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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1948
Page
2
In this weekly digest, Democrats and Republicans push labor and economic issues as the 1948 election campaign gains speed. Attention also centers on international tensions with the Soviet stance aggravating the Berlin crisis and shaping Western observers’ coverage.
In Detroit area Labor Day speeches President Truman urged a big labor turnout to drive a Democratic Congress and victory in November. Harold E. Stassen criticized Truman as a demagogue and warned that Republican inquiries into Communism distract from leadership failures.
A sequence of Soviet led provocations in Berlin escalates tension as armed Russian controlled police raid Berlin city hall and kidnap 19 Western sector officers seeking sanctuary. U.S. Col Howley protests are rejected and Washington fears derailment of Berlin talks with four military governors amid looming currency disputes.
France faces a turbulent political stretch as Andre Marie’s cabinet falls after a failed confidence vote. President Auriol names Robert Schuman then Henri Queuille as successors amid a fractured parliament and rising support for General De Gaulle’s right wing. The nation awaits a path to stable governance.
Fort Collins delegates from the American Society of Agronomists and the Soil Science Society discuss eradicating 96 million western acres of sagebrush. They favor retaining some to prevent erosion while replacing most with grasses for cattle and sheep, aided by brush-land plows and range reseeding funded by Congress. This could boost meat production and lower costs.
The piece notes the Dewey duster a faux mustache fad for GOP supporters and reports Columbus University developing Darvisul a sulfa-type drug that cures infantile paralysis in mice and may prevent polio in humans though human efficacy remains unproven.
A Washington column riffs on the autumnal equinox, weather myths, and the history of solar motion. It recalls Hipparchus, Shakespeare, and George from Anamosa, Iowa, noting debated storms and precession while teasing a new Pershing biography by Col. Frederick Palmer.
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