Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSES meat and wheat bode III for 1948 1940 marshall plan pla ready for congress public backs tough U S policy EDITORS NOTE when opinions ar are e expressed p essed in these columns they are are a those t h ose ol of western newspaper union news analysts and not cot necessarily of this newspaper FOOD meat vs wheat domestic food situation in the S is entering a critical stage JS lh jin two aspects standing out in arp opposition to each other 1 I the government determined to 1 ship million bushels of wheat to europe by next june is campaigning to save a major portion of that amount by cutting down on the feed consumption of cattle hogs and poultry that line of reasoning holds that smaller flocks and feeding to lighter weights will save more grain than any other single effort the supply of meat is going to 2 be considerably less than it has been and the demand will be greater meat prices are expected to go much higher in 1948 further curtailment tail ment of meat production by saving grain at the feed trough will intensify that already serious situation lc cc cording to present circum t ces the situation stacks up something like this next year 1948 may see a considerable wheat shortage in the U S and also a radical upswing in the prices of meat there is no danger of a bread or food shortage of any kind this winter because of the nations bumper wheat harvest the pinch it if it comes will appear after the middle of next year precipitated by a cur bently threatening drouth and failure of the winter wheat crop added to that is the fact that domestic uses plus exports will leave from this years harvest of 14 bil lion bushels only a million bushel carryover by the time of the next harvest too small a volume in the event of a short crop meat which right now is a little cheaper than it has been because more animals are being slaughtered will continue in great demand next year because consumer buying power will remain high the supply however will be less the agriculture department estimates there will be only billion pounds of meat produced in 1948 compared to billion pounds this year there will be 4 million fewer cattle on farms next rf 0 Puary X uary than last january small V will be sent to market and there will be no increase in the stocks of sheep which are at an 80 year low alarmed over the situation the american meat institute has put out a pamphlet saying that curtail ing meat production now would be unwise and could wreck farm livestock programs cripple future U S economy impair nutrition of the people and further inflame price inflation fla tion GET TOUGH U S approves soviet leaders who cry warmonger every time an american diplomat splits an infinitive are gravely in error if they suppose iye e is is any major cleavage bew fc y 47 11 ir 1 tween the american publics views on russia and the state departments so called tough policy toward the soviets that conclusion was brought out in a recent gallup poll which indi time out from crises az I 1 V paul Ra madier french premier chats with a bedridden bed ridden tot during a tour of a paris hospital possibly feeling that he would like to be in a hospital himself rama dier is sorely beset with economic crises and cabinet crises as well as a more recent political crisis brought about by the sudden ascendancy cen dancy of gen charles de gaelles Ga ulles rally of the french people party bated that actually the predominant mood of public opinion today favors an even tougher policy than the state department is following answers to the question do you think that in dealing with russia and other countries the U S is insisting too much on having its own way were yes 12 per cent no 78 per cent no opinion 10 per cent further 62 per cent of the american people believe that the U S is being too soft in its policy toward russia dr gallup adds that americans while harboring a widespread desire for peace nevertheless have a deep seated fear of the consequences of appeasement the majority believes that peace is more likely to be maintained it if the nation makes clear to the world just what its position is and where it will make a stand FINAL TOUCHES marshall plan plait after ca from praise to criticism to condemnation tor for the P past ast few months the celebrated marshall plan to help europe regain its feet is being whipped into final shape under direction of secretary of state george marshall its progenitor one known fact loomed large in the mind of the american taxpayer the plan may cost up to 20 billion dollars for the four year period during which it will be in effect marshall who abandoned temporarily his debating in the U N general assembly returned to his washington office to put the finish ing touches on his plan which will be laid before congress when the special session opens november 17 the marshall plan subject to late revisions may be outlined broadly in these main points U S would make available to I 1 au europe next year a combination of relief and recovery supplies total ling about six billion dollars relief supplies food would be free recovery supplies machinery would be financed with loans because of shifting conditions 2 it will be impossible accurately to forecast the amount of help europe will need beyond the first year 3 sums from the U S would de crease each year as recovery progress was made 4 the plan would be administered in the U S by a new government agency and in europe by an organization representing the 16 nations which drew up their estimate of needs at the paris conference PHILLY CHOSEN convention site philadelphia city of brotherly love will be the site where barring an unlikely upset president truman will be handed the democratic presidential nomination next july the democratic national committee accepted philadelphian Phila delphias bid for the bartys 1948 national convention when that city proffered a certified check tor for and promised more for entertainment with no opposition the committee also went through the formality of ratifying president Tr choice of sen james jame howard mcgrath dem R I 1 as chairman of the party organization to succeed postmaster gen robert hannegan who resigned because of ill health among the more significant incidents occurring at the meeting of the national committee was the unanimous squelching of a resolution condemning the republican controlled congress for placing 1 partisan politics above love of country it was a straw in the wind which seemed to prove that the democrats were determined to give at least lip service to the partisanship bipartisanship bi that will be so necessary if the special session of congress starting november 17 is to accomplish anything OREGON TRAGEDY death hits high it a big plane crash as plane crashes go these days but it was enough to leave the state of oregon without a governor senate president and secretary of state earl snell Or egons governor marshall cornett senate president 0 and robert S far 71 rell jr secretary fe of state were killed A instantly when their Beech Beeche cratt raft struck a pine tree and scattered over the rugged snow covered terrain 36 miles south of lakeview Lake view 0 r e their intended destination ti snell the state executives had left klamath falls on a half hour flight heading tor for a goose hunting junket into the roughest territory of oregon their pilot cliff clicc hogue apparently became lost in bad weather and dropped down low to the ground to try to determine his position john H hall portland attorney and speaker of the oregon house was sworn in as governor to succeed snell a republican PLAGUE egypt stricken cholera the dreaded black plague Is spreading so swiftly in egypt that a total of dead has been predicted by years end with many stricken villages isolated by troops other small communities muni ties are ringed with bonfires day and night in the belief that fire will keep out the disease meanwhile neighboring nations were taking steps to prevent the spread of cholera from the upper nile valley greece italy and palestine have discontinued international traffic while private shipping lines will bypass egyptian ports and air travel is diverted away from egypt outside help in com batting the disease Is at a minimum in egypt swiss scientists alone were said to be helping local health officers there is a desperate shortage of vaccines DDT and medical specialists and to make matters worse black market operators were cornering anti cholera vaccines and DDT the only two weapons available to fight the plague WEAPONS 1 not no the he atom doomsday crept a little closer for those who read the words of rear adm euis ellis M zacharias retired in a recent issue of the united nations world weapons exist today zacharias former naval intelligence expert said that could wipe the last vestige of human animal and vegetable life from the face of the earth for a world that thinks of the atomic bomb as the penultimate of horrors there was this chilling fa fact ct zacharias was not speaking of the atom bomb the weapons which he said are 1 shrouded in the closest military secrecy and are being manufactured right now were described as of a biological bacteriological and climate nature russia is investigating military applications of cosmic rays britain is progressing with guided missiles and the U S has a secret biological weapon a germ proposition ion among zacharias revelations was the slightly less staggering assertion that the U S now has an atom bomb 50 times more powerful than those dropped at hiroshima and nagasaki ATOMS too hot to handle how to dispose of hot radioactive atoms from atomic ovens and atomic generator machines is turning out to be one of the most baffling questions ever faced by science its worse than the problem of how to get rid of old razor blades they can neither be buried nor tossed into the sea some of them live a century dangerous all the time while others have life expect anches of millions of years any disposal previously known for wastes will leave these atoms to menace present and future generations tor for there is no known way of quenching radioactivity the problem is not a present one for the few atoms now in scientific hands are not numerous enough for public risk in the future however when atomic power is used generally the wastes may amount annually to the inconceivable rays which would come from tons of radium but long before that time there will be enough to force the discovery of an atomic graveyard headliners HEAD LINERS IN KNOXVILLE TENN adm husband E kimmel former pearl harbor commander told how on december 7 1941 he was struck above the heart by a spent japanese bullet which only br bruised guised him IN NEW YORK marlene dietrich above who has two attractive reasons for favoring the short hemline hem line showed up on a liner from europe all bundled up in the new look drew hardly an ogle as she angled down the gangplank IN cincinnati susie 21 years old the only trained gorilla in the world died in her zoo cage after a stroke which paralyzed her right side IN SHANGHAI military aut authorities hori looked long fo for r three character witnesses to pay them tor for their testimony at a recent court martial finally ally found two of them in jail in shanghai the third in jail in neiping Pei ping IN washington mrs harry truman longing to return to the peace of independence mo announced firmly that she want to be president want margaret to marry a president raise her son to be president it if she had a son NEW RECORD give and take american farmers are continuing to take in and pay out money on a record breaking scale prices received by farmers in the month ended october 15 continued to soar establishing a new record of per cent of the 1909 14 base period on the other hand the bureau of agricultural economics reported the index of prices paid by farmers for the same period also hit a new high reaching an index of the increase in prices received was three points or I 1 per cent but the increase in prices paid by farmers tor for goods was only one point both however were at record levels adding further evidence to the current domestic inflationary trend BAE said that truck crops wheat and rice hogs cottonseed flaxseed Hax seed oranges and wholesale milk all advanced in price during the month while beef cattle lambs corn sweet potatoes P ota toes butterfat and cotton declined more contempt following a precedent set by john howard lawson screen writer dalton trumbo above refused to tell the house un ameri can activities committee investigating communism in hollywood whether or not he was a communist party member the committee also following precedent cited him for contempt of congress just as they did lawson others cited for or contempt were albert maltz maitz and alvah bessie both screenwriters LOW EBB russian trade two years after world war II 11 trade between the U S and russia wartime allies has dwindled to the extent that shipment of U S goods to the soviets is expected to reaca reach the lowest point in 10 years before the end of 1947 the united states today is sending a smaller percentage of american made machinery and equipment to the russians than it did in the years before pearl harbor chiefly responsible for the sharp drop according to lo commerce department part ment officials is the secrecy with which the soviets cloak their economic operations they curtail their purchases rather than give the barest details of trade information the U S asks the russians two questions in the case of goods considered in short supply such as oil tin plate and steel products first why do they need it second how are they going to use it that information is required of all countries trading with the U S only russia refuses to supply it I 1 ask oleo tax repeal in a telegram sent to president truman the national association of retail grocers branded the federal tax on oleomargarine as unjustly discriminatory against low income families they asked that the indefensible tax be ended and urged that the special session of congress be requested to repeal the tax the grocers said lifting of the oleo tax would be a price relief measure released by features feature |