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Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Hot Shots

= The nation consumed nearly three
billion quarts of ice cream last year
about 81 quarts for every man, woman
and child. The Department of Com
merce reports almost half the orders
were for vanilla, while chocolate ran
a poor second with only is per cent.
Strawberry was third.
o In Addison, Mich, patient hold
up man stood in line for half hour
before getting to the teller's window
of the crowded Addison State Savings
Bank, then took $4,000 at gunpoint
and escaped.
o In Olivet, Mich, pigeon. un-
aware of its own strength, landed on
the porch of Mather Hall, Olivet Col
lege science building. and the porch
collapsed.
o In Rehoboth, Del, skunk inter
rupted an Eastern Shore Baseball
League game and drove all players to
the dugout. Even the umpire wouldn't
argue with it.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
CAPITAL: Planes & Politics

ample of efforts to smear every wit
ness who takes the stand"
"The Republicans got a political
black eye," said Sen. A. Willis Rob-
ertson (D-Va), "and l don't think the
circus they put on helped Congress
any,"
Meanwhile Russell Birdwell, Holly
wood publicity man who once worked
for Hughes, said he would file a
$1,000,000 libel suit against Noah Diet
rich, a Hughes vice president, who
testified that Birdwell had admitted
falsifying an expense account to make
it appear that he had entertained
Jesse Jones, then RFC chairman, in
Washington in 1912.
In Chicago, Attorney General Tom
c. Clark indicated the Justice Depart
ment would 60 ahead with an investi-
CATION of the crossfre charges by
Brewster and HughessWhile,the hear
ings are in recess.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Vets
Continuing Cost of War

There are 14,36l,0OO veterans of
World War II, said the Veterans Ad-
ministration this week, and the aver
age veteran is 20 years old, four years
the senior of the average man or
woman still in the armed services.
Nearly two-thirds of these men and
women veterans have terminal leave
bonds totaling $1,000, 100000.
These bonds can be cashed at local
banks starting September or the
bondholders may hold their securities
and draw 2l2 per cent interest for five
years. President Truman advised the
latter course unless veterans were ac-
tually in need of money.
The bonds were issued, mostly to
former enlisted men, as pay for leaves
they did not get in service.
The Veterans Bureau reported that
the average age of the World War I
veteran is 53.7 years; Spanish-Ameri-
can war veteran, I'll years; Indian
Wars, IS, and Civil War, 1907 years.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Constitution
A 22nd. Amendment?


Eighteen states, half the required
number, already have ratified the pro-
posed 22nd amendment to the Consti-
tuition, limiting Presidents to two
terms. They did it in less than five
months.
1t probably will be more than two
years, however, before ,18 other states
can act unless lot of special legisla-
tive sessions are called next year.
Twenty states do not have regular
legislative sessions again until 1949.
Congress gave the states seven
years to act when it submitted the
amendment in mid-March. Approval
of three-fourths of the states is needed
to make an amendment effective.
The 18 states which thus far have
ratified the anti-third term amend
ment are all outside the South. The
only two southern states which con-
sidered it have failed to approve.
Oklahoma's Senate postponed action
indefinitely and the Texas House re-
jected it outright.
The states approving the proposal
of the Republican-controlled Congress
are, in the order of ratification:
Maine, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa,
New Hampshire, Illinois, Delaware,
Oregon, New Jersey, Vermont, Cali
fornia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Colorado, Connecticut, Missouri and
Nebraska.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

The decision to declare a recess
until fall in the inquiry into Howard
Hughes wartime plane contracts
touched off volleys of charges and
countercharges more explosive than
any before in the superheated two
week investigation.
Hughes, millionaire film producer
and plane designer, said he believed
the hearings were called off because
Senate Committee Chairman Owen
Brewster (R-Me) was "too cowardly"
to go on. Hughes said he doubted the
hearings would be reopened.
Former Col. James c. Hail. who
succeeded Elliott Roosevelt as chief of
Army Air Corps photo reconnaissance,
branded the inquiry "a skunk circus
which has been sinking up the entire
nation" Hall, now an aviation con-
sultant, said the committee refused to
let him reply, to testimony that John
W. Meyer, Hughes free-spending pub
licity man, spent almost $4,000 enter
tanning him and his associates over
approximately three years.
Brewster, vacationing in Maine, said
the future of the inquiry was up to
Chairman Homer Ferguson (R-Mich)
of the subcommittee actually conduct
ing the investigation.
RecesSed-NOt Ended
Ferguson, who. announced the unex-
pected postponement after a closed
door meeting of his subcommittee,
said the hearings would be resumed
November II with Hughes as a wit
ness.
Sen. Ferguson explained there were
two reasons for the recess: demands
of other matters on Senators time,
and inability of the subcommittee to
locate Hughes publicity man, Meyer,
who disappeared after his subpoena
expired.
Democratic senators leaped to the
attack. Sen. James E. Murray (Mont)
called for Senate investigation OF
investigations which depend on sensa.
tionalism instead of facts. He said the
Hughes probe was "just another ex-
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

The Justice Department probe fol.
lows a three months study of the
present price situation by Assistant
Attorney General John F. Sonnet
who took charge of the antitrust divi-
sion in May,
New, Vigorous Approach
Attorney General Tom C. Clark
ordered the inquiry in the belief that
soaring prices in the food, clothing
and housing fields require a new and
more vigorous approach"
Earlier the CIO Full Employment
Committee issued a call for a special
session of Congress to restore price
controls and roll back prices to some-
where near OPA levels.
The CIO group predicted there
would be another round of wage de-
mands if living costs continued to rise.
Before Congress adjourned last
month, it authorized national survey
of rising living costs. That joint Sem
ate-House committee, headed by Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), this week
named three subcommittee to study
conditions in the east, midwest and
west. They are headed respectively by
Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Ver), Rep.
George H. Bender (R-Ohio) and Sen.
Arthur v. Watkins (R-Utah).
Probe or Whitewash
Emil Rieye, chairman of the CIO
committee, called the projected Con-
greSsional studies ian investigation to
forestall action"
"The facts are already known" !"
Rieve declared. I'VE are up to our
necks in imitation"
In his announcement of the federal
inquiry, Clark recalled President Tru-
mans repeated warnings of the danger
of rising prices.
Clark's statement said:
'In his State of the Union message
in January, the President pointed out
that, despite half a century of anti
trust law enforcement, one of the
graveSt threats to our welfare lay in
the increasing concentration of power
in the hands of small number of
giant organizations, and that today we
find that to a greater extent than ever
before whole industries are dominated
by one or a few large organizations
which can restrict production in the
interest of higher profits and thus re.
duce employment and purchasing
power"
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Miniature
Earthquake

TN THE age of atomic war, there
i still may be room for super
bombs of non-atomic explosives.
The U. S. Army Air Forces now
is exploring the possibility of
miniature manmade earthquakes
as a war weapon in tests at the Fargo
U-boat pens near Bremen, Germany.
The power of non-atomic explosives
smashing their way deep into the
earth before detonation was demon
strated by the British late in World
War II. Deep penetration bombs set
off shock waves that smashed a tun-
mel 1876 feet below the surface, far
below the point of the blast
Three Big Superforts are dropping
25,O0O-pound Amazon" bombs (filled
with non-explosive powder) to test
penetration power The bombs are
dropped from heights of $4,000 and
10000 feet and attain supersoniC
speeds.
Tmpregnable Target
The target is one Of the staunchest
structures in the world. The U-boat
factory is 1850 feet long, $50 feet
wide and 80 feet high, with a steel
reinforced concrete roof "a feet thick
Three test bombs have been dropped
and two were direct hits. The thiro
landed some yards off the target.
The bombs indicated effectiveness
is, of course, an official secret but
there is no Disgusting the phenomenal
accuracy with which they have beer
dropped from stratospheric heights
Despite the lack of explosives, the
bombs kick up to 1000 feet dust which
hangs in the air for almost half ar
hour.
The AAF also has revealed that i
is developing and probably will test {
42,000-pound bomb this fall. This il
reported to be the largest standard
explosive weapon ever developed bu
the AAF recently had an even bigger
one-a 100000 FOUNDER in the blue
print stage. The project was said tt
have been shelved, however, in a cur
tailment of research.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
In: OR L > lis v EEK
U.N.: Stymied on the Balkans

DEPORTS of renewed fighting
IN in Indonesia between Neither
lands troops and Republican forces
indicated widespread violations of
the cease-fire order of the United
Nations. Indonesians charged the
Dutch with conducting large scale
military drive in west Java to gain
control of key mountain passes and
rich rubber and tea plantations.
The United States sped Walter A.
Foote, U.S. consul-general from Ba-
tavia to the Indonesian capital at jog
jakarta in connection with the Ameri-
can proffer of "its good offices" in set
tling the conflict.
The Tangled Balkans
Meanwhile the Security Council
tangled again with the thorny problem
of the Balkans. Hershel Johnson, dep
uty US. delegate, formally charged
that Communist groups supported by
Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
hoped to set up a totalitarian regime
in Greece. He warned bluntly that if
the council failed to solve the Balkan
problem the US. was prepared to join
other countries in protecting Greece
within the provisions of the charter"
1--WE do not consider" he said, chat
our obligations or the obligations of
the United Nations are ended, merely
because the Soviet Union sees fit to
use her. veto to block constructive pro-
posals desired by nine of IL council
members"
At another point he declared: "We
are no longer under the necessity of
attempting to appease further threat
ening veto. Let us now record our
honest opinions"
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Red Tide
Recurring Plague

After disappearing for 20 hou. .,
Florida's mysterious fish-killing "red
tide" reappeared off the gulf coast and
Uttered Pinellas County beaches with
fresh carcasses,
The state board of health joined
county authorities in combating the
plague which already had left mill
Ions Of fish dead and rotting alorg
swanky beaches from Sarasota to
Clearwater.
Heaviest concentrations washed
ashore at Treasure Island as county
road crews and volunteers from the
U.s. Maritime Station at ST. Peters
purg buried the debris with road ma
chinery. For the most part, these fish
were recently killed and did not have
tie stencil of earlier deposits.
Few swimmers braved the water on
the hump Of Florida's west coast after
a wave of skin irritstions and rashes
afflicted bathers. Health authorities
said there were no serious cases, how
ever.
Scientists still are trying to deter
nine the cause of the plague.
DR.. F. G.. Walton Smith, director Of
Miami University's marine laboratory,
said the tide" was caused by millions
of micro organisms (gymnodinium
brevis). What caused the sudden in
crease in these tiny organisms, how
ever, has not been learned.
Indignant beach residents insisted
at first the tide was caused by dump
ing of Army mustard gas bombs. The
Army denied this although admitting
it dropped a few faulty gas bombs in
July, 1946, which. it said, were neu-
tralized Immediately on contact with
sea water.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
SCIENCE: Shrinking GIobaI Contours

THE march of science is steadi-
4 ly shrinking the globe. Where
once pioneers blazed transcon-
tinental trails with blood and
sweat, passengers now zip from
coast to coast in streamlined
trains. Every time new record is set
by globe-girdling fiier, the world
grows little smaller and safer.
Pilot William Odom, who flew solo
around the world to set new record
of 70 hours and minutes last Sunday,
gave science full credit for making his
feat possible.
For the first half of his 19,60O-mile
trip, he depended on his automatic
pilot and ground control systems at
airports to bring him down through
fog and overcast. A Burma monsoon
put his automatic pilot out of commits
sion, however, and after that he
couldn't let up an instant.
Alaskan Crisis
Over the Yukon, Odom dozed at the
controls He awoke after an hour and
40 minutes to find his plane headed
directly for snowy 19,OOO-foot noun
tain peak. Apparently he had been
flying in circles.
Thirteen years of aeronautical de-
velopment, given terrific squirt by
the war, enabled Odom to more than
halve the record for the previous
round-the-world solo record of nearly
1877 hours set by the late Wiley Post
Post flew much shorter route over
Russia, which refused permission tt
Odom.
Odom will compete in the Nationa
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In Short

Convicted: BY an American Mili-
tary Tribunal, Frau Ilse Koch, red.
haired widow of a former com.
mandant of Buchenwald Concentra-
tion Camp, and 80 other defendants
of war crimes.
Planned: BY Hiroshima residents, q
replica of the Statue Of Liberty on the
site of obliterated Hiroshima Castle.
Donated: BY Howard Gambler, son
of the founder of Coca Cola, to Emory
University in Atlanta, Ca, securities
valued at $7,0OO,00O with an annual
income of $500000.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Britain
Dark Days Ahead

Dark Days Ahead
The British House of Commons
after all-night debate voted authoriza-
ton this week to the Labor govern
ment to muster the full resources of
Britain, including manpower and in
dustry, for national recovery.
Prime Minister Attlee's "crisis bill'
brought charges of "too little and too
late" from left wing Parliament MEM
bers and cries of dictatorship" from
the right. Winston Churchill called it
a blank check for totalitarianism."
Attlee went to the people in a radio
address last Sunday. He called for a
national effort comparable to that we
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

developed during the war" to meet
the crisis. He told Britons they must
fight alone for economic survival as
once they had fought alone against
Hitler.
All Britain will be listening this
Sunday to radio address by Church
i'll, leader of the opposition.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Dates
Monday, August Is

American Veterinary Medical
Association to meet in Cincinnati.
World Sunday School Associa-
ton opens conference in Bir-
mingham, Eng.
Tuesday, August 10
National Aviation Day.
Thursday, August Fl
Anniversary (third), Dunbar
ton Oaks conference.
Anniversary (second), end of
Lend-LeaSe.
Sunday, August "a
American Pharmaceutical AS
sociation meets in Milwaukee.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

Air Races at Cleveland on August 80.
His plane will be special speed job,
whose specifications still are secret.
In October Odom plans another
global f1ight-this time the hard way
over both poles Backed by Milton
Reynolds, who sponsored his other
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

global flights, Odom will fly a con-
verted B-36 bomber and take along
10 scientists and newspapermen.
The route probably will be via
Greenland, the North Pole, Alaska,
Tokyo, New Zealand, South Pole and
South America
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

johnson spoke after Yugoslavia had
accused the United States of deliber-
ately misrepresenting conditions in
the Balkans to justify the Truman
doctrine of aid to Greece.
He said the Balkan problem would
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Government TO Probe
Soaring Food Prices

aware this week of something the house,
wife on budget realized long agohat alarm.
ingy 1t ordered investigation by the antitrust division of tha
Department OF Justice to determine whether conpracies exist to
maintain or to increase prices the food clothing housing fields
Jail sentences rather than fines SOUGHT vioators
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

inevitably go before the 55-nation
General Assembly-which meets in
New York on September 16-if the
council failed to break the deadlock
between Russia and the western pow
erS.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Quote

DR.. Edmund w. SinnOtt, direc-
tor of Yale's Sheffield Scientific
School: at is entirely possible
that science alone may make
monsters of men,"
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22

tAIl Rights Ressrved. AP NetOsteatures)
Evening star., 1947-12-28

you Judge the effectiveness Of your
exposed film by the number Of feet
that are actually usable. Admitted
ly, motion picture photography is
more expensive than still photo
graphy. Therefore, although you
may be willing to shoot film or
two in your still camera at the
possible risk of a few cents loss, it
stands to reason that you will not
be as willing to expose several dol
lars worth of movie Aim and wind
up with a total loss through poor
exposure. Aside from the money
involved. priceless opportunities
that are never repeated are also
lost. The first steps taken by the
baby can never be Photographed
and a second attempt, perhaps
weeks later, will never have the
same meaning that the first ones
would have.
Another way to make friends with
and influence your audience is to
take the greatest of pains in max
ing pan" shot. If you are pan
ming" with action and keep the
moving subject in its proper place
in the finder, the eyes of the au-
dience will follow this movement
naturally and without effort, re-
gardless Of how fast it may be. It is
best not to pan" the camera at
all on a static subject. Here there
is no moving object to hold the eye
Of the viewer and, since the eye
tends to fix itself upon some object
in the scene, it is most disconcert-
ing to have the, scene literally slip
away from the range of vision. This
is particularly annoying because it
Is the eye that moves from point
to point at its own discretion. This
may we'll be compared to Jerking
a rug from under a person in an
effort to speed him up. If you
must, for some reason, make a
pan" shot without a moving OBJ
ject in the scene, swing the camera
very slowly and smoothly without
pauses or jerks. AS there is usually
no hurry on shots like this, the best
scheme Is to plan in advance ex-
actly where the pan" is to begin
and where it shall end and practice
the shot several times without &C
Evening star., 1947-12-28

II you are suddenly deserted by
your best friends-and just by the
merest coincidence you happen to
be an amateur movie cameraman-
the connection is too obvious to
ignore. You will not be the first
movie fan to see good old Bill catch
sight Of you on the street one day
dart across the street and slink fur
lively down the nearest alley. This
has happened to most of the best
movie makers until they took stock
of the stuff they we're forcing down
the throats of many an unwilling
audience, recognized it for what 1t
was, tossed 1t in the nearest waste
basket and buckled down to turn
out some worthwhile film.
This can be done by any one who
has reasonably good vision, movie
camera, tripod and an exposure
meter. 1t must be emphasized that
these requisites are essential to good
motion picture photography. Only
one with an iron will, iron nerves
and the grip Of an Indian wrestler
can expect to hand-hold a movie
Evening star., 1947-12-28

right. And then, suddenly. in the
very next scene, he appears, with
no explanation at all from the film,
walking along the same street going
from right to left. This Is all very
upsetting to the audience. They
are always prepared, even eager,
to 60 along with the picture but
psychologically they have attuned
their train of thought to the idea
that in the film, as in everyday
life, actions of the characters will
conform to the normal pattern.
And then, without warning, the
peaceful continuity Of their
thoughts and the film is shattered
by an impossible situation. Right
then and there the audience real
ICES the "amateurishness" Of the
whole thing and loses interest. To
avoid mistakes like this you should,
if possible, prepare a list Of the
shots that you will need to put over
your story and note carefully the
direction the characters shall take
as they enter and exit from each
scene. To go even further, and this
should eventually become policy
with you, write simple script COW
erirg all that you want to show in
the picture.
Exits and Entrances.
Another thing in the way of keep
ing the audience on an even keel
is to remember to have your char
acters actually walk into the scene
while the camera is running and,
if they are to leave the scene, let
them walk all the way out before
stopping the camera.
Two more important don'ts con-
Germ weather and costume. II you
are filming a story that will involve
several days shooting and the ac-
ton is supposed to have occurred
within a single day, according to
your story, be sure that after the
film is cut you do not have con-
Trajectory scenes where your char
acters will appear in bright sun
light one minute and then in the
same sequence have an entirely
different kind Of lighting that would
only occur on a cloudy day.
The same thing applies to cloth
ing. Should it happen that you
have to carry the shooting of
story over from one day to an
other, be sure that all characters
are wearing the same clothing all
the way through unless the change
Is logically explained by the picture
These are only a few Of the basic
rules OF fair play in movie making
but, If they are strictly observed,
good old Bill and the others may
some day return to the fold.
Evening star., 1947-12-28

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exception light wine person under the age q
81 shall consume any acononC
beverage exception light wines upon any
under the OF IL years snail consume any
holic beverage upon any licensed premises -. , ~,
knowingly msrepent the age OF minor tor
alcoholic beverage
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uatons.
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regarded he native OF the stIict or an ]
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