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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION 51st International Live Stock Show Opens in Chicago Nov. 25 - "J- - r i f 1 All roads lead to Chicago every year when the International Live Stock Exposition is on in the in-ternational amphitheatre at the Chi-cago stock yards. And this year will be no exception when the big show, world's leading event of its kind, begins its second half century, November 25 through December 2. Show window of America's great-est single industry agriculture the exposition attracts world-wid- e interest and attention. It not only brings approximately 200,000 farm folk to Chicago, but the greatest news and radio cover-age in the world carries the story of the exposition to people around the globe. William E. Ogilvie, secretary-manag- er of the exposition since its revival after World War II, believes that the coming 51st edition should set new precedents in scope and quality. He points out that Increased prize money for the show should help to encourage the exhibition of the very tops of livestock from both the United States and Canada. Espe-cially outstanding are the increases subscribed in the cattle department which it is anticipated will attract record entries. Prizes for all cattle classes will be $61,370, the largest total ever offered. Many prize increases made in other breeds to mark the occa-sion of the golden jubilee show are retained this year. Two years ago the horse show, which highlights the entertainment program with 13 performances, took on a western flavor with the addi-tion of a "cutting horse contest" An Illinois farm youth shown with his champion barrow t last year's International Live Stock Exposition, Dr A. D. Weber, of Kansas State College, Manhattan, will return to judge the steers again this year. The only American to judge these class-es since the exposition departed from the custom of having foreign judges two years ago, "Dad" Web-er, as he is known among his stu-dents, is one of the most popular cattle judges in the country. THE EIGHT DAYS of the exposi-tion are packed with thrills for agricultural visitors. But the real high points of the show are when the grand champion steer is selec-ted on Tuesday and when he is sold on Thursday. Last year's champion, a hereford named Judge Roy Bean, was pur-chased from his Pecos county, Tex-as club owners at a record $11.50 per pound by Dearborn Mo-tors of Detroit. Dearborn hauled the steer in a special plane on a for quarter horses, so named as being the fastest horse over a quar-ter mile and ideally adapted to ranch work. This contest, in which the horses "cut" a calf out of a drove of cattle, just as he is re-quired to do in his work on the west-ern range, proved so popular that it has been installed as a perma-nent fixture, similar to the sheep dog act which is a perennial favor-ite with all exposition audiences. 10,000 mile tour of the country. But the glamor of the steer show in the amphitheatre, which houses most of the livestock at the inter-national, does not dim in the im-portance of the great show of car-loads of fat cattle, sheep and swine that goes on in nearby pens of the Chicago market. Says Dan D. Case-ment, veteran Kansas cattleman, concerning the carlot fat stock show in the yards, "It would be impossible to give too much credit to the magnificent show of fat car-lot- s that have invariably appeared at the international during my life-time.' It is undoubtedly the greatest fat stock show in the world." Other features in connection with the international that have become familiar in the years since 1900 in-clude the grain and hay show, which is recognized as the world's largest competitive showing of farm crops, with exhibits from nearly every state and all provinces of Canada; and the interesting and educational meats show, first staged in 1924, which provides a display window for the final phase of meat produc-tion from packer to consumer's table; and the national 4-- club congress held in conjunction with the exposition. Reviewing the first internation in 1900, an early day writer said, "Scarcely a feature of this exposi-tion missed the sensational. The union of elements which gave it birth, its' magnitude, the charact-er of its exhibitors, the outstanding quality of its stock, the contagious enthusiasm engendered at its aucr tion sales, its record-breakin- g pri-ces for bullocks, the overwhelming evidences of popular appreciation in these features it has built an enduring monument. Great is the livestock industry, and the Interna-tional Livestock Exposition is its prophet." WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Peace Talks Proposed by Stassen; U.N. Forces Cross 33th Parallel; High Prices Weaken Defense Plan EDITOR'S NOTE; When opinions are expressed In these oolnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) . . I , , . - ; I '. Vk ' - s . ' - , , UNITED NATIONS: New Twist for Soviet While men died on the battlefields of Korea, power politics continued to rage in the United Nations, but with a new twist from the Soviet Union. The new twist developed when the United States urged the U. N. to adopt a plan by which national troops would form a U.N. force to keep world peace by the veto-fre- e general assembly. Instead of ripping the plan apart, Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vish-insk- y said he saw some good point in it, but suggested each point of the proposal be discussed separate-ly. At first the western diplomats were shaken by Vishinsky's con-ciliatory tone and stared at each other in disbelief. But then it dawned upon them that by dis-cussing the points separately, Rus-sia almost certainly meant to oppose the key provision that would al-low the general assembly to meet in 24 hours and act against aggres-sion if a veto paralyzed the security council. It was the old, old story of pol-itics between world powers. CHICAGO: A Case of Jitters Senator Kefauver of Tennessee and his crime investigating commit-tee arrived in Chicago, held a series of hearings, and departed leaving a case of jitters behind them that reached into high circles. Said the senator as he departed: "We think we have found strong evidence that the Capone syndicate is still operating There is evidence of gangsters muscling into legitimate businesses, and of politi-cal ties between gangsters and poli-ticians of both parties." Kefauver' s committee planned hearings in New York, Philadelphia and then a jump back to Chicago. A recent hearing in Miami revealed connections between gamblers and city officials in that winter resort. After the Chicago hearings, Ke-fauver said he is convinced that a Mafia is in operation in Chicago at present. The Mafia is an secret society of loose organization that specializes in ex-tortion, and deals out its own pun-ishment. Civil Defense Harold E. Stassen, president of University of Pennsylvania as he announced contents of a message he sent to Soviet Gen-eralissimo Joseph Stalin proposing that they confer and urging Russia to "stop the drift to war." Stassen's message was delivered to the Soviet embassy and a copy to the state department. t Na, t. v.:':....- m mi&trrm3Mi:M mMgJ;-li- : lilS!fitiSliSP Headliners President Truman who is becom-ing famous as a letter writer, wrote to his old friend Colorado State Senator Neal Bishop, "I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatch-er.- " "The President could ill afford to have more brains in the dog de-partment than in the department of state," replied the UMW boss with his usual bark and bite. "We want nothing from Korea. We want no bases there. We do not want to and will not threaten any other country through the tem-porary presence of American troops in Korea on a U.N. mission," War-ren R. Austin, American delegate to the United Nations told the gen-eral assembly. KOREA: A Future Hope The United Nations gave Gen. Douglas MacArthur the signal to cross the 38th parallel in the final campaign to crush the Communists and the future hope of a unified Korea. But the delay in giving that ap-proval may cost the U.N. forces in manpower and material. It gave the Communists time to collect their shattered forces and prepare for another stand, whereas a con-tinued attack by U.N. troops when the Reds were in full flight could have ended the war quickly. It was the old story of immature thinking and lack of plans on the part of the western nations. Had the situation been reversed, is there anyone who thinks the Reds would have stopped long enough to let U.N. forces regroup? They would have continued to attack and se-cure any necessary approval later. But be that as it may, the gen-eral assembly finally got around to voting on the invasion of North Korea, approving it 47 to 5. The assembly authorised: 1. That "all appropriate steps be taken to insure conditions of sta-bility throughout Korea." 2. "That U.N. forces should not re-main in any part of Korea otherwise so far as necessary to achieve some other aims of the plan." . Defense Line STASSEN: A Just World Peace Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania and twice an aspirant for the Re-publican presidential nomination, stepped in where angels fear to tread. The former Minnesota governor wrote a letter to Premier Stalin suggesting that they confer on steps that need be taken to achieve "a just world peace." Stassen was quick to point out that his letter was written without consultation either with President Truman or the state department; that is, Stassen had written to Stalin in his private capacity and the let-ter had no official inspiration. Stassen declared that, if his bid fcas successful, he would have "four or five of this country's top citi-zen leaders" accompany him to Moscow for the conference. There is a possibility that Stalin might accept Stassen's proposal. In fact, some quarters believe the Russians will jump at the chance, if for nothing else, at least for the opportunity to pound out the old propaganda line that the Soviet is anxious for world peace. There is little possibility, how-ever, that anything constructive will come of such a meeting. What-ever Stalin and Stassen's delegation might agree upon would have no official standing and in all prob-ability would not coincide with American foreign policy. As could be expected, Stassen's gesture produced political over-tones immediately. One Democratic spokesman pointed out that the initiative of any suqh project prop-erly belongs with the state depart-ment. RISING COSTS: Cut 750 Jet Fighters The howl of the housewife that prices have climbed beyond any reasonable or sensible level was taken up by the air force which re-ported between April and Septem-ber increases weakened the force's purchasing power by an equivalent of 750 6 jet fighter planes. The cost increases in essential materials, John McCone, under-secretary for air, told the house armed services subcommittee would run about $315 million. The under-secretar- y cited many examples. Among the increases were crude rubber, 128.9 per cent; aluminum, 2.9 per cent; copper, 23.6 per cent; tin 32.9 per cent; plus signs of accompanying wage rises as another basic factor in cost estimation. It all boils down to the fact which the housewife has long known: prices are climbing by leaps and bounds. If the increases were hurting the armed service then perhaps something would be done to relieve the pinch on the general public. Rep. Carl Vinson, member of the armed services committee, was blunt about the situation: "Let's not kid ourselves. Con-gress has a choice of seeing these programs cut (4,428 new aircraft by 1952), or coming up with addi-tional appropriations to meet these rising costs." The jagged line was the ap-proximate defense line of North Korean forces battling against United Nations forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the time the general demanded the surrender of the Communists. SECURITY LAW: Matter of Discretion The nation's new Internal Security act has already been under fire in enforcement. The law had threat-ened for a time to bar the return to this country of Arturo Toscanini, the world's most renowned conduc-tor. The immigration department quickly issued a statement saying the musician would be allowed to this country, thereby avoid-ing a storm of protests. At the same time Attorney Gen-eral J. Howard McGrath said he was using his "discretionary" pow-er in permitting Friedrich Gulda, 20, Austrian pianist, to enter this country for his American debut at Carnegie Hall. Gulda joined the Nazi youth move-ment at the age of 10 because the law forced him to. The new law bars admission to the country of anyone who ever has been a mem-ber of, or "affiliated" with, a Com-munist, Nazi, or Fascist party. CASUALTIES: Heaviest Report As United Nations forces crossed the 38th parallel and advanced in-to Communist territory, the depart-ment of defense released the heavi-est casualty list of the Korean cam-paign. It contained names of 1,211 mem-bers of the U.S. armed services. The deaths numbered 225; those wounded in action, 822; missing in action, 73, and injured 48. CRIME: Up in Rural Areas Its hard to believe, but the facts are there just the same. The country crossroads continue to hold the crime spotlight during the first half of 1950. The F.B.I, reported an increase of 7.4 per cent in rural crime com-pared with the same period in 1949. In the first half of last year, rural crime jumped 7.6 per cent. Rural murders increased 1.8 per cent; rape, 4.8; robbery, 3.4. : ijVj Ah if i l, f. i s .if A ft ! , Defense department officials and civil defense planners, met with heads of more than 53 women's groups at a meeting In the national security resources board headquarters in Washing-ton. CHOSSWDBD PUZZLE HFff ACROSS '49. Border i 12. Amusement T 7 - 53 1. Mineral 50. Asterisk 14. Codlike lC-33- l springs DOWN food fish Ej vJe r ?Cf4S 5. Large read- - I.English 16. Studies -- yZESCTpf ingdesk, novelist with care ---- AB 7nr( O A little 2. Mountain 20. Paradise r - rfe Soil mound sickness 23. Division - 43 3 vjp (Eng.) (So.Am.) ofaplay V 5 ? 7 fto Eii 10. Biblical 3. Prayer 24. Fate "br 7 If ? l territory' ending 26. Anger 11. Latin epic 4. Malice 28. River iriiJCjTj poem by 5. Part of (Russ.) -- Vergil "to be" 29. Burrowing r38 F,,rLl 13 A son of I 6. Flightless, animal 8 Adam exUnct bird 30. A fruit '39 uT. ' 15. Frenzied 7. Infant 32. Cavalry' 41 PetiH 17. Silkworm1 8. King of soldier 42' Spirit i" f 18. Indefinite Fairies armed with 44' "0UsehW i article 11. At a a lance ' 19. Bacchanal distance ' S3. Whip 47 pr f cry 21. Ahead fZ 1 i WAi I ( It ' 22. Peruse Vfc ' 25. Finishing 2 ? 27. A fleet and V, W. spirited 11 11 22? S horse 29. Internal-- it, ;777 7-7- combustion '11 engines a 7 i " To TO 31. Diminutive 22 of Helen zz u ia J-- 2S t 34. Gold YV, (Heraldry) ; 17 tr 77 . 35. Armor of wM chains, rings j! 37. River a u f, (Latvia) 7-- 7 55 Tr,77777T,- -, 38. Mandate 40. Releases jf 7777 43. Feminine Z name 55 M777'Ai f 45. Performance VXX of dancing :tj ; girls (India) W, 46. Flush 2Z - ; JitEi : b BILL SWEARS OFF 1 CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson 1QILL Clifford is off women for life. Dagmar Fanchon is the reason. It happened this way. Carolyn, Bill's sister, brought Dagmar up to the Clifford camp on Lake Winnepesaukee last June after school closed. The two girls had been roommates at Wellesley. Bill's mother and father and Bill were all pres- - I ent. Bill was up -- Minilt8 from New York 3 Fiction for ". annual I weejcs vaca. tion. As a rule women didn't interest Bill very much. But this Dagmar female bowled him over. She was a brunette with dark brown eyes and a petite figure. Bill took one look at her and fell. Even so, Dagmar, who rather went for Bill also, had competition. For Bill was a man with a hobby. Fishing. He was nuts on it, and as usual had planned to spend his an-nual two weeks frisking about In coves and inlets and bays with rod and line. It depressed him to think he'd have to divide his time be-tween flirting with trout and flirt-ing with Dagmar. Bnt on the second day the situation was settled. For Dag-mar, after listening to one of Bill's fish stories, announced that she thought fishing must be fun and would Bill take her? They set out the next morning in Bill's outboard. Bill produced a couple of Whirling Duns and tiimmmumummiMtnun mm m Very patiently BiK unsnarled her line from an overhangint bough and explained how tit ' thing was done. 10 proceeded to rig tackle. "Fisb in ,s sensitive to color," he explainei "On a day as bright as this dull r fly does the trick." They entered a cove, cut the m-otor and drifted. "We'll be jure to land something here," Bill He cast and Dagmar cast Very patiently Bill unsnarled her te from an overhanging bough ui explained how the thing was done. Dagmar nodded and tried again. fished for an hour and THEY to land the big ons Bll promised. It grew cloudy and the sun disappeared. "Ah," Bill H "We'd better change to M11 fly." Dagmar suddenly n pulling n W "There's something line!" . "YOU'Ve gOt B DHCI u 1 "Start reeling in!" He got up and stumbled over i creel. When he looked up Dago" was holding her line clear of f water. A ten-inc- h trout was an-gling on the hook. "No!" Bill yelled. "Tha" J the way! You've got to play bte. But Dagmar didn't understand. She began swinging the Presently she cau a pendulum. the line on the up awing and W it, the iquirming on hook. TOOK out!" Bill yeUed.' Llose him! ', You've got to play him! Brings in with a net!" But Dagmar said: 1 wrong wtt method. see what's fc U After all, the idea catch fish, isn't It?" dropped the trout, hook, Une all in the bottom of Ita ( at her Bill made a lunge but he tripped again fell The outboard wabbled. i caught off balance, threw hands to brace herself,,tW gunwale and went board. Bill was f"?'n water, and it wasn't ( down and come P 7 n could t tag, that he remembered not swim. He yelled, " around with his hands , ping a lot of water. He w , again and camt up. he felt pair of , H him underneath the shojde clutched fjSw something on the jaw. . a V When BUI opened W fil was lying on shore. vs out ne close by, BU saup. XatSeS . Dagmar W'jctlIn and Bill thought back, hi. memory conjured humiliating. Right ft ff2S of he made his resolve tBM o women for life. Unless, h. marries Dagmar Fnc By Inez Gerhard THAT popular daytime serial, Faces Life", has gained new importance through its new public service feature. Each Wednes-day Lucille Wall, "Portia", salutes "The Woman of the Week", who may be a housewife, a career wom-an, anyone who has contributed in an outstanding way to her com-munity and country. Marguerite Higgins, the famous woman war correspondent, was the first one. The second was Mrs. Anne Greeri-ber-a housewife who started the New York association for the help of retarded children. This is a move to give recognition to women from all over the country whose efforts have not received the nation-wid- e commendation they deserve. CBS has terminated its deal with "Lum and Abner" and has made a settlement with the rural comedy team for the remaining four years of the six-ye- contract. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Ineptness With Equalizer Even Found Among Gangsters By BILLY R05E Because I sometimes tote around more than two dollars, and be-cause my house has demonstrated a tendency to get burgled, I have a license to carry a revolver and sometimes do. But I certainly hope I never get into a spot where I have to use it, because I ioubt whether I could hit the back wall of a brewery if I were 20 feet away. And it isn't because I haven't practiced There's a make-shift pistol range back of my house up at Mt. Kisco, and over the years I guess I've used up enough ammunition to keeD a small Balkan going. But no matter how carefully I sight and squeeze the baby gun with the short nose, I've never been able to do much more to the bulls-ey- e than glare at it. And two will trot vmi 90 thai mnc of the Dead - eye Dicks you read about can't do much better. The U. S. army evidently agrees with me about the difficulty in hand-ling this tricky bit of mechanism effec- - for 200 of his hired help, and after the feed made some complimentary remarks about the double-crosse- r and asked him to get up on the table and take a bow. As the guest of honor was bowing, the 200 hood-lums reached for their rods and let him have it. But when Capone always the good bookkeeper count-ed the bullet holes, he found only 20 in the carcass 180 of the n had missed. YEARS AGO, I used to haunt the 42nd street shooting galleries, and got so handy with a .22 rifle that I could knock the dancing celluloid ball off the stream of water five times out of ten. And I was plenty cocky about my marksmanship un-til one day when I went up to see Ben Hecht at his place in Nyack. ' Hecht, fed up with my big talk about small arms, suggested I shoot it out with Charlie Lederer, the screen writer, who was spending the weekend with him. "I've got nothing against Led-erer," I said modestly. "Let bim live." "The target tviU be a toma-to can at 10 feet," said Ben, "and you and Charlie can take turns with my 22 automatic pistol." We went out on the lawn and Led-erer, sighting carefully, hit the can two out of three times. I didn't even nick it. Last month while vacationing in Hollywood, I lunched with Hecht and reminded him of the debacle which ended my career as a marks-man. "I might as well have been shoot-ing blanks," I said. "As a matter of fact," grinned Ben, "you were." ed to include an exhibition of pis-tol shooting, and as a charter mem-ber of the Zane Grey club I fig-ured that almost any one of my bronco busters could pop a clay pipe out of a girl's mouth at 30 feet. Well, I figured wrong. There was no one in the cast who could hit the pipe without taking the mouth with it, and I wound up having to im-port the national pistol champion a skinny kid from Brooklyn who had learned marksmanship in a Coney Island shooting gallery. This ineptness with what Da-mon Runyon used to call "the equalizer" is even more com-mon among gangsters. Sure, the hoodlums of the '2Cfs pis-toled many a citizen, but almost invariably the victim was in a motor car, and the range a couple of inches from the nape of his neck. Whenever the corpse-to-b- e figured to be more than. a few feet away, the kill-ers used sawed-of- f shotguns with a three-fo- spread, or tommyguns which produced a spray like a garden hose. A few years back, an vice president of a na-tional whiskey company told me a story about Al Capone which illus- trates my point. It seems Al was tipped off that one of his body-guards was playing footsie with a rival gang, so he threw a banquet lively. nexi ume Billy you see newsreel closeups of the kids who are doing the fighting in Korea, look closely and you'll see they're armed with rifles Garands and Browning au-tomatics but about the only place you'll see a six-gu- n will be in the holster of a two-sta- r general I FIRST LEARNED that expert shooting with a revolver is more bull than bullseye when I moseyed down to Ft. Worth 14 years ago to stage that city's centennial expo-sition. One of the whoopty-doo- s I put on, "The Last Frontier," was a wild west show, and the cast included the best hoss hands in the business Galahads in hats who had won prize money in every rodeo from Pendleton to Madison Square Garden. Naturally, I want- - V.F.W. HOWLS U. N. Flag 'Superseding' Old Glory To most people it was amusing, but to the department of agricul-ture it was serious. The V.F.W., through its national commander, accused the agricul-ture department of "an apparent effort to flood the country with United Nations flags" to take the place of Old Glory over the nation's schools. The commander said the agricul ture extension service was supply-ing U.N. n kits to and women's farm clubs and urg-ing members to become "modern Betsy Rosses" by making such flags at home. Said an agriculture department spokesman, "The proposal is to dis-play U.N. flags parallel to the American flag, just as it is done by General MacArthur." |