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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Tragedy of the Couple Watching the Carousel Ronn Whon the Nazis Caught Them in Vienna w j By BILLY ROSE Some of the sprightliest talk to be heard in Manhaltan these nights is in the coffeehouses frequented by the talented and thread-bare l refuges of Mittel-Europ- a. Night after loquacious n ou find them huddled over red - and - white checked taWecloths, and been slammed in their faces they though many a cultural door has but remain a spirited and sociable lot, short on money, perhaps, long on banter and bravado. are on Most of the stories spun by these continental katzenjammers the comic side; yet, once in a while they come up with a yarn which leaves a ping-pon- g ball in your throat. For instance, there's the tale about the old gentleman and his greying wife who, during the sum-mer months, can be seen almost every day on the carousel near the and his wife from the carousel and were about to take the child when their leader, a youth with a hang-man's sense of humor, stopped them. "The kid got the brass ring," he said. "He's entitled to a free ride." As the carousel started up again, the tinny strains of "Chiri-biri-bi-drowned out the mother's screams, and the last the couple saw of their son he was riding on the merry-go-roun- The surgeon was too valuable a commodity to kill right off, and so was his wife, a skilled nurse. They were sent to a slave labor camp to tend those prisoners considered too healthy for the ovens, and when the Allies marched into the camp in 1945, the couple were still alive. By this time, however, the surgeon's brain was a bit misty, but friends in New York paid his passage, and he and his wife were among the lucky ones who got by the immigra-tion quota. Ever since, the pair has been spending most of their summer days in the vicinity of the Central park carousel. The old boy is pretty much off his trolley, but his wife continues to humor him, and when-ever he gets agitated and mutters, "Where's Otto? I saw him on the zebra a minute ago," she patiently takes him by the hand and says, "Come along, dear, maybe he got tired and went home." Central park zoo, holding hands as their adjoining ponies pump up and down. Who are they? Well, to tell you, I'll have to go back several years and several thousand miles. when a detachment of SS men rang his doorbell. Th doctor, who had been warned to expect them, led his wife and son out the rear door, but as they hurried up the street a neighbor spotted them and gave the alarm. As the hunted trio turned a cor-ner, they came upon a small ca-rousel which had been set up in a public square to celebrate the ar-rival of the German "liberators," and thinking fast, the surgeon bought three tickets and climbed aboard with his family as the bat-tered runabout started up. The child was placed astride a gaudy zebra while the parents sank way back In one of those chairs whose outsides made a swan. The SS men searched the square and were about to move on when the boy, to whom it was all a game, reached out, and grabbed a brass ring and, turning to his parents, shouted, "Look, look! Now I get a free ride!" Attracted by the boy's cries, the storm troopers dragged the doctor Shortly after BjUy eoso the Nazis goose-steppe- d into Vienna and decency went underground, a n surgeon and his wife, both of frowned-upo- n ancestry, were urged by friends to take their son and leave the country. The surgeon refused. "I'm need-ed at the hospital," he said, "and I intend to stay as long as I can be of use." His usefulness, however, came to an end a few afternoons later 1 It SAFE . . Leo Battereheu, set what probably s , ! record by driving 1,098 37'' during the past nine y a out a smgle accident--, ' much as a scratched He is a member of the tion department of the ' Cartridge company .P Alton, 111. " I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Plane Incident Heats Up Cold War; German Rearmament Pleas Spread; Court Upholds Georgia Vote System (FDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper,) CHINA: Cry for Help As has been the case since the dawn of history, it is the innocents who seem to suffer most in intern-ecine strife. China is no exception. In that country of vast population and so frequently too little food, many Chinese are starving. A nat-urally difficult struggle for exist-ence has been intensified by Chi-na's civil war in which the Com-munists emerged' victorious. NOW there is a cry for help. A Chinese Nationalist group has ap-pealed to American labor, as an organization, to help combat fa-mine in Communist China. But with their usual skill in that de-partment, the Reds have managed to confuse world opinion on the sit-uation. The Communist regime has done a good job of beclouding what al-most all sources say is one of the worst famines in China's history. The Reds have ad-mitted that the situation is critical, saying some 16 million people were affected. Private letters filtering from Red-hel- d China indicated the number was 53 million. The Chinese Nationalists and western relief agencies and re-ligious organizations have been seeking some means to help the starving, hence the appeal to American labor for help. AN EASILY understandable ob-stacle, of course, was the uncer-tainty as to final disposition of any aid that might be forthcoming. Some assurances would have to be made that relief goods went to those for whom supplies were in-tended. Who could give that as-surance? The Chinese Commu-nists? Starts Sixth Year f ' JLs f V : COLD WAR: Heating Up Russia had heated up the Cold war. A United States air force navy '. Privateer had disappeared after a flight in which it was reported to have flown over Russian territory. . The Russians claimed the plane had fired upon a Russian aircraft, and then had disappeared over the Baltic sea. A WIDESPREAD HUNT by Amer-ican officials was launched for the ' missing plane. Erroneous reports ; - had it that life rafts from the plane had been found. The first reported rafts turned out to be only fishing boxes. But later, a life raft was picked up and air force officials indicated a conviction it came from the missing plane, which had 10 crew members aboard. A British ship under com-mand of Captain J. Henderson re- - ported finding the raft and said it was partly collapsed. The bottle was exhausted and supply pockets were open and empty. There were no signs of life and no messages were found. Had the Soviets shot down the plane, or so crippled it by gunfire Harry S. Truman, looking trim and fit, has started his sixth year as President of the United States. The Chief Ex-ecutive, 66 on May 8th, rounded out his fifth year with a renewed determination to win the "cold war" with Soviet Russia. GERMANY: A Repetition? that it crashed in the Baltic? That ' was the big question. Bigger yet i was the question: "What would the i United States do if it were developed .! ' that the plane was a victim of Rus- - j sian gunfire? ;: THOSE were questions that would !M have to wait, however, until the an- - j swer to what had actually happened :l to the plane had been cleared up if it ever could be cleared up. Meanwhile, American tempers grew a little shorter with Russian tactics and there was no denying that the Cold War had taken on a ' degree or so more heat. GEORGIA: Unit Vote Stays '1 The county-un- it vote determina- - ' tion system is unique in the United States because only two states use it. It is unique, too, in that it is found acceptable by city populations in these states, when its use gives votes in some rural counties up to 122 times more weight than those in city areas. ;j i But, the U.S. supreme court has ;; "l I said the system is all right. In a 7 ' j to 2 decision it refused to strike :i down the county-un- it vote in Geor- - ;. J gia. Maryland is the only other state employing this system. j JUSTICE BLACK and Douglas protested bitterly against the ma- - i jority opinion, which was brief and ' unsigned. These' two members of the court declared the action failed to plug what they called the last loopholes in the court's decision which gives Negroes the right to vote. The majority opinion said that federal courts have no right to In-terfere with the way a state apportions voting J strength. It made no mention of any racial issue the dissenters saw in the case. Two Georgia voters attacked the existing law. Under the system, each of Georgia's 159 counties is alloted a number of unit votes, ranging from six for the eight most-populo-counties down to two for most of the counties. THE CANDIDATE who receives the most popular votes in a county is awarded all its unit votes. The Any mention of rearming Ger-many makes cold chills run down the backs of those who remember how a beaten, dismantled Reich was permitted to come back and plunge the world into the most dev-astating conflict it had ever known. THREE TIMES in the past 80 years, German war machines have struck swiftly and ruthlessly at the peace of the world. Had the Ger-manic' hordes ever won a world con-flict, something of what the van-quished might have expected is pro-vided in the terms laid down by these conquerors of the French in 1870, when German troops stayed on French soil until every penny of reparations demanded was paid. How the individual may have fared under the Teuton heel was demonstrated by Hitler ar.d his sadistic Nazis. Now, all the great talk, the board planning, the global thinking is merging into one resounding chorus: "Rearm Germany!" Joining this chorus was General Jacob L. Devers, retired chief of U.S. army field forces, who said in an address in Louisville, Ky., that western Germans "Would like to fight for us, under American offi-cers, against the Russians," if war should come, and he added "They can fight like Hell!" NO ONE disputes that. But re-cent history is too grim for such proposals to be received with gen-eral equanimity. Too many people of the world will remember that it was that very fear of possible Rus-sian attack which led France and England to sit by with folded hands while Hitler flouted the Versailles treaty and served notice on the world that he was going to rearm Germany. "Let him go," seemed to be the whispered desire, "he'll serve as an excellent buffer against the Russians." So Chamberlain went to Berches-gade- n with his folded umbrella and came back hugging to his breast the miserable pledge of the Austrian madman of "peace in our time." The world had a horrible taste of that kind of "peace." To rearm Germany creates a fearful possi-bility that the dose may be re-peated. Yes, there was a way. If the Reds would agree to give safe conduct to relief missions into the area, perhaps the job of staving off starvation by death for thou-sands might be successfully com-pleted. But, barring some such procedure, the outlook was dim in-deed. GAMBLING: Up to Congress Congress itself may hold the key to solution of the nation's gam-bling problem and existence of the gambling "syndicates." That, at least, is the opinion of Senator Ed-win C. Johnson,. Colorado Demo-crat, who has urged congress to pass an bill im-mediately. Johnson believes that should be done before beginning a nation-wid- e crime investigation. THE SENATOR happens to be on good solid ground, because it is partly through federal winking at that the individual states have so much trouble cop-ing with the "one-arme- d bandits." The federal government licenses despite the fact that in the vast majority of states their use and operation are illegal. If the federal government slapped a ban on the machines, as it has on nar-cotics, white-slav- e traffic and oth-er morals offenses, the state would find it far easier to deal with the problem. THE BILL envisioned by John-son would outlaw manufacture of gaming devices in states where they are prohibited and forbid their shipment into such states. It would not apply, however, to states where operation has been made legal by legislative act. Johnson explained his ideas on the subject as indications pointed to a fight on the senate floor on the question of who would get the job of inquiring into the nation's crime. Johnson's bill already is through the commerce committee, where it was approved without hearings. Whether it would win congress approval might rest on the politics involved. Free Man i hi i i O ' f 1 " - system, in that respect, works something like the electoral col- - lege. ROYALTY: Tough Going i Everyone has known for a long time that with the exception of Eng- - land, royalty has been having a j tough time. With the changing times j have gone royal privilege and pomp j but, chiefly regretful to royalty, the cash, too, has gone. LATEST to join the ranks of im-poverished noblemen was a German duke, Ernst August, of Coumebr- - I land and Brunswick, father of a j queen and cousin of a king. Duke Ernst was really up against i it. He was so badty off, financial- - ' ly, that he had to sell treasured antiques just to pay his grocery j bills. Rare old relics of his family's f medieval splendor were to go under - the auctioneer's hammer. " Said the duke, philosophically, j "Of course, I'm sorry to part with these things, but it just can't be j j helped." The duke was down to his last two castles and one of them !!' is a war ruin. h. j TV FOOTBALL: One Show Over Football fans who have been fol- - lowing Big Ten football via tele vision screen, will find that this j ' fall the show's over. They'll have to i go out to the stadium now, instead of sitting cozily at home and following the play. Big Ten athletic directors, meet-- 1 ing in Chicago, voted to ban live : television of their schools' football games for this season. The action I may cost the conference $200,000. STRIKE THREAT: Old Issue Flares Two big railway unions were ready to "review the whole case" of their Diesel-engin- e dispute with the nation's railroads. If the re-sults weren't satisfactory to the brotherhoods, the country faced a major strike threat. The argument was two years old and was easy to state. The unions felt that the adoption of Diesel-powere- d locomotives discriminat-ed against manpower and insisted that an extra man be put on these locomotives, whether there was any need for him or not. The railroads, on the other hand, have refused to do this. Union leaders refused to discuss just how imminent a strike might be or when and in what matter it might be called. Instead, they indi-cated a review of the situation. The union was in a highly stra-tegic position. It was free to strike at any time, inasmuch as all "cooling off' provisions of the railway labor act have been ex-hausted. Thunderjet The air force's Republic "Thun-derjet" was reaching out farther and farther to deal death and con-fusion to any potential U.S. enemy. The air force reported that the range has been increased to where it can carry out most types of missions more than 1,000 miles from base. The increased operation radi-us is available for straffing mis-sions, bomber escort and hunting enemy fighters. Barnard J. Smith, Jr., 24, of Fair Haven, Vt., thumps his chest and takes a deep breath of snow-fille- d air upon his release from jail after taking the poor-debto-oath. His case attracted national attention because of the prevalent but obviously errone-ous opinion that no one can be jailed for debt In this country. Smith was jailed for failure to satisfy a $2,500 judgment. CENSUS: 40 in 1,000 If one should have a friend or acquaintance with whom he is out of contact, and whose whereabouts are unknown, the odds are 5 that he, or she, is on some kind of public payroll. That's what the U.S. census bureau reports. Fed-eral, state and local governments, the report stated, has a total of 6,204,000 workers drawing a record-hig- h monthly total of one billion, 406 million dollars. I This IsJ Your Paper Printing News Is a Duty By William R. NeSM MANY readers ' MP:- - are mistakenly reluctai-'- ' report newsworthy event! i which only they know the tacts some it apparently is embank to tell the paper about social their homes, visitors, received in letters, or p equally newsworthy items. Telling the paper about k 'whatever its nature, whether small in imnnrtan ek- -u cause embarrassment, and wili if rightly regarded. In fact, P; news to the home town news:;-- might better be looked upon j; social and civic duty one ows the community. Certainly the E, paper will receive it in that w Newspa:c Must Rely cannot t On to maint: News Tips stafii t enough to. tually hunt out every news iter, publish. All must and do re!; .: voluntarily supplied news tips items for a large part of then they publish. But there is another way to at it that is equally import Whenever you invite guests : your home you are honoring It When they accept they are hi: ing you. To acquaint the coffin: with such incidents is a pat. action which your guests community will fully approve. Even information received it ters, excepting of course the tr. dential and purely personalis:: if the writer is known by eta On those: Community casions : s sickness, i: Interested dents, ore: personal t: bles occur, the community will to know about them so it ess ' spond accordingly. To negltci : refuse to give such informaiio prives your neighbors and c friends of opportunity to sbo interest and friendship. One of the main reasons r people like to live in smaller :" munities is the greater friends they make. One oftte;-- ' ways to make friends is by i news to the home town ne?: Next time you entertain, receive news in ' there is illness, or som of your family experiences;-pointme- nt or success, tell tor about it If you have neve: so before you will be surpr pleased by the glow of its publication will gen"1" Zm PERPLEXING RIDDLE I CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson JEFF BOYNTON of the Union LT. army's Company E, second regiment, Massachusetts volun-teers, wore a look of utter dejec-tion as he entered headquarters tent, nodded wearily to Capt. Finn Lacey and slumped onto a stool. The captain stopped writing, leaned back in his chair. "She wouldn't talk, eh?" "No, she wouldn't talk," Boyn-to- n answered. He stretched his long legs out in front of him and 31 Minute studied the worn Fiction toe of Ws b00t- - I ) ."Maybe she's not a spy after all," Lacey hazarded. Boynton's blue eyes flashed as he jerked up his head. "Yes, she is! I'm sure of it." Lacey shrugged and gestured with his cigar. "If you're so sure, we'll hold a court-marti- and " "No!" Boynton was on his feet. "Don't do that, sir. We haven't enough evidence to convict. It will mean she'll go free and we'll lose our one chance of stopping the leak. In-formation is getting through somehow. Alice Strnthers is responsible. We must learn her methods." "How?" How? That was the question that had driven Lt. Boynton nearly to distraction, had caused him the loss of sleep and wearied his brain from thinking. A week ago, basing the act on the slimmest of reasons, he had had Alice Struthers ar- - how those letters are the means of conveying the information." CAPT. LACEY picked up the and read them briefly. They contained nothing to excite suspicion mere messages of love and devotion to friends in the South. Lacey suddenly pounded the table. "By George, Boynton, I be-lieve I have it! Obviously some-thing has to be done, and I'm more than half convinced though heav-en knows why that your suspicions are well founded." "So?" "So we'll deport her. Turn her over to the Confederate army. If that stops the leakage we'll know she was the guilty party, and there will no longer be danger of Its continuance." "And it will mean Alice Struth-ers' complete freedom." Two days later prisoner Alice Struthers was turned over to Con-federate Gen. Johnson under a flag of truce. But it wasn't until after the war had ended that he found the an-swer to the riddle. One day while going through his relics of long ago battles he came upon a letter. It was one that Alice Struthers had written to her friends in the South, and which he had kept for a sou-venir. The paper was yellow, the Ink faded. The postage stamp had dried and was hanging by a mere thread. As he looked at it, Lt. Boyn-ton's eyes grew wide. For beneath the stamp were some closely writ-ten, finely penned words, obviously the cipher employed by Alice Struthers which he had tried so hard to locate. One day while going through the relics of long-ag- o battles, he came upon a letter. rested, to be held for questioning regarding the leakage of informa-tion to Confederate Gen. Johnson. "You can't hold her forever with-out a trial, Boynton," the older man pointed out after another week had passed in which the lieu- tenant had failed completely in his efforts to unearth some grain of evidence. "Miss Struthers is pop- ular among the officers. Some swear they have known her for years and will vouch for her loval ty to the Union." "Which makes it all the more likely she would succeed af, .SP, 1 happen t0 k that Miss Struthers' maternal ancestors came from Georgia. She herself spent a good part of her girlhood in Savannah." Idly he fingered a letters that he brought in with'him I m convinced that in these let- ters the g.rl is. sending out the How, I don't know. Cer-taini- y she is using no code. I have checked every letter a dozen times Purposely I have permitted each o be mailed. Events immediately following convince me that some By INEZ GERHARD TWO YEARS AGO Frances movie career looked fine; she had been in about a dozen pic-tures, with increasingly important roles. Then, at the height of the New Year's festivities, she was in an automobile accident. She spent - FRANCES GIFFORD agonizing months in bed, never sure whether she would ever face a camera again. Complete recovery finally came, plastic surgery re-stored her beauty, and she has returned to the screen in Para-mount- 's "Riding High", opposite Bing Crosby. Ahead lies the success she deserves. "Riding High", a Frank Capra production, is one of Crosby's best. It is a race track story, with Bing starred as a broken-dow- n vaga-bond, owner of one horse and no money. There is a nice little love storv. there are new sonps and old ones, and a fine cast, which in-cludes Coleen Gray, William Demarest, Jimmy Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Charles Bickford and Oliver Hardy. Jean Simmons seems to be in need of good advice. She was to have had the lead in "Quo Vadis", but when she demanded a huge salary and Stewart Granger for her leading man, decided that she wanted too much. With Robert Taylor slated for the male starring role, they had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor to play opposite him, so once more they tried to pursuade her. Sammy Kaye is recording a series of 14 radio shows to step up the United States navy re-cruiting program. The series will be heard on 1,500 radio stations throughout the country, starting in July. George Hicks does the announcing. Following the appearance of his article, "Be Kind to Bachelors," Ben Grauer reports the receipt of letters from all parts of the coun-try applauding his stand on bach-elordo- More than 60 per cent are from women. Ben's a most eligible bachelor. George Fisher has joined the ranks of radio commentators who have become movie actors. Fisher, whose "Hollywood Whispers" CBS show is one of the West coast's most popular daily programs, also conducts "Confidential Closeups" over NBC Saturdays. He will make his movie debut in E. A. Dupont's "The Dungeon," John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge and Emlyn Williams. CROSSWORD ME ff ACROSS 2. Harbor 18. Win : rif I ' i 1. Fragment 3. Congealed 19. Receptacle -- 'Wf ofi 5. Scrutinize water for flowers lpWfr 9. Vestige 4. Enclosure 20. Devoured sJ 10. Daises 5. Eating 22. One's Jf ? r ) 12. Blackbird utensil father's u1?2IlJ 13. Percolated 6. Cage sister sk y 14. A bead of 7. Cutting tool 23. Middle te sjv ' TTTl a rosary 8. Alloys of 24. 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