declared the action failed to plug what they called the last decision loopholes in the court's which gives Negroes the right to vote The majority opinion said that federal courts have no right to terfere with the way a state geographically apportions voting It made no mention of any strength racial issue the dissenters saw in tie case Two Georgia voters attacked the existing law Under the system each 139 counties ef Georgia’s is alloted a number of unit votes ranging from six for the eight eeuntles down to two for most of tie counties THE CANDIDATE who receives lie most popular votes in a county is awarded all its unit votes The in that respect works system like the electoral col- something 1 Tough Going has known for a long Everyone time that with the exception of England royalty has been having a tough time With the changing times have gone royal privilege and pomp but chiefly regretful to royalty the cash too has gone LATEST to Join the ranks of imnoblemen was a German poverished duke Ernst August of Coumebr-lanand Brunswick father of a queen and cousin of a king Duke Ernst was reallv up against K He was so badly off financially that he had to sell treasured Just to pav his grocery antiques bills Rare old relics of his family's medieval splendor were to go under the auctioneer's hammer Said the duke philosophically "Of course I'm sorry to part with these things but it Just can't be helped ” The duke wls down to his last two castles— and one of them is a war ruin TV One FOOTBALL: Show Over Football fans who have been following Big Ten football via television screen will find that this fall the show’s over They'll have to go out to the stadium now Instead of sitting cozily at home and following the play Big Ten athletic directors meet-iChicago voted to ban live television of their schools football games for this seaon The action may cost the conference $200000 i looking Harry S Truman trim and fit has started his sixth year as President of the United States The Chief Executive 66 on May 8th rounded out his fifth year with a renewed determination to win the "celd war” with Soviet Russia GERMANY: A Repetition? Any mention of rearming Germany makes cold chills run down the backs of those who remember Reich how a beaten dismantled was permitted to come back and plunge the world into the most devastating conflict it had ever knowm THREE TIMES In the past 80 have years German war machines struck swiftly and ruthlessly at the peace of the world Had the Germanic hordes ever won a world conflict something of what the vanquished might have expected is provided in the terms laid- - down by these conquerors of the French In 1870 when German troops stayed on French soil until every penny of demanded was paid reparations How the individual may have fared under the Teuton heel was demonstrated by Hitler and his sadistic Nazis Now all the great talk the board the global thinking is planning merging into one resounding chorus: “Rearm Germany!” Joining this chorus was General Jacob L Devers retired chief of U S army field forces who said In an address in Louisville Ky that western Germans “Would like to offifight for us under American cers against the Russians” if war should come and he added “They can fight Hell!” NO ONE disputes that But recent history is too grim for such proposals to be received with general equanimity Too many people of the world will remember that it was that very fear of possible Russian attack which led France and England to sit by with folded hands while Hitler flouted the Versailles treaty and served notice on the world that he was going to rearm "Let him go" seemed to Germany be the whispered desire "he'll serve as an excellent buffer against the Russians” So Chamberlain went to with his folded umbrella and came back hugging to his breast the miserable pledge of the Austrian madman of "peace In our time” The world had a horrible taste of that kind of “peace” To rearm Germany creates a fearful possirebe bility that the dose may peated lie STRIKE Old Issue ROYALTY 4 GARLAND UTAH CHINA: ANALYSIS- - Cry for Help Aa has been the case since the dawn of history K is the innocents who seem to suffer most in internChina is no exception ecine strife In that country of vast population and so frequently too little food A natmany Chinese are starving urally difficult struggle for existence has been intensified by Chiwhich the Comna's civil war in munists emerged victorious NOW there is a cry for help A Chinese Nationalist group has apas an pealed to American labor fato help combat organization But mine in Communist China with their usual skill in that department the Reds have managed to confuse world opinion on the situation The Communist regime has done a good job of beclouding what alsources most all say ia one of the worst famines in China's history The Reds have admitted that the situation is critical saying some 16 million people were letters filtering Private affected China Indicated the from was 53 million number and Nationalists Chinese The rerelief agencies and western have been ligious organizations some means to help the seeking to the hence appeal starving lubor for help American obAN EASILY understandable was the uncertstacle of course ainty as to final disposition of any be forthcoming aid that might Some assurances would have to be to made that relief goods went for whom supplies were inthose tended Who could give that asThe Chinese Com mu surance? msts? Yes there was a way If the Reds would agree to give safe conduct to relief missions into the the job of staving area perhaps off starvation by death for thoucomsands might be successfully But such barring some pleted the outlook was dim ir procedure deed Up to Congress Congress itself may hold the key to solution of the nation’s gambling problem and existence of the at "syndicates ” That gambling least is the opinion of Senator Edwin C Johnson Colorado Democrat who has urged congress to bill impass an Johnson believes that mediately should be done before beginning a crime investigation THE SENATOR happens to be on good solid ground because it is federal winking at partly through that the individual states have so much trouble coping with the bandits" The federal government licenses despite the fact that of states in the vast majority their use and operation are illegal If the federal government slapped a ban on the machines as it has on narctraffic and othotics er morals offenses the state would find it far easier to deal with the problem THE BILL envisioned by Johnson would outlaw manufacture of in states where devices gaming and forbid they are prohibited their shipment into such states It Would not apply however to states where has operation been made legal by legislative act Johnson on explained his Ideas the subject as indications pointed to a fight on the senate floor on the question of who would get the Job of inquiring into the nation's crime Johnson’s bill already is through the commerce committee where it was approved without hearings Whether it would win congress on rest the approval might politics Involved industry The centers offer no more room for industrial expansion The Westinghouse electric c o r p o ration experienced that problem and its reaction was typical of the national phenomenon of its onedustry reversing time policy and now cating in rural centers T build its new lamp plant at Richmond Ky the corporation bought a (left) stands and gazes at Moberly the porch plant which what yard" occupies the "front was once of an old mansion S RURAL' ::cz ye ' SwfftV 4 ''St V $ H r j J s v V s5y i i pw pmwr 0streamEmployeesthe begin front out to ii en- trance of the plant (above) as the first shift ends at 3:30 pm They began work at 7 am Most employees live on surrounding farms drive to work in their own family automobiles This corner of the plant houses the offices Photo at right shows industrial relations man Richard Smith seated at left discussing union contract provisions with Mrs Marie Whitaker and union chairman Robert Moberley k i v f £ Ii ' - 'V I i f fi' Iff f ' V T ' Ivt£ L if"- O This husband and wife team (left) has found the new plant providing them their chance to buy u home They are Leslie and Mary Allen ages 22 and - ' ‘r1 V yA 'J it' tp 'Wi "d feyl&v ii T J 19 live They respectively just a block from the plant and hope to buy their own home within a year y p fcv V lr i? Barnard J Smith Jr 24 ef Vt Fair Haven thumps his chest and takes a deep breath mt air upon his release from jail after taking the oath Ills rase attracted national attention because of the prevalent but obviously erroneous opinion that no ornfean be jailed for debt in this country Smith was jailed for failure te satisfy a $2500 judgment 1000 T35 I :'Tv Shown below Faye (left) and Roberta Pearson don't look much like factory workers Age 20 and 18 respectively the two girls live 12 miles from town get up at 5 am to make the first shift Brought up on a farm they nevertheless have developed into capable workers in the plant Faye is taking on a night business course and hopes some day to take over a secretarial job At present she runs a machine and sister Roberta tests completed bulbs in the engineering section in on the now O If one should have a friend or with whom he is eut acquaintance of contact and whose whereabout are unknown the odds are that he or she is on tome kind of public payroll That's what the U S census bureau reports Federal state and local governments the report stated has a total of 6204000 workers drawing a record-hig- h total of one billion monthly 406 million dollars Robert Here employee plot i 40 prin- is that one however industrial crowded TOT? CENSUS: is tor — and reasons many many Free Man THREAT: Flores The air force's Republic was reaching out farther and farther to deal death and confusion to any potential U S enemy The air fore that the reported range has been increased to where It can carry out most types of missions more than 1000 miles from base The increased operation radius Is available forx straffing missions bomber escort and hunting enemy lighter American cipal GAMBLING: Two big unions were railway ready to “review the whole case” of their dispute with the nation’ railroads If the results weren’t satisfactory to the brotherhoods the country faced a major strike threat The argument was two years old and was easy to state The unions felt that the adoption of locomotives discriminated against manpower and insisted that an extra man be put on these locomotives whether there was any need for him or not The railroads on the other hand have refused to do this Union leaders refused to discuss Just how imminent a’ strike might be or when and in what matter it might be called Instead they indicated a review ol the situation The union was in a highly stratIt was free to egic position strike at any time inasmuch as all "cooling off provisions of the act have been exrailway labor hausted Thunderjcf 0 "going rural" f Git jyjly V v v4 e O The v K - tT-l J5A' A- 4 - f " mSjJ Richmond work force community in the is re- markably young The average employee age at the plant is about 22 In photo above Christine Brown (left) and Betty Locke test flashlight and auto light bulbs Christine previously hod worked in an office in town Betty was a farm flirl still lives 10 miles from town and helps with farm chores |