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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH . s UNITED DEFENSE FUND r " Organization Formed to Aid Financing of Welfare Services The United Defense Fund, Inc. a new organization for financing of national health and welfare services made necessary by the defense ef-fort, got under way recently with an appeal to the Community Chests In more than 1200 cities for funds to support a program of services In 1951. A federation of national agen-cies and local community interests for the joint financing of national defense services in the field of health and welfare, the "United De-fense Fund, Inc. offered to local communities a "single-packag- ap-peal for support of national defense health and welfare services for both civilians and the armed forces. The organization was formed to meet the frequently expressed de-sire of local Community Chests that appeals to them from national agencies, especially In time of spe-cial need, be properly screened, budgeted, and united in their f-inancingjust as is the Community Chest itself. Other reasons for the unification of these national agency services are: (1) a desire not to increase the number of appeals now being made to the American public; (2) a wish to join forces in carrying out needed services eco-nomically, efficiently and effective-ly. The organization of the United Defense Fund, Inc. was preceded by a series of conferences which in-cluded the national agencies and groups concerned and representa-tives of Community Chests. As a result of these sessions a planning and advisory committee on national emergency services was jointly ap-pointed by Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc. and the National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc. to consider what services were needed and how they should be or-ganized and financed. This commit-tee made a series of recommenda-tions, one of which requested the two sponsoring organizations to set up a national fund which could fi-nance such services and approach the country throug a single pack-age of essential services. This rec-ommendation was considered and approved by the governing bodies of both organizations and author-ization was given to proceed with the fund organization. E. A. Roberts, president of Fideli-ty Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pa. was elected pres-ident at the first meeting of the Fund November 28, in New York City. Charles H. Watts, chairman of board, Beneficial Management Cor-poration, Newark, N. J. was elect-ed treasurer. William H. Bulkeley, vice president' of Kellogg and Bul-keley, Lithographic Division, Con-necticut Printers Incorporated, Hartford, Conn., was elected sec-retary. SERVICES TO RECEIVE sup-port from the United Defense Fund, Inc. fall into two groups at pres-ent. The first group is concerned with services to the armed forces and will be conducted by: American So-cial Hygiene Association; Associ-ated Services for the Armed Forces (which includes Jewish Welfare Board, National Catholic Commu-nity Services and YMCA) ; Nation-al Recreation Association; Nation-al Travelers' Aid Association and Y.W.C.A. The second group will provide services to communities congested by the national defense effort. These services will be conducted by: Child Welfare League of America; Na-tional Organization for Public Health Nursing; National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Cen-ters; National Urban League; Na-tional Catholic Community Serv-ice; National Recreation Associa-tion and Y.W.C.A. The United Defense Fund, Inc. will, raise funds through the "unit-ed campaign" approach wherever possible and will seek support from the nation's Community Chests on a share and share alike basis, com-munity quotas being based on the recommendations of the National Quota Committee. Funds will also be sought in New York City. The national campaign goal for the United Defense Fund, Inc. as approved by the National Budget Committee for services to be given in 1951 is $7,399,329. Community Chests throughout the country will be asked to provide $6,058,101 of this goal with the remaining to be secured from New York City and other non-Che-sources. . . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , Reds Launch Offensive in Korea; U.S. Works on Japanese Treaty; Army Calls for 29,003 Draftees (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.) -n- ORTH; KOREA"' r North Korean and Chinese Communist troops concentrated for another blow on C. N. forces below the 38th parallel. Chief concentration points were at Yonchon (1) and northwest of Seoul (2). A Red attack (3) northeast of Kumchon, pushed back the South Koreans more than a mile. Red patrols were near Kaesong (4) . South Korean troops fought a preliminary battle near Hyon (5) . Reds were also massed north of Chunchon (6). Generals Wait BIG FOUR: Conference Plan Some weeks ago the United States, Britain, and France pro-posed that another big four con-ference be held in an effort to set-tle the many pressing world prob-lems. After long weeks of waiting, the Russians replied. Officials would not reveal just what was in the Kremlin reply. It was evident, however, that the western powers were disappointed and that a big-fo- meeting was not closer than when it was first proposed. It was believed that Russia was not prepared for. any unqualified discussion of the many galling points of friction between the wes-tern democracies and the totalitar-ian Soviet system. It was also rumored that Russia wanted the western powers to ac-cept the Prague declaration which served notice that the Communist led nations of eastern Europe would not tolerate rearmament of western Germany. Russia was also reported to have taken the stand that Communist China would be represented before any discussion of the explosive situation in the far east could be undertaken. No one in his right mind could believe that the United States would accept any of the conditions. Thus the conclusion that a big four con-ference is not likely in the near future. ACHESON: Production and Faith Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave the United States a prescrip-tion for 1951 "production and faith". Acheson, in a radio interview, said we have the power to retaliate against any aggressor who attacks us and our friends and that power cannot be overlooked. "We expect to make ourselves respected and to deter aggression," he said. "The prescription which we need today is the prescription which Mr. Churchill gave to England in 1940 blood and toil, sweat and tears and may I add, faith faith in our country, faith that the great task before us can be done and that it will be done." Acheson's statement was remark-able in that he echoed a growing belief throughout the country. Americans who had been described as frightened and frustrated in 1950 seemed to be settling down quickly to a new year of sacrifice and deter-mination. The last few months have been called America's darkest hour, but they may be even darker before the United States is fully rearmed and ready to face its enemies. TRAFFIC: A War at Home While American troops were be-ing killed in Korea, Americans at home slaughtered themselves on the highways during the Christmas and New Years' holidays. Complete tabulations were not complete for the New Years' holi-day, but during Christmas there were 724 violent deaths in the Unit-ed States, 545 of them in traffic mishaps. The accident rate was more than 100 above the number of persons killed in traffic accidents during the 1949 Christmas holiday. The 1950 toll almost equaled the record of 555 set in 1936. In the city of Los Angeles alone there were 11 traffic deaths. 900 injured, and a total of 1,084 acci-dents. It was significant to note that police in that city charged 352 persons with driving while intoxi-cated and another 1,222 were charged with drunkenness. Only one state South Dakota escaped without a single reported fatality that could be attributed to the Christmas observance. Witness KOREA: The Story Repeated The story of the Korean battle seemed to repeat itself. Forced to withdraw from North Korea after pushing the Communists out of South Korea and almost to. the n border, U. N. forces re-ceived the full force of Chinese and North Korean troops as they plunged south of the 38th parallel. U. N. troops gave ground and further retreats appear in store for them. The main feature of the at-tack was the overwhelming num-bers of Chinese and North Koreans rushing U. N. defense positions. At least 200,000 men were thrown into the first attack. The Communist plan for the con-quest of South Korea was to sepa-rate the eastern and western sec-tions of the defense line, isloate them and then destroy them at will. Meanwhile, observers who recent-ly returned from Korea report the morale of the soldier at the battle-fron- t much better than that on the homefront. Americans at home were pictured as frightened, frustrated, and swept with recurrent waves of de-featism and despair. The men in battle were pictured as neither frightened nor discouraged. There was no criticism of Ameri-can leadership in the war or critic-Is-of the fighting ability of any nation's troops. ' ARMY: New Call Issued The army called for 80,000 draft-ees in March, raising total draft quotas to 450.000 since the Korean outbreak. Eighty thousand had al-ready been scheduled for January and February. With the armed forces building toward a manpower total of some 3 million as rapidly as possible, the army anticipated a combat strength equivalent to 24 divisions when the current expansion goal is reached next July 1. An infantry division numbers 0 men and is a self contained fighting unit with supporting weapons such as tanks and ar-tillery. At the beginning of the Ko-rean conflict the army had 10 divi-sions, only one at full war strength. It had 11 regular divisions, with four national guard divisions and two guard regimental combat teams (usually 5,000 men) as of January 1. Selective Service officials report-- i ed 217,000 men had been delivered to the army up to January. TAXES: Higher in 1951 With the new congress In ses-sion, President Truman was ex-pected to ask for more taxes at any moment to meet the mounting cost of the nation's defense. Although the size of the new tax program was not disclosed, one adminisration official reported the President would try to put the gov-ernment as nearly as possible on a basis. The program, however, will include higher per-sonal and corporation levies. It seems unlikely that a new tax program can bring expenditures and receipts into balance because spending for the fiscal year 1951 maj reach $75,000,000,000. The pres-ent tax program, including the exce-ss- profits tax, will yield revenues of only about $45,000,000,000. Maj. Gen. Doyle O. Hickey, chief of staff, and Gen. Doug-las MacArthur are shown keep-ing a somber vigil at Haneda airport for the arrival of the body of Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, late commanding offi-cer of the 8th V. S. army, who was killed in an accident in Ko-rea. Walker's body was being sent to the U. S. for burial in Arlington cemetery. JAPAN: U.S. Plans Treaty The United States made it clear, if in a round-abou- t way, that Japan will get a peace treaty. The U. S. handed Russia a note that said in effect that this country was going to negotiate a treaty without Rus-sia if necessary. The important item in the note from the American viewpoint was the paragraph that stated: The United States believes it is reason-able for Japan, upon conclusion of a peace treaty, to make arrange-ments for which could "include provision for the station-ing in Japan of troops of the United States and other nations." In other words, the U. S. made it clear that Japan would be allowed to rearm and that this country has every intention of keeping Japan in the democratic column. The note let fly with a haymaker by stating that rearming Japan was necessary because "irrespon-sible militarism has not been driven from the world." The note told the Russians that the Formosa question must be settled in the light of the U.N. charter, "the obligations of which prevail over any other internation-al agreement." This appeared to be a diplomatic way of telling the Soviet that the U. S. does not consider itself bound to hand Formosa over to the Chi-nese Communists whose armies are fighting U.N. forces in Korea. CASUALTIES: Total at 38,325 As of January 1 the army had announced casualties in the Korean fighting totaling 38,325. That was an increase of almost 2,000 over the previous casualty list. The number of dead mounted to 6,432, including 5,742 killed in ac-tion, 684 who died of wounds and six dead among those who bad been reported missing. There were 27,012 wounded, in-cluding the 684 who later died of their injuries. The number of miss-ing were listed at 4,753. Of the total, the army suffered 32.066 casualties, the marines the navy 429 and the air force 306. Mrs. Ann Moos Remington, of former commerce official, William Remington, testified in federal court that seven years ago Remington turned over "top secret" ex-plosives formulas to confessed spy Elizabeth Bentley for trans-mission to Russia. Remington is. being tried for perjury. MARSHALL: Let's Go Easy Secretary of Defense George Mar-shall warned the nation in the clos-ing days of 1950 to go easy, that "a too rapid attempt at mobilization was apt to delay the ultimate speed" of rearmament. Marshall said that there is "a tendency to feel that the more rapidly we appropriate billions and the more rapidly men are called into service, the safer we will be." That isn't true, he explained. flllinilL. sirfl r ' t.3" ' s SrfSA(TB. Iclp A TVfT o rff 41 Prophet 13. Norse war pE a I Efl? - ACBf? i? One of god(poss.) llEErpl 1. Dips slight. iUsh C3ig.?rj5 8- r is leiil ' ,? 22. Public ; E c Zr9 3 guards notice UttM , 23. cabbage Wjer ; " & , pre" 31. Vesse! dent of 5. 2- - Anger , 14. Mine 6. River 32. Edible fish ! Like bread 7. On the a volcano 3 Withered ,i Je "a" 28. Bargeman Poet JsGold 8. Excuse (Brit) 35. Great "Heraldry) U. Grave 29. English quantity ? queen 38. Fuel 19. Type (obs.) measure 20. Vehicle 21. Kettles 23. Impeded in any manner 25. 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It had to happen some time, of course; too bad Ralph Edwards was the victim. He had filmed his Christmas "Truth or Consequences" television show, on which he really shot the works. So the wrong can of film was sent by the agency to CBS-T- in New York, and was re-leased, the week before Christmas, instead of the show scheduled for that date, on stations on the cable from New York. There were divided openings when it was learned that NBC was negotiating an exclusive, long-ter- contract with Mar-garet Truman for radio and television appearances, receiv-ing nearly $4,000 for each per-formance. Some people thought NBC might better , spend the money in some other way, oth-ers felt her appearance recent-ly on "The Big Show" really justified the deal. Lauren Bacall has a way of get-ting what she wants. She wanted Humphrey. Bogart, and got him. She has her screen career, her baby Recently she signed to make one picture a year for 20th Century-Fox- , but first she will accompany Bogart when he gpes to Europe to co-st-in "African Queen" with Katherine Hepburn, for his own independent company. That's very nice planning. ROOMS FOR RENT CORNER By Dorothy Boys Kilian mttONEY, YOU DON'T really think you can rent these rooms for the summer, do you?" Dick' Shipley, still in his greasy cover-alls- , frowned as he found his pretty young wife sitting on the wide-boar- d floor in an upstairs bed-room, mending a faded blue rag rug. ( I Margaret stood -- Minilte "P slwly and 3 planted a kiss Fiction on his smudgy ' ' cheek. "We want to have a nice crib and other things for our first baby, don't we, darling? And that takes money more than we've got to spend." "Maybe I could take another job in the evenings, or something." "Why, Dick, you're exhausted when you come home from the garage; and lots of times you don't even get here until eight or nine." "Yen, I know. Starting a new business means no money and no free time for a while." "Well, this house your mother left us has more rooms than we need for ourselves." "But just look at the furniture!" Dick waved an arm at the room in general. "You sit in that wooden rocker for ten minutes and those slats make a prison bar pattern on your back. The bed's so high you need a Pullman ladder to Climb into it, and that wash stand " "I think It's all kind of quaint," Margaret said placidly. Dick snorted. "People on va-cation want to be comfortable, not quaint. And besides, think where we're located; practical-ly out in the country, the opposite end of town from the lake and all the amusements." "It's nice and quiet, though," Margaret insisted. Dick shrugged. "I give up. But I hate to see you slaving away up here." Margaret stood np slowly, pot her arms around his neck and I planted a kiss on his imudfT cheek. "Oh, well, the doctor says ! need plenty of exercise," Marga:;; said soothingly. "There's the doorbell, I'll get it" Dick, still looking troubled, starts downstairs. ' A portly, d old gentle-man stood on the porch. "This ii ' the Shipley residence?" "Why, yes," Dick looked past him to the long shit- - ' black car parked in front of the house. "May I speak to Mrs. Shipley!" "I'm Mrs. Shipley," Margarf. called from the top of the stairs." "I am Mr. Frost of Big Rapii You have some rooms for rent!' ."Yes. Please come up and K show them to you," Margaret sr : swered. TNICK stayed downstairs B- - listened glumly to the to steps overhead. He winced as k j heard the bathroom door squeii , and imagined Mr. Frost's first vies of the old tub standing high on IB claw feet. There was a lengthly murmerc' voices in the upstairs hall Tto down came Mr. Frost, a hand o Margaret's elbow, and she accep-ting the little attention as the tn!t natural thing in the world. "Well, it's all settled then," Mr Frost was saying. "We'll take tin two rooms for the summer. "V sir, this advertisement hit us in right spot." He fingered a li5 piece of newspaper. "Advertisement?" Dick stared the paper. "Your wife used a good psye ' logical trick, didn't she?" , Frost chuckled. "Playing down thing so much that it excited J01' curiosity." "Uh, yes," Dick laughed weaH; "Let's see that again," he sali trying not to look too astonish "For rent," he read, "for tie summer season, twt rooms In ancient frame house, unfashio-nable part of resort village, very few modern ' conveniences, n recreational facilities nearby. Mrs. Richard Shipley, I2s Stanley Road, Weeharel Michigan." "Yes," Mr. Frost said. "My saw that and said it made ne; thing of a Currier and Ives print--He handed Margaret some biU put on his grey homburg, ,0a stepped briskly out the door, garet. "Your greatest triurnp'-honey-is that you've managed c; to look triumphant." BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Al Didn't Go for Soff-Sos- p, but lie Was an Easy Touch By BILLY ROSE In Miami some winters ago, Al Jolson stoppea in for a quick one at the bar of the hotel where he was staying, and as if on cue the juke box began playing his recording of "Sonny Boy." When the machine clicked off, a plainish-lookin- g woman walked up to the bartender and said, "Lend me a couple of nickels, Mac. I can't get enough of that song." Jolson pushed a quarter down the bar. "The next five are on me," he said. The woman looked over and her face lit up. "Why you're Mr. Jol- - snn' " shp said "Sure," said Al, "and you knew it the minute I came in. What's the idea of the corny routine, sister?" "I just had to talk to you," said the woman. "I've been sitting here all afternoon hoping v" - 1 hundred-dolla- r bills. "This makes fifteen hundred you owe me," he said. "Bet the five C's on No. 4 to win I got a tip on him this morning." No. 4 ran so fast it darn near caught up with the mechanical rab-bit, and when the clerk cashed in his tickets he was handed $3,000 the odds had been "I'll take my fifteen hundred " said Al, "and let this be a lesson to you. Never bet the horses il you gotta bet, bet the dogs." Last Fall, after a guest broadcast in New York, Jolson was button-holed by a young man as he was leaving the studio. " don't suppose you remem-ber:' bt said to Al, "but several years ago you took my folks out to the Miami dog track and helped them win fifteen hundred dollars. That money made it pos- sible for me to go to college," "Sure, 1 remember," said Al "and when you write your mom tell her she still owes me some dough." "I never heard about it," said the young man. "How much was it?" "A quarter." said Jolson. "She was playing a juke box and ran out ol change." horse to win. Well, the 'sure thing' came in fifth." "Has your husband ever dipped into the safe before?" asked Jolson. "Never," said the woman. "In fact, he never bet on a horse un-til yesterday and the only rea-son he did it was because our son is getting out of high school next June and we've got our hearts set on sending him tb college." "And you thought that by playing 'Sonny Boy' you could soft-soa- me out of a thousand bucks?" said Al. "Well. 1 don't soft-soa- that easy. Go and get your husband you're both coming with me." A FEW MINUTES later the couple were in a cab with Jolson, sure it was all over but the fingerprinting, but instead of heading for a police station the hackie drove out to the South Miami dog track There Al led the husband to a pari-mutu-window and handed him five one- - you'd drop in." Billy Rose "WHAT'S ON YOUR mind?" asked Al. "My husband is in a jam," said the woman. "He's the desk clerk in this hotel and he was on duty the other night when you checked in and left an envelope full of money to be put in the safe. Yesterday he heard about a sure thing al Hialeah and iok a thousand dollars out of your envelope and bet It on the MARCH OP DIMES March of Dimes Fund Campaign The 1951 March of Dimes cam-paign began Mond .y throughout the United States as a massive attack against the only epidemic disease known to man that is still on the in-crease a disease that in the last three years has stricken more than 100,000 people and cost the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis an unprecedented $58,000,000 for patient-car- e alone. In 1950 March of Dimes funds had assisted in some measure more than 54,000 polio victims at a cost of $20,000,000. The national fund at the moment is at the lowest point it has been since the organization was founded in 1938, officials re-ported. , The foundation reported four out of every five of the stricken needed and received financial assistance. Dolphin's Eye The pupil of the dolphin's 7e " heart-shape- - f |