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Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
War Lord
Burial of q Hero

WI Pei-Fu, one of China's most re-
noWned Warlords, was buried in Peip-
ing last week, little more than sew
en- years after his mysterious death.
Military governor of Chilli Prov
ince at 38 and full marshal at As,
WI retired in 1927 after defeat in
battle by forces under China's pres
ent Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
The Japanese repeatedly pressed
WI to head a puppet government in
China such as they later set up paun-
der Wang Ching-wei, but he stead.
fastly refused. WI died suddenly on
December 4, 1899, at 81. Chinese gen.
orally believed the Japanese poisoned
him.
Even though WI had fought Chang
Kai-shek, the National government
conferred on him the posthumous
title of General of the First Rank"
His body was placed in a Peiping
temple and lay there undisturbed by
the Japanese. Last week, after seven
years, WI was gwen an elaborate
public burial service.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
In Short

Idled: BY US. strikes during the
year ending September, 1946, 5,292,00O
men, a total of 124,000,000 man-dayS,
at computed wage loss of $990,64O,-
900 Compiled by the American Eco
noric Foundation).
Set: New speed record of $3.50 feet
per second (3,648 m.p.h), and new
altitude record of Ill miles in Army
rocket tests at White Sands, N. Mex.
Died: Lewis j. Valentine, "a, for
mer New York police commissioner,
a few months after his return from
recognizing the japanese police de-
partment for Gen. Macarthur.
Freed: BY the Army and Navy,
Ito service prisoners for Christmas.
Admitted: Siam to the United Ma
tlons, bringing membership in the
" orld organization to SIS nations.
Formed: By Premier Leon Blum, a
French interim cabinet consisting en-
tirely of his own Socialist Party men,
bers, after Frances. other major par
ties refused to participate.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Hot Shots
Around the World Away

Q In New South Wales, Australia,
a rancher posted his property with
signs reading Beware of the Agapan-
thus. Do Not RUM" The agapanthus,
of course, is bulb commonly known
as the Star of Bethlehem, but the
notice succeeds in soaring away un-
scholarly tramps.
. In Springfield, ILL.,, the first all-fe-
male circuit court jury in county his
tory argued all night about an auto
mobile damage suit, couldn't reach
agreement by morning, were finally
dismissed by the judge.
. In Washington, West Virginian
employed by the Democratic Admin
istration bequeathed $4,000 to the
Republican Party.
. In London, a fog, worst in the
memory" of the Royal Automobile
Association, snarled air, sea, highway
and rail traffic for nve days.
Q In Greenfield, H., Maris Gosnell,
Confederate Civil War veteran, made
a point of observing his 10lst birthday
quietly, remembering the blowout
relatives gave for him a year ago
when he was 100.
. In Springfield, Ill, Alfred Johnson,
hotel employe, found half dollar
with tails on both sides. Secret Service
agents said it wasn't counterfeit but
probably an accidental minting freak.
A coin collector offered $500 for half
interest, explaining carefully he didn't
want to use it in Tipping.
. In Big Spring, Tex, calf swal-
lowed a purse containing $500 owned
by o. D. Smith, Forsan, Tex, druggist.
Smith retrieved $685. from the calf's
mouth, recovered $l40 more when the
animal was killed two hours later,
found $225 was digested beyond rec
lamation.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Army-Navy
One Abroad

THE Army and Navy, with the
l. bitter experience of Pearl
Harbor in mind, agreed on unified
area command for the armed
forces abroad but did not attempt
to settle the still hot dispute over
merger at home.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, conclud-
ing a long series of negotiations,
drafted a plan in which overseas
forces will be under operational COM
mand of a single man-Army, Navy
or Air as the situation dictates.
The unifcation chart established
seven overseas commands, by shifting
some of the area which Gen. Douglas
Macarthur controls to the Navy, re-
establishing some prewar areas and
creating new Northeast Command,
its details as yet undisclosed.
A Wartime Practice
The unified command system in the
field was used universally during the
war but survived We and VI days
in only few areas.
Under the new system the seven
commands will be: Far East, Gen.
Macarthur; Pacific, Adm. John H.
Towers; Alaskan, Maj. Gen. H. A.
Craig; Northeast, to be named; Carib-
bean, 1t. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberg-
er; Atlantic Fleet. Adm. Marc A.
Mitscher; European, Gen. Joseph Z.
McNarney.
The joint Army-Navy announce
ment said that each commander, will
be responsible for unified planning
for defense and, in case of emergency,
for the conduct of operations.
Still at Odds
Maj. Gen. William H. Arnold,
deputy chief of staff for Army OPP
erations and planning, said this is
the closest approximation (to actual
merger) you could get" The Army
has urged such merger; the Navy
has opposed it.
Navy quarters pointed out, how
ever, that naval spokesmen from the
outset have emphasized desirability
of single unified area commands
abroad, contending at the same time
that such unifcation is unnecessary
and undesirable at home
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Scandal
Gambler on the Grid

Professional gambling which in the
past precipitated scandals in big
league baseball and college basketball
stretched out dirty finger toward
professional football. An unsuccessful
attempt to fix the playoff between
the New York Giants and Chicago
Bears. for the championship of the
National Football League was dis
covered before kickoff time by New
York police. The Bears won 24-l4.
Authorities said Giant fullback
Merle Hapes and passer Frank Fill
chock were offered $4,000, each, to
''lay down. in the title game. Both
players were said to have refused the
deal and were eXonerated by police
but Hapes was kept out Of the game
by League Prexy Bert Bell, who said
his share of the losing players pool
would be held up pending further in
vestigation.
Meanwhile Alvin ]. Paris, self
styled "big bettor," was held for a
hearing December % on a charge of
attempting to bribe the players. An
assistant district attorney said: Il
believe the defendant has the backing
of very large bookmaking outfit. l
believe they have substantial means
and would not hesitate to get this
man out of the jurisdiction of the
state or even to tamper with wit
neSSeS."
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
CRIME: Postwar Challenge to America

An FBI survey of 400 large cities
representing a population of more
than 52,000,000 showed that robberies
rose 1872 percent, murders 1873, negli-
gent manslaughter 9.4, assault 7.9 and
burglaries lib percent.
Spectacular crimes ranged from the
Heirens multiple slayings in Chicago
to embezzlement of nearly $1,000
by cashier for linotype company.
The shooting of a Ukrainian delegate
to the United Nations during a New
York delicatessen holdup created in
ternational debate.
One gang used walkie-talkies in
their burglaries and were developing
special infra-red lights in order to see
in the dark without being seen.
Feeling of Unrest
Penologists at the 10th annual Con-
gress of Correction attributed some
of the blame for the rising curve of
postwar crime on a public feeling of
unrest induced by such factors as
housing and food shortages and eco
nomic insecurity"
Attorney General Tom Clark, ad-
dressing the North Carolina State
Bar, said the United States had IAN
army of 100000 criminals, larger
than the armies actually on the field
of combat against Germany and Ja-
pan"
Urging prevention rather than cure
of crime, Clark said the surest deter
rent he knew of was certainty oI
quick and severe punishment.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

THE collapse Of a New York
i City tenement, killing 81 per-
sons, after a fire set by group of
boys Is years of age or younger,
highlightS one aspect Of Americas
rising crime wave.
New York Fire Commissioner Frank
J. Quayle in a radio talk. placed re-
sponsibility on the parents, pointing
out that each boy had a record of
previous delinquency. Both parents
of one of the boys, he said, were
found "heavily under the influence of
liquor" Chief Fire Marshal Thomas
P. Brophy declared that too many
parents are more interested in taV-
ern life than home life"
Opening a recent national confer
ence on juvenile delinquency in Wash
ington, President Truman said: The
roots of the Juvenile delinquency
problem still lie in the homes, the
schools, the neighborhoodS and the
churches of our nation"
A survey by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for the first nine months
of 1916 shows the gravity of the juve-
nile problem. During that time ar
rests of youths under Il accounted
for Sill percent of all auto thefts, 42
percent of the burglaries, 25.9 per-
cent of the rapes and 284 percent of
the robberies. Arrests of youths in
the 1920 age groups were up 21.5
percent over a wear ago.
The increase in Wrongdoing is not
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

session..
Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) declared
he saw no reason why Congress should
await the decision of the Supreme
Court in the battle of the injunction
stemming out of the soft coal strike.
sIt is the task of the Court to determine
what the law is,' said Taft, land 1t is
the job of Congress to decide what the
law should be-"
One industry-labor proposal that
Congress narrow promised labor law
reforms to let unions and management
seek peace on their own drew too
late" response from some Republican
quarters. The proposal came from
committee representing the AFL, the
CIO, the National Association of Man.
ufacturers and the u S. Chamber of
Commerce.
New Laws Inevitable
Rep. Clarence Brown (R-Ohio), a
leading candidate for the post of House
Majority Leader at the new session,
said that recurrent strikes mean new
labor legislation is inevitable.
These recommendations come at a
pretty late date" Brown declared. If
these people have the answer to their
difficulties why haven't they used it
before, or if they have used it, why
hasn't it worked?"
The Industry-Labor Committee-set
up last year as an advisory group to
the Labor Department suggested
wider use of voluntary arbitration
clauses in union-employer contracts.
Second Round Coming Up
Meanwhile CIO President Philip
Murray renewed his contention that
present industrial profit levels justify
new wage boost for labor. His or
ganization's three biggest unions
steel, auto and electrical-convened in
Pittsburgh to plan joint strategy for
new round of demands.
That argument was countered by
Walter B. Weisenburger, vice presl-
dent of the NJ A. NJ, who declared:
''The theory that wages can be in
creased while prices are held at pres
ent levels or lower is just as false now
as it was when first promulgated a
year ago."
c. E. Wilson, president of General
Motors, said that labor constituted by
far the greatest cost in automobile
manufacture and that 40 or IS per-
cent increase in wages will mean 20
or Is percent boost in car prices"
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
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CAPITAL: United Nations Finally Pick One

a FTER nearly a year OF house
n hunting, the United Nations
finally picked its site. In that time
the U.N. had been petitioned and
propagandized by scores OF Amer
lean communities angling for the
title of World Capital. There were
heated arguments pro and con over
Westchester, Stamford, Boston, New
York's World Fair Grounds, San Fran
cisco, Philadelphia.
The $8,500,000 Manhattan tract along
the East River between And and 48th
Streets, donated by John D. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr., was a surprising, laSt-mlnute
selection 1t had only II acres instead
of the 140 square miles the U.N. once
thought necessary for a permanent
home. 1t was a rundown district OF
tenements, slaughter houses and pow
er plants, sprinkled with $50 tons OF
SCOT annually per square mile.
Looking to the Future
An inspection committee went to the
tiny site and saw unlimited room for
expansion upward. They looked at,the
squalid neighborhood and saw
cleaning, lofty capital among the cky-
scraper needles of the biggest city in
the New World. Their dream home
would be a super city-Within-a-city,
like Rockefeller Center, which houses
10000 office workers on only Il acres a
Scant mile away.
New York City added q $2,000,0O0
gift of small tracts to round out the
site, promised zoning restrictions and
permission to build over the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Drive right to the water S
edge. Under terms of the Rockefeller
gift, it would be possible for the U.N.
to wall itself off completely from the
city which surrounds it by closing its
streets and waterfront at will.
Forty-five hours after the Rockefel-
Ter offer was made, the headquarters
committee accepted, and the General
Assembly made it official by vote OF
AZ TO z
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
GERMANY: Legacy for the HerrenvoIk

Even if economic unfication of
Germany were brought about imme-
diately, Meader reports indicated it
would take about two years for Ger
mans to become self-supporting.
The guns have been silent now for
more than one and half years, but
all our efforts at reconstruction are
senseless if we are not given basis
on which we can proceed" said the
lord mayor of Stuttgart.
In appealing for an early peace set
tlement and help in relieving Ger
many's economic plight, the non-Nazl
Stuttgart mayor said, The misery of
the population gives us right to
voice our opinion about the problems
of peace"
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

democracy. We can do that only by
alleviating misery such as this"
Cost to Americans
1t will cost American taxpayers
about 100000 next year to feed
Germans in the U. S. occupation zone
while Germans in the Russian-occu-
pied zone eat home grown food at
no cost to Moscow, reported the SEN
ate War Investigating Committee.
Statements gathered by George
Meader, committee counsel, during a
three-weeks' tour of Europe. blamed
this situation on failure to unity Ger
many under terms of the Potsdam
agreement. The French, in particular,
have blocked plans to set up central
German administrative services.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

GERMANS now are reaping a
VI part of the wild Whirlwind
their Fuehrer sowed. The after
math of war has left the Herren-
volk defeated people, existing
under occupation rule in economic
chaos, short of food, housing, fuel,
clothing. AS always, children are the
pathetic sufferers.
An American Military Government
survey is Greater Hesse disclosed
babies in rags barely able to survive
in crowded, rain-drenched ruins.
Kostheim is a sample German town
of ll,200 in Wiesbaden's suburbs. It's
population increased so percent since
1899; its housing dropped 40 percent
during the same period because of
war damage.
Shoes Are Scarce
In Kostheim, 2.3 percent of the
school children are barefooted in bit
ter cold. Ten percent have no shoes
and attend class only if the mother,
father, a brother or sister stays at
home. Thirty percent of the children
have no lunch and IS percent are un-
dernourished.
Homes of school children are
breeding grounds for vermin, con-
tagious disease and decay of morals
and decency. In one classroom a SAM
pie questioning showed so percent of
the children sleep two and three to
a bed.
Col. James r. Newman, American
military governor of Greater Hesse,
said the report showed the popula-
ton was falling into nihilism and
children were sinking into moral de-
cay and misery.
1--WE realize that suffering is as
great or greater in other non-enemy
countries" said Col. Newman, "but
our mission is to teach German youth
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
FRANCO: Last Balcony Man

Palace in Madrid, Franco climaxed a
three-hour demonstration against
foreign interference" by. assailing
the Stupidity of blockheaded, inor-
ganic democracies."
Spain, he said, was being subjected
to intensive subversive propaganda
by radios at the service of Commu-
niSm and Freemasonry"
The generalissimo's speech was
hailed by a crowd estimated at 100,-
600. They bore placards enscribed,
Franco yes, U.N. no" and Franco
yes, Russia no."
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
BRITAIN: A Royal Romance

When love comes to British royalty
it is not a matter to be taken lightly.
Under the Royal Marriage Act, consent
of the King, the Prime Minister and
the Privy Council must be obtained.
Ten years ago this month, the Duke of
Windsor then King Edward VIII re-
nounced the throne for "the woman l
love"
British officialdom is nodding be-
nignly, however, at the possibility that
Princess Observation-Disclosures future
queen-may marry Prince Philip of
Greece, although reiterating that en-
gagement reports still are only rumor.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

Speculation in sources close to Buck
ingham Palace and 10 Downing street
is that no announcement of any en-
gagement will be made until after the
Princess returns with her parents from
South Africa, where she will observe
her 2lst birthday next April.
Meanwhile a rash of newspaper
stories stress that Philip spent only a
year in Greece, does not speak Greek,
was brought up in England by his
uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and that he
is bland, handsome young man of Is
with wartime service as an officer in
the Royal Navy.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Quotes
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, lead

Pandit JaWaharIaI Nehru, lead
ing minister of the Indian Interim
Government: I'VE have stopped
looking to London. 1t is now not
even in Britain's power to check
India from becoming independ-
ent."
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, at a
Senate War Investigating Com
mittee hearing discussion con-
cerning a reported $4,000 cam
paign contribution from a war
contract tor: Il didn't get a
damned dollar"
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Stupid, Inorganic Democrocies'

Stupid, Inorganic Demoorocles'
Five years ago stumpy, swarthy
Generalissimo Francisco Franco lined
up on balconies at every opportunity
with Hitler and Mussolini. For all his
lack of physical stature, Franco now
is the biggest balcony man, in fact
the only one.
The generalissimo struck back at
the United Nations General Assembly
which urged its 55-member nations to
withdrawn their ambassadors from
Spain in protest against his regime.
From the balcony Of the National
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Congress Determined
To Curb Labor Strife

EADERS Both Congress- which will convene January
l. in WASHINGTON draft labor legislation
which will drasay change the rules under which unions have
been operating Republican leaders have indicated privately that
hill calling for compulsory arbitration of all disputes affecting the
nublic interest will be pressed after the lawmakers
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

confined, however, to the younger
element. Crime throughout the ma
ton increased 81 percent during the
first nine months of this year COM
pared with the same period a year
ago.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

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Evening star., 1946-05-21
Tightened Discipline
Improves G| Conduct,
McNarney Declares
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, May 21-Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney, American commander in
Europe, told a news conference to-
day that the conduct of American
troops in Germany had definitely
improved" since his recent order
tightening discipline.
| He declared that the ban on
American-German weddings would
mot be lifted AS long as 1 am mill
tary governor or until peace treaty
is signed"
On the general trend of the four
power occupation, however, the
general gave one of his most pessi-
mistic reports, declaring that the
economic situation, especially in the
American zone, was acute"
Unless we can reach a decision on
treating Germany as an economic
unit there is no immediate prospect
of checking the downward spiral in
industrial production and the
worsening food situation" he said.
Alternate Plans Considered.
Gen. McNarney acknowledged that
we are thinking of alternate plans"
although the official American policy
still is to seek augmentation of the
PotSdam agreement to treat Ger
many as one economic unit. One of
these alternate plans, he acknoW-
ledged, is that Germany might re-
main divided approximately along
the lines of the present four occupa-
ton zones
He refused to comment on a re-
port current here that the Americans
might threaten to halt reparations
deliveries out of their zone unless an
agreement was reached soon on
establishing central agencies to
treat Germany as whole
IF We were thinking about any
thing like that we naturally would
not tell it in advance" he said.
Families Have Good Effect.
The American commander said
major factor in the improvement
of soldier conduct was the arrival
of American wives and children in
the occupation zone.
This has had a good effect" he
stated. The wives seem we'll salts
fed with living facilities we have
provided for them. However, they
still swamp us with lots of questions
about shopping, travel and other
things and we are going to give
them compulsory orientation
course on these things. That course
will also include an hours talk on
determination in which the women
will be given our official policy
on determination with the Ger
mans"
Evening star., 1946-06-09
JOKE TESTER
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SUFFEAER- Jack Spiegler is the fall
guy for a 100000, practical-joke
industry. As oo-pzesident and chief
tester for the Joker Novelty Com
pany of New York, Spiegler takes
more punishment than an overworked
punching bag.
Every two hours he has to smoke
an exploding cigar. If it fails to blow
up in his face, the whole batch has to
be reprocessed. To quiet his nerves if
it does go off, they hand him pack
of cigarettes marked when Moocher
Smokes, Watch Him Howl" If
Spiegler howls, a vice-president slaps
a wet towel on his brow and carts
away the approved cigarettes.
Just before lunch Jack dusts sneez-
ing powder on his secretary's type
writer, bangles black widow spider
before a factory girl and washes his
face with trick soap. If the secretary
sneezes, if the factory girl screams
and if Spiegler's face turns black -
then, and only then, does the morning
output get an okay.
After eight hours of this Office work,
Spiegler returns home a physical and
nervous wreck, and squirts his wife
with a phony lapel emblem. On an
average night Mrs. Spiegler can be
sure of sitting on one rubber tack.
having one teaspoonful of bubbling
sugar sneaked into her coffee and
finding her cup stuck to the saucer
with rubber vacuum gadget.
VICTIMS. But sometimes the missus
balks at these experiments. In that
case they eat at a swank hotel where
Spiegler tests his products on near
by diners. Many of these martyrs are
Evening star., 1946-06-09

charmed by the tricks, place orders so
that they, too, can make life miser-
able for friends and relatives.
Not long ago Spiegler gave birth
day present to his mother-in-law.
'She's getting a little nearsighted
and loves to read" he confided. so
she was really thrilled when l gave
her magnifying glass; The first
time she cuddled up with a good
book, she got a sharp stream of icy
water straight in her eyes.
The mother-in-law blinked, then
said proudly, Jacks gadgets sure
work beautifully" - ROGER SWIFT
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Teddy bet on q horse

procession was horse and buggy,
Just in case something went wrong.
EYES0RE. A gentleman who is inter
ested in the dye industry proudly
tells us about a catastrophe that
Americans narrowly escaped during
the war. At time when dyestuffs
were very short, government officials
proposed that dyes were unessential
for civilian use. As test, man S suit
and lady's hat were made up from
raw wool. They came out a dirty
gray. The officials threw up their
hands in horror at the prospect of
100000 persons running around
in such rigs, and straightway decided
we should have our fine feathers after
all.
NEXT WEEK: A Forecast for Amer
ica by Laurence Olivier: What
About Foreign Movies?"
Evening star., 1946-06-09
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