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Show " MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA. UTAH Man About Town f What o ealelle , hey published pix of Goer: V E 10m kissing Alabama rnofa: 'slO! ue" Shaw, was that she " 'homesick" and flew n back t his private plane S raft's nieces, Cynthia Taft'. ,iP; iround the Vassar campss',, ,r?u: i huee Wallace button . , j f hw top Juke-bo- pet i's 't nat "Sabre Dance." That there ' were over to c subs aU over the Pacific,! ' ported several months Sunday night broadcast, V navy didn't reveal the rtii ii kept down the actual tJ 8 to help yonr insomnia, The Washington Ticker: Bt. Institute boys privately 'pre. : end of the "sellers' matktr They note increasing small iL flops and growing size of Inventories ... At Key te: ;i;P, oint chiefs of staff were re" l'- - j ask for 22 billion extra! Tie; people slugged it on the her" " ' U. S. senate is about to te-the defense department. Eej" r leaders inquire: "If the joint"pf are sure we're not prepared, Xl became of that 11 billion:' Repubs also allege the three a: "aren't and are ' "r lng appropriations "like Mac;; gain hunters". . . Gen, Wi "1!S Donovan has been so quiet he be very active. lis The ageless Cons. Sol Bit:; N. T. has a spring to his e e and he's 78. In the capitol i , ( ynmist said: "Ton look fine, j j do you do it?" "Women," he said. tr 'Women?" "I stay away from 'em," L New York's My Town: Vfe k .: could you extol the virtues ( r, I munism (as they do in Columbtler cle) with cops standing neirjfcdis protect speechmakers in taiifcjim temper got lost? ... A mania; ife a boy and wounds several t i::ut chums without getting lynched' "A Gamblers can get away ri u lng" hockey, basketball and !::.e b games? ... A gangster'! ih jisiur a $30,000 funeral, and an ncen can live in a $12.50 Waldorf;;, ciell suite on a $63.50 salary? up ui r Too many citizens who di: "1 Russians don't know "thekr: i h of war" forget that ; Wi two Russ pilots made in te " from Moscow to S. Cal., 6,5! In 62 hrs. and 2 mins. We don';: to the one in which two Russia." ,Jll forced down at Vancouver bold from their Siberian bases t'JS our tip of Alaska, Russian or FW can reach N. Y. and Waster: free considerably less time. The cr-- (via the North Pole gnK route) to Washington or Nn Gei is less than 3,900 miles. Thet Mig have passed us in jet desie tes are on equal terms with us ot: U si ers. "Captured" Eskimos r t:.e Bering Sea (26 miles fur loos Alaskan tip) are doing the rap building of fortifications forfc sians. Scripps-Howar- d rep' Di Washington reported that to: has 100 full divisions. Tfc Co more than 150 from the t- - 'rJ excluding their own lion troops. Todd Russell knows has a walk-o- n role In ' r, ( erts," the new hit. A when you haven't Mf cl , read you're another h m,. scenery. If yon bad , s sl. they'd have to pay y itti Anyhow, the walk "'', ro, had to dash out of rest "Sorry, I gotta do some!"- - Henry Fonda," he pantei "Oh, siddown," scolded the table. "What can for you-- get yon ft'" - r ' steps?" j The Cinemagicians: A M motion picture about J!ts placed children, called W- sht, wins the friendship of w js speaking the language Su, science . . . "April & frothy musical with Ja r10 and Ann Sothern PK"; N soap bubbles . . f or or gives you an explosive twists and burns, ins'" ' An,, Robinson's firecrack" fB'; ""t keeps it popping . . ,, t lra Builds His Dream Hous sturdy trouping of Carj , Myrna Loy for its Is wits 8 i:i Tarzan and the Men presents Mr. Torso 6(j from bromide to platitude. Att'n Skewp Dept.: wiU be presented to ;n! ,tl near future, which t that A items) will reveal gates living in luxury at' n hotel have all expenses p b.( , oil interests. A soldier we with the occupat.on r ; many just arrived Ijc .eparation center. , , 0 The poor lfy nii "u whether he's omm V J U. S. Has Best Opportunity To Enforce Peace in Wor!cl I By BAUKHAGE U News Analyst and Commentator i Once again we face the high cost of savagery or pievent-- v ing it depending on how you put it. Billions more to run the government and the world, and to cover a stepped-u- p defense program. Talk of a 10 per cent increase in the budget for next year seems logical. As one cynic remarked, in the next war per-il haps we ought to try to get on the losing side, and let the victors support us for a change. K Discussion of the details and cost of a selective service and universal C( military training program has been going on for some time. Sentiment ti against drafting husbands and G.I.'s seems to be crystallizing. ol It would seem that G.I.'s might be fairly good material in an emer-gency without having to learn the general orders over again, and with-out having to reacquire precision in bringing the right hand smartly to j the cap brim or lying down within a reasonable period before the arrival of a machine gun bullet. As to the husbands they aren't entirely expendable, of course all of Value of the Little Fish The little ones didn't get away! That is what Secretary of the In-terior Julius A. Krug is explaining as he spreads the mesh of one of the nets used by commercial fishermen of the New England coast. "Fifteen million baby haddock that didn't get away," says Krug, who as interior secretary is likewise re-sponsible for keeping a government eye on America's fish and wildlife, "would have been worth a million and a h-- lf dollars to New England's fishermen from March to of last year. They were caught in ordinary nets, killed and dis-carded." If the little haddock had man-aged to get away, they probably would have grown up, been caught this year and sold by the same fishermen for a million and a half dollars." This was one of the things I learned aboard the Albatross III, only floating laboratory possessed by the United States, which goes into service this spring. She started out them. Probably the most effective thing congress could have done was to vote immediately for immediate reg-istration for every-one. The age brack-ets and exemptions, after all, could be settled later. If the emergency arises or even approach-es we can talk de-tails. That is the r j; t r H ' i. , ; , - , ' 4 & - - i , iy '!. - v. - - V- - t i L v" 1 kind of emergency we face, and no I lacrifice would be too great to pre-vent it. Right now proof of our will-- j ingness to act is most important. Contrary to the general assump tion that all we need Is a few push- -' button experts and professors of nuclear science, any war that might come from now on would require a more extensive mobiliza- - tion of civilian as well as soldier than anything which has preceded T it. Meantime, there is a better chance to establish a solid and stable peace than there ever has been. The Unit- - ed States has a better opportunity to enforce peace than any nation ever had. We could, with compara-tively small sacrifice, start a pre-- ; paredness program to prevent the "imbalance" of power against us, '" I as they say in diplomatic language. In other, words we cpuld, without danger of actual conflict, since there is no power NOW (not tomorrow or next year, but NOW) strong enough to threaten us, establish a Pax - Americana. And with the will to peace that exists in the world today, we could use that situation, not es the Pax Romana or the Pax Brit- - ' tanica was used to create enemies but to build an effective Pax Uni-i- . versa. f America, in its strength could t , well afford to yield sovereignty to " a an International force. A period of tranquillity, enforced if neces-- 4 sary, is what the world needs; j ' time to reflect. Rome and Britain P" did bring a long peace of sorts; j we can establish a longer one , one long enough, perhaps, to build y a permanent one. t J The principle is simple as a col- - league of mine is fond of saying k J "nobody tries to pick a fight with f 1 Joe Lewis." Baukhage interviews Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug aboard the floating fish laboratory "Alba-tross III" in Boston harbor. as a regular commercial trawler, was drafted, transformed into a member of the coast guard's Atlantic patrol, discharged and now is equip-ped to do exactly the work com-mercial fishermen do, plus a lot more (by her crew of scientists) which will help the fishermen do better. One of the tasks of the fish ex-perts is to see if anything can be figured out which will save the wast-age created by catching the fish too young and thus preventing them from growing up to be caught and sold another year. The mesh in the net in the picture is four and a half inches instead of the standard meas-urement. Experiments have shown that use of the larger mesh saves 80 per cent of the under-size- d fish, and does not reduce the size of the catch of the larger, marketable fish. But the commercial fishermen have to be shown. One of he many tasks of the Alba-tross III is to prove by actual demon-stration that this is true. It is a big job. And the department of the in-terior has a big man at the head of tt. The dwarf in the photograph, to whom Krug is talking (according to figures on my White House pass pro-vided by the secret service) is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and I am standing on my two feet, not kneeling. Few Americans sipping their cof-fee, says Information bureau, know that the berries from which it is made look a good deal like cherries. And for that matter, few Americans, sipping their Man-hattans, say I, know that the cher-ries in them look a good deal like coffee berries. Early statements were made to the effect that it would cost an addi-- 1 tional 480 millions over what already has been budgeted for universal mil-itary training. We now spend 650 million dollars a year on cosmetics. And the total time used in applying j them, according to my private sta- - tisticians, divided into manhours of s-- l military training, leaves a generous j surplus for home-wor- I do not' mean to treat lightly the world situation and the idea of a J Pax Americana is not an empty one. It is, in fact, the only kind of a peace we can be sure of until we have time to stabilize world con--- ditions, until there is a fairer di vision of the bread, and the se-curity in which to earn it and eat H; a cessation of the fear, suffer ing and anxiety which make men trade their heritage of freedom for the empty promise of protection at any price. ,. I sympathize with the people who oppose militarism in any form; but I do not accept as a valid syllogism: Militarism is bad; military training in America is militarism; therefore, military training in America is bad. Military training in Germany (the jy classic example) was the result of militarism, not its cause. Military training in America is no more re- - " lated to German militarism than a hot dog is brother to a Dachshund. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 0. S. Barries Fight to Communists As Congress Approves Foreign Aid; Income Tax yt Becomes a Reality By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those et Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ot this newspaper.) Who's Mad? NEW START: China's Chiang Hopelessly lost in the political and economic confusion ot China, Gen-eralissimo Chiang Kai-she- leader of the republic in one capacity or another since 1927, was casting about for a new role in the tragedy of the Far East. Afflicted externally by Communist armies and internally by the venality of black marketeers and corrupt gov-ernment officials, Chiang has been in the position of a man attempting to build a house on a pile of soggy refuse. Now, however, there was a report out that Chiang had decided to quit the presidency of China. But there also were indications that, far from going into retirement, he would re-main as Kuomiatang strong man by becoming premier. A spokesman for the Kuomintang, China's governing party, said that the generalissimo was determined to free himself from the presidency in order to lead a "holy war" against the increasingly powerful Chinese communists. According to latest reports, Chiang was urging that Dr. Hu Shih be elected president. Former ambas-sador to Washington, Hu Shih now is president of Peking university. " ' i I 'is r " - ;j - A i ' - ; . : : ' - v.- ' FOREIGN AID: In Motion With President Truman's signa-ture on the $6,098,000,000 foreign aid bill, the massive, potent forces of western capitalism moved into ac-tion against Russian communism for the beginning of a titanic, long range clash of strength. To observers in the U.S. this inter-play of forces had all the ingredients of an epic poem the power of good striving mightily to overcome the pfwer of evil, with the fate of a large segment of mankind depend-ing on outcome of the struggle. There was an epic quality, too, in the manner in which congress, seem-ingly impelled by a strong sense ot urgency, raced the bill through for final action. The house approved it with a vote of 318 to 75 after less than 15 minutes of explanation, and the senate followed up swiftly with a voice vote. Two days after passage of the measure President Truman meshed the gears of the global aid program by ordering the reconstruction fi-nance corporation to advance 1.16 billion dollars at once. That action released U.S. dollars, reconstruction supplies and in some cases arms to 15 European nations, as well as Tur--ke-western Germany, Trieste and China. The overall $6,098,000,000 aid pack-age includes 4.3 billion dollars for the European recovery program, 275 million dollars for military assist-ance to Greece and Turkey, 463 mil-lion for China and 2 million dollars for Trieste. All of it is aimed at areas where communists are sharp-ening their sword of aggression. An movement in the house to include aid to Franco Spain in the bill was defeated before it had time to do much damage to U.S. prestige and moral stature abroad. As the aid started to move, the situation abroad stacked up some-thing like this: Russia's seizure of Czechoslovakia, its new pact with Finland and pres-sure on Scandinavian nations, the Soviets' arbitrary action in Berlin all pointed to the fact that Moscow was trying to bring about a show-down in Europe before the Euro-pean recovery plan began to work effectively. On the other hand, the rapid pas-sage of the foreign aid measure, the proposal to return Trieste to Italy and the stiffening of American will in Berlin seemed to indicate that the U.S., while not forcing a show-down, was, nevertheless, willing to have it as soon as possible. Few persons familiar with the situation thought that a showdown with Russia necessarily meant war. But it did involve acceptance of a risk of war. U.S. leaders were will-ing to take that risk on the theory that the likelihood of a shooting war is less now than it might be in the foreseeable future. PALESTINE: Trusteeship Studiously ignoring the groups and individuals who threw up their hands in horror when the U. S. reversed its position on partition of Palestine, this nation went right ahead with its avowed plan for a United Nations trusteeship of the Holy Land. Disclosing some of the details of that plan, Warren R. Austin, Ameri-can delegate to the U.N., told se-curity council members that the United States favors sending foreign troops to Palestine to keep order, if and when that becomes necessary, under the trusteeship formula. Unmistakably implied, although not stated outright, was U. S. will-ingness to send American troops to the Holy Land, provided other na-tions would jqin the parade also. Another provision was that the num-ber of nations supplying troops be specifically limited. Actually, there was little optimism that the fratricidal strife in Pales-tine or the causes producing it could be effaced by the expedient of im-posing a U.N. trusteeship. Nobody seemed to be mad at anybody when Gov. William M. Tuck of Virginia and President Truman met at convocation exer-cises at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va., to receive hon-orary degrees of doctor of laws. Mr. Truman exchanged a cordial handshake with Governor Tuck, vociferous leader of the southern states' rebellion on the President's civil rights program. that next year congress, safely through the elections, will boost fed-eral income by reimposing some version of the wartime excess profit tax. In view of these unpretty but in-escapable realities, the President's veto of the tax bill simply did not fit the preconceived pattern of political action in an election year. Rather, it looked more like the deliberate driving of another nail in his politi-cal coffin. In his veto message, Mr. Truman contended that increased defense and foreign aid measures might make it .necessary for congress to raise, taxes next year. "In the case of the income tax," he said, "nearly 40 per cent of the reduction would go to individuals with net incomes in excess of $5,000, who constitute less than 5 per cent of all taxpayers." Also, the President continued, while national income is high every effort should be made to reduce the size of the public debt. He was, beyond doubt, sincere in his objections, but they fell on deaf ears in congress. APOLOGIA: From Russia Even " as Russia officially ex-pressed regret over the "unfortu-nate" British-Sovi- plane crash over Berlin which cost 15 lives, plain people all over the world began to see more clearly how, although no nation is seeking war now, a war could start accidentally. A pilot of a Russian fighter plane had buzzed a British plane, carrying 14 passengers, as it was landing in Berlin. The transport crashed in the Russian zone where the wreck-age lay for 12 hours before the bodies were permitted to be moved. Tension in Berlin eased somewhat when British officials accepted the Russian apology and canceled plans to assign fighter plane escorts to all air transports coming into Berlin. The official British account of the crash quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the Russian fighter pilot was "frolicking" when he hit the big plane. While the fighter pilot undoubtedly had not been ordered to harrass the British plane, it was equally appar-ent that he and his cohorts had not' been forbidden to do so. Aside from the number of lives lost, the disturbing part of the inci-dent is that it was, in a manner of speaking, an aggressive action, an overt act of deliberate provocation. And it is just such incidents as that that world leaders fear might one day touch off the conflagration. REDUCTION: Tax Measure President Truman's veto of the income tax reduction bill was crush-ingl- y overridden by both houses of congress 311 to 88 in the house, 77 to 10 in the senate and U.S. citi-zens sat back to gloat over the first major g measure passed in nearly 20 years. In his now characteristic "I'd rather be right than be president" role, Mr. Truman had stubbornly affixed his veto to the bill, protest-ing that it mainly would benefit per-sons with incomes of $5,000 or more, encourage further inflation and sap the nation's strength at a time of international "danger." Examination of the new tax struc-ture indicated that the President was right in his first contention, at least that the law would be of greater benefit to persons with high incomes than to those in lower brackets. Reason for that is that 12.6 per cent of $3,000 is considerably less than 5 per cent of a million. (Cuts in tax rates as provided by the new law range from 12.6 per cent in the lowest brackets to 5 per cent in the top level. ) Most interesting aspect of the tax cut development was the question of what motivated Mr. Truman to veto the bill. He was aware that enough members of both houses were sup-porting tax reduction in this election year to override his veto; hence, that his veto would be a gesture of fu-tility that would place him on record as opposing the popular will, Mr. Truman must have been aware, also, of the strong possibility Gambling Losses Spur Draftsman To Take His Life Horse Player Gets Sore Keck After Five Attempts To Die in Car CROSSVILLE, TENN. A de-spondent draftsman from Wauke-gan- , 111., abashedly confessed to police that he was unable to kill himself after a fruitless hunt for death during a bizarre cross-countr- y motor tour in his automobile. He told what State Patrolman Charles Johnson called "a fantastic story" of seeking suicide on a cross-country motor tour. "I wanted to make it look like an accident so my wife could collect my insurance," Johnson quoted him. "Four or five times" since he left Waukegan, Hassart said he tried to end his life. He drove recklessly. He speeded on hairpin curves. He passed on hills. He tried to race trains to a dead heat at crossings. Nothing happened. What capped Hassart's failure ac-tually was "more or less of an ac-cident," he said. Slips Off Embankment ' His car slipped off a em-bankment. The car landed upside down In a tree, with Hassart still in it. He climbed out and to his amaze-ment couldn't find a real scratch on him. Disgusted, he hid In the woods. Meanwhile, authorities sought "the victim" of the car found dangling on the tree, seven miles from here. Hassart went to a farmer's house, slept overnight there and called Crossviile police. His decision to commit suicide, he said, stemmed from a number of reasons mostly horses of which he ramblingly spoke. He had been a draftsman, he said, until he was named adminis-trator of the estates of two of his relatives who died about four years ago. Plays Horses Then he became a horse player, and carried on a stamp collecting business on the side. He did well at horse betting, too for a while. He used what he called "a comic strip" system. The system collapsed shortly. Also, he said, a friend who owned a stable kept giving him bum tips. Finally, he was down to his last $23. He told his wife he Was going on a business trip. Crossviile police sent Hassart to Uplands sanitarium here. Doctors said he could be released any time because his only injury was a pos-sible sore neck. NUMBER ONE Public Friend Carl C. Countryman again wants to be President of the United States. With true political ebullience he has dubbed himself "American Public Friend Number One" and adopted a monolithic slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen; his countrymen for Countryman." That this tongue-twist-is intended to strike sparks of devotion from the flinty hearts of American voters is apparent in Countryman's frank statement that: "My campaign must be for over-whelming publicity and an appeal to the imagination of the American people. I have a lot of evi-dence that my slogan, 'Countryman for his countrymen; his coun-trymen for Country-man,' is doing the trick." Countrvman is nnt a myth. He is not a hoax himself, nor is he trying to perpetrate a hoax through his presidency cam-paign. He is just a man, getting along in years now, who is serving the sincere belief that he could do better in the White House than the political figureheads in vogue. Countryman opposes communism: "I want no part nor dealings with the Communist usurpers, who rep-resent but a small fragment of the great Russian people." Countryman opposes the military draft: "The draft is a subterfuge of incompetence. I favor making universal military training so attrac-tive that it will be universal or ap-proximately so." Countryman's name will appear on no primary election ballots: "The gain inherent in such a course will not justify the necessary expendi-ture of time and money." Countryman likes John Bricker of Ohio: "If I cannot get the nomina-tio- I am all for Bricker. I should like to have the ticket Countryman and Bricker but if not, then Bricker and Countryman." There is a truism which holds that universally present in the heart of every man is the belief that he could play Hamlet and run a newspaper. Countryman brings that deeply felt human motivation to the height of true nobility. For in his heart is the crowning belief that he also could be a good president. Maharaja Embarks on Huge Game Hunt-- for Gem Thief NEW DELHI, INDIA. --The Ma-haraja of Bilkha, who has a repu- tation for his prowess as a big game hunter, now is trailing his biggest prey yet a thief who stole 400 headdresses. For years the maharaja, Darbar Shree Ravatwala Saheb, has col-lected bejewelled turbans from Cairo to Singapore. He wears six a day in succession one at break-fast, another when dictating, a third at the audience he grants his prime minister, a fourth during his after-noon stroll, a fifth at dinner, and a particularly resplendent sixth on his nocturnal visit to his "chief queen." In his palace he has liter-ally roomfuls of turbans. Some unbelievably reckless Bilka native purloined 400 of these hea-ddressesa feat about comparable to walking out of Alcatraz. Now the heat is on in earnest, and every one of the maharaja's 45.000 subjects has been or will be given a search-ing third degree. Several hundred natives are under arrest as sus-pects. The maharaja, meanwhile, threatens confiscatory taxes unless his prized turbans are returned pronto and intact. Headliners IN MANILA, P. I. . . . Ariston Alma-le- l, veteran of Bataan, received an army back pay check for 49 cents, promptly went insane and died. IN GOSHEN, Ind. . . . Harold Tins-le- 9, wanted to do something for .underprivileged children overseas, nobly turned over to the Salvation Army his entire hoard of bubble gum 561 sticks. IN ARTESIA, N. M. . . . Conscien-tious city fathers were trying to figure out a way td keep absent-minde- d citizens from mailing letters in trash cans. P ! BARBS . . . by Baukhage The world's largest herd of dwarf ' tattle recently reached Chicago five cows and bulls totaling less than the weight of an average steer. Now I know where that steak I got last 1 1 1 night came from. LU - , Old songs are being revived, but - there still are a lot of people who would rather hear "Beautiful Ohio" t13" "Missouri Waltz." ifj .) The Australian government Is anx-ious that Australian girls who mar-ried American servicemen return to Australia with their husbands. Some of the girls are anxious to re-turn to Australia, period. Farmers say egg prices are too low, considering the high cost of poultry feed. Which comes first: The chicken, the egg or the feed? MODERN MOTORCADE Cars on Road Hit Historic Fiqure Number of passenger cars on the road in the U.S. today is at an e high, according to an article in the April edition of "Business Comment," bulletin of Northern Trust company. This is true despite the fact that no passenger cars were manufac-tured for private use during the war, that an estimated average of 1.2 million passenger cars were scrapped or put into storage yearly during the same period, and that postwar production has not yet ex-ceeded the best prewar years, the bulletin stated. Latest available figures Indicate a total of 27.5 million passenger cars registered in the U.S. on July 1, 1947, the article reported. Celebrants at Zulu Wedding Slay 10 in Tribal Dispute MTUNZINI, SOUTH AFRICA. -B- ecause Chief Siposo and his men said the beer was cheap and there wasn't enough to eat at the wedding feast of one of his warriors, a vi-cious tribal war started. Men of Chief Siposo's tribe were not pleased when one of their war-rir- s arranged to marry a girl in the rival native village of Chief Musitshingwe. And the girl's family felt that she was marrying beneath her station. Musitshingwe's warriors retorted that some of the cattle handed over as the bridegroom's dowry were diseased. Siposo's men went back to their village for spears, battle axes and shields. They returned, fired the grass above the wedding village the traditional Zulu warning of at- tackand advanced upon the vil-lage. Three hundred men fought for two hours. When they drew apart at sundown, 10 were dead, includ-ing Siposo's brother, and scores wert Injured seriously. Seek Uranium I Uranium that most precious of all metals since advent of the atomic age is being sought in Colorado now. Department of the interior has set aside about 40 square miles of public land in the southwestern part of the state for exclusive use of the atomic energy commission, which will con-duct an exhaustive investigation there for deposits of uranium, source of atomic .energy. |