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Show Fair 6 £are Enough if I Horn in on This Picture? ]Craziest Business Deal Costs U. S. Plenty in Chinese Trade Westbrook Pegler (Copyright, 1946, by King Features Syndicate, Inc ) NEW YORK, Oct. 4_u. S. now By Press, NEA Service and A. B. O. Peter Edson Standard-Examiner Washington in the indefinite future. Disposal of the western Pacific, nonmilitary surpluses provided the opCorrespondent to wipe the slate clean. WASHINGTON. Oct. 4--Sale of portunity Principal negotiators for China U. S. surplus property to the were Dr. T. V. Soong, president nese government, which the sen- the executive" Yuan, and a committee eral Kiang. The general did most ate war investigating, nose into the othits timidly stuck dickering. His principal was er day. probably the craziest was that he didn't know what ever business deal conducted. he was buying or the condition On the one hand, the U. S- stuff was in. He could be shown approximately 1.500,000 tons of civ- aerial photos of acres of automogoods on which biles and trucks on this island, ilian-type offer no inventory. They were miles of naval supplies on that mountains of building mascattered in China and on nearly island, some a score of western Pacific islands, terials place else, warehouses including Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, said to be full of canned foods-Eniwoetk, Kwajalein, and the big all the stuff being marshaled navy supply dump at Ulithi. Evthe invasion of Japan proper. But tropical jungle growth was ery non-military item excluding the stuff in the Philippines, Japan rapidly covering everything. Army and Korea. and navy had just had to walk with a minimum On the other hand, U. S. took off and leave no possible mainte- " and guard payment the for this junk part to get cancellation of a worthless paper nance crews, in the speed home. And no place money, "yuan dollar" debt in unk-the boys back an nown size. The U. S. said inventory that could owed there guaranteed. this debt to China. But had no General Kiang kept insisting he was. Estimates idea how big a cat in a · bag. He given by the office of foreign liqu- buying even see the cat. He didn't idation vary from $150,000,000 to couldn't was alive 5250,000,000, with the former far even know whether or dead, Tom or mama-cat, or likelier figure. On the third hand the U. S. a kitten. How could he buy? to set up a fund of $300,000,000 to U. S. Negotiators McCabe, with pay the Chinese for chartering Assistant Secretary of War HowAmerican ships to go to the ard C.C. Peterson and Rear Admiral Cotter for the navy, t had islands, pick up the stuff and haul was a cat in a bag.' But to China. All China furnishes admit was a live cat, the coolie labor to do the steved- insisted By stands committed to an article on Hitlerism which, to Americans in our normal frame of mind, is a o tbe cal newt. monstrosity. Adopted in our doFRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1946 mestic system of justice, it would to the death penalty any subject person found guiltyf thinking criminal thoughts. In the people's A courts of nazi Germany, primarily for the purpose persecuting Much of the publicity from the American Legion con- provision of, was made that acts not specifically foreseen and. forbvention in San Francisco has stressed the horseplay of idden by law should be regarded crimes nevertheless and that the 40-and-8, the feuding of Veterans Administrator Omar as courts might fit the punishment to Bradley and Legion Commander Stelle, the inevitable these crimes. In the cases of the nazi war clashes of ideas which are inevitable in an organization as now sentenced to death or' imprisonment, U. S. has gone tremendous and unwieldy as the Legion. Almost overl- long even further. Not only are the for acts which ooked was the address of Maj. Gen. T..B. Larkin, the quart-condemned forbidden by any law were committed and are they ermaster general, because he chose not to breath hellfire forbidden by law even now was but the court composed of and brimstone. who brought the complaints Gen Larkin spoke soberly of war's grimmest aspect- aggrieved parties made the credited to new* Time / its dead And for It 'jg^s^^sA^ys^^ or Comradeship he praised the Legion it '| it, it it is in the army, I today, such a high and worthy purpose ition of our nation. Roosevelt'.had i s faults, l - h death the best l tradand Harry Hopkins a it it it charges, conducted the prosecution, highly because made the decision and imposed the not forget comrades who members have shown that they do Satisfactin to Vary made-the supreme sacrifice. Said Gen. Larkm: The satisfaction, that will be when the executions tover "It is to the everlasting credit of the American Legionvary in individuals, but, actYour not graves has dead! the national that forgotten the value of" the killings as ually, to war-makers of the registration and memorial plan states as its first objective: will be nil. Hitler was not To" fulfill an obligation to our departed comrades. In future afraid to die and seems to have midst of crass materialism and selfishness in the world expected to die if he failed. For -*time it oring. Full Import of Deal apparently met death a little early rather than live a longer been the restrictions little of a doctor. ob- who lead nations into war and it it that it was a healthy cat. While they couldn't let the general see and he could at least feel wasit, so determine it was a catit, he was a a or buying, not rabbit pig. to is no Announcement of this deal made jn Shanghai nearly a ago by the now retired foreign "As quartermaster general of have profoundly impressed, too, by another American Legion usually believe in the justheir causes, as Stalin may jective, which pledges "to be helpful during the periodice ofwhen he attacked Finland overseas War World from dead of of the II the slightest provocation, repatriation graves in rendering every service possible to the next ofMr. Roosevelt, himself, agreed. Few Americans have had the and every honor to the men and women who made composure to consider seriously the meaning of this commitment of supreme sacrifice on foreign soil. pur government before the world, "Your organization, with more than 16,000 posts and co-operation with a dictatorial Russia's, whose more than three million members, is well-equipped to government. a vital and important service to next of kin who may seek been put on trial and the rest of the your help. You. may begin at the time the office of nazis.Goering The immensity and confusion of events during and since quartermaster general has returned the remains to the war have been too great for You can next honor just They closed the deal on that liquidation commissioner, Thomas basis. B. McCabe. The announcement Get Very Little Cash made appear that the U. S. was Actually, the U. S. will get very receiving the equivalent of S175.cash money at all, and that little for 000,000 supplies costing $825.20 years. It will get the equiv000,000. That would give the U. S. about 21 cents on the dollar. Butalent ofand$35,000.00 worth of embassy buildings in China. And the full import of this deal is sites China to spend the equivaagrees now beginning ot register, and it $20.000,000 improving culwill probably be investigated furt-lent ofrelations. What the Yuan tural her. settlement amounts to is that Most interesting phase of the neU. S. gives back to China the gotiations was over the yuan airfields built and paid for in neadebt. This debt was supposedly rly worthless paper money. incurred by the U. S. army in After the goods get back to China. Whenever -the army wantthey will be the property an airfield, it would ed to build to use Drew Pearson Chinese government of the Chinesethegovernment call on. the country or to sell rebuilding of kin. provide designated by guards, understanding. Yuan money. Chinese Executive for state de-fwoman from Massachusetts batted-fchamber--McGrath and Senator to its nationals. Any money the scholars and practical ex- WASHINGTON--The menprinting presses would roll, Chinese President j Theodore F. Green, both A-l and firing squads and buglers from your membership in order recently leaked out a 1.000 when she broachedabout government gets from come a in the special fields of hiswould out ot perts 7.ot these sales, it will keep. Nazis in Spain are now able with pub- a the other day b'y which U. S. would that a proper" military funeral may be conducted for tory, law, politics and economics lish some numbers and Chinese big on of the secret documents U. S. gets is rid of the'' special session of congress to fly the gold they hid in them. The army would All the unable'to keep up. a cost of $30,000,000-it is to Russia's collaborating deal with the meat shortage. Of course I realize that the American been to Argentina The U. S. and Brit-writing families desiring we do know that American pay to these coolie spend labills nerattempt Germany during the nazi- Ialso ied out ain this week lifted all control have always believed that no bor, buy materials, land or what ing the Chinese to take it away. Legion is helping families in many, other ways. over freight leaving Spain induce Truman to order Agrisoviet pact period. The docu: be should for inflicted they. "You must keep this in mind, however: These remainsnot forbidden by written lav ments, of course, are packed culture Secretary Anderson to reWhile silver senators advised their There was nothing behind this on meat. to They show Hitler and constituents dynamite. j j keep silver-mining controls j commission. at of its paper money. In March, 1944, G.O.P. in Bankruptcy years. specifically will be coming back to this country over a period of constitution Stalin in active collaboration Drier "The meat shortage is extreme- silver off the market, black' when this fancy financing began, protect; to 1941. were Mexican my silver The task of providing personnel with which to accordus against such jeopardy and dam state," said keteers of up ly critical in was 100 Yuan exchange rate Says Demo in the New England the However, as soon as this infor-Rogers. "We can't even .get meat cleaning one U. S. dollar. In to war dead a funeral with military honors will not be age, including the death penalty mation dollars area where silver is deeded for leaked out, Molotov sentfor the hospitals. You've got to Our enjoyment of this security 1946, when the practice LOS ANGELES. Oct. 3 (AP) manufacturing. The - treasury is 'August, easy one. Planning, understanding, tact and sympathy sub-conscious, but it is not hard word to BritishU. Freign Minister do something." rate was about 4000 The- Republican party is in "comthe ended, now the tax payif S. published thesj*Truman replied that he was ments investigating In other words, a 3000-Yuan plete political bankruptcy," says imagine the terror and anarchy Bevin that of these illicit silver dealers of the situation ·. in Massrequired. us if, today, papers, Russia would publish cerbecame note that would seize we worth about Democratic. National Chairman dollar were to real-tain documents of its own. Theachusetts and elsewhere and was and they' are getting scared. Lastcent and a quarter, U. S. The quartermaster corps, under Gen. Larkin, was ass- minute on, sums one even documents week Robert E. Hannegan, adding that them walked the the of into list we should now be deeply troubled by it, but that tax 'Debt' Would Be Settled collector's office here and to the principle that U. S which Hitler paid to some very j there was little he co.uld do if handed igned the job of repatriating the dead of World War ize that the present campaign its spokesover $80,000 in cash which, From a third to a half a trillion cattlemen refused to market their important Englishmen. men are carefully avoiding menBy reason of the designation of the Utah General depot as at Nuernberg. Yuan he he had worth of dollars beef. this inflatall said, forgotten In Expensive Saloons Although London will deny it, ed stuff was spent by the U. S. tion of the G.O.P.'s performance He added he had no intention about. key point in the undertaking, Ogden people are acquainted departure was never debat- foreign office is now hoping 1946, by the Bell China. The arrangements was that the last congress. prothe (Copyright, stabilization even upsetting exor ed state the discussed department keeps its with the magnitude as well as the delicacy of the cept in Gen, the "debt" would be settled some "A political party without cregram by steps to abolish meat conSyndicate, Inc.) shut. drunken babble in the extrols through action by Anderson ative and constructive purpose Larkin's remarks to the Legion show that the task pensive saloons which have become Murray May Resign and the price de-control board. He must either concede its own deour many of of hangouts A as out and both and in of the the other veterans' organizaby Legion shared, solidly behind Anderson in The and of lot arepeople feat, or resort--as a political parand bureaucrats, worried for fear labor stand against lifting the letter's ty in Germany once did--to pure and, even of one justtions, to ease as much as possible' the burdens of wartimeofwives, as head of ceilings, Truman said, and it would resign our supreme court. It nev- O. will phantasy,", the postmaster general, ice wisdbeen has a .rally of Southern California Murray's It a lot to make him change bereavement. er was ^seriously presented to theom that. kept the extremists last night. people, "a "failure which may be in the C. has. O. in check. He charged that in th^.last conI. our press. The "Well, why don't you call a specharged against gress the Republicans "stopped at of congress to deal The Germans must be reintegrated into our western certainly have not expressed However, he isn't getting. any cial session the problem?" persisted nothing neglected no opporapproval of the principal, alt-younger, is in poor health,, and with system; otherwise they are lost, and a dangerous vacuum to attain their purpose, an overwhelming wants to resign at the November Rogers. "The OPA extension bill tunity probably hough convention in Atlantic isn't working, so why not let's whatever the cost to the people of will be created in Europe. There must be some majority, consulted in the method C. I. O. he In the beginnnlg the patient is this country." and pass another law thatBy William A. O'Brien, M. D. the C. I. O..will does, If City. would say it of of'the poll opinion, bed to in for several must The kept be days, better life and of better conditions. He asserted the G. O. P. conglight various pieces. For that will enable people to buy meat, Written for NEA Service they were glad of the verdicts. split into He nerves. not should quiet his means doing away with ressional record was against price have neglected reason' many friends are implor- even if Chorea (St. Vitus dance) is a have in the window for the prodigal to return.--Prime Minister of opinionreasons visitors, and every effort control, against veteran housing, controls?" we ing him to remain and the presthe for that subject made him be to keep form of rheumatic infection affect- should Smuts of South Africa. against full employment legislamay guess There was so much ent plan' is to re-elect him unani- Truman replied that he himself stimulated. tion and against the-school lunch didn't like thewasOPA bill passed ing the muscles. It may be asso- being else to discuss. It would have mously. program. congress, but compelled to ciated with rheumatic infection Fever Therapy Helps been futile",' anyway, because "the Lampposts for Dictators or have no controls at elsewhere in the body, or The most successful treatment may government was determined to Lamppost hangings for dictator sign it he added. "I don't intend "No," as the only sign of itthe results have followed fever therfollow Roosevelt on this rash andare becoming too fashionable i to call back congress to deal develop apy, which can be given in the disease. flippant commitment, the airy im- "iatin-America. meat shortage--not just yet, of injections of typhoid vaccommon Everyone who picked up Thursday's copy of The Standa- of which Elliott Roosevelt That was the conclusion of Ar the most Chorea is in girls anyway. would think don't one I and of the 5 15 it in indicated between was years age, of articles al-! Placing the patient in Dictator Peron who rd-Examiner "looked at the snow scene on the front which he is recouping his fortunegentine though it does develop in boys Kettermg hypertherm (fever from a lat solve anything." to his urning palace was a picture of upstate New York ina historian of unverified state- party, when he noticed the head Capital Chaff well. box.) and shivered. ments and incidents. Elliott dean automobile playing o General "Beetle" Smith, U. S Until the condition was under- As the patient recovers,-he is allof ights early fall snowstorm, tree branches broken because scribed a dinner scene at which ambassador to Russia, is fed up stood, many young patients were owed to resume normal activity lamppost directly in front o Churchill held out, against home. On the lamppost was with Moscow, has asked to be punished because they could not as soon as possible, playing with clinging leaves held too great a burden of snow, automoTULBPS Stalin and Elliott's father, for the iig sign saying, "Reserved for Colmade ambassador to France.... hold still, since physicians and par- children and doing things he biles stalled. British way of justice, and came inel Peron."» DAFFODILS Truman will ask con- ents failed to realize that their likes. President badly in that company, As Peron's car drew to a hall gress lor a special $200,000,000 behavior was due to an underlying In chorea the rheumatic infecAt a time when Ogden was just getting over a chilly HYACINTHS while President Roosevelt scoffed he automobile, whose headlight grant to aid a democratic 'Italy rheumatic infection. tion is centered in the brain, and was almost 'too startling ahis qualms. And there on on the sign, dashed away after UNRRA expires January 1 Chorea begins, gradually or sudcure spell and a drenching rain, CROCUS outlook hone for depends some voices, in politics, 'eron took several shots at th . . . . The civil aeronautics denly, with headache.xloss of appe- degree of infection elsewhere, was New York instead and reminder of things to come. Since on the radio, who sign himself, stormed into his pal has refused to consider the petit- tite, sleeplessness, and fever. The as the brain infection always Paper White American ace, told his aides he could licl ion of Elliott Roosevelt's air line infection varies greatly in severity,shows a tendency to heal. of California, nobody said anything about "unusual" flinched from upholding as expressed any man in Buenos Aires. of may on be to recogprinciples justice, to difficult reopen feeder lines it Other diseases may be confused hearings weather. in the constitution and our laws In the fall of 1941, just befon in New York nize in the beginning. and New with chorea, as young girls also would be The for fear that a muscles and twitch they may group author of Someone "Starof isola Stanley Arnold, Pearl Harbor, say jerk suffer from hysteria and other ner- For Window Planting! can't happen here," and thsmeared as defenders of the tionist conducted a smearSpangled Banter," points out that the patients make movements senators vous mannerisms. autumn are snowstorm chances won't. But enough They'll Bloom for Christcamps of Germany. that gone which have no particular purpose. investigation of Hollywood movies President Truman has really mas If Planted Now! or Senator Robert Taft of Ohio which New find They come to provide the exceptions that prove the rule. difficult impossi- Question: Is grinding the teeth himself. it fell flat for two reasons-- in for reversing one of the few who dared face the Pearl Commerce W. Aver- ble to hold their muscles in a statesign of worms? of Harbr and attack Secretary The rule, in this case, is that regardless of Tuesday' though he realized, as a prac- Willkie's briUiant defense of ell Harriman has exactly the rev- of contraction. There is some .Answer: No. It usually means tical politician, that this was an Hollywood. erse initials of Henry A. Wallace of power. the child is nervous or that that popping electrical storm and Wednesday night's chill, issue man a which in Leader of the anti-Hollywood defending --H. A. W. vs. W. A. H. Harri-Affects' Mentality he is dreaming about "cops and most of can autumn precious man, of course, is the exact. relegal rights weather in th American beat the senators was Gerald Nye of part of the country seems to affect the robbers." the citizen might be Dakota.. verse of Wallace in* more ways The'disease His secretary--a clever and they find mentality, patients' mountains. There'll be plenty of sunny Saturday afternoon from the than man by that on was initials. platform who young always concentrate. to For Lawns. difficult it we how very asked Taft citizen. kickoffs to prove that point. hand to Nye in his Merry-Go-Round may twitchThree Killed in chorea with Patients could expect to de-Hitlerize the to dividehelp Rioting the American people wasPresident Truman has aband- so badly tha.t they appear to be -Crob ~ Germans if, in our most spectacu(Spike) Movius. movements BOMBAY, Oct. 4 (AP)--Three nation-wide Several for oned making plans faces.' 'a to act beauof conversion the lar The authority of American foreign policy is will now be interesttour in behalf of in different directions are started persons were killed and 19 woundtiful system of "democracy," we edHollywood to know that Eric Johnston, Darnstorming' Democratic congressional candiat the same time, and, while it ed in outbreaks of communal violupon the degree of American unity behind it.--Senato:resorted to the horrible expedient president Motion Picture dates. Too many of his old possible to dispel them tempora- ence the Time to Apply law retroactively Associationof ofthe. of improvising 24 America, was is taking whom in' Bombay during the Buddies he not Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. sched-rily, the jerks always come back. Crab Grass Seed. Hitler did. to Kill Movius on his good-will uled to support by personal visitsIn an ."Spike" severe hours ending at midnight, cases, they interfere ofHow can U. S. approve that princAmerican of for Europe ivould be offended. Instead Tru- sleep. ficial announcement said today. iple in international issues and man will confine his active cam- Walking -may be and Most casualties were the result of difficult, continue, to maintain the oppositemovies, Blocked common. one Speech is stumbling is paign to two radio speeches, position in our domestic justice? Refugees October 10, the other a affected, in any cases. Any num- isolated stabbings. The wounded Last Christmas President Tru- about The confusion and contradictions Defore election day....If former er of -muscles can be affected, included an Indian newspaperman After conferring with the Democratic national com. here defy reason and intelligence. man courageously ordered the McHoward General may be lim-who was shot from ambush in a Solicitor a to STORE visas hough'thetocondition for Robert provide Jackson, justice of departmentmore than one group. ited mittee, Henry Wallace and Sen. Claude Pepper, the supreme court, is elected to the senate next 40,000 displaced j laid down the entry of from side street. . , one to six Europe into U. S. month, the first law partners in Chorea lasts from conducted the prosecution forthright Democratic critics of certain Democratic adminis-aand However, nine months later, the many a year will be operating ac- ) months,' unless the course is shorthim on role that placed on tration policies, have decided to speak in favor of their of the lynching mobs and gentlemen of the state department ively the floor of the upper ened by treatment. the cheers, be it noted, of those have only handed out 4000 visas. parties' candidates. Truman, who lynchers. And the same Result: President Naturally, we don't know what was said in this huddle meanwhile, breaks off to has just got wind of this, may crack down on the state departduo colleague, Justice with the committee. But we presume that the dissident 31ack, for his failure to disqual- ment and demand the firing of the 11; made the fateful choice between damning the administra- himself in a case in which obstructionists. as 'ormer Your law-partner appeared Truman Declines tion's foreign policy with faint praise, or praising counsel. Yet Jackson was appeal- One of the sawiest members of faint damns. ng to a court in which the congress, Edith Nourse Rogers, has were not mere ex-partners, but acreputation for usually getting ;ual: agents of the complaining what she goes after.' However, the much American very wage-earner doubt whether the I charming and tenacious congress30 This is your "Welcome really believes that anybody can guarantee security in 150 Seek One Room PM. Home" to Weber' County. a world. What he really wants is steady employment at LOS ANGELES, 4 Oct. (UP)-'fair rate of pay.--Henry Ford he telephone rang constantly todfrom common colds ay for Mrs. Elizabeth Pearce, gent for the apartment house' All veterans of Weber · vhere Benny (The Meatball) GamSeem on and an underworld pal were County, their partner!, and hot and killed. By bedtime last Crebmulslon promptly bethe all service-men in Full employment is a reality, .and over-all industrial ight she had 150 applications for cause it goes relieves to the seat of tho right f TRADED FAIR apartment. county invited -- FREE! and to new loosen trouble help expel output has hit a post-war high. But don't get complaQUARTS ««* riNTS germ laden phlegm, and aid natura to soothe, and heal raw, .tender, infFOR SALE AT YOUR ;cent. The civilian production administrator says that a labor mucous memFAVORITE STORE lamed bronchial end and at of year, the the that |HET;K!LUNG"YOU .shortage'is looming branes. 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