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rre :;!:nt Wilson was the
world’s ero as he laid the famous
14 poii.-s for a just peace before
the.Ya ailles treaty makers, / a
worship that became a dread as
tne woi 1 watched the politicians
make i: a thing of mockery.
Rotary heard the cheering, the
record d train whistles as Wilson
took the issue to the people on
that killing 22-day speaking tour
of the nation, making 40 address
es in an attempt to win popular
approval.
The fortieth address turned out
to* be his last, and the train bore
the dying body of the President
back to Washington.
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The first radio news broadcasts
of importance were on Station
KDKA, Pittsburgh, reporting on
Harding’s winning the election.
Rotarians were at their regular
Thursd y luncheon, but, in effect,
they sat in on the Tea Pat Dome
scand •! that caused Harding’s
death. Vice President Coolidge
was ti ding in Vermont that day,
and spent Cal took the oath of
■president in a time of prosperity.
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Like boys with a serial, the Ro
•tarians had to stop at that point,
;but Tec' Duffield promised more
: later. .aid the modern history ses
sion was over for the day.
i Be, . Sigma Phi sent a letter of
jth..*.ls for Rotary’s assistance
! v/i‘h Lands toward the hot lunch
;pr »gr .m of the sorority.
L m Jones came up with some
more litle-known facts — “Alex
an v Hamilton would be 185
ye: is ( Id today (Friday) if still
living.”
Sran Peck, of the FBI, Anchor
age. was a guest.
Likely MacArthur Will
Speak at GOP Convention
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The pos
sibility of inviting Gen. Douglas
MacArthur to be keynote speaker
at the Republican presidential
nominating convention is under
discussion by members of the par
ty’s executvie committee.
A prominent GOP official, who
asked not to be quoted by name,
told a reporter that he and his
colleagues have talked over such
an invitation to the general.
This party member said Mac
Arthur is almost certain to be
asked to make a major speech at
the July convention in any event
—a likelihood confirmed in other
Republican quarters.
$60 DIVIDEND TO HOLDERS
OF GI LIFE INSURANCE
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Payments
averaging about $60 will go out
this year to holders of National
Service Life Insurance policies.
The Veterans Administration
announced Wednesday it will
start dividing a 200 million dollar
dividend in March. This will be
the first regular dividend for vet
erans and servicemen, the VA
having paid two special dividends
in the past four years.
Priest Lottery Winner
Dies Of Worry In Italy
PERUGIA, Italy, {/?)—Don At
tilio Bellachioma, 75 - year - old
priest who suffered a breakdown
soon after winning 40 million lire
(about $64,000) in a lottery, died
Wednesday in a mental clinic
here.
Friends blamed the elderly
priest’s collapse on worry over
the scores of requests for help
he received after winning the
money.
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(Congress Asks For j
I Economy In Reply!
To Truman Speech
WASHINGTON, (/P)—An elec
tion year Congress responded
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with demands for economy and j
no more taxes Thursday to Pres
ident Truman’s State of the Union
appeal for a broad program of
foreign aid and domestic spend- I
ing. |
Lawmakers gave signs they will ,
support a speed-up in efforts to i
increase American military might. I
But the Republicans and south
ern Democrats who can muster
a majority of both houses ap
peared determined to hack down
the amount of foreign aid and to
scuttle many of the president’s
domestic Social Security propos
als.
They had some -backers among
administration supporters for
their economy-and-no-more-taxes
movement.
Mr. Truman called on Congress
Wednesday to meet the “very
real” threat of World War III by
bolstering the free nations of Eur
ope and Asia with more economic
and military aid.
The president proposed, among
other things, an increase in the
size of the U.S. armed forces; an
expansion of “Point Four” aid
abroad to combat “stomach Com
munism”; tougher inflation con
trols and a list of domestic wel
! fare measures including defense
| housing, labor law revisions, aid
to education, medical care, strong
er farm price supports and a $5
a month boost in Social Security
benefits.
Senator McFarland of Arizona,
the Democratic leader, was
pleased that Mr. Truman called
for an increase in the size of the
t
Air Force and stepped up defense
production.
Sen. EdwinC. Johnson (D-Colo),
who doesn’t always agree with
Mr. Truman, called it “one of
the president’s better speeches.”
Republicans pounded the point
that Mr. Truman made no men
I
tion of economics. Senator Ives
(R-NY) said the message “showed
practically no concern over the
actual economic welfare of the
country.”
Senator Martin (R-Pa) said Mr.
Truman was proposing “high tax
Japan Plans Fish Survey
Of North Pacific Waters
TOKYO, (/P)—Japan’s fisheries
board announced Thursday i t
plans to send a survey team into
northern Pacific waters soon to
inspect possible areas for obtain
ing salmon, trout, crab and fur
seal.
Japan has reached an agree
ment on North Pacific fishing
with the United States and Can
ada. When the pact is ratified the
Japanese expect to resume fish
ing in the Aleutian, Bering and
Okhotsk waters.
22-YEAR-OLD BRIDE
HAS TWO HUSBANDS
ATLANTA, Ga., (/P)—A pretty
22-year-old bride has decided to
keep the first of two soldier hus
bands given her by a strange turn
of fate in the fortunes of war.
In the name of Mrs. Agnes Dix
on, she petitioned superior court
to annul her marriage to William
S. Sasser. She asked that the mar
riage be declared null and void on
grounds that she is the legal wife
of Walter B. Dixon, once reported
killed in Korea but later listed
among war captives alive in Com
munist prison camps.
87-YEAR-OLD CUTTING HIS
THIRD SET OF TEETH
WINCHESTER, Virginia, (^)—
J. S. Costello, 87, doesn’t believe
in going to a dentist to buy new
teeth—he grows his own.
In his sixty-third year of mar
ried life, Costello has just finished
cutting the seventh tooth in his
third set.
Dentists are mystified:
es, big spending, deficit financing,
unbalanced budgets and ever
increasing debt.”
Senator Fulbright iD-Ark) said
the president’s message left him
‘‘depressed about the state of the
union.”
Senator Taft of Ohio, a Repub
lican presidential candidate who
got a hand from his GOP col
leagues when he walked into the
House chamber to hear the presi
dent speak, had no comment ex
cept to observe that Mr. Truman
seemed to have ‘‘backed down”
on previous demands for repeal
of the Taft-Hartley Act.
The president asked for revi
sion of the law.
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Seek Cause Of
U.S. Protection Of
“Voice of China”
By B. L. Livingstone
WASHINGTON, (JP) — House
spy hunters dug deeper Thursday
into why the State Department
gave protection to an American
publication in Shanghai despite
Chinese charges it was a Commu
nist front.
A “mystery witness” identified
only as M. L. Appelman of Den
ver, Colo., was scheduled to ap
pear before the un-American Ac
tivities Committee in its investi
gation of Max and Grace Granich.
The Granichs, who edited
“Voice of China” in Shanghai in
1936-37 before being forced to sus
pend, are said to be living now at
Wilmington, Vt. They have been
summoned to appear next week.
They have denied they were
Communists when asked by con
sular authorities.
The committee heard testimony
Wednesday that the State Depart
m e n t intervened to protect
“Voice of China” after Chinese
authorities twice confiscated is
sues and U-S. consular authori
ties refused to go to Granich’s
aid.
Surprise witness was John Car
ter Vincent, now State Depart
ment representative at Tangiers,
Morocco, who said he drafted in
structions to protest the seizures.
Vincent is to appear next week
before the Senate Internal Secur
ity Committee investigating the
State Department. He has also
come under fire in attacks by
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) on
State Department security risks.
Vincent testified he drafted the
protest instructions to Shanghai
consular officials on the “purely
legal grounds” that confiscation
of Granich’s paper was an “un
warranted invasion of American
jurisdiction” over American prop
erty in the international settle
ment of Shanghai.
No Tax Increase In 1952
Seen from Truman Speech
WASHINGTON, {/?)—The pros
pect of any general federal tax
increase this year—unless wide
spread war breaks out—shrank
to the vanishing point Thursday.
Congressional revenue experts
noted that President Truman’s
State of the Union message spoke
only of continued high taxes over
the next few years, and omitted
any mention of a possible further
increase.
His reference to the desirability
of spreading those levies as fairly
as possible among the people in
dicated to some top tax authori
ties that Congress at the most
will be asked to plug existing
“loopholes” which give special tax
relief to one group or another.
There is no certainty that the
lawmakers would go even that
far. The consensus at the capitol
was that any recommendation for
another general increase would
be a waste of White House sta
tionery.
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