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Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

planned appealing the case, regardless
of Picard's ruling.
Industry's fears that the opinion
might not be iron-clad prompted calls
for quick revision of the wage-hour
act. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce
and the National Association Of Man
ufacturers said employers still face
a threat of bankruptcy over unjust
claims arising under the wage-hour
act" and called for correction of its
antiquities and uncertainties.
Sen Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), chair
man of the Republican policy group,
said portal pay was one of two issues
given top priority after conference
with Rep. Joseph Martin (R-Mass),
speaker Of the House. A Senate Ju-
dietary subcommittee already has
completed hearings on bills to ban or
limit portal claims A House Judiciary
subcommittee has nearly completed
its hearings.
Split Over Tax Cuts
Meanwhile, Republicans evidenced
widening split over taxes. Sen. Taft
tossed monkey wrench into plans of
House Republicans for quick cut
back in income taxes by announcing
he would fight any reduction effective
before July
This would permit only half of the
$3,50O,GOO,O00 reduction which had
been sought by making 20 percent
cut effective over the full calendar
year. Rep. Harold Knutson (R-Minn), F,
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, is sticking to his
promise of tax bill making reduc-
tions retroactive to January l.
Another factor working against
speedy tax slashes is the unsettled in
ternational situation and almost uni
versal acceptance of the belief that
the United States must remain mil
itarily strong until adequate safe
guards are set up.
Preparedness Costs
Rep. Walter G. Andrews (R-NY),
chairman of the House Armed Ser
vices Committee. came out !. fatly
against a contemplated slash of ST.
000,000,0OO in the Presidents Sill
200,0O0,000 Army-Navy budget allot-
ment until Gen. Dwight D.. Eisen-
hover, Army chief of staff, has an op'
portunity to state his views.
Still another factor is the declara
ton Of Secretary of State George c
Marshall, in mis- first press conference
a week ago that this country: must
back up its foreign policy with rea
military power until there is peace
with dependable basis Of collective
security
Sec. Marshall stated bluntly he did
not agree with the Russian view thai
atomic energy control can be deal
with as part Of general disarmament
In any case. he said. there can be M
disarmament until there is interna
tional security.
Universal military trainln on
basis that provides actual protection
for this country is prime nccessit,
at once, he declared.
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

wear on all moving machinery parts,
The bazooka and kickless rifle may
Supplant conventional firearms for po-
lar use. An artillery piece, designed
to recoil IA inches, jolted back only
an inch when its pneumatic recoil
mechanism was frozen. Several rounds
fired under such conditions would
disable the gun.
The recoilless gun. developed at the
end of World War II, has a system of
escape ports at the breech to allow
some Of the explosion to filter out,
dampening the kick to a point where
some lighter artillery pieces have
been fired experimentally from the
shoulder. Its few moving parts make
ii better weapon for Arctic use.
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

with Task Force Williwaw in the
Aleutians.
1t has learned that even when the
temperature is only 80 degrees above
zero, if there is wind of 70 miles an
hour, the chilling effect to the body is
as severe as if the temperature were
AZ degrees below zero without wind
And wind in the Alcutians. the Army
found. reaches a velocity of l20 miles
an hour
New Arctic Weapons
New weapons and machines may
have TO be devised Engines in sub
zero cold have to be warmed up for
hours with blow torches. Solidifed
oil and grease have immobilized
tanks. Sluggish lubricants aggravate
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
China &c
Initiation

CHINA, torn between warning
~ Nationalist and Chinese Com
munist factions, faces the very
real danger of complete economic
collapse. Since the announcement
three weeks ago of withdrawal OF
American forces and mediators, Chi
neSe currency has been in dizzy
toboggan.
looming imitation. with economic
chaos just around the corner, appar-
emily plays directly into the hands OK
the Communists. who count heavily
on the bankruptcy of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek's Nanking govern
ment in their struggle for power
AT the time of General George c.
MarShalls withdrawal as special en-
voy to China, the Nanking govern
ment had pegged the yuan officially
at 1880 TO 81 American. The yuan IS
the unit generally referred to as the
Chinese dollar. The yuan then was
selling on the Shanghai black market
at $500 to 81 American.
Export Bonus
A fortnight ago Premier T. V.
Soong declared so percent surcharge
on luxury imports to pay for a 100
percent subsidy on all exports. This
step was designed to stabilize the cur
rency and also to gather in foreign
exchange for the Nanking govern
ment.
Within two days the black market
had beaten the yuan down to 10000
to /.
Then the American consul advised
Chinese exporters that for every cent
paid as subsidy by the government
on Chinese exports an equal amount
would be collected by the United
States as tax, in addition to normal
duties
The notice was based on provision
OF the U. S. Tariff Act of 1880 and on
customs regulations.
$1,000 Overnight
The skidding Chinese currency
dropped another $1,000 Chinese in
value overnight, becoming 1900 TO /.
Later it sagged TO l4,500 to |, with no
takers. RE-. -.
Chinese merchants and the wealthy
families rushed to convert their cur
rency into articles of permanent
value. Jewelry, gold and silver ex-
changes were thronged with custom
ers buying watches, gems and precious
metals.
At one time during the first World
War, the yuan actually was worth
more than the American dollar be-
cause of its silver content Between
1888 and 1886 it was worth about Is
cents "
An increasingly large segment Of
foreign and Chinese businessmen see
,, a sweeping purge as the only effective
, remedy for debilitated China. To be
really effective, they maintain, the
purge would have to include some OF
the key figures in both the Nanking
, and Yenan regimes.
Other Chinese commercial interests
are hoping for coalition government
formed through compromise Of the
Nationalist and Communist view
, points. Without foreign loans they
say, the Chinese economic situation
is hopeless and the prospect for loan:
is nil so long as the country is torr
by civil strife.
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
In Short

Estimatcd: BY the u. S. Dept. Of
Agriculture, that this years domestic
food supply will be as large, but
slightly more costly than last years,
with more beef, sugar, cereals, fish
and canned fruits available, less lamb,
dried fruits and milk in all forms.
Granted: BY the N Y. State Su-
preme Court, permission for Wayne
William Lonergan, d. heir to the
multi-million dollar fortune of his
slain mother. to drop the name of
Lonergan and be known as William
Anthony Burton.
Presented: To the Library of Con-
gress, original manuscript of Abraham
Lincoln's humble Autobiography
written in 1889.
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
Dates
Tuesday, February I8

IueSuay, FeDruary I8
Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras
in Ala, Fla, and LaD.
Anniversary (69th). phono-
graph patented by Thomas Edi-
son.
Wednesday, February 19
Ash Wednesday (Lent begins).
Thursday, February 20
National Business Show opens
in San Francisco.
Anniversary (l55thD, Post or
flee system.
Friday, February Fl
World Federation conference
opens in ASheville, N. c.
Anniversary (76th). District of
Columbia granted territorial form
OF government.
Saturday, February %
WaShington'S Birthday.
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

non workers were
idle; many went
back on the dole
for the first time
since the preWar
depression. D e G p
snow and one of the
winters evere S t
cold waves sifted
into thousands of
homes, cut off part
of each day from
coal and electricity.
The Labor gov
ernment, which con
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

ARCTIC: New Polar Concept Strs World

THE top and bottom of the
i world have taken on a Stra-
tegic Importance in the atomic
age of tomorrow that no nation
can afford to overlook. Both areas
are weather breeders and mastery
of them means possession of scientific,
economic and military factors of vital
significance.
Antarctica, for instance, is a CONT
nent of 5,250,000 square miles, more
than one and one-third times the size
of the continental United States. 1t
may or may not abound in mineral
wealth.
The United States has military and
scientific expeditions in the Antarctic.
1t is not the only country. The British,
for instance, have been there for sew
eral years.
Argentina and Chile have launched
expeditions Of their own and Aus
tralia is said to be planning mission
to further her claim to some $780,
900 square miles of territory. Other
nations with interests in the Antarctic
are Russia, France, Belgium, Norway,
Japan and Germany.
Arctic Is Strategic
The Arctic is an especially strategic
area. Across it lie the most direct
aerial routes between continents in
the northern hemisphere. If there is
another war, military tacticians say
hn in tlon Aroti
The nations of the world are test
ing their land, sea and air equipment
in these vast polar ice boxes. Man
power stamina limits in the polar re-
gionS are almost an unknown factor.
r. Adm. Richard II. Cruzen, opera
tional commander of the Byrd Ant
arctic expedition, some of whose ships
now are beating their way back
through the Ross Sea ice pack, said
it might take several years to ap-
praise all the scientific data the 4,000-
man expedition had gained.
IF we have learned one thing" he
said, eve have learned how very little
we know
1--WE are still in the dark on the
.
and polar navigation. Our maps of
both poles are inaccurate and out
dated"
Learning Polar Lessons
The admiral was certain, however,
that applied science Of the mechani-
cal age can be employed as effectively
at the poles as anywhere else in the
world. Steel ships, despite many pres
ent shortcomings in ice conditions,
demonstrated their ability to operate
in polar seas New steel hulls prob
ably will be designed
In the two months since the cXpe-
dition left Virginia, the admiral said,
the men had sailed more than 10000
miles. penetrated the worst ice pack
in Antarctic history, built base facli-
ties on the ice ledge capable of hous-
ing nearly 500 men and operated a
fleet of planes.
Tests also were conducted along
many supplementary lines, ranging
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
Quotes

Warren II. Austin, American
delegate to the United Nations
Security Council: "We are nearer
(to real security and diSarma-
menO than we ever have been
before
Gil Dodds, the flying parson"
champion miller of the track
world: God runs with me every
step of the way"
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
Congress to Discuss
Portal Suits, Taxes

THE poraopornl dispute, involving some s4 oOo
Congress and the Supreme Court for final settle
That will suit Federal District Judge Frank Picard
the Mount Clemens Pottery Co. which
hundreds of other portal suits file from
and labor union attorneys had
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21
Z-z-zoonn!

The Navy has unveiled its D-559
Skystrcak, turbo-jet propelled "hy-
Milford chronicle., 1947-02-21

tAIl Rights ReserUed, AP NeWsfeaturcs)
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Picket Line Protests
High Cost Of Meat

Seven women, carrying empty
market baskets, today picketed In
front of the National Press Building
where the American Meat Institute
has its ofdces-as 4 protest over
high meat prices.
They are volunteers Of the WASH
ington Committee for Consumer
Protection which is sponsoring a
"Dont-Buy-Meat Week" here. At
the same time, the committee is
soliciting signatures from house.
wives calling for . congressional in
vestigation OF the meat packing
industry.
While the women paraded up and
down the r street entrance to the
building, two other housewives dis
tributed handbills to passersby.
The handbills urged consumers:
Buy chicken, buy fish, buy cheese
and eggs, but don't buy meat" They
claimed that "the big meat packers"
were responsible for the fact that
round steak that sold for As cents
last June Q946) cost IS cents last
week"
A committee spokesman has esti-
mated that $4,000 persons have
signed petitions since the drive be-
gan last Friday.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Blockade Of Chinese Reds
May Bar UNRRA Shipments
By the Asseeioted Pres.

SHANGHAI, July 22.-There were
strong indications today that the
Nationalist blockade of Communist
areas, which is preventing UNRRA
supplies from reaching the Reds,
might lead to suspension of such
supplies to government-held ter
ritory north of the Yangtze River.
Suspension of supplies from the
international agency would have to
be approved by the UNRRA Council
In Washington, to which various
recommendations are being sent by
It's Far Eastern Committee. Commit
teemen conferred today with Harlan
Cleveland, director of UNRRA's
China office.
Should supplies to government
held areas north of the great river
be suspended, it was believed they
would be continued to other Ma
tionalist regions in China.
Communist relief officials de-
manded recently the withdrawal of
UNRRA aid to China if the agency
fails to arrange for delivery CT sup
plies to Communist areas. Because
of the blockade, no UNRRA supplies
have been sent to Red regions since
Euly 8.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Veteran, Dressed
As Clown, Seeks
Job in Baltimore
~ fhs Asseeiofsd Press

BALTIMORE, July 22.--Robert F.
Gross paraded through Baltimore
streets dressed as q clown yesterday,
but the 27-year disabled war
veteran wasn't kidding about his
need for q job. -
He carried = sandwich board read
ing: Disabled CT, but not men
tally. Disires job. Will try any
thing. All offers considered"
Mr.. Gross explained he was in
need OF 4 job to care for his wife
and two children. Since his dis
charge in 1914 with spine injury
suffered in q Pacific island, the
veteran said he had been forced to
give up two manual labor jobs.
"All want is enough money to
make = living. All my income now
is the $27 4 week I get from the
Government for my disability" he
said.
Mr.. Gross said he resorted to the
clown get-up to attract attention
only after conventional methods to
obtain employment failed.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Upper Marlboro Youth, 18,
browns in Pool at Beach
(From Yesterdays Last Edition. }

from Yesterdays Last Edition.
Joseph Wells, jr.. 1S. of Upper
Marlboro, drowned In 4 pool at the
Chesapeake Beach Park Sunday
Maryland State police reported.
Mr.. Wells, q clerk In liquor store
at Upper Marlboro, was taken from
the water by John Moose, q life
guard, after a girl swimmer saw him
disappear in the water. Efforts OF
the North Beach Fire Department
to revive him with q respirato1
failed. County Medical Examiner
Hugh Ward issued q certificate Of
death by drowning.
The search for another apparent
drowning victim, Jack Dalrymple
jr., Is, Of Kenwood Beach, Calvert
County, continued today. The boy
apparently fell from q fishing boat
and disappeared in Chesapeake Bay
near the Coptank River Basin yes
terday, police said.
Dorsey Gray of Prince Frederick
an occupant Of the boat, told police
the fishermen first knew Of the boy's
plight when they heard 4 splash
He said the youth was seen SWIM
ming for q while and then went
under.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Arab States Score Plan
To Establish Jewish State

BEIRUT, Lebanon. July ~ (P.-A
representative sW the Arab states
told the United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine today that
these nations were firmly con-
vinced" establishment of a Jewish
state in Palestine would lead I'd
disturbances and war throughout
the East"
Foreign Minister Hamid Frangieh
of Lebanon-speaking for Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and
Yemen-added that mere recon-
mendations of a royal commission
in 1887 for partition Of Palestine was
SUFFICIENT to inflame a furious Arab
revolt, which continued till the out
break of the last war"
The testimony, first official contact
of the U. N. Committee with Arab
views, demanded immediate cessa-
ton of the British mandate over
Palestine, a halt to Jewish immigra-
ton, and establishment of an in
dependent Palestine.
Favor Proportional Representation.
The Arab states declared:
"The only possible and reliable
settlement which -" constitutes a
compromise by the Arabs Is to re-
gard every Jew who has lawfully
obtained Palestinian citizenship de-
spite Arab opposition as equal In
rights and duties to Arab inhabi-
tants and to set up an tnde-
pendent national government on the
basis of proportional representa-
ton"
There Is no foundation" the
Arab statement continued, Ito
allegations of Zionist leaders that
the minority in Palestine of Jews
would be prosecuted"
It added that Arabs always have
treated the Jewish communities In
their midst with justice and
equality"
The Arab states asserted that with
Fascist and Nah regimes destroyed,
there was little validity" for the
Zionist desire ito transport several
hundred thousands of Jews to Pales-
tine to save them from persecu-
tion"
Evening star., 1947-07-22
CAB Plans 10 Require
Use Of Radar 10 Warn
Of Flight Distractions
By fhe Asseeioted Press

The Civil Aeronautics Board has
given formal notice of proposed new
rules to require radar terrain clear =
ance indicators in airliners for q
two-year experimental period be-
ginning January !.
The board also announced a pro-
posed new rule requiring increased
clearances in flying over mountain
GUS terrain during bad weather and
the revival of prewar rule requir-
ing the carrying Of an automatic
flight recorder.
The two new proposals grew from
President Truman's special Air
Safety Inquiry Board. The third
Is one which has been under dis
cussion for some time as an aid to
enforcement of flight rules and In
vestigation of accidents.
The flight recorder Is q device
placed in the tail Of the plane to
show its path through the air and
also the effect of rough air on the
plane. Use of the recorder was
dropped in June, 1914, because Of
wartime materials shortages. i.t f.
The radar absolute terrain prox-
unity indicator will be used as q
supplement to pressure type alti-
meters. One now on the market
shows a light and blows horn when
the plane approaches within speci-
fled distance of an obstruction. The
boards proposed rule would require
such a device in all scheduled airline
planes flying at night or through
overcast.
The proposed terrain clearance
rule would increase the minimum
altitude over the highest ground on
q route from 1000 feet to 1000 feet
under certain conditions.
Evening star., 1947-07-22

munist organizer Of the Buffalo IN
~ district, testified that in 1895
and 1886 the financial treasurer OF
the American Communist party was
a man who used the names Blake"
and "Weiner."
Ashley ]. Nicholas, assistant chief
Of the State Departments passport
division, brought in the photostated
records Of the travel agency, World
Tourists, Inc. He said that, in 1899,
when he was special assistant
United States attorney in New York,
these records were subpoenaed by
the Justice Department, along with
those of several thousand other Gus
toners Of World Tourists, Inc.
Others Charged to Blake"
Perhaps 80 or 20 of these trans
actions had been recorded as charge
able to Blake" or "Weiner," Mr..
Nicholas said.
This was all the jury was told on
the subject yesterday. Out Of its
hearing, however, Justice James w.
Morris was informed that a man
named Welwel Warszower, a vice
president Of World Tourist, Inc, was
also financial treasurer Of the Com
munist Party in 1885 and 1886. His
party names. at various times, were
Blake" and "Weiner," Mr.. Hitz
said, and it was through him that
the charge arrangement worked.
In other testimony late yesterday,
Bernard j. Kelley, supervisor of the
Justice Departments immigration
Service, said the name Samuel
Liptzin" appeared on the manifest
Of the ship Berengaria when it
sailed from New York for England
on June IS. 1885. The same name,
he said. was on that ships manifest
when 1t returned to New York on
October 80, 1885. Samuel Liptzin"
again was listed on the manifest of
the lie de France when it sailed
for France on April 23, 1896.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Discoverer Calls PeniciIIin
DANGEROUS 10 BIeeders
ey the A,.oeieisd Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July
22.-Sir Alexander Fleming. who
developed penicillin, said yesterday
overdoses of the drug might impair
the ability of the blood to coagulate.
The British scientist told micro
biologists from 80 countries that
penicillin, accordingly, would be dam
gerous If used in diseases which
caused bleeding. He said the danger
occurred in applications Of more
than $4,000 units per cubic cent?
meter.
LONDON, July 20 R.-A British
biochemist has disclosed the exact
way penicillin works to check hac-
terra that cause most boils and
assesses.
The discovery was announced by
DR.. Ernest F. Gale, Cambridge Uni
versity, before the 11th Inter-
national Congress of Pure and
Applied Chemistry.
He said penicillin halted the
growth of staphylococcus aureus,
the germ usually responsible for
these af1iictions, by preventing the
bacteria from absorbing the glutamic
acid they need to multiply.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Blasting Of Truck
Stirs Fear Of New
Palestine Violence
By the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, July 22.-Grenades
were hurled at British military
truck in Jerusalem today, raising
fear of renewal of the wave OF
violence which in four days has
taken five lives and injured 20 per-
sons in the Holy Land.
approximately 10000 Of Palestine's
Jews remained under British-i i'm
posed dawn-to-dusk house arrest,
but little hope of peace was in sight.
Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish under
ground organization. appealed to
members of the two other under
ground groups, Haganab and the
Stern Gang, to join in its offensive
against British rule.
Today's attack caused no casual
ties. But general alarm sirens-the
eighth such alarm in four days
sent troops to action stations, and
security com pound gates were
quickly closed as armored cars
dashed through the streets of Jeru-
salem. The attack occurred near an
army pay station in an area where
other attacks were made on military
installations in the past three days.
Result of Ship Interception.
The attacks apparently were the
result of the British interception of
the refugee ship, Exodus OF 1947,
and the subsequent decision to de-
port all $500 of the vessels uncer-
titled Jewish immigrants back to
France.
The Jewish Agency. which has de-
nounced the deportation, made OFF,
cial representations today to the
British, French and Palestine gov
ernments, an agency spokesman an
nounced, giving no further details.
In the au-Jewish city of Tel Aviv,
unofficial reports said terrorist bands
carried out two diamond robberies
and escaped with $4,000 worth of
loot. In one of the attacks, flve
armed men attacked diamond fac
tory owner on crowded AIenby
street and seized $35 900 in diamonds
which he was carrying. the reports
said. A few minutes later jewelry
shop in another part of the city
was raided.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Senators Approve Bruce
For Commerce Post
Rx the Asso.iatsd Press

The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee today approved the NOM
nations Of David K. +. Bruce OF
Virginia to be Assistant Secretary
Of Commerce and W.. A. Ayres OF
Kansas to be a member Of the Fed
eral Trade Commission.
The, committee postponed until
tomorrow action on the nomination
of Burton N. Behling to be mem
Der of the Federal Power Commis.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Former Senator Owen, 81,
To Be Buried at Lynchburq

Private funeral services for Rob-
ert L. Owen. 81, one of Oklahoma S
first two Senators. were held here
yesterday. Mr.. Owen died Sat-
urday.
The body will be taken to his
birthplace at Lynchburg, Va, to-
morrow for burial. The body of
Mrs. Owen. who died last year also
will be moved to Lynchburg. Her
body has been in a vault in a Wash
ington cemetery.
Among those attending the serv-
ices here yesterday were Senator
and Mrs. Elmer Thomas and Repre-
sentatives Stigler, Monroney, Albert
and Morris, all Of Oklahoma; Fed
eral Communications Commissioner
Paul Walker and Mrs. Walker and
Miss Emaline Samuel, president of
the Oklahoma Society in Washing
{nv,