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HOW SICK IS UNCLE SAM?

Why Are Wel Driving Spain Red?

Spain is bitterly offended

THE NEXT TWO MONTHS

WILL TELL

By CLIFFORD HULME

America today is like a patient auxiously awaiting

the specialist's verdict.

After three postwar years of high living Uncle Sam finds his step beginning to falter. Spots of un- employment before his eyes have swelled into one big blob that is still growing,

at her ostentatious exclusion from the Atlantic Pact. As the first country in Europe that is still growing. HK572.00

to suffer from militant Com-feels tight and

with those

anaemic

Saddles Are

Empty In Old Texas

By JOHN DRUMMOND Modern cowboys ride

Morning

"Former Boy Turns to Bank Rubbing."

Sulving in the past. prob-

nbly,

All types of British cars are

10 be explulted in Ditish illis. It may even mean more taxis for the Hank.

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the His credit visitors pack Florida hotels but

When my wile let me I went las economise by shunning shops and range from the cockpit of al his purse

single-engined monoplane. The willingly to the door to cheer her Credit buying has soared while grandsons of the hard-drinking, on her way. All news contributions to be munism she cannot openly lost weight. Sometimes he thinks eating in cafeterias,

dollar blood trans-Instalment collection iets hardet. fast-living quick-on-the-draw addressed to Editor-in-Chief,

disapprove of the pact's ob-e may have been too generous

In traded friend The average ilme taken to settle

trontiersinen have

"Hollywood considers it Advertisements and Business.com.

bits has lengthened from 30 to their shooting iron for a shoot-kept is light, inder the prover- munications theuld be addressedjectives, but for many years fusions to his

The horses are nobial bushel long enough." Company CHINA MAIL she has seen the creation of John Bull.

Naturally Uncle Sam wants to 100 days. Business failures, most- just such a defensive, anti-

H'm. Iteally. Oh, well... longer between their legs but Communist, bloc as the jus-know whether his condition will ly of Arms staried since the war, ing brake.

beneath the bonnet of a buck- ing jeep.

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tification of her past policy worse and, if so, how much are the highest for six years.

worse. Friends assure him that Many Reasons

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one

more

off colour.

put

to

The

items

are well

to

down

chains

cuts bave

at the same time. What is 20 divisions immediately into the work, Gus stove makers through resistance, growing lack of fac- tance from London to

summer. where.

iv

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within 00

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grow

When all the world is waiting To hear the starting, shot, Is that when war is coming? Nay, brother, li is not. But when the shouts

allent And all the pacts are signea, That's when the tide of anger Comes rising red and blind. The imps down at the furnace

fires

Liko stoking up the heat When it is most surprising to The man upon the street...

A

"I saw the bird 15 yards away, on a fénen at eye level, in perfect light conditions, using a 9x bino- cular."

Probably looking for worms.

Dual personality, probably. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Plke, who are staying at the Waldorf Hotel. have returned to San Franelsen.

You're probably right.

is "Next tiz tobacco, paper probably the most important part

"Mr. and Mrs. Evon Hill had. Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Sales for dinner.

They were delicious." Breeding always teile.

1

He

•

that marries

Lor

money

"You see, after the Hend had glanced at the sheet of paper, he screwed up his face and flung wastepaper the thing into the basket. I wondered very much why he didn't keep it."

Frobably just sick of having to wash it.

•

When statesmen call something a bit hysterical.

It led them no- the Rhine, or anywhere alse, with lens, clothing, rayon, rubber may happen when several! West now, another 800 patrolling historical, it only means they are

end

Οι

As

is

depression

tion.

wolves

•

man,

the recruit

and so the means by which he is merely a trifle

cbbing for this reason

A sad survey conducted recont- ly shows that the once wild and she would once again be wel-Soothingly they suggest there's comed back into normal re-nothing wrong that a slight dose tide of post-war prosperity

found in a combination of high wanton West, like the old grey won't "readjustment“

resistance, consumer prices,

mare, ain't what she used to be. and Income shrinking MRS. CLARA MARIA BROWN lations with the rest of the of

satisfied

Many genuine tobacco-chewing United But his doctors, the economic

cowboys

tucked old-style tl 1st May at the age of world.

cautious, demand. As usual in the therefore. ebinment,

soothsayers, are

tumble

sway in the bunkhouses of Neva- States, the Drst price B7 years at the resident of

while insisting that so far thero disappointment her daughter Mrs. M. J. Rail, betrays

of any came in farm products, though dn and Wyoming and across the For example Kownon, Funeral will pass than hostility,

no definite evidence

has yet there has been little re- West, but the last war has caused they ask as thing seriously amiss,

entflection of the monument at 5.36 today.paper asks, "Why call it an Atlan

this as the grocery upheaval. Some ambitious tic Pact when Italy is included and more time to study his ailment.

ailment counter,

off youngsters have even turned from n half-penny is not?" Another comments. The next two

ext two months, they

say.

food-n Spain

of breakfast of

rking against rustling to hustling Spain in will bring the true answer. Only packet "Italy is preferable to

grow lypical

living-guitar in hand on the example is nothing for Western Power if the symptoms persist and grow

10 gel excited radio, or leading reins in hand it housewife the eyes of the

"A reces- the

dude ranches. Queen Mary Presumably because she fought will their verdict be

and America stonin plain English, a sump.about. Britain

Dude ranches are where most Grain prices obvious most wite of t

Sam's Uncle Spain,

by remaining

35 prevented Germany from seizing

unemploy but not the price of brend. Mem-paying guests, all tricked out in Cising

bakery symptom

their idea of cowboy and cowgirl Gibraltar." "Or perhaps it

ment. The number of idle workers while the big

profits averaging 18.2 per clothing, eat their meals from the Communlafs | Italy's 15 milton

1,250,000 In mid-Feb- shaw jumped

Butter and the better cuts mantieplece after the first day of nguinst Spain's 15 thousand which

at the latest statistics. cent.

substantially their holday. further widespread of ment are down Since then makes the former the more rullary

some are There ninepence n at three anci able ally of the two in an anti-lay-offs", notably on the rail- but

ways, have execeded re-hirings, pound are still beyond the orminates train-te of New York. Hoot Gibson, the rough-riding is con- ditary purse. and the workless total

price

In cowboy

of the silent screen, has a Most factory servatively

at nore estimated

still most elaborate lay-out, completu than 3,500,000 or one in every 19 manufactured goods Lower with cocktail bar, at Las Vegas,

the consumer. reach of the labour force.

in non-foods are Nevada. The night I spent there disturbing Is the shop Hardly Jess

prices number of Americans placed on

expensive some time ago he was hooting chiefly confinest

cinematic which many with laughter at the short time to make the dwind-household ling work go round. No figure in people had already bought with unties of his Hollywood succes-

now consider-] sore. Something about most of of a cigarette," his beginner's class beating them ably, depleted. agency that it is willing 10 Since, as conficied anti-Com-this category has been disclosed wartime savings

since the Government announced January

While the American nurses his on horse-back. 2,000,000 in

Yet, a rise of

dude ranches aside, the raise the blockade of Berlinmuniats, they cannot express dis

really cheaper uwailing the 'sout pact, Japproval of th

anch rents, his once Wild West is now on wheels. food, clothing as soon as a meeting of the

known to have occurred.

electrielty und And going pinces! transport, gas. four-Power Council of For-rapes reaction, at having been ime, but a further increase is dollars,

Germany in being

At Wichita Falls on the fringe have recently Seasonal Drop

local

tax bills

Panhandle of Texas excluded from it, takes the form eign Ministers has been ar- coupled with ranged to discuss all the Ger- of belittling its possible military Some firms plead "a seasonal gune up. Consequently the rost of the

after

with a young ex-flyer, falling yarned living index drop in business" as the cause of man problems; the Western effectiveness,

the <f

paper of lay-offs. Many others frankly fractionally, has risen again. The formerly a ranch foreman who carns It. "The signatories,"

outlook.

rode the range over cattle coun- counter-blockade

therefore, 1 non-seasonal lack of immediate

to be appears Soviet Zone would be lifted points out, "could only put some admit

continued buyer try which stretched half the dis-

Glasgow. "It la out the country have just halved.

He returned from the war to begin a private flying school, gly- clear, even at this stage, is held against Russia's 60."

possession of the their output because orders have tory orders and inevitably more the exclusive that the Russian Government

not the Atlantic fallen to a trickle. The same rea- unemployment.

for ing instruction under the GI Bill atomic bomb,

With a buyer's markot

Rights to ambitious cow bas withdrawn the chief Pact, that is restraining

and in coolmines

In Jactories open, aggression, in obstacle only if the four trum moediate

refrigerators,

of unemploy-punchers and their bosses. toaster, out of

for labour. Fear German and, with the the

making

worker off- rndlos, scientists in Moscow, this exclu Irons, powers can agree upon

Vacuum cleaners,

ment has spurred

and for

absenteeism cut

There are close to 1,000 nika wash cleney, arrangement currency

be at an end in the electric stoves and motors, siveness will

and pulp, GUR

curbed talk of a fourth round of

craft checking cattle across the Berlin. The Western powers nen

ases. A pointer future." "How long can 20 ing machines, paper

to incar

hardware,

increases. chemi- wage tried that arrangement last jdivisions hold up 50, on the E15, motor tyres,

farm machinery, textiles, what

expire in mid-fences for breaks, according to union-contracts Frunch and Italian the a powerful Meanwhlie

"You told me you never got Some ranchers are experi their and leather

footwear, tin cans, year is the altitude of one union the Civil Aeronautics Administra-

for the en

menting with helicopters..

tired walking your beat," barked Western powers have great- Communist Fifth Column at

motor cars and many other lines that has struck yearly bucks?

the new rs: This time pre piled

it hus Slow-lying single-seaters are the inspector to up in last 11 years: consolidated themselves.

However, in general, editorial Unsold goods

not to strike if wages

Pilots strays. spotting

with "yet this is the second time I've promised and here perhaps may be legame

comment Spain's exclusion warehouses and shops.

on

passengers are destroy- found you asleep." marksmen Six makes of car can be bought stay as they are. for from the Pact is being kept under seen the chief reason

to be

most expected

by the "Well," explained and coyotes icontrol

floor. House until after the UNO off the showroom

rers, business

apologetically, "I would be tired men and ed- Moscow's tentative sugges-

bankers,

leaders, Including

the Indians have taken to if I didn't get some sleep." tion for new talks. If there discussion of the "Spanish ques- buliding has slowed to a crawl.

of Thousands

new homes lio ministration probably at the tion,"

buffalo from jeeps! are to be talks, the Western April. Many hore believe that the empty because the price

tag is Mr. Truman, pooh-pooh talk in the wild isolated Crow re-

and

emphasise

a stockade of laps 10 feet high. brilliant powers can enter them with

pro too high and people cannot find a

Several

rak powerful

propa

under servation In Southern Montana,

As the loops roared down on work in America of the money for downpayments.

the nomy. Employment is at the same

economy.

Big Horn country of strong cards in their hands. contbly

them recently the buffalos lifted ol Minister former That should give them con- Spain's

Retail sales continue to slump.

record level, they say. Small plains and mountains where their

their heads and plunged off at a are substantial, and a fidence, but it also presents Foreign Affairs, St. Felix Le-These dropped an average of 50

pony-straddling ancestors swoop- eight per savings are

for some

goods ed down on wagon trains, the speed which their bulk belles.

jeepa The

followed. a warning. Their prime con- queriea, has ensured U.S. support per cent in January,

South American austion cent in February and nine per cent large demand

Up hills, furiously braking as cern must be to ensure that to annul the 1946 decision, when in the first week of March com- awults only an adequate price tribe killed 45 great buffalo bulls

Heavy construction 18 the other week.

the vehicles slithered into gullies, throw away all members of UNO were re- they do not

pared with a year ago, and this drop

Robert ngo years

the war surplus machines brought Arst Crow ever named their cards through fruitless quested to withdraw their Ambas despite the stimulus of prolonged higher than a year age and re-

have yet to you

within armament orders

sinewy copper warriors bargain clearances.

Superintendent of his own rescr-

range. Instead of bow and arrow issua at Lake Success will

Latest figures show the biggest exert their full, effect

vation, conceived the idea of con-

they

killed quickly, humanely, so much remains uncertain

joined on д Polish

Grossly Inadequate nelion slump in large industrial centres

serving the tribe's buffalo herd. with powerful rifles. they must stoutly resist any be

increase in the --Baltimore 21 per cent, Pitts-

Provided strong opposition in The shaggy animals provide food,

One cowboy who accompanied renewed Russian demand requesting an

existing sanctions already in force burg 18.8 per cent, Cleveland 15

"Next time I Spain. If this renewed per cent. Philadephia 14 per cent, Congress can be overcome, Co- clothing, tepecs, bowstrings and them commented:"

low--rental that the progress of govern-ags

ernment-aided, against

go into the brush after the buffalo ment which is being made in offensive in not only defeated, but New York 11 per cent, and fun housing for which Mr. Truman other necessities for the Indian.

in some parts of the West they want to be on a horse. These vote is also carried (against the Francisco 10 per cent.

new-fangled four-wheeled buck- economic has asked, will stimulate employ had been hunted to extinction. the Western areas should be

Communist bloc) to abolish the Other signs of an

and ment

the demand

The Crows rounded up

their Ing bronchos lake too much out held up as a condition for Cons

1946, then all abound. Cinemas offer in.

materials. On the other hand, herd into a preserve bounded on of a fellow". holding the four-power talks. sanctions imposed in

there w

will be at least subdued ducements to get customers. Race

the Government's restrvo shelt

two sides by deep, canyons. On

"Ugh!"

aald one indian. "Man The West has always said rejoicings in Madrid, It is to track and totalisator tokings and

aator on-dived of public works projects is grossly the third side they slowly erected with old ideas, that nothing done in West-avoid damaging the

chances of

calus liquor

dentists report 20 inadequate at only £1,125,000,- ern Germany would preclude securing this small success that Doctors and

P.R, Fleming. Administrator of or prejudice any wider ar- the publle expression of Spaniards' per cent fewer patients. Whuter 000. Commenting on this, General

resentment at their country's ex-

the Federal Works Agency says, rangements for Germansion from the Atlantic Pact has

we simply are not ready with unity, but that is to look into been held in check.

will, of course, be launched as

the situation that the conjectural future, and If the 1948 motion of censure good, slout, anti-Franco stuff, but plans to meet

The Truman cabinet will nd- in the meantime Western upon Spain is not lifted at the anyone in touch with the situation may develop."

concealed mit- the arrival of a depression Germany would suffer disas- UNO session, and the decision is here knows that the brains behind

Carefully immediately followed by it, however trously if its stability and not

draw their pay from ches 4,000,000. Even should that hopes of progress were to be large-scale economic help from they may be until the convenient if and when unemployment rea-

America (which alone can slave moment, jettisoned. The

Western off national bankruptcy), then the Moscow, and should the revolt happen, any comparison with the the grim years that followed powers have always declar- Franco rogime will be face to face succeed, Moscow will not be slow calamity of the 1920 crash and

false.

Wild be utterly ed themselves ready for talks with the most fatuation in collecting her dividend,

Spaniards who dislike would would Rinco

Many .11

of the sort that pre- as soon as the blockade is it has had to

than Com-speculation Franco only a littio leny 10 came into

1020 stock years ago. lifted. While building up

power Close, observers are

muniam are sincerely puzzled by ceded the convinced Western economy and de- that a further blow lo his inter

our present polley towards their collapse is now entirely absent. AJI stock are closely Govern- Only fence they have always de-national prestige, at Lake Success country.

yesterday Republican wunned up ment-policed and there is a mai clared that the ultimate ob- late in April, would make it starinch

officialgin requirement of 75 per cent. France to main the Spanish view of our

on all transactions. jective is to bring an ngree impossible for ment with Russia within tala control against the rapidly polley by saying:

It is now clear that those in In fact the market has been in od sabotage and terrorism,

bank failures and consequent Papers found upon a Perhaps they would have

that a Communist Spain would be Russian arrested

loss of a danger to the, signatories pante of 1932-83 that wiped out la wished to wait a little long-Lieutenant-Colonel,

thousands Fact than: er; but now that the Russian Barcelona last week, revealed un- of the Atlantic

The misjakably that plans are far France Spain.

remain Spain banks

in business with serious must be met

This unusual deposits are Government-Insured Franco one. orders in Spain this Spring and to

to 5,000 dollars. That takes up to and even encouraging scru- early Surqmer. The

similarity of alms between East mevoment

Spain's

adequate care of, the little man. and West, combined with

It should also be remembered Inevitable economic collapse, seems really ready for a business-

both party's will that when the last depression like meeting with a clear stances should they be allow- to ensure that before long, I can struck there was no advance pro- not another ed to put the clock back in only hope that they willy like it vision, for the workless, wetens agenda, and

A Western Ger- sounding-board for their pro- Trizonia.

m London and Washington, ones today through payroll deductions paganda, then the Western man Government is essential they have secured it, as much as and employer contributions, the

will unquestionably like it Government controls Governments will not desire to the success of the Mar- they

Insurance ployment

Laund Sure This, say to hold back from it. The shall Plan and to European in Moscow."

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diplomst who was present did not the

the experts, is

more than eno New York between Mr. already done must continue help to solve the mystery. He said, to meet the worst foreseeable un- Jessup and M. Malik will be unimpeded. At present we their apparent decision that employment criale.

In the next four weeks. America watched with interest.:. are in the twilight of diplo-Communist Spain would be,

and the best interest of the Ailantle should know whether business is We of the West now have 'macy between East. the initiative in Europe and West. We shall know soon Pact the State Department and slaging its usual spring pickup or we should keep it. If the whether the skies are dark- Foreign Ofios must be incposset. It à slump is approaching. Mean- Russians chose to lift the er still ahead or if we shall son of information which is moat while what is really to be fear-

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