Show -- n 6a It 2A ZI le 'Ca kr Zteibunt ' - - - Sunday May 26 1946 GALLUFS PUBLIC OPINION POLL emocrais Lose Power With American oters Survey Shows national raLNCETON N J May 25— They obviously cannot be used as In the south a 525 convote for the Democratic party by If a presidential election were held 1 measure of how individual will run in the Novem- no means assures a majority of today Democratic party prospects gressmen electoral votes in a presidential ber congressional elections would not be so good as they were - or 1915 in 'A survey of political sentiment by the Institute finds that 525 of the voters of the country say they would vote Democratic in a presidential election at this time frhat figure compares wit' 55f4 in February of this year wi th 15rlast August—the month the war ended—and with 538(70 of the major party vote won by the Democrats in November 1944 The present decline in Demo eratic party strength is revealed to the following question inreplies of the voters put to a of the nation: 41f a presidential election were being held today which party would you vote for—the Democratic or Republican?" Along with today 's replies here Is a picture of Democratic-flrpubbea- n 1944 Loss of race 13670 The net change in Democratic strength since the 1944 elecas reflected in Saturday's as been a loss of 13 percentage points This compares very closely with the net loss suffered by the Democrats between t h e 1940 and 1941 presidential elections which amounted to 12 percentage points The latest drop eats Into what may be termed the Democratic margin of safety In 1936 the Democrats had a wide margin of safety when Roosevelt was put Into office with 625 of the major party popular vote In 1940 the margin was cut but it was still substantial F D Ft was returned to the White House with 55 of the vote In 1944 the margin narrowed to 538 A study of election history indicates that because of the Nosince Party strength of the political picture vember 1911 as found by the In Institute periodical polls: - - tions cross-sectio- n 'a Demo- - eratle ' 1911 ss Man May 1915 August 1945 February 1948 538 162 54 58 55 16 42 45 475 525 About one voter'in every tour I was undecided Based on Turn-Ou- t Saturday's figure it should be the pointed out are basedof upon total voting population the country That the number of voters who actually go to the polls can I have a marked effect upon the outcome of any election waa darn: onstrated in the congressional elections of 1942 : Republican gains in that year were due almost entirely to the Ir out elections of low turn-on- t 1 recent years a greater proportion ' of Dernoersts than Republicans have voted only in presidential years The maults In Saturday's poll deal of course only with general the party otrength In relation to1948 next presidential race In TODAY I I Scientists See Little Value In Atom Test WASHINGTON May 25 (UP) —Atomic scientists predicted Sat urday that this summer's atom bomb teats at Bikini will destroy not more than two major ships and seriously damage no more p than '10 vessels of the fleet pig guinea They did not call the tests a dud as such But they cautioned the public egainat expecting' any thing as spectacular al happened at Hiroshima and Nagaeaki 'tittle Information' In fact they maid the votat experinient Is likely to furniah little information of the war potential of tho awesome weapon in fiette and "nothing of scientific value" for peacetime uses of atomic energy test echedIlut the under-wate- r tilci for next year la likely to prove more epectacular they said It may deelop tidal wave ffect' and produce extreme and unpredieted results" These views were contained in a report prepared by the Loa Almna scientists—the men who developed and tested the first atom bomb The report was circulated by the National Federation of Scientists Atom War scientists are parthe said It ticipating in the tests "with heavy hearts and without enthusiasm' and only at request of the armed forces The experiment is based upon 'a frightful Idea" that rnsnkind may face an atomic war Becawse of this the report said the military forces have a mission of preparedness "fantastic and shortsighted though it may seem" The scientists said they would time eperial report et the of tho tests based on the findings" of participating selentists 100-ehi- ' I I Tribune Waabingten Bureau WASHINGTON May 24 —The career of Harold L Ickes as secretary of the interoor might and probably would have terminated in 1942 instead of 1948 if information that has just come to light had been made public when it was fresh The attack of Columnist Ickes on the National Rectsmation Man and F 0 Hagie its secretary-manage- r brought to light this week the statement that On April 30 1942 Mr Ickes hat he had lost interest in irrigation that he wanted to approve no More irrigation projects And wanted the reclamation eervice thenceforth to concntrate its attention on development This disclosure recall"( that the resignation of John C Page am commissioner of reclamation wag at the time attributed by close friends to his unwillingness to see eye to eye with Secy Ickes on the reclamation bureau end not because of Ill health as the department officials announced In April 1041 Mr Ilagie's disclosure that as far back as April 30 1942 more than four years ago Ickes declared to Mr Regis and to John C Page then commissioner of reclamation that he (Ickes) was "more interested in the development of power than in the development of irrigation" and that "reclamation means not a thing to me I'm interested only in power" It is not news to members of the appropriations comitteee of congresi that Mr Ickes has long been striving to convert the bureau of reclamation into a burreau of power without the sanction of congress But that the former secretary should have so bluntly stated his purpose and Intent in the presence of Rectamation Commiselonee John C PAgo romos as a surprise The thing that is not understandable Is that Mr Itagle having this first-haninformation on April 30 1942 hest kept that news locked up in his private files for four years without so much hinting to newspaper men or to western olenators end congressmen that he had this information and had a most reliable witness Information Withheld The great weaknees of the National Reclamation Assn has been that it has too often been xelfcontained that it has gffthered Information which the entire irrigated west should have but was not given During his long term as secretary-manage- r of that asaociation Mr Regis has maintained hie office in Washington and never through that long service until now has he communicated to correspondents of western newspaper information in his possession which was or would hays been of vital concern to every weetern state Tho Thigh blast at Harold Mien im by way of reply to an attack made by Columniat Herat eon-elusi- SONG BOOR t With Piano Accompaniment ' SINGIN' IN THE SADDLE Containing 21 of the e Most Popular Cowboy Songs 1E:'' Old-Tim- P' t ) ONLY end Postage Plus Tex modern general hospitals to the vatorana1 adminlAtration and ha earmarked Ii more for that purpone Maj Gen Norman T Kirk army surgeon general said Saturday night The 11 hospitals already turned over to V A contain ZINO bed& Kirk mid he ham inatructed commanding officera of hotoottals to MUSIC CO f SALT LAKE CITY Two Big Stores IIELENA Gains in World Food Output Seen for 1946 Dixfortion of Law position of Mr Ickes is brought into question when Mr Jingle charges that he admittedly undertook to distort the reclama tion law and use it as an instrue ment for building countless government projects making power superior to irrigation This same Secy Ickes got another soliNtor to rule that he might bring under administration of the grazing service all the public domain by merely withdrawing it from entry and at a time when congrems had limited the grazing service to the adminixtration of 71000000 acres And as so recently developed over and again In congreme Mr Ickes personally had assured both senate and house appropriations committees that if they would pass the Taylor graz ing act "it would be administered by the staffs of the general land office and geological survey that he would not create a new bureau to regulate grazing that the annual cost would be only $150000 a year" Thome assurances have been repeatedly and bluntly discussed in debates in congress Mont 25 hn the southern hemisphere is six months later than that of the northern hemisphere some expansion in food output W113 reported likely The department said the prospective total food output in continental Europe for the consumption year of 1948-4- 7 may now be estimated at between 88 and 190 of prewar Output in 1945- 46 was said to have been probably only 809 or even somewhat less avercompared with the 1933-3- 7 age Europe's prospective increases will be confined the department said largely to grains and sugar with possibly ek slight increase Truman Vows Vull U S Help to U N -- WASHINGTON May 25 (A')— agriculture department reported Saturday night that a spring survey indicates the famine-plague- d world will produce more food this year than last but that total supplies will be below prewar levels and short of requirements Hence it said effective conservation and distribution of supplies internationally and within deficit producing countries will be necessary throughout the 1946- 47 season if another critical food shortage is to be avoided next spring Reports from this country's agricultural attaches abroad show y that as of crop conditions in nearly all parts of the northern hemisphere thus far have been more favorable than a year earlier A significant increase in acreage is expected and yields should be better than in 1945 The department said however that acreages in most of the war-tor- n areas are considerably below normal and improvement of yields is limited by shortage of fertilizers and the shortage and poor quality of seed work stock and equipment While the production season in The - fats prospects in the far east also favor some expansion in Over-a- ll acreage the department said but production of food' crops will be considerably below prewar especially if increases in the population are taken into account "From both the United States and Canada exports thus far in 1946 are behind schedule and while efforts are being made to increase exports available supplies are limited and renewed efforts to increase the exportable supplies have not been wholly successful" In its summary of this year's production prospects the department said "extraordinary social changes shifts in population and shortage of draft power" continue to restrict production Early spring favored it said plantings in the major portions of soviet Russia long-rang- WASHINGTON May (UP)- -Sen John 11 Bankhead 73yearold leader of the southern conservatives was seriously ill in Bethesda naval hospital Saturday as the result of a light stroke suffered Friday during a heated session of the senate banking committee Capt R E Duncan commanding officer of the hospital issued this statemejlt: "Sen Bankhead suffered a light stroke Although he is reacting favorably he is considered to be seriously ill" Zbe143Salt gatic Zribunt South Main—Dial 34511 a473o moroina titan soarrption Woo: and distly anti if4) WanniinfivIt 1vneft anti Sundae 11 at tha t:otaratt COWS 1109 Ptah Nevada Ptintlite month I said the nations of thet by creating the economic and social council have "shown their determination to make human welfare one of the first objectives of their collaboration" "They have recognized the fact"I he declared "that misery is onel of the fundamental causes of wari and that their ultimate successi in preventing war will depend upon their ability to spread ma-- i g terial and social wherever people live" Brooke Claxton Canada's representative told the council that In the face of atomic bombs and new weapons of ar "We must work together or perish together" Nikolai Irecinov Russian delegate took issue with the inclusion of an agenda item having to do with 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hospitals already released to V A are Asburn McFoster Jackeon Kinney Tex Miss Laaarde New Orleans La Thayer Nanhville Tenn: Winter Topeka Ken: Birmingham Van Nuyx Cal Finney Thomasville Ga McClositty Temple Tex fl " N month Si 75 'rho lmtnitte $ ntootttr of the A 1110" fa tio 0a0twiattia Wei ottoted Prot tria ips 0i' r0tir0100 attiaivsly amilata0 titni of all adwa arloiiio to it t othiirwlaa 0041101 in Ulla PIL pet and &JO Ii i6o111 belga p6Itiielae4 beselik He world 1 Nome vry poat officio at Malt IAA trtia S Masa rhattor Utilof art Or March fort" I service-connecte- Senator Bankhead Seriously ill 25 States pledges its full support Saturday's session was confine largely to opening formalities in eluding addressess by Sir Rama swami Itudallar of India preaiden of the council and Trygve Lie aecretary-generof the Unite( Nation! Lie told the 18 delegates tha the world looked to the counci and to the United Nations "for effective leadership in solving thousand and one social and eco nomic troubles which mankind ha never been able to solve by !nth vidual community or national ef al NEW YORK May 25 (JP)—Pres Truman Saturday pledged the full support of the United States to the United Nations' economic and social council in its struggle to "make peace a reality" and "advance fundamental rights of man through the world" The president's declaration was Made In a message of welcome read to the council by U S Delegate John G Winant as the economic and social agency opened Its first New York meeting to e tackle the problem of causes the of war removing Mr Truman pointed out that the council had the heavy task of mobilizing "the constructive forces of mankind for the victories of peace" juskt as the security council had the responsibility for removing new threats to peace "Your task" his message said "is to achieve freedom from want to encourage production help to open up transport and clear communications and to assure higher standards of living "It is for you to promote a fuller recognition of the dignity and worth of the human person and to advance fundamental right4 of man through the world "To this great task the United in mid-Ma- ever" May (UP)--JoE Erickson 83 the former Kansas farm boy who be Demo-oldi- e came Montana's three-tim- e governor died early Saturday in St Peter's hospital Ills death terminated a public service career that started at the turn of the century and continued until 11334 when the former editor lawyer county attorney and judge WWI defeated for reelection as United States senator Ile was admitted to the hospital almost five weeks ego puttering from McMilre Richmond Va Nichols acute myrocarditis lioulavilie and Vaughan Ky lh ft OGDEN -- said Former Governor Of Montana Dies inausi GLEN-BRO- S above-quote- WASHINGTON May 25 (UP) replace military pereonnel with ci—The army has turned over 11 vilian workers whenever posaible I COWBOY Mr Thige and said: 'Don't bring any more of those in here for my approval because I'm not going to approve anything more for reclamation that I can get out of What does reclamation mean to my young life—nothing—not a damned thing I'm interested only In power? " Veracity Unquestioned ''During his long career as Washington representative of the Mr National Reclamation Aim Hagie's reputation for veracity has not been questioned his judgment as row might have been questioned But the fact that he d says Secy Ickes made the statements in the presence of John C Page the then commissioner of reclamation provides a substantiating witness Hr Hagie quotes Mr Ickes as saying in his column: "The goals of the government's reclamation program have been three: (1) The irrigation of arid lands (2) Cheap electric power to pump water onto these lands (3) A limitation to 160 acres one person may own of For years such reclaimed land the government through the bureau of reclamation supported by the reclamation assoc i a t I o n marched toward these goals" Irrigation Subordinated To this Mr Hagie proceeds to show how the secretary by his own words changed and sought to subordinate irrigation to power how it designed and built power units more important than irrigation features of the same projects not to furnish cheap power to pump water to irrigated lands but to flood local markets with government power for commercial As for the and industrial use Antioch steam power plant which Mr Ickes wanted the reclamation association to help lobby through congress Hagie says: 'Mat plant was not to produce cheap power to pump water onto those lands but to go into competition In the Sacramento and bay area of California with the private power companies of the region a aide issue in which the reclamation association did not then and does not now have any interest what- 4 1111 HERE'S A GOOD SNAPPY r V A Gets 11 Army Hospitals Promise of 14 Others Soon d 1 - Ickes on the National Reclamation Assn and on Mr Hagie personally in a column which sought to show that the association was 'becoming the tool of the private power interests Private Files Mr 'Into mays he went into his rrivata files and brought forth a memorandum he had written April 30 1942 immediately after he and Mr Page had had a stormy Interview with Mr Ickes The nature of the conference he now lays can beat be indicated by his memorandum wherein he wrote: "The secretary said It so happens that he be more Interested In the development of power than in the development of irrigation in fact he said irrigation and reclamation meant nothing to him that he was interested only In the power features of the program and he added: When I have asked Mr Page to ask your amsociation to help us get approval of congress for the Antioch (California) steam plant and the features of our power program generally you refuse or do nothing'" At another point in his memorandum kept under lock and key for four years Mr Ilagie wrote: ''Secretary Ickes said: 'The reclamation laws require me to certify to the feagibility of reclamation projects In order that they may be authorized' He turned to per v 'r ll de-'dar- ed 1 I In short the current political picture so far as 1948 and the presidency is concerned is less favorable to the Democratic party now than at any time since 1944 While the Democrats' loss of strength in Saturday's poll will undoubtedly be viewed- 'seriously the ground may very well be recovered before election time Precisely this kind of thing happened more than once during the Roosevelt administrations — loss of strergth as events made their impact upon political thinking with recovery before 'election day Is Ls also true that so far this year there seems to have been no wide or sweeping shift of sentiment that would indicate the presence of a political ground-sweor tide against the party in power By American Institute of Public Opinion Reclamation Bureau Skeletons Shaken by Ickes Hagie Battle Repub- strength strength election Less Favorable WONMEtMVVWQB - Stith JI ersonel JEWELRY Matof Salt Like COMPANY 244 9 W61616066 Illyd Na t N ir |