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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
British Turn
The Corner

pRITAIN is coming out of It's
D postwar slump. Production is
climbing, exports are being in
creased.
Many Britons, grumpy under
austerity rations, are smiling
again. The new morale is infectious.
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert
Morrison broadcast jubilantly lass
weekend that Britain had rounded the
recovery corner.
SIN the last to start cheering he
fore the game is won," Morrison de-
clared, .but it's not going too badly.
Let's look at the facts and figures and
be proud of ourselves as a people"
Coal, kingpin of British economy,
is spectacular bright spot. The goal
of 200,000,000 tons for this calendar
year-once considered impossible-is
now in sight.
Coal exports, with which Britain
once bought large part of her food.
have been resumed
Even the black spots in the indus
trial picture-a freight car shortage.
low textile output and the foreign
trade deficit-are Frightening a little.
will to Win
There is a strong spirit to work
harder. Thousands of volunteers un-
loaded nearly $4,000 freight cars last
weekend. A coal board spokesman
credits resurgence of the wartime
will to win among miners for the
record of more than 100000 tons on
four successive weeks.
Mine officials predict Britain can
export 100000 tons next year, well
over the 100000 promised Europe in
the Marshall plan conferences.
Employment in steel and heavy
metal trades is above prewar levels and
steadily creeping upward The same
is true of automobiles, gas, electricity
and transport. Iron and steel output
is at rate of 100000 tons a year,
edging above its prewar record.
ManpOwer on Farms ~
Manpower is still kcS farm prob
lem. German prisoners of war will
be virtually all gone by summer A
campaign to recruit volunteers to
spend their vacations on farms al
re1dy is underway.
Speeded up rehabilitation, made
possible by Withdrawals from India
and Palestine together with reshapinR
of the British defense line, will pro.
vide another 100000 to 100000 work.
ers for industry during the next year.
British economic planning is based
on an assumption that the Marshall
plan will not be approved, said a
spokesman at the Office of Sir Stafford
Cripps, economic czar for the emer-
gency. "If and when it is approved,
it will give us bounce toward pros
perity," he said.
Exports Up
British exports have been boosted
well above 1888 levels but the incoms
buys fewer imports because of higher
foreign prices.
A bright spot this week was the
agreement "in principle" with Russia
under which Britain is to get SOC, COO
tons of corn and other coarse grains
needed for poultry and cattle feed. In
return, Russia is to get machinery,
electrical equipment and steel rails.
The fact that Britain now is able
to guarantee delivery of these ma
terials-which she could not do last
summers measure of the nations
reviving industrial strength
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
SideIiehfs

O Parking plaques Fairbanks, Alaska,
loo miles south of the Arctic circle.
Parking meters, guaranteed to oper-
ate at temperatures down to 50 de-
grees below zero, will be installed.
. In Los Angeles, bandit told bank
teller ne-en McComb he wanted
money. She threw a handful of silver
dollars in his face, slammed her VIM
COW snut. shrieked. The bandit fed.
q IN Tampa, FIa., f1otorist swerved
wide to avoid parked car with open
ooor. Believing he had Clipped it any
way, the driver walked back to ex-
p.aia to the woman seated in the
parked machine. A man approached
in time to hear the woman say: mo,
you didn't touch me-" clipped the
mo.orist on the jaw. he was her hus-
band and, after explanations, solici-
tously took the courteous driver to
the hospital.
Q AT III Monte, Calf, the sheriff was
called to open a small metal container
laDe-ed dynamite. It turned out to be
lipst;ck. Dynamite is the newest
shade.
Q In Middletown, Conn, at the west
end of the Connecticut River bridge
is highway department sign caution
ing "Slow-dangerous curve" Above
it was a billboard, extolling gasoline
brand, which said, Get gOing-fast!"
Sign painters reworded the gasoline
sign this week by order of police.
o Near Manila, $4,000 in tattered
us. currency was found under lufn-
Der pile by laborers at an inactivated
American naval air base. The sum Is
believed part of naval funds stolen
in 1Q4S s..t--.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

ring to Moscow predictions that in
fiation had American capitalism on
the brink of collapse.
Currency conversions of a much
milder sort have been part of post
war initiation control in several nom
Communist European countries" de-
clared Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder. at is interesting to find the
U.S.S.R. is faced with the same prob
lens and must turn to a more severe
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

instruments Co. for cutting extremely
thin sections of material for exam
ination under the electron microscope
which magnifies Up to 100000 times.
The special steel-alloy blade is an
inch long, mounted on the rim of a
disc spun by an electric motor at a
speed of 10000 revolutions a minute.
The average electric fan spins at
1,750 rpm.
The strip of metal, bone, tooth or
fiber to be cut is pushed slowly into
the path of the disc, much like bo-
logna in a meat-slicer, The material
is frozen in liquid nitrogen to pre-
vent frictional heat destroying it.
The blades speed is faster than
sound and no camera so far has been
able to show the actual cutting.
The new knife can slice thinner
more materials (including brass, pure
iron, stones and plastics) than any
other laboratory tool. Under the cleo
tron miscroscope, their structure can
be studied to learn what happens to
metals and other materials under diff
ferent conditions, how bone is formed,
or what happens in tooth decay.
Virus Invaders
Scientists at the National Institute
of Health have photographed through
the electron microscope a tiny virus
invading and killing living cell.
These pictures supply new method
of attacking such mysteries as polio,
cancer and growth processes. Some
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

Germany The data was amassed by
American political intelligence units
operating behind the iron curtain but
Washington decided to withhold it
while the foreign ministers were ne
gotiating.
''Voice of America" broadcasts
opened the barrage this week COM
menting on RuSsia's revaluation of the
ruble. who's got an economic crisis
now2" one commentator said, refer
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Aerial 5
The 'Droop Snoot'


The Navy has new jet fighter, the
Grumman Panther, capable of 600
miles an hour with the quick takeoff
and slow landing speeds necessary
for carrier operation.
The Panther embodies two impor-
tant advances in American aviation.
1t is the first operational plane with
a "droop snoot," in which the lead-
ing edge of the wings drops into a
high lift contour for takeoffS and
landings. 1t also is the first US. war
plane built around British turbo-
jet engine.
The Panther also will use an Amer
ican turbo-jet engine, the Allison
Model 400 About 100 Panthers will
be built Half will be powered by
each type engine.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Quote

Judge Jacob Panken of New
York Domestic Relations Court,
ruling that a 15-year-old juvenile
delinquent who eloped was still
under jurisdiction Of Children's
Court: Marriage does not as a
matter of course emancipate.
Under some conditions it does
the oppoSite-it enslaves."
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
People

John |. Plays His Hand
More than $1,000 in cash and a
free hand in the 1948 Presidential
campaign are two assets John l..
Lewis has this week as result of
quitting the American Federation of
Labor.
The blunt I'VE disafiliate" message
which Lewis sent to the AFL saves
his 100000 United Mine Workers
their annual dues to the federation.
It also divorces Lewis from any OBJ
legations to the AFL's 1948 political
plans. Lewis always has attempted to
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

form of the same device to meet
them"
The Tbree-One Split
The London conference ended at the
suggestion of TJ.S. Secretary of State
George Marshall who declared it
useless to go on" After reviewing
the long series Of disagreements at
the II London meetings, Marshall
said:
Three delegations have registered
their willingness to take these deci-
sions here and now. The Soviet Union
alone refuses to agree"
The adjournment was indefinite. No
time was set for a future meeting.
If and when efforts are made for an
other meeting, they will be made
through regular diplomatic channels.
The hopelessness of the diplomatic
deadlock became apparent the week
before. Russia refused to bulge on
her demand for ten billion dollars in
reparations from Germany.
The United States and Britain, which
pour more than 100000, ,000A year in
to their occupation zones, wanted to
make Germany self-sdpporting first.
Soviet Minister Molotov retorted that
his country was mot asking but de-
manding" that reparations be settled.
Then he launched into an angry de-
nunciation of western powers, accus-
ing them of making enormous profits
out of their zones.
Icily, Marshall observed that Molo-
tov's remarks obviously "are not de-
signed for serious discussion at this
stage. Such method makes it
difficult to inspire respect for the dig
nifty of the Soviet Union"
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

pictures achieve new high magnifica-
tions of 100000 and 100000 times ac-
tual size, extending human vision
down into the sub-world of life on
its smallest scale.
Viruses are tiny particles that cause
scores of different diseases, including
infantile paralysis and flu in humans.
Some forms Of cancer develop only
in the presence of a virus.
Rain Making
Rain making from the ground as
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Dates
Monday, December ~
Winter begins.
Thursday, December rs


Thursday, December rs
Christmas.
New Chinese constitution goes
into effect.
Friday, December rs
American Association for Ad-
vancement of Science convenes
in Chicago.
Saturday, December "a
Society for Research in Child
Development meets in Chicago.
American Metric Association
convenes in Washington.
Sunday, December 2S
American Anthropological AS
sociation meets in Albuquerque.
N. M.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Arson
Block Record

A blue ribbon coronor's jury re-
turned a verdit of murder by arson"
this week in Chicago tenement fire
in which 10 Negroes were killed and
asserted Negroes cannot be locked
within the black ghetto"
Jurors said there have been rs
cases of arson against Negroes in
Chicago this year.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
SCIENCE: Invisible Slices Of Bologna

NEW laboratory knife that whrs 800 miles capa
bic of shipping off invisible slice of bologna
onths of inch thick 1t works somewhat like deicaeen
sce but goes SO fast the actual cutting be done by
sonic shock wave travelling ahead of the blade
The knife uramcrotome Custom Scientific
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

Taft supporters claim $50 on the
first ballot, pooh-pooh Dewey's 400.
Stassen hackers say they will go
into the convention with pledges of
almost $50 delegates.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Stop-Gap Foreigr, Aid
ApprovedbyCongress

CONGRESS authorized in principle $59 emergency relief
for France Italy Austria and China this winter There was only
33 to g. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
$15000000 pending appropriation of funds
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

vention votes, comedies Taft a maxi
mum of IT'S, dismisses Stassen with
fewer than 100 and assigns the re-
mainder to favorite sons. A total of
SAT is needed to nominate.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

tAH Rights Reserued. AP Ne,OsteGturesJ
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
The Tbree-One Split

form of the same device to meet
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Douglas Steps Forward
Liberal JUSTICE Address in Chicago
Expected to Attract Many from Wallace

spicuously lacking among the pres
ent Truman circle. 1t is this fact
which impressed Mr.. Clifford. who
is largely responsible for drafting
the various presidential plans and
messages. Mr.. Clifford feels that
there is nothing wrong with the
Truman policies that better SELL
ing job to public opinion won't cure.
Senator Taft, among others, has
complained that the selling job Is
poor. The administration people
coming to Capitol Hill don't sub
stantiate the Presidents conten-
tions, he insists.
Truman Advisers Divided.
Probably they could never sell
Senator Taft. However, it is we'll
known that the President has a
divided house on his program, espe-
cially on the domestic side. It is
highly questionable, for example,
how far he can depend on Sec
retaries Forrestal, Hartman and
Snyder to go in its defense during
the coming campaign.
With the departure OF ROBERT Il.
Hannegan from the cabinet, Secre-
tary of Labor SchWellenbach is the
only liberal voice at those important
meetings, probably the only member
who would go as far left as Pres
ident Truman himself actually goes.
AS Secretary Schwellenbach is not
aggressive, the liberals have trusted
to Mr.. Clifford. They think he has
done well, but they would like
to see him get some hard-hitting
backing.
Democratic National Chairman
McGrath is also feeling the lack of
cabinet rank. He is being urged to
ask for some kind Of special liaison
to overcome 1t.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

has revived the hopes of that New
Deal remnant which has long
wanted Mr.. Douglas on the national
ticket. Their arguments that JUS
tice Douglas is the obvious answer
to Mr.. Wallace, together with
copies Of Justice Douglas Chicago
speech, have been circulated in all
the proper quarters.
1t is now claimed that Presi-
dental Adviser Clark Clifford
among others has been suitably
impressed. Justice Douglas, as usual,
is keeping his own counsel.
Western Background Helps.
The Justices rather vague po-
litical strength lies in his Western
background. His fealty is evidenced
by the light Western hat he per-
sistently wears to even the most
formal functions here and his re-
turn home each summer for a
vacation in the woods. All his post
college life and great successes have
been in the East but he feels him.
self a Westerner.
In addition, Justice Douglas, a
career New Dealer, can defend that
program-which is by and large also
the Truman program-in a con-
vinced and articulate fashion con-
Evening star., 1947-12-29
On the Record
U.S.. Communists Seen Using Wallace
ToDefeat Marshall Plan by Confusion

Taft because they think he is at
heart an isolationist. and would go
slow on foreign commitments. They
want Senator Taft, also, because
they foresee economic difficulties
and labor troubles in the next four
years, and want President whom
labor can be persuaded to view as
an enemy-a co-author of the Taft
Hartley Act. Thus, via the Re
publicans, they hope to defeat
American aid by rendering it in
adequate, and, eventually, in 1852,
to defeat the Republicans through
collapse in Europe and here. CThis
is not my own opinion of Senator
Taft-I am only reporting)
The Russia-frsters are encour-
aged in this by the behavior OF
certain Republican Senators-such
as Hugh Butler of Nebraska,
who recently said, 1T is very doubt
full whether there will be Mar
shall plan," and the Republican
whip, Senator Wherry, who is cool
toward the plan, too. They specu-
late that Mr.. Wallace-who will do
all he can to create a war scare
will encourage isolationist Republic
cans in the same direction, hoping
to capture votes from Mr.. Truman
and Secretary Marshall. To break
the Republication some Republi-
cans-away from the bipartisan
foreign policy is their chief objec-
tive.
Both Warned Of Trap.
It is the element of confusion that
they could introduce that should
warn both Democrats and Republi-
cans not to fall into the trap laid
for them by the Russia-flrsters.
If the Republican candidate an
nounces that he intends to retain
Gen. Marshall as Secretary OF State,
the Communists would be some
what foiled.
One thing is certain in the best
case: A three e-cornered campaign
would produce from Mr.. Wallace q
demagoguery unexampled In Ameri-
can politics since 1900 and Civil
War times, If Mr.. Wallace's oppo-
nents help accelerate 1t.
For the Communists are not play
ing to win for Mr.. Wallace. They
are playing to confuse. divide and
paralyze America. And they have
the ideal candidate for it-a man
of confused mind, murky principles,
great gift of self-hypnotization
(Which often hypnotizes others),
and mystic enthrallment with his
own messianic mission.
(Eeleased by the Bell Syndicate, 1nc.)
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Veterans Holding Jobs
Increased 100000
In Year, uses Finds

The number Of employed World
War II veterans rose by more than
1 SOC, 900 during 1947, the Veterans
Employment Service announced
today and. at the same time, the
Veterans Administration said former
servicemen training under programs
it administers had reached a new
peak November 30.
About 8 out of 10 veterans now
are gainfully employed" accord
ing to Perry Faulkner, chief Of the
Veterans Employment Service Of the
United States Employment Service.
Employment, which totaled 10,700,-
900 at the beginning OF the year,
rose to 12,250,000, he said.
Jobs still are needed for slightly
more than 100000 unemployed vet
Grams, for those now in schools and
colleges and several hundred thou
sand who have not yet come into the
labor market since discharge, Mr.
Faulkner said.
About 10000 handicapped unem-
ployed veterans are registered with
the employment service-only about
half as many as year ago-but
still a sizable group for which spe-
cial lob assistance efforts must be
made" he added.
The VA said enrolment was up
In all classihcations of training
under the Servicemen's Readjust-
|ment Act. Job training declined
for the 10th successive month.
Enrolment under the readjust-
ment act-the "GI Bill"-and under
the Vocational Rehabilitation Act
for disabled veterans reached $780,
600, or a little more than per cent
higher than the previous top OF
|2,674,O on April 80, 1t was
announced.
The VA said 2,546,000 veterans
were in job training November 81
under the Servicemen's Readjust-
ment Act and 254,0O0 under the re-
Mobilization act.
Under the CT Bill, 1,150,000 for
mer servicemen now are enrolled In
colleges and universities, the agency
reported, and 651 900 in schools be-
low college level.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

government is Constantine Brown.
prepared to bring the matter of the
threat to its country's sovereignty
and territorial integrity before the
U. N Assembly and ask for the
application of Article 81 of the
Charter as soon as it gets the green
light from Washington.
officials admit that the national
forces alone cannot cope with the
emergency much longer.
Guerrillas Crossed Borders.
In the past, say the Athens lead
eIs, the Greek army was able to
ward off the frequent attacks of
the guerrillas The principal rea-
son, they add, why the army was
not able to wipe out the guerrillas
was that it was not allowed to pur-
sue them across the borders into
Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
where the Communists withdrew as
soon as they faced superior num-
bers. This permitted the Commu-
nists to reform after setback and
return with fresh men and equip
ment.
Such a situation added to the
difficulties of the royal army, which
eventually became diSheartened
when it realized that it could never
finish off the elusive guerrillas who
found refuge across the 'inviolable"
borders of Yugoslavia, Albania and
Bulgaria. The situation has now
changed radically-in favor of the
rebels.
Since the proclamation of the
democratic government on De-
cember "a, the forces Of the So
called Gen. Markos Vifiades have
increased. They have heavy artil-
lery of a longer range than that
possessed by the government troops
The number of rebel reconnaissance
planes also have been augmented
astonishinglv. The tactics of the
Evening star., 1947-12-29
This Changing World
Greeks Anxiously Watch y. S. Reaction
AS Moscow.Inspired Forces Peril Nation

former bands seem to be changing.
The Greek general headquarters
believes, on the basis OF documents
captured from prisoners, that with
in a short time fully organized
democratic" and international"
divisions will begin a full-fiedged
offensive to break through the lines
of the tired regular forces. Salo-
nika, which is reliably reported to
be earmarked as the first capital
of the new Greek democracy" will
be their main objective.
Whatever doubts there may have
been in the minds of American dip
lomats about the role of the U. S.
S. r. in this matter, are now dis
pelled. Rebel Secretary OF Justice
Miltiades Porphyrogenis let the
cat out of the bag in his message
to the Greek people last week when
he stated that "the turning Of
Greece into an American colony
and a bridgehead OF imperialist
policy to assist Americas
foolish policy of provocative hos
tility against our great ally, the
Soviet Union, constitutes a mortal
danger to Greece's life = ="
Thus although Moscow has not
yet intimated that it has recognized
the Greek government, because 1t
is watching American reaction, the
Politbureau-sponsored Greek Sec
retary of Justice does not hesitate
to call Russia the great ally OF
democratic" Greece.
United States Officials Given Facts.
Such facts are being presented
daily to responsible officials OF the
American mission in Athens and to
the State Department. The Athens
government is naturally anxious to
hear whether the United States,
which is pledged under the Truman
fdoctrine to help Greece resist Com
munist domination, is willing to
give the signal to present the new
situation in Greece to the U. N
Assembly.
! Some action by Secretary of State
Marshall is expected shortly. He
! is 1ully aware Oh LIle MILITARY lHlp1A-
cations should the matter be pre-
sented to the Little Assembly, which
is being boycotted by the U. S. S. r.
and her satellites.
That organ of the u N unques-
tionably will vote In favor Of
Article 81 and the United States
will have to bear the burden OF
responsibility for sending the major
portion Of an international force
He also is aware that any action or
his part which will create an i'm.
preston abroad that we are reneg.
ing on our commitments woult
have fatal repercussions. on the vast
plans for European reconstruction
which he devised.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

porting t heir Dorothy thompson
archenemy, Jefferson, against Burr
whom Hamilton regarded as 4
traitor and "Catiline."
Hamilton was not a hysterlc,
either. Burr later was accused OF
having conspired to sell out his
country to foreign interests-and In
this there is some similarity between
Burr and the possible third party
candidate. For Mr.. Wallace Ger
tainly is the candidate of the Rus
sia- -f1rsters.
Reds Initiate European Moves.
But a Wallace candidacy might
upset party lines considerably. The
American Communists, in choosing
Mr.. Wallace-some one not party
member but committed to the party
line. especially in foreign policy
are initiating the unity" moves OF
the European Communist parties.
This is so obvious that Mr.. Wal
lace's followers have diminished, not
grown: He does not have the sup
port OF the labor unions-with q
few exceptions. The Progressive
Citizens Of America will receive
resignations from several influential
members II Mr.. Wallace breaks with
the Democratic Party. And the
American Labor Party in New York
State will split in two.
But the Communists want him
to run, though certain he will fail.
What, then, is their objective?
Aim at Marshall Plan.
It is to defeat Gen. Marshall and
the Marshall plan. Not even Presi-
dent Truman is their target. They
are aiming for Secretary Marshall
and the bipartisan foreign policy.
They want a Republican President
especially if 1t be Senator Taft
and they think that with Mr. Wal
lace in the field the Republicans,
certain of victory, will nominate
the man they really prefer, Mr.
Taft.
The Communists prefer Senator
Evening star., 1947-12-29

we thought of Oracle Allen.
the wrong present to give her; a
stranger who dropped In from q
party next door is still unconscious
in the next room; my brother,
Willie, is out irls the yard arguing
with two policemen about some
thing, and my feet hurt from stand
ing on tip-toe to be kissed under
the mistletoe.
The only comforting thought is
that any nation which could sur
vive this particular visit from Santa
has nothing to fear from any mere
mortal by the name Of Uncle Joe
Stain.
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