Show NEI WS RE VIC W reds fie d S assume control of czech there were six days of crisis ina in czechoslovakia and then it w was 8 s all over the communists were jn in complete control ot of that nation ol of 13 million population the iron cartain curtain came do down wn w with ith a muffled clang as president eduard benes accepted the resigns resignation tion of 14 of his cabinet ministers after he had refused for a week to do so into power strode communist premier klement gottwald who had led his party upward from a minority status in czechoslovakia until now its members dominated every phase of the nations life and were prepared to swing it directly into the orbit of other soviet satellites wielding the club to keep the Czech sin in line was gottwaldt good right hand vaclav minister of the interior who controls all czechoslovakian czechoslovakia police forces in IN 14 9 0 J 1 X A gottwald that powerful position in a com comma mu dominated state was ana analogous logoua to the mailed glove on the dictators fist for what it was worth and that was very little aging president benes had managed to keep at least a superficial appearance of 0 rep representative re senta tive government by ins insisting asting that the government be composed compo sedof of members ol of other parties ot of the national front which reinstated the czechoslovak republic in 1945 when the germans were being driven ou out t but it was a hollow tasteless victory v to meaningless in 6 any practical application the new government consists consas ts of 12 communists there were seven before tour four social democrats two czech national socialists two catholic peoples party members one slovak democrat and two nonparty non party benjan men jan masaryk as foreign foreia n m minister in and gen ludwig svoboda as ai m minister fri lster of defense bewildered czechs czecho finally knew their cherished republic had come to a grim end when loud aspea speakers kers in prague blared this announcement into the night reaction has been beaten go back to work and let us complete our tasks op the two year plan in czechoslovakian ironic chronology the surging wall oi of the red tide engulfed their country just 10 years after the western allies had sold the nation to hitler at munich in a tragically selfish and futile e effort to avoid war and save their own skins at the price of just one small central european state reaction with the balkans all tied up with a red ribbon the world began to wonder which small nation the communist tide would engulf next some thought finland might be the top name on the list others wondered won dered whether austria austri france and italy might not be clamped soon in the communist vise there was general agreement on one fact act at least that the communist coup in czechoslovakia had forged pe perhaps r haps the most vital link in the R russian ian chain intended to shackle the marshall plan in finland and italy as in czechoslovakia oslo elections were coming up soon and the communists were out for or victory finland like czechoslovakia oslo Is ruled by a coalition government which has acknowledged that the country must remain on the best of terms with russia COLD CHICKENS CHICKEN no fuel oil campaigning politicians this year may have to eliminate a chicken in every pot from rom their lists of promises because there might not be enough chickens to go around reports from the poultry belt in the midwest say that the severity of the fuel oil shortage Is cutting into the 1948 baby chick hatch to threaten poultry and egg production Us this year thousands aRds of farmers canceled chick chloi orders tor for early march delivery because lecausi they get oil tor for theli their brooder stoves staves iowa and the northwest were suffering most from the situation but it also was bad in illinois and indiana the keio kerosene sene shortage has been severe enough to cause hardship in most of af the poultry producing area some poultry inen men were deferring hick chick c deliveries until later dates hoping that warmer weather aou woul I 1 ease the tight oil supply officials of one large larga by hybrid b r id chick hatchery iri in iowa claimed they needed six tank cars of fuel oil to get their 1948 production under way one of the most vociferous complaints generally being made among farmers was that city consumers were using up all the fuel oil FEARFUL hoof and mouth cattle hog and sheep growers ot of the U IS S continue to live in the shadow shadow of a fear ear that the hoof and mouth disease which has been decimating livestock in mexico tor for many months will spread across the border and affect U S herds at a recent session in chicago a joint committee of bf the cattle hog and sheep raisers forwarded a plea to secretary of agriculture clinton anderson to renew e efforts faor ts t to 0 eradicate ca to the disease among other things the stock men requested that these actions be taken I 1 renegotiate with high mexican officials M ceals on plans plan for resuming the interrupted slaughter and burial program immediate construction ol of a 2 fence along the present guarara quarantine line about miles south ot of the U S border baider build in new beef canning pa plants ants ain 3 S in the clean C ae an states of northern mexico co and continue to run those now operating |