THE OGDENSBURG JOURNAL EDITORIAL PAGE
Packers Use Waste
Men Around Truman
Community Interest..
Housing Queries
Answered As
Items For Modern
Miracle Drugs
7ero Hour' Nears
Anyone who was already for the project
had his faith affirmed by their statements.
All taxpayers who have not already cast
their ballots and who have any doubts
should read the information made available
in tonight's Journal on Page One and then
go out and vote yes on the project.
The state officials made it perfectly clear
. that the project won't cost local taxpayers a
cent. As for street improvements around the
project costing $23,000, this money is already
provided in the city budget and won't boost
the tax rate in any way.
t h e r e a r e still s e v e r a l h o u r s before
the
p o l l s close a t 9 t o n i g h t . If y o u h a v e n ' t c a s t
with the livestock industry and the future
of America's meat supply.
a newspaper item reported that the
Swift
made up. If it isn't read the
drug.
I was impressed that only big corporations could carry on the research that has-
on
P a g e O n e a n d t h e n d o so.
• At 10 tonight. Mayor Morissette has called
a special meeting of the Common Council.
Let us hope that this meeting will be able to
approve the loan and subsidy contract with
the state so the Housing Authority may proceed with its plans.
Then let all rancor, all emotion, be forgotten. Let the whole city work together for
the interests of Ogdensburg.
For A Free Press
The editors of the Yale Law Journal have
been looking into the judicial theory which
a Maryland court applied reeentry,~to punish
radio stations that reported the capture and
c o n f e s s i o n of a m u r d e r s u s p e c t . T h e y a g r e e
with editors of the working press that there
is a public service connected with the often
abused,
practice
known as "trying a case in the newspapers."
They doubt that press comment is capable of influencing juries. They criticize as
" d a n e r o u s l y v a g u e " a n y r u l e t h a t a l l o w s a.
judge to restrict comment whenever he believes it might affect the outcome* of the
trial. They recommend that the Supreme
Court make binding on all states the federal
ban on "cpntempt by publication."
"The rule h a r m s the public no less than
the press. A5 general inhibition on criminal
reporting would keep from circulation some
material vitally needed. by an informed
electorate. Political and economic issues
raised by national defense, .securities, and
anti-trust laws are nbw commonly involved
in criminal cases.
"Impartial verdicts framed only on the
basis of courtroom evidence are supposedly
assured by examination of jurors, instructions from the judge, and, as a last resort,
power to declare a-mistrial.. If such devices
as these fail . , . the fault lies not with the
press but'with; the system. The suppression
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of news reporting during a trial substantially reduce it. Instead, it represente a futile
effort to insulate a jury from the prevailing
climate of opinion."
Use Surplus Somehow
It may help a bit to use some of the pricesupport surpluses of commodities in lieu of
some of the money needed for European
aid.
' European aid and price support costs are
two bijt* items in the government's enormous expenditures.
Congress is attempting to put into effect
the sensible view of most housewives, that
if we raise more foodstuffs than we can use
and pay the producers to raise so much
^•more than we need, why not see that some
of the excess gets to the countries that can't
raise as much as they need.
Mark Sullivan has attacked the price
support idea time and again.
Others also have attacked it.
It is a stupid scheme which with its quo-
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led to the discovery of countless byproducts
of t h e m e a t - p a c k i n g
industry. Yet
Walter
Netsch, Armour vicepresident, said they
were happy when their profit averaged a
quarter of a cent on every pound of meat.
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THIS DOES NOT SOUND as if the meatpacking business is bad just because it is
big. The government says it is too big; that
t h e " b i g f o u r " — A r m o u r , Swift, W i l s o n a n d
Cudahy — should be broken up into 14 companies. The packers are accused under antitrust laws of rigging the markets.
In eight states I asked farmers, feeders
and shippers if they thought the packers
could rig the markets. Almost unanimously
the answer was no; that there was too much
competition. I w a s told t h a t f a r m e r s
and
shippers watch the market reports, decide
when and where to ship.
In the Union Stockyards, Chicago, 30,000
or more animals arrive daily and.for the
most part are sold for farmers by commission men, members of the livestock exchange. The. fees seem small — $19 for a
carload of cattle — yet Fred Hatch, Exchange president, said the agents go the
limit to get the best possible prices as the
only way of retaining the confidence of
shippers.
Netsch" was asked why on a given day
the retail price of meat might be up or indicate a shortage when there was plenty of
potential meat at lower prices in the stockyards. He said meat .prices might be based
on animals bought weeks earlier.
It was news to me that practically none
of the meat is frozen, but moves to branch
warehouses fresh. Beef loses its "bloom" in
less than a month and lamb in a few days,
lessening its sales appeal and price.
The packer's problem, Netsch explained,
is to keep his packing house lines moving
to p r e v e n t overhead costs f r o m being excessive, a n d to estimate w h a t the retail t r a d e
will take one to four weeks ahead.
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W, W. PRINCE, head of the Union Stockyards, said competitive bidding in a free
market brought best possible prices for
farmers. In proof of this, he said live stock
goes where the best markets are.
A few years ago most of the stock reached
his yards by rail; now 78 percent comes by
truck direct from farms. Hatch said this
means that on. a given day a farmer may
send word that he is not shipping or is going to some other market. •
Men I met in the stockyards, on ranches
and in feeder lots seemed to think the-packers were as efficient as the government was
inefficient.
They
said the
government's
holding
of
vast quantities of feed was likely to boomerang as it had before; that production of
meat was a long-time process and one way
to supply u p would be to encourage r a t h e r
than discourage feeding.
Time after time I heard it stated that high
support prices was not the program of
either the F a r m Bureau or the Grange, but
something the administration had dished out
in an effort to buy the farm vote.
Again and again I was told in one form or
another: "You can't eat grass, or grain held
in storage to rot, but an expansion in livestock will convert it into the most desirable
human foods."
tas for production does, as Skeffington has
said more than once, make the government
the dictator of American agriculture.
F a r m e r s of "the northeastern part of the
.country are not prominent in support of the
program. Yet when certain surpluses develop in good years, there, are those among
them who are inclined to accept government aid if they can get it.
The Maine potato scandal has been thoroughly aired. We heard the other day that
something similar was happening with respect to eggs.
G o v e r n m e n t c a n h e l p a g r i c u l t u r e w i t h . hi=-
formed advice about diversity of crops, soil
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Washington — Maybe there is something to those flying
saucers after all!
The Air Force has repeatedly said no. But Senator Clinton
Anderson has a different idea. The former Secretary of Agriculture, Who comes from New Mexico where the great Los
Alamos atomic plant-and the Army's main guided-missiles
testing grounds are located, is convinced flying discs are not
figments of the imagination.
Anderson carefully disclaims knowing anything about the
mysterious contrivances. He has never seen one. But just the
same, he is putting a lot of credence in the constant reports
about them.
"I believe something big is under w a y / ' says Anderson.
"There is too much going on in those large research centers
in my State to pooh-pooh the numerous eye-witness stories of
flying saucers and other mysterious devices roaring over the
countryside. Also, those official denials are nothing new. They
are both proper and to be expected.
"The same thing happened during the war, when strange
machinery and heavy equipment were moved into laboratories and test centers. People in New Mexico were told this
was for the purpose of conducting 'solar radiation' experiments. The reported objective of these experiments was to
draw energy from the sun to scorch large areas.
By L. B. Skeffington
Rochester—It has been claimed that the
meat packers • were so efficient that they
used everything in the pig except the squeal.
Now they find they have been overlooking
one thing. Research scientists are using
hitherto waste items to relieve human suffering. Possibly in time it may add to the
packers' profits or help to squeeze the price
of pork down slightly.
In the Armour Packing House in Chicago
I saw signs asking that pituary glands of
hogs be saved for acth. Later I went to the
laboratory where they make acth, hailed as
a miracle drug in the relief of arthritis. I
was told it was terribly expensive, was distributed only for clinical use, but when
more was known about it, volume production might lower the price. The same day
plant also was going to make the miracle
occasionally
Reports On
Washington
The New 'Brain Trust'
your ballot, do so right now if your mind is'
criticized,
Robert S. Allen
T h i s i s t h e l a s t of f o u r a r t i c l e s dealing 1
Anyone who has had any doubts about
the low-cost housing project should have
had them resolved by the frank statements
of three representatives of the State Division of Housing -who answered questions at a
public meeting yesterday.
answers
Public Service
quotas and cash handouts when production
outruns markets, it is bad.
How soon and in just what manner this
absurd situation will be eased w e cannot
p r e d i c t . I n t h e m e a n t i m e it is a b i t c h e e r ^
ing that at least some of the induced surpluses will be put to practical use.
'BRAIN TRUSTERS" at me'White House include (from left) David H. Stone, George M. Elsey
and Charles S.. Murphy. (Acme Telephotos)
"Well, there w a s radiation all right, and a large expanse
"was b u r n e d u p w h e n t h e t e s t w a s m a d e . B u t i t "wasn't ' s o l a r
radiation'. It Was an atomic bomb. I am convinced you are
going to be surprised about where these flying saucers are
corning from and what they really are when the facts are
finally m a d e known.
George M. Elsey, 32, of PittsThis is the sixth in a series of
burgh,
Navy
lieutenant-com18 articles on Truman and the
men
around h i m . This
t e l l s mander, w h o helped write the
about the new "brain trust" at official history of the Navy in
World War 2.
the White House.
By Paul Martin
Journal Washington Bureau
C o p y r i g h t 1950,
David Hency Stowe, 39, of
New Canaan, Conn., erstwhile
North
Carolina
school
teacher
Vitamin D-2
For Skin TB
By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D .
and former dean of administraThough the average person
probably does not realize it,
Washington—The White House tion at Louisburg College.
there are several different forms
correspondents
were
sunning
Missouri-born Donald S. Daw- of Vitamin D. It is a well-known
themselves on the Florida beach
son, handsome} - 41 - year - old medical curiosity, for instance,
at Key West.
One- happened to mention that former Air Force major, who that one form of imis vitamin,
he'd seen a lot of strange people had been personnel director at n e e d e d t o e n a b l e t h e b o d y t o u s e
calcium
and
phosphorus
a r o u n d t h e P r e s i d e n t l a t e l y . T h e Reconstruction Finance Corpora- t h e
f
r
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f
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s
,
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of
v
a
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to h u m a n
tion.
others concurred.
beings but no use to birds.
Who were these people? -What
Charles S. Murphy, 40, of
It has recently been found that
did they do?
North Carolina, hardest-working what is known as Vitamin D-2 or
T h e n e w s m e n s t a r t e d w o r k i n g . m a n o n _the W h i t e H o u s e staff calciferol may, if taken in large
next to top presidential aide, quantities, cure one of the most
What they turned up„was this:
' Quietly, unobtrustively, Presi- John R. Steelman. Murphy ram- stubborn of all ailments—tuberspecial
assignments, culosis of the skin.
dent Truman has assembled a rodded
new "brain trust" of his own. It rounded up information, followThe two forms of skin tubercudidn't include the Tommy Cor- ed through on big programs.
losis which are benefited are
corans, Ben Cohens,- Rexford
lupus vulgaris and scrofuloderMr. Truman picked Murphy/ ma. The first healed or improved
Tugwells, and Laughlin Curries
who hadn't basked in the lime, three out of four patients
of the Roosevelt era'.
light before, to succeed dramatic in
There was a new stripe of gov- Clark Clifford as special coun- treated; the second virtually disappeared in almost all cases.
ernment m a n in the White sel.
House — young, well-educated,
While taking calciferol, the papractical, mostly middle-of-the
tients
were advised to drink no
The new "brain trust" were
roaders.
more
than
one pint of milk a day
graduates of Duke, Harvard,
They had taken over .the re- Yale, Princeton, the University and to eat no cheese. The diet
search, memo - drafting, and of Missouri, Arizona. %One even was otherwise not restricted. The
speech writing for the president. attended the University of Gren- patients also were not permitted
to take any laxatives.
It looked as though Mr. Tru- oble in France.
man might be veering" toward a
Administered Daily
Most had seen war at first
more conservative " m i d d l e
The vitamin was administered
ground," his natural habitat, hand. None was "dedicated" to either in the form of a solution or
after swinging far "left" with, f o r e i g n i d e o l o g i e s . M o s t w e r e i n c a p s u l e s ; 150,000 u n i t s of t h e
bachelors, who could work far vitamin w e r e
his 1948 "Fair Deal."
administered
into the night, travel with the daily. There was no difference in
THERE WERE- some old, fa- President, without responsibilthe effects produced by the two
miliar faces, of course.
ities at home.
forms of treatment.
"Charlie" Ross, 64, of shamblIn 11 out of 12 eases of lupus
There
was
less
friction,
less
ing gait and Missouri "noun'
vulgaris
treated, the disease had
jealousy,
less
of
personal
ambidawg" expression, former St.
Louis newspaperman, who had tion and vying for position, in been treated by other methods
been Truman's press secretary the new Truman team than for f r o m 10 t o 310 y e a r s . T h e
from the first.
there had been in Roosevelt's old scars on the skin .healed comScholarly William D. Hassett, "brain trust'."
pletely in six cases and partially
60, a fixture in the White House
in three. Improvement began in
since 1935. He. had been Roosefrom three weeks to three
BUT THERE ALSO WERE months after treatment was startvelt's secretary, announced the
President's death at Warm some "liberal" influences at ed.
Springs, Ga.
play David K. Ni-les, holdover
This type of treatment was
from
the
Roosevelt
era,
a
White
also
employed in some patients
Matthew J. Connelly, 42, secretary in charge of the Presi- House adviser on "civil rights," with psoriasis, a skin condition
dent's calling list. He had been and David Demarest Lloyd, in which there are scaly patches
an investigator for the old Tru- 1935, Harvard Law School grad- over the elbows and knees and
man War Investigating Commit- uate and on Senator Joseph R. other parts of the / t body. Good
M c C a r t h y ' s ( R - W i s ) f a m o u s l i s t r e s u l t s w e r e o b t a i n e d i n s o m e of
tee in the Senate.
Bumptious, troublesome Har- of alleged Communist sympath- these patients, but were not noticeable in others.",
ry Hawkins Vaughan, 56, the izers in the government.
Reactions to this treatment
President's fun-loving military
aide.'An old Missouri crony, he H oLulsoey d ,b u ta s s- icganr reide d t oo nt h et h eW hDi et e- m a y o c c u r a n d d i d d e v e l o p i n 10
patients within five m o n t h s after
had been Truman's Senate sec-fense
Department
payroll,
had
treatment was started. These reretary at one time.
failed to get a State Department actions included sickness at the
When Truman was vicepresistomach, and vomiting, loss- of
dent, he had Vaughan promoted loyalty clearance in 1946.
tiredness,
excessive
to brigadiergeneral, and made
He once belonged to the Wash- appetite,
him his military aide. Truman ington Cooperative Bookstore, a thirst, and loss of weight. Howwhen
treatment
waswas the first vicepresident ever Communist front organization, ever,
stopped,'
these
isymptoms
all
to have one.
and to the National Lawyers
cleared
up.
Then Vaughan became a ma- G u i l d , a n o t h e r l e f t - w i n g o r g a n Questions And Answers
jor-general on the White House i z a tion.
D.
L. A.: When I have a bad
.staff. He got mixed up in the
Senate "five percenter" inLloyd claims he resigned from cold, sometimes I spit up quite
quiry. Witnesses had Vaughan both, because they were too a bit of blood. Could this mean
involved in perfume, race tracks, radical. He helped organize the that tuberculosis is the cause?
Answer: Bleeding, such as you
liquor, deep freezers, passports Americans for Democratic Acand campaign donations.
tion, a "liberal" organization describe, could come from tubThe President shielded him, with the Communist tinge ex- erculosis. However,, there are
b u t t h e S e n a t e c o m m i t t e e t u r n e d p u n g e d , a n d w o r k e d for t h e D e m - m a n y o t h e r possible causes, s u c h
in a critical report. A federal
court indicted Vaughan's old
friend and ex-Kansas City bootblack, John Maragon, for perjury. Vaughan
acknowledged
Maragon should be "fumigated."
(It is ironical, but Truman as
a senator, in the first report of
his War Investigating Committee, singled out the "five/ percenters" and "influence peddlers" then busily envaged in
handling war contracts, for special attack.)
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BUT SOME NEW FACES had
ocratic National Committee during the 1948 campaign.
He felt the time had come,
said Lloyd, to draw a line between what he regarded as
"New Deal Liberalism," and
the followers of Henry A. Wallace.
This "new t e a m " was working
more or less anonymously for
President Truman. They ~ all
pitched in at White House strategy sessions, -giving their opinions, helping to shape the highest government policies.
as some disturbance of the tissues in the throat or back part of
the nose. •
You are in need of. a thorough
study to determine the source of
your trouble.
Wayne Spearances
Married 10 Years
Madrid — Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Fisher entertained
Wednesday
evening at an oyster supper in
honor of the tenth wedding anniversary ol the marriage of their
If t h e n e w t e a m w a s " p i n k o " d a u g h t e r a n d s o n - i n - l a w , M r . a n d
been added to the inner circle in spots, 'it was weighted heavily in favor of the non-radicals.
in the White House.
T h e President B O W had five
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$10,000 a y e a r a d m i n i s t r a t i v e a s sistants, a n d a few e x t r a s p e e c h R e d C r O S S F a i r
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writers on "loan" from other de- ci ' * T
partments.
•:,, S e t I n NorWOOtt
C rNorwood
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p o nThe
s o r e d annual
b y s t u d eRed
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Stephen Spingarn, 41, of Bedthe
Norwood-Norfolk
Central
ford, N. Y.,.a World War 2 major who directed Army counter- School, w i l l ' be held tomorrow
intelligence in North Africa and e v e n i n g f r o m 7 u n t i l 10 i n t h e
Mrs. Wayne Spearance
An pnniversary cake, made by
Mr* 'Fisher was also served. t h e
Thope present, besides of a n d
g u e s t s i f hoi. or, -were M r . Jld
3VK Walter G. Short; Mr. and
M
r s ARobert
r t h u r TGrayson;
h o m p s o n ; Mr.
M r and
Mrs.
and
iVIrs. C h a r l e s S p e a r a n c e , M?
Mrs. Fisher and Fred King.
Those unable to attend were
Mr. and Mrs. Harold WJlard;
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Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Beckstead
I t a l y . H e w r o t e a s e r i e s of s p y t h r i l l e r s for a p o p u l a r m a g a z i n e a n d a f i s h p o n d w i l l b e f e a t u r e d , a n d M r . a n d M r s . V a n n ' B r a d i s h ^
before joining the White House and refreshments will be sold by
The evening was spent playing"
staff.
the students.
canasta and pedro.
"I think they have a direct relation to the atomic program."
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McCarthy's Probe — Highly significant about Senator Joe
McCarthy's noisy anti-State department jeremiad is the
tight-lipped silence of Republican leaders.
Early in the probe, the Wisconsinite appealed to the Senate Republican Policy Committee for aid. The party chiefs
"were m a r k e d l y c o o l . W h e n C h a i r m a n R o b e r t T a f t w a s a s k e d
to make a statement'in defense of McCarthy on the Senate
floor, the Ohioan replied, "I'll take it under advisement."
Since then, Taft has made a statement. I t was a lengthy
i n t e r v i e w i n t h e IDasrton, O., D a i l y N e w s , i n t h e c o u r s e
w h i c h h e briefly b u t pointedly- s p a n k e d M c C a r t h y .
of
Taft did this in a lengthy reply to a question about
the
f e a s i b i l i t y of a m i n o r i t y p a r t y ( G O P ) s p o n s o r i n g a n d s u p p o r t i n g a " c o n s i s t e n t n a t i o n a l p r o g r a m " of i t s o w n . T a f t h e l d t h i s
"was n o t p o s s i b l e a n d , i n e x p l a i n i n g w h y , m a d e h i s p o i n t a s
follows:
"For example, how could a minority leadership restrain
Senator McCarthy from making a particular speech which
m i g h t m a k e o u r p a r t y p o s i t i o n difficult, -when, a s i n t h e c a s e
of McCarthy's speech, nobody even knew he was going to
make it?"
Note: On Republican support economy^ Taft made this
frank observation, "When you start out to economize in Congress, you will find that 20 percent of the Republicans are interested in specific appropriations, and you can't get their
votes . . . Economy in itself is not a very appealing political
platform. Cutting the deficit is a better one . . . . The Democrats are very vulnerable on deficit spending."
Special Envoy — President Truman has quietly dispatched
'a special envoy to the F a r East to determine how the $75,000,000 voted by Congress last year to fight Communism should
be spent.
•The envoy is Edward T. Dickinson, 38-year-old New York-'
er, ex-Marine and director of ECA's Program Coordination
Division. He was borrowed from ECA for the F a r Eastern
mission. This does not conflict with the recent survey of Ambassador-at-large Phillip Jessup. His trip-l^as for the purpose of formulating over-all policies? Dickinson will m a k e
recommendations on how the $75,000,000 anti-Communist
fund should be allocated.
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Vanishing Empire — Unnoticed in the Securities & Exchange Commission, a once-mighty utility empire is going
t h r o u g h t h e p r o c e s s of d i s s o l u t i o n .
Electric Bond & Share Company, which once controlled
150 subsidiaries in 30-states, has submitted a plan to-dissolve
as a holding corporation. The move is in compliance with the
famous" "death sentence" provisions of the Roosevelt Administration's Holding Company Act. Passed in 1935, the law was
unsuccessfully fought by Bond & Share in the courts until
1945. Under its SEC plan, the giant firm would cease as a utility enterprise in the U. S. But it would retain its holdings in
American & Foreign Power Company and Ebasco Services.
After dissolution, Bond & Share will have more than $100,000,000 in available investment capital. As a result, the corporation is keenly interested in President Truman's "Point
Four" program for development of foreign areas. But the
legislation has been pigeonholed in the House Rules Committee for months. .
W h e a t C o r n e r — T h e r e is a s t r o n g possibility t h a t b y
M a y t h e U . S. g o v e r n m e n t m a y i i a v e a c o r n e r o n t h e w h e a t
supply of the country.
Neither the government nor the grain trade wants
that,
b u t so f a r e f f o r t s t o a v e r t i t h a v e g o t n o w h e r e . A t h r e e - d a y
Agriculture D e p a r t m e n t conference in Chicago with leading
d e a l e r s arid M i d w e s t e l e v a t o r o p e r a t o r s e n d e d w i t h o u t r e sults.
Meanwhile, Congress has been under heavy bombardment
f r o m e l e v a t o r a n d g r a i n e x c h a n g e officials t o i m p o s e c u r b s o n
further government grain buying.
This pressure is so potent that it enabled Senator Edward
Thye (R., Minn.) to attach a "sleeper" to the bill increasing
the Commodity Credit Corporation's fund by $2,000,000,000.
U n d e r this a m e n d m e n t , CCC, w h i c h c a r r i e s out t h e f a r m
price-support program, would be required to use private facilities in future grain and other commodity purchases. The
amendment was slipped into the bill so quietly that it wasn't
discovered until after the Senate Agriculture Committee favorably reported' the measure.Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan then excitedly
rushed to Commit-tee Chairman Elmer Thomas (D., Okla.)
and warned the provision would "wreck the entire grain bin
storage program." He also hotly blamed the grain trade for
the government's impending corner on wheat. Brannan contended that CCC, which now owns or has under loan around
80 percent of the wheat in the country, would not be i n that
fix if grain dealers paid farmers and the government the
price support for "wheat.
Average support - price for wheat in Kansas City is $2.26
a bushel.
Strongly seconding Brannan, LeRoy Smith, Agriculture
grain chief, declared that Thye's amendment would cost the
government millions in extra storage and commission charges.
Under these scare warnings, Senator Thomas hurriedly recalled the bill "for further study". To do that, he named a
subcommittee headed by Senator Allen Ellender (D., La.).
Note: Government wheat holdings total more than $1,000,000,000. Crisis in the grain will come in June and July when
the winter wheat crop is harvested. Lack of storage space
may force many farmers to sell at lower prices.
P o l i t i c - e t t e s — R e p u b l i c a n h o p e s "for c a p t u r i n g t h e g o v e r n o r s h i p i n N e w M e x i c o a r e r i s i n g a s a r e s u l t of t h e b i t t e r
factional brawl among Democrats over the nomination . . . .
Americans for Democratic Action are having a hard time
prevailing on Senator Hubert Humphrey (D., Minn.) to continue as National Chaixraan. He is insisting on Quitting . . . .
Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Marriner "^ccles is "available" as the Republican candidate for Senator in Utah, but
doubts that party -leaders in the state are interested in him.
U n t i l 1932, h e w a s R e p u b l i c a n * n o w c o n s i d e r s h i m s e l f a n
" i n d e p e n d e n t " ... ... F p r - t h e . g i a n t ^ r e g i o n a l D e m o c r a t i c r a l l y
in Chicago April 13, arrangements are being made for
throng of 125,000 to hear -President Truman's speech.
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