Show British Find Pied Piper of Pop Is Kleiner Socialism J parts the In Tough Way right thethey THE Santa $100000-a-Yea- r 5 1951 Semen Struck Airli ' Desert for Pair May Have Skipped To Lay OH 450 140 RIVER EDGE N Aug 4 Around these boys and girls believe in Santa Claus all But believe in Bob Shelley even more He's ice cream man who et 1200 Wi ll R Firms Show Gain 123 Show Losses During Year By Richard LONDON Aug 4 (AP)-Br- itish socialism is having tough going and the opposition conservatives can hardly wait for a new general election Under present conditions most political observers believe the conservatives would win handily Political polls indicate the nation atill has confidence in' Prime Minister Attlee's integrity — but not the confidence in: his government that won it two elections Attlee's socialist regime has just begun its seventh year in office Some of its early fire is gone Its schemes of public ownership have become law without fulfilling all the promises made for them The picture is clouded by a pall Jot taxes the weight of rearmament and new loads of austerity Attempts to plan and control the British economy have been batroad tered along the of supply and demand still the main course for world trade More Controls On Way More controls are on the way Chancellor of the - Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell soon will bring in legislation to limit the rising dividends of industry He sees this apron string on profits as a means to help hold down rising prices and restrain working men from demanding a new round of inflationary wage hikes This week the government confessed in parliament to its difficulties in the middle east "One failure we admit — Palestine" said Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison He also went over troubles with Egypt which lets no ship through Britain's empire lifeline the Suez canal without a searching examination for goods headed for Israel Conservative Winston Churchill noted with exasperation that in the face of troubled relations with Egypt Britain kept on paying off big sterling balances to her even while Britain was receiving American aid Iran Biggest Problem Biggest current foreign trouble is Iran A few weeks ago Britain was all set to abandon its big oilfields in Iran and the world's largest refinery Now she seems to have some chance to reach a working agreement over the oil fields That chance was saved for the socialist regime by the labors of a Wall street banker Averell Harri-ma- n sent to Britain's aid by President Truman when he heard the strategic oil holdings might be slipping from western use These are only the latest of a series of twists given the tail of the British lion Polls and results inis losdicate the ing some of the faith he once placed in the laborites The working man voted overwhelmingly for socialism in 1945 He thought it would him some of the good things bring of life He wanted higher pay so he could own a house car and an extra OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINESUNDAY MORNING AUGUST By little white truck To the children "c a men very oesi iriena io ine mothers he's sort of an auxiliary parent And to impartial observers he's about the slickest salesman J A Livingston but earnings don't show Financial Editor alive He's "Shelly" to almost everyone in town As soon as the first carillon-like strains of his recorded chime music precede his appearance down the quiet streets the children become almost hysterical with joy There's a soprano chorus of children's voices screaming one word — "Shelley!'' They scream it as they run home and get a dime from their mothers They scream it as they run back out and surround his truck Calls Them by Name He calls each of them by name after the second time he meets Lured by the chimes of the "Pied Piper of Pop" Anita Norton rets them Even the littlest ones And a warm greeting (and eold icecream) from Shelly He says he knows he always has a present for them 9m little customers by their names too He says he knows the names of 900 children in town including addresses more than 400 cards to salesman if they ever saw his ab- sence of hair three sets of identical twins that uu iiui4 menus the mothers have trouble telling "It's all done to gain their friend Shelly is a New Jersey man who apart Shelly says "They have to Quit school at 16 to sell eies-- t rical "I have to remember their ship accept me as a friend Children are: and has hpen sellincr ever names" he says simply "That's funny "They're careful buyers and sunrjlies since He joined his brothers in the my job" ' u" iuem zou mucn ap- - ice cream iieia aner ine war During the course of the week proacn a child slowly — if you once He's Always Careful he gives away $35 worth of what show you're impatient or antagonisHe is always very careful to he calls knick-knacIt may be tic you've had it They won't buy make a good impression on moth jumping beans or little puzzles or from you any more ers It's gotten so they enlist his rings which he gives little girls and 3 6 ' g PLVl thereby becomes "engaged" to timates that he and his two f£ir dmne-selnaps 0rvin4shne!r them He comes around twice a brothers and two nephews who a not to n day and on his second trip he inn nnn And other towns always gives little charms The kids with their five trucks in the 38- - sell ices to tier child he'd follow her instructions religiously He says get beany caps and pin the charms week season has 100 such maternal commands to them "It's miraculous" he grins I he to remember They trade the charms among feel like the Pied Piper" each other and "Shelly's charms" He Follows Routine The Rouble-threappeal to the are an accepted medium of exchildren's and the mothfriendship a But is it terrific grind For er's respect has brought him a change Three charms bought a seven months Shelly follows a rou- virtual monopoly in town Competibumble bee in a jar the other day tine that would stop most men tors come down the streets but the Conducts Contests He's at six and goes to five ice is cool Besides the daily presents Shel- creamup plants to load up the 60 f reception town s Fouth of July paAt the ley conducts contests Prizes are varieties he carries ranging from rade bands and soldiers and fire such things as big dolls kites beach pops up to Then he engines and police cars and clowns balls baseball bats and bike horns ices his truck has an hour's marched down the main street But The last of the four annual con- to his route washes his truck ride and one tests is always the biggest The changes his uniform before he can was youngster thought the parade a flop drawing is held at the Veterans' "Where's the youngster Memorial park and ine police chief begin He works until 9:30 at night kept asking Shelly?" "Why isn't Shelly in names the person who picks the then has another hour's ride back winners This year he was going home He has a few hours of paper the parade?" to give away a Shetland pony but work night He says he rarely the mothers objected So two bi- gets toevery bed before 1:30 And that's cycles will be the top prizes seven a week for seven Even adults save Shelly's tickets months days given with each purchase so they In November he goes to Florida can enter Last year 300 grown-up- s and just relaxes until the next showed up for the drawing when he comes back One fall he promised some big- February MANBY England Aug 4 (AP) north to get ready for the sumger youngsters that the next spring mer A four engine Royal air force he's give them fox tails for their Has bomber landed here today comOnly One Secret bikes During the winter the price of fox tails went up but he kept Bob Shelley has only one secret pleting a 4128 mile Polar flight his promise He had to buy 100 fox from his customers The children from Fairbanks Alaska in It see him as a smiling peppy young tails at 60 cents apiece fellow in a clean white and hours 34 minutes Remembers Birthdays The plane carried a crew of 10 white pants and a battered chaufWhen a steady customer has a feur's cap don't know that all chosen from the R A F flying They birthday Shelly puts a chime rec- under the chauffeur's cap is a bald college here and a British newsord of "Happy Birthday" on his head and that their best pal is man player drives up to the child's really a grandfather The Illusion house and presents a free ice cream of youth is carefully-preserve- d The bomber had flown to Alaska he cone Every Christmas he patiently says they'd leave him for another by way of Iceland last week ks ft j l at half-gallo- Plane Completes Polar Flight irt - it Ariz Aug 4 (UP)— party of more than 200 men was alerted today for an all-oeffort to determine whether a young Pasadena Calif couple were lost three weeks ago or skipped out of The state ut They're j down 14 percent trom a year ago The exnlanatinn Is fairlv nhvlnus Prices in steel are fairly "sticky" They have not except in the gray market advanced nearly so rapidly as costs Jooeinf Earnings Mump The four aircraft manufacturing companies in my sample didn't do so well either despite stepped-u- p demand Earnings dropped military 31" percent contrary largely 'because Boeing'safter: taxes slumped from $4During the months of April May net i aswi jsnn j quarter 01 wuuw ui ure mmn ana June the net income of 263 ri950 to less than m 0W0O0 in the industrial companies was down 10 same quarter this year William M Allen Boeing presipercent from the corresponding the decline in quarter of a jyear ago And a note- dent attributed to higher taxes decreased earnings has Now occurred worthy change on government business and the larger corporations like U S profits unusually heavy reserves for deSteel General Motors General preciation under the government's Electric and duPont are feeling accelerated amortization program By and large earnings did not the pinch change much from the first quarThough their sales have risen ter to the second quarter this year their expenses and theii taxes have for industry as a whole But for risen more Result: Lower net for some groups increases were unusually high In air transport for shareholders Thus it's no longer correct to say instance the increase was 163 percent in cement 37 percent Here the "big boys" are winning and seasonal factors were at work Air the "small boys" are losing wanner with In my tabulation 140 companies travel expands recorded increases in earnings over weather Ditto construction The mix of plusses and minuses the second quarter of last year 123 characterizes not only the period showed losses That's almost an we have just gone through but also even break But since the total was down 10 percent it follows that the period we're in Textiles retail coal industry even the bigger companies — the companies trade the public utilities aire having a hard with the large earnings — did not time fare so well as the smaller ones resultskeeping up with the excellent of last year Sales have not compared with a year ago risen sufficiently to offset higher Oil 8teel Newsprint costs or as in textiles are To be specific the chemical group down Also prices are easier actually resultshowed a minus three percent But ing in decreased unit profits if duPont were excluded a gain was recorded In automotive manu- Red Ink Is Rare Yet when that has been said the facturing earnings were down 31 worst Red ink is percent without General Motors 48 rare has been ofsaid the 263 companOnly eight percent with In steel the industry ies recorded deficits Among these was off 14 percent with U S only is American Ice which is affected 13 percent without it But you can't be dogmatic about by seasonal influences It sells coal winter ice ip summer Spring the big and the little In the oil in are not too good industry Standard Oil of New months So long as the present high level' Jersey biggest in the business did industrial lull lasts American better than the industry The same and stockholders won't corporations to Electric in General the applies complain But if defense orders electrical equipment group even don't come through as expected or earnthough G ES second-quartexings were off 13 percent from a if corporation plans for plant then evaporate pansion slowly year ago Two industries directly asso- comparisons later this year and ciated with the defense effort man- early next year won't make good at all Thus as has been aged to record exceptional gains — reading here many times before the machinery and nonferrous metals said The oil companies also registered fall is a crucial period Will the customary day upturn big plus signs But biggest winner in business develop? of all was the paper and pulp industry with- a 55 percent increase in net over a year ago The perCOIN' ON formance will not quell congressional protests against the recent VACATION $10 a ton boost in newsprint to $116 Closed Until August 13 a ton in this country In less than two years the price has gone up CEVERING CLEANERS 16 percent to the highest level since 1920 4286 Riverdole Road Steel may be in a sellers' market Philadelphia Bulletin The lull and taxes have caught up with American corporations — even as with you and me You can see it Dlainlv in earnings ronorts just mailed out to stockholders Quarterly gains are no longer increasing heralding higher and higher dividends to come On the LOS ANGELES Aug 4 (UP) More than 450 office and airport personnel of Western Airlines will be aid off "on furlough" beginning next week until a strike of 300 me- chanics is settled the company said today a"" fth The company said the employes southeast of SheTe tomorro been kept on the payroll since Their plane was found undam- - had all air operations were tied up aged but nearly out of zas 50 by the strike Julv 27 A mainritv wuineast or nere to nf the airline's service and sales after it disappeared on Julv days 15 A note in the cockpit said that personnel will be affected by the Klaus Martens 28 the pilot and furlough The Ogden office manned by June Marajane Walker 26 of two persons will not be afMalverne N Y were going to only fected immediately Manager Frank start "walking west" into the Nordquist said He said the furdesert of Mexico A complete absence of any lough order does not affect himand the only other employe refuse or discarded clothing on self is now on vacation the burning sand mystified who he returns he may cover searchers who expressed the forWhen another employe at Logan who the have opinion pair might leaves soon on vacation Thus fit out of the area slipped safely would be several weeks before any Tracks left by the young coulayoff occurred he explained ple after they left their plane actual Western rejected a union offer were followed by posses until to arbitrate the week old rain washed them out At one yesterday strike which tied up all flights in point they crossed a road which if followed would nave led them 13 states and western Canada The Air Carrier Mechanics asto a town sociation (A F L had offered to drop its request for a union shop if the air line would arbitrate five r other demands including an wage clause which would provide pay increases tied to the index A Western said the HELENA Mont Aug 4 (AP) — company couldspokesman not make any furSuits totaling $210000 have been ther offers filed against the government by parents of four of 13 young forest Si service firefighters who burned to Queen Saluted death in a blaze two years ago LONDON Aug 4 (AP) — The The forest service is charged deep boom of cannon firing a royal With negligence in ordering the salute echoed over London today four to parachute to the fire in in honor of Queen Elizabeth's 51st Mann gulch The suits filed in birthday federal court charge that fire danger in the "extremely rough" area was "extremely high" Six suits for $35000 each were DR CHARLES J TRIBE filed One man filed a suit for CHIROPRACTOR himself and one for his son's estate Haw located of The forest service never had lost 2924 Washington a smoke jumper when 15 young Blvd blazfirefighters leaped into the S am 2 Hour DM ing mountain area Within two hours 12 chutists and I PHONE a fire guard were dead in the fire which swept across 5000 acres of timberland YUMA A search Tef? "rch f I — -- -- $210000 Sought esca-late- For Fire Deaths cost-of-livi- at " 10-1- ItiTOlTtlfi er post-Lab- 2-- or bbbbbbbbW broadens and beautifies the chan nel through which life's opportune ities flow See better and be hap- - aisssBafl R G HARRIS E suit Things Little Changed Now he has the welfare state bat otherwise things are little changed from the days of tory rule before the war His pay packet Is kept thin because British exports must be priced to sell The things he buys to live are rising every day The price of guns and the welfare state is mountainous taxes He has a steady job but his pay buys no luxuries The best things are tagged "for export only" The grim realities of postwar economics squeeze the nation— and the working man's own government has to pass the squeeze on down to the working man Some leading figures in the labor have sized up t n is go ver n anomalous Situation — and rebelled against it Informed persona in the- - party say they frankly are hoping that peace will come to Korea lead to a of tension between and permit the raising of hopes again Only that iway they believe can the party prevent an ouster And with the British lion's tail being twisted by small countries In many parts of the world they f ran k v doubt Britain's prestige can be restored quickly enough to make voters proud of the government Even ifit could they say gloomily the internal pinch of prices wages and austere living still would be ominous for socialist hopes m-- east-and-we- Washing 1 st POLICY: Interest I Prices Terms No Jinx to Her NASHVILLE 111 Aug 4 (UP) lack Friday is a lucky day for Mrs lada Anderson Mrs Anderson was born on Friday July 13 1851 and celebrated her 100th birthday this July when the 13th also fell on a Friday 4sjeoe6ooAdRM Become a DENTAL NURSE A vocation offering you a ' professional career CHBISTTNE DECKER alt lake CHy Utah T'Ttadaj AppoiHtd upon f '!: it Dental nursing offers exceptional opportunities to the discriminatrcH ing young woman who' in of career The dental nurse to part of highly rntpuctud and holds high place la the sod I and business IHe ol hor community CssrbM hth —ty 4 an alas UliHtrattd cotoloq ma i ltd on roqutrt Writ to Fwbo Drumrnofxl Rtaittror pro-Uni- 1 on 9x12' ALL WOOL FACE RUES Only $4 Down $123 W—klyl The Dental Nurses School Training rounded 1955 10 1 MASONIC AVINUe (Formerly t 821 Market Street) SAN FRANCSCO Telephone MArfcat 17 CAUF i£4a4nfaS8M Specially Purchased from Nationally Famous Rug Mills for Our Great 76m low prices! 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