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flhtfaiwiaa I- i h. Matt Weinstf ck fl bAILY NEWS, Los Antics FRIDAY, NOY, 7, 1911 isu, rr; Workman y. (acted, she wants them killed. It was Gertrude Charny who fought' a 'bill through the Illinois Legislature that would have cur tailed prowling cats, the same bill that Gov. Adlal Steve substituting frssh fruit and milk and to get as much fresh air and exercise as possible.

This Ashtar sounds like a very nice guy and we hope he keeps his mimeograph machine oiled and ready for further communt-qfries. Naturally his letter had nb return address. A si la Vl ife fi B0 ii "Ho-hum, Uopey, out that we Mairqiiis Chillis Start vibrating, everyone We hardly know how to break this news, coming so soon after the dire warnings of the electioneering, but weve a mimeographed communique from a fellow named Ashtar tipping off that landing of Ing saucers he calls them Ventlars is at hand, so beware. To quote him directly: "So speaks Ashtar, Comman-d a of the Ventlar -tlon Parading the Planet Earth, Above and Below, All Round About, and Within and on Its Surface. Tha reason Ashtar gave us the word la, that he fears there will be bloodshed when the Ventlars come In for a landing.

Hes afraid they'll be mistaken for the enemy. And so he sent us this message: "Write, then, to the people governing the Earth people, and tell them: We, whom they call Saucers, prepare to land on Earth. Our coming Is known to many but many more still doubt So tell to them who shall know us in a short time, fear us not We come as friends. Yet attack us not or you shall rue the day. We come to save the people of Earth from themselves none other.

After the sad, disilluslonin election spectacle, Ashtar am his boys cant get here a minute too soon. In fact they may already be too late to save the Earth people from themselves. There's more to the communique. Ashtar asks us to prepare for his coming by. raising our vibrations, whatever that means.

He also urges us to lay off the meat liquor and tobacco, Victor Its not the "creeping socialism here which will be preoccupying the next president of the fi. It's the galloping socialism abroad which suddenly looms as a powerful, although virtually unreported, neutral force with which we may have to tangle. A quiet conference ended In ancient Milan, Italy, the other day while most of the U. S. was dazed by the last minute television blitzes of the candidates.

That parley will some day be scrounged out of history THOMAS by political probers to discover when It all started. It was the Congress of the Second International the Socialist International at which we generally grin because its champion in America--! -tbs genial, snow- haired Norman Thomas and its presidential candidate was a man with the unlikely name of Darlington Hoopes. But socialism abroad is a werhouse outside the Soviet nion and the nations iron-curtained Red bayonets. Socialism abroad Is anti-capitalist and not at all certain it loves the UJ3JL Many of its leaders are lm- Peter i War between the railroads and the trucking Industry In Pennsylvania has now reached a new high of intensity. Both sides have hired press agents to wage a propaganda battle for public support of their views.

Pennsylvania now has the lowest truck limits for any state In the heavy 'traffic St. Louis to -New York area. The truckers charge this is because of rail-road domination of Pennsylvania State Legislature. In retaliation, Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association has started a campaign to make 162 railroads pay up to $50,000,000 a year more in state taxes to help Pennsylvania's somewhat desperate financial condition. It is the truckers charge that the railroads In Pennsylvania now "pay more than trivial taxes on their real estate holdings only in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Defense Secretary Robert A-Lovett thinks the record ought to be straightened out on those so-called "guided missiles that were shot off a Navy carrier at North Korean targets not long ago. They werent guided missiles vetoed with a classic messages enson and Incidentally, Gov. Stevenson Bogart are two of tha three persons who have recelyed the national cat award. Since then, Gertrude Gharnj; has conducted a relentless crus sade to destroy cate In CaUfor nia. Her efforts were defeated four years ago, again two years ago, and another fight is antlo lpated in the 1953 session a bacramento.

She la the succee sor in this crusade to w.nita R. Sayer of Chicago, who In the 1920s dedicated his closing years to making the nation catlesa. He publiaheu a booklet titled "Cat-less World Quick, offered a prize to the person who "killed the last nasty cat In the world, and left IMt-beaqs of capdy In his will who had killed large numbers of cats. Gertrude, like him, loves birds. Miscellany Desert rat Harry Oliver is always cooking up something different to glamorize the desert This time its.

a burro-flapjack sweepstakes Sunday near Stovepipe Wells, as part of the Death Valley 49ers encampment First prospector to pick a site, unload his burro, lgy out his camp, start a fire and flip a flapjack wins Florian DeDonato Jr. warns against giving Information over the phone about your bank account to strangers. The caller my use the name of a legitimate oganlzation and have a plausible story that one of your checks has been defaced. But several persons have had bank accounts attached following such calls Richard Armour thinks 'someone could make a fortune by figuring out a use for defeated candidates campaign buttons. In New Zealand where they declined, but slightly.

In addition the Socialists control powerful union federations In Italy, France, Germany, the Lowlands, tha Scandinavian countries and especially Eng-sh Socialists are land. The British socialists are the most powerful force in the International and are being needled Into compromising bit by bit with revolutionary Socialists led by Aneurin Bevan. Comrade Bevan, It Is no secret to report, believes that the greatest threat to world peace Is from America, not Russia. He opposes heavy armament, wants a rapprochement with the Soviets, became ecstatic over the British recognition of Red China, permitted his followers even to press for the supplying of vital machine tools and other war equipment to the Sovletlzed Asiatic armies. His printed attacks on the U.

8. so little seen here would raise the hair on the statuary In the Capitol rotunda. Not since Mao Tse-tungs tirades against the U. S. has any Influential statesman outside Russia blasted us so bitterly.

Characteristic of the British Commonwealth Socialist position in this world crisis is that of M. J. Coldlwell, a member of the Canadian Parliament and leader of the Socialist movement In the country north of the border. If they're with us let them stop needling us. Cevrrtsht 1953.

rojt -HiH Syndicate, Inc.) tionalization frees the government, tomorrow If not today, from constant worries about prices through Intermediaries. If the Venezuelans should begin to talk like that, It would mean real trouble for U. S. oil imports. The Germans have Introduced something brand new in Washington diplomacy.

Its a "Womens Affairs Secretary. Diplomatic missions have always had military attaches, economic experts, agricultural advisers, labor counselors and the like. But this is the first time any embassy has recognized that what goes on In the women's world is of soma Importance. The Idea may grow. First to occupy this new position as womens affairs secretary In the German Embassy is Frau Otto Kiep.

Her husband was an official In the old German Embassy In Washington before-. World War J. So she knows Washington and America. Her Job Is to report back to her government what women's organizations are doing In this country. But shell also let American women know what German women are doing.

While the U. S. now has two women diplomats heading missions abroad Ambassador Eugenie Anderson In Denmark and Minister Peris Mesta in Luxembourg it has no high ranking womens affairs secretaries abroad or in Washington. Naturally Every now and then Nell Vanderbilt pauses in his trailer and railway tour of. the nation long enotlgh to type out a newsletter which he sends to friends.

In his latest, he relates that a robust young lady sat down opposite him in a dining car on the Pennsylvania R. R. out of Harrisburg, and ordered soup and coffee. Neil opendtl a how she conversation by asking could exist on such meager fare. He was eating chocolate cake a la mode.

"I keeps me figure by not stuffing myslf, she re- Elied, looking disapprovingly at im. He asked what she did for a living. "Im a rassler, she replied. Nell said he watched It on TV all the time and liked it, and but wondered If the gouging i hair -pulling women wrestlers did were on the square or part of the act "I wouldnt know about that, mister, she replied, "I rassle with a bear. Im In a circus in Toronto.

Picnics are fun, and light to finance; Yet Im sure the most fun is had by the ants. Cetfight It almost got lost In the shuf-le but this Is National Cat Week, we are reminded by Guy Bogart of Beaumont, national president, who has a program titled "Our Cats Fridays at 7 p. m. KFOX. Bogart la on the opposite side of the fence In a long range war with Gertrude Chamy of Santa Barbara.

He wants them pro- portent policy making government officials. In nations allied to us and want to see Red China recognized -Immediately. Were the Socialist International abroad Just In the tender Image of the gentle Norman Thomas It could bring a nostalgic smile to many a top labor leader and American diplomat, for so many of them were early Socialists. But this Socialist outside the Iron Curtain is a powerful force. Julius Braun-thal, erudite secretary of the Socialist world group, reported to his comrades in Milan that they have a total of 9,870,000 members In 36 nations.

They had a voting atrength of 62,600,0 In the recent elections throughout the free lands of the world. In addition, 13 Socialist parties in exile are recognized by many governments. In nine Western European nations, the Socialist parties are the biggest political force, the largest party, equivalent to either our Republican or Democratic parties. This means they rule or will soon rule nine powerful governments. In eight nations right now the Socialists, who are frankly Marxist, but antl-Comnftinist, either control or participate In the government Furthermore, In every election' since July 1951 the Socialists have gained votes except at all.

They were "drone planes carrying an explosive "warhead. The drone was controlled by the pilot of a "mother plane through television apparatus that watched the drones Instrument panel There is an Improvement in these controls over those used for drone plane flight In the last war. But this still Isn't a true guided missile. 9 Investigation of the International oil cartel by S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission has the government of many foreign oil-producing' countries an mixed up.

These countries have been doing business with U. S. oil companies for a long time. Oil provides a principal source of their revenue. The U.

8. now points a finger of suspicion at the oil companies. So the foreign governments begin to suspect these companies, too. A recent editorial in the Daily Star of Beirut, Lebanon, summed It uthis way: Arab governments are studying with deep consideration the background of the U. S.

accusations. If they lead to an unexpected decrease In oil. revenues, they might have to revise their attitude toward the whole oil problem. In that case, Iran's example might be taken as a good example to copy.FUU na- 'WASHINGTON. Of -the overwhelm Inf array of problems on tha Whit House doorstep for Presidentelect Eisenhower one la especially tangled in personal relationships.

Not only will civilian officials lQ 'charge of defense be replaced but several of the top men In uniform must retire. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. J.

Lawton Collins, chief of staff of the Army; and Gen. Hoyt Vandenherg, chief of staff for. Air are due to go out next summer. Bradley has already had Ids tour of duty extended once and It cannot under the law be extended again. The Joint Chiefs together with Secretary of Defense Robert A.

Lovett and Deputy Secretary William Foster have been working out the figures for(the new defense budget They 'believe -they have cut every possl- ble corner toVrrive at a budget of $40 billions. This Is $12 billions under what was asked for the current fiscal year and billions under what Congress appropriated. Bradley, Collins and Vanden-berg must Justify that budget even though they will presumably be in retirement shortly after It must be administered. MOPEY DICK AND THE DUKE knots who the next president's going bother about till Christmas Also In the Interval before they step out, they will be confronted with plans for a more far-reaching unification of the three services and revision of the role of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Even mors likely to have ex plosive rejpe reunions Is the question of the status of Gen.

ames Van Fleet American commander In the field in Korea. General Elsenhower, a few 'days before the end of the campaign, read from a letter from Van Fleet stating that he had wanted to train South Korean units under a speed-up program which he could- not get approved by the Pentagon. This political bombshell produced some Immediate results in the headlines. But they were mild compared to the rumpus behind the scenes. President Trumans train was In Chicago when the news broke of Elsenhower's use of the Van Fleet letter.

The president was furious and so were hie political aides. They realized the significance of the Van Fleet letter. Telephone lines from the train wen Immediately buzzing with the Defense Department In Washington. The. was "for a public statement making clear that Van Fleet's speed-up program had been overruled not by any civilian official but by-his military superior.

Gen. Matthew Rldgwsy, In the first Instance and later by Gen. Mark Clark, who Is now supreme commander In Asia. Having tried to stay completely out of the campaign, defense officials hesitated about wore a W-necked dress (by Sophie Gimbell). It was beautiful and I found out why after much reflection.

A is not one but two, revealing twice irt. as much girl. The W-necked dress Is great for bosoomph girls. Rocky Marciano was told by comic Jade Leonard: "We were worried for you early in your Walcott fight. You had something In your eye I think It was leather Milton Berle says Bishop Sheen's young fans all call his TV program "Howdy Deity.

Barbara Payton and Tom Neal gave Billy Reed's Little Club a scare when they arrived dinner for thatos Franchot Tone's hangout. Lurklly, Tone was out somewhere with Betsy von Furstenburg. and no glasses, furniture or bones were broken. Our son slugger says daw g-gone those doctors with their needles no matter how much you run, they always get you in the end. to be we ain't got anything to saying something that might be Interpreted as taking sides politically.

On the Truman train was a confidential file of moet of the exchanges between Korea, Tokyo and Washington on the training of South Koreans. The president had the power to declassify any one of these documents, including even the recommendations of the JCS. Over the scorching wires from the train it was plainly hinted that unless a statement of the facts was forthcoming from an official source one or more of these confidential reports would be made public. Fnr the neeehlent the incident was 'a reminder of his bitter controversy with Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

There are those who believe that in the two-month interval while he Is still commander in chief Truman may recall Van Fleet from his command as he re Allied MacArthur. In one Interpretation of the law Van Fleet must retire on Jan. 24. This is under the officer oersonnel act of 1947 providing that an officer on the fifth- anniversary of his ap- pointment to the permanent grade of major general "will be retired. Van Fleet has again and again proved himself as a fighting soldier.

Under certain circumstances his tour of duty In Korea can be extended. And It may still be extended even though he has now become deeply embroiled In politics. (Ctopr right 1153 br mutes feature Syndicate. Inc. I THE MIDNIGHT EARL Denise Darcel and Bill Plows, the ad man, called it off.

(Denise wants to get married and have "babeez) The big newspaper blast against Three-Finger Tom is set for this week. Mrs. Peter Donald's off to the Virgin Islands for a decree. Sultry Cincinnati singer Pat Rhodes comes into the Latin Quarter this week. Ex-child star Bobby Breen (now 28) weds Jocelyn Lesh, of California, next sabbath Luscious former showgal Nevada Smith (wife of wealthy Jack Frye) is expecting in March Choo Choo Johnson, once B'way's most celebrated playgal, is just back from Japan.

Anna Rosenberg's off on another fast trip to Korea. The next Lind say -Crouse play "mon" will be a "State of the Uni type show One of the new after-hours bottle clubs Is for the well-heeled. And the check for one party has run up to $1500. (Cuprncht 1953. Poft-Hsll Syndicate, Xm.) Ak ft 'W fi' f'Tfcv jiS -y-i -jt Earl Wilson is nt NEW YORK.

The Billy Daniels have about reconciled after a split In which she moved In with a girl friend, and Ignored his Copa opening. Bat a $10,000 diamond given her as a third anniversary gift oughts fix It Shapely Joan Diener (of Ifway and Cleveland) may do the "Jean Harlow Story" for Hollywood. It ww S' -V V-'Hv1, figures, and so does she. Frank Sinatra coffeed up at Lindys getting set for his trip to Europe with A a. Earlier they hid out at Danny's Hideaway, making it plain that being together was heaven U.

S. visa application has been shelved, hurray. That's one bum we don't need. The Toots 8hora celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary 'or which occasion Mrs. Shor Si 3 4 1.

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