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Show j MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH OSCAR'S TAKING FEWER ASPIRINS THESE DAYS . . . Pact Is Likened to Alcoholics 'Anomnibus ... BUT HE'S KEEPING HIS UNIFORM IN MOTHBALLS By H. I. PHILLIPS PURKEY ON ATLANTIC PACT Ex-PF- Oscar Purkey, veteran of the last war, feels better after reading the Atlantic pact, but he still thinks it's smart to keep moth-balls in his uniform and not swear off canned eggs for life at this point. "If the world was in its right mind, in fair health and not so jumpy, this Atlantic pack would be okay," he writes, "but you got to remember that it is in the same shape as Alcoholics Anomnibus holding a street-corne- r huddle when a liquor truck turns turtle in full view. "At first I think this Atlantic pack is not serious on account of it is not accompanied by no news that six blocks along First avenue. New York, is to be torn down to make way for a head-quarters," his letter continues, "but I find it is on the level and the matter of a official address will be took up later. "The swell thing about getting eight out of a dozen nations together like this is that at least it ends the day when they would not go far enough out on a limb to give each other their right phone numbers. They now agree not only to do this, but each one promises to answer the phone, no matter who is calling or how hot is it. , "I am sure the pack is a good thing on account of Henry Wallace and the Daily Worker and Russia is giving it the old elbow. If Henry was for it, I would be pretty sus-picious. The way it shapes up to me is that with England, France, Canada, the United States, Bel-gium and those other nations on my side, I can afford to let Henry stay on the bench. 'I can't quite figure out what the Atlantic Pack does to the UN. Everybody says it does nothing serious, but my com-mon sense tells me you can't have two police departments on the same job in the same spot without some difficulties bere and there. I hope they work okay together in this case, but one of 'em will want, the star's dressing room maybe and there is apt to be some professional jealousy. If the friction don't start a new war, I will be satis-fied. "All this Atlantic Pack does is to provide an agreement that all the nations outside the galvanized-lro- n draperies will consult together if any enemy starts playing rough. Personally, when the shooting starts I'd feel nervous if my side were just to confer on the matter. In the next global war, the sneak-punch-is going to have a awful head-star- t on the boys who go into a conference first. But I guess our side will find a way to perfect the huddle so that there will be only a few seconds of elapsed time between the attack and the answer. . "The western nations in this Pack may seem a little too gentlemanly for comfort in a global crisis, but it looks to me like this time they are with Stonewall Webster or Kayo Henry or whoever it was that said we have got to hang together or wire the newsreels men to photo-graph us all hanging separately. Anyhow, the news about this Atlan-tic pack has done me some good. I ain't taking so many aspirin." Cuff Stuff "Boys Wear Reported Off This Winter." Headline . . . And the girls seems to be overdoing it a bit, too. Railroad trains are now being made so glamorous and comfort-able that It is pretty distressing. A fellow is compelled to travel all the way out of town and back without getting a decent chance to develop a mood of deep irritation. Shudda Haddim is sick again. This time It's over the fact a horse called "Day" won at Gulfstream at $23.40. "I would of had him," he weeps, "except when I'm looking at 'em In the paddock somebody starts humming 'Day is done.' " Alaska proposes to tax women who do not get married. In those cold climates, it pays to be realistic. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Price Reductions Clip Inflation: j tent Control Law Gives Authority To State Governoreg (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions ar. P"asd jt cessarUy ol newspaper0)' Western Newspaper Union's news New Senator 'iTii'r-- lirfwiniYiiiT PRICE DROP: Hits Inflation American consumers were ask-ing themselves: What does it mean? Why were prices being slashed, the dollar stretching a little further? Was it simply that inflation was being clipped, or was it true, as some have said, that the country is in the midst of a mild recession? THOSE QUESTIONS were For, in the latest economic development, prices of automo-biles, accessories, radios, refriger-ators and ranges had been re-duced. Continued reductions in such basic commodities as lead, zinc, copper and steel indicated there might be further cuts in manufac-tured goods in the wind. One automobile manufacturer announced cuts ranging from $198 to $333 in the price of his cars. The n catalogue of the na-tion's biggest mail-ord- house an-nounced "many price reductions in all lines." Even ice cream was down off three cents a quart in Philadelphia. Radios showed the biggest drop. One nationally-know- n manufactur-er announced price cuts of 20 to 50 per cent on nine home model sets. Auto batteries were lower in cost. A refrigerator manufacturer knocked off $20 from some of its models. Steel was down and scrap metal was at the lowest price in al-most two years. WHATEVER ELSE entered into the picture, it was conceded that buyer resistance was one of the main items in the price reductions. The consumer had become more conscious of prices. There had been more buying. There was a tendency to "wait and see" whether prices would come down a bit. Businessmen and industrialists agreed that the "bloom is off the boom" that a healthy readjust-ment is underway. SPEED PILOT: A New Record? Joe De Bona, by his own admis-sion was a "scared boy." And he had every reason to be. He had taken off from Burbank, Calif., in actor Jimmy Stewart's nine-yea- r old plane a souped-u- p 1 at 9:20:50 one morning, and exactly five hours later he was zooming into the airstrip at New York's La Guardia Field. THE PLANE had a cracked cock-pit canopy, dangerously low oil pressure, no oxygen,, and gasoline for only seven more minutes of fly-ing when De Bona whistled into the airport at 600 miles per hour. "I'll never try a record flight again," he said. "This was too nerve wracking." Fred H. Wilkerson, official timer of the National Aeronautical asso-ciation, said the NAA would have to decide whether De Bona set a hew cross-countr- y record. He said the plane carried no barograph, a locked instrument which shows elapsed time, and that the gasoline tanks were not sealed. THE OFFICIAL coast-to-coa-record for a single reciprocating plane such as De Bona flew is six hours, seven minutes and five sec-onds, set by Paul Mantz on Feb-ruary 28, 1947, in a flight averaging 401.076 miles per hour. DEFENSE CHIEF: Has Big Job Louis Johnson of West Virginia had taken on one of the biggest jobs in the world, and had added to the magnitude of the task when he declared the armed services of the United States would be "united as one." WELL, JOHNSON, in taking over as secretary of defense, was the man whose job it would be to unify the armed services, but his prede-cessor, James V. Forrestal, retir-ing to private life as a banker, hadn't been able to do it. The fact was that jealousy be-tween the services made it prac-tically impossible to implement a congressional act unifying the army, navy and air corps. However, it was said Johnson would come cloer to it than anyone else proba-bly could. It was reported he was refdy to adopt a "tough" policy to brass hats in all the services and tbt if unification were possible, herd bring it about. One of the nation's foremost . educators, Dr. Frank P. Gra-ham, has been appointed U.S. senator from North Carolina to succeed the late Sen. J. Mel-ville Broughton. Dr. Graham was president of the University of North Carolina. RENT BILL: Buck Was Passed The rent control question was red hot. Congress knew it. The people knew it. But something had to be done before controls expired March 31. Congress had to do something. It did. It passed the buck. A rent control bill was drafted by the 81st congress, but it laid in the laps of state governors and legislatures the real power and re-sponsibility for rent controls. EVERYTHING congress wrote into the present bill can be nullified by a governor or a legislature, if they see fit. The bill continues rent controls for 15 months, or to June 30, 1950. It sets up a "home rule" process for decontrol of states, cities, or other local areas. Legislatures could remove controls throughout a state, or in parts of a state. A city government, or ruling body ol other communities, could pass a resolution calling for and, if the state governor approved it, then the federal government would be forced to abolish controls in that community. The bill requires the housing ex-pediter to fix rents so as to insure landlords a "fair net operating in-come ... as far as practicable." However, it restores old O P A powers for the rent expediter to control evictions. This, some con-gressmen said, would prevent any mass evictions by landlords. UNDER THE MEASURE, the housing expediter is authorized to sue a landlord for three times the amount of any charge made against a tenant above the legal rent ceil-ing. Under old law, the tenant had that power, but seldom used it. The new act does not authorize further 15 per cent "voluntary" in-creases in rents, and recontrols any dwellings decontrolled under such voluntary leases, at the rent figure contained in such leases. Veterans' priority for first chance to rent or buy a new property are continued in 'the bill. STOCK MARKET: Curbs Are Relaxed The federal reserve board had taken an action that should make the "ribbon clerks" very happy. "Ribbon clerks" is a name ap-plied by stock market operators to amateurs who seek to engage in the fascinating business of trying to make several bucks grow where only one grew originally. THE FEDERAL reserve board ruling was that the down payment on purchase of stocks would be re-duced from 75 per cent to 50 per cent. The board had been pressured for several months by the New York stock exchange, its president, Emil Schramm, and securities dealers generally. They had complained that the previous restrictions had thrown markets into the doldrums and that trading had remained at an unusually low level for months. THIS WAS CONSIDERED as strong indication the board be-lieved inflation had ceased to dominate the economic situation. Earlier, the board had relaxed restrictions on installment-buyin- g credit, giving a longer term for in-stallments on purchases of auto-mobiles, furniture, refrigerators, washing machines. FORRESTAL: Medal From Harry James V. Forrestal, retiring sec-retary of defense, received a sur-prise when he called at the White House to say goodbye to President Harry S. Truman. Mr Truman pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Forrestal's coat. The citation read that Forrestal had "materially advanced the se-curity of the nation." Forrestal said it was "beyond me" how he merited it. i . 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Dismayed, A I clutched His robes and prayed. ? x ' And then, Strength spent, I kept quite sail I At lait I learned His wilL m L&C.V: . I'r .i? Through Strangely silent nights and days y flt I did not hear His voice, yet He, (!' jjjf t I know, has answered mej. Jte3 FT To avoid the greasy odor t: roasting meat, sprinkle cinnam:: on stove and in oven, and yt house will smell like cookie: baking. Clothing specialists claim th bleaching is more likely to t color nylon fabric than to it I prove the whiteness of the wt) terial. To prevent breaking a glass jar when pouring in hot liqcii -- put a silver knife or spoon in i rTT i e ' I Fiction BLUEBEARD'S BET .:,KM Corner way silently into the outer corridor again. "Well, was I right, Jordan?" asked Clem. , "You win, Bluebeard er, I mean, said Jordan. "Say, I've got to have a breath of air after that silence. I think maybe we both like talking a little better than' we thought we did. I had a thousand things I wanted to tell you while we sat there. But as for your charming little Elsie she's the real thing all right, all right. Never even clicked the key in the lock, did she? Or looked through the key-hol- e at us?" Jordan ambled towards the eleva-tors with a wave of his hand. Clem Tate stood an instant at the outer door and then entered the suite of offices. He hurried through to the door of the private office and tried the knob. "Oh " he said, "Miss Lyons, I forgot that this door is locked. Let me have the key, will you, please?" "I I'm sorry, Mr. Tate. But I simply can't think what I did with that key. There was a tele-phone call the moment you left and I looked for the key so that I could could er lay the message on your desk. "But I said not to go in." She laughed gently. Dimples peeped in and out charmingly. She bent again and then with a sigh she murmured: "Oh! Here it Isl I'm so careless!" '"pHEY'RE all curious," insisted Arthur Jordan. "There never lived a woman who wasn't per cent curiosity. I could quote you a dozen bits of poetry proving the fact " "For goodness' sake, don't!" urged Clem Tate. "I'll take your word for it. Honestly. But Elsie isn't that way. I'm telling you." "You're the kind that would never be happy with your wife asking you this and looking over mail and rooting about in your desk when you're out of the house. I know you." "Don't speak of Elsie' Lyons as rooting', if you please," Clem Tate said coldly. "I'll I tell you what. I'll - Minute lock the office door 3 Fiction and give her 11,6 key since you mention Bluebeard and then you and I will go out. I'll keep the key of the corridor door, however, and we'll come in again and sit here. I'll tell her not to use that key at all. See? Then if she is as curious as you say, she'll come bouncing in a la Made-moiselle Bluebeard or whatever her name was and we'll be sitting right inside here." "O.K. with me," said Arthur Jordan. "She'll be in here and don't you forget I told you so. I'd as soon have a homelier girl and one who wasn't so careless anyhow. She's decorative but she'd forget her head if it weren't for the curls there." Now Elsie Lyons was pretty. She knew that fact as well as anyone else. Fluffy golden hair framed a heart-shape- d face with a pointed chin below a widow's peak of hair at the upper edge. Her great grey eyes turned to pansy-colo- r at times. But looks and business efficiency do not always go hand in hand un-fortunately and Elsie ran about ninety-nin- e and forty-fou- r per cent efficiency. "I am locking the door to the pri-vate office. Miss Lyons," said Clem Tate distinctly. "I want no one to go in there. No one. Is that clear. Miss Lyons. Here is the key." "Certainly, Mr. Tate," she said demurely, placing the key in her desk drawer. The two young men walked re-solutely into the outer corridor and the outside door swung too gently behind them. "Well, Bluebeard, how about it?" asked Jordan when he put the key into the door to the private office. As the door swung open they both looked in eagerly. They heard the telephone in the outer office. Silent-ly they sat down and Jordan gave his partner a poke in the ribs when Clem Tate looked too triumphant as the moments passed. rt T THE END of a half hour Clem Tate rose to his feet. Jordan followed him and they made their By INEZ GERHARD HAL WALLIS, Anatole Litvak Rouben Mamoulian will judge the motion picture synopses submitted for the National Five Arts $100,000 award; Norman Cor-wi- Arch Oboler and Erik Bar-nou-will pick the best radio scripts. Plays, popular songs and short stories will be judged by equally prominent authorities. .V v; . HAL WALLIS Each carries prizes of $2,000, $1,000 and $500, plus up to $70,000 in fellowships as well as professional productions of the winners. For details write to Na-tional Five Arts Award, 715 Fifth Ave., New York City. All entries should be sent to that address. Here's a wonderful chance for un-knowns Anatole Litvak is known for many successful directorial jobs; "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "The Snake Pit" are two recent ones. Wallis has signed Joan Fontaine for "Sep-tember," to be filmed in Italy in August for Paramount. Pat Knight thinks maybe it is an omen forecasting her future star-dom during filming of Columbia's "Shockproof" she found a letter in her uniform's pocket, addressed to Joan Crawford, who wore the uniform in "A Woman's Face". A Moroccan Mlchoue", some-thing new In New York parties, launched George Raft's "Out-post in Morocco". Shot against magnificent, authentic back-grounds, it is a story of the French Foreign Legion, with plenty of action. The men in the supporting cast, headed by Akim Tamiroff and John Lltel, are excellent. Marie Windsor must have been cast only for her looks. Joanne Dru became an actress because she was too shy to make friends and took dramatic lessons to overcome her shyness. Howard Hawks saw her at a dramatic school, hired her for "Red River". j CROSSWORD PUZZLE j Solution la Next Ibbbo. 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