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DREW PEARSON
Economic Experts Are Alarmed
M ORE alarmed than ever over high prices and the inflation
spiral, the President’s council of economic advisers
dumped a none-too-happy economic report in Mr. Truman’s
lap when he returned from his trip to Brazil.
Members of the council, set up by congress to take the na
tion’s business pulse and report on how to head off depression,
are so worried, in fact, that they have been considering the drastic step
of recommending reinstatement of price controls.
This step also has been considered by members of the Truman
cabinet, and they are not at all happy about it. They feel that new price
controls never would get by congress, would result only in more black-
marketeering—unless accompanied by rationing. And nobody wants
ta have rationing come back.
However, the council of economic advisers, a group of experts picked
from neither political party, is concerned not with what congress may or
may not think, but solely with heading off depression. And they informed
the President:
1. That the present runaway prices coupled with inflation will
continue for some time.
2. That continuation will lead to a real depression, rather
than a recession.
They also cautioned that the low-income public—which makes up
the vast majority of the nation's consumers—has been using up its sav
ings, because prices are so high that they can’t pay their bills out of
present income.
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WALTER WINCHELL
New Yorkers Talking About . . .
The British boats which are under
wartime protection in the harbor.
They fear time bombs. . . . Irving
Berlin's “take” from the “Easter
Parade” film. It’ll be at least $600,-
800. . . . The United Airlines hostess
(on the Cleveland-New York run)
who has the name of A. Tomic. No
kiddin’. ... The big ball game at
the Polo Grounds by disabled war
heroes. Between the “Broken
Wings” (arm amputees) and the
“Flat Tires” (leg amputees).
Ernest Truex, whose mother
passed away recently. He had
to show' up for rehearsals for
"The Big People,” in which he
plays the role of an undertaker.
WALTER SHEAD
Hoagy ("Star Dust," “Lazy Bones,"
etc.) Carmichaers mother, 70 years
young, who beats out a better boogie
bounce on the planner than her famous
son, according to insiders who’ve heard
both.
The talk that the land Sgt. Alvin
York (World War I hero) got for
his heroism is pumping black gold
at the rate of 80 barrels a day. Via
three oil wells. . . . Former news
paper man John O’Neil (elevated to
top kick in the American Legion)
who got that job in a campaign to
land him in the New Hampshire
governor’s throne. . . . The new
gift-gadget in a Hollywood click
spot — a perfume dispenser that
looks and works like one of those
ball bearing pens.
★ ★
New Deal Agencies Pay Off
E VERY now and then there is a news item, more or less unnoticed,
which goes to refute the all-inclusive charges heard nowadays that
everything done by the New Deal was bad. A majority of farmers today
will tell you the triple A saved farming as an industry; Home dwners
Loan corporation saved millions of homes and is paying out without
loss; Federal Housing administration as a lending agency for private
home construction is paying its way; the conservation service is credited
with keeping American farms at top production during the war; no one
in the Tennessee valley has an ill word to say against TVA.
And now the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, which in
sures bank deposits, has paid into the treasury $146,600,000, more
than half the money provided to start the program. It pays in
full the more than $139,000,000 in FDIC capital subscribed by the
12 federal reserve banks and about $7,500,000 of the $150,000,000
originally subscribed by the treasury.
To be perfectly fair the FDIC act was introduced in 1934 by Sen.
Arthur Vandenburg (R., Mich.). But it is considered New Deal legisla
tion and no one has lost a dime on bank deposits since its passage.
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H. I. PHILLIPS
New York Bids for Hollywood
New York has gone all out to
bring the movie industry to Goth
am, where it was bom. It has se
cured a pledge of five years without
strikes in the picture trades. All it
needs now are palm trees, looser
morals and a working agreement
with Old Man Gulf Stream.
*
The movie camera was developed
on the east coast and the first flick
ers were shown in New York. Some
of the top movie moguls got their
start there. But New York couldn’t
hold the industry. It lacked the
necessary insanity.
*
However, this has changed. New
York has become sufficiently wacky
for anything—even film making.
In spots it is screwier than Holly
wood, but not in technicolor.
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A crazy song which we think
could easily become a rage like
“Yes, We Have No Bananas,”
“Horses, Horses, Horses” and “The
Music Goes ’Round and ’Round”—
Arthur Godfrey’s “She’s Too Fat
For Me.” Watch it, boys!
• • •
Max Fleischmann, the yeast king,
has a magnificent new 168-foot
yacht. His favorite course, obvi
ously is “South by yeast.”
*
The yacht has been named
“Haida.” Why not the "Yeastward
Ho,” the "Cakewalker” or “The
Great Yeastem”?
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PAUL MALLON
Air Age Speeds Diplomacy
T HE flying diplomacy of State Secretary Marshall is bringing an un
trumpeted sort of one-world statesmanship to foreign affairs. A mili
tary mind generally believes a straight line is the shortest distance be
tween two points, whereas a diplomat customarily starts off on a tack
to the left or right and indeed may back up to fill. Marshall thus is
revising the old Byrnes-Roosevelt formulas, not so much in policy, but
completely in tactics.
His primary technique is to count less on the trans-oceanic
telephone, radio and cable to our ambassadors. In important
cases, he dispatches a personal emissary by air to Greece, Paris,
Rome or China to meet the diplomatic demands of an atomo-Russo
era.
It is all being done rather quietly. For instance, when the Paris
conference of needy nations started planning to demand 29 billion dollars
from the U. S. in four years, the state department did not issue state
ments, make speeches or get the ambassador on the phone. The Marshall
policy worker, George Kennan, was sent over quietly by air, and he got
American officials into a conference and worked the publicity on our
viewpoint from there, letting the Europeans know first-hand the problem
of the administration to wring money and concessions from the Repub
lican congress and the primary necessity of self-help by Europe.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Save While We Have It
A MERICA’S annual per capita in
come has hit an all-time high.
Twelve hundred dollars each year
for each one of us, men, women and
babies. Such an income is fine while
it lasts, but what of tomorrow? It
was not many years ago when
wheat was selling at 50 cents a
bushel; cotton at five cents a
pound; hogs from $3 to $4 a hun
dred; when corn went begging at 30
to 40 cents a bushel. Yes, prosperity
is fine, but let us remember some ol
the yesterdays and prepare for tne
possible tomorrows. If we will but
stick away a portion of our income
we will have something to tide us
over the rough spots.
TO WORK WITH LEPERS . . .
Miss Margaret Haven of Chicago,
53-year-old telephone operator, left
her job, home and friends, to
work in Molokai leper colony in
the Hawaiian islands. She said
she wanted to share the good
health God gave her with someone
else.
ACCUSES MIDDLEMEN . . .
Housing expeditor Frank Creedon
told a special congressional inves
tigating committee that unneces
sary profits taken by middlemen
in the building materials market
are forcing up cost of homes.
MOTHER INSTINCT . . . When
Jesse O. Price of Los Angeles,
owner of Susie, the black cocker
spaniel, bought a recently born
pig, the dog, which might have
heard about how valuable pork is
these days, took over as mother.
The two became fast friends.
IMMORAL LENGTHS ... Dr. A.
Powell Davies, pastor of the AH
Souls’ Unitarian church at Wash
ington, D. C., assailed new long
skirts as “immoral” and “moron
ic” because they waste material
needed by world’s suffering peo
ple.
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN ... Ab
dullah Kamel Eid, Egyptian na
tional and University of Oregon
student, was escorted out of U. N.
security council meeting after his
outburst: “Long live Egypt!
Down with Britain!’*
PISCATORIAL DYNAMITE . . . Brand-new industry in eastern Can
ada, started just a year ago, the trapping of 800-pound tuna is called
the most thrilling commercial fishing industry in America. At Hub
bards, Nova Scotia, a unique colony of 100 men has been established
to snare the giant fish for canneries. Picture shows a boatload of
“elephants,” as the Nova Scotia fisherman calls the big tuna.
AMERICAN MUNITIONS EN ROUTE TO GREECE . . . Canes of
shells, grenades and land mines are shown as they were loaded from
a lighter aboard an army transport in New York harbor. They were
part of the military supplies being sent to Greece to help the Greek
army defend the little nation in the event of attack.
1947 STYLES FOR D.P. KIDDIES . . . Children are pretty generally
accepted as being universally interesting, particularly so if they’re
as cute as this pair, who are a couple of displaced persons living in
a camp at Hanau, Germany. Here, they are modeling the latest thing
in D.P. children’s petticoats and pants, made from American Red
Cross hospital bedside bags and ditty bags. D.P. camp workers are
converting them into clothing—enough for an outfit for every child in
the 411 camps.
GRAIN PRICES BOOST LIVING COSTS . . . Department of agricul
ture economists attributed soaring food prices, now at all-time high
level, to high income, coupled with tremendous demand and prospect
of small corn crop. Samuel Williams, a miller at the department’s
Beltsville, Md., experimental farm, is shown with bags of corn and
wheat, retailing for $3.05 and $2.95, respectively, per bushel. Theso
peak prices will cause poultry prices to continue rising.
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Use of Aluminum
Shows Increase
Jump in the Cost of Copper
Brings Shift to Other
Basic Materials.
CHICAGO.—Manufacturers in in
creasing numbers who formerly
used copper as a basic material are
turning to aluminum and other ma
terials because of the higher price
of copper and the smaller pound for
pound amount of substitutes re
quired in fabrication of their prod
ucts, an industry spokesman said.
Copper currently is quoted at 21%
cents a pound, aluminum at 15
cents and other substitute material
are correspondingly cheaper.
Aluminum was said to be the big
gest competitor of copper. It is
much lighter and has a much lower
melting point. Although it is more
susceptible to corrosion and more
difficult to process, in many in
stances the price differential makes
additional processing economically
feasible.
Many Alloys.
Substitution of aluminum and
other materials for copper long has
been in progress in the household
appliance industry. Castihgs, for
merly made of copper, are being
made of aluminum and porcelain
enameled steel by some producers.
A large variety of aluminum alloys
is available.
New techniques and applications
of rubber and plastics as insftlating
materials in production of wire and
cable also has cut into potential
copper usage. With recent copper
shortages aluminum wire of stand
ard diameters and conductivity
equal to that of copper has been de
veloped. Plastics also are replacing
copper in wire cloth used for
screens.
Create New Markets.
Copper producers assert, how
ever, that although certain markets
may dwindle as substitutes prove
adequate, other markets will grow
and new markets will be created.
Although no official estimates have
been made public as to the vast
amount of intricate electrical equip
ment and machinery required in de
velopment of atomic power proj
ects, much copper is expected to be
needed in building this equipment.
The shortage of motors, genera
tors and other electrical items cre
ated by the war and the large
amount of copper required in the
automobile and home building in
dustries are expected to provide a
sustained and increasing demand
for several years.
Little Nondescript Dog
Proves Faithful to End
WICKENBURG. ARIZ. — He was
just a little nondescript white dog.
He was familiar to the folks of
Wickenburg for several years. They
saw him often trotting along on his
hind legs behind his master.
The pair came to town weekly
from Thompson’s lonely cabin in
the desert for provisions which he
carried home in a sack over his
shoulder.
Then H. C. Nicholls, who knew
the aged prospector only by sight,
reported he had found Thompson in
a fainting spell along the highway
and had taken him home.
Constable B. E. Fugatt went to
the Thompson cabin to see if there
was anything he could do. He found
Thompson dead and the little white
dog on guard.
The dog wouldn’t let Fugatt ap
proach the body of his master.
Fugatt called Justice of the Peace
R. L. Westall. But, with no word
from his master to restrain him,
the dog kept both at bay.
Finally at the word from Westall,
Fugatt shot and killed the animal
so they could remove Thompson’s
body.
Today the little dog with courage
lies buried at the feet of his master
in Wickenburg cemetery.
“It was the least we could do,'"
Westall said.
Cops Get Signals Crossed;
Wanted Man Is Set at Liberty
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Police de
partments in Alexandria and New
ark, N. J., got their signals crossed
and a man wanted in connection
with a slaying in New Jersey is at
liberty.
Lt. Russell A. Hawes, of the
Alexandria force, explained—
Antenio Carlos Winsord. 33,
picked up while sleeping in an auto
mobile, told police he had beaten
his wife in Newark and believed
she was dead.
Newark police, told of the state
ment, Hawes continued, said the
man wasn’t wanted. He was re
leased.
Later, Hawes said, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation told Alex
andria police that the man was
wanted, and that a request that he
be apprehended came from Newark
police.
Bridegroom Broke Early;
Had No Cash for the License
DETROIT.—Elmer H. Dupke, 21-
year-old prospective bridegroom,
thought he had taken care of every
thing when he appeared with pretty
Margaret Traub, 20, to apply for a
marriage license.
But he neglected one important
item. Asked for the fee. a red-faced
Elmer searched in vain until the
bride-to-be handed over the bill.
“But he’d better not let this be
come a habit,” she said.
More Acres Opened
To Alaska Settlers
Large Section oi Matanuska
Valley Good for Fanning.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary of In
terior Julius P. Krug has announced
that 45,000 acres in Alaska’s Mata
nuska valley—near the ghost town
of Knik—would be opened to home
steading next spring.
The district land office at Anchor
age will start accepting applications
from war veterans October 17. The
general public can apply after next
January 15. Actual settlement will
be permitted six months after appli
cations are approved.
Krug said most of the land is un
improved but suitable for farming.
This is in contrast with 2,750,000
acres of public land along the Alaska
highway, upon which settlement
may begin October 2. The newly
opened highway lands are non-agri-
cultural.
The new Matanuska homesteads
may not exceed 160 acres. The land
is free. There is a filing fee of $5 for
tracts not larger than 80 acres and
$10 for tracts of 81 acres or more,
plus a commission of $1.50 for each
40 acres.
The proposed homesteads are in
the Wasilla-Goose Bay region, in
the northeastern end of Knik Arm,
48 miles from Palmer, headquarters
of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation
corporation farm cooperative proj
ect, or 15 minutes by plane from
Anchorage. The Alaska railroad
crosses the northern end of the
area.
Krug said the decision to open the
area to settlement was based on
land classification reports showing
that the area was suitable for farm
ing and is needed for further devel
opment of the valley.
The bureau of land management
said the area is sparsely settled,
partially because the original Mata
nuska development in 1935 drew
settlers away from the Wasilla-
Goose Bay region.
Experiment with Undersea
Television Is Successful
WASHINGTON. — Armchair
scrutiny of sunken Spanish gal
leons and other long-hidden mys
teries of the ocean depths be
came a possibility as the navy
announced that underwater tele
vision experiments have been
carried out successfully.
The navy said scientists at
Bikini, scene of last year’s atom
bomb tests, watched fish swim
ming around the deck of a sub
marine 160 feet below the sur
face by means of remote-con
trolled television camera.
Natural light filtering throuph
the clear water provided suffi
cient illumination for the experi
ment, but when necessary regu
lation diving lights can be used,
the navy said.
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Polio Vaccine U Tested
on Rats; Success Is Told
WASHINGTON. — Development
of an infantile paralysis vaccine
said to be capable of producing “a
high degree of immunity” in a cer
tain type of rats was described in
the technical journal Science.
The report, describing the work
of four Stanford university re
searchers, contained no statement
as to any significance of the studies
with relation to the disease in hu
mans.
The vaccine was prepared with a
strain of infantile paralysis virus
experimentally developed in the
cotton rat. After vaccination, 24
rats were exposed to doses of active
virus. Only one of the 24 vaccinated
rats developed polio—and it recov
ered. In contrast, among a similar
number of unvaccinated rats used
as "controls,” 83 per cent de
veloped the disease. Three weeks
later, the original 24 vaccinated
rats were given another dose of
active virus 10 times stronger than
the original one. Only 33 per cent
showed signs of polio. On the other
hand, 92 per cent of a group of
“control” rats developed the dis
ease. Hubert S. Lorin, C. E.
Schwerdt, Nancy Lawrence and
Jane Collier Anderson conducted
the research.
100 Pirates Killed Off
Chinese Coast by Navy
CANTON, CHINA. — A Chinese
naval amphibious force killed about
100 pirates in a clash off the Kwan-
tung coast July 23, the newly-estab
lished navy signal station here re
ported.
A message to the signal station
said the pirates lost their chief of
staff and a unit commander.
The Kueling islands, pirate
stronghold about 85 miles northeast
of Hong Kong, now is occupied by
Chinese troops, but for years was
the base for organized sea rovers
who exacted tolls from passing
junks and often raided coastal vil
lages.
Russians Possess Guided
Rocket, U. S. Army Reveals
WASHINGTON. — The army dis
closed that Russia possesses a guid
ed missile with twice the range ol
the V-2’s being tested here.
The missile was developed by the
Germans, who also produced the V-
2 rocket captured by the Americans
and now undergoing tests at White
Sands, N. M.
Exquisite Doily in
Pineapple Design
ANOTHER top-notch pineapple
design combined with a cen
ter of delicate little medallions
makes this exquisite doily. So
many uses!
• • •
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inches in No. 30 cotton. Pattern 939: di
rections for 2 doilies.
New, improved pattern makes needle
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cents.
Due to an unusually larger demand and
current conditions, slightly more time is
required in filling orders for a few of th®
most popular patterns.
Send your order to:
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564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80. ED.
Enclose 20 cents for pattern.
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