Show taaaaaaaVaaaaBaBaSBBafaalBBBBJaaaSaal Doauttitrw mt Pytj OmUMU pnca ii w pm month: The AiocUtd aarpatches p" M " " lOOH n w — Ptm it rr-d- !:i ta acomi riaaa mfcfcr twordlnt nth rf xIm Aims 'fatt'lPfwM tfatttS IffltfBjlr Tft-iO- 11100 test entitled to Uw dm for repu MJCattOJ) nelaatly to It or net otherwise credited in tbta Of T THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 7 1062 t Budenz Case May Be Ripe For Inquiry " Almost Any Dark Night Now Harold Ickes Was Fighter Hoped to See Election By Drew Pearson I aai Stewart Abaft WASHINGTON — The congressional investigating process hag been so warped and twisted that the really important issues involved in any given inquiry are quite like ly never to be mentioned at all That is certainly true of Sen ator Pat McCarran's Internal security subcommittee of the judi ciary committee which has Just finished beating John Carter Vin cent over the head with its verbal By Jeeaph Congress Probing Massacre to Select committee investigate the Katyn forest massacre That is the official name of the investigating body probing into one of the most cruel and gruesome mysteries of the war Ten thousand Polish soldiers were slain in the Katyn forest in one of the world's greatest massacres but doubt has existed for years Is to who is guilty of this wholesale crime The Soviet Union denying that its troops or- substitutes for a rubber truncheon dered and directed the massacre charge that the Germans are to blame The Germans m turn accuse the Russians The world knows that the Germans could have done the killing taking into account other German wholesale crimes of record The world also knows the crime was not beyond the scope of the Russians whose behavior includes the operation of vast concentration and slave-labcamps and the starvation of masses of their own people The truth should be revealed and world opinion be permitted to crystal! ze It is possible the select committee now charged by the United States congress to inquire into this mystery of World war No 2 will reveal the facts and place the blame or long-suppress- ed Weber Basin Project Hopes of I Failure President Truman to ask congress to vote funds to start construction of the Weber basin project in Utah just about doomed it seemed to us chances to get work under Way in this calendar year and we said so in " JZ writing y It now appears that our gloom was not justified The lawmakers we suspected would welcome any excuse NOT to wrestle with an appropriation for Weber basin actually are interested in that project and have listened carefully to the testimony as to why an early start should be made The members of our Utah congressional delegation in Washington believe there is a good chance that a start can be made on construction this year and so does E J Fj elds ted basin project secretary who made a good case for the project before a house committee A lot of families and communities lying within the Weber river basin are going to be mighty interested in what that committee recommends ' Long-Rang- Weather Data e A National Geographic society news bulletin reports that weather information is one of the few things not yet out off by the iron curtain Weather men in the heart of Siberia are among weather observers contributing informa- or 87 81 "card-carryin- 1950 when McCarthy departicularly in weather predictions This is not stranee March clared thin sillv foiltaking into account the economic aspects and the losses that dering that Johns Hopkins professor can do pre ventea tune us bad to prepare for violent weather was me top communist agent" in the United States penavior Twice Denied Report It is now known that signs of unborn storms are tn hp As it happened Budenz had alfound high in the upper atmosphere Weather observers are ready twice denied that Lattimore was a communist once to a state learning how to read the signs and to warn of bad weather department investigator In 1947 and again in the most categorical as mucn as a month before the elements strike terms to an editor of "Collier's" Scientists are thus succeeding in doing what the sooth magazine Leonard Parris in 1949 In the same fashion when appearsayers long have claimed they could do but could not— pre ing before the Tydings investigating committer tn mlr hie nuhli diet happenings in the fairly distant future accusation against Lattimore Bu- - aenz 16-in- ch Another Gangland Murder The public probably never will learn why California's gangland ordered its professional killers to blow Thomas Keen toJ?its by f bomb connected to the starter device ofhis automobile The murder of the former Capone business associate who made money from inventions for dog tracks and horse race betting devices resembles other professional murders in California which have remained unsolved as this one is likely tobe Gangland is turning more and more to the infernal machine as a method of ridding itself of unwanted competitors An advantage lies in the fact the slayer who attaches the bomb to the starter device can be far away when the killing occurs refused to accuse John Carternrmiy Vincent as a communist saying he had to be "carefull" But a week or so later he went to the FBI again and now denounced Vincent as a communist for the first time These peculiarities of his memory were never explained by Budenz —— Hp admitted — mm Via hurl ucu vw the state department investigator na xne coiner s" editor because he said he preferred to do all his talking to the FBI Statement Check-abl- e In the Vincent case however H enz mado th hir-ihi- o ment that Vincent "guided" Henry A Wallace "along the paths" of vum communist line in China party In 1944 The strongest documentary and other evidence was at once to show that Vincents produced influence on Wallace had in fact been profoundly Neither Budenz nor the McCarran subcommittee could produce a lot Or tittla of liii evidence either to prove Vincent's influence on Wallace or to show Vincent's communist party membership With Vincent's appearance f! the McCarran subcommittee all the testimony is how in and the disproof of Budenz's first check-abl- e statement stands absolutely unimpaired Under the circumstances Louis Budenz would seem to be the man to Investigate — — ist be-B- Blames Grabby Clutch d Rear-entrouble in an automobile often can be traced directly to a grabbing clutch allowed to go unrepaired too long Fears Backing Up is a Anachoresiphobia fear of backing up and is one reason why Improper backing up leads all other causes f trucking accidents r- - UUwUMcSt- ui- We suspect that racketeers or persons on the fringes who offend some of the tough figures in the underworld will become increasingly apprehensive of turning the starter key Mechanics skilled in automobiles should have no trouble these days getting jobs as bodyguards for underworld figures de-bomb- ing The once proud Democratic party is the helpless captive of a hybrid combination of socialists corruptionists and spenders— Walter Hallanan Republican National committeeman Your analysis is faulty your arguments specious and your conclusions wrong Outside of that it was a good piece of work— Rear Adm R E Libby to a Red truce negotiator Juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges— Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson lespedeza from a brown pasture beyond the garden quite uncon- cerned about man the sick in — r bedroom above But the two Ickes children who I used to see whooping after Indians in cowboy costume were quiet now and with worried faces about the house TKkes looked tired and worn Pain had racked his body for three months now Even Christmas was spent in bed I'd Like to See Election "111 be 78 in March" he mused "and I'd like to live to see one more election It's going to be an important one — vitally important Some tremendous forces are stirring in this country — and in the Democratic party "I'd like to talk to some of the men who have got to lead this country— Adlai Stevenson is one And I'd like to talk to Kefauver We've had too much leadership in the hands of one man We've got to have new men young men new leaders I wish I could help fopI vho tev claimed that inany meant wtft 'webr" Thn no iw Uem tw ram a mama t i UoHmd In ma Watt w4h i i vr J him all th Then there ware Ickea' fattiet inside the cabinet to prepare against Hitler He had stood almost alon against Cordell HuD and a! mosl very other cabinet c "J'!?' " in Ian m r oosc veil went the rounds of the cabinet and Icke s!ei supported only by Morgenthau he had flared up with SSrlJi and he was not going to sell it to Hitler period ed and let him nauo nic u'au And there was scrap iron to Japan ICkes joined with Morgen-tha- u and Henrjfc Wallace in tryitg to stop scrap-iro- n shipments two Hffni before Pearl Harbor but Hull overruled them Later when Ickes became petroleum administrator he gleefully took things into Iff own hand? and cut off oil to thLRoovet t:p-toe- Japaftf Cusetnf the Cnraadgeaa And how the public cussed him when he rationed gasoline! A senate committee claimed there was ample gasoline but Ickes said no and Ickes had his way Afterward with nai sinking American tankers as if they were dynamiting bass in a fishpond the publu realized that the old curmudgeon was right It took them longer to realize he was right about the money Jesse Jones poured into Canada to build an aluminum plant Not until last month when Winston Churchill came to Washington and traded us them" I had known Ickes about twenty some of the Canadian aluminum years and this was the first time produced with our own wartime he had ever ininnatH that k RFC funds did the public realize was no longer the young and bounc- - how right Ickes was about investoi me interior iresh ing In aluminum plants in a counout secretary of the midwest who try whew we could not control on toes sassed back at senators the output A lot of memories came crowdmade the steel companies wince and the oil barons tremble ing back as I sat by the old man's bedside looking out at the pine VUt of uie Part trees he had looking back He lay thinking for a moment over the vistaplanted 1 of the past and I looked out the window at How sore Jesse Jones was when rows the of pine trees he had broke that Canadian aluminum planted many years ago Jt re- etstft How Roosevelt had minded me of his crusade for re- called Ickea to the White House forestation and took me back years and bawled him out for leaking to back to the dark depression days sal' How Ickes had told pregTi of 1933 when there had been soup ident: "Drew mentioned the name kitchens and breadlines and when tn the story so obviously my he didn't Ickes was put in charge of what get it from me A newspaperman was then the biggest government always omite the name of his spending program in history and source" had built schools libraries bridges Some people cussed him then but Battle v lien there was his final battle because he wanted every contract scrutinized with a microscope But against Ed Pauley's nomination as there were no five per centers then undersecretary of the ravy Ickes In fact if Ickes heard of anyone had seen Pauley as the symbol of the oil companies and their attempt to get hold of the national domain He knew Pauley had passed the hat among the oil barons to nominate and elect Truman And he B- aaw as he expressed it "a cloud By no bigger than a man's hand"— a cloud of corruption creeping over "Handbags Washington He was so right He had won the Today Just as in days gone by a handbag is the thing Pauley but in dothat battleso to defeat he had lost his place in the is a real necessity to which ing the women cling it is the pa v cabinet But he was still fighting Even that makes their near accessory death's loor he was still clothes look neat and I am sure without it no dress would fightisj "Yes this nation faces some great be complete and too it serves to carrv all the little ndd anri problems and the Democratic parends from powder puffs and ty is facing some great realignments" Ickes resumed "I should lipsticks to hairpins and foun- like to be in this fight It may be tain pens come in every they color and come in every my last one but I hope to get well they size and vou can evpn hnv soon and get la K' Then a little wearily he added: one that is sure to match your "I haven't told this to anyone but when it comes to eyes the silver kind else Drew but I'm afraid it will holding dough I mean a handbag hardly feels be my last battle" home — past the disthe touch and most always it As I drove is clean couraged rooe aardan past the white-fac- e Herefords browsing past the pine trees that Ickes had planted — I thought of a great warVisited Antarctic in '95 rior for human liberties and pubCarstens Egeberg Borvhegrevink lic honesty who though he still and his Norwegian nartv w tirwt refused to quit already had fought to set foot on the Antarctic conti 'Utiast battle I knew that I should nent in 1895 never see Harold Ickes alive again 'i : 4 ur ur j' d even before the Furthermore ge Lake City of the American Society meeting of Sugar Beet Technologists is a gathering of people who ought to love their jobs For sugar technology is a fascinating branch of science and industry into which laymen obtain only a few peeks from time to time One of these glimpses came the other day in the form of a statement by United States Cuban Sugar council about the importance of sugar to the war effort Sugar is important in the production of synthetic rubber and explosives "FOr example" said the statement "each salvo from a battleship's guns requires the sugar from about an acre of cane" Or an equivalent amount of beet sugar Sugar of course is one of the most useful and interesting products in every day use and more use? are being found for it for instance in mass treatment of burns and in development of substitute blood plasma Sugar technicians such as those meeting in Salt Lake City are making contributions to expanding use of sugar and no doubt they find doing so is a fascinating activity ' unaer Hie wimer my A herd of white-faceHereford triedto pull the last remnants of cial not one word was said about the veracity of Vincent's sole accuser the professional Louis Budenz Yet as a witness before the Tydings committee and as the pet witness of the McCarran subcommittee Budenz has literallv phamcri Msanl irnui of other Americans besides Vin cent with being communist party members And surely this mas production of charges of treason to the United States is no light matter or 205 g communists" and sympathized in tion to perfect long-ranweather forecasting the government that Budenz's The fact that the Soviet Union continues to cooperate memory suddenly acquired its asn built-ipick-u- p He went tonishing with the International Meteorological Organization is strong tto the FBI to denounce Owen as a communist for the testimony of the intense interest people take in weather Lattimore first time in the same week of They Hove Interesting Jobs The in Salt — In all the brutal questioning of this high state department offi Vincent case it was pretty hard to take Louis Budenz at his own valuation as one of the "moat truthful people in the world" The facts indeed speak for themselves Begins Job With FBI Budenz left the communist party in October 1945 Not long thereafter he began to work with the FBI He has said to himself that "No (other) American has given so many hours to the FBI and at all hours of the day and niaht and at any time eighteen hours ween Jt every weekday and holiday and the entire Christmas holidays- and all the other times I could be reached" He has further estimated that between the end of 1945 and the of 1950 he dedicated earlyover-a-spring ll an total of 3000 hours of his time or the equivalent of 375 eight-hodays to this labor as an FBI informervoluntary You might have supposed that 375 eight-hodays would have given Budzen enough time to search his memory for the name of every lurking traitor however insignificant as to whose communist party membership he could testify with confidence But you would have been quite wrong in any such supposition While Budenz usefully assisted the FBI in preparing cases against such Soviet agents as J Peters and Gerhard Eisler he somehow forgot for rather more than four years about John Carter Vincent and the other men he is currently accusing It was not until March 1950 when Senator Joseph R McCarthy let loose his first bellows about mmmiuia sk - WASHINGTON — It was very quiet out at Headwaters farm in Maryland during the last days Har- old Ickes was alive He lay in a nuge bed looking out at rows oft Dine trees that he had nlanted monv year before and a rose garden that looked wan and discouraged Rubber Prices Snap Back When US Goes Buying By Peter Edson WASHINGTON — The story of how General Services Administrator Jess Larson and his aides lowered the price of natural rubber from 80 cents a pound to 50 cents isn't as well known as it should be It makes a pleasant variation to the usual pattern of steadily rising prices in this inflationary age This deflation has rinn in little more than a year Not only! has the nrice been lowered Th chaotic world rubber market has been stabilized and the supply of raw rubber has now been built up to the point where there is enough for both military and civilian needs Before war broke out in Korea rubber sold at around 50 cents a pound dockside in the U S In the five months that followed with every major power in the world scrambling for rubber the price shot up to 80 cents U S government buyers for the munitions board stockpile found themselves bidding up the price and competing against buyers for the privately owned American rubber companies This was costing the taxpayer millions of dollars because both sets of buyers were seeking rubber for national defense Larson Stepped In To end this rat race Administrator Larson as chief procurement officer for the government got together with representatives of the American rubber companies On Dec 29 1950 they were able to announce that the government would become exclusive buyer and importer of natural rubber for all users Larson then made a number of quick moves He pulled out of the New York market and started buying in the Far East — Singapore Indonesia Ceylon He cut the government price to the rubber companies to 66 cents a pound And he began to pull supplies out of stockpile under his authority to rotate reserves to keep them fresh Effects of these moves were to drop the world price by seven cents a pound Steps Up Production Then the government ordered synthetic rubber production stepped up The government owns practically all U S synthetic rubber plants though they are operated on contract by private companies Production in 1950 was about 0 tons a year This was stepped up gradually to the present level of 800000 tons a year The government's ceiling price on synthetic rubber to the indusCosts try is 26 cents a pound cents a pound varyaverage 24 ing from 20 cents for synthetic made from petroleum to 38 cents for production from alcohol This differential plus national production authority orders requiring the use of synthetic with raw rubber stretched rubber supplies and helped bring down the price To stabilize the market still further government buyers stopped buying when the market price was up started again when the price dropped In the spring of 1951 there was a period of nearly two months when not a pound was for the American market bought Some Figures Are Secret Larson won't tell what government buyers paid for some of their big purchases But the suspicion that much rubber was bought for far less than the government's selling price of 66 cents a pound was confirmed last June when the ceiling price was dropped to 52 cents a pound Jan 17 1952 the price was again cut to 50 Mi cants Government purchases last year were around 400060 tons not counting purchases for the stockpiles Size of the stockpile is secret but it has frequently kept been estimated at a five year reserve Buying natural rubber at 45 to 47 cents in the Far East markets and selling at 50 cents has not made the government any profit— as that was not the purpose But it has covered all administrative shipping and handling expenses The world rubber situation has now been so well stabilized that sometime before April 1 Administrator Larson expects to announce that the U S government will stop out of the market as exclusive buyer for American interests By midsummer world rubber markets should again be completely free It will take the industry this three- - hn 300-00- month Interval to build up its inventories now at low levels because of government supply The U S government will continue to buy natural rubber for the strategic stockpile NPA will also continue rubber inventory controls and specification controls which regulate the amount of synthetic rubber that must be blended with Italy Hails 11 Piccolo Americano' ROME Feb 7 (AP)— When Danny runs on the streets of Piombino his pais point their fingers and say "there he is H Piccolo Americano — the little six-year-- American" the natural Danny's GI father died of pneuReturn to a free rubber market wiU mark successful conclusion of monia Before he died he recog the first defense program to in- nized Danny as his son That made crease the supply of a raw material Danny an American citizen and for both military and civilian needs eligible for aid under U S vetat a fair price to both producer and erans benefit laws The $45 monthly he will get from consumer 'Short o' Gets 'Ah' or aw' In Most of U the U S government until he is IS Sa - By Charles Earle Funk In the United States the sound which dictionaries and textbooks generally indicate as "short o" rarely is given the actual sound of short o Englishmen have no difficulty with the sound and people brought up in and around Boston use it as do many Canadians also But throughout most of the United States the sound that one hears is either ' ah" or "aw" The true sound is about halfway between these Consequently in some parts of the country such words as dog frog forest coral officer horrid are pronounced as if the "o" were "ah' Speakers in those regions say these words as if they were spelled "dang frahg fahrest cah-rahffficer hahrrld" In other parts of the country— the larger part incidentally— the prevailing sound in these words is aw" The list along with other words of the same character would show the pronunciation "dawg frawg fa wrest cawral awfficer al hawrrid" And in some localities is comparatively big money in Danny's hard-u- p neighborhood in Piombino near Leghorn Danny la a living eloquent argument for the American way of fife— one that communist posters on Piombino walls can't answer He's one case Another is Jimmy down In Naples province Jimmy is seven His- dad in an American Negro soldier who has recognized him as his son Jimmy's Italian mother could not cope with her personal aftermath of the war She ended her life Grandmother Is Custodian A veterans affairs investigator Jack Cacciatore found Jimmy in a squalid room at Grumo Nevano an aggregation of some 8000 persons in Naples province It took a iot of doing but the office has cleared such as around New York City where one gets the pronunciation peculiarities of aU the world the same speaker may at one time saw and at another "frahg" "frawg" at one time hawrrid" and at another hahrrid What is the "correct" pronunciation? Well historically all these should use the true sound of o short the sound about halfway between "ah" and "aw" But although many people throughout the country do give that sound in speaking the word "watch" otherwise the sound seems impossible for the average American tongue For that reason the "correct" American pronunciation of short o may be either "ah" "aw" or the true sound of short o depending entirely upon the prevailing practice of the region in which the speaker lives (Released by the Bell Syndicate Inc) Oldest American Sport Lacrosse a Jimmy's grandmother as custodian and through her now gets $2160 monthly— Jimmy a share of his father's benefit pay- ment These are two of some 3000 benefit pay cases tn Italy Most of them concern veterans who served in the U S army during World war I their widows and dependents Nearly all are from little poverty-stricke- n towns and hamlets of southern Italy and Sicily whence the big Italian immigrant waves swept to America Like Money From Heaven The $60 or so monthly they receive is like money from heaven It's something they never expected to see on earth Nor perhaps did congress when it passed the veterans aid law in the depression-bittedays of 1933 imagine that it was clearing the way for payments to and even nonresidents of the United States Many of those now receiving such benefits here left the United States 30 years ago Some never saw the United States and never will But the $150000 that goes out monthly to them some foreign believe may be a telling advertisement for the American way of life n non-citize- Questions And Answers Q— How did the late Mrs Elisabeth Meriwether Gilmer explain her selection of a pen name? game of American Indian origin was adopted by white settlers in Canada and has m r vrc LP1UI1IT 1VIIS come to be regarded as the Ca- Gilmer chose Dorothy Dix because nadian national game It probably uoromy sounded sensible aDd is the oldest organized sport in coined "Dix" from the name of a America family servant Dick "whose wife called him Mr Dicky JOSEPHINE Q—What are today's most poplar cnta for diamonds? A— The Brilliant a round stone me raid cut a rectangular ine stone and the Marquise an oval with pointed ends All three cuts have 58 facets — — i t Sketches It Happened in Ogden20 Years Ago t50 Years Ago G E Stonebraker Cascade Ida and his famous nine racing dogs had arrived here by airplane from Boise to compete in the Wasatch Dog derby His dogs set a world's record of 50 miles in three hours and 42 minutes Mound Fort hoopsters had defeated the St Joseph's machine In a league game in the junior high circuit 24 to 23 One of the largest shipments jgjf ' ocu Hum i lail nu just gone east over the Union Pacific having been brought to Ogden over the Oregon Short Line from Milford Beaver county The shipment consisted of 41 carloads with an average of 31 horses to the car making a total of 1312 head These horses brought $5 and $6 apiece aggregating over $7000 making worth shipped out of mfmmmMt Beaver county this season They were purchased by F C Erwih and L M Delaney representing Thuet Bros of Sioux City and were to be sold at auction there Please open yew eyas and sit up You're scaring the tittle boyl r J P Martin chief engineer of the U S forest service had gone to Winnemucca Nev to confer Professor M Thomas eye spewith Humboldt county commissioners regarding forest roads cialist and diagnostician had his offices in the Utah Loan and Trust L U Morris assistant general Bldg and announced children's manager of the Southern Pacific eyes a specialty railroad Sacramento had arrived to inspect railroad properties here Pupils attending school in the institute building in the Second ward Queen Esther chapter No 4 0 E gave fheir teacher Miss M lone S was to meet at the Masonic tem- Carroll a very pleasant surprise ple said Mrs G C Quillian chair- party and souvenir Refreshments man were served Members of the Jolly 10 were to The Rev Bruce Kinney noted meet at the home of Mrs E J Wat- - Chicago divine was assisting ia kins 2838 Liberty services at the Baptist church Strictly Business Xlr' ThS Board t Q— What ia the ertgla of the story of Betsy' Row and the American fiat A— The Betsy Ross story was flat related in 1870 by William X Can-b- y a grandson of Betsy's in a paper presented before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania He said he was told the story by his grandmother when she was an old woman and he a boy of ll Q — Can any one sign an act of congress for the president? A— The president alone can sign an act of congress but ways have been devised of relieving him of the heavy duty of signing - "tfeU what&4jp Mwtnj " ' |