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Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
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 series of bad weather
accidents at the end of 1916.
The three crashes of the past three
weeks at LaGuardia Field, Port De-
poSit, 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
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

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 of
in flight.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

SOlIIlilSIlI SOIlQly W lLS .leGJ.
At mid-Week this plank had COM
menced to resemble a raft.
Coming three months after the
Truman. Doctrine" Secretary Mar
Shalrs invitation was hailed as a sig
nificant development in US. foreign
policy--an impression bolstered by
President Truman, himself, when at
Ottawa he declared: we intend TO
cooperate actively and loyalty with
all who honestly seek. as we do, 10
build 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 coun-
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
broadened-perhaps to meet growing
signs of dollar shortage in hungry
Europe.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
AWesome os the Atom


Existence of a new and hitherto
really secret Anglo-American weapon
was disclosed this week by the citing
of New Zealand scientist in the
birthday honors list of King George
VI in London. The scientist, Professor
T. D. j. Leech, said he was honored
for heading development of a secret
weapon that was an effective alternate
to the atomic bomb
To newsmen this was one of the
hottest tips since Hiroshima. Cables
flashed between London, New. Zea-
land, Australia and New York. At
weeks end, they had pried up several
side angles but for the big story
(what the weapon actually was) they
still were shifting. Il
In Cincinnati, reporters found an
American biophysicist who h d
worked with Leech and other British
and New Zealand scientists on the
weapon He was James M. Snodgrass,
80, chief engineer of the motion pic
ture division of the Dayton-Acme Co.,
a conSultant engineering firm.
Yes" said Snodgrass reluctantly,
"the new weapon was as awesome In
its effects as the atomic bomb"
He said the weapon was conceived
by the British and although us
naval officials were not enthusiastic
the British pressed the work, first or
an obscure Pacific island in l943 anc
later in New Zealand.
Fear of espionage resulted in cen
terlng the experimentation in New
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
SCIENCE: New Secret Weapon

Zealand, Snodgrass said, although first
it had been planned to transfer work
on the project to Florida.
Questioning extracted this addl-
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 an al-
ternate to the atom bomb, he said
only: First reports are substantially
true but perhaps they are exaggerateA
a little"
From Australia, Professor w. A.
Miller of the Sydney University civil
engineering department said the new
weapon might be in the nature of an
airborne missile such as the GermaH
rocket bomb"
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

In many retail butcher shops, por-
terhouSe steak, quoted at Sc cents
pound under OPA in June a year ago,
was selling at ST and over a pound.
The top black market price during
the meat famine last summer was rs
cents pound. Pork loin that sold for
36 cents pound under OPA in June,
1916. was selling at 73 cents. It's black
market high had been As cents a
pound Veal outlets, so cents under
OPA, brought as much as $1.25 a
pound
Meat industry and government Of
ficialS had various explanations
often contradictory-for this rise
Jack Kranis, president of the Ma
tional Meat Industry Council. said
there appeared no effective way to
halt meat price increases except
through an industry-wide agreement
on a lower cost program. He advo-
Gated a conference of the big packers,
growers and feeders
Foreign Competition
Some industry spokesmen said meat
was high because of competition
from foreign buyers able to pay high
prices but only two percent of the
nations meat supply goes for export.
The latest issue of the Department
OF Agriculture's livestock market
news stated that total meat produc-
tion in the nation this year was lex
pected to be abouts2S biilfor pounds
fourth largest total on record.
More beef and veal will be pro-
duced this year than last, possibly the
greatest quantity on record, the mar
ket news summary reported, but this
will be Offset by decreases in pork
and lamb.
In Chicago, the American Veteri-
nary Medical Association announced
that wave of disease has knocked
out all hope for an increase in the
fall pork supply.
Some industry market analysts
claimed meat prices always climb in
summer months but the present rise
started three months ago at the
wholesale level.
Big Demand
In Chicago. the American Meat In
stitute declared THE only explana-
ton for the present price level is, in
the fact that apparently more GUS
toners want meat more today than
ever before and have the means tc
pay for it."
Many income groups, particularly
white collar workers, have had to re-
trench. They can no longer afford tc
buy the quantity or quality of mea
their families enjoyed a year ago.
Said Chester Bowles, former OPA
chief, who campaigned vainly through
most of 1946 for extension of price
controls for meat: I'VE knew a yea
ago that this was going to happen.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
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 coldest inhabited place
in the world and discovered 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-
fists 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.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
immigration
Bors to Stay Up

Chances for admission of 100000
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 measure by Rep.
William G. Stratton (R-IlD, 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 measure emerges 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 ouI
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 | TO take
over from UNRRA the care of ap
proximately 100000 refugees remain
ing in displaced persons camps. Mos
of these are in British and American
occupation zones.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
Medicine
Radioactive Carbon Atoms


Radioactive carbon atoms, some of
them 5000 years old, release about
2l,000,000 electron volts in each hu-
man being every minute, according
to DR.. Aristide V. Crosse of the
Houdry Process Corp.
Discovery of this activity in the liv-
ing body is expected to prompt a re-
examination of the level of radioac-
tivitY which proves harmful to hui
man being or results in hereditary
changes, and a study of the radioac-
tivity as a possible source of cancer.
DR.. Crosses calculations are based
on discovery that cosmic rays trans
mute nitrogen of the air into radio
active carbon which enters the human
body in food. Discovery of the carbon
is the work of six scientists (two from
the University of Chicago and four
from Houdry).
"This radioactive carbon IA is the
first substance found to be created
by cosmic rays" said DIR. Crosse. Il
do not think it is the last.
The experiments show probability
that radioactive hydrogen known as
tritium, which also would enter the
human body, is also produced by cos
mic rays.
Although $4,000 of these radioactive
carbon atoms explode in the body
each minute, carbon IA makes up less
than a millionth of one percent of
the total carbon, DR.. Crosse said.
However, the radioactivity to which
human body is exposed raises the
possibility that human being de-
velops greater immunity to such ac-
tivity than had been supposed.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
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
I'VE must not let friendly nations 90
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-unlass their moral leadership i.
supported by strength"
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

vetoes this one" he said, "and doubt
If we could pass 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 1948 and one which scraps
all government restrictions over con-
struction except recreational and
amusement buildings.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
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 30.
A House-Senate conference COM
mittee reached final accord 10 days
ago on legislation to extend rent con-
trolls through next February 90. 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
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
In the News

There were more women drunkards
in Grandma's day than today (accord-
ing TO a Yale psychologisD.
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.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
Truman &c
Congress-

TT WAS a crucial week for the
l. 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 vital bearing not only on ma
tlonal domestic welfare but on his
own 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 step which politicians tradi-
tionally have considered suicidal, he
took an estimated $4,000, 100000 from
the pockets of 48,OO000O wage earn
ers and voters by ordering them to
go right on paying the same federal
income tax. .t,,
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 greater pro-
portion of relief to the low income
group. He reafirmed that he still was
committed to the right kind of tax
reduction at the right time. :"
The bill would have cut taxes 80
percent on incomes under $1,000,
graduating to 10 percent on incomes
over $302,O0O.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

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 fellowship in
poverty"
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
Housewives Protest
As Meat Prices Soar

IASHNGTON bombarded with protests from home plates
wv the nation this week continued to
above black market prices of year ago. Consumer organizations
peond the President for investigation by the Department of
Agriculture and urged action by the Department of Justice
dence of illegal price-iXing found.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
Quote

Mrs. George (Babe) DidrikSOn
Zaharias, first American winner
of the British Women's Golf
Championship, explaining the
secret of her. success: Il just
loosen my girdle. and let the ball
have it."
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
ABROAD: Relief Versus Revolution

has found unexpected promise in plank which Secre
tary OF State George Marshall offered early the month
1t was the suggestion contained in his Harvard speech that ali
Europe get together and draw the requirements
ordered that the United States could help
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27
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 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 veto.
the bin died there and did not go up
to the Senate. The result automati-
cally projected tax reduction into the
1948 Presidential campaign as 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
l947. He declared:
Apparently the Democrats have
little interest in cutting expenditures
and reducing taxes. We may have to
wait until we get Republican Presl-
dent before we get tax reduction"
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

eau 7Ats FeserOed AP NeDsfeatures,
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-27

Earlier this year Congressional
Evening star., 1947-03-28
|UPWA Teacher Union
Asks $500 Maximum

Speedy and effective action to
bring salaries of District public
school teachers "in line with other
professional workers" was asked last
night in resolution unanimously
adopted by the Teachers Branch,
Local 8, United Public Workers OF
America (CIO).
Meeting in the Tariff Commission
Auditorium, Eighth and E streets
NV, the group called for a max
imum Of $500 a year to teachers
with master degrees and minimum
of $4,000 to those holding bachelor
of arts degrees.
The more than so persons heard
Eugene Jackson, vice president of
the New York City Teachers
Union (CIO) urge a concerted fight
to win higher wages here for all
public school teachers.
Louis Segadelli, national repre-
sentative of the UPWA. told the
group it must arouse the people
of Washington, all the teachers
and the surrounding community to
fight for an increase in teacher pay
and the obvious betterment of class
room teaching.
Unless all the teachers in the
District unite to ask for favorable
legislation" he said, I'VE will not
get what we want"
DR.. Woodroe L. Derricote, director
of the wage campaign and teacher
at Randall Junior High School,
First and I streets S.W., said Con-
gress will be asked to pass legis-
lation calling for~the $500 maxi
mum teacher pay.
Evening star., 1947-03-28

Israel and mean both Palestine and
Trans-Jordan.
Without emotion these men spoke
of IAN operations staff" and board
of strategy" and calmly asserted
that the Jews, who have not been a
warning nation for 1000 years, ARE
now turned to warfare and they
have proved, at least, that Jewish
minds, turned to the art of war as
before they turned to the arts of
science, music and others, will be-
come proficient
Constant State of War" Aim.
The Irgun strategy is based on "a
constant state of war" geared to
"opportune moments" The spokes-
men explained that the explosion
on March l in the Jerusalem Brit
ish Officers Club which killed is
persons and wounded 20 might pos
sibly be regarded as an answer to
Foreign Minister Bevin's House of
Commons speech in which he called
us mere religious sect"
But generally" they added
there is no question of limiting
the struggle to reactions and retail
iations. We strike when and where
possible"
The staging of the officers club
attack on the Jewish Sabbath was
not change of policy, they stated.
1t was based on a precedent. of "a
war of duty" Such attacks on Sab
baths occurred in the Maccabean
wars before Christ. They further
explained that the operation had
been planned originally for after
sunset on the Sabbath, but had
been moved up to the daylight hours
because the danger to civilians is
increased after dark.
No Recent Combined Operations.
"The requirements of war make
essential tactical coordination be-
tween Irgun Zvai Leumi and the
fighters for the freedom of Israel,
the so-called Stern gang" they ex-
planned, "but there have been no
actually combined operations re-
GENTLY"
The Irgun spokesmen said that
while the organizations supplies
of munitions were not unlimited,
they are sufficient so that no
operation has ever been Cancelled
or delayed" for lack of weapons.
They added that in addition to
the explosives and arms taken from
the British in recurrent arsenal
raids, the Irgunists now are manu-
featuring as a home product IAN
explosive more powerful and USE
full than what had been appropri-
ated from the British.
They denied any connection with
Evening star., 1947-03-28

over . new pair Of shoes he had
bought for his 4-year-old son Floyd,
police said today.
Sheriff Waldo H. Robinson said
Mrs. Frances I. Milligan told him
young Floyd ran into the farm
house at dinner time screaming:
"Mommy, daddy is hanging in the
barn on a string"
Mrs. Milligan told the sheriff the
family had just returned from a
shopping trip to Sharptown to buy
new shoes for Floyd and that her
husband had been In good spirits.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
By Carter L. Dovidson

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
JERUSALEM, Mar. 28.-I have
Just returned from a visit into the
strongholds of the Jewish under
ground, where I was permitted to
meet secretly with group of conf
dent young men who plot to carve
, with the sword Hebrew republic on
both sides Of the Jordan River.
They are the leaders of Irgun Zyai
Leumi (National Military Orgahi-
zation) and from their war chest
have sprung most of the tactics
which have turned the Holy Land
into a battlefield, laced II with
barbed wire, drenched it with blood
on occasion and, at last, have ap-
parently placed the unhappy country
in the lap Of United Nations peace
makers.
When I was invited to talk with
the Irgun high command, sent a
list of written questions along with
my acceptance, questions concerning
the organizations performances and
policy.
The interview itself was so casual
In its manner that it might have
been a chance gathering of bank
clerks or insurance statesmen talking
shop had it not been conducted
somewhere in Palestine"
PreIiminaries Exciting.
The preliminaries-waiting at q
prearranged spot in a prescribed
costume, changing from one taxi to
another on a dark road, wearing
blackout goggles and slumping low
on the taxi seat, hearing terse pass
words and instructions in Hebrew
were exciting, but the actual meet
ing was lacking in dramatics.
I was not permitted to see the
Irgun commander, Menachim Begin
"for security reasons" I was assured
however, that he had written the
answers to my questions and that
he would see me at a later date
when the situation eased."
My well-dressed informants could
pass for members Of young bust
nessmen's club in America. They
spoke so calmly and matter-o -faetly
that it was a little difficult to realize
they were speaking of their aim tc
wage "a state of constant warfare
to restore Palestine to the Hebrew
people. They call the country Eretz-
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Pupils to Give Play

The Montgomery Hills Junior Higl
School will present a three-act play
Crashing Society,"" at 8 o'clock to
night at the school. The cast in
cludes Jeanne Edwards. Pat Cooney
Joel Sussman, Jobe Moore, Mar,
Ellen Wolfe, Paul Russell, Georg,
Kenebeck, Paul Seltzer. Patricis
Crossan, Judith Coleman, Ann,
Weeks and Jeanne Morrison.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Virginia Tax Chief Talks
To Schools Commission
BY the A,soeioied Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 28.-State
Tax Commissioner c. H. Morrissett
testified at length yesterday at a
closed session of the General AS
sembly's special commission on
schools, headed by Senator Charles
T. Moses of Appomattox.
Senator Moses made no comment
on the recommendation of the vet
eran State tax authority, but he
had good deal to say on what
would have to be done before i'm
provements could be financed"
The commission heard a report
Evening star., 1947-03-28

recent robberies, such as that In
which a gang Of 10 Jews q few
days ago took $4,000 from the
Palestine Discount Bank.
The Irgun spokesman lodged
answering when I asked the or
ganization's numerical strength
They would say only that recruit
ment is in progress in satisfactory
numbers"
Evening star., 1947-03-28

from the Virginia Education Asso-
ciation on the teachers recommen-
dations for 10-year plan of i'm.
provement and expansion. Rober,
Williams, YEA secretary, was asked
to continue his study of the teach
ers' points of view and to report
to the commission at its next meet
ing.