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Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

International SfowoWay

"A 17-year-old Texas boy who ran
away from home at the age of IL and
spent five years knocking about Eu-
rope and Africa as mascot of Ameri-
can troops was convicted of entering
Germany illegally and wearing an
Army uniform without authority.
The boy, Antonio Brandez, was or
dered sent home to the United States
by an American Military Government
Court in Frankfurt.
His fantastic career as a stowaway
and camp follower began in 1912
when he left San Antonio and slowed
away on ship to England. There he at
tached himself to American troops
and as their mascot flew to Africa,
then followed them across Europe
into Germany.
He even went home with the troops
after We Day, slowing away on a
troop ship. He found his mother dead,
however, and soon tired of civilian
life so he went back to Germany in
1946-again as a stowaway.
Again he joined an Army unit as
mascot. He was arrested in Munich
but escaped. Recaptured and sent to
Bremen for deportation, he escaped
again. He made his way to Frankfurt
and headed for Paris The French ar.
rested him in Strasbourg and re-
turned him to the American zone.
Military authorities now treat hin
as small but very slippery customer
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Medicine
Tronsplonted Heorts

Vladimir Demikov, 3o-year-old Rus
sian physiologist, has succeeded in re-
placing the hearts and lungs of dogs
with the. respective organs of other
dogs, according to the MoscolD Ne,Ds.
The experiment was completed on
seven dogs, all of which came
through the operation satisfactorily,
although none lived more than eight
days.
Demikov said the dogs behaved
normally and were able to eat and
drink after the operation. He attrib-
uted death not to any disturbance in
heart action but to pleurisy which de-
veloped in the thoracic cavity.
Russian scientists have had consid-
erable success in transplanting hearts
of frogs but Demikov's experiments
are the first reporting success with
arm-blooded animals.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

Experts said the attempt to tow
the huge ship to the mainland was
recognized beforehand as big gam
BILE but the buyers would have made
big profit on their investment if
they had succeeded.
The sale was on a "where is and
as is' basis. Since there were no pas
sengers, formal certifcation of sea-
worthiness was unnecessary.
The venerable warship left Pearl
Harbor in tow of two big seagoing
tugs on May TO- She was due in San
Francisco Bay on Memorial Day. Six
days out, the captain of the tug Her.
cules radioed that the Oklahoma had
begun to list heavily.
He was ordered to head back for
Pearl Harbor but little later the
dreadnaught parted the tow lines and
plunged to the bottom. At that point
the sea is about three miles deep.
The tugs stood by until daybreak,
but so cleanly had the Oklahoma died
that not even a scrap of debris was
seen.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
China
Youth Defes Chang

Chang Kai-shek's hard-pressed Ma
tionalist government met defiance by
striking Chinese college students in
half a dozen major cities last week
along with fresh reverses on the far
northern battlefronts.
Government dispatches acknowl-
edged Chinese Communist gains in
Manchuria-where the capital, Chang
chun, was under martial law as Red
armies drew nearer - and in ShenSi
province in North China.
Thousands of university students
demonstrated violently in Nanking,
Peiping and Shanghai and called for
a general strike June 2 to back up
their demands that the civil war be
halted Immediately.
Earlier the generalissimo issued a
written manifesto to an estimated
$4,000 striking students in 16 univer-
sites. In it he banned student demon
strations with a threat of drastic gov
ernment action to quell disturbances
and called their demands "unreason-
able" and "Communist-inspired."
Striking student leaders denied any
prompting by political groups. They
met his breakdown order with re-
newed demonstrations. They sought
an end to civil war, they said, be.
cause it ruined production and caused
initiation which intensified their own
economic ills.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
FOOD: Vital in Peace & War

\ S HUNGER bedeviled a size
"A able segment of the worlds
population, food shortages brought
new friction in the Anglo-Ameri-
can zones of Germany.
Amid near-famine conditions
in their ruinous industrial cities, the
one time Herrenvolk grumbled bitter
ly as they staggered toward third
hungry postwar summer.
But British and American adminis-
traitors showed little willingness to
apologize in view of the worldwide
need; and while America rushed ex-
ira cargoes of provisions to Hamburg
and other German ports there was
talk in military government circles of
inaugurating new "get tough" pol
icy. The characterization" program
was not stern enough, some American
sources indicated.
More pointed than official COM
ments was the criticism which Ger
man-born novelist Thomas Mann, a
prewar fugitive from Nazidom, lev
elled at his former countrymen.
German 'Self-Pity'
Germany is again already misusing
her liberty and democracy" the IL
year-old author reported in London.
She refuses to acknowledge that mis-
cry and tragedy are not hers alone
1t is self-pity, part of the national
egotism, which is preventing Ger
many from cooperating with the AL
lies in her revival"
Simultaneously U. S. Gen. Lucius D.
Clay announced a campaign to tell
Germans what the western occupiers
have been doing to help them. Com
munist propaganda, he said, is stress
ing the food shortage in the British
and American-held areas. He also an
nounced that Bavarian peasants were
relinquishing boarded grain stocks
under new AMG pressure.
But Germany remained only side
show in the world food picture, which
has been coming slowly into focus
after devastating winter.
From neat British fields to the
Ukrainian plains, the full toll of ad-
verse weather was being written in
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Documents
A Nuzi DoubIe-Cross


One of Hitler's typically fantastic
schemes when chances for victory first
began to appear slim in 1943 was for
a double-cross involving secret truce
with Russia. In this way, the Fuehrer
reasoned, Russia could continue to re-
ceive American Lend-Lease aid and
Germany would be able to concen-
trate all her forces in the west.
The German documents, made pub
lie in Washington and London, did not
make clear whether the proposal ever
was submitted to Moscow.
I'VE can hope to win the war only
if we stop expending our forces in the
east" read the minutes of a confer
ence between Hitler and his COM
manders. $50 far Japan has not been
used for this purpose, for fear of
weakening Japan in the south by en-
gaging her in the north. Also, she
might not be able to muster the neces-
sary supplies for both fronts.
Russia is getting considerable sup
plies. via the far east. Therefore the
question arises whether a threat by
Japan that she will enter the war
against Russia will help to make the
latter accept the German offer of un-
announced armistice on the eastern
front, to be kept secret from the
Anglo-Saxons.
Russia could continue to accep'
Lend-Lease. This political goal is
worth every sacrifice, ,.-..s..s-.
The documents also disclosed tha
the Nazis plotted seizure or sinking O.
the Italian feet should Italy surrender
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Hot Shots

- IldStlc surgeons from nall dozen
major cities are being recruited to aid
hundreds of facial cripples" among
the Texas City survivors. The project,
which will begin in July, is believed
the largest plastic surgery effort ever
attempted after a civilian disaster.
OAfter his plane lost its propeller at
5000 feet over Amityville, N. Y,
pilot landed his ship safely although
it sheared off two power lines, missed
a house by Is feet and broke of the
tops of about SO small maple and oak
trees.
. In Oklahoma City, Paul Carter
Burns, 49,. leaned against light pole.
A short circuit in the wiring melted
the anchor bolts and the metal pole
crashed to the street Paul tainted.
When he came to in a hospital ha
shouted, II didn't do it. / was just
waiting for bus!"
. In Chicago, Clarence Tilling, so,
was awakened by his Persian cat
when marauder tried to enter his
apartment He had time to get his
gun before the thief walked in. In-
stead of firing, however, he put tha
weapon down, announcing, ''I'm going
to beat the stuffing out of you" Po-
lice, summoned by neighbors, took I
badly bruised 23-year-old prowlef
into custody.
. In Munich, German black mar-
keteers now are selling "ashtrayl
used personally by the Euehrerp and
wrist watches worn by Hitler.
Americans pay thousands of markl
for them, never>aware OF the fact that
Hitler never Smoked and disliked
wrist watches.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Fish
Million Dollar Catches

Whalers hauled $1O0,0O0,000 to
SIPS, 100000 from South Pole waters
during the four-month season this
year but American whalers were not
among them.
The. estimate is made by DR.. Ray
mond M. Gilmore, biologist of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, who ac-
companied the Byrd Antarctic Expedi-
ton to make a whale count and
tabled 663 over $4,000 square miles.
Fifteen whaling ships operated in
the Antarctic from December to
April 7. They included seven Nor
wegian vessels, three British, and the
rest Japanese, Russian and Dutch.
The catch is limited by interna-
tional agreement to $4,000 blue whale
units a year. A unit consists of one
blue whale or two fin whales.
"It was the first whaling since be-
fore the war and with Europe's need
for fats, they caught the limit" said
DR.. Gilmore.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Aerial
Plain Plane Talk

A picture of an American aviation
industry slowly bleeding to death"
and in urgent need of five-year pro-
duction program backed up by def
mite government policy was drawn
for a Senate subcommittee on COM
merce last week by representatives
of the industry.
They reported a financial crisis"
within the industry because of sharp
contraction of production and of a
great need for long-range planning in
research and development if Britain
and Russia are not to outstrip the
United States in technical advances
and number of planes.
Oliver P. Echols, president of Air
craft Industries Association, and a
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Smugglers
PorochUtinq to Palestine

Rabbi Baruch Korff, United Nations
observer for the Political Action Com
mittee for Palestine, reported in New
York that his organization has been
dropping European refugee Jews into
Palestine by parachute.
"We have been warned by the Brit
ish to halt these operations" Korf
said. "Of course, this will only in
tensify our preparations.
He disclosed that Jews had been
"repatriated by air" during the past
month by chartered planes that made
the round trip from secret landing
fields in 10 hours. He said former
American naval and army officers
were supervising the program.
British sources in Palestine denied
any aerial activity. They said uniden-
titled planes would have been shot
down long before reaching the Holy
Land.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
New Shift
In Empire
PAGE SEVENTEEN

QRITAIN, staggering ecOnOms
- ically in the postwar world,
has been forced into austere meas
ures of retrenchment. India and
Burma were offered independ.
ence, a move which prompted
Winston Churchill's anguished cry
that the British empire was being
"broken up" The British navy and
military garrisons at outposts round
the world are nowhere near prewar
strength and further curtailment Of
expensive military maintenance is in i,
the offing.
Informed sources close to the Brit
ish War Office disclosed last week
that England is preparing to hand
over to the United States RESPONSE
bility for defense of the Mediter-
ranean and the middle east, including
the Suez Canal. The empire line of
defense will be withdrawn to East
Africa.
The shift will not mean abandon-
ment of Britain's economic and po-
litical interests in the middle east,
however, these informants said. They
fixed the timetable for withdrawal Of
military and supply bases to East
Africa at two to three years.
U.S.. a Mediterranean Power
This revamping of a 50-year-old
policy of imperial defense was made
possible, the London informant said,
by emergence of the United States as
an active Mediterranean power with
dpfin ab1o iptoroctS RI dofopI
In Washington, Secretary of State
George c. Marshall said he did not
agree with London suggestions that
developments in the Mediterranean
meant shift in military RESPONSE
bility there from Britain to the u. S.
Other factors behind the decision
to fortify East Africa are understood
to include the governments pledge
to quit India by June, 1948, and the
| instability of Palestine. There is also
the uncertain constitutional future of
the Sudan, whose status now is the
subject of an Egyptian appeal before
t the United Nations.
New Day for Africa
!, The effect of the shift on the eco
nomic, social and political future oi
Africa is bound to be tremendous.
The War Office is reported to have
accepted the principle that any blue
print for African defense strategy
would require active cooperation O
native peoples Another importan
step would be coordination of policy
with France and Belgium, Britain
most important and politically reli
able neighbors in Africa
British, French and Belgian colonia
administrators convened in Paris las
week to discuss African problems
Expected from the Paris conferenc
are tripartite commissions to speed a
intensive development program fc
southern, central and equatori;
Africa.
! Britain's dependence on the midd
east was revealed by Foreign Seer,
tary Ernest Bevin before Parliamen
I'VE must maintain a continual il
terest in that area" Bevin declare
'if only because our economic ar
financial interests are of such va
'n Importance to us and to other cour
tries as we'll.
O. If those interests were lost to u
n the effect on life in this country wou
Vn be considerable reduction in tt
n standard of living"
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

100000 to relieve Turkey and Greece
in an effort to prevent the spread of
Communism, led to new demands in
some quarters for an integrated U. S.
aid policy.
In Washington it was announced
that such a long-range policy might
soon be forthcoming from the State
Departments policy planning staff,
after survey of world conditions.
With prospects of a bumper 1947
wheat crop, America appeared more
than ever like a rich uncle in a needy
world.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
tn I12sl;] D THIS WEEK
Dates
Tuesday. Nav 27

Tuesday, May q
Anniversary (ninth), Golden
Gate Bridge, San Francisco
worlds largest suspension
bridge).
Wednesday, May %
Birthday (13th), Dionne quin-
tupletS.
Friday, May 30
Memorial Day (except in Ala,
Fla, Ga, La, Miss, N. c., S. c.
and Tenn.).
Confederate Memorial Day
(Va).
Saturday, May 81
Anniversary (153rd), Congress
enacted first copyright law.
Belmont Stakes at Belmont
Race Track, N. Y.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
SHIPS: II|-Fated Oklahoma

with tremendous armor, ten 14-inch
guns, so five-inchers and many small
er weapons. She was 583 feet long,
1O8 feet wide and carried a crew of
1900 fighting men.
Stripped of her guns and super
structure, she lay rusting hulk in
the Pearl Harbor roadstead while the
Navy debated whether to sink her or
cut her UP for scrap. Eventually she
- was sold for $4,000 to the Moore
Drydock Company of Oakland, Calf.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Farms
Inflated Acreage

UHIOISO SISQH0
Sale of farm lands has slackened
almost everywhere in the United
States, particularly, on the Pacific
coast, bringing predictions of an end
of boom in progress since 1899.
President Truman, in recognition of
what he termed serious problem"
has asked Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton Anderson to call conference
OF government agencies and farm or
carnations on June 9 to develop a
program for discouraging further in
fiation In farm real estate prices.
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
All or Nothing

The battleship Oklahoma, first of
Americas superdreadnaughts, escaped
the ignominy of the scrapheap last
week by sinking at sea while being
towed from Pearl Harbor to Pacific
coast boneyard.
Thus ended the colorful but un-
heroic career of a ship that never sue
ceded in fulfilling her destiny. Not
once in her 81 years, spanning two
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Quotes
Ex-PreSident Herbert Hoover:

''There are only two occasions
when Americans respect privacy,
especially in Presidents: those
are prayer and fishing"
James F. Byrnes, former Sec
retary of State: There is too
much talk about war and too lit
tie talk about peace"
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

crop deficits. IN the Orient a world
rice shortage was being probed by
United Nations committee, as millions
faced starvation in China and else
where.
U. S. Aid Program
Recognizing that now, as in the
past, the chief burden of alleviating
widespread chaos must fall on the
United States, Congress finally ap-
proved $35O,OOO,OOO aid fund to con-
tinue relief in Europe and China.
This, coming on the heels of $4OU,-
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

PARADOxWhile millions hunger in Europe u S. destroys
pototoes Under subsidy program, gvurunees
formers $2.25 per bvshe. Federal douse kerosene
(obove on so tons Of potatoes Foley Ao moke them
unfit for consumption and uvod gvitng the domestic market
Shipping and dehydruon bar being sent abroud
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30
Wary Scientists Hold
Fate Of Civilization

MANKIND still jttery implications of the aom
lVl was given last week
on biological waarea letha field in which still knows
document prepared five and kept
until last week. like the Syth report
dictionary its field outlining all the possib
Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

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The documents also disclosed that
the Nazis plotted seizure or sinking of
the Italian feet should Italy surrender.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
Kramer Loses
 Firsi MaiGh

NEW YORK. Dec 27-R-JaclS Kramer lest his first match as @ professional but he was the hero of the spectators who turnsd out for the event in Madison Square Garden last night in spite of the worst snow storm in New Yorks history.
 Bobby Riggs, an experienced pro tennis player. defeated Kramer 6-2, 1o-8, 4-e, GA. It was q best three out of five match
 The result was pretty decisive and probably the only bright spot from Jake's viewpoint was the af- fair was a complete sellout. Although the weather kept many of them away. l6,502 people paid up to ST a ticket to see the amateur tennis champion make his debut against the professional boss.
 They contributed to @ gate of s55,- 730.16, the largest in pro tennis history, giving the packers of the 65-match tour a good start toward the s5O,OOO they guaranteed Kramer for his first year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
SOUTH E PICKED 10
 BEATN0RTH ON GRID

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec 27-- R Lacking the big name stars of previous years but still packing plenty of power, rival teams from above and below the Mason- Dixon Line clash here today in the 10th Annual Blue Gray Football Game.
 Pcst-season bowl dates shared many cridron greats who otherwise might have been on the rosters, but the 24-man teams include sturdy lines and air-minded backfields nev- ertheless.
 Judging from pre-game workouts the contest promises to be a passing duel
 Observers pick the South as a one touchdown iavorite.
 The South won the l946 game giving Gray-clad teams five wins to three for the North. Two south- ern high shool teams played the l9f3 game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
FANS WATCHING GRID pRACT!CE;;
 CAN'T SEE GAME

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-iP Secret" practice sessions for the New Years Day East West football game are drawing hundreds of fans who complain to overwhelmed gate keepers they will have no other chance to sec the college stars.
 We can't get tickets to the game, SO we're going to watch them prac- tice,7 chorused some 800 fans watch ing the West team work at Stanford University yesterday.
 Although Coach Don Faurot of Missouri ordered the gates locked for his West squads scrimmage, many of the sideliners arrived on the field before the guards. Fence climbers joined the early birds, Elf forts to shoo them away failed.
 At Santa Clara University. Coach es Bernie Bierman, Howard ODell and Andy Kerr of the East team had more privacy but were troubled by the presence of some onlookers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
W-A-N-T A-D-S
MURPHY & MURPHY

2 Apt. House, furn., and 2 Marine runways.
 LARGE, fireproof apt. house with space two businesses on ground floor.
 8 Apt, pvt. baths, we'll furn., ce- ment basement, always rented net 10 percent. 2 FLOATING Canneries, one g. man. one 25-man size. Good con- dition. Fine income few months work. Owner will teach. S36C0 takes 1-bedroom, furn. home near small boat harbor. 65x55 lot ACROSS Bridge, a Broom house and apt.-shop combined. SNUG Broom cabin; also Broom modern home furn. Douglas beach prop. Priced right. 2-BEDROOM home, near business district, well furn.. newly recor lot 100 it. deep. 2-BEDROOM home overlooks Ever green bowl. BEDROOM, cement basement furnace, furn., 3 baths, large re- frig., etc. S4,500. QUONSET Hut compl. furn. 4 rooms and bath. BEDROOM Home, new furn. garage, view. price greatly re- duced, small down pay. 5-BEDROOM home, marine view we'll furn. well built. BOOMING House, buy furniture rent reasonable net. SEVERAL good invest. The Sea- view, The Tacora, The Polaris, groceries, l machine shop, l curic shop with central location, small select stock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
COLORADO SCHOOL
 OF MINES OFFERS
 NEW SCHOLARSHIP

GOLDEN. Cole. Dec. 26-A schol- arship to the Colorado School of Mines will be awarded annually be- ginning with the school year l948- 49 to a resident of Alaska upon the recommendation of the Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion. pr. Ben H. Parker, President of the school, has announced. The scholarship pays all tuition, now s425 year, and is renewable to a maximum of four years pro- vided the student maintains satis- factory record. Deposits. special student fees, summer session tuition and living and other personal eX- penses are not included.
 The Colorado Scnool of Mines IS internationally known for it's train ing leading to engineering degrees in mining, metaliurgy, geology petroleum production, and petroleum refining, with options in fuel en- gineering and geophysics and cleo tive course5 n the production and utilization of cements, refractories, clays, and other nonmetallic min erals.
 The applicant must receive the recommendation of the Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion to whom he should make ap- Dlication early as the iecommenda- ton must reach the office of the President of the school by July l5. The applicant must satisfy the en- trance requirements of the school and must stand enthusiastically in the upper tenth of his high school, pre- paratory, or college calses. He may have had several years of college work or may recently have completed his preparatory education. He may not be a student in attendance at the Colorado School of Mines at the time of his application. He must be bonafide resident of Alaska and should have an aptitude for en- cheering. Possessing character courage, energy, determination, and
 he ability to think clearly
 President Parker gave as the req sons for offering the scholarship that the young men receiving it may be benefited by the educational ad- vantages offered by one of the old est, most thorough, and best known mining schools in the world, and that the school may attract to itself young men of the true engineering type from Alaska who will be a credit both to Alaska and the Colo rado School of Mines.