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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
SCIENCE: New Secret Weapon

Zealand, Snodgrass said, although first
it had been planned to transfer work
on the project to Florida.
Questioning extracted this addi-
tional information:
1t is not connected in any way
with the atomic bomb.
1t is not a biological warfare
weapon.
Development of the weapon,
started during the war, was not
completed until after the end of
fighting.
The US. Navy received reports
during development.
The Cincinnati scientist gave only
one hint as to the nature of the
weapon. Disclosing that work on the
project started shortly after the
American landing on Tarawa Island
he said: "You remember there was
heavy loss of life there"
Did the weapon have anything to
do with casualties or some military
problem encountered on Tarawa? he
was asked.
Gould be-" Snodgrass replied.
Asked about the weapon as On al
ternate to the atom bomb, he said
only: First reports are substantially
true but perhaps they are exaggerated
a little"
From Australia, Professor ". y.
Miller of the Sydney University civil
engineering department said the ne,v
weapon might be in the nature of an
airborne missile such as the German
rocket bomb"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
AERIAL: A Government Safety Probe

CTUNG by a series of air crashes
~ that snuffed out POI lives in
IL days, President Truman ap-
pointed a panel of five govern
ment and private aviation spe-
cialists for positive ways to make
plane travel safer.
The President picked James M.
Lands, chairman of the Civil Aero
nautics Board, to head the committee
of inquiry. Lands is a former dean
of Harvard Law School and a former
head of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Lands was given a broad mandate
to look wherever he wants and to
come in quickly with any answer he
finds.
Working with him were DR.. Jerome
Hunsaker, chairman of the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics;
Theodore P. Wright, Civil Aeronautics
administrator; Milton w. Arnold, re-
tired Air Forces %brigadier general and
vice president of the Air Transport
Association, and H. B. Cox, a veteran
air line pilot.
Their field Of search was as broad
as aviation itself. 1t included the ma
terial phases of fying-aircraft, en-
gines and electronic aids-as well as
flying technique, weather problems
and the human factor the men in
the cockpit, the control tower and the
maintenance shops.
Congressional Probe
Earliar this ,o,r Conaroecinnal
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prevented any %generalized deductions
being drawn.
Converted C-54s
He said the DC-4s, a conversion of
the big, four-motored military C-54s,
include several types so they would
not be grounded as a class.
us. commercial airlines have 256
DC-4s in operation, 176 on domestic
routes. The Army has 485, of which
326 are in flight use in this country
and 159 on overseas routes.
1t was learned from another CAB
spokesman, however, that the agency
was concerned about Port Deposit.
Evidence in the New York and West
Virginia crashes, it was said, pointed
toward pilot error" but in Mary
land the cause apparently was struc-
tural: the entire tail assembly fell off
in flight.
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S W. ASSts
At mid-week this plank had COM
menced to resemble a raft.
Coming three months after the
Truman Doctrine" Secretary Mar
shall's invitation was hailed as a sig
nifcant development in US. foreign
policy-an impression bolstered by
President Truman, himself, when at
Ottawa he declared: I'VE intend to
cooperate actively and loyalty with
all who honestly seek, as we do, to
build a better world in which man.
kind can live in peace and prosper
ity."
Broader Interpretation
Lacking was the doctrines" original
emphasis on military aid for
tries menaced by totalitarianism.
What some commentators were quick
to term 'the Marshall doctrine" held
the door open for Russian participa-
ton, though there was no suggestion
that stopping the spread of COM
munism had ceased to be a major
us. goal. Rather, it seemed, the means
chosen to achieve that end had been
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to meet growing
signs of a dollar shortage in hungry
Europe. O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
RECENT MAJOR AIR CRASHES

committees spent weeks looking into
the problem of air safety. But those
House and Senate probes centered
largely around landing aids, rejecting
the pattern of a series of bad weather
accidents at the end of 1916.
The three crashes of the past three
weeks at LaGuardia Field, Port De-
post, Md, and Leesburg, Va, show
no such pattern however. Electronic
aids like GOA (radar talk down
method known as Ground Control
Approach) which held Congress at
tention could have had no effect on
the last three mishaps.
IF there is any connection between
these recent accidents, the evidence
has yet to establish it." said Lands.
Each of the accidents involved a
DC-4 but the CAB chairman said di-
versity of circumstances in each case
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
immigration
Bors to Stay Up

Chances for admission of 1000
homeless European war refugees to
the United States tumbled this week
with indications in Washington that
there is scant likelihood of any bills
passage this session.
A House judiciary subcommittee
now is considering a measure by Rep.
William G. Stratton (R-Ill), supported
by the State Department., to admit
100000 displaced persons annually for
the next four years. Republican Con-
gressmen declared, however, that
even if the measur energies from the
subcommittee it has no possibility of
winning Congressional approval this
year.
Members of the subcommittee
headed by Rep. Frank Fellows (R-Me)
are considering a visit to displaced
persons camps in Europe after Con-
gress adjourns to determine future
action.
Rep. Edward Gossett (D-Tex), a
subcommittee member, declared that
the legislation Should never pass"
and that the displaced persons camps
ought to be closed.
"Those who can go home should"
he said. Let the others shift for
themselves. They've been pulling our
leg long enough"
The Republican-controlled House
has held up action on a measure
authorizing US. participation in the
International Refugee Organization
which is scheduled on July l to take
over from UNRRA the care of ap-
proximately 100000 refugees remain
ing in displaced persons camps. Most
of these are in British and American
occupation zones.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Housing
Half q Loaf or None

If President Truman vetoes the rent
control bill readied in Congress this
week there probably will be no fed
eral ceilings at all after June 80.
A House-Senate conference COM
mittee reached final accord 10 days
ago on legislation to extend rent con-
trolls through, next February 20. Sen.
John ]. Sparkman of Alabama, rank
ing Senate Democrat on the confer
ence committee is not proud of the
groups handiwork but, he said, "it
appears to be that or nothing"
THE Republican leadership will not
consider another bill if the President
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Siberia
Rivers by Day

Russian scientists, puzzled by re-
ports of Arctic rivers which flooded
villages by day and receded by night,
trekked to the coolest inhabited place
in the world and discovered a huge
new glacier and mountain range.
The discoveries in the northern
Yakutsk region of Siberia, well with
in the Arctic circle, were hailed at the
All-Union Geographic Congress at
Leningrad as Of great scientific sig
nificance.
The expedition reached the center
of the glacier in midsummer. Scien-
lists found the ice suddenly melting
in midday heat and noted that tiny
streams became swirling rivers. The
group was suddenly marooned on the
ice but as nightfall approached the
temperature dropped suddenly. The
rivers froze rapidly and the party
walked to safety, bringing with them
the secret Of the floods.
Scientists called the huge blue
glacier one of the largest in the world.
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vetoes this one" he said, "and I doubt
if we could pass a much better bill
anyway"
Sparkman and other Democrats
have been particularly critical of a
provision which permits a rent in
crease up to Is percent where land
lord and tenant agree on a lease
through 1913 and one which scraps
all government restrictions over con-
struction except recreational and
amusement buildings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Hot Shots

Nj Tokyo, when the government
5 s a new Jensen note (about
.I1'a OF a cent, U.s. depicting a
: ABOUT to take off, outraged
allFse hnanciers protested it would
tlo people of soaring imitation
'4dAe them throw money around.
N Spokane, Wash, a worried
tS man borrowed a police cap
> handouts explaining he was
= married that night. The bride
III returned them next day with
'~1planation: IF my bride and l
Ao' been handcuffed together,
! 1lehds would surely have sepa-
L Broken Bow, Okla, male par
celebrated Fathers Day by
t6 d Oil of rights specifying that
W allowed as much time as chill
say what they think and that
W allowed to stay out late one
y q week without explanation.
- .Hlies City, Mont, bankruptcies,
: s!fls and a boy, were born to
; S'1 Mrs. Edward Randash. The
'aVe one other child, five years
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
In the News

There were more women drunkards
in Grandma's day than today (accord-
ing to a Yale psychologist.
Backward seating of plane pas
sengers is proposed as safety measure
(by airlines executive).
What Europe needs to halt starva-
ton during the next four years: "a
billion dollars .(says US. Officially.
Microbes have smaller microbes to
bite 'em.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
zTUmnn&


IT WAS a crucial week for the
1 President. Back from his trip
to Canada, Harry S. Truman
worked long on two important
messages to Congress. His deci-
sion on the controversial tax and
labor bills passed by Congress would
have a vital bearing not only on ma
tional domestic welfare but on his
w political future and that of his
party as we'll.
Monday Mr.. Truman delivered the
first of his decisions. He became the
first US. President in history to veto
a tax cut authorized by Congress.
Taking a step which politicians tradi-
tlonally have considered suicidal, he
took an estimated $4,000, 0QO, 900 from
the pockets of 10000 900 wage earn
ers and voters by ordering them to
go right on paying the same federal
income tax.
In his veto message, Mr.. Truman
branded the Republican sponsored
bill "the wrong kind of tax reduction
at the wrong time" He added that a
good bill would give a greater pro-
portion of relief to the low income
group. He reaffirmed that he still was
committed to the fright kind of tax
reduction at the right time"
The bill would have cut taxes 30
percent on incomes under S 1000,
graduating to 10 percent on incomes
over 100000.
Bill Called Unsafe
The President asserted the bill "of-
fers dubious, ill-apportioned and risky
benefits at the expense of sound tax
policy" and said that from the stand
point of government finances it was
unsafe"
Next day the House sustained his
veto by a whisker. So close was the
vote in the tense, strained chamber
that Republican leader Charles A.
Halleck of Indiana called for a re-
count. 1t brought the same result:
268 to 1877, two short of the required
tWo-thirds majority.
Since a two-thirds vote in both
houses is necessary to override a veto,
the bill died there and did not 60 up
to the Senate. The result automati-
cally projected tax reduction into the
1948 Presidential campaign as a major
issue.
Republican Reaction Bitter
Republican reaction was bitter.
Speaker Joseph w. Martin (R.-Mass.)
announced there would be no other
attempt to write tax legislation in
1947. He declared:
apparently the Democrats have
little interest in cutting expenditures
and reducing taxes. We may have to
wait until we get a Republican Presi-
dent before we get tax reduction"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Quote
(Babe) Didrikson

Mrs. George (Babe) Didrikson
Zaharias, first American winner
of the British Women's Golf
Championship, explaining the
secret of her success: II just
loosen my girdle and let the ball
have it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Protest
Is Meat Prices Soar

was bombarded with protests from home plates
across the nation this week as meat prices continued to soar
h black market prices of a year ago. Consumer organizations
Enned the President for an investigation by the Department of
Euture and urged action by the Department of Justice if evil
Of illegal price-fixing were found.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

EUROPE has found unexpected promise in a plank which Secre-
IL tary of State George Marshall offered early in the month. .
1t was the suggestion contained in his Harvard speech that all
Europe get together and draw up the long-range requirements for an
ordered rehabilitation, so that the United States could help the entire
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o. II VI
many retail, butcher shops, por-
house steak, quoted at Sc cents a
md under OPA in June a year ago,
selling at 81 and over a pound.
TOP black market price during
meat famine last summer was IS
ia pound. Pork loin that sold for
tents a pound under OPA in June,
was selling at 70 cents. Its black
Eket high had been As cents a
nd. Veal outlets, so cents under
A, brought as much as $1.25 a
Ind.
feat industry and government Of
lis had various explanations
b contradictory-for this rise.
hex Kranis, president of the Ma
Ell Meat Industry Council, said
a appeared no effective way to
meat price increases except
ngh an industry-wide agreement
lower cost program. He advo-
ID conference Of the big packers,
|Ters and feeders.
Foreign Competition
Eme industry spokesman said meat
\ high because of competition
b foreign buyers able to pay high
Es but only two percent Of the
|aa's meat supply goes for export.
he latest issue of the Department
Agriculture's livestock market
rs stated that total meat produc-
} in the nation this year was ex-
led to be about % billion pounds
rh largest total on record.
beef and veal will be pro-
sd this year than last, possibly the
quantity on record, the mar
news summary reported, but this
be Offset by decreases in pork
lamb.
} Chicago, the American Veteri-
J Medical Association announced
a wave of disease has knocked
all hope for an increase in the
pork supply.
're industry market analysts
meat prices always climb in
months but the present rise
ted three months ago at the
lesale level.
Big Demand
chicago, the American Meat In
te declared: "The only explana-
for the present price level is in
TACT that apparently more GUS
rs want meat more today than
before and have the means to
for it."
my income groups, particularly
e collar workers, have had to re-
n They can no longer afford to
the quantity or quality of meat
families enjoyed a year ago.
ID Chester Bowles, former OPA
VINO canpaigned vainly through
OF 1916 for extension of price
oS fer meat: "We knew a year
mat this was going to happen"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
ABROAD: Relief Versus Revolution

On the theological front, Supreme
Court Justice Robert H. Jackson COM
mented that European peoples have
leaned more toward the Russian sys-
tenn than the American since the war
partly because of a Fellowship in
poverty"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Rally Broken Up

At Budapest, where a May 81 Com
munist coup had ousted the moderate
premier, opposition to the new regime
began to appear under the caustic
leadership of Desze Sulyok, Hun
garian Freedom Party chief. After
denouncing the Communists in Par
Lament, Sulyok organized a mass
meeting which was disrupted by riot
ing radicals. Among those pelted with
rotten eggs were US. correspondents,
who earlier had been embarrassed by
kisses from doting women of Sulyok's
movement.
Speaking at Princeton next day,
President Truman told graduates that
1--WE must not let friendly nations go
by default" Urging his program for
universal military training, the Presi-
dent declared: ."Peace-loving nations
can make only slow progress toward
the attainment of a stable world-in
which all peoples are free to work
out their own destinies in their own
way-unless their moral leadership is
supported by strength"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

Earlier this year Congressional
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
Snyder Wants Aid 10 Europe Wiihi, Budge!
Is Opposed 10 Tax Reduc- lions Until Amount Of
 Aid Determined

WASHINGTON, Oct 30.-tP- Secretary of Treasury Snyder said today the United States should keep it's budget balanced in pro- viding any aid for Europe under the Marshall self-help recovery program.
 Snyder said that not only would he like to see Congress provide revenues to cover any such aid costs. but also allow enough mar gin each year to apply something for reducing the national debt.
 For these reasons, the Treasury Secretary said he is opposed to any change in present taxes until Congress decides how much aid can be provided under the Europ- can recovery plan suggested by Secretary of State Marshall.
 Snyder told reporters that he is not proposing that costs of the plan necessarily be scaled down to keep it within available budget ary surpluses.
 He said that he wants revenue provided" 70 oCver the cost of the aida statement that could be in- terpreted t9 mean increasing t&~ revenues if necessary as well as cutting down aid requests.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
New Story of Pearl Harbor
 Attack Made
Admiral KimmeI Struck by Spent Bullet When
 Jdps Struck Base

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct 30-jR Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, former Navy commander at Pearl Harbor, disclosed today he was struck by a spent bullet when the Japanese attacked the U. s. base there December ', 194l
 Kimmel in charge of Knox vile engineering office, related the incident to reporters after the story had been broken for the first time yesterday at Pasadena, Calf, by Marine Brig Gen. Omar T. Pfeiffer.
 T was standing near the win dow of my headquarters at Pearl Harbor when stray Japanese 50 caliber machine bullet came through and hit me" he declared. Fortunately the missile was spent and did no damage except to leave a small black and hlue spot cn my chest
 The retired Admiral said he had never related the incident before because it wasn't worth mention ing"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
CUB SCOUT PACK 3 Al
 HALL0WE' 'EN MEETING

Cub Scout Pack 2, sponsored by the Methodist Church, met last nirht at Les Sturms with a full turnout of parents and the ten cubs of the pack.
 Cub Scout Leslie Sturm and his parents had charge of the refresh ments and decoration, carrying out the Halloween theme to the ex- tent that pumpkin ice cream was served. Cub Scout Clifford Robards and his dad-Clifford Robards, hat charge of the games, which ended in an apple dunking -for-all, for the cubs.
 Cub Committeeman Henry Leege, Don Miller, Les Sturm and Cliff Robards presented the registration certificates of clubbing, and new permanent type Bobcat pins were awarded to each cub who could pass the requirement.
 Two wolf badges were presented to Cub Scout Donnie Miller by his dad and to Allan Engstrom by his dad and mother. Stephen Roberts was accepted by the committee as new Cub Scout of the pack with full permission to wear the uni form.
 Cub Scout Denner Norman Lister led the pack in brief Clubbing drill, and conducted the brief open ing ceremony. Cubmaster Bob Treat conducted the parents meet ing where questions and answers about the Clubbing program were interchanged, and the theme Tn Old Mexico was selected for next month
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
BEARS, UCLA
 WILL CLASH
 SATURDAY

BERKELEY, Calf, Oct. 30.-IR- Cal1fornia's Golden Bears entrain for Los Angeles tonight, 10-6 un- derdogs in the unofficial odds for Saturdays clash with their Bruin brothers from UCLA. Coach Lynn Waldorf is taking 45 men along, but only 37 of them will be suited up at game time, following a Pa- cific Coast Conference rule.
 Waldorf named Erickson or Muir as probable starting quarterback, Swaner and either keclzley or Billy Main at the halfbacks and Graves at full but indicated he'll give plenty of attention to Billy Mon tagne and Will Lotter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
PLAN INCREASlNG AMER, MILITARY
 COM. IN GREECE

WASHINGTON, Oct 3o.-iR- Government officials are consid- ering an increase in the American Military Mission to Greece as a means of helping the Greek Army prepare for a c.aarup offensive against the Communist guerrilla forces.
 Authorities saId Une present mis- sion, totaling 40 officers and men now appears to be too small to do an adequate job. The missions assignment has been to help the Greek forces assemble United States equipment being furnished them under the Truman Doctrine
 aid program and to train the Greeks in the use of this equip
 ment
 ! These authorities flatly denied however, that there is any thought now of sending American troops i to Greece or of having any Ameri- can officers participate in Greek combat operations. as was reported from some European capitals last weekend.
 The belief here is rather that an increase in the military mission would simply Speed up the work already undertaken and give the Greeks a morale boost in launch- ing the offensive, probably some time this winter
 An offensive is considered es- sential to bring the guerrilla fight ing under control and restore to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
Max. temp.

0a. m yesterday to 43U a. todayJ
 
 moved ward position Entrance this which located OH the coast yesterday eastward and located distribution winds aloft the northern with slowly disspatng oudness Winds in Southeast Alaska continue to have ase to sothasy cloudness has decreased slightly it still falling in the vicinity along the coast Alaska and at scattered points fell southwestern interior er portions which penetrating the Beng northern portion of Alaska and zero or below stations reported this morning Temperatures the slightly below normal and 29 Puget Sound the Gulf of Alaska morning
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30

out of a ginger beer bottle while they were making the drinks with ginger beer, vodka and lime juice last Sept. 10.
 All four claimed in the suit that they became violently nauseated and have been unable to sleep pro- perly since. MT. and Mrs. George Hcrsman and Mir. and Mrs. Marvin White, asking Slo,000 damages, fil- ed the action against the Cock N Bull Products, Inc, and Arrowhead Beverage Co.,, described as bottlers and distributors of the ginger beer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
Ginger Beer BoiiIe Yields Tive Ei1a!a Or SaIamander

LOS ANGELES, oct so.-tH4 Two married couples assert that ever since they mixed a drink known as a Moscow Mule" their dreams have been troubled with visions of mules and lizards which leer at them from the necks Of ginger beer bottles
 They have no complaint about the Moscow Mule, as such, but III a suit Tiled in Superior Court yes terday they contended that very live lizard or salamander" popped
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30
Alaskan C0niYaei $ Terminated, Couple
 Suing Three FiFms

SEATTLE, Oct. 30.-LR-Claiming that three Alaskan contractors il- legally terminated a contract with them, a Mobile, Ala, couple has filed complaint for 301a weeks back Jay amounting to $7S39.50 in the Federal court here.
 she couple, Dr. Mark S. Young, 8 physician, and his wife Burdonne, a registered nurse, contend that the contractors-S Birch and Son, Al Johnson Construction, and c. F. Lyle-hired tGem with a yearly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-30

Greece the minimum political sta bility which officials say is nec- essary to enable the nation to undertake an effective recovery program.
 In a sense this estimate of the situation, which is now the pre- dominant official view, recognizes the failure Of a theory widely held here earlier in the year. That was that if a liberal Greek gov-