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Show ; MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . U. S. Forces Ordered to Stand Or Die on Korean Battle Front; Baruch Urges All-O- ut Controls (EDITOR'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.) I Battle Lines U. S. Starts Drive The Federal Bureau of Investiga-tion was back in the news with the announcement of two new arrests of spy suspects. They were identi-fied as Abraham Brothman, 37, and Miriam Moscowitz, 34. The couple was arrested after Harry Gold, confessed atomic spy, named the man as his one-tim- e as-sociate in espionage activities for Russia. Miss Moscowitz is a partner in Brothman's engineering firm. In all, seven Americans now have been arrested since Dr. Klaus Fuchs' trial conviction and senten-cing to 14 years in prison in Eng-land. Meanwhile, the government start-ed a campaign to catch and prose-cute spies and saboteurs. J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. direc-tor, said each citizen can play an important part in stopping Commu-nists who would bore from within. The citizen's job, he said, is to re-port quickly to the F. B. I. any evi-dence of subversion or sabotage. And Attorney General McGrath announced that the justice depart-ment Intends to be ready for any evidence that might be turned up. Effective October 1, he said, four federal grand juries instead of the usual two will be kept on duty in Washington.. At least one grand jury will be used exclusively to deal with charges of subversive activity. CANDY: Important Food Item Candy has become one of the na-tion's important food items and America's sweet tooth demands an average of 17 pounds of candy per capita each miir'v u fin KOREA: Stand or Die For many- Americans, who had been Inclined to look upon the Ko-rean war with indifference and an attitude of "business as usual", there came a rude awakening dur-ing the fifth week of the conflict. Casualties began to arrive from Korea, youngsters without legs and arms, bullet-riddle- d young men who kept their eyes closed as they were transferred from planes to ambu-lances, boys who did not wish to talk or be quoted. To the millions who had no broth-ers and fathers and husbands in Ko-rea, the scenes brought back fright-ening pictures of World War II, memories of days filled with tears and prayers, and sometimes, utter despair. And to the awakening American public came another shock. The commanding general In Korea, Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, said: "There is no point in not telling the simple truth, which is that the war has reached its critical stage." The American army had retreat-ed as far as it would retreat, Gen-eral Walker said. He gave one order to his troops: "Stand or die." A desperate all-o- ut push by North Korean Communists, aimed at Taegu, center of Amer-ican defenses in South Korea, is underway. The Red forces hurled nine divisions against the allied line. U. S. forces gave up Hadong (1) and fell back to Chinju. Hamyang (2) was under heavy attack. In the Yondong (3) and Hamchang (4) sectors, the U. S. first cavalry and South Korean troops blunted a power-ful Communist assault. ATOMIC BOMB: Won't Be Used Many people have wondered in re-cent weeks whether or not the atom-ic bomb would be used in Korea. President Truman has announced it will not be used in Korea, but it was recalled that the President has asserted several times that he would not hesitate to use atomic bombs to assure the security of the United States. As the world situation became more tense, it was obvious that offi-cials were carefully avoiding any public discussion of the use of atomic weapons, though strategists have indicated that there are no worthwhile targets for such weap-ons in North Korea. Another angle of atomic warfare was under consideration by defense officials, however. Ways and means of stopping any ship from entering American harbors that might be carrying an atomic bomb were be-ing worked out. ' Port authorities in San Francisco and New York have announced all ships from Russia or Russian satel-lite nations will be stopped and searched before allowed to center into those ports. Americans were shocked by his flat statement that his army must win or die where they stood without hope of surrender or retreat and a mass evacuation as at Dunkerque. And in Korea the G. I. has a ques-tion for the war correspondents: "Are you telling the folks back home the truth that it is a tough and hard fight, and we need more help at once?" That was the situation as 120,000 Communists began a steady attack upon U. S. positions. Along the en-tire front, stretched in an arc from Yongdok on the north to Hadong on the south, Communist troops ham-mered at American lines. Four U. S. divisions, none at full strength, with the aid of some South Korean troops, the exact number unknown, slugged it out with the in-vaders. American supplies and rein-forcements were rushed to the bat-tle area, but if they would be enough and in time was still the question uppermost in the minds of military Readers. One outstanding truth stood out from all the rest: American troops were locked in the battle that would decide the Korean war and possibly the peace of the world for the next 10 to 15 years. As Gen. Eisenhower said, "If our forces in Korea are defeated the en-tire world will be thrown into an-other great war." It was a rude awakening for the American people, but a necessary one, most observers agreed. It was now time for the American people to get down to the bloody, unpleas-ant job of winning a first class war. year. This figure is taken from a book just published by Edwin J. Brach, Chicago candy manufacturer, who reports on America's candy-eatin- g habits. Using figures from the de-partment of commerce, he shows that candy is an important food item in the American family bud-get. On a per capita basis each Amer-ican eats almost seven pounds more candy than butter annually; almost 10 pounds more candy than cheese; about 11 pounds more candy than margarine; nine pounds more candy than cereals and only 2 fewer pounds of candy than coffee. Citing figures from the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Eco-nomics, the Brach report showed that the average family spends 25.2 cents per week on candy in food stores alone compared to 23.7 cents for canned juices, 21.5 cents for cakes, 19.8 cents for shortenings, 18.7 cents for soups and 16.3 cents for white flour. Almost half of the candy pur-chased today is sold in food stores, RUSSIA: Returns to U. N. The Soviet Union ended its boy-cott of the United Nations as Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A. Malik took over the council chair for Aug-ust. The democratic nations of the world immediately raised the ques-tion of why had the Russians called off their walkout, es-pecially at this time. There appeared many possibili-ties, the most important of which was a belief the Soviet Union would attempt to sabotage the work of the council. Other observers pointed out that the Stockholm Peace Peti-tion campaign by the Soviet Union had failed and the Russians must now try something else. The se-curity council offers an ideal place for a peace move. Still another possibility presented by observers was founded on the be-lief by the Russians that the Com-munists may win the Korean war soon and that the Kremlin decided to step back to the council and de-mand peace at that stage. Primary Winner EMPLOYMENT: Highest in Two Years Kxcept for farm work, employ-ment in the United States set a two year record during the first week of July with 52,774,000 per-sons employed. The previous peak was 52,452,000 in July, 1948. The department of commerce es-timated 8,440,000 farm workers were employed during the first week of July as compared with 9,647,000 in early July, 1949. The increase in employment was attributed to a stepped up produc-tion in industries directly related to the nation's mobilization drive, most observers believed. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer made this comment on the employ-ment situation: "It should be noted that, with the nation again approaching full employment, it may be necessary once more to find ways to expand our labor force to permit the in-creased industrial production and strengthening of-- the armed forces requested by the President." He was quick to deny, however, that he had any thought of possible manpower controls in making that statement. PLANES: $4 Billion Order As the Korean war developed it became obvious to all observers that the United States air force has the best planes in the world. That superiority will be increased. The air force has announced 200 manu-facturers have been ordered to be-gin work immediately on nearly 0 million worth of new planes and parts. Considerable secrecy enveloped the details of the order. Manufac-turers were authorized to announce the number of additional workers they would need to fill the orders, but they were prohibited from dis-closing the type of production, the number of units, the dollar value of the orders, or other Information relating to the contracts. New Economy With an eye on the huge amounts being spent for the armed forces and defense, the house appropria-tions committee decided to take another look at ap-propriations and cut them where it can. Some observers think the cuts may be drastic. A committee spokesman said the group had no fixed goal, but was determined to "cancel all appropria-tions' that can be cancelled. 111 "Y ' Vjp J : ' ' ill U 1 HMIILV: , i -- v. i " ' ' 4 " I I INFLATION: Invitation to Defeat Elder statesman Bernard Baruch spoke his mind (and the mind of a great segment of the public) to the senate banking committee when he urged congress to freeze all wages, prices and rents, boost taxes, and ration essential goods in a broad program to mobilize the nation's economic strength. In his clear and determined way, Baruch asked the question that has been in the mind of the average cit-izen since prices began to rise after the Korean war started: "Shall we do now what we know will have to be done later, and thus hasten the victory of peace? Or shall we fum-ble and falter and invite defeat?"- Baruch, who played an important part in economic mobilization in two wars, urged: Priorities and allocations as pro-posed by the President. Elimination of profiteering. Higher taxes. Effec-tive price, wage and rent controls. Power to ration scarce civilian es-sentials where necessary. The post-ponement of all less essential works. A reduction of unnecessary public and private expenditures. Every ef-fort to increase production. Also, the development of substi-tutes for things in short supply. Con-trol of all exports and imports. Con-servation of whatever is scarce. And organized among the people "the enlightened to accept the denials which winning the peace entails." Congressional leaders seemed divided on Baruch's plan even if the public was not. Said Sen. Robert A. Taft, he "wholly disagrees" with the elder statesman who, he assert-ed is "for all-o- dictatorship". INDUSTRY: Higher Profit Rates The Federal Trade Commission reported that 17 of 25 major U.S. manufacturing industries had high-er profit rates in 1949 than in the prewar year of 1940. Most striking increases in the rate of return were motor vehicles from 17.3 to 29 6 per cent, biscuits and crackers from 8.7 to 16.8 per-cent and bread 7 6 to 15.3 per cent. Percentage rales were based on ockholders investment after taxes K.ep. miKe ivionroney aeieai-e- d Sen. Elmer Thomas in a rnn-o- ff primary election, and thus won the right to represent the Democratic party in the No-vember senatorial election in Oklahoma. Democratic nomina-tion fn Oklahoma is tantamount to election. MACHINE TOOLS: Aging Alarmingly The nation's population isn't alone in growing older. Machine tools are, too, and at a rate that a wartime production expert finds "alarming." "Our industrial equipment is de-teriorating so rapidly that the na-tion could be placed at a serious disadvantage in an emergency," said William L. Batt, president of SKF Industries, Inc., and former war production board chairman. mw win, ill! 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Devices like huge hypodermic needles (left) inject soil fumigants directly into the soil. is- :l " Q Not only new chemi-col- s, but also new meth-- r. cJi of application are ex- - plored. At right a new l; soil lumigant is being into irrigation water a to treat a young peach l" tiee infected with root rot. 1 j.'j Q A technician (left) examines plants grown in a large lath house to protect them from- the dry, hot, valley winds. Such carefully grown plants can be depended on to give uniform re-sults in testing programs. This is one of the few of its kind in the world. Scien-tists report numerous suc-cesses in their experi-ments i - ' S J; , - . . f , " , , --A ' ir k - tote heQlthy tobacco stQlk (ri9ht") wiM be deliberately inocu-Tk- e tol)acco msiic virus and then treated with chemicals, mat !UC,Cesses an1 failures of hundreds of such tests may ulti-th- e trnslated into the savings of thousands of dollars for Practical tobacco farmer in many parts of the world. 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