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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 79, 1949 PAGE FOUR One Business Recession We're All For JANE EADS as Carl was rsae a Raymond Moley's Alexandria Daily Town Talk about th?" nes. I asked "TWO hall Ltoht at Wathinfton Column McCORMICK COMPANY, INC, Proprietor! Established 168S President BY RAYMOND MOLEY Harold Medina, Judge in the afraid. 'Fraide saw. 'Fmd to baseball no fun." Most of the MVRTLX HUIS DELLMON etOliO JARMAW HUNTER JAAAU Eiitof, an4 Vlce-freiet Scrretarr-Treaiiirar n4 Manager WASHl.VGTOX-Widower Vice President Alben W. Barkley and the bachelor president pro tern-pore of the Senate, Kenneth Mc-Keller, have thrown the Senate Ladies club into a tizzy.

Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York, may well emerge from the current Communist trial a a celebrated national figure or he may finally DIAL TtLtPHONIS ALL DEPABTMZNTS DIAL Particularly a the' Pi ADVXRTISO SlEI'lUiSEXTATlVES Ciaiuf. Cravbar Buildln. New York: Tribune Tewer Chleefet wish he had never left the practice Al 1 P. of law for a career on the bench. BwiVr Buudinf.

Atlanta; Repubbe Bank rt I ta Ux Angeles; Uo)4 Bulidia. Beanl. shooters.lfVe7ttMf thev fait r. The wives of the lawmakers meet Tuesday at the capitol when Congress is in session to sew for the Red Cross. They are without a leader because traditionally the club's president is the wife of the vice president.

If, as during the last session of Congress, there is For this trial promises to be a show and long one filled with Communist dialectic, propaganda, self rtrsri 1' flet'a MEMBU OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AwcuM Preea Is exclusively entitled la (he ue ttr republication of P.lTe' credits to tt er eredne in Uus p.P and alao tee Ucal news puMlrbed herein. AU rvg hw republic tioa el special a1Upaahee fcereta are iee rtterved. a. W1U1 fiistir. s--A: of fartB disorder and hilarious comedy.

A judge who can weather such a storm deserves high honors. BY MAIL Twelve high-ranking Commun Best player in ii s' told me as SSW ists were indicted in the New York Federal District months ago for tse 100 59 cARRiEm a aixxakdria One Mo ik Three Moats Si Montba One Week One Month Three Mjnthe Six Months conspiracy to teach and advocate 110.00 One Year Entered' tee" i Becor.il CHase Mall Mitter the overthrow of the oovernmeni of the United States by' force and violence. At the moment, 11 of no vice president, the honor then, goes to the wife of the president pro tempore. Mrs. Arthur Vanden-burg headed the group during the 80th Congress.

But what to do now? What to do! One senator's wife, who ought to know, says it's just possible the wife of the chairman of the foreign relations committee will be drafted to lead the group. In that case the Senate ladies' next president will be Mn. Tom Connally, wife of the senator from Texas. On the other hand, it could be these defendants and their 10 law BT CARRIES OTHEH TOWNS 2 sc I as well i. had finished our of us were takin.

was Diz. Boh h1 wers- The-i RURAL) OEUVCRV One Week One Month Three Montha Six Months One Vear s' yers are clearly attempting to over-s so throw the American system of l.co a Week CM Month .1 1.00 and mvself. 10 ins-: A. sio.oo justice by disorder, quibbling the delay. Every conceivable etfort is Being 've put on LttS weiftA you.

Diz?" made to reach the public. A gang of some hundreds of Communists All ta alwiwriama. Obltuartea. will be accepted only ai advertising matter a must be pall tor a auch at the regular reader rates, before publication. Official Journal ot City of Alexandria I Official Journal of Town of Lecomptai Ofiicial Journal of City of Pinevilie I Official Journal of Town of Boyc Official Journal af Town ef Cheneyvilie Official Journal of the Rapides Parish School Boar! Official Journal Rapides Pariih Police Jury SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1949 Only in my rm t.

my arms." ty 2 If seeinsr is that the honor might go to the wife of the Senate majority leader in this instance, Mn. Scott Lucas of Illinois. The group, however, will hold an election in February and decide. The Senate Ladies club was organized in April. 1917, with Mrs.

are picketing the Court House with placards and noisy demonstrations. These people hoot and abuse the judge when he enters. One of the defendants uses his floor privileges as a member of the City Council telling Hope Thftni there has come a little the Dean midriff a to carry on harangues about the him throwing that if6 "fog" ball palt the best h8. kti the National Lewi. a trial.

America and the East Probably most Americans, because of their sympathy with Na The Judge and the district attor Dizzy is going to olav i. ney are subjected to every possible tionalist China and their general antagonism to Communism, have felt annoyance in court. One lawyer newai of the Baseball Golf Tni.rn.-. Sli Pa accused them of maintaining an a sense of something lost in the flight of Chiang Kai-shek from IS an asked him uh xt '-wit! "armed camp'' because of the presence of police. Another speaks ting.

But it is possible that this time the coincidence of events in the world has been favorable to America and to other non-Communist of the place ot me jua- chances. "Won't be much fim that one, because there. Won't mLM Wo ees residence as a "silk stocking -c4 fiUfff tlx Thomas Marshall as president. She was the wife of the Democrat from Indiana, who, at vice president in the Wilson administration, was famed for saying: "What this country needs is a good five cent cigar." During World War II, under Mrs. Peter G.

Gerry, wife of the Democratic senator from Rhode Island, the Senate ladies met twe full days a week, concentrating on the making of surgical dressings. One year they worked a total of 166 days and made more than 72.000 dressings. Of recent yean the group has been meeting from 10 to 3 o'clock everv Tuesdav in their own rooms peoples. The major break in the Chinese civil war has occurred at a mo district." When the judge speaks to beatabunchofbalip softlv. he is charged with sar ment when a new secretary of state had just taken up his duties in casm." When he is firm, he is "ty rannical." Despite a delay of six Washington and was beginning his initial survey of the foreign situa tion and United States policy.

The President had just made his inau months, the lawyers shout about i in u-ViirVi ra'iiH fnr 9 constructive nroBram to offer beine "rushed to trial." thi world something better than Communism. The Asian conference The whole jury system is at the 25 Years Ago In Alexandria (From FileaofTttilowaM) In New Delhi and disturbances in the Communist sector of Korea were demQcratiC." It excludes Negroes, Stem et-Os, added factors drawing attention to the Far East. jews and all poor people. An at on the first floor of the Senate Such a chain of circumstances may force the major attention of tempt was first made to disqualify Jan. 29, 1924-A Chicago er is given the contract to he isn't going to hold the common man's vote down here by develop the judge because, it was claimed, he was responsible for the system of drawing prospective jurors.

THESE DAYS office building, bringing their own box luncheons. They still make dressings for local hospitals, knit and sew for the Red Cross. A citation from the Red Cross credited the ladies with being the "smallest group making the most dress ing a Harvard accent. the United States at this time toward Asia. Its influence could lead to a keener, more carefully planned and logical policy for Far Eastern affairs.

If that happened, the position of the United States in Asia might suddenly be strengthened. If the principles laid down by the President on January 20 were made the basis of the contest with nrfir fear. Even those who have a strong James F. Biossat, When he overruled this, the defense tried to examine him as a witness. This he refused because it certainly would have disquali- distaste for Folsom find it hard to dislike him personally.

He is partment superintendent, m-i with George E. Sokolsky Judge Yankwich as hearty, friendly, and winning Communism in Asia, we might find ourselves gaining instead of losing fi ycuyic un rust, second and Tfc streets between Lm anri ings in the snortesi numptr hours" of any volunteer group working for the organization. as an overgrown puppy. in that contest Non-Communists everywhere might then be heart- Finally, the defense has started to "supply yourselves yith tri But he's a pretty wise eld dog politically at 40. He has the dema In December, ism, wnen airs.

ened. questioning all prospective jurors about their education, the value of mc supply is oe CUt 2 p. m. tomorrow." Vandenberg was pushing tne gogue's gift of stirring up the peo Suppositions like this may seem to be on the order of daydreams. Highest temperature 71, fe But is not the ultimate triumph often won by those who iook on a tem camp and hospital service, a special project for servicemen was the making of 500 Christmas stockings you now'or have you ever been a member of the Communist party? of of caw i uegiees.

Among curiosities cana is the action the houses they occupy, their political beliefs and the like. The claim is that the jury panel is a "rich man's club" and that any "Mr. Cole. I would like to an porary setback as a chance to be seized? Armv of Volunteers I trace of education in a juror is filled with approvea eum. group also collected 1350 to help fill gift boves for soldiers in isolated areas around Washington.

swer that question as weu; i would be very happy to. I be "undemocratic. One lawyer staged a spell of lieve the reason the question is ple. He won office by going around the countryside with a corn-shuck mop and a pair of suds promising to clean up "the scheming mills in the state capital." He financed his campaign by passing the suds bucket for the people's half dollars and he got them. He also got more votes than any governor in Alabama's history.

Big Jim has avoided one tactic sometimes employed by southern If the expectations of the Department of Defense are fulfilled, the FAMILY WASH LAUHDRi BEACTIFO.Lt DOM Brother Blackmail Laundry DIAL 6668 being asked is that because at the weeping in court, me next day the judge admonished him for this. imed services will be manned almost exclusively by volunteers by "I don make any apolegy, he re the time the present selective service law expires in June, 1950. The Judge Leon R. Yankwich in the instance of Lester Cole, Hollywood writer, who refused to testify before the House committee on unAmerican activities whether he was a Communist. Cole was discharged by Metro.

Goldwyn. Mayer. Eric Johnston, president of Motion Pictures Association of America, intervened to indicate that his industry had to clean house. Cole sued in Yank-wich's court and won his case. present time there is an election 'in the Screen Writers Guild in Hollywood that for 15 years Mr.

plied. services are now up to their budget quotas, and recruiting is expected "You certainly wept and wept to keen the ranks filled for the next eighteen months. McGuinness and others I in the sight of the law," suggested If this estimate proves accurate, the draft would not be used again the judge. "The chairman. I didn't even din-in the term of the present law, and by the end of that term only The lawyer then made a speech know there was an election out demogogues the setting of race against race, white man against black.

"Nothing built on hate and pre- few men would remain in conscripted service. Thus the services about how Sun there. Go ahead and answer the question. Are you a member of the Communist Party Henry McLemore Takes a Look Most things change. Trees in the fall, for example.

Our national shore line. Even the Grand Canyon changes with the time of day. But there is one thing that doesn't change. And I played golf with that "thing" yesterday. It is called Dizzy Dean.

In spite of everything you have read about Dizzy, or heard about Dizzy, you have to know him to annreriate him full.V. He COmeS would be back to the traditional volunteer oasis. tion TOy race iudice can survive not in a This does not mean that selective service is of no further use. It Judge Medina is a colorful, able .....14 tn mntinin. th authority to conscript men indef- lawyer who served on the Colum- "Mr rnln.

If vnn rlirln't know Judge Yankwich violently at. tacked Eric Johnston, to which the latter replied: "What actually happened, as I testified, is that I presented the producers with two alternatives: i toon h. service manned hv volun- bia Law School faculty under the Louis J. Vanderlick INCOME TAX Returns Prepared State and Federal 1012 SIXTH 5t Opposite Postoffice PHONE 2-2310 there is an election there you didn't hear Mr. Lavery's testimony yesterday.

teers when possible, defense should not at any time be completely de deanship of the last Chief Justice Stone. He has had long experience as a trial lawyer. But on this case andent on volunteer manpower. The authority to draft men at any 'The chairman. There were eithen they could employ persons he must now spend months holding time when it might become necessary is a sound and reasonable safe some parts I didn't hear.

though by the public to be Com munists and defend their em his temper, guarding his utterances and weighing every decision. For 'Mr. Cole. I am sorry, but close to being the most refreshing guard. 0 would like to put it into the re plovment.

'or they could dismiss democracy anyway," he said. "There's just no place for it, that is all." Mail Box Roads His program calls for lifting the state's "mail box roads" out of the mud and equal education opportunities for negroes and white persons. "Essentially, I want to raise Alabama from a state listed as 44th or 47th or 48th to the national average at least," he said. Big Jim doesn't care about good grammar any more than he does the niceties of etiquette. He talks the way the people who voted for him do.

cord that there is an election there. The choice was up to the producers, and I told them it was "The charman. All right, there Writing and Gambling the unseen witnesses always in his mind must be the justices of the United States Supreme Court, some of whom, like Justice Murphy, have been none too strict in un to them to fish or cut Dait is an election there. Now, answer the question, are you a member of the Communist Party? The decision- was entirely theirs Writing, painting, acting and kindred professions should be put on the same tax footing as gambling, says George Bernard Shaw. Gambling profits are tax exempt in Great Britain, and Shaw would and thev made it unanimously.

their interpretations of Communism. That is the tribunal where 'Mr. Cole. Can I answer that human being alive. Most athletes are untruthfully modest.

During my days as a sportswriter I must have asked Cobb and Ruth a hundred times to name their all-time outfield. Not one of them ever placed himself on the team, although the record books prove he belonged there. Walking down the first fairway I asked Dizzy to name his all-time team. "The judge said my attitude was doematic. doctrinaire and abso in my own way, way i.

like to see writing and the other arts share this privilege. His reason this long show will certainly have i. a oamW lhan writing a book with the its final stand. please? Can I have that right? HAVE YOUR HOUSE EXAMINED BY J.C.TIW TERMITE INSPECTO! lutist. Mr.

McGuinnes was allowed to umi. Meanwhile, the Communists are idea of makina money. mau- "I want to repeat what I have answer in his own way. said manv times: I would not Publishers and play producers will applaud his idea. They have provided ov-er the centuries by the "The chairman.

You are an The best language is the one that will reach the most people," he said. And he has proved his ability to reach the soul of the employ a known Communist in American, aren't you? scent all their lives trying to guess which books or plays will be pop- system they want to destroy. a responsible position Bonded and licensed "Well, I'm the pitcher," he said. ular, yet rarely do they have any advance idea. One thing certain is "In this attitude I find myself that in Shaw'i cast this doubt no longer prevails.

Any dook by onaw in reoutable company. The gov State of LouIsiana-rrB pectlon-AII work pw teed. That's all he ever named, save one other pitcher. When I asked him if he would name a left-hander for the staff he said, "Carl is sure to sell, and it as far removed from a gamble as anything can crnment of the United States will Press Croup Told to Keep Itself Entirely Free Dial 2-3965 for Estimate! not employ Communists; our national labor unions are purging be. Nieht Baseball Communists from positions of "Mr.

Cole. Yes; I certainly am, and it states so in my statement. 'The chairman. Then you ought to be very proud to answer the question. "Mr.

Cole, I am very proud to answer the question, and I will at times when I feel it is proper. "The chairman. It would be very simple to answer. "Mr. Cole.

It is very simple to answer the question. 'The chairman. You bet. 1776 Elliott Street Hubbell." "Was he real good?" I asked Diz. "Just -wanta tell you one thing.

If you ever hear of anybody as leadership. This is my position COLUMBIA. S. Jan. 29.

I intend to stand by it (UP) B. M. McKelway, editor of colloquial Alabaman, as one oi his admirers put it: "Jim puts his mouth against the heart of Alabama, and blows breath against it." Hs made a mighty sound. There are those who love him. And there are those who wonder, "is he really a good man or just a big noise?" You can get an argument on that here, either way, at any hour of the day or night.

Being governor hasn't gone to his head in the least. He is too smart for that. "When mv term's over," said Big Jim, "I'll go right back to my own little job insurance. I never made more in my life than I do In the course of the trial. Judge Yankwich asked the M.G.M.

law the Washington Star, told members of the South Carolina Press yer whether he knew of any law 11 which required a witness to an Association last night that if the press is to keep itself free, it should keep itself fair. '4r CVlo Onntiniiing). Anrl at 8 is swer "yes" or "no" to a question The Id rule that you cannot eat your cake and have it too has been upheld by the Maryland court of appeals. It was deciding on the right of the Baltimore Orioles of the International League to have night ball games. Neighbors had protested that the lights and noise constituted a nuisance, and wanted nightames barred.

"Living in the city entails the endurance of certain inconveniences and discomforts," the court sagely observes, "and those who have established their residences there cannot expect to have the quiet and peace of the countryside." The court ordered, however, certain rearrangements of Rights and parking conditions to minimize the nuisance. "The most unassailable position Of course, the lawyer knew of no such law, but a witness must be responsive. It is not his right for the defense of a free but pri a vately-owned newspaper press is Hi i to be evasive, dilatory, untruth Harris Co. to make it the most trustworthy guardian of that common property ful. He has the right to answer in such a manner that he is placed of the American people the news of what is going on, he said.

9 in a favorable light, but he is not privileged to lie. The judge knew SMS all that when he asked the ques inai news is noi our properiy as newspapermen. We are merely the people who collect it, process times when I feel it is proper 1 will, but I wish to stand on my rights of association XXX." It is obvious from the above that Lester Cole dodged, trimmed, evaded, wise-cracked but ha did not answer. It would have been simplier and more honest had he said: "I refuse to answer." It would have been still simple! had he said, "yes" or "no." The fact stands that he did not answer. Yet, Judge Yankwich at the trial took the position throughout that Cole was right; that he House committee on un-American activities was wrong; that Eric Johnston was wrong; that M.G.M.

was wrong. tion. STOAT. HrfrKyjfc it and distribute it." Lester Cole had appeared be now $6,000. And 1 11 just be satisfied to go back and make an ordinary living again." A lot of politicians and businets leaders wish he would.

But they know that Big Jim is likely to be a power in politics for a long time to come. "The people want security." said. Jim. "But first, and above all. the people want to do what's right." He doesn't feel the "got rocks" do.

Speaking at the association's an fore the House committee on un i A'MllN A MlEI MO ON BE American activities along with nual banquet here, McKelway said newspapermen everywhere none other Hollywood witnesses 9 I who nicknamed 'themselves un Lm EDCiA are bringing more critical self-examination to bear upon their own performances, and that news friendlv witnesses. He put on AC this performance: "Mr. Stripling. Mr. Cole, are paper readers are becoming more articulate in their criticism of the More people prefer Pontiac.

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Smooth Out of this healty criticism, he said, may come some method of discipline within the press to enforce high standards of conduct, Alabama's Governor Most Talked About Says Boyle Solution cf Yeiterdsy'i Puzzli Bogalusa Housewife Charged With Murder BOGALUSA, Jan. 29. (ft A 43-year-old Bogalusa housewife, Mrs. Cola Lemming, has been charged with murder in the death of her neighbor, Sheriff Dorman A. Crowe reports.

Constituents Still DOWN bird Portland II A ny Quantity A SACK OR A CARtOAD ALSO SIIEETROCK From One Sheet to a Ccrlod ill, Morris 0, 13TH LEE with Andrew Jackson flatters him I. Aftersong I. Ancient Chines 4. i. Ksthr KriBlmh school T.

Reiltire In rad I. More recent "If that discipline does not come from within the ranks of newspapers and lewFpapernien, it ii apt to come from the government," McKelway said. "It would not be unnatural if government turned its attention to the press, under guise of protecting the purity of the news." 1, Thomas Jefferson All Lit Up Now tremendously. "My hero is Andy Jackson-past, present and future," he said. "And I believe like he did.

Andy said, 'to the victor belong the What he meant by that I. Kpurh 10. lit -use from very II. Ordinary The sheriff said rolice Chief Karl Boyd signed the warrant yesterday in connection with the death of Mrs. Mamie Topwell Furr, also 43.

Coroner R. n. Ward said Mrs, Furr died suddenly Tuesday and that he believed she was poisoned. He sent the dead woman's viscera to a chemist at the stste health department. Royd said he signed the was 'to the people belong the victory'.

"If lie had just meant that the victor grabbed the spoils, Andy would have sold out himself to the Don't Know What to I Make of Him BY HAL BOYLE MONTGOMERY. Ala. (Ay) A boisterous gusty giant of the earth has set this cradle of the confederacy rocking. Two years after they put him into the governor's chair on a tidal wave of votes, Alabama folks still don't know what to make of Jim Folsom. Some think he is a dangerous demagogue.

Some dismiss him as nn overgrown county clown on political "spree, whose antics jolt the fame of fair Alabama. Others regard him as a kind of twentieth century Andy Jackson, raised up 3. -Ti bj Sij'0 it 2 fk. iH a Uj if bo IjV 3Z 25" yi If" 4tyW yii 40 41 53 IT St WASHINGTON. Jan.

A California congressman rlaimcr credit today for getting Thomas Jefferson lit up. Rep. Doyle (D-Calif) noticed that the Washington Monument and th Lincoln Memorial were J. IT, Withdrew 19, Start KS.de iddenly it. rmirr 53.

(V-cupy seat Jra(l red it. Allnasm-e for the eirht ffnuin II. Tor 1st SI. Coatradlcte li. Che'rlng )'! Ishie I'nitsd II.

Ulrde cf the full Umtif 40. Kn 41, itu'ation it Attired: ful ihrd 41. namic 4. Noah'a vessel CorrMei lU taort s.eep Wholesale and Heiw 'got rocks'. Wall, he didn't sell out.

And Bib Jim ain't going to cither." The 6-foot-fl-inch, 263-pound governor is the most laughed at, talked about man in the south today. "What'd you think of him?" people here ask when you sny you've met him. And they laufjh as they nsk tluit is, the educated people do. Whiit thoy mean is: "Isn't he about the crudest thing you ever saw in a governor's chair?" Well, hi probably Hi knowi warrant after receiving a "partial report" from the chemist. He refused to divulge its contents.

Dr. Ward said the two women were at odds about a private matter about two month! ago but recently "patched thingi up." They drank coffee at Mrs. Lemming's house Tuesday shortly before Mti. Furr was taken ill, the coroner said, Baby Oyster Leaf 30c. Irbyi Derby.

tfi welt illuminated, but the Jefferson Memorial was not. When he asked officials why, it turned out that nobody had ever suggested it. The lights are on now and, Doyle said, Undoispcietary of the Interior Osrar Chnpmar. has asstiifd him they will remain on by trie iieopW to save them from the "got rocks" the finnnciiil musters. As of now, Big Jim perhaps doesn't quite fit any of thfe pigeon-holei.

But any comparison.