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Show ! f r MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA. UTAH - Han About Town furious at his Lin Yutang is daughter's planned merger. Ha to the U. ordered her to return from Paris . . . Londoners hear Pamela Churchill wants tc , be con-verted to Catholicism . . That was legged off m Marlene Dietrich who 5th Avenoo (the other a huff on ayem), leaving I. S. P.tcevitch wrth a taxi on his hands . . . The Win-thro- p Gardiners hold hands at the waiting for her Roney bar while Floridivision .... Local. report that Rocky Graziano is completely defeated in spirit and heart and may never fight again, even i reinstated ... The buzz is that Anna May Wong (one-tim- e Chinese film star) is seriously ailing and broke . . The Duke of Leeds and Mrs. A. Young have been riveted. ... The Prince Regent of Belgium, Charles, is not on speaking terms with his mother, the Dowager Queen, which makes court life in Brussels a little difficult these days . . . W. Churchill has cut his cigars down to only 15 a day. . Henry Luce, the Time-Lif- e proprietor, is said to have started his own loyalty check among all staffers . . . William S. Schlamm, a member of the board of editors of Luce's For-tune staff (he contributes edi-torials occasionally to Luce's Life), was a Communist leader In Austria In the '20s. Schlamm was one of Austria's top Com-munist writers when he was 28 years old. Since then, it is said, he has been strongly -. munist. He came to the U. S. in 1938, was naturalized In 1944. His official position with Luce is "assistant to the editor-in-chi-of Time, Life and Fortune" . . . He has written articles for the Nation, the Saturday Review of Literature and other mags. Mrs. Byron Foy is teddibly miffed jver not being included in the Zest Dressed List for the first time. (Things to worry about) . . . Max Bchmeling is up to here in trouble with the Red gendarmes in Ger-many. Spent several nights in the jug and was beaten worse than he got from J. Louis . . . Virginia Hill's Mexico City bodyguard is an over-- 6 ft. amazon . . . Big excitement Christmas Eve (on Park Avenoo) when a gallant millionaire sere-naded his estranged wife with a banjo under her 1st floor window. Her boy friend ended the show by breaking the banjo on the husband's conk . . . The keddidge trade will be overjoyed to know that on Jan. 7th S. Billingsley presents Benny Goodman in "Bop Comes to the Stork Club" ... Ice skater Gretch-e- n Merrill is making Bud Weeks even weeker. Headline in the N. Y. Times: "Un- - usually High Level of Business is Forecast by Economists for '49" . . . When this newscaster kept saying it (all through November and December) some Wall Street "ex-perts" denounced "the shoddy re-porting" ... As a result of the drop in the price of sheet steel (from 5270 to $170 per ton) one big just lost $1,500,000 on one order . . . One of the biggest law firms in the stock sector is in trouble. A senior partner allegedly inserted his own name in a railroad person's will declaring himself sole executor. The Clarence Muses (he's the Negro star) will celebrate their 25th ann'y in the Renotable man-ner . . . His estranged wife, Georgette Windsor, has just found out that H. Cushing, 4th, inherits another mint from his late uncle, Wm Gebhard . . Nice Goin' Dept.: The John Har-vey- s (actress Judy Parrish) tot, Jody, sang the Chanukab song (Jewish) at the Midtown Children's School Christmas event. The Harveys are Cain-olic- s . . . Now have this contrast (via United Press): A pet ceme-tery in Washington, D. C, now bars dogs "if they belong to Colored people" . . . It's a laddi-tio- n for the Eli Casses (Phyllis Kraus), born Christmas Day on their ann'y. At Park East hosp. . . . Some top men at New Re-public mag have been advised to seek other jobs . . . sights You Never See on Television: John Kieran (top "Information" man) on the 59th St. subway station puzzled over which train to take for uptown. The Runyon Committee embraces the remarkable talent that enriched the Fund in Miami Beach--ditt- o all the Roney Plaza staff, the Jr. Chamber of Commerce and the Copa City night club. The latter closed down to put on the rained ou show-sched- uled at the Roney's outdoor gardens . . . We are omit tng aU name for fear of neglecting s ght in the heavy holiday mail on the Fund. Treas. turned over pother $150,000 to the American Society. To send doctors tc SelecT)et1Cal SCh01 r colleSe pursue the Killer. Ignitible Liquids Are Dangerous Fire MaZQf. Ignitible liquids are fire, when stored in the home amounts of such liquids sii ' stored in underground tai'i from buildings. Small !l may be stored safely in or oil cans. fM j WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Truman Oegins Busiest Four Years; GOP Bins Firs! Senale Uoio Test; Beuin Offers Gritiss live Dranch (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those ol Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Open Campaign Is Ji v ; "- --ft : P7w',!,3ffT U. S. BUDGET: Under Attack The question whether President Truman's 21 billion dollar budget was excessive was being raised again. This time John Foster Dulles, chairman of the U. S. delega-tion to the United Nations general assembly in Paris, raised the issue. The budget, which Dulles ques-tioned, provides 15 billions for military expenditures, six billions for foreign aid during fiscal 1950. DULLES THOUGHT it too high. He pointed to dwindling war fears and potential menace to U. S. economical health as reasons for curtailment of Truman proposals. Conceding that there is a "risk" of war, Dulles declared the "risk is not so great that we should seriously jeopardize our own eco-nomic health ... by saddling our-selves with such vast armament." Dulles suggested cause, implied a remedy. He blamed lack of suf-ficient unification of U. S. armed forces for administration belief in the need of huge military outlay, and declared that present huge military expenditures cannot go on. "I think our armament is exag-gerated by the fact that there is hot sufficient unification between the different branches of our (armed) services," he said. "It seems as though the rivalry were such that each branch wants to be strong enough so that if there is a war it can win it alone, without help from anybody." Dulles said there is "less fear of war," than there was last year, but commented: "OF COURSE, there is always a risk. You have a tense situation like a dry autumn in the woods when any fool can start a fire. "It is entirely possible, however, to have better relations with Russia and I think it is probable." The problem was up to congress. Could it gamble on the "fool" in the woods, or should it prepare with all possible equipment to stand by for a possible conflagration? Tourist Queen INAUGURATION: Brief Interlude President Truman could lay valid claim to the title 'busiest man in the world." The inaugural behind him, the nation's chief executive was up to his neck in problems, both foreign and domestic. ON THE HOME FRONT, there was a little matter of having con-gress impliment Democratic cam-paign pledges and provide funds for the continuing armament ex-pansion. Abroad, with this nation committed to the gargantuan task of saving the world, from com-munism, the problem was equally monumental. But for awhile, on January 20, Harry Truman, Missouri farm boy who rose to the presidency of the United States, once by succession, currently on his pwn g prowess, relaxed, basked in public adulation, may even have forgotten the tremendous pressure under which he labored. ORIGINALLY PLANNED as a more or less sedate affair, with this atmosphere desired by Truman, the inauguration, instead, was turned into one of the most lavish and spectacular since Andrew Jackson rode into the top spot. Packed and jammed, Washing-ton gave a hero's welcome to the World War I artillery captain. Tru-man buttons, Truman pictures, Truman banners were greatly in evidence and the President, seeing these and the vast multitudes, must have wondered if there were any-one at all who voted against him In the November election. BUT THE INTERMISSION from duty was brief. The parade, the swearing in ceremonies, the round of gala capital affairs that night, and the next day, Harry Truman was again on the job. Peace has been his rallying cry. Its importance marked all his utterances. Now he was buckled down to the job of trying to pre-serve it. Men of good will every-where in the world were wishing him success. nm,ni '.w.'. mm WW"'" ;: ,. i ' f . - .' Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Linda Brown, 4, March of Dimes poster girl, open the annual anti-pol- io drive in Washington. Linda was cured of polio through the Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He did not completely endorse the Democratic platform, would not be led into enthusiastic "me too" dec-larations. Lucas was vehement. "On whose coattails did Chapman come to the senate," he demanded, "t h e Trumari-Barkle- y coattails or those of Dewey and Warren?" Other angry Democrats rushed to point out that Chapman ran 100,000 votes behind Truman and Barkley in Kentucky. JOINING CHAPMAN in the "no" votes were Democratic Senators Byrd, Johnson, Maybank, Robertson and Russell. Chapman didn't take criticism lying down. He declared, in effect, that if such taxes are to be removed, it ought to be done in regular legis-lative process, not by hurried action on the floor. Republicans were more meta-phorical. They argued that since there is a tax on powder used on babies, a woman dressing up for an inauguration ball should regard her powder as more of a luxury than powder applied to a baby. This statement followed an effort to exempt baby powder from federal taxation which failed of approval. OLIVE BRANCH: Bevin Recants British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin apparently was relenting in his stand on the Palestine situation. Gingerly he held out an olive branch: Britain's willingness to re-lease Jewish immigrants of fighting age now held in Cyprus, his per-sonal and strong support of peace negotiations between Israelis and Egyptians at Rhodes. Observers declared this position a "deliberate and genuine effort on his part . . . to seek peace with Israel and his critics in Britain and in the U. S. WHATEVER MOTIVATED the foreign secretary, there was no overlcoking the fact that criticism had been mounting both in England and America. With the pressure continuing, the situation might have resolved itself into one holding the very political future of Bevin. The foreign minister also in-dicated that de facto recognition of the government of Israel was being seriously considered. If that step were taken by Great Britain, it would mean the death knell of Arab hopes for continuation of strife or any eventual triumph in the Holy Land controversy. DIXIECRATS: Bough Road The road ahead looked rough for state's righters. Democratic administration forces were showing little patience with southern who had bolted the party in the presidential elec-tion. THE PURGE SWORD swung first at the activities com-mittee and two heads tumbled. They were those of Representative John A. Rankin, fiery Mississippian, and F. Edward Herbert, Louisiana, both of whom supported the state's rights ticket against President Tru-man in November. Rankin, along with everyone else, knew the blow was coming, ac-cepted it calmly. BONUS BILL: Amvets Ready Amvets, World War II veterans organization, has announced its intention to ask Congress for an immediate veterans bonus which they think might cost as much as 67 billion dollars. The organization said it wall carry its proposal to congress soon.- - A similar bill prepared by the Veterans of Foreign Wars is in the house hopper, having been offered by Rep. Rankin. Mississippi. MONKEYS: Up. in the Air For whatever benefit it may be to scientists or anthropologists, two sad-eye- d dogs will not calm 300 Rhesus monkeys. THIS WAS graphically, if some-what disturbingly demonstrated when 30 crates of the monkeys ar-rived in New York by plane from the Azores. The trip started sedately enough with all the monkeys locked in their crates. Two large, sad-eye- d dogs were along because someone had said their presence would tend to keep tranquil the monkeys' spirits. Somehow most of the monkeys got out of the crates and suddenly there were monkeys in the cockpit, monkeys through the plane, mon-keys peeping out of windows and monkeys even trying to liberate, other monkeys. Capt. Miguel Braganca and his crew, heavily outnumbered, was forced to stay in the forward part of the ship while the monkeys cavorted. The monkeys saw to that. Says the captain: "They kept hang-ing on the cockpit door and watch-ing us all the time." When the plane reached La Guardia field, about a dozen chat-tering monkeys were starting to climb out the windows, but eight airline cargomen joined the crew and with brooms and blankets fi-nally snared the truants. The monkeys were consigned for Infantile paralysis research. SIX "NO'S": T Was It Revolt T Six Democrats joining with sen-ate Republicans gave the GOP victory in the first test of strength since the 81st congress convened. The issue may have been trivial, but the result burned Democratic leaders. Scott Lucas, Illinois, suc-cessor to Barkley as majority floor leader, "sputtered." Barkley was also put out. For, it appeared, the result was an unex-pected as it was "humiliating." THE ISSUE was exemption of Inauguration tickets from federal amusement taxes. The exemption slid through the house 199 to 49, so one can imagine the surprise when it failed in the senate. Chief target of administration censure was Kentucky's Virgil Chapman. But those who remembered the Kentucky campaign would recall that Chapman showed no little independence in his drive for votes. I " This German fraulein, Miss Elfl Giovanelli, was chosen "tourist queen" and will tour the U.S. this year in an effort to stimulate attendance at an Import exhibi-tion In western Germany. PERFECT: Testers Amazed U. S. air force intelligence testers rubbed their eyes, looked again. .Yes, there it was a perfect I. Q. score by a gangling, bespectacled Kentucky youth seeking a connec-tion with the military. WILLIAM M. BELEW, 18, of Simpsonville had done what no one before him had been able to achieve, something the army believed im-possible. Told he was not expected to answer all the questions correct-Jy- , he nevertheless went ahead and, in rapid-fir- e order, dashed through the test without a single error. It was the preliminary test given volunteers at the air force recruit-ing office in Louisville. The testers were amazed. They checked, the score, found it perfect. They then checked the records. Sure enough. Belew was the first to make a perfect score. THESE NEW TESTS, much more exacting than the old, have been in use since last May. Questions are divided into three sections, vocabulary, arithmetic, and per-ception of spatial relationship. There are 45 questions and they must be answered in 40 minutes. Belew will give the air force a trial. If he likes it, he will make it a career; if he doesn't he will take up accounting. A Simpsonville high school basketballer and diamond per-former, Belew stands six feet tall, weighs 160 pounds, was expected to pass the army physical examina-tion with ease. Best Voices The best "telephone voices" in the nation for 1948 were chosen by telephone operators of New York. The voices? Most sincere: Mrs' Eleanor Roosevelt and Ted Collins' owner Boston Yanks pro football team; most courteous: Joe and Mrs. Alfred Gynne Vanderbilt; most sensuous: Rua Hay worth, Actor Richard Ney; most expressive: Actor Jose Ferrex aud Sister Elizabeth Kenny Cupid Curbed The army is making it tougher for American G.I.'s to marry Ger-man frauleins. In the first place, many army authorities and chap-lains suspect too many German girls are using marriage as an excuse to escape from the hard life of occupied Germany to the United States. There is also an apparent desire to protect young draftees expected to start arriving soon in Germany. .y; m " " al k Tax Bill Is Rabbit Stew ;r JS To Congressman Doughion -- 4 )ev By BAUKHAGE Lev News Analyst and Commentator. i WASHINGTON, D. C. Another rabbit stew has been served 1 up to Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, and he's all ready for it. Representative Doughton, I might suggest if you don't know T! it, is not only the oldest member of the house of representatives (85) but likewise the oldest hand at handling tax measures. He had to step down from the chairmanship of the ways and means committee for the brief Republican interlude. Now he's back at the old T": Bland, sharpening the butcher knife again. But to get back to rabbit stew. Last season when President Tru- - man vetoed the second Knutson " i Skic '1 f i Part . 1 A f . -- De Nevi (1 t j j V; : 'I - I . ...,.41 I g bill and and fired it back at congress, a reporter asked Doughton how he felt about it. He leaned back and told a story, for he's fond of answering in parables. A Tarheel house-wife, it seems, served her husband rabbit stew every night for a week. When the second Saturday night came lra p BAUKHAGE around and the Wall same old dish with m Te it, the husband bowed his head as ey B! usual, but instead of saying grace 'icle he was heard to mutter: legt "Rabbit's rough. Rabbit's ,y ga tough. Oh, Lord, I've had rab-- M c "1 bit enough" ty . That, opined Mr. Doughton, was Goo the way h felt about the tax 'P- bills. tjj But he has to help meet the big- - gest peacetime budget ever sub- - H j mitted to a congress and he's ready ;:. I; for it. 'enj In the 38 years that he has rep- - I)' resented the state of North Carolina ro In the congress, the habits of the - dean of the octogenarian's club in :i the lower house have changed very 1e little since the last time. I ne) explored them in some detail .e CI more than a score of years ago. i'c He has earned a tremendous re- - '.ai' spect from the men who work on u3 fiscal matters in the house of rep- - qj- - resentatives where the money bills have to originate. And because he jtAi':'' bas a theory of his own about col- - t Co. j j lecting and spending the people's ' ; money, no bill comes out of his AL - , . for an active interest in his com-munity which is deep in the Caro-lina hills. Laurel Spring, N. C, is still his home. He was born on his parent's farm near there. His father, wounded in the war between the states, died when he was a grown boy. His mother was keenly active to her last hours, interested in the day's mail and the daily newspaper to the last. Inheriting some land from his father, the boy started off for him-self, gradually acquiring more until he became a livestock raiser and farmer. Then he entered business, finally becoming president of a bank. , He has described himself as a horse trader. There are many tales that have grown up about his astuteness that, if embellished by repetition, are not doubted by those who have watched his steady advancement in congress. He entered under a Republican regime President Taft's accepted minor committee appointments, but rose rapidly to the position he holds today chairman of the power-ful ways and means committee. One of the horse-trad-stories he tells is this: after disposing of some animals he had meant to sell, he was made a very attractive offer for the horse he was riding his own saddle horse. Done, he took the money, turned over the bridle, put the saddle under his arm and walked back home, 70 miles, says tradition, under his own power. There doesn't seem to have been any deep-lai- d plan for a political career in the farmer boy's mind when he began life among the ox-carts and hand looms of those early days in the South following the war. Nor yet when he had acquired his own acres and entered into the business life of the community. He was chosen a member of the state board of agriculture and served on the prison board. Then one day it was decided to run" him for the state senate. He was elected and served for a term. Congress was next, but there was a sort of unwritten law in his dis-trict that one term was all a man could expect, for Republicans and Democrats had always swapped terms. But Doughton changed all that. Or at least his con-stituents did. When he had served his term in the 62nd con-gress, instead of retiring him, as had been the custom, the voters sent him right back again, and they have been doing it ever since. There isn't any question that Robert L. Doughton likes his job in Washington. But it's equally true that when the session is over, he likes to hie himself back to his Carolina hills and enjoy life there. Around the capital he has the reputation as being as good a judge of men as he is of horses. This year President Truman's request for six billion dollars more in taxes, including some social security withholding levies, will get very careful scrutiny before it becomes law. Meanwhile, Dough-ton'- s committee has to take care of the bill to extend reciprocal trade treaties. Also, studies will begin on the subject of extending social security benefits. There is in addition the matter of certain revisions in the basic tax code. But Representative Doughton is used to rabbit stew. swii i SiT) Pi Cj uv.. - "Ob, Lord, I've had rabbit enough." rerry committee looking very different vi"s - than he wants it to look, though it eavitt ' may n0' a'ways su't aU he other - members. Doughton doesn't go so i c 'ar as to ay that fiscal legislation . J should be but he does ; : say it ought to be as , and as as possible. His experience in collecting mon- - ey that ought to be collected goes back a long way. One story involves a man he went to see about a horse two horses, to . be exact. This man had bought a team from Doughton (the congress- - man is still a farmer ia his own Cb.ern c right, though he has to spend more Drapi time away from home than he used vlinson to). Later on the man wrote that rker .... he didn't think the span was worth ny ..... the $800 he had agreed to pay and K. ! wouldn't pay it. The deal had been negotiated at a distance and the I principals had never met. So one i day Doughton dropped in at the farm and said he wanted to look f over a good team. The man showed several, but none seemed to suit 4 ' Mr. Doughton. "All right," said the man, ; "I'll show yon the best pair i you ever saw in you life." I ; He brought out the horses re-- --- .. y' ' cently acquired from Mr. f o: i Doughton, but still unpaid for. Bros3! And what migllt they be wortn? Variety Yctt considerably over $800. yborne Doughton introduced him- - j self and didn't have much trou- - AL ..... ble in collecting, c . . There is another reason why SPElfl Doughton is a good man to have on ,(j Qot the collecting end of a bargain Roa f vou aren't the debtor. He's a f ' farmer, true, but he is also a bank- - K er, and he works at both when he CIT i isn't in Washington. He doesn't ker J keep banker's hours, however. He tPoJve oes to his office at 6:30 a.m., OU &U works throughout the day, and he's "J 'Tup' ' often back in the office after din- - ner. He lives right across the plaza oty from the Capital. For the first 45years or so of his j t life, Mr. Doughton held no- - elective St ! office, but he managed to find time i 1 is ' ( " , - M : nv S j ' --! - , t ' - g 4 ' - , t i The biggest peacetime budget ever submitted to a congress ($48,858,000,000) has its oppon-ents, too. Rep. Charles Halleck (R., Ind.), former GOP major-ity leader, and Rep. John Taber (R N. Y.), former chairman of the house appropriations com-mittee, look grimly at the volu-minous budget, promise a fierce fight to slash all spending proposals. classifI DE P A R T Me,, SEEDS, PLANTS TUBEROUS BEGONIA .rw n plants, tubers, now for tnrw? Send for FREE circu. L" GARDENS, 3226 D , j PERSONAL BARBERING ApproTd for Vctennj, BARBERS r in demand. OrMin month. Suit Lke Barber Call,,, V Cltr. Uth. HO Reent 8trt. 'l KETCHUM BUILD? SUPPLY CO. ' "Everything For Tht Bui! 4lh South at 7ih W,,, Salt Lake CHj 9, LW THE HERCULEAN St "MADE TO LAST FORFJ (. 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